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Show 141 NATION A I 0 1 T 0RIA t Avenue outhepn Utah I asSoc5'6n rnzri7iriHg'.n.'.MiH Volume 35 No. Pieij-- o 4 Kanab, Utah 84741 Thursday, February We have no axes to grind, but a matter of law and principle Immediately following this editorial, same columns below, we give you an editorial Newspaper Responsibility by J. M. Cornwell of the Murray (Utah) Eagle. We feel that it will point out our responsibility, along with this editorial, in accomplishing the objectives of a newspaper. Please read it. Our objective at the present time is to try to clearly point out the duties of an elected City Official for the office to which he was elected by the people to serve the people. Paragraph 9 on page 11 of the Utah Municipal League booklet, How To Conduct A Municipal Council Meeting, states The Mayors duties in Council Meeting - - 9. Makes all appointments and dismissals of personnel, subject to council approval. This one paragraph, along with Kanab City Ordinances, budgets, and provisions for the spending of all monies collected from the residents of Kanab clearly point out that the hiring of the additional City Marshal by A. D. Findlay, newly elected Kanab Mayor all expenses incurred by said marshal and the additional expense of hiring an attorney, Mr. Reed Reynolds from Salt Lake City, and his expenses should all be paid by Mr. Findlay, and not by Kanab City. The hiring of Erwin Wright, without council approval, and the hiring of attorney Reynolds, by J. M. Cornwell Murray (Utah) Eagle editorial freedom or meet its report-oriobligation to the public. By the same token, the act of printing a story carries with it the responsibility to report cor rectly and without bias. Just as objective reporting can do widespread good, inaccurate reporting can bring untold hardship upon the innocent. Not enviable is the lot of the dedicated publisher. He must not let his judgement of right or wrong be influenced by personal friendship or monetary gain. Obviously, not every person is that incorruptible. Thankfully, the vast majority are, and their publications have written glowing pages in the annals of press freedom. People have a right to expect their newspapers to be free and independent. They have a right to demand it, in fact, for only in this respect might newspapers be considered public servants. Should the day ever come that people of this land can no longer believe the truth of what they read in the public press, newspapers will have failed miserably in their obligation. By then, however, our nation will no doubt be too far down the road to oblivion to make any difference. The obligation of the American press to be free, strong and courageous is the greatest responsibility with which it is charged, for upon this assignment rests the very cornerstone of our Democracy. An informed public will almost invariably react correctly. One not infomed cannot accurately choose its path. It is this pitfall which the free press must help the American people avoid. Some people regard newspapers as public servants. In fact, some newspapers refer to themselves in this manner. Public informers? Yes! Guardians of the peoples right to know? Yes! Moulders of o pinion? Yes! But NOT public servants! A servant is a person without a will of his own. He is subject to the command of others. God forbid the free American press should ever become the servant of any group or individual, for of all the freedoms guaranteed by our constitution, freedom of the press is the only one which can preserve the others. It is the responsibility of every newspaper worthy of the name to print facts, not fiction; to confine its news columns to news, not opinion, and to dedicate itself to building more than de- stroying. What the editor thinks about any given subject should never interfer with his objective handling of the news. Responsible journalism demands that he confine his personal thinking to columns or to the editorial page itself. In order to accomplish its objectives, a newspaper must be financially solvent and cannot be dedicated to any cause not in the best interest of the people. This is as true on the grassroots level of the country weekly as it is in the vast domain of the metropolitan daily. The separation of the news department from ones must be sharply the defined, for a newspaper which lives in fear of economic rebuttal or reprisal cannot possibly by-line- revenue-producin- d g al Lions and partners Coordinating Council names officers . . . A special meeting of the nab Coordinating Ka- Board was Kcnab News Mr. and Mrs. Hall Hibbard are in Kanab for a few days from Los Angeles. They came to get a glimpse of our February weather, which is quite unusual this year, to say the least Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Super-navisited in Kanab over the w weekend from Price, Utah, with their daughter, Michelle, and relatives and friends. They reported their son Alan is at the Naval Air Force base in Monterey, Calif., and doing fine. