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Show May BLANDING .OUTLOOK Page 2 BUNDING OUTLOOK 26, 1961 THE BLANDINGITE i ALBERT by Published every Friday at Blanding, Utah PUBLISHER I. W. Cox Second Class Postage Paid at Blanding, Utah R. LYMAN me to see what he Last Tuesday, Clyde Helquist came inviting were They digging what and some other little boys had found. door-ya- rd of back the the A. Hein they called an underground whioh a plow has been going over at lquist home, ground through years, and below the soil disturbintervals the last forty-fiv- e I t ed by the plow, they came to the rim of huge olla, or Jar. of the at and part bulging 16 was about inches in diameter, it, more. was a It little or same all possible the about depth in the hard earth. It was there, paoked solid by the oenturies of a superior kind of pottery, but the deep frosts of severe winters had broken it in many pieoes. not thinkable that this olla iwls sitting on what was the surfaoe of the ground seven hundred years ago. Being between two and a half and three feet below the present surf&oe, a shallow cellar where it was pl&oed to it must have been inwater This section was of perishable food. keep cool with the covered with a thick growth of trees when we came here 56 years ago, and it takes quite a vivid imagination to form a mind pio-tu- re of Blanding as it looked when these people lived here, using and farming the land more intensively than we are using Their buildings were not as massive as ours, and not built We have of as durable material. figured that beoause of the It is it trae&ble in stone, that all their buildings Indications are that many of them were of wood were stone. plastered with mud, and in most oases nothing remains to indiThere is no question that at one time cate where they stood. they lived here by the thousands. They dug their bread from the ground; the ground was their preoious subsistence, they cultivated it by strength of arm, and they made it a point to retain every drop of rain that fell. The slopes were terraced to stop the water where it fell, and the draws were marked by one little dam above another to store the little streams whioh might start down there. Their little subsistence farms were separated by -their sandal patted paths, and it was a busy stretoh of one little home in the midst a cultivated garden, and then another, for many still buildings miles and miles. NO DEVELOPMENT SOON AJeath er Radio Hoase Sons to Be Courtesy FRANK WRIGHT Placed Usder Lodi Tribe plans immediate construction of a high fence The Navajo to protect Panoho House Ruins from souvenir hunting tourists. Gates will be padlocked and the key made available to respons- Trad. With ible people. Local Merchants Indian officials told San Juan Commissioners at a meeting in Window Hock variety of c o 1. o r and were s like portunity to help in the celebration cause; Mrs. Smith is prices selling star happy that another dollar has hot cakes according to been collected. Guen sales ran, Smith. She reports a complete sellout of the gold ribbons priced at $3 .CO each, (another shipment is on .the way) The supply of red Bom to Mr. and Mrs. Richard ones ahich sell for $1 and tne Nielson, Bluff,, a boy on May 18, fifty cent greenies will havebu-to at the Monument Valley Seventh be replenished if the brisk siness continues. Children are Day Adventist Hospital. at i each. The happy pair above is Mrs. LUCKY LICENSE for tourists be developed made Gene 1. Foushee, Bluff Are a is only a Highway 47 and motel miles from a that suoh the would Indians development by make construction of a road from 47 south to Panoho House very pr&ctioal. 1HEBS The Foushee idea had been Juan County because i would a Holbrook to shortcut provide and Tusoon areas and at the same time serve extremely isolated Nava Jos and oil developments in the Southern part of the oounty. Week fred Briggs, Blanding . CHIEF Week HUKT OIL C FAHOUS FQONTIEQ FUELS FAMLY NIGHT SPECIAL says that drivers note - should take that sohool is out children Mon & Wed May 29-- 31 BLUEBEARD'S may any time of be on the the day. and street at He says the period following sohool turn is one of the most orltloal as far as traffic aeoidonts are eonoemed and that extra preout caution by drivers oould save a lift in Blanding. 10 U0REYM00HS starring Mis Me GEORGE $1 SANDERS-C- O CALVET R1NNE Faulty t Thurs thru Wed June 1 to June 7 No Show WARNS MOTORISTS THAT SCHOOL'S OUT Chief of Police, Ray Cahoon, Carl Mahon, Blanding Jack Steele, Mexican Hat JTOAEJ THEATRE few accepted wholeheartedly by Sah John Sheridan, Blanding This SAH operator and member of the County Tourist Council has suggested that the Poncho House t Last SHOWING AT THE and accessible by a paved road from Navajo Route No. Trade With Local Merchants 10 the ruins San Juan became interested in Panoho ouse when an unofficial report said the area was next to m mi buying the orange paper models that they week as a tourist attraction sometime in the indefinite future but not soon. would reopen Official Frontier Days ribbons Marvin Lyman and Mrs. Smith went on sale here Wednesday in a Tr3. Lyman is happy' for the opwide last Sun & Tues THE SUNDOWNERS starring DEBORAH ROBERT MXTCHUM KERR PETER USTINOV Sundowners are rea I People this is their real life story BOXOFFICE OPENS 7: 4G |