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Show rAGE THE SAN JUAN RECORD TVTO Friday, May 8, crude oil reserves and a multitude of petroleum products at reasonable prices. To reduce it, would be to invite the most serious kind of national trouble. EDITORIALS Dangerous Drive The current drive in Congress to cut the oil from 27 depletion allowance by almost half 15 is an cent exceedingly dangerper per cent to ous one. The allowance is a credit against federal in- Those Good Old Days O Just about all of us periodically yearn for the alleged "good old days when, for example, you could buy a pound of meat for a mere 40c. We look at present prices and shake oar heads somberly. come taxes. It is given to producers only not to or other of the oil refiners, distributors, segments has effect in been It since 1926, and its industry. sole purpose is to give the producer the ability to generate enough capital to replenish his supply of which is actually the business itself crude become exhausted and worthless. wells when It also provides an incentive which will bring men to take the long risks that are inevitable in oil exploation and wildcatting. Only about one wildcat well in nine ever produces any oil at all the rest are a total loss. A far smaller proportion are successful on a big scale. The cost of exploring and drilling goes higher and higher, because of inflated prices and wages, and the fact that wells must be sunk to ever greater depths. Without this incentive, the search for new oil would dwindle at a huge cost to this countrys economic welfare and military strength. Bur the truth is that these "good old days" werent as financially speaking, as fallible memory would have it. Its true that the price of meat is much higher than in past times. But w'hen you apply the most accurate the amount of time we have to measuring stick rose-colore- d, dollar-and-cen- ts work to earn enough money to buy something its actually far lower. Heres the sample statistical story. The avtrage breadwinner of 40 years ago had to work more than 51 minutes to make enough to buy a pound can be solved effectively only by to death by high taxes, governof pork. Now he has to work only about one-thicreating a favorable business cli- ment interference, government as long. mate to encourage industry to regulation, government red tape, of most the The same things true popular expand and create new job oppor- and government competition. If we can succeed in removtoiled tunities. worker meat, beef- - Back in 1919, the average Here is the analysis of the cur- ing this stranglehold from the 42 minutes to buy a pound of it. Now he can rent situation presented to a throats of our businessmen, we earn the necessary wherewithal in less than 23 group of college students by Sen- will witness the greatest expanator Strom Thurmond minutes. sion of our economic system the Our private enterprise sys- world has ever known. allowance is no What this means is that despite inflation, the Moreover, the depletion New and better jobs can be tem, he said, is being choked bonanza. The Chief Engineer of the U. S. Bureau cost of meat has not risen nearly as rapidly as the of Mines has found that the U. S. oil producing average family purchasing power. That can be NOTICE OF BOND ELECTION chalked up to constantly improving methods of industry has put about $3 into the search for oil for SAN JUAN COUNTY, STATE OF UTAH every $1 deducted under the allowance. production, marketing, and retailing. These keep NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an election has been called In sum, depletion is one of the really big meat prices, measured in terms of purchasing power, to be held in each of the election districts in San Juan County, Utah, factors in making possible an adequate supply of at a bargain level. on Friday, the 29th day of May, 1959, at which there shall be submitted to such qualified voters of said County as shall have paid a property tax therein in the year preceding such election, the following question, . Shall San Juan County, Utah, incur debt and issue bonds to amount the of $155,000 to run for a period of not more than 10 A. By Albert Lyman from the date thereof and to bear interest at a rate or years JCo Comment belt of rushes and flags, its floatrates not in excess of V2 per annum for the purpose of acquiring ing islands, it was the voice of through purchase and construction and improving county recre( o.igrsn ra' supporters of the glad life by day and by night. It ational facilities, including land, buildings and equipment? consystem enterprise is now but a ghastly ho!? in the competitive At said election the polls shall be opened at the hour of 7:00 the way to expand the earth, difficult to get into, more tend that A.M. and shall remain open until and shall be closed at the oclock emincrease and difficult from which to climb out. nations economy hour 8:00 oclock P.M. of road the remove to is loved it We loved it. My father ployment Said election shall be held as nearly as possible in conformity in the years before I came there blocks, both actual and threatened, with him at the age of 11. It was which impede industrial progress. with the general election laws of the State of Utah, and at such a part of his life and his thought. This was their answer to 7,000 election every qualified voter of said County who shall have paid It is a part of mine. My love for AFL-CImembers who journeyed a property tax in said County in the year preceding such election, him to include his love for the to Washington to demand more shall be entitled to vote. lake. He used to talk with the old The polling places