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Show coup V"' ' L Sled troops Quite an army of sledders took to the hill just west of the drive-i- n theater Monday, to take Monticello, San Juan County, Utah Volume 43 advantage of the really A girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Grant Dec. 22. A girl, to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Randall, Monticello, on Dec. 29. Drilling Face Is Unchanged EARLY BIRDS First skiers on Blue Mountain ski run this jear were (left to right) Margaret Halls, Ed Cooper and Cleon Cooper. They arrived just behind the bulldozer that cleared the road at 2:10 p. m. Monday. Bulldozer (background) piloted by Si Birton quickly scraped up piles of snow to make parking area at the bottom of the lift. i 1 I ri ' d. Road-buildin- 2 3- h 1 ; j,, Plate Sale Starts Jan. 4 rnsasr 4 I960 Utah license plates go on sale at the county assessors office next Monday, Jan. 4. Plates will be sold during January and 7 4 4 V'i 1.7 X February. First day that arrests for having 1959 plates will be Feb. 29. San Juan County plates this year will be lettered DD, from DD 6,000 up, Plate number 6,000 has been reserved by Mrs. Frank Fullmer, assistant county assessor. Assessor Ralph Burtenshaw has arranged a schedule whereby he will be in outlying communities during the period to sell plates. At Monticello can purchase plates during the week from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. at the courthouse. Licenses will be sold in Binding's city office each Saturday during January and February, except Jan. 23, from 9 a. m. to 5 1 two-mon- h cleared. Missing Pin Mystery Unsolved; Thot Gone Down the Hatch The Mystery of the Missing Pins went unsolved this week, much to everybodys relief. It all started Monday morning. Eleven-month-o- Cindy ld Lee Wood, happy in her playpen, couldnt resist the lure of a fancy spangled pin cushion hanging right next to the playpen. She grabbed for it, got in and was having a good time playing with the fancy pin cushion when her mother noticed the new play- thing. Since it was a new pincushion, be csunted where pins were missing and exactly seven pins appeared to be gone. After searching the pen and Cindy Lee, and finding no pins, the holes could AND SURVIVAL TRAINING HUNTERS SAFETY COURSE This class is for training instructors to teach hunters safety. The law requires everyone buying a hunting license for the first time to have taken and passed this course. Before they can get a license for the first time, we would like anyone interested in helping as instructors in teaching this class. The class will be held on January 6, 1960 at the Courthouse at 7 p. m. Lee Robertson of the Fish and Game Dept, will he the training officer. If youre interested please contact Cecil Jones. th car-owne- rs DRIVERS EYE VIEW Si Bartons county cat dozed its way to the Blue Mountain ski lift in jig time Monday. Eighteen-inclayer of snow on parking area was quickly p. m. Fry Canyon Fry Into Mill December 31 Canyon Mop-u- p and mothballing operations will begin that day, says mill manager Ken Coates. Dec. 31 is the last day for National Lead, thich operates d the mill, to be under contract. Maintenance of the mill will be by Lucius-Tipki- n company of Grand Junction. Coates said some mill employes have found other work in the past few weeks, and havent been replaced. A few cuts in manpower will be made the first week in January, and 100 per cent layoff of employes will be Jan. 15. The mill had 103 employes as of AEC-owne- Dec. 29. nt Budget Cuts for Roads, Recreation w of January. end All are urged to attend Wednesday meetings. merchants the weekly Hospital Notes Dec. Mesa. Dec. 22 Donald 24 Lucille Orr, Hazelwood, Steve Lehi, $78,-00- A Mon-ticel- lo Farents-Teache- rs 0, six-inc- White MontiMonti- Dec. 26 Jack Burgess, Moab. Dec. 28 Rae Randall, Monticello; Virginia Miller, Monticello; Lucille Orr, Monticello. Farmington Police e Paul R, Eagleburger, resident of Monticello now living Dec. Susan in 22 Max Bailey, Farmington, N. M., recently Jameson. passed his probation period and Dec. 23 Jack Deer Cantsee. is now a regular patrolman for Dec. 24 Afton Grover, Donald the city of Farmington. He is the son of Mrs. Reg Beeson of MontLehi. DISCHARGED Dec. 25 long-tim- Dimes Drive to Start Jan. 4 San Juan County Polio Committee The symbol for the new year and the symbol for hope is traditionally a new baby. We think of young Mr. 1960 as a youngster radiant with health and brimming with optimism. To us it has always seemed that the March of Dimes fitting Monticello program. The project is under the overall direction of appeal should be held in January. March of Dimes Bureau of Community Develop- For years, the meant hope to the children sufment, University of Utah. All meetings are open to the fering from polio. Only a few short years ago, a March of public. The program can generalDimes-finance- d research project divided into three be phases: ly vaccine that has a produced polio 1. Orientation: Education of the entire community to get backing. protected millions of youngsters from a crippling disease. People must understand the purAnd this year, too, it is fitting the methods and of proposes the March of Dimes comes that gram, and the amount of time at a time when hopes are high they will be expected to devote to committee work and town for the new year. This year, its a New March of Dimes, because meetings. 