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Show Page 2. TIJK TI.MKS. September 30. 1976 l.K.UKK-i;.KL.- An Editorial Opinion A Look At A Traffic Hassle... we should Join Effort To Attract Industry THE COMPETITION among U.S. cities and towns to lure light and heavy industry to their limits and thus onto their tax rolls is a fierce business, in many instances. It is highly competitive and often resembles the practice of college coaches going after a prize athlete. ' IT IS BECAl'SE of this competition that we were dismayed at a statement which appeared in Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune. The story on the business page detailed the success of a small firm, Oneida Manufacturing Company, which located in Malad, Idaho, where they produce tough plastic modules used at railroad track crossings to reducelhe jarring experienced by motorists. The company was founded in 1969 in Ogden. SO, HOW DID it get situated in Malad, Idaho, instead of Utah? "We couldn't rouse any interest in Utah," was the reply one of the three founders gave the Tribune reporter .That's the part of the story which disturbs us. The story adds that, on the other hand, the young firm did attract interest in Malad, particularly that of a local banker. MALAD HAS a population of only 1,900 people, compared to Tremonton's population of approximately 3,000 people.We point out that fact only to show that if Malad can attract light industry with its small popula- - By Suianne Bowcutt BRHSPTA President tion, Tremonton should have an equal or better chance. We can only hope that Tremonton was not one of the communities which failed to show any interest in helping the young firm find a home. . WE THINK Tremonton ought to be actively searching out such opportunities to attract such1 light industry, while not being so eager to get a piece of the pie that we grab desperately for a lemon.Our local Chamber of Commerce has been fairly successful in keeping the community's retail buildings occupied, but not too successful in attracting light industry. The sewing plant is our biggest success. THE CHAMBER IS at a disadvantage e with a limited budget and no executive secretary. We have said before that we think the city should get involved, since it stands to gain by increased property tax revenues from any new businesses attracted to the community. We'd like to see an industrial development committee formed, either by the Chamber or the City, with the support of both, and active input from the financial institutions in the community. Garland should be invited to participate, as well.The committee's first job should be to review what we are presently doing and devise an affirmative program to get Tremonton and the northern Box Elder County area into the full-tim- market. g industry-huntin- Did you have mixed emotions about school starting this year? Oh, you're glad to have it start, you just don't like the traffic hassle you face when you find you must drive past the Bear River High School. Those kids down there dragging and driving are more than you can stand? Dad, Mom, Mr. and Mrs. Business person, hard working people who mustdrive through the Bear River High traffic for any reason either regularly or just sometimes, this article is written f6r you. Let's take a close look. It does, indeed seem that there are entirely too many students driving too many cars at the High School, especially when you take into consideration that buses are available for most students. But the buses are not really available for all students at all times when they need them. If this is true, you say, then let the parents form car g pools and get the students to school and let the buses bring them home. Such a simple solut early-mornin- ion, but not entirely satis- factory. Many students work during the last hour of school and must have transportation. Our students come from many outlying areas into our school each day. Many of our students have formed "sort of" car pools on their own and they work out well. And, Mom, that student of yours who has recently earned his or her driving license is probably more up on the legal issues than you or I are at this particular moment. One quite well informed person the other day said that he doesn't find that the students are creating much problem with the traffic at the school. Sure, you have to go slowly, but shouldn't you do that anyway? Give your-se- lf five minutes extra to get to work and notice just who it is that is creating the bottleneck in this area. First, of course, we must accept the fact that our students have cars now more than at any time in our history. And the answer to our problem is not necessarily to keep the cars at home. The answer seems to be a complete study of the prob- - 5f U ''If ' i V . . u .BUS makes left urn to Junior High School. will never be able to control all our problems unless we of our have the Studand Teachers Parents, ents. Come out to PTSA and Jet's get our traffic problems solved. Let's be glad to be a community who saw a problem and solved it lem and hopefully to develop a solution. We have student representatives actively helping us out as we already nave a good, ijSiSive study under- -; way and hope to have from the State High- way Safety Commission very soon to help us control part of our problems, but we Have you noticed how the buses stop in the far right hand lane at the school and then swing across all that traffic to go to the Junior High to deposit their loads of students there? This is not only annoying, but highly dangerous for that few minutes each day when the traffic is so densely concenarea. There is trated s a simple solution to this problem, but we need the of adults to get it done. Bus drivers are very cordially invited to our meetings on this issue. It is not the student driving to school who makes U turns in order to get back home in a hurry on a frosty morning. Have you seen the No U Turn signs? When you come from Garland, and are the good parent bringing one or more students to school, you must drive further on before you make your turnabout to return to your home. Do NOT turn in front of the school. The kids don't do it. They go south, to the parking lot at the Tremonton IDS Stake center and safely, although annoyingly at continued on page ten CARD OF THANKS Our sincere thanks to Bear River State Bank, First Security Bank, Hales Brothers Furniture, Gephart Stores and Quinney's, Inc. for their support during the past sea- FQK08 BETI1E IDEAS son. Sincerely, Skyway Golf & Country Club Ladies Auxiliary 00 The The human mind sure works in some strange ways, doesn't it? An apparently rational man will spend hours The Garland Times each Saturday morning washing and polishing and lavishing love on an inanimate object such as a new car. But, that same human being will take a dog he's decided he no longer has use for, out and turn him loose in the countryside to fend for himself. Star-Gazwas in the back- shop, the other afternoon, putting a political poster together, when a couple of congenial ladies came back to go through the old newspaper files. Since we were in the same room, I couldn't help but learn that they were looking for an ad that might have been run sometime in the last six months. It seems the two concerned women, a daughter and her mother, were operating a missing persons bureau. Only in this case, it was a missing dog bureau. No, they hadn't lost a dog. But they had found one out in the Howell area some months back. And a good heart and a pan filled with leftovers by the back door soon made a friend of the wandering German shepherd. I watched the ladies for a good half-hoskim through the ads stopping as they came to each ad marked "Lost." ' Finally, I had to smile and told the ladies, "The only mistake you're making is assuming that somebody wants that dog back." It's sad, but true', that a lot of people have the mistaken idea that our great rural home here is a good dropping off spot for an unwanted dog. An anonymous female caller phoned us a week or so ago about the same problem. She lives about four miles south of town and wanted to know if we couldn't please write something about the inhuman practice of dumping dogs off in the country like a baby left on a doorstep. Well, this is it, I guess. But what can we say, except to point out that an abandoned dog has little choice but to either die of starvation, get run over, make a pest of itself on local farms or eventually get picked up by or shot by a Les&r Published every Thursday by the Leader Publishing Co. at 10 North 1st West, Tremonton, Utah: ' ' Subscription rate :v Box Elder, Cache, and Oneida $5.50 per year, all other areas $6.00 per year. 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She pointed out, correctly, that it is such abandoned dogs which often end up turning vicious and traveling in packs. Of course, the former owner thinks he's done the dog a favor. Why wouldn't a dog want to be free to roam over all that rural countryside? The practice shouldn't surprise anyone, really .All too many parents have followed the same practice with their own kids, sometimes literally booting them out of the house. Or, they figuratively abandon them by asking educators and police to assume their responsibilities of parenthood. But, back to dogs and cats. I guess Star-Gazwill always have a soft spot for the abandoned dog. I grew up with the image of a dog resting at my grandfather's knee as he sat on the porch bench in the summer. And I can remember sadness when a car would claim the dog.But it wasn't long until another stray dog would show up to be adopted, enticed by a big pan of leftovers. 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