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Show ' for Fuhriman given ' rezoning of north industrial park go-ahe-ad The Juab County Commission has approved a zoning change that will allow an industrial park to be built in northern Juab County. The north industrial park is the idea of Mark Fuhriman, director of the Juab Commun. Development Office. ity Fuhriman says the park is necessary to attract new business to Juab County. Nephi has an industrial park, but Fuhriman says businesses arent interested in locating there because it is too far from Utah Countys labor and "amenity base. This is the piece of the economic pie that is missing in Juab County, said Fuhriman. "The project is in the best interest of all Juab County and will help establish a tax and labor base, said Fuhriman. The rezoning will allow members of the Delos Andrews family, who own the land, to begin developing the water system. In addition, said Fuhriman, he can now offer the site as a secure venture. Fuhriman said some businesses have already expressed an interest in locating at the site. Fuhriman said the Andrews family will give 12 acres of land in the park to the county to be offered free to the first industry to locate in the park. The commissioners still have some misgivings about the industrial park plan, however, and say that if the park isnt showing signs of success in 90 Cancer ic is days, they may give the land agricultural zoning again. Commissioner Ross Garrett summed up the thinking of the commission when he said he thought the county ought to have an escape hatch if the land was not developed. Fuhriman said, however, that if the land remains undeveloped after the 90 days,' it will not be unsightly. He suggested the commission use the period to change the standards for developers or to tighten the zoning laws. Fuhriman said he knew the issue was a political "hot potato with some community dissension, but it was his opinion the move was in the best interests of the county, and he had found people of the area to be more in favor of the action than opposed to it. 90-da- y Commissioner Richard Alan Dinsdale cancer-screenin- Dinsdale wins Profile Alan Dinsdale, 10, is the winThose interested in attending Proof the final ner s 6 for an apshould call ""-file ; ,. fee contest.; There a based' is pointment. Dinsdale identified Leonard on income. Trauntvein as the Profile, and Times-New- 623-069- " didates unopposed for Nov. election It appears that the three peo- - : found all 12 clues. He is a son of Ramon and Sharon Dinsdale of Nephi. He is a student in Mr. Winns fifth grade class at the Nephi Elementary School. ple who have filed for positions in Levans municipal government wont have much elec- Democrats will hold convention tioneering to worry about this fall. Theyre running unoppos- Sept ed. Golden R. Mangelson, Levans mayor, has filed again for that position. Lee Spring, a present member of the town board, has filed for another term. Ted Bosh has also filed for a seat on the town board. There will be no primary election, since no other persons have filed and the filing deadline was Aug. 24. 16 in Nephi Nephi Citys Democrats will meet in convention Monday, Sept. 16. Richard May, party spokesman, say the meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the chambers of the Nephi City Council. Nominations will be made for candidates for mayor and two city council posts. A party secretary and treasurer will also be named. Merlin Roundy dies; services are Saturday Merlin Roundy, 72, died Sept. a Payson hospital following 3 in surgery. He was bom May 21, 1913 in Alton, Kane County, to Elbert Carter and Bessie Robertson Roundy. He married Aurec Woodbury and they were later divorced. He married Thelma R. Kendall Nov. 15, 1958. They lived in Salt Lake City and in Vancouver, Wash, before moving to Nephi in 1979. He was employed in the trucking business as a driver, dispatcher, and owner before his retirement. He was a member and secretary of the Nephi Kiwanis Club. He was a high priest in the LDS Church, and served as a Sunday School superintendent, finance clerk, stake historian, and genealogy name extractor. Survivors are his wife, Thelma, of Nephi; two daughters, Delone Hutchings of Anaheim, Calif, and Vicki Ann n Thomas of Delta; four sons, of Sacramento, Roundy Calif., Bruce Roundy of Redding, Calif., Dale R. Kendall of Sandy, and R. Terry Kendall of Nephi; 13 grandchildren; six Lel-wi- n; commissioners said. The commission said jobs for the county were important, and thought the park could be successful if it were pushed. While they said they did not like to spot-zon- property on specula- e Serving East Juab County For NRP Hose Products bailout $700,080 grant okayed by Myrna Trauntvein Nephi City officials have received word from Sen. Orrin At their meeting on Tuesday, ty, the department was added the Juab County Commission to the countys budget so it the countys 1985 could