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Show omic Energy Commission to pur-isu- e the course of action which it did. The basic issue is not iLLd-'-iA'i.- IsoC"-- V.-WCi ''-' ,. , Editor-Publish- BfoQ Ss ...... ...... .... er Sg ley. The report also could have stressed this point: Every time the government goes into business or expands a business it curtails the field of operation left to private business . . . and, if government continues to ex- ........ Join The Aqualantes donation-getter- pand its business activities where will the tax money come from to support government? For instance, if the Dixon-Yate- s contract is killed, the public power group will try to force Congress to vote $110 million to build, a new steam plant for the TVA. This $110 million is money collected in taxes. If contract is not the Dixon-Yatkilled, private investors will put up the money and the government will collect taxes on their investment. Natural Gets! Another big struggle is foreseen in Congress over whether the federal government or the states shall exercise authority over the prices charged by producers of natural gas. It was the opinion of a majority of Congress in passing the Natural Gas Act of 138 that such authority would be exercised by the states. A recent Supreme Court decision, however, upset this interpretation and directed the Federal Power Commission to exercise the authority. Ever since passage of the act the champions of federal control over business (the group favoring expansion of TVA) began to campaign to bring natural gas production under the g of the authority . . . Newspaper readers meet a lot of special drives. Usually these events are manipulated eral headquarters in an eastern city, minutely organized and built around a trainied core of weeks and from a genplanned and professional s. week and a drive are underway which bear no resemblance to this national pattern. These originated on a grass roots level and are being conducted by amateurs. And they are meeting with resounding success because they are sincere and because for us they have vital mission. Were referring to the current Colorado River Week and to the Aqualantes drive. The Aqualantes aim to make every resident of the Mountain West a booster for the Colorado River Storage Project. But currently a long-delay- Open es your heart and give generously to The American Heart Fund! Your contribution will speed the day when heart disease will be conquered. Give now! i ed The Aqualantes are fighting false information originating from powerful opponents of the river bill. This propato pressure ganda is being disseminated with one object next best or into the crippling project, congress rejecting it by striking Echo Park Dam. In politics as in war the worst tactical error possible is to underestimate the power of your opponents. The Aquathat is why they are asking the lantes are not doing that help of every Mountain West resident. After being licked in the last Congress, all Mountain Westerners appreciate the forces arrayed against us. And these opponents have powerconservationists ful allies in the small group of who still insist Echo Park Dam will invade the national park system. This year the Aqualantes intend to tell the American Public the true facts about the Colorado River Storage project. The Aqualantes are water vigilantes. They are working to save for our thirsty but fertile country every drop of working Colorado River Water won for us by our hard ancestors. The vigilantes are riding again. They are your neighbors. Join them. The Old Settler By Albert R. Lyman My dear San Juaners: money-motivate- price-fixin- es ed 5 vA . hydro-electr- ic inno- cent-appearing d, d, lust-ma- Thursday. Feb. : ; 17. 1955 Paget ,. d, 1 If Your Tractor Tires Have Lost ... You Can Their Pulling Power Get New Tire Traction For As Little sure-thm- Exchange Your Tires Today for Guaranteed ut IB You Get a Firestone Guarantee Plus J By a Check is a great row of MONUMENT VALLEY, Arizona and Utah towering rocks (monoliths) approximately 22 miles in length (north and south). About 5 miles of the Valley lies in Utah and the rest in Arizona. Highway 47 cuts through the north tip (Utah) of the valley. This is the land of the Navajo, he lives in his Hogans here with his herds of sheep and goats. The Valley has been described as a Fantasy of scenic beauty come to real life Recently it has been discovered to be the center of some of the riches Uranium deposits of all the Colorado River plateau areas. FLAGSTAFF, Arizona Largest center of hotel and motel accommodations in northern Arizona Gateway to the Grand Canyon National Park Host to the San Francisco Peaks recreational and skiing area. South into Oak Creek Canyon and to Phoenix East to Walnut Canyon National Monument, the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest and Albuquerque East and North to Chambers and the Canyon de Chelley National Monument North and East to Cameron and Monument Valley. on the Free t4ouo!!!9 THE DOVE CREEK STATE BANK Phone Us For Member of F.D.I.C. On-The-Fa- rm Tire Service! PAULS SERVICE Monticello, Utah IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 'A By Harry Marlowe From now on, a little more constructive