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Show 7te San fluent Second NATIONAL The Old EDITOftIA asc0tiJn lT3iiMig'.if'i rrg G imeucu inswa iefusutitiyes. MK AND MRS. GEORGE E. JONES, Owners and Publishers BOB McCASLIN, NEWS AND SPORTS EDITOR dear San Juaners: Cass Hite intrigues me. His Monticello life story, written in doggerel Monticello verse, and assuming to be in Blanding News lighter vein, with gay non- CORRESPONDENTS Marilyn Rowley Mrs. Harold Cole Norman Lundell Barbara Palmer Blanding Ont East Helen Redshaw Bluff Mrs. Eugene Fonshee Montezuma Creek Mrs. Pat Davis Mexican Hat Donna Brown Entered in the Postoffice at Monticello, Utah as Second Class matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published every Thursday at Monticello, Utah SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In San Juan County $3 a year Outside San Juan County $4 a year Box 428, Monticello, Utah Phone 587-227- 7 New capital display . . . Following a meeting of the San Juan County Tourist and Publicity Council here Monday night, it was assured that the county would have a new display outin the state capitol rotunda to replace a dated exhibit that has been there for many years. Just what form the new exhibit will take, however, is still to be decided, much depending what cooperation Grand County will give. Two different layouts .were presented to the council Monday and the one - making the Grand-Sa- n Juan County section an integrated single exhibit was preferred to the one designed exclusively for San Juan County. Pros and cons of the two were discussed at length,, with invited spectators commenting also. The integrated exhibit has been designed by a Salt Lake City firm which has a contract with Grand County to move their present display to the new space. This display would feature three large mural photos and the content of these photos is the current stumbling block. Grand County, through the Salt Lake firm, has insisted that a photo of Dead Horse Point grace the center picture slot. Although DHP is in San Juan County, the only entrance to it is in Grand and it, therefore, is not deemed to bring any direct benefit to San Juan. The San Juan Council holds, with one exception, that the center slot should be filled by a shot of Monument Valley, thus enticing prospective visitors to travel not only through Moab, but through the length of San Juan County as well. Negotiations will now be made with Grand County on this item. What we think has been missed, and what some of the spectators at the Monday meeting also asked be considered, is the fact that San Juan County, being so vast and endowed with so many scenic and industrial points, should maintain its individuality with a display devoted strictly to San Juan and tied in with no other area. If this display were to be placed at other than the state capitol it would be a different story, but a good portion of people visiting the capitol are Utah residents and they do know that there are counties. Integration and togetherness, when it comes to this display, should, we think, be discarded and good initiative, individuality and pride in county inserted instead. Another sour note is that while the cost to San Juan will be about $2,795, the cost to Grand will be considerably less since they now have much of the display needed. It was reported that their cost would be e less than $1,000, thus making it on the monetary side for San Juan. And the layout of the San Juan portion, being necessarily integrated to fit with Grand, is therefore dictated in design by the portion which Grand already has. The individual display for San Juan would have cost $4,000. Higher, yes, but this display will be in the capitol for many, many years and the little difference in cost should be of minor consequence on so important a task. It is fine to advertise on an area or state basis to get people in our state, but when it comes to seeking their patronage once they are here lets do it in a competitive manner that will do us some good. If both you and your neighbor had similar products to sell, you certainly wouldnt go in with him on an advertisement especially if he wrote the ad and you had to pay $3 to his $1. Regardless of which way the display is arranged, it will certainly be better than the one presently in the run-dow- n, ed three-to-on- News of the Queen City of the Golden Circle Settler... My chalance for its vices, for its darker corners, and for its ultimate failure, is the story of a man endowed by nature to have won honor and glory for himself, and to have made worthy contributions to the cause of toiling humanity. I contemplate his life with sadness, and wish It could have been different In his 92 verses of four lines each, written by hlmseit and his friend, Cy Warren, you get the vision of his Missouri home, his mother, his brothers and sisters, with the blessed element of love and happiness which he says he did not see then, but at which he looked back with longing and heartache from the desolation of his Robinson-Crusdwelling at Tickaboo. Speaking in the third person, and calling himself Hos-tee- n Pishleki, he tells of how be followed the lure of gold and silver all over the western states and in Mexico, and failed always to find it. And he relates, He developed what dye think? An extensive admiration for dameses and strong drink. Gambling was the worst of all The faults that he possessed, And the devil seemed to glorify When he was most distressed. His killing of Coler lingered hauntingly in his memory, in spite of the gay indifference with which he tried to tell It. Yet he does speak of it in one place as, A most unfortunate event, and going on to justify it, continues, You may ask if he is sorry for The deplorable affair. For being compelled to do it he Most certainly does care. He wrote, or ghosted, a thrilling story for one of the popular magazines in the nineties, telling how a man named John White, had a desperate battle on Green River with a man named Toler, and how in a heroic effort he had to kill I recogToler in nized It as a changed version of what Jim Scorup had told us. Cass made love xo a girl in Hanksville. He speaks of Maggie and her letters, the girl, Who made a lovely tie To circumnavigate the neck Ui Hosteen Pishleki. He makes no mention of the child in Hanksville, reported to belong to him, but he proceeds to justify himself in dodging the responsibility of marriage by saying, This Hosteen Pishleki has been Considered a direlect In not joining the wedding throng And become a benedict. Then he goes on to quote George Washingtons wise advise against entangling alliances and concludes, What was good for them just might Be good in other things. This o Hosteen Pishleki has known Some different degrees Ot weeded life that puzzles him The more of it he sees. In the vigorous years ot Cass Hites life he followed the lure of easy wealth and found only the vicious habits and bitter memories from which he spent his latter years in trying to escape. When he made camp at Dandy Crossing and named it Hite, he was still in search of gold, and expected to find it,, but there came a time when he wanted a safer retreat from himself and his accusers, a place beyond the charm of wine and women and the hypnotic pull of poker. The place he named Tickaboo (a Piute word meaning friendliness) was about tne most .far away and inaccessible hole he could find. He tried to believe he would find peace there, away from all temptation, and he found courage there to swear off his habits. He drew the lines both hard and last Here At the age of fifty-five.