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Show universal Kicrofilning Salt Lake, Ut. Election April 14 Pmdblic meetiba p Residents with questions or needing more information on the upcoming Price River Water Im- provement District's million bond election can look forward to getting these answers at a special public meeting set at the Helper Civic Auditorium on Friday, special April 11 $3.5 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Officials from the PRWID will be on hand to respond to questions and explain the proposal which will be voted on next Monday. The question of whether to approve financing for this project is central to the of prospects further growth in the economic Price River Valley. Already, several major corporations are either setting up operations with plans for further expansion or are viewing with ever increasing interest the potential for energy related industry. Steam generated power development in Emery County promises to bring 900 new jobs into an area that has traditionaUy relied on the Price-Help- com- er mercial hub for most of its services. and goods Projections show that this development alone will create another 1500 service jobs and will generate some $30 million worth of personal income and $25 million of annual retail sales. Add to this the that the development McCulloch Oil Corporation already has definite plans for, with some 1500 new jobs and at least an equal number of service related jobs to be created within the very near future. In new employment . opportunities alone, these developments will mean over 5,000 new residents in the area and that is not counting the families most are surely to bring. Obviously, there will be a great need for additional water supply throughout the Price River Valley area. Yet, as things stand now, we cannot look to Helper or Price to provide this additional water. The facts are clear. Helper is already using as much water as its spring fed system will supply, and last summer, was forced to rely on rationing to insure an ample emergency supply. Helper could only expand its supply by further spring on water 5CH rehabilitation (which, considering the present availablility of additional springs, seems unlikely) or by constructing its own water treatment plant. not while Price, technically "tapped out" is in a position where it can no longer provide additional water over the 2,226 connections it serves and the 1,819 interruptible connections it services outside its city limits. The Price City limits are supplied water on a firm basis. All sales outside of Price are of surplus water and on -- "in-cit- an 84101 basis, interruptible purification plant to be built shortages and to provide for on the Price River near future demands. Thus, Royal with an immediate Helper would gain the capacity of 3 million gallons reserve supply it so at desperately needs per day and a built-ipossibility for expansion as wholesale price, Price need arises; the con- could regain much of its struction of a water supply reserve it now loses through line that would run from the its sale of surplus water and" the unincorporated areas of new plant, down along highbe found now. Officials of way 50-and finally ter- the PRWID would gain a the Price River Water minate near Wellington. firm supply. Improvement District hope Several connections to the North Carbon residents and that on April 14 voters will Price Helper may vote at the following say yes to the only viable distribution systems would locations: All of regular solution being offered at be made to provide water to Voting these existing systems as Carbon County No. this time. 27 District Martin If approved, the PRWID needed; and acquisition of located within Price River the necessary water rights project would include the construction of a water to satisfy present water (see Bond Page 2) be should supply inadequate. Thus, we have a situation where the only existing water supply systems in the area are near or are tapped out yet demand cannot help but rise. And with the inevitable lag in development time, a solution must n 6 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, HELPER, UTAH VOLUME 69 NUMBER 1975 172-56- 15 10c Spring means time clean-u- p 5 X i. v. , fir r.ai Crime report shows high alcohol offense rate Drunkenness and other alcohol related offenses such as driving under the influence of alcohol made up a major portion of the arrests made by Helper City police in 1974, according to Uniform Crime Report statistics released last week by Police Chief Karl Stavar. The Uniform Crime Report is an annual tally sheet sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by all local law enforcement agencies listing the number of offenses in any one of twenty-seve- n categories for which the department made an arrest. A total of 35 individuals were arrested on common drunkenness charges in the past year. Of those, only four were women. The majority of those arrested were forty years of age or older. The totals for persons arrested for JuirixK