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Show : i : v i i . Paga2- - July 20. 198ft H EdltOriOl Basin Standard .1Wsintah . Watching out for your neighbors and yourself A recent "crime for a trip or any length of time, after securing wave seems to have plagued die Basin just as the heat wave and drought has been doing, but while heat and droughts arent really something we can do a lot about, crime is something we can have some control over. - Hard times bring out the best in some people and the worst in others and the Basin is no exception to that axiom, especially these days, so we as citizens need to do all we can to make it harder for those who would steal the results of our labors by taking every reasonable precaution that can be taken to safeguard ourselves and our it, notify a trusted friend or neighbor, as well as local law enforcement officials so that an extra eye can be kept on it But thats just half of the job, because good neighbors and citizens should always be on the watch out for each other and be aware of suspicious activities and persons. If something unusual or suspicious catches attention, notify local police or other law enforcement personnel Don't keep criminal activities a secret, because next time the victim could be you! Talk to friends, neighbors and law enforcement officials about the situation and what can be done on a personal and community level to make you and your community less vulnerable to crime and less attractive to criminal elements. Then act upon those tips and suggestions and as McGruff says, Take a BITE out of crime", before it puts the bite on you... property. That means securing our homes, busand vehicles and not leaving wininesses dows open and doors unlocked when e is around. Dont leave valuables in plain no-on- sight or unattended in cars or in public, its an engraved invitation to a thief. If you must leave your home or business role in CUP. To highlight a few, I state the following: BOOR'S Uintah Botin STAN-- ; welcomes and ancouragot opinions from leaders In lha farm of lotton to lha NOTI-T- ho DARD EdHor. Lofton may ba utilized to ixpmt opinions or common ti, and alto .to' highlight outstanding tarvico of an individual or organization to tho community. lotton may not bt mod to replace advor-- : Htomontt of oppneksion or "Conk of! Thanks", listing sponsors, participants or j contributor la a particular ovont. All lot-tort will bo published unless they contain j IfeeJous anchor defamatory statements.! Lotton must bo dgnod and indudtr a j ' telephone number. Letters should be typed or clearly hand printed double spaced They can then bo submitted to the STANCARD office, P.O. Bo 370 at 268 S. 200 E j Roosevelt, Utah 84066. before 5:00 p.m. j Friday. All letters become the property of ' -' 1 -' the STANDARD and may yllll be edited t, Yi,J Basin is losing out on CUP deal Dear Editor, Last September, 1987, 1 had an opportunitytobein attendance at a meeting when a representaof the Central Utah Project put on a presentation. Ha explained the origin, goals and ae-- ; eomplishmente of CUP from be--: ginning to and. I was totally shocked at the distortions and misleading propaganda presented about the Uintah Basin and its tive . i : -, . 1. Due to the anowpack of the high Uintah Mountains, there is an abundance of irrigation and culinary water in tho Uintah Basin. When we get all the water we need, the excess is lost to downstream users or it runs bite the ocean. 2. In exchange for the water taken from the Uintah Basin, the CUP has so generously built us water storage dams and piped miles of our canals. (When asked about the unfilled promisee to build dams for the Ute Tribe, hie answer was that it waa too costly and that the Tribe would rather ' have a monetary pay-of- f than the water storage. It seems the Tribe ia only interested in money and regressing their land back to its original primitive state for hunting and fishing purposes. 3. The CUP will bring much needed irrigation water to central and southern Utah where thousands of acres of fertile groundcan be bought into production, which will boost the agricultural economy for Utah (However, what was NOT mentioned was that several acres of prims irrigated cropland has to be tafon out ofproduction in the Uintah Basin because CUP has taken political maneuverera to cut back on Uintah Basin water filings. Many farmers are farced into converting to sprinkler irrigation to stretch their water. And by the way, did you know that our climate is not conducive for grow- - Uintah Basin Standard Inc. 