Show A2 February OUje 1974 7 (Hime0-3nbepenbe- nt Dear Editor: SEUCAP is concerned about people 1 personally am concerned about people and I would hope that the majority of citizens in Southeastern Utah share this concern Why then do conditions still exist that take the lives of a young man Ms wife and baby This young family died from asphyxiation in a house on the Utah portion of the Navajo reservation trying to keep warm by1 a small Coleman camp ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER THE POST OFFICE AT MOAB UTAH UNDER THE ACT OF MARCH 3 1897 Second Class Postage Paid at Moab Utah 84532 Official City and County Newspaper Published Each Thursday at 29 E Center Moab Utah Samuel J Taylor Editor and Publisher Adrien F Taylor Feature & News Editor At Ernest B Milner Kemper r KatKy Foreman Sports Editor Typesetter heater For many yrara thrra haa bun a illatiirblng tandancy u( (treat many people in tha United State to taka what haa iirinrd to be the raay way out of whatever difflcaltlaa reared thalr ugly huada ludiarupl the even tenor of national lifn That aaay way haa generCon-(te- na ally been tn annum that thoae whom we aleclad to reprnaent ue in we rhoae to be I'reaiilent or thoae who worktile individual ed in the federal bureaucracy had unlimited reaoureee of money and wia-do- m It la apparent that with which they could aolve all problem! lor ua thla la not true The Secretary of Commerce Mr Frederick B Dent throughout the following article appearing la "Commarca Today " hla faith In the capacity of tha Amer lean people to reapond to challenge when that challenge la made rlear to them and they ara given a aenaa of direction" Ike challenge pf the preaent energy ahortage cao be met only if the ingenuity and creativity of our people ara permitted to flowar under the True entnrpriae free market ayatem Government cannot aolva thla It la a greet opportunity one for ua either We have to do it ouraelvea to recapure III eptrit of Independence t:irOK on tho Southeast Letters to the Editor S NOTE: pirt As 1 traveled to the Utah Navajo reservation to attend the funeral I could only think of the conditions that do exist in the number of deaths resulting Electricity is a luxury to most Navajo homes as is adequate heating yet throughout the area oil pumps are continually pumping oil to provide someone a more than adequate living Some money from this oil does go into a fund administered by the State of Utah and I have been told that some of that money goes to San Juan County to "help the There is a ragged counsel of desperation be ing heard in some quarters today in response to the current energy shortages Impose more riged contrails it cries If that does not work nationalize the energy industries It is the only way to save us from chaos and economic Before even responding to such ill -- considered advice I think we should bear in mind the Observation of Henry David Thoreau that "it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things’' Considering: the spectacular success we have had with the free enterprise free market system throughout our history I would say that any suggestion to desmantle it even in part or to violate and disrupt its functioning through ever more riged controls is a mark of desperation that betrays a fool’s reasoning If is is chaos we are attempting to avert I can think of no better way to bring it on than by attempting to run so vast and complex an enterprise as the oil industry without the discipline and efficiency that the free market imposes Take away that discipline and efficiency and you have to substitute omniscience and attribute that is sorely lacking in men and managers There is a saying that the market has a million eyes Take away those!1 eyes and substitute controls conjured up on the basis of inadequate data--- it will always be inadequate without omnisciene— and you will cause rather an cpptajq thepbqrtages on ferFor instance when controls were-plactilizer tis producers 'went abroad to 'find more profitable markets' creating worse shortages at -- home When the controls were lifted this inspired hindsight only drove prices up because by then the v commodity was in even shorter supply The disperate call for controls and nationaliza- tion ignores two vital factors about the current energy situation First is the abiding capacity of the American people to respond to challenge when that challenge is made clear to them and they are given a sense of direction This goes to tho very heart of the American character We built this nation by successfully meeting an unending series of challenges and by meeting them in the spirt of cooperation that you see today in the way Americans are responding to the energy shortages We are making it through the shortages because we are united in our determination to make it Keith was one suclr young man who worked toward achieving and improved progress conditions for his people and met with the same frustrations that face so many with the ambitions and hope of accomplishing change Perhaps some day his ambitions will become a reality and neither he nor Ms family will have died in vain Meanwhile our questions go unanswered and while - Tony - iheonfy sensible millions of dollars arc being allocated to help "Indowntrodden the dian” few are benefiting and poverty conditions Indians’’ MMHS ms I guess my next question is who are the Indians being helped by and why again do condi- still exist Marie Tibbit Executive Director School News Trisha Adkison