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Show Ui.XV Jjiiix'-X- i iiicaoFiunN& coup 141 PIEHPONT 'IT Monticello, San Juan County, Utah Volume 46 Dove Creek man second i$ 1 six-tent- IN ONE! Monticello golfer George Palmer on the San Juan County posted the first golf course Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Palmer, golfing with his wife, made the on the Number wood. The 2, par 3 hole, using a three and shot landed on the green and rolled into the cup and was confirmed by Pro Grant Leavitt. Not only was this the first on the local course but it was Mr.' Palmers first such shot also and here he proudly displays the ball that did the trick as his wife looks on. A HOLE hole-in-o- ne hole-in-o- ne one-ha- lf 150-ya- rd hole-in-o- Samuel Taylor announces State Senate candidacy Samuel J. Taylor, newspaper publisher from Moab, this week became a candidate for the State Senate on the Republican ticket. Mr. Taylor now holds the Senatorial post, appointed several months ago by Gov. George D. Clyde to fill the unexpired term of Charles A. Steen who moved to Nevada. Mr. Taylor, a native of Moab and Southeastern Utah, filed ne Blanding Council to seek street projects By Norman Lundell BLANDING The Blanding City Council decided Mon- day to submit to the county some details of street work in the city they would like to get the County to do on a matching funds basis. It was reported to the council that Monticello has already given the county a list of work on streets in Monticello they were, asking the county to help with on basis. The' council also decided to give $200 toward the Blanding Frontier Days Celebration, Major Hurst reported. Water use urged now Sam Taylor his declaration of candidacy for the senate seat in the Twelfth district, comprising Grand, San Juan and Emery counties. The Republican candidate has been editor and publisher of the Moab newspaper since his release from the army In 1956. He is a graduate of the Moab school systems and the University of Utah. During his six years in Moab, Mr. Taylor has served as president of the Chamber of Commerce, director of the Rotary club, and In various other civic and governmental capacities. He has served as a director of the Canyon Country River Marathon association for three years, and this year is vice commodore of that organization. Mr. Taylor has also served as a director of the Utah State Press Association and at present is on the business committee of that state-widorganization. Mr. Taylor is married to the former Miss Adrien Foote of Salt Lake City. The Taylors have one son. In filing his candidacy, the Moab Republican emphasized the economifc importance of the Twelfth Senatorial District to the State of Utah, and pledged his entire effort toward continuing strong legislative representation from the e district n Monticello Mayor Kenneth Bailey this week urged that residents of the city take advantage of the abundance of water at the present and get their lawns and gardens in shape for what could be a year. dry ' Mayor Bailey said Tuesday that at present it is estimated that some 600 gallons of water per minute are pouring from the junction box on Blue Mountain. He pointed out that he was not advocating the waste of water but rather the proper usage so that if and when the supply does become short, adequate irrigation of lawns will put them in shape to weather some drought J Deadline nears for queen entries 6:30 the when sen Chamber hears J same as at this date a year $50 washer Plans and purposes of a new San Juan County business, Western Colorvues, were explained by Gene Blickenstaff, Blanding, one of the partners In the firm, to the Monticello Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. Mr. Blickenstaff related that he and 1. W. Cox, Blanding, had built a machine which will show colored continuously slides on a screen enclosed in the unit and that such machines were now being placed in restaurants in Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. He said that 48 colored slides of scenic areas were enclosed in the machine with the cost paid by advertising secured for placing on the slides. Each machine will carry scenes of the local areas but Mr. Blickenstaff said that so far everyone had agreed that San Juan County scenes could be used to fill the machines if there were not enough local photos and the countjf was thus receiving considerable publicity from their firm. One of the continuous slide machines will be placed in the Monticello Library, Mr. Blickenstaff said, if the arrangements can be worked out with the library board. PARTY In other business, Mabel Wright thanked everyone responsible for the preparation of the food for the party held on Blue Mountain Thursday evening for the Jeep patrols arriving here for the weekend trip through the Needles and other scenic areas of the county. Mrs. Kent Frost reported that some 120 people and 47 Jeeps participated in the tour and all commented on the marvelous scenic beauty of the type, workable Maytag washing machine in San Juan County. Anyone having an old machine of this type should drop a card or call this business firm. Particulars can be found in their ad in this edition of the Record. Brads Appliance and fy .JjS" COFFEE POTS, A ROARING CAMPFIRE and guest speakers were the order of