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It ia disgusting the way the Uintah Basin and the Ute Tribe has been used for a political punching bag. Does the reet ofthe state know how wa have been treated, and the things we have sacrificed so we can share our water with them? The CUP is now at a point where they want to settle up and wash their hands of the Uintah Basin. The proposals the CUP has presented to ua are ridiculous and insulting! Are we goingtobury our heads- in the send and let CUP continue to bite the hand that feeds it? Our situation ia NOT hopeless. Our local politicians need our support In talking with Alarik Myrin, there are some specific things that can be dons to set CUP bedr on its heels and fulfill the unkept promises made to the Uintah Basin and the Ute Tribe. But time is running shot My I suggest that we find out what can be done, consolidate all our efforts and do everything we can to make our voices heard load and dear. Weve paid the price in taxes and water. NOW we must claim what ia rightfully ours. Elaine Murphy poem in memory of her husband A Dear Editor, My Husband Ernest Weston Roberts passed away July 6, 1988 and I would like to have this poem putinyourpaperinhismemoiy.lt ia called, My Lumber Jacks Hands. The hands of my lumber Jack are rough and hard, Rough with broken fingers and scarred. He can fix anything from saws to cars. When I need him he ia always there. The hands of my lumberjack are warm, So tender, soft, kind and firm. He can laugh, joke and hug a Grandchild. He ia always there when my family needs him. Now his hands are old and twisted with arthritis. He fixes and sharpens saws for friends and neighbors. He does it for a living; often he dont charge for his labors. ; I try to always be there when he needs me. Thank you, Isabell Roberts Clip and Send to: Uintah Basin Standard 268 South 200 East Roosevelt Utah 84066 In the Uintah Basin 1 Out of the Uintah Basin 1 that ' sunset Wednesday night, July 13, about 8:45 p.m.? I mean, I never saw shades and pastels of pink, yellow, orange and fantastic gold blended against the fading blue sky that youd never see in any paint store. It was so delicate and the clouds so wispy that looking at it made my heart ache and my eyes water and I just had to atop and watch it until darkness descended upon me. The Master Artist had done it again! Bravo, Encore, even! I always have been partial to clouds, sunrises and sunsets, especially when theyre over the mountains or hills. I remember watching one particularly beautiful sunrise in a little cafe near Pikes Peak almost two decades ago. The snow plume was blowing towards the west and it looked cold, but oh so magnifi- -; cent! ' J. " I waa on one of my familys yearly vacation expeditions and we were touring the southwestern states this particular trip, Colo- - they can keep Robert Redford and Michael Dukakis, et al, otherwise Dear Editor: until they, the road occupied As I drive through downtown builders, can get the job done and Roosevelt, I am amazed at the the money in their pockets, the difference a few beautiful trees forest road network will contain and flowers can make. Roosevelt has come alive with color, and the enough mileage to reach the moon and back. I'm afraid I have a snide breexy, clean feeling that accomcomment for both sides of the ispanies the display of living plants sue, eo Til withold both and play makes Roosevelt a more inviting the silent majority role. place to shop. Scientists (those incredible I have that lived Every year stand right up there beings-th- ey here, the downtown area looks and Fort Knox offiwith prophets and The Chamber of better better. cials) have developed a miracle Commerce members involved are train of grass that could taka to ba commended far their hard work. Not only did they raise the away the favorite summer pas- -' time of many diligent homeown-er-s money for the trees, planters, and not to mention the numerous flowers; they also overcame other youth who need rammer cadi and obstacles, such as lack of machinare willing to sweat a little far it: ery to cut the cement, heat from mowing tho lawn. This new gran UDOTs road steamers, and waonly grows two to eight inches a tering problems. Those who are involved in the daily upkeep ofthis year, comes up early in the spring so your yard looks spifTy earlier, livingimprovement tothe commuand is greener than most varieties, nity are also to be commended. All so no more lens filters will be of Roosevelt thanks you. needed on gras commercials. But, Peggy Ann Strupp best of all, it gives ofT a mysterious substance that keeps weeds from invading its greener, shorter terrritory. (If it also keeps dogs and their business away, Fm first in line.) When this wonder grass will be on the market, no one ia Dear Editor: its production ia My parents and I have subbeing disputed by the Lawn scribed to the Standard since the Mower Makers of America. And early 1920s, whan we lived in the Protect Your Neighborhood Ioka. During those early years we Weed Population Coalition. subscribed to both the Roosevelt Perhaps cuckoos were inapStandard and' the Myton Free propriately named; the European Press. I have continued to subvariety sound surprisingly crafty scribe since I moved away; we love to me: they lay their eggs in other to read the news ofour friends and birds nests, instead of building neighbors, and the news of our their own. When the female has Basin communities. searched long and carefully, putWa still look forward to each ting in hundreds of hours of flight issue, though sending it through time and goinghungry for hours at tho mail makes it a week late. a time, and finds a neat containing that look like here, she leys eggs Respectfully, them there, where the other birds Bernard Sanfelice are often tricked into raising the cuckoo babies right along with Orangsvale, California Over 60 years of Standards apa their own. Sounds frightfully