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Show VOLUME NO. 39 THURSDAY, FEB. 17, 1955 MONTICELLO. UTAH DEVOTED TO THE GROWTH AND DE VELOPMENT OF SAN JUAN COUNTY PRICE 25 CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 3 City Council Calls Public Hearing For Area Rezoning Increase In Commercial Zone Recommended A public hearing is being call- Wood Department Store New Agent For Pfaff ed by the City Council of Mon-- ti cello FJannning Com mission; ior the enlargement of the existThe Wood Deartment Store ing commercial zone ns outlined is the new agent for the Pfaff in the City Zoning .Ordinances Sewing Machines and for Eurof Monticella eka Vacuum Cleaners. Mr. Dean The hearing has been called O. Hill, who formerly had the Drive Underway - . . for Thursday, March 3rd at 8 p. agencies, will be with the depm. in the San Juan County court artment store for some time behouse. The recommendation of the Planning Commission is quoted as follows; To the Monticello City Coun- cil Monticello, Utah Gentlemen; At the regular meeting of the Monticello Planning Commission held February 10, 1955, the following recommendations were made; 1. Lot 2, Block J shall not be included alone into the commercial area. - The com-- : mercial area shall be extended to include the following: Lot 2, Block J, South to 1st South to 1st West. Lot 4, Block I South to 1st South to 1st East. One full block East each side of Second North. Very truly yours, H. A Johnson, chairman Monticello Planning Commission According to the ordinance of the City of Monticello, the meeting is required to allow anyone in disagreement with the recommendations of the Planning Comission a chance to state their complaint and either approve or disapprove the zonmg change. All interested members of the City of Monticello are requested to attend the meeting so that existing recommendations can be explained. 2- Blanding Ward Holds Award Night Program Awards were given to thirty-fiv- e boys of Aaronic Priesthood age at the Blanding Ward Sacrament meeting, Sunday evening. They were present by Bishop Grant L. Bayless. Pins were also presented! by Bishop Bayles on behalf of the Presiding Bishopric to the following fifteen boys who have earned awards every year for the last four years: Arvid K. Black, L. Tracy Redd, Otis J. Wright, A. Bruce Bruce Shumway, Black, LaMar Helquist, Stephen Perkins, Glen A. Jones, Paul Gordon May, Ray Lisonbee, Merton DeWayne Sheppard, Shumway, Willard Wright, John Black, and Peter Redd: Bishop L. Frank Redd and an assistant, Francis Barton, from the Aaronic Priesthood Committee of the San Juan Stake were in attendance and spoke words of congratulation and encouragement to the boyis land their officers. Bishop Redd presented a plaque to the ward of their officers for having 67 boys earn awards. The five songs and talks were given by the Priesthood boys. The music was under the direction of Wilbur Rowley, accompanied by his daughter, Kathleen, and Deacon, Lloyd Bayles. Mr. fore leaving Monticello, Wood said. Very soon Mr. Wood plans to attend schools in Salt Lake City on the adjustment and repairmg of these machines, so that purchasers will be assured of efficient and expert service when needed m the future. The guarantees on all machines sold by Mr. Hill will be covered by Woods Department Store, and customers needing service will be given prompt and courteous attention, said Gordon Wood. We will be happy to demonstrate the use of the convenient swivel top Eureka Cleaners, or the Pfaff Sewing Machine whenever our customers have time to watch. The performance of these sewing machines is truly amazing, the Exclusive dial a stitch enables one to make button holes, sew on buttons, and embroider with more than 100 fancy stitches- - all without the use of attachments pointed out Mr. Wood. Blanding L.D.S. Team Wins Coveted Trophy After playing a series of 4 games in the division tournament held at Payson last week, the Blanding Ward Junior M Men returned home Sunday bringing the largest and prettiest trophy awarded in the whole tournament, the good sportsmanship trophy. In the first game played Wednesday, the Blanding team lost to a Springville squad which was second place winner of the division. This loss put them in line for consolation champions, and by winning over Castledale and Delta, the next two nights, they still held this place until the final whistle Saturday night declared them one point behind Nephi Second Ward. The boys are prouder