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Show 4 V' , -" v 1 . -- . - v-- - :Tf -- w Vr y .- w y .IVv !j'l ;. r- - ' '.JL ri " ' A' l( ." , WX f. ; ;. - Xy f Vff. -- ,f" ,. ,vi - xv J&' J , X rl . - , - -- . ' '- -' , y ; . ,. - V- - ' - ' ' ' - ffTTiV " l -- , . Cowboy Mitch Williams makes his way down stone steps for Canyonlands MAGAZINE S DIPACT The impact of National Geographic on tourism is somewhat reflected in the increase of visitors to Wahweap Mari- - - T. LIDDELL Deseret News Staff Writer Tardy budget work of Salt Lake County officials today drew sharp criticism of Utah Taxpayers Association executive Jack A. Olson. I can get any information I ask for from all the other 28 counties of Utah, Olson said, but when I ask Salt Lake County for theirs. I cant get it its not ready. Olson visited county government offices in the Building this morning, but failed to find a complete estimated budget of expenditures for 1970 or tabulation of City-Coun- ty estimated revenues to cover next years operating costs. AMONTH AGO Commission Chairman Oscar Hanson Jr. agreed that the figures should have been available a month ago. County State law governirg counties requires the tentative county budget to be ready before Nov. 1." This is so county auditors may calculate and estimate revenues to cover the expenditures na at the Page, Ariz., end of Lake PowelL Edwards article on Lake Powell appeared during the summer of 1957. People come to me clutching their Geographies, asking questions about your article. Bill Greene of Wahweap Marina says. Edward's latest photographic work appeared in the May issue of the Geographic with Grand Canyon as the topic. Other officials at the National said Edwards Geographic photos were the best ever taken of the Grand Canyon. He plans to do the same with requested, Olson explained. unuBiBHiimiifflbiuHinfltnummuiiiina SHOP TIL TONIGHT nnimnimii;;n:rmm7nmni!mM;!"u"!rn four-whe- MOont By NEIL MORGAN Copley Nws Service BLUFF, S;.n Juan County As we drove toward this Moimon ouipast north of Monument alley, our car radio brought us a rambling local newscast from the only station we could pick up. The big news was that a small boy had run away from home. We didnt feel like i blaming him, only wondering where there was for him to He had go. apparently reached the same conclusion; he had come back home. To be in Bluff you have to be on your way somewhere, but nowhere very much. We were on our way from Monument Valley in Navajo land Four Corthrough the to Durango, ners country Colo. Not even the cartographers get through here often; our route led over a newly oil-ne- h paved road that didnt appear . i& "'h ' C? s - ' HMnwirw : l n December Monday, 1, 1969 B 1 2 se m Audnter By GORDON KIRBY Deseret News Staff Writer. Third District Judge Leonard W. Elton ruled today there is no basis for a contempt of court charge against Salt Lake County Auditor Glen F. Palmer for refusing to pay certain county bills. Acting quickly, following presentation of arguments by opposing attorneys, y he dismissed the complaint brought against Palmer by Chief Deputy County At-ne- Kalgren had sought to establish a relationship between the present case and one last June in which Third District Judge D. Frank Wilkins ordered Palmer to pay for Cardiff property in Big Cotton- ?;a' wood Canyon. A CONTEMPT In this context, Halgren held that Palmers refusal to pay Schocker Construction Co. 580,000 for work on the Decker Lake Project at 2700 S. 23rd West constituted a contempt of the previous court order. Judge Elton ruled that the Cardiff orde didnt apply to the current case. NEW ACTION? What legal action the county commissioners now might K 4 ' V 1 r4 rr0 Boyce : p-rr- A'y ,1,;., . -- acr: '7!T : x x I A O' - . .X N ' take to stop Palmer from thumbing his nose at them, as Halgren expressed it in court today, is not known. The decision came just before noon after arguments from Halgren and Ronald N. Boyce, appointed by the court to represent Palmer. Halgren held that the current case was a natural continuation of the Cardiff case. HELD At rV A 7 iJji : vr SEPARATE held they were entirely separate cases. If Palmer had refused to heed the court's judgment in the Cardiff hearings, he would have been in contempt, but this is (lot the same controversy. he told the court. Palmer has steadfastly refused to pay the Schocker claim on the grounds that the a private work benefitted property owner. Countv commissioners said Sre JUDGE on Page 2 B-- Christmas Tree For Utah Capitol A Christmas tree is transported to state capitol where it will stand in rotunda during the holidays. It was donated from the front yard of Mr. and Mrs. Lew Cross. 