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Show h i . Lie norm mis can? id--i pictoht C'T? TKB CITY TJ V- - STV ati 3 aa S' Volume 44 Monticello, San Juan County, Utah ,Sr Friday, Jan. 27, 1961 10 per copy 8 Pages Number 52 JIMMY WOOD NAMES PERSON; Detailed report of B52 crash JACKPOT CLIMBS TO $54 Wood, a sixth grade student, named the Mystery Personality last week but failed to give the correct number of clues. He received $6 for his entry and said he would probably put the money in the bank. Jimmy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Jimmy Monticello Wood. Howard is an active member of several clubs and organizations here. Among them are the Chamber of Commerce; the San Juan Tourist and Industrial County Division Council; serves as vice president of the Lions club; secretary-treasurer of the Blue Mountain Rod and Gun club; re- Mystery Personality for last porter of the Blue Mountain Ridwas Howaid Rogers. Howard ing club; and a member of the was born at Thomas, Oklahoma. county fair board. He moved with his family' to EdHoward is always ready to help school with mond where he attended any worthwhile project that and graduated from Central State boosts the county and Monticello. college with a BS degTee. This it the week to enter the He came to Monticello and took contest with the Jackpot the largover management of the Navajo est since the contest started. Read Trail motel in June, 1955. He the sponsoring merchants ads. The married Cleo Christensen, a to deposit entries Monticello girl, m 1956. They have rules and where will on be found Mat. page seven of are one child, a boy Both members of the LDS church. this issue. week The explosion of the giant B52 their home. As told by Max King San Juan County Sheriff last Thursday evening, Some criticism has been made the last few days in relation to the crash of the Air Force bomber a few miles north of Monticello last Thursday evening, Jan. 19. I would like to tiy and present some of the facts in regard to the security investigation and search of the missing crew7 member, who was found Saturday morning. I was returning from the County Officials convention in Salt Lake City on Thursday evening and w7as a few miles south of Crescent Junction in my car when I noticed he bright blue light in the sky south of me. I was sure it was no normal reflection, star, or anything man made. When the light exploded into a ball of fire, I called the Moab Sheriffs office and asked if they had seen a ball of fire in the sky. Upon getting a negative answTer, I then called the Highway Patrol in Monticello, asking them to call Hill Air Force base an find out if they had a plane in this vicinity. They re- just 12 lf miles north of Monticello, was the Word received Thursday morngreatest tragedy to this area since ing from Norton Aii Fcrce Base, the explosion of the cafe here Aug. Calif., said Sgt. Terry died of a 20, 1956, which claimed 14 lives. The B52, Air Force bomber, was on a routine flight from its home base at Biggs Field, El Paso, Texas to Bismark, N. D. and was flying over Monticello on its route when the trouble de eloped. Five of the seven man crew perished. The other two parachuted to safety and were treated at the San Juan hospital befoie being released and flown back to severe head injury. Major Samuel Nel.v, examining surgeon, said Terrys death ree sulted from an intra-cranicaused by a severe head injury. Examination also showed injuries. al hem-orrag- Bodies of four crew members in the were found wreckage Thursday night and the fifth 75.000 ported the flight of the B52 in this area. I then instructed UHP to tell Hill Airforce that this plane had either bomber exploded or had collided with another plane in flight near Monticello. Before reaching the area of the crash, I was notified by UHP radio the plane had exploded in mid-a- ir near Church Rock, north of Monticello. I then ordered any car available to the scene of the crash and to secure the area and let no one near the wreckage except a peace officer. Many local people, who had seen the flash of increased to $5,000. Second, third light or heard the explosion, were and fourth ranking Homemakers already at the , scene of the of Tomorrow in the nation will wreckage when the officers arhave their scholarships raised to rived. An immediate search of the area w7as made for possible sur$4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 respectvivors. ively. We had no way of know-inThe testing and judging is conducted by Science Research Assoc- what might be aboard the plane iates of Chicago. With a record or what harm might come to in402,786 girls in 12,633 of the nat- dividuals who were in the area. ions schools participating this After conversing with the two year, the Betty Crocker Search survivors, who were in a state of has enrolled more than two million shock in the hospital in Monticello, and hearing conflicting girls in its seven-yea- r history. Mrs. Thelma Walton is Home stories as to the number of persons in the plane, seeing another Economics instructor. chute, and taking into consideration that the survivors