action can logically be expected from the Utah Legislature. ' All of the wild clutter of bills that jammed House and Senate calendars have been tossed into the sifting committee. And, despite the fact the lobbyist will be pouring on the pressure for special interest bills, indications Eire that the screening committee are more interested in getting across good legislation than they are in setting up any new records for passing bills. Actually, there are two big issues overshadowing all the rest reapportionment and appropriations. By the end of the week, the answers will be in on appropriations. The big money bill is due Friday. Advance indications are that this bill will be as close as possible to the $69.2 million budget submitted by Gov. J. Bracken Lee. However, the Legislature has shown a tendency to be willing to spend a little more money than the governor, particularly ia the matter of continuing aid to needy school districts for building. So a $72 million budget is not unlikely. And this will mean the lawmakers will have to take some serious looks at the states tax or else toss the burden all onto property to the tune problems of some $12 million. All of the tax increase or tax" revision bills, which could bring in some $5 to $7 million, are marking time waiting for the money bill. And the legislators are in a mood to raise taxes a little across the board rather than raise property a lot. There is no doubt that property taxes will go up, because the state will almost inevitably have to levy a statewide tax to make up the school fund deficit The reapportionment picture is not nearly as clear. The snarl is in the House, and more specifically, in small factions within both the Republican and Democratic parties. Party leadership in the Democrats is holding out against but growing interest among Democratic members indicates this block will not stand up. The only question is Ia what direction will the Democrats go when they decide to act? Republican leadership is determined to get some sort of plan across. But a small segment is not at all pleased with the plan sent over by the Senate and so the party majority in the House cannot be used to run through some sort of action. The plan which appears to be catching on is to leave the Senate at the figure worked out by the senators early in the session, then set the House up with a membership of 61. The way this would be done is to add one member to Salt Lake, Weber, Utah and Davis counties, and take away cme from Cache, Sanpete, and Box Elder Counties. The rub, is how to get the different House faction together on any sort of plan at all. And this will constitute a major issue the rest of the way during the season. There is a tremendous differd ence between the words that men speak, and the words spoken freely and frankly without need of comTh man promise or apology. by Walter Chamblin, Jr, with an ax to A clear ex- FPC. The Commission itself isWASHINGTON r grind is crampof real issues of sued a ruling that this producthe of planation some the ing contract has tion was exempt from the act, intuitions of his the Dixon-Yatbut the Supreme Court has held soul in slanting just been set forth by the Re- otherwise. his words to fit publican members of the Joint Gas industry spokesmen hold some ulterior Here it is: The real issue is whether the that federal price fixing will , motive. Our ' ' production and sale great concern Committee on Atomic Energy. discourage i . . . impair comthe matter American people want to adopt of natural. . gas . and ultimately eithI I is not what he a national policy that a govern- petition 1 is to ment agency . . . TVA . . . cre- er reduce the supply of natural I 1 I doing But here AJC' the purpose of reclama- gas or increase prices. Lti butto ated for himself, confronted is again industry flood control and improvewhat he is doing, or trying tion, a group that believes m do to us. He is trying by some ment of navigation of the Ten- with Government . . . and this Big smooth trick to profit at our nessee River, with group claims that federal reguincidenas an must we beware. and development expense, tal product, should now expand lation is necessary to protect the When we look behind the front which to provide its service area in consumer. men put up to a gullible public, perpetuity with all the power it can accept, generated by any Read the advertisements It pays we see so much that is money-mathat means whatsoever, and subsipower-mawe withhold our confidence dized by federal funds. To adopt such a policy would while we challenge just about AQUALANTES: result in a deliberate taking of everything we read or hear. We want to know why such an ar- tax money from the people in I want to do my part to anur panogo of tho ticle is being published, why this every section of our country and Colorado River Storage Project to vital to the fvtvrt or that talk is being made. And giving it away to industrial, of our ttate. I tubtciibe $ Pleate enroll me at a Aqualanle a why this big gift to some chari- commercial and other private badge and membership card. ty? for it is being advertised far interests in just one single secand wide, and if it were just tion of our nation. Let us be a charitable gift as