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Show Tourists Left $100 for Every Person in Utah Last Year During 1959, tourists left in other single advertisement ever more than $100 for every placed by the Council. It is hoped man, woman and child in the that the 1960 ad in this magazine state. will be even more productive. Utah ads also appear in such Stated differently, more than well known national publications three million visitors to Utah as National Geographic, Holiday, about while $100,000,000 spent Sunset, and six special purpose they saw the states many at- magazines. In addition, they aptractions. pear in about 15 selected daily These figures emphasize the newspapers. enormous impact of tourism of Utahs economy. And yet, Utah has hardly even begun to realize its full potential in tourism. Studies show that it ranks well below most other states in number of visitors, time spent in the state, and expenditures. To help change this relative "Utah Monticelio, San Juan County, Utah Volume 43 lOtf per copy Friday, Jan. 29, 1960 y .li VDInl01 standing for the better, the State Tourist and Publicity Council now operates on a budget of $118,000 a year in publicizing the state. Though a rather modest In town is the Monticelio Home NEWEST BUSINESS and Auto store. The former Standard Supply was purchased last week by Don Tallent, (left), who will continue his car repair and used car sales work in the back of the store east of town. Earl Waites (right) will continue as manager of the Firestone store, plans to expand with a line of furniture and close out the IH and MM farm implement business. IraMiBedi Charley To Students Eligible For Elks Scholarship The Moab Elks Lodge this week announced their annual Student Award contest for Scholarship on Concert Piano The local Community Concert Assn, will hold a rummage sale Feb. 5 and 6 from 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. in the old City Merc building. Proceeds will be used to reduce the debt on Monticellos $3,000 concert piano bought last year. Donations of usable clothing, household items, furniture and so forth may be left at the homes of the committee sponsoring the sale, Mrs. Edway Redd, Mrs. Donald Adams and Mrs. Joe Adams. If inconvenient to bring articles, a phone call to any committee member will result in items being picked up. 1. Senior high school students desiring to enter the Elks contest may do so by contacting the principal or student counselor of their high school in San Juan or Grand counties. Deadline is Feb. 20. The Moab lodge will give three awards totaling $200. The Utah Elks state association will have five awards totaling $2,500. If the tudent advances to national competition, he is eligible for Elks National Foundations 65 scholarship awards totaling $100,000. f & ( I Redd's Mill Canadian prior to his departure Canadian Mission. Humble During his two-ye- ar for the term of service, he will represent the Monticelio 2nd Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Featured speakers Sunday evening will be Wm. C. Walton and Pearl Walton, aunt and uncle of Elden Allen. Other talks wall be given by Bp. K. S. Summers, Bp. Daryle M. Redd, and Elder Allen. Vocal selections will be presented by the wrard choir. Prayers will be offered by J. Wesley Norton and S. O. Thompson. ot A three-yea- r every 15-m- Dimes Drive Nets $122 at Grade School than 500 individual ap- The Monticelio Elementary school collected $122.23 towards the Dimes March this year, from donation cards taken home by the children. i r The local chapter of the National Foundation said this week they wished to thank local grocery stores for contributing prizes awarded to Elementary school classrooms for outstanding donations, and for refreshments to be served today (Thursday) at the city hall in further efforts. THE '1 lw tAi. MU Picture by schools art teacher Ronald Krogh (left) will be raffled off by NEEDLES COUNTRY the Elementary school. Kids have been pounding the jvement selling 50? chances on the pictures all week. Proceeds will go for art supplies. In charge of the art show is teacher Frank Milner (right). WEATHER g Drive. These blocks were chosen after a survey proved they were in the worst shape and earned the most traffic. Many of these streets were dug up last summer when the new water line system was installed. City Manager Homer Chandler this week gave assurance there would be no special assessment districts for either paving or curbs and gutters. Petitions for curbs and gutters were turned in by on four blocks last summer. Instead of forming special assesstrucks and equipment in Monti-cell- ment districts, city officials decided to furnish engineering A welding and service company and forms for concrete to those with offices in Aneth and Cortez wanting curbs and gutters, and was reported this week to be let the cost be carried by the home-owneseeking a location here. wanting these imDrilling continues on the three provements. offsets to Pures No. 1 NW Lisbon big oil well north of Monti-cellExhibit Belco, off to an early start, Art last weekend, was drilling below P-TA 3,200 feet. Elliott Production Co. Elementary was rigging up, and Pures No. 2 NW Lisbon offset had set surMeeting Feb. face pipe. All three holes will be The Elementary school is hav9,000-foCambrain and Devonan art exhibit Feb. 4 during ing ian tests, the strata that is pro- P.T.A. meeting. barrels