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Show Tuesday April 23, 1W6 THE DAILY HERALD, Prmo, l lah Page Notfth.UfaCi landmarfi English initiative sad for diversity, Navajos say is man's monueneBit PLEASANT VIEW (AP) Aren't you just dying to know what's up there? You know. Rocky Point. That place on the east side of U.S. 89 about six miles north of Ogden. Oh for heaven's sake, look up. That's it the round, building that used to house the Rocky Point Haunted House. "Most people know where it is. but they don't know what it is." owner Scott Crabtree said. It's not a haunted house like it was 10 years ago, or a restaurant pieces from salvage yards and surplus stores. There's a ballroom with an Egyptian theme. Reception and private party rooms include one with a rustic theme reflecting Crabtree's upbringing on a southern Idaho farm, an American Indian theme ith soft hues of tan and and the reds, an Oriental room Utah Room is covered with the reddish hues of cedar and copper. That's where folks will find his Joshua Tree, a home-gron piece made of parts of auto exhaust pipes, a catalytic converter, a fire like it was 33 years ago. extinguisher and a But it's still the same old thing. Crabtree has been working on Crabtree's dream. the project steadily now for 17 Crabtree. who turns 71 in July, years, and he doesn't know when started building the place back in he'll ever be finished. 1962. Three years later, he opened "That's a question I really a popular restaurant that attracted don't try to answer," he said. local celebrities and even the govHe probably could work with ernor. paint or clay, but Crabtree prefers Three years after that, a fire junk. Smith and Edwards is a burned the roof and inside. familiar haunt. It stood vacant for II Some of what Crabtree brings years, touched only by the unforgiving home has draw n the ire of neighfingertips of vandals and weather. bors, who complained to the state Then in 1979, Crabtree sold Department of Environmental out of his Riverdale auto wreckQuality. ing business and went back to That agency cited him for Rocky Point. bringing in truckloads of fill dirt Crabtree's youngest son and littered with old tires, furniture daughter opened a haunted house and other discarded stuff. there shortly after. Three years The state Solid and Hazardous ago. they moved their hauniings Waste Board fined him $200 last to locutions in Ogden and Salt week. Lake City. He has a year to clean up the But Crabtree has stayed on. dirt piles, or he'll have to pay creating his unique artwork and another SI. 000. furniture inside. Crabtree's children have not A huge sign he repainted earlithought his preoccupation always er this month stands at the bottom was a good thing. of the steep gravel road leading "There has definitely been a up to the place. It in ites folks to lot of years of frustration. But take a tour. once we all realized there's no If they do. it says, this is what reining him in. we let it go." Neil they'll see: said. "It's been easier. He's happy "The worlJ's largest building up there doing his artwork, and in the world constructed primarily doing his own thing." by one man. Crabtree lives in a "Over 50 original on the second pieces of sculpture and furniture. floor ofapartment the building. "A thousand and one pieces of His hardwood living room decor made from historical and is the dance floor from floor cast-of- f items reflecting the herOgden's old White City Ballitage of the past. "Over two miles of rock room, and his fireplace is the old gas stove that used to keep White walls." warm. City "I broke all the rocks myself." the arch embedded in the wall Crabtree said, pointing to the at one end of the room once building's jagged exterior. framed the entrance of the old How'? Weber High School. And the "With a hammer." And plenty of his family's sheets of metal that cover his kitchen cupboard dwrs are from sweat. Crabtree's six children helped leftover heat shield material for build the place, said Cydney Neil, spaceships, he said. Crabtree's work at Rocky Point his child. "From the time I was 4 years w ill continue even after he remarold. I can remember putting those ries later this month and moves to rocks in there." said Neil. 37. Ogden. Neil said. "He's one of those creative, The place is now divided into several rooms, each decorated eccentric types. He's alway s been with Crabtree's special brand of that way." Neil said. "It's taken a sculpture and each devoted to while for people to just let him be and see the value in that rather some kind of theme. The entry way downstairs has than change it." Crabtree gives tours of Rocky old railroad spikes for curtain 0 to set up an and a huge steam engine Point. Call wall hanging fashioned of various appointment. rock-cover- ed w weed-whacke- r. MONUMENT VALLEY (AP) The Congressional measure to impose English as the nation's official language is a sad turn of events for the surviving members of the elite team of Navajo Code Talkers. The Code Talkers were Marines who relayed messages in their then-unritten language across the Pacific during World War II, confounding the Japanese and giving U.S. forces a critical adv antage. But now that language credited with helping the United States win the war and secure freedom could be forbidden to be taught in schools, speakers noted at a weekend conference here. "These are men who made it possible for us all to say today. 