be kept under the counbudget and made adjustments tys umbrella. The East and West Juab Amwhich more accurately will reflect where the countys bulance Associations have always maintained their own money is going. Although the tax levies for budgets, although they have different purposes were ad- received money for training and justed, they only represent equipment from the county. transfers from one category to Their funds will now be adanother and are not an increase ministered through the county. The commissioners also took in taxes, said Commissioner the $126,000 hospital bond payRichard M. Brough. The county tax levy will re- ment from the general fund and main at 18 mills: 9.9 mills for placed it in the debt service general purposes, 5.85 mills for fund. They requested that Dave debt service, 2 mills for flood Cloward, a private auditor control, and .25 mills for in- working for the county, meet with them to answer some quesdigent medical care. The county added the Juab tions about the hospital bond Community Development Of- payment. fice, the East Juab Ambulance Association, and the West Juab Ambulance Association to the Relief Societies budget. Money for the hospital will LDS bond payment was also . jg' Nice Place to Live! A September 5, 1985 present author transferred from the general Sept, 6 fund to the debt service fund. The combined Relief Societies Although the development of- of the Nephi and Nephi North fice receives only $3,000 of its LDS stakes will present a $50,250 budget from the counspecial program in Nephi FriYou've until Sept. day, Sept. 6. Johanna Flynn, file for 24 LDS author and speaker, will address stake members. Nephi City In addition. Pres. Reed Nephi residents have until Nielsen of the Nephi North Sept. 24 to file for election to Stake will address priesthood members. city government positions. Two seats on the city council The meeting will be held at are up for grabs, as is the the stake center at 7:30 p.m. All members of the stake are inmayors post. The seats are currently held vited. Musical numbers will be by Councilmen Boyd Park and Glenn Greenhalgh, and. by presented, and refreshments will be served. Mayor Robert L. Steele. well-know- to n offices The rubber plant had been the Hatch that a $700,000 grant to assist NRP Hose Products has major employer in Nephi for been approved by the U.S. more than 30 years until Department of Health and Human Services. Nephi officials have also received notice that Dayco Corporation is withdrawing its bid for the plant and no longer has any interest in the plant or in any of its assets. The funds will be available Oct. 1 and are to help get the plant back on its feet again and begin employing the people laid off one year ago. The grant was made to Nephi City on the basis that it would be a public-privatownership with employees sharing not only ownership but profit as well, said Sen. Hatch. Each employee buys one equal share in the company, Hatch said. I am proud of the cooperation between Gov. Norm Bangerter and Lt. Gov. Val Oveson and the state department of Community and Economic Development Director David Adams, Hatch continued. It was truly a joint effort for the benefit of the people and the economy of Nephi and Juab Coutny, said Hatch. Between 40 and 100 jobs are expected to be restored in the first year the plant is operating, depending on who takes over the plant. e economic problems forced a plant closure last August. At that time, 125 people were laid off. Dave Porter, press secretary for Sen. Hatch, said a team of city officials, former plant employees, and members of the BYU graduate school or organizational behavior was formed to study the reopening of the plant, options, and community attitude. e It was the idea of a the backup ownership, source of funding, which would come from employees and a $90,000 grant approved last March, which brought success to the cooperative effort in securing the grant, Hatch said. Funds are made on a matching basis with other private sources to total $2.3 million, Hatch said. Nephi City Administrator J. Randy McKnight said the city will administer the grant to the company operating the plant and negotiations are still going on as to the recipient. Juab County Commissioner Richard Brough said the withdrawal of Daycos $1.2 million offer for the plant is exciting news. Dayco officials wanted to Please turn to page 2 public-privat- First quarter adult educa- tion classes to begin Juab School Districts adult education classes will begin Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 11 and 12. The classes are offered free of charge to those without high school diplomas. Others may take the classes for a fee of $10 per class. For more information on the classes or to register, those interested should call LaRue after 5 p.m. Lynn at their classes, Wednesday Loreta Whicker, 6 to 8 p.m.; history, Loreta Whicker, 8 to 10 p.m.; and microwave oven cooking, Carmella Worwood, 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday classes, their teachers, and times are: word processing, spreadsheets, and data bases with Apple comVance P. Gibson, 7 to 9 puters, back-toscho- ol p.m.; dolls and Christmas crafts, Sonya Gibson, 7 to 9 p.m.; beginning art, Georganna teachers, and times are: Tapley, 6 to 8 p.m.; advanced aerobics for women, Wendy art, Georganna Tapley, 8 to 10 Night at learn about their childrens d Vorhies, 6 to 8 p.m.; p.m.; woodworking, Jim the Nephi Elementary School classroom procedures. 