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Show i The San Juan Record COUNTY. OF THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER SAN JUAN. UTAH Published Every Thursday at Monticello, Utah Entered at the Pusi Office at Monlicello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. BOIL J. BREWINGTON. Editor and Publisher MRS. CORNELIA PERKINS. News Writer. Phone 27112. Monticello MEMBER OF UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION ' ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS PAYABLE IN ADVANCE . Subscription Rates in San Juan and Adjoining Counties One Year Six Months $1.75 $3.00 Subscription Rates Elsewhere One Year Six Months $2.00 $3.50 PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY JUNK . . . As we sorted through the various dodgers that had been put in our box we started to burn a little and were getting ready to write an editorial about the subject when we received a Release that handled the situation for us and gave us a little more time to sort through the mail still stacked. The selected editorial appears below: Theres junk in the mailbox these days and the folks dont like it. It is the sort of handbill or dodger that bears neither their names and addresses and used to be delivered by the neighborhood boys who wanted to earn a little spending money. Thanks to a new regulation by the Post Office Department, Uncle Sara has now taken over another enterprise, lies making a pack mule and bill pedler out of the postal carriers. Advertisers who want to send circulars through the mail do not have to address them to anyone they simply put in the postoffice enough circulars to provide one for every patron on the route. handIs the patron to be flooded with these postage-pai- d bills with no way of stopping them? And must that long awaited letter from a son or cousin and that much needed check compete with pounds of handouts for space in the postmans pack? An individuals mail is a personal matter, and he should not be required to plow through a pile of junk in order to find his letters. Most people want Important mail delivered today and not A startling fact is that some postal officials actually mail will reduce the think a greater volume of third-clas- s loss in this class which occurs already from handling it at present low rates. Just how the figures work out in this respect is difficult to see, but the postal figuring system has been notoriously poor for years. The idea seems to be that since the postman is coming by your house anyway, he might just as well bring along whatever junk was left in the post office that day. One newspaper says, If that is the case, he might just as well deliver the milk too, and collect the garbage on the way back. The post office has no business competing with private of mailing lists and distribuenterprise. The maintenance is an established business tion of circulars house-to-houthat has provided occupations for many people. The postman, too, has taken his job seriously and has worked hard at it for a long time. Why should he be made a pack horse for hundreds of pounds of junk that the sender doesnt even consider important enough to write an address on? This same idea was tried in 1934. The Postmaster General figured that much additional revenue could be taken in door-to-do- or w. se from delivering large quantities of advertising propaganda not addressed,, In 1935 this order was rescinded with the explanation that revenue from mass mailings had not been sufficient to justify its continuation. The Post Office Department just hasnt learned anything from experience. Theres junk in the mailbox now . . . look and see. . Pait . JloakUuf Onto- - Taken from the May 31. 1934 the San Juan Record and reprinted lor the information and enjoyment ol. our many Record readers. issue o 4-MUNICIPAL WATER AND LIGHT Monticello is now contending with the proposition of whether or not it may have a PWA loan of $65,000, 30 percent of which is granted as a gift to the town, and the balance at 4 percent interest over a 30 year period. The Blue Mt. Irr. Co. which has furnished these necessities to the people has a considerable sum . . invested, and, apparently, and quite naturally, wants to sell for the higest price possible, if it sells. Aside from all the non essentials, certain matters stand out as important, viz: 1 Nearly every town and city in this state owns its own water system and the practice or rule is of long standing, or has become a fixed habit. 2 A. large number of municipalities own their own light plants. But this public ownership (light, heat, and power) is contested, and large corporations operate plants and render ser- - End the drudgery of hand ironing forever with the amazing Sronnle Twfl completely Do-i- Handy Into ivory AUTOMATIC IRONER -193- 4-PIPE BEING HAULED TO SPRING Leon Adams is hauling the pipe, it is said, from Pirce to Monticello, and will likely also have the job of delivering it along the trench line up by the Innes spring. Details of the contract are not known,, or who really has it. As it is spending public money such matters deserve publicity, because we all have to help pay back to Uncle Sam. 1934 Sunday afternoon Dixie Perkins did slight damage to her new car when going up the hill north of town. She got near the top of the hill and being too close to the high bank on the inside gouged the top of the car before she could stop the vehicle. 1934. weight worsted. Before buying, the customer should ask what the fabric is, what wear he or she can expect from it, and how to care for it, advises Mrs. Walton. The hang-ta- g will give this information on ready-to-weclothing. Simple precautions will help take the wonder out of the field of fabrics. manufacturer has not forgotten the good qualities of our natural fibers, cotton, wool and silk. He is blending the new with the old to capture the good qualities of both. Whether the fabric is good or bad depends upon the percentage of each fiber, how they are blended, and how the fabric is manufactured. Fibers are like bricks and can be used to make a good or a poor house. adverBecause of improper tising, the consumers who buys a suit made of a a blended fabric wants a perfect suit" one that never needs cleaning or pressing and that will wear forever. Apparently there is a condifference between siderable what a blended fabric can deliver and what some of the adclaims vertising and selling would have the consumer be- Sunday afternoon Miss Virginia Redd had the misfortune of falling off the running board of a car just as it was turning the comer by the Redd store and nearly stopped. She luckily escaped more than a few bruises and a swollen elbow. -1- 934Last Sunday Maxine Bailey and Josephine Bronson went for an extensive horseback ride up into the remote parts of the Blue Mountain forest where seldom man or beast ever venture. They claim they saw a large mountain lion and were