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Show l T. cjTr PT15) t I Monticello, San Juan County, Utah Volume 43 BURIED CAR? Nope, it just looks that way. Wheels of Model A have been removed, snowdrift gives illusion of covering car to roof. Organized Jeep Posse B For Emergency Rescue Work Posse for San Juan County is being organized. Paul Strong was appointed by county commissioners acting president and Fern Frost secreA sheriffs Jeep tary last Tuesday. The jeep club will be used to assist the sheriff in finding lost persons and other work that requires traveling over rough country. Several members of the club, possibly 30 Strong said, would be sheriff by deputies appointed Seth Wright and equipped with two-wa- y radios for emergency use. The radios, to be purchased Salt on Icy Walks Plays Hob with Shrubs UP WE To Mr. and Mrs. Keith Shum-waMonticello, a girl bom Jan. y, Skiers turned out en masse last weekend to use the Blue Mountain house Sunday as ski tow and slopes. It was the weekend after last weeks first crowds lined up to big snow that left at least two feet of hard snow on the slopes. use the Pomalift. skiers travSeveral The slope saw its eled to Monticello to use the facilities here. Said one: Montibiggest day after a cello has got the best ski course Hot Wire Kills Oklahoma Lineman Billy Jack Claypool, 29, was while working on a out-of-to- rs in Montezuma Creek Tuesday afternoon. He apparently made contact with a live wire and a piece of pipe, and died instantly. Mr. Claypool was from Oklahoma, and had been working in this country about three weeks. five-da- at storm y left least two feet of hard, dry snow on the runs. Gas War Drops Pump Price Kill Five Sheep On To 33c! Gallon Dogs Mothers March Monticello While the snow came down Outskirts of Monticello last week the price of Vicious dogs killed five sheep city ordinance requires dogs to gasoline also tumbled. be penned or leashed at night. in a feed lot behind Blue Polio that Sparked by reports Against ain Packing house sometime Sun Public protests three months ago station was allowing a cash in sparingly on walks and driveways, cautions Rell county agent. Salt applied to streets, walks and driveways to keep them free of ice may cause injury to trees, shrubs and flowers on either side, Use salt Ar-gyl- e, he said. In surveys made injured trees looked normal in the spring except for a type of dieback. By e salt damaged trees began to show' yellow' around the margin of the leaves and would later turn brow n. moved toThe discoloration ward the center of the leaf. Then leaves curled and dropped from the trees. Checks were made on trees in the greenhouse with similar results show ing the damage to be from salt. mid-Jun- Mother of the Year Search Now Underway one dis- from the advertised price, day night or early Monday Mornstations quickly put up signs by ing, police chief Art Adair said the pumps telling of new prices. Monday. Any dogs seen around the feed The annual Mothers March the discount staWednesday on polio for the March of Dimes tions w'ere selling for 33.9C for pens would be shot on sight, he case of campaign in Monticello will take regular and 36.9 V2 a gallon for said. This is the second withalmost sheep attacking dogs place the evening of Jan. 28. ethyl. in the city limits in the last week, Montm. 10 At a. that day, Thursday, Normally, price of gas in the polio organization w ill spon- icello is about 39d for regular and he added.reminded citizens that a Adair sor a coffee at the city office un- 42C for ethyl. til 5 p. m. to help raise funds for 58 File Unemployment the drive. Cookies and punch wdll January 28 be served. The High school band will be on hand at 10 a. m. to start the day-lon- g March of Dimes with a few rousing tunes. Local cafes will donate their coffee money during the day to the drive, said Mrs. Lynn Adams, local chairman. Home-owneare asked to keep their porch lights on in the evening to guide women taking part in the Mothers March. rs American Mothers Committee, Inc., is now7 conducting a campaign to find the American 1960 Mother of the Year. Each state is allowed to present one candidate. The Utah American Mothers Committee, Inc., is carrying the work forward in Utah. In the search, the state is divided into 12 districts and one nominee may be submitted to the state committee from each district. Any individual, club, church or organization may submit the name of a mother. Judges will select district winners, upon whom the governor usually confers the citation of the American Mothers Committee, Inc. After the Utah winner is named, a national board of judges picks the national Mother of the Year from the state casdidates. Mount- - count Compensation i t lli 'Finn 3 Possibility GAS WAR Price of gas in Monticello had dropped to 33.9 Want a chess club in Montifor