the evening on Blue Mountain last Thursday night as Jeep Patrol members from all over Utah gathered for a three-da- y scenic tour of San Juan County. In this time exposure, Monticello Mayor Ken Bailey (on table) offers a welcome tb the group assembled about the campfire Record Photo San Juan article in Chicago Tribune files candidacy House Doll Mise-um- . She is married to John M. Johnson, president of the Johnson & Yvonne diamond drilling firm of Naturita, Colo. r vM4-- ' ' "" f tr of a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune Travelers Guide on June 10, Mrs. Rosalie Goldman ,a frequent visntor and hiker in San Juan County, reA WELCOME to Jeep Patrol members from throughout the state was issued counts the scenic trip from last Thursday night by Paul Strong, commander of the San Juan County Monticello and Blanding via Sheriffs Jeep Patrol, at a steak fry on Blue Mountain. Some 110 plus represen- Utah 95 and the Hite Ferry tatives of Jeep Patrols attended the steak fry, including Irish OBrien, national to Hanksville. Profusely illustrated with Jeep Patrol commander, and Webb Cook, Utah State Jeep Search and Rescue com pictures of the area, Mrs. Golmander Record Photo dmans article takes the reader p on a journey the entire length of U95. She A huge success was the the welcoming steak fry heldgotiating the Silver Stairs. points out the many scenic term used by members of Jeep on Blue Mountain Thursday Mrs. Strong was driving the arches and canyons In the Patrols from throughout the evening. Patrol officials, city Jeep and Paul was holding area. state of Utah for the threelay and county officials, law en- onto a rope in the rear of the Mentioned in the travel artour of the Needles and ad- forcement officers, BLM and vehicle. A knot on the rope ticle are guides Kent and Fern jacent areas conducted by the Forest Service personnel and failed to hold and Paul fell Frost of Monticello and "The San Juan County Sheriffs civic leaders were on hand to out injuring his back. Old Settler Albert R- - Lyman, Patrol from Friday welcome the Patrol members Jeep Blanding. The Frosts and Mr. ANNUAL AFFAIR through Sunday. at the steak fry. Lyman are suggested to readers as excellent persons from Patrol members and their Enthusiasm for a similar LEFT FRIDAY equipment began rolling Into tour next year has been ex- which to receive advice on Early Friday morning the Monticello Thursday and some travel dn the region. 110 plus people turned out for tour of the area was begun pressed and Patrol members The next of Mrs. Goldmans with Kent and Fern Frost as are now planning to make the articles will appear next week official guides. Some 47 Jeeps event an annual affair. in the Tribune. and 120 people gathered In the LDS parking lot for the first leg of the tour which took the party through Salt Creek Canyon and back to Squaw Flats for the first nights camp. Saturday the tour continued to Ernest Ledlow, a worker on the Needles and Beef Basin a Sage Drilling Co. rig 6 miles and returned via Johnson MONTICELLO north and 5 miles west of Creek Sunday. Directors way so that it may be considerof the Canyonlands Highway ed Bluff, was seriously injured In Friday night INJURY ONE an accident at the rig early Association will meet this for the contest are Rules Tuesday morning. Paul Strong, commander of Friday evening at 8 p.m. In and judging will simple quite Working on the ground the San Juan County Patrol, the commissioners room at be based on the following the court to was Is was and house, Ledlow according crew, injured Saturday apparently points: Incorporation of readipinned against metal by a set presently recovering in the an announcement by Gaylord ly indentifable land mark to of heavy tongs and was San Juan County hospital. Stavely, association president connect the highway to Canbrought to San Juan County Paul was injured when he fell EMBLEM drawing in black One of the priority Items on yonlands, hospital for emergency treat- from the rear of his Jeep ne- Ink on white paper only and the ment before being transferred agenda will be the selecby 10 inches in size. tion of an emblem for the at least 8 will to a Grand Junction hospital. be the executive Judges Scenes around town Canyonlands Highway. A con- directors of the According to the San Juan Canyonlands test for an emblem Assn, and an approCounty Sheriffs office, the acIn the breeze is now indesigning Highway Flags waving progress and cident happened about 2 a.m. several houses being will mark the deadlineFriday priate prize will be awarded for to the winning artist Tuesday and Ludlow was painted weeds getting entering the contest. treated for a fractured left taller on vacant lots emblem selected will The Those persons who are conthigh and contusions and new resident wondering when be used in connection with conthe templating entering at the hospital here it gets warm for the Canyonworkers test should immediately turn advertising about 3:30 a.m. and was then counting davs until vacations their entries over to any as- lands route as well as on memtransferred to Grand Juncfew getting up before sociation director or Chamber bership cards and to Identify tion.) to dawn of Commerce along the high member businesses. go fishing. 