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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD The Old Settler . THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAN JUAN. COUNTY. UTAH Published Every Thursday at Moniicello. Utah Entered at the Post Office at Moniicello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1873. ...... Roe, Betty L. Roe, Business Manager. Dorothy Blake, News Editor . Cornelia Perkins. Society Editor Mrs. H. E. Blake, Correspondent Mrs. Marva Brown, News. Society Editor Larry M. Editor-Publish- er 1 . ... ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE . Subscription Rales in San Juan and Adjoining Counties $1.75 Six Months $3.00 One Year Subscription Rates Elsewhere ..... Six Months $3.50 . by Harry Marry Marlowe Now is the time of the year when the political leaders spend than more of their time poring over the election dope sheets charts. form football do checking they fields of knowledge into There are several which politicians delve and in Utah these major fields are in voter Eeisen-howparticipation. Congressional support or opposition to the to the program and support or opposition in the legislature matter of legislative can get a crack at and the public Just so the politicos the same figures, here are a few of the significant dope sheet" facts on the forthcoming Nov. 2 hassle at the polls. In both of the Congressional races this year, the matter of getting the voters to the polls is of paramount interest to the politicians of both parties. Utah has a national record, to defend in this matter of getting the largest percentage of eligible votrs to actually cast ballots. In case it will help, here are the figures for the past two Congressional elections. In 1952, Utah had an estimated 407,000 eligible voters. Of this number, 80.3 per cent, 327,000 voters, actually went to the polls. In 1950, there were an estimated 390,000 voters and 264,000, 67.7 per cent, of those eligible to cast votes. The 1954 estimated eligible vote total for the state is 414,000, according to Congressional Quarterly, the source of the other well-charter- School Jane Ptoilet n lacJzlcd To give plaudits where they have certainly been earned, the Commissioners of San Juan county and the City Council of Monticello have combined with the school board to eliminate as much of the hazard as possible at the grade school in Monticello. Our understanding is that every effort will be made to introduce reduced speed signs and highway stripes to control the traffic in the grade school zone. By your combined efforts you have earned the respect and admiration of every parent in Monticello, and this newspaper expressly wishes to compliment you on a worthy project. One point still bothers us a little. Several times in the past few weeks, and as recent as Tuesday, we made it a point to watch traffic as it passed thru the school zone. Actually, the flagrant violators are the local citizenry who should, by all sense of reasoning, know better. I wonder if it wouldnt be a good idea for the City Judge to execute the maximum penalty on traffic violators and expressly those violations occuring in the school zone. Probably a few times in the pocket book might help some remember the responsibility a motorist has in regard to city traffic. It would, no doubt, aid in preventing a tragedy if it reduced the speed of one out of ten motorists. One recommendation to the school board that might help reduce the possibility of a child being run over. We note, with concern, that school children awaiting the school bus have a habit of playing in front and to the west of the school building. Both areas are on the highway, and on occasion we have seen several of the youngsters run onto the roadway. I believe the usual procedure is to load the school bus in front of the building, and in most cases the youngsters play close to the loading zone so as not to miss the school bus. not load in the rear of the school building and off the highway? Also, someone in supervision until the school bus is loaded and the school children safely on their way wouldn't be a bad idea. The point is, you are not a sleepy 'little town anymore with an occasional motorist, and a little engineering, though it means additional expense, is necessary if we are to cope with the present growth, and essential if we are to prevent an avoidable tragedy. figures - , That should give the Support Record The big central theme of the Congression races, both nationally and here in Utah, hinges on the theme Elect Republicans and support Eisenhower. Democrats