driving under the influence climbed over the total for by about 1973 with 27 men and only two women stopped while in that condition while a total of 20 persons were arrested in 1973 for the same charge. Of those arrested for this offense, about half were under 40 years old. Arrests for disorderly conduct doubled over the year before with 15 males and one female being arrested on that charge during 1974 while only eight males were arrested during 1973. Of those arrested only two were above 35 years old. Vagrancy charges accounted for nine arrests in 1974 with all of those arrested being over 35 years of age. This compares to last years total of 10 individuals arrested for vagrancy charges. Other offences for which persons were arrested last year included robbery, one male; aggravated assault, two males; burglary, one male; vandalism, five males; violations (carrying, weapons possessing, etc) one male; possession of marijuana, four males; offenses against family and children, one male. Categories listed in the crime report were arrests for the offense did not occur included murder and manslaughter, forcible rape, larceny - theft, auto theft, arson, forgery and counterfeiting, fraud, embezzlement, one-thir- . Head lice cases reported in Carbon County d (see Crime Page The nation has been experiencing an epidemic of head lice and according to reports recently received from local schools and health officers, Helper has not been spared, although cases have only been isolated so far. According to Bill Bate, principle at .Sally Mauro School in Helper, a few cases of the head lice have been found in students at the school. Bate emphasized the fact that lice are being found in school children has nothing to do with the school except that teachers and school health personnel are more ob- servant -- of actioast .by students that would tend to indicate that the child is afflicted by the tiny mites. Bate said no widespread search for the lice had been 2) deemed necessary school or district officials. Cal Cazier, by health health for the Southeastern Utah Health District, said for the past two years there has been' an epidemic of head lice nationwide and just recently the public health nurses in Carbon County have found some in some of our school children. The head louse is able to exist educator because proper personal hygiene is hot observed. The head louse lives in the fine hair of a person's head, behind the ears, and on the back of the neck. They are via transmitted ats, 'combs, brushes, pillows, personal contact, etc. Some of the symptoms of head (see Lice Page 2) useum project receives initial approva While the weather may not agree, the calendar says it's Spring and that means time to clean up after winter's ravishes. Linda Sacco, in keeping with the season, finally stuffs the old Christmas tree away for good, although the tree seems to be winning this battle. Helper's annual clean up drive begins next Monday, April 14 with men and equipment roving the city looking for piles of trash and debris put out by residents of Helper. City councilman Yonazo Eda Vince Bonza asks that all piles be set out by April 30 as residents will be responsible for removal of any trash not put out on the street by then. Bonza said that no building materials or large quantities of broken glass would be accepted and asked that piles be put out in spots where they are easily accessible to the city clean up crews. He also asked that all trees and limbs be cut up into small enough pieces tq, allow one man to easily handle them. H-- J photo The Helper Mining soon to be Museum, the renamed Helper Bicentennial Coal Mining Museum, is one of 6 bicentennial projects for Carbon County which were submitted and approved last week by the local Bicentennial Committee, according to Janet Prazen district chairman. The museum plan calls for expansion of the museum into part of an adjoining room, renovation of some interior fixtures and the purchase of new display cases. The projects will now be submitted to the state Bicentennial commission for its approval. Mrs. Prazen said a represen- tative commission would be in the area this week to survey the recommended sites and make final approval. Mrs. Prazen said the local committee has been given $39,195 to spend on Carbon County projects. Of that money, the committee that chronicles area past If there is one lesson Yonazo (Harry) Eda, one of Helper's oldest citizens, has learned during his 92 year life it is that "gambling is no good!" It is lesson he frequently spoke about the other day when long-tim- e friends Mr. and Mrs. John Labori of Helper visited Eda and his wife Haru at their home on Roosevelt Street. The way Eda tells it is that at 17 he started gambling as did most of his fellow Japanese countrymen who immigrated to the United States. He quit at 26 because his wife had insisted, and he realized, "It was pretty hard for a businessman to gamble." who But his countrymen, patronized his Helper Variety Store during the 1920s, gambled away so much of the money