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Show 76e Scut Qucut Second ' MEMBER Association - Founded 1885 IflCBUl UVSfittl MmSUMIltU MR. AND MRS. II. V. ALWARD EDITORS & PUBLISHERS e at Monticello, Entered in the Utah as Second Class matter published every Thursday .tt Monticello, Utah SUBSCRIPTION RATES ' In County $4 $5 Outside County Box 428, Monticello, Utah 84535 Phone 587-22CORRESPONDENTS 77 Image is important Take any college president and dress him up like a shabby tramp, let him go a month without a bath and turn him out on on the street. If you met him in this condition you would characterize him as a bum. Now, take any bum off the street, clean him up, give him a shave and a haircut, a clean shirt and a nice suit of clothes and you would regard him as a respectable citizen. The point is, we judge a person largely by this appearance until we get to know him better. Homes and communities are judged the same way. When you are traveling, most impressions are gained from the car window as you roll along the street or highway. If the home, the farm, or the community is shabby and run down in appearance you are inclined to think that the people living under such donditions are like their surroundings. Such apathy and to environment is characteristic of slum areas in large cities. Many persons living in these ghettos have little or no concern for the appearance of their homes or the neighborhood in which they live, and the state of nelgect usually indicates this fact. Most residents of Utah prefer to be regarded as decent, respectable people. They are anxious to make a favorable impression upon visitors aswell as on local citizens. We believe the visitors should leave our state with the opinion that we are clean and respectable people. How can he receive such an opinion if he observes repeatedly as he travels through our state, run down buildings and fences, trash and debris scattered through our state, junk cars disgracing the approaches to our town, scattered sites, at eating stands, in recreation areas, in parks, in canyons and forests, wherever humans go. Are such situations the environs of people who care or do they belong to the neglect and the indifferent? Is this the image the Utah people want to leave with the visitor? We are all concerned with our personal image. Were it not so, we would not bother to bathe, shave, put on clean clothes and dress up when we go to church, to the theater, or other places where people mingle. Tremendous sums are spent to make women more beautiful and men more neat and attractive in appearance. All of this is to improve our personal image in the minds of those who see us. Why should we go to all of this expense and fuss while we stumble around in trash, junk and delapidation? Our good personal image is obliterated by the debris that surrounds us. Let's make our inhabited landscape so that the visitor will be impressed with our cleanliness and so that our surroundings properly reflect the kind of people we really are. in-atten- J LETTM to the mm Dear Sir: In your editorial in the last issue of the San Juan Record you advocate spraying as the best means of getting rid of weeds along city streets and on vacant lots. I would like to take issue with this proposal and point out the dangers of weed spraying in populated areas. Rather than having a better looking city as you state in the editorial we would have virtually a dead city. Where weed sprays are used in the populated areas there is very great danger that the wind will cause the spray to drift onto desirable and valuable trees, shrubs and other foliage including vegetable gardens. The poison also seeps through the ground to destroy the roots of these plants. If the city were to employ weed spray a along the city streets as you advocate we would end up killing most if not all of the 250 shade trees we have planted over the past several years. An example of the vicious effects that can result from the earless use of weed spray can be found on West Center Street south of the high school where 6 shade trees planted by the city and one lovely blue spruce tree are dead or dying because of this practice. The only safe and acceptable method of weed control in populated areas is by mowing or other mechanical means such as plowing or soil cultivation. I would certainly urge that all use of weed sprays in the city be stopped before more damage is done to valuable plants. i aijrl uTi A I ) v ' Vs" L- -'. I A'-i-, L V-- ' f 'Z't v " .. ' Tj The water is 110 feet deep at the place where the drowning occurred. The water temperature is 50 degrees and the water is very muddy from 70 feet on down. , t, .. ,.A v ' " - , HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR Arlow Freestone and Mrs. Norma Nielson watch the flag as it flies on the new flagpole at San Juan HospitaL The pole and a similar one at the Blanding Nursing Home