'I pledge allegiance to Hag of the United States of America and the Republic tor which it stands.' " said Navajo Nation council delegate James Bilagody. the keynote speaker at the Southeastern Utah w Bilingual Conference. "Our language is our life." Bilagody said as he crumpled the copy of Congress' proposed national lansuace bill and threw it on the stage, to the cheers of a predominantly Navajo crowd at Monument Valley High School. "No matter what Congress does, I urge you all to talk. walk, sing and sleep in Navajo." "Our language is our life. No matter what Congress does, I urge you all to talk, walk, sing and sleep in Navajo." James Bilagody, Nation council Navajo delegate The Navajo Nation's leader- ship has passed a resolution urging Congress to vote against the measure. English-onl- y Former Code Talker Thomas Begay. 68. of Window Rock. Ariz., told several hundred students at the conference that in order to be a Code Talker, one had to know the language well. "You should retain whatever language ym have." Begay said. "We may not understand one another, but we can alwavs I. (MX) educators, students and school administrators from throughout the Southwest. While decrying the current English-onlcrusade, several American-Indiaeducators say on reservaeducation bilingual tions has improved dramatically y n in the last few decades. In 1950. Will Numkena was sent from his Hopi Indian village to attend a Bureau of Indian Affairs boarding school. Knowing no English, he began talking !i HIU Bill n I I 7 to a classmate in Hopi. "The teacher took me into the janitor's closet, broke one of those big bars of lye soap into pieces, put one of the chunks in my mouth and made me drink a glass of w ater." said Numkena. director of tlie Utah Div ision of Indian Affairs. "AH because I spoke Hopi. What dtes a boy know of government policy that would not allow him to speak his own language?" Sponsors of the English-onlbills now pending in Congress say they want to keep America "one nation, one people" by discouraging uses of other languages. 'Net Numkena notes that modern English is sprinkled with words from native and foreign tongues. "Chocolate, tamale. jaguar, aiocado. all these words people use every day come from Indian tribe languages." said Numkena Chesa"Place names alone Utah. Mississippi peake. Seattle. all taken from Indians Every people have brought things to this y land we all live in " Mil il ill one-bedroo- m hand-crafte- d I exchange ideas and that's very important for our future." Sponsored by the San Juan School District and the College of Eastern Utah at Blanding. the conference attracted an estimated 111? r" second-younge- tie-bac- ks 782-380- Owners reject Forest Sorvico offers Ow ners of land ALTA ( AP) in the Albion Basin are refusing to sell their land to the National Forest Serv ice. and that has the tow n of Alta worried. Aha wants to protect the watershed from development and was agreecounting on a federal-statment to buy private property in the e Albion Basin, up the road from Alta in Little Cottonwood Canyon. But the U.S. Forest Service so far has only four takers for its offer to buy lanil from 53 Albion Basin landowners. The forest service made the ofler through an agreement with the federal Utah Reclamation Mitigation and Conservation Commission. ' The tax evaluation on the lots was right around $20,000, and that's fairly close to w hat's being offered." said Doug Muir. lands manager for the Wasatch-Cach- e National Forest. "Some feel they can get more. We thHight it was a pretty fair offer based on past appraisals.' A total of $1.4 million from the Central Utah Project has been set aside to buy Albion Basin land for preservation. Much of it likely would become Forest Service land. But the slow movement of real estate there has led the commission, which manages the project funds, to propose spending only $2(XUXX) on purchases in the three Albion Basin subdiv isions over the next five years. The other $1.2 million is to be redirected into other more urgent projects. The Alta Town Council, intent on preserv ing the w alershed. fears reshuffling the funds would push the Albion Basin to the bottom of the commission's priority list and could open the door for "' II I 5.95 J 1 I 1 m I 1 mmt mmm APR AND NO CLOSING COSTS. (FIXED INTRODUCTORY RATE GOOD FOR SIX MONTHS APPLY DY PHONE THROUGH LEND LINE. OR STOP BY YOUR LOCAL BRANCH "Gem Talk' HARD AS A ROCK GET YOUR ANSWER IN LESS THAN (FAST AND WUMhr hen one considers that talc, such as is used on tender baby bottoms, is in fact a rock. Hardness among rocks ranges from talc to the diamond, hardest mineral of all. Between fall all other minerals, rated on a scale of one to ten. 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