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Show Utah Press Association SaltXake City, Ut. 84110 Scofield beildimig moratorium eyed by conunmissioii Scofield area materializes, the lake could be dead A moratorium on all building in the Scofield Reservoir area was considered by the Carbon WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, HELPER, VOLUME 8 UTAH-472-5- 70 1976 671 NUMBER PAGES iff m ioc 19 within 10 years. Nutrients phosphates County Commission at its and nitrates from organic May 4 meeting. waste are entering the a During presentation by lake from Clear Creek and representatives of the 208 Scofield from towns, Waste Water Quality lakcshore houses and from Management Planning other recreationists. The office, located in Helper, could play a Commissioner James county, he said, in stemming role significant Simone went as far as to make a motion for the some of that pollution. but commoratorium, Housing developments on missioners later decided to the north and east sides of delay action on the building the lake are "patently ban until other alternatives illegal" in their failure to were thoroughly discussed. comply with the county As in numerous earlier zoning ordinance, said Rodney Despain, planner presentations to governmental agencies throughout for the water quality office. the county, Ron program County Attorney manager Courtney Brewer Boutwell and the comdetailed the pollution missioners agreed, and problems now plaguing the Simone suggested that reservoir and said that if letters be written to the projected growth for the violators, asking them to a given length of time. Boutwell added that it would probably be sufficient to provide for stringent enforcement of the present laws. He said he had drafted citations for such zoning and building appear at a commission meeting to discuss the problem of inadequate sewers and illegal locations. Despain said violations could be dealt with by imposing a moratorium on all building in the area, by issuing citations to voilators or by simply bringing violations to the attention of builders. Guido Commissioner code violations. In the end, the commission took no official Rachiele immediately stated that he felt the moratorium was the best approach, despite its harshness. Simone then made a motion to impose the moratorium, and it appeared that a vote was imminent. Despain, however, then said that before drastic action was taken, a program should be designed to schedule the lifting of the proposed moratorium after action, but commissioners and Boutwell agreed to appear at a May 11 meeting with all of the affected bodies and agencies. In other business: the commission agreed to apply for permission to add IV2 miles to its collector road system to accommodate construction of a road up Eccles Canyon to a Valley Camp coal operation. Funds would come from the coal firm's sales taxes, pre-pai- d (photo on p. 3) Administrator named for hospital Hospital Corporation of America takes over Robert L. Quist has been the new administrator for the Carbon Hospital by the Hospital named Corporation of America (HCA). according to Al Veltri, chairman of the board of governors of the hospital. Veltri said Quist took over Monday, and is here on a e basis. Quist is a California native, and attended schools in Los Angeles. He graduated from BYU in 1969 in accounting, and is a accertified public countant. For the past two years, he has been the assistant administrator for a 220 bed hospital in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Quist said the new comptroller for the hospital is George Larson, who has been working at a hospital in Carlsbad, N.M. Veltri said the board met Tuesday, May 4 to read the full-tim- tffSSi S4JT & .V- Ail contract Hospital between the signed the contract, on April 30, and were acting as if the Carbon Hospital officials had signed it. Veltri said Joe Delpha, who has been acting as the hospital administrator will continue at the hospital, but in a different capacity. Veltri said a special meeting of the board would be called to sign the contract as soon as the ratify the changes. The contract calls for the HCA to administer the hospital for an annual fee of es $150,000. Quist said the contract will allow the hospital to fulfill the terms of the new federal Comprehensive Health Planning Law. He said it is nearly impossible for a community hospital to survive under present government regulations without outside help. The HCA is the largest management hospital corporation in the world, and operates 75 hospitals in 17 states. They own or operate two other hospitals in Utah, one in Bountiful and one in Brigham City. Officials of the HCA say they can improve the running of the hospital in several ways: They can save up to 50 percent on the malpractice insurance charged the hospital. They can increase the income from Medicare by billing changing the procedures to more ac- Candidates make plans for offices curately reflect hospital Corporation costs. As of noon Monday, five of America and candidates had filed for Carbon .Hospital. He said - ... They - can save $200,000 state and county positions. there were a few Minor lion- -' ayear by- reducing the staff ""Positions available include substantive changes which through normal attrition. state state senator, needed to be made before They can save the representative and a two-yethe contract would be hospital money by using an and a four-yea- r county (HCA) ar signed. Quist said the HCA had improved computer system for biffing. District combines K'worth sewer line, plant applications Above left, hiker gives friend a helping hand during College of Eastern Utah expedition to "The of Maze" district Canyonlands National Park last weekend. Above right, Roger Hunt of Price hands packs up rock face to Kevin Voll of Helper as group climbs out of The Maze. Voll led the procession, blazing the trail for the group. In photo at left, Mark Carrillo exults as packers mount the last obstacle of the upward climb. Canyonland is the scientist Students play mice in running the maze dirt road drive out of "The Maze" in Canyonlands National Park was tougher than the hours of climbing up and down the canyons' rocks walls, but both taxed the endurance of a group of 38 College of Eastern Utah students, faculty