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Show President's Budget Includes Large Sum For Glen Canyon Dam and ' In my travels and dealings with some of the old timers of Kane County, they tell mje of how the country looked whinthey were kids or young men. About how Upper Kanab Creek was a . nice grassy meadow with a clear, cool stream of water flowing through it. h N The pretiest picture Ive ever seen one rancher said to me. Today at Upper Kanab Creek we see an ugly- - gully with an intermittent silt laden stream running hrough it. Almost every place sne looks he can see a similar story written on tha face of the 'and. And usually you can find someone that can tell you that it was not always that way. In the Geological Survey "Professional Paper No. 220 titled Geology and Geography of the Zion Park Region Utah is of Johnson Canyon looking northward towards the white cliffs which shows an untrenched illuvial valley fill (30 to 80 feet deep) and bordered by alluvial fans as they appeared in 1880. Dujring the summer' of 1959, Wesley Keetch, SCS soil scientist; Horace Andrews, Range Specialist, SCS and myself, probed into the illuvial fan material to see if we could find the clue to the story of Johnson Canyon. At. 5 to 6 ft. depth, we found mottling, an iron Stain; which is a sure indication of water table and from this we can be almost sure that at one time Johnson1. Canyon was once awet meadow before the water table was lowered. by the deep gully. One only has to ride up Johnson Canyon' to see what and-Arizo- iNry Kannb Basketball Fans To See Town Team Tanglo With Harlem Slars'January 25lh Hera Valley At Top : In League Play Valley High School is getting off to a good start in basketball Division, in the Piute-Garful-d The Buffalos are tied with Piute with two wins and no losses. Valley won out over Panguitch 65 to 52 night They downed Escalante Wednesday night also. In the top ten scoring Lane Dalton of Piute leads, with 21.0 per Game; Max Esplin," Valley, is second with 17.5 and David Fairchild last-Frid- is 0th with 12.0. Orderville News ond Current Events Janice F. Esplin Mr. and Mrs. LeGrande Heaton were in Salt Lake .City over the weekend. They planned to meet with their son, Fred, while there. won a The Orderville game with the Fredonia team, played in the Orderville Ward Recreation - Hall, Thursday night, January 12. Odean Crofts is Coach of the Orderville team. Mr. and Mrs. Bunny Hepworth, their daughter Avon el Tebbs, and her three children, were in town n M-M- visiting friends and relatives during the week. A Successful Basket Ball Dance was held Saturday nieht, January 14. It was sponsored by the Seminary to raisj money for the proposed addition to the building. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Esplin and two daughters, Rebecca and Sharon, drove to St. George Saturday, January 14. LuJean Heaton was here Saturday visiting her mother, Mrs. Grace Heaton. LuJean works in Page, Arizona. " Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Esplin Sr., were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Esplin Jr. for his birthday dinner on Saturday. Home from School oyer the weekend were Stan Sorensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbum Sorensen, and Frank Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Byron P. Fisher.. Welcmoe is extended the following new neighbors: Mr. and Mrs. John Sawyer and family. John is a brother to Deral Sawyer and Berneice Hoyt. Darlene and David Marshall and Dorthy and Darwin Robinson are two new couples), in town. Darlene and Dorothy Ate both sisters to Ramona Crofts. 7 A very. special brand of basket ball will be on display in Kanab Wednesday, January 25th when the Harlem Stars meet the Kanab Town teafn. The barnstorming Stars are currently .beginning a tour of the southwest and will make Kanab one of their first stops. Boid Buie, auracnon me Kanab EigiUh Grade will meet as yet' an unnamed opponent probably. Valley or Fredonia. The preliminary will start at 7 p.m. and the main game at 8 pjn As a large crowd is expected C(j y0U are advised to come early. Tickets for adults will be $1 and formerly with the Harlem Globe- students 60c. Proceeds will go to trotters is the featured member the Kanab High School athletic of the troupe. This famous ampu-e- e fund. one-ardeand his magic has lighted thousands' of basketball Miss Ver Dawn Chamberlain fans over 4ho nation. A good Kanab Town Team which played exciting ball in the recent KIT have been working out together regularly and will be in shape to prove they will be more r than just straight men for the Stars comedy, however, the will probably occur and when the Stars begin their whirlwind .routines, Kanab will be hard pressed to stay on. its feet and not score baskets for the Harlem Club. Everything considered, it should prove to be one of the most entertaining evenings. for Kanab fans all year.'' As a preliminary to the main . Five-Cou- nty Organization Meet In Beaver Students Will Enter Page School Parents Tell School children of Gian Can- Of Engagement Mr. and Mrs. LaMar Chamber-lai- n of Orderville are this week announcing the engagement of their daughter. Miss Ver Dawn Chamberlain. She is betrothed to Mr. Douglas Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wellis Wood of Lyman, Utah. The bride to be is a sophomore at College i. of Southern Utah, whera she is active as a student leader and as an officer in her sorority. The future bridegroom is a graduate of the CSU and is now attending the. Utah State University where he will receive his degree in Forestry. He is a member of the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. The young couple plan a late -- summer marriage. Cecillias May Get Finns Split 50-5- 0 j) Hello, pro-tes- one-wa- 63-mil- Dear-s- till mad at ty group Attending the .Panguitch meeting from Kane County, besides Mr.. MacDonald and Mr. Rose was commissioner Merle V. Adams. Slate Senator Vernon L. Holman was the guest speaker at the meeting. Each County was instructed to send the names of their representatives for the various committees to Mr. Rose as soon as possible at the last meeting. Other highlights of the meeting were: With Clair Rowley reRoads porting: A letter has been received from the State Road Commission stating' that contact is being made with Washington, D. C., and there is an investigation concerning an road from . San Juan area. This area to the project will be followed closely. Reports on road progress were received concerning progress on the Interstate road from St George to Highway 89. The Marysvale to Junction road is ahead of schedule. The road through Capitol Reef is under construction and the Bryce Junction to Hatch road will be advertised in March as will the Dumproad. A section of road from Escalante to Boulder will soon be started and work will resume in the early spring on the Alton Junction to Shingle Creek east-we- - y Senior Student At Fredonia Is '61 Homemaker Jaycees home-makin- Winner FridayJIile , -- - Final Program All Set For Convention S. Hurricane Fiymght, per-gam- Four-Da- y five-count- y Program Also on the program for the four-daconvention at the Hotel Utah and Newhouse and Terace Balloom beginning Wednesday, Jan. 25, are the premieres of two motion pictures, The Adventures of Dudley. Worthington,, a production of the National Live Stock and Meat Board, and Four Seasons West, sponsored by the South Dakota Stock Growers Association. Several hundred visiting ladies will hear a talk by Miss Gertrude Dieken, editor .of The Farmers Wife section of Farm Journal' magazine and will see the nations fashion first major show, presented by Leather of America. They will be ittending the annual meeting of he American National CowBelles, rnc., service and social organiza tion of ranch women. Post Office Offers y C. S. Exams For Substitute Clerks st supervisors vleft for Phoenix County coffers would benefit Wednesday to attend a from provisions of a bill now in Board of Supervisors Assn, meet- he Utah Senate which provides ing. distribution of fish for a Tuesday apparently will mark and game law fines and forfeitures the end of the struggle by Glen between the counties and the Canyon City mothers to get closer Game Department schooling for their 54 youngsters. In most instances the monies t Ttey picketed Page schools in bus are sent dir ctly to the Game road. over a Water and Power Wayne Wilrip for city youngsters to Kanab, department by justices of the peace. Kane County. son reporting: It was reported that the upper An exception is Salt Lake City, where the JP first sends the mon- Sevier and Virgin river storage Axe Returns To CSU ey to the city treasurer who in is above average for this time of urn forwards it to the depart- the year. The Axe, ymbol of athletic ment Judge Cox reported that the of Reclamation has roughBureau between of College supremacy The bill, introduced by Sens. J. ed out th plan for the Dixie proSouthern Utah and Dixie College, Francis Fowles and ject and presented a resolution returned Saturday evening to the Bullen Reed that legislation be enacted by Conprovides Cedar City campus as the Bronco basketball team posted a 66 to 54 that monies would be sent to gress to authorize the Dixie project. This resoWtTon was passed win over the Rebels in the Dixie 'county treasurers first for (Continued on Page Four) gymnasium. College two-da- y neighbors Tlje next meeting of the Organization will be held at Beaver, Friday, February 3, said --Merrill R. MacDonald, president of the organization. The last meeting held at Panguitch, January 6 was attended by representatives from the entire five counties and proved to be a very worthwhile meeting, said Wayne Rose, secretary for the Five-Coun- Glen Canyon City yon City, Kane County, hadas-surance- s Wednesday that Coconino County, Ariz., classrooms at Page win be