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Show Vol. 51, No Thursday, April 4, Canyonlands Capitol DA grant okayed for Halls Crossing application for Halls Crossing the funds for road has been approved, according to word received The EDA yesterday by Calvin Black from Sen. Frank E. Moss. Involved in the construction of the road are $2,200,000 of Federal Funds and $1,470,000 in County and State matching funds. Mr. Black stated that he , hoped the State Highway Department could proceed immediately with engineering work so that the contract could be let before fall. He had been in touch with State Road Commission Chairman Wes Hamilton prior to getting in touch with The San Juan Record and was about to talk to the State Highway Department about the project. Monticello grants setup, beer licenses to Lariat Supper Club The Lariat Supper Club (Firelight Room) received approval from the Monticello City Council for a Cabaret License, a Class B beer license (on premises only), and a Set Up License with the stipulation that the premises be restricted to adults. The Council also discussed with John Roring the problems of drainage of the street area in front of his house. aomifiy 18 Monticello, San Juan County, Utah 84535 14 Council members will examine the problem and consider action at the next meeting. In the matter of a possible leash law for dogs, the Council decided to send a questionnaire to the residents with the next utilities billing asking their preferences. The Council approved the purchase of 27 trees for certain streets in town. They also signed the necessary 1968 G5aidl Cool Climate mniinninssDini The State Road Commission took formal action last week that assures early paving of the road from Highway 160 to Dugout Ranch, Commissioner Calvin Black to the San Juan County Commissioners Monday. re-pro- ted The paving job will be completed with $100,000 of National Park Service Funds, up to $50,000 of State Highway Funds, and the balance (estimated at $50,000 to $60,000) from County Cap- - grants $64,000 HEW for Blanding Nursing Home Senator Frank E. Moss announced today three grants to the State of Utah from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. A Hill-Buit- on grant of $64,000 will be used to care enlarge the long-terfacility at Blanding in San Juan County. The total cost of the project will be $120,000 and will provide long-teraddition to the existing facility. m 18-b- .forms which will provide for receipt of $5160 of Class C road funds from the State. The Municipal League will conduct a school here for Grand and San Juan County communities April 25. Cemetery. Those from out of town attending the services included Mr. and Mrs. Norman Foy, Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Yates of Salt Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. Vern Bums, Mr. and Mrs. Mennell Taylor, Salina; Mrs. Dorothy Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Cahoon and Don Cahoon of Provo; Mr. and Mrs. Claude Foy, Scottsdale, Ariz. ; Mrs. Gloria Wrathall of San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Corbin, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Corbin, Mr. and Mrs. m ed The Office of Education has awarded two contracts to Utah State University totaling $67, 834. They will be used for summer vocational and technical training education programs. 0$es (bcsDcoodl iresndlemiO Funeral services were held Monday, April 1, for George M. Palmer, 62, prominent resident of and long-tim- e Monticello and San Juan County who died suddenly last Friday from a heart attack. The services were conducted by Bishop F. Bennion Redd of the Monticello Second Ward in the LDS Church. Speakers were Kenneth S. Summers and Lisle G. Adams. The obituary was given by Arlow Freestone with prayers by Norman Foy and Joe Foy, nephews of Mr. Palmer, and by Daryle Redd. A men's quintet composed of Joe Foy, Lisle Adams, Grant Bronson, Buckley Christensen and Doyle Rowley sang "Oh, My Father" and Iinda Lewis, Geraldine Bailey, Clyda Christensen and Dean Randall sang "Hold Thou My Hand" The final musical number, at the Chapel, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" was performed by the mixed men's and women's groups. At the graveside the men's quartet sang "Abide With Me" and the grave was dedicated by Philip Palmer, son of the deceased. Pall bearers were C. D. Goon, Claude Foy, Joe Foy, Norman Foy, M. Joe Foy, Norman Foy, J. W. Corbin and D, L. Yates. Interment was in the Monticello 9 now the City Drug Store. In 1937 Mr. Palmer accepted Russell Carter of Moab; Mrs. Eldon Comer, Mrs. Paul Comer and Mrs. Frances Comer of Lehi. George N. Palmer was bom Oct. 30, 1905 in Kremmling, Colo. , to Joseph Ward and Maude A. Gwynne Palmer, their youngest child. In 1908 the family, including brother Ward and sisters Ila and Vera, moved to Monticello where Mr. Palmer's father had been appointed as the first forest ranger in the area. Mr. Palmer spent the rest of his life living and working in Monticello. He grew to love