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Show The Word From Boulder BY NETIIELLA GRIFFIN Th" second annual conference on the improvement or tho BoulderGrover road was a decided success. Fifteen federal, state, and county officials attended. Convinced that tho worst section of the road l'es between Wildcat Ranger station and Grover, they reached an agreement whereby the Forest Service will fur nish twenty culverts, state road men will put them in and state and Wayne County crewmen will combine their efforts and machines in cutting off sharp points, taking out rocks and widening and leveling the road The state will use a large digging machine to loosen and lift out rocks. Survey work on this section of the road was done last year by the Forest Serv ice. Meeting at the spruce-studded meadows "hear the clear, cold Wildcat stream, the men enjoyed a luncheon of barbe-qued beef, corn on the cob, fruit pie, etc., etc., prepared by Boulder women. (It would be the Women's Auxiliary of the Chamber of Commerce, if we had a Chamber of Commerce.) Golda Haws, Renon Peterson, and I served the lunch, much of which was contributed by others. E. H. Coombs transported lunch ard women and acted as representative of the as yet unorganized Boulder C. of C. Clyde and Irene King arrived in time to hear part of tho meeting. Officials present included Melburno Fet:n, state main- tenance supervisor, Wallace Stephensen, district engineer: Rulon Mickelson, district maintenance supervisor, and Doylo Cottom and C. H. Man-grum, foreman, representing the State Highway Commission. Representing the Forest Service was Verne Despain, western regional engineer, Jim Wise from the regional office, Howard Foulger, supervisor of the Dixie National Forest, Wayne Cloward, staff officer, Hoyle Sorensen and Reed Thompson, Forest Rangers, Jim Applegate, construction foreman, and Frank Savage, staff assistant. Wilford Torgerson represented the Wayne County commissioners. My gate has swung for several important callers this week, amcng them C. J. Ol-sen, director of the new state park commission, and Val B. Rlchman, regional supervisor of the Bureau of Land Management. Then there was my friend Jim Cannon (D. James) head of the state Tourist and Publicity Council and his friend. They were returning from a trip into Circle Cliffs guided by Mohr Christensen of Escalante. Mr. Cannon and his companion made a preliminary trip without help on Monday, They were particularly concerned about protecting the beds of petrified wood near Wolverine, much of .vhich fortunately lies in a state school section. Another caller was Wayne Coon of tho University of Col-( continued inside) BOULDER orado. Ho is one of the arcn-eological group engaged in excavating the ancient Indian Mounds here. Dr. and Mrs. Robert Lister and .their two . children arrived Thursday, along with fourteen students, five of which are girls. They are from the University of Colorado, working through the University of Utah. A part of the Upper Colorado River Basin Archeological Survey Project, they expect to be here for two months uncovering what appears to be ancient Pueblo dwellings A group from the University of Utah headed by Dr. Gunnerson and Dr. Jennings left last week after doing preliminary excavating. Boulder people are too much concerned with branding, tagging, and moving cows to the summer range, along with irrigating, spraying grasshoppers, haying, and weeding and watering gardens, to do much coming and going anywhere. A serious break in the Salt Gulch ditch necessitated some heavy work Sunday ana Monday by the men concerned. Fortunately Reed Jeppsen and his cat were available to help. Mrs. Flora Baker and her two youngest sons returned Thursday from visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Mclnelly at Sevier. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Ormond and children of American Fork wero visitors at Burn Orm-, ond's and Mrs. Gertrude Or-mond's on Friday and Saturday. Gertrude's son Ferrel was also a visitor last week. Mrs. Grace Myers of Panguitch was a Boulder visitor last week1. Miss Cleta Moos-man is visiting in Hatch for a few days. An enthusiastic welcome was accorded the new state Bookmobile here on Friday afternoon. After waiting an hour and a half, most of the people got discouraged and went home. We said we really didn't expect the traveling library to come this far anyway. But when the word came over the various telephones that it had at last arrived, we all went back. Everyone was excited about the new, beautiful; high-quality books. And this must be whispered the man in charge, Mr. Robert Hartshorn, who is, I'm convinced, a gentleman of good common sense, let us take out our choice of the books, even though he was jumping the f gun a little on the planned arrangement. But considering the long distance he had come, the rutty, dusty roads, etc. , plus the enthusiastic reception, why shouldn't he let us take out some books? Twenty-two people had signed for books when I left. The majority were sub-teenagers, but the ages ranged upward to those of Mary Moosman and Janette Mortensen both i n their eighties. I predict that the Bookmobile will be a great force for culture throughout rural Utah if it is properly used. |