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Show Roberta Now just a minute We learned this week that Roberta Conde, our Snake Valley reporter, was turning in her quill and sharp tongue, and that Becky Williams will be writing the Snake Valley News. i Besides thanking Roberta for the ser vice she's perform ed for the C OUNT Y NEWS ; and all of Snake Valley, there are a few other things we'd like to get off our chest. Roberta we've always been resentful resent-ful of your writing ability. After all, the editor of a newspaper Isn't endeared to a I correspondent who is so popular that every body tells us "We always read Snake i Valley first." , But that's not all. We've often envied your sharp tongue and quick m ind and it's only with the greatest remorse that we never stole some of your finer quips and claimed them as our own. Correspondents seldom take any prizes ! for journalism there is not even a cate gory in the better newspaper contests. But it's the backbone of a good, weekly newspaper news-paper and we'd have loved to entered a few of your columns against "Nell's Newsy Notes", or "Escalante Chit Chat". They couldn't hold a candle to you. Correspondents Correspond-ents are a forgotten, ignored, necessary evil, and few editors even give them credit for keeping circulation up. But the one tiling we most envied was that you had no telephone. No matter how sharp your tongue, no matter if we misspelled mis-spelled a dozen names, no matter whose toes got stepped on or whose news got left out they couldn't call you up on Thursday Thurs-day morning and give you a quick tongue -lashing. They had to wait until they saw you on the street and by then the edge must of worn off a little. We don't know Becky Williams. You wrote for the COUNTY NEWS for a couple years before we met face to face. We hope you are not quittingwith bitterness. We hope you'll guide Ms. Williams. We hope you'll keep your quick wit, good natured banter, and concerned neighbor attitude that has been reflected in your column. We're mighty proud to have been associated with you. The pleasure has been ours. Should we ever be in a position to assist your endeavors endeav-ors dont hesitate to ask. Thank you. AFTER A GOOD BREAKFAST. "Like the winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the I question whether a still higher 'standard of living' Is worth its cost in things natural, i wild and free. For us of the minority, the i opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance to find a i pasqueflower is a right as inalienable as free speech. "These wild things, I admit, had little human value until mechanization assured us of a good breakfast and until science disclosed dis-closed the drama of where they come from J and how they live. The whole conflict thus 1 boils down to a question of degree. We of the minority see a law of diminishing returns In progress; our opponents do not." "Red" Wild horses and burros are displacing native wildlife in many areas of the West, -the Wildlife Management Institute reports. Their numbers have doubled since 1971 and are growing at about 20 percent each year. Current inventories show over 50,000 wild horses and 5,000 burros on public lands. Adversely affected wildlife species include elk and bighorn sheep. The 1971 Wild Horse and Burro Protection Act prohibits the use of motorized motor-ized vehicles to control the animals. It also prohibits the transfer of the animals to private ownership. A bill currently under consideration in the U.S. House Public Lands Subcommittee would give land management agencies better authority to manage the land resources and control the wild horses and burros. -i |
