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Show COMMENTS At a meeting last week of officials of the National Parks Council, with Boy Scout officials offi-cials of the Brian Head District Dis-trict and the Parowan Stake presidency and high council,, to discuss with local people, the Boy Scout Camp which is proposed for this area, it called our attention to what we may expect if the project materializes. The land n which the camp will be built lies just off the Parowan Canyon road in the vicinity of the old Lyman and Burton ranches on land under un-der the control of the BLM. The visitors made a statement that there are almost 40,000 boy scouts In the Utah Parks Council who need summer camping and recreation fa- 'cilities, and the proposed area here is to take care of a goodly part ion of these boys. What we wish to stress here j lis the fact that if such a! camp materializes and it looks like it will, and with the new facilities at Brian Head now .being readied and slated for the future, the Parowan Canyon Can-yon Road will become one of ,the most important roads in the southern Utah area. In a ! recent column we stated that we would have more to say about this road later, and we feel that this is a good time. It is a very good road and has done its job very well In carrying its load up to now. But the first six miles of it in Main Canyon proper, needs to be widened. Since its construction several ycras ago, it has become narrower in many places by reason of I the edges breaking off, also it never was as wide as the newer portions built later. I Here we might add that the oil surface on the upper portion por-tion of the road is not what it should be either, as demonstrated dem-onstrated by its breaking up badly under heavy winter traffic. j We don't feel that the local j road crews are the ones who can do what is needed. It needs a reconstruction project, a project for the district and state road departments to undertake. un-dertake. We also feel that such a job should get its push from a local level, with Parowan City organizations and Iron County taking the initiative. in-itiative. And we feel that this start should be made before the next year rolls around. Another election has passed along with its resultant changes chan-ges in our city officials.. To theso new officials we urge that you complete what has been started in the way of city improvements, and initiate init-iate new ones that are needed need-ed as it is possible. To those who were retired by the voters, vot-ers, we express our thanks for the things they did during the past four years, and we feel that they were many. We express our appreciation for these and feel you did a good job. But don't forget that you can still serve your commu-' nity in many ways. There are two things that cause citizens to vote against public officials, if you do anything any-thing or if you don't do anything. any-thing. Public servants are generally gen-erally retired for one of these reasons. In Parowan a Republican Repub-lican can get by easier than a Democrat; there are more of the former. We still feel that Mrs. Boyd Robinson can get the sweetest music out of a saxophone than anyone we have ever heard. Combined with her sister, Mrs. Clark Lamoreaux, they have provided very beautiful music for area functions over the years. The same goes for He-bin He-bin Lund as he plays the accordion. ac-cordion. In our opinion he is as good as that man on the Lawrence Welk show. |