Show with your editor at a m monday morning I 1 was awakened by a sharp ring of the telephone As I 1 took down the receiver a faraway voice on the other end of the line said A luxury united airlines plane with 19 passengers aboard has been lost since p m last ee evening ning united airlines through the salt lake tribune is seeking the aid of nen newspaper shaper people in eastern utah to help hell in locating the plane believed to be down somewhere between rock springs wyoming and salt lake city perhaps in the uintah mountains the voice continued have you heard a plane in your vicinity in the last few hours or did anyone say sav last evening they had heard a plane I 1 answered no and was asked to make a thorough check monday morning however the early radio news monday morning re reported poTted the discovery of the ill fated ship strewn oer a mountainous slope on the other side ot of the not far from mirror lake and nineteen people all prominent and outstanding in their various occupations in a nash flash of a second d met sudden death there are wars still being fought to make the world safe for democracy methinks something should be done to make the world safe for humanity 1 martin johnson famed african explorer who lost his bis life similarly sald sad very truthfully the dangers of the african jungle aro are nonexistent non existent compared to the dangers of i ern civilization 11 we kinda feel a little sorry for the voters in the city elections next month there are no two catiz citizens ens in any town that get in more hot water than the utility man and the country editor in a short time mayor paul wilkins and a group of councilmen who for the past two years have given much time and thought to the management of city affairs will hand over tho reigns to a new regime to be elected november 2nd and election time is always checking up time and as tho the old order changes we ie say what has been accod wished in this era of spending the roosevelt city counell council has so tar far kept within its general budget and there is very little doubt that december the end of the fiscal year will see the budget balanced A balanced bu budget get in 1935 won alfred M landon governor of K kansas lisas so much acclaim that he was placed on the republican ticket for president of the united states tho tha roosevelt city council has done more mare than I 1 hiie within itji its income the sum of bonded indebtedness which sum was of course allowed in the budget ha has s been paid off and the renial ra ning 49 bonded indebtedness ednes s still owing is now in the process of refunding at a reduced rate of interest in 1 addition ad leeral aele ral major projects for the improvement r pro of the city have been undertaken an and d completed some with ith the aid of include the funds wa which construction of 21 blocks block of sidewalk and the asphalt purchase of 2000 worth of construction st n equipment including an asphalt smelting smelling sm elting plant roller etc the completion of the city jail at a total cost of the t he completion of a drain drai p project cast on lagoon street to the gulch and north on the he alley bet between first and second last east streets to the gulch this has greatly aided in cutting off surface water lit in the vicinity where it was laid other projects undertaken ly by the city without the aid of include tho the enlarging of the c cemetery res ezoir so that there Is now ample wat water pr at all seasons season of the year working over and re seeding the city park and constructing the fence around the tennis court working over most of the deets in the city with the now new equipment donated by the commercial club extending water mains in several parts of town ton and undertaking an extensive danl sanitary and cleanup clean up campaign in a small all town which Is always handicapped handi ca aped by lack of funds these are noteworthy accomplishments and we sayo say may the next council do as well |