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Show Pulse Of The Public Editor, the Standard: A gentleman from the Hawaiian Ha-waiian Islands drove up to Whiterocks during the Sun Dance which has just been concluded. con-cluded. He was advised in Roosevelt Roos-evelt to come by Neola because of the condition of the Indian Service road from Highway 40 to Whiterocks. He advised me that, since leaving the Islands, he had traveled through most of the states of the United States and that he had accumulated accumu-lated some 12,000 miles on his speedometer since landing on United States mainland soil. The gentleman from Hawaii was horrified at the road we have to travel to get to Neola. He said that in all of his travels trav-els the Whiterocks road was the worst he had encountered. "Do not you people pay taxes?" he inquired. "Can it be that you pay your gasoline tax, your property tax and other obligations obliga-tions as citizens and have no recourse for the abhorrent condition con-dition of your road?" The Gentleman from Hawaii just traveled three -miles of the Indian Department speedway. speed-way. I suggested that he traverse tra-verse all 12 miles of it on his way back; but he declined and remarked that he had too much respect for his Ford, and that if it could hold together long enough to get back to Neola, he would write a letter of congratulation con-gratulation to the Ford Motor Company. A short time ago Highway Patrolman R. A. Devine, of Neola, Ne-ola, hit a boulder in the Whiterocks White-rocks road and did a fair oil-' ing job over a small strip. The result being that he had to have a motor job done on his patrol wagon. The citizens of Whiterpcks are the object of varied emotions from those who do come up to see us. Some give us the "horse laugh" and call us "suckers;" others pity us; while some are belligerent and want to go to bat for us. All are awe-struck at the condition of our road. The odd fact is that we are helpless. We are told by the state that our problem must be taken up with the Indian Department. We are told by the Indian Department De-partment that they are broke, and despite the facts we know about, we get no consideration or promises. We are advised that we have No. 1 priority for a road when, and if, the government gov-ernment sees fit t o allocate some money for construction. The maintenance money does not allow the grader to come any further than the Ute Tribal oil wells. The piles of boulders I which were dumped in the mud holes of the early spring still remain untouched. The approaches to the bridges and the runners and decks of the bridges are almost impassable. impass-able. When a bridge finally gives up the ghost and crumbles into decay, some old metal culverts cul-verts are dumped into the chasm, a bulldozer pushes a pile of dirt on top of them, and the resulting bumps are left untouched. We know that a sizable amount of load money was spent tearing down a hill clear off our present road, with the excuse that some time in the future, perhaps years from now, the road would be re-routed to travel said hill. The miles of road which were not to be changed were left untouched. We know that some $12,000 in road funds is being expended expend-ed to crush gravel for a stock pjle, to be used in the dim future fu-ture when and if the road bed is built up so the gravel can be used, v What kind of management allows al-lows such a deplorable condition condi-tion to exist? The people of Whiterocks, Farm Creek, Whiterocks Bench, Tridell and Hayden must live in horror of the necessity of traveling the Whiterocks road. The traveling men. oil and gasoline gas-oline distributors, produce men, bread distributors, livestock haulers, school busses, Indian Department cars and trucks, and all others traveling the road know that they are not only paying through taxes and other levies to get nothing, but that they are paying in depreciation depreci-ation of car bodies and tires. Truly they are paying a big price for the questionable luxury lux-ury of living in the area which is served by the above mentioned men-tioned Indian Service road. Robert L, Marimon Whiterocks, Utah Editor, the Standard: In going through our mail, I see our subscription to the Roosevelt Standard has expired. Let me explain why it hasn't been renewed: My wife, who takes the responsibility re-sponsibility of such incidentals, has been so busy she has neglected ne-glected renewing the subscription. subscrip-tion. As chairman of the Red Cross Motor Corps, she serves 107 to 122 hours each month and drives from 1,186 to 1,300 miles, taking handicapped children chil-dren and heart patients for treatment, taking the county infirmary aged and the Salt Lake aged shut-ins at the Miners Min-ers hospital out on motor and shopping- tours twice a week, and taking the teachers frqrn. the blind centers to the homes, j of other blind people twice a week, where they teach such things as knitting, crocheting, sewing, typing, music, brail reading;, and leather work, The Salt Lake County chapter chap-ter of the Ameican Red Cross is really performing a wonderful wonder-ful service. I Besides this, my wife is president pres-ident and tiding instructor of the Chepeta Riding club, the only children's riding club in the state, which has a membership member-ship of 165 active members from 5-17 years of age. She also al-so keeps up a six-room home. She enjoys your paper very much, as it keeps her in touch with relatives and friends. Her parents, among the first Lee- ton homesteaders, still reside there. My wile will be remembered re-membered to friends as Fay Hall, the equestrienne of Uintah county. I am enclosing my renewal or nnother year to the Roosevelt Roos-evelt Standard, the joy of my Saturdays, -w. --"-SweSiSaKa, Will:am Hayes . 059 East 9lh South Salt Lake City |