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Show CLAUDE'S f jomnwttA S by Claude Ortoi. Someone called my attention atten-tion to the fact that the picket pick-et fence on the north side of the cemetery had been propped prop-ped up in places where it had been leaning. We were told that it was another project of the local senior citizens. And then we were told that it was the project of one member of the group, Joe Hannig.. I understand un-derstand that he did the job alone, to the best of his ability. abili-ty. A mighty fine gesture Joe, it was a job that needed doing. do-ing. Parowan City has taken steps to obtain a . more adequate culinary water supply sup-ply during the past week or so, and it looks as if the new supply line from the well in the mouth of the canyon and the storage tank, to the city lines should be in before the real hot days of midsummer. While we may lack storage capacity, we should have a good supply of the precious fluid on hand soon. But this still must be looked upon as a temporary solution to our problem. In looking ahead we see the need of more water, more storage, stor-age, more carrying capacity. In fact it looks to be an endless end-less fight to keep up with the use of water within the city. Each year more water is needed need-ed to keep up with the demand. de-mand. Almost every family ups it use of water, with more lawns by individuals and the city and schools. New parked areas go in each year and during dry, hot weather, we have never had all that was needed. So you see it is a never nev-er ending battle to keep the supply up to the demand. The city officials are faced with an ever-increasinf demand at all times and should always be looking ahead. This they seem to be doing. The same thing is true in regards to electric power. There has to be a constant effort of power companies and municipalities, to have generating gener-ating facilities stay ahead of demand. Owing to more hookups hook-ups each year, with each of the hook ups upplng their demands de-mands from day to day, week to week; year to year, those who distribute the powef to these hookups, must be constantly con-stantly on their toes, to keep the electric energy on hand for new demands.. And It Is rather funny when the average aver-age citizen adds one after another an-other appliance to his load, to take it for granted that the energy will be their to operate oper-ate it.. But that's the way we are. Lets look back a number of years, back to 1944, I was a member of the city council, at that time, The hydro-plant in the mouth of the canyon was our energy supply. It produced pro-duced around 375 HP. This amount took care of the needs of our population at that time and we had a surplus of up to 125 HP. which was sold to the then Southern Utah Power Pow-er company as dump power. Ask the present power plant operators what our two plants generate now, and how much energy we have to buy from the government, generated at Lake Powel, or other plants. It might give us an insight on how the use of power has increased in-creased over the years. So you see it is a never-ending never-ending battle to keep water in our taps and electric energy ener-gy in our power lines to meet each day's increased demands able, to see was the big riv-in riv-in those states. In fact, Mrs. Holyoak said it took her several sev-eral hours getting him out of the Columbia River. Sorry Arlo that you had to leave it there. And still they are the biggest bargains we have, and we hardly ever give them a thought. tall poplar trees growing on the city park have ceased to grow and have given up the ghost. These have been quite an ornament tree, and the row up the outside street on the south edge of the town, have drawn a lot of attention, but now many of them have died and more are dying. Soon they will all be gone, and the city beautification committee will have to come up with some new ones. We hope they come up with some of a more lasting last-ing variety. It seems that about two of the fishing waters in this area are having to bear the brunt of the fishing load at this early time, with a third doing very well. Of course Panguitch Lake, as usual is the top spot. But the Yanklec Reservoir, as a much smaller lake, is really real-ly producing a large share of the fish being taken, with the Paragonah Reservoir giving up its share. We wonder just how long these two small bodies bo-dies of water can stand the wear and tear. The Arlo Holyoaks have been in Oregon and Washington Washing-ton for a week and it seems that about all that Arlo was |