counter with their claims that most of the Eisenhower program was possible only because of Demo support, therefore Democats should hold the majority. Just for the record, and for whatever it might mean, here are the records, compiled by Congressional Quarterly, of how Reps. William A. Dawson and Douglas R. Stringfellow supported the presidential program. Dawson had a 1954 record of 84 support and 16 opposi8 tion to the Eisenhower program while Stringfellow had a record. (If the figures dont add to 100 per cent, it is because neither voted on every issue on which Congressional Quarterly based their percentages.) For the entire two year (1953-54- ) period, the Dawson record was 82 for, 15 against and the Stringfellow totals were 75 for, 15 against. Reapportionment Votes 74-1- But, with all due respect to the interest the above figures may arouse, on a strictly local leyel, here are some voting records which will get considerable more attention. Here is the list of those State Senators and State Representatives who voted for and against putting the proposed constitutional amendment on reapportionment on the ballot. In the Senate, those voting to put the proposal on the 1954 ballot were: lt Donald T. Adams Juan); Edwin B. Cannon lt Elias L. Day Lake); Luke Clegg Lake); Orval D. E. Hammond lt Hafen Lake); Alonzo F. Clifton G. M. Kerr Kopkin Elder); Rendell N. lt Vem Muir Frank M. Openshaw Mabey H. Lake); B. H. Stringham (R Uintah); Grant Thom Holand Tietjen Dilworth S. Woolley Lake); and Senate Pres. Mark Paxton Voting against were C. Taylor Burton Lake); J. Francis Fowles Marl D. Gibson L. Rulon JenkA- I. Sol J. Selvin ins Tippetts lt Ed H. Watson Lake). In the House, heres the way the voting went For R. Clair Anderson Haven Barlow Arthur Brian William N. Brotherson Victor L. Bunderson Earl Butter Edna J. Cazier E. A Crofts Harrison Conover lt Lee W. Dalebout Lake). Harold V .Davis Lake); Simeon P. Dunn lt B- L, Wayne C. Durham Lake); J. Donald Esplin (D-S- an (R-Sa- (R-Uta- (R-Sa- (R-Sa- (D-Ric- (R-B- (R-Davi- s); ox e); (R-Sa- -- (R-Sa- r); lt - (R-Sa- lt - r); (D-Sa- Will Jlappcn . . (D-Jua- b); every-Dod- ed to know, .hat every day is richly packed twenty-fou- r w.th hours; and every hour, as a plumb hot-- , uoy, stuffed in I sixty seconds. iA J The next thing after finding this gold mine, was a v.ay to spend it. Time, like d blade, money, is a winch, if it is not made to cut forward, it will cut backwards. I found that this time on my hands was red hot, and if I failed to manipulate it with care, it would burn me before I got it to burning something else. 1 am called unsociable pnd Un a lot of other things, because of my concern for It is much more easy to budget my income to meet my necessities than to budget my time to compass my ambitions. First of all I must spend a third of it in sleep, another third in making a liviihood, and half of what is remaining in eating washing, dressing, shopping, or paying bills and meeting the inevitable emergency. That leaves a margin of four hours a day, the most important period of all; a time to garner the harvest, to make improvements, to get understanding. We spend twenty hours i day to live, but why do we live? Twenty hours of routine, restricted and conventional, for the sake of these four hours in which to do the most interesting These are the crucial things. moments in which we become better or worse. This is also the important feature of the Sabbath Day. To avail of these - prescious margins of opportunity, calls for a wise and definite program of operation, it calls for the stopping of many leaks where valuable minutes drip away into The unthinking nothingness. friend who calls us from our important harvesting to talk endlessly about nothing, and to make fourteen different starts to go before he really gets out and closes the door; the long winded preacher who goes on and on it is killing. It is und on murder! Murder of the stuff that life is made of. I have a program I simply have to have a program of operation every day, and it only by adhering to that program that I am able to make any progress to lay hold on the values for which life is given. I am willing and time-value- s. I on- - ed what two-edge- J form sheet figures somethinig to go s); &ccide&& 4 ed used above. tation that 1 .really discover- yis suppos- er $2.00 - PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY Why whica could be stored away, I would be hoarding it like a miser. It was only alter costly ventures in the field of experimen- Moniicello 4R3 Moniicello 4R3 Moniicello 