and Mary Winfield : In the past few: weeks’ a few of the classrooms have started a new pro- -' gram It is called "World! of Work” It is where the room is set up in a city The city has at mayor trash collector lost and found newspaper attorneys and a bank: By ’ Students are given a ' certain amount of money (play money) and then they start up a business' if he or she desires Ifj someone runs out of mo- ney they havr a white:' elephant sale (that’s where the students bring: anything to school that is of no use at home) auction 'they have an block They Md on the things brought and they go to the highest bidder This is a poem from Madsen’s '' sixth Mrs grade class written by Kim Holyoak t r The Old Fashioned Home t As I walked down the stairs in my grandmoth- er's house The squeaking of the staircase' And the sound of wood popping in the coal stove Makes me realize how beautiful the old things are The tions exist in these Unstove ited States and more SEUCAP The specifically in this State of Utah? lamps TO GRAND JCT The old fashioned beds In working with the Mrs Beverly Guire in the old fashioned house Juncfrusto Grand motored my greatest tration has been some- tion Colorado recently ed Where two old fashionpeople one anyone to take the for a medical checkup Live imShe been has recuperresponsibility for With their old fashion- proving conditions that ating at home from ma- ed ideas ' now exist and have jor surgery performed In the old fashioned at Allen Memohouse hkeIront airport for recently rial Hospital Cleveland OMoit waste one 0f the few in the country situated within a "On Cat 24 Heart A Day a cityg bugineM mile The project section called for the expenditure of $250000 Big COMEBACK aBlMMWWWWOMMMNMttMWWaiMWMMWWNMMMIMVWMMMI Through the Fiiss of The Timesvlndependent And toe Grand Valley isted for several years The Navajo Tribe claims the responsibility lies with the State of Utah the State of Utah states this is an "Indian” problem although an office has been established in San Juan to "handle” some of these problems At the risk of being stoned from all three of these groups J have yet to see where millions of dollars are being spent on the reservation to Navajo Improve housing provide adequate schools on the reservation provide employment or in general relieve poverty conditions that exist Na-vaj- limes os ' was installed The owners of the theater said that the Improved letters size t was placed on the conand lighting of the sign struction ' afford a greatly The failure of Calvert increased coming and Western Exploration to current attractions view find oil in the Cane Creek eGrand" :°r SSiTf Marker of the PennsylVu theater was vanian in their second currentlopen Friday test of the Big Flat structhrough Tuesday ture in Grand County had cast a pall on local oil 20 Years Ago evploration Everyone had a w un60 Years Ago The building' plans for de rfultime at the- Mi Service : the Co open house cel- - aressmaiTi wh0 was proposed Moab Com- buil-Civic Center ebration Marking com- if a A with a malignant’ ding project were under pletion on the new super fering cancer at a sanatarium consideration The plans market soon to be opened had already been unveiled by Bill McCormick One in Baltimore Maryland PHONE 259-518- 4 was reported to be quite and an ’ artist’s sketch small Community boy reported weaker The radium appublicly shown to the peoproudly as he dashed out plications were disconback door that he tinued as was Comments pleThe large sign in front the hope for had consumer 14 bottles the recovery patient’s 126 North Main Moab of the Grand View Theater of soda pop Later he was which Moab’s January-Feb-ruahad been abanseen back for more weather has bedoned quick Tuesday: man moved to 'A come the past two years regular Members of La Sal lunch break Vl’d hate to MoabHelper to establish a nur608 Woodmen of monotonously depressing miss General Hospital” Camp sery with a greenhouse the World entertained and few people in the he said to be built later The their families and friends commuMty aren’t feelNow you know new nursery was to be at the Woodmen Hall ing the effects Our fog — sjt — located on Highway 160 At eleven-thirt- y has pretty much gone after a Have you ever bought with a 300 foot frontage lot of tembut and card dancing an 89£ toy hermetically on land purchased from playing several of the peratures have kept our sealed in so much plasHoward Lance near the snow covering on the tic choppers present "Afas a nation-'garbage and cardwater tank girded up their ground board that it almost took The owners of the Sun- ter having loins seized their axes Jake Heimingson has a tool chest to get the set Motel were ' The second factor that is overlooked by those adding and made a vigorous as- - av who want to dismantle the free enterprise system about had it He’s so anxtoy in the hands of the more units to the buildin order to save it is the incredible capacity of ious for the remember- youngster? Well we have ing Two of the units were sault on the big supply Bnrfwtrhes cakes etc a free economy to adjust to shocks After World ed January thaw fiat ev- too and it’s pretty darnalmost completed with six him draws breeze 11 War all the wise men asid there would be a ery ed disturbing more planned for the near finhas gone hog foture This popular provided” depression But the depression never came We outside with a wetTuesPackaging the first In London wild and one of the best stopping off place was adjusted to the shocks of