available to them next Tuesday. The Utah State , Attorney Generals Office Wednesday received necessary information from Kane and Coconino counties and began drawing up a contracTTietween school districts of the two units. Howell Lee Cannon, directorof school finance, Utah State .Board of Education, will tak$i the contract to Flagstaff Monday for a meeting at 11 a.m. with representatives of the districts involved. It will be signed by Mrs. Bessie Kidd Best, Coconino superenten-dent'o- f schools; Owen M. Davis, Kane superintendent of schools; Lynn S. Findlay, Kane school board president, and . Rachel S. Findlay, school board clerk. Reason for further delay in signing the contract resulted when most of the Coconino County board has happended in the last 50 to 80 years. This story is repeated time and time again. Kanab Creek, Lydias Canyon, Seamans ' Wash, Buckskin Gulch and many others throughout Kane County. Something has appended in Kane County to upset the balance of nature to cause our fertile valley bottoms to be gutted out by erosion. j, The - Southern Utah News received a telegram from Senator Wallace Fj Bennett (R Utah) this Kanab To Get week stating that President Eisen- Cleanup Recognition howers budget for fiscal 1962, vhkh was presented to Congress Wayne Rose of kanab received I .Monday, included more than $40 a letter" this week from the Salt million for work in the Glen Can- Lake Tribune, Genevieve H. Folsom, Garden Editor, notifying him yon Dam area. that the Kanab project entered in Senator Bennett said that the Utah Associattha 160 Tribune budget includes $39,825,740 for Club ed Garden civic beautificaconcrete ontinuing placement at .he dam and continuing dams on tion contest had, won an award. Mr. Rose was told that a certifigement and other materials and quipment. Also, to be awarded is cate of meritwould be presented .he completion contract for the to a Kanab representative in Salt Lake City, January 21. lower plant and switch yard. Mrs. Folsom said that besides to In addition , expenditures for the regional award, This project the dam itself, Senator Bennett said that $839,000 has been provid- of the Kanab Coordinating Council ed for work on the Glen Canyon also won the plaque for the best National Recreation area. All of project (class D) in the state. ,his money will be, spent at the Wahweap site, or for roads in the 1961' HomeCrocker The Betty Kanab To area. maker of Tomorrow for Fredonia Wahweap watThis includes a $151,000 for, High School is Miss Adele Farr. er Kama D.S.A. supply system, $128,000 for a Having received the highest score sewer system, and $121,900 for g in a written examination on site grading and development. Also knowledge and attitudes taken by - graduating seniors in included are two employee resiher school, shs becomes a candi- dences and two warehouse buildKanabs outstanding young man date for the state Homemaker of ings and installation of a power 1960 will be announced Tomorrow award which will be system. at the Jaycees annual . Camp Ground facilities, roads Distinguished Service Award din- announced in March. . ' Each school Homemaker of To- ind park areas at the Wahweap ner at the Trails End Restaurant. site will require an expenditure of For several weeks a committee morrow will receive an award pin, 7334,000 total, said Senator Ben-nit- t. headed by Jaycee Leon Mulliner manufactured by Jostens and rephas been canvassing churches, resenting the slogan, Home- is businesses, clubs, and OrganizaWhere the Heart Is. tions to determine which young The examination papers of scho21 through 35 nan has conol Homemakers of Tomorrow will tributed the most to the conftnuni-- " be entered in competition to ty during the year. The last win-r?- r name the states Homemaker of of the award was Donald N. Tomorrow. Bradshaw. The $110,000 home making edThe local winner will be entered ucation program sponsored by in the Utah Jaycee contest, which General Mills offers a $1,500 schoL. chooses the three outstanding larship to the first ranking girl in young men of the state. Those wineach state and $500 scolarship to ners will in turn b? entered in 17 Lake Salt Jan. Utah City, the states second ranking particA noted agricultural expert, a the national competition to deteripant in world trade and seven mine the nations 10 outstanding State Homemakers cf Tomorrow specialist other outstanding speakers, will young men. and their faculty advisors receives headline the of 64th program an expense-paieducational tour Annual convention of thethe The Jaycees are planning to sponAmeriWilto New York City, Colonial can National Cattlemens Associa- sor a1 big Sky Diving Show and liamsburg, Va., and Washington, tion here next woek. Sports Parachutists Show in Ka-na-b D. C., April 8 13, the trip culminatSaturday, February 4th. Dr. Earl Butz, dean of agriculfrom the show will go ing in the announcement of the ture at Proceeds Purdue University, and to their