160 E. Leslie Ave., who planted it years ago as a seedling. Forestry and Fire Control Division cut tree, and Highway Department hauled it. SECTION B 40-fo- ot Tribute To Poitli (Cdlto- -i Not: Nod ManM to a CWummi! totf Cecity Noil Mrvtc rmott at Wtutf wrttor Hr h UIW 00 N oepooto ooetMil t S' Leon A. Halgren. all-tim- one-fourt- i bowl-shape- d Palmer has received all but two capital improvements and indigent hospital budgets ar $ INDIAN RUINS The Potty, a pothole arch, also has archeological significance, possessing ten or more Anasazi architectural units including a kiva. But these can only be seen after a piecipitous climb. Pilot Royal Holter of Canyonlands Field at Moab had taken Edwards on flights over See CANYONLANDS, Page B-- F. This years figure reflected a one-yerise m spending of nearly compared with any previous year. Olson explained that non- See TARDY oa Page B! ' ' SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH were visited and photographed for the Geographic. One of th is Paul Banyan's Potty found up Hor-- e Canyon about a half mile from the bed of Salt Creek. and some six Canycnlands, million readers will gain an of concept unforgettable Utahs newest rationed park. RUGGED TRIP Edwards contracted his trips into the rugged canyons with g Mitch Williams Tours of Moab. The only way to get into most of the park is drive with all by hubs engaged. Our first trip was to Angel Arch tucked away in a hidden box canyon in the Needles section of the park. Later, hitherto unpublicized wonders from Horse Canyon ty's taxpayers get any idea of the budget in time for the public hearing required by law? Olson queried. The county has a hearing dated Dec. 15 at 10 a.m. in the Metropolitan Hall of Justice third floor auditorium. Taxpayers or any other interested groups are unable to inform themselves of necessary budget facts before the hearing, Olson said. No wonder so few citizens attend the budget hearing each year, he added. from the 32 county departments. He requested them by Oct 1, but most that were received arrived later in the month. The two delinquent budgets are in the department headed by County Commissioner Philip R. Blomquist reWorksheets already ceived indicate an estimated request of J2S million plus make unless commissioners some hefty chops on department requests. EXCEED RECORD Unless worksheets are trimmed, the 1970 budget will e recexceed this years ord total of $28.6 million. j I: deseret news whatsoever ARRIVE LATER Auditor Glen h' vf Odd rock formations abound in little - known Canyonlands. dsseup. Salt Lake County is exactly one month late today in its forecasts, he complained. I think its a shame. HEARING DEC. 15 How can Salt Lake Coun- County 4 - f ntV w County Hit For Tardy Budget Work By JOSEPH ,. I '- ;r - 'i Magazine To Show Utah Wilds Red rock spires in the big sky, noisy water in deep gorges, the untamed wilderness I loe it. of Canyonlands When Walter Meayers Edchief of pictorial wards, research for National Geographic Magazine, asked me a month ago to accompany him into Canyonlands, I jumped at the opportunity. I will be spending a total of three months in CanyonEdlands National Park, wards told me. One month r : . v '$ 4l .. and another two months in the spring. A previous issue of National Geographic was responsible for bringing me to Canyonlands in the first place more than five years ago. Since that time, I have spent days and weeks in the new park searching out the secrets which will draw hundreds of thousands of tourists in the years to come. A . V a now Ckni ' i' V $; -- By DICK WILSON Deseret News Correspondent X V". ' - ' f '. V'V'- - C & A 4 . . -- f' f f , '. S w f.'s, j- . ,T?N ; - N. -- ..-- I2' ; ' -- , o---- I Vw vjewr. . - X ' iui I ,- v--- x i w. W- - treW c any of our oil company maps. Just behind vs was the Utah strip of the vast Nvaio reservation. Only one automobile crossed this way, through Monument before Valley, 1921. In 1933 it was used as the location for filming Stagecoach. Lately the Navajos have erected a visitors' center atop a scenic crest in their tribal park. But its r.ot overrun. We drove eight miles up a dirt road in midafternoon to get there, and it wm locked. We had left Harry City, Regional -1- -2, 5, T, ID Theater 4 Comics 6 Financial 89 Off AAormons' Gould-ing- 's trading post and motel in Monument Valley just behind a refrigerated truck nbess