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Show 2 Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel, October 5, 1990 Utah News Navajos’ sweep of San Juan County election now possible by Carol Sisco Tribune Navajos Utah has its own version of South Social Issues Writer have registered enough voters to win the San Juan County election this fall, San Juan County Commissioner Mark Maryboy told AFL-CIO delegates Friday. A Navajo coalition led by Mr. Maryboy has mounted an all-Indian slate which hopes to sweep county offices in San Juan this November. ““‘We have 2,499 more Navajos registered so far; 1,000 more Indians on the rolls than Anglos,’’ the first Navajo elected county commissioner in Utah said. “‘We have identified 1,000 more who can still registered by election day.’’ be The Indians have approximately 3,499 voters registered, including 1,000 on the rolls before the voterregistration drive began. A spokeswoman for the San Juan Coun- ty Clerk Friday afternoon said the county has a total of 6,090 registered voters. San Juan County was the site of the last Indian uprising in the United States and Utah was the last state to give Indians the vote in 1957, Mr, Maryboy . | we have the first all- Indian slate of candidates, as far as I know, in history,’’ he told the labor union which has supported: Navajos from the day it a them pay cet ‘filing ees: Africa’s apartheid in San Juan County, Utah State AFL-CIO president Ed Mayne said as he introduced Mr. Maryboy. ‘‘Native Americans have had certain rights denied to them,”’ Mr. Mayne charged. Miracle Rock Bible College opens in Salt Lake City, Utah October 1, 1990 was the opening date for the new Miracle Rock Bible College in Utah. The college will initially offer a - one-year program for a Christian laymen diploma and a two year program for an associate of arts degree. Bachelors, masters, and doctorate While Navajos total slightly more than 50 percent of the county’s degrees are also available. The college is located at 131 North population, 75 percent have no electricity or running water, the tuberculosis rate is very high, and their » filiated with the Kingsway Christian — unemployment rate is the highest in College and Theological Seminary of | | Des Moines, Iowa as well as the the state, Mr. Maryboy added. Locating and registering the final Miracle Rock Church. While a registration period was 1,000 Navajos on the sparselypopulated 1.5 million-acre reserva- held September 10-22, registration by appointment is available through Oc- — tion won’t be easy, he said, “‘but many of our workers are committed tober 10. Students may register in full ee time or part time status, with part j to this goal.’” _ lariat Jones (I.), president of Feed the SETEISUTION The next problem will be convin- time students attending one night and FOOD cing Indian people that voting ‘‘will full time students attending two nights Children, and the Rev. Edward V. Hill, pastor of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church, which sponsors the Lord's Kitchen, have announced a large per week. change their lives,’’ he admitted. hungry Over 100 courses are available for donation of food to churches and other organizations to feed the ‘“And we will have to conduct an and the homeless. On Saturday, Sept. 22, the two organizations will students in divinity, theology, leaderunprecedented get-out-the-vote in food to 50 area organizations. For ship, counseling, and administrative distribute $100,000 dollars drive,’’ Mr. Maryboy added. *““We have 400 volunteer drivers to take services to help them earn qualificapeople to the polls but we will have tions for teaching, preaching, pastorto teach them how to find the dirt ing, evangelizing, missions, counseling, or Christ education ministries. paths we call roads.”’ For more information, please conThe Indian campaign, which inAustin (AP) — The defacing of a university’ S campus will not go away tact: Dr. Max Jaramillo, Miracle cludes five Navajos and one ‘statue of Jefferson Davis has pro- quickly. * Cherokee, is a historic one, “‘the first Rock Bible College, 131 North 900 mpted a local civil rights leader to call ‘Jefferson Davis has no more conWest, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116, all-Indian slate in American history,’’ for the removal of several statues of nection (with the university) than . Mr. Mayne said. ‘“Labor was one of phone (801) 595-0056. Confederate war heros from the Abraham Lincoln, but there is no the first: to. get involved.’’ University of Texas campus. © ~“ statue of Abraham Lincoln,’’ Gary The political struggle for Native University Police Lt. Robert Ewan Bledsoe, president of the Austin Americans, which continues to this said last Wednesday that the 914-foot- chapter of the NAACP; said. “That’ S day, really began in the San Juar and tall statue of Davis, just south of the very telling to me.’ County area in 1879 with the arriva: The Confederate Goa stand, as happy deer — university’s landmark tower, was 900 West in Salt Lake City and is af- @ Leader es dana removed Have a safe of pioneers, Mr. Maryboy said. And it still includes battles over water, land, and mineral hunting: ‘season | rights. faery ee you. could ask for ina_ bank, at a bank where you're not afraid to ask. Sani eel ack aa with the phrases {{Stop mate reminders‘of racist. attitudes that ucRacism’3vand 5fAm la Cron aute Petar S after the end of ing the early morning ‘hours. -: othe: Civil ‘War, Bledsoe said. The bronze statues have been van‘The phrases scrawled in purple dalized in previous years, but they '-- paint were easily washed off, police have become a focal point of conten- said, but students and minority com-. tion by students who say that munity leaders say the issue. of whether Confederate heroes should continue to be revered on the state The Mountain West Minority Reporter & Sentinel a _ USPS # application pending 6363 West King Valley Drive * West Valley City, Utah 84120 M. ARTHERNER GIVENS Publisher-Editor -JACQUENETTA L. GIVENS _ Classified Advertising and Typing CHARLES M. GIVENS Sports Editor "= _ $18 per year Minority Reporter & Sentinel he sf you're talking big bucks, they’re not listening. | If you have need of a loan, or any bank service, talk to us. 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