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Show A Front Page Editorial Vandals Are Still At Large Almost a year ago to the day an editorial appeared on the front page of this newspaper condemning vandals who, during the summer, had broken ninety-seven windows at the Roosevelt Junior High School. It was a shocking and almost unbelievable announcement that was made to the editor a year ago about the destruction of public property which cost the tax payers of Duchesne county between three and four hundred dollars. The editorial very strongly called for action by the law enforcing agencies, and more cooperation by parents and young people in stemming such unnecessary destruction. Now comes another report this time from the principal of Union High School, who informed the editor that sometime during Sunday night an automobile had been deliberately driven over shrubs, tree and lawns, breaking many of them, and causing caus-ing considerable damage to others. It is hard to imagine that sane, thinking people, young or old, would become a party to such damaging antics just to quench a desire to do something mean or degrading to society. If someone had a grudge against the administrator of the school, certainly he could' have found some other way to give ' vent to his desire of vengence, than by destroying property at beautiful Union High School. This property belongs to every tax payer in Duchesne and Uintah counties, and it is they who will have to pay the repair and damage bills on the trees and shrubs that were broken off and destroyed by some thoughtless and unthinking unthink-ing individual or -individuals. Enforcement officers have been advised of the mean and degrading encroachment on society by these vandals. It is the earnest hope of this newspaper that the guilty ones are found and that they will be thoroughly punished for their cowardly act. We promise the guilty persons, if discovered, will be announced an-nounced so the public may know who they are. In the event their identity is not known, we feel sure their own conscience will punish them to the extent they will never again repeat their unthinking acts. 30 |
