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Show Utah Pre 38 1327 Salt Lake Box EPA critical W worth sewer off Federal agency demands quick action, threatens The official machinery has now been set in motion to revamp Kenilworth's sewer system, after the town apparently came within a whisker three separate times of being assessed a fine by the $10,000-a-da- y Federal Environmental Protection Agency. The seed of the difficulty was planted when, at some undetermined time in the past, someone noticed that because of unsuitable soil the nine septic tanks at Kenilworth were not operating properly and were discharging into a wash near the town. Last May 20, the EPA caught up with Kenilworth, so to speak, and, in light of the ongoing health hazard and the possibility of a rain storm washing the effluent into the Price River, issued Kenilworth a discharge permit with the stipulation that something must be done about the wayward didn't comply with EPA regulations within 15 days. After hearing from Steve Hatsis, president of the Kenilworth water board, the EPA wrote again on Jan. 7, giving the town misunderstandings, nothing an additional 30 days from happened. That is, until that date to without comply ' Nov. 17 when EPA again wrote to the Kenilworth fear of a lawsuit. Utilities Co., noting that Ten days before that legal proceedings and deadline, too, was to expire, assessment of a $10,000-a-da-y Courtney Brewer, director fine would be of the Waste Water Quality possibilities if the town. Management Planning sewer system. EPA gave Kenilworth until Oct. 22, 1975 to draw up and submit an implementation plan for solving the problem and a schedule of compliance. Through a series of conditions, , program, called together all to problem,two Johansen alternatives: presented First, Kenilworth could construct a lagoon treatment system. However, he commented that this would not be an ideal solution because maintenance would be required and lagoons would cost about the same as the second alternative connecting Kenilworth to the PRWID sewer line. Meeting in Brewer's office in Helper last Wednesday were Hatsis, Harold Jewkes, vice president of the water board; consulting engineer Craig Johansen, who is working on the facilities phase of the water quality program; and Earl Staker of the Price River Water District. Improvement Jewkes agreed. onxn 54110 systteinri penalty $10,000-per-da- y After Brewer detailed the the concerned parties formulate a plan. Association Kenilworth residents help pay for the PRWID, so they should be entitled to services from it, he reasoned. To accomplish the hookup, Johansen and Brewer both immediately the water suggested having improvement district apply for a 75 percent matching grant from the EPA. PRWID might be able to cover the remaining 25 percent, Staker said. However, if it did, he said, Kenilworth residents would be charged a fee in addition to a monthly assessment. Staker said he would bring the matter before the hook-u- p PRWID board. explaining situation 4 1976 UTAH-472-5- 671 10c VOLUME 70 NUMBER 6 get the and stating that a program of compliance would soon be under way. agency current WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY HELPER, to Meanwhile, Kenilworth "off the hook" with the EPA, Johansen said he would write to the 8 PAGES Marx named 'commissioner In a meeting marked by a number Carbon I"" 11,11 SffjK-- s " ' xOcv V fiyzs sl i of surprises, Commissioners Guido Rachiele and Jim Simone settled on Price businessman Floyd Marx to become the county's new in a commissioner pressure-packe- d meeting last Friday. The meeting had more than its share of dramatics as tempers rose, spectators may fuel an electrical generating plant now being planned in the San Francisco Bay Area by Pacific doors in Helper City the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 8. Tickets sell for fl, with proceeds from the shindig going mainly to finance college scholarships. New decorations will deck the halls for the Valentine's Day event this year, according to Fire Chief Jim Pugliese. Edward Chavez Jr. New officer joins Helper P.D. ' -- J Edward Chavez Jr. Electric."Coal Age magazine reported in its January Gas Helper fireman Robert Fenn raps on the door of the Tom Bruno home in Spring Glen last weekend during the department's yearly campaign to peddle tickets to the Firemen's Ball. The dance is scheduled for 8 p.m. Feb. 14 this year and will be held at the Helper Civic Auditorium. The firemen plan to knock on J from the edition that previously unconfirmed reports of the construction plans were substantiated when PG&E filed a statement with the California Public Utilities Commission recently. The 800 Mw plant on the shores of Montezuma Slough, in the upper area of the bay, will be fired by coal from the Carbon County site and-o- r from Island Creek Coal Co., Kentucky. Last saidiikeiy A North