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Show resource inventory trip Asg,CT uiuicAi iewswei eepiesexhtikes HK. AND MRS. GEORGE E. JONES, Owners and Publishers BOB McCASUN, NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR , CORRESPONDENTS Monticello Blanding News Blanding Ont East Bluff Montezuma Creek Mexican Hat Utah as Second Class Mrs. Harold Cole Norman Lnndell Jeanne Johnson Helen Redshaw Mrs. Eugene Foushee Mrs. Pat Davis Donna Brown Entered in the Postoffice at Monticello, matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Thursday at Monticello, Utah $3 a year SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In San Juan County $4 a year Outside San Juan County 7 Phone Box 428, Monticello, Utah 587-227- A chance for understanding . . . In any endeavor where cooperation is essential, a meeting of heads every once in awhile is an absolute necessity. San Juan Countys unique situation regarding lands and roads is just such an endeavor. For this reason the meeting next Monday between the San Juan County Commissioners, State Highway Commission, Bureau of Indian Affair representatives and members of the Navajo Tribe should, if nothing else, provide a working basis for understanding. execuPrimarily the meeting, to be a tive session affair in Blanding, will be to discuss a proposal to transfer funds from Utah Highway 261 to a seven-mil- e project between Aneth and Montezuma Creek. But other aspects of such a meeting could be even more rewarding than the principal business at non-publi- c hand. For many years roads in San Juan County, especially in the area of the huge Navajo reservation, have been a problem. Repponsibilities of the various agencies have not been clear and the right hand did not seem to know what the left was doing. Some three years ago it was thought that .responsibility for the Aneth road had been worked out satisfactorily but - since that time many leaks have appeared in the original plan and accusations have been thrown from all sides as to who was to blame. Misunderstanding was probably the biggest single factor contributing to the downfall of the former program. Because of the fact that so many agencies of government are involved it is difficult, if not impossible, for anything to be accomplished unless the heads of all these agencies thoroughly understand what the other is doing. Mondays meeting of the minds should heal some of these old wounds and, we hope, contribute to more cooperation and understanding that will lead to more and better roads in San Juan County. Celebration coming up . . . Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25, mark the annual Pioneer Day celebration for the City of Monticello. A full schedule of events, including new attractions not included in previous years, are in readiness and everyone working on the project is enthusiastic about the outcome. In the two years since the Monticello celebration was inaugerated, the affair has steadily grown in proportion and the present status is a tribute to the Monticello City Council and all other organizations who have persistently worked towards making the day bigger and better. That bigger and better this year includes a second day for the normal celebray tion and also a two-da- y amateur rodeo sponsored by the Blue Mountain Riding Club. Everything is now in readiness and all that remains to accomplish is procurement of a massive participating crowd to make the affair a total success. So plan now to take part in Monticellos Pioneer Days. one-da- Have you read the Classifieds? deal Bradford Republican Candidate ar COUNTY COMMISSIONER Home from a vacation are Mr. and Mrs. Gene Leavitt. They met Mr. Leavitts brother Mr. and Mrs. Thales Leavitt in Shelly, Idaho. All visited the three parks Teton, Yellowstone and Glasier National Park. They also spent some time in Canada and went to the Calgary Stampede. Returning last Wednesday from Castle Dale, Utah were Bryant Brady and Kedric Somerville. They both attended a soil conservation workshop. Returning this week from a three week vacation in Las Vegas, Nevada and California is Bill Dunow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dunow. He has been visiting with his uncle, Sergeant Major Fred Dunow who is in the Marines stationed at Lake Mead in Nevada. While in California they visited Disneyland, Farmers Market and many points of interest. They did some deep sea fishing on the coast of California. Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Bloomfield for the past two weeks has been Mrs. Bloomfields mother, Mrs. Louie Frost Willis from Mesa, Ariz. Mrs. Willis and Lovinia Redd will be leaving this Wednesday for a four weeks tour in New York where they will attend the Worlds Fair and the Hill Cumorah pageant. They will also visit Washington, D.C., Canada, and Niagar; Falls. Visiting this week with the A. B. Bartons is their son Mr. and Mrs. Grant Barton and three sons from El Paso, Texas. Also visiting over the weekend was their daughter Dixie who is attending BYU and their son Warren and grandson Quinn from Castle y EOITORIA. NATIONAL Monticello happenings of the week BLM conducts Dry Valley San (Juan Second Some wheat harvest has rotten underway in San J an County this week but no definite yield picture has yet developed. It is expected to be that the politicians would spare us the trouble of opening so many letters . to find not news but propaganda. Some of the more harsh statelow, however, due to the long ments lead one to believe that drought. Many combine crews, this is the year that slander however, wonder just what is legal. it it it it drought after several days of Officials of Utahns, Inc., the rain that have held up the state-widharvesting in certain aeras. agency established to promote tourism in Utah, it it Persistent rumors that the this week urged approval by Bureau of Land Management Congress of legislation to prowas charging a fee to take vide access to Lake Powell. pictures on public lands were The group, in urging congresdispelled this week by the sional action, voted apprecialocal district manager Robert tion to the Utah State Highway Anderson. Mr. Anderson said Department for that bodys efthere is no such BLM ruling forts to bring about construcas pertains to still photos or tion of a Golden Circle of movies of a news value. highways to Glen Canyon and Charges are made however to the proposed Canyonlands Nalarge movie companies who tional Park. use the public lands and to it it it it And speaking of Canyon-lands- , those groups who take movies on public land for commercial the appointed time for purposes. marking up the bill in the House Interior Committee has it it it ir Now that the Republican arrived but we have heard no convention is over, the poli- news of this event. Congresticians are beginning to make sional, representatives said hay and our mail is beginning some time ago that this would to reflect the charges and be done as soon as Congress counter-charge- s so familiar in commenced after the convenan election year. Were going tion recess. The fate of the bill to spare our readers as much for this session rests of the of this questionable material speed which it receives during as possible and would hope the next few weeks. e The Bureau of Land Management conducted a field trip last Friday, July 10, to acquaint grazing licensees in the Dry Valley Unit with the procedures used in making a resource inventory. The purpose of the resource inventory is to determine the initial grazing capacity for both livestock and game for the different grazing allotments in the Dry Valley Unit. A field tour such as this is held for the licensees in each grazing unit where a resource inventory is conducted. Other units to be inventoried this summer are the Cottonwood and Floy units which are north of Highway 6 & 50 in Grand necessitated the servicing of County, The inventory is being cartwo cars. Selection of the fortunate 10 was based largely on ried out by five college stuan essay which all were asked to write on what they thought they could bring to this experi- Durango publishers ence. All were of uniformly high calibre and thoughtfulness and selection was finally give $10,000 made from those who most to college clearly showed maturity in a desire to learn something from Mr. and Mrs. Arthur the trip. Six boys, Bruce Cable, publishers of the Edward Hotchkiss, Donald Durango Jr.,Herald, have given RalPfaefflin, Jeffrey Gerlach, $10,000 to enable Fort Lewis Wallph Reddick and Scott College to open in September gren were chosen, along with a center for the study of the FloJean four girls, Kobryn, Southwest. rence Hein, Betsy Bigelow and Participating in the gift is Christine Lytle. They range In the Ballantine family fund age from 15 to 18. Chaperoning whose trustees are the the girls, and herself one of District Judge James the most charming and enthus- M. Noland and Frederic B. iastic members of the party, is Mrs. Jane Wallgren, the pas- Emigh, Durango attorney. A. M. Camp, former presitors wife. of Durangos First NaIn an interview, Mr. Wall- dent bank, in whose honor gren said that he felt