4 -San Miguel Basin Forum, Thursday June 30,1988
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Our recent story of the what a good thing it would
bringing of television re- be for the communications
ception into our area industry. It would keep
needs an important add- people informed, educated
ition, to make it more or and entertained- and all in
less complete., the families living rooms!
Well before the San He saw what a boon that
Miguel Power Association would be for our isolated
took the booster and/or area. We could have the
translator system under its best of both worlds: our
wing, one area resident lovely isolation plus inti-
was busy, plugging away at mate contact with the rest
his own considerable ex- of the world. We still like
pense to get the project to keep track of what's
under way. This individual going on!
was Carl Pierson,
He had been observing Carl Pierson started out
what was developing all by contacting his friend
over the country the Rex Howell, then owner
young television industry and manager of KREX
which was really blossom- Television. The "REX" in
ing, with rosy promises ofKREX of course stood for
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T.V. the rest of the story
Rex Howell. son operation, Carl said
An agreement was "OK" to George. Carl then
reached whereby KREX proceeded to run a series
would stay on the air for a of ads in the Forum offer-
couple of extra hours to ing refunds of donations
permit equipment to be in- he had collected.
stalled and tested. About the same time
The equipment was fur- George Dobbs ran a series
nished initially by Pierson, of ads "boasting of their
to the tune of about booster", telling how San
$6,000. Miguel Power Assocaition
He had bought booster had pioneered the bring-
equipment plus a gasoline ing in of television to the
powered generator. This w San Miguel Basin Area.
was in the early 50's And certainly did do a lot
before electricity was a- of pioneering along that
vailable everywhere, line. It would have been
He installed said genera- kind of nice if they had
tor up on Naturita Ridge, mentioned the start-up
above where the Reams work Carl Pierson had
properties lie. He filled it already been doing, with
up with his own gas. his installations and the
As things progressed, he drumming up of some
had cards made up asking community interest.
for donations from the Oh it was said by some,
general public. Some "Carl stood to make a
people who were wired for cleaning on the deal, sell-
electricity did chip in on ing and repairing T-V sets"
it. C'm on now- everyone
Meanwhile, the late wants to make money! I
George Dobbs, then the know I do. It's only when
head of the San Miguel its the other fellow who
Power Association "saw does it that it becomes
the handwriting on the greedy. Let's face it - in
wall", our system it is perfectly
Knowing a good thing legal (even moral) to sell
when he saw it, he con- goods and services to a
suited with Carl Pierson. willing buyer at the "going
The result was that George price".
asked Carl if it would be The object of this
column is mainly to tell
all right for the San Miguel about what happened in
Power Association to take the past, with as complete
over the installation and information as is available.
maintenance of the TV This makes the project
boosters and/ or trans-
lator, very interesting and excit.
Realizing that the pro- ing. Please wish me lots of
ject was already becoming "good digging" and tell me
a little large for a one-per- what you know]
By Betty Zatterstrom
Historical columnist
The Rimrock Historical
Society is so very thankful
toward all of the people
and businesses that made
our Museum Benefit Auc-
tion this last Saturday
such a big success.
After it was all over,
a few of us scouted around
to pick up the litter usual-
ly left by a crowd -and
there wasn't any litter! I'm
sure the park people ap-
preciated this too.
Work will probably
start in the fall on the pro-
ject of remodelling the
hallway so that it can be-
come a part of the mu-
seum. We really need the
extra space!
Barns..."Yard Of Month"
n the 4th of July
. fire works
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. Fishing licenses and supplies
. Gift Items
On Sale Now!
Pepsi & 7 up products
Clover Club Potato Chips
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rocery
864-7800
The Tom Barnes resid-
ence in Nucla was select-
ed as the "Yard of the
Month" by the Spruce and
Columbine Garden Club.
The yard was chosen be-
cause of the neat rock
work and rock gardens,
the neatly manicured well
cared for lawn, the color-
ful flowers and hanging
plants and the shade trees
all which make for a very
attractive yard, ......
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The yard of Vern Wit-
tern was runner up, and
the Howard Elder resi-
dence received honorable
mention.
A floral arrangement,
courtesy of Country Flow.
ers, was presented to the
Barnes Family and the
"Yard of the Month" sign
will grace their lawn until
the next selection is made
by the Garden Clun about
July 20.