of the honor given them for the best sportsmanship than they would have been of another basket in the final game. Curtis Hunt was chosen a member of the all tournament team. The Blanding team included Curtis Hunt, Willard Wright, LaMar Helquist, George ' Perkins, Tracy Redd, Glen Jones, Gordon May, Otis Wright, Boyd Helquist, and Paul Lisonbee, with Tex Bradford and Alan Harris as coaches. They earned the privilege of playing in this divisional tournament by being the best Junior team in the San Juan Stake. During their spare time between games, the boys toured the B. Y. U. campus, the Temple grounds, and the State Capitol building. A contract for architectural work for the proposed Blanding school has been signed by the members of the San Juan County school board. Lewis Eric Sandstrom, architect of Provo, Utah, has been awarded the contract. The proposed new elemetary school building, reported to be an addition ol 12 rooms at a cost of approximately a quarter of a million dollars, is set for construction as soon as architectural plans have been approved by the School Board, the contract let, and a building site decided upon. According to information received by this office, several building sites have been considered for the new construction but final approval is still pend- Wednesday night was one of Monticello will long remember. First came the banquet and then the Court of Honor in the LDS Recreation Hall. Invited were the parents, the scouts, their partners, scout lead ers and officials. Two hundred guests saf at the long tables decorated with miniature scout replicas against a background of white paper fans and tiny American flags. The court of honor and program followed the meal. Acting as master of ceremonies was Keith Jewkes. The colors were presented by Wayne Thompson, Whitney Young and Jerry Norton. Whitney Thompson, Stanley Barton, and Wayne Young then gave the Scout Candlelight Ceremony. The following scouters were introduced by Mr. Jewkes: Alvin G audio, District Scout Field Executive; Hugh Edwards, Camping Outdoor Leader; Oras Rudd Secretary of Scout Committee, Julian Thomas, District Scout Commissioner; Lloyd Barton, Scout Master; Wesley Norton, Assistant Scout Master; Ormas Hawkins, Scout Leader for the 11 year olds; Bob Sparks, Junior Patrol Leader and patrolman Jewkes, guest speaker of the evening. Hugh Edwards was presented Monticello Lions, Wives Guests Of Moab Club , ing. Record Receives 1st Place Award In Contest The San Juan Record received first place award for Class B MISS AQUALANTE" Undo lee Wiggins poses with an oversized Aqualante badge. Citizens of this state will be asked to become Aqualantes (water vigilantes) to support the Colorado River Storage Proiect. Citizens can become, Aqualantes by subscribing $1 or more to the fight for the West's water. Supporters of the program will be given Aqualante badges. Colorado River Drive Nearing Final Stage Mountain Westerners have only a few days left to pick up their option on the future. Colorado River Week ends on Saturday. Thousands of citizens have grass roots movements of recent times, Hugh Colton said Thursthe day. Weve pioneer spirit of our forefathers. Were going to get our long delayed fair share of basin water and your neighbor wearing the six pointed Aqualante badge is partly responsible, he said. Civic leaders in every city and county in Colorado, New Utah and Wyoming Mexico, have pitched in to help boost the vital river storage project now before Congress. Citizens who havent joined the Aqualante program are urged to do so at once. In case some residents do not know how to join the Aqualantes, the enlistment office is as close as your nearest mail box, Mr. Colton said. Letters and donations should be sent to your state headquarters; Colorado-21- 2 State Office Bldg., Denver; New Mexico- - Box 1301, Albuquerque, Utah- Aqualantes, Salt Lake City; and Wyoming- - 210 State Capitol Bldg, Cheyenne. The special week was inaugurated by the Upper Colorado River Grass Roots, Inc., a group of citizens working to secure passage of the nver storage project. Mr. Colton is acting as chairman. Each Vigilante is carrying forward the fight to combat false information being spread nationally against the project. Primarily each aqualante is doing this writing friends in other states and telling them the true facts in the case. Each aqualante also is helping to alert his neighbor to the propaganda pressure beagainst Congressing exerted men by