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Show Emery County featuring TV WEEK, LEADER Volume Thursday, June 17, 77 Number 25 1976 Ticket sales well going for fire raffle Debris left by Saturday morning explosion at Huntington plant lies Ticket sales are going well for a raffle being held by the Emery County Fire Chiefs Association and local fire departments to earn money to help pay for new unmoved, awaiting inspection insurance investigators. communications equipment for the fire engines and fire department volunteers and Dama chiefs. Strong, supervisor, surveys damage done to UP &' L's largest working generator by switch R.C. O million for power plant A faulty generator switch was being blamed Monday for a malfunction of the Huntington Power Plants number 2 generator early last Saturday morning which caused an estimated $20 million in damages to equipment and resulted in a dansermts hydrogen fueled , fire that could have, save for 'the quick work of supervisory personnel, led to a great deal more damage at the plant. it was designed. This caused an arc which started vestigations indicate that the failure of the generating unit at Huntington was a result of a malfunction of a switch at the generator. A Utah Power & Light spokesman said the control circuit indicators showed the switch to be in an open position when it was, in fact, closed. As a result, transmission voltage flowed into the generator, which was shut down at the time, causing the generator to function as a motor in the reverse direction for which justments to the company operations to minimize the impact on service and to the Preliminary in- fires, and malfunction of the and unit generating associated equipment was which severely damaged. Quick action by the supervisor in charge, who turned off hydrogen gas, supply which is used for . cooling, saved the plant more extensive from damage. UP&L engineers and planners are reportedly extensive admaking companys program. construction maximum effort is being made to sell the coal that would have been used by the Huntington Plant in order to keep the miners working. Construction work will continue on the Huntington second unit and the two units at Emery. Some adjustments may be made construction in the schedules of the Huntington A location in order to restore production at that location at the earliest possible moment. Grant Pendleton, a community relations specialist for UP&L, explained Monday that the is presently company reviewing alternatives for restoring the lost power to the system as soon as possible. He said these alternatives include a in construction speed-uon work the other generating unit at Huntington, which is presently scheduled to go into operation in March of 1977, and the possibility of p placing the generating equipment from the unit presently being built at Huntington on the existing pedestal and hooking it to supportive equipment which was not damaged by the malfunction and fire. At rate, any Pendleton estimated that it would take from 12 months to 5 years to restore the generating capabilities of the unit. the Pendleton said company was unsure of the future of the 50 employees working on the generating unit but another plant spokesman said most had presently been transferred from operations work to maintenance. Investigative personnel were immediately brought in by General Electric, the manufacturer the of generator and some of the A budget- - of over million will be discussed and acted upon at the County School District Board meeting to be held Monday at 5 p.m. in the school district office budding in Huntington. The proposed 1976-7budget will be $807,000 more than was spent in the school district in 1974-7- 5 but it will be over $2 million less than the present 1975-7budget. School district Clerk Phillip Jensen said the difference in the present budget and next years budget can be accounted for by the capital output that was needed to build the new elementary and junior high schools that are nearing completion in the county. Emery 7 6 9 which two candidates will face each other in the primary election. If any candidate can get more Glenn Jones and Rue won the both Ware Democratic nomination for the two county commission seats up for election in the Emery County Democratic convention held on June 10. Both candidates won more than 70 per cent of the county delegates votes to win the nomination without a primary Jones won 26 votes from 32 delegates in attendance to defeat challenger Doris Mangum, Emery, who received six votes, in the race for the nomination for than 70 per cent of the state delegate vote, he will run on his party unopposed election. Although most Copies of the budget are present budget calls for no available for inspection in increase in the tax mill the Huntington office of the levied by the school school district. district. Jack Olsen, who works for That levy will remain at the Utah Taxpayers As41.24 mills, that is, $41.24 of sociation, and organization every $1,000 of assessed which studies uses and valuation for property misuses of taxes, said the taxes. The school district proposed budget for the uses a greater portion of Emery County School property taxes than any District is one of the lowest other organization in the budgets in the state. county. We think that it is a According to the State responsible budget, he Tax Commission, the school said. district received 73 per cent Olsen pointed out that the of the property taxes Parade at 6 collected in Emery County in 1975. to support adoption. Of the proposed 1976-7- 7 budget, $2,615,897 will be spent for maintenance and operation. This is an inmake at least a 28 mill levy. crease of a little over The other 13.24 mills in $300,000 over the present Emery County are levies to budget. Some of the increase, help pay for the bond issued last year to pay for the new Jensen said, is due to inschools. creased costs for adOlsen said the Emery ministrative personnel County levy was one of the caused by the separation of lowest in the state. junior high and elementary He said he would urge schools in Huntington, the taxpayers in that county Ferron and Green River. Estimated revenue for 1976-7the year