with which they intended to pay their bills that Eda could no longer afford to operate the business. Eda, who speaks broken English because of his still predominant Japanese accent and who stumbles and stops when he talks because of his old age, does not remember all the specific facts about his life. But he told the Laboris, who understand his speech, as much as he could remember. The Japanese immigrant lived in Helper when it was a young city few residents today would recognize. His colorful past parallels with Helper and Carbon County's. He learned to love and respect Helper, Carbon County and the United States. These governments contributed as much to him as he has to them, he said. A scroungy grey cat, one of nine which the Edas keep in the house, sat hunched at Mr. Eda's feet when he greeted the Laboris. He supported his stand with a silver cane with a black handle. Smiles came across the Edas' faces when the Laboris returned the greeting. It was if the Laboris were the first visitors the Edas had in weeks. The inside of the Eda home is A small cluttered with red toothpick holder with 1914 inscribed on it lies on the kitchen table, a remembrance of when they came to knick-knack- s. Carbon County. tourist souvenir plate from Alabama hangs on the kitchen wall, along with a small and a calandar from a Japanese food distributor. The elderly man told the Laboris he wae born in Japan in 1883 and arrived 16 years later in Seattle, Wash., where he worked as a physician's aid. He joined the U.S. Navy at 19 because he couldn't find a job. "They'd (the Navy) would take you regardless," he said. Besides, as a cook in the Navy he was paid $13 each month, which was considered a good salary in those days, he said. After arriving in Price in 1913, the couple were married. Life was difficult for the Edas. They were newlyweds and immigrants, which contributed to their hardships. But Eda was soon hired by an A feather-dusting-bru- Carbon County heritage and the prospects for the future to be made by the College of Eastern Utah and station KUED from the University of Utah and $3,000 for a mural depicting Chicano heritage at the CEU library. The committee recommended that the remaining balance of $39,195 of Bicentennial funds allotted Carbon County be divided equally among the following East projects: Carbon Community Center, the Price Prehistoric Museum, the senior citizens center, and the Helper Mining Museum which will be expanded and renamed the Bicentennial Coal Mining Museum. "We committed all of Carbon County's funds to A colorful life by Joe Rolando approved $3,000 for a state documentary film depicting from the - A , acceptable programs," said Mrs. Prazen, "and should any of the projects be disqualified by the state commission, we asked them to equitably reapportion the remaining funds to approved projects in the county." Emery County Bicentennial Committee members will submit their projects to the district committee for approval this week, said Mrs. Prazen. The next move in the direction of the projects becoming reality lies with the state commission. State commission members will be in Price this week to review the proposed projects with the applicants, according to Mrs. Prazen. The final decision to the state belongs members. - Italian business man, Tom Domain, to work in his saloon, which was located in the Tavern Hotel building near the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad depot in Price. Two years later Eda worked at a Price restaurant, and in 1916 he moved to Helper, six miles northwest, to work for Celeste Dalpiaz, now deceased in his saloon. Eda operated two pool tables in the saloon while Mrs. Eda maintained a 66 room hotel in Helper. The saloon was located where Jayleen Flowers Inc., 160 South Main Street, is today, Mr. Labori said. The building, which accomodated the saloon, later became the site of the City Cafe, which no longer operates. i, Two years later, Eda, Bob r " , r . s 'j Cor-man- Pete Labori and Charles Lange, all of Helper, obtained the first franchise issued in Utah from the Public Utilities Commission to operate a stage line eight miles between Helper .and Reins, a coal camp located in the Spring Canyon Coal District, which is now aban- a . " - ' yl ft J On Monday, k4 V We urge you to VOTE doned. used The stage company Studebakers, Buicks, Nashes and a Cole 8 (eight cylinder car) to make three round trips each day and later five round trips each day. Each vehicle transported nine passengers. The "stages" would pick up passengers at the City Cafe on South Main Street in Helper at 8 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 6 p.m. "If you made the trip without the cars breaking down, you were lucky," Eda said. (see Eda Page 5) April 14 s tip 1 J If w m Price River Water Yonazo Eda and his wife Haru, two of Helper's oldest citizens, discuss old times in Helper. Mr. Eda's life, most of it spent in Carbon County, H-- J photo parallels much of the history of the county. Improvement District Special Bond Election |
