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Show A CORRECTION. . . In a published letter to the editor last week over the signature signa-ture of Albert (Ab) Harris, one line was omitted which changed the meaning of one paragraph of the article. We regret this error and are reprinting the paragraph affected. (The Editor): Indians pay gasoline taxes which should be used to construct con-struct and maintain the roads they drive on. The Federal gov-renment gov-renment pays the county a generous gen-erous amount in addition to that paid by the State, for Each Indian In-dian in public schools. The Indians In-dians already have to pay income in-come tax, luxury tax, excise tax, automobile tax and liquor tax (through his local bootlegger, bootleg-ger, of course. So the Indians really aren't a burden on Duchesne Du-chesne County, financially or otherwise. I wonder how the economy of Duchesne County would be affected if it weren't for the thousands and thousands of dollars the Indian people spend therein? Vernal, Utah Jan. 4, 1954 Mr. Cliff Memmott Roosevelt, Utah Dear Cliff: Enclosed is a short article which I have written after having hav-ing read your editorial about the special session of the legislature. legis-lature. I am happy to see the interest you have taken, even though we differ some in our views. An enlightened public is our greatest safeguard of democracy. If you see fit, I will appreciate appreci-ate your printing the article. In addition, I will be happy to discuss these problems with you further at some future date should you care to. Very-truly yours, Clair R. Hopkins I It was very interesting to read your editorial in regards to the recent actions of the legislature. I, too, feel that one person should not dictate the.laws that govern our people. However. I have little fear of this since we have 83 people in our State Legislature Leg-islature who are of the highest ' type and most capable. People of their caliber could not and would not be dictated to. This fact can be borne out by checking check-ing the voting records. Particularly Particu-larly is this true of our legislators legisla-tors in the Uintah Basin. It was my observation that these men at all times had the interests of the people of our area uppermost upper-most in their minds. In regard to your statement on Carbon College. It appears that sentiment and personal I feelings have more effect on your emotions than does fact. Dr. Ernest Hollis, from the United States Office of Education, Educa-tion, on a recent visit to our I state, stated that a college should have 500 students to be economically feasible and the figures show far less than this at Carbon. Last year only about 50 students graduated. On a recent re-cent visit to the school, I observed ob-served high school and college i students in the same class. One drawing high school credit and the other college credit. Also, one class in mathematics had only 2 students. The school is attended by approximately 600 high school students and a few more than 100 college students. For education of these 600 high school students the Carbon School District paid the college only about $30,000.00 last year, while the state appropriated for the 100 plus college students $120,000.00 for the present year. It is really a deal all school districts; dis-tricts; would like to have at the expense of the state. It has been stated that it would be cheaper for the state to send all Carbon College students stu-dents to the University of Utah, pay all expenses including board and room, than to operate oper-ate the college. During the past two or three years there has been much discussion dis-cussion on this subject and it is not something that was first thought of in the special session. ses-sion. When looking at the evident evi-dent facts, one cannot help but wonder why the school was ever established or why it hasn't been discontinued before now. By discontinuing the four Junior Colleges, the taxpayers will be saved approximately two million dollars each biennium plus any monies for future buildings. |