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Show f SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday, February 7, 1957 The Old Settler By Albert R. Lyman ftir Cmnunl III The Eisenthe Middle for hower program East ic certain to receive substantial approval from the 85th This is true, despite Congress. criticism of some members and repeated Democratic promises of a searching examination and possible amendments. Congress, as a whole, appears to regard the program as an extension of existing policy. The WASHINGTON XHE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAn 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 San Juan County Chapter AMERICAN RED CROSS Monticello, Utah February 6, 1957 I Juaners: friend, Otis Marston of Berkeley, California, sent me the My saga of Cass Hite, written by Cass Hite himself, in verse form on the night of his sixtieth birthday, and entitled The Trail of Sixty To the end of it is apSnows. pended an addition to the story also in verse from Cy Warman, author of the song entitles Sweet Marie. Warman United States, it is pointed out, his story, The Ghost of Hoskan-ini- , now has treaties obligating it to and in it he speaks of Hite of to. the defence free nations go as Husteen Pish-le-kTogether in all parts of the world. And the two sagas include eighty-onverses and come as a wnerd echo foreign aid is The president is seeking auth- from an old tomb. ority for use of military force Cass Hite was a familiar figure to. prevent the capture of Mid- in the old log fort at Bluff sevendle East Nations by international ty five years ago. I still have an Communism. Congress has given image of him as he appeared to the President similar authority my childish eyes, a very rugged to protect Formosa. looking man with a widehat and He also is seeking economic aid a glittering band around it, high for underdeveloped countries, laced shoes, ducking coat and which the United States already trousers, black hair, fair skin is providing in considerable de- and a vandike beard spearpointed gree. with tobacco juice. But Congress was jolted by the stiffly Old Cass, as he was called, was fact that Mr. Eisenhower felt iman enthusiastic and hopeful huntpelled to challenge Russian er for the fabulous Navajo silver pansion by use of armed force, mine, the Pish-le-kIn his verse if necessary. Many in Congress he of his an account gives quite and the Administration has enchildhood life, and his tertained hopes that a reduction early, his father had gone from after of armaments might soon take their home in Missouri to hunt place. Instead, the cold war is gold in California, and how he intensified. in that direction in his drifted NEW FAIR DEAL PROGRAM While the Eisenhower message early manhood, meeting with on the Middle East situation and becoming innured to the wild created a crisis atmosphere in way of the wild west. Congress, there was no assurance s' the field. that the New-Fai- r Dealers would With e welfare-statabandon strong sponsorship in many Senate and House, this both projects. The more than bills drive to restore legislative power 2,000 already introduced in Senate and to the states will be vigorously House are replete with proposals pressed. for higher spending, greater NEW PROBLEMS CREATED freedom for the big labor unions A question already being raisand more power for the Federal ed in Congress is whether the Government. added cost of federal activity in CURBS ON BIG LABOR Pro- foreign field will be made up posals which offer the oppor- by effecting economies in the dotunities for some curbs on the mestic area. monopolistic power of big labor Congressional economy leaders, unions were offered in both Sen- Bridges are greatly disate and house. over turbed the prospect of inSen. McCllean chair- creases in foreign .economic aid once-popul- ar i. Mine Superintendent 10M: Red Cross Chapter Chairman 3: e globe-girdlin- g in Fry Canyon at the COG The recent trailer explosion lerals Mining Camp pointed up the the need for information be given to superintendents of all mining camps in San Juan mty so that it is known that Red Cross assistance MAY be liable to the families involved. Generally, the American Red Cross, under its Congressional irter, has a responsibility for meeting the human needs of ister victims only when the disaster effects five or more lilies. It is known that a disaster of this magnitude usually s for resource greater than those which a County Red Cross It --is then that the national organization pter would have. the Red Cross brings its resources to bear to ease the plight, disaster victims. disasters clear because I am making the point of t disaster involves less than five families Red Cross assistance not be available. In some instances the San Juan Red Cross pter, together with other county agencies and offices, would be i to give temporary assistance with food, clothing, and Iter until other arrangements can be made by the families five-famil- My Dear San y Dived. a major disaster should occur in your camp immediately tact the San Juan County Red Cross chapter chairman who be able to bring vin the national organization. The chairman Tjffibcated in Monticello. May I call your attention to two other matters vital to the Blood now is on hand in the San Cross in this county. n Hospital for use when San Juan Countians are ill or in-and blood is needed to save lives and speed treatment. Red Cross bloodmobile from Salt Lake City will visit Monti-on Wednesday, February 13, and it would be appreciated ;ome of the miners from your camp come in to give their COG Minerals plan to give men who wish id donations. lonate blood the day off with pay so that they can give their )d. Perhaps you could make similar arrangements with r company. Each March, the San Juan County Chapter of the Red Cross to the people for funds to finance next years chapter and onal operations. For March, 1957 our chapters quota is $714.00. ould also be appreciated if you would give your men an to contribute. lie Red Cross in San Juan County is giving needed services :he county. All county law officers have been trained in Cross First Aid in order to give emergency assistance to Blood is provided tothe San Juan Hospital dent victims. mothers in childbirthh, the ill, and accident victims. The Red as it did last ;s is here to serve when disaster strikes ust when, the cafe exploded