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Jackson of Bear Lake, Utah, visited in Kanab last week with his brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson as well as other relatives and friends. . . . exercise held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the City Club Room. A new and sec. chairman, and treas., were named. Leslie Pugh is chairman; Jaand mes Bunting, Afton Mar Cram, secretary. Board members include the following, George R. Aiken, Sterling Johnson, Thomas Law-soNorm Swapp, John Kimball, Dick Hamblin and Diana Franklin. Regular meeting of the Kanab Coordinating Council was held at 8 with fifteen members present The next regular meeting will be held March 15 in the City Club Room. The public is invited and urged to attend these meetings. Thanks and recognition were given to Floyd Supemaw, Evelyn Mace, Ena Spendlove, Hannon Robertson and Madge Little, former board members and officers. n, 1 . V attend $4 00 Yearly, 10c new directors, to name officers S.L. Convention Kanab Lions Sylvan Johnson and U. S. Gardner, accompanied by their wives atteded the convention of Utah Lions in Salt Lake the weekend of February 5th. Two thousand Lions were in attendance, with Claude M. DeVorss, past president of Lions International, as guest speaker. Governor Calvin Ram-pto-n and Mayor J. Bracken Lee also attended and spoke. mid-wint- ' Edith C. Mulliner dies Sunday in Kanab Mrs. Edith Christena Stjevens Mulliner, age 60, died SijMiday in the Kane County Hospital. Burial was to be in Orderville Wednesday. We will carry her life story and funeral services in next weeks S.U.N. Correction by Kyran Sorenson lan-guitch- s Five newly elected Directors the Kanab Chamber of Commerce were named this week, and are- Rex C. Christensen, Charles Cates, Marriner Jones, Bily Terrill, and Bemell . . . Lewis. Holdover directors are: Kanab names temporary Marshal 77-4- 60 Utah Farmers tell Convention speaker President Eldon Nathan Tanner, 2nd Counselor in the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of. Latter-daSaints will speak to members of the Utah Farmers Union, Friday February 18 at 2 p.m. in the Newhouse Hotel at the 13th annual convention of the Utah Farmers Union. President Tanner has a wide and illustrious background in the industrial, political, religious and educational fields. As an educator, he was a principal Robin. in Cardston, Alberta, Canada. The Seniors are madly preA former industrial and polit paring for the District Foren- ical leader; he served on the sic meet at Piute on the 22nd. Town Council, a member of Traveling assembly tryouts the Legislature in Alberta and were held Tuesday, Feb. 8. became Speaker of that body. The assembly consisted of 25 He later became Minister of numbers, 18 of which were Land and Mines. chosen to represent Valley, The theme of President TanFeb. 17 as we go to Panguitch ners speech to the Utah Farmand Piute. ers Union will be Die TwentMonday, Feb. 14th saw the ieth Century Farmer and will Freshman assembly enjoyed by cover the progress made by Valley students. Nobody at Valfarmers to date, their future ley really thought the Freshand the relationship between en possesed such hidden talFarmers and Government. ents. y S. S. and Medicare Dixie fees raise . . . rep. Fees for cattle grazing on the Dixie National Forest during 1966 will be five cents per animal month higher than for 1964 use on two Forest divisions, & six cents per animal month higher on the third, Forest Supervisor Jack B. Shumate said today. Sheep fees wil increase cents per anione and mal month Forest-wdThis years cattle grazing fees per animal month will be 51 cents, 57 cents, and 61 cents, respectively, for Dixie, Powell, and Sevier divisions of the Forest. Sheep fees per month will cents for the Dixbe 11 and ie and Sevier Divisions, and 11 and 4 cents for the Powell Division. A base for National Forest grazing fees was established in 1931 following a study of rentals paid to private persons, corporations, Indian reservations, states and other Government agencies for use of comparable grazing lands. A base livestock selling price was establised during the same study period. Supervisor Shumate stated that current fees bear approximate the same ratio to the 1931 base fees that livestock prices received by the producer for the year preceding bear to the base livestock prices. The Dixie National Forest furnished 66,000 animal months forage for cattle, and 71,000 animal months feed for sheep last year. The United States Treasury received $41,000.00 in grazing fees for this use. Supervisor Shumate pointed out, however, that 25 of these col- lections was returned to counties in which the. Forest is located for support of schools and roads. one-ha- lf e. 3-- 4 1-- Leif Peterson, Social Security Representative, will visit Fredonia, Arizona, on Friday, Febuary 25th. He will be at the County Building between 8:30 and 10:-0- 0 A.M. He will assist those desiring to make application for Social Security and Medicanbenefits under the Federal Social Security Program, as well as answering inquires related to both programs. Mr. Peterson will hold a Medicare meeting for the public in the County building at 1:00 P.M. He urges everybody age 65 and over to be there. This may be the last opportunity to sign up for Medicare. The final date for enrollment is March 31st. 10-ye- ar 10-ye- ar Sterling Johnson. A president, vice president will be and secretary-treasure- r chosen from the thirteen directors above to serve for the year. The new board of directors and officers will take office April 1. Outgoing directors are George R. Aiken, Wm J. Smirl, Evelyn Mace, Toni Major and Floyd Marshall. Tonv Kauglnnan, resident of Kanab for the past two years, was named temporary City Marshal for Kanab at the city council meeting Tuesday. Mr. Kaughman, wife and two children are former residents of Las Vegas. He also owns and operates the Kanab Auto Clinic here. Applications are being advertised for to fill the position on a peimanent basis, and can be found on page three of this issue of our S.U N. 4 Ogden firm gets Glen Canyon contract Award Wafch for slippery and unknown salesmen The State Department of Contractors is receiving complaints from throughout the State from citizens who are being bilked by salesman, particularly in the field of aluminum application. The salesmen use many ranging from bonuses to appearing on television. Many complaints state that a home owner signs with the salesman for a $500 aluminum job and ends up with a binding contract for $2,500. John W. Rowberry, Administrator of the