might have seen each other instead of a third person parachuting to the ground, a search was made with around 150 men taking part until 2:45 a. m. Friday morning in the possibility that there was another Kathryn Nielson receives Homemaker of Tomorrow title Kathryn Nielson has been nam- ed the 1961 Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow at Monticello high school. Having received the highest a written examination score in on and athomemaking knowledge titudes taken by graduating seniors of the Home Economics class in her school, she become a candidate for the state Homemaker of Tomorrow award which will be announced in March. of Each school Homemaker Tomorrow will receive an award pin, manufactured by Jostens and Home represtenting the slogan, is Where the Heait Is. The examination papers of school Homemakers of Tomorrow will be entered in competition to name the states Homemaker of Tomorrow. edThe $110,000 homemaking ucation program sponsored by Geneial Mills offers a $1,500 scholarship to the first ranking in each state and $500 girl scholarship to the ranking participant. State Homemakers states second of Tomorrow and their faculty advisors receive educational tour an expense-pai- d to New York City, Colonial Williamsburg, Va., and Washington, D. C., April minating the Tomorrow 3, in the the trip announcement cul- of Homemaker of whose scholarship is g Grazing district advisory board election held survivor. At 6:45 a. m. Friday morning Advisory board elections were Security officers from Hill Air recently completed in the two base arrived on the scene. I briefgrazing districts under the admin- ed and introduced them to men istration of the Bureau of Land who knew where parts and the Management district office in main fuselage could be found. Monticello, Utah. Since it was a military plane and Kenneth S. Summers was re- they were experts in dealing with elected as sheep representative for this type of accident, I told them Precinct No. 1 in Grazing District I was turning everything over to No. 6. them. I also informed them that A tie vote resulted between all the men and equipment of Grant Bayles of Blanding and in- my office and volunteers would cumbent candidate, Melvin K. be at their disposal and that if Dalton, of Monticello. Mr. Dalton continued on page eight won a toss of coin and was declared the winning candidate as Around Town . . cattle representative for Precinct Scenes No. 2 Grazing District No. 6. Snow falling . . . skiers saying, In Grazing District No. 9, PreThis weekend, maybe . . . micinct No; 3, Lawrence Aubert of litary personnel on streets . . . Grand Junction was elected sheep local art teacher painting big representative replacing John Al- things . . . Harry wondering wThat lies of Montrose, Colo. to use cutoff tops of sacks for . , C. S. Thomson of Moab, Utah, Indians asking permission to picwas elected as cattle represent- nic in front office . . . Record ative for Precinct No. 3, District building getting paint job . . . No. 9. Because of other obliga- school kids celebrating wrestling tions, Mr. Thomson has declined to win over Blanding . . . streets serve on the board and Mr. Alton looking mighty clean . . . secreHalverson of Green River, Utah, tary looking at wrong month on has been requested to serve be- calendar . . , Cecil keeping seccause he was runner-u- p candidate. ret on how to catch fish. day morning and took charge of policing and investigating. The two survivors were partially in a state of shock and it w7as not until Friday morning that local officers were able to determine the number of men aboard or the number of parachutes on the plane. By Friday morning both survivors were sure they had seen the third chute coming down and reported, as near as possible, the area where it might be found. Col. Watts, Biggs Air Force Base, arrived shortly after 9 a. m. Friday. He said they w'ere not sure if the plane carried any weapons, classified material or anything that might bring harm to onlookers or be a detriment to security if they got into the wrong Their first efforts wrero Crusher running daily; hands. concentrated on investigating the and removing all ejectyds. years goal wreckage, or seat charges to prevent possible We are crushing gravel six injury to personnel. days a week, said Henry DoughThe plane was equipped with At five ejectors and only two had erty, road superintendent. present we are averaging around been fired. Position in the plane 600 yards a day and hope to crush wdiere the missing man had been 75.000 yards before summer is riding w7as studied and Air Force over. men felt sure it wrould he imposThe county is in operation some sible for the man to get out of five miles north of Blanding. At the plane under his own power. A thorough investigation of all present 2.5 miles of the Johnson Creek road has been graveled in parts of the wreckage was made this area and a stock pile is being but no trace of the missing man formed in the vicinity of the was found. Local officers and military men crusher. continued an unorganized search Other road work in the Blanding