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Show Bond bids opened; irrigation plan discussed Opening of bids on $250,000 worth of the citys general obligation bonds and approval of necessary engineering on the proposed pressure irrigation system were items taken up by the Monticeilo City Council at their regular meeting Wednesday evening. GOOD RATE Four firms submitted bids on the city's bond, the funds from which will be used to construct the water treatment plant and storage reservoir. Goodbody & Co., Salt Lake City, had the low net interest rate for the bonds of 3.6223 per cent Total gross interest under their bid would be $112,835 and the council passed the bond sale ordinance and authorized its publication. understanding that the line from the high school to the golf course might be deleted at this time. This would lower the cost to near $281,000 and with the $250,000 in bonds and reserve funds from the city, this portion of the project could be completed. The council gave their approval to the plan and Mr. An- derson was authorized to continue with engineering and preparation of the plans for building. Also to be bid with the pressure irrigation system will be the 25 acre foot storage reservoir at the treatment plant site. question. USE Max DalDeVere Halls and the Blue ton, representing Mountain Irrigation Co., questioned the citys use of South Creek water indicating that it was their understanding that the city was using water from South Creek proper which was in violation of the agreement between the city and the ir rigation company. The city maintained that this was not the case and all parties agreed to inspect the South Creek system and its operation as soon as weather permits. Volume 48 Monticeilo, San Juan County, Utah 101 per copy Chamber to host Utahns on Needles trip Saturday MONTICELLQ persons from up state had made reservations and it is anticipated that the caravan will include at least 50 persons when it leaves Monticeilo. MEET AT AVALON Friday night - the Utahns board of directors and invited guests will gather at a dinner meeting In the Avalon Cafe. Gaylord Staveley, Mexican Hat, regional vice president of the organization, said a board of directors meeting would follow the banquet. Chamber members Tuesday expressed the hope that the Saturday tour would help to stimulate more interest in the park proposal in an attempt to get passage of the park bill this year. 21 Arrange- 10 Pages Thursday, April 16, 1964 Number 12 -- has low bid on San Juan High auditorium Alder-Chil- d - i ments for hosting tha directors of Utahns, Inc., members of the state tourist 8hd publicity ' Unsuccessful-bidder- s for the council and news represertta-tlvebonds Included Burrows, Smith on a trip Into the pro& Co, With a 3.74 per cent inNational terest rate; Boettcher & Co. posed Canyonlands With a 3.74 rate; and Hannifen, Park were completed and apImhoff & Sanford with 3.925. schematic drawings for an ad- Blanding; six weeks of vocaproved by the Monticeilo A bid of $300,900 by the Clerk George Palmer, construcIRRIGATION SYSTEM Chamber of Commerce TuesAlder-Chilto begin dition to the Montezuma Creek tional business In Blanding; Comscheduled is work tion Construction A1 Anderson, treatment . of approximately three six weeks of special Instrucday. .. pany of Murray was accepted in Blanding next Monday. The schoolrooms tion In Blanding; and six weeks and a kitchen. plant engineer for the engineThe trip will be made SaturSchool Board auditorium addition will have class the San Juan by Niel& Maxwell of ering firm The clerk was also authoriz- of summer kindergarten in day following a meeting of the Monday for construction of the a seating capacity of 700 with esson, presented preliminary auditorium addition to the San provision made for a balcony ed to advertise for bids for Blanding. Utahns board of directors here timates on the cost of the proThe board emphasized that Juan High school in Blanding. if it is needed in the future. drilling a well at the Bluff a is Utahns evening. Friday syposed pressure Irrigation The low bid exceeded the The balcony would seat 300 school. Bids for this11. project the summer schools, with the comstatewide organization stem which will take care of be opened May exception of music and home engineers estimate by $50,900. additional people but will not will posed of individuals and orSUMMER SCHOOL large irrigation users in the CLEANUP economics, were primarily for Architect J. Leonard Harman be constructed at this time. interesttreated than summer other with A program of city was designated by ganizations primarily and exThe general contractor will Indian children and the