| Show UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION they are rings the bell with farmers and small town people as does their local newspaper Itan integral part of the commun ity that cannot be filled by any other medium The home paper comes nearer being the voice of the people and connects up with their daily lives togreater degree than any other periodical issued in this or any other country Utahneed for adequate roads became editorial material as the automobile increased in popularity and communities began to realize the financial benefits of tourism Getting the farmer out of the mud by improving Juab Countyroad system was oftensubject -and so was the establishment of cross-state routes which sometimes resulted in pitting the voice of one town against that of another Reacting toMillard County proposal which sought to reroute Utahnorth-south highway through Lyndyll the Tintic Valley and Silver City the T-N asserted What are the businessmen and citizens in general of East Juab County going to do Are we going to lay down and see this section of the state highway to California taken from us and handed bodily over to someone else In other words have we gone to sleep in East Juab County How about spendinglittle road money between Nephi and Payson on the route where the travel the past year from Los Angeles Sanpete County and Sevier County has been the heaviest on record Driving time from Nephi to Cedar City in the mid-20 incidentally was approximately 10 hours 1931 editorial prophesied Those areas which build sec ondary roads now will be centers of agricultural and smalltown prosperity in the near future Of all the farmers prob lems none is more serious than the lack of year-round passable roads and none is more cheaply and easily corrected The Times-News persistently argued the potential benefits ofCounty Fair in editorials of the 1920-a goal which becamereality near the mid-point of the decade And in that same era it supported community efforts to createband citing the prospect of summer evening concerts under the stars and wintertime indoor performances Innovatively -well ahead of most other newspapers -the 526 Digital image 2005 Marriott Library University of Utah Al rights reserved |
