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Show UNIVERSAL I HCUOFILf ECtTG- - 141 PIEHPOMT Conference committee approves compromise CQRP LT L.'KE CITY TiT'-T-- - Canyonlands s Despite efforts of Utah congressmen to place multiple-us- e concepts back into the proPark, a posed Canyonlands House-Senat- e conference committee Wednesday gave in on only one item of such use. With the agreement by the committee, however, swift passage by both legislative bodies of the compromise bill was assured and clearance for President Johnsons signature was expected by this weekend. Mining, even on a pnase-ou- t basis, was given the thumbs down treatment by the House conferees but they did relin quish to the Senate on livestock grazing. The House had provided in their bill that grazing would cease at the end of the present permittees contracts. The Senate version of the bill, however, had called phase-ou- t for a of grazing, or longer if the original permit were retained in the same family. The compromise phaseprovides for a out on grazing. Another concession made by the House group was to provide that the Department of Interior promptly exchange some 12,000 acres of school lands. This was in line with the Senate hill and provides that exchange of lands be of the same classification and as nearly as possible the same value and that the Secretary of Interior must complete the transfer within 120 days after enactment of the park bill. The park acreage will remain at 257,640, the figure contained in the House-passebill. This is 960 acres less than the Senate bill. Members of the conference committee were Senators 25-ye- d Frank E. Moss Alan Clinton P. AnGordon and Len Jordan on Representatives the committee were Laurence Burton John Taylor Roy Taylor .) Thomas G. Morris and Wayne Aspinall ), Bible derson Al-lo- tt .) (R-Pa.- ), ). Sen. Moss, sponsor of the Senate bill, said that while he was disappointed the House did not accept the original version of his bill he was glad we were at least able to reach this compromise. Rep. Laurence J. Burton, of the House bill said some hard choices were made "but I thing that on balance have done the best thing for Utah and the right thing for author the country. Sen. Moss said the bill contained adequate authorization for development of funding. Canyonlands, when signed by the President, will be the first national park created since 1957 and will make the, third national 'park in Utah. Only one other state, California, has three national parks. WORK ON THE MONTICELLO pressure irrigation "reservoir was progressing rapidly this week. A cat and carryall are here shown working on the project which, ' when complete, will store some 40 acre feet of untreated water to be used by y of Salt Lake has .the contract for construclarge irrigation users. tion of the reservoir and also a 25 acre foot pond at the site of the citys new " treatment plant. Record Photo Bares-Gear- . Volume 48 . Monticello, San Juan County, Utah lOtf School enrollment shows Thursday, September 3, 1064 Number 32 8 Pages T&P group discusses capitol slight increase this year ; Tentative enrollment figures released this week by schools in San Juan County indicate a slight total increase in enrollment over last year while individual schools show varying numbers of students registering. All figures so far are more or less preliminary since more at is expected enrollment many schools, particularly after the Labor Day weekend. Tabulations indicate that there are more students enrolled in Blanding schools while most other schoola ble THIS IS THE VIEW'looking west from 'Monticellos new pressure irrigation res- the county remained more ervoir, part of dam to right, towards the new water treatment plant which is im- nearly the same with some Record Photo showing a slight decrease. mediately behind the telephone pole at the left of the photo. Following are the preliminary enrollment figures for all county schools. Figures in parenthesis are the number of students last year: 433 Monticello Elementary (422) 323 (332) Monticello High 73 (96) Montezuma Creek 67 (77) Mexican Hat 38 (34) Bluff Eastland 7 (8) 71 K80) LaSal San Juan High 368 (364) Bird season dates listed THIS PROGRESS PHOTO of Monticellos new water treatment plant shows the three huge metal tanks inside the plant proper. The larger tank to the left will contain the mechanism for mixing the water with a flocking compound and the two smaller tanks to the right contain the sand filtering system. The site is now ready for installation of catwalks around the tanks and the metal building over Record Photo them. , Ar Council amends gas ordinance; Bean harvest seeks irrigation project inspector due soon Monticellos City Council Wednesday evening amended the citys building code ordinance as pertaining to