Show Delta Utah $1200 in out ol months $700 and $800 (In Advance) USPS Copy 25$ 0 Vol 75 No 13 October 4 1984 National Newspaper Week Old newspapers are a treasure is held each year in Editor’s Note: National Newspaper Week (October an effort to educate the public as to the critical role a free press plays in maintaining a free society In a highly complex extremely complicated and changing society newspapers provide their readers with an enormous amount of formation in a wide variety of interesting areas In addition newspapers are a “first draft” of history as illustrated in the following story The local paper you peruse each week may not seem like something of value to save for future generations but a recent find of old Millard County Chronicles in a remodeled Delta home has proved a delight to local residents While fixing up a Delta home he recently purchased Tom R Johnson proprietor of his own drywall construction business discovered several very old copies of the Chronicle beneath an old floor “I didn’t think much about it at the time” Tom said “but Stan Broadhead who was working for me at the time took them into Helena Downing at the Wagon Wheel Bar and she found they had all sorts of stories about people who still live around here” It was Helena who told the about the old papers and upon investigation we found that two issues from 1942 and 1943 contained references to several local residents still in this area From a September 1942 issue a front page story reports that Monroe Corbett of Delta was injured in a runaway ’horse accident while he was cutting hay Helena said that Monroe still lives in Delta and remembers the accident survived which he fortunately Other front page stories in that issue were reports that work had begun on the Delta Municipal Airport that the found these issues of the Millard Delta drywaller Tom Johnson County Chronicle while tearing up the floor of a Delta home he was remodeling The papers are full of stories about people still living in the area and provide an interesting perspective on how newspapers function as historical documents were arriving in great Japanese numbers at the Topaz Relocation Camp and that the first of many Japanese babies had been born there Another interesting story warned local tire merchants that they were to sell rubber tires only to authorized people since a strict wartime rationing program was underway In the 1943 issue Helena pointed out a front page report that Henry Forster lather of well known Delta residents Rr v and Niel Forster had won election to the office of Millard County Sheriff by defeating a Mr Kimball "People around here still say that Henry Forster was the best Sheriff we eser had” Helena said Also in the 1943 edition were reports that Delta residents were not responding to a WW II scrap drive Greater dilligence in supporting the war effort was exhorted by the writer Ruth Current city councilwoman Hansen made the front page in this ssue as it was reported her purse was stolen at a bus stop in Salt Lake City when she was returning from a trip nother story in the 1943 copy was an editorial comment by an unknown writer who was upset by the fact that a man had been hired to sit out at Clear Lake and count hunters The man was simply being paid to hunt and fish the story writer lamented 1985 feed grain program announced by USDA Secretary of Agriculture John R Block today announced a 10 percent for requirement acreage reduction in the 1985 feed grain participants program Signup period for the feed grain program will be Oct 15 through Producers may request 50 March 1985 of their projected percent deficiency payments when they sign up USDA estimates that per bushel rates will be: deficiency payment 46 cents corn 47 cents sorghum barley 44 cents and oats 0 cents to Advance deficiency payments eligible farmers will be half these rates A an who accepts producer advance payment but who later does not comply with program provisions of the must refund the amount advance payment with interest plus liquidated Price support loan and purchase and target prices will be the same as in effect for the 1984 crops Loan and purchase rates per will be: com bushel $255 sorghum $242 barley $208 oats rates - rye $217 Target prices per bushel will be: com $303 sorghum $288 barley $260 oats $160 Other 1985 feed grain provisions include: To be eligible for program a producer must agree to benefits limit com sorghum oats and barley acreage planted for harvest to not more than 90 percent of the farm's to feed grain base and devote an reserve conservation agreage acreage of eligible cropland equal to 1111 percent of the planted acreage two As under the 1984 program for bases will be established $131 - determining damages permitted acreages - USU sees results from Kanosh ! bjj it Kanosh ranch-David Christ USU Extension Terry Tindall Kevin Kesler USU Sofia Specialist Extension Agent for Millard County mr and Allen Christensen tain Fanners look ever wheat winter dryland Millard County in cooperaUtah State University Farmers tion with Intermountain fertilizer Assoc have established research plots on property owned by Mr David Christensen of Kanosh The program was coordinated by Dr Terry A Tindall the Utah Extension Soils Specialist and Kevin Kesler USU Extension Agent for Millard County Purpose of the plots was to of demonstrate the importance on fertilizer nitrogen application Utah central of wheat areas dryland The results of the study showed that wheat yields increased by 15 when 40 lbs of Nitrogen was applied and increased by 22 when 80 lbs of Nitrogen was applied At the 40 Intenneu- results ef yWdi b a standby Block also approved in the event of measure authorizing a natural disaster implementation of and grazing haying emergency privileges Approval of the emergenwould be made as cy privileges basis needed on a - There will be no immediate reserve entry in the for the 1985 crops of feed grains USDA intends to review the size of before regular price reserve support loans for the 1985 crops reach maturity At that time it will be whether entry into the determined reserve will be permitted Contracts signed by program as will be considered participants for will and provide binding failure to for damages liquidated the - comply with program requirements cates this combined information will help farmers make better decisions Farmers fertilization on nitrogen may also base nitrogen fertilization recommendations on average wheat yields and protein from each field The concentrations the approach averages soil stored effects of average moisture soil nitrogen fertility and there was a return of 192 ($2082 increase acre) of investment cost and at the 80 lb rate the investment cost return was 176 