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Show r SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 19C3 Utah , Utah County. I6A SUNDAY HERALD y tighter Side H ' - ' pruning Popular Spring Pastime in Washinpton By DICK WEST Wright penned these lines in a press, release that k seemed to me to capture the very : essence of springtime in Congress the essence but not the conglomeration. Metaphor Incomplete " What I mean ,is that his gardening . metaphor, while valid as far as it went, was incomplete. Budget pruning is by no means all that goes on at the Capitol during this season. For every lawgiver that you see up in the branches with a pair of pruning shears you will find another down on the ground pourr ing on the fertilizer. According to ' an old V rule : of United Press International ) WASHINGTON; (UPI) Rpp. Jim Wright, a lyrical Democrat of Texas, looked out the window the other day,, noticed a change in the weather and ,' began ; to rhapsodize thusly: .. ( ''With springtime blossoming out all jvover, home owners in every part pf the country are busy work ing on their lawns and shrubbery ijiowing, trimming, pruning. "Here in Washington! most 4 of us in Congress! are doing another kind of pruning We're trying to make intelligent -- cuts in the national budget.'! - greenthumb, intelligent fertilizer , ing. the latest census shows that spreading may produce even bet- more Congressmen try to cross-ter results at the grassroots than pollinate the budget rather than intelligent pruning. try to prune it. Many members of Congress are Taking a lesson from mother naboth pruners andfertilizer spread- ture, they have found that if they ers, frequently at the same time. carry la little pollen to someone One more word about , pruning. Buzzing loudly about It is important always to prune it, someone else will sprinkle a ' very carefully. Otherwise, you little pollen their way might. pare off the limb you are This is why so many of us tax' out; on. ; h 'Y y. : payers have hay fever. ' If that amount of Planjting is,, of course, also imhappens, no; fertilizer will save you. ' portant at this time of year. Almost $ very congressman is trying ' Another Pastime to plant something, even If it's Another popular springtime ac- only a foot on some bureaucrat's tback acreage. tivity in Congress is elses-flowe- , I ! ". o nn r cross-pollina- rp nn nn nzi nn zn.nu izzi izzi 1 ill WHERE ESCALANTE CROSSED THE COLORADO Aerial rview of Padre Creek and the Crossing of the Fathers looking south. Although knownjto Indians for centuries, this crossing was "discovered" by Father Escalante and his party on Nov. 7, 1776. They made , their way into Padre Creek Canyon by which they reached the Colorado River." A short distance downstream a diagonal crossing was made of the Colorado River. (Bureau of Reclamation Photo) . Crossing of the Fathers D . A seinisdu'ooinical vialue r r- - : Man has at last taken hold of waters of the mighty Glen Canat Colorado River the wild And at times and the yon. silt-lad- en -- r they did get through unchartered country, immeasurable hardships in what is now Utah turned them back towards Santa Fe. Rather than retrace their steps to return, they made a great circle, most of through what has since often beefr called the "most inhospitable area in the United violent river is how backing up behind Glen Canyon Dam, slowly rising to create Lake Powell and ending forever the fantastic canyon of glens through which the waters ran. One of the first places of historical interest that will become legend upon the creation of the lake is the Crossing of the Fathers. As the steps cut into the sandstone walls by the friars slowly sink from view, 'man will recall the difficulties the Franciscans, Francisco Atanasio and .Francisco Velez de Escalante, and their party had nearly two hundred years ago. The Escalante party had left Santa Fe, New Mexico, in July, 1776, with the hope of ' opening a road between New Mexico and the-wa- Though y , States."- -, - : ; If they saw anything of beauty in the desolate country of- - the Colorado River, they gave it little comment though the , topo graphical charts made by Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco of their- party' were themselves beautifuL It was the cold weather approaching and their scarcity of food that seemed to the friars more vital matters to consider than strangeness of beauty in a hostile land. Escalante and Dominguez and their party were the first whites to reach the Colorado River loIn and California where years later Lee's Ferry Monterey was established. Unable to cross more missions for cating jsites and for Spanish settlements to there, they turned their way up Dom-Ingu- - ez . ' stream On November 6. 1858, river miles above Lee's Ferry and fourteen miles above Glen Canyon Dam, where they found a way across the wild river. This crossing is the one thai has since been known as the Crossing of the Fathers. v On November 7, 1776, they were safely across it. The group rejoiced. And Escalante added in his diary, " I .''.' by praising God our Lord" and "firing off a few muskets as a sign of great joy which we felt at having overcome so great a difficulty;" The group then traveled on to Santa Fe, reachingthere by the New Year. After its discovery there was little activity at J&e Crossing of the Fathers. Then between 1821-4- 8 when theregion was under the controlof 'Mexico, it accorded a crossing fdr overland caravan trade between New Mexico and jCalifornia. But an easier route was soon discovered which crossed the Colorado River where Moab is today. thirty-nin- e D jf D ; tht fvatur. at Clock with min it turns on and off auto! matically. 1,000 difftrtnt hat tiont with tht finest switch money can buy. Removable oven liner a real wife aver." Largest capacity of any 30 range 8,109 cu. in. of baking capacity. A drawer , In the bottom. Leek dr Jacob Hamblin forded the Colbrado River aat the Crossjag of: the Fathers. It was eighty-tw- o years almost to the jJay after Dominguez and Escalante hadj crossed. Hamblin and his, companions were on missionary, work for the : . I Join; ilio CHtsab - follow. n 9'y U,y D Lake to Turn Historic River Grossing Into Legend By Kathryn D. Groesbeck inn nn ci bSTr' ,. ; r. D a " LDS Church among the D MSop Hop DELIVERY Monarch, the qualify range Indians. Nayajos often eras sejl the Colorado at the historic area to prey with Paiutes on the Mormon frontier. More than once Utah militia chased them back to the Crossing of the Fathers without catching them. The first peaceful Navajos to trade with Mormons forded at the Crossing of the Fathers in . for the years to at Granite. D EVERYWHERE come-n- ow D D Look what Granite's terms can get you D October, 1871. At present it is not Franciscan friars, Mormon missionaries, or Navajos that focus attention on the Crossing of the Fathers. It is the great reclamation project creating Lake P&wellj that will bring about the demise of the historic old crossing. p3 - Includes all f5 PIECES THAN A monthly ll80 SHOWN ; D - EVEN MORE monthly btuysO 2301 montfily 45 pieces 0 ,XS03S buyi 34M iacnfyjfccyrw D 46incrr:hybuy AsmUe fs your down psymcf Terms exefujivcy cf Grsmlta D a D ! 0 1 i t' I j? State Bank ''rj " of Provo ' ' j i ,J . ' ' . PRESENTS I MM BLANKENSHIP i : i , ! - h J J D I t 'fcih jjl iVY D YONEMOR D. Mcdonald HARRIS PAINTINGS i BYU SCULPTURE MOSAICS j ! 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