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Show VOLUME NO. 39 THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1933 PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY DEVOTED TO THE AXI) DEVELOPMENT GROWTH Steen To M onto Steen of Moab that the third party of the will be held at Saturday, June Tractors Participate In Church Farm Program 4th. An invitation has been extended to all friends of Utex employees and officials to join in the festivities beginning with a buffet supper at 7:00 p. m., and ending with a program of dancing and a floor show. The first floor show is slated to begin at 8:00 p.m: and will last approximately one hour and thirty minutes, to be followed by a period of dancing. Another floor show is set for 11:00 p. m. with dancing to follow until 2:00 a m. Invitations are being extended only through Exercises i Held 19th Group Designates State Highway 47 As The Navajo Trails Route To West Coast t !f H a ,FU. M Juan county. Commencement exercises for the Monticello High School was held Thursday evening at the school auditorium. The graduates garbed in cap and gown, the boys in black and the girls in white, marched in stately step thru the long auditorium and took their seats on the rostrum. The high school faculty and Board of Education were already in their places on the stage when the graduates march began. Reverand Charles Alderman offered the invocation and H. Draper the benediction. Ralph Butler and Doyle Rowley, higlf school teachers, sang My Buddy. Nancy Palmer delivered the Salutorian Address. Noel Jewkes and W. D. Warren play f M?nibe-- s of the Church of Jesus Christ of L ttter-DaSaints held their Farm Day this week with va ions members pai ticipating in the prog am at the chuich farm southeast of Monticello. P'ctured above are part of the thiity-fivtractor, used in the huge operation to ready the farm for . Record photo. planting. v MoMicsSb Lioxs Chib e Host To Wives At Ladies Night Dinner The Monticello Lions club played host to the lady Lions at a special Ladies night dinner Monday, May 23, in the Community Church. Forty-twLions and Lionesses attended the dinner and were treated to a picture lecture of South America by Melvin and Dorothy Frost of Montcello. The Lions club are sponsoring contest on June 4 another for all youngsters under sixteen of age. A top list of prizes are being offered to the contest- ants and the Lions club has urged that all boys or girls interested in the contest contact Mr. Misner on or before the date of the con-test Top winners in the recent contest were: 1st place in the young boys division, Clyn L. Young. Clyn also won the gold award and the sweater award. Keith Nielson was awarded second place in the younger dvision. Dwight Himmelberger was .the 1st place winner in the older conboys division of the test. Dwight also won the gold award and the sweater award. Etonfficelllo Wm iepmt - L - o Yo-Y- o 1 Yo-Y- o Yo-Y- ELECTION CALLED The Blue Mountain American Legion Post Number 26 have called an election for new officers on Thursday, June 9th. The election will be held in the American Legion Hall and all members are requested to be there. ad- Monticello City Marshsal, Ar-yea- hur Adair announced today that ad received a flood of he COmplaints regarding dogs run. iarge during the night. .Many of the complaints mdicat- ed that the dogs, traveling in packs, had been molesting cattle in the Monticello area, and on several occasions had almost killed cattle before they could be driven off. According to Marshal Adair, Section 198 of the City Code states that It shall be unlawful for an owner of any dog to allow 'r permit said dog to roam at arge in the city of Monticello between sunset and sunrise, and lany of the dogs noticed near the recent activities were wearing icense tags. We are making a concerted rffort to impound any dog in violation of this ordinance in an effort to curb the manv complaints we are receiving daily. The marshal bas asked that all dog owners make an effort to securely tie their pets so that they cannot roam in packs during the night. nng ...... . San Juan High School Graduating Class session and tour The Navajo Trails Association met in a three-das area Friday, Saturday and Sunday, May 20, 21 of the four-corner- and At the second annual party approximately 3,963 