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Show The A2 Tlnwslndopdfttfw, Thursday, March The 9 S, 1881 .30 Times-Independe- nt UPS Smat Pm CkMn N MMN " AfTTriftnin Atths Past OMks al Utah According to vtocJARD -- i Ms, tied ths A AN Atomi- c- IfS GOffb Mir ItoCKBOlTOM SaMnel J. and AMh F. Taylor PuMohoroaad Editors umt News Editor Typesetting, Receptionist Circulation Director Production Looking Backward Through the ; The tccmrt IS OUR RuNAuW Published tack Thursday at 96 Pott Center Street Moab, Grand County, Utah 84532 William P. Davis. Kathleen Curtis. Dorothy Anderson. Ron Drake. GRufi- - mo doomsdw specmoR, UK W March A MW Second ClaM Pottage Paid at Moah, Vlil 84S32 Official CMy and Ceeety Newspaper by Barry McWilliams if can Fles of Time8-tndepende- and the SOdfifeZewiMWeD Grand Valey Times ft QUICK RfCOVgfli m tkot shoulp'a 10 years ago The Four Comers approved a grant of $11,000 for the first phase of a feasibility study for a proposed ski area on the north end of the LaSal Mountains. The study was to be done by Envirocon, a private company. Region-Commissi- VOfl&OUf CfiXf&R! Valley March 16, 1885, the son of Moab pioneers J. Horace and Julia Eager'' Johnson. He operated a t livestock operation , in Old Services were held for Alphus J. Young, 73, longtime Moab and Monticello resident. He also served as' A statement from the Sheriff of Grand County in ' National Park Service that a 1901 and 1902. and Young section of road from High- his wife first moved to Moab Needles way 163 on the in 1894. entrance road was not a Park The Southeastern Utah Service, but a county respon- Wildlife Federation an- -, sibility, brought sharp retort nounced plans to stock all from San Juan County streams and lakes in the Commissioner Cal Black. LaSal Mountains with trout, Black stated that an agreerather than relying solely on ment between the county, state and federal agencies. It state and Park Service was hoped that this plan specifying that the county would permit the stocking of would maintain the road was and larger fish. more only a temporary measure. Work began on construe--, He stated that the Park tion of a new tourist court on Service had promised $17 Main St., south of the million for construction of store. Plans, Cooper-Marti- n the road. 12 cabins and a for called ' Moab Police Chief returnto be com- k course service station ed from a 60 days. within pleted conducted by the Bureau of Com- Narcotic and Dangerous , The Moab Garage 24th celebrated its Drugs in Arizona for law pany of continuous enforcement officials from anniversary service in Moab. Starting surrounding states. Three large pumps were with a single truck, one route in installed at the Rio Algom garage and a uranium development in 1917, the company grew ,: Lisbon Valley, in preparation until in 1941 it was operating for a major pumping test. with 14 trucks, four garages j j General Manager Gordon and 30 employees. Community Comments . . . , , Being a somewhat community news- typical at The Times were impressed with an editorial column written for a newspaper we exchange with. Written by Eric McAllister Smith in The Publishers Auxiliary, it was too true not to pass it along to our readers. Here it is: paper, we here LOTS OF GOOD NEWS .. . Probably the oldest complaint known to journalism is the one about newspapers only printing bad news. If the critics read their newspapers as meticulously as they complained about them, they might realize that the average paper is actually crammed with good news. Bad news actually makes the front page precisely because it is so unusual; no editor would have the nerve to run a headline proclaiming Everything Went Well Today for fear of boring even the critics into skipping that issue. But only a cursory glance at the rest of the paper shows how false the bad news charge is, especially in a small newspaper that often serves as the community bulletin board. Back pages are loaded with club notes, wedding nouncements and school honor rolls. These items may be bad news if you missed a meeting, didn't get the girl or failed a math test, but they are pretty good news to everybody else. There is, of course, no such thing as a negative weather report in the paper. The rainstorm that ruins a picnic also benefits the farmer, and a day of sunshine helps both. The entertainment sections that take up increasing amounts of space in the modern newspaper are undeniably pleasant to redd: movie ads, TV listings and starlet pictures are hardly designed to induce reader frowns, and restaurant columns bring bad tidings only to those who sell rotten food. an- Even rotten cooks, however, can find something to like on the recipe page, and there will always be a winner in the sports pages, if not always the one you bet i on. It's also impossible to read a discouraging word or a glum thought in those relentlessly upbeat and portions of the paper devoted to advertising. Even a going out of business sale is good news to consumer. If you can believe all the bargain-huntin- g the newspaper ads, the world is an ecstatic wonderland of super sales, quality products, lifetime guarantees and special offers. onmi-prese- nt Among the usual pet columns, business briefs and cheery local features, you find dozens of photos showing smiling people giving and receiving charity checks, accepting awards or winning at the garden club s Monte carlo night Although they are found at the back of most papers, classifieds