Youth Homemaker of ToWelfare program. morrow whose scholarship is in- former assistant secretary of agri- Watch for future advertising on adDr. and Max Myers, creased to $5,000. Second, third, culture, this interesting event. and fourth ranking Homemakers ministrator of the Foreign AgriS. of Service cultural the U, of Tomorrow in the nation will of Agriculture, will head have their scholarships raised to he list of speakers on' beef in- Cowboys Down $4000, $3000, and $2000, respectiveldustry topics according to the anynouncement of Fred H. Dressier, Friday Miss Farr, 17, is the oldest president of the cattle group. Mr. of Lorin Mrs. and daughter The Kanab Cowboys will play The Gardnerville, Nev., ranc M. Farr, Jr., of Fredonia and has Cedar City, at Cedar City, Friday er also announced the that 2,000 attended Fredonia- schools since . she was five years old. She is an visiting stockmen from 40 states January 20th, and the following week 27th will play Enter26 on 27 would January hear and Jan. honor student and is secretary of prise hdre. the Senior class. She has served from: four years on the Yearbook Staff, Howard K. Doggett, administraThe Cowboys dqjjgd Hurricane last year and as- tor of the USDAs Packers and here last being after lossistant editor this year. She has Stockyards Administration; Irv- ing to Dixit; ;here Wednesday been active in both Girls Club and ing R. Glass, executive vice presi- night This gives the Cowboys a Music Club .activities for four dent of the Tanners Council of 50 50 percentage in league play. years. She has a pare in the forth America; Frank Gregg, executive Dixie and Enterprise lead the coming Senior Play and also fil- director of the Izaak Walton Lea- division play with no losses and led in last year at the last minute gue of America, Glenn R. Curtis, two wins. ' . in that Senior play. Miss Farr is vice president of the Ihdepend-en- t In' the scoring race Lonnie Truactive in the LDS Church playing Grocers Alliance;" Fred H. the organ and piano for Sunday Kennedy, president of the Ameri- man of Dixie, leads with an averMack Glover School, MIA and Sacrament serv- can Society of Range Management; age of 19.0 ices each week. She has won an In- and Paul A. Goeser, head of the is in 7th place with 11.0 points and dividual Award each year for five fresh meats research laboratory Kim Ford is 9th with 10.5 per game. years for outstanding service and of swift and Company. activities in the Church. d of (Continued on Page Four) 1.1; J Recreation Facilities In Wahweap Area The board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners for the Post Office Department, has announced an open competitive examination for filing the position of substitute clerk carried in the following Utah post , offices: American Fork, Beaver, Bingham Canyon, Bountiful, Cedar City, Clearfield, Dragerton, Farmington, Hurrican, Kanab, Kaysville, Logan, Manti, Moab, Nephi, Parowan, Payson, Richfield, Roy, Salina, Springville, St George, Sunnyside, Vernal, Wendover. The positions pay a starting Leather' Display salary of $2.16 an hour. Full inAlso planned by the CowBelles formation and the application the first Awards of Rewarding forms may be obtained from By Leather", exhibit in the windows ron C. Johnson, executive secref ZCM1 Department store Jan. 25-2Board of Service U. S. More than 100 of the nations .Civil tary, eading leather artisans will disExaminers, Post Office the many useful and novel 407, Federal Build play .terns possible with leather. ing, Salt Lake City, Utah... Also on the cattlemens program are talks by Dressier, C. W, the associations executive Mr. and Mrs. Mark Hamblin of Page were in Kanab Wednesday ice president of Denver, Colo. visiting and attending to business Governor George Clyde; Salt Lake mauers. City Mayor J. Bracken Lee; Hugh s Depart-1x1,0611- 1 Mc-Jilla- n, a e. I(8nab News Notes Karl Jameson returned to Kanab after spending the Wednesday past two weeks touring Mexico and parts of Arizona with an uncle who resides in .Tucson, Ari zona. W. Colton, Vernal, past president, and Howard Clegg, Tooele, president, of the Utah Cattlemens Association; and an authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Convention Committee Heading up' the convention planning committee are Stanley Burgess, Salina, and Robert Reese, Ogden. Chairman of special include A. D. Findlay, Kanab; Allan Adams, Laketown; R. B. Money, Spanish Fork; Cecil E. Hellbusch and Dan Freed, Salt Lake City; H. Maughan Colton, Vernal; Victor Brown, Roosevelt. Mrs. Hugh W. Colton, Vernal; Mrs. C. A. Spafford, Springville; and Mrs. Grant Swenson, Spanish Fork. con-mitte- Social, events planned for the visitors include a special concert of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a social hour and buffet supper, banquet and ball, and tours to scenic spots and livestock centers all over Utah. Many of the gdests are coming by special busses planes and traiQfc |