-" he hoped to find something to compensate for his years of frustration, and ease the sting of his troubled conscience. And in his home at Tickaboo, He built with his own hand, Hes got a garden and a bank; Hes the happiest in the land. Majestic walls That there surround, And towering to the sky, That place fit Tickaboo where lives Old Hosteen Pishleki. He takes his fiddle down When he is all alone, Ahd tries to play old Home Sweet Home, But finds it no good scheme, Changes the tune and quickens the beat and flys at The Devils Dream." At the time he wrote his he had five autobiography, years yet to live, five years to hear the solemn moaning ot the old river as he pondered the precious years which had come and gone and got him nowhere. What good thing had he got out of them? What evil things had he put into them? He contemplated the inevitable world ahead and soliloquised, But Hosteen Pishleki Is weak. Hes been that way from birth. He doesnt know that other world, And Is satisfied on earth. It is 60 years since he went out the last time through the doorway of his Robinson-Crushouse; their summer and winters, their rats and birds had made quite an ancient ruin when the old river ceased its moaning and rose up to bury his Tickaboo retreat deep under the water of Lake Powell. Now if and when I write another story, it will relieve the melancholy by telling of another San Juaner of the elgnt-iewho followed his hopes farther and found his tuu hearts desire. o s, IRS, that friendly little arm of government that each pay period nabs more of your check than most like to part with, had some sad news this week on the new income tax g reduction. Seems the new rate does not take enough. What happened was that the rate was reduced from 18 to 14 per cent in March but the actual income tax was reduced proportionately between 1964 and 1965. So, sad but true, if you are married with no dependents and take the standard tax table deduction, you will owe an additional $3 if you make $4,000 per year; $24 it you made $5,000; $48 if you made $6,000; and, if there is anyone in the $10,000 bracket, they will owe an additional witn-holdin- $208. Mr. and Mrs. Max Black and two children are spending a weeks vacation hare from their home in West Jordan. They plan to do some camping and bow hunting on Elk Mountain. Welcome visitors at the Dar-roYoung home were Mrs. Youngs sisters and their husbands, Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Latimer, Washington, Utah, and Mrs. and Mrs. Ralph Boyce, their daughter, Cheri Lynne, and her friend, Judy Pearson, of Midvale. The Youngs took their guests to see the Goosenecks and Mesa Verde National Park. Weekend visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kirby have been Jacks father, John Kirby, Cherokee, Okla., and Jacks story quoting a reliable source you can automatically assume one of two things. Either the story is a bald-facerumor with no actual basis in fact or the person so quoted is either not sure of the facts himself or desires not to have his name mentioned for reasons that are usually his own. Such reporting is, to say the least, misleading to the public and certainly Is not to be given much credence. If something is truth, figures or people who can be quoted can be found and there is no need for the reliable source cliche. If such cannot be found, then the public should not be led to believe that such is truth. To do so is to shirk the major responsibility of any media-factureporting. ll d from Kansas. Off to a new home in Virginia are Mr. and Mrs. Ron Nielson and family. Mr. Nielson will continue his education in the field of hospital administration. Mrs. Velma Cook went to Provo to see her daughter, Lorraine, who was there from California. Weekending at the summer range in Beaver, Colo, were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Adams, Mr. and Mrs. Edway Redd, Kathy Redd and Stephanie Hess. Sunday visitors with Mrs. Lovinia Redd were Mr. and: Mrs. George White and family, LaSal. Join Now! Winter Leagues sleeping Encephalitis, or sickness as it is more common- To place a want ad ly known is ravaging Houston, Texas in epidemic form but Utah doctors this week assured Utahns that this particular The San Juan Record Monticello, Utah type of virus is not native to Thursday, September 3, 1964 Utah. There is an encephalitis Page Two virus that at times strikes in Utah but it is not as dangerous or damaging as the variety in Houston. Mosquitoes carry the virus from animal bites and when it happens to hit man it is by accident. 587-227- 7 Winter leagues at Park Lanes will soon be starting. Now is the time to sign up for whatever league night you wish to bowl. CONTACT . . . Canyonlands The transition from vacation school work appeared smooth and effortless Monday with San Juan County youngsters back at their desks. School halls during classes were notably silent, indicating that the process of educating was being taken in earnest. to Canyonlands National went into a joint Park Keith Shumway Aviation At Park Lanes for Bowling on the Following League Teams: P.M. Mixed Couples P.M. Womens League Tuesday 1 P.M. Womens Trio Scratch Wednesday P.M. Blanding Mixed Couples 6 Wednesday 9 P.M. Mens League Wednesday 9 A.M. Womens Trio Breakfast Thursday League 6 P.M. Church League Thursday 9 P.M. Mixed Couples Handicap Thursday 6:30 P.M. Mens League Friday Monday FLIGHTS it SCENIC CHARTER FLIGHTS Senate-Hous- e AIRCRAFT RENTAL conference committee Wednesday with the senate group attempting to replace some of the multiple-us- e provisions of their bill that had been eradicated by the House. 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