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Show Scut Ocean W Looking for Second partnership with farmers ACP is a MEMBER dams and terracing has been The ACP program is a the farmer of provided to check or retain partner tvITfil and rancher helping preserve runoff water and prevent the natural resources of the Christmas tree cutting for gullying. Another practice land. Aid is the to is the sod waterway which is Association - Founded 1885 use Monticello on the given personal who performs an individual Manti-aS- al of the District performed by shaping gully Ranger nitm crcwti uftuuutuu ACP and National Forest has approved seeding them to sod practice by the cost. Technical een authorized for the sharing forming grasses to hold the 6is -7 also advice and prevent erosion as banks and weekends of Dec. given. MR. AND MRS. H. V. ALWARD 13-When the first settlers came this year. ec. they dispose of excess water. EDITORS & PUBLISHERS to this country their first Many other conservation Cutting permits may be thought was preservation of purchased during week days at practices, too numerous to Entered in the Postoffice at Monticello, the Monticello District Office family and self by getting enouglvnention here have been pro- -j land cleared to raise a crop of the Forest Service, and on Utah as Second Class matter that would supply enough food New practices or projects eekends fron Forest Service Published every Thursday at Monticello, officers for their families and live -at the sale area. applicable only to this counstock. The early settlers didi-n- ot The minimum price for perUtah ty may be approved if they have much time to thinlj are found to be practical and mits is $1. 00. SUBSCRIPTION RATES needed. North Creek and Cooley Gulch of conservation. Conservation as cutas is was now it have been In County By taking a short trip out to practiced designated $4 and unknown the areas at some of the participating for time. Alpine Fir, ting Outside County $5 Much land was over be over the cleared cut farms or ranches one can pinion may the snow Rains and entire District. Ponderosa pine years. Box 428, Monticello, Utah 84535 readily see the effects these came with this and thaws offered will conservation practices have not be freezing year. Phone 587-22- 77 on the land. The cost of perCutters are reminded that and runoff at a maximum. :ree cutting is not to be con-uct- ed formance is minor compared Winds blew unobstructed over CORRESPONDENTS within 200 feet of roads this unprotected land and took to the benefits the land r within the Blue Mountain receives. He not only owners much of the good top soil with increases production in most ki area. Blue spruce is not it. Much erosion was caused Monticello Mrs. Vera Park o be cut and trees are not to cases but also increases the jy the wind and water. dates of the land. e The worth Some of our leaders who were cutting topped. Mrs. Nell Dalton Monticello Low income farmers, by have been advanced over ery wise and were interested I last n saving our natural resources taking advantage of these Mrs. Jo H. Bayles year to aid cutters in Blanding ACP iecided to take action against practices offered, may obtaining their trees prior to adverse his receive weather Mrs. Florence Galbraith conditions. up to 80 of the cost! our of means Blanding wasting away Persons interested in small of performance. Other receiye f livelihood. Our Federal Outcast commercial Christmas Tree 50 of the cost in most over Mrs. Helen Redshaw -government organized depart sales should contact Forest nents to work out programs to instances. Bluff Service Farmers and ranchers who ' Mrs. Sharon Grounds personnel in Monticello. aid the farmer and rancher lave successfully performed in conserving his soil and Montezuma Creek Mrs. Pat Davis For families who want to go these conservation practices water. take much pride in spreading LaSal linto the foothills and cut Some of these programs are Mrs. Max Wilcox their own pinon pine Christ -the word around about what clearing of areas of sagemas tree the U. S. Bureau of a good stand of grass they brush and seeding grass,, and Management in Utah lave or showing a friend or the cropped stripcropping this has designated year again neighbor their fields or strip -areas in contour or straight several areas where BLM cropping. The ACP Program strips and seeding the alteris also proud of the partnership employees will be stationed nate strips to grass, legumes m certain dates to issue which allows sharing with the or other vegetation cover to armers and ranchers. jermits. prevent wind erosion. Check , The BLM district office areas where pinon pines be may cut, and dates and times BLM employees will bej in those