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Show f ... TO THE ScKt Cuaa 1ee&fid EDITOR MEMBER jr o uutoi imfifti ttmsmimru - Association - Founded 1885 & PUBLISHERS Entered in the Postoffice at Monticcllo, Utah as Second Class matter Published every Thursday at Montic ello, Utah SUBSCRIPTION RATES In County $4 Outside County $5 Box 428, Monticello, Utah 845 Phone 587-227- Senator Frank E. Moss has asked the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee for Health, Education and Welfare, to disregard attempts by the Nixon Administration to cut back on expenditures for education and (D-Uta- MR. AND MRS. H. V. ALWARD EDITORS I live in Mexican Hat Utah, which is just across the San Juan River from the Navajo Indian Reservation. Mexican Hat School, is just two miles away on the reservation. It is situated at the Atlas Minerals Housing Complex. Atla$ Minerals used to have a uranium mill in operation there and before Atlas, Texas Zinc. There are approximately 68 houses, numerous buildings, wmPR oixm SDOATl 7 CORRESPONDENTS An example of real community spirit is the work and effort that has been put in to make our community more beautiful and more evident of the coming holiday season. Again this year the Fine Arts Club members have banded their small and group together and have provided Christmas decorations in about the Monticello Library area. They are to be commended for their civic pride and for taking the responsibility to see that this area - which is used often during the season ahead - is one of beauty and delight for all. The lovely Star was made by Ben Schafer through the pleas of the Club and we feel that a word of praise is in order to this group of ladies who each year diligently take on a project of such magnitude. Food for thought h) health. The Utah Senator outlined the various educational programs which need funding increases. He said school administrators must be given the "priceless gift of certainty" so that they may plan wisely and well, secure against rough and sometimes arbitrary chopping and changing, opening and closing of the financial valves of Federal support. " Senator Moss praised the action by the House of Representatives which added $1. 4fc billion to the Nixon requests. "In praising their action, I hasten to point out that this does not mean any increases over the fiscal year 1969 expenditures. In fact, leaving aside the shrinkage because of inflation of 10 per yeai the totals in far too many instances are below what was expended in 1969, "Senator Moss said. He quoted figures showing that the 1969 actual expenditure; for schools in Federally affect ed areas of Utah amounted to $8,066, 025. Of this ;6, 628, 000 was for mainten-enc- e and operation and the remaining $1,438,025 was for construction. jfc jfc jJc jfc jJc $ ah, (ele-ment- san co-spon- sor sh. m D-Ut- ah, nn. I J "The war against poverty and deprivation begins at home but it must not end there . . . We live at a time when the ability to transform the world is only limited by faintness of heart or narrowness of vision, " - From the report of the Commission on International Development. 'The CARE Food Crusade will help feed 35,000,000 people, in 36 countries from Latim America to Africa and Asia, during the coming year. Funds are needed to deliver 6, 650, 000 food packages, at $1 per package, in the name of the American people. " - Letter from CARE. As Christmas nears, take time to ponder those messages. For Americans with the heart to reach even byond our borders, and the vision to help build the kind of world that will be better for all of us, CARE offers a direct way to express the holiday spirit of compassion and goodwill for all mankind. The Food Crusade is the largest CARE program requiring puband medical lic support. Combined with the agency's self-heand energy, health the seeks to programs, it give hungry people the education and skills to feed and support themselves in the future. Malnourished children, distressed families, war victims will benefit from your gifts. You can mail your check to: CARE Food Crusade, 444 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal. lp 94111. The San Juan Record Monticello, Utah Thursday, December 11, 1969 Page Two Eft Biwaadiirg hmm Progress at St. Christopher's Mission to the Navajo, Bluff, Utah, during the past summef included the construction of er a and freezer that was added to the kitchen. Increased agricultural efforts as well the continued participation in the Bluff hot lunch program made the addition necessary. The original box was purchased second hand in Blanding and walk-in-cool- Kto convenience for the preparation of the meals that are served each month. Community. Sincerely Judy Ward Mexican Hat Extension Service Reports may be lesions which are mild pr negligible: yet, in many others, they may be acute or and sheepmen have witnessed chronic. Both, or just one eye, or have had some personal exmay be affected with varying perience with the diesease egrees of milky or clouded called "Pinkeye" It pavs to iscoloration of the cornea. keep watch for this diseas4i Actual ulceration or small that occurs in cattle, sheep, (llcers may develop in and and goats, according to Dr. te iround the eye in the Don W. Thomas, Extension chronic and stages. The veterinarian, Utah State UniUlcerations are the main cause versity, of permanent damage to the He said the name "Pinkeye" eye. In the terminal stages of describes a common charactthe severe condition of Pinkeye, the ulceration may progress eristic of the disease. The until the anterior chamber include: symptoms usually of either one or both of the eye ruptures. When thi$ happens, blindness usually eyes, sensitivity of animals, results. of vision to the light, impaired and the Fortunatly, in most cases of the affected animals, disease a the animals make iappearance of thin, clear, loss or good recovery and usually watery fluid, weight become immune. 