regular by Monday as filling cello? erected make-shi- ft stations signs chess-playStellar Rudy Kopf (of strict local fame), hereby ex- telling their latest gas price. Gas tends an invitation to fellow play- normally is 39 and 42 at most adstations. ers, either beginners or vanced, to gather at his house at No. 9, AEC housing, next Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. If enough interest is shown, a local chess club will be set up. Bring your own chess set. er THE YEATHER Road crews in Monument Valley are closing the washboard and when those last 60 gap miles of road are at last paved, great things are seen for Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorados tourist industry. The prediction comes from Deseditor Eugene L. Controtto, who recently toured ert Magazine the Four Comers area. The Monument Valley road will offer the seven million people in Southern California a direct route to your areas, said Controtto. Monument The fascinating Valley country a dream for many outdoor devotees who are nonetheless reluctant to travel too many miles over unpaved roads with the fachrome-weighte- d g milys new car will see a steady stream of traffic after that last mile is paved. The 270 miles from Flagstaff exto Monticello are all hard-to- p cept for about 60 miles from Kayenta to a point north of Tuba City where road crews are at contract. work on a But, the pavement will bring o more than tourist dollars, warned. It is an axiom in vaca-tionla- low-slun- 23-mi- le Utah highway commissioners refused to commit the state to a g program m the Aneth area to connect with the proposed Four Corners Road at a Blanding meeting Tuesday night. road-buildin- families. City manager Homer Chandler said that furnished apartments were scare as hens teeth and other housing almost as difficult to find. All mill houses that have room window to snap a picture been vacated by mill hands have been rented, he said. of the natives. Trailer parks are filling up But, said Conrotto, I dont conrapidly as trailers become practgo along with the servationists who bemoan the pa- ically the only housing available ving of the Monument Valley in Monticello. road, preferring to see this last froritier remain its pristine state. I suppose most of these folks live on to a paved street. Few of them, it seems, realize the great benefit pavement will bring to the Navajo residents of this area, Conrotto feels that Southeastern Utah and Southwestern Colorado communities should make concentrated efforts to publicize their facilities and traveler coned If r in the four corners area, and when its completed (referring to the run that is only long down-hi- ll a quarter cleared of trees) will be one of the best in Utah. recreation committee County officials continued to try to set up a bus schedule to run from Blanding to the ski course. An instructor wras scheduled to appear last weekend, but didnt make it. Faul Hunsaker, county recreation director, this week released a tentative schedule of classes and busses. The bus will leave Blanding at 9 a. m. Saturday and 11:30 a. m. Sunday from Don Smiths shop, Hunsaker said. It will leave Monticello at 10 a. m. Saturday and 12:30 p. m. Sunday from the High school. The bus will leave the ski area at 4:30 p. m. Sunday. Skiers should bring their own lunch. There is candy and soda pop available at the shelter house. An instructor, Mike OMelia of Price, has been hired by the county rec committee (at $20 a day plus expenses) and will teach the following class schedule (if he gets to Monticello last week his car broke down and he didnt ar- rive.) Saturday 1 a. m.: Indivd-u2 noon: youth instruction; beginners; 12-- 1 p. m.: youth beginners with some experience; 2 p. m.: lunch; 3 p. m.: adult beginners; 4 p. m.: adult beginners with some experience. On Sunday 10 a. m.-1- 2 noon; individual instruction; 2 p. m.: 3 p. m.: adult youth beginners; 4 beginners; p. m.: individual Also talked about was a Utah instruction. road south from the San Juan River bridge to the Arizona line. If it was built, there would be a three-mil- e stretch of unpaved road before it connected with ADMITTED Navajo Rt. 1. Jan. 12 Fallon, At the meeting New Mexico Blanding; James Dorothy Hurst, Blanding; agreed to build a portion of the Darrell Davis, Blanding. four corners road that runs Jan. 13 Laura Pehrson, through their state, and Arizona Monticello; Caraway, Stephen okayed building a seven-mil- e Montezuma Creek. corconnect to four the pavement Bessie Tree, BlandJan. 14 ners route with Navajo Rt. 1. ing; Corrine Shumway, Monticello. Jan. 16 Irene Johnson, BlandC of C Sponsors ing; Asa Laws, Blanding. Monument Valley Trip ing.Jan. 17 Gerald Noki, BlandChamber of Commerce, meeting Lorraine Hanson, Jan. 18 Tuesday noons at the Avalon Blanding; MeElewain, Bruce Cafe, voted to erect Welcome Mexican Hat; Darrell Young, signs at the three entrances to Monticello; Valera Davis, Bluff. . Monticello, DISCHARGED Signs will be natural wood, at Sheran Iverson, NaJan. 