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Show ) Mpiisizpont 7 Hat, Bluff chambers propose Canyonlands Trail route Gaylord Stavely, secretary of the Mexican Hat Chamber of Commerc.e proposed to the Monticello Chamber of Commerce at a meeting here Tuesday the Idea of naming the route from Crescent Junction to Kayenta, or any other limits desired, to be known as the Canyonlands Trail. Mr. Stavely related that after looking at maps produced by the Navajo Trails Association, the southern chambers found that the route through San Juan County was not necessarily on the Trail and that the scenic loop through the area shown on the maps was not actually an inherit part of the Navajo Trail He stated that Canyonlands Trail was now merely an idea but that an organizational meeting to form a Canyonlands Trail Association would be held in Blanding at the city at 8 office Friday, April 13 p.m. All chambers and from Kayenta representatives Redd asserted that the days of this locality being on the Navajo Trail were numbered unless funds were donated to the Navajo Trail Association since the association could very easily remove the loop now shown on the Navajo Trail map. Chamber president Jim Black said that this appeared very likely since he had been informed in a talk with Ralph Burress, president of the Navajo Trails Association, that the loop had been placed on the map for the benefit of this area but that if support were not received the loop could be removed. SUPPORT PARKWAY The Monticello Chamber went on record as heartily supporting Senator Wallace F. Bennetts proposed southern Utah parkway. If approved by the Congress the Bennett bill would provide a parkway in southern Utah connecting the National Parks and Monuments all across the southern portion of the state. to Grand Junction have been invited to this meeting. Mr. Stavely indicated that the JEEP CLUB TOUR Paul Strong, commander of Moab Chamber had been contacted and favored the idea the San Juan County Sheriffs as did the Blanding Chamber Jeep Patrol, informed the of Commerce. Monticello chamber that he had invited Chamber members agreed to other Jeep Patrols within the have a delegation attend the state and in the national ormeeting and to study the pro- ganization to tour the Needles posal and prepare a resolu- Area and that three clubs had indicated a desire to make tion for the next meeting. the trip. Kent and Fern Frost DOVE CREEK to guide Cecil Martin, one of three have volunteered Dove Creek representatives the group through the area at the Tuesday meeting, relat- on June 8, 9 and 10 and Mr. ed that Dove Creek was also Strong suggested' the chamber concerned about the relocation stage a supper or some other Trail as for festivity to welcome the clubs. was of the Navajo years U.S. 160 from Cortez Action on the matter to Monticello and south postponed until the next through the county had been ing. considered the Navajo Trail. NEXT MEETING REDESIGNATION Concerning the proposed redesignation by the Colorado Highway Department of U.S. 160 to some other number It was reported that nearly all of the local communities the route opposed the change. The Dove Creek delegation indicated that their county commissioners opposed the change and Juan San Commission County man Marion Chairread a Hazleton letter which he had written to the Utah State Highway Commission opposing and redesignation. Both the Monticello and Moab Chambers have also written letters in opposition to any route reV numbering. Chamber member Edway Frank Beeson to receive award Frank A. Beeson, a resident of Monticello and Utah Power and Light Co. employe, will receive a citation Friday for outstanding achievement 'in safety. He has worked continuously for 10 years or longer in hazardous occupations without a lost-tim- e accident. Mr. Beeson was among 1,880 Utah Power employes who set a new work record last year s of one million accident. without a lost-timThe record brought the utiliman-hour- e ty a safety achievement award for outstanding performance in accident prevention from the Edison Electric Institute the industrys largest est trade organization. and old- President Black meet- informed the chamber that a resolution was being drafted concerning the chambers stand on the Canyonlands National Park issue and would be brought up for consideration at the next regular meeting. Range condition now very good Soil moisture is very good on ranges throughout the county according to Harley M. Handy, district manager of the Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Handy pointed cut that the grass is beginning to grow in the lower areas causing the livestock to travel picking out the green grass. The cows are calving and the sheepman are getting ready to begin shearing, Mr. Handy said, and conditions look very favorable for a good range season this year. Sign-u- p extended The closing date for spring in the 1962 Feed Grain, Barley, and spring wheat programs is extended to include April 14, in view of proddifficulty confronting ucers because of unusually