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Show HasTheSFA Gone Into The Retail Coal Business? Roosevelt's coal situation is becoming acute, and through no fault of the truckers who bring the fuel from Price. Only today one trucker reported that it was almost impossible for him to purchase pur-chase the load he had gone after It seems that the mine operators demanded a written order from the Solid Fuels Administration at Salt Lake before they would sell him the coal. This driver was finally granted a concession because be-cause he was engaged in hauling to a community .wbrh j$.not served by a railroad. This incident arouses some speculation as to why it is difficult dif-ficult for local truckers to get coal at the mines. If . private truckers find it hard to obtain loads of coal, why then did a representative from the Solid Fuels Administration stop in Roosevelt in September witn the advice that the Solid Fuels Administration Ad-ministration was in a position to furnish the city with all the coal it would need if the city could but furnish a suitable yard, and a responsible party would underwrite under-write such a deal? . Has the Solid Fuels Administration Adminis-tration gone into tne retail coai business in competition with individual in-dividual truckers who are trying try-ing to make a living by furnishing furnish-ing Roosevelt with its coal? Or perhaps the Solid Fuels Administration Ad-ministration is anxious that a firm of its own choosing be granted a franchise for deliver-mg deliver-mg coal to Roosevelt. xnc visit of the regional director direc-tor ot tne Solid Fuels Administration Adminis-tration needs explaining. Anci while we're listening to mat explanation, ex-planation, the migni Oc thinking up some reasons tor in-oioim in-oioim mat uooieveit City aci as tne underwriters to tliii. puzzling coal ocal. i |