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Show 2 Page Yy wfes! Dm . W77 INTERNATIONAL Rome Italy lost its 32nd government since World War II Friday night as Aldo Moros minority Christian Democratic government collapsed, moving the troubled nation toward another general election that could give the Communists a role in the central government. Italian Communist Chief in Enrico Berlinguer, a move aimed at showing his partys independence of Moscow, pledged respect for civil and religious liberties late last week. the Meanwhile, NATIONAL ( Sacramento, Calif Steveri Soliah, Patty Hearsts former lover, was aquitted of the fatal bank robbery charge Tuesday when the jury rejected two eyewitness identifications of him as one of the four bandits. During the trial, Soliah testified he became the terrorist involved with Liberation Army Miss Hearst, but 21, 1975 robbery mittee, in a Symbionese through pity and affection for denied taking part in the April of the Crocker Bank. The Senate Washington 396-pag- Intelligence Comreport made public last e Wednesday, described how government agencies used bugging, burglary and blackmail to collect vast stores of information on the private lives and political beliefs of Americans. The report included recommendations for strict controls over the CIA, FBI and other spy agencies. Commenting on the report, which contained few new revelations of government Sen. Richard S. Schweiker, wrongdoing, told his colleagues that Congress bears a heavy responsibility for ignoring its constitutional oversight role.. R-P- San Diego The Marine Corps ordered the of three drill instructors and a captain in the death of a 20 year old trainee inbattle at the Marine Corps jured in a pugil-stic- k Recruit Depot. Charges filed in Lynn F. McClures death included negligent homicide, involuntary mancourt-marti- al slaughter, maltreatment of recruits, dereliction of duty and failure to obey orders. Mexican Hat, Utah-Y- ou have just left behind the San Juan River and trading post here. No customs officials at the border to stamp your passport. No walls to climb like in East Berlin. Hard liquor is unlawful here, but nobody tells you how many cigars you may smoke. Your English will get you by, yet a different tongue is spoken here by everyone. As a sign across he river tells you: YOU ARE ENTERING the largest NAVAJOLAND, Indian reservation in the United States. Numbering about 140,000, the tribe occupies an area almost the size of New Massachusetts, Hampshire and Vermont combined. Another hours drive through the magnificent Monument Valley and youll be in Kayenta, Arizona, the nations most remote post office. Its the only way to get to The Mountain, going this far south. As you reach the crossroads of Route 16 and 22, the paved road abruptly ends. Its all gravel and dust before you. Unless you want your precious Chrysler parked at a junkyard permanently, you have left your car in Kayenta and hopped into a jeep. Its only about 42 miles from the crossroads to The Mountain, but youll soon find out it drags on as though it were 242. Your mouth is dry before you reach the Inscription House. Suddenly, theres the Navajo Mountain in front of you, so close and yet so distant. The Sacred Mountain, 10,388 feet high, the on the highest point Navajolands 16 million acres. Already, the dust and washboard-lik- e road are a nuisance. Your back is numb. But the road goes on and on as though you drove to Corpus Christi. There, finally, is that last bend. You have just passed the Navajo Mountain trading post, about five miles inside .the Utah state. line. Slabst of stone and sand, sagebrush and juniper are everywhere. Way up north, you may I am ending my active pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Henry M. Jackson announced Saturday. a nearby hogan, a traditional Navajo dwelling of logs and dried mud. The sun may have set by now. Your feet sagging, you collapse from the jeep. You have acid in your stomach and shooting pains inside your chest. But looking for a Holiday Inn on The Mountain would be like trying to supto press the Declaration of Independence. Bob and Mary Tanner will take you in as their guest. No point in making faces if coffee, tea or just plain water is all theyll offer you. Its all they have. Theres no electricity in their hogan so why not just forget about the ice if you opted for a glass of water. Just because your feet are sore and your scalp itchy doesnt mean that anything can be done about it. The Tanners have to bring in their water from quite a distance away; washing here is more like wetting your fingers and toes. There are no baths, living rooms, bedrooms or you kitchens in the hogan. Measuring about six steps in diameter, its all in one. No, theres no carpet on the dirt floor, not even tiles. No fancy mattresses, just a wooden bedframe, handmade by Bob and covered with sheepskin. You pick the choicest spot on the floor and screw your eyes in sorrow for yourself. At least its warm; theres the Tanners stove, made from a oil drum, in third of