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Show UHIVEBSAL IHCaOFIUnNG CQHP PIElflPONT S. LT LXE CITY IF 11--1 Intoxicated driving leads to one wreck, two lines SrrSf" 3 -- p- fu vh) sf; t Volume 45 Monticello, San Juan County, Utah Bailey, Freestone, Nielson & Some 276 voters turned out in Monticello Tuesday to elect NO ONE was injured Monday afternoon when this car, driven by Frank Clark of Monticello, left the highway coming up the mill hill and overturned on its side in the ditch. Clark had two of his children with him but they w'ere not injured. Record Photo ing under the influence in city iurt Tuesday and was fined 515(1 and his drivers license was revoked by City Judge Philip Palmer. John J. Vigil, also of Monticello, was fmed $150 and his license was revoked by Judge Palmer Monday after Vigil plead guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. C.ty Police Chief Art apprehended Vigil Friday. Driving while under the influence of intoxicating beverages ended in one accident this week and stiff fines and license suspension for two drivers. Frank Clark, 42, of Monticello acwas involved in a one-ccident on the mill hill Monday afternoon at approximately 4:45. Clark was coming into Montcello when his car left the road, struck a sand barrel and overturned on its side in the right barrow ditch. Tw'o of Clarks children were with him at the time of the accident but there were no injuries. Clark pleaded guilty to driv- ar ir Bid opening set for Road 261 Hunter injured in cliff fall Frank Holloway, Austin, Texas, is reported in satisfactory condition at San Juan County hospital here after being rescued from a Wash in Montezuma Creek Saturday night. Holloway was reportedly hunting in the area when he stumbled and fell off a ledge some 65 feet into the wash. He lay in the wash for nearly two hours with only his face out of water until Sheriffs Deputies Rigby Wright and Dick Smith were able to reach him, following a request for help from a fellow hunter. Holloway was rescued by Wright and Smith assisted by Silas Barton, Stephen Huston and Jimmy Hazle-wooand wras brought to the hospital by Fint Hughes. Holloway suffered a fractured pelvis and from exposure to d, Bids will be opened at 2 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 14, at the new State Office Building behind the Capitol Building in Salt Lake City, for a construction contract to surface State Road 261 in San Juan County, according to an announcement by C. Taylor Burton, Director of Highways. The project will be 13.5 miles in length beginning 9.6 miles south of State Road 95 and extending southerly to Mokee Dugway. State Road 261 is a connecting road between the community of Mexican Hat and the Natural Bridges Monument to the north. The principal materials to be used in the construction are as follows: 1285 tons of bituminous material; 32,000 tons of gravel surface type B; and 38,000 cubic yards of gravel base course. The project is to be completed in 120 working days. Joseph Q. Adair is District Engineer in charge of the project, with District Headquarters in Price. v-- coun-cilme- Sen. Wallace F. Bennett (R--' terials, Utah), a member of the Joint ings. Committee on Atomic Energy, wall visit Moab Nov. 15 to participate in hearings on the uranium industry, it was disclosed today. Sen. Bennett, who visited Monticello and Bianding recently to tour the area of the proposed Canyon Lands National Park and the Southern Utah National Parkway, will join Congressman Wayne Chairman of the Subcommittee on Raw Ma-As-pin- - in conducting the hear- the tanker was apparently traveling st a speed too Rust to negotiate the corner. The truck struck a wooden bridge railing and commenced overturning, tearing out several feet of fence on the Karl Barton property. Two sets of wheels were torn fio:n beneath the truck and tank trailers, which were full two principal subjects: the current raw materials program and problems facing the uranium 1966. Witnesses scheduled for Nov. 15 include Richard S. Newlin, Anaconda; Miles P, Romney, Utah Mining Association; Eugene Hotchkiss, Vitro Minerals Corp.; Mr. Erickson, Western Uranium Corp.; Robert S. Shriver; Norman E. Ebbley, Uranium Corp.; Herbert Fbote; Jerry Stocks; Calvin Black; Mesa Mining and Drilling Company; Alva Rockwell; W. R. Bronson, Bronson Mining Company; and R. J. Stoehr of Home Stake Mining Company. Scheduled for Nov. 16 is Cotter Ferguson of the Federal Resources Corporation. Additional wdtnesses are expected to be scheduled, according to Sen. Bennett. , S', STREWN WRECKAGE of a crude oil tank truck owned by Virgil Saling of Farmington, N. M., and driven by Don Stroup of Farmington is shown in this Record photo. The truck skidded and overturned several times at the bottom of Verdure Tuesday afternoon. Apparently going too fast to Tax collections slow, 97 left paid prior to that date. Delinquent tax lists will be published in December. The two biggest tax bills mailed out of the treasurers office this year went to Texaco this year for county residents and Superior Oil. Texaco reand businesses Was approxi-matle- y