Department of Contractors, has a word of caution for the general public. Beware of the suede shoe sales man. Do not sign a contract until you see the figure of the total amount and insist on the salesman showing you a State gim-mi- is being made to Wa- des, Inc., Ogden, Utah, for the construction of Administration Water outlook is good says D. Naacke The outlook for next sumis excellent for most of southern Utah according to the Febniary 1st snow surveys made by the Soil Conservation Service. The stream flow prospects are high on the Virgin and Sevier Rivers and Coal Creek near Cedar City. The present snowpack is the highest it has been for this time of year since 1952. These streams ahe now expected to yield from 130 to 175 of the average flow. The February 1st forcast does not include the moisture and snow pack received during February which will make the forcast even higher. inflow to Lake The April-JulPowell on the Colorado river is expected to be 7,700,000 acre feet of water or about the average flow. Snow surveys made on January 31st by the SCS are; Duck Building and Comfort Stations, Wahweap Area, Glen Canyon N a t i o n al Recreation Area. Amount of the award is $161,-771.0- 0. mers water y CCRting f0 Fredonia Car- ol Barnson, outgoing president; Joseph J. Sannella, Fred Reese, Law'rence Reese, Duke Aiken, Mel Glazier Taylor Crosby and 62-4- Friday they won over Escalante in an easy victory The charging Buffaloes now record, and are raplace a notches. state ted 9th in On the 18th the Buffaloes will travel to Brjce Valley and hope to make their record 7- -0. In other lines at Valley, the yearbook did the impossible as they sponsored a very successful Bam Dance after the Escalante ball game Friday. The Old Time orchestra provided a different line of music as jubilant students tried a new way to do the stomp. Student council made plans Monday to bum the V. It was decided to bum it on the night of the Piute game, the final game of the season for Valley. We are favored to have an 8 0 record going Into the Round at later date for Die time we gac ou for the Ladies Literan League Luncheon this Saturday was not right. The time is at 1.30 p m. on Saturday, Feb. 19 in the Elementary School building. The main focus at Valley High now is basketball, as the Valley team continues its steady climb toward state championship. Wednesday night the Buffaloes took all stars out of eyes as they won Single Copy Commerce elect five Kanab Chamber School News again without council approval, lays the matter of paying both in the lap of Mr. Findlay. Lets go back to paragraph 9 which states Makes (the mayor) all appointments and dismissals of personnel, SUBJECT TO COUNCIL APPROVAL. From this it would appear that Mr. Findlay could not dismiss Norman Cram as City Marshal, without approval of the City Council, which he did not have. And, furthermore, as stated before in this same article, to go ahead and hire another Marshal and an attorney, while Kanab City was paying salaries to both City Attorney, Ken Chamberlain, and City Marshal, Norman Cram, should without doubt place no responsibility on the City of Kanab you, and you, and me, to pay this additional money, in the amount of a thousand dollars and more. Kanab City has regular budget set up for all salaries, expenses and outlay of monies, taken from residents in the form of taxes, water and sewer charges, license fees, etc., to run the city in a proper manner. If money is taken from any of these funds to pay these two unauthorized charges, we feel that the citizens of Kanab have reason for court action to recover these monies, and, removal from office of certain city official, or officials. Newspaper Responsibility 17, 1966 President Eldon N. Tanner Valley High odiTica CUM contractors license and num-er- . a home Anyone building should insist on a permormance bond to guarantee payment of materials and labor. The Department of Contractors was organized for the protection of the public and the Little Hoover Commission recognizes that this is being done. Mr. Rowberry asks that the public consider this advice and notify the department of anyone taking unfair advantage of you in the construction, remodeling and roof oiling fields. Construction consists of an administration building at Wahweap Basin of approximately 7,146 sq. ft. and two comfort stations at the Wahweap Campground. Administration Building will serve as Headquarters for the Glen Canyon National Recreaton Area, and will contain most of the Management and Administrative offices serving the area. A total of 270 calendar days will be allowed to complete this contract. Creek R. S. measured 47 inches of snow containing 13.0 inches of water compared to 10.0 inches of water content last year and the 9.0 inches of water average. Harris Flat R. S. measured 28.0 inches of snow with 6.2 inches of water compared to 6.2 last year and the average tq 5.7 inches of water content. Midway flat had 70 inches of snow, 19.9 inches of water and in 1965 it measured 13.1 inches of water with a long tme average of 12.5; Webster Flat showed 60 inches of snow, 16.7 water compared to 8.5 inches of water in 1965 and the average of 9.8 Even though we should receive below average precipitation between now and June 1st our water supply will still be e good according to Dwain Soil unit conservationist, Conservation Service. Ha-ack- Tortoise and Hare in Race Against the Heart Diseases ks TRANSISTORIZED TURTLE carries radio transmitter which tells medical scientists at University of Washington about blood flow changes. Rabbit, being used in research on causes of heart attack, heads for d pellets and eyes his traditional racing adversary. Projects are supported by Heart Fund dollars. The Heart Fund Campaign is conducted nationally throughout February. cholesterol-impregnate- |