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Show featuring Emery County ( v Ah (AU O . Entertainment Guide f Professional Lu.ldmg Room Castle Dale, Uah Teeprcne Volume Number 79 17 5 74S 2431 1978 April 27, 4L, X. Seven candidates enter races for 0 f 'I .ir- VS r, . iff - r, Candidates has filed for all but that will be up for grabs in the November election Tuesday. Four incumbents will make a bid e for with three candidates filed for positions that wont be contested by the present county officers. But none had put down their name for the office of four-yefirst-tim- ar commissioners. county Prospective candidates have until May 10 to file for the November election. Rep. John Garr (D) from District 70 representing Emery and Grand Counties and part of Carbon County was the only candidate on file for that position with the Secretary of State s office Tuesday. Garr is running for his fourth term in the state House of Representatives. County Commission chairman Gardell Snow, ending a term as r commissioner, has filed four-yea- commissioner spot by fellow Democrat Glenn Jones. Jones has indicated he will not run again. for the two-yenow filled ar Another Democrat, Sheriff Lamar Guymon, has filed for another term as the countys top law enforcement officer. Guymon is completing his first term in the position. Gerald Stanton, county assessor, . d '4m.? 4 conference for both Castle Dale and Huntington Stakes Saturday. Mrs. Smith is the world-wid- e leader for LDS women and is the head of one of the oldest and largest womens organizations in the United States. She will speak at the special conference to begin at 1 p.m. at the Orangeville Ward. The conference will emphasis The Duty of Love and will center around visiting teaching. All women from both stakes are invited to attend. According to VeRee Dale, member of the Castle Dale stake relief society board, plans have been made for the conference for a long time and the board is pleased and excited to have Mrs. Smith as i 0 Emery County miners were back to work Monday after a week with no work, even though no settlement had been reached in a dispute oer a speaker. Several short addresses from local women church leaders along Relief with numbers by a for also are chorus planned Society the conference. A luncheon will bi-sta- follow. i There were 13 responding against any increase in taxes. And 24 of those answering said they thought the $10.00 that might go to bookmobile expenses should not go the county libraries. Five thought the money should be spent on local libraries. Huntington had 16 residents responding to the questionnaire with tour from Ferron, three from Castle Dale, Emery and Ferron each, two from Cleveland and one who listed their residence as rural. Many of those responding said they thought spending funds for the bookmobile would bring a greater number of books into the area for the money spent. One of those responding from Rural Emery County said : I dont believe $1 ,500 at each library would enable any of (the libraries) to have the selection the bookmobile already has. Lets keep it for the good of Emery County. A person from Ferron said I hope we can continue to have both. I know $10,000 scattered out will not bring (the libraries) up enough, whereas the bookmobile has so many available from the state. Many spoke in favor of both the libraries and the bookmobile. I have used both libraries more than at anytime in my life, said one Huntington resident. We need both, said another. One person from Orangeville who responded said The library & bookmobile complement each other. And a Ferron resident said The bookmobile has a wider choice of books, but I do like the q 1 Jr li Barbara library. Others responding felt if local libraries received more support, Smith the bookmobile needed. Mrs. Smith also serves with many Welfare would not be If our libraries were being supported the way they should be, there would be no need for the said one Ferron bookmobile, resident. Money for the bookmobile is gone forever, said one Castle Dale resident. Books for our library are here year after year. An increase in reading and the use children make of the bookmobile was stressed by many of those other boards besides heading the Relief Sbciety. She is a member of the Church Board of Education, . H rf7 Cl 1 B. wiicaeau strike, -- k vLii 1 h meetings Saturday while union leaders tried to work out 1 II expand; and 16 said they w'ere not satisfied with local library service while 11 said they were. Twenty of those responding said they felt more funding was needed for local libraries, but only 11 said they thought property taxes should be increased to fund the libraries. 'jX; .fv i Miners rest on lawn outside Hunfinoton Legion Hall between agreement to get miners back to work responding said they have library cards and 19 of those use them. Twelve said they have used the library in the past week; 10 more have used it within the past six months. Seven said they never use the local libraries. There was general agreement among those responding about the inadequacy of the local libraries. Eighteen said they didnt think the local library had enough room to f, 'V rv-- Also, twenty of those x w Uvv-I Bookmobile gets strong support Barbara B. Smith, president of the general board of the Relief Society of the LDS Church will be the featured speaker at a special v SF and Glen Bott, county clerk, both Republicans, have filed for another term in their present positions. Stanton is finishing his first full term as county assessor. He became the assessor by appointment two years before that when the elected assessor decided to retire from office. Bott has been the county clerk for 20 years and will be seeking his sixth term. Scott Johansen, a native of Castle Dale who now works for a Price law firm, will run for county attorney. Indications are now that Johansen, a Democrat, will run unopposed for the position. County Attorney Charles Taylor told the Progress he is 80 to 90 percent sure he will not seek Taylor ran on the Republican ticket four years ago. Eleanore George, currently a deputy treasurer, will run for county treasurer on the Republican ticket in November. Treasurer Margaret Magnuson has indicated she will not seek The same is true of County Recorder Stella Guymon, who will Carol Burdick, not seek deputy recorder, is running for that position on the Republican ticket. But with two weeks left to file, anything could happen in what could prove to be a very lively election year for Emery County. Barbara Smith to be featured at convention f ir In Progress questionnaire The majority of local residents who responded to an Emery County Progress questionnaire on county