ceived a tax notice for 8 million and to date $5 and Superiors bill was only $181,500 has been paid. $604,639.05. Taxpayers were reminded by Miss Bayles that as of noon, Nov. 30, a 2 percent penalty would be charged on taxes not $853,-150.2- Peterson to be Mrs. Coombs Hal! is Mexican Hat writer here Tuesday Mrs. Coombs (Maxine) Hall begins this week as the Mexican Hat correspondent for The Record. Mrs. Hall will be gathering the news in and around the Mexican Hat area and anyone who has an item of interest should contact her. Also Mrs. Hall will he acting as a subscription agent and anyone in the Hat area desiring to subscribe to The Record should contact her. M. Blaine Peterson congressman from Utahs Congressional District, will be in Monticello on Tuesday, Nov. 14. Representative Peterson will be at the court house in Monticello at 1 p.m. Tuesday to discuss problems and legislative action with residents of the county. All interested persons are invited to meet with Congressman Peterson at this informal discussion. Peterson will be accompanied by his wife on his visit here. commissioners approve raise in salary for elected county officials GLEN CANYON DAM reached to 310 feet this week of the 710 feet required for the completed dam. So far, 1,883,622 cubic yards of concrete have been poured with 5 million cubic yards needed prior to completion. Completion date for the dam has been set for the spring of 1964. The dam, being built across the Colorado P.iTer near Page, Ariz., wrill back ' water well into San Juan County when it is completed and the reservoir filled. Record Photo Pay raises for six elected county officials were approved by the county commissioners at their regular weekly meeting here Monday. t Officials who will receive the pay hike are the county attorney, county treasurer, county assessor, county recorder, sheriff and the clerk and auditor. Salaries of all of these officers were raised to $7,000 per year effective Nov. 1. Previous salaries were $6,200 per year. The state legislature provided that Class 2 counties, of which San Juan is one, could pay $7,000 to elected officials. Considerable discussion by commissioners preceded the motion for approval of the pay raises. STATE OFFERS SnED The commissioners were read a letter from the State Road Commission offering their shed at the time of the tiple lacerations, abrasions and bruises. The accident occurred The truck was owned by at about 2:22 p.m. Tlie trailer tanks were severVirgil Sating of Farmington and was used to haul crude oil ed from the tractor in the crash and although one tank to the refinery in Anoth. Stroup was reportedly thrown had been punctured, the leakfrom the cab of the truck and ing oil did not catch fire. The received a fractured left ankle, accident report listed the truck multiple rib fractures ar.d mul as a total loss. of crude oil Only about 3 percent of real The hearings will be held mining and oil property estate, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. taxes have been paid so far ac15 and 16, beginning at 9 a.m. to Miss Marion Bayles, in the Grand County Court cording treasurer. Miss Bayles House in Moab. They will cover county stated that the total tax bill industry after Number 41 accidert. j--- t j, hearings in Moab next week 'if r Bennett will attend uranium S'? ; Don Stroup, 27, of Farming-ton- , N. M., is in serious conficers will replace present dition at San Juan County Hosn pital here follow mg an accident Mayor Morris Nelson and A. Jay Redd and E. P. at the bottom of Verdure TuesBud Corbin whose terms of day afternoon which virtually office expire. AH new officers demolished the crude oil tank truck he was driving. terms. wTere elected for According to sheriffs officers A concerted write-i- n camfailed to materialize de- who investigated the accident, Kenneth Bailey, Jr., as mayor of Monticello for the next four years and Arlow Freestone and Milton Nielson as city council-meAll were members of the Citizens part. paign Approximately half of the spite repeated rumors that this 564 registered voters went to would occur. the polls Tuesday despite the fact that only one slate of candidates were nominated. Engine failure lends Unofficial tally of the votes indicate that Bailey received to forced landing 2G8 votes for mayor. A. Jay Redd received six votes on a Approximately $1,500 damwrite-i- n for mayor. Nielson age was caused to a Cessna 182 polled the most votes in his race at Monticello airport Monday for a council seat, taking 276, morning when D. J. Darts of or 100 percent of the total vote Bianding, owner and pilot of the cast- - Arlow Freestone received plane, was forced into emer267 votes. gency landing after a complete for mayor power failure. Other write-i- n included Jack Burr, 1 vote; CorDavis relates that he was liss Chapman, 1 vote and Bob coming in from Moab and was Anderson, 1 vote. Write-in- s for the council and making his approach prepatory the number of votes were: A. to landing. When he attempted Jay Redd 1, Frank Redd 1, to apply power, there was none Ken Bailey 2, Joe Jackson 1, and he was forced