opponents of the project And each aqualante has subscribed $1 or more toward financing the fight to pass the cru. cial river bill. newspapers in the editorial division of the Utah State Press Association weekly newspaper contest held recently in Salt Lake City. The Record was also listed among the top six newspapers of the state in the Class B division for general excellence in the state contest. The coveted Harrison R. Merrill bronze plaque, issued by the Brigham Young Unviersity Jour nalism Depaitment for the outstanding front page makeup in the statewide contest, was awarded the Vernal Express of Vernal, Utah. Second place winner in the Harrison R. Merrill contest was the Box Elder News and Journal of Brigham City, Utah, with third place award being presented to the Springville Herald of Springville, Utah. The three day convention held at the Newhouse Hotel in Salt Lake City, was highlighted Saturday evening at the Association banquet, by Dr. Nyardi, noted Hungarian educator, who was given a standing ovation by the Association members for his forceful and factual address re garding the Communist regime m his native Hungary. Press Association members of the entire state of Utah attended the three day conclave, February 11, 12 and 13. BLUE CROSS DUE The local group of Blue Cross and Blue Shield members are reminded that their payments are due at the end of February, says Mrs. Helen Redd, to whom the payments are to be made. Monticello Boy Scouts Hold Banquet, Court of Honor February 9 that the Boy Scouts Stockholders Form Dark Canyon Mining Corporation Comprising 31 Claims In Southern San Juan County School Board Signs Contract With Architect with an aluminum camping kit for his service as guide and cook on the explorer mountain trip last summer. was awarded Lloyd Barton patrol leaders bars to Kelly Summers, Allen Rowlen, Charles Starr, Mark Barton, David Adams, Gary Wilson Ronald Sparks Terry Johnson, Jerry Norton, Stanley Barton, Karl Barton, and Larry Lyman. The 11 year old patrol leaders Stewart Lewis, Victor Schafer, Rusty Davidson, Frank Rowley, Hugh Rowley and Keith were given their bars by Ormas Hawkins. Mr. Gaudio presented tenderfoot badges to John Hazelwood, Carl Barton, Stanley Barton, Keith Himmelberger, Bobby Thompson, Larry Lyman, pins to their mothers, and second class badges to Stanley Barton, Allen Rowley, David Adams, Whitney Thompson, and Karl In presenting Barton. merit badges to Malcolm Young, Jay ' Thomas, Kelly Summers, Mr. Gaudio complimented the boys on their achievements thus far and urged them to continue in the program until they became Scouts. Scout leaders, Eagle Lloyd Barton, Wesley Norton, and Ormas Hawkins, also receiv- Mr. Gaudio presented certificates for completing training courses to Keith Jewkes, Lloyd Barton, Bob Sparks and Wesley Norton. Patrolman Jewkes talked on the subject Building For a Better Tomorrow. Mothers responsible for the preparation and serving of the banquet were Mrs. Stella Nielson, chairman; Mrs. LaNieve Mrs. Nell Dalton, Thompson, Mrs. Barbara Gage, and Mrs. Josephine Smith. Those acting on the table decoration committee were Mrs. Etna Schafer, Mrs. LaVerda Jensen, and Mrs. Dored merit badges, Jay Thomas othy The waitresses Sparks. and Wayne Young, first class were members of the MIA Junior Gleaner Class. pins. Guests of the Moab Lions Club night, were the Monticello Lions and wives. It was an occasion honoring charter members of the Lions Club in Moab. Mr. and Mrs. Diworth Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Flet-dhB. Hammond, Salt Lake City were there. Dilworth is a charter member of Moab and Fletcher of Monticello, that is of the original Lions Club that functioned through the twenties and! thirties in Monticello. During the evening, Monticel-lo- s Lions President, Helmar Johnson, awarded membership pins to Rev. Charles Alderman, Joe Sordie, Ben Askew, Percy Nixon, Jack Nielson and Gordon Monday er Wood. e people from Monattended the banquet which was served m the basement of the Baptist Church. They (report an entertaining The master of cereevening. monies, a Mr. Stevens, kept the his audience in stiches with his clever repartee. Two exhibition dancers gave some South of the Border numbers. There were also other dance and musical numbers presented. Thirty-thre- ticello Former Resident Of Monticello Plans To Wed Utah uranium mines owned by six Texans including two from San Angelo and two from Ballinger, will begin production on Monday