pro-- g had estimated the project to May ed the in water. promotion have 270 days in which to com- schooling was approved by r a m would be financed the council as the official clean cost $250,000. tourist of the Includes industry Tentatilve plans are to en up campaign dates for the city. pansion the board Monday and the auditorium. CUT $7,400 RAIL plete funds received from through state. the instrumental throughout six weeks of MONTEZUMA ADDITION large two existing reservoirs low of the Board of Education State the and a acceptance Upon Monticeilo to make one reservoir with NEEDLES, CONFLUENCE In other action Monday the music in both bid toe board cut the total school of voca- and agencies with responsibiweeks six authorized also board Blanding; the capacity of 40 acre feet. The for Saturday Itinerary somewhat by deleting a $7,400 Architect Harman to submit tional home economics In lity for the Indian population. estimated cost for this would trip Includes a start from Monbalcony handrail from the bid be $15,000 with another $15,-00- 0 ticeilo at 6 a.m. and lunch at specifications. This reduced the for plastic lining of the noon in the Chesler Park area total bid to $293,500, still $43,-50- 0 lake. The six inch line from of the Needles. From there the in excess of the estimate. the treatment plant reservoir will visit the confluence group A total of six firms submitto the irrigation reservoir was of the Green and Colorado ted bids for the official opening estimated at $4,700. A line from What is Monticellos stand- Rivers and return to Monti, conducted by the board Monthe irrigation reservoir to the ing as regards to beautification cello that evening. Monticeilo, Toby Pearson, school receration areas was and day afternoon. Their bids for too Not vehicle need? in was the Several cleanup .injured Monday expected to cost $19,400 and good according to results of a owners have volunteered their Marky Mines at Red Canyon the auditorium were as folfrom the high school to the survey recently conducted by services and the chamber has when a shot round went off lows: - $315,000 golf course, $15,400. the Monticeilo Garden Club. agreed to provide fuel for the before Jie was clear of the Ernest Sonderegger H. R. McBride Engineering and contingen$314,700 to blasting area, The club members surveyed trek. Anyone else desiring cies were guessed at $11,500 Brezina Const. - $328,000 entire community and took join the tour is invited to do Pearson, in San Juan HosNelson - $316,000 making the total cost for the the Rudger at fences lots so. The group will gather grooming, pital in Monticeilo, said Thurs- Carter Brothers - $310,500 pressure irrigation system ap- notes needing vacant Montiof on the number 6 a.m. in front of the day that he was lighting fuses START MONDAY proximately $81,000. paint ceilo library. The State Tourist in preparation to blasting and This figure, added to the cost lots needing repair or beauAccording to School Board tthe and Publicity Council office had some trouble withfinishof the treatment plant and stor- and other items affecting total tification. said Wednesday that at least lighting. Before he had age reservoir brings the $296,-00ed fighting all the shots, one 0 Results of this survey are project figure to around went off, throwing debris and and there was considera-abl- e tabulated below. The figures rocks. discussion concerning the NW, SE, NE and SW indicate Minor breckins directional area of town Pearsons right arm and citys ability to finance the en- the such as northwest, southeast, chest were injured but he Is tire project. secthese reported locally recuperating satisfactorily at Mayor Kenneth Bailey sug- etc. Figures under the number of break-in- s the hospital. or gested that the council author- tions indicate the thefts Three minor fault cited ize .Mr, Anderson to engineer jnstances of in were reported the pressure irrigation system in that particular area. Monticeilo this week. All three NW SE NE SW occurrences happened Tuesday Cannon and prepare it for bids with the to speak Vacant lots evening. Officials of the Bureau of needing clean-- ' Politse Chief Art Adair to C of Fisheries and Wildlife City Sports Blanding 28 up is presently informed Sen. Wallace F. Beninvestigating a D. James nett Fences needing BLANDING breakin reported at Monticeilo today that they school and the dis- Cannon, director of the Utah have decided to withhold any painting, repair Elementary 18 or reroval and Publicity early 1964 fish plantings in 1-- 20 appearance of an oil display State Tourist an announced Lake Powell. 