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Show 1-- 7n 74 FIC'rT 7 ' f L 4. r J1 ,7 w 75 "r'! t,Tr-w- w U. m. AZj TV -- qcp X j . T w1 - T H i X O J, $5.00 Thursday, June 7, 1973, Kanab, Utah 84741 Volume 42, Number per year 10? per single copy Chamber hoars cries against high power rates of Kanab businesses Cries of high power rates was brought to the tore again In Kanab at the local Chamber at Commerces regular meeting Tuesday at Chefs Talace. The feelings against high power rates were brought from Kanab businessmen and the accusations against the local utility company, California-Pacifi- c, were from the commercial standpoint. Several businessmen present cited power bills that they felt were extremely high. Suggestions were made that the group push for municipal power, or get Garkane Power Company to furnish Kanab, and also It was suggested to go to the Utah Public Service Commission andor the Attorney General. was formed with Vance Pugh as chairman, and A committee committee members, Charles Currey, Mardean Pugh, and Margaret Koch. The committee is to report back to the Chamber on all particulars on power rates In the area, along with a comparative report of rates. Several years ago there was a movement in favor of municipal power. This was discussed by tne board of directors. That movement failed. According to Chamber President Jim Carrico, representatives of California-Pacif- ic and Garkane Power Association will be Invited to attend the next meeting of the Chamber which will be held June 19 at 8:30 at Trails End Restaurant in Kanab. A report from the Bob Welti Advertising Agency was given regarding the Area Guide and the Entertainment Poster that he Is designing forthe Chamber Owens meets citizens Kanab Congressman Wayne Owens held an informal meeting June 1 with 30 interested people of this area. Included in the group were four H club members who were Interested in changing the National Forest Camping regulations. Mr. Owens started the conversations by talking about the Watergate mess and said, The whole Watergate affair is a disgraceful abuse of power by people but is not typical of the elected officials of either party. Im sure there will be complete reform of election laws as a result- Questions were asked about a wide ranging spectrum of problems that varied all the way from no aid to North Viet Nam to building a dam in the Barracks Canyon south of ML Car- him privately to discuss problems relative to predator control and other range problems. Congressman Owens invited anyone who has a question or a problem of government to write him at U.S. House of Representatives, 222 Cannon Office Bldg. Washington, D.C. 20515. of the Rainbow Flooding Bridge area brought forth a good deal of comment. Mr. Owens said that he favored the flooding of the area if It meant a great loss in water and revenue to the state of Utah but that be want to make sure that the figures quoted were correct. He felt that the Dixie project was dead and that the Kaiparo-wi- tz project and the road to dull Frog Basin were proceeding at a slow pace. He expressed concern for the Colorado River Runners curtailment and said he was working to get the quota (wells and pumps) and for the of the Chicken development Canyon well. 4-- non-elec- mel. set higher. He talked about the gas and fuel shortage and wondered if the shortage was real or brought cm by the fuel companies. He discussed revenue sharing and aid to schools. After the meeting was over a group of cattlemen met with SO PROUDLY City votes revenue sharing funds to develop water A public hearing was held May 22, 1973, at the City Hall at which time Mayor Carpenter and members of the City Council voted unanimously to use federal revenue sharing funds as needed for maintenance of the existing city water system The next public hearing will be June 12, 1973, at the regularly scheduled City Council meetThe 1973-ing. municipal budget will be proposed for approval which will Include the appropriation of subsequent revenue sharing funds expected in the new fiscal year. 74 The mayor received an approved change application from Dee C. Hansen, State Water Engineer, which authorizes the city to begin immediately to develop the water supply at the site of the test well located in Chicken Canyon. WE HAIL! of Commerce. It was reported that representatives from the Welti Agency will be around to various businesses to sell advertising. The Welti Agency is also in the process of developing a brochure for the entire Southern Utah Northern Arizona area. In other action, the Chamber emphasized the need for the change of its name from the Kane County Area Chamber of Commerce to something that included all of the communities that are Involved in our area. Two names that were suggested were A (Southern Arizona) or Hub of the Parks Chamber of Commerce. Both of these are umbrella titles. Further, a patch that was requested by the Boy Scouts for SU-N- Utah-North- hiking has been designed by Bob Welti and was approved for production by the Board of Directors. This will be presented to Jim Anderson who is connected with the Scouts in this area. The Visitor Center to be on Highway 89 is to begin to have work done on it during this week. It is anticipated to have the whole building set up within the next two weeks. $3,000 is earmarked for manning this center from the Association. The Cycle Hill Project was report jd progressing beautifully. Patrolman Dave Little has taken the helm as president of the organization set up to effect a proper riding area in this vicinity. Preliminary work has been completed and the second phase of the project is being considered at this time. Questions were raised why it is that the state Highway Department did not have proper Five-Cou- a t - t yon and Bryce Canyon National Park. It was further stated that better signing for these attractions was needed at he Levan turn-of- f, also. Family Health Center office moved to Page Vernon L. H rris has been appointed project administrator for the Family Health Center office which has been moved to Page from Kanab, according to Sister Diane Moeller. Robert Anderson, who directed the feasibility study on an