are the best news of all, because everybody there wants somebody or something necessary. And who can realistically claim to find bad news on the comic pages, where the Phantom always triumphs, Blondie loves Dogwood and Snoopy still does the supper dance. The fact is that the average newspaper carries a lot more good news than bad, and even those front-pag- e stones are perceived with mixed emotions by varied community interests. After all, the defeat of a sewer bond issue has to be a victory for some taxpayers, and a lurid scandal in one political party makes the opposition very happy, indeed. About the only undiluted bad news in any paper is the obituary column, but even there the press tries only the speak well of the dead. In a complex community with many points of view, good" and bad" are only relative terms, defined more often by the reader than the newspaper. The saying usually goes: No news is good news, " but in any community, the truly bad news would be no news atoll. wm Readers express their opinions Dear Name withheld by Editor, My name is Diane Norman, and since 1 am getting all the credit for your letter, I feel it is my civic obligation to let you know that I too attended the school board meeting of which your letter too made mention. There are many situations in the past which have stimulated anger and hostility of the parents in Grand County. One of many is the 7 day policy. The policy would be of some benefit if the kids involved learned something, but they learn only that it is easier to lie than tell the truth. They are brought first before a board that votes a split decision, then the majority insist that the child is lying, (also the parents obviously), whereby the an- ger becomes a defense mechanism that makes the parents look bad in from of a board. I appreciate the boards granting approval of a credit that would have been lost. For this would have necessitated an extra quarter after graduation which would have lost the purpose of graduation as a goal and dropout as an alternate action because of embarrassment. If this is enough of a punishment to fit the crime of telling the truth, then what is the crime of telling a non-partis- lie. The people in this community must find alternate actions for missing of days. Punishment was a learning process when I was in school. It was the extra assignment, the staying after school for make up, the forty lashes with a wet noodle, or the 50 laps around the gym. Whatever the case, it was justified more than taking a credit that was earned, whatever the grade, and giving a total failure. In the cases brought before the Board of Education, the child was guilty until proven innocent, the same with the Assessment Board. When, pray tell, did the penal system change from the norm of innocent until proven guilty. If using the penal system, then, when will the student have fortitude to graduate without - his friends of years. ; The system has become unjust, when some appeal and receive their credit, and others lose all. There are on record total quarters credits lost. For these students I weep, for they had potential, and were destroyed. This is true also of the student that has a lower grade, if that student worked as diligently for the grade. m svensMe wruwe w mmmmmvsv w Keep Abreast of Activities in This Rapidly Growing Visitor Mocca i Unea-Sntepen&- cnt Name Address. r - re state: mw i Ebotffcor- o- $10.00 . . . It is my concern and my worked on. If and when the form of communication sewer contract is let, it will which the language, directly plea, that everyone concerned with the school system, be at least 10 times the cost or indirectly, is money. A stop, look, listen and touch of the present contract let task of govt, is to redistrithat one child that too tries, (according to engineers bute money, but when it cares, and is a human being. estimates). The amount of transfers too much the whole If we but reach out to $73,880 was the amount of system is weakened. Politiunderstand all they try to do, the contract. Though the cians are notorious at taking we might appreciate where hard work of the councilman from productive Johnny to Johnthey are coming from. For if in charge (Lowel Curtis and give to we dont, we can all look the Community Impact or their at own filling ny, back and say we created that Boardthe cost of the project pockets. The people of Grand monster, for it is we, who will be a 100 grant though Co. as a whole would be with haughtiness, cast that this Board. (Concerning the better off if the local govt, child, who may have been meeting that night there would shrink to near nothwere more members present ing. Since we need just one something, into hell. If from now on, anyone than just Mayor Silliman and commissioner at the old may be curious of what I may Councilman Curtis as the regular salary,' acting as have written let them ask, for article stated. State law spokesman and representing assumption make a fool out requires a quorum present to the people. His job, simply ' of both of us. hold public meetings. stated, is to turn away any A parting comment by a Respectfully,' and. all vested interest Lisa Silliman, Mayor groups who want to tax profound man many years ' ago wrote: Out of the same money away from the peosubstances one stomach will Dear Name Withheld by ple. And in solution to the extract nourishment, another Editor, outlandish increase in proYoure right about one poison; and so