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Show Press Association Salt Lake City, Ut. 84110 Utah Box 1327 Jf:mte 1 '- -f3 u n- ri - : Council OK bunildimg fee hike A motion to more than double Helper City's building permit and inspection fee, was passed by the city council last Thursday night. Before it takes effect, the new fee schedule must be drafted into an ordinance by fees for adopt "move-on- " homes and mobile homes, Councilman Ralph Noel Building permit fees - r-.- : v-r- Building Inspector Bill Kirkwood presented the council with four possible new schedules, and, on o Assessed valuation In (w- i5&W1a - ,l significantly lower than the new schedule adopted recently by Price City. (See Dfi box.) of smiling Susan Garcia places wig on mannequin last Saturday as part project Junior at class economics home Mrs. in High. Mona Helper Karyn Bertelsen's Giordano, left, hangs dress on display. A Home ec. means more than sewing a dress Home economics at Helper Junior High these days doesn't simply mean learning how to sew a dress. In addition to such domestic arts, Mrs. Karyn Bertelsen's home ec. class is learning the vocational possibilities available to them as a result of their knowledge of clothing construction. The class's current project is the decorating of a display window at Barbara's Boutique - in downtown Helper. For the past two and the coming five Saturdays, the girls will be at the store redesigning the window. A new theme is to be expressed in each week's design. Heading up the seven teams, each in charge of a new display, are students Brenda Howell, Karla Edmondson, Athena Marvidikis, Revenues from the increased fee are to be used for city improvements necessitated by the growth projected for the areas and to compensate Kirkwood for his services. The council also voted to using larger amounts fee per for a revenue drop from smaller users. $20 $2.50 over $5,000 per $1,000 $2.25 over $25,000 per $1,000 - $50,00 .$70 $50,000 - $100,000 $1,000 $2 $126.25 over $50,000 I I $100,001 - $500,000 I I Over $500,000..'. $226.25 per $1.75 over $100,000 $1.50 ..$926.25 "over $500,000 1 of wa- ter should have significant rate increases to account $5,001 - $25,00C $25,001 would help 10,000 gallons $4 still 15,000 gallons was low. the financial plight of the elderly and others on fixed incomes. He said those $1,001 - $5,000 of fees double the present but the initial Noel said providing the Fee No Kirkwood's recommendation, the council unanimously adopted a set charges Ernest Gardner, first 15,000 gallons for $4 the charge is now $4 for Here is the tentative new fee schedule for building permits in Helper: published. " from Councilman who said Noel's proposed charge for position too and the city attorney presented his proposal for altering city water rates but ran into immediate op- - J per per Gardner said in response that Noel's proposal would 1 iwi ,uvv 5 I $1,000 $1,000 1 I 1 I simply not provide the city with sufficient income to cover pay increases expected for city employees in the coming fiscal year. The charge for the initial 10,000 gallons should be raised to $6, Gardner said. Noel challenged council members to draft their own proposals if they disagreed with his, and the matter was tabled further for Dana Stockburger, Cheryl Rachele, Cindy Nick and Janice Yazzie. Window display design is only one of the home ec. related job possibilities about which the class has learned. Barbara Marvidikis, who operates Barbara's, spoke to the class recently on other careers in the field. In addition to window and WEDNESDAY, APRIL HELPER, -- 1. .Litizzette, whose letter of resignation was presented to the city council at its April 8 meeting, said he would now devote full time to his private practice. Appointed to the post in January 1954, Litizzette piled up an impressive list of accomplishments for his hometown, including, most recently, the closing of $2.5 million in loans for the Price River Water Improvement District water treatment plant on the UTAH VOLUME 70 6 472-567- 14, 1976 "brought a frown to his otherwise smiling face," project manager Courtney Brewer told the Scofield Town Board last week. Brewer and members of the program's professional staff met with Scofield officials in an attempt to clarify the waste disposal' problem in the area and to begin to work toward a solution that will meet with federal and state approval. