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Show VI VIEWPOINT CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor BEFORE YOU INVEST INVESTIGATE .... Recently this newspaper carried in its classified column an advertisement in the "Help Wanted" department wherein where-in the advertiser was seeking women in the home to mail postal cards. We received the ad copy and payment for it to run a given length of time, which was done. It didn't occur to us to investigate. We have no way of knowing how many of the readers , of the Uintah Basin Record or the Roosevelt Standard answered the advertisement. But one of our Record readers, Mrs. Albert Peterson of Duchesne, who is spending the winter in San Francisco, decided to investigate before she invested. So she called the Better Business Bureau in San Francisco, and received an interesting report. The report points out that the company is a legitimate concern whose sole objective is selling name plates. The ad asked people to send $1.00 for more instructions. When they come there is a request for another $5.00 for 250 cards offering name plates for sale at $1.98. It's an interesting report which Mrs. Peterson sent along to me, and which I appreciate getting. She should be complimented com-plimented for INVESTIGATING before she INVESTED. . . The report is available if any of you readers would like to see it. : v E v DO WE NEED CATTLE SUPPORT Last week one of our readers sent me a note asking if I would print this one question in the paper "Do We Need Cattle Support?" ... He is very anxious to get the viewpoints of pur readers on this subject, and he would like to express his. That's a challenge, and if any our our readers have any ideas they'd like to express, send them to the editor in care of this paper, Box 188, Roosevelt. . . Remember, all contributed articles must be signed by the writer Name doesn't need to be printed is so' desired you decide that. v E v CASUALLY OBSERVING--.- CAR PARKING SUGGESTION OFFERED At a general gen-eral meeting of the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday Tues-day noon, several interesting reports were heard by those attending, and some pertinent suggestions made that might aid the Roosevelt area and the entire Basin, if carried out. . . One thought should be accepted by the owners . and operators of retail businesses, along with professional men and women The suggestion pertains to merchants and their employees who park their cars on Main Street, either in front of their own store, or they move down or up the street and park in front of some other person's place of business. . . If we all did as some do, there would be but little space for our patrons to park when they came to town to shop. . . Need More Be Said,. . . CHRISTMAS LIGHTS Will Go On Saturday, Dec. 5th Kiwanis and the American Legion are responsible for stringing the lights and setting up the tree. . . SANTA CLAUS will make his first appearance on ' that day also. . . NOTICED where Duchesne City will turn on their splendor and greet Santa on Friday, Dec 11th. . . NEW CONOCO STATION on Second South and Main Street is now open for business Vernon Buchanan is the lessee and will manage the new, modern station that graces the corner where the J. G. Pep-pard Pep-pard Co building once stood Congratulations are due the Continental Oil Co. for the fine adidtion they have made to Roosevelt's Main Street. . v E v "This county must build strength in its friends abroad or else put itself at the mercy of those who hope for our destruction." Dwight D. Eisenhower. Practical "Let's leave out the clothes closet." said the practical man to his architect, "my wife keeps insisting she has nothing to wear." Christian Science Monitor. If the French government continues to demonstrate immaturity, the Big Four might become the Big Three. It is a sad commentary on the American reading public pub-lic when one glances through the list of recent best sellers. 30 |