the day. Word was rethroughout area is and changing course of the road on the West ceived from Hill Air Force Base was found member Saturday morning about a mile and one-hafrom the main part of the wreckage. The huge bomber was flying at 37.000 feet when trouble developed and fire started in an engine on the left wing. Only two of the crew were able to eject and be in the clear when the plane exploded. First Lt. Thomas Stout, 31, the and 2nd Lt. Jerome R. Calvert, 21, the navigator, parachuted from the plane and landed about one mile west of the main part of the w'reekage. Tarts of the w reckage w ere found as far away as two miles east of Monticello. Air Force personnel from Hill Air Force Base arrived early Fri- - SHOWN ABOVE ARE TWO LARGE AIR FORCE PLANES that landed on the Monticello airport Friday morning bringing personnel to help with the investigation of the explosion of the B52 bomber Water project. Straightening of that exploded in mid-a- ir Thursday night. On the left is a four enthe road across the gulch and ingine transport plane and on the right is a twin engine cargo plane. " Record photo. stalling a 120 ft. .culvert, 5 ft. in diameter is in process. About one mile of new road wull be built in this project. The new Scoopmobile loader for the county road department arrived last week and two new7 tracSan Juan County Agricultural requests for this practice must be tor dozers are expected to arrive Stabilization and Conservation filed on or before Feb. 1, 1961, next wreek. The dozers are being purchased on a months trial basis Committee is currently in the pro- Mr. Crittenden pointed out. free of charge to the county. They cess of announcing its 1961 AgriThe other practice having a are being purchased from the cultural Conservation Program, closing date for sign-u- p is control Eimco Equipment Co. in Salt Lake of Howard Crittenden, Chairman and eradication of perennial noxw'heie they are built. City the county committee, reported ious weeds as a necessary step in Commissioner, Black, Hyrum today. soil and W'ater conservation. This The amount of $1,386,000 has practice is applicable in Davis, said a careful study of cost of opbeeen authorized as a Federal Juab, Kane, and Millard Counties. erations is being made and they g contribution toward the performassistance is only will know exactly where they ance of designated soil ar.d water available in specific areas desig- stand financially before purchasconservation practices in Utah, nated by the county commission. ing any more equipment. Mr. Crittenden said. Generally the Farmers interested in this practice Mr. Black said, One thing we Federal contribution is equal to should make their desires known certainly arent going to do is approximately 40 to 50 percent of prior to Feb. 15 in order that overspend the road budget on new7 cost. areas can be established and plans equipment and come up at the end the over-a- ll of the year in the red. Farmers desiring Federal cost- developed for an area program. sharing assistance must file a request prior to performing a practice. Requests may be filed at any time during the calendar year except for those ranchers desiring g to improve Federal on cover range land by vegetative deferred grazing. Deferred grazof an ing is defined as non-us- e area from the beginning of plant growth until seed maturity. In order that a management plan showing the desired rotated deferred system can be developed by the rancher, the ASC county committee, and the SCS technician, ASC announcing program for Agriculture Conservation Cost-sharin- that a Helicopter would arrive at the crash area Friday afternoon, but it was Saturday morning before it arrived. Saturday morning local men organized a search party and within a short time found the body of the missing man, Sgt. Lionel Terry, sing man, Sgt. Lionel T. Terry, 25, Athens. Ga. Time of his death was not know7n but reports say the body w as still v arm and it w7as felt sure he had not been dead more than a few hours. The body of Terry was nearlow7 branches ly hidden under of a tree and could be seen only from a short distance and from the right direction. His parachute was in a small bundle near the body, indicating he had pulled it together in an effort to keep te warm. An investigation of the wreckage by Air Force personnel is being held this week in an effort to determine the cause of the trouble. cost-sharin- Peck 318 meet set for Friday, Jan. 27 Cub Scout Pack 318 will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p. m. Friday, Jan. 27, at the Community church. A candy sale is being planned by the pack to raise funds for a flag. Another den has been organized on the north side of town. Boys PART OF THE WRECKAGE of the giant B52 bomber that exploded in the air north of Moneight, nine and ten years of age, ticello Thursday night. Wreckage was scattered for several miles. Pictured is fart of the fuselage who are interested in joining, are where three bodies were found. Another body was found in the tail section nearly two and a half asked to contact Rudy Kopf or Gene Ney. miles away. Record j?hoto. |