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Show The San Juan County Fair Dates Are August 21-2- 2 Monticello Youth Dies DEVOTED TO THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH THURSDAY. AUGUST 13. 1953 MONTICELLO. UTAH PRICE 10 CENTS PER COPY VOLUME 37 June Laws Succumbs Polio Hits Twice Suddenly Monday Noon Home (By Blanding Correspondent) The Blanding were people very shocked to learn Monday afternoon of the sudden death of June Laws. He died about noon a few minutes after he had collapsed at the wheel of the pickup he was driving. He had been at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Fern Palmer a short time before, and complained that he didn't feel very well. She urged him to go to bed, but he said he would go back to his home. When she insisted that he go see Dr. Root before he went home, he agreed. After his interview with the doctor, Mr. Laws started back to the home of Mrs. Palmer. He must have collapsed on his way down the street as his pickup ran into the fence just west of Bishop Rogers' old home. Merle Jones, going to the Palmer home told them a pickup had just run into the fence and had come down the street without a driver. Immediately, Mrs. Palmer was alarmed, ran to the window, recognized her ifiather's car, and ran to him as fast as she could. He wasn't dead when she got bad health passed away, Jan. 20, 1951. Since that time, Mr. Laws has lived alone most of the time until he married Miss WheatReferendum Set For Aug. 14 In McConkie Helen Lar- sen of Murray, Utah, June 20, 1953. At the time of his death, Mrs. Law's was attending to business at Murray, but arrivied in Blanding the evening of his death. Survivors, besides his wife, are following five children: William, Harry, Parley Laws, and Fern Palmer, Blanding, and Wayne Laws Price. He has 32 grand children and one grand child and a sister, Mrs. Wilma Galbraith of Blanding. The funeral service was held at the Blanding Chapel, Wednesday afternoon at 2 p. m. unn der the direction of Bishop Ervin Palmer. Wil-lia- BLM Completes Cricket Control Program in San Juan County The Old Seitler wheat marketing quota referendum to be held Aug. 14 will be conductd at four places in San Juan county, advises Chairman Clement Johnson of the County Production and Marketing Administration Committee. Chairman Johnson urges every eligible wheat grower to vote. since the outcome of the rferen-tim- e dum will materially affect the price farmers receive for their 1954 wheat. He p01nts out that if two thirds or more of those voting favor marketing quotas wheat loans at 90 per cent of parity will be available to those who plant within their wheat The Dr. James McConkie of Minneapolis, Minn, grandson of Luis stricken with cinda Redd, pneumonia and polio. His father Oscar W. McConxie and mother-i- n law, wife of Joseph L. Wirth-liLDS Presiding bishop, have flown back to Minneapolis to be his family. This is the second poliio has strucken them in and is t.ie second trip to Minneapolis for Oscar in the saJJ?5 length of tune. first news unvmg m Monticelo Sunday informed Mrs. Redd that the small son of her grandson, Dr. McConkie, was stricken with a serious case of polio. A recent letter to Mrs.acfage fllotments-Redmarktimg quotas are said the childs rapid im- growers, quotas will is a puzzle to the not be in effect and the support tending physician. rate on 1954 wheat will to 50 per cent of parity fordrop n, . ly nt at-!- Grayson Ward Celebrates Primary Birthday ... Acreage allotments will be in effect for the 1954 wheat crop rgardless of the outcome of the referendum, he explains. If marketing quotas are in effect, those who exceed their allotments must store or dispose of their excess wheat as directed by the Secretary or pay the marketing penalty on the excess wheat, The marketing penalty is 45 per cent of wheat as of May 1, (By Blanding Correspondent) Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, 130 children from the Grayson Ward Primary partici- pated in a miniature parade, fol- lowed by a birthday party, de- noting 75 years since the first there but died before they could Nearly six thousand acres of Primary was organized. 