Show writ thoro e D A autumn is turning the leaves of even the vines in town it is a most beautiful time of year with a tingle in the atmosphere that makes one quicken his step and I 1 pu pull 11 his jacket if he has one tighter around him the harvest is practically over and it has been a bounteous harvest too the world 0 rid and especially our little part of it is a very good place to be it is gratifying to note that se sevi V eral of the more alert citizens of monticello have taken the forthcoming con ang municipal election seriously enough to have made up a list of men qualified and able to serve the town as mayor and councilmen it is our understanding that two tickets will be sponsored giving the voting public a chance of choice the importance of electing men who will function with judgement jud gement and wisdom cannot be over ampha sized it is important not only to see that good men are put on the ticket but that they are elected and that they are given give n enough support to enable them to do their j job jab LETTER TO THE EDITOR editor of the san juan record dear sir I 1 enjoy your paper very much and admire you for the effort you ecru are making to make monticello clean town conscious but why limit your efforts to monticello why not include blanding anding BI in the campaign blanding anding BI needs to clean up her streets and sidewalks as much or more than monticello does As you walk down the main streets of BI blanding anding you will see old cans broken bottles battles old s shoes newspapers paper sacks cartons j of all sizes business letters per bonal letters and almost everything one can imagine perhaps this doesn doean t sound nice or make nice reading but it is the truth our scenery is beautiful here 1 we have a wonderful view of the mountains in four states monument valley and ship rock the air is clear and the sky is blue but we cant go around looking at j the sky and the mountains all the time we might fall on some broken j glass and cripple ourselves for life as one ofay friends did she fell on a broken bottle and cut the I 1 cords in her wrist and for thirty five years her hand ha has LS been help less besides the unsightliness of it all it is dangerous when your campaign begins to get results as it surely will I 1 would like to have blai BI riding anding benefited by it also yours for cleaner towns in san juan county A blanding anding BI reader the history of one of the houses in the townsite at monticello might be interesting after the V C A discontinued the operation of the mill several years ago the 4 room homes that had housed the pers onel were put up for sale to veterans at a price that was far below belov their actual value i the records show that one of these houses was purchased by a veteran but he never lived in it nor for that matter did he maintain a residence in monticello it was occupied however and eventually owned if indeed it had not been owned tied from the start ty by a man who hp is not even a united states citizen and within the last two months it was sold to another world arld war II 11 veteran the strange part of the story is the difference in price from its original sale by the government for 2000 and its its last sale price of this we think is typical of the treatment of these boys within just a few years of time when we felt so grateful to them that we wanted to give them the shirt off our backs then we let them be victimized i in this manner |