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Show Saddle up, podnuh... By Marsha Keele Groom your horse and prepare to ride the Pioneer Trail to help commemorate the Hole - in - the - Rock Centennial. Riders will rendezvous 11 at 6:30 a.m. at the A-p- crossroads of highway and Comb Wash, about miles from Bluff. They be joined there by relay cers from Escalante. neer ril 163 ten will ra- A pio- campfire program is planned for 7 p.m., and everyone will stay the night. Reveille will sound Saturday, April 12, at 6:30 a.m. Riders will mount and hit the trail at 8:30 a.m. The riders will go south to the San Juan River to see the site of the old Barton's Trading Post, then up San Juan Hill, following the Pioneer Trail on into Bluff by about 1 p.m. A barbecued beef dinner will be available in Bluff for all who wish to partake at a small charge. Qualifications for participants of the Trail Ride are: A happy pioneer spirit and some kind of a horse... mule, burro, etc., will do, food for two meals and bedding for one night. For additional information, those interested may contact: Larry Bailey, Monticello, Norman Nielson, 3, or CurBlanding, Bluff. ly Wallace, 587-231- 0; 678-273- Display A " condominum A fore us and of the ancients" reminds still more roving display depicting various responsibilities and duties assumed by the Utah State Department of Consumer Affairs is now located in the hallway in the San Juan County courthouse in Monticello. There will be a seminar on April 14, at 10 a.m., when the display is removed, at which time a fair trade officer from the Utah State Department of Consumer Affairs will be available for an hour of questions and answers to any consumer problems citizens there were others beto follow. Alvin Reiner photo and caption. us The Sami may wish to discuss. There will also be general information available in the form of a pamphlet and complaint forms in the event a con- HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH 63, No. Vol . V 15 9 cents March 27, 1980 a copy sumer wishes to register a complaint at that time. Voters OK bond issue for sewers Monticello voters on Tuesday of this week approved a proposal to issue $190,000 in general obligation sewer bonds for upgrading and extending the city's sewer system. The unofficial vote count showed 99 for the proposal and 36 against the measure. A city official said the turnout was very, very light.' A snowstorm that lasted much of the day was cited as a probable contributing factor in the failure of registered voters to cast ballots. Total estimated cost of the proposed sewer program is The $1,813,000. city has obtained a of grant Environfrom the $1,230,750 mental Protection Agency, and another $426,800 has been allocated from Utah's Community Impact Funds. This leaves the city's share around $155,000, and the $190,000 figure was decided on as a hedge against inflation and possible other una city offoreseen costs, ficial said. at The proposition approved by the voters would give the Monticello city council authorization to issue general obligation sewer bonds in the amount of not to exceed for the purpose of defraying part of the cost of acquiring, constructing andor installing outfall sewer mains, waste water treatment lagoons, storage ponds, transmission pipelines and collection pipeline, and in other ways improving the existing sewer system of the city. $190,000 The city council will meet on April 2 to canvass the returns and declare the results of the election. New Club 4-- H Anyone interested in a H plant club should call Bara-ba- ra 4-- Gorrie, 587-260- 0. Mem- bers of the new club will learn how to care for house plants, how to propagate plants, graft, crossbreed and use them in Films will be decorating. shown. Members must be 12 years or older. Census for 1980 begins here this weekend Juan County, Ms. the questionsaid, Bergeson naires wiU have no address By Bureau of the Census In U.S. Department of Commerce For most Americans, the 1980 census will be simple and A questionnaire will arrive in the mail on March 28. The recipient will simply answer the questions, which will not take long, and then either mail back the form on Apr il 1 or hold it for a census taker to pick up, depending on the instructions. K. guide. return envelope. picking them up next Monday, March 31. Mrs. Ruby Bronson, Blanding, has been appointed crew leader for San Juan County for the census, Ms. Bergeson said. Each crew leader will man- Bergeson, ager of the office for this census district, this week urged residents to watch for their package. It will be white with blue lettering, and with it will be an instruction no Householders who receive the questionnaires are to fill them out and hold them for census takers, who willbegin enough. Karla San t supervise from six to 13 enumerators or census takers. In training sessions, crew leaders were instructed how to recruit, train and supervise enumerators. What may not be apparent to millions of Americans, as they answer the census in the privacy and convenience of their homes, is the fact that they are making personal contributions to an undertaking so vast, so complex, that the 1980 census qualifies as one of the largest peacetime efforts ever mounted in this country. By the time the last American is counted sometime during the summer, the Bureau of the Census will have reached an estimated 222 mil- lion UJS. residents and 86 million housing, units, and gathered more than three billion answers. The 222 million residents will represent a 9 per cent population increase since 1970. Never in the history of the census, which has been taken every 10 years since 1790, have census ' findings played as important a role in American life as they do today. Besides the Constitutional to provide a basis mandate for reapportioning seats in the House of Representatives, the census measures how well the nation is doing, from the block level to the entire country. Its findings are used and public in the private sectors to decide how billions of dollars will be spent annually. In 90 per cent of the nation's households, people will be asked to take their own census, in effect, by answering the questionnaires and mailing them back in postage - free envelopes. Census tak- ers will obtain the information that fail to households from back mail completed quest- ionnaires as requested. The remaining 10 per cent, which will received instructions to hold the completed until census questionnaires takers pick them up, are mostly in sparesely settled areas in the western half of the nation. In some cases, the census takers will ask additional questions. Census questions seek basic information about people-a- ge, sex, occupation and the like and about subjects such as housing, personal transportation, and energy use. Most people will be asked (Please turn to Page 20) |