and hangers-oThe 55-mi-le n last weekend. The hardships began last Friday morning when members and companions of Lee Hofeling's Recreation 120 class were called upon to haul themselves out of bed in time to leave the campus just before 6 a.m. Many never regained full strength throughout the trip. After breakfasting at Green River, the and caravan of nine pick-up- s vehicles moved into the park via the Hans Flat Ranger Station in adjoining Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. miles of what the Fourteen rangers called good roads brought the hikers to the top of the "Flint Trail," navigable only Experienced travelers of by bone-jarrin- e. g that route told horror stories of trucks sliding off the edge of the slippery hairpin turns, the CEU group found the road in relatively good condition and escaped with only a few cases of indigestion. Heads bouncing against the tops of cab ceilings marked the final 16 miles of the first day's trip, and the group set up camp on a site overlooking the spectacular "Maze," the district of practically endless convoluted red rock canyons. Engine trouble sent one vehicle and a companion limping back to Green River, so with the hiking party reduced to just over 30, the band inched down the cliffs, heading for the second night's camp in the valley. The steep rock walls gave the campers some experience at strapping and unstrapping their hoisting them overhead and passing them up and down. Some three hours later, the e climb was completed. The three-daweekend left back-pack- four-mil- y s, hikers with just enough time when they got to and the bottom to begin thinking about the back trip up. dreading With a hot sun adding to the fatigue factor Sunday morning, some of the climbers appeared to need a minor miracle to even survive the climb, but the thought of shade and rest at the top seemed to inspire, and the upward haul took only 90 minutes. Thinking they had the worst of the trek licked, the campers piled back into their vehicles for the drive back to Price only to learn that the trip out meant 55 more miles of bruising dirt and rock road. Somehow, all lived through it, partially, no doubt, because of the lingering thought of a dip in Lake Powell in the back of their minds. The route home took the group through Hanksville and Green River. ' The college offers trips to the scenic and primitive areas of the state each spring and fall. A grant application to is approved by the EPA. extend the Price River An EPA environmental Water . Improvement District (PRWID) sewer line to Kenilworth and a similar application to upgrade the district's Wellington treatment plant are to be consolidated into one application, according to Earl Staker, district manager. Staker said a representative of the Environmental Protection Agency told the district to merge the plans for the Kenilworth sewer with those for the treatment plant project and to come up with a combined application. Price tag for the Kenilworth project has been placed at $360,000. Though the projects will now be nominally one, Staker said he expected the Kenilworth sewer to be given a higher priority by the state agency through which the application is filed. The Salt Lake City engineering firm of and Linke Associates, which conducted the cost study for the Kenilworth job, will also perform an engineering study if and when the grant Tem-pleto- n, engineer has also viewed the project site. The EPA grant, Staker said, would cover 75 percent of the cost of the sewer line extension; PRWID would cover half of the other 25 percent, while the town would pay the remaining 12.5 percent, about $45,000. The seed of the sewer project was planted last year when EPA first contacted Kenilworth about its present waste disposal system septic tanks, ine tanks are discharging into a dry wash near town. Along with a temporary discharge permit came a directive to deal with the discharge problem or face a $10,000 per day fine. The 208 Waste Water Quality Planning Management program, headquartered in Helper, provided the initial impetus for the project, then turned it over to the PRWID. Some four miles of sewer line would be needed to extend the line from Spring Glen to Kenilworth. Staker said a timetable for the project had not yet been set. at Helper Junior High School and police officials have no idea who is School responsible, Massman said, High sometime Sunday, May 2, but a $75 reward is offered according to Principal for information about the Douglas Massman. incident. Massman said several were thrown rocks through According to Massman, the windows, but entry was there is over $600 million in not made into the school. damages done to schools by "There was just no reason vandals, each year in the United States. for it," he said. Junior Senator Omar Bunnell filed his petition of candidacy with the secretary of state about two weeks ago. Bunnell, a Democrat is now the Senate majority leader of the and Public Education Ap- propriation Committee for the past five sessions of the legislature. Filing against Bunnell is Dart, a retired attorney and former juvenile court judge. Dart is from Price. B.L. the Mike Dmitrich, in- cumbent representative from district petition of 65, filed his candidacy a week ago Monday with the Carbon house representatives of after having served the past eight years. He has served as the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee for the Higher Education and has been a member of the Sifting Committee for Energy Natural Resources and Agriculture Committee and the House Labor and Manpower Development Committee. commissioner County Guido Rachiele decided not to seek reelection to the Commission. Rachiele has been the chairman of the commission. for Seeking county commissioner, however, is Floyd A. Marx. Also seeking the post is Vivian Fivecoat of East Carbon. two-ye- ar The only person seeking r the commission seat is Henry H. Bird of Price. four-yea- Vandals break windows Vandals broke two plate glass windows at Helper commission seat. Filing deadline was 5 p.m. Monday. Photo reprints available inch glossy' of any pictures reprints published in the Helper Five-by-seve- n Journal are available at a cost of $1.75 each. To order reprints, contact the Sun Advocate office, 76 West Main, Price, 837-073- 2. |