driver had dropped off candies and tobacco at the post Gouiding was the driver's only 'customer for the next 56 miles. Population densities in this part of the world are a relative thing. Navajo country ended abruptly as we crossed an old bridge over the San Juan River at Mexican Hat, a village Burned for a d mound of red shale that resembles a sombrero. We were off the reservation and beer signs, the first in a couple of hundred miles, brought us to a halt. A curious company village nearby, cone-shape- learned, was the only thing left from a brief uranium boom. But Mexican Hat has a motel of sorts: A brace of mobile homes bolted together. Its usual source of business is from those who are visiting we h the great goosenecks of the San Juan. Etching Its formidable canyons up to half a mile deep the San Juan at one point makes a nine mile loop and returns to within half a mile of its starting point. Not far downstream, the passes near Rainbow monument national Bridge and empties into Lake Powell. Boat trips up and down the San Juan from Mexican Hat are gamy; there is the white See NEWSMAN oa Page BY nver K Km a problem? dal 6 to 9 pjn Monday through 4a ). Friday, or write to Bax 1267, Salt lake Cty, Utah 841 10. Plant Legends I have beard theres an interesting legend about the poinsettia and also the pyracanlha, two of ear popular Christmastime plants. Do you know about them? J.G., Salt Lake City. True. Poinsettia, a native plant of the New World, enters into a Mexican legend about a poor girl on her .way to church on Christmas Eve. She had no gift to place on the altar and she felt so sad that she wept. An angel, hearing her, told her to gather some roadside twigs. She did, and when she arrived at the church they had buret into full bloom, making a beautiful gift to put on the altar. The other legend concerns the Glastonbury Thorn of England, a distant relative of our pyracantha, also a New World product. That plant was brought to England by Joseph of Arimathea when he arrived to Christianize the country. He thrust his staff into the ground and the plant began to grow. It did well and bloomed at Christmas time. Trees grown from its cuttings were be- lieved to heal any who touched them. When the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752, the change shifted Christmas by 11 days. As a result, the Glastonbury Thorn did not bloom on Christmas and there was a revolt against the new calen- dar. Do This, This, c k t i& fc 2 ! This-I- f- I recently bought some material from a studio in Miami. They returned my check and I have not received anything. I am wondering what has been done about this or if they dan to send me anything and if not, why they dont refund my O.B., andy. money. tell them wha the order Adjustment upcoming if you was, when ordered and send them a copy of your cancelled check. Thats what you are to do IF your order is not received in 10 days. is t t Better Send 'em Your Number Last September I ordered some records from a company in New York as a gift for someone in Orem. There was supposed to be a gift card with them. But all they got were the records and a letter to pay for the records or return them. I think they owe me and them an apology for sending nasty letters when a gift is paid for. Can yon get this straightened out? B.H.C., Salt Lake City. Frankly, your letter was quite confusing. They seem to think youve got an adjustment coming, but all we can see is you are entitled to an apology, which you now have. They further confuse the problem by admitting their computer doesn't know jou by name that's the just by number only way it ran interpret customer complaints. So if not send em a number. satisfied You Should Get This Week Can yon Had out what happened to my cookware which I ordered from a company in San Francisco? ML, Pocatello. Yep. Same thing that happened to all cookware sets which were mailed on Oct. 10. Lost Reshipment of all involved was delayed pending arrival of merchandise from manufacturer. As of now a new set has been mailed and you should get tt this week. if' I 2 : is ht r IT t f; They Said Your Letter Sai- dLast spring I ordered some plants from a greenhouse in Hlinois and rent them a cf.eek for 51.15. I never got the plants and they never answered my letters. Can yon get me a refund? W.B., Bountiful. Funny. They sent us a copy of your letter which they said you raid vour order arrived in an unsatisfactory condition. But, no mind. They want all customers to be 100 per cent satisfied so they are refunding your money. r. |
