Show WHAT'S GOING ON ONBy At td t ad By Dy Sam un Taylor The Melon Days celebration In last week weekend teemed seemed to be pretty well attended at tend tended by Moab resident resident- a ai aper per pet usuaL The Emery Finery count county folk reaDy really go KO all out for lor thus Uil WI annual aMual celebration each year feu and It I is I. usually wen well worth worth- while Then too teo those e Green river melons are awfully hard bard to beat and there never seems to be a shortage hortage of them during dur duro during In ing the festivities We notice that Moab had plenty of c eon eon- te tants who placed among the winners wInner In the rodeo and boat races raees The La Le Sal mountains are al always always at- at ways nice to visit all the year yeat around but for my money the best jest season of the year Is 1 the theall fell fall season when the aspen and oak begin to color The mountains mountains moun moun- are Just about In their thelt best color right n now w and will be for tor fora tora a few more weeks For color photography photography pho- pho enthusiasts no betterfield better betterfield field of action could be chosen Roads in the mountains are in generally good shape though quite juite dusty in spots due to a very dry Iry year and a little construction The dustiest spot as far as we could see was the upper end of Castle Valley where the entire road oad Is being rebuilt When completed com corn it will greatly Improve the roughest portion of the La Sal Sat mountain scenic loop and make maket It t a little more attractive to the tourists who dislike getting their shiny cars roughed up abit San Juan county and the rest of ot the area ares adjacent to the Four Corners Cornea really reaDy seems seem to tobe tobe tobe be coming Into Its own In oil development With the announcements an an- by several everal of the major oil companies In lit the area of ot wells well that show Indications of ot being belne commercial producers many are predicting a real boom for tor Monticello Standing Blanding and Bluff Blutt In Utah along with Cortez Cortex Farmington ShIProck and Aztec In Colorado and New Mexico Coming In on the heels of the recently settled I down uranium boom residents I of ot the area area are taking deep breaths bl t before round two To wj us this seems eem to be one tone more proof of the p potentialities of ot the area rea we have been talkIng talk talk- Ing ab about ut for tor a Ion long time We are a little afraid that s Senator Sentor Sen- Sen n- n ator tor Wallace F. F Bennett Is going to o lose a a. few from his audience on Friday night as the time is con con- conflicting with the Moab Moab-Blanding football game Last weeks week's game between Moab and Spanish Fork showed the home folks Just what the Devils were capable of doing and this weeks week weeks week's crowd will probably probably probably pro pro- bably be much larger than the near capacity crowd of last Friday The Moab boys bars will be playing this week without the services of Rusty Donoghue star quarterback who was sidelined this week because be cause of a leg Injury and also minus the talents of lineman Tom Ryan who was injured over the week-end week in an an auto accident but home folks still expect the Grand high squad to give Blanding Standing a rough go for their money It looks as if Jim Burr will wilt probably be filling in at the quarterback spot until Rusty is back in shape The coaching staff also states that they are very pleased with the way waya a number of the reserves are shapIng shaping shaping shap shap- ing up and they will probably see quite a bit more action Moab isto is isto isto to be complemented for tor the no nor noticeable noticeable lack of Injuries during last weeks week's game but the practice InJuries injuries in juries have kept quite a number of boys sidelined this season son The archery deer hunt this year proved to a lot of dubious people who tried It for tor the first time that It Is I. really a sport The way the sport spat has bas spread the past few tew years Is I. Just an Indication as a. we see It of what It will be in a few tew years Hunters Hunt Hunt- Hunters ers er who bag their bucks with the bows bow and arrows say that using a rUle rifle seems like We have an Idea that In a afew afew few tew hund hundred years steel arrowheads arrowheads arrow arrow- heads head are going to be as a numerous numerous numer numer- ous oua around these hills as a were those made of ot flint runt a few tew years year go ago The boom must really be over I overheard a man say today that It it was almost impossible to find finda a first class promoter around In any of the groups that congregate here lere and end there in La town He said that it k was even hard to find a promoter promoter pro pro- moter of the second class around We have an Idea that they are here but keeping under cover Our friend said that of ot course it was Just a rumor but he be had bed heard icard that the third class promoters promo- promo promoters ers In town wore were w re planning a Ii last last- ditch stand against elimination We now wonder Just how much a aman aman aman man would have to promote to toland toland toland land in one of these categories |