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Show Jfr.JJ.rrJJJ,rJjj,trr-i-rr . ' PUBLIC FORUM By Our Rea&rs j - - - - Cedar Enterprise V V Dear Editor: A commou expression In Enterprise Enter-prise Is: "If you want to see your neighbors, go to Cedar City." and that Is practically true. One can go from Enterprise and on every corner and In most of the stores on Main Street in Cedar City, meet folks from home. Of course, as yet, one cannot buy all the ready-to wear, hardware, furniture and what-not that one needs in this aspiring young town, but there seems to be a characteristic character-istic among humans to like to go to a larger place to shop. Folks from Bunkervllle go to Vegas, folks from Cedar City go to Salt Lake City, and we from Enterprise go to Cedar. Now, why do we head east, even in dead winter weather, instead of taking a tip from the birds and flying south to sunny Dixie land where we may find an equally fine J. C. Penny Store? The answer l.s: "Though the roads to Cedar City at any season are terrible, those to l OKL'M RILES Letters to the Editor will be welcome wel-come providing they are signed by the writer. Poetiy will not be used. Letters may be rejected if they: (1) exceed 200 words; (2) discuss religious or racial matters in a sectarian sec-tarian way; (3) carry partisan political poli-tical commmcnt or advertising; (4) make personal aspersions; or (5) contain libelous matter, obvious misstatements mis-statements of fact, or statements not in accord with fair play and good taste. St. George are worse. One often hears comments hero such 83: "You know, I'd go to Cedar Ce-dar and take in an afternoon and a show every week, but the roads simply shake the liver out of my car". Mr. Roscoe Groverv who re-cently re-cently brought a program" to Enterprise, En-terprise, describes it as an adventure adven-ture to ride over them. Leading local officials have recently re-cently met by appointment with Governor Maw in regard- to road problems and have been given definite de-finite promise of the completion of the St. George-Enterprise farm to market highway within tfie near future. Appropriations have now been made and bids are out for this work project. If the merchants of Cedar City could sum total the amount of business bus-iness done there by Enterprise shoppers, the loss they will realize when this highway Is finished would not be negligible, because one could easily change a bad road habit to a good one without snapping many sympathetic paths In the brain. Perhaps Cedar folk think of Enterprisers En-terprisers as strictly from Washington Washing-ton County. Though geographically that Is true, statistically, there are nearly thirty honi owners, who drive every day to work on their nearby farms In Iron County. Some live on their farms during the summer sum-mer and move to Enterprise for the winter. The acreage owned across the line bv these Entemrise res idents is practically 6,000 acres. Over a hundred Individuals di'.e every day to the Weyl-Zuckerman Farms In Iron County to work. Still others pay taxes on livestock on grazing land across the border, and this year, close to sixty students from the Escalante Valley are brought by bus across the county line into Enterprise to attend school. 1 With relations and revenue be-I be-I tween ttiese counties so Intermixed, It seoms logical that a mutal Interest In-terest in -connecting highways would be manifest. Each In acting upon this interest would be helping the other to help themselves. Why should there be mall routes to St. George and Modcna and none to Cedar City? It takes longer to get a return answer by mail from there than it does from Salt Lake City. Subscribers to the Iron County Record Re-cord ollen must wait till Monday to get news, hot In Cedar City on Thursday. A mall route could answer ans-wer a lot of problems such as quick -lyjieeded medicines, passenger conveyance, con-veyance, etc. Enterprisers feel that there could be good rond and mall connections between these towns If both ws and the Cedarites pull unitedly for them. In the past It has been as the old Dutchman said, "All talkie talkie and no doey doe y." Verna B. Holt |