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Show USPA The mm V TREMONTON, UTAH 84337 VOLUME 57 NUMBER 6 NOVEMBER $100 r .:.!ww '-a&or Estimate Totals $1,074,640 ' Bonus Is Won A Garland man richer this week. :; 11, 1976 is $100 bonus bucks ' Genaro Sanchez, 262 East Factory, walked off with the $100 bonus buck pot in last week's Mystery Personality contest. That drops the pot this week back down to $40. Sanchez correctly identified Sonny Wadsworth, manager of Cal Gas, as the Mystery Personality and found all 10 clues. The successful entry means this week's Mystery Personality pot drops back to $40. The contest is in its final stages with just four more weeks to go. Correct clues in last week's contest included: 1. married 25 years, Cowley's add; 2. married Snowville born girl, Hales Bros, ad; 3. Born in Fielding, Heidi House ad; 4. 1 son and 1 daughter, Carl and Don's ad; 5, former U & I Sugar employee, Coast to Coast ad; 6. worked in Yost years ago, Hales Bros, ad; 7. likes to go camping, Classic ad; 8. worked same job 11 years, Carl & Don's ad; 9. member B Electric ad; 10. Lion's club, D former cutter racer enthusiast, Floral ad. There's still time for you D to enter. on the ad in Read the complete instructions Mystery Personality full page this edition. Remember bonus are as good as cash at any participating merchants. ' ' ' ''' " ' STUDENTS AT BEAR RIVER High School take advantage of the unseasonably warm fall weather to bask in the sun on the front lawn of the school. Jamie Coombs and friends get in a little study time. bucks of the 7imD An analysis of Tremonton City's culinary water system was presented to the city council Tuesday evening mm&mmmmm '" (fuD pD3 outlining necessary improvements and carrying a price tag of over one DDI?: west of Tremonton will eventually be abandoned because of age. -- improvement of the spring area in Deweyville both on the mountainside (East Spring) and near the Bear River through construction of better pump house facilities, rading to prevent surface runoff as required by the State Board of Health, protection to prevent infiltration of the lower springs from the Bear River and upgrading of the chlorination facilities. -- installation of a new line from the East reservoir into the city. An line currently feeds into the city from the east. -i- nstallation of new "valving and telemetering" at the pumps and reservoirs to improve the efficiency of oper-atio- I million dollars. The study prepared by Valley Engineering, Inc. of Logan was ordered by city council members concerned about meeting the water needs of the city in the face of new housing starts on one hand and already existing water problems on the other. The study outlines recommendat-tion- s to increase the water supply and upgrade the distribution system, increase the size of transmission lines into the city and provide additional storage capacity. " .... - The recommendations which the The as should be "constructed report says report also lists an additional soon as possible" include: $289,115 worth of improvements within -- construction of a new 1,150,000 the city to the distribution system which it recommends be made as gallon reservoir to be placed at what is funds become available. known at the East Spring located on, The city needs about 500,000 additthe hill above Deweyville. The additional gallons of storage space "to meet ional storage would give the city a present culinary, irrigation and fire capacity of 2,225,000 gallons, enough to accomodate a projected population by protection storage requirements," ac1995 of 4,500 people in the city. The cording to the report. The report also notes that the report also states that an existing cont. on page five small reservoir on the mountain north 14-in- ference Scheduled Friday M in i-- Con r- - - w v ' f in iiiifliiwi - wf " v 1 r-- - "- ill illttiiPiiTr llfnii On History, Info A mini conference covering 25 subjects related to the gathering, organizing and filing of information for family histories, personal histories and research will be held Friday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. in the Tremonton Stake Center. The mini conference will deal with a variety of subjects, covering reading Old English handwriting, affecting a family organization, use of maps in area research, doing English research, library numbering system for books, filing research information, keeping a correspondence file and other subjects. Every resident of the area who has an interest in family histories, personal histories or genealogical research is cordially invited to attend. There is no charge. Each person may select three classes in which they wish to participate that evening, each class lasting 30 minutes. There will be time for questions. . Sugar Factory Faces EPA Suit j A suit against U & I Inc for allegedly violating its permit to dump affluent into the Malad River at the Garland factory really has nothing to do with the quality of the water in the river itself. U & I has been