Carbon area coal firm appears to be high on the list for participation in July, PG&E announced that it had obtained an option on the Carbon County site and an that reserves there were estimated at 150 million tons. statements survey of A Though the project is slated for a 1983 start-u- p date, PG&E has not announced whether it plans to purchase the reserves here. Coal Age said the new development goes contrary to do commuter area-wid- e transportation system now in the planning stages. Carbon-Emer- y mining concerns, local unions and the miners themselves, released last week by the Southeastern of Association Utah Governments and the Utah Department of Transportation, showed workers made State at the Valley Camp Assembly hearings by operation near Clear Creek PG&E's vice president, to be among those most earlier at California . interested in developing a bus system. Also expressing interest in creating the bus service Barton W. Shackleford, who had said that the use of nuclear power at the plant would provide a substantial savings over the use of coal. (See Bus System, Pg. 2) ; . tutoring said successful at school here An increase in the amount of individual attention available to students has been the main goal and the main success of the tutoring program now under way at Sally Mauro Elementary School here. But there are a number of other strong points about the program, according to reading teacher Mrs. DeeAnn Wilson, several of whose students are tutees. First, Mrs. Wilson said, the learners seem to be highly motivated by working with student tutors. Many students find a "favorite" tutor, she said, and seem to be willing to work hard and well to earn the praise of the tutor. Too, she said, the tutors take on a sense of responsibility for their students, and they mature and become better students themselves in the process. The opportunity to participate in the program is in itself another motivating factor for the tutors, Mrs. Wilson explained. Tutors must complete their own work before they're allowed to help others. The topper, Mrs. Wilson said, is that student reading scores have improved significantly since the first of the school year, a fact she ascribes, at least in part, to tutoring. In the reading program, tutors are assigned to keep records for students performing the exercises, as well as pointing out errors. Tutors are also responsible for keeping the students working at a steady pace. The general language arts program incorporates student tutors practically in the role of teacher's aides, said Mrs. Carol Arnold. Tutors in language arts classes administer and correct spelling tests and help students with reading practice prior to their reading sessions with the teacher. At present, tutors are drawn from volunteers in the if th and sixth grades, while those receiving the student-to-stude- down two walls in the civic auditorium building. The work, funded in part by a grant & Student-to-stude- nt Council OKs sole bid for museum expansion Museum was tentatively accepted last Thursday by the Helper Ctiy Council. Francis Duzenack of Spring Glen submitted a bid of $3,570 for the project, which includes knocking Bus system for miners where a decision made by himself could possibly be reviewed by the state's attorney general, Vernon man a Romney, prominently mentioned as a possible opponent for Rampton in the next gubernatorial election. Sensing the urgency of keeping the final choice in the county, which would please both the governor and the county constituency, commissioners, while sticking to their announced candidates, did seem especially interested Governor Rampton last in a compromise of some Commissioner week in which, they sort. reported, Rampton was Rachiele made the first emphatic in his position that gesture towards such a he did not want to be sad- settlement in stating that, if dled with the decision. Simone would narrow his Discussion focused on the support to one candidate, he position the governor may would be willing to "flip a be placed in if he had to coin or hold some type of the decision. straw vote" between make Specifically, participants Simone's choice and Mrs. were worried about the Prazen. However, this possibility, raised by a proposition was turned number in attendance, that down. Simone's Following Rampton would send the decision back to the local refusal of his fellow comDemocratic Central missioner's compromise Committee for a final runoff proposal, a definite feeling between the candidates of pressure began to build in with the eventual winner the large courtroom of the getting the- - governor's courthouse as spectators, endorsement. The legality most of whom were Marx of such a move was supporters, openly questioned as was the challenged Rachiele's wisdom of putting the position in charging that he governor in the situation (See Commissioner, Pg. 2) at the meeting and, buoyed by a