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Show We think it's time for a little good old G I '"XXX" "bitching." Heie we are in Milford, one of the likeliest situated and potentially one of the livest, ino.-.t progressive little-towns little-towns in the state of Utah, riht in the very middle of the major park a,ip; jaches, and the only paved road we have runs 31 miles to the county seat .This town should have more paved roads leading- in and out than Texas has cows. There should be a road running-from running-from Southern Colorado to Ely, Nev., bringing bring-ing tourist and park visitors from Colorado Colo-rado and California with Milford in the very center. There should be a paved highway from Delta through Milford and Minersville to Cedar City, connecting on the north with our state capital and on the south with the splendid Utah Parks, than which there are no finer, jio grander, anywhere. And of course farther south with the approaches to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado. Milford should and could be the hub, the nucleus, of more than half the tourist traffic into the Utah Parks, and at least half the tourist and business transcontinental travel east and west. The major, most direct route from San Fransisco or Los Angeles to Denver, Chicago, and points east, is directly through Milford. Milford isn't on the main highway east and west the main highway into the parks because be-cause Milford citizens haven't become adept at the G I habit of "bitching." The day when "all roads must lead through Rome" has past. Ninety percent of the motor traveling public has seen Salt Lake' City and the grandeur of Temple Square. It's like a circus once you've seen it, there's no point in having to go. back every tirrte you want to see an elephant or by a sack of peanuts. So why must all tourists passing through the state of Utah continue to wear out the northern highways that are so jammed with truckers and home-town Sunday sight seers. Southern Utah offers a more direct route, less congested highways and more scenic attractions that the commercially-minded northerners have. There's no doubt about Temple Square and the wonderful wonder-ful Tabernacle bqing a sight no tourist should miss on his first trip to the state. By the same token, the northern Utah attractions are so famous, so well-pub'ticizpd,' no tourist is going to miss them. But why should the Northerners persist in maintaining their dog-in-the-manger position that "all roads moist, lead thru Rome" to the material detriment of other sections of the state? Milford deserves and must have, a prominent prom-inent spot in the national and state highway picture if her present prosperity is to continue conti-nue for more than a few short months. ..It's time for Milford's citizens to join the few who have been plugging for the past thirty or nxre years it's time for Milford's citizens, is one nton, to get up on their hind legs and howl for their just rights so far as highway xmstruction is concerned. And as assurance to the local citizens that the new editor isn't going off half-cocked we cite a' few figures. In the past ten years, there has been ;pent on Highway 21 the potential and logical logi-cal main line east and west that leads thru Miford an infinitisemal sum. There is now dlocated on this 81 mile stretch from Milford o the Nevada line, $50,000. Compare this with an allocation of $80,000 for 17 miles of construction a hard surface road from St. George to Veyo, a village hal" the size of Minersville; $0G,500 for bridge work on a Nephi-Lemington road ; 530,000 for construction construc-tion of a 1-mile feeder highway north of Vernal. Ver-nal. We could go on for half a page citing figures of highway construction that DOE.; NOT help Milford's highway picture, and'a! the cash allocators can divy out for this complacent com-placent section of trie state is 50,000 t.j spread a little gravel on top of our well-graded well-graded road surfaces west of town. An allocation has been made for work ; in Millard County as the starter on a road to lead from Delta, in Milliard county, (the home county of the Southern Utah delegate on the Utah State Road Commission) into! southern Millard couiity, the same area tapp-: ed by the road from Milford west, which has : been as good quality as a gravel road could possibly be for more than 30 years, and a i postal road for 75 years. 1 What this editor would like to know is, ; can the Delta citizens howl the loudest, or : could Delta honestly serve the territory in I western Beaver and Southern Millard counties count-ies better than Milford? The residents of j western Beaver and southern Millard, good, substantial, hard-working cattlemen a n d1; miners for the most part, want a road into Milford not Delta. That was proved by conversation con-versation with thenl on the tour-trip last week. It's up to Milford to get it for them, if Milford doesn't want to become a ghost town along with the dozens of otner towns of the west that were afraid to step on someone's toes afraid to pull strings too reticent to do a little howling for their rights. It's time for Milford's citizens to start putting on the pressure where it'll do the most good, and demand our just portion of the road funds allocated to Utah. We don't want it all (as would appear to be the case with some of the northern counties), count-ies), but we are entitled to a goodly portion of the road funds, and the only way to get that portion is to let the allocators know that if we dont get it, they dont get our support when the time to mark crosses on ballots corrtes around. In other words, do a little "bitching." If we don't get roads how, while funds are available, it'll be because we're too mealy mouthed to tell our legislators the same thing we tell each other. Lets have those roads now. |