guests attended from all parts of the country. An even larger crowd is expected to be present this year. The Utex Corporation, headed by Charles Steen, are owners of the world famous Mi Vida mine located approximately thirty miles northeast of Monticello in Support your home tpwn vertisers. It costs less. Dll'S ! the press. San WFGW ill M 01 Graduation t NUMBER 16 MOXT1CELLO, UTAH OOT!nl i Host Party At Moab Mr Charles A. announced today annual discovery Utex Corporation the Moab Airport SAX JUAX COUNTY OP The Monticello Ward of the L. D. S. Church was divided into the Monticello and Mont.cello First Wards by the Stake Presidency Sunday night. Center street is the dividing line with one exception. The jlock where the Hyland Hotel stands is included in the South Ward. The Dove Creek Branai is also part of the same ward. Kenneth S. Summers was named Bishop of the South (Monticello) Ward with John Lewis and George Sloan Jr., counselers; Calvin Carter and Wendyl Frost, ward clerks. Daryle Redd was sustained as Bishop of the North (Monticello) Ward. His counselors are Don Barton and Ernest Sondreggor. The w'ard clerks are Wesley Me Donald and Joe Foy. Historically and geographically, the north (Monticello 2nd) Ward is the mother L. D. S. ward of Monticello. It was organized 66 years ago with F. I. Jones as Bishop and Charles E. Walton and Mons Peterson, counselors. Since that time every Bishop but K. S. Summers has lived in the north ward. They served in the order named. Bishops Fredrick I. Jones (24 years service), George A. Adams, J. H. Wood, George J. Jarvis, O. W. McConkie, Charles E. Walton, A. J. Redd, L. Frank Redd and K. S. Summers. The first log metineg house in 1888, stood near the place where Bailey and Wood grocery now stands. The old brick church as well as the new chapel was also erected in what is now the north (Monticello 2nd) ward. A few members have always lived south of Center Street. It is only in comparatively recent years that the ward population has shifted enough to make the newr wards about equal in membership. Each has nearly 500 people. While the new bishops are get-tmtheir w'ards manned with officers the two wards will also meet together as under the o'd setup. The present chapel will also be used for the two wards after the division is complete. ed a saxophone duet. The Valedictorian Address was given by Carl Miller. Youll Never Walk was sung by a senior Alone quartet. K. S. Summers, president of the school board, was guest John Adams, junior speaker. class president, gave a Farewell Address. Prncipal C. O. Shurtleff presented the graduates to the Board of Education. Merril Stevens, a board member in turn presented the diplomas to the 16 graduates. Edwin Crothers, Cleo Christenson, Carl Miller, Stanley Hawkins, David Gage, Barbara Jo Horn, Beverly Jones, April Lee, Nancy Palmer, Marleen Rasmussen, Sheran Robson, Ruth Sober, R. Kedric Somerville, Rob. ert B. Sparks, Neal M. Thomas and Joan Turner. Nancy Palmer and Carl Miller graduated with High Honors and Stanley Hawkins with Honors. Carl Miller received the Rebus Rota Literary Club $50 scholar ship, Stanley Hawkins the State PTA scholarship of $100 for each four years in college, and Neal Thomas the Citizenship Award The class officers were Carl Miller, president; Nancy Palmer, vice president, Marleen Rasmussen, secretary-treasureBeverly Jones, represenative. ' At the end of the program a drawing was made for the Rebus Rota Literary Club quilt. It went to Mrs. Shirley Thompson. The Jewkes orchestra played for the dance that followed the graduation rites. 22. The program began Friday at the Mesa Verde National Monument southwest of Cortez, with the election of new officers for the association, a meeting and banquet. Saturday a caravan of Navajo Trails Association members from the state of Colorado were guests of. Mayor Edway Redd, of the group, at a luncheon in the Community church in Monticello. After the luncheon, the members traveled through Bland-inBluff, Mexican Hat through Monument Valley to Gouldings Trading Post, where they were guests of Harry Goulding at a Mountain Rodeo dinner Saturday night and a jeep The Blue tour of the valley early Sunday. Queen contest tryouts will be At the luncheon in Monticello held at , the Monticello Rodeo was pointed out that the Assoit at grounds