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Show CLIFF MEHMOTT, Ediior CacusSIy Observing . . . BOY SCOUT REUNION An interesting and pleasant experience was enjoyed by approximately Iwenly-ohe of the Roosevelt area'? first Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster last Saturday evening. . Calling the group togeiher was ' Willard Day, former Uintah Basin businessman, and now a Salt Lake resident, whp over 25 years ago took a gang of kids under his wing and started them down the Scouting Trail. . . Those kids of yester-year and "Mr. Scout," as they familiarly refer to Willard Day, had loads of fun as they renewed acquaintances; told about their present lives, and reminisced the years they played and worked together with a leader, who oftimes had to mortgage his cream truck to take the kids on a trip. . . it was a fine gesture of Mr. Day to call his kids together, and the tribute paid him by those kids should warm his heart and make him glad he had helped such a stalwart group of men on the road to success, with what Scouting offers. . . I join each I resident of this area in congratulating "Mr. Scout" and his kids for this interesting project of a periodic reunion. NEW COURTHOUSE DEDICATION Officially Duchesne Du-chesne County has a beautiful new courthouse. . . It was opened and dedicated in a very auspicious manned Monday -night as several hundred people from the Basin, and guests from outside joined in a program and prayer of dedication. dedica-tion. . . Much was said in compliment to those who had steered the project through to completion. Nothing was said that was not deserved. . . There is a challenge to those who will use the building, that it be preserved in its present pres-ent state of beauty. . . To mention all of the features of the building would be very difficut, but the convenience of the structure in taking care of the needs of the county, school district and Duchesne City, will be a great source of pleasure for the employees and those who will go there to transact business. . . It's a place of beauty and one worth waiting for forty years or more to get let's preserve and use it as a building should be. FLAG DAY OBSERVED The few local citizens who flew their flags last Monday should be praised for recognizing recog-nizing this important page in our nation's history. . . The ,City of Duchesne should be complimented, especially, because be-cause they have provided themselves with a set of flags that are flown on patriotic holidays from the utility poles along their Main Street. . . Some energetic organization in Roosevelt City could make a project of this, and do a great service to the community. BASIN LOSES EFFICIENT TECHNICIAN This week ended several years of supervising a great and important utility in the Uintah Basin Louis Reese, superintendent of the Moon Lake Electric Association, has resigned and moved to a new field of activity in Salt Lake City. . . Mr. Reese has contributed greatly to the progress and development develop-ment of the REA project, and his place will be hard to fill. . . Mr. Reese and his wife have been active in civic affairs, with Mrs. Reese being especially helpful in her church and in various programs in the county and in her community. . . This newspaper joins the many friends of the Louis Reeses in wishing them happiness and success . in their new work and home. SO THIS IS SLAVERY .... The very substantial increases in wages that have taken place in the postwar era are not the limit of labor's gains. Preliminary reports from a Chamber of Commerce of the United States survey indicate that fringe benefit costs employer payments for social security, pensions, vacations and other purposes amounted to $739 per employee in 1953. The figure is $95 higher than that obtained in a . similar survey, covering the identical firms, made two years ago. This, it might be pointed out, has occurred while the Taft-Hartley law, which Union leaders still monotonously call a slave-labor act, was in effect. Some slavery! v E v In actual life, every great enterprise begins with, and takes its first forward step in, faith. Schlegel. |