a day for ducing 500-60- 0 This exhibit is free to everyone Pures first well. Oil from the discovery well is and teachers urge parents to come out and see the fine being trucked to Greenriver rail- work that the children creative art have been head. working on this year at school. Ronald Krogh, art teacher at the Monticelio schools has been working with the children not only with W'atercolor painting, but with plastic design, plaster painting, graphic lino cuts, clay sculpturing and other medias of art. Krogh is donating a watercolor painting of the Needles Country, which will be raffled off to the lucky ticket holder. Tickets can be purchased from the elementary school children. This money will be used to supplement art supplies for the school. Assistant director of the show is Frank Milner, Elementary school teach- Drilling Ahead with 3 Offsets Four-Come- More To be paved this year, probably starting in May: Second West from Center to Third North; Second East from highway to Second South; First East from Center St. to the highway; First South from Main to Second South; Third North from First West to Third West; and Circle 10 Seismograph Crews here Mow; Three more seismograph crews offices m Monticelio, opened bringing to 10 the number of such crews that have come here since the discovery of oil noith of town in November. Latest additions are General Geophysical, to move in with a crew this Saturday. They came to Monticelio from Moab, The son of A. t. Allen, Span- and will be w'orking south of several months for ish Fork, Elder Allen is a grad- town for uate of Monticelio High school. Ohio Oil Co.; Empire GeophysseisHe served two years as a member ical, Inc., and mograph. of the army. He has been in busHousing, in tight demand, has iness in Monticelio for several been found for most of the crew years. members. Trailers are about the only answ'er for crews moving here from now on. Halliburton is still negotiating for a building to house their fund-raisin- i program to pave block of Monticelio city streets has been gien approval by the city council. First stage will be blacktopping of 14 blocks of the most-use- d streets, with work to begin eaily this spring. Its the first street paving work in Monticelio in four or fie years. Cost of the project will be $8,400 this first year, with an additional 14 blocks to be black-toppe- d the second and third year No. 9 Navajo-106- , to complete paving of all 42 Oil SW Sec. 25, Twp. 41S, blocks within the city limits. The woik will be done through White Mesa field. Lo5,450-foParadox Salt combined efforts of city and county road crews. o, I A. test. Mission peals for the March of Dimes campaign have been mailed to represent the Eastern District San Juan County residents in La of Utah. From 11 such districts Sal, Mexican Hat, Bluff, Out the Utah Mother of the Year 1960 East, Fry Canyon and Montezuma will be chosen. She in turn will Creek, local Dimes officials said become a candidate for 1960 this week. American Mother of the Year. Each appeal contains an enWrite Mrs. D. B. Perkins Monti-cellthat gives area residents velope or Mrs. Walter A. Kerr 132 a way to donate in the personal Lake University St., Salt City for National Foundation program of entry blanks. prevention and research. This funds will go to fight birth year EXPLAIN PENSION PLAN and arthritis as well as defects National field representatives These three cripplers affect polio. of the American Legion will hold one of every four families in the a meeting in Moab Feb. 1 to exaccording to Foundation country, new the plain pension plan for statistics. veterans and their dependents w'hich goes into effect July 1, As funds become available to 1960. the county chapter, financial aid will be provided to children up to age 18 who suffer from arthritis or certain birth defects. As in the past, victims of paralytic polio will also be aided. 0 S vw.1 C NE Elder Harold R. Allen will be Rge. 25E. honored at a Farewrell Testimoncation for ial Sundav, Jan. 31, at 6:30 p. m., test. Trips Saturday And Sunday County N Elder Harold Allen Fire early Monday mormng burned the feed mill at Charley Redd's Ranches in LaSal to the ground. Foreman George White estimated damage at $30,000. The blaze was thought to have Plans are all set for a Chamber been caused by defective wiring, auto trip but exact origin still isnt known. of Commerce-sponsore- d through Monument Valley this The mill was discovered burning between 3 and 4 a. m. Monday, Saturday and Sunday. Private car can make the tup White said there wTas now'. One group will leave at 6 worth of feed in the building. a. m. from the Avalon Cafe, led by Chamber president Ben Hess. Mother of the Year Another group will leave Sunday Still On at 6 a. m. from the Avalon. Any- Search one wishing to go may choose The search for the 1960 State either day, or both. and American Mother of the Year Hess issued a special invitation is now going forward through the to newcomers and seismograph efforts of the American Mothers crew workers to bring their fam- Committee, Inc. ilies and see some of the fabulous Any person or organization, country around Monticelio. There whether civic, social or religious, is no charge, of course, for the may enter the name of a woman trip. It will be necessary to bring they feel is worthy of such an sack lunches, and refreshments honor. will be provided. Her youngest child must be Gordon