and in November when the trailer osion occurred in Fry Canyon. Your support is needed by the Red Cross in San Juan County, ny of your men wish to contribute to the Red Cross in February March, please send us the names of all men who gave $1.00 nore so that we can send them their Red Cross memberships d o ; op-unit- y s. Sincerely yours, Mike Camber lang, County Chairman . i. man of the Senate Government Operations Committee, sought authority for a board investigation of hoodlums and racketeers' in labor unions. Already, he told the Senate, investigators have uncovered much evidence of racketeering and wrong-doing- . At the same time, Sen. Ives and other sought authority for an investigated of racketeera resolution ing and violence he promised to press after the attack on Victor Riesel, crusading labor writer, who was blind(R-N.Y- .) ed by acid. There is pressure in the House Labor Committee for a NOTHING STANDS STILL inquiry into misuse of union pension and similar funds. Bills were also placed before The farmer is truly the vanishing American. Thus begins so is Milwaukee its But Journal. not the in irticle Congress to repeal the significance to on Act and substitute the old onebe first glance for the article deals as it might seem the fact that the farm population has been going down, sided Wagner Act will continue to go down, simply because modern techniques STATE. RIGHTS BILLS Legisto for to farmers lation it present-damake federal courts possible produce prohibit equipment from invalidating state legislation more than his predecessor. The Journal quotes some figures publicized by a member on the ground that the Federal In 1920, it took Government Ifis occupied the he faculty of the University of Wisconsin hours of farm work to supply the food, tobacco, fiber and other field, unless Cpngress so states The modern farmer was thrust, before both Senate cultural products needed by one person. This amazing improvement has been and House. do the job in 89 hours. inRep. Howard Smith lght about by power farming, modern fertilizers, better seed troduced a to bill this effect, The university ure methods, and related developments. Sen. while McClellan and more as could be increased by much added that farm production 15 . than Democratic know-howand we now Have Repub 30 per cent just by the full use of. r ' lican ; Senators 'similar ,r sponsored ' lable. in the Senate. The Journals account also points out that great changes aie legislation The legislation was first prong place in agriculture, brought about by changes in our posed when the courts invalidatonal eating and, clothing habits, by the soaring birth rate, ed state measures in the anti increasing longevity and by other factors. There is a definite sedition field. Courts also have and this set aside state d in the direction of specialization in agriculture legislation desig mechanization. is being spurred by nated to restrict picketing anc Thats certainly true violence in strikes on the grounc Nothing stands still in this country, the the Federal Government has arming. full-fledge- Taft-Hart-le- i. which had for him a great charm. Of his explorations in the then wild region, where he found and gave his name to what is now The Hite Crossing of the Colorado he says, claiming to be the discoverer of the Natural Bridges I discovered some famous mines that went way up to the ton, and the largest a natural bridge on earth in the head of White Canyon. If his meter seemed rugged, remember that Old Cass was rugged to the enth degree. In his own saga he does not tell of the man he killed in Green River, a man named Coaler, but Warman, in his Ghost of Hosk-anintells a little about it, and wonders whether Old Cass was haunted by the memory of it, and writes, You may ask if heV sorry for the deplorable affair," for being compelled to do it he i, . d (R-N.H.- ), . most certainly did care. This brief mention of his exploits can not undertake to tell the many thrilling situations, escapes and battles he got into; it can barely say that an angry mob of cowpunchers were ready to hang him for helping the murderers of Bill Ball to escape, and would have done it but for the intervention of two Bluff men who kuew that with all that Hite might be guilty of, he was not to be blamed for the escape of the killers of Bill Ball. From his prospecting up and down the old Colorado, with which he fell in love, he made for and military support. There is, the Senators believe himself a kind of little home in great necessity to arouse, the vot- a solitary place called Tickaboo, ers to the danger of expanding made a garden and planted some government costs, and to cause fruit trees, and lived as a hermit. them to seek economy. , They According to ' Warman, he corhave been hopeful of both a responded from there with a girl cut in, expenses and taxes. in Hanksville, but he was never ' on be will called married. to Congress ' I used to have among my codecide whether it will .sacrifice ' many pet' domestic projects in llection of notes, and I may still order to provide funds for foreign have a picture of a solitary grave and military aid without resort- among the bald rocks at Tickaing to deficit financing. boo, the grave of Cass Hite. pre-empte- (D-Ark- In his saga he relates, We got an outfit all in line, with four comrades to go adown the Rio San Juan, to the land of the Navajo to hunt an Indian mine they said, that ran away up high; it was called by the Wiley For Navajo, El Mino Pish-le-ktwro full years we followed that trail and many chances took, but us by the Navajos outwitted hook crook. and every As a little boy I heard that he had found the rich mine; he claimed to have found it, and I thought of him as a very rich man. He never did find it, nor did he find the fabulous gold along the Colorado, where he hunted long and diligently, be coming a noted desert rat, a life . . ), . - ; . d . Notice To The Public Our contract ore haulers and their truck drivers have y been Instructed to adhere diligently to all rules, regulations, and courtesies of the highway. Any y re- ports contrary to these conditions should be reported. , u i Utex contract trucks are identified by U and a num-' " ' - I - : ber. Standard contract trucks are identified by S (D-Va- ,) au-it- y and a number. Reports should be made to: Utex Exploration Company or Standard Uranium Corporation Mocib, Utah ' |
