Show Dlta Utah $1800 In out of month! $1000 (In Advance) Copy 50 Senior Citizens (65 and older) $1500 in county $1800 out County man drowned in Yuba BANGERTER met informally with county officials and members of the media prior to the county convention GOVERNOR Governor Bangerter kicks off County Republican Convention Governor Norm Bangerter was in Fillmore on Wednesday April 22 to lend support to Millard" County Republicans During the afternoon he met first with Delta and Fillmore city officials and then with members of the media in question and answer sessions That held at the county courthouse evening he and Utah Senator Cary Peterson were on hand to launch the county Republican Convention County conventions are being held throughout Utah now and for the next four weeks in preparation for the 1988 election year Millard County Delta Chairman and Ethel Brunson Fillmore Vice Chairman Their duties include scheduling county mass fund raising distributing meetings party literature and handling local party issues They also become members of the state central committee Greg McDonough Executive Chairman of the Utah Republican Party members to challenged convention work “We can’t sit on our laurels in ’88 Republicans have had a good ten in Utah dominance politics but years of we’re going to have to earn our votes in 1988” KUED 7 presents TOPAZ World War II 120000 During American residents were sent to conin Europe Asia centration camps-n- ot or some other distant place but here in the United States Over 8000 of children were these men wome crime was their interned in Utah ancestry their penalty was their loss of freedom They were ethnic Japanese (more than 60 percent were American citizens) who became victims of the wartime fears of their fellow Americans On Wednesday May 6 at 8 pm May 9 at 6 (and again on Saturday TOPAZ the 7 KUED presents pm) story of the thousands of San Francisco Bay Area Japanese who were separated and from their property livelihoods constitutional rights removed from their homes and shipped to a windswept stretch of Utah’s roughest rangeland There for more than three years these men women and children were forced to call row after row of tarpaper barracks “home” This was Topaz a War Relocation camp near Delta Utah which overnight became the fifth largest city in the state The internees surrounded by barbed wire and armed sentries were never formally charged with a crime and were never granted a trial They were simply uprooted from their homes and trains It shipped off in blacked-ou- t was feared that though most were American citizens they would be more likely to serve the Emperor of Japan than the cause of freedom in the United States No evidence was ever presented to sustain the rumors of penor disloyalty but ding sabotage “military necessity” became the foundation for one of the darkest wholesale actions against an ethnic minority in American history German and Italian Americans faced no similar wartime sanctions TOPAZ examines Utah’s unique role in the relocation program and plores the atmosphere in Utah during this period Through archival film and photographs many never broadcast before and through interviews with surviving internees and Utah camp workers the years of imprisonment are brought to life from Utah’s perspective TOPAZ also provides deeply personal insights into the ironies of War Relocation: the struggle of camp residents to find normality in their lives in the desert what it meant to pledge the allegiance to flag of a country that considered you a subversive because of 911 in Millard County 911 is now available throughout all Millard County Millard County Sheriff Ed Phillips whose office is responsible for and runs the countywide emergency dispatch system says 1987 the new 91 phone that on May system will be completely operational and in full effect The Sheriff says that Millard County residents who live in the far western portion of the county and are serviced by Beehive Telephone Company have had this service for several monthos now and it has been working very well Continental Company Telephone has completed its work well ahead of schedule for 911 service in the mainder of the county Sheriff Phillips reports that the May 1st date was selected to coordinate with the issuance of the 1987 phone directories However the inside cover of the new directory is incomplete and needs some This will be accomplished correcting by Contel Continental Telephone Company will be printing a corrected supplemental stick on page for the inside cover of the new directories and these will be mailed enclosed in their May customer billings The change will state that the 91 service is to be used for all emergencies fire police Sheriff ambulance and all other requests for law enforcement ser- - of vices It is not used solely for cases are when human life or property In other words the jeopardized Sheriff says that when you need a law officer dial 911 For enforcement other needs call the appropriate agency business office for service All numbers listed as business numbers will continue to be answered in the dispatch center until it is felt that everyone has become accustomed to and familiar with the new system Then calls other than those on the 911 system will be answered in the Sheriff’s office or business Delta Police Department’s office This new system will eliminate the need for increased personnel in the dispatch center by shifting the business types of calls to existing personnel in to the business office According Sheriff Phillips the phone traffic into his dispatch has steadily increased over now and has the past several years reached the saturation point One person in Dispatch was unable to handle all the calls during business hours while attempting to complete other duties on the radios and operating jail controls The Sheriff wishes to thank the citizens of Millard County for their support of this new system It will greatly improve and streamline the emergency dispatch service The following report was issued by the Juab County Sheriff’s Office On April 27 1987 at am Lewis John Monsen was with his family at Yuba Dam He parked his boat at the north side of the lake and left the life preservers in the boat while playing with the family on the sandy beach Mr Monsen noticed that the wind had caused the boat to drift from the beach so he ran to the water and swam towards the boat The wind blew the boat farther out while he was swimming He then realized he had swum too far out and yelled to his wife that he wasn’t going to make it His wife Chris then entered the water and tried to reach her husband He went out of sight under the water and she was unable to reach him The water was too cold and she was forced to return to her three children on shore Mrs Monsen and the children then walked about one mile where she found help from a passing rancher At 11:49 am Juab County received a call and a full fledged search for Mr Monsen was started under the direction of Sheriff David H Carter of Juab County and Sheriff Ed Phillips of Millard County A grid search was conducted and aircraft and divers were used The search stopped at dark and continued at daylight on Tuesday Searchers included persons from Juab and Millard Counties’ Search and Rescue Units Juab and Millard Counties’ Sheriffs’ Departments Utah Parks and Recreation Utah Highway Patrol Department Utah Wildlife Resources area volunteers and one volunteer aircraft At 5:15 this day April 28 1987 the s in about divers recovered was by body feet of water your ancestors the pain of citizens trying to understand a democracy that apparently didn’t apply to them the loss suffered by parents whose sons died in Nisei battalions (American military units made up of Japanese soldiers) while the parents remained housed behind barbed wire TOPAZ also amines the individual case of an elderly man gunned down at Topaz while trying to escape from a facility the government refused to identify as a prison From the outbreak of the war to the eventual closing of the camp TOPAZ insight into what some provides observers consider one of the worst American transgressions against constitutionally guaranteed rights in our nation’s history On the 45th anniversary of the opening of the camp and the 200th anniversary of the Constitution TOPAZ examines the fragile balance that can exist between “rights” and “national security” TOPAZ was produced and directed by KUED 7 Senior Producer Ken in achievements Verdoia’s documentary production include the American Film Festival’s 1985 Blue ProRibbon Award the 1986 PMN