the same perty taxes, turn the school thing. The current school ; buildings I into private disappointments in life will' absence law misses the schools, and pay for a childs chasten and refine one mans point. Everyone should know' education outright. I realize ' embitter and spirit, that high school students can such a ' and Matthews). difference between 6 overhaul isrevamping not done overThank you Sam for the tell the and 7. Better, isnt it, to but the trend is already consider this? Why is skip- night in this direction in the Diane Norman ping school, stuffing,' absent Eastern U.S. where parents without reason for even one are Dear Sam: willing to pay more because the quality is times We were taught that to day acceptable? Maybe school rules should 1000 more. , make a point, communicate Skip just once without a say: on only one point at a time. When will the productive valid reason, and suffer the However, since reading sector of our econthis private consequences. Try doing your last editorial and some where which makes the whole omy work, skipping, you letters to the editor I feel stuffing, or whatever. School system work, put a stop to prone to comment on several should prepare students for the leaching and parasite items, related or otherwise. life and the world of work. public sector? Pres. Reagan You have my total support is in the right direction by If you intend to participate in your statement about the in educational improvement, cutting spending and trying legislature laboring over will you still be Name to balance the budget. (We bills, some of Withheld? need a balanced budget which have received considReinhart amendment). But at the Grade erable discussion on TV. moment the private sector is It is also my belief that the Dear Sam: asked to carry even more local sponsorship of local Veterans of WWH who weight by the imposition of projects is the desirable carried GI insurance can high interest rates. route to go rather than collect all the premiums they calling to uncle for aid on paid under a new bill passed I just feel sorry for the every project. Possibly we by Congress. Repayment sector-t- he compoprivate can achieve a reduction from comes at the rate of 65 cents nent of our society which big brother regarding taxes per thousand dollars for each supports and makes it all instead of seeking a feed month of service. possible. Inflation is merely back with some of the The refunds wont make a growth in the public sector fundinir rubbed off in trenail the veterans, rich, but a at the expense of the private It is not possible for me to couple of hundred dollars is sector. Clearly, a miner risks agree with the County always nice when you visit his health 2000 ft. underCommission in all of its the local supermarket. ground to support a public actions, but we did elect Send your name, address, employee to look busy in an them, for better or worse, to date of service, Social office. People working hard administer the affairs in the at UP&L, Cont. Tele., and Security number, serial numcounty realm. Salaries paid ber, branch of service and City Market, in order that a are all tax money from one date of discharge to Captain welfare mother can sit in source or another, divided or V.R. Prosser USN., Veterans front of the TV all day having consolidated. Public hear- Center, P.O. Box 8079, four illegitimates. A.T.&.T, ings are fine but they can be Philadelphia, Pa. 19101. IBM, Exxon, everyday prostacked with a pro and con This was copied from the ducing, researching and in less numbers minority March 2nd edition of the developing to make society than electorate, even though Spotlight weekly, put out better; for what? So that the all eligibles do not vote. of our society by Liberty Lobby. T-' Enough concerning the I Melvin F. Hazen can get their check in the for Feb. 26, 1981. mail. The old way is still the Sincerely, Dear Sam: dont eat if best way-y- ou R. W. Unger I am grateful our elected you dont work and you dont officials did not have more go to bed unless married. Dear Editor This letter to editor should political savvy. They could There are now millions of have astounded us with Americans who think a living serve two purposes. 1 to comes from the post office. help my daughter earn bases loaded instead of a Just think, while fellow will And they points for her Silent City man on first. workers put in a week of hard even maintain their position 2 to Sports Spectacular. work there are millions clarify the article printed in when seriously wrong. welfare, housing collecting I is feel What the The Feb. food stamps, med26, 1981. The article head- commissioners job is to subsidies, line read .Green River decrease local govt, (public icaid, and on and on of the myriad give-awa- y programs. Council grants contract on sector) since it expropriates he sewer project.1 This is very from the private sector. And the worst atrocity-trais--, workers and s, supporting psuedo-jobare misleading. The article Many govt, jobs someone elses bad a to collect ing padded should , have read just Green If someone insists on genes. River Council grants contract salary. Most govt, does not for presedimenatkm ponds. produce a thing, it only drinking from the nation This contract calls for cement redistributes work, wealth, wide public trough, then the to neuter them. lining of existing ponds. and time derived from the state ought land of the . America, The sector. best These , ponds , are part