1954. get him to the house. was in which Federal range, The first float in the parade The officially designated pollSiince Mr. Laws suffered a of being denuded by was a birthday cake made ing places for the Aug- 14 wheat blood clot in May, he has had danger Mormon Crickets, has recently by the huge executivie and offiicers very poor health. been subjected to a poisoning followed by a float from the referendum in San Juan county Mr. Laws was born at John- program and Bureau of Land music department Then, each are: son, Utah, June 3, 1889, the son Management officials report the class from Community A PMA office, the Home Builders of William Hart and Jennie Ann project a complete success. down to Monticello, Utah. and Trail Builders the Johnson Laws. Later the family Bureau of Land Management the tiniest tots had a float. A Community B moved to Old Mexico where worked in cooperation with the ereat were spectators many Communitiy C, Hyrum Porter they lived until the revolution. Bureau of Entomology furnish- there to enjoy the colorful and residence, Blanding, Utah. Mr. Laws married Lucy Johnson ing the poinson grain. interesting array. At the conin Mexico May 12, 1909. Their Prior to poisoning, the crick- clusion of the parade, the childthere. born was son Asa oldest ets were so thick on the ground ren were taken into the recreaAfter the exodus, they moved it was difficult to keep from tion hall where they sang a to Richfield, where they stayed stepping on them. Areas of group of songs finishing with until after their second child, greatest infestation were on a the Primary birthday song and William, was born. Since that 3,000 acre reseeded area. Crick- a grand march. Each child and San ets were climbing the grass stems teachers marched time they have lived in past a miniaJuan county. Several years and devouring the young imma- ture Children's hospital and put were spent at the ranch at Car- ture seed heads. in a penny which will be used lisle. Mr. Kinnaman of the. local for theiir penny house. The cliAnnouncement was made toMr. Laws has been a farmer Bureau of Land Manageement max was when everyone was by Sheldon P. Wimpfen, and carpenter, and at the pre- office states that bad luck on served a cup cake with a candy day Grand Junction operasent time had a carpenter bu- the start of the program set poi- candle and a bottle of root beer. manager tions office, Division of Raw Dottie Laws who is the presi- Materials, siness in Blanding- He has re- soning back just long enough AEC, that as of July had of crickets some the a comfortable that of Irene the Primary with dent cently completed 31, 1953, $2,163,378 has been paid little home on the north side laid their eggs in the ground Watkins and Mae Peterson as to uranium miners in the form neceswill be it enand therefore of town. counselors together with an of bonus for uranium ores proJune and Lou, as they were sary to poinson the area again thusiastic group of officers and duced from eligible properties these as soon known to their many friends, next summer as teachers are to be congratulated since the bonus program for were the 'parents of seven child- eggs are hatched. on a very impresive conclusion production was put into efto a year's work. There will be fect on ren, two of whom preceeded Saving the grass from destrucMarch 1, 1951. Bonus them in death. The oldest girl, tion for the summer was a con- a three weeks vacation from payments are being made at ithe Lurline Barton, died in 1942, siderable saving not only from a Primary before the Winter's rate of approximately $150,000 leaving five children, and the game and livestock standpoint work starts. I per month. next but also from a watershed oldest boy Asa died the The bonus program was estabchildren. standpoint. year, leaving three to encourage private inlished of Mrs. Laws, after many years dustry to locate new deposits of uranium ore and to help defray part of the high initial cost of putting a mine into production. 10 7 Bonus payments doubled the The yearly tour of the San council passed a reso base price tor the first 10,090 The The MIA race meet attracted Juan basin pure bred hereford lution city contained uranium 6 prohibiting the pounds of August oxide produced and sold from any a large crowd at the fairgrounds association conducted its yearly use of arc welders are which Age :our Sunday beginning at the last Saturday afternoon. property and amount to a by the city, between new seemed to be no deterrent for ranches near Durango and end- powered and 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. bonus of between $15,000 of the hours the animals are the participants. ing at the Troy King ranch on $35,000, depending on grade, for came about resolutions These The Jewkes boys twenty six yr, the mountain northeast of Dol- through complaints from citizens first production from new propold pet horse made a fine show- ores. Rain delayed the arrival of complaining of fluttering lights erties. ov- The initial production bonus ing and DeMar