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Show Tj' VOLUME NO. 40 lHHiSIMY. JULY 1956 DEVOTED TO THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF SV JUAN COUNTY MOXTICELLO, UTAH PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY NUMBER 2.1 Record Crowds Swamp Recorder's Office For Last Minute Filing EM!oE! Bond Chairman Advises On Plan Protect Buyer To vour wife doesnt get engm and teir up vour savings bond-but ,vou might get them mutilated in a hundied other Mav he According to information received by the Treasurers office this week the total assessed valuation of San Juan County, Utah, for 1956, exceeds the thirteen million dollar mark, an increase of $6,702,4SQ over the assessed valuation for 1955. Total state assessments for 1956, including public utilities and mines, was set at $S,332,2oO. State assessments for 1955 were listed at $2,339,050, or an mu ease of Former Member 0! $6,014,310 Record Staff To Be , w RECORD CROWDS swamped the San Juan County Courthouse on the last day for filing Proof of Labor affidavits on mining properties, and again the day after, when new mining claims and relocated areas were recorded in the San Juan County Recorders office. Pictured above is a portion of the crowd that jammed the ccrridor and filled the Recorders office during the peak of the rush. Record photo Acreage Reserve One Car Accident Yields Explained By Chairman Regulations determining when normal yields and when "appraised yields will be used as the basis for payments under the 1956 Soil Bank Acreage Reserve iTogram were clarified today by Claude Butler, Chairman of the San Juan County Agricultural .Stabilization and Conservation Services Cendbcfedl Injures Three South (Per FytatkeiBe By Of Monticello Glen D. Cash, 12, passed away at the County Hospital Saturday, June 29,7:40 p.m. Bom in Moab October 31, 1943 to Mr. and Mrs. .Glen B. Cash, he lived most of his life in Monticello. He would have entered the junior high in the fall. He was a deacon in the L. D. S. church and an active' boy scout. He is survived by his parents two sisters, Helen Diane (9), and Miry June (5); a brother, Clifford Steven (3), and four grand-narentCounty Committee. The simple way to rememMr and Mrs Garlen ber this is to associate normal Doughs, Monticello; Mr. and the Mrs. Y. B. Cash, Cortez. yields with underplanting, Chairman said. The regulations require the county committee to base payments for underwriting spring wheat on the smaller of A new, weekly maximum unthe normal yield for the farm or benifit amount will employment the normal yield for the acreage be effective 2, said Curtis July Reunder the placed Acreage P. Harding, Administrator of the serve This means that farmers who participate in the program State employment security deby underplanting spung wheat partment Tied directly to the Stages are assured of payments based on such normal crop yields The growing and stronger economy, payment for underplanting win- newly unemployed claimant mav receive up to $35 weekly in ter wheat is 4 00 per acre. In cases where land qualifies jobless benefits after July 2, he for the Acreage Re.-efthrough said Mr Harding pointed out that crop destruction due to natural causes such as flood or drought, 1955 legislation provided an autor where it is plowed or other- omatic formula which can move wise physically incorporated into the maxbnum weekly b.nefit the soil, or wheie it 13 clipped, up or down, depending on eV mowed or cut to pi event matur- the average level of the States I). Ca.h ity, the regulations require the insured wages auvi-ewere conducFuneral s committee the He both county t) aporoise urged that jbless pay yield that wroald have resulted claimants and employers be clear ted for tae deceased, Tuesday, 2 p m at the L. D S Chapel w ith had the land remained m produc on two points. lion under conditions existin'1 Daryle Redd presiding whose Bishop F.rst, that The speakers wre Bishop Daryle this year. This appraised yield gross, average workers (before pay any Redd, Frank Redd and must he compared w ith the nor- deduction--- ) has bem less than Wesley mal yield for the farm. The reg- $70 per week wul not Sweetly Solemn the Noiton. One get ulations require that the srpller new maximum of $35 per week Thought, "Sometime Well Unof the two aporaised v ield or Their jobless pav, he said, will derstand, and Abide With Me normal Vie'd b used as still be about half of their aver- were sung by the choir. At the basis for Soil Bank acreage Nearer My God To age individual earnings The on- graveside serve on the lend but ly workers ehgible for more Thee was rendered and Harry will net be less than $6 00 an than the old limit of $33 in ben- Randall dedicated the grave. Actacre efits vi ill be those workeis who ing as pallbeaiers were members Both normai vtotd and earned more than $66 in wags of the Deacon Quorum