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Show .. ._..... .... ... ., . , , l1:r·~J·\··· '.~~,. ,........ ' \ , , ' • "' ..... ' ,! .... :... . ,,~ -_.... ~ _ ~~~~'".:~;:.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ '. . - . \0:._•......1'..'-~ -. ~'••' '••-. ~,,: " ' •• ' ........ ....:-,to...~•••••• -:. _ : •••••••• •• •, 1 • • ,'_' " ·... ···r .. ·.. ' • •• m T- ~. -,;->;A.' . - - _ --......$ -. , ......,.-....... • • ~r.. "1"" • ••....."•• :'.ar,.• ........ ...... : ..... . . ... • 5...,-r-. ,. • '.,-~ ....., ....... . .. -.!-.t. • • • ••• 't . . .•. .. ,,:.,Qto>~." •• .... .... Christmas w~ek, 1942, finds the city of Topaz nearing th~ midd1~ of its fourth month of existAhl'"€> as a ' funl"tioning social entity. 'l'hf' estate to which in that period "f time the Central utah RAlo~ation proje~~ bas attained is the forus of thA pres~nt artJ.('.le's inquiry. H~~ver, no ~xhaust1vely aeta11dd treatrr.ent of the ~uhject 1s intended here. What is attempted is a more generalized pict ~ .ll'e of thp. ... onnnuni ty' s rurrent status as it i~ reflected in I'ertain key aspe~ts of Topa~ life at the time of writing. It i~ a truisffi of hi~tory that the 2 .... ~ .... ~ , ~.::.~-...at.,.~. =! ..... " ~'!'~; .: : .) • •• L' statp of a ~orr~unity at any givAn time has meaning only in r e iaticn, among other fa~tors, to the point of that ~ orr: munity's be g infrings. In our ronsideration of the Topaz of today, there fcre , it wl11 ~ontribute to a more bala n ~Ad perspectivp. to look back briefli to t he Topaz whi~h was hardly more than a yet unnamed point on the rr.ap only a f ew months ago. One of ten Rimilar forced-~rowth ~om munl ties into whi~b an Amprl~!=i at war has funneled sompthing over lO O,non human beings, Topaz as ~cently as June of this year was merely one of the sites |