Perkins eighteen the people and afterthelooking and radio static while the weldcrowd of ers the King herd, year old mare was winnercon-in were in use. The council has been in effect for a little oldest 175 were ready for the barbeque several events. The over two years, and there is would like to cau'.ion all testant was John Perkins, who supper at seven oclock, furnish- work to do to bring it inhaving every evidence that it is accomearly of won first in the stake race ag- ed by the Kings. Mose Jones be nec plishing the objective of stimulnot so will it that enough ainst much younger men. Mark formerly of Lockerby, essary to work from the hours ating prospecting and mining. Production of domestic uranium Anthony, 8 years old, was the did the barbecuing. Guests were 7 to 10 p.m. in .'heir praise of the youngest contestant, and ran in iinr:mo-'case of an emergency, a ore has more than doubled durIn hosts and chef. the kid pony race. be obtained. ing the period with the A no:n lunch was served by special permit may In this event, Malcolm Young due in great part to the increase was first. Bill Nielson, second, Mr. Harris at his ranch near Hes initial bonus program. The AEC visited Other ranches and Noel Jewkes, third. has certified 302 properties as A prize of a lariet was offered vore those of Fowler and son, Mr eligible for bonus payments, and all that contest, calf Adams Earnest and the for roping Wright, a part of 1,347 individual paywas won by Daryle Redd and a near Mancos. ments have been made. To date, on the 20 the Juaners for members box A group of about girls potato The Utah San jewelry 35 new properties have producwere Mr. and Mrs. Leonard of the Monticello race. Nancy Adams captured that Sportman's ed more than the initial 10,000 Halls Mrs. Frank artell. Mr. and club worked Sunday on the new prize. of uranium, and the opThe other events and those Tim Scomo. and Mr. and Mrs. fish pond at the north end of pounds erators have received the full follows: DeVere Halls. winning a place the mountain. Joe Cooper fur- benefit of the initial bonus. one eighth mile saddle nished his D-- 4 Cat for pushing Perkins first, Pete Bailey trees and Bill Walton furnished X-R- ay second his LA tractor for pulling trees stake race- - John Perkins first and work. and other Plowing DeMar Perkins second, Sill Halls clearing was done in prepara- 's third site. The the dam The county school board met tion of club calf roping- - Daryle Redd, first to is attempting Co. 4 at Monticello with 19 DeMar Perkins second and Fran August lakes viin two the build ponds Sumsupt. Black, president Ken cis Barton, third. around and started with of health moboard The state cinity, girl's potato race- - Nancy Ad- mers and two other members of $300 to $400 in the treasury and bile unit will be in Blandxray ams, first. Glenice Lewis, second the board Merrill Stevens and will need approximately $350 ing August 17 and 18 from 10 a. mens potato race- - No. 1 Bill Ashton Harris lin attendance. more to finish the task. m to 12 noon and 2 p.m. to 6 p. were Evie Boss and Vera second Adams Foy Lisle first. Halls, m. The unit will be in Montimens potato race- - no. - De-- chosen to act on the county li- cello at the grade school house AdWEATHER board with ClvHe Barton Dorothy and Mar Perkins brary August 19, from 11 to 12 noon Monticello, Utah tied for first. Franris Barton 2nd ams, chairman. The superintendand 2 to 6 p.m. and Aug. 20, the short was he ent still Malcolm rareEaston reported bovs potato Virgil 50 71 0 same hours. The charge is five Young and Kelly Summer tied eight teachers for the county August 2 47 0 cents to cover cost of the xray 76 for first August 3 48 0 film. 78 ' bulldogging- - Kay Johnson August 4 It is hoped that everyone over 46 0 80 goat ronine- - Francis Barton, August 5 46 0 15 years of age will take advant80 first. A'nine DeMille second, and August 6 51 84 0 age of this splendid service. third Chmn Youn August 7 58 0 85 8 first raceLisle Adams, August ring Remember Saturday August 15 NEW ARRIVAL Forty three hundredths inches junior calf riding - Whitnev is the last day of the clean up A baby daughter was born to in the of fell rain TViomnson Phillio wimmelberger Sunday again and beautification campaign. Jud Mr. and Mrs. George Behunin most lasted Tobv Pehrson fall that rain Yo'ing. ein will be immediately after. gentle Saturday. The whole community Bill Mjelson isjo place was given A five and ten dollar prize will of the night. is happy over its arrival. Mrs. in this event. be given to the two most beauti- PAUL'S SERVICE HAVING was stricken