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Show 16 Rue de Strasbourg Grenoble, France 12 September. 1951 Editor, Standard: One day several week ago, I received a bundle from a friend in Paris, France one J. Fielding Nelson, a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and a son of one of the members of the Utah Congressional Con-gressional Delegation in Washington. Wash-ington. D. C. It seems that Brother Nelson had received the bundle from his father, who in turn had received it from someone some-one in the Uintah Basin. That bundle was no less than the Uintah Basin Record and The Roosevelt Standard, editions of June 28, 1951. It was with a great deal of pleasure that I read the various articles in both papers, for I caught up on a lot of news that I'd not known previously. I was especially interested in the editorial edi-torial "In unity there is strength," for I, as well as most other Basinites, realize just how much truth there is in that article ar-ticle you are right. I'm not writing this letter as an apology (I'll explain later the main reason), but I want to express ex-press my thoughts briefly to you, for I realize that you are in as good a position as anyone to know the pulse of that growing grow-ing child which is the Uintah Basin. Although at present I'm probably prob-ably not listed on the rolls of Basin inhabitants having gone to Washington, D. C. in '48 to seek my fortune, and being called from the L.D.S. ward there to fulfill a rnission I still claim allegiance to the flag of the region, and I still consider my modest home in Neola as a sacred spot. And it is with a great deal of pride that I tell people I come from Duchesne County ( I sometimes have to be more general to begin), a small town called Neola. which is near a more important one, Roosevelt ,etc. From time to time there's friendly ridicule on the part of friends who haven't travelled very much and all on account of my Basin homeland. home-land. There were some misgivings in Neola when I accepted a mission call from a foreign ward, but I tried to assure the folks up there that I loved them very much, that Neola is ray home, etc., and I have my doubts as to the convincing power of my words but I meant them ali, nevertheless. ... Well, to come back to the original statement (if there is one), I want to tell you that I hope you'll keep pushing for unity - is - strength - in - Duchesne County (competition thrown in to keep things going), and that the region will grow up to be a fine healthy county which will help to form a unified State of Utah, and so on . .. Now for a change of subject (hope you're not discouraged I thus far). An item of interest, perhaps, for some of the folks in the Basin: Ba-sin: Some three months ago, while laboring as a missionary in the great, worldly metropolis, Paris, my companion and I were trudging from door to door, one day, up and down stairways, there are few elevators, in and out of doorways. There is always a certain amount of dullness in such work, especially where many people are not interested in (the salesman's wares, or where one wastes many minutes knocking on doors of not-at-homes. But this particular day (the story is not actually very long) we knocked on a door which was opened by a very gracious lady who gave us a chance to explain ourselves, and who took more than a passive interest in-terest in our message. It so happened hap-pened that this lady had just returned from the United States, |