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Show Pag. 2 -- BLAHDIHe THE BLANDINGITE ALBERT OUTLOOK R. LYMAN In orde- - to make my object perfectly clear all formality, and articles, 1 am dropping I liberty and frankness of direot address to this interest and a peculiar relationship by Published every Friday at Blanding 9 Utah ! V. Cox PUBLISHER Jollnt Holt 9 North Blanding Hilda Perkins, S Blinding Anita Gnaws, Mexioan Hat Marilyn R Rowley, Montioollo Iti H E Blake, Montioollo Opal Howell, Bluff Vena Brown, Montezuma Creek Subscription Ratos: part of San first earns Jj -- in-dispend- able, one year 'San Juan County .54.00 San Juan County s ix months 2.25 Elsewhere in U.S.A. 1 year .... 4.50 qisewhere in U.S.A . 6 months .. 2.50 9 le 9 Second ,Claflo Postage Paid at Blanding, ln-oreae- Utah -- Facto and Supposition i miles froai Blanding to Eso&lanta via Hits and The rest is dirt paved HankavillSg jnot over 50 alias of Esoalante via Page, Arizona, the ahortest It is 495 alias to route The distance is less than 120 alias via air 266 rare speoimens of geology, items of historical interest and what we have to show in the way of art and produce from our farms and our ranges, would be profitable from every of antiquity, it it could not only be proud of it, but would be an whom customers we deal a drawing card for the asset with our mutual advantage Bush a museum eould make temporary exchanges with other museums, and we oould have frequently on display, new specimens of Interest from Interesting regions far away, so that thia would be given new charm from time to time with things never shown here before It would encourage local art and skill by a most display of the Interesting productions we oould put in and it would be a matter of satlsfaotlon to all who gave or lent We angle SON ing inspiring things whloh San Juan County has to shows relics many CttUfaxal Gocscxcxl j in this series of speaking with the have a pronounced here in September, 1897, sixty-year- s County, When I oome here as the first settler in ago our wey through a big 1905, after we had made a diteh and fought wedded to this plaoe, barrier of preliminaries, I was definitely me has been and is the This as to the girl wifi I brought with most important school I have attended hy little contributions, to it through the years have left pleasant memories, and there are a few cherished ambitions I have to contribute a little more In the few years I shall remain What I am trying to do may seem of small eonsequenca, but I have seen humble beginnings evolve here to what has beoome and this museum and bureau of information on whloh X have been working since the middle of June, can be developed information for our a, a oenter of interesting and worth-whiown people, and as an attraction and convenience for our An exhibit of the number of visitors from the outside since I CORRESPONDENTS It is Septenber 16, lgg) BLANDING OUTLOOK : O it, to it with their names on their contributions all-pav- ed Blanding and Ese&lanta is not so wild and rough as to forbid oonat motion of a reasonably straight road, and a program to obtain suoh a road is on foot Proponents of the projeot have named the proposed road "Southern Utah Parka Route" in view of the numerous Parks and National Monuments The &rta between will serve it $ a feeder road for parks and Besides making route between SUPR when Los Angeles built will eystem of hlghwayo nation and Denver and many eastern have strategic significance and should qualify for early cities in the national Federal desig- Sllffles ( v will not decrease travel on any other highway in Utah but will brlfcg a large amount of travel into the state that now passes by Greater gas tax and sales tax income, plus the additional income tax from a more prosperous Southern Utah will quickly pay the construction oosts SUPR ........ wili traverse many sections of State will substantially enhanoe the land's value SUPR j Hopes for SUPR is land and owned not Just wishful thinking unless the ple of SoutbcmVUtph think it is It is not something to wait for our grandchildren to because with tenacious promotion ed in the relatively near future build in the distant future than These who want (and who It's doesn't) to promote new effort now The road it be no it. spend The a lead man . news item in the - ftuigely, Colorado, promote easier to j San Juan County can't do SUPR it were news- uilt shortly Prior to the development of the Rangely Oil Field in 1945, the town had. one store, a post offioe, a one --room, seven-pup- il sohool and that was it That the town has progressed in the few years of oil pros- perity to the point of establishing a Junior College was not a happen-s- o but the results of the industry, pluek and oommori sense of a group of its eitizens These eitizens couldn't see why, with the tremendous oil wealth around over 75 miles that they should bo sending their ohlldren to the nearest Junior college It was a substaexpense item in ary oast but more important it oaustd too pupils to drop out of sohool upon graduation from high thorn sohool industries for San Juan County if weekly yet-to-be-b- Plenty of people in Rangely said that the Junior CollegJsy idea was perposterous when someone first had the idea 4 or 5 years ago, "They Just don't have Junior oolleges in towns like Rangely." Bit with the money, the need and easier chore LYMAN week ago was that the dean of their Junior College had openad an offiea in that oil town of NorthBonds have been voted and arohiteot plans western Colorado approved for the building with construction to got underway paper maiy now would have a much a big. project peo- same R. told us the other day that he and his wife things, only he likes to save it and she likes to Blanding like the ntial should be acquir- will A the monuments road will supply a long needed link between Southwestern and Southeastern Utah, provide aooess to reereat ion areas along the shores of Lake Powell, and furnish through traffic its shortest reality ALBERT a a group of proponent, the Rugely Junior College will open fully accredited institution in the fall of 1961. Their tax valuation is $67,000,000,00. nevsr-sy-d- ls its doors as a alone 1 i idea of hiring an emissary to oanvas all of Southern Utah in behalf, of the projeot is wonderful j Jeep trips over every conceivable route fay the enlssaiy prior to the start of The his' campaign wwild be invaluable the drive new underway , to get SUPR started fizzles. will not be beeause of opposition but because of passive If her It o "The eoniressaan'B wife sat up in bed, a startled look on face "Jim" she whispered, "there's a robber in the House." "Impossible," was her husband's sleepy reply. "1& the Senate, yes; but in the House, never" "At eight o'clook last night I said to my wife Let's go out for a spiff" In 15 minutes she was ready We started across the river, idwn our ear ran of f the open bridge and sank into the river Fortunately a gnat big dog on the bank dived Then he went up oh the highway and barked for in and saved us You do you find incredible in this?" what smle help "That part of your wife dressing in 15 minutes." I Aroa's Largest Stock of Residential nnd Cocaercial Wiring Supplies Bus. PHO. 2676 Res PRO. 2907 mmm msa |