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Show ett&m humaUm i haircut, etc., etc. Come join - 3 A fbp fun anH 1 I 2 o - 1- O K 0 cs 8 3 rt T3 8 0) H S off the Record Ever clean up the front yard a little when out-of-to- wn com- pany was coming? Somebody must, because the clean look" was one of the first things we noticed about San Juan County. Well, friends, we got a real problem in our mutual front yard ... the face we present to all of our visitors on Highway 666 east of Monticello. The Monticello City Dump. The other way to put that first question would have been: When company is coming, do you dump your garbage in your front yard, set fire to some of it, and scatter out-of-to- wn the rest all over the grass? We know we dont do that kind of stuff, but how can we prove that to the guy who views the Blues through our acrid smoke (if he can take his eyes off several acres of garbage-littere- d roadside). The City Council, the Coun- ty Commission, the federal and state agencies using the dump are all concerned, are studying the alternatives, and are finding the solutions uni- formly expensive. It looks like we, as individual citizens, are going to have to clean up our own messes. (Like we tell the kids to do.) How about a citizens fund, and then a volunteer work force to at least put a fence around the dump site. It wouldnt have to be a beautiful fence, just something to keep that stuff from blowing all over. How about encouraging the City Council to require that we separate our personal garbage into stuff that will burn and stuff that wont, so that they can burn the best and bury the rest? How about your ideas sent to the Record or the Monticello City Council? Or do you think this beautiful country deserves that ugliness in the front yard? The Old Settler By My Dear San Juaners: I have a feeling of anger Monticello Museum last Saturday night really brought in the bread". After expenses, we will still be on the bright side of eight hundred bucks." There was a fair size crowd considering the many events taking place that night. Everyone seemed to enjoy the food and afterwards, the shenanigans of the auctioneer and comedian, Jess Leonard of the Cortez Livestock Commis-.sio- n Co. The drawing, which was held after the auction, went as follows: The quilt, made by the ladies of the Museum Board, was won by Dick Auble; a one-dtrip to Canyonlands, donated by Frosts Canyonland Tours, was won by Richard Cox of Cortez; a Shavex shaver, one of the items given by the City Drug Store, was won by Nobel Trueblood; three lanes bowling, courtesy of the Park Lanes Bowling Center, was won by Ace Holden; a haircut, by Clydes Barber Shop, was won by Brian Odette; two burger baskets, given by the Patio, were won by John Mitchell; an educational toy, one of the items given by Blanding Drug Store, was won by Karen Greenhalgh, and the head scarf, donated by Connies Beauty Salon, was won by R. W. Head of Murray, Utah. ay In addition to the above men- tioned, the board would like to thank the following busi- nesses -- Redds Motors, whose 63 Buick was out-distan- ced (moneywise) only by a horse, Monticello Merc, who sent about a tenth of the store down, Parley Redd of Blanding, who gave us a huge box of clothes, shoes, etc., Husky Oil of Monticello, Tom Redds Quality Ford Sales of Blanding, Avalon Cafe, Plateau Service, Phillips 66 Service, JB Grain & Bean, Kirks Chevron Service, Hyland Tavern, Monticello Lumber & Hardware, Texburger, Lariat Cafe, Jensens Food Center, Motor Parts, Blue Mt. Foods, Toms Beauty Salon, Corrines Flow- er Shop, Bos Business, Gal- of Blanding, Bakery of Blanding, Blakes Survey, Blanding Merc, Triangle H. Motel, Monticello Golf Shop, Monticello Country Club, Dr. Chases (Hunts Club), Blue Mt. Guest Ranch, radio station KUTA, San Juan Record and Cortez Livestock Commission. Some of the businesses were not contacted, but most of those who were, responded most generously. In addition, we would like to thank all individuals who donated items (see Nells Newsy Notes) who bought quilt tickets, attended the auction, ate turn to Page 8 braith Merc A vaughns sup-Plea- and disgust whenever I remember that trial in Denver. Those people were simply going crazy over he was wined, dined, and the women threw themselves at him with reckless abandon, not only women for whom he had no appetite, but some women who seemed really to have good sense. I was told while I was there, that he had refused three propositions of marriage. It was a mania. My testimony that I had come to Denver to give, was passed without any notice at all. I would listen all day to that evidence, damaging unanswerable evidence and go out in the evening and buy a copy of the Denver Post, there was not a word in it but that which was favorable, if not