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Show FRIDAY, AUGUST THE SAN JUAN RECORD 15, 1958 San Juan Officials Social Security TRANSPLANTED LIFE At National By Tomorrow. Governor Meyner, highlighting a speaking tour across the nation, stressed two facts, the tremendous growth of counties and the resultant need to reorganize their administrative procedures to cope with the responsibilities they are assuming in connection with that growth. Emphasizing his call for a reasonable administrative head, the Governor said, "County government, like other forms of American government, can best be served by an executive elected by and' re sponsible to the people, and subject to the checks of a County legislative body". Speaking frankly, he also had pointed suggestions to state legislatures on how they could facilitate the called-fo- r strengthening of county government. In this he advocated permissive "home rule". Quoting from the Presidents Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, the New Jersey Demsix-sta- te .... . ocrat said, "The states could ad- vance the cause of local by giving all counties the opportunity to obtain modern charters, to use modern .methods of administration, and to exercise more home rule powers. The strengthening of rural counties especially would take some of the load off State administration and simplify the task of administering national programs based upon the counties. speakers on the agenda were Leo A. Hoegh, former Governor of Iowa and now director of the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization, who lined the job of the localities in the nations defense against nuclear holocaust, and Governor Howard Pyle, a member of the Presidents White House staff. Following Governor Meyners keynote address, the delegates entered into discussions to determine the courses for the counties to steer to bring about the full realization of the potentialities of "The Other high-rankin- g County of Tomorrow. Commis- sioner James H. Aldredge of Fulton County, Georgia, moderated a panel on "The Administration of County of Tomorrow In addition to administration, technical matters of finance and organization were discussed, enlivened with questions from the floor. The same session heard Albert Coates, T)irector, Institute of local Government, University of North Carolina, outline ways that state universities, through their research departments and academic staffs, can help county officials. ' Just some flower seeds I was PICKED up a couple of blooming begonia plants that morn- hoping Jim would plant. Let me see. She took them in ing when I was buying flower seeds at the garden shop, and took her knotted old fingers and handthem along when I made my dal- led them lovingly. Mignonette, calendula, sweet alyssum, marily call on my parents. Thought you might like to set golds! My,, my this takes me back! I can remember when I had these out in your porch boxes, I suggested to my dad, who was all these in that little plot behind in his usual chair on the terrace. our red brick house. Yes, I remember all too well. Maybe, just maybe, I could get aim interested In gardening once But they all dried up and wilted again. He wasn't much interested in midsummer, and we used it n anything anymore. Perhaps it for a baseball lot. Never did grow aad been a mistake to bring my much. Well, my radishes and onions parents here to our town when she sighed. Dad had to retire because of a were good early, How I loved them! You know, oeart condition. Dad just grumbled, Hmf! Be- these just give me an itch. I gonias! Beefsteak begonias, eh? wish Now Mother, at eighty-three- ? Vell, thank goodness you didnt know you couldnt hoe with You a red anyway. geranium, sring And what, may I ask, would your arthritis. Other Mother gathered the seeds e wrong with a red geranium? In up in her apron. Maybe thats just act. I nearly did bring you one. Nothing. Only they remind me what I need to limber me up. Sit around all. day I just get stiff. if my boyhood in the slums. We followed her around the Mother had come out in her lousecoat and dropped into a house to where the men had just hair nearby, trying to cover her finished putting in a new water Now Charles, you pipe. Look at that, she cried. eep cough. A whole strip all dug up nice and now you never lived in slums. Jont let your mother hear that! fresh. Ill bet all Id have to do Well, it was a row of little red would be to rake that down and brick cottages all alike I can see these seeds would grow. Now Mother my folks bethem yet everyone with a front them. shushed to I but a protest, and gan geranipitiful potted stoop Fine, Other Mother. Ill bring um struggling on the kitchen windowsill. you one of those little hand cultivator tools and you can use the flowers grow easily say They in this southern climate, and vege- boat pillows to kneel on. IU run down to the garden tables simply spurt. I picked up these seeds hoping I could get shop and bring the tods, I said. And I could bring you a few Jim to put me in a garden. Both my parents looked at me plants to transplant too. My dad was brushing the soft as if Id suggested they plow up warm dirt with his big capable a forty and plant it by hand. My grandmother came hobbling hands. Might as well bring along