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Show Utah Press Association illtlile s City, Ut. 84110 WEDNESDAY, APRIL?, 1976 HKLVKH, CTAH41JMtTI t r V - SALT LAKE CITY Mary Scavo, 333 2nd East, . Helper, charged with embezzlement of $13,000, from Helper State Bank, was bound over to the United States District Court here last Friday. She will appear for arraignment before Chief Judge Willis W. Ritter, who will set a trial date. The decision from Daniel A. Alsup, United States if r A- M V - ', N Magistrate, came after v : Derailment at summit 85-c-ar vestigation, according to Helper's Arnie demons, assistant trainmaster, demons said the derailment blocked the eastbound mainline for 9 hours and the westbound track for two days. In bottom photo, workmen swing damaged car, suspended from crane, onto fiatcar. There were no injuries in the wreck. Swisher mine closed following trespass notice of a To allow mine closed as a result of a trespass action, the U.S. Land of Bureau Management was taking action Friday to modify a federal coal lease held by the Swisher Coal Company of Price. A notice of trespass was issued Thursday afternoon by the BLM based on evidence received from the U.S. Geological Survey, according to S. Gene Day, Moab district BLM manager. As a result, the company closed the mine Friday. However, the mine closing was not- made without Swisher Coal voicing a protest of their own as company officials claimed that bureaucratic footdragging on the part of BLM and the Dept. of the Interior left the company with no choice but to continue mining or to the simply cease operations until the government agencies could live up to promises the company said were made. According to Max Robb, general manager for Swisher Coal, the company asked the Dept. of the Interior over two years ago for a modification to their present federal lease which would allow them to mine on the disputed property. Robb said Swisher's application was not acted upon for many months until he contacted Interior officials and was told last December that the application would be granted. When Swisher finally Golden K. Berrett, special agent of the FBI, alleges she embezzeled monies and funds from about January 3, 1971 to January 8, 1975 "with intent to injure and defraud." Mrs. Scavo was head teller and assistant cashier at Helper State Bank, a member bank of the Federal Reserve system. The complaint says Berrett's investigation included an examination of bank records, including deposit slips, which the probable cause existed the defendant had committed the offense. The complaint against Mrs. Scavo, signed by numerous alterations in favor of the bank and against the depositor. Examinations of the same bank records when the determine whether Mangled railroad car, top, is one of fourteen that careened from the Denver and Rio Grande Western track at 10:30 a.m., March 28, five miles west of Soldier train was carrying Summit. The ore concentrate and corn from Denver to Salt Lake City when the accident occurred. The cause is still under in ii II approximately one and hours of testimony in a magistrate's hearing to one-ha- lf ' 8 PGES I Local woman charged in bank embezzlement case N C ' -' lfk u8m . VOLVMK70NtWBERj defendant processed, allegedly disclosing defendant was on vacation or not working disclosed no alterations against the depositor, the complaint added. Furthermore, the complaint alleges that in a the personal interview defendant admitted to Mr, Berrett she had taken some money from bank deposits which she processed. The charge against Mrs. Scavo carries a maximum fine of not more than $5,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years or both. At Friday's hearing, Max Wheeler, assistant United States Attorney, called witnesses Albert J. assistant Brez-nic- k, vice Water office examines Scofield sewer woes A sewage treatment plant or a lagoon sewage system may be in the future of the Scofield area, acto cording Courtney Brewer, project manager of the 208 Water Quality program, the headquarters of which are in Helper. Brewer met with officials of Scofield town and the Valley Camp Coal Co. last week and plans a second meeting this week to discuss specific remedies for the deterioration of the water quality of Scofield Reservoir. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stan- dards say all of America's waters must be f ishable and swimmable by 1983, and although no specific results have been released, Brewer said recent studies show that the area's sewage treatment will have to be improved if the federal guidelines are to be met. At present, both Scofield and Clear Creek towns have septic tanks: most Scofield homes have individual tanks, while Clear Creek is served by a community tank. Brewer said that, as in other parts of Carbon County, improper soil conditions may be causing the tanks not to function effectively. Sewage from the homes in the immediate vicinity of the lake, he added, drains directly into the lake. Among the possible solutions to the problem are construction of a sewage treatment plant or a lagoon received lease documents last January, said Robb, they inserted a paragraph which guaranteed them the right to protest rule making decisions that were not made by the Secretary of Interior. The lease was returned by Interior to Swisher with a notice telling them the lease could not be accepted in the amended form. Robb said the company agreed to reexecute the lease and, in the meantime, were notified of the alleged trespass. Robb said he was not sure if the company would formally protest the governments actions but, until then, the company will be required to post a bond before the modified lease can be issued and the mine treatment system. A treatment plant would be extremely expensive,' bring all the concerned Brewer said, but so would lagoon treatment, as the latter would require the purchase of 35 to 40 acres of land. Lagoon treatment utilizes natural bacterial processes in decomposing waste products. The Scofield-Clea- r Creek area's population may grow to as much as 600 as a result of the expansion of Valley Camp's operations there, so the 208 program, which the operates through Southeastern Utah Association of Governments, is attempting to Camp, Valley parties Scofield and the county-toge- ther to work on the matter. his said goal is to a solution agreeable to all sides, so the EPA guidelines can be complied with by the deadline. The Water Quality office is not empowered to dictate policy. Brewer said it was too early to estimate a timetable for the possible sewer improvements. Brewer program's facilitate president of Helper State Norman Gene Bank; Carlson, custodial supervisor at the College of Eastern Utah; and Berrett. No witnesses were called by Phil