12 6 least feet big. dine Adams, Helen. Rutherford, Monticellos Chamber also is Gerald Ketchum, Trudy Hawkins, ' planning a jeep trip to the Monu- Lisa Cooper. Jan. 13 ment Valley area on Jan. 30 and Dorothy Fallon, 31. Anyone is welcome to join. James Hurst, Everett Grabeel. Jan. 15 One group will leave early SatShirley Ramsey, urday morning, another Sunday Stephen Caraway. Ben .teck Brown. Jan. 17 Hess, Chamber morning. Jan. 18 Corrine Shumway. president, will lead the group. Four-Corne- More Seismo Crews Come To Monticello Great Tourist Potential Here Says Editor of Desert Magazine Utah Asked To Build Aneth Roads Representatives of the highway commissions of Colorado, Arizona, New' Mexico and the Navajo tribe about 50 persons discusagainst stray dogs tipping over sed roads in the Aneth area. numgarbage cans resulted in a director C. Taylor Utahs ber of dogs being impounded. Af- Burton highway said the commission would been have ter strays impounded discuss further the proposals for five days they are shot. Adair for Utah a February at building said Ten or twelve dogs had meeting. been shot recently after they went unclaimed. route woulThe Of the five sheep killed over dnt connect with the highway the weekend three had been slash- south of Blanding. The McElmo ed and tom and bled to death. road, favored by Cortez, is now Two others had been suffocated out because Colorado has spent when the sheep panicked and $2 million for right-of-wa- y for bunched into a comer of the pen. the four corners road. About 100 unemployed persons, mostly mill workers laid off when the mill closed Jan. 15, attended a meeting with representatives of the Moab state employment office last Monday. Fifty-eigclaims for uner were compensation ployment filed, according to Bud Lincoln, office manager. A Continental Oil seismograph Lincoln said most of the men is the latest addition to crew maximum would be eligible for Monticellos growing population. week. payments of $39 a Ten families are scheduled to move in Feb. 1, for about five months. HOWARD ROGERS NAMED COUNTY FAIR CHAIRMAN Another unidentified crew was Howard Rogers, manager of the reported to be seeking housing Navaho Trail motel, has been ap- and office space Wednesday pointed by county commissioners morning. Halliburton officials have conas chairman of the 1960 San Juan tacted the city office for warecounty fair. house space and housing for three ht Chess Club A Claims Number 51 Skiers Take to the Slopes; Classes Planned for Weekend lift played to a full . jeep-owne- GO Blue Mountains ski by the county for $37.50 each, electrocuted would operate on the police band power line during emergencies. A first meeting has been called for Thursday, Jan. 28, at 7 p. m. at the courthouse. Strong said all in the county would be welcome, and urged their attendance. Club members will be instructed in first aid, all rescue work and life saving. Sheriff Wright is soon to go to Salt Lake City to talk with other sheriffs who have organized jeep posses, to get further information about formation of clubs. Friday, Jan 22, 1960 10 per copy 10-1- al 11-1- 1-- rs 2-- 3-- 2-- 3-- Hospital Notes It v I i k i! N, J veniences. Monument Valley needs no said Conrotto, but publicity, the great country beyond is pretty much a hazy notion to many Southern California folks. They know that somewhere up there is the Needles Country, the magnificent ruins of Mesa Verde, the great wilderness of the Upper Colorado River but what most of them dont know is that they can get a motor overhaul in Durango or a comfortable modern motel room in Monticello or that the farther at Moab they probably can make beaten path arrangements for a guided trip Con-rott- the Southwest that you get from the the less likely you are to come into contact with mans more unside. The road will desirable WIN OVER MANCOS Monticello High Buckaroos trompled Man-co- s in the landscape desecra-tor- s, bring 2 last weekend to give 1 win record for the season. Leapthe uncouth the litter-bug- s, ing for rebounds are (left) Dave Adams, No. 10, and Gary Wilson, tourist who likely as not will No. 40. poke his camera into a living- 56-3- 9-- into the Desert Magazine is published irv j monthly in Palm Desert, Calif. Hear a representative of the state department of fish and game give instruction LISTENERS It has carried many stories of on hunting safety at a meeting at the courthouse last Wednesday. Two more classes will be held. Then in and the Four people places applying for a Utah Corners region during its 23 those who have completed the course will be qualified to instruct license. of bunting publication. years back-countr- y. - |