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Show HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH Vol 73 No 48 30 cents Tracking secretive cougars is easiest after a light snow. This one lives in January 1, 1992 the heavily forested wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Maunce G Homocker photo, National Geographic Society News that made the headlines in 1991 January Baby New Year, Leeza Jalain Bayles, daughter of n James and Bayles of Blanding, arrived at 3:03 p.m. on January 1. Three grants were awarded for county proDe-An- jects: (1) a grant to to collect historic CEU-SJ- C of elderly Ute and Navajo residents; (2) a grant to historian Robert McPherson to continue a study of Utes and Navajos in journalistic media; and, (3) a grant to Blue Mountain Shadows magazine. County commissioners asked the Utah Division of Indian Affairs to provide $12,000 to assist in snow removal on the reservation and to buy coal for reservation chapters. State officials presented to county commissioners a n plat of a proposed 18 miles east of Old La sub-divisio- Sal, three miles from the Colorado border. Public and private interests joined forces to save and develop important cultural sites in and around Bluff. They identified a museum as their ultimate goal. The Utah Division of Mo- tor Vehicles announced a switch to a system for license plates. The three decals were county, month, and year. State lawmakers authorized a full audit of the Navajo Trust Fund, the Division of Indian Affairs, the Utah Navajo Development Council, Utah Navajo Industries and all businesses created by Utah Navajo Industries. It will be a top to bottom audit, said State Representative We want to David Adams. see where every dollar was spent. The United States and its allies launched war in the Persian Gulf to force Iraq from Kuwait. Following the initial report of the attack, radio and television stations pre-empt- ed regular programming to broadcast coverage of the war. Mark Maryboy, San Juan County commissioner, took the oath of office as a Navajo Nation tribal coun24-ho- cil ur representative. Although state officials released $24,000 of Navajo Trust money to meet the needs of reservation residents and livestock marooned by heavy snow, they turned down a request for cello to wave goodbye and shout their encouragement. ribbons adorned trees, houses and busi- Yellow nesses in both towns. A recount by the Bureau of the Census added 261 people to the first population figures reported for San Juan County. The final figures showed an increase of 368 people in the county from 1980 to 1990. state assistance, saying they could not spend state dollars on tribal lands. Seven elements of the National Guard 1457th Engineer Battalion, includ- ing Detachment 1, Company A, of San Juan County, were activated January 25 in support of Operation Desert Storm, the name given to the United States initiative in the Persian Gulf war. On the day Company A departed, schools were dis- missed, businesses closed, and people stood in freezing weather along Main Street in Blanding and Monti- - February Ron Barlow, principal at Whitehorse High, reported the experimental year-roun- d program at the school an unqualified success. Monticello High beat out San Juan High and Whitehorse High to earn the right to represent San Juan County high schools at region academic decathlon competition held in St. Ge- orge. Donald Adams of a state senator Monticello, in the 1950s and Utah State Tax Commission chairman from 1965 to 1969, died T. at the age of 83. San Juan County aAed the Utah Attorney General to appeal a decision by the Bureau of Indian Affairs that an agreement between the Navajo Nation and Chuska Energy Company was an operating agree- ment, not a lease. The decision relieved the BIA from paying to the Utah Navajo Oil Royalty Trust Fund 37.5 percent of royalties received on Chuska production in the Aneth extension oil field. County commissioners asked that the highway be- tween Navajo Mountain and Inscription House be named the Harold Drake Highway, in memory of the revered leader from Navajo Mountain who died at the age of 69. Umetco Minerals donated $10,400 to help fund the Albert R. Lyman Middle School annual Shakespearian Festival Art work by children from Matsumoto, Japan, (Please turn to page 2) |