that the tional is exposure of these young peo- a Fort isLewis dormitory named, giving an additionple, most of whom have never al $1,500 for the same purpose. been outside the state of ConThe Ballantines said, We necticut, could be a most valuable experience and held un- have shared the community limited possibilities. He has' view that Southwest Colorado asked each one to keep a diary should have a center for the its emphasizing not so much the study of the Southwest daily events but their reactions history, peoples, geology, its to these events, and nearly economics, its vegetation. Fort every evening they have dis- Lewis College is an ideal locacussions of the days experi- tion. ences. Several of them have It is our hope that once dates in September to speak such a center has been set up, about their trip at various all who are interested in the churches in their home area. Southwest, both local residents After being welcomed by and others, will help make the Father Wayne and the mission Center outstanding. staff the young people set up their tents and are now runI went to a drive-imovie camp on and saw a real tear jerker ning a addithe mission grounds, in every car in the place had its tion to helping with the mis- windshield wipers going. on sion chores . and working various projects suggested by Father Wayne. They are cur- The San Juan Record rently engaged in cutting logs Monticello, Utah on Cedar Mesa and loading Thursday, July 23, 1964 them on to a truck for transPage Two portation back to the Mission. Connecticut youth choose St. Christopher's for work Bluff, Utah. July 13 Getting to Know you" should be the theme song of a group of teenagers from Thomaston, Conn., now visiting St. Christophers Mission to the Navajo Indians in Bluff. For, in the course of their trip they have been getting to know all kinds of people in Eastern, Southern and Western states people camping in state parks, people in laundromats, and churches. supermarkets And for the rest of the month, while engaged on work projects for the Mission, they hope to get to know something about the Navajo Indians. It all started when the Senior Pilgrim Fellowship of the First Congregational Church of Thomaston, Conn, was asked by their new pastor, the Rev. Victor Wallgren, where they would like to travel and work if they could choose. Fresh from his own experience in International Work Camps, Mr. Wallgren suggested Africa or the eastern Mediterranean or what? To his surprise they rejected overseas travel and said firmly that they would like to visit and learn more the American Indian. They formed a study group and wrote to everyone they could think of who might know something about the subject. In due course they were referred to the Rev. Sidney S. Buck-hapresiding officer of the United Church of Christ in the Intermountain area. He write telling them about St. Christophers Mission and the work of the founder, the Rev. H. Baxter Liebler. After some with Father correspondence Liebler and the vicar. Father Wayne Pontious, the group voted to come to the mission as a work party. There followed several months of feverish activity trying to raise money to finance the trip. They washed cars, changed storm windows, cleaned barns and, with their parents help, gave dinners. By Christmas 1963 they found that money was actually coming in. and the possibility of the trips actually taking place became something more than just a pipe-dreaInterest was aroused not only among their own church membership but in other churches, including Trinity Episcopal Church of Thomaston, and in the community generally. With their help the sum of $1,500 was in the bank by Easter of this year. In view of the educational and cultural value of the experience, Mr. Wallgren felt that at least 10 members of the fellowship should go, which increased the cost by $500 and Ball-antin- dents under the direct supervision of range conservationist Douglas Wood of the Monticello BLM office. In the above photo Doug explains the procedures being used. Shown from left to right are Douglas Wood, Ralph Jenkins, Paul Smith, Darwin Jensen, Jens Jensen, all BLM employees; Lloyd Adams, Wyman Redd, iJ. Whitney Redd, K. S. Summers, DeVere Hall, Don Barton, Francis Barton, t, Harve Williams, John Evan Pehrson, grazing licensees in the area or advisory board members; Frank Rowley, inventory crew member, and Robert E, Anderson, BLM district manager. Not shown are crew members Gene Eulert and Chris Howard, Hel-quis- Dale. Visitor increase noted to Hovenweep A report from the National Park