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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD, Thursday, June 12, 1980 - Page 14 Awards presented to Scouts News from FRANK MORRELL Montezuma Creek By Florence Galbraith By Bill Lopez Kids should have a lot of fun at Montezuma Creek and Aneth this summer. School may be out, but that does not mean that our kids will lie around idle this summer, nor will they have very far to go to find something wholesome to do. Thanks to the county and UNDC coordinated recreational program budget, our kids and adults will participate in a wide variety of things to do. From Cooking and sewing to athletic games and cultural events, our area will blossom with continual community spirit. Whitehorse High School principal, Mitch Kalauli, will head our area functions with a battery of interested leaders and influential participants. There will be fast and slow pitch softball for men and women. Little League baseball for the boys and girls, Pony League baseball, gymnastic games for everyone in the form of basketball, volleyball and other indoor athl. . etic activities. Bike Moto-cro- ss racing will be offered after awhile as soon as a place for racing is provided. Swimming is also on the daily agenda at our new pool near the high school. Different nationalities of people live here at the Creek area, and so there may be a variety of cultural events at times, with the Navajo heading the cultural The Lions Clubs, march. both mens and womens, will add additional functions to the community social bank. On June 2, kids in the area were on hand to open and break the waves of the new swimming pool. It was a grand opening and the fun was free for the day. The pool is heated and contains all that a modern pool consists of. This will keep the kids away from the most unpredictable San Juan River, and we parents are very, grateful for that. There been some very unfortunate dr ownings at .the river, and we regretfully have to announce this in order to warn the public of the rivers most unpredictable action. It is not very good for swimming in because of have its strong current, hidden roots, and deep hidden holes along They most are of the banks. treacherous for all people. The river is good for fishing but dangerous for swimming. So use your local city swimming pools or your home pools where there are lifeguards available. Un chaperoned swimmings have been tragic, and we should give protection to our little more ones and our friends. Little League practice has already started, and El Pasos Lenny Nez will be heading the little defending champions of the Blanding Little League, the El Pasp Natural Gas ball club. Mr. Nez and his family have gone on an outing to the Salt Lake City area in honor of their son Marvin, who just recently graduated with By Florence Galbraith Frank H. Morrell passed away May 14 in San Juan Hospital in Monticello. He had been in poor health for the past several months. Frank was born August 18, in Gunnison, Utah. 1906, He was raised in Pocatello, Idaho, and Salt Lake City. moved to Los Angeles, He California, when he was 17 and made his living in the construction business. His first two produced marriage and daughters, Lola and Gail, ended in divorce.. He later married June Wolter, and their marriage gave them Richard and Frank. Frank held several important positions in which he gave his best. He was superintendent for Robert E. McKee, based in Los Angeles, and supervised many the senior class at Whitehorse be back High School. Hell to guide the team. Digger O'Dell is assisting in the meantime. Area residents were very and delighted to see PB Middlebrook of Anson, Texas, back to the Creek area for a brief visit. They Dotty are the former gospel work- ers of Montezuma Creek. PB on a sermon preached Sunday, June 1, at the Creek at the Church of Christ and afterward around noon, a pot-lu- ck dinner was held with a large crowd in attendance at the Lions Club supervised Middlebrook Community Center. PB and Dotty left shortly thereafter for Phoenix, Arizona, to visit their son and daughter - in - law, Tee and Nina Middlebrook, who also are former missionaries at Montezuma Creek. New people are projects in moving are area others. Frank retired in 1975 and moved to Blan- he and June ding in 1978, and here they made many friends. Frank was happiest when he could work in his yard or putter with his tools in his garage. He was handy building things and repairing res- Company. idents with the exception of who moved the Maxwells, from Wingate Plant near Gallup, New Mexico. Were glad theyre here and we welcome them all. Marvin Lopez was back from Provos Utah Technical College for a two week break by the college. Hes a helping hand and we're glad that he comes back now and then. He- - substitute at the high school teaches now and then. He graduated from Whitehorse High in 1979. Kathy ODell is also back from Utah State University at She is now working Logan. for the summer at El Pasos natural gas plant at the Creek. She studies accounting, math, U and chemistry at the and she is the daughter of the Digger ODells of El Paso his neighbors. neat and ata kept tractive yard and loved to make vegetables and flowers grow and was happy to live in Blanding with its wide open spaces and clean air. He loved his children and grandchildren and enjoyed them. At the time of his death he He had on hand rocks and materials to build a fence for his yard. r Wrthsat advertising, you tas& always kept cemetery. He is great - three ren, and a dred Lynch.. children Relatives grand- sister, Mil- coming from out town for the services were: Daughters Gail Moser and Lola Remo from Los California; Angeles, te Nickie granddaughter from Huntington Beach, sister Mildred California; of Tala-mon- Lynch and nephew Donald from Los Angeles; Olsen son Richard Morrell frohi Hayward, California; brother-in-la- w Bud and wife Colleen Wolter from Sacramento, and