on what one engineer said was ten million dollars worth that I can see. The men are Ray B. Johnson, president of the San Angelo National Bank, J. Robert Stewart, San Angelo oilman, Dr. C. F. Bailey, Ballinger physician; also James Fox, Abiline oil operator; and M Doyle St John, Wichita Falls oilman. These six oilmen are the stock holders of Dark Canyon Uranium Co., located about 85 mile3 from Blanding and 25 miles from Hite, Utah. They have also taken into the company as a partner Dan W, Shmitt of Bland mg, who is the mine operator. The area of operations comprises 31 claims of 20 acres each for a total of 620 acres, largely concentrated in one mountain. The Texans have built a road around the hourglass hill. At the waist of the mountain the distance is about 3000 feet across. Uranium exposures on the east and west side of this narrow mountain portion are now being worked. Four exposures of uranium outcroppings are being worked at present on the claims and nine locations have been checked. About 12 men are employed at the mine. The stockholders have invested to date about $100,000 in the venture. The road was bulldozed 7.9 miles at a cost of about $20, 000. It is now possible for the ore to be transorted quickly from the mine to the processing plant. ' The uranium from this discovery has a strong test. The averMiss Audrey A. Forge, form- age percentage for commercial is a geiger register of erly a resident of Monticello, production will be married on Feb. 22 to .25 of 1 per cent. The Dark CanMr. Roger J. Fitzgerald at the yon probings range from a full 1 cent on the outcropping Dugway Proving Grounds Post to per 3 per cent in the interior of Chapel. claims. Miss Forge, who left Monti- the Plans were completed by the cello to enter training at Holy six company members on Dec. Cross Hospital School of Nurs- 15. At that time the group flew has Lake in Salt gradCity, ing to looked over the land uated and is now employed at and Utah, took the landscape photoat U. S. the Army Hospital graphs. Asked how long it took Dugway. Her parents, Mr. and to get the deal wound up JohnMrs. Thomas Forge, reside at son said 15 minutes after we Leavenworth, Kansas. knew about it. Atomic fever Mr. Fitzgerald, who has been works rapidly. S. stationed with the U. Army at The ore is moved eight miles Dugway for the past year and from the mine to a processing a half is a graduate of the Uniplant owned by American Smelt versity of Wisconsin. Mr. and and Refining Co. which opMrs. Michael F. Fitzgerald, Ro- ing erates for the Atomic Energy at live Milwauke, commission. This is one of five gers parents, Wisconsin. or six gathering stations in the United States. TO SALT LAKE The particular strike being exMr. and Mrs. Grant Bronson ploited by the Texans is in the have been in Salt Lake City the Shmarump formation which is seldom expast week, where Mr. Bronson shale. 16This strata ceeds feet in height but the is attending to business ore content is rich and the layer runs evenly thru the earth. A presstime report to the There is an overlying formation 500 to 250 feet thick, which has San Juan Record office described an oil gusher recently protected the uranium deposit brought in at the Boundary from erosion.. The company intends to send Butler No. 1 oil well owned out two trucks, with eight tons by the Shell Oil Company loto the load and making eight cated in Southeastern Utah. to trips daily or transport 64 tons The oil well, reported have been tapped at 4700 feet a day. At $120 a ton for ora in the Hermosa formation, that is roughly $100,000 a week. was drililed by the George Company claims were origNolan Drilling Company of inally filed by a Mormon missTulsa, Oklahoma. ionary, 74 year old Walter SteThe well is located eight vens in 1950. He is still working Desert at the mine, having sold his west of the miles clams to Dark Canyon Uranium. Creek No. 2, described as 3300 Co. Stevens has been in the feet north and 1900 feet west of the S. E. corner of section rugged southeastern Utah coun33, Township 42 South, Range try since 1920 and knows every inch of the terrain. Prior to that 22 East. he was in Mexico where he minThe eyewitness report indicated the well came in a istered to the needs of the Indians. A batchelor, Stevens is gusher, spouting oil from the a story book prospector as modtop of the derrick and spreadern day mineral seekers go. ing oil slick over a large area The Dark Canyon Co. lease around the well. (Continued on Page 8) , , |