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Show -- '..vr,c E. ?rr L'rO 7 ri'C, ut. nmi o 88th Year No. 41 Saturday, May 26, 1979 o (? Entertainment Guide Price, Utah 14 Pages 15c Matheson visits Carbon senior citizens IVJirs. By GORDON LAMBOURNE Staff Writer Local senior citizens gathered at the Price Senior Citizens Center for a Governors Regional Conference on Aging and to hear a keynote address by Noma Matheson, wife of Gov. Scott Matheson. The conference, attended by over 110 people, centered on current services being offered by the state to senior citizens throughout Utah. What the visiting board members wanted to know, was just how the senior citizens of Price felt about topics such as employment, housing, legislative process and taxes. Mrs. Matheson strongly encouraged the group to express their opinions concerning these issues and that all recommendations would get back to the governor. The policies for this three year program will be made very soon, but what is most important is that those decisions come from the bottom up, Mrs. Matheson said. The baby boom of the 1940s is becoming the senior boom. The average age is going up and men over 65 are remaining in the work force. Presently, Mrs. Matheson added, there are six active workers for every retired person. But, it has been predicted that in the next few years there will be only three workers for every retired person. Senate Bill eight was passed this age ending year Mrs. Matheson discrimination, said. The bill states it is illegal for an employer to refuse to hire, discharge, promote, demote, terminate or discriminate in matters of compensation against any person otherwise qualified because of age, if the individual is forty years of age or older. Mandatory retirement because of age is thereby abolished in the State of Utah. Mrs. Matheson assured the senior citizens that the Utah Seniors Legislative Committee would be monitoring the implementation of Senate Bill 8 along with other legal actions involving over 65ers. But, she again stressed the importance of active participation on the part of (continued on page 2) Norma Matheson, wife of Governor Scoff Matheson, tours the new Senior Citizens Housing Project located at 540 West 200 South. Mrs. Matheson came to Price as part of a traveling Governor's Regional Conference on Aging. The conference was held Wednesday at the Price Senior Citizens Center. offers Area residents ready for Memorial Day State e annexation 600-acr- Utah and Carbon County law enforcement officers will have beefed - up ranks during the Memorial Day weekend as people celebrate their first holiday weekend at the end of the school year. Price Police, the Utah Highway Carbon County Sheriffs officers will be out in Patrol and force to control holiday crowds and patrol city streets, county roads and state highways. The Utah Highway Patrol headquarters in Salt Lake City warned motorists to be cautious during their holiday travels and to exercise courtesy on the highways. They also warned officers will be strictly enforcing the 55 mph speed limit state - wide. Sgt. Norman Vuksinick said Price Police will have officers out patrolling the City Park for partying, the streets for drunk drivers and the cemetery for flower thieves. It is hard to believe, but we have some people who attempt to go in at night and steal flowers off of graves, he said. The Utah Highway Patrol from Price will have most of its force on Interstate 70 to participate with the Combined Accident Reduction Effort (CARE). CARE is a multi - state effort to reduce accidents by ridigly enforcing the 55 miles an hour speed limit uniformly throughout the West. Troopers also will be concerned with improper lane changes and following too closely. Lt. Frank Whipple met with Colorado state troopers at the Utah - Colorado border this week in an attempt to establish the CARE program. Other UHP officers met with Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho and Arizona officers at different points at the Utah border, Whipple said. The CARE program will also be used during the Fourth of July and the Labor Day weekends. The UHP Price office also is sending two officers and a booking bus down to Bullfrog for the projected 16,000 vacationer the patrol anticipates will be taking in the Lake Powell sunshine this weekend, Whipple said. Meanwhile, Carbon County citizens were getting ready to celebrate the holiday by honoring the dead. Members of the American Legion Post No. 3 in Price will conduct special services at the Price City Cemetery on Monday, Memorial Day. The ceremony will include a flag raising and four gun salute. Accompanying the firing squad is a chaplin and a bugler who will play taps over the grave sites of departed soldiers. A1 Dicaro, a legionnaire who works for the Price City Street and Road Department, said the services will begin at 11 a.m. Monday, at the Price Cemetery. Paul Andrezzi, newly appointed sexton of the Price Cemetery also added that the cemetery will be given a thorough cleaning June 4th and the public should remove all plastic flowers and containers from the grave sites by that date. The cemetery will be open to the public during the cleaning session. Someone will also be on hand Memorial Day to assist visitors in locating gravesites, Andrezzi said. By TONYARNASON Staff Writer HELPER Helper A proposal for Helper to enter into a land development deal with the state which would annex some 600 acres west of here could increase the size of the city by about 35 percent. plateau, is used for grazing by local rancher Boyd Marshing. We only make about 30 cents an acre on most of this land each year, Dinehart said. We want to inflate the lands value, sell it and leave it to Helper, Dinehart said. He said it would make more economic sense to sell the land and put the principle in the bank at seven percent, than to continue to just sell the grazing rights. You can figure how many years it is going to take to build a classroom at $125,000 on land which only brings in 30 cents an acre, Dinehart added. All money derived from the William K. Dinehart, director of the Division of State Lands, made the proposal Thursday night at the Helper City Council meeting. Dinehart said the State Land Board may be interested in releasing up to 600 acres west of Helper if the city can agree to consider a park in the area, and states land management is an elementary school, and handle designated for schools within the fire protection. state. He said Utahs school growth is The state and the city could the highest in the nation. and share a developer designate When the state school growth the in the profits and newly rate is four percent above the created tax base. inMayor Chuck Ghirardelli said national rate you have to be in novative school budgeting, the proposal was fantastic. said. Except for Martin, it is the only Dinehart Some 400 acreas of the land is way for us to grow, he added. buildable with the con- a on easily of Most the land, situated continued on page 9 Work stoppage plagues Utah Power and Light While a work stoppage by 200 Utah Power and Light employes appeared to be ending Thursday, the strike of 1500 workers contracted to do work for the utility appeared at weeks end only to be starting. The stoppages were in protest to the awarding of an UP&L contract to build a $5 million transmission line between Camp Williams in Salt Lake County and Sevier County to a non - unionized out of state company. Approximately 600 skilled craftsmen employed by Jelco Company at the UP&L Hunter and Huntington power plants were off work Thursday morning, according to Curt Allen, Jelco vice - president. Another 300 miners stopped at the UP&L Deer Creek Mine access road when Jelco employes information station put up pickets at the Huntington Power Ready, aim, fire!! Price Elementary School 5th and 6th graders form an awesome firing squad during their visit to the Price National Guard Armory Wednesday afternoon. Since the students have been I studying the eastern hemisphere and World War II in their social studies classes, the armory visit gave them a more vivid understanding of history. Plant. The power plant is on the mine access road. By the afternoon pickets were at the two other mines in Emery County: Wellberg and Des - bee The three mines are operated by American Coal and worked by a total of 90CT miners. The utility was unsuccessful as of Thursday afternoon in having a federal or state judge sign an injuction which would make the information stations illegal at UP&L facilities according to James L. Shoemaker, public affairs manager for UP&L in Salt L3lt6 Carbon Countys UP&L office had only three of its 25 employes reporting for work Thursday morning. A picket, who works for one of the UP&L contracted firms, was in front of the office in the morning. Only emergency calls were responded to by the local office south of Price, the office manager said. However, by the afternoon most of the UP&L employes were back to work and making normal service calls, Shoemaker said. Half of the striking UP&L employes were from Carbon ahd counties and the Emery remainder from the Salt Lake area, Shoemaker said. rontinurd on page 9 I |