bad weather and the pending change in legislation affecting the Summer Fallow Area, according to Richard L. Holy-oak- , Jr., office manager of the San Juan County ASC sign-u- State Supreme Court will hear boundary dispute County Attorney . Bennion Redd announced this week that the appeal by Grand and San Juan Counties concerning the boundary line between the counties will be heard by the State Supreme Court beginning at 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 10. Grand County first appealed the district court decision after the district court decided that It did not have and contended jurisdiction, that the district court did have jurisdiction, and the dispute should have been settled in Grand Countys favor. San Juan County appealed contending that the district court did have jurisdiction and should have found in favor of San Juan County. Three courses o action are open to the Supreme Court. It can find that the district court was correct in its verdict, instruct the district court to render a decision or the high court can itself render a decision in the matter. Mr. Redd pointed out that the dispute over the boundary has been In the air off and on since 1881. Involved Is approximately 23,000 acres of land on the north San Juan County boundary. The strip is 3,500 feet in width ard extends for the 54 mile length of the boundary. Much of the strip is In, potash rich territory south of the Texas Gulf Sulphur plant, however the potash mill and shaft are In Grand County. ClTV- - xr Pioneer Dan Perkins dies in horse-truc- k Daniel B. Perkins, 81, Monticello churchman, stockman and rancher, was killed instantly Wednesday morning when the horse he was riding along U.S. 160 east of Monticello was struck by a truck. The accident occurred at 11:50 a.m. at The Vega; three miles east of Monticello. Mr. Perkins was riding his horse east along the highways edge and as he crossed the Vega fill he rode to the center of the traffic lane, according to Sheriff Max King who investir gated the accident. A and trailer, also traveling east, came over a small rise and struck the horse and rider. The truck driver, Robert Stuart Withers, 35, Sandy, truck-tracto- Volume 46 Mr. 9, g y 1889-190- -- DAN PERKINS lOtf per copy Contract let for Monticello Council Dead An official position regarding Canyonlands National Park was taken by the Monti-eellCity Council at their regular meeting Wednesday evening. After considerable discussion the council decided to submit a resolution at the park field hearings to be held here on Friday, April 20. The councils resolution stated that the park should be reduced in area to include only the Needles area and scenic areas contiguous thereto. It affirmed that park headquarters should be located at Squaw Springs and that the area between the rivers and the stream beds should be eliminated from the- - proposed park. HEALTH MEMO The council discussed a memo from the State Health Department which outlined the possibility of cities with unapproved water supplies to obtain provisional approval by meeting certain qualifications. Further study gn the matter will be necessary to determine the possibility locally. ELECTRIC LITIGATION Also discussed Wednesday was possible anti-trulitigation against electrical equipment manufacturers. City At- o MHS track crew L. 10-1- 7 Patriotic Fly-i- n sponsored by Hat Chamber A Mexican Is being sponValley Fly-Isored by the Mexican Hat Chamber of Commerce for May 25, 26 and1 27, according to Gaylord Stavely, chamber n secretary. Pilots throughout at GJ. Saturday The Monticello High school track squad will see their first competitive action this Saturday at an invitational meet at Grand Junction High school, according to track coach Tom Burr. According to Coach Burr the teams prospects this season are not too favorable due to bad weather and the inability to practice in the open. As of Tuesday evening the squad had been able to work outside only three times. T h i n c 1 a d s journeying to Grand Junction will be sophomores and juniors since all the seniors will be away on the senior trip and this, too, will hamper chances for placing In this first meet. Returning lettermen from last year Include George Walton, Larry Perkins, Keith Jack Nielson, Bill Hyde, Young, Dave White and Grant Nielson. Keith Nielson placed first in the district half mile last year and the mile relay team finished first In the district. A total of five meets are tentatively scheduled for this season. The next meet will be at Blanding, then one here, the BYU invitational meet and the district meet in May. the try will begin receiving counlet- the and inviting them to event. participate in the Festivities planned include an evening barbecue on May 25 with showing of colored slides and movies. A full day Jeep tour into Monument Valley is on the agenda for the 26th ending in the evening with a chuck wagon western ters shortly announcing Fly-I- Horse Point visitor's shelter Construction of a new visi- n dinner. Scenes around town Spring fever getting in the blood Roy