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Show PAGE 30 THE ZEPHYR AUGUST 1991 ' feedback the readers respond The following letter was received by the owners of the Virginian Motel during the Butch Cassidy Days Rodeo. The man who wrote the letter swears that It's true. Who's to say It Isn't? J.S. Dear Friends: Back In 1923 (67 years ago) I saw Butch Cassidy dig up some gold coins some 50 mL east of Grand Junction. Butch and another man drove up a dirt road and stopped near where my dad and another man were replacing a culvert across a country road. They went over into a bushy spot some 200 ft back from the road and began digging several places and finally found the spot they were looking for and dug up an old powder can with quite a few gold coins In It The can was badly rusted and so they put the coins In a horse blanket and carried them back to their Old Model T or Tt without a windshield nor top. Butch came over to where dad and the other man were working and handed me a $10.00 gold piece, which I still have , and dad a $20.00 double eagle. He said, "You didn't see a thing no matter what happens." He said, "here 'kid' Is an eagle for you." Ray Morslck To the Editor: Dear Jim, Re: Sam Cunningham's Interview In the ZEPHYR July 1991. He doesn't seem to have the or (an) answer to anything. Does he know who his mother Is??? An avid reader. Katie Lee Alan Tate "Each day spent In stupid labor I will consider Ruess wasted."-Evere- tt Dear Mr. Stiles: You'll be pleased to learn The Zephyr has been named the official newspaper of the famous Solpugld Expeditions. It Is counted on to keep us up on whats going on at our home away from home until we can make our ritual summer pilgrimage. Named for the arachnid resembling a hairy fanny with Jaws and guided by such bylaws as: 1. Start late, stop early, take long breaks. 2. Lounge. 3. Drink am while they're cold. 4. Lounge, the Solpugld Expeditions makes annual months long attempts to get permanently lost on the Colorado Plateau. I'm sure you'll appreciate the prestige of being associated with the proud tradition no useful purpose to society since a long time ago". of the Solpugld ExpeditIon-Servln- g Sincerely, Kemp Anderson Long Beach, GA Dear Zephyr, noticed your ad In the July Issue for the "UNITED WAITRON UNITS OF MOAB". Tipping, It occurred to me, started out as a choice by the customer to show their appreciation for service rendered. Now the restaurant owners, the State of Utah, and the Federal Government have got Info the act through low wages and taxation to force the consumer to feel sorry and obligate them to tip the poor helpless waltrons! But what of the other service people In the Food Industry? What about the other service Industries? Many times I have stood In the kitchen In 100 degree weather over a hot stove msde $30.00 - $40.00 for an 8 hour shift while waltrons worked 4 hours and complained instead of the expected because they mske $40.00-$50.0- 0 Good service Is only 1 psrt of the restaurant experience. How many times these days do we tip the cook, or the hostess, or the busperson? How about the other service industries? Gas station attendants, river & land guides, motel maids and staff? The list goes on Since you feel obligated, you tip the Waltron, which they seldom share with the rest of the staff and everyone Is unhappy I I personally tip more than the expected 15 when the service Is good so I usually get excellent service wherever I go (except the Double D cafe In Escalante) but for too often I see Waltrons that expect to be tipped without putting forth any extra effort, or even standard effort. When that happens it is 15 period. If the service Is poor the tip Is much less, down to the Insult of 1 cent! If I sm short on any particular visit then I mention It to the Waltron and most are very understanding. So the point of all tills Is thst your sd, slthough well Intentloned, does not really address the problem. What would address the problem, In my opinion, Is this: A tax break for seasonal service oriented businesses snd staff both State & Federal A local coalition of service workers to help secure fair wages from employers. Educstional system to train employer, employees and consumers to promote fairness to all. Idealistic? Perhaps, but since service Is the "Msln Game" In town It would not hurt If Moab'a reputation for good service, fair wages, and happy people were to get around! It would do a lot more to solve the labor pool situation, problems of the small businessperson, and the expectations of the consumer thsn your guilt oriented ad. I Jerome, Az Editor's note: Mr. Cunningham is a woman. Letter to the Editor Dear Mr. Stiles: Apparently you Moabites thought you could keep this radical Laddering! technology to yourselves. I'm writing to Inform you that word Is out Don't be surprised if you're contacted soon by a MAJOR MANUFACTURER of farm equipment (I won't mention names, but nothing runs like one.) Their engineers predict Laddering! could revolutionize the detasseling Industry. Thank you all for your Important contribution to keeping the U.S. on top in agribusiness. God Bless America. Leigh Rigby Waterloo, towa Dear Editor Jim, The recent discovery of oil north of Moab may prove to be troublesome in a legal Bette Stanton, staunch leader of our Economic Development Council, has sworn a holy way. oath to get all those precious, sacred dollars she can for Grand County. Yet she also has a commitment as head officer of the Moab Film Commission to maintain one of our prime filming locations, (you guessed it) the same area that 384 oil companies (an estimate) want so badly to rip the guts out of and litter with scrap metal. We will not here discuss the disappointment and frustration of foreign and domestic tourists, travel agents and tour-bu- s companies who might have Just as easily gone to Telluride, Escalante or Lukachuka! with their precious tourist dollars Instead of coming here to have to confront the all over the road to Dead sight of oil rigs, the sound of engines and the smell of long-standi- do not see any way out except for the County Commissioners to intercede by voting themselves members of a new Dilemma Commission, at a goodly rate of pay, and remove the problem from Ms. Stanton's troubled venue. There is precedent for this proposed new Commission and the taxpayers will, no doubt, tolerate It as they have I previously shown their willingness to tolerate the aforesaid precedent Imagine the extra $1500 per month (an estimate) will help the Commissioners In their efforts to reach a Judicious and proper resolution to this problem, even if It takes years of effort I ng tool-pushe- rs Horse Point $75.00-$100.0- 0l lets Just focus on this very real dilemma whose horns have pronged Bette Stanton. She Is, I believe, a serious person who has sworn sacred oaths, which should she violate them, would damn her for all eternity to bum In a cauldron of boiling brimstone while eating red meat and Twinkles, but she cannot preserve and protect and defend our prime tourist country and superb movie locations (and those movie productions to drop millions of dollars, blessed, sacred dollars, directly into the pockets of grateful Moab merchants, innkeepers and residents) and at the same time promote and encourage the rapacious depletion of our fossil fuel reserves from that same ground to gain dollars, precious, sacred dollars, to provide property tax relief for those residents whom God Himself has chosen to own various parts of Grand County. Ms. Stanton is now In the unpleasant position of having to sue herself, in her official capacities, to both stop and proceed with her sworn duties. No, NEWS r" ; 0OC NEWS. $g oaoB . . 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