2. Study: Before deciding upon it now offers new hope to even action the community must have more millions the patients suffrom crippling birth dey the facts. begins with fering and fects crippling arthritis, as comg a census, then mittees. From the facts come de- well as those suffering from crippling polio. These three diseases cisions on action plans. 3. Continuing phase: At the end affect one family out of every of the study, projects deemed the four in this county. Crippling birth defects are the most important are presented to major unmet childhood medical the community for action. problem in the United States, About 250,000 children annually, NEW YEARS DANCE or one in 16, are born each year The San Juan Stake MIA is all with significant birth defects. set to welcome the New Year The number of Americans suf1960. Final plans are made for fering from some form of arththe big New Years Eve Dinner ritis and rheumatism is more than Dance to be held in the Monticello 11,000,000. these are Among LDS Recreation Hall beginning at children afflicted with rheumatoid 8:30 p. m. arthritis. They live in such a A potluck dish is to be furn- painful, tragic world that the ished by each family attending. touch of a sheet on the body can Monticello Ward, Blanding Ward, be excruciating at times. Moab Ward, and Eastland have And finally, there are more been assigned to bring a main than 50,000 victims of paralytic dish or casserole. Blanding 2nd polio still being aided by the Ward, Blanding 3rd Ward, Moab March of Dimes. Some are child2nd Ward, and Monticello 2nd ren whose parents neglected to Ward may bring either salad, ap- give them Salk shots. Remember these figures when petizer, or bread. Ham, the beverage and dessert you pass a coin collector for the will be furnished by the Stake New March of Dimes. Remember MIA. all these numbers when you see Following the dinner there wrill pictures of fat and sassy Mr. be dancing to the Gene Furniss I960, exuberant with good health. combo. Confetti, hats, and horns Remember these numbers when will be on sale for 5 C. you look at your own children, exuberant and active and protected by the Salk vaccine. 66 TURN OUT FOR LITTLE LEAGUE BASKETBALL Sixty-si- x fifth, sixth, seventh 7 Mile Move Means and eighth graders turned out for an organizational meeting of kids Long Journey Rig You know the going is rough interested in Little League basketball at the Monticello High when an oil rig has to travel more than 100 miles to move loschool gym last Saturday. cation seven miles. General Petroleums contractor, Aspen Drilling, this week was moving their rig from a location in the Wooden Shoe Canyon area at Lean-t- o Point to a new location some seven miles as the crow flies north. But, say reports, the terrain is so rough the entire rig By icello. Lucille Orr. Third Community Development Meeting To be January 7 of the DevelopCommunity ment program for Monticello will be held Thursday, Jan. 7, at the courthouse at 7:30 p.m. On hand will be Dr. Claude Burtenshaw, director of Carbon College, who will assist with the Third meeting newly-organiz- 1st Security Again Offers 4-- Awards H Members of ure 4-- clubs and Fut- Farmers of America in the area in 1960 will once again have the opportunity of competing for both individual and unit awards from First Security Foundation, it was announced this week by Robert A. Dalton, manager, First Security Bank at Monticello and at Blanding. The Foundation has also appropriated $12,500 for 1960 scholarships and library grants at 13 colleges and universities in Utah and Idaho. This brings to a total of $80,500 in grants contributed by the foundation to intermountain educational and youth act- Store, all day Jan. 28. La Sal At the LDS church Unconfirmed reports this week Mrs. Wood bundled her up and north of the school, all day Jan. were that county commissioners rushed to the hospital for 14. had made a couple of large reTexas-Zin- c Mexican Hat recshow'ed no pins inside ductions in anticipated spending, reation 4. and many minor cuts. There Feb. Lee. werent any pins building, Cindy Montezuma Creek in the playpen, and none on Cindy El Paso County road improvement is reLee, and none inside her so the Gas Company office building, portedly reduced from $500,000 puzzle is: where are the missing Jan. 8. to $400,000. County recreation Deadline for having 1960 plates committee, which seven pins ? requested is Feb. 28, which falls on a Sungot a $20,000 cut And the day this year, so actual last date county tourist and industrial deHIGH SCHOOL to get plates is Feb. 26, Friday. velopment council budget is ru- ivities. MEETS JANUARY 7 License plates cost $6 each. mored at $7,000, instead of the Personal property tax assessment $10,000 Regular meeting of the originally suggested. on vehicles must be paid at the Donald Shere to school High time of licensing. Registration Army Nuclear Team Assn, will be at the papers should be brought when Finishes Clayson Lyman school