McDonald and Ben Casey from Happy Jack mine sporting new leg casts irrigation ditches getting cleaned John Lewis wishing his horse had bigger hooves kids counting days until school Is out housecleaning seasonal ...... coming up. Minneapolis, McQuarrie, Minn.; and Minerva Duncan, Calif ; 12 grand Yarcaita, children and Number 10 Thursday,' April 5, 1962 8 Pages Buckley Christenson files for assessor Buckley Christensen, Monticello, this week filed on the Democratic party ticket for San Juan County Assessor. Mr. Christensens filing brings the total of filings to date for county offices to eleven and he is the second to file for the post of assessor. Incumbent Assessor Ralph Burtenshaw R) had filed earlier. Mr. Christensen is a lifelong resident of Monticello and this is his first venture into political action. He has been employed by Youngs Machine Shop since 1949 and is married and has four children. 2 Canyonlands committee urges unified effort A unified effort on the part of the Utah delegation was urged by the San Juan County Canyonlands committee at a meeting at the court house here Tuesday night. After considerable deliberation and discussion the committee decided to make no change in their previous resolution concerning the proposed Canyonlands National Park and decided to write to Senators' Moss and Bennett to urge that the matter be considered by both in a bipartisan manner to the benefit of the state of Utah and San Juan County. Members of the committee Tuesday were Chairman Gene Foushee, Gordon Miner, Don Barton and Carl Mikesell. The committees original resolution, which was approved by the majority of some 75 persons attending a Monticello Chamber of Commerce sponsored meeting on March 6) is as follows; In an attempt to arrive at a sound, unified stand the proposed eoneerning Canyonlands National Park, a committee was appointed by the San Juan County Commissioners. The committee was to be and was made up of members representing various businesses of the county. The committee believes that true multiple use is not possible In a National Park, as this clearly is contrary to Park policy; there- - fore, we donbt that the present Moss Bill (S 2387) could become law as it Is g - r. a ts l.i cour- cattle. Survivors include his widow, Cornelia; children, Mrs. Glen (Ula) Wallace, Santa Clara, Calif; Lloyd Perkins, Santa Barbara; Mrs. Clynn (Norma) Young and DeMar Perkins, Monticello; a brother, John Perkins, Monticello; sisters, Ruth Bailey, Snowflake, Ariz.; Sarah Barton, Montiand cello; Gladys Lyman Irene Lyman, Blanding; Vira n i z&j l .w 1 Weather through the tesy of Virgil Eastin. seven bishops. He has been a stake high council member, Sunday School Stake Board member, YMMIA Stake Board member, Sunday School teacher, and has completed numerous other church capacities. He was San Juan County Assessor for 12 years and he was a charter member of the Monticello Lions Club. He was a member of the town council and had served 37 years as water commissioner for the Blue Mountain Irrigation Co. Mr. Perkins had attended Young Brigham University and Utah State Agriculture College. He was noted as a fine speaker and scholar. He written or if it did pass, true multiple nse would be eliminated as this is left State Park, the Utah State to the Interior Secretarys Park and Recreation Commisjurisdiction. sion announced today. Based on a preliminary Contract for erection of the of the economics of study $15,047 structure has been let the stock-raisinindustry, to Jerico Construction Compmineral development, and any of Salt Lake City. Comtourism, it was determined pletion is expected within 60 that all are vital to a healthy in time for the heavy county economy. With these traffic" expected to visit the figures as a basis for depark this year, according to cision, the committee preAldin O. Hayward, park comsented the following statemission director. ment in the form of a resoluSURVEY The new center will be 120 PARKWAY tion tit an open county meetfeet long and 95 feet wide, FUNDS ing: We want a. National REQUESTED constructed of native stone Park comprised of several National Park Director Conand steel beams. Part of it small areas of particular inwill be open to the sky and rad L. Wirth has informed the terest which are Joined toCompart will be enclosed within Senate Appropriations gether by roads with wide rock walls mittee that $80,000 could be right of ways. This would The shelter was jointly de- used economically during the all be under National Park next commisfiscal to the the signed by year study park management and maintension and the state building location of the Southern Utah ance in complete accordance board and will be located on National Parkway proposed with National Park policy. the very tip of Dead Horse by Senator Wallace F. BenI.arge areas surrounding Point. Visitors to the park nett the National Park would be a memorandum to the In may stand under the shelter under joint jurisdiction of and look out over 5,000 square senate committee Director the Bureau of Land Managemiles of southeastern Utah. Wirth stated The study conment and the Utah State of new S 2280 in (Benshelter the Design templated Park Commission. The suris in a sunburst shape to give netts hill) could he completed rounding areas, or buffer viewers a feeling of the vast- in one fiscal year. Accordingzone, could be a National ness in the panorama of can- ly, the National Park Service Recreation area under Nariuse could the yons, gorges, mountains, economically tional Park Service jurisand pla- full $80,000 which the survey vers, buttes, domes diction prov ided multiple teaus, which can be seAi from is estimated to cost in the use would continue. It Dead Horse Point. 