Behunin (Carol) ful and the two most improved BIG FIRESTONE TIRE SALE with a severe case of polio, a MfWTTrFLLO MERC TO ago. Her fight The big Labor Day Firestone couple of years HAVE btg RALE NEXT WEEK yards. recovery has been an inspira Tire sale is now going on at for The Monticello Mercantile is LFLAND REDD TO TELL OF Pauls service in Monticello. Mr. tion to everyone. carrying a b;g ad this week on TRtp TO EUROPE their huge clearance sale which On August 25 at 8 p.m. the Reed Wilson of the firm states FIRESIDE CHAT dart next Thursday. Look over theme of the assembly proeram these sale prices are the best The Sunday evening fireside their ad on page two of this is of the MIA is Traveling. Pres- Firestone has offered in quite chat was held at the Clyn Young on and See ad the time. Record some of sue the page home with Cleo Christensen plan your ident Leland Redd will tell of his and list of Record. Items time. of issue the of four this buving ahead recent trip to Europe. as the Thompson Karlyn acting down cut to ed in the ad are way hostesses. Frank Redd spoke on During the class period of the It will pay you big money to move fast. Clip the ad and sDecial interest eiroun. Dr. Si- buy those new tires now, during the church history. Light refresh check the items you want- use mons will explain the health this sale. You can afford a com- ments were served to thirty two it as your shopping list plete set at these sale prices. plan for San Juan county. guests by Cleo and Karlyn. ' Uranium Miners Paid Over Two Million Dollars In Bonuses in-iti- on Arc Welding AT Hereford Tour of Night Forbidden Basin Farms P. M. From to Race Meet Successful ! ; s two-ye- ar Work on Fish Pond Progressing race-DeM- ar School Board Meeting 7- Clean up Day Ends Saturday Sport-man- Mobile Unit To Be Here Aug. My Dear San Juaners: It was in a little Utah town which we shall call Haycenter. y That was the days. Joe Walsh was the glib and handsome clerk and proprietor of the prosperous village store where people laughed themselves sick over his corking jokes while they shelled out their cash over his shoulder. Joe was a humorist, a mimic. He enjoyed it. Everybody else enjoyed it with one notable exception: that was Clouse Peterson, known up and down the valley as Pete The way Pete was always in travail with his words was funny, and sufficiently distressing to him, even before Jo Walsh began specializing in mimicking his agonized efforts to make known the simplest and most unimportant thing. Joe would pretend to be in hard labor with some unguessable word which, when he finally succeeded in getting it out of , W- his mouth would be some fool J.yCe amvd nMontieeilo ago to thing they had not expected, and 3S B f1SthdUA woul( convulse them with Mill in laughter. It was tendent always Pete that Monticello, succeeding Dale Mat- he was impersonating, and the thews, who went to Korea. Mr. unfortunate stutterer became was his accompanied by a such Joyce notorious that he and four daughters. He is hardly dared to bejoke seen on the a graduate of the Montana school ' street, of mines and recived his MasClouse Peterson lived alone. ters and Bachelors degree as a He wanted a wife, but if he had metallurgical engineer- Before found a girl willing to listen to Monticello he was coming to him, or even to look at him, with the Vermont Copper at his tongue would have South Strafford, Vt., and with madebalky him superlatively foolish Reof Division Industrial the in trying to tell her he loved search at Washington State Col- her, or that he wanted to marry lege. her. Joe was also this We welcome the Joyce family to phase of Pete's lifeexploiting for his eager Monticello. customers. Pete had flowers around hi shumble little home, he had chickens, a cow, a neat orchard, a garden by which he met his living needs. He poured out his sorrows to his roses and his tulips as he toiled over them breathed it without words to his apple blossoms, and he We are looking forward to see- more anr more closely stayed within ing you at the official opening his own fence as Joe made him of the biggest and best County more and more the object of Fair, Friday, August 21, at 2:00 amused smiles. A came Monticello high when he could endureday p. m. at the it no lonschool. ger; he sold his little home and Friday evening at 8:0 p. m. J. went away. Joe had a little daughter, Frank Fright presents Motion an adorable (Angie) pictures of Grand Canyon river trip and San Juan river trips. child, the pride of her fathers The Song Danger River Sung heart- Whether it was because by the boatment and their wives