converting from a war- ger in the air And was well strike teachers’ some he time spent to a peacetime economy by relying on those day time of the year of already turning folks aw- under aspects teachers The way millions of eyes of the free enterprise system probing through our files shortages of everything ay would declared had they out to find "the The Times Independent This economy today has an equal capacity to ad- trying be the reduction in might until out they remain very latest” the weather the amount of material office closed one day for just to meet the energy shortage for demands their gained there are and will be shocks that might break Lots of luck used to wrap and pack the redecorating The recent a minimum Admittedly of $500 salary make a difference But the best tool we have Jake We’re with you in goods you purchase And fire in its interior had a an increase of year the (And was and marks wishing left its it your these shocks the for managing is free enterprise little bit helps the every to be erased with a new $50 This week City Marsystem itself To throw away the best tool you files show tint on winbad have for handling a problem can only be described average during ket announced that its coat of paint on the ceilters we have about two stores in Utah Coloing as folly of the highest order of weeks more cannot it) we to continue our will and rado Naturally squander Wyoming 40 Years Ago -s- jtstart inviting their cus‘energy and oilier precious resources the way we The outdoor living Ever wonder why judg- tomers to "bring their have in the past This may be the greatest benefit FROM THE that will come out of the energy crisis Our eyes es traditionally say just own bags” Not only are room of Mrs Gus of St Louis was have been opened We have come to see just how before noon "This court paper bags hard to get most attracthe judged until is recessed been with we our have resources finite 2pm” profligate they have to constitute tive amateur garden in We more than a rather major expense believe it’s But the answer is conservation not nationalization America to give participants for market in this counConservation and free enterprise: they are com- just Word was received ample time for a good try patible and they are wise favorable action was that noon-day meal' That is why I look to 1974 with confidence It The invitation will be taken the north we a week This will be a year of challenge But it will also be got backed up by an offer of southregarding road from a year of great beginnings We will start search- handle on it Judge Ed a two-cecoupon wMch Thompson to Vernal at a hasty can be saved or cashed ing for new ways to harness energy new ways Sheya following Moab to propel cars and new ways to conserve what lunch with the editor and Two cents isn’t much A new state we have publisher decided to stay but it at least helps get ing eastern Utahcomprisand wesat the motel following our the message across tern Colorado was being -s- jt-advocated by a group of We’re just waiting for citizens at Price and had The Moab Jaycee would Royces Electronics The would like to thank each of Activities in Keep Mayor Bill McDougald received much favorable like to thank all the many Midland Telephone Co person individually here to pull a good one Fourconsideration at Grand people involved in making for the phones Beta Eta but there are so This Rapidly teen years ago when the Junction also The title the 1974 "March of and Alpha Roe Soritrics that space would notmany alof this article was "Make Dimes” telethon the suc- City Market and the low because this young geologist first bea was Mecca came involved in municMoab Capital and We’re cess it was We would Springers at Millers community effort that we so we You” With like to especially thank Bakery got ipal politics The Sherriffs The longer box jacket the Times Independent Posse all the merchants very much appreciate disturbed with one of his Thanks should go to all freshman antics that we struck a new note in the and KURA for the cover- in- Moab who donated those contribiting citizen ordered in some wood spring fashions The one age received Town TV merchandise and the of Moab who came through type 4 inches high to pictured was in gray with for supplying the TV scores of individuals who with more TIMI5-INDEPENDE- NT than $3400 in a bow scarf in a vivid equipment and techinical donated their time en- blast his next misadvento help fight the ture with appropriate Roman striped taffeta assistance The Grand ergy and talent to make pledges 1 number child health in A mistake made' by one County School District for this a dignity We great America year Birth Detoday in student the published By the time the order the use of Star Hall NAME fects arrived the situation had local paper read as folapparently cooled off and lows: "A mummy is Bill’s knowledge that we something that is dead ADDRESS had it made him a pretty and dried and buried and dug up and looks Thj Moab good injun on the Council like leather” The wood type however -- STATE CITY A pintograph showed -- ZIP is still here and still seme the hundreds of Grand County— 500 Out of Grand County— 600 per year belongs io the Mayor CWA ot workers who were Watch it Bill employed in building a 10 Years Ago Bids were reviewed by the Grand County Commission and construction horse stalls at the Grand County fair limit grounds A began on 16 45-d- ay ex-wou- ld 1 or Small ‘ i ed ity -- M 0 $ AM 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