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Show Voting in three towns next week Three San Juan communities will have municipal elections on Tuesday of next week to elect mayors and council members. In Monticello, candidates for mayor are Gary Adair, on the Independent Party ticket, and Keith B. Redd, on the Pro- gressive Party slate. present mayor, Gene is not seeking The Ether-ingto- n, re-electi- on. Candidates for to life once again as sunlight dances in a pool of water into which they have drifted . Water droplets add another measure of brilliance to this micro-sce- ne , found throughout the San Juan area. Photo by Alvin Reiner. Fallen aspen leaves come an Juan Record Vol . 60, No. 40 Broncos, Bucks in play offs by Margie Teeter San Juan Countys two high school football teams will be competing in state quarterfinal action this weekend. Monticello will play South Summit on Friday at 2:30 p.m. at the Carbon High School field in Price. Tickets for the game can be purchased at Monticello High School. Cost will be $2.25 for adults and $1.25 for students. Student tickets at the gate will be $1.50. The San Juan Broncos of B landing will play Morgan on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the Carbon field in Price. Tickets for the game maybe purchased at San Juan High School in Blanding. Price is $2.25 for adults and $1.25 for students. Pete Perry to give talk ber 8, at the Lariat Restaurant, it was announced this week by Bob Sparks, Chamber president. Mr. Sparks said Superinten- Perry pects of the wiU discuss recently-release- as- d general management plan for Canyonlands National Park. Mr. Sparks said he hoped that members of the county commission, city officials and all interested citizens would plan to attend the November 8 luncheon. Concert rummage sale this week This Friday and Saturday, are the dates November for the big rummage sale sponsored by the San Juan Community Concert Association. The sale will be in the allpurpose room of the Monticello Library, starting at 9:30 a.m. each of the two days. At 10 oclock a sale of all homemade cakes, cookies, pies and breads, as well as other good things, will be held. Marilyn Rowley and Jean Robinson are arranging this special event. Furniture, dishes, smaH appliances, clothes, and much much more, will be sold at a 4-- 5, fraction of their actual value," sponsors of the sale said this week. Buy a box full of reusable clothes, to fashion into a new wardrobe for the children. Buy another box of wool pieces for a quilt top, or to make a rug. There will be something for everyone, thanks to the wonderful people who are giving good, clean, usable items, to support the Community Concert rummage sale." All articles that are not sold by Saturday afternoon will be given to a worthy charity, or sent to the Deseret Industries. County has low New deadline on comments accident rate November 3, 1977 Park Board to visit county San Juan County is on the itinerary for a State Parks and Recreation board meeting scheduled for November 7-- 12. leery four-ye- ar are candidates for council terms, and Jay L. Heisel, Jr., and Paul McPherson are candidates for terms on the council. Bluffs Citizens Party has two-ye- ar nominated Gale D. Bachman for mayor, with Arlene S. Dennison and Carl D. Wallace as council candidates. Deborah A. Laurio and Jim counTaylor are the two-yeon cil candidates the Citizens ticket. four-ye- ar ar A breakfast meeting will be held at the Elk Ridge Cafe in Blanding on Wednesday, November 9, starting at 8 a.m. The meeting will be with the San Juan commissioners, a representative of the San Juan County School District; Utah state legislators, Blanding city officials, potential Edge of the Cedars advisory council members .and the Travel Council, pertaining to Dead Horse Point State Park, Canyonlands Island in the Sky and Edge of the Cedars. Teacher dies in accident woman was killed Saturday in a fiery, A Monticello three-vehic- le Albuquerque, accident near New Mexico, on Interstate 25. The victim was Jean Marie teaHoover, 30, a first-gracher at Blanding. Reports of the accident said Miss Hoover was standing on the shoulder of the highway after her car developed mechanical de The National Park Service will extend for an additional 30 days the period for written comments on the general management plan for Canyonlands National Park, according to the National Park Service gional Director Lynn ThompAll written comments son. from interested parties will now be received up to DecemRe- Pete Perry, Canyonlands National Park superintendent, will speak at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Monticello Chamber of Commerce at noon on Tuesday, Novem- dent HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH four -- year terms on the Monticello city council are Grant Nielson and Jack Young on the Independent ticket, and Hal Jensen and Harold Young on the Progressive slate. Jack Young is an incumbent councilman, having first been elected four years ago. In Blanding , the Citizens Party has nom nated Michael T. Hurst for mayor, and Ker-m- it Butt and Kent Tibbetts for seats on the city council. The Peoples Party in Blanding has as its candidates Dr. D.L. Gibbons for mayor and Jon Hunt and LaRue McDaniel for city council. The community of Bluff will be holding its first municipal election since becoming a town on July 6 of last year. At that time members of the first board of trustees were appointed by the county commissioners as required by law. The Progressive party in Bluff has George Hatch as its candidate for a four -- year term as mayor. On the same ticket, Opal Hooper and Linn M. Mc-- C ber 12. Thompson stated that, the time extension was warranted due to the large amount of public interest shown in the early period after the plan was released. By allowing the extra 30 days for people to submit written comments, we feel we wiU be able to provide abetter quality plan since we will receive a wider and larger amount of public input. Copies of the plan are available on request at the Canyonlands National Park headquarters in Moab, Utah. San Juan County had the lowest auto accident rate in Utah for 1976, according to the Utah Department of Transpor- tation. The county had a rate of only 1.92 accidents per million miles travelled. By contrast, Cache County had the worst accident record, with 25.4 accidents per million miles, and Beaver had the next worse mark with a 13.2 accident average. Others were: Sevier 12.3, 11.51, Sanpete Washington Garfield 10.37, Emery 10.38, Juab Iron 9.68, 9.06, Rich 9.7, Weber Piute 8.57, 8.82, 8.97, Utah 8.24, Kane 7.79, Box Elder 5.91, Wasatch 5.5, Carbon 5.05, Millard 4.11, Tooele 3.94, Summit 3.74, Davis 3.22, Grand 3.02, Daggett 3, Duchesne 3, Wayne 2.95, Uintah 2.89, Morgan 2.82, and Salt Lake 2.52. There also will be a breakfast meeting in Moab on Tues- day, November 8, with the Grand County commissioners. Moab city officials, Sam Taylor, Utah state legislators and the Moab Chamber of Commerce, pertaining to the possibility of some type of a joint venture with National Park Service concerning Dead Horse Point State Park and Canyonlands Island in the Sky. meeting in Kanab the evening of November 10 will be with the Kane County comand interested missioners A persons pertaining to Coral Pink Sand Dunes State Re- serve. meeting in Cedar City on 11 will be with city state officials, legislators, the Iron Mission advisory council and Iron County commissioners, pertaining to the Iron Mission State Historical A November problems. According to the New Mexico state police, the victim was thrown about 65 feet when a truck hit the rear of her car and the car of an Atlanta, Georgia, man who had stopped to help. The impact of the crash, which occurred at 5:15 a.m. Saturday, pushed both cars 437 feet, officers said. The gas tank of the cars exploded, destroying all three vehicles. The fire blazed for two hours before police and rescue work- ers could begin pulling apart the wreckage to check for other bodies. .It took 20 firemen to douse the flames. Miss Hoover was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Hoover, of Altoona, |