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines say all the nation's waters must be fishable and swimmable by 1983, and the water in Scofield Reservoir is moving quickly in the opposite direction. The reason for Erkkila's purported frown came to light when facilities planner Craig Joha risen of Johansen renters away. In other business : --Gardher said the new chlorinator for the city swimming pool is expected to arrive soon, and Mayor Charles Ghirardelli asked that an attempt to made to have the pool open by June 1. Fiscal agent James PAGES Council slates special session Mrs. Marvidikis also gave a brief in consumer education, dispensing a number of tips on intelligent shopping, as well as telling the group about the problems associated with shoplifting for both the buyer and the seller. meeting of the Helper City Council will be held tonight (Wednesday, April 14) at 8 p.m. at Helper City Hall. Council members are expected to discuss water course A special city's culinary water significant contributions last year to the first comprehensive study ever conducted on the city's water system. In conjunction with the consulting firm of Despain and Despain, Litizzette drew up Helper's 1959 zoning ordinance, and in 1956 he drafted Helper's fluoridation ordinance, the first in the state. He prepared the legal work for the Porter and ... Fabrizio additions, for 1st and 2nd Avenues and, recently, for the Castle Gate addition. With all these tangible Candidate for governor . ' ' Creer visits Carbon y accomplishments to his credit, Litizzette maintains that his major contribution to Helper's city government was "keeping them out of court." In Stan Litizzette's 22 years as city attorney, there was never a court judgement against Helper, and "nuisance only amounts" were paid in the two cases the city settled out of court. "balance" growing energy industry in between industrial the state would inevitably development and the bring a great influx of Calling for a conservation of social and environmental values in the state, John Preston Creer, a the for candidate people into the state and added that, only through orderly planning, could the state hope to preserve its Democratic Party's unique mixture of a growing nomination for governor, economy, a good family visited the Carbon area last setting and a clean enFriday, kicking off his vironment. campaign tour of the state. Creer said this type of Creer, a Salt Lake at- planning was especially torney and a former Salt important in energy imLake County commissioner, pacted areas of the state instant towns, said in an interview that his where of trailers set out consisting of state for the love" "great on roads with to inadequate his wish Utah and could services, of inadequate the preserve "integrity" said He he easily up. spring his had to led Utah lifestyles to seek the also agreed with the decision Democratic nomination. growing sentiment in state The 43 year old candidate, and local government that who visited with a number the state should take an of small groups Friday on increasingly active role in his swing through the area, "front-end- " funding of named the economy and the environment and their intertwining relationships as the top issues in this election in noting that the Stanley V. Litizzette Mitcheson murder trial April 20 A young Price man, accused in the February shooting of Richard Herrera, will stand trial on the second degree murder charge beginning April 20 in Seventh District Court. Court last month Gary Mitcheson, who was bound' over from Price City established which that a enough evidence following preliminary hearing existed to warrant his standing trial on the charge, will face a full jury beginning Tuesday, April 20 in a trial that will probably take the whole week. Mitcheson appeared Monday before District Court Judge Edward Sheya for the trial setting. He has previously plead not guilty to the second degree murder charge at his arraignment. Mitcheson is accused in the February 7 shooting death of Herrera following what witnesses at his preliminary hearing described as an argument between the two over ownership of a set of tires and wheels. Mitcheson is currently being held in the Carbon County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. on-goi- Scofield sewer price tag: $200,000 Planning program staff Joe Rolando Councilman Martin Farish said bids for a new city garbage truck were due by 5 p.m., April 22. 1 NUMBER 15 business. springs and the land for both city reservoirs. In he made addition, term on that board lasts until 1979. Litizzette attended Notre Dame University, where he obtained a B.A. degree before entering the armed service for a lengthy stint. After leaving the service, Litizzette took his law degree at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., then returned to Helper to hang his shingle out. inwas Litizzette strumental in acquiring land in Spring Creek for the Scofield Town President Bill Erkkila in the past few weeks by the 208 Waste Water Quality Management Councilman said keeping the rates low would encourage greater use of auditorium facilities, while raising the rental fee might drive some potential and auditorium rental rates, among other issues. Price River. Litizzette's The information given to Mary Rebol's proposal for a hike in the rental rates for the civic auditorium Mrs. Rebol proposed raising the rate for the banquet hall and kitchen together to $50 and dance hall rental to $50. bond election the city might hold to improve its water facilities. The council! agreed to seek proposals from other consultants before taking action. clothing