the middle. They have to gather the wood for it themselves. There you are, already inside a sleeping bag and gone. Bob and Mary Tanner are VISTAs (Volunteers in Service to America) and have been on the Navajo Mountain since last October. Theyre part of a group of six volunteers, sponsored by the College of Eastern Utah in Price. The VISTAs are scattered in Bluff, Mexican Hat, Montezuma Creek and White Mesa. All serve in Washington"World population has increased' . at a yearly rate'bf 66 million over the last decade and could reach 8 billion - double the current total - in 40 years, according to a study done by the Population Reference Bureau. the Henry recognize The report also warned that government Mountains, where Butch failure to accomodate the expected population Cassidy and Sundance Kid frustrated their pursuers. growth could lead to such calamities as famine, Closer at hand, two dozen or epidemics and anarchy. so dwellings seem to be Seattle Thursday, May 6, 1 976 Sun Chronicle thrown about at random like dice. Scraggly dogs eye you drowsily. You pick your way and educational programs. that tare , social through in conjunction with the Utah Navajo Develop- ment Council (UN'DC) headquartered in Blanding. Nationwide, there are 4,300 VISTA's all part of ACTION, the Federal Agency for Volunteer Services, whose annual budget of $184 million includes 6,400 Peace Corps volunteers in 69 developing nations and several other Appearing at a press conference in the Washington Plaza Hotel, Jackson said he did not intend to endorse any other candidate at this time but added that he .would support wholeheartedly the Democratic nominee for president this November. programs. Both long-haire- d and their early twenties, in the Tanners met in high school back in Bay City, Michigan, and married four months before joining VISTA. They will spread before the visitor a family album of spacious, comfortable homes which they left to see a different part of the country and may must at his disbelief that anyone would want to trade it d all for a hogan they rent from a neighboring Navajo for $30 a month. Their parents, too, had mixed blessings for their childrens undertaking when told about the living conditions. Thats O K. for you, they quote Bobs father, youre a boy scout, but Mary, shes a mud-covere- woman! claim their hogan, because insulated with mud, They is warmer than nearby houses. Even when the mud was dripp.ng through the logs once because of heavy rains, they wouldnt think of moving out. Their door is never thefts are almost unheard of on The Mountain. Electricity, too, is superfluous to them. We do better without it, says Bob, who was born in San Antoio, Texas, and has majored in sociology and music from the Michigan State University in East Lansing. Mary Tanner, a native of Bay City and an English locked; your transistor radio at night only. According to Jim Kindred, a .missionary in the region for two years and now VISTA supervisor a part-tim- e who also teaches the Navajo in Blanding, Its maybe the most isolated area in the country. Travel in this area is not recommended without guides, cautions a Rand McNally road atlas. On a monthly VISTA allowance of $200 each, the Tanners may splurge once every other month. This doesnt mean flying to Acapulco; they just drive two hours away to Page, south of Lake Powell, to see a movie and have a hamburger. They feel silly and awkward in confessing that McDonalds hamburgers may well be what they miss the most. works Tanner Mary primarily with the Navajo who youngsters aged seem to prefer soaking their hands and feet in colors when painting, instead of learning how to count and solving puzzles. Or theyll just blow soap bubbles and have a good time. Mary will make them all feel her favorites and encourage them to progress as fast as they can. Her 2-- -- biggest problem is the language. Most children, like their parents, dont much English. She and Bob are working hard to improve their conversational Navajo, a language that emphasizes actions of things major from the Western rather than the names of the in objects like English. She may Michigan University Kalamazoo, usually cooks be replaced late this year by their meals on a miniature a Navajo she herself will train. gas stove. The fare is mostly fried bread, a pancake-lik- e My reason for coming Navajo specialty, mutton here was trying to do stew and canned goods they something about the alcohol must polish off before the problem on the reservation, degree temperatures get says Bob. I soon found out I to them. Practically nothing couldnt attack it like I would is thrown away, but should it in a city. He is cautious not d to a be to impose his ideas too forgrease-stainehappen napkin, the dogs will snap for cefully and works around the it. A portable toilet, a little problem with alternatives to distance away and surely not get them interested in a Hilton as you stumble Bob has a themselves. toward it with a flashlight in recycling program running thftdead tjhg nigt, is always full steam, the