of private , the Green River fresh water' govt, is as little as possible freebies.' Where' are-th- e system, and in ho way have a since money is best left in brave? .Come on workers, deer in direct connection with Green the ' hands ; of those ; who stop acting like quiet " ' River City's sewer system. earned it. They are the best the forest. We do have a project in mind judge of how to spend it. Sincerely, Ludwig .Van Ludwig for our sewer system and it is Politics is economics by other presently being studied and means. Govt, is merely a 40-mi- le Godfrey stated that the pumps would be used tor attempt to clear water from the ventilation shaft of the mine, which filled with several hundred feet of water after an excessive flow was encountered in a drift leading from the bottom of the ve -- shaft. , Moab Chamber of ; Com- According to a report prepared by Librarian Edna Shafer, a total of 780 people used , the Grand County Public Library during 1940. According to the report, at the end of the year, the library had 4,879 volumes. It cost the county $2,297.33 to operate the library during ' 1 1940. merce members heard a 80 years ago An article in the Feb. 22, report from Jim Shanefelt, ' who was organizing a Four 1901 issue of the Grand Times reported, Wheel Drive Luau, to be held Valley Representative Redd of' in the Moab area during d March of 1971. It was San Juan county, has a bill in the legislature announced that from 200 to 1,000 vehicles were expected to consolidate San Juan and counties Such a move A forth qvSnt,;plwqmed.fw,;Pr the party td , feamp in the may be a good thing foy the Indian Creek area to take people of San Juan, but how advantage of the many jeep about those in Grand? This is trails in Canyonlands Nation- a question that is not all one sided and the people of the al Park. It was announced that counties ought to express, local tour guide and explorer their views regarding it. A petition was being Kent Frost would soon intro-duce- anoth-ers.(W- release a new book entitled My Canyonlands. 20 years ago Three out of six Grand County districts turned in Yes vote margins that carried a $975,000 school building bond issue. The bonds were for the construc8 room high tion of a school and for the construe--" tion of classrooms and a circulated in Moab asking the State Legislature to appropriate $2,500 to help build a wagon road to the Big Indian and Lisbon Valley mining districts. Elsewhere in the same issue, County superinten- ( , , dent of school Molyneax , returned Wednesday from a , visit to the schools at Westwater, Cisco' and Castle room at Valley, and reports them all i Southeast Elementary in a flourishing condition, Cisco having the largest School. The final count showed average attendance. At the bond issue had carried by Castleton a school will be . , a vote of 507 to 484; a spread established soon. A note in the paper of less than two percent. It Hands on your , cautioned, was estimated that construction on the new building pocket books! There is a would begin in June or July book agent abroad in the of 1961 and would be land. Also, One of the latest completed by the beginning creations of the millenary art of the 1962-6- 3 school year. The prestigious Master. is a dish called Goo' Goo, Publisher-Edito- r , of 1961 pass the goo goo. 16-1- al multi-purpo- se . award was bestowed upon Publish- Times-Independe- nt er Loren L. (Bish) Taylor at the annual awards banquet of the Utah State Press Association in Salt Lake City. The award, second annual of this nature given in Utah, Master Editor-Publishread, award of the Utah State Press Association presented to Loren L. (Bish) Taylor, 1961. He has worked er hard, lived honorably, thought' soundly, influenced unselfishly and is entitled to the highest honor in his profession. Taylor took over operation of the Grand Valley Times in 1910 and later bought the Moab Independent. Moab City began taking steps to provide for additional water needs by scheduling a transfer of existing water Times-Independe- nt Subscribe Now to Stye two-wee- storage facilities to the Skakel Spring site for in-- , creased efficiency of that water, source. 1 - ,r ' It was announced that Manufacturing Co. would shortly begin construction on surface facilities initiating a $25 million potash mill in Cane Creek for .Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. 40 years ago T Prominent Moab rkneher ' Georgia' Washington John- -' died after a son, 56, Stearhs-Rog- er ... - lingering illness. Johnson was born in upper Moab The Grand County Commissioners appointed E. H. Ryan as county surveyor and W. J. Darrow justice of the peace at Westwater. They also ordered the road supervisor to build a water tank at Seven-Mil- e, on the Thompson road. A masked ball was given to the Moab Opera House by the P. P.s. An order of 45,000 ft. of lumber, to be used for the construction of a new uranium mill in McIntyre Canyon, was cut and delivered by Ben and George Williams, whose mill was located on Joseph Creek, southeast of Moab. , FUND RAISING BASKETBALL GAME The public is invited to attend a basketball game ' between the Grand County Sheriffs and the Moab Fire Department, this Friday, March 6, in the High School gym. The game will begin at 7 p.m. Proceeds from the game . will be used to purchase equipment for the Sheriffs Posse. Tickets will , be available at the door at a fund-raisi- nt , cost 6f $1. The Job Printing Times-Independe- nt |