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Show Problems Discussed At Monday7s Clinic Session Senator Watkins TaJks To Students; Evening Banquet Held In His Honor Senator Arthur V. Watkins topped off a busy day in Roosevelt Roos-evelt Monday with an evening clinic session at the Roosevelt Stake tabernacle. Matters dis cussed were water, a federal building, housing, Indian tr.bal management, roads, socialized medicine, and rural telephones. Arriving in Roosevelt about noon, Watkins was at Roosevelt high school at 2 p. m. to address ad-dress the students. The auditorium audi-torium was packed to the rafters. raft-ers. In his address Watkins told his audience they would be the . subjects of an American educational educa-tional experiment, when Union high school is finished and white and Indian children start going to school on the same basis. He talked about the educational problems of Indians, and told the students how the U. S. Senate Sen-ate works. At the evening clinic session B. O. Colton discussed the need of water in Roosevelt. He said that water used in Roosevelt is objectionable part of the year because of its impurity, and that water systems are expensive to construct in this region. He pictured the present inability in-ability of the City of Roosevelt to finance water projects, and enumerated the obstacles against the liht to collect water. Roos-eveit Roos-eveit is now bonded to capacity, and Colton suggested borrowing borrow-ing from the Bureau of Reclamation Recla-mation to finance the necessary water project, so that the money could be pa.d back a little ut a time. Senator Watkins said that Roosevelt doesn't come under the Metropolitan Water District law, and possibly a contract or entry into the Central Utah project pro-ject would appropriate the needed need-ed money. He said there is no limit to the growth of the Basin, Ba-sin, if water can be secured. 111 George Harrison advocated a federal building for Roosevelt. He said that Roosevelt was supposed sup-posed to have a building by now, and that something needed need-ed to be done in a hurry, as the , lease , on the present post office is running out and probably prob-ably won't be renewed. Even the present building is seriously overcrowded and interferes with the competent handling1 of in-', in-', coming and outgoing mail. I Senator Watkins said that when the federal building program pro-gram resumes, each congressional congression-al district in the state will get one post office a year. Eighteen post offices will be built during a nine year progfam. According Accord-ing to the post office depart ment, Roosevelt is one of the first towns on the list. George Stewart drew a picture pic-ture of housing needs in Roosevelt, Roos-evelt, and said that when spring comes, oil workers will flood the town. As of now there are not enough long-term loans available. Gordon Harmston, member of the Duchesne county school board, thanked the Senator for the $250,000 appropriation he pushed through Congress for the Union high school, but said the county was bonded to capacity and still feeling the pinch of 82 per cent non-taxable land within the county. He asked Watkins the possibility of getting get-ting an even larger federal appropriation ap-propriation for the school. Watkins said a bill is now before the senate authorizing more money for Union high school, and recommended the federal aid to education bill as a possible source of revenue, if passed in the House of Representatives. Repre-sentatives. Others airing problems were Julius Murray, whose complaint about present tribal administration administra-tion is related in a feature at the bottom of this page; Willard A. Da'y, former state road commissioner, commis-sioner, who u.rFQd bett?r co'imv roads; Dr. R. V. Larson, who spoke in opposit;on to social 'zed medicine; and E. Floyd Ross, Myton, who asked for 'r-forma-Ition about the Rural Telephone 1 bill. |