4 In the first two step-by-ste- Man injured on drill rig Mrs. Minnie Johnson A constant worker for the Democratic party in San Juan County, Mrs. Johnson is quite active in civic affairs and was a Utah delegate to the Democratic convention in Chicago in 1956. Her name appeared in the first edition of Whos Who in America Women. She is presently vice president of the Blanding Chamber of Commerce. Mrs. Johnson ran for the state representative seat on a write-i- n campaign in the last election but was unsuccessful In that attempt. She states that if she is elected her work will be devoted to the betterment of the tourist industry, participate in the parade. Starting Saturday, June 16 a Jeep posse will be out Issuing shaving licenses for all men who do not wish to grow beards. Beards will be judged Saturday, June 30, at the promenade and prizes will be given for the longest beard, better roads and adequate wathickest beard and the most ter development for San Juan County. unique beard. since 1881. , Minnie Johnson "Minnies h Mr. Redd is the father of five sons and two' daughters and is married to the former Ivalou Sperry. At present he is Bishop of the Monticello Second Ward of the LDS Church. Record. Mrs. Minnie Johnson, Blanding, Wednesday filed her candidacy for the post of state representative from Sam Juan County. Mrs. Johnson, a Democrat, moved to Blanding in 1938 and has been a resident of the county since that time. A widow with six children, Mrs. Johnson opened the Bugg Tourist Home in what is now her doll museum known as ly and impartially, utilizing his evperience in office for the betterment of San Juan County. As county attorney he initiated the recent successful lawsuit with Grand County for the determination of the northern boundary line of San Juan County. The disputed area Included 23,000 land and acres of potash-riCthe exact line had been In question Cab- opened recently m the San Juan Electric building two doors south of the San inet Juan San Juan 'County Attorney F. Bennion Redd this week filed a declaration of candidacy for reelection. Mr. Redd, a native San Juaner, was born in Blanding and spent his early years there. His family moved to Monticello where they were in the mercantile and livestock business and he received his elementary and high school education in Monticello. Mr. Redd served on a mission for the LDS Church in the New England states and was an infantry officer during World War 11, serving in the Pacific and Japan. He was an officer in the Engineer Corps of the Utah National Guard while attending the University of Utah where he received his BS degree in Military Science and Tactics, BS degree In law and Bachelor of Law Degree. Mr. Redd states that if he is reelected he will perform the duties of his office prompt- - firm's plans Committee asks cooperation 0 ago. Appliance and Cabis offering Monticello, inet, $50 for the oldest conventional s, r 3 p.m. in Dove Creek. The San Juan County death toll now stands at two, the Brads 10-d- Number 20 automobile with a punctured lung and other possible internal injuries Funeral services for Mr. Huskey were held today at for oldest TT Jeep Patrol tour draws files for office very good turnout by W. M. Averett, Moab, as he passed on his way to work. Doctors at the Monument Valley Hospital describe Mrs. Davis condition as serious Firm offers Girls interested In entering anea. the contest for Miss San Juan are reminded that the deadline GROUP BAITING for entering is set for June MORMON CRICKET 16. Names should be submitted to Mrs. John Rorlng in MontiThe Pest and BLANDING cello. Insect Control Division of the Miss San Juan will partici- U.W. Government Agriculturworkpate in several events. She al are here on a will reign over the County ing program baiting Mormon Fair and will be the county cricket on Deer Flatt, Wooden-shoeat the State representative and Dry Mesa. fair. Rules of the contest will The group Is stationed at be found In last weeks San the Blanding airport Juan Record. BLANDING The Blanding Frontier Days committee would like all ladies and girls to get Into the spirit of the coming celebration by wearing an old fashioned dress In the pioneer style. A promenade will be led by the queen and her attendants on Saturday, June 30 downtown. Everyone is ' invited to Huskeys body was found nearly 100 feet from where the car stopped. The vehicle travelled some 448 feet after leaving the roadway. Officers presumed that the accident occurred about 4 a.m. but it was not discovered until about was Thursday, June 14, 1962 CIT7 Bennion Redd highway fatality in county A Dove Creek man became the second fatality on San Juan County highways early Saturday morning when he was killed in a one-ca- r accident on approximately eight and miles north of. Mexican Hat. Herbert Huskey, Dove Creek, was pronounced dead when officers arrived at the accident scene early Saturday morning. A passenger in the vehicle, Mrs. Trenton Davis, 27, also of Dove Creek, was taken to Monument Valley Hospital where she is reported in serious condition. In reconstructing the accident, Partolman Claude Lacy and Deputy Sheriff Carlos Hall said that Huskeys vehicle left the highway on a curve and rolled several times, throwing both the driver and passenger from the vehicle. 8 Pages lOtf per copy LMCE Canyonlands Highway group will meet here ...... , v - Friday |