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Show LETTERS TO THE EDITOR AS I SEE IT Water is one of the greatest assets that Southern Utah has. It has proven that we have lots of water If we will just store it. The water which has boon caught and stored just goes to show you how wrong our state water engineers ran be. The engineers en-gineers didn't think the Newcastle Newcas-tle or Kolob reservoirs would ever fill up; yet. they both have filled and overflowed for CO to 90 days. Enough to fill more Just like them. We havi. plenty of water if we will Just take care of It. Another engineering department depart-ment which is abused is the highway department. If we had the money which it has spent on highways that have been built In the wrong places we would have saved enough money to build a free-way through Iron County and other counties too. "Tney could save a lot or money on highways and conserve a lot of water if the Road Commission Commis-sion and the Water and Power Board would just take a litle more time to ret the facts and study the conditions. If they would do this It would save the taxpayers a lot of money. Speaking of taxes, I am sure If we keep going as we are, we are going to destroy America and what the Pilgrims fought for. The ' Pilgrims left England because of high taxes and Toryism. Tory-ism. Yet. we are going right back into it. Congress doesn't want to cut taxes. It may cut down their prestige over in foreign for-eign lands. We should have an increase in our personel exemptions. exemp-tions. The living cost has gone up and It is impossible for our young people to even clothe, let alone feed their children. We should have at least $2,000 exemption ex-emption for married people and $1,000 for single. And it would still be difficult to get along on this. We have just got to bridle our spending government. Clarence Lamoreaux |