cropping management practices Soil testing is always recommended to determine the amount of nitrogen released during fallow or carried over from previous applications Soil tests will help you determine and other phosphorus fertilization needs as well Instructions for correct soil test sampling and reporting procedures are available at your County Extension Offices To test for nitrogen sample at increments to a depth in the late fall or early spring of the ($3816 increaseacre) Tindall says that nitrogen is the most often limiting plant nutrient dryland wheat yields in central Utah The yield increase of wheat even when moisture levels are low is of when significant applications the samples crop Keep year separated for analysis The laboratory will report the N in parts per million (ppm) for each of the three The laboratory will also samples fertilizer total provide nitrogen for above average recommendations are utilized Nitrogen are genrecommendations soil available with soil profile Tindall indi- conditions yields For more information about these USU plots contact Kevin Kesler Extension Fillmore Agent lb rate Jlr? an throughout the year - Offsetting and cross compliance will not apply to the 1985 program - Haying will nqt be permitted on conservation reserve the acreage land However the acreage may be the five grazed during except principal growing months as designated by county ASC committees By Kevin C Ketler USU Extension Agent fertilizer research plots w and one one for com and sorghum for barley and oats The 1985 acreage base will be the average of the acreage planted to feed and considered planted grains in 1983 and 1984 --Land designated for the acreage conservation reserve must have been devoted to row crops or small grains in two of the last three years except for a summer fallow farm In the case fallow of summer the cropping requirement is for one of the last two years The land must be protected erosion wind and from water nitrogen fertilizer erally nitrogen moisture based on together Welcome to Delta Signs placed The Delta Area Chamber of Commerce Community Development Committee chaired by Rod Clark this week completed and placed three “Welcome to Delta” signs The signs were placed East of Delta on the Guy Terrell property Northeast of Delta on the Rex Day property and West of Delta on the Vera Hilton property Rex Stanworth played an important part in organizing this project and obfrom taining financial committments Civic groups in the area Gil Trujillo placed the signs Friday September 28 The Chamber expresses appreciation to the many service organizations and Delta City for funding this communiAlso thanks to Guy ty improvement Terrell Rex Day and Vera Hilton for Others generously their contribution giving their time to this project were Cul Rod Clark Rex Stanworth Trujillo Dutson Delta City Street Supply Crews Cliff Reece (IJ DOT) and those assisting with the placement ot the signs Lister Enterprises painted the signs for the Chamber Farm recession hits Utah Some Millard County farmers are having to take jobs at IPP to supplement their farm income as the current farm recession takes its toll on western farmers Though the situation is not as bad in Utah as in the Midwest many Utah farmers now find themselves in tight financial situations with the declining farmland values of the 1980s according to the US Census Bureau The Bureau reports there are more but smaller farms in Utah as farmers try to cut back their operations Ken Ashby Millard County farmer and Utah Farm Bureau representative said that here as elsewhere farmers supplement their farm income with jobs have long been a part of in Utah the average agriculture income on Utah farms in 1983 was less than $2500 That many farmers receive outside income has been cited as a reason Utah agriculture does not suffer the wide fluctuations in income that farmers in other states do far The trend away from farming farming ming and toward does not necessarily men those farmers are on their way out of the industry only that they are unable to make ends meet and must supplement their income said Don Snyder agriculture economist at Utah State University Also more and more urban dwellers are moving to rural areas and raising a few livestock qualifying them as farmers in the Census Bureau’s eyes The Census Bureau considers as a farm any acreage that produces more than $1000 in agricultural products annually These livestock “farmers” tend to raise for aesthetics or benefits said Mr Snyder Tor example raising horses has become a populr in Morgan County said Rod Cliffor Utah I arm Bureau Federation spokesman Taken together then these factors have resulted in Census Bureau figures showing 13983 farms in 1982 compared with 12764 farms in 1978 Average size has gone from 820 acres to 699 acres in the same period IPP no salvation for coal counties Although IPP's annual fuel requirement will amount to about 25 percent of Utah’s future coal production it will only result in about 1200 more coal miners in the mining counties of Carbon Emery and Sevier That estimate comes from the Power Agency developer of IPP which arrived at the figure after talking mining industry officials Four mining companies in the area by late 1985 will begin providing about 4 million tons of coal a year for about 25 to 35 years to IPP But while the IPP contracts may hold some hope for the Caron and Emery County future it does little to soothe the depressed economy of these counties today The Salt Lake Tribune reported last week that community leaders in Carbon County estimate the additional miners needed for IPP will increase the mining workforce of the three counties by less than one half of what it was the the second quarter of this year 1 arris A Hunting manager of the Price office of Utah Job Service told the Tribune the workforce increse will be depressed by the widespread use of relatively new minmg technology such as the longwall system It involves the use of a large machine by the same name that cuts coal across the entire face of a seam resulting in greater productivity in less time IPP spokeswoman Ann Garrett said the coal contracts have been written so that IPP can buy as little as 315 million or as much as 536 million ions a year from the four coal companies She told the Tribuen that by only being committed to buy as little as 315 millin tons from the four mines IPP can purchase th rest of its yearly coal requirement from the spot market thereby taking advantage of less expensive rates But even if IPP relics on the spot market that coal likely will come from Carbon and Emery county mines Ms Garrett said that is because PA and Gov Scott Matheson informally agreed that all IPP coal should come from Utah mines |