Service states that 1,110 persons visited Hovenweep National Monument during the month of June which brings the 1964 total to 3,010 or 540 ahead of the 2,470 recorded for the same period in 1963. Campground facilities were used by 120 during June compared to 90 for last year in the same month. Travel to the monument is expected to increase with the improvement of many major roads in the Four Comers NU VUE SHOES? CARLS! Auto Vu Thurs. Mon., Toes. & Wed. LADY IN A CAGE O. DeHavilland J. Corey I Saturday TAMMY AND THE DOCTOR S. Dee P. Fonda Sun. & Mon. IRMA LA DOUCE S. MacLaine J. Lemmon (No Children) . Tues. & Wed. ALL THE WAY HOME . J. Simmons R. Preston We Specialize In New Kitchens Kitchen Cabinets Kitchen will contract build- Rearrangements ing your fence by Up to 5 years to pay the post or by the rod. Basket Cabinet Shop Gene Langston Bring Ad Show time Dusk Ph. E. Main Cortez 565-346- 1440 Box 1033 Monticello Jim . Ph. 678-389- 6 Slavens 6 Blanding !ve Your Bark" Problems with a Canyonlands Aviation an Private Outdoor Light unijiGmniiJiii (many is no substitute for plenty of good for safety, convenience and protection homes, churches, farms, businesses. There for ...light grants Completely Automatic Private outdoor light installation contains a built-icell which automatically turns light on at dusk, off at dawn. n if if CHARTER FLIGHTS if AIRCRAFT RENTAL SCENIC FLIGHTS Why Brad for Commissioner? He is young enough to be aggressive. He He He by He is old enough to have patience. is dumb enough to make mistakes. is smart enough to admit these mistakes and learn them. can accept advice but cant be pressured. He i3 a product of and has a deep love for San Juan County. He is willing to show this love for San Juan by serving its people. He has had a well rounded education in San Juans needs. He knows how to work. He is the best man for the job NOW and each year will find him better. FLIGHT if INSTRUCTIONS SANDERSON AUDIO-VISUA- L GROUND SCHOOL if Crop Spraying and Agricultural application photo-electri- c At. pWwwinwinw 0 Nothing to Buy Complete installation UlQiUy including mainte- is provided nance and lamp replacement by the power company. You pay only a moderate monthly service fee. Thousands in Use Although private outdoor lighting is comparatively new, there are already thousands of installations in use in the area we serve. If its electric, its better! tis 0 animHan OU gasolines accumulate tiny impurities. But only American Brand Gasolines receive the Last Chance filtering of the American FINALFILTER. So next time Buy American Brand Gasolines. Drive in and say fill er up filtered. '";Z All Richard L Smith 587-273- 4 Monticello, Utah You expect more from American and you get it 0S4, . . Visit the Snack Bar Fried Chicken, Pizza, Hot Doughnuts, Sandwiches. Free show to David Fullmer n Fri. & THE WHEELER DEALERS L. Remick J. Garner NEED FENCE? Thurs., Fri. & Sat. LAW OF THE LAWLESS D. Robertson Y. DeCarlo Drive-I- n DOVE CREEK Ranchers! DRIVE-I- N Moab Downtown Monticello, Utah ' d Mrs. Joe Jackson left this week for Provo where she will attend classes at BYU. She will return in last August. Spending 10 days summer vacation with Louise Duckett are her two grandsons Michael and Kim, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Keith E. Hoggart of Sandy, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Redd, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Richardson, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Burt and Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lee went to Durango last weekend to see the melodrama Pursuit of Happiness. The Redds, Odettes and Lees stayed the weekend and took the trip through Silverton, Tellu-ridOuray and Dolores. Robert Pugh from Salt Lake is visiting this week with friends in Monticello and Blanding. He will bring his wife and family down next week to join him. Visiting this week with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Richey is their daughter Mrs. Wallace Johnson and two children Helen and Jimmy from Salt Lake. Returning home a week ago Saturday were Mr. and Mrs. Lee Richey. They have been spending the winter at their home in Sun City, Ariz. Mr. und Mrs. H. U. Butt spent all day last Wednesday visiting Mrs. Butts sister Ada Haller and daughter in Cortez and Mr. Butts brother Mr. and Mrs. Karl Butt in Mancos. Visiting this weekend from Salt Lake with Swede and Mildred Odette was their daughter Mira Bateman and Berdette two granddaughters and Diane. THE AMERICAN f'Aaaaa'A , OIL COMPANY, MTEOT APPLIED TOU CHICAGO, ILL. |