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Show State vocational commission plans for future programs Thirty cents out of every state tax dollar is spent on public education. Every taxpayer has a right to know where his tax dollars are going. The state vocational commission believes every taxpayer has s right to voice his preferences before thoee tax dollars are spent With that in mind, the Region Six Vocational Education Study Team has announced that Phase 1 of its action plan will include the development of dialogue between the public and the study team members, the inniliirin. tion of the team and the publie with the aims of the state commission study, the determination of specific issues to which the team should address its efforts. The Region 6 team met Jan. 8 at the Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center to ' plan strategy for developing effective communication with the public regarding the goals of the whole vocational education effort over the next few years. The team seeks to develop constructive response, positive or negative, as to what vocational education in the state should be in 1985 and beyond. Walt Ulrich, state director, for vocational education, now on leave to n comhelp spearhead the mission study, said that a questionnaire is being prepared to cover the interests of various groups concerning the vocational education picture. A different format will be developed for each group, such ,as high school students, employers, parents, etc. Presentations will be made to various audiences, such as social dubs. 5 blue-ribbo- faculty meetings, service organisations, where input will be sought. The media will be engaged in an effort to reach as large a segment of the public as possible. The quekionnaire is expected to be available for distribution by tax-payin- g y. Hie dialogue" phase of the study is scheduled to run through March, has a stake in the every future of vocational education, and a responsibility to participate in the decision-makin- g processes that will determine the role of vocational education in the total educational program; the emphasis to be placed on job development, job placement, ' student follow-u-p services; the relationship of the vocational education delivery system to four-yea- r colleges and universities, two-yea- r technical colleges, and other educational institutions; where and how vocational education funds should be generated; how the financial load should be allocated. Interacted residents of the area are invited to attend the next meeting of the Region VI Study Team, to be held Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 2:80 p.m., at the Uintah Basin. Area Vocational Center. Chairpersons of the team's standing committees encourage individuals desiring to make their opinions known to contact them at any time. Committee' chairpersons are Paula Bell, Judy Burns, John Foster, Dale Nelson, and the Rev. George F. Davich. Or call tax-pay- er . PAVED 3 r RECOMMENDED PROPOSAL The final environmental statement and study from RARE II, released last Thursday, asks for a High Uintas Wilderness area totaling morej than 500,000 acres, shown here by the heavy dotted line. The area extends from Leidy Mountain on the east to the North 67 Included in the 15 million acres of Agriculture Bob Bergland has proposed for wilderness designation in the countrys National Forests are more than half a million acru in the High Uintas. The proposals are the result id an Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE II) which identified the roadless areas and proposed what future use should be made of them. The final environmental impact statement waa filed last Thursday, liating the areas which are recommended for inclusion in the National Wilderness Preservation System. In Utah, there were about 852,000 acres ' already in wilderness or primitive areas and an additional 492,088 acres were recommended for wilderness designation. Another 188,410 acres were proposed for "further planning, to be administered as wilderness until the Forest Service makes a decision on whether to recommend them for wilderness or And the remaining 2,871,877 acres of roadless areas which were evaluated and have been protected as wilderness during RARE II will be released April 15 as and returned to multiple use, according to regional forester Vern Hamre. The recommendations are scheduled to bo given to President Carter later this winter and, following consultations with Congressmen, governors and interest groups. Carter is expected to submit the proposal to Congress for approval Of the total 845,000 acres existing or proposed wilderness in Utah, 60 percent is in the High Uintas. The 503,676-acr- e High Uintas Wilderness proposed in the final RARE II study is composed of 234,742 scree of the original High Uintas Primitive Area, 121,618 seres proposed for addition in the 1967 High Uintas Wilderness Proposal plus an additional 14521 acres identified in RARE IL The resulting proposal extends from Leidy Peak on the east to the North Fork of the Duchesne River on the west and include! most of the Alpine ridges and basins, according to a statement issued by the Ashley that Secretary Pacific Transmission Supply Com- pany has completed the No. 82-2- 9 l, a Green River formation oil discovery in Duchesne County, according to Carlton Stowe, Department of Natural Resources spokee- PTS-Federa- was completed pumping 15 barrels of oil and 6 barrels of water per day. It produces from the Douglas Creek member of