Sunday, June 5th, ciation had approved highway 2:00 p. m. 160 and 47 from Cortez through to Joyce McIntyre, Dove Creek and Monticello south According chairman for the contest, anyone to Gouldings and the wishing to enter the contest state line at the official should contact the chairman to the west Navajo either at her residence after 6.00 coast. Trails route m. or of business. at her place p. Wayne Denny of Cortez, presiThe residence telephone number and the business tele- dent of the Association, presented a program for advertising and phone numer is 108R1. financing the Navajo Trails group be must Eligible participants was approved by the membetween 16 and 25 years of age, that Friday. Plans are to prepare either married or single, and the bers a booklet on the Navajo Trails Queen can only be a resident of routes and erect roadside signs. Monticello and ..must have been Bracken Lee was J. Governor Attenone h resident for year. the guest of honor at the dinner dants can be chosen from any hosted by Harry Goulding Saturof San Juan county. All connight in Monument Valley. testants must furnish their own day The Governor expressed keen inhorse for the tryout. terest in the project to refinish Contestants will be judged on Highway 47 through Monument riding ability, personality and Valley via Monticello, Blanding, appearance. The judges will be Bluff, Mexcan Hat and on to the picked from out of town resi- state line. vice-preside- g, Utah-Ari-zon- sec-io- n dents. Approximately seven finalists will be picked from the Rodeo Queen tryouts June 5th. The finalists will then vie for top honors on the basis of ticket sales to the Rodeo Queen dance to be held Saturday night, June 18th. Part of the proceeds of the dance will be used to purchase western dress for the queen and her attendants during the two-da- y rodeo. Posse Queen will also be selected in the manner as the Rodeo Queen. The only difference in rules Will be that the Posse Queen contestants must be between eight and twelve years of age. The Posse Queen tryouts will follow the Rodeo Queen tryouts Sunday, June 5th. Posse Queen finalists will sell tickets for the dance to determine the winner of the contest. The application blank for Posse Queen WIND TUNNEL is on page eight of this edition, Frigidaire Division of General and must be filed with Angeline Monticello Utah by Motors tests air conditioning auto- Westcott, mobiles in a special wind tunnel June 3rd. A r, wrhich reproduces summer driving conditions anywhere in the world Advertising news is worthwhile. Members from Monticello Roe. Mayor Issues Request For Local Residents To Discontinue Gardens Mayor Edway Redd of Monticello issued a request today to residents of the city to help conserve water until the problems facing the city in developing out. water can be to Mayor Redd, According much of the drain on the city al reservoir at the present time and in the immediate future is a direct result of residents utilizing the water for gardens. Although many of the problems confronting the city in the development of available water have been ironed out, it is to (Continued on Page 8) Monticello High School Graduating Class of U. Registration Begins June 13th U. six-wee- k six-wee- k six-wee- k The San Juan High S"booI held its Graduati n oxe-cR8rhool Auditorium. P'rtured above are members of the Exercises, prior to receiving. their diplomas. es Friday vi,Tht, Mav 20, in the High class duiing the Commencement Record photo. . . Members of the Monticello High School Graduating class are pictured during the cerenr held in the High School Auditorium, Thursday night. May 19. Sixteen graduates, received dip Record pho during the ceremony. i at- tending the dinner in Monument Valley were: Mayor and Mrs. Edway Redd, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Walton and Mr. and Mrs. Larry g Registration for recent high school graduates and other students who wish to enroll in the School is June 13, according to Harold W. Bentley, dean of the school. Students may enroll for the summer quarter or either of the sessions. Classwork will begin June 14 for the quarter session. and the first Closing date for the quarter and session is Aug. 26. poct Subjects offered in the summer program include nine special workshops as well as regular classes in all fields. a |