Uncle Clara and of Los AnLee Weinberg geles, and cousins Beth Harmon of Clearfield and Wanda Sagers of St. John. Aunt - Webelos Scouts of 4th Ward met for a ceremony to pre- -, sent the Arrow of Light awards to eligible boys. This is the highest award these boys can achieve, and the boys worked very hard to obtain it. Mothers of each of the boys gave a short talk on her own son, telling of the special things about the m and how they had won these honors, prior to the presentation. director Halliday, Scouting, presented the awards to the following: Craig Black, Shawn Bayles, Mark Foy, Preston Shumway, Joe Hunt, Robbie Bowring and Jason Tate. Steve Lovell and Marsha Keele of the Scouting program spoke, as did Dr. Turk who represents the of Mike Cub Our love and kind thoughts go out to this fine family in the passing of their husband and father. presented Craig Turk also with a special medal, Black which earned last January . in saving the life of his little sister Darlene, foy meritorious action when she to death. choked nearly had previously been Craig invited to receive this award at the state council in Provo this same night but decided to stay here and receive it along with his Arrow of light award. Mrs. Claudia Black, Webelos leader, really did a fine job in making the arrangements for this fine program. Claudia and Lewis Black are the parents of Craig Black. he After the ceremony refreshments were served and pictures were taken of the in their brand new boys uniform shirts. Utah to have third district More people are living in Utah, and when voters go to the polls in 1982, they will elect a third congressman. Even as 1980 candidates the campaign trail, work in progress to reapportion Utahs two legisla- hit is tive districts. James V, Hanof the Utah sen, speaker of Representatives House and First Congressional District candidate for the U.S. Congress, is involved in the process. task is not easy. All re-distric- ting The counties in a legislative district must be congiguous. (dividing, a Gerrymandering state into voting districts to give unfair advantage to one party) is a threat. Salt Lake City cannot be one district because population exceeds what is allowable. Population distribution makes it impossible to put all rural counties into one interest groups exert pressure. district. Special Representative Hansen, who survived by his wife June; his two sons, Frank and Richard, and daughters, Gail Moser and Lola Remo, 13 grandchild- Creek areas. at times. He busy, even when he wasnt feeling well. His funeral service was held here on May 17 and burial was in Blanding city the Aneth and Montezuma Thank you all, and watch out for those horses, deer and cattle. They seem to have the free run of the area for things camp. Jean Van Houten of Jeans Drive Inn Cafe at Montezuma Creek wishes to express to all of you her heartfelt thanks for the words and cards of encouragement regarding the death of her grandchild, Daniel Ray Burgess, son of Karen Burgess. Jean expressed that she did not realize just how much the people in the Creek area cared and that she was amazed at the response the bereaved family received the from public and the churches at Montezuma Creek. Thanks, Jean, Fm sure the are concerned at people all times about one another at years, among them the Los Angeles International Airport, Martin Luther King Hospital in LA., St. Vincents Hospital, also Fremont in L.A., Hotel in Las Vegas, and many into the El Paso camp. They are the David Kay family, Ramos Westons family, Don Kelly, and the Eugene Max- -. wells. They are all employees of El Paso Natural Gas All 30 Last Friday night at Blanding library the leaders and Scout Council of the B.S.A. of the national council. Dr. was in San Juan County to attend a county week last Republican convention, stated that the Utah legislature is empowered to re - district, and legislative members will be appointed to serve on a commitreapportionment tee. It is also possible that Governor Scott Mathe-so- n will appoint a lay committee to work on the problem. According to Hansen, the most feasible plan appears to be one based on an east-we- st division of the state at about 7200 South Street in Salt Lake City. Tooele County and all counties south of this line would comprise a district. Lake second congressional The balance of Salt County would become a district. The include third district would Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Weber, Morgan, Davis, Summitt and Daggett Coun- ties. Summer conservation tour June 24 San Juan Soil Conservation, in partnership with the ASCS county committee and Extension Service, will host their annual summer conservation tour June 24. This tour will highlight range improvement projects which have brought national to the area connotoriety cerning chaining and archaeo. logy interests, the county ASC committee said this week. Most of the comments which have been made in the news, T.V., and etc., have been rather notorious and ridicu- lous, the committee said. stops will in- Scheduled clude: 1. A pinon recent one-w- ay chained - juniper project site and a chaining project comthree years ago. pleted 2. A group gravity sprinkler system in Blanding. 3. The SCD board will provide lunch at the Mule Canyon rim on Cedar Mesa. 4. The famous chaining projects which have been so widely publicized and commented upon. Accompanying the tour will be an archaeologist and a range conservationist from the SCS to explain current concepts in range improvement projects and to answer questions the group may have regarding range practices. Anyone interested in con- servation ' and especially range improvement programs is invited to join the group on this tour. Transportation will be furnished, and the bus will leave the parking lot of the LDS Church in Monticello at 8:50 am. and the parking lot of San Juan High School in Blanding at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 24. |