at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 7. Army recruit Donald G. Shere, getting plates. son of Floyd Shere of Monticello, Army School Basic recently was assigned to the NuPvt. Clayson W. Lyman, 23, son clear Surveillance at Company of Mr. and Mrs. Karl R. Lyman, Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. Shere entered the army last Monticello, completed the eight-wee- k basic army administration September and completed basic course Dec. 17 at Fort Ord, Calif. combat training at Ft. Riley, Kas. The soldier attendRecent snowfalls brought Mon- May .29 Lyman received training in typ- ed Nucla (Colo.) High school. ticellos yearly moisture total to June .60 11.69 inches, more than has been July .43 ing, record keeping and army His mother, Mrs. Jean Shere, ves in Monticello. received in recent years but still Augaist 2.75 clerical procedures. ' e of under the He entered the army last Aug.37 average September 14 inches. October DRILLING REPORT 1.94 ust and completed basic trainBulk of precipitation came in November NEW LOCATIONS .45 at the fort. the last few months of the year, December General Petr. Corp., No. 2 2.08 ing is a 1954 graduate of Lean-tLyman NW NE NE Sec. 11, outlook. For rainfall heres August brightening crop comparison, Monticello High school and att- Twp. 33S, Rge. 16 E. Location was the big month with 2.75 totals for the past five years: 10.55 ended Brigham Young Univers- for 3700 foot Mississippian test. inches, December next with 2.08. 1954 Shell Oil Co., No. 2 North 1955 9.86 Years monthly rainfall: He Hamilwas ity. employed by .29 1956 10.35 Boundary Butte, C SE NW Sec. January ton in 16, Corporation Management 1957 1.35 23.15 Twp. 42S, Rge. 22E. North February .11 1958 March 11.21 Denver, Colo., before entering the Akah Field. Location for 5800 ft. 1.03 1959 11.69 Armv. Paradox test. April . powdery snow on the slope. The lift will be operating at least until this Saturday, said ski club president Wyman Redd, or longer if the snow lasts. The proverbial white Christmas arrived in Monticello a day early, Dec. 24, with about a h cover. Then on Christmas day 12 inches fell, accompanied by high winds that caused some drifting. Roads in the county were quickly cleared. The Dec. 24 snow brought .22 and Christmas day moisture, snowfall measured .97 inch. Little snow had melted by Wednesday, with day-tim- e tempera- - ADMITTED cello; Just how many of the 103 em- cello. ployes live in Blanding, Dove Creek and Cortez isnt known exactly. Best estimates guess that Monticello may suffer a loss of 50 per cent of the families, and perhaps a good deal less because many mill employes also hold jobs in the surrounding area and wont be moving from town when the mill closes. Loss is expected to be offset by the influx of oil workers into Monticello. The city office estimates at least 25 families moved into town in the last two weeks. Monticello is now area headquarters for three seismoSinclair, GSI graph companies and Sesmic. Several families wnrking for Loffland drilling company, which bored Pures discovery well north ' of town, are making Monticello their home. A representative Elliott, Inc., drilling company, was in Monticello Tuesday and Wednesday making arrangements for 15 families to move here next week. Tentative arrangements have been made to rent lower mill houses to these drillers. Monk Tyson, crack Denver Post reporter, was in town Tuesday doing a story about the mill closing. Ski Tow Starts as Monticello, Area Gets 18 Inches Snow Drawings Continued mners at Monticellos Christmas shopping promotion were Cecil Jones, Mrs. The ski tow on Blue Mountain DeMar Perkins and Mrs. Barbara started up Wednesday morning, Gage. Winner of the grand prize and delighted skiers took to the a bicycle was Rigby Wright. Local merchants, meeting as a retail merchants committee of the Chamber of Commerce each Wednesday noon at the Avalon, this week expressed pleasure with the promotion and agreed to continue the drawings. Next big drawing will be the Turkey merchants 31. 10-fo- v To be Last ore to be processed at the Monticello uraniuifl mill will be put in the hopper Thursday, Dec. A first drillstem test of Carter Oils Rustlers Dome wildcat venture some 15 miles northwest of last Dugout Ranch (29S-20week recovered only water in the Mississippian. And Pure Oil continues to have trouble completing their NW Lisbon discovery. The well has been ft. reperforated between 8291-9- 3 and 8310-4- 8 ft., then Well flowed only a short time. Final completion is expected soon. Calvert Drilling Co., contractor, has moved in at Belcos extension test of the Pure well, and is rigging up at that location just a mile northwest of Pures discovery site. g is still going on for Pures second well, a mile and a quarter southeast of the No. 1 NW Lisbon. sand-frace- r Merchant's Last Ore Bayles, Blanding, on wy Number 48 9 big this year. snow Friday, Jan 1, 1959 10 per copy Years Moisture Bettor Than Last, Still Belov Average li- long-tim- o, Self-stud- fact-findin- for 25-3- 0 zers truck-load- s with four do- had to be routed through north to Monticello, Blanding, Dugout Ranch and then back to the new location, a total distance of more than 100 miles. |