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Show VOLUME NO. 39 DEVOTED PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1953 TO OF S THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT JUAN COUNTY V MONT1CELLO, NUMBER UTAH 35 Legislative Council To Visit County The Montieello Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting in the San Juan County Courthouse Wednesday evening, October 5th, to discuss the scheduled tour of the county by the State Legislative Council October 7th and 8th. The tour, arranged by State Senator Donald Adams of Monti-celland Representative of the third district from Weber county, Blaine Peterson, will enable the legislative council to view the industrial and tourist potentials of San Juan County. According to Mr. Adams the itinerary scheduled is as follows: The afternoon of Friday, October 7th, the group will meet in someetime in the early afternoon. Two planes are being chartered to fly the council into Monument Valley for a jeep and plane tour of the area and a scheduled public meeting at the Goulding Trading Post Friday Eighty Acres Recently Surveyed For Proposed New Mill Site; Mile Long Airstrip Contemplated Along With Access Roads Proposed Mill Site Surveyed At Mexican Hat -- . New-Shat-Te- x & a ', tlWfc L Further reports indicate that plans for a second mill to be constructed in the White Canyon area are being discussed and that the company has arranged to lease several hundred square miles of uranium property on As. I N the Navajo Indian Reservation lands In Utah, Arizona and New nEsto Ixggss tciytfe Arrested By F.B.I. Vandalism With In Ely, Nevada Air Guns Reported A. Cornelius, Jr., Special Agent in Charge, Salt Lake City office of the FBI stated that Carl Lawrence Kuehne, age 29, was apprehended at Ely, Nevada on the night of October 4th by a Special Agent of the FBI and Nevada White Pine county Deputy Sheriff, Blythe Jones. The arrest was affected on a Federal Warrant based on a complaint filed by a Special Agent of the FBI at Salt Lake City on May 28, 1955, charging Kuehne with having fled from the estate of Utah to avoid confinement. Kuehne had been convicted in the Utah District Court, at Utah, April 27. 1955. for the crime of Assault With a Deadly Weapon,. and while awaiting sentence escaped on Mav 8, 1955 from the county jail at Mon-ticell- B air-gun- s Agricultural The stocks of food and fiber which have accumulated within the United States during recent years exist to a considerable extent because this country has refused to dump them upon world markets. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson told the International Federation of Agricultural Producers, meeting in Rome, Italy, early in September. We have, in effect, supported world prices of some commodities Soil through this policy, the secretary declared. At the same time, we have placed our own producers under rigid production controls and have sometimes relegated them to the role of residual Conservation District Sets our Schedule The San Juan County Soil Conservation District has scheduled their annual soil conservation tour for Monday, October 10th. The tour this year is open tp the public, and anyone interested in accompanying the group is requested to meet at the L. D. S. Church parking lot at 10:00 A.M. Continued to Page 8 New Equipment Being Installed At Abajo Cleaners suppliers in world markets. . . Our policies of seeking to bring production into better balance with demand and of making our price programs more realistic seem to be clearly understood," Secretary Benson stated. But apparently there have arisen some misconceptions, not to say misapprehensions, about our foreign marketing programs. Our agricultural export policy is based on three principles (I) We will compete fairly on the world market; (2) We will be competitive in quality; (3) We will oarticipate in a mutually profitable international trade that gives our customers abroad the continuous opportunity to earn the Farmers Eligible Convention To For Aid In Pick Candidates Conservation Work A Commodities Then It Sells; Volume Of Trade Should Be Expanded Both Directions By City Marshal air-rifle- Sesrefcery U.S. Guys More Art Adair, City Marshal of stated today that youngsters useing B-guns had been the cause of considerable vandalism during the past two weeks, and issued an appeal to the parents of any child owning a B-gun to caution the children against maliciously shooting the rifle. In the past week the city Marshals office has confiscated three s used by youngsters in destruction of personal property, . arid will continue to pick "up all used maliciously by the children. According to Mr. Adair, the possibility of some child losing his eyesight as the result of negligence on the part of children armed with B-guns, is becomKuehne will be taken before a ing an ever increasing threat each United States Commissioner day. Mon-ticell- Mexico. Pictured above is a view of the proposed site of a new Uranium Ore Processing mill tentatively planned for construction at Mexican Hat, Utah, pending approval of negotations with the Atomic Energy Commission. Approximately eighty acres of land have been surveyed for the mill site. The mill, to be located on the South side of the San Juan river indicated by the arrow, will specialize in processing uranium ores that have a high copper content. A mile long air strip has also been surveyed six miles south of Mexican Hat. A preliminary survey is underway to determine a possible route from White Canyon and Red Canyon into Mexican Hat. Record photo. County Escapee -- '"i , ft- o night. Saturday morning, October 8th, the group will be flown over the entire area from Monument Valley to Montieello where the group will spend the remainder of the day. Sunday morning, enroute to points north, a tour of the Utex Mining operation has been planned by the hosts. The Montieello Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a dinner in honor of the council Saturday night. October 8th. All members of the Chamber and their wives are invited to attend the dinner and are requested to contact either Ralph