she saw how much people were and written bv a river passenger amused by her father's stutterwill carry you along the trip ing stories, and aped him to win with them. There will be colored favor, or whether it was the of some slides of Grand Canyon and San action natural reJuan river trips and other points tribution, Angie had learned to See the beauties of your count- say but a few words when she began to stutter as if her baby ytongue had caught on some terSaturday, August 22 at 7:30 p. rible snag. At six she was worse, time, you'll have a halarious Shouland in her teens she was terrible. Looking over Grandpa's der. Heres a real variety show She wouldnt mix with nor alchuck full of good music, dance low herself to be seen by other and fun- Grandpa is a sly cuss younghidpeople. She was morose, from all visitors, and and he thinks he's putting some- she shed many tears. she's but on over Grandma, thing smarter than you think. We have lessJoe's humorific sallies became frequent. As a stuttering Ballet, Grand Opera, Indian Ceremonials, Barber Shop quar- comedian he quit entirely. He his tet, Can Can Girl straight from contemplated cursed and blighted Paris, and a Sherman Band daughter with this stubborn embargo straight from Monticello, not to which no specialist could relieve. where melodrama a real neglect Then Sammy came on the you can kiss the Villian and sigh scene. By some quirk of events over the heroin. We offer you a he met the evasive Angie, and fun and thrill packed time. Don't contrived to meet her again. He mis9 it. Betty McDonald with was me Urst and only boy that other members of her committee got into her love-b- e promises you a good time. You'll had everworld, and his sympath-b- v thrilled with the work done hungry etic attentwn was sweet relief the and the things girls X to her self imposed solitude. She they will model in the style dress was beautiful; he loved her. His review. This will be under the love was irresistable, her fathMcMae of Jessie supervision er's objections notwithstanding. Donald and promises to be Sammy spoke with ease, but horse-and-bugg- d reject-proveme- Of Ruptured Appendix NUMBER 28 Word reached Gienn Peterson Sunday that the three Near old child of Mr. and Mrs. Horace rludd had died oi a ruptured appendix. Whether the child was at the home of his giandparents, Mr and Mrs. Clark Rudd ot Fielding, or was on the road with his patents from Fort Collins, Col ji ado is not known. Oris, the cot ntv agent was expected to be back in his office Monday. He had been attending school at the A and M college at Ft. Collins the past several weeks on a special for county agents. scholarship The deceased is survived by his father and mother, two year old twin sisters, a maternal grandmother, Mrs. Bunderson, and the paternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Clark Rudd. The funeral was held Wednesday in Fielding. thoughtfully at the flowers, and saying kind words with his arm around old Pete's shoulders. But Joe longed to make one more offering of atonement, and when at length he got Angie and her sammies back to a home of their own in Haycenter, his one regret was that he could not go back along the trail of his life and come forward again without giving sorrow' to anyone. ! Dont Miss The Special Events at County Fair An-geli- BLM Starts Range Survey According to Dale H. Kinnaman, range manager of the Grand and Monticello grazing districts, a six man crew is now in the process of maping and compiling all the necessary field data for a full and complete analysis of the carrying capacity and general range conditions of the west half of the Monticello grazing district. Country surveyed will be all range west of the Indian Creek rim and south on the west side of the Elk mountain to the San luan river and as far east as the comGrand Gulch. This area 1,200,00 approximately prises acres of Federal range most of which is unsurveyedData gathered and compiled will include carrying capacity - type available and suitable deer as well as type available and suitable for livestock. The information on range conditions, state of erosion and recommendations for corrective measures that should be applied will also be compiled as part of the proof for gram. Sunday School Meet at Dolores A non- - secretarian Sunday school meet was held for southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah Sunday at Dolores. Mr. Gaddis of Dolores had charge of the Sunday school. Harry Randall of Monticello presided at the preaching service and the recreational meeting in the afternoon. For the latter gathering every