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Show Utah Pre S3 Association Salt Lake City, Ut, 84110 Box 1327 1 ml WEDNESDAY, JULY HELPER, VOLUME UTAH 70 14. 1976 472-567- 1 NUMBER 28 10 CENTS 6 PAGES Beside Spring Canyon wash County offers to buiild subdivision walkway County Commissioner James Simone told Helper City Council last Thursday night that the county would bring in the equipment and men and build a walkway from the Castle Gate subdivision to Fabrizio Street by a route along the wash south of the present Ghirardelli said Kowbyl has a railroad easement and a sewer and water easement. road. Simone said county men and equipment would build the walkway wide enough to allow snowplows to scrape the snow off. Mayor Chuck Ghirardelli said he was a little leary of asking Clayton Kowbyl for Members of the council said they would contact Kowbyl about another easement for the walkway. The mayor said city attorney Bryce Brvner and another easement as he already has two. $ agreement between doctors who cover the emergency room at on Carbon Hospital weekends and the hospital management was reached last Wednesday night. According to Bob Quist, hospital administrator, the of board governors authorized him, (Quist), to negotiate with the group of doctors to obtain the best possible coverage. The board was of the general consensus that the group which is presently serving on weekends are well qualified because they have all been trained in trauma centers and hospitals. Dr. L. E. Paulos, who the represented moonlighting physicians, said his group are all training as orthopedic surgeons at the University of Utah medical center and are all well trained in emergency treatment. Physicians representing the medical staff at the hospital said they were pleased with the Quality of care provided by the doctors and noted that they would yke to see the same group continue. Quist said he had tentative approval for the physicians to be paid $15 per hour and $4 per patient seen over the number 50. Also, they are to receive a 50 percent of the fees charged to the patients on anything over $50, Quist said. The arrangement is just temporary, Quist' noted, and it is hoped that this arrangement will help in keeping further problems from arising. The moonlighting physicians were complaining that they see more patients here than at other The hospital charges and possibilities problems of putting the walkway as' proposed by the Simone. Assistant Superintendent School Frank also was in attendance and asked that the walkway be completed Worthin Girls home for Helper in question Temporary agreement reached with doctors A temporary County attorney Ron Boutwell would investigate $15 just for coming into the emergency room and anything a doctor does after that is also charged to the patients, Quist said. "It would be much cheaper for a patient to go to his or her regular doctor than to come to the emergency room," he said. Dr. Paulos said he thought the fees charged by the hospital to the patients for doctors work were too low and said hospital officials should the physicians fees. Quist said the hospital would be examining several .different aspects of the hospital operation with the controller before any : hospitals and should be paid recommendations or for their work. decision were to be made. Dr. Max Morgan clarified Quist said some of the load at the emergency room his comments about the was from people who have moonlighting doctors being colds and flu who could paid. He the said possibly wait until Monday emergency room residents to visit a doctor. He comhave billed the private mented that many health insurance carriers as well insurance carriers will not as having been paid a pay for emergency service retainer from the hospital, for those types of things that thus receiving double pay. are not true emergencies. The possibility of building a group home for girls in Helper seems to be quite a ways off, according to Evaline Roberts, Utan Department of Social Services. Mrs. Roberts requested help from the Helper City council about three months ago in finding property to build the home. Since then, she said, there has not been enough time for her to find a lot and get the plans and work approved. The state legislature appropriated the funds for the home some time ago, Mrs. Roberts said, but the Social Services office here has not been able to find the place to put the home. She said she doesn't know if the funds are still available. Mrs. Roberts, said the group home would be a place for girls who have problems to go and be counseled and have constant supervision. The group home which used to be in Price was closed and the home sold because neighbors objected to the presence of the home for problem girls in the , before school begins in the fall. The council also directed Bryner to look into the possibility of obtaining permission from the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad to use the old railway bed as a walkway. Simone said the walkway would not take a long time to build and as soon as a decision was made by the City Council, the county would move ahead with the equipment. The county would like to improve the from the Castle Subdivision, Simone !owners but . also road Gate said, of property near the curves roadway. has have not been contacted Carbon County about obtaining additional jurisdiction over the road property for the im- going up Spring Canyon and provements and no definite is responsible for improvements. Also, most of plans have been made. The council agreed that the property on which the the walkway would be proposed walkway would finished before school run has not been annexed by started to protect the Helper City and is still in children presently using the Carbon County. Valley Camp sets November 1 for opening new Belina mine November 1 date has set as the target date . to start work on the new Valley Camp of Utah Belina No. 1 mine in Eccles Canyon near Scofield. According to Robert J. Steele, a Valley Camp spokesman, the coal company is now working on the access roads and the power transmission lines to the mine. He said the initial work is going strong, since the present road is just a road and not much more. The new road will be needed to transport the new equipment needed to mine the A been The reserves will be mined continuous by mining methods and the coal will be trucked to the Utah No., 2 unit train loading plant between Scofield and Clear Creek, he noted. Initially, Steele said, the coal will be mine run coal and will not have to be washed, but will be crushed and screened. Most of the coal which is mined in the development stage will be used to supplement the present long term contracts which Valley Camp has. Steele said the capacity of the new mine will eventually be one million tons a year, but the goal will not be obtained before 1977. He noted that the present be operation V will preliminary work including the roads and power lines and the portal work. He said the main work on the mine will be starting next summer with an early 1977 full capacity goal. will reserves The eventually be sold on a long term contract, he said. "There are adequate reserves for long term contracts," he commented. He did not give an exact figure on the amount of coal which could be mined. coal. Steele said there are two seams of coal which could be mined but that only the top one will be mined in the near future and that will be the Belina No. 1 mine. He said Valley Camp has plans to "ultimately develop" the reserves which would be the Belina No. 2 mine, or the lower seam. (See Mine pg. 2) (See Home pg. 2) City asked to move water line at Colton hy highway offiewd State Department of Transportation officials have asked Helper City to ask for bids to have some 1,300 feet of water lines near Colton Bridge moved. Victor Stuart. Depart ment of Transportation on the road construction project, said the end line would up buried under five "to eight feet of fill material if it is left in its present location. official He said the line will not be under the raodway, but just under the shoulder of the road. The same line, which carries most of Helper City water supply, was broken last week by heavy equipment which was constructing the road. Watermaster Kerry Nielsen said he and his crew had to go to Colton last week to repair the broken line. He said that while repairs were being made, water was not flowing into the city tanks. He said the tanks have filled again and there is no danger of a shortage. Acting City Attorney Bryce Bryner said the original easements which allowed the city waterline near the road would have to ' be examined before any , ' ' t, bids were asked for. Stuart said he thought the city should ask for bids and get the job done and later worry about who should pay for the moving of the line. He said the state would pay the contractor for the movement and then later a decision could be made 1 whether Helper should pay. Members of the city I council, the water department, representatives of the Department of Transportation and the City Attorney examined the line Friday to see the problem. Bryner said he would examine the easement documents and make a decision about what should be done. The line change should have no effect on the city asked that the :ir ? v? In order to finish new road water supply and should not construction. A debate on the responsibility of moving the cause interruption of the water flow. line is currently underway. J " I ()rrl fA WW (Left to right) Bryce Bryner, Ralph Noel, Kerry Nielsen, Mayor Chuck Ghirardelli and Earnest Gardner examine the cities water transmission line at Colton. The state has Mm fc' Keith Reid and Shelly Buchanan help place flags of every nation which has had jurisdiction on the American continent in U.S. history in the Helper Senior Citizens J- - Park. The flags were a project of Mrs. Edna Romano's third grade class at Sally Mauro School. |