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Show Saturday, May 26, 1979 Accidents occur on FfiRM, HOME and GARDEN By JAY HALL County Extension Agent Fruit growers should start spraying their apple trees on May 30 or 31 to prevent codling moth infestation. Traps have been placed in apple trees in five different locations in Carbon County to determine coding moth conditions. The male moths were first trapped in East Carbon May 19, also in Martin and Spring Glen. The main flight came just a few days later. It is recommended we start our spray program in about 10 days after the main flight of the codling moth. This will put the chemical on the fruit just in time to prevent damage from the first hatch of the larvae. Spray apple and pear trees every 21 days continuing until Aug. 20. Do not allow any more than 21 days between spraying. For example, the next spray should come about June 20 or 21, and it would be better to spray on the 18th or 19th than to wait until the 22nd or 23rd. We recommend spraying with Diazion or Imidan, Both are safe to use in home yards, if the directions on the labels are followed very carefully. We emphasize the reading and following of the instructions in order to protect your fruit, and more important, to keep your family from any ill effects of the pesticide. For more information on spraying, a bulletin on home orchard pest and disease control is available in the Extension Office in the County Building in Price. Ising fertilizer We have received many calls on the use of fertilizer. People want to know how much to use and when. There are tables available which can be of help in determining the amount of fertilizer to put on small plots. For example, if you want to apply 30 pounds of available nitrogen to the acre using Ammonium Nitrate that is 33 percent nitrogen, but your plot of land is only five - foot square, the chart shows you would apply three tablespoons of the fertilizer. We have charts on several types of fertilizers and charts on recommendations on strawberries and raspberries and how much to put on shade trees. These charts are free and can be picked up at the Extension Office in Price. Outbreak of cattle disease Dr. Gordon Plotts, Price veterinarian, writes the following: Recently, Bovine Vibriosin was diagnosed in Emery County. This is an abortion disease in cattle. All area cattlemen who plan on pasturing animals on the mountain this summer should contact their local veterinarian or county extension agent for further information. Since this disease can cause great economic loss, cattlemen are urged to become informed about it so they can take preventive measures. Time is of the essence as vaccination must begin before animals go on the mountain. Annexation and develop land with the future homes. a facility for a fire the state sharing in the land sale profits. (continued from page ) engine. The three other consideration of struction of an eight- - support the of are Washington cities of a construction the percent grade access proposal. and Ivins road from west Dinehart said he park. City, Ticaboo. three These consideration of to refine Helper. work would The remaining 200 the proposal and then the building of an cities took the state board up on the offer, acres are further west submit it to the State elementary school. Some council Dinehart said. and are hilly, which Land Board in Richwould make field on June 20 and 21. members agreed that The state board, 1 residential development more expensive, the mayor said. But even with the 400 acres, averaging four homes an acre, there is a growth potential of 1,600 the homes, such conditions would originated in 1896, the only conditions probably not be dif- started with seven million acres of land. which the board would ficult for Helper. It has so far liquidated said this Dinehart place on the deal are: four million acres of was fourth the conHelper the state had that land, Dinehart structing a water tank proposal for fire protection of made to a city to annex said. believes Dinehart Sun Advocate, Frice, uion , freeway Two truck brake failures left one man dead and two injured near the Spotted Wolf Pass on Interstate 70. according to Trooper Steve Ilapich of the Utah Highway Patrol. The pass is 17 miles west of Green River. Truck driver Wilber Dyer, 41, and hitch- hiker John Dennis Flynn decided to jump off their truck Tuesday night when the brakes failed. Flynn of Winter, Stanley J. Wilson is carefully placed into S.D., apparently was a Life - Flight helicopter ambulance at struck by a part of the Carbon Hospital for a 15 minute trip to St. truck, or the bulldozer Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City. Wilson scraper that the truck over and slid more was hauling, Rapich than 490 feet, Rapich said. said. The truck and trailer The truck was going traveled more than at more than 105 miles 4200 before an hour when it flipped feet coming to rest on a on its right side, he ledge next to the high- added. way. Arnold was treated Flynn was flown by at Carbon Hospital for to St. a broken shoulder and helicopter incurred leg injuries from an accident yesterday which happened south of Price. Due to an error the PHOTO Marys Hospital in fractured ribs. Grand Junction where The patrol is still he was pronounced the acinvestigating dead on arrival, cidents to ascertain if Rapich said. citations should be Dyer of Perris, Cal., issued, Rapich said. was driven to Moab These are the fifth and treated at the and sixth truck roll hospital. over accidents at the Just 14 hours later Spotted Wolf Pass in another accident the last year, Rapich stemming from the said. same problem ocThere is a brake curred in the same area at the pass and eastbound direction. we strongly, very William strongly, Charles suggest that Arnold, 29, of Hope, truckers use it to check Ar., stayed in his truck and their cab when it rolled brakes, adjust he said. . AD should have said (Ukiy -- 29 ,d 30 as the dates the photographer would be in town mayor added. The council was in Walkout (continued from page 1) 0)GQVooo He did not know why UP&L employes or the contracted firms were upset about the non union transmission -- line contract. We have dozens of non made go)pF0 Your Local Merchants First! union contracts. Besides, the - GqcddduQGDddSOv with agreement Seaward is signed, sealed and delivered, Shoemaker said. Shop Yield signs to save w: energy i.w,i East Carbon CUGBG'S UJC3VS Wednesday evening, Gunderson proposed Councilman (Traveling within 10 Gasoline Earl stop signs with yield Car Usage tire wear, etc.) wherever possible in order to save energy. Chief of Police Ken Nielson will check statistics on accidents at in- tersections before any further action will be taken. The East Carbon Town Council also moved to enforce more strictly a cleanup of the city. Owners of lots with excessive weeds, (Costs figured at 160 miles per round trip) miles) the replacement of signs Cost to shop Orem Cost to shop locally may lose some stop signs. In the East Carbon Town Council meeting $ .53 .23 9.00 7.00 Gasoline Car Usage (Oil, tire wear, etc.) (Oil, IT--1 Drive Time or other rubbish nuisances will be the If notified. Drive Time 2.76 Your Actual Cost (Your time in $) lb7 Co)pDGGjJ property is not cleaned up by the property owner, the city will do it and bill the owner. Proposals for use of 18.00 2.00 (Your time in $) Your Actual Cost :.l 34.00 n 23 in Revenue Sharing funds were discussed during the $20,172 town council meeting. The use of these funds will again be considered at the next council meeting on June 6. In other action, the town council considered whether to grant a sixth class A liquor license in the East Carbon area. Mitchell Morticians R.T. Mitchell Robert H. Etzel Phone 637-266- 8 The preceding dollar can see the REAL cost of shopping out of this area is high. So try your local merchants first and you'll be saving yourself some money and supporting your community. amounts were researched with information supplied by the Utah State Research and Analysis Bureau, the Utah Economic Business Review, the Internal As you This report sponsored by Ion (nidvocaSe Revenue Service and tl cost of gasoline in the Price area. Price V |