Hafen, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Jess McAlister or Bill Trello, chairmen of the committee, to verify their reservations. Mon-ticell- According to unconfirmed reports the Texas company, one of the largest industrial companies in the United States, joined the Shattuck Denn Mining Corporation and the New Jersey Zinc company to construct a new uranium processing mill at Mexican Hat, Utah, approximately forty-fi- t e miles south of Montieello in San Juan county. The new firm will be known as the company. It w ill be a closed subsidiary corporation of the three parent companies. Each of the companies are reported to have invested in the neighborhood of two million dollars apiece to launch the venture. There will be no public issue of stock. The new company, reported to be one of the most stable companies on the Colorado Plateau, is now negotiating with the Atomic Energy Commission for permission to build the proposed new mill. O-- 1 o Mon-ticell- a i nominating convention has Farmers in San Juan County who are considering soil and wa- been scheduled for Monday night, October 10, at 8:00 P.M. in the courtroom of the San Juan County Courthouse. The purpose of the meeting, open to the public, is to nominate candidates for the three council posts in the forthcoming city election to be held November 8th in Montieello. According to unconfirmed reports one party has already started to outline their political platform and have tentatively picked nominees for the city ballots pending approval of their convention to be scheduled sometime the latter part of next week. Keith Jewkes, Montieello City Manager, released the names of the election judges for the city election this week. They are: Maxine Lyman, Maxine Allred and Mrs. R. T. Hansen. Deadline for filing candidates for election, according to the city which states that ordinances Certificates of nomination of candidates shall be filed with the city recorder not more than thirty days or less than fifteen days before the election, is Monday, October 24th. ter conservation practices this fall and winter who need assistance through the Agricultural Con. servation Program may find themselves in a better position to than for get Federal cost-sharin- g many years. In 1954 a law was passed that ACP could not be offered to any farmer who did not comply with all of the acreage allotments on his farm. However effective with the 1955 crop year there are no allotment restrictions tied to ACP. San Juan County farmers who overplanted their wheat acreage allotments are no longer prohibited from participating in the program. Funds are still available for Federal costsharing on practices which may be carried out this fall. A written request for assistance under the program must be filed with the county office prior to the time ivork commences on any practice. For this period a request should be filed before October 15th. The ACP shares with farmers the cost of many conservation practices that are considered in the interest of the Nation as cost-sharin- g a whole. According to information the new company will in no way affect the operation of the three individual companies, as no properties being held by the three companies are to be pooled in the new venture. , The proposed mill will take ore chiefly from the Navajo reservation lease obtained by the new company, along with custom ores from private producers. To date approximately eighty acres of land have been surveyed south of the San Juan River at the Mexican Hat bridge for the proposed new mill construction. A mile long airstrip approximately six miles south of Mexican Hat has also been surveyed contemplating the new construction. At the present time a preliminary road survey is being conducted from White Canyon and Red Can-vo- n into Mexican Hat contemplating the possibility of receiving ores from that area to process in the new mill. Speculation throughout the Col- orado Plateau indicates that the new company may have been approached on the possibility of establishing a mill to process uranium oxide from raw ore to the finished product. A plant of this type would require the concentrates from most of the present and proposed uranium mills in the western United States. Cost of the venture is estimated to run in the neighborhood of twenty-fivmillion dollars. e RED HOT BEARINGS For jet plane engines bearings must have the hardness of cutting tools, even when the bearings are red hot. Condition of State Highway 47 Creates Hazard foreign exchange they need to buy our products While the large stocks of food and fiber in the United States nose problems of management, teir very existence is insurance ... against the catastrophic conse- quences which would otherwise arise whenever famine or emergency food needs are felt throughout the world. In recent years, ve have been able to move quickly and effectively to meet unfor-seedemands for food which have resulted from crop failure and natural upheavals which follow in their wake., The United States and the world needs adequate reserves of farm commodities. In my own "on n tty, however, there is some feeling that the United States is carrying more than its share. of these necessary inventoris . . . Today the United States buys from the rest of the worid more agricultural commodities than it more. about sells ' Continued to Page 8 - - , y n Aba o CL'aners and Laundry in Montieello, Tlia Workmen install new laundry equipment at the Uitles for a more complete service for customers. fa modern provides more equipment larger and week end I now in operation at the plant. The machinery was Installed the first part of the Record photo one-fourt- h 4 ft t ", . V fir v';) ' v f , ; i , . $ ? tX . V if, m ft ?, 'hCk. i - . j i - t, v . ' i ' ' 15 x v ' - V K4u? in Wi A ii Plrttired above- is a section of State Highway 47 between Blanding and Bluff, and indicates the road condition creating a hazard for the increasing tiafflc over State Highway 47, The city of Bluff is within, one milt south of ttie section of road pictured above, located at the foot of the bluff in the Record photo center of the picture. - |