Members vmhi : will h dQterminad Mn Hardings second poin,t of Glens Sunday School clas bv tbe conntv Chair- was that anyone who started fil- were the flower girls man Butler exolained Foiiy-ntnrelatives attended ing claims for unemployment 2 the funeral. Many came a long before compensation July ONE OF LARGEST this vear, will continue to receive distance, Mr. and Mrs R.oy A. Cah and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Utahs Dinosaur Monument the old maximum of $33 a contains ode of the largest deMr. Harding pointed out that Cash, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Mr. and Mrs Gene Cash and Mr. posits of prehistoric animals in in the years past, the legislation and Mrs Vernon Cash, Chicago; the entire world. This is located had set up the maximum weekly Mr. and Mrs Pat Upton, Ocean-sid- e lament amount by amendments Caifomia; Mr. and Mrs. just 21 miles east of Vernal. In to State ' Employment Security 1915, the 60 million year old AT But in 1955, he said, tb Raymond Upton and Mrs. Parkey Upton, Phoenix. Arizona; Mrs. was affeature automatic added was made a National graveyard Barbara Even and Mrs. Ruby Monument. The spot is visited ter full concurrance by both manLester, Grand Junction; Mrs. agement and labor . by about 15,000 tourists a year. The increase in average weekly "rtle Grimes, Viola Colorado-MrHere monstrous fossil bones of ago in insured Industries, fro-and Mrs. Brig Elmer, Saff-ord- . Arizona. the giant lizards lie nakedly ex- $66 in 1954. to $70 last year about the increase in present the upturned rocks or brings Of of count v friends wo posed ' to attend in maximum weekly benefit a Amoral were buried in the massive strata. M- he said. and Vrs. to mount Stevens and $35, The larger of the Utah prehis"0-ImnTxbnnv Zarkos. PrW, and from There Is no chnv In toric dinosaurs weighed over 25 benefit amount of $10 per xoah Mrs. TMane Hlvc'nbothom, ton. Mrs. Clint Sly and Mrs. Ira Sly week, said Mr. Harding. Nev Maximum Unemployment Rate Nov In Effect te e i i 1 I 5 I t 1 n "-- nK te E-r- t A accident nine miles south of Monticello, Saturday, June 30th, hospitalized all three occupants of the car with varying degrees of injuries The accident occurred at Long Canyon around 1 30 pm. when an ore truck traveling the opposite direction from the car, reportedly forced It onto the shoul der of the road causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle Frank Havran of Cortez told the investigating officers he was enroute to Blanding at the time of the accident and as he rounded the curve at the bottom of Long Canyon he was forced from the road by a red ore truck. After hitting a rock in the bar pit m the right hand side of the roadway, the ear bounced back nto the pavement and stopped across the highway Two passengers were in the Havren car at the time of the accident, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Parker, also of Cortez A witness to the accidnet, Everest Ping, also of Cortez was following the Havren car, one-ca- r corroborated th statement that an ore truck had forced the car from the Highway. The driver, Flank Havren, received a broken leg and was given first aid at the accident scene avs. Advertising Mgr. Thats the sage philosophy of Ralph J Hafen, chairman of the Joe A. 19, foimerly County Savings Ponds Commit- of Moab, Johnston, has the Utah, tee, vv ho told today of how the San Juan Reeoid staff joined as AdverTreasury Department protects tising Manager. the interests of the bond buyer Mr Johnston, a graduate of from clay of purchase until reGrand County High School the demption. associated w ith the Moab That actually happened you and Times Independent weekly newsMr. Hafen said. know, The the Treasurys Bureau of the Public paper since 1952, will handle Debt once received a letter from advertising department of both an agitated husband, enclosing the San Juan Record and the scraps of what had been a $100 Blanding Herald. savings bond. He admitted his wife had destroyed the bond in a fit of anger, and asked could be done. The Treasury replaced It with a whole bond. Another fellow sent in a mutilated bond that had been chewed up by the family pet dog. He was sent the customary application form to apply for a replacement. A few days later the Treasury-go- t a second letter from the same' gentleman, transmitting bits of paper which turned out to be the remains of the Treasurys first letter and application form. You 'guessed it The dog had gotten hold of this, too. A second form was sent and the replacement bond was finally Issued. These are unusual cases, of Mr. Hafen went on. course, However, they do illustrate .the fine service that the government Joe A. Johnston provides for bond holders. He worked for a short time in In addition to replacing lost, the mechanical department of the stolen, or mutilated bonds, the Record but returned to the