were designed and built by Lance Phillips of the Nursing Home staff. Record Photo Engineers seek shelters, flood controls Members of the Corps of Engineers are in San Juan County this week to study the possibility of the use of mines for fallout shelters, Civil Defense Director Joe Berry reported to the San Juan County Commissioners this week. Two more engineers from the same organization will study Cottonwood Wash on Sept. 9 and 10 to find means for preventing future floods at Bluff. The County Commissioners added Dale Holmes to the Airport Feasibility Study Committee. Grand County has recently added Comiss-ion- er Ralph J. Miller to their committee. There will be a rodent control meeting at the San Juan County Courthouse at 1 1 a. m. Sept. 10. Represented.will be Oil Alpine Fry, ne nw 660 fnl 1980 fwl. 10, 800 McCracken test. PI Base Map Spud 8" (q 225 Csg: 1 State-Sma- ll El: 6615 Gr. Lisbon. Alpine Oil 1 Navajo, sw ne 1980 fnl 1980 feL El: 5025 Gr. Loc. Ismay. OIL & GAS LEASE APPL. w225, the County, BLM, Forest Service, Fish G Game, Soil Conservation, farmers and the local trappers. The Commissioners will meet Tuesday, Sept. 2, at 10 a. m. because of the Labor Day holiday. Monticello Police Report CITATIONS: Aug. 21 - citation issued for failure to stop at Main and First South. 9167: Beard Oil. Twp 27s-2- 0e 22; sw sw, sw se. Sec. 25; nw nw. 120 acs. San COMPLAINTS: Juan County. Aug. 20 - Complaint re9170: George Globe. Twp on a bad check. ceived 36s-2- Sec. 33, nw, se. Aug. 21 - Investigated bad 320 acs. check matter. 9171: Joseph M. Thomas. Aug. 21 - Reported van37s-2sw ne Sec. dalism at Monticello Library 12, Twp nw nw, sw sw. 120 acs. where motorbike or motor 9175: Alma J. Smith, 13502 cycle had run across the lawn. Indian Creek Road, Houston, Aug. 25 - Petty larceny - Sec. 35; complaint Texas. Twp 27s-2- 2e at drug store - no ni, sw, n se, se se. Twp action taken. 31; Lots 3,4, se sw. Aug. 25 - Investigated a 714. 45 acs. broken window complaint at 9176: Judith Walker. Twp a residence. 31s-2- Sec -- 3: ne, Sse. Sec. 23; nine, sse. 400 acs. The San Juan Record 9177: Joseph M. Thomas - Sec 5; ne sw. Twp 35s-2- 2e Monticello, Utah Sec 6: ne se. Sec 7: ne nw. Thursday, Aug. 28, 1969 Sec. 10: nw ne, snw, sw, Page Two se se. Sec. 18: ne nw. 480 acs. 27s-20e-- body of Larry Butt, who was drowned Thursday in Lake Powell near Good Hope Bar 12 miles South of Hite At least ten boats and three planes have been searching the area since the accident. The National Park Service, Utah State Parks, Sheriff Tusty Musselman and the Butt family have all been searching the water. The National Park Service, Calvin Black and Dick Smith have been searching by air. 1 ' , 13-3- The search continues for the Is - lL A- t W., UB-15- A. victim i 1 i) xjfc ,y ' I DRILLING STATUS (for drowning ill jl ii Sincerely, City of Monticello Philip K. Palmer City Administrator Search continues b ec. 1e 1e 27s-23e-Se- c. 2e . Contributed. m Arnold appointed coordinator of Continuing Education was established by the 1969 State and will serve San ator of the Southeastern Utah Legislature and Emory Grand Juan, Center for Continuing EducCounties. It is similar to the ation, is establishing his head- center operated by Utah State quarters in Moab and will University in Roosevelt for begin work in preparation for the past two years in that it a the initation of service of the aims to provide services for center this fall. of varying ages and of people Mr. Arnold's appointment many interests and occupawas approved recently by the tions. However, the program Institutional Council of Utah be will adapted to meet the State University at Logan, needs of the Southspecial Which will administer the Utah eastern area with greater center. He met with faculties on emphasis industry. A series of Grand County School Disof lower division college trict today and is conferring this with school administrators and coursesandwill be offered and division upper fall, other public officials during a courses will be credit graduate three day trip in the area. where there is suffiThe Southeastern Utah Center provided cient need and student support. Mr. Thomas K. Arnold, the newly appointed Coordin- The Center will work in cooperation with the school districts of the three counties and classes will be held in any locality where there are sufficient students to warrant it. Mr. Arnold is 47 years of age and has had broad experience in business. For the past 2 z years he has been Assistant Manager in the Office of the Business Vice President at Colorado State University and earlier was employed with various major industrial concerns. He has a bachelor's degree in Accounting, a Master's in Economics and a Master's in Industrial Student Subscription SPECIAL We will send your son or daughter in college The San Juan Record until June 1, 1970 for only $3.25 Sukaibe r.tr Iho San Juan Record |