proceeds from,, clean. These animals are so which are applied tb' Softball starved theyll eat the wastes and table tennis equipment. before dry. He also set up an alcohol The trading post is the only information and prevention store serving The Mountains center. But he seems to be populaion of about one the most successful with his thousand. Thats where the weekly guitar class, himself Tanners get their mail twice being an accomplished a week. There are two phone twelve-stringuitar player. You dont have to be a only on The Mountain. not drinker to join our are Newspapers guitar available. You can listen to class, he says, although the 90-pl- g It's easier to delivered Nev., court LDS Church officials Las Vegas documents County, authorities Thursday afternoon, which reporof the estimated $2.5 tedly call for R. billion estate of Howard Hughs to be awarded of the billionaires to their church. estate would amount to about $156 million. The handwritten document, dated March 19, 1968 was found in the Church Office Building, 50 E. North Temple, Tuesday afternoon, according to church spokesman Jerry Cahill. It doesnt appear to be an obvious hoax", Mr. Cahill said, but we are not making any conjecture as to the documents authenticity. to Clark prevent crime one-sixteen- th One-sixteen- is hard core counseling the do to like would what he most. The Tanners have been well accepted by the people who, among other things, believe in harmony with nauture-no- t mastery over it, where white mans saving means sharing, competition on your map, but this does not deter the old Pennsylvanian from Pittsburgh from working with the Ute tribe in an area where poverty and indifference will slap you in the face as soon as you where fantastic becomes cooperation and success wisdom, not money. is job, says lucky to be sent up here, they say with conviction. I envy the Tanners, it helps to be married here, says Douglas Berman, a old New Yorker from tutors children and who Rye, adults in Mexican Hat, just outside the reservation. An unmarried sports fan who sends away for shirts and things, just so I can look forward to getting mail, Douglas has it pretty rough himself. He had to push his Toyota all the way to Cortez, Colorado, just to find a could who veterinarin operate on his pet cat, often the sole companion in Douglas rented trailer. On another occasion, a boy stopped him on the street in Blanding, examined his beard and inquired: "Mister, are you a kidnapper? I believe the reason the Tanners are so successful in what theyre doing, says Jim Kindred, who knows the area like his native Provo, is because they accept the Navajos as they are, without imposing their own values on them. e Sherrill Burge, a VISTA supervisor in Price for all, but dwells a bit longer on the work of Susan Ford, a volunteer in White Mesa. You may not find this community eastward where theres as she puts it. nothing, Instead, it is Jane Kaufman, 22, an elementary educator from Long Island, New York, who works there. Theres one more VISTA in the region, working quietly as an assistant administrator at the St. Christophers mission near Bluff, where a housing project for the Navajos is to start shortly. Aged 62, four children later, a widow who spent eight of her last 30 years in Olympia, Washington, as a social worker, Thyrza Clar, too, is a second-yea- r VISTA, not bored if somtimes lonely and who really loves this fantastic countryside and its people. Persons age 20 or older, interested in joining VISTA or Peace Corps, may call collect Mr. Hall at (303) or write to ACTION full-tim- Recruitment Office, Prudential Plaza (Suite 524), Denver, Colorado, 80202. May proclaimed Family month the7" Roy Cityfomcitm designated the month of May as Family Togetherness Month ; and WHEREAS, May is a time of great emotional excitement due to: (1) completion of the school year, (2) graduation from levels of school curriculum, and (3) anticipation of release for three months from the discipline of school activity; and, WHEREAS, May is a time when the young are concerned with: (1) what to do with leisure time, (2) finding employment, and (3) planning for vacation excursions; NOW, THEREFORE, The City Council of Roy, Utah, declares the month of May, 1976, Family Togetherness Month and encourages families to establish guidelines for: (1) summer family activity, (2) conduct for the good of the family and the community, and (3) to promote awareness of and participation in bicentennial activities of our state and community. Mayor Joseph Dawson 7' WHEREAS, th than cure it by Melinda Sowerby Sunset Citys police are starting to put more emphasis on educating the public, said Chief Daryl Conger. He said this was because its always easier to take preventative measures, than to cure an U1 . Washington The Justice Department announced Thursday it will reopen its investigation into the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Assistant Attorney General Stanley Pottinger revealed on Thursday that he does feel the inJustice Departments recent