libraries favored keeping the Bookmobile in Emery Countv. Of 33 residents who returned questionnaire forms printed in the April 13 Progress, 27, or 82 per cent, said they felt the bookmobile service should be kept in the county. Four indicated they felt the services should be discontinued and two didnt respond to the question. of those responding Twenty-nin- e said they had used the bookmobile, 28 of those using it regularly. And 28 also said their children used the bookmobile 20 of them on school grounds. ' - i1 county positions one of the county offices f- Services Executive Committee, LDS Social Services Board of Trustees and Agencies, BYU Board of Trustees; American Mother Committee and Utah Society for Prevention of Blindness. She is also the mother of seven children arid the grandmother . of 18. responding. I drive the trucks transporting coal from American Coals mines who would American Coal spokesman Gary Hansen said the company and the miners had reached a climate of agreement in negotiations over the weekend. The dispute began April 17 when miners from American Coals Deseret-Beehiv- e and Wilberg mines staged a protest over the transfer of all coal hauling to Western Coal Carriers by Utah Power and Light Co. That transfer forced about 48 members of the Deseret-BeehivUMWA local to decide whether to e change locals and keep driving trucks or go stay in their present local and go underground. A request for a back to work injunction was filed in Federal District court in Salt Lake Saturday and had been continued with no ruling when the union members decided to return to the coal mines voluntarily while a solution between the local and American Coal was worked out The April 17 protest turned into a wild cat strike on April 19, in American Coals 3 mines when miners defied orders from union officals to return to work. By Thursday the strike had spread to Consolidations Coals Emery mine and U.S. Fuels mine at Hiawatha in Carbon County. The union members made the decision over the weekend to return to work. American Coal officials said their contract with the union made it impossible to negotiate with the union while the miners were out on rv t1' Bipany The dispute began when UP&L decided to consolidate its coal hauling w ith one company Prior to April 10, Western Coal had been trucking all the coal from the Wilberg mine and about half of the coal from the Deseret-Beehivmine complex. American Coals transportation division had been hauling the rest of the coal from the mine. Drivers for Western Coal have their own UMWA local, while American Coals drivers were members of the local. UP&L Jim spokesman Shoemaker said the utility decided to make the change after a study showed it could save substantial money by having one firm transport the coal. Shoemaker said both American Coal and Western Coal Carriers were given a chance to bid on the e Des-Be- e Des-Be- e coal hauling contract. contract because Only Western Coal gave a bid, with American Coal declining. However, American Coal officials Tuesday said they were given a chance to bid only on a portion of the contract. They said the company decided not to bid on full-fledg- the the guidelines set for American Coals bid were so limiting it was not economically feasible for us to pursue the opportunity. Western Coal took over sole duties April 10, giving the former drivers for American Coal 11 days to decide whether to switch over and keep all their contract benefits. After that, the drivers would start at the bottom of the pay scale if they switched union locals. The miners protested because they said the drivers would lose job bidding rights and seniority for layoffs if they switched locals even though they would keep their coal-haulin- strike. No time had been set up for a meeting to iron out the dispute by Tuesday. g graduated pay and vacation benefits However, members of the Western Coal Carriers local said those benefits would be subject to arbitration within the union if the drivers switching locals wanted to pursue the matter. Thev also said that there were 150 jof) openings and only about 80 drivers working for Western Coal Carriers after the bid was given to the company insuring that drivers switching over would not be in danger of getting laid off. Seven drivers made the switch. The miners took their protest to UP&L last week with little results. UP&L said the dispute was between the union and American Coal, and they could not legally get involved in settling it. The miners, on the other hand, said they felt UP&L had invaded the jurisdictional rights of the UMWA in switching the coal hauling contract. They also said UP&L was trying to work behind the scenes through American Coal in dealing with the union. But since UP&L has no contract with the union, the union has no way to settle a dispute with UP&L. Shoemaker stressed that UP&Ls relationship with American Coal was that of a contractor, not a subsidiary, in an interview with local reporters last week. American Coal is a contractor and they will be treated just like any other contractor, he said. We have no special interest in them and they have no special control over us. Shoemaker also said UP&L would not go back on the contract it Continued on page 2 Average Emery County worker made $1,452 per month in 1977, report says cent increase over the county's 1974 average of $899, which Was also highest in the state for that The average wage earner in Emery County made $1,452 a month in 1977, according to statistics released by the Utah Department of Employment year. The report also shows Emery County boasts a per capita income of $8,300, which is followed by Summit County with a per capita income of $7,000 for 1977, and lists the countys unemployment rate at 4 per cent, the lowest in the state along with Rich County. Security. In a report released this month, Emery County is shown to have had the highest wage and per capita income in the state with the lowest unemployment rate for 1977 all signs of healthy, growing economy. The 1977 average monthly wage of employees on nonagricultural payrolls in the state was a 62 per Emery Countys per capita in102 per cent increase over 1973 and up 20 per cent from 1976 when it was $6,900. come is a 4 The statistics show that the countys civilian labor force has jumped 185 per cent since 1970, 1977 then to 5,635 228 of those workers ployed in 1977. from in 1977. Only were unem- The report says that 4,028 of those workers were on nonagricultural payrolls last year. estimates a The survey population of 9,300 for Emery County last year, an 81 per cent increase from 1970s figures of 5,137. That shows Emery County to be the fastest growing county in the state. r |