natural gas installations providing that must all new instalations undergo a one hour test with 30 pounds of air pressure. The only item received by the council, pertaining to (he revision was a letter from Utah Gas Service Company asking that an inspector be required to stay at the test for 15 minutes and that the procedure be made applicable to LP gas as well as natural. The council decided that the revision covered the duties required of the inspector and did not include LP gas in the same ordinance since It is covered in another portion of the building code laws. The council also considered employment of an inspector for the irrigation project reservoirs, as recommended by the citys engineering firm and authorized Mayor Ken Bailey to contact several suggested individuals to see if they would accept the position. A salary of $250 per month was approved for the job which is expected to require only from s half to of each day. POLICE PROBLEM - Mayor Bailey reported that Police Chief Art Adair was still confined to a hospital and suggested that the city hire a part-tim- e policeman to assist Earl Pehrson. Mr. Pehrson to work at various hours as required with the part-tim- e man to take over for Sir. Pehrson s day off each week. two-third- Season dates and other information of interest to bird hunters were listed this week by Conservation Officer Cecil Jones. One season, that for mourning doves, started Tuesday, Sept. 1 and will run through Sept. 30 in San Juan County. Due to cold weather, however, this sport will be extremely limited this year. Hunters are allowed a daily bag of 12 doves with no more than 24 in possession. Since doves fall into federal regulations, guns used must be plugged to hold no more than three shells. CHUKAR Season dates for chukar partridge are Sept. 19 to Dec. 31, inclusive. The bag limit on e these rock climbers is five birds per day with no more than 10 in possession. TURKEY Beehive state gunners will also have their second chance to bag a wild turkey this year. The second season in the states history was set last week by the Game and Fish Commission to run five days from Oct. 10 through Oct. 14. There will be unlimited turkey permits available for the LaSal Mountains, Boulder Mountain and East Zion. A permit fee of $3 was set and hunters must make application to the regional office for permits. Turkeys may be taken with shotguns, and, apparently as an afterthought, the commission authorized use of any center fire caliber rifle. The latter weapon should provide the hunters that use them with more feathers than meat since the destructive force of such bullets would completely destroy many of the smaller turkeys noted in the LaSal non-nativ- County Agent Rell Argyle announced this week that the pinto bean harvest would soon be underway in San Juan County and predicted that the harvest might start this weekend in some areas. Regarding this years crop, Mr. Argyle said stalks were very good and fields looked like they should produce but there has not been the set that was anticipated. For this reason, it is not known just how good the crop will be and whether if will be comparable to last year. Harvest began last week in some areas around Dove Creek but no yield figures are yet available. Frost hit some areas In Colorado and some freezing coloration has been noted at isolated spots within Utah. bags last year. Park Terrace 241 326 Blanding Elementary , (263) display at meeting Monday Elementary (233) (This years figure presents an addition of re- Following considerable discussion on two different layouts presented by individuals desiring to do the new San Juan County exhibit at the state capitol building, the San Juan County Tourist and Publicity Council Monday night agreed to accept, with certain conditions, the display which intergrated the two counties of Grand and San Juan. . The Integrated display - layout was prepared and submitted by John Evans of Salt Lake City and the display with only San Juan County was submitted by James L. Young, art director at Carbon College. Commissioner William R. Hurst, under whose responsibility the T&P group falls, reported to the five members present that Grand County had contracted with Evans to move their display and the integrated display presented by the Evans firm included portions of the previous Grand exhibit. In a letter to the group, Evans explained the layout and listed a price to San Juan for their portion as $2,795. The main portion of the display would a class) (This kindergarten school Fry Canyon will not begin until Tuesday, Sept.' 8 since a teacher will not be available at that time. A survey has indicated there will be about seven Students as compared with six last year.) TOTALS Last year there were a total students in the district and the tentative figures