FHC health-ca- re plan until May, has moved from Kanab to Salt Lake City. Page will be the center of a test of the feasibility study during the coming year, Sister Moeller said. Two satellite clinics operated in conjunction with the Indian Health service and Coconino County Health department will deliver medical care In Page care. Harris has been a hospital administrator in the Phoenix area, Idaho, and Utah. He also has been associated with Idaho Department of Public Health. The Family Health Center project is sponsored by the University of Utah college of medicine. Jelesnik talent show in Milford for all Southern Utah The Eugene Jelesnik, KSL-T- V Showcase of "talent will duct a Search for Talent at the Milford Centennial Celebration on Tuesday, August 7 at the Milford High School Aud- itorium. Talented Utahns throughout Southern Utah will be given an opportunity to perform, with auditions to start at 9:00 a.m.and continue until all have bad a chance to show their talents, and those determined to be the FLAG DAY, JUNE 14 top performers will be given President Woodrow Wilsons eloquent address on Flag an opportunity to perform beDay, June 14, 1917 is an effective reminder to all of the fore the paid audience that event;' on the Milford Centennial significance of Old Glory: S ,rch for Talent show. The We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which will be given an opporwilier which we is of emblem serve the under our and we honor tunity to perform on the Eugene unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It Jelesnik Showcase of Talent on it we than that from which character other has no give KSJL-T- V, at a later date. Mr. Jelesnik will conduct the geneiation to generation. The choice is ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices auditions himself. Anyone in whether in peace or war. And yet, though silent, it speaks Southern Utah who wishes to to us speaks to us of the past, of the men and women who audition may pick up an appll. went before us and of the records they wrote upon it. We cation at the SouL sra Utah in Kana or write celebrate the day of its birth, and from its birth until now News office Dixie Lamb, chairman: Mia. a has witnessed floated the on has it great history, high Search for Talent Contest, symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out P.O. Box 262, Milford, Utah people... - signs on Interstate 15 to indicate the roads to Lake Powell, the North Rim of the Grand Can. and Kalblto, Arizona. Sister Moeller said a prepaid method of financing health care is to be offered to the par. ticipatlng communities as an option in paying for medical by a great ... 847 51. Summer Theater throughout Utah and the mountain west are beginning to open for the season to entertain the traveling populace. The "Cld Bam Playhouse," pictured above, although being one of the most unique of all is typical in many ways of the summer programs being shown The "Old Bam" is now going into its third season and will be playing the theaters, four different melodrama plays during the summer. Summer theaters becoming more popular vith intermountain patrons Summer theatres are becom- ing increasingly popular throughout the western states and particularly in the Utah area, and predictions are that they are not about to diminish, but will Increase. And the Kanab area is a case in point. Three years ago, the Old Bam Playhouse was begun in Kanab featuring melodrama staged In an old pioneer bam of the area. And now, just a short time later another theatre, Red Hills Repertory Theatre is scheduling al973 summer opening in Kanab. Musicals, melodrama, wild West comedy, and even childrens plays will be the fare throughout the west during this promising summer season. Among the summer theaters opening their doors this season In Utah will be Lagoons Opera House, Theater 138, Rocky Mountain Regional Theater, the Human Ensemble Repertory Theater, Sundance Theater in Provo Canyon, a Utah Shakespearean Company opened re-- Local man graduates from medical school Wendell James Bentley, son of Wendell and the late Barbara Young Bentley of Kanab, was recently graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, D .C. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1969 from the University of Utah. Dr. Bentley was one c! eight students in a class of 120 that was graduated with distinction. He received the Alec Horwitz Award for exceptional proficiency In the field of surgery, the Julius S. Nevlaser Award in Orthopaedic Surgery and the C.V. Mosby Publications Award. He was also selected as a member of theSmlth-Reed-Russ- Hon- ell or Society and the Kane-KiObstetrical Society. In his junior year, he was chosen a member of Alpha Oman international ega Alpha, medical college honor society whose purpose is to promote and to provide recognition of scholarship, leadership, research, teaching, clinical acumen and personal honesty and maturity. Dr, Eentley will be doing a surgical residency at Stanford University Medical Center in Palo Alto, Calif. ng cently at Westminster College, and, of course, the now famous Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City. Add to these the amphitheater in Park City, Promised Valley in Salt Lake, the Afternoon Players in Sale Kane County exceeds crusade quota The Kane Cpunty Unit cf the American Cancer Society has exceeded its goal for the 1973 cancer Crusade. Volunteers, headed by Mrs. Verla Lewis collected $834.45 fund-raisi- ng of 2 $825.00 which is 100.2 goal. During the campaign volunteers contacted residents and business firms leaving lifesaving educational materials and asking for contributions to futher the Important work of the Society. Each family was particularly encouraged to have an annual check-u- p and to know the Seven Warning Signals that could mean cancer. Dr. Lindsay R. Curtis, State Crusade Chairman, congratulated Mrs. Lewis and all the volunteers for their outstanding drive. In paying tribute to them be said they will be a part of saving 222,000 Americans this year who will get to their doctor in time to have their disease properly treated. There will be about 110,000 more, Dr. Curtis said, who will die who