the country and seldom travelled very far from it. He attended elementary school in Monticello and went to high school in Moab and Price. He then went into the building trade and worked on homes in the area and built bridges for the State Road Department. Dur- - -- IOC Warm Welcome atfs (Park access paw tf Pages rz.cs. per copy ital Improvement funds for The State Highway Department has completed engineering for the road. Mr. Black made the report following his attendance at a meeting of the State Road Commission in Salt Lake City last Friday. He further reported that he expects the Federal Aid Secondary project on the Hall's Crossing Road from U95 to Red House will be up for bids "any day now. " The Commissioners Monday consulted with Leonard Harmon, architect for the Courthouse addition, about some of the final phases of construction on that project. A letter was received from the City of Monticello with roads. reference to projected street improvement work for the year. The Commissioners also received a letter from Landscape Improvement Vistas of the USU Extension Services enclosing a proposed uniform cleanup ordinance. , , (PaDinniir He was extremely proud of and devoted to his six grandchildren. He enjoyed being with the position as clerk of the them and doing things with San Juan School District, a them. He and his wife, Ann, wanted to go anywhere he never held until his position do or death. He was instrumental anything by themselves if their grandchildren or childwith the Board of Education in establishing the policies for ren could not be with them, even though their family begutilizing the large amounts of ged them to travel and enjoy money that became available the fruits of their many years to the District from the extenof hard work. One of his sive oil and uranium producgreatest enjoyments was skiing tion in the county beginning on Blue Mountain with his wife in the 1950's. During this but when she broke her leg in time new school braidings a skiing accident in February were built throughout the refused to go without her he county, most of which Mr. and stayed home to care for Palmer had a large part in the her. planning thereof. Because he found his greatest In 1947 the county acquired love in his family, when his the VCA staff house in Monticello for use as a hospital, the little grandson, Rhett, was so tragically killed just three first one to be established in weeks and two days before his the county. Mr. Palmer was it changed his appointed first chairman of the own death, He life. whole grieved deeply Hospital Board and directed of the building. and seemed to be trying to the remodeling ing this time he helped conshoulder the entire burden for In 1958 construction was startstruct the Los Angeles aque- the whole family. He lost his ed on a new hospital which duct and did carpenter work at zest for living and his only was completed in 1960. Mr. the copper mines in Jerome, solace was in hard work. Palmer remained with his posAriz. He then returned to Though his family begged him Monticello where for a time he ition on the Hospital Board to rest, he could not. On the throughout this entire time he operated a sawmill. day he died he had been reOn April 18, 1931 he married and still held the chairmanship pairing fences and ditches in at the time of his death. Ann Peterson who survives his alfalfa field, and although He was always active in pubhim as do their two children, he had no history of heart lic and community affairs. Philip and Nancy. Shortly trouble he suffered a sudden after his marriage he started During World War 11 he was attack and died at the wheel chairman of the county war Palmer's Confectionery Store of his jeep as he was coming bond drives and was active in to support his family as the home to dinner. He was found Selective Service affairs and depression began. In 1935 there by his son and daughter. received several Presidential he was appointed county WPA George Palmer will be sorely citations for these efforts. He chairman and the next year missed by his family, friends also served as President of the was transferred to the WPA and the community he served Blue Mountain Civics Club office in Provo where he stayso long and faithfully. He died and as county chairman of the as he lived - with his beloved ed for 18 months. During this Party. Republican Ward opertime his brother family foremost in his mind. He is survived by his wife, ated the confectionery store. However, his greatest love Ann, son Philip, daughter By 1939 the business had grown was always his family, and in his later years he devoted and prospered very well and a Nancy Cahoon, and his brother, most of his time to them. He new and bigger store was Ward, all of Monticello, used his talents as a carpenter sisters Ila Corbin of Moab and built. Mr. Palmer continued and builder to help son Philip Vera Foy of Scottsdale, Ariz. , to operate the store until build his home in Monticello. 1953 when he sold it. 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