4R3 Moniicello 27R2 . . . Moniicello Blending 13R5 MEMBER OF UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION One Year By Albert dear San Juaners: My mest valuable asset is time. If it were u commodity My --- O usual for the yardstick" argument to carry weight. The Niagara river project is thus reduced to a venture into . . construction of a socialism hydro-electr- ic project by the Federal Government so that R. Lyman competitive free enterprise cannot do it . . . with no more justification than a socialist would give for Government entrance into the steel, automobile or io railroad business. In this connection, one might do well to ponder Mr. Eisenhowby Waller Chamblin. Jr. ers views on this question. In The propagandists for sociali- his recent restatement of his pozation of electric power have sition on the power issue, he dropped past pretenses in their made this pungent comment: drive for Governmental develIt is not properly a federal opment of a $400,000,000 hydro- responsibility to supply all the electric project in the Niagara power needs of our people. The riverfederal government should no Initially the justification giv-'e- n more attempt to do so than it for entrance of the Federal 'should assume responsibility for Government into production of jsupplyinig all their drinking hydro-electrpower was that water, their food, their housing it was incidental to navigation, 'and their transportation. flood control or reclamation. comFive privately-owne- d Constitutionality of power pro- panies agreed to raise $400,000,-,00- 0 jects was upheld by the courts of investors money to build on this basis. river project . . . the Armed with this ruling the they Niagara would pay an estimated socialists would pretend that a $23,000,000 a year in taxes . hydro-electrpower project was incidental to other purThere's news m the advertiseposes, when actually power pro- ments, too. duction was their dominant obtnnnrmrmnrmnroTinnnnre jective. This was strikingly illustrated in the development of the Ten- Auto-V- u Drive-I- n nessee Valley Authority. Another argument introduced THEATRE here was that TV A would serve as a yardstick to show what 3 Vi Miles West of Dot Creek Two Shows Nightly private utility rates should be charged. But TVA did not want Starting Time: Dusk competition; private "utilities were forced out of business and TVA became a monopoly. and Saturday Now the wheel has taken a Friday 8 and 9 October full turn in the propaganda for Federal or State development Drive Crooked and expansion of Niagara river Road power. Past pretenses are drop-eThere is no flood control prob- Mickey Rooney, Dianne Foster lem . . . there is no navigation problem connected with the ex- Sunday and Monday pansion of Niagara river power October 10 and 11 . . . and the project is far too big and conditions are too un Thursday. Oct. 7. 1954. Page 2 . . 1 - ic i ic a d. GOLDEN GIRL eager to give my time where people need it, and it will do them good, but to go on discuss ing the minute details of nothing for fear of offending by I terminating the conference dont like it, cant afford it The books, the magazines, the movies, the sports, the people that contribute frothing permanent, to my are not worth part of my precious time margins My days are numbered; and so are the days of every other man and woman. The stern mess enger, whose busines is to call for each and every one, is knocking more and more impatiently at my door, and I am putting him off to gather all that I can possibly get from these wondrous intervals. I can afford to be be called unsociable and un a lot of other things,, but I can not afford to play tiddlywinks while time is running out like the broken end of a belt shooting of a fly wheel. Albert R. Lyman soul-valu- es Technicolor Mitzi Gaynor, Dennis Day Tuesday and Wednesday October 12 and 13 THE ENFORCER Humphrey Bogart Plus Rocky Mountain Errol Flynn Thursday, October 14 KENTUCKY Technicolor Loretta Young, Richard - Greene, Walter Brennan $1.00 per car Family Nite Every Thursday Nite ADMISSION 50c innnnnnnnnrirftTo and 40c mra-ca'- a (R-Uta- (R-Sa- Hunters, and other sportsmen as well, have a right to be proud of their safety record. For, much as well be Frandsen Fred J. Foerer Dwight L. Fullhearing about hunting accidents from now through next mer O. Gardner Archie Orville Gunther will account for relatively few of January, these mishaps Clair R. Hopkins ackilled who in or Americans are the 9,600,000 injured Theodore C. Jacobsen Lake) Lawrence B.' Johnson cidents of all sorts every year. John