might have been saved by earlier and better treatment. Kane County is one of 40 units throughout the State of Utah which will be raising a State goal of $300,000. Dr. Curtis concluded with the statement that it is the goal of the Cancer Society to wipe out cancer in our lifetime and this can become a reality through the continued support of all Americans. Crofts-Brinkerho- ff set temple wedding Planning a June 23 wedding in the St. Georg9 Temple are Miss Colene Crofts and Eric L. Brinkerboff. They will be honored at a receiptlon in Ord. erville, Utah, the evening of their wedding. Colene is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John S. Hardy ofOrd-ervill- o. Lake, Park Pioneer Playhouse in Heber, and there is talk of a similar venture In Orderville to add to their pioneer play. The Old Barn in Kanab is n w moving into its third season, and like most such ventures in a small town It has been a bard row to hoe, but things are looking better according to principals of the theater here. This years presentation at the Old Barn will include Desperate Desmonds Dastand He Aint ardly Deed, Done Right By Little Neil (Yet)" which are presently alternating with all local talent taking parts. It Is expected that before the year is over, two more melodramas will be presented on the stage of the barn. Probably the most unique and unusual theater in the nation, the Old Barn Playhouse is an old barn. It has been and a stage built on one ren-nova- ted aid with the audience being seated in the main part, or where the hay at one time was stored as well as in the manger area. Originators of the Old Bam Playhouse are Jim Skaggs, Dennis Judd, Wendell Heaton and Marlin Brown. Each had a dream of his own concerning such a theater, and when they learned of the others dreams they proceeded to make them come to life. Obtaining the use of the old bam from the Parry Lodge In Kanab, they began to clean and fix it up to present their first melodrama, Utile NelL Opening night three years ago at the bam was an experience to be remembered. Movie stars in Kanab at that time to film segments of Gunsmoke were invited to perform for a local benefit and the Old Bam stage saw such players as Buddy Ebsrn, Rick Gates, Buck Tay- Ben Johnson and Johnny Whittaker. The benefit was a huge success and the Old Bam was off to a good start. The following year Doug Keller joined the original four owners and also wrote the second season play, Gunstroke, a take-o- ff on the TV favorite. lor, was a huge sucGunstroke cess during this second year. People from all over the world have seen plays at the CRd Bam now and they rave at its uniqueness and the family fun experienced within its timeworn walls. One little lady won a prize of a ticket for the next year she returned the next year from her distant home. Comments from audience members usually run like this one: "As good or better than any. ihing weve seen anywhere. One of the originators recalls when the dream of a melodrama In Kanab first came to him: 1 attended such a play in the Ut-t- le town of Victor, Idaho (Pierres Playhouse) several years ago, and from the begin, nlng of the evening's entertainment, the thought kept running in my head that such a thing would be great in the Kanab area where there are so many tourists traveling, and generally with little to do In the even-to- g. A theater like this would be a real boon to the area. His mind was pregnant with visions of the success of such a production. And to give birth to these visions the four originators worked out the details and began in earnest, on a shoestring budget to be sure, to bring about what today is becoming a unique part of the local area. To be are It has not been simple to start and kaep the Old Bam going and for those who started it, it has meant more paying out than reaping of financial goods. But it has been satisfying and each year a little better. Hopes for a brilliant future are still strong Kane County gets within their breasts. One key to the success of the deputy sheriff Mike Willis, sen of Mr. and playhouse is attitude of local residents, particularly those to Mrs. Jim Willis and Brigham son of Mr. and Mrs. the tourist oriented businesses. Young, Stevan Turner of Kanab was Clyde Young have returned to If these business people speak appointed as Deputy Sheriff for their aLout the Old Bam military duties after favorably Kane County in early May and two weeks leave at then Its success Is assured, spending has been working in that posiand generally this has been the home. Mike returned to Marytion since, under Sheriff Norcase. The bam to return hopes land, and Brigham to Kentucky. man Swapp. to affect tourists into a "stay who is hired on a Turner, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Dalton another night frame of mind, full-tibasis by the County, and two children spent last and thereby In a small way rehas responsibilities basically weekend in Salt Lake pay the businesses for their City vain eastern Kane County. He is cationing and taking In fun spots good words. Old Bam Playhouse The presently also serving as acting like Lagoon and the zoo. Commander of the Kane County hopes to continue or to the years Search and Rescue Patrol, of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Button to come to entertain local rewhich he has been a member and and family went to Salt Lake sidents, their relatives for years. weekend for an en- friends, and the visitors who last City Turner lived in the Kane joyable trip to some iun spots. annually pass through this area, County area back In the early as a and to take their plac 1960 for entertainment fine years, then after showpiece ClarkSteve and Mr. Mrs. a time in California, returned son have been to Salt Lake to this area, along with the again In 1970. other such businesses City on business and stopped many He Is married to the former throughout the totermointaln to with Lianas in visit Provo west. ShemmRoundy. They have two mother and family. children. HAN MB NEVIS NOTES 2-- 12 3-- The future bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marie J. Brinkerboff of Glendale, Utah. 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