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Show r New ward Crime up By Marsha Keele Melvin Laws, San Juan County probation officer, said this week that a considerable increase in reported crime in the county had oc- curred to 1978. in 1979 as compared Laws increase reported an per cent in juvenile court cases and a 52 per cent increase in delinquency cases. of 63 Laws has worked in the county since the middle of 1978. He said that although the increase could be partially attributed to the fact that there is now a probation officer to report cases to, he has noticed that the crimes in the are county serious. more becoming He cited an increase in businesses being robbed and in drug activity. Census plans are underway By Marsha Keele Some 25 persons met with representatives of the Utah Census Bureau last Wednesday to apply for the position of census - taker. About 20 people will be hired to begin the four - month job off -in San Juan County, reservation. Applicants filled out applications and took examination for the positions. Dan Webb, Job Service, said the test is scheduled again for Tuesday, February 5, at 3 p.m. Many of those one-ho- ur applied were not prepared to assume a who job for four months, Webb said. The census takers would begin work April Census Day, and continue through June 30. The job pays $4 per hour, and mileage would be paid. On April 1, throughout Utah census forms will be mailed to Monticello and San Juan players try to chart the course of a loose ball during their game last weekend in Blan -rivalry 79-- . ding . San Juan won the inter-cit- y Photo by Alvin Reiner. Peek a bool 63 individual homes. In most areas of the state people will be expected to mail back their forms, but in some rural counties such as San Juan census takers will County, the forms in person.- call for County citizens are urged to cooperate with the census by providing essential information. The names will be kept confidential, but the information will help determine such things as: The reapportionment of Congress (Utah may be (Please turn to Page 2) Symposium for Women March By the special grant from Hu- Utah Endowment for the manities, the Monticello Womens Group and San Juan is Schools Community pleased to announce a symposium for women. To be held Friday evening, March 28, and all day Sat- urday, March 29, in the Mon- ticello High School, the symposium will address topics which give dimension to women - then and now. The keynote speaker, Edward L. Fasy, will be featured at the Friday evening session. Mr. Fasy, a family counselor in Salt Lake City, will speak, primarily, about the changing patterns of family relationships. Saturday mornings session will be devoted to the presentation of Women - Then, giving a cultural, sociological and historical background of women and their roles. The afternoon will follow a similar format, with the main topic being Women Now. Featured speakers for the Saturday program will be Katherine James Svendsen, MacKay, Hector Chacon, Jan Ida Smith, AlClemmer, ice Boyack, Marilyn Arnold and Emma Lou Thane. All auspeakers are recognized which thorities in their fields, range from ethnic history to literature to womens affairs and marriage and family living. A handbook containing prooutlines and bibliogram graphies of all speakers, will be made available. It will provide thought - provoking questions, reference sources and a section for personal notes and ideas stimulated by the program. The symposium will provide time and opportunity for individual and group discussions; and have scheduled question - answer periods, designed to offer all attenders opportunity to expand personal opinions, and pargroup ticipate in the over-a- ll effort to dissolve barriers between women of diverse back- the grounds. Further planning sessions for the symposium are sche- duled each Tuesday at noon in the Public Health conference room in the San Juan County courthouse in Monticello. will be held for Meetings or less. Anyone one hour interested in further information, or in participating in the planning of the project, 28 - 29 is invited to attend any Tues- day. No advance arrangements need be made. For additional information those interested may call or write: Sue Halliday 246 Mountain View Drive Monticello, Utah 84535 801-587-23- 00 Sunny Redd Blue Mountain Drive Monticello, Utah 84535 185 801-587-2- Pauline Jensen Silverstone Lane Monticello, Utah 84535 801-587-27- 88 Gwen Halls 46 Oakcrest Drive Monticello, Utah 84535 801-587-- 24 82 in Blanding By Florence Galbraith Two special stake meetings were held in the LDS North Chapel in Blanding on Sunday to organize a new 7th Ward in Blanding. The first meeting was held at 2 p.m. with Bishop Glen A. Shumway conducting. This meeting was for members of the 2nd, 3rd and 6th Wards with Bishops James J. HarGlen A. Shumway ris, and Preston Nielson, respectively. Members were taken from each of the 6 wards to make the new ward. Usually when a ward reaches 500 members, it becomes necessary to divide them and make a new ward or wards, and the Blanding wards had reached that proportion. The second Sunday meeting was at 4 p.m. for members of the 1st, 4th and 5th Wards. Conducting this meeting was 4th Ward Bishop Richard D. Pincock. The First Ward kept the same bishop and counselors, Bishop George Bay-l- es and counselors Hugh Kirkham and Stanley Martin-ea- u. The Second Ward has as Bishop James J. Harris, releasing Dan Wolfe as coun- selor and sustaining Gary as second counselor. First counselor Michael Chamberlain was retained. The Third Ward has Glen A. Shumway as bishop, with counselors Pete Black and Rayburn Jack. Bruce Black as a counwas released Eberhard selor. The Fourth Ward has as Richard D. Pincock Bishop and counselors Jon Hunt and Mark Lyman. Robert Bowring was released as counselor. The Fifth Ward has Francis D. Nielson as bishop with counselors Neldon Cochran and Lyman Bayles. The Sixth Ward has Preston Nielson as bishop with counselors Robert Bowring and James Slavens. Steve Lovell was released as coun- selor. Seventh Ward has as its Bishop KirkNielson with counselors Maurice Pugh and Jim Kindred. Stake President Halliday conducted both meetings in the business department where the new Seventh Ward was made and with the releasing and sustaining of officers. The 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 7th Wards will hold all their ward meetings and activities in the North Chapel and the 1st, 4th and 5th and Indian Branch will hold their activities in the South Chapel. A large crowd turned out to both meetings. Further details will be published at a later date when the church auxiliaries, etc., are staffed. All six ward fully remain the same. bishops No parking Monticello motorists were reminded by a city official this week to cooperate with snow removal crews by not parking vehicles on the streets duror until ing a snowstorm the crews have had a chance to clear away the snow. If some streets are not cleaned, it will be because the crews have not been able to work around parked cars, City Administrator Richard Terry said. |