and the Judges who are to conduct said Piutes about it, its age, its his- and more government spending election are as follows: more and more and government tory, its strange charm. Officers Regular Election Polling Place Old man Soldiercoat told bim interference with the Districts My dear San Juaners: (Name of Building) the Piutes called it Pagahrrit (acoperations of business. On Saturday, the 25th, our mass meeting Bluff Precinct No. 1 Sheriffs Sub Station cent on the throaty second syllaThe AFL-CIRegistration Agent caravan paused at the ble) and that the word meant was called to pressure Congress Gean Johnson Lake Pagahrrit. It standing water. Soldiercoat said 't into voting to federalize the unJudges of Election couldn't mean as much to any of once had in it a dreadful monster, employment compensation system Mabel lone Hall the rest as it meant to me, for the always hidden in the depths by and to take a wide Mrs. Merlan Jones of advariety whole 36 of them, excepting my day, but raising its head above the ditional action urged by union Opel Howell wife, and Wiley Redd were not surface in the eerie hour3 of night relief bosses as unemployment born till years after my first to sing a betwitching song which Registration Agent lured animals and men to the measures. coming there. reach. Conservative members of ConWe stopped by the old black shore within its octupus-lik- e Angeline Westcott on Capital buttonholed willow tree where I camped with He said three Indians once vent gress, Judges of Election Estella Nielson my father in May, 1891 and at down in the night time to listen, Hill by the crusading union memfrequent intervals for 10 years and never came back. Nora Christensen bers, pointed out that economic When my father said he might thereafter. the nation Lizzie Hall confronting problems In 1891, that tree was clothed have heard it, Soldiercoat said no, Blanding Precinct with bright young leaves, and its he had not heard it; it was heard No. 3 Registration Agent trunk was four or five inches in there no more, for the Indians had Act of August 13, 1954 (63 Stat Lea3. in or beInterest had 708), Mary Stevens killed right Whether any numit. diameter. I have visited it a they Judges of Election ber of times in the last guiled it into a deadly figlit, or ing Act minerals (as defined in I was photographed by it whether they had destroyed it by Section 11 of said Act of August Marion A. Jones 1954) a3 to the their singing and dancing, he did 13, 20 years ago. Ruby Bronson lands or any part thereof, shall not make clear. Now it is but a Hazel Lyman to file in the Land Office of fail Time will not permit of the much the Bureau of Land maze of half-dea- d limbs, the main Management La Sal Precinct No. 4 L. D. S. Church Registration Agent trunk having broken with decay I would like to tell about the dear at Salt Lake City, Utah, and withRoberta Wilcox old is 15 feet from the ground, rising Pagahrrit. It part of my in 150 days from the below stated Judges of Election up in ghostly nakedness from the conscious world, the world in which date of first publication of this Roberta .Wilcox statement a blue the and The verified lives on. which on Notice, past tangled mass, with the hole of an old woodpeckers nest a foot from blue surface of the lake still shall set forth as to such mining Lacy Steele claim: d gleams in the sunlight, its shores Hazel Christensen the top. From its lower limbs, (1) The date of Location; in the sand, little branches are still lined with flags and catCedar Point Precinct (2) book and page of recorthree inches thick are trying to tails, and water birds still nest dationThe Registration Agent the notice or certificate No. 5 of and sing among the tangle of leaf out. Mrs. P. E. Carhart of location; The old tree is still clinging to green rushes along its shores. (3) The section or sections of of Election Judges e life, and may retain its hold for the public land surveys which Pritchard Helen some time to come, but I shall such mining claim; or if Desie Carter such lands are Xinsurveyed either NOTICE OF LEASE probably never see it again. I Nina Gilbreth the section or sections which looked at it and restrained my (PL 583 - Utah 035029) tears. The men with whom I campPublished pursuant to Section would probably embrace such Ucolo Precinct No. 6 Mourer Quonset Registration Agent The names 7 of the Act of August 13, 1954, mining claim when the public ed there in its shade Bemiece Barry land surveyes are extended to such carved (68 Stat, 708) been loved have I to hear Judges of Election lands a by courses and disfor many a year on a tomb. It TO WHOMEVER IT MAY CON- tances or to tie Helen Redshaw an United approved is a hallowed place in my world CERN: Stat mineral monument; Mildred Miller NOTICE CIVEN IS HEREBY of thought, a place enshrined with (4) Whether such claimant is a in pursuance of a proper Request Grace Peterson sacred memories. for Publication heretofore filed In locator or purchaser under such White Canyon PreThe great stretches of bald accordance with Section 7 of the location; and cinct No. 7 (5) The name and address of Registration Agent rocks on each side of the Lake Act of August 13, 1954 (S3 Stat. Mabelle Ferree Gulch are the same as they were; 708) and the regulations there- such claimant and names and addresses so far as known to the of Election Judges they will be the same for eternities under (43 CFR 186.8): 1. That on or about March 16, claimant of any other person or to come. But the once verdant Black Sadie persons claiming any Interest or bottom of the gulch is swept away 1955, effective April 1, 1955, there interests Violet Bowen