1'his sugg(decreased milk production is ests the possibility of develop-- ; frequently noticed at an early ing some specific vaccines 6tage. several in to protect against this disease. Pinkeye appears forms acute, sub -- acute, or However, such vaccines are not available on the market chronic. In some cases, there POINTERS ON PINKEYE Most cattlemen, dairymen, sub-icu- ; tion ry) electrical facilities, a water treatment plant, and trailer court facilities to mention a few located there. Atlas: Minerals is trying to sell the Senator Frank E. Moss,D-Uta- h, to the Navajo Indian complex announced today he Tribe. effort will join a I DO NOT officially know session basic the to change the selling price, but I have system of the Congress and heard it is $75,000. It would change the fiscal year system take a long time to even beto the calander year. gin to list the value of the Moss said he will buildings located there, but a bill introduced by Senator believe me, $75,000 is a Warren Magnuson, , very small payment for what to provide for two separate the Navajo Tribe could buy. consideration of legislation If the Navajo Tribe would and fiscal matters. buy the houses, think of the "The switch to calendar Indian families that could be year system would give more brought in from their time to consider authorizations on the reservation andhogans given before final consideration of low rent housing. Some of appropriation bills, " Senator these Navajos would have to Moss said. have some training to be able to live in the houses to their Senator Frank E. Moss full capacity. But certainly, told his fellow Senators the smallest house over there i that those who are really serbetter than any hogan on the ious about fiscal responsibility reservation. These houses have ought to first look at glaring heating, and cooling systems, hot and cold running water, tax loopholes for the rich instead of denying relief to the and bathroom facilities -- none need who which most of the hogans on of average taxpayers the reservation have. it most. My point is this; If the Navajq The Senator made the stateTribe would help themselves ment in a Senate speech in live could help them. If avor of an amendment by they Senator Albert Gore, , would buy these houses and to raise the personal exemprent them to their people, tion from the present $600 to the children could walk to school. If they won't try to Si, 000. Senator Moss was cothe to educate their people in this amendment sponsor which called for $100 per small way, how cari any amount of the legislation hel year increase for the next four them? years until the $1, 000 figure is reached. If there were 68 more Nav- Senator Moss pointed out that ajo families within a half-th- e $600 figure was set in 1948 mile of an elementry school, and that the cost of living has I'm sure there would be at risen almost 50 since then, least 50 more Navajo childwhile costs for food, clothing, ren given a chance at learnand higher education are even ing. As it is now, the San ligher. He said the $1,000 Juan School District sends figure at present prices is a bus out on the reservation actually lower than the $600 to pick up the children and level at 1948 prices. certainly the bus driver cannot insist that the children go to school. Regular attendance is very poor with the Navajo reconstructed by summer children. They also change volunteers to the Mission. schools too often, sometimes Added to the rear of the main during the school year. Mission House the new room I realize by just giving the soon will be rocked with local Navajos a decent home to sandstone so that it will match live in would not necessarily the rest of the building. The make them send their childaddition has enabled the ren to school. But it certainly Mission to better, make use would be a step in the right of the garden produce of the direction, A much wiser step summer as well as to increase than tearing down the Atlas D-Te- sample of the moon's surface, brought to earth by Apollo 11, will be displayed at the Hansen Planetarium, Salt Lake City, in August and September, 1970, Sen. announced. Jennett, The sample, called "Lunar Sample No. 4" by the National Aeronautics and Space A R-Ut- Administration, will also be displayed at other leading Western museums and planetaria for two month periods beginning next month and going through November, 1970 "In addition, NASA plans to send the Apollo 11 spacecraft on a tour of the 50 state capitals beginning early next year, accompanied " by a lunar sample, Sen. Bentnett said. today. It will help in controlling the disease to isolate all" affected animals promptly to prevent it from spreading throughout the entire herd. Protect the affected animals i juAM from wind, dust, sunlight and flies (fly control is most important. ) Such protection Helps reduce the spread of infection, but quarantines offer no sure prevention. Control is complicated by a carrier condition. Some animals seemingi-lhave a natural resistance yet actually carry and spread COUNTV UBtlti r 00 USSASY SERVICE y the disease without showing any of the symptoms themselves. In addition to the preventive measures, several products are useful in treating animals with pinkeye condition. Best results can be obtained by consulting your veterinarian concerning the cause, prevention, and products to use in the controlling the treatment of this disease. for CHILDREN ,t$ 6 What a happy surprise for the children at Montezuma Creek when, instead of Jim Greenhalgh, the regular librarian,BookBobo, the Booklown, drove up in the San Juan County demobile during National Book Week recently. Bobo was a red hair under a funny hat, light with his big red nose, bright feet you can baggy patched overalls and the most enormous imagine ! |