areas to issue free permits and tags are as foll-ow- s: iXmas tree? con-servati- on PER I 14 . -- addjf-Iress- - ' - W" y Monticello, 284 South 1st west: Peters Point, three mils north of Monticello on U. S. ' r. of 1941." Yet, significantly,' a recent poll indicated 160, then five miles west on days gsrilous of the public now regard military spending as too high. c ' W rin Creek road Dec 13 ' 14. I The poll apparently reflects popular concern over the 'military- - 2g v r.Vvrfu 21 between W a . m. A V..' ' Itef U industrial complex. " It no doubt also reflects the desire of a IK and 3 p. m. a dollars share the tax of to devote larger great many people &fK. r'V to such domestic problems as urban decay, poverty and expansion of various welfare programs. h Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird has announced military he i, 7 V u budget cutbacks of $3 billion. In proposing the cutbacks, warns that they would cause an "inevitable weakening of our OFiLOCAL'INTEREST I worldwide military posture. " The cuts include, among other things, a reduction in uniformed personnel, a substantial drop Cropland improved by the installation of Sod Waterways to in civilian employees of the defense department and decomprevent gullying. missioning of about 100 naval vessels. Proposals to curb milMr. and Mrs. Frank Harvey itary research and development expenditures for new weapons and family and Mrs. Shilling will in all likelihood meet strong opposition from Secretary are Russians the that his fear of who Phoenix, the Wayne Browns Laird, frequently expresses S. U. Provo and the Dick Murrays! of overtake the to threatening were guests in of Greenriver Another strong opponent of excessive cutbacks in defense the Julius Harvey home for spending is Sen. John Stennis of Mississippi Like Mr. Laird the holidays. They were he is a supporter of research and development. He believes if joined Friday by Mrs. Jay cutbacks in weapons programs go too far, the U. S. by 1975 Harvey and children of Farm- will have an obsolete Army, Navy and Air Force. He has ington, M. M. warned . . . "it is the height of folly to start cutting off future Mr. and Mrs. Robert Riley He modem weapons in this deadly age ..." accepts without j p, and family traveled to dispute the promise that certain cuts in military operations Utah, for Thanksgiving are proper subjects of debate. But he strongly emphasizes the with Paul Pace family and the danger of curtailing procu rement programs that would underdid some Christmas shopping. mine modernization of the armed services and believes this would leave the nation with no way to protect itself except by Zb' starting a nuclear war. In spite of polls and proposals that seem to indicate a desire Grant presented to cut defense spending at any cost, the chances are that Area cleared of trees and grass seeded to when the smoke of controversy and debate clears away U. S. improve pasture bitizens will be found on the side of those working to preserve the best and most modem military establishment the nation an establishment that can respond is capable of producing nuclear or conventional. And this is as to any emergency An administration grant of it should be. $78, 000 was awarded to the With the on peace marches and moratoriums Southeastern Utah Community by young people who were not even bom by the time Pearl Action Program, with headHarbor came along, those of us who can remember the horror at Price, reported quarters iand despair of those days, can only wonder whether the reLaurence J. Burton. Rep. trenchment of our military will win and prevail. But a wod of caution is in order - REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR! "The funds will be used to administer the CAP program - I S 4 4 . , I ' V . V r '" v 4 i $ 1 il .m. s I Wan-shi- Y A ?f''?' 0E0 over-empha- sis ;R-Uta- Adult classes being offered Adult education classes will Typing, Modem Math, Ait, English , Creative Writing soon be getting under way at General Psychology, IntroMonticello High School . duction to T echnology and Exact course offerings and Spanish. times will be subject to the There will be a fee of $5. Od number of people who request for each class. classes and which times are Interested persons should most convenient to these MHS between 8 am contact people. and 4 pm on Dec. 4, 5 or 8. Possible offerings include Classes will begin the week Shop, Biology, Zoology, of Dec. 8. h). in Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan Counties, " Rep. Burton said. "The funds will be sent to the director, Harry Schultz, " The OEO fluids will be used for a 12month program, re-(- fl ports Mr. Burton. , San juan VTtah Mo nticeU' tobet 4, pece 969 SobscriP"00 The San - |