petition containing the names of a number of Carbon residents who were in support of Marx and by their own numbers, made their position clear that they saw Marx as the only logical candidate. Lou Trujillo, also had support on hand as spokesmen for the political action arm of the United Mine Workers repeated their support of the Braztah warehouseman and also reviewed a meeting the group had had with iSiiSiiiiii Edward M. Chavez Jr. has been named as the newest officer on the Helper Police Department, according to Police Chief Karl Stavar. Chavez, 21, who has lived in Helper 20 years, replaces David Mortenson, who resigned recently. Born in Price, the new officer attended Carbon County schools and was a student at the College of Eastern Utah for five months. He has been applying for a position on the Helper police force for three years, he said. Officer Chavez said it was information he had read and seen on television that long ago convinced him to pursue a career in law enforcement. Duzenack awarded contract The only bid submitted for expansion of the Helper Bicentennial Coal Mining ' Rachiele repeating his total support for Mrs. Prazen and Janet Prazen, withdrew her Simone, in turn, voicing his name from consideration, support of either Marx or clearing the way for the Lou Trujillo of Helper. appointment of Marx. However, unlike earlier This third meeting bet- meetings, this was not to be ween Rachiele and Simone, governed by quiet coming on the last day discussion and a quick before the decision, by law, adjournment the many would have to be sent to spectators saw to that. Governor Rampton, began A large contingent of as all the others have, with Marx supporters appeared Local coal to fuel S.F. generator? Coal from a 7,600-acr- e site 13 miles due east of Helper Peddling made their opinions known and, finally, one candidate, Utah Bicentennial Commission, is expected to begin shortly. The council approved the bid pending signing of a mutually acceptable contract. . 1 Aftif- nt special help from their classmates come from the third through sixth grade classes. Teachers with students participating in the program, in addition to Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Arnold, include Mrs. Joyce Martinez and Miss Nancy Kelso. Expansion of the program to include first and second graders among those receiving instruction from their fellow students is a possibility for the future, Mrs. Wilson said. VI V a" j i I - y vs. t v 'IF A fI i Stop watch in hand, tutor Clark Haycock. 11, kppps time and records for Mistie Lee, 8, in reading class. Christie Penegar, 11, left, gives Diana Hen son, 9, a hand with phonics lesson during reading class al Sally Mauro Elementary School. The girls are part of a tutoring program organized by Sally Mauro teachers. student-to-stude- C,?IVSi&&'? Recorder: City couldn't meet obligations without federal funds Helper City could be in severe financial trouble if Congress fails to extend the General Revenue Sharing program, according to City Recorder Albert Fossat. Fossat said the $21,004 check (he city now receives yearly from the federal government has boon used mainly for capital ex penditures: a police car, a public transportation, garbage truck, power line health, recreation, work, a chlorinator pump libraries, social services for and animal control. the poor or aged and In adduion to capital financial administration. The current revenue expenses, the law restricts use of the funds to several sharing law (State and categories: puhlic safety, Ijocal Fiscal Assistance Act fire protection, building of in 1972) expires code enforcement, December 1976, and should hdrastically altered as protection, i - some congressmen have would be worsened by the suggested, or not approved fact that the city is moving at all, the city, Fossat into a period of growth, he said. asserted would probably not Fossat noted that the citv be able to meet its at its Jan. 22 council, obligations and might be meeting, had passed a forced to borrow money resolution ex- endorsing against its anticipated tax tension of revenue sharing, revenue. and in light of that The strain on the budget resolution, that he-sk- Helper residents their write to for the year had already been set and had assumed Congressional representatives, Sen. Frank Moss, Sen. Jake Garn, Rep. Alan Howe and Rep. Gunn McKay, urging them to vote for the bill. revenue In backing the council's resolution said that the city's budget and tax levy sharing, that the federal funds would be forthcoming. stated that the council would work with and port any sup- organization Current programs could not continue and future ones can not be planned if the law is not and funded at its present level or desiring to see the revenue sharing bill Copies of the resolution were sent to members of the higher. Th resolution delegation further Utah DC. Congressional in Washington, |