to chop his Moms Nelson 1 and Bud Cor- pattern in half. The nose gear of the plane collapsed on the bin 1. Official canvass of the votes soft east side of the runway will be made by the city council and the plane slid to the runat their next meeting. way. Davis received only a three newdy elected of- - or cut from the accident- n. Thursday, November 9, 1961 per copy win mayor, council posts ,5. C 0$! Accident totals tanker; driver serious V cold. 1 at a price of $2,500. It was agreed that the county would buy the shed providing the purchase included pumps, pump house and storage tanks at the area and also providing payment could be made after the first of the year. ASKS HELP K. E. McDougald of Moab was present at the meeting to ask that the county help in improving the landing strip at La Sal Junction. Since the strip is privately owned the commissioners stated the countys help would be limited to blading the strip when the county equipment Would be in that that the state purchase and install the beacon and San Juan County would furnish the power and supply maintenance. ROAD REPAIRS APPROVED Proposals by Kent Frost for repair on the Old Mormon Trail road and on the Needles road were approved by the commissioners. Frost submitted proposals whereby he would repair the Old Mormon Trail for $425 and the Needles road for $550. MEETING POSTPONED Commissioners postponed the regular Nov. 13 meeting until Nov. 14 due to- the meeting area. planned with the State Road Commission in Salt Lake on the BEACON AT HAT BRIDGE The commissioners agreed to 13th. The Salt Lake meeting the installation of a flashing has been called to endeavor to beacon at the Mexican Hat get the state to commit funds bridge with the understanding for the proposed Aneth Road. - negotiate the curve, the truck sideswiped the bridge in the background and tore out several feet of fence on the Karl Barton property before it came to rest. Stroup is in San Juan County Hospital in serious condition. Record Photo Local men fake over mail route Dove Creek bean trial in Denver Sam Lee and King Barton the Durhave The trial of Bruce M. Brandt, ango to Thompson mail route from Bill Gresko who holds the former Dove Creek bank ofgovernment contract for that ficial, and Harold Tanner, service. bean warehouseman, on of misapplication of his charges have purchased They trucks and shop building, and $208,000 of Dove Creek bank King has bought the Greskos funds got underway in Denver house. The Gresko family is this week. now living in Phoenix, Ariz. Brandt, formerly vice president and cashier of the Dove Creek bank, and Tanner alled-gedl- y Man and son objects conspired in securing loans both from the Dove Creek of jeep patrol search bank and other banks on bean warehouse receipts which were Tom Redd and his young son bogus and on some duplicate were objects of a Jeep Patrol receipts that had been used for search Wednesday morning but loans in several different banks. both returned to Monticello The defense attorney for safely about 9:30 a.m. Brandt and Tanner told a Denservice manager at ver Federal Court jury hat all Tom, Redds, and son David, 5, left transactions made by Brandt Monticello in a wrecker Tues- with Tanner had been approved day morning on a trip to Elk by the owners of the bank. No Ridge to haul in a stalled ve- witnesses had as yet been callhicle. When the pair did not of Tuesday. return Tuesday night, Sheriff ed to tesitfy as Max King and Edway Redd went to the area. Tom and David had and snow until after dark but finally managed to get out and then drove to the nearby New Verde mine where they were fed and lodged for the night. When Sheriff King and Edway arrived at about 3 a.m. they picked up Tom and David and removed the stalled vehicle and returned to Monticello. By NORMAN LUNDELL In the meantime the Jeep Patrol, not knowing that Tom William R. Hurst Was returnand David had been found due ed to the mayor office in Biandto lack of communications, with a total of 318 ing Tuesday on started a search Wednesday morning. A plane out of Biand- votes as the Peoples Tarty ing flew the area and when it swept the election. His was apparent that Tom and Keith Black of the CitiDavid were not in the area, the zens Party received 177 votes. patrol returned to town. Glen A. Shumway garnered Commander Paul Strong and members of his jeep patrol were 333 votes, the greatest number commended for their fast action of any candidate, to become City Councilman. in rendering assistance. Marvin F. Lyman was reScenes around town turned to the council with 289 votes. La Van Palmer with 124 Spring weather returns today . . . skier saying one more foot votes and Lyle Johnson with 237 of snow and season begins . . . votes were defeated in their efpeople planning trips for holi- fort to become councilmen. day . . . Henry concerned about A total of 495 votes were not getting any votes this year east. This is 52 more votes than . . . Eddie sending bag cf broken tees to Hub after Moab the 443 ballots cast in the city elections of 1959. golf game. Ca-ho- Peoples Parly wins Bianding cily election |