this year total 1,954 or a gain.' FRY The new teacher at Fry Canyon this year will be Richard Wilson, according to AsKen sistant Superintendent Maughan. Mr. Wilson has previously been teaching at Rico, , Cola . Freestone is hospital head Arlow Freestone, Monticello, assumed duties as administrator at San Juan Hospital on Tuesday, Sept. 1. Mr. Freestone replaces the former administrator Ron Nielson who, with his family moved to Richmond, Va. where he will attend a hospital administration school. Mr. Freestone, a resident of Monticello for 12 years, has operated his own accounting service for the past three years. Forest $1 VIP's visit at Gouldings The two sons of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater, and the two daughters of his running mate, William Miller, were guests Wednesday at Gouldings. Accompanying them were officials of NBC and CBS TV and the press. The group flew in by plane and enjoyed for a time the scenic beauty of Monument Valley. receives million children plus be three large scenic piotures and according to Mr. Evans letter, Grand County desired to have Dead Horse Point in the center slot. On this item, most of the San Juan delegation balked and asked that a meeting be set up with Grand County Commissioners to discuss the matter. Price for the Young display was estimated at $4,000. T&P members Fern Frost, Howard Rogers, Harold Lyman and Gay Staveley were of the opinion that some other picture, preferably 'Monument . Valley, should grace the center, panel. Their sentiment was that Monument Valley would have a drawing power to get a visitor not only to Moab, but all the way through San Juan County as well. Member Lynn, said he Lyman, however, would not be insistent that Dead Horse Point should not be in the center, adding that he believed it better to cooperate with .Grand County.,. Hurst said Commissioner he would arrange a meeting with the Grand commissioners (Continued on Fage 8) August Cniigs new high in city connections were 450 total customers, 350 of which were residential, thus there has been considerable increase since the first of the year. The 350 in January was also the lowest number of users in the past several years. Sales of power also reflected the increase in users. The total electrical sales in August was $7,243.46, which was described by the administrator as being as high as in winter months. Comparing power sales one and two years ago for the same period, records indicate that $6,117.17 was the figure for August of 1963 while $6,011.72 worth of power was sold in August of 1962. These figures would indicate that the growth of the city is of 1964 there on the increase. A new MONTICELLO high in the number of utility connections within the city was set during the month of August, according to City Administrator Phil Palmer. Mr. Palmer said the city had a total of 495 customers during August as compared to 485 in August of 1963 and 492 in August of 1962. What caused the surge has not been determined but a few temporary residents probably added to the total. Breaking .down the total customers as to residential users of city utilities, Mr. Palmer said there were 377 residential users in August as compared to 379 in July. In 1963 there were 365 residential users and 379 in August of 1962. In January The Manti-LaSNational Forest, located in Sanpete, Emery, Utah, Grand and San Juan Counties, will receive a total of $1,204,950 from the fiscal 1965 Agriculture Appropriations bill passed by the Senate last week, according to Sen. Frank E. Moss Breaking down the total as to use, Sen. Moss said $783,801 or 60 per cent would go for protection and management; $341,289 for forest roads and trails; $12,571 for brush disposal expenses; $57,605 for 4 trust fund increment and for watershed manage$9,-68- ment Ashley National Forest received the highest appropriation in the state with $1,800,-62followed by Wasatch National Forest with $1,624,737. 5 Scenes around town . Everyone looking forward to Labor Day vacation a spot of color on the mountain crabapples for the picking at Navajo Motel George Parks greeting friends downtown flies in a some friendly mood hunters still hunting set of false teeth waiting for their owner at sheriffs office. COUNTY CREWS this week were completing several oiling projects for the city of Monticello. Crews are shown here Tuesday laying the mat on one and lf blocks of 1st South. Paving has also been completed on 1st East, two blocks on 3rd East and the next project will be sealing and chipping of all the new oil. Other street projects which the city hopes to complete are grade, gravel and tack coat on Uranium Drive, grading and gravel on the road from Mt. View Drive to the hospital and cutting a new street on 2nd West between 2nd South and UranRecord Photo ium Drive. one-ha- |