design, she explained careers in wholesale buying, retail selling and the operation of one's own Helper city attorney resigns May Councilwoman Fenton of Salt Lake City offered his services to the city as a consultant for any Stanley Litizzette Stanley V. Litizzette, Helper's city attorney for over 22 years, has resigned from the position, effective discussion at the April 14 special meeting. Also put over for consideration at this week's was council session and Tuttle Engineers, Castle Dale, told the assemblage that, by his estimate, the least expensive sewage disposal system for the area, an aerated lagoon system, would cost at least $200,000. Lagoons dispose of waste natural bacterial by processes, Johansen explained, and adding an aerator reduces the land area required for such a system. A conventional lagoon system could cost $250,000 to $300,000, Johansen said, but he added that the land for such a facility would be extremely hard to find. A mechanical sewage treatment plant, similar to, but smaller than, the one in Wellington, would cost some $500,000 he said. The plans were based on an eventual population of 600 in the area, the figure arrived at by land use planners Despain and Despain in a recent study. Rodney Despain told the Tuesday meeting that Valley Camp of Utah estimates that it will eventually hire 500 new miners. Counting family members, this would add 1,500 to Carbon County's population, and of these, or approximately 500, could be expected to settle in the Scofield area. its own needs. Despain suggested that Despain said it was the responsibility of the town board and the county commission to regulate this growth primarily by zoning laws. Inaction might envisioned for dealing with those conditions would include a series of holding tanks for the dwellings around the reservoir. A charge could be assessed for transporting the sewage to a treatment plant. one-thir- d, severely hurt the local environment, Despain said, asserting that developers and new residents would do only what was required in terms of improvements. Erkkila said a zoning code similar to Salt Lake City's would require the razing of many of Scof ield's buildings, but Despain responded, first, that zone laws can not be retroactive, and, secona, tnai uie um. could adopt a code suited to better enforcement of current county zoning laws would help the Scofield and he said he believed commission members to be "very area, sensitive" to conditions and around Scofield. in said one Johansen comprehensive plan he That charge could be used along with a possible 75 percent EPA grant to pay for the facility. Future developers could also be required to foot a portion of the bill for the plant, Johansen said, and a loan could be sought from the Farmers Home Administration (FHA). Behind all the trouble is a layer of "black goop" found on the lake bottom by water quality scientists who have tests been conducting recently. Keith Welch of Vaughn Hansen Associates told the board that the black material, which has appeared only in the past few years, is the result of an undesirable decomposition process associated with the municipal services for energy impacted areas to insure that these services would be adequate to accommodate anticipated the Gean Air Act of 1970 in claiming that their implementation would "lockup" the majority of the to state industrial growth. development. "We must to the face the fact troversy concerning the that, although we would proposed Kaiparowits prefer it, we cannot have industrial development and Power Project, Creer indicated that he supported keep our wilderness areas Turning con- its construction and added that he felt the federal government should not have taken as active a role in the issue as it has up to this pristine," he said. He added that he felt the state should force these large energy developments, such as Kaiparowits, to dedicate a time. percentage of the power "The state should have output to Utah in return for ultimate control in deciding the water being used by these issues," said Creer, these plants and the air "because states can set degradation they would meaningful laws and say to cause. The candidate also added energy developers that they either comply with these that, if elected, he would regulations or shut down." continue the state's support Creer also criticized the of research programs (See Creer Page 2) proposed amendments to v( w aj1 rf SI depletion of the lake's dissolved oxygen. He called pollution in the lake "moderately a problem" but said it was not nearly as bad as Utah Lake, for example. "The balance is so delicate; we're starting to push it over the hill," Welch said. Brewer suggested and the town board agreed that a meeting should be arranged in the near future between Scofield, the county and Valley Camp to formulate a cooperative plan to deal with the pollution problem. Utah gubernatorial candidate John Preston Creer speaks to senior citizen luncheon gathering during his recent to Carbon County. visit |