Moab Savings Bond chairman said, the several months ago Treasury maintains a staff of le- as advertising manager. His reto gal experts advise bond holders of their rights in event of turn to the Record staff, after an of four months, marks death disappearance, or other absence the first of several contemplated tragic occurrences Records show s that bond interests are changes by the Recor,d publisher bottleprotected even though they are to eliminate mechanical declared incompetent, and that necks and to facilitate greater funds derived from bond redemp- production through the newspations are to be used for their per plant. care until such time as a legal During the past year the Record has had difficulty attracting guardian is appointed. printers due in part to the flucORIGINAL NAME DENTED tuating conditions of an expandIn 1848, the Provisional State ing area. Recently Mr. ROe inof Deseret, made a request of stituted a training program for the United States Congress for local employees to offset the Statehood under the name of printer shortage in this area, and State of Deseret On September plans to spend the greater part 9, 1830, the Congress refused of his time in the mechanical dethis request, but granted a Ter- partment during the first few ritorial Chatter under the name months of their training program of Territory of Utah Mr Johnston will assume hi-- , News of the change did not new duties with the Record staff reach Utah until 1851 Monday, July 9. new-spap- ow-ner- Valuation of the county assessments bv the Assessors office weie $4 696,260 making a total of $13,049,260 combined state and county assessed valuation for the ear 1956 Total for 1955, including both County and State assessed valuation was $6 347 140. Largest single conti ibutor to the assessed valuation of the Countv for both 1955 and 1956 was the Utex Corporation whose mines are situated in San Juan County approximately twenty five miles north of Monticello. In 1955 the Utex Corporations assessed valuation was placed at $1,082,060. This includes only properties located in San Juan County. In 1956 the same properties had an assessed valuation of $3,780,451. San Juan County Utah, believed to be one of the largest Uranium producing areas in the United States and currently undergoing a vast oil and gas development program, has had in excess? of ten million dollars assessed valuation increase within the past three years, according to records of the Treasurers office. Highway Revenue Act Increases Tax On Gasoline, Tires Beginning July 1, 1956, taxes on the following items were increased in accordance w ith the Highway Revenue Act of 1956. Gasoline, new rate 3c per gallon, old rate 2c per gallon; tires, new rate 8c per pound, old rate 5c per pound; tread rubber new rate 3c per pound, old rate no tax; ti ucks buses, etc., new rate 10 per cent of price, old rate 8 per cent of price. Although each of the above-liste- d taxes Is normally i posed cn and paid by the manufacturer of the articles, the new bill provides for a tax on floor stocks of the items which are held in the inventories of dealers and distributors of taxable items Therefore, in order that each dealer and distributor may be able to compute his liability for tax on items held bv him it is important that as of the first of July, 1956 he record his inventory of gasoline held in storage tanks, retread lubber, tires for highway-typvehicles, and trucks, buses, and (Continued on Rage Four) e Customer Trap On Monticello's Highway 47 Business District 4 by Dr. Boston of Monticello. Mr. Parker received lacerations of the left foot and his wife, Marie, received lacerations of the hand and possible internal injuries and was in a state of shock According to State Highway Patrolman Clifford Gren, the truck reportedly involved did not stop at the scene of the accident, and has not been located at this time. s A 4 y A P'am: is mm ( , . ft- j - Hew Mexico Ore Buying Station Opened July 5th The Grand Junction Operations' the Atomic Energy Commission announced that the New Commission ore buying station Office of recently under construction at Grants, New Mexico, was ready to receive shipments July 5. The new buying station will provide a market for limited quantities of limestone ores and sandstone ores produced from and development exploration work in the Ambrosia Lake and (Continued on Page Four) 4. "b? UK j; i , 1 . ft ,v I Vlt in i 4 - - -- ONK OF SEVERAL cars and tracks that hav e driven into the ditch on South Main street In Monticello, is pictured above. Even the dog seems to have a chagrined look. The section of roadway shown above is in front of several Monticello bn sinenses and is reported to be on the agenda of the State Highway Department for curbing and resurfacing this year. The road is part of State Record photo Highway 47 that runs through the business district of Monticello. |