Show 1 t CASUALLY OBSERVING Roosevelt Says THANKS FOR YOUR j BY CLIFF SEVERAL PAGES be appropriately written many people from a lot of communities gave unselfishly of their time and equipment to help the most destructive fire to hit a Uintah Basin Com-f Main Business section in a long Perhaps Wh history of towns and cities that make up the I- THERE WERE MANY TEARS shed about Thursday morning when store neighbors and people by the hundreds began arriving to watch Roosevelt's Main Street And everyone who cried hud every justification so to It was MANY WHO CAME FOUND THINGS to do and did Others but the Roosevelt City Fire captained by Rae had the business of fire so well organized there was little to be done except kp pouring water onto the flames that finally destroyed 03 five buildings and six important business caused damage to other buildings that run into several thousands of W ITS MOST DIFFICULT TO PUT into words what a newspaper editor in a small town feels under circumstances experienced on that Black as he named around taking talking to giving a hand here anu there with a fire and helping to gather M Information and facts to use in compiling a story and writ-hg an It's hard to know where to begin and what even though that's his JHk Tins PART IS EASY TO SAY because it comes from heart of an editor who saw one of the grandest displays Community Spirit last Thursday that has ever his to experience in more than 25 years in the saw a group of volunteer firemen from Roosevelt on the minutes after they received the call that a fire had broken on main Those twelve men came early that were still on the job late that and again Fri- y They were and any community who such unselfish people doing a job they don't get paid for their contribution mean so much Si M KAE YOU and your are entitled to all the and glory that can be nt your Your calm and Intelligent direction fighting that big fire will long remain In tho memory Mw yu m Please take a Our lk I. ta are off to BUT WE CAN'T STOP PRAISING firemen Must that without the help of a plucky department Myton headed by their another from Fort another from Vernal and still more two Crews ut of Vernal Division of Dow and Halburton's more of the town could easily All these men and the they brought 11 was certain the city was out of lT WAS RESPONSE LIKE Tins that prompted the BK did a people rally to tho assistance of i In distress more than did the towns to rescue of a Wm aA EDITOR AND HIS NEWSPAPER have pass on a of deserving appreciation and thanks ton UlC of the burned out businesses and buildings I e Who resPonded in any way to help them in this day in Each expression of appreciation from humble hearts that so much appreciate the help that came from those who aided S a that has cast a pallor of gloom over an area a terrible thing to behold and think a week iB ERE 18 A BIT OF PHILOSOPHY that if n this help to case the pain that kuS from which lias been built through mT and effort ver many It goes something ALWAYS RIDE ON THE I IF WE WILL BUT TRY TO 1 tragedy as it did It's to think any good can result mm It but let's not close the door just 5 Walt a while before we the THE FIRE BEGAN ON Roosevelt's Blackest rm lSe page 8 Casually Observing with Cliff from Fage I have talked with each store andor and each had some reservations as to future plans regarding his individual Some say they will definitely be back in business as soon as housing can be and others are as to their It's easy to give and some comes cheap but what I'm about to say comes after much thought and from seeking a reaction from a cross-section of the people in various parts of the Roosevelt trade and even from Ashley YOU WHO WERE OPERATING tho six business firms Wagon Super Tire Market suffered along with Center Service out of your operation is needed in this community to keep the economy and competitive with other parts of the Your competitors want you to stay with the even though It will take time to get back into full CAN'T MAKE ANY PREDICTION as but being a Utah Director of the Small Business who has urged the powers-that-be to have Roosevelt set up as a disaster I have hopes this will be Our Congressmen have suggested this and the Salt Lake and Area Offices have made investigations and our bankers are If and when this act is approved by the Washington Office of and President Kennedy so makes the long-term loans at a low of interest will be made available to rebuild Roosevelt's business story elsewhere on Page One relating to to NOW TO GET ON WITH MORE observations I have mentioned what a grand job was done by the fire departments who and generally how as a and some gave valuable assistance in recovering merchandise from two stores and and a few fragments from LET'S NOT OVERLOOK THE contributions of local employees of tho Telephone and especially Ruby who was on tho switchboard when Leo Hanson turned In the alarm that Super Tire Market was on She did what she was expected to do called tho fire and despite the fact that the fire burned the main cable leading from the Roosevelt she was able to summon Leonard Ferguson of the Utah Highway Patrol who immediately put the radio equipment into operation and summoned fire equipment from neighboring AND SPEAKING OF PHONE we must remember how Mountain States and Uintah Basin Telephone people worked to restore phone service to a dejected Their efforts will be as will the Utah Highway Patrol arid other law enforcing agencies who kept communications open with the outside after normal channels suffered damage to and directed throughout the WHEN I ARRIVED AT ABOUT another utility Uintah Power and Light had a full including the on the job repairing making cut-overs and guarding live wires that had fallen from burned worked long hours until complete power service had been THIS COULD GO ON AND but I am fearful that if more individuals are mentioned some would be be reminded that Leo whose Hotel and Cream Station were saved from complete destruction damage was done to quickly turned the and Cam the of this experience notified each of the business owners by car after phones had gone and let's say to including the TV and who covered the fire and relayed the news and then this AS ONE FINAL may I remind everyone that service to the community and the affected business people is not There is a lot of cleaning up that must be done And Roosevelt City and many other individuals will figure prominently in this In fact they have already started the There is much to be accomplished in the days and any help that can be offered will be appreciated by all AS A LAST WORD it takes faith and courage to meet but with and the will to nothing Is and some I Main where only charred remains of prosperity will glow with up-to-date buildings and business establishments that will greatly enhance the community as tho of The Uintah AND HOW GRATEFUL we all should be that not a single person was Injured and no lives were plus the quiet morning when not even a slight breeze was could bo among tho blessings mentioned |