5 Dead trees at the Monticeilo Texaco sta- Council and Dr. Raymond E. Johnson, an tion. It is not definite that Republican candidate in the " 1 Ditches Jim Tyler Long, Montrose, the Utah gubernatorial contest, assistant director of the bureau TREE TRICKLING rocks & anything is missing from conbarrels of water were placed in the new Monticeilo cityo Trash, at of be will a sentence received guest speaker which is a division of the U.S. Colo., school but officials are trees plant-iweeds between Chamof the to week this Blanding from one to twenty years in meeting Fish and Wildlife Service of park provide a steady source of moisture to the evergreen of one to check. line & tinuing property of of Commerce ber checks the Prison here tonight the Department of Interior, ed the Utah State operation Tuesday fall. City Administrator Phil Palmer 48 The oil display at the TexaWe will from Seventh District Court street told the senator (Thursday). that drains water , and this water over-filled with out are left was barrels The co station though Business bldgs, will be open postpone all 1964 planting op- the tricklers. The Judge F. W. Keller. Record Photo need paint, renight and was gone when the to the meeting small pipe to the base of the trees. will Powell until and eration Lake at begin Long was charged with forpublic the returned 2 station operator pair or both at 7:30 in the Blanding Li- some sort of water managegery in connection with cashnext morning. ment plan for the lake has ing another mans payroll Houses needing brary. GAS THEFT check and had earlier plead painting, repair Also scheduled to address been stabilized. When we are 8 The sheriffs office reports the meeting is Gaylord Stave-ley- told what the final plan for guilty by reason of insanity. or both He was taken to the state Barns & sheds a theft of some gasoline at the of Utahns, Lage Powell Is we will then vice mental hospital for examinathe fishery situaEvan and Dale Pehrson ranch Inc. and president a for the candidate needing paint, tion and was found sane. south of Monticeilo. The thiev- San Juan County Commis- tion. or both 18 repair He entered a plea of guilty to Officials es damaged the gas tank at the sion. 4 pointed out that the charge Tuesday In District Junk cars Cannon will he in the area federal hatcheries close to the ranch and kicked in a door used The action of the Bureau of and the last two years, when The survey will be Businesses throughout San Court In Monticeilo and was to a directors lake are now holding about in the rancn house but oreparatory in releasing some we need runoff to fill Lake folthe panel surroundReclamation cleanup the sentence Juan and city following County the o prison given did not enter the meeting of Utahns in Monticel-l- two million trout and four ing areas were reminded this 600,000 more acre feet of water Powell, have both been dry. effectiveness the to apparently determine adult the a by report lowing million bass. These fish were home. Friday night to Mexico in 1962 than is reof the campaign. On June 1, 1962, I expressto have been planted in the week of the two tourist service probation oficer. Monfor clinics by the Mexican Treaty ed alarm at the proposed required being planned on lake by airplane beginning acre feet,, ticeilo and Blanding Friday. is one of the reasons that water lease of 285,000 April 29. The clinics, under sponsor- is now being released from (from Lake Mead as a flushEarlier the officials said of Utahns, Inc., are being Lake Powell to maintain the ing agent) and wired the Upr that they could not hold the ship employes and rated power head at Lake per Colorado River Commisfish at the hatcheries for any held to train business owners who have Mead, Senator Frank E. Moss sion and the Utah Water and of time. However, great length r-- , Power Board for their analyses ?? && contact with tourists the procharged Saturday. plans have now been made to of the effect of the proposal The senator questioned stretch this stay until some per method of injecting hospiof Reclamation on Utahs rights on the Colfinal decision is made on the tality and means of answering visitor requests for directions Floyd Dominy at a public orado, Sen. Moss said. future of the lake. He suggested that dredges hearing of the Senate Interior Meanwhile, if the decision to local scenic attractions. Dennis Funk, Sanpete Coun- Subcommittee on Irrigation he used and three private on Lake Powell Is delayed, the but the larger fish will be transferred ty Agent, and members of the and Reclamation which Moss firms had such dredges release of water from Mead State Tourist and Publicity heads. to other lakes In the area. Council staff will be InstructLAKE FISH Moss questions to Dominy was made anyway. Continued concern