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Show 7e Scut fQucut mast . o etwid Dr. Gary Shumway, students member study r SOCUTlOt Association - Founded 1885 Q uuxu uvwu Kmsuunu- s- H. V. ALWARD Editor and Publisher Entered in the Postotiiee at Monticello, Utah as Second Class matter published every Thursday at Monticello, Utah SUBSCRIPTION RATES . n County . , .. $5 . , Outside County . . . Box '428, Monticello, Utah 84515 7 Phone CORRESPONDENTS 587-227- Monticello Mrs. Nell Dolton tn. Mexican Hat Lillian Vorih Mrs. Florence Galbraith Blending Outeast Mrs. Helen Redshaw Bluff Mrs. Sharon Grounds Montezuma Creek LaSal Mrs. Pat Davis Mrs. Max Wilcox ,, The Retreat Singers are at banjo, a french horn, bass guTheir musSt. Christopher's Mission to itar and a trap-se- t. the Navajo, Bluff, Utah. They ical arrangements are develare a multi -- denominational oped by ear to allow for complete freedom of expression. group of young people from Over the years the group has Little Rock, Arkansas , who now have members attending written approximately 2 songs all major high schools in their each month as well as dramathome area as well as 11 nation ic readings to tie together their al colleges. The group organ- musical numbers. ized in 1965 with 8 charter As a missionary team they members and now there are have involved themselves with are people and projects in Wales, more than 100. Fifty-thrBritish Hondouras, Canada and in the group at the Mission. The accomplishments within at home. They travel to sumthe past 2 years of the Retreat mer work projects by singing Singers have been so great that in return for overnight food they have been instituted as a and housing. They have worked as a manual labor team first pilot project of the National to As s folksing-ercomplete work which needs Episcopal Church. to be done and secondly to inthey present both the life volve as many local people in of Christ as well as folk -- rock the work project as possible. songs of many nations and ethnic groups. They sing without By total involvement through a director using 10 guitars, 1 working together they feel that the Gospel of Christ can best be shown. The San Juan Record As a spiritual group therapy family, exploring and learning Monticello, Utah about their own problems, the Thursday, August 6, 1970 Retreat Singers have developed Two so that they are now able to Page U-Hist- ory Prospectors instead of mineral lodes will occupy the attention of a California State College, Fullerton historian and 18 students who embark this month on prospecting trip deep into the uranium mining country of Colorado and Utah. The CSCF member is Dr. Gary Shumway, an assistant professor, and the 16 are graduate students and college seniors who have given up a month of summer vacation i to Tecord historical information on this area of the country while the data still is available. Shumway, who heads the community history program at CSCF, is director Of the pioneer effort which is sponsored jointly by CSCF and the University of Utah. Codirecting the operation, meat of a highly significant cription. The resulting 21,000 pages, when complied, will yeild about 400 books, he says, records, mining maps, photographs and whatever iommaR diaries and letters they find, will fill a room in the special collections area of the CSCF Library. A similar "S'from these peoples accounts of theitwnexne to get ces will we be able we information the wnat much of 4Uftjw life was like and to understand why and how things happened, " he adds. Each of the student had his own study area and those frtm CSCF will earn six credits. Topics range from a study of Moab, Utah, ; and the effect cf the rampant collection will be filed in the studies center at the University of Utah. 'Time is important", "beShumway emphasizes, cause so few people kept records of their dreams, frustrations and success. If those who camfi, built and worked the area to get away a vast supply of knowledge which ha s real historical importance will be lost for- rs urbanization brought upon it by the uranium industry to the A EC's role in the development of the mining . boom. Other students will research such areas as the birth . . and death of the mining town, ever. White Canyon, which now is Mnay of the early prospectors, 120 under Lake Powell; the feet miners, townspeople and roles of Union Carbide, Vanacompany officials, he exUranium Oral History Prodium old Corporation of America of are passing away plains, and ject, will be Dr. David other companies In the radiation-inflicted age or Miller and Floyd A, O'Neil development of the industry; lung cancer and those who director and assistant to the the effect affluenced had on are left after this year may director, respectively, of the lives of independant soon scatter to all parts of the the Utah university's Cenmonopolies; and law ter for studies of the American country. suits. The Atomic Energy CommissWest. Headquarters for the Cal. , state Fullerton's is a ion, as of July 1, no longer project will be at Blanding, pioneer effort in the field of gurantees die purchase of the Utah. oral history course to do reore and Shumway expects the "The participants" search in the field. " individual prospectors and combined efforts will collect Shumway, a Whittier resmall miners to leave the enough history of the uranium earned his doctorate sident, industry for other work. Otherfrom mining area, its people and the University of Southwise they must find their own life style to fill a small ern His B.A. and California. markets for the ore. room.," Shumwav predicts. 1 are M. from A. Brigham "These people", Shumway The professor, estimating Young University. that they will be able to tape points out, "found and mined uranium deposits, achieved 700 hours of interviews adds affluence, built and left towns with local residents, and made important decisions about that each hour gives that determined the develop- trans of 30 typewritten pages pros-pecot- : .. ee act s for other teenagers. Their work became so involved that they organized The office secretary, Daisy a group to handle teenage emeris for Nakai, greet- gencies called the Emergency responsible ing the public pleasantly, giv- Rescue Corps. The E. R. C. ing the public the best service has dealt effectively with teenpossible, handling incoming age runaways, attempted suiand outgoing mail. She is recides, the rehabilitation of sponsible for answering the drug abusers, shoplifters and telephone courteously and ef- other less dramatic problems. The Retreat Singers will be ficiently to get proper inforcormaterials the Mission for two weeks. at mation, filing inforrectly, mimeographing During their stay they will premation to better inform the sent at least 2 folk concerts public of services and informa- on the Life of Christ. Others tion materials, keep chairman may be scheduled and these informed on supplies and sercan be checked on by calling vices needed, prepare vouchers the Mission. Two performan--ce- s on expenses, etc. , type coralready scheduled are at and St. other Christopher's Mission on respondence, reports and assist in office information Friday, August 7, at 7 p. m. and at Aneth Community procedure. It is the intent of the USU Ex- School on Thursday, August tension Services to bring the 13, at 7 p. m. All performances are free and open to the resources of the State institutions to the Indian people livpublic. Of most importance, howSan in Juan County. Organing izations, special interest groups ever, will be their involvement with the community. and individuals may request and participate in any feasible Choosing from several projects it was decided that the Retreat educational venture that can and pabe organized, staffed Singers could help build a Comtronized. Cooperation with any munity Center and and lay a 2500 foot waterline and all other institutions of utilizathe and at Todahidakani, across the higher learning tion of local qualified resour- - river from Bluff, during their ces opens the door of opportune stay here. ity to our area. (Continued from page 3) as counselor-aide- Pre-Scho- Cutlass 1. You save big money when you buy it. The 4th Annual Year-EnSale is on now at your Oldsmobile dealers and the savings are substantial d every new Olds in his stock! 2. You save even more money as you drive it. Olds is famous for features that help keep costs down. Like Positive Valve Rotators in every for peak performance thousands of miles longer . . . 8 rustproof inner fenders . . . aluminized exhaust system . . . d tires . . . more! on V-- bias-belte- many 3. You get a nice bonus at trade-i- n time. 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