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Show "UNFINISHED BUSINESS" By THEODORE RIMPAU Supervisor, Tvvin-M Soil Conservation District In 1937 the people of Min-ersville Min-ersville asked the Utah State Legislature to enact a Soil Conservation District Law. This was done and the Min-ersville Min-ersville area became the first Soil Conservation District in Utah. The original long-term Statement of Goals, as set forth by this district's supervisors super-visors in 1938, follows very closely a program known today to-day as a small watershed. A number of years ago the Board of Supervisors of the Minersville S C D, in cooperation cooper-ation with others, applied to the Utah State Soil Conservation Conserva-tion Committee for assistance under Public Law 566 for planning and ultimately constructing con-structing the "Minersville Watershed." Wat-ershed." It was the duty of the state committee, from time to time, to' review the applications applica-tions pending before them and establish planning priorities. This committee has been traveling trav-eling about Utah investigating watershed applications. On Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 8 a. ra. this committee will be in Minersville at the Town Hall to review the application ap-plication of the Minersville people for a small watershed water-shed project under PL 5G6. It is of the utmost importance import-ance that all those who have an interest in this application be present to express then-views. then-views. This well may be the last time that Minersville will have a chance for a planning priority as the number of applicants ap-plicants for this aid is multiplying multi-plying by leaps and bounds owing to the growing interest everywhere in soil and water conservations, particularly as it relates to small watersheds. It's probably a case of 'now or never." It is the earnest hope of the Board of Supervisors Super-visors of the Twin M Soil Conservation Con-servation District that this meeting will be well attended as well as a short inspection tour to be held immediately following the meeting. The active support ot m people of Minersville as well as all citizens of Beaver County Coun-ty will go a long way toward favorable consideration of tne Minersville watershed application. applica-tion. f This is, indeed, a matter ot "Unfinished Business." of Kennecott, received the award. Knnecott sponsored spon-sored "This Business of Farm-Sec Farm-Sec ' Editors, Back Page Mere's More About EDITORS Continued from Page One) ing" over radio for 11 years. Earlier, many of the Editors and Broadcasters Day guests had toured new developments on the Utah State campus, including in-cluding water research facilities facili-ties of the Engineering Experiment Experi-ment Station. There they were shown contributions the station is making toward improving the water situation in western America. "We already possess a 'universal 'uni-versal mind' of immense power," Dean Culmsee told the newsmen. "Especially through development of electronic elec-tronic transmission, but thru all other means since the invention in-vention of printing, the newspapers, radio and TV have knit the world together into one inter-acting mind in which all good thinkers both share and contribute." America's progress has come through a series of "bloodless revolutions" which, though often oft-en unspectacular, bring sounder sound-er growth than the violent destruction of institutions by totalitarians, he said. "One of the greatest of these revolutions," he declared, de-clared, "was the Morrill Land Grant Act which Lincoln signed in 1862." U S U is celebrating the Centennial of this act thru-out thru-out 1961-62 with Dean Culm-see Culm-see as chairman of the observance. ob-servance. "Because this act symbolizes emancipation from ignorance as a foremost ideal of our democracy, de-mocracy, it may someday outrank out-rank the Emancipation Proclamation Proc-lamation in breadth of significance," signifi-cance," Dean Culmsee ventured He pointed out that the mass media constantly further the cause of mental growth thru support of education and thru circulation of potent ideas. "These media are the most popular means of adult education educa-tion and will become more important im-portant in this service with the increase in the number of learners who have completed formal education," he ventured. |