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Show It Was Good To Sgg... DON ROGERS, who brought in some of his good pictures of Monticello High School sports We're looking events. for- ward to covering the future sports successes of our county's high schools, DALE HOLMES, of KUTA radio, at the Travel Council dinner Saturday night, spark to his enthusiasm for the future of San Juan County. We plan working closely with Dale to boost San Juan County at every opportunity. MRS. KENT FROST, also at the travel She reports Kent is really enthused over his forthcoming book "My Canyonlands" get-togeth- er. ue in bookstores nationwide e. What a plus come for San Juan County to have the Frosts working and writing here so effectively. mid-Jun- BRYANT BRADY, District Conservationist for the Soil Conservation Service in and bright early Monday morning with announcement of tins year's "Soil Stewardship Week. " Bryant gave us a good insight into agriculture in San Juan, as practiced by the more than 300 farm and rnch operators in our county. We share with them a stewardship for this beautiful land, and we owe them a great deal for the effective way they're discharging their stewardship. Every' citizen in the county is in some ... way a beneficiary of their hard work. BUCKLEY JENSEN, of Monticello High faculty, who saved our bacon with the loaner thermometer for darkroom work. Ours is somewhere in the dark recesses of a moving company box (I hope). Buckley's enthusiasm for his home country (all the way back to the original four settling families) is con- tagious. To hear him extol the w onders of a country that ranges from the 13,000-fopeaks of the LaSals, all the w ay down to the Colorado River is a stimulating experience. ot I LA (Mrs. Edway) REDD whose refreshing honesty brightened our "press day" morning. Ila admits she pointed out the "horse's head" to visitors for years and then . . . one day . . . she saw it herself. POSTMASTER CORDON WOOD, even if he did come in to confirm the fact that the postal rates were going up this w eek. The full story is on the front page this week. It isn't strickly local news, but it sure does affect most everyone in San Juan County. YOUR SHOPPING BASKET has been climbing skyward these past 10 years. At least this is true of the prices of most of the things that go into it. In fact, the overall cost of living has increased over 30 percent. On the other hand, the increase in the cost of electricity is very small. UP&L's residential customers pay on the average less than I percent more for each kilowatt hour they use. It's been eight years since our last rate increase in Utah and seven years since we raised our rates in Idaho and Wyoming. Chances are you're using about the same amount of groceries as 10 years ago. But far, far more electricity. This is why your bill is probably higher. If you don't believe you're using more power today, count up the number of new electric appliances you have now that didn't even exist in 1961. We've got power to spare in the area we serve, and we've done better than most in offsetting inflation with more efficient operations. JACK KIRBY, Monticello Police Chief, who was in to say "welcome" and I think "behave yourself", although he never came out and said that. Night before, we had a good visit with OFFICER ED MARKOSEK. who was makincr his security rounds. Good to know' the force is so alert. UTAH POWER & LIGHT CO. The San Juan Record Thursday, r May 13, 197 k mi- - V1; f |