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Show Veal ?(: Roosevelt, Utah April 18, 1946 ' There's an unusual amount of energy being expended up on the corner of Main and Lagoon Streets and gradually the old is making way for the new. A. B. Norling of Vallejo, California, a brother-in-law of Ted and Shine Harmston, drove into town last week and immediately set out to polish up the old corner. He started by acquiring a pair of brown cloth gloves and a folding chair; the gloves help when it comes to tamping dirt into the holes left by the removal of the old gasoline storage tanks, and the folding chair well it sort of has a place in the administrative administra-tive picture of the polishing up nrniect. But what an improvement the jenovating of the corner is going to be! It will add tremendously to the appearance of the town. Say what you will those Calif or-nians or-nians know all about clean-up, paint-up, fix-up campaigns. Mr. Norling is giving us a few practical prac-tical tips on how to go about a beautification program, tips that include the use of a folding chair for administrative purposes. You remember a year ago when Orange Olsen. game management man-agement chief for District 4 of the Forest Service was killed in a plane crash up in Jackson Hole country? He was on an annual an-nual winter elk survey as you recall, but he never came back. Ole was always partial to making mak-ing his surveys by plane. Well a few of his friends who appreciated appre-ciated Ole's ability as a naturalist natural-ist and wildlife authority decided decid-ed on a memorial for him. They could think of nothing more fitting fit-ting than the publication of a book containing Ole's own writings writ-ings on his game observations in the mountain states. The book was released a few days ago and it bears the title of "Elk Below." Tn vpsterdav's mail I received a copy of this book. It was sent to me by my old friend, Chet Olsen, assistant regional forester. It's here on my desk now, this tribute trib-ute to a man who gave his life in the interest of America's out-of-doors. It's going to be pleasant reading, Bill. The Governor is going to give a little talk tonight at a meeting meet-ing of the Lions Club so I'd better bet-ter close and get my shoes polished pol-ished for the event. I'll see you later. As ever, Unc |