the Green River formation (Tertiary) from 6,822 - 6,870 feet It was drilled to 14,245 feet total The well depth. The oil discovery is seven miles south of Myton, about a mile and three quarters northeast id Monument Butte oil and gas field. In other oil and gas progress in the state, Stowe reports that Colorado Interstate Gas Exploration will drill five new Wasatch formation wells in the Natural Buttes region of Uintah County. All five wells are scheduled to' depths below 6,200 feet. Ensearch Exploration Inc., will drill four new test wells near Bonanza in eastern Uintah County. They are to go to depths of at least 9,000 feet and are in the Lockout Point, Flat Mesa, Crooked Canyon and Cliff Edge areas. Other new drilling is scheduled in Duchesne County's Altamont and . Cedar Rim fields by Shell Oil Company, Oil Development Company of Utah, and Mabco Inc. Nine new development wells in the Natural Buttes - Bitter Creek and Bonanza vicinity will be drilled. Wrecked car found on Myton bridge A wrecked car, with parts strewn 100 feet, wu found on the for about Duchesne River bridge at Myton early last Friday, but there wu no driver at the aeene. Patrol trooper Gary Cutler said the driver, Woodrow Accawanna, 27, of Fort Duchesne, wu located two days later and charged with speeding,' driving on the wrong side of the road accident. and failure to report Cutler said the car wu westbound on Highway 40 at approximately 2:15 a.m. when it apparently did not negotiate the curve leading to the bridge, went onto the wrong aide of the road and the front end ran up onto the guard rail. Evidentally the car then slid broadside along the guard rail for 45 or 50 feet until the right front fonder truck the bridge abutment This eauaed the car to spin around and hit the other side of the bridge, but 67 feet farther down the road. Cutler said. He siid he found the right front . fonder on the west side of the bridge on the ice, the hood on the out side, leaning up against the guard rail, part of a fender at the bridge abutment and "bits and pieces everywhere. Investigation showed that Acca-waan-a aunt's home in had gone to Myton. Traced through the car's ' registration, he wu arrested two days later at his home in Fort Duchesne. Cutler said he witnessed a second accident Saturday morning about 8:15 when a car driving cast on Second Highway u . u mmm North in Roosevelt ran off the right side of the road and rammed the rear of a parked pickup truck. The driver, Gerald Martinez, Jr., 19, of Fort Duchesne, wu arrested for peed too fast for conditions and drunk Snowmobiles: keep off the greens! Snowmobiles will not be allowed on the Roosevelt City golf course, according to City Administrator Jerrol Syme. Snowmobiles do considerable damage to the greens, and despite precautions by the owners, frequently drip oil and gu which severly damages the grass. A bogged-dowsnowmobile can cause damage to the well. sprinkler heads Local snowmobile enthusiasts are invited to use the old airport property north of the city, said Mr. Syme. Duchesne hu had its snowmobile well, with considerable problems to heads and newly sprinkler damage planted gran in Roy Park. According to a city council spokesman, that park to snowmobiles. is now Dave Emery, Starvation State Park ranger, said that Indian Canyon offers great now, good trails, and spectacular scenery for snowmobOers. In addition, enthusiasts are reminded that Farm Creek, Strawberry Valley, Rabbit Gulch, and the. area around Starvation reservoir offer good conditions for snowmobilers, who are asked only to avoid the animals. n u u off-limi- ts driving: Land for town hall donated to Ballard A deed for 10 acres of land -which will be used for a new municipal administration building wu presented to the Ballard Town Council at their last meeting Doc. 28. The property wu donated to the town by Dr. Robert Morrow and a letter of appreciation for the gift wu to be drafted to him by the council. The property b located in the aoutheut corner of section 23. The building plans for the new municipal building were, reviewed and plan were befog drafted for its construction during' this year. Revenue sharing funds will be used for the - project. A publie meeting for all residents of Ballard is being planned for the latter part of this month, though no definite date hu been set The session at the Ballard church will update residents on plana for the sewer system. RIVERS of the Duchesne River on the west but excludes Lakeshore Basin, Marsh Peak, Chipeta Lake and Moon Lake, as well as project features of the Central Utah Project. The plan now goes to President Carter and the Congress for Fork half-millio- SERVING ALL OP DUCHESNE COUNTY, PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY south of Myton AREA BOUNDARY Final statement asks n acre High Uintas Wilderness 11, 1979 NUMBER UINTAHlBASIN Oil .discovery AREA 1967 PROPOSED ADDITION WILDERNESS WILDERNESS 722-452- VOLUME UINTAS PRIMITIVE ROADLESS FOREST BOUNDARY team chairman Marlin Johnson, UBAVC, HIGH ROADS RARE JL PROPOSED ADDITION on the new municipal building, and a general progreu report covering the past year. In other action, the council: Decided not to apply for a grant for low income housing at this time. progreu eAppointed councilman Gerald Mitchell to draft a map showing the correct designation of roads in Ballard so street signs can be purchased and placed. Received the quarterly sales tax from the State Tax Commission, a total of $8,9552. Decided to send a representative to the