denomination furnished a vocal or instrumental selection. Mormons, Methodists, Batists, Congregationalists, Presbyterians and Monticello Community church members were present. A pot luck dinner was served at noon. Before disbanding the following committee was appointed to arrange for next years gathering. President Lewis Atkins, Dolores, vice president, Harry Randall, Monticello. John Lambert of Dolores, secretary, treasurer; Herman Hampton, Cortez, Sunday school superintendent. Rev. Simmons, Dolores, advertising manager, Board members; Ashton Harris. Blanding, George he stuttered mentally, and Joe Sloan. Monticello, L. C. Caugh-ra- n. thought it a tragedy for Angie to Dove Creek and Miss Lily think of becoming his wife. All Dunham, Dolores. the same she became Mrs. SamJack Taylors car was wrecked uel Parsons, and they became late Saturday night north of the the laughing stock of the valley 2 Devil Canyon turn on the Mon- as much as Clouse Peterson had ticello side. Mr. Taylor had pur- been. Their financial abilities 6 chased a new pickup and was re were nil, their a turning home form Gallup when huge joke. But foroperations did you ever see the By way, her father, the accident occurred. a country that can take the beathad would have neither they fallhave must He thinks he The tide of ing that San Juan can and still en asleep at the wheel. He has food nor shelter.more ridicule became than they produce crops? Only two iinches The accident. of no memory the like could and Clouse, of rainfall until the first of July stand, car turned over several times in 1953 (Monticello weather obmoved from away they Haycen and was demolished. Mr. Taylor terserver figures). Very little snow was still unconscious when Jack during the early winter and the no was a Joe humorist, longer Redd came along and took him crops are averaging from fiftten a man. old He but hired pensive to the San Juan county hospital to twenty bushels of dry land store clerks for avoided his and It was first thought his neck was wheat per acre. Some fanners a He mourned. the When public. broken. It was later found he as high as thirty bushels was suffering from shock and report reached his ears that Pete report on their choice land. Some bruises only. He is still hospital- had returned, a ragged tramp, of the county the crops parts have and that he had been seen weep- failed due to frost and drouth ized. ing in the evening at the gate combined. , of his old home, and gazing at WE WANT YOUR NEWS he his to what be used flowers, ITEMS Sunday afternoon Joe Hunt The San Juan Record wants could not sleep. If Pete had re- and Hyrum Porter of Blanding to publish news about YOU. We turned, he must find him before made a special trip to Monticello are anxious to publish all of he went on. He did find him. to present a musical number for the news that is fit to print Pete had taken up his abode in Mrs. Lucinda Redd, who has alfields, hiding ways been a lover of violin muabout San Juan county and its a cave aboveday-tim-the e lest people sic. They were accompanied on residents. Call your news to Mrs there in the the piano by Mrs. Idona Cook of D. B. Perkins before Tuesday should see his retched rags. Joe found his way to that cave Salt Lake City. evening of each week to insure he took the embarrassed herJoe had long promised to bring Her phone beinj publishedmit in his arms, and his once his violin and play for her. They number is 27R2. glib tongue was choked at the played a variety of tunes, old the root. Come back, Clouse," and new, and everyone enjoyed WORK ON TENNIS COURT he managed to plead Til see that themselves very much. Saturday was another work- the old is yours again, I can get day for the Lions club. The mem Jay Wilson is spending a week bers are doing the work and the it, I want you to have it a cow LDS ward is furnishing mater- chickens, anything to make what with his mother, Mary Jane Wil son, before returning to his work, ials to put the tennis court in it was." in Inglewood, Cal. as a governin the old With back Pete shape. home he loved, somehow no one ment inspector of the North Am Mrs. Leon Adams left for ever saw him again as something erican Aviation plant. The U. S. Price Saturday to be at the bed- funny. People went there to see air force sent Jay to the Pittsside of her mother who has un- how he had restored the flow- burgh Technical Institute where Vine hffn f nr the T9St three dergone an operation in the ers and everything as it used to ha often be was Joe there looking Price hospital. beautiful . 4-- H . Wrecks Pickup Inches Rainfall In First - Months |