exaggerated, in favor of that Indian. No notice was taken of his Tse-ne-g- Auction Nets $800 for Museum By NELL DALTON The Benefit Auction for the ALBERT R. LYMAN se at, sorrowing wife and his old parents, no notice was taken of their evidence and when I considered the complete story that was brought out there without challenge, I looked at the dignified judge of that federal court, and wondered what in the world he was doing with it, what disposition he was making of it in his mind. As a sample of what the popular feeling was, I got a letter addressed to me about that time from a woman in the Eastern States who asked if she could send a letter to me with the assurance that it would be delivered to or if I could tell her where and how she would find him. She said she loved him and wanted to make him happy and she wanted to come away out here in the far western country and place all her hopes of futurity and joy in living, Tse-ne-g- at, FOR A SUNDAY EVENING WALK" (bad news for mice) was this handsome snake resident of south San Juan First spotted crossing the highway north of Bluff, County. he was rediscovered by virtue of a fast turn-arouand hustle to the top of the sand bank at roadside. Reliable authorities, upon hearing the snake described, tell me it is a bull snake. All I know is he would have made a great color Miles Turnbull photo picture in the San Juan sand. OUT nd in the hands of this accused murderer. Now I dont feel to have the patience to give all the disgusting details of this procedure, but I was outraged at the way that Indian was turned loose with scarcely any reprimand or any limitation on what he might want to do when he was turned scott free back here among us. He did come back, he came back diseased and vitiated beyond recovery. His mother was at that trial, but I never saw his father there and I do not remember any of his people except his mother. Besides all the unanswerable evidence that I heard against him and that was heard in court, there was more about which I had perfect knowledge. I got near to him just once after that. Governor Charles Wed.; May 24 The public is invited to attend the sixth grade graduation to be held on May 24th, 1972, at 7:30 in the school multi-purpo- se room. A program is planned and fine par- ents and friends are invited. Tse-ne-g- the San Juan Record at. ats Yel-lowjac- BOARDS AUCTION at the County Fairgrounds last Saturday night brought over to the museum and a new home to a lot of donated stuff. Biggest single sale was a $800 good gentle horse (or harse as it is known locally), donated by Max Dalton and stolen was a 63 Buick donated by Redds. The auction was preceded by John Roring. Runner-u- p followed for the editor by the frustration of trying to put together a and by good eating complicated plastic game with two parts and a spring missing. But you should see the old Miles Turnbull photo and historic typewriter we got. More auctions! Grade Graduation MES 6th R. Maybe visited San Juan and I went with him and a little company of men to where some of the Piutes were camped in Hammond Canyon. Tse-ne-g- at was among them. I have a picture of the Governor and The Governor called our attention to the lesions on neck and his face and his ears, proving the progress Miles & Jane Turnbull of his fatal disease. Poke was Publishers delighted to have his son back free, but his delight was of Entered in the Post Office at short duration, and when his Utah, as Second son died, it simply broke the Monticello, Class matter. heart of old Poke. He was in Published every Thursday at his camp at the mouth of and when Posey sent Monticello, Utah. for him at the time of the Subscription Rates: Posey fight and wanted him $5.00 a year in San Juan by all means to come, Poke a year everywhere else $6.00 wouldnt have a thing to do with it. Instead, he stayed Post Office Box 428 there. He became blind. He became so disagreeable and Monticello, Utah, 84535 unbearable to those who were Phone 801587-227- 7 there to help him, that he drove most of them away from him. His wife, who had been probably the best friend he had ever had in the world, fled mHV from his fury, came here to Blanding, and never went back Winner of 1971 Better Newsto him. He died there. Contest" Awards for; paper I am not saying these things with vengeful exultation, but Excellence in Typography not only was his son too young to die, but Poke News Story might have lived a long time, but as Uncle Walter had said to me in Advertising Campaign the time of my trouble with Tse-ne-g- MUSEUM them, When an Indian gets mean enough he will die." This is not the last I have to say about Poke, for I have another side to this story, another side which I must tell as we progress with this account of the Piutes in San Juan. ket |