it purports frank. To adopt that policy Signed ... to be, it should not be advertised would be rank, unrestrained, unadulterated Socialism. at all. Addrest . opponents of Congressional Men have prostituted their na- Dixon-Yates contract have tive powers of honest appeal in so many cases that after we sought to muddy the issued. $tato.. City.. heard what they say our next Taking cognizance of this situaconcern is to find out just what tion, the report then had this to COLORADO Bo 1 J00, Grand Jvncfton Make check pay it means. We assume generally say: NEW MEXICO 6a 1301, Attrvqueeque able to Aqualanle. The basic issue in this conthat there is no such thing as it Aqualanle headquar- UTAH "Aqualanle," Sait lake City what it pre- troversy is not the authority ofmeaning exactly WYOMING Room 210, Capitol Bldg., Cheyenne tends to mean. Especially when the President to direct the Atg they come with some there are still honest people in proposition just too good to the world. miss, and at a more ridiculously I still couldnt believe him low price than ever it was oftill, after giving some good adfered before. he turned to follow anothFifty-si- x years ago as I went vice, er street, and left me wonderdown a street in Philadelphia I look back over the years afraid to death of meeting a ing. wolf in sheeps clothing, for I at that as an oasis in the desert. With all but universal custom had just succeeded ' in shaking off one in the shape of a colored of challenging everything, I do man who wanted to sell me an not wonder that some people extra fine watch for just about challenge The Old Settler, and nothing. While I was trembling try to discern the real purpose from this experience, a man behind these articles. The real Mr. Larry Roe, Editor came walking along side of me. purpose is stated frankly, and San Juan Record and began talking in a friendly no one is going to find any hidMonticello, Utah confidential tone, and I made den motive. No money enters sure that under the sheep skin this little contribution to the Dear Mr. Roe: there was a wolf. He smiled at good of my beloved San Juan and said, I County, and its people. We note with much interest the letter from Keith Jewkes me understanding have nothing to sell, no game in your Letters to the Editor column. There is a wonderous thrill in play. I can see that you are saying exactly what you think the cost of poles for rebuilding to We also noted your remarks aw-a stranger in our city, and you without cramping your style or the Monticello distribution system, seventy five dollars may appear think are in a den of your conscience for anything or FACTORY-METHO- D pole to some people, thieves. you high for the value of an ordinary utility I want you to have it anybody; it brings something Creosote treathowever, when you consider that a 40 ft. pole with to tell that you met a friend in which to refers Shakspere ment that is expected to last 35 or 40 years costs nearly sixty who wished you Sweet sleep and peace and dollars installed, and that crossarms, crossarm braces, insulators, Philadelphia well and wanted you to know quiet breathing. and insulator pins cost another seventeen dollars installed on to close is right. the pole, your figure very IlllllllllliJIllllllllllllllllilliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Of course there are times when holes are easier to dig and some labor is saved in placing attachments on a pole and consequently that particular pole installation may cost less. Our Empire Electric Engineer estimated that it would cost us distribution approximately $25,000.00 to rebuild the Monticello V system with good poles, wire, transformers that would provide plenty of capacity for years to come. Electric Generating plant project has been Our Colorado-Ut- e proven feasible and within a short time work will begin on it, so Same High Quality Tread Materials we expect to have all of the power this area will need for years to come. as Used in New Tires. We are very much interested in furnishing electric service to your Community and to the farms and ranches in the area, and Same Tread Design as in New Tires. assure you that we are in a position to furnish first class service. Very truly yours. Same Tread Depth as in New Tires. EMPIRE ELECTRIC ASSN., INC. I. W. Patterson Same Tread Width as in New Tires. mis-direct- JUAN RECORD the authority of the Commission to contract for its power requirements from either private or public TVA sources. The basic issue is not public power versus private utilities. The basic issue is not invasion of the Tennessee Valley Authority nor curtailment of hydro power development in the Tennessee Val- l? THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAN JUAN. COUNTY. UTAH Published Every Thursday at Monticello, Utah Entered at the Post Office at Monticello, Utah, as second class matter under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. Monticello 4R3 Larry M. Roe, Monticello 4R3 Betty L. Roe, Business Manager Monticello 4R3 Dorothy Blake, News Editor . Monticello 27R2 Cornelia Perkins, Society Editor Monticello Mrs. H. E. Blake, Correspondent L. W. Graves, Blanding Business Manager Blanding 43R5 Mrs. Carlos Hall, News,, Society Editor Bluff THE SAN |