Wood will lead the over 15 years of age. A divorcee group leaving Sunday, which is is ineligible. All names of candito meet with the Saturday tour dates together with information at 8 a. m. at the San Juan River on the accomplishments of the mother and her children must bridge at Mexican Hat. reach Mrs. D. B. Perkins, Monticelio not later than Feb. 15. From Rummage Sale the list of nominated mothers in Grand, San Juan, Emery and CarTo Help Pay Off bon counties, a committee of three will select one woman to Debt of Coronet issue companying Magazine, which also has a special gatefold cover for your reference. The 1959 ad in Coronet (on page 114) brought in almost 15,000 inquiries more than any o. HAROLD R. ALLEN $30,000 Fire Takes Sight-Seein- g private firms. Illustrative of the type of advertising placed by the Council is the ad appearing in the ac- 1960-6- NEW LOCATIONS No. 21 Navajo Texaco, Inc. SE NE SW Sec. 22, Twp. 40S, Rge. 26E. Ismay Field. Location for 5, 575-foIsmay test. No. 2 Navajo Texaco, Inc. V, C NE NW Sec. 25, Twp. 41S, Rge. 20E. West Tohonadia field area. Location for 5,200 Desert Creek test. No. 30 Navajo Phillips Pet. C Sec. NE SW 22, Twp. 41S, A, Rge. 24E. White Mesa Field. Location foi 5,650-foo- t, Desert Creek ot out-of-sta- te Son Juan Report SAN JUAN COUNTY J, Streets To be Blacktopped In 3 Years, 14 Blocks in 1960 All Drilling sum when compared with many other states, this amount is still the highest legislative appropriaadvertion devoted to state-wid- e tising of Utah during the past decade. The major part of the Councils budget $89,000 is used directly in the advertising program. More than half, or $48,000, is spent for advertising in key magazines and metropolitan newspapers, while $41,000 is spent for printed material, films, displays, news releases and photographs, etc. Purpose of the magazine and newspaper advertising is to interest people enough to write in and for detailed information during 1959 more than 100,000 prospective visitors did write in to the Council for copies of its many publications. Nearly 60 of all inquiries were actual coupons, while the balance were in the form of letters. A fourth of all inquiries, interestingly enough, were from children studying about Utah in school. To fill these requests for information, the Council in 1959 distributed about 600,000 different pieces of literature, including scenic booklets and folders published by the Council, official road maps issued by the State Road Commission, and many items published by local chambers of commerce, government agencies, and Number 52 home-owne- rs o. rs o. at 4 ot er. PRO INSTRUCTOR Sverre Engen, profession skier in Utah and on most of the big ski slopes, came to Monticelio last week to give instruction on the Blue Mountain slope. He showed his film of skiing at the schools and to a crowd of more than 200 at Lions Club Monday. Here he coaches (left) Lindy Hess, 12, and (right) Mrs. Steve Eager. well-know- n Action Started For Tourist, Trade, Selections newiy-forme- d Council for candidates to the county tourist and industrial development board have been sent to county commissioners. An organizational meeting will be held today, Thursday, at 7:30 p. m. at the courthouse. The group will have a $7,000 budget to woik with this year, and will with the state tourist and publicity council to encourage trade and tourists to Republicans Set County Convention The San Juan County Republican central committee will meet next Monday at Blanding to set up procedure for precinct meetings to select delegates to the county convention Feb. 15. From the county convention delegates to the state GOP convention will be selected. County chairman Bill Cline of Blanding said this week hed recommend eight delegates from Blanding and four from Monticelio, on the basis of Republican votes cast two years ago. A contribution of $300 has been asked by the state for elections this vear. About half of that will be returned to San Juan County Republicans for use heie. Democrat county chairman F. Bennion Redd was out of tow'n this week and unavailable for comment as to date of Democrat mass meetings to select state delegates. Federal Grazing Land Board Directors Homed The Monticelio Grazing Dis- trict recently completed advisory board elections in the two grazing districts under its administration. Each advisory board consists of seven members who offer advice and recommendations on a variety of subjects affecting the use and care of the federal range land. In Utah grazing district No. 6, Clarence Perkins of Blanding was as cattle representative. Fred Halliday was elected as a sheep representative. Other board members are K. S. Summers, Melvin Dalton and Clyde Nielson of Monticelio and Lloyd Adams and Wendall Jones of Blanding. In grazing district No. 9, William Cunningham of Cisco, Utah, w as as cattle representative and Dan McIntyre of Hotchkiss, Colo., Was elected as sheep representative. Other board members are Alton Halvorson, Green River; Jim McPherson and Dan Winfourn of Moab and John Allies and Frank Meaker of Montrose, Colo. Both districts nominate and ballot by mail. In Monticelio district there was a return of 58 per' cent of the ballots. In district No. 9, A fewr skiffs of snow fell early there was a 79 per cent return of and the ballots a very good return, acWednesday morning, forecast was for more tonight. cording to the BLM office here. |