vestigation fully exonerates the FBI from possible involvement in Kings assasination. If anyone conspired with James Earl Ray, we want to know about it, Pottinger added. five-mont- h He said the force is now taking calls from anyone; groups of neighbors, church groups or civic organizations to show films and give talks on crime prevention and self defense. Chief Conger said nationally there was one burglary for every 10 homes. In Sunset there was one burglary for every homes which he said was greatly increased over the past. He said they had started the program only two weeks ago. He said they had only made a presentation for one relief society group so far. He said about six women attended. However, they will present their films to any size group requesting them if there were facilities available to larger group. Chief Conger added one of the films was a taped lectured by Fredrick Storaska who recently lectured at Weber State College on How to Say No to a Rapist and Survive. Chief Conger said he was trying to arrange a showing of the film to the administration of the junior high to see if it couldn't be shown there. 30 One group has requested a presentation of motorcycle safety. Chief Conger said he or one of three other officers make all the presentations. Sunset has a youth bureau. Although most of their neighboring cities have a youth bureau. Sunset's situation is unique because its the only city that doesnt have a high school that has a youth bureau. Chief Conger feels the bureau is beneficial to Sunset because he said trouble begins when a youth is just out of elementary school and entering junior high. He said there were an estimated 3,000 youngsters in Sunset. Some attend school in Sunset and come in from Clearfield, West Point, and Clinton. He said working with youths at that age showed those in authority potential trouble situations coming and prevent them. Thefts and burglaries are the most prevalent crime in Sunset. He said home burglaries are on the increase. He said vandalism was the hardest to solve. He cited one month in which there were 15 cases of vandalism with only seven solved. He termed vandalism as "the most wasteful crime of all. Juvenile cases are common although the youth bureau is cutting the numbers down. Chief Conger said there has been 225 juvenile offenses reported this year; 172 of those have been cleared. The figures of those cleared show 97 juveniles released in their parents care, while 49 were referred to juvenile court and 19 were referred to other institutions. He said some of the offenses were status offenses, that meaning that if an adult had committed the same act it would not have been a crime. One of the factors Chief Conger said contributed to the low rate of juvenile crimes was that there were no attractions to draw the kids in Sunset. Chief Conger has been with the force 16 years. He has been chief for seven. He said there is 80 years experience on the Sunset force between eight officers. The 80 years experience doesnt include the years the reserve officers have put in. He said there are advantages and disadvantages to being a policeman in a small city. He said the advantages were that you know everybody. He said the citizens feel more comfortable calling someone they know rather than a stranger. He says citizens sometimes call an officer at home, but most calls are then referred to the officer on patrol. The disadvantages he said was having to perform as a policeman by giving traffic citations - even to friends. He said that makes it hard. A unique aspect of the Sunset police force is they built their office themselves. He said the city provided the material and the officers panelled, painted, and carpeted the rooms. He e a said the room was original community room and the police only haqm roomette but when the force grew to five they had to expand. Although the position of chief entails some administrative functions, Chief Conger goes out on patrol part of the time. He said it was important to maintain contact with the public. He said respect for police is on the upswing after a low He said now the public is more during the years 1968-7aware that crimes exist. multi-purpos- Ms. Burge, adding that nobody wants to work there. Susan, already in her second VISTA year, is an educator trying to start a learning center beacause the recreation hall and Head Start are the only two public building here. You wont even find a public phone in White Mesa. As though Susan doesnt rough it enough, she actually wanted to go to Montezuma a Creed, community consider ourselves We arrive. She does an absolutely STAFF STAFF STAFF STAFF The Sun Chronicla and Clearfield Courier are published weekly at Roy, Utah, 5388 S. 1900 W. Mailing address, P.O. Box 207, Roy, Utoh 84067. Telephone or Salt Lake 825-166- 6 359-261- All news and photographs (or Thursday s paper must the news office before Monday at 5 p.m. Pictures may be included without charge either taken ,n our ofice or submitted by you. be m J. 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