H. Johnson Kleon Kerr Elder); C. Larsen Arlo C. Messinger But, so long as there are any hunting accidents, we Wilford Harley G. O. Patterson Lionel L. Peterson shall have too many of them; and probably the best way to Monson Pete); S. J. Postna prevent or minimize them is to be prepared for what is alN. C. Poulsen Lake); L. Frank Redd Juan); John ways the unexpected. Emergencies Dont Wait Week is W. Rowberry Walker Lee Russell Owen Heber L. Sevy being observed this year at the outset of the hunting sea- Sanders Sheffield Ralph Lake); Charles W. Spence son, October 4th to 10th, 'with this idea in mind. But you Lake); Lester Taylor dont need to wait until then to over haul and restock your G. Thomas first-ai- d Lake); Elizabeth Vance kit or home medicine cabinet. In the field, in the JamesElmer H. West C. Lake); LeRov D. White Elder); shop or kitchen, accidents wont wait while you get. ready Webley W. Young and House Merrill K. (R-Sa- lt (R-Sa- (R-Kan- - r); (R-Uta- (R-Uta- (R-Sa- lt (R-Ric- (R-B- ox (R-Uta- (R-Sa- n e). (R-Sa- lt (D-S- an tt); ); (R-Sa- lt (R-Sa- (R-Sa- lt lt (D-Sa- lt (D-B- '(R-Wasatc- for them. ox Speaker lt Davis Lake). And before going afield, even the most seasoned vetlt Albert J. Cope Againist Lake); Sidney Elswood lt Wedell Grover eran may well review the famous and comprehensive safety Lake); Robert J. Henderson Richard C. Howe lt rules for firearms by John Amber, editor of The Gun Jones Lake); Jaren L C. Edward Lake); Larsen W. G. Larson see . who are goto it that the youngsters . . and Diget lt Francis Lundell Lake); Charles Peterson out a this year get thorough drilling; ing lt and G. Douglas Taylor Lake). 1. Make sure guns stored away at home are unloaded. And that ought to keen the boys who like to figure all the political angles for a day or two. 2. Guns should be locked away from children. 3. Keep firearms in good working order. 4. A gun pulled carelessly out of a car may shoot someone, the first morning of the hunting season, or the (R-Sa- (D-Sa- r); (D-Sa- (D-Sa- (R-S- alt r): (D-Sa- (D-Uta- h); (R-Uta- h) (R-Sa- last. 5. Dont drag your gun through wire fences." 6. Following another hunting under tree limbs and through underbrush is dangerous when carrying loaded guns. 7. Never use your gun to punch or club game out of the brush. 8. Dont carry a cocked gun. 9. Carry the gun with its muzzle pointed to the ground. Never point it at anyone. Dont let the muzzle clog with snow or mud. 10. Dont shoot moving objects until you know what they are. Be certain no one is in the way. To which wre can only add that there are very few drug-storin the woods, that people have been wounded doing camp chores, and that good intentions wont disinfect a cut, bind up a wound, stave off lock-jaor or even cure snake-bitdont wait. Emergencies Be prepared. Always have a first-ai- d kit handy. es w. blood-poisonin- e. NOTICE Tha Western National Co. Ltd. of California will interview of Uranium Mining Properties with the view of operation. Contact our field engineer. Owner-Prospect- g, Monticello, Utah glad you bought a Mr. Roe. The following is my acceptance of a formal, cordial invitation to move to Blanding: , UlBVTOlct, TEAS AFTER YEAR. MORE PEOPLE BUT Chevrolet THAN ANT OTHER CAR! Monticello, Utah October 3, 1954 Mrs. Josephine Bayles Blanding, Utah Dear Josephine: I received your invitation. Accept my thanks now. Ill head straight for Blanding, when I sell the right white-face- d cow. We knew you had a perfect town; have known it right along. While everying in this berg, has gone completely wrong. As Monticello looked, la?t week, it wasnt worth a dime There is nothing here that cant be cured with castor oil and time. With a slight shock, I still find, you worry bout our weather, I thought for sure, wed settled that, last time we were together. But after all, folks hate to leave the place they spent their youth, To pull up stakes, and part with friends; now isnt it the truth? On second thought, I recognize, some day time will run out. Perhaps, get a touch of rheumatics, or a minor case of gout. And so Josephine, Ill be right there, I cant afford to miss. The chance to garner peace of mind, and gain eternal bliss. Cordially yours, Frank Halls. or GROVER C. MOORE co Navajo Trail Motel Oe Heraa why In a nutshell. You save when you buy and you save when you trade. Youll stay proud of its lasting good looks. Youll enjoy luxury-- 7 features for finer motoring. And right now the deal of the year! Come in and . let us prove it to you! : Stutnel . The best in Xmas cards. REDDS Monticello, Utah aaa8 |