is $3,789,188, which would Jensen said that in the mill breakdown, 28 mills are dictated by the state every school district must, , 7 Roundup begins today But the action isnt confined to the rodeo grounds as a parade, beginning at 6 p.m., will precede each nights event. The Thursday parade will be devoted to the kids who are invited to decorate their bikes, trikes and wagons to a Bicentennial theme and compete for trophies to be awarded. The parade Friday will feature an all equestrian format. Saturday evenings gala parade will top off the three day event. This its (the budgets) years Roundup promises to be better than ever with the equestrian feats of The Griffith Trio and the announcing of Johnnie Jackson to be featured. leave the district short But Jensen said that with the funds left over from the present budget, around $490,000, the district will be operating in the black for 1976-7$217,000. Of the revenue, an estimated $2,829,064 will come from property tax, and $96,000 will come from other local funds. The rest of the money will come from state and federal sources. The board meeting to be held Monday to approve the budget will be open to the public. few delegates Governor: Scott John Preston John Klas and Tommy Reid received three votes to give Ware 28 delegate votes and the nomination for commissioner. Twenty three votes were needed to win the nomination without a primary run-ofwill face Jones Republican John I. Parker comin the missioner race. Parker, a Huntington resident who is a controller for American Coal Company as well as a local businessman, was unopposed for his partys nomination. Ware is challenging incumbent Kent Stilson, who also won the Republican Creer, Desmond Anderson. only op- - possible to repair the unit on site, but added that this would require an extensive overhaul of many expensive parts. When asked if General Electric was at (cont. on pg. 2) hand-mad- Those who will be seeking the partys nomination at the state convention for the various offices include: Matheson, nomination without said it might be had sent represen- commissioner. ar He merchants have donated many goods to the raffle, but as of yet, the entire list has not been tallied. The main prizes in the raffle are two black powder Lyman Indian trade rifles, e Mont by Swasey. There is a mans are communications and womans rifle to be equipment for the various fire trucks in the county to given away in the raffle. The raffle will be held on help when the trucks are on the July 4 weekend at the 'the way to a fire. Ferron Junior High. Reid said a CB system is M. Reid, planned for initial use in the Tommy Orangeville fire chief and fire trucks. tatives to explain the candidates views. ar two-ye- done to the unit when transmission power first entered the turbine making it act as if it were a giant induction motor. Long said the force of the turbine moving in the opposite direction for which it was designed broke the shaft in the unit and caused the which held the hydrogen coolant, to burst, which in turn produced an explosion and fire. Long added that damage caused by the explosion and fire was relatively slight. seals, present at the Democratic convention, were commissioner. Jones is the incumbent f. supportive and monitoring inOne equipment. vestigator, Keith Long from New York, said the greatest amount of damage was ticket in the primary run-of- f. ar plosion and fire Garth Childs, Huntington fire chief, who is coordinating the ticket sales and raffle efforts, said local Action and rodeos are synonymous and action is what youll get at the Robbers Roost Roundup which begins next Thursday, June 17 and runs through the following Saturday, with a rodeo each night beginning at 7:30 p.m. at the Carbon County Fairgrounds. Demos pick Jones Ware four-ye- ex- - School budget to top $4 million At county convention two-ye- malfunction and subsequent president of the Fire Chiefs Association, said the money will go to buy equipment that will alert individual firemen in their homes. The equipment will be operated from the county Sheriffs office in Castle Dale, where calls for fires will be received. The system will eliminate the present system where the Sheriffs office is called on a fire and then must go down a list of telephone numbers until he reaches a member of the fire department concerned. Reid said the new system will improve response time considerably. Also included in the plans Glenn Jones, left, and David Yocum discuss political futures at Emery County Democratic convention. Eugene Johansen and Jesse position. Both men are from S. Tuttle. Orangeville. Also at the convention, Huntington: Patsy Democratic delegates Grange, Rex Wilson, Alice selected 15 delegates to Wilson, Anna Nielson and attend the State Democratic Art Anderson. Keith Cleveland: Convention to be held in Salt Hughes. and Saturday Friday Lake City. Chosen from the various cities in the county were: Emery: Donald Mangum. Ferron: Gardell Snow. Dwayne Orangeville: Story and Scott Johansen. Oral Castle Dale: Elmo: Christensen. Mary L. Green River: Helen Tidwell. Emery Star and Lt. Governor Secretary of State: David Duncan and Harvard Hinton. Atty. Gilbert General: Athay, D. David Yocum and Felshaw King. State Auditor: Robert Swan. U.S. Senator: Frank Ted Moss. U.S. Representative: K. Gunn McKay. State Senator: Omar Bunnell State Representative: Route John Garr. Peterson. The last four are Price: Dale V. At the State convention, the Democratic delegates will be voting to determine Winds toss trailer in Emery Strong winds in Emery early Monday morning mobile home and caught this was one No it. living in the home at the overturned time. in- cumbents and unopposed Democratic for the nomination. Mrs. Larry Shirley, sleeping in a double-widmobile next to the overturned trailer, heard the crash as the mobile home turned on to its roof. e "We looked out the window and what could we do? couldn't move it," she said. The Shirley's, who moved into Emery in late May, were completing negotiations to sell the home for $7,500. They finished moving most of their furnishings from the mobile home into their new doublewide mobile home a few days before the incident I occured. |