humaniah; though I know ite risky to think about anything herein as serious, I suggest it on this little imitation of nature. Theres a profound similarity to a common people situation there. On the lighter side, but another decidely human quirk in nature: There are thousands of firefly aperies, yet each has its own distinctive light pattern. Its special glow is usually uwd to attract a mate. Now coma on, guys, wouldnt youaaythatyourfavorite feminine specimen has a special glow? Maybe thats what all those roads through the forest are of great places to park and park. Okay, enough. Ill turn off a normal light bulb--an- d my glow-jgo mow my grass. And raise my cuckoo babies (and no other binl but me laid those egge-t- he similarity is just too obvious, poor things). far-ple- nty ust non-wond- er and such. What made the sunrise all the more special waa the fact that just hours before, Fd even wondered if Fd ever see the sun rise again. The night before, my sister and I had been struck with a particularly nasty flu bug, that had hit us from both ends, simultaneouslv. and I dont think Ive ever been that ill, before or since... Anyway, we did survive the night, but were realty dehydrated and weak the next morning, when the family stopped in a small town near. Pikes Peak. Somehow, I managed to gag down a scalding mouthful ofhot chocolate and one small mouse-nibbof crisp bacon, in my zombieised state. My dad commented that I must be realty sick, because my normal travel-- . ' ing breakfast waa three eggs, toast, pancakes, bacon gad or ham, 'hash browns, a doughnut, milk and juice... to start with! Then, in my gradual recovery, where I waa just about to the stage of being comfortably miserable, I glanced out the window and saw . 1 I dont know how many diehard environmentalists are out there, but this little fribble may interest afew others of you as well: Americas 155 national forests now contain more than 340,000 miles of roads. Thats eight times more than the interstate highway System. If the currently planned reads are built, which is to say, if redo, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas le : aying-perh- Subscription Rates Did you happen to catch - the sunrise over the mountains. It had been pretty dark when we first arrived at the cafe, but the sun was coming up now. I forgot my thirst, my weakness, even my queasy stomach! All I could do was sit and marvel at the way the clouds, sunlight and mountain combined to produce one of those pictures you only seem to find on a postcard. I waa absolutely spellbound and the moment indelibly etched into my soul ...It seemed to last for hours and I wished that it could have lasted forever... ' . Later we went to a western tore and all got some cowboy duds and I got my first pair of western boots...and then took three hours to travel 37 miles over e a mountain on a dirt trail with a thunderstorm right behind us. ..but thats another story! IVe seen a lot of sunrises and sunsets for my few years, but I never get tired or bored with them. The Baain ia blessed with a lot of both and if you miss even one, you miss a lot Lots of elbow room to one-lan- enjoy it too! TIP O TIIE IIAT-- Tn theme hrava folk from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA and other agencies who are out on the fire lines, struggling against rough terrain, heat,. moke and flames to protect prop-- . ertysuch as our forests an d ran gelands. We also appreciate those tanker companies who hauls thousands of gallons of water to help fight the biases tool . -. The Orsen Monsen family held a reunion at the Bluebell park Sat-- . urday last week. Over 100 family members were present and enjoyed a fun day of eating, visiting and getting with one another. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mon sen (former Altonah residents) came from Bakersfield, Calif. LaVoir Bristol was released aa a counselor in the bishopric Sunday. He waa sustained as president of the Young Men. Randy Williams waa sustained as a counselor in . the bishopric. Troy Layton returned home Tuesday after spending a week in Alaska- with hia father, Terry Leyton from Kansas City, Mo., and with hia grandfather, Herman Layton, Carlin, Nev. Denise and Kirk Christensen are rente of a 5 lb. baby girl, born unday at 2 p.m, July 10, in the Duchesne County Hospital. The grandparents are Fred and Carm a Mathews, ML Emmons, and Jesse and Beatrice Christensen, Tal- - mage. Fred and Carma just recently moved back to their home in . ML Emmons. They have been living in Springville for a few years, where he had employment. Mrs. Lois Goodrich left Saturday for Salt Lake. While there she went to see her second new great granddaughter, born to Jaylynn and Tracey Houston. The new e grandparents are Jay and Carolyn Goodrich, Salt lake. Lois accompanied her son Bob by plane to visit a week with Stephen snd Lsuri Goodrich in Alaska. Stephen ia serving in the Air Force. They had an exciting trip. The Relief Society had their annual combined picnic and cook-oparty Wednesday evening at the Bluebell park. It waa a flin time for all. John Pohlsander and son, Boyd, from Missouri, spent a few days here visiting and taking care ofhis property. 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