L. Hansen, a Salt Lake who City attorney, represented Mrs. Scavo. Mr. Breznick explained how customers, including Helper Service Center which Mr. Carlson and two silent partners owned and operated, used the night depository. The deposits, he said, are put in canvas bags some of which are locked. Breznick said, however, he could not testify whether Carlson locked his deposit bag. The bank had keys to open only deposit bags of customers who requested, he said. "Any of several" employees who has the combination to the night depository, he said, can remove deposit bags. Breznick said Mrs. Scavo handled have may Carlson's bag as much as other employees. Although the initial of an employee on a deposit slip is the only way to determine who handled the deposit, no way existed of showing who could have placed the initials "MS" on deposits, he said. who Carlson, began renovating the building which housed Helper Service Center, January, 1971, and occupied it either March 5 or 6, 1971, said he and his wife made out the deposit slips. Carlson said he noticed shortages from 1971-197- 5 but "I felt I wasn't perfect and had made some mistakes." The shortages, he said, varied from $10 to $200. After the purchase of a new adding machine did not stop the shortages, Carlson said he asked Robert E. Olsen, owner of Bob's Texaco Service of Helper to check his deposits. Carlson said he kept his total slip in his pocket while Olsen added the total slips twice. They both, he said, came up with the same totals on several consecutive nights. Carlson said Olsen locked the deposit bag and dropped it into the depository while Carlson watched. Shortages also occurred in those deposits, Carlson said. After calling his partners in Tremonton, Carlson said he immediately called the FBI. Others who dropped Helper Service Center's deposit bag into the night depository besides Carlson, his wife and Olsen were the Carlsons' two daughters and one of Carlson's partners, Carlson said. Berrett presented his analysis of Helper Service Center's deposits. He said only original and duplicate deposit slips which contained alterations were prepared on a worksheet. More than 75 percent of the initials on the slips bore the initials "MS". The others, he said, had other initials or a teller stamp. He said the difference against the depositor occured 95 to 99 percent of the time. Helper Lions annual White Cane Sale opens The annual Helper Lions White Cane Sale, is being held this week, April according to Keith Reid, club president, and Daryl 0, held Saturday, April 17 at 9 a.m. at the Helper City Ball Park. The hunt is open to North Carbon youngsters 12 years and under. g Some of the Goranson, chairman. Helper Lions members activities engaged in by the will be on Main Street Lions are: Assist at Glaucoma and selling the miniature sight canes on Saturday in an Sugar Diabetes Clinics. The effort to raise funds for the Lions finance the clinics, sight program of Lions publicize them and furnish Clubs throughout the world. the manpower required to The Lions also ask that set up the facility used. local residents donate any Any person needing a old eye glasses, frames and seeing eye dog can obtain tranhearing aids. Donations the necessary may be delivered to Nolan's sportation to the seeing eye AG Food Store or to any dog school from the Utah Lions member. The items Lions. are and Establishing the Chair of repaired redistributed all over the Ophthalmology at the world. University of Utah Medical The Lions have also Center is the result of efscheduled their annual forts and donations of the Easter Egg Hunt. It will be Utah Lions. sight-savin- 50's dance Helper Junior High students get in the spirit of the 1950s at dance last weekend at the school. Young people came in 50s garb and danced to music of the time. National Teamsters strike ends with little effect on Helper area A three-dastrike by the Teamsters Union against the nation's trucking industry ended last week before Helper residents felt any significant effects. Several local merchants said that some of their deliveries came via truck lines with Teamster contracts, but most added that it would have been several weeks before distributors would have been affected and shelves would have begun emptying. y Predictions of possible effects ran as follows: Leonard Lange of the Food Center said produce was delivered to his firm by independent drivers and that most other goods came via the AG chain's own trucks. He expected no effect. Braztah Corporation spokesman said the coal A firm's drivers were members of the United Mine Workers and would not be affected. Chuck Ghirardelli of Chuck's Pharmacy and Al Veltri of Veltri's Drug both said that drug and some other "fast items" would be seriously affected if the strike lasted several weeks, but both predicted a quick settlement. Veltri asserted that serious economic woes could have come out of a have kept the government from intervening to block the strike. Jona Skerl of Mututal Furniture said some of the store's hardware and other items were delivered by Teamster drivers, but added that alternate firms could be arranged for and that no effect would have been felt until regional strike, because distributors ran low on fears of merchandise. politician's prolonged alienating labor votes would Most of the local mer chants who predicted eventual effects from the strike said they had goods delivered regularly by Rio Grande Motor Way of Price. Union officials, however, sufficient duration to cause shortages on grocery shelves anywhere around the nation; the strongest effects were felt in the auto industry where General ordered lines Motors Corp. closed its picket removed last Saturday GMC truck and coach afternoon, and by Monday assembly operations in the industry was nearly back to normal. Some 400,000 truck drivers and warehousemen are Pontiac, Mich., last Friday, idling 5,600 workers. A shortage of parts caused by the strike forced by Teamsters. the closure. The plant The strike was not of remained closed Monday. represented the Tentative agreements worked out over the weekend in a Chicago suburb reportedly gave Teamster members raises totaling $1.65 an hour over the next 36 months, plus an open-ende- d cost-of-livin- g escalator clause and $17 a week in fringe benefits. Union members will be making approximately $9 an hour at the height of the new contract. Industry representatives had offered an per hour increase, while the Teamsters originally asked 85-ce- nt $1.75. Secretary of Labor W.J. Usery Jr. aided in working g out the terms of the contract. After the agreement was announced by Teamsters President strike-endin- Frank Fitzsimmons, President Ford issued a statement complimenting the negotiators! and Usery on their effort |