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Show Outlook PRICE ioe Published in the Interest of Blandingfian&the Surrounding Oil and Mining Communities B LANDING, VOU!ME 3 f &i of The Chamber been assured BJj has Commerce UTAH , FRIDAY I fam 9 NO. APRIL 28 , 19&1 Sen. Beimett Urges UdaH te bggjsst Route of Proposed Parfraay IBM WASHINGTON 9 April Wallace F, Bennett 24 (R-Uta- h) Senator suggested that Interior Secrehas tary Stewart Udall make a personal inspection o f possible routes of the proposed Southern Jtah National Parkway while he New Man In Charge at Airport that its efforts to obtain Indian dormitory facilities at Blending have the blessings of the Utah Indian Affairs is in Utah this week. The Interior Secretary is king an inspection visit ing the assist board and . room expense of qualified reservation pupils He the commission said that willing to set aside would be funds to assure that these year pay- minimum He commended the made Blanding Sylvan Johnson President, Chamber. at a UIAC b Harold Drake y Shown meeting Drake 66. The Navajo Tribal official said several motels have been projected for the future and these would be constructed with private capital with the Navajos providing a 99 year lease. He indicated that the big chain motels have indicated an interest in establishing operations on the reserva- the prediction in than 100 per- more sons from throughout Western Colorado who were in Cortez as Bureau of Indian aooording to Johnson, Affairs Highway tion. discussed the pColorado's new Four Commissioner, otential of RESERVATION with Corners Highway, whioh Navajo No 1 would be oonpletod by the fall of 1962 and provide Chioago-L- os Angeles short out "btunp McPhgn . PLANS Plans for the future include facilities, at the Four Comers Monument and motel prUed to bumper traffic on Navajo 1 and indicated there would be tourist facilities on the Na service on cnarter flights, in the rear is a trailer occupied Donald K Ross of management vajo reservation to handle the influx in traffic off Highway and Grand Canyon would be paved delegates, is every county commission and j to Start administrative assistant to the chairman of the Navajo Tribe, said i n Cortez Sunday, that it would be July before the road between Blanding the Cortez Sentinel MoAfee and Harold Reoreation Commission, the Five County Organization of South- -' western Utah, and virtually Project John MoAfee, Club 20 above ! the a talk before the Utah State Park and - people say school district should build and own the dorm Sylvan Johnson for says it's an opportunity MoAfee made D j be very favorable Yet to be resolved is where construction funds would come Some George chamber of commerce in Southern took over and Central Utah. Mr and Mrs. Ross and three Blanding Flying Service the 15th by He The plane shown children; told the Secretary, "Your The Rosses came to of this month survey of this area will show is the Cessna 182 used by the Blanding from Provo, that there are several possible of the Federal Aviation Agenoy routes which hold great promise Reed Bids Low on before a contract oan be awarded, (TURN TO PAGE 2 COL. 2) Other bidders were L.J.B. CoCity Airport nstruction Company of Price and the Northwest corner of 2nd S JW Sumsion and sons of Spring-vil- le and Main and construction will James Reed Construction Cobegin in the very near future mpany of Salt Lake City was low The project involves construcIt is to be of pumice blook bidder on the airport enlarge1200 of additional of feet tion construction and will feature ment projeot and fencing large areas of plate glass Bids opened Monday at the City runway, plus paving Harvey Builders were awarded Hall showed Reed1 s bid of same. the oontraot for construction $27,26360 to be the lowest bid Construction submitted although engineers had CITY ASSIGNING estimated the project could be New Laundromat on built for $25,30200 HOUSE NUMBERS The bid must have the approval James the Brown, owner of now located in the laundromat Juan San and Yoakum Building, has announced private investment! County member of UIAC, Don Smiths that he will build a new buildthe has suggested calling on ing for his business Bureau of Indian Affairs The new building is to be at who in turn Interpreted Indian comments to the whites Indian reactions to the dormitory proposal were reported to from endor- - held here April 20 Johnson pointed out, at the meeting, that Blanding was .ideally located as a site for housing reservation' pupils and that school facilities here are adequate to accommodate 2 0 0 additional pupils Those in attendance at the meeting were mostly Nava j os and Johnson's remarks were interpreted, to the audience by Commissioner Clyde, in reply to proposals full proposal has the sement of Governor "My life; "People of Elanding" for taking the initiative in such a progranw Clendenin1 s assurances were ator Bennett In his letter to the Interior Secretary, Senator Bennett said: a- - continue for a 10 ments would o The Utah other dignitaries Senator suggested that the trip also include consideration of the proposed National Parkway, which would be authorized by a bill, S. 608, introduced by Sen- pay- by t Utah to survey the Rainbow Bridge National honument area, together with a number of Cosmission Chairman Beverly S Clendenin said here last week commission would ma- Southern Commission that if a dormitory were built here so that Indian pupils could attend local schools that the 17 . devel- opment at Kayenta and other sites on the reservation. Saturday Johnson outlined the details of road construction on Navajo reservation and confirmed reports the Four Corners shortcut would be completed by late 1962. He warned, residents against sending tourists over the highway until it is finished, however. session During the, two-daout it was pointed that Colorado would have a paved route to the Four Comers monument by this summer.' As part of the Club 20 program, a bus load of Club 20 members toured the new road as far west as the bridge being constructed at the San Juan river a few miles from the Four Comers. y Trade With Local Merchants long you oan find out at the City Office where you live Blanding Post Of flow is Before at Shown above, North Main are city men, lyrm Lyman and Stanley Martineau making the survey and assigning numbers The wheel being pushed by 90 . Iyn is not a toy but an essential .measuring mechanism. |