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Show CLIFF MEMMOTT, Editor UINTAH BASIN DELEGATION LEAVES TO FIGHT FOR ECHO PARK DAM PROJECT. . . Never has an area gotten more enthusiastically behind a project, or has unity been more in evidence than that exemplified in the Uintah Basin the past 10 days since a call was made to "Send A Delegation to Washington To Fight For Echo Park." In- Duchesne County the ball was handed to the Roosevelt Roose-velt Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 5, by a delegation from Vernal. Immediately a united team of men and women from the Roosevelt area took the ball and began running until they had influenced every community in the county to join together in sending a large delegation to Washington to fight for the project that can "make the Basin." On Friday approximately thirty men and women from practically every community in Duchesne County were at the courthouse seeking financial aid from the commissioners. It didn't require any selling to get them to approve the sending of two delegates from the county all they wanted was the delegation to say they felt the county should finance fi-nance two, which they did and the motion was unanimously passed. Groups from Duchesne, Myton, Altamont, Roosevelt and other communities went back home and started to work, getting more delegates ready for the trip to the Nation's Capitol. As a result of that enthusiasm, ten men from Duchesne Du-chesne County will join nineteen from Uintah County on the trip to fight those who would sacrifice the great Echo Park dam and the Upper Colorado River program for the sake of less than 5 of the Dinosaur National Monument that might be submerged under water if and when the dam is built. I am distinctly proud that I live in an area where people can and will join together in working for something some-thing that will universally benefit all of us, even though some might stand to gain more than others. That kind of unity shown in the Uintah Basin will win that project for the West That kind of UNITY can do greater things for the Basin if we'll erase the imaginary barriers that might have existed in the past. Remember the famous words of a great American "United We Stand, Divided We'll Fall." v E v HOUSE-TO-HOUSE MERCHANTS SHOULD CONFORM TO LICENSE REGULATIONS .... Recently Roosevelt City revised their ordinances for the convenience of the people who live in the community, and those selected to govern the citizenry in a more intelligent manner. . . Those new ordinances contain the "law and gospel" by which you and I should behave if we want to remain on the side of the law. . Among the ordinances are some that regulate doing business in the city without a license, and those who are affected by the Green River Ordinance, which is still on the books. . . None of the ordinances are designed to work a hardship on any person, firm or company they are to regulate i and make competitive business fair to all who engage therein. . . Certainly they will not discriminate against the man or woman who is representing bonafide firms and who make their homes in our communities in this vicinity they are merely set up to protect him, whether he sells his wares from a store counter, or from his automobile or truck. There are house-to-hcfuse peddlers visiting our community com-munity almost every day who are in violation of the law selling without a license. The city officials, including the police department, are anxious to curb this situation, and only can they be successful if housewives or those who answer the doorbell when a traveling merchant calls, will cooperate with the city. Why not help yourself and your city by calling the City Hall and report that a peddler is in your neighborhood no need for you to be embarrased by asking for a peddler's pedd-ler's license, leave that up to the police department. v E v There are two kinds of men who never amount to much: those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do' nothing else.. Far too many of us see the world through our I's. " Show us the man who never makes a mistake and we will show a man who never makes anything. H. L. Wayland It's fine to talk straight from the shoulder but it's better to talk from higher up. 30 |