That you, Eileen? a few onion sets too, he called to the door. Good to hear a cheerful voice after me, and a red geranium. It had taken Other Mother and around here. Never saw such a morgue. When Grace is sick, I me together, to do it, but perhaps -y to help but theyre trying to they would be transplanted sucme on the shelf cessfully after all! Monticellos coral 1958 levy will mills compared to 57.7 be 53-last year. This includes in addition to the 34 mill county figure, 18 mills for the city and 1.5 for the School Board Cut Drops Tax Levies in County Assessed valuation in San Juan County nearly doubled again in 1958, going from $22,350,988 to e an high of $37,415,398. Consequent ythe mill levy for the various districts has been cut. Final tabulation was available with announcement by the San Juan County Board of Education of a reduction of 5 mills in the levy for 1958. In addition ro the reduction by the school board, both Blanding and Monticello have reduced their levies. The County increased its levy from 6.20 to 9 mills, noting the low figure of last year was to take care of accumulated surpluses and the 9 mill levy is still considerably below that of years previous to 1957. Only other increase was in the Monticello Cemetery District which went from 1 mill to 1.5 mills. The State School levy of 1 mill remained the same. Outside the incorporated cities of Blanding and Monticello the 1958 levy in the county will be 34 mills, compared to 36.20 for 1957. This includes 1 mill for State School, 24 mills for County School District and 9 mills for the county. In Blanding the greatest reduction was recorded. Along witli the county levy of 34 mills, the city levy of 18 mills and the Blanding Cemetery District 1 mill figure brings the total' there to 53 mills, compared with 60.20 in 1957. all-tim- , tax-levyi- ng H cemetery district. Breakdown of '.he newly announced county school levy shows 13.5 mills for operation of the schools, 3 0 mills for Debt Service and 5.5 mills for Capital Outlay. This levy together with balances carried forward from 1957 from the sale of building bonds will provide $664,866 for Operation, $108,-47- 5 for Debt Service, and $859,-52- 5 for Capital Outlay, a total budof $1,632,886 for the 1958-5- 9 get school year. Last year the school budget was slightly less, $1,573,393. To indicate the countys growth, twenty the county years ago in 1938-3- 9 school budget was $40,000. In Fund Hold Family Reunion With one game left to play and sporting victories and no defeats, the H & W Dairy Milkmen have virtually clinched the San Juan County mens softball league title for this year. In second place and with two remaining games is the National Lead Maintenance crew. They have won 4 lost 1. Also losing but one tilt while winning three, leaving two to be played, are Blanding First and Blanding Third. They are tied for third place. Tied for fourth are Texas Zinc mill and Redds with 2 wins, 4 defeats, and one game to be played. Trailing the league are Texas Zinc Maintenance, 0 w ins, 4 losses, three to play; and National Lead Office, 0 wrins, 5 loses, three to play. The inconsistency in the number of games played by each team resulted from postponements due to weather conditions and other factors. These tilts have been rescheduled for next week. Payments e, said. "Our studies have shown that many of these aged people, widows, and orphans have little or no other resources, he pointed out. ,'For social security something like enefits, received as an earned right, are the only cash income. Mr- - Pedersen also stressed that while the benefits are intended primarily as basis for individual economic security, the payment of social security benefits at the rate of $1,129,365 a year in the San Juan Basin helps business generally because most of the money is spent immediately on food, clothing, and 9, Eighty-thre- e members of the Merz and Redshaw families gathered on the Blue Mountain Sunday, August 3 for the annual family reunion. All 12 children of Matthew and Myrtle were present. Members of the family and guests attending the reunion were Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Merz, Dove Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knox, Blanding! Mr. Jack Cupp, Thelma and Brian Stuart, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shafer and son. Helper; Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Butt and family, Ucolo; Mr. and Mrs. R. E, Bishop and family. Grand Junction; Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Leffel, Dove Creek! Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Merz. Bluff; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Young, Mack; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Young, Robert Merz, Dove Flagstaff; Creek; Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Black and family, Blanding: Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schear and family. Dove Creek; Darwin and Erlene Shafer Allred and son, Provo: Vernon and Janet Shafer Parsons, Grand Junc Iy son said. "Also some mothers may be getting survivors insurance benefits for themselves as w'eil as their children because they have lost jobs a result of the recession. Many of these people would have been forced to turn to public assistance as soon as they exhausted their insurance unemployment rights, Mr. Pedersen said. The result would have been a further increase in public welfare costs, costs which are paid out of general taxation. For the entire State of Colorado, Social security payments at the end of 1957 were being paid to 91,870 beneficiaries at the rate of $4,887,-00- 0 per month. For Utah, 42,256 beneficiaries are receiving $2,267,-00- 0 each month. GEMS OF THOUGHT Surprising as n seems, good readers blink more than poor ones. The rate of blinks may account for their being good readers the blink making it possible to ignore objects, such as punctuation marks and other gaps in the text. Normal persons blipk at the rate of 25 times per minute. non-essent-ial AUGUST BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL s-- Payments to a retired . worker average about $65 per month, Mr. Pedersen said. The average for a widow with two young children is $145- - The maximum payment for a retired couple Is $162.80 a month, and the maximum for a family is $200. "There were several reasons for the increase in benefits over last year, Mr. Pedersen said. One was payment of benefits to people who were brought under the law for the first rime in recent years self employed farmers, for example. Other reasons for the increase were the reduction in the retirement age to 62 for women and the starting of disability insurance benefits to disabled people 50 or over- Mr. Pedersen agreed that one factor in the increase may be the business recession. "Im sure some older people who would have d to keep working have been forced to retire bcause of the gen-rbusiness conditions, Mr. Peder- - STUDENTS ONLY Call Today For A Livelier Lovelier, Long Lasting Permanent Wave. Well Top Off Your Beauty Program With A Flattering Hairstyle and Cut That Stays Manageably Yours- A REGULAR $12.50 VALUE FOR THE LOW PRICE OF S8-7- 5 Phone Us Now For A Convenient Appointmennt. CHARCOAL AND HICKORY CHIPS AT PHONE JU pre-fere- MONTICELLO LUMBER IOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0 7-26- 83 CLOSED MONDAYS al oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Benjamin Franklin, one of our na- tion's founding fathers, and a life-lon- g believer in careful spending once said this: Start today to make your pennies and dollars earn more for you! Any amount can start an account here and WELCOME your savings will grow into a secure future for you. Plan to open your savings account soon. OF CHURCH tion; Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Redshaw, Ucolo; Mr. and Mrs. James Barry and family, Eastland: Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Redshaw and family, Ucolo. The following nieces and nephMr. ew's were also in attendance; and Mrs. Bob Howell and family. Bluff; Mr. and Mrs. Kay Howell, Blanding; Mr. and Mrs, Bill Maples, Farmington; Keith Fincher, guest, Grand Junction. Mr. Merz and his wife, Myrtle, have in all, 43 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Mr. Merz is 81 years of age and still enjoying his family reunions, anticipating the annual affair. Pot-luc- k dinner was enjoyed as well as hone-sho- e pitching and ball games in addition to just visiting by family members. necessities. "This is especially important in a time of economic recession, he said. "Social security benefits are seing paid nationally at a rate of more than 8 billion dollars annual. CHRIST Blanding, Utah ALSO Meeting Temporally in San Juan Theatre Sunday Morning QUICK' CONVENIENT 10:30 Sunday Evening 7:30 ACCOUNTS CHECKING Take it easy THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL GEMS OF THOUGHT Merz and Redshaws Men's Softball Loop Old-agsurvivors and disability insurance benefits are being paid in rhe San Juan Basin at the rate of $1,129,356 a year, according to Ray Pedersen, Manager of the Trinidad, Colorado, social security district office. "This is an increase of about 42 over last year, Mr. Pedersen other & W Hears Title In County Notes Increase Ona F. Lathrop Confab in Portland I Commissioner and Mrs. Grant L Bayles, Commissioner and Mrs. Leonard J. Bartell, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Burtenshaw, county assessor, are attending the 22nd Annual Conference of the National Association of County Officials being held in Portland, Oregon. The San Juan delegation heard Governor Robert B. Meyner, of New Jersey, advocate a strong, elected administrative head to strengthen county governments it: "what he called a reorganization to enable counties "to meet the challenge of our times. The local officials will take an active part in panel discussions, round-table- s and meetings designed to find ways for the counties, most of them undergoing phenominal growth, to meet the coming challenges placed upon them. The convention theme is 'The County-o- f PAGE FIVE tallest known tree, coast redwood near Dyer, Califoi nia, rises 364 feet and is called tb Founders Tree. In girth, however s a. it only measures much as its redwood cousin, thi General Sherman sequoia in Se quoia National Park. Althougl California has the only stands o these giant trees in the nation fossilized remnants of ancient red wood can be found as far east a: Maryland. Put a check book to work for you. 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