Roosevelt Area Chamber id Commerce annual meeting, at which Gov. Scott Matheaon will be the speaker. And decided to ask Uintah County for additional snow removal and undfog on the roads with sharp grades in Ballard during periods of snow and ice. 7 ?.' th National Forest Excluded from the proposal are Lakeshore Basin, Marsh Peak, Chipeta Lake and Moon Lake. Project features of Bonneville, Uintah and Upalco unite of the Central Utah Project except the stabilization of high reservoired lakes, are also outside the recommended wilderness, the statement said. Fifteen study areas surrounding the final wilderness proposal were recomand are to mended for be released April 15 for "multiple resource use activities. The Ashley statement said that entry to these activities and areas for will be described and development controlled by existing or future land and resource management plans. ss ss These plans may permit harvesting of timber. The proposals did not meet with general applause throughout Utah. In feet, the amounts of land recommended for wilderness in the state were smaller than many states because of the opposition to the concept here. Hamre said that Utahns generally opposed wilderness more than people in other parts of the country, adding that of those publie responses to RARE II which made general suggestions for or against wilderness, it was three to one against wilderness nationally, but in Utah it was 10 to one because only limited grazing would be allowed in wilderness areas. In other words, it's back to the 19th century," said Frank 0. Nishigu-ch- l . The Utah Association of Counties has gone on the record opposed to any wilderness designation anywhere in the state. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch called for speedy Congressional action on the proposal and an even speedier opening for development those lands which were not recommended for wilderness. Hatch called for dear protection of Utah municipalities' rights to watershed development in designating any wilderness, and called for resolution of what effect the Clean Air Act will have on development in areas near wildernesses. The proposal deals only with National Forest land. The National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management have not completed their reviews and recommendations for roadless areas in their control. against Hamre said full consideration was given to public comment and waa reflected in the proposal as Utah has one of the lowest proportions of studied areas proposed for wilderness. The recommendations in Utah will of the mean minimal disruption than economy and are smaller in or states, nationally surrounding Hamre said. Idaho presently has 1.5 million acres in wilderness and 1.5 million acres in primitive area and Thursdays recommendation for another 2.2 million acres wilderness would mean a total of more than 5 million acres preserved. Wyoming now has 2.2 million seres in wilderness and Thursdays recommendation would add another 600,000 acres. Colorado also was tapped for a wilderness designation in the millions of acres. The president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation said the proposal Would lock up vital renewable resources, especially timber, gas and oil, and would impact food prices Dog licenses due, Duchesne gives warning Tribal trash service tries to keep up are looking up for Things in the Neola and homeowners Whiterocks areas who depend on the Ute Tribe's department of sanitation to pick up their garbage and trash. The department, plagued by the continuing necessity to pick up trash in a borrowed open maintenance truck, has made every effort to maintain service, despite the fact that the regular garbage truck has been out of commission for over a month. Dillion Sera wop, sanitation engineer, said that eight tripe are required to cover the area served with the borrowed truck. He said a pick-u- p was made Jan. 4, and it is anticipated that another will be made around Jan. 15. If the regular truck is still not in service at the time, the special schedule followed for the Jan. 4 collection will again be required. , It is time once again to purchase licenses for dogs in the communities of Duchesne county. In Duchesne, the licenses became due Jan. 1 and will be delinquent after Jan. 3L A 10 per cent penalty will be added to the amount of the license foe if it is not purchased by the Jan. 31 deadline. The fees in Duchesne are $5 for male and neutered dogs and $15 for unspayed females. Proof id rabies vaccination every two years is required, as called for by state law. The law also states that if a dog is picked up and has not had a rabies shot, the owner has 10 days in which to get the vaccination or the dog can be impounded again. The licenses are required for ail dogs over five months of age and can be purchased at the city office during business hours. Duchesne ordinance requires that doga be restrained and those caught running loose are taken to the city pound. A $10 impound foe is charged, plus a $1 per day board fee. However, after five days the dogs are destroyed if not claimed. There has been a problem with dogs running loose in the city and, during the last week of December, 86 dogs were apprehended" in a live animal trap between Tuesday and Friday. Only eight or nine of them were claimed by their owners. City ordinance also states that possession of more than three dogs constitutes a kennel and a kennel license is required, as well as compliance with zoning requirements. - r i |