was also ors for the clinics. The first brought out these facts: expressed by the officials over clinic will be conducted in 1. Mexico received 600,000 the future of the fish already Monticeilo starting at 9:30 a.m. acre feet in 1962 above treaty second session tomorrow. The n the lake at present. Loss of requirements. trout could result with the lake will be held at Blanding 2. The 600,000 included 285,-00- 0 at 2 p.m. Both sessions drawdown as the trout are acre feet released from more susceptible to higher will run for an hour and a half and both will be held in the Lake Mead to flush out the water temperatures. libraries in the respective channel of the Lower Colorado. r 3. We have always had a cities. Members of the Monticeilo rs, especially of wastage below Imperial Dam Mens Golf Association, at a Employe no been has because there businesses that deal first hand meeting Tuesday night in the with visitors, are urged to regulating reservoir in which club house, elected officers for excess as a such from water, make arrangements for both the 1964 season. themselves and their employes sudden rain storm? could be Edward S. Boyle, the 1963 stored. . to attend the clinics. was again elected to president, 4. Such a regulating reserhead the group. Clem Washvoir below Imperial is now be- burn was named vice president and Bud Corbin was elected ing built. The Canyoneers, Inc. marThe senator also questioned secretary-treasureina at Hite on the Colorado River will be open for busiDominy on the water cycle DISCUSSION of the last many years. It was ness in the near future, accordA general discussion of benebrought out that the Colorado ing to Gaylord Staveley, Mexiitems for the golf course River Compact was negotiated ficial can Hat. was held and agreement was runa on based of said high that period Monday Staveley Monticeilo Jaycees will meet off. Since then, we have never reached that the first item of present plans for the facility, business should be a clear which will be located on Lake Saturday night, April 18 for experienced as wet a cycle, definition and explanation of Powell when the lake backs up the charter banquet of that playing rules for the course. to Hite, include a concession organization at the Monticeilo The present handicap sy? for selling groceries, fishing Country Club. Scenes around town . stem was discussed as were Charter will which and cold drinks officers, licenses, parts the advantages and disadvanUnmentionables be elected tonight (Thursday) .'or motors and boats. causing asA Blanding tages of joining the state public boat launching at the regular meeting at the FAA headache site will also be constructed Avalon Cafe will be Installed mayor making first sale at sociation. A tentative date of May John getshortly and provisions will be at the banquet and the pro- Halls Crossing was established for the first made for the sale of boat gas gram will include a presentating lot ready for new home . . tournament of the year to be and oil. Canyoneers will also tion by the state Jaycee presi- . . . girls wearing shorts 95 as conceived by artist conduct boat trips from the dent and members of the Moab tax payers rushing to PO to sponsored bv the Avalon Cafe. THIS IS THE PROPOSED bridge across White Canyon near Hite on Utah Highwayand Fremont Rivers will site by the hour, half day, day Jaycee organization. beat deadline Avalon OFFICERS MEET Herbert M. Fehmel. This structure, together with bridges across the Colorado Officers of the local associaAll Jaycees are urged to at- with a new outdoor sign or longer two and three day Freand Colorado on work the The Powell. Lake of end the upper form the necessary road complex to span tend the election meeting to- out of state travelers starting tion will meet next week to to Rainbow Bridge. trips The sources. lands federal available public two little appoint committees for operaA public camp site will al- night at 8 p.m. and plan to to go through mont bridges has already started with $ 3 million in funds made has so be available for use by visit- attend, with their wives, the hoys doing what they hadnt tion of the associations proWhite Canyon bridge is expected to cost $1 million and the Utah State Department of Highways grams this season. ors to the lake. banquet Saturday night. ought to on Main Street. Garden Club conducts survey S - d - Man injured in mine blast Federal bureau says no fish plants Forger receives Ji sentence Tourist clinics service Friday Moss charges water release to Mexico was excessive tr Golf Asso. elects officers Hite Marina to open soon Jaycees plan charter banquet r. ...... that these funds will be forthcoming shortly. 16-1- 7 |