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Show WESTERN AMERICANA WNVERSfTY vJi OF VTAH SEP 41974 SERIALS ORDER DEPI". 2 jl jj VOLUME 1 NUMBER 21 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1974 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH of U Offers Experts For Speaking Engagements Mountain Fyel To Apply on Utah For Kate Increase - SALT LAKE CITY Mountain Fuel Supply Company announced Monday that as a result of significant new cost increases it must now pay for natural gas puuchased from pipeline and field sources, it has no altern- ative but to file an application with the Utah Public Service Commission for a 83,450,541 annual rate increase in Utah. "All we seek in this application is an offset to the higher costs we are now paying for natural gas purchased from others," said B. Z. Kastler, Company president. "We are now absorbing all of these higher costs, some since last June, but we cannot continue doing this without rate relief if we are to remain financially sound." "It is important that we pay these increases so as to retain the gas supply involved for use in this area," he continued. "In view of the tremendous demand for gas, we cannot afford to take any action that would jeopardize our supply." The Company proposed that the increase be uniformly allocated on the basis of 2.516 cents per Mcf (thousand cubic feet) to all current rate schedules except those in the area which would be increased by 3.271 cents per Mcf because of the higher rates prevailing there. Under this method of allocation, Mountain Fuel's average residential customer in Utah (who uses 180,000 cubic feet of gas a year) would pay an additional 84.51 annually for natural gas service. (In the Roosevelt area, the increase would be 85.92 annually.) For the Utah residential customer, this would be an increase of about 3.2. The increase to firm industrial customers would be about 6 and to large industrial customers about "Even with this increase and the others we have received recently, natural gas is still the most economical fuel or energy available in this area for residential use," Mr. Kastler said. "Our residential rates today are only slightly higher than they were in 1939, but in the years since 1939 the cost of living has increased by more than 230 percent. Had our residential rates since 1939 simply kept pace with the cost of living, they would be three times greater today than they are." Mr. Kastler cautioned that the price Mountain Fuel is having to pay for gas purchased from others is continuing to escalate and cited a proposed November 1974 increase in the price of Canadian gas from 62 cents per Mcf to 81.30 cents per Mcf. This gas reaches Mountain Fuel by way of purchase from Northwest Pipeline Corporation. If the price increase is made, it would raise Mountain Fuel's gas purchase costs by about 81 1,500,000 annually, he said. In its rate increase application, Mountain Fuel said the total cost of the gas purchase increases it is now required to pay is 84,042,807, of which amount 83,450,541 is allocable to Utah natural gas service and 8592,266 to Wyoming natural gas service. The Company will file soon for the increase of gas purchased from Cascade Natural Gas Company; 81,175,140 attributable to a Federal Power Commission opinion setting a new single national base rate for natural gas at the wellhead which also triggered escalation clauses in certain state contracts not subject to FPC jurisdiction; and the remainder attributable to an increase in severance tax being passed on to the Company by small gas producers. Mountain Fuel said the Cascade increase, which became effective August 3, results from a new uniform Supreme Court Decisions Ifl Roosevelt-Myton-Duches- -- See Page 14 New Agency Supervisor Appointed At Lincoln National Myton-Duchesne 8. in Wyoming. Mountain Fuel itemized the total cost increases as follows: 82,848,755 attributable to an incrww in the cost U price the FPC has allowed Cascade to impose of 63.79 cents per Mcf which more than doubles its former prices of 22.65 cents per Mcf for "old" gas and 31.75 cents per Mcf for "incre- mental" gas. Noting that the Cascade increase, while presently effective under FPC procedures, is scheduled for later hearing before the FPC which might result in a possible refund, Mountain Fuel said it has intervened in the case and, "as the sole customer of Cascade, it intends to fully test the justness and reasonableness of the proposed increase ..." The new national base cents per Mcf for natural wellhead which the FPC generally applies to gas rate of 43 gas at the established committed to the interstate market on or after January 1, 1973. The "immediately ascertainable annualized gas cost increases" Mountain Fuel can attribute to the FPC opinion, which was effective June 21, 1974, total 81,175,140 broken down as follows: 8269,756 for small producers, 8423,031 for large producers, and 8482,353 for Uintah Basin gasoline plants. Although the Company's purchases from the Uintah Basin gasoline plants Shell and Gary) are not subject to FPC jurisdiction, the purchase prices are subject to escalation by virtue of a clause in each of the contracts which provides for escalation to the highest price allowed by the FPC for the sale of natural gas in the same area as the gas delivered under the contracts. Mountain Fuel asked the Utah PSC to handle its application under the Summary Rate Adjustment Procedure the Commission recently adopted