obliged by safetys sake to take refuge up a tall pine tree from which hideout liever. they emerged an hour later The ready-to-wedepa r t -frightened, but safe. ments are full of new blends, NORTH OF TOWN which look much like the fabrics we have known for years. TEMPORARILY DELAYED Local engineer in charge, Claud Rayon and cotton are blendedcot-to look Nylon and Battey, advises that nine miles ton like linen. look like cotton, chambrey of graveling north of town which state expects to have done very orlon and silk looks like silk soon is delayed temporarily ow- shantung and a combination of ing to most of the help needed orlon and rayon looks like light being taken up on tthe present road construction. There are about 130 men at work, 115 from this county, on the main contract under the Wheelright Cons. Co. and the force account job, largely at the Verdure bridge, and these, with other important work, seems to be taking up much of the slack in unemployment, especially, it seems, in teams. ar QUARTERLY STAKE CONFERENCE THE SAN JUAN TSSGSO 2 Thursday. Feb. 18, 1854 Kirkham of the Council of Seventies and boy scout man of international repute, will be in attendance. There will be welfare meet- ing Saturday night at 6:39 tad priesthood leadership meeting at eight p.m Three sessions will be held cm Sunday, one at 10 a.m. another at 2 p.m. and a stake MIA at 8 pm. The Latter day saint quarterly stake conference will be held in Theres news in the advertise- Monticello Saturday and Sunday too- ments. A. Feb. 20 and 21. Elder Oscar SECURITY TITLE COMPANY MONTICELLO. ar TITLE INSURANCE ABSTRACTS ENGINEERING SERVICE 1934-ENGAG- ANNOUNCED M. A. Barton announces the engagement of his niece, Miss Fay Gardner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira S. Gardner of Jensen, Utah, to his nephew, Wesley F. Barton, Son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barton of Bianding, Utah. Their wedding will take place in the Mamtl temple some time during the mid summer. -1934-P- RESIDENT GRANT MARRIED FIFTY YEARS; GOLDEN WEDDING Last Saturday President Heber J. Grant celebrated the golden wedding, marking the 50 years since he and Augusta Winter were married. He has been president of the church since 1918 or about sixteen years. Mrs. Grant is the mother of one daughter. But since Che death of President Grants first wife she has been the mother to six children left by the death of his first wife, and has reared three children left by a sister who died in the prime of life, and these ten children she has seen all married at her home. President Grant became an in 1882, when 26 years old, hence he , is in his 78th ' year. 1934 going thru town, good cast iron pipe, and is taken on up to the Innes spring from which point it will lead over into Pole Canyon. Pipe is Pointers on New Wonder Fabrics Do you wonder about ) the Wonder Fibers? Some consumers of the new synthetic fiber clothing fabrics are questioning the claims that advertisers are making about their products, reports Telma G. Walton, home demonstration agent. The highly advertised qualities of these fibers include washability, quick drying, wrinkle resistance, dimensional stability, durability and no ironing. Disadvantages of the new fibers which usually are not mentioned are the factors of a low melting point, pilling and static electricity. The trend today is to blend the fibres to make fibers which display the desirable qualities of each component rather than using single types of fiber. The esabla open ndi tod, rum cast-iro- n Convenient knee controls tor ma wm are ssy operation Finished in vhlta nun-I- ; it tone in toe modern kkctonj laundry or utility rossi Now ... let the Ironrite Automatic Ironer end the last big chore in your home. Ironrite cuts the hard work of ironing to nothing at all . , . cuts your ironing time by Ironrite lets you iron anything you can wash . . . from flatwork to frills . . . beautifully . . . with nothing to finish by hand. 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Well trained organizations have considerable to say as well as to do. 3 Three factors enter the general subject: Service, Cost and Political; and other influences manifested by privately owned corporations. 4 Monticello pays high rates or 25c per KW for electric current for the first nine and 12c for the balance and a minimum of $2.60 per residence for water with such additional charges as $1.50 per month for a hydrant m the yard for livestock, etc. 5 Service is not very good now as to electricity but much better than it was before the recent improvements. But water is not satisfactory for at least part of the town, or the west side, and is not ample for reasonable fire protection in .the business district, 6 Under high rates and poor service the community has become "quite dissatisfied, and six months ago, and at earlier dates, was anxious to get better service and rates and more comparable with ithose paid by other towns in similar locations relative to water and power. 7 The Blue Mt. company's water and light for the town represents money borrowed over a period of years. Many secured the original capital by mortgaging their lands, and quite a large number of hese have lost their holdings.. Those who have held on, and a few have bought ithc lands others have lose, will sell out, but the price is th important subject and they want money assurance that tlvy will get it in a reasonable time. 8 What value it represents now is a question for engineers ito decide with possibly the advice of a judge. That it is not worth the sum it has cost, if all expenditures for material and labor are considered, is apparent Actual value of materials, plus the water, are likely the material assets. 9 The town has the legal right to own its own water and light plants, even if it has given a franchise to one or more others to operate similiar utilities because the law will not permit a municipality to transfer this right. Evidently lawmakers regard it as rather an important matter. 10 Earnings, above operating costs, for the present utilities in Monticello, as certified or filed, show that they're paying approximately $3,000 per year, or 6 percent on $50,000, or a little more or less. There is reason to believe that these earnings may be increased. 11 When the matter is examined from ail angles it appears evident the town is justified in seeking to own these utilities, or install new ones, and deserves the support of the people in trying to secure public money at low interest over a long period, and thus insure better service, and good reason to believe that rates will be lowered. 12 Private interests are secondary to public welfare, although in taking private property for public use, just compensation must be paid. Worthy sentiments are for years of private risk and investment, and losses, yet the rights are simple, and the duty is plain. vice Call your nearest Utoco distributor |