1963 fiscal year. The Park would also he the responA protective rock wall has Service suggested, however, sibility of the National Park also been constructed around that the study might be broadService to prov ide access the edge of the actual point ened to include not only southroads to the Park as a safeguard for small ern Utah, but also adjoining The report of the governors tates. children, Mr. Hayward said. committee to study Canyonf i lands, the report on- economic t .study from the University of Utih and Senator Bennetts latest proposal were discussed by the committee, however it . . TZZr V r, 4, : was decided that no single bill should be approved since none are in true accord with -' V the committees resolution and V v . ' s findings. Z ' Gordon Miner read letters he had received as to the ef' Vo fects of mining language In v. r the McKinley National Park bill and was informed in, the .. 4' k"V',VV J . t ?, t f letters that mining had just y ' 1 if '' not been a reality in the Alasi ft jffyJ , ka park due to the restrictions t m placed on entry and prospectv v ing by the Secretary of the ? ,.AeV Interior. The McKinley park Yjf; encompasses 9 million acres and although prospecting is fKs permitted, only one airfield v ,4 be used and a recent may , I?:- : helicopter prospecting party , jkv 4 was disbanded when it was ' found, that only the one airfield could be used, according to Mr. Miners Information. Committee members emCONSTRUCTION on the Recapture Wash bridge and road relocation project on phasized that only through U 262 south of Blanding is now well underway by the contracting firm, Whiting the combined efforts of all Utah congressmen can a & Raymond, Springville. Shown in the photo is the new cut being made to ap- the bill adequate for Utah and proach the wash, where the three span steel bridge will be located. Approxi- San Juan Countys needs be mately 1.84 miles of road are being relocated to circumvent the old twisting drafted. Political emphasis be forgotten In a bill roadway. The contracting firm bid $193,574 for the project which is to be com- should so important to the state, Record Photo. the committee asserted. pleted in 120 working days. tors shelter will begin next Anderson week at Dead Horse Point Robert was requested to make a study of the costs and possible recovery from such action and report at a future council meeting. REQUEST BIDS The council decided that bids would be requested for insurance for the fire station. Stray dog problems were again taken up by the counwas cil and authorization made for the building of a dog trap to be used to corral stray canines. PATRIOT WEEK Mayor Kenneth Bailey, with the approval of the council, be proclaimed that June proclaimed City Week in cooperation with the Strengthening America Through Education groups efforts to enlighten local people to the values of education in our country. tomey 1881 pioneers Beniamin and Mary Ann Williams Perkins. He moved to Monticello as a child and has lived here continuously since then. He was married to Margaret Jones Aug. 24, 1904 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She preceded him in death. He later married Cornelia Adams Oct. 16, 1912 in the Salt Lake Temple. They would have celebrated their Golden Anniversary this year. A life-lonmember of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, Mr. Perkins served as a missionary In the southern states In He and his wife also filled a - adopts park policy crash Perkins was bom May San Juan Stake mission. From was also known as a lover of in the pioneer com- 1910 to 1937 he served as a fine cattle and horses. In remunity of Bluff, the son of bishops counselor under cent years he raised pure bred said the rider did not look back. Sheriff King stated the truck swerved to the left of the highway in an attempt to avoid the man and the horse Mr. Perkins body was found 67 feet from the point of Impact . Damage to the truck, owned by Harold Crane, West Jordan, was slight. Both the driver and relief driver, Robert Lee Hager, 38, Salt Lake City, who was asleep, escaped injury. No citations were Issued. This was the first highway fatality of the year in San Juan County. Funeral services w ill be held Saturday, April 17, at 2 p.m. in- the Monticello LDS Chapel. Burial will be in the Monticello Cemetery. Monticello, San Juan County, Utah p office. Hjce CQJ3 f - '1 a I V |