8 to Wilkey, 7 to 9 p.m.; ceramics, Vorhies, aerobics, Wendy has been scheduled for ThursThe meeting will also mark 10 p.m.; drivers education, Alan Carol Lange, 7 to 9 p.m.; lets day, Sept. 12 at 7 p.m. in the the beginning of the years PTA Sperry, 7 to 9 p.m.; tole paint- get it together (self imschools auditorium. drive. Membership ing, Holly Young, 7 to 9 p.m.; provement), LouAnn Thalman, The event is sponsored by the membership fees are $2 each. We would like typing, Kenna Winn, 7 to 9 7 to 9 p.m.; math, Everd Squire, schools PTA organization. to see total community support p.m.; crafts (padded photo 7 to 9 p.m.; candy and chocolate Those attending the meeting for the education of our elemenalbums, frames, star hoops, and making, Loraa Squire, 7 to 9 will heard briefly from Dr. T.R. school children by receiv- counted cross stitch), Marian tary p.m.; and science. Jay Turk, superintendent of ing memberships from moms 7 to 9 p.m.; English. Woodard, 7 to 9 p.m. Lynn, and schools, Betty Mikkelson, and dads, grandparents, school principal of Nephi Elementary. staff members, ' ' businesses, and Children from the school will in the others interested any conduct a flag ceremony and education of our youth, say provide musical numbers. The PTA organizers. childrens choice of a school mascot will also be announced. The PTA will also provide The main purpose of the child care services in the meeting, however, is to give schools activity center for parents an opportunity to meet families who can make no other their childrens teachers and child care arrangements. Nephi elementary night is Sept 12 Back-to-Scho- 623-154- 0 ol co-e- . - , ft UTA plans rendezvous Sept. 7, 8 in Nephi Merlin Roundy Verdel Roundy of Whittier, Calif., Donal and Maurice D. Roundy of Salt Lake City; and a sister, Anabel Perkins of Covina, Calif. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Sept. 7 at 11 a.m. in the Nephi 1st LDS Ward church. Friends may call Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Anderhis moth- son Funeral Home and at the er, Bessie Roundy of Salt Lake chapel Saturday one hour prior City; three brothers, Elbert to the services. great-grandchildre- thought neighbors of the property would oppose the move. We could swallow our personal prejudices if the venture were successful, said Fowkes. Fire protection for the park could be expensive for the county, the commissioners feared, but it could be negotiated with interested companies. The fact that sprinkling systems are required in some types of buildings would also help lessen the fire protection problem, the Commissioners adjust budget for 85 fiscal year Sept 11 Levan town can- Brough said he had had several phone calls opposing the change while Commission Chairman Tom Fowkes, who is a neighbor of the proposed park, said he tion, they voted unanimously to give the Andrews family an opportunity to develop the park. clin- g clinic for A women will be held in Nephi Wednesday. Sept. 11. The screening will be held in the public health nurses office in the Juab County Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. WEaS .LiiOCIVtlUn 46? EAST THIRD SOUTH SALT UuP: ('ITT, UT 84131 UTAH The Utah Trappers Association will hold its fourth annual rendezvous at the Juab County Fairgrounds, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 7 and 8. A1 Robb, of the group, invites the public to attend activities on either or both of the days. Saturdays events will start at 8 a.m. and end at 8 p.m. Sundays events will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be demonstrations on trapping, first aid, and fur handling; displays; and exhibits by supply dealers. vice-preside- nt The trappers will hold trap-settin- g contests and a shoot for the youth. e A western dance and a will be held Saturday. of the association will pay $2 each for the barbe-que- . BB-gu- n bar-bequ- Non-membe- rs Guest speakers at the rendez- vous will be Ed Sceery, one of the nations top predator callers and trappers and author of Predator Calling; and Ride Jamison, former editor of Pro-fetsion- al The Trapper magazine and fire- arms editor of Shooting Timet. Elder and Sister Woodford Workman WHkerson will leave for I .ns missionary service headquartered ia Sacramento, Calif. Wednesday, Sept. 11. They will speak to members of the Mona 2nd LDS Ward Sunday, Sept. 8. The meeting will begin at 10:50 |