charged with 19 instances of violating their discharge permit between October and November of 1975. A suit was filed in US District Court in Salt Lake City recently by Assistant US Attorney Rod Snow at the request of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) The maximum penalty could be $10,000 fine for each alleged violation or a total of $190,000. EPA also wants a court order prohibing U & I from discharging any . Rama Bira&u m Kl nn)po(Sfl U & I INC. faces a possible $190,000 fine by EPA for 19 alleged instances of violating their discharge permits at the Garland Factory by dumping unsatisfactory wastes into the Malad River. Farm Bureau will hold a meeting for farmers and others interested in the Bear proposed changes in the River Compact on Monday, Nov. 15, at tri-stat- e p.m. in the Bear River High School Visual Aids Room in Garland. State Water official, Dan Lawrence, director of Utah Division of Water Resources, and Dee Hansen, state engineer, will be present at the meeting to explain the proposed changes and answer questions. Mr. Lawrence has served as a member of the Utah negotiating committee for the past eight years in an effort to modify the compact to use the Bear River water more fully. Dee Hansen as state engineer is charged with the management of water allocation within the State Division of Water Rights. Water users along the Bear River in Utah, Idaho and Wyoming have watched the negotiations on the compact change with great interest. In announcing the Monday meeting for farmers, the County Farm Bureau presidents in Rich, Cache and Box Elder 2 ' n. liquid or solid waste into the river near the factory. John Kaapesner, an attorney for the EPA's regional office in Denver, said the "litigation itself is not directly related to the quality of the Malad : River." Kaapesner said EPA enforces limi- tations put into discharge permits based on two things. One is national guidelines which are "technology based" and applied to an industrial category all over the US. Sugar beet factories, for instance, all must meet the same guidelines. EPA also enforces state water quality standards where they are "more stringent" than the "level of techno-con- t. on page five counties said the time has come for farmers to find out what the changes would mean for agricultural water users. Rich County president is Robert Johnson of Randolph. President of the Cache County Farm Bureau is T. Ray Theurer of Providence. Farm Bureau has two units in Box Elder County with Wesley Scott of Fielding as president of the North Box Elder unit and Rulon Smoot as president of the South Box Elder County unit. "Farm Bureau has the responsibility to the farmers and ranchers of northern Utah who are affected by the Bear River to keep them informed on negotiations under way on this critical resource. This meeting will serve that purpose," the four Farm Bureau leaders said in a joint statement. The Farm group officials said the meeting will help farmers and other water users prepare for testimony at a public hearing conducted by the Division of Water Resources in Logan on Nov. 22. The Tremonton and Garland city councils still haven't managed to resolve contention which threatens to prodelay an already ject to upgrade the sewer treatment plant servicing both communities. The latest chapter in the dispute came Tuesday when Tremonton's City council received a letter from the Garland City council in which they threatened to construct their own sewer treatment plant unless they "can become active participants in the delay-plague- program." d Signed by Mayor George Hales, the letter said council members "have decided that they can no longer accept the procedures that have occurred in the past and that they cannot accept the most recent proposed service fees and still represent the best interests of the residents of Garland." The service fee referred to is apparently that of Tremonton which recently upped its monthly sewer fee by $3. The fee was raised to help finance the sewer plant construction. But Tremonton Councilmen pointed out Tuesday that the fee only applies to Tremonton and that Garland is, not being instructed to make a similar increase. In the letter, the Garland council also noted that cost estimates "have varied so much over the last two years that we do not have any confidence in the projected costs and the effectiveness of the treatment proposals." The Garland Council said they have applied to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Utah Division of Health "for a grant application kit" so they can conduct their "own analysis and determine if we have been offered the most economical solution to our sewage treatment problem." "We will still be willing to listen and to negotiate but only if we can become active participants in the program," the letter added "We are going to have to know for a surety our costs... if our sewage is treated at your plant or if we construct our own facility," the May said in the letter. cont, on page five |