A small group turned out to discuss the hospital district proposal at the meeting in Dolores Tuesday when Joe Tipton and Jack Kinkade explained the facts about the election and Dr. E. G. Merritt outlined the current situation with regard to health care at the present hospital. The election next Tuesday is open to all qualifying registered voters. The question is whether or not to establish a hospital district and also to elect seven directors, three for one-year terms and four for three-year terms.
Meat loaf and brown gravy along with mashed potatoes, green beans, spring salad, hot rolls, jelly and coffee or milk will be offered patrons of the Dolores School District on Saturday, April 12 following a tour of the facilities of the school. The School Board has recently decided to go for a bond election which will allow expansion of the shop facilities, the home economics and science departments, along with other badly needed improvements in the building and equipment.
Three inmates of the county jail wrested a gun from a Sheriff's Office employee, wounded a Sheriff's officer and made their escape down McElmo Road, until they were captured less than 15 minutes later, shortly after 11 a.m. Monday.
The Pleasant View Volunteer Fire Department will host its annual Variety Show at the Pleasant View School, April 12th, at 7:30 p.m. There will be a wide variety of entertainment including skits, humor and all types of music.
Chub Speer, ditch rider for District 69 and 70, reported this week of the expected heavy runoff this spring. With the water levels in the mountains much higher this year than two years ago when considerable damage was done to headgates, ditches and property belonging to land owners along the river. All private ditch owners and companies are advised to check ditch headings to consider rip rapping if possible and to take any other means of protection against high water damage.
The Dolores High School music department is presenting a musical, "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown," on April 18 and 19 at the Dolores High School Gym.
Mr. and Mrs. Kay Rash and son Charles enjoyed a birthday dinner for Harry Rash on Sunday at the home of Mrs. Lois Rash.
Mrs. Verbal Swank and two children, Helen and Denny spent the spring vacation in Collbran visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Dull. During the week her parents celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Mrs. Dull was a patient in the hospital at the time, but is reportedly doing much better now. Mr. Dull was presented his 45 year Masonic pin recently and Mrs. Dull will be receiving her fifty year OES pin this summer. All in all, said Verbal, this is quite a year for celebration for her parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Plumlee and family from Farmington spent the weekend in Dolores visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mory Plumlee. They celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary Friday evening and both the Bruce and Mory Plumlees enjoyed dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Kirk in Cortez on Sunday.
A fund has been established at the First Security Bank in Blanding, Utah, to help pay the cost of plastic surgery for Jerri Whiipple, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mueller of Mancos, who was injured March 20 when she landed face first on a boulder after falling 60 feet down a canyon wall near Bluff, Utah. Mrs. Whipple, the mother of a two-month-old son, was following her husband, Howard, when a ledge gave away beneath her. The impact crushed most of the bones in her face.