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Show i the Valley of the Gods stretches to the horizon, cloud shadows pattern a landscape of great rock shapes .. .an awesome drama of light and stone .. .another wonder of San Juan From Cedar Mesa n Vol . 57, HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH No. 46 Its Bargains In Blanding On Saturday to comes is the theme set Christmas Blanding" for the annual shopping promotion on Saturday, December 7. The promotion is sponsored by the Blanding Chamber of Commerce. Stores throughout Blanding will be featuring special bargains for Christmas shoppers that day. Steve Bronson, president of the Blanding Chamber, urges residents to take advantage of the convenience and service available here in Blanding for their Christmas shopping this year. Highlight of the day for the youngsters will be the appearance of Santa Claus, who will be in Blanding from 1 to 3 p.m. Monticellos New Curfew Curfew hours in Monticello have been changed for the winter months. The curfew for everyone under 18, is now 10 p.m. through Thursday Sunday 11 p.m. on Friand nights, day and Saturday nights. COMMISSION REPORT By Nell Dalton The San Juan County Commission recently made the decision to withdraw from the Southeastern Utah Association of Governments. At the last November meeting the Blue Mountain Rodeo committee expressed their thanks to the commission for the use of the Fair Building and Rodeo Grounds last Juiy. The deplorable condition of the city dump was discussed. Asuggestion was made that the county cat be used to push trash into the arroyo weekly, charging the regular fee. The matter is to be decided by the City Council. Three representatives from the State Division of Alcoholism, headed by Bill Howell, met Program Coordinator, with the commission Monday. They gave assurance that the Division wishes to offer their assistance and support to San Juan Countys programs whenever possible. The appointment of a new member for the San Juan County Hospital Board for a five year term was discussed. The new member will replace Lynn Lyman whose term will expire soon. Letters were read concerning a change in administration of the Head Start program. Awork report from Bruce (Please turn to page 14) Analyze Salary Rates Classroom teachers with a bachelors degree in the San Juan School District received a salary schedule increase averaging $575 or 6.50 this year. In addition to this general raise, most teachers not at the top bracket of the salary scale also received an increasement experience Thus, the averaging $391. total average salary boost for such teachers amounted to $966 this year. These facts were brought out in an analysis of teachers salaries prepared by Utah the private Foundation, research organization, and is teacher based on 1974-7- 5 collected schedules by salary the State Board of Education from the local school districts. Certificated teachers with a bachelors degree in the San Juan School District will receive a beginning salary of $7,455 this year with a maximum salary of $11,366 received after 10 years of service. Added amounts are paid to teachers with additional academic training. The 1974-7- 5 salary for a teacher with a masters degree, for is $8,232 at the example, beginning level and $12,921 at the maximum step of thei salary scale. The report notes that these amounts are for approximately nine months of service during the school year. Foundation analysts observe that a teacher with a bachelors degree who began a teaching career in the San Juan School District during 1969 would a starting have received of $6,200. This year, salary same this teacher with five years experience would be receiving a salary of $9,449. Approximately $1,749 of this increase came from boosts in the overall salary schedule the remaining $1,500 coming from annual increments for added teaching experience. In addition to these salary increases, Utah now provides the employees share of with teacher retirement costs. Formerly, this expense was (Please turn to page 2) Picture Time The final issue of the paper for the year (December 26) will be the annual holiday pictorial. It will contain a review of the best scenic pictures which have appeared during 1974. This picture issue will not contain any news, advertising or legal notices except those of an emergency nature. So if you have material which needs to run in the paper before the end of the year, please submit it for next week or 5, 1974 December County Teams Dominate In Mat Tourney By Margie Teeter Monticello and San Juan each first places and the MHS Buckaroos took home the championship trophy in the San Juan Invitational Tournament at Blanding last Saturday. The Bucks captured the tourney title with U4 points, while host San Juan was second with 108. Grand of Moab was third with 52 points and Duchesne took fourth with 28 points. Results of championship matches: 98 pounds: Joe Petty, SJ, won over Danny Herrera, Mon., judges decision. 105 pounds: Ozzie Trujillo, MHS, decisioned Harold Jones, SJ. 112 pounds: Russel Schafer, MHS, pinned Delbert Jones, SJ. 119 pounds: Todd Randall, MHS, decisioned Robert Win- had six der, Moab, 1-- i 0. Steve Garcia, MHS, decisioned Tom Krabbe, 126 SJ, 4-- pounds: 3. pounds: Wilford Jones, SJ, pinned Danny Muhlestein, 132 MHS. 138 pounds: Lynn Redd, SJ, decisioned Fred Snyder, MHS, the week after. 145 2. pounds: Steve Keith, (Please turn to page comes to Blanding Saturday See pages 4-- 11 2) |