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Show Spring certainly hits some people in strange ways. Gus Emert is a shade over and Bill Lewis a shade under 80, yet both of the boys found time last week and they're very busy men to test their speed against each other in a foot race. Gus won by overtaking Bill in the I stretch-drive. As far as the rec-1 ord goes, the actual time, regrettably, re-grettably, was not recorded for posterity. The people of the area have a great treat in store for them Thursday and Friday of this week. It's Uintah Basin Activities Activi-ties Days, and students in this neck of the woods have been drilling1 for the big show for weeks. An extensive schedule of contests is being offered to the public free. Even Madman Sath-er Sath-er can't afford to miss a bargain bar-gain like this. The Roosevelt elementary school is really taking gigantic steps forward in progressive education. ed-ucation. Faculty members there are teaching the kids to do by doing, just-about the best of ways to get a job done. Ever since school started last fall, the students have been consistently consist-ently staging! plays, operettas, and programs of various types. "Cinderella" is a good example of what they can do. Their performance per-formance of the operetta was remarkable considering the age of the cast. It was even downright down-right cute. And while these kids are learning' to get ahead in the world, many of their older counter-parts aren't doing too well with their lack of concern for public property. The tennis courts are the latest to get it. Certain unknown individuals have been having ouite a time damaging the wire backstops at the tennis courts. Their lack of restraint is making it harder than ever for the city to get the courts in shape for this summer. Roosevelt could certainly use something in the way of apartment apart-ment houses. Stanolind's seismo- graph crew moved Wednesday to Vernal, because they found it Impossible to pay tourists rates for housing facilities. Things continue warm on the Uintah - Ouray reservation. It seems quite a few of the Indians In-dians are somewhat stirred up over Mr. Harris' "impartial" investigation in-vestigation into conditions on the reservation. Many people around town are quite satisfied with maintaining the reservation status-quo, and see little point in all the radicalism. radi-calism. But I wonder how many of them would care to exchange their individualism for the Indian's In-dian's regimentation. Yes, I know. Existing conditions condi-tions are good enoug'n for the Indian. Back home I have heard ministers explain away discrimination discrim-ination against the Negro as the will of God. |