in or under such unpatfelames. was issued by the United States ented or vitiated by floods or Helen Hakes claim; mining The crystal spring, once surround- of America under and pursuant such failure shall be conclusively No. 8 Aneth Precinct sheltand deto the mineral leasing laws as ed by ferns and violets, deemed (i to constitute a waiver (Combined with Blanered by a thicket of friendly fined in Section 11 of the Act of and relinquishment by such minan Blanding Town Office Registration Agent unsightly August 13, 1954, (68 Stat. 708) ing claimant of any and all right, ding) willows, is now but Claudia Nell Blair water-holsurronded by poison an oil and gas lease to B. A. title, and interest under such minWilliams II, as Lessee, and that ing claim as to, but only as to, Mexican Hat Preivy. Not a vestige of our old corral S. D. Johnson, whose address is Leasing Act minerals, and (ii) to cinct No. 9 San Juan Trading Post Registration Agent a consent by such minremains. The place is hidden un- 1216 Mile High Center, Denver 2, constitute Myrtle H. Davis ing claimant that such mining der a jungle of fallen trees and Colorado, is the present lessee un- claim of Election and issued thereany Judges patent tangles of dead brush through der said lease as to the lands de- for, shall be subject to the reserMrs. Urcil Singleton is ironwood 2 try- scribed in Section of this Notice, vation of Leasing Act minerals which a growth of W. Trudeau once-greeMargaret The it. of No. as live Serial a make to in section 4 of said Act bearing ing specified Anna Pehrson meadow above the lake is shown by the records of the Bur- of August 13, 1954, and (ill) to preclude thereafter any assertion by Gouldings No. 10 cut through with unsightly wash, eau of Land Management, Departsuch mining claimant of any right (Combined with Mex- - San Juan Trading Post es, and covered with big cotton- ment of the Interior; and, woods which have recently been 2. That said lease covers lands or title to or interest In any Leasican Hat) at Mexican Hat Registration Agent set on fire. in the County of San Juan, State ing Act minerals by reason of Leone Goulding such claim. mining the But worst of all, delightful of Utah, described as follows, to BY ORDER OF BOARD OF THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS The of date first of publication old lake is gone! It is washed out wit: SAN JUAN UTAH. this Notice shall be 1959. COUNTY, 8, May 1915. It in RANGE flood November, TOWNSHIP 29 South, by a Dated April 29, 1959. Dated the 20th day of April, 1959. was a delightful place till starving 20 East, Salt Lake MERIDIAN KIRK S. F. WM. C. WALTON 1: cattle dug out the very roots of All Section Acting Manager the sod which had protected it Chairman Section 11: All Salt Lake City, Land Office ATTEST: from the water flooding out over Section 12: All Bureau of Land Management its lower bank. It was alive with 3. That if any person claiming ADA PALMER Department of the Interior water birds swimming on its blue or asserting under, or by virtue County Clerk surface and nesting in the verdure of, any unpatented mining claim First Publication: May 8, 1959. Last Publication: of 1959. enactment the 3, July along its shores. With its thick located prior to rd -- The Old Settler . created, and our industries can increase our industrial output to levels that will make it impossible for the communists to cope with us in the economic war, which Khrushchev and his comrades hope to win. used the mass The AFL-CImeeting as a means of intensifying its campaign for speedy congressional action on its legislative program. Members of the organization were urged to apply pressure on Congress from the grass roots. The goal was expressed graphically by a union leader as follows: All of the program can be if we get he said, passed, enough people to raise hell. Obviously, the union leade-- s in were seeking to capitalize every way possible on the support given, with marked success, to many Senators and Representatives in the 1958 congressional election. It also was clear that they were striving to boost their political strength in preparation for the 1960 Presidential and congreswhen they hope sional election to gain control of the White (continued on page six) ): LEGAL NOTICES Advertisment For Bids Notice is hereby given the Board of County Commissioners, San Juan County, Utah, will receive sealed bids for furnishing of all materials and installing a 6 inch sewer line, excavating and for a distance of apone proximately 650 feet, including 48 feet by 72 inches. Depth of the trench is to be 6 feet. The location of the project is at the new San Juan County Hospital at Monticello. Alternates must be provided for the various types and qualities of sewer tile. All work must conform with regulations and standards as required by the City of Monticello, who will provide supervision and back-fillin- g man-hol- e, inspection. Bids will be publicly opened at the office of the Board of County Commissioners, Monticello, Utah at 2 P.M., May 18, 1959. The successful bidder will be required to begin work within 10 days after awarding of the contract and complete the work in 30 working days. The Board reserves the right tc reject any or all bids or waive any informality in a bid. Board of County Commissioners San Juan County, Utah By Wm. C. Walton, Chairman Attest Ada Palmer, Clerk. 5859 to-w- it: . O O once-beautif- -- half-centur- y; above-describe- d half-decay- half-burie- em-orae- Shell enjoy cleaner, cooler, faster, work-savin- e, g, automatic electric cooking . . . and all the family will enjoy better eating! n '(SEAL) t -- mm&h ii0; P3S ,T 1959 . |