as a more expeditious means for handling the large and rapidly increasing prices the Company must oay for gas purchased from others. In This Issue 2 Legals Probate Court Confirmation of Sale Suits .... Small Claims Marriage Licenses Divorces 1 1 J Robert K. McKinlay Robert K. McKinlay has been appointed Agency Supervisor for the Lincoln National Sales Corporation of Utah. During the 2Vt years he has been with the Lincoln, he has compiled an outstanding record. He was New Agent of the Year for 1973 and attended the Western Regional Convention in Seattle. Before joining the Lincoln National in 1972, he earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Utah. He later became a Management Instructor at the Army Management School at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He and his wife Connie and their two children, Shelly and Matt, reside in Salt Lake City. Births Bankruptcies Building Permits 6 Bountiful Power Business Telephones Water Service Murray Power Murray City Court New Corporations 2 2 2 4 4 5 5 6 ..... , Uniform Commercial Code Filings Supreme Court Decision 7 8 8 8 9 10 12 . 14 Third District Court Calendar City Business Licenses . Tax Liens Quit Claim Deeds Trust Deeds Liens Supreme Court Calendar 15 15 15 15 16 16 16 Experts on subjects from art to position of the expected audience, time allotted to the speaker, and if a zoology are available for public speakquestion-answe- r statewide a period is desired. ing engagements through schedule many of our we service offered by the University of "Although Utah. without charge, arrangespeakers d The U Speakers Bureau, a ments may be made for honorariums operation which draws from and travel costs," Mrs; Holmberg year-roun- both faculty and administration, provides a variety of program resource for schools, church groups, civic and social clubs, and professional organizations, according to Mrs. Lillian S. Holmberg, supervisor. "We try to satisfy a wide range of interest," Mrs. Holmberg said. "Many of our speakers have received national attention from their research projects, and others are closely associated with issues of current concern." A recently published "Program Chairman's Handy Helper" contains 15 pages of topics under the general fields of arts, education, medicine, money matters, American heritage, the world around us, understanding people, recreation and how the University operates. The booklet is free. "We're in our busy season right now," Mrs. Holmberg said, noting that many program chairmen are starting to line up thejr yearly programs. She added that it is helpful to receive requests well ahead of sched- uled meetings so that speakers' commitments can be assured. Program requests should include topics of interest, name of the group, date, time and place of the program, nature of the occasion, size and com- - explained. Recent bookings have included such diverse subjects as how to pro- tect trees and shrubs; the lighter side of the news; the Utah political scene;, what the U can mean to you; the energy crisis; a poetry discussion; early childhood education, and the poetry and songs of Robert Burns complete with bagpipe solos. Mrs. Holmberg may be contacted at the Speakers Bureau, 308 Park Building, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112 or by calling (801) 581-6773- . Voters Out of Town on Election Day Can Vote fl IIS! Utah to Operate Occupational Analysis Held Center The Utah Department of Employment Security will receive 8210,000 in first-yea- r funding to operate an Occupational Analysis Field Center, the U.S. Department of Labor announced today. Robert J. Brown, Assistant Regional Director for Manpower in Denver, said that the center would serve the Intermountain West, including Arizona, Colorado, the Dakotas, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The center is expected to be in operation by September 1st. As one of the fastest growing economic areas in the United States, the Intermountain West is seeing energy and other industries develop so rapidly as to cause some related stresses and strains on the economy. Among the problems is identification of new occupations in these fields, which too often are misclassified under present occupational headings. The center is to specifically address the problem of new occupational classifications in such fields as paraffin-base- d oil drilling; oil shale mining and processing; special bituminous coal operations; petrochemical industries; alunite mining; mining and milling of uranium and vanadium ores; sulphur solution mining systems; potash production; and new health W. Sterling Evans Those registered voters in Salt Lake County who will be out of the County on Tuesday, September 10th, 1974, the date of the Primary Election, are now able to vote in the County Clerk's Office, located at 240 East 4th South, up until Monday, September 9th, with the exception of Sunday, September 1st, Sunday, September 8th and Monday, September 2nd (Labor Day.) , We will also be open from 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, September 7th, to 1:00 p.m., to accommodate those who are unable to come in at another time. Absentee Ballots are now being sent to those who request them, who are out of Salt Lake County and will not be here for the Primary Election on September 10th. These Absentee Ballots 'must be postmarked on or before noon, on September 10th, in order to be counted said W. Sterling Evans, Salt Lake County Clerk. |