Show INTEREST STILL EXPRESSED r IN RURAL FIRE PROTECTION FOR BASIN Opinions and ideas are still being expressed by people living in the Uintah Basin relative to rural fire This week the editor is in receipt of a letter from Lula of Duchesne that has a few excellent ideas that seem to be very sensible and ideas and suggestions are Just a lot of others that have been They arc useless unless some one or some group will start the ball rolling toward putting the ideas into a working There arc two farm organizations in the Basin that are ambitious about telling the people how the farmer can better himself if he will join their In a sense they are competing with each other for they arc about like Ki wards and who arc rivals to a certain degree in a but if each is fulfilling its responsibility as a service they arc both benefiting all the people in that If farmer Bill Jones joins up with the Farmers Union and Farmer Brown affiliates with the Farm and each one takes his membership seriously toy doing his bit to see that the ideas conceived to help the farmer are put to we all will gain It is our after reading which is printed that if the Farm Bureau or Farmers Union would take over the formation of an area-wide everyone in the Basin would Following is the full text of letter which is being printed in the hopes it might strike a chord of activity Utah March 1957 Clifton N. Uintah Basin Utah r Dear I read your article on the recent tragedy experienced by the Clarence Rowley family of Hancock Cove and your appeal for fire protection for the rural homes of the Just such a protection has been in existence over a period of years in The Twin Falls County Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Twin Falls County office at Idaho is a mutual organization of the self-owned and Their insurance rate to the farmers is lower than any they could obtain They own their own fire trucks and cooperate with the towns the town firemen operating the farmer-owned fire They are not only have a goodly sized bank account as protection against future fire If any farmer group is it may get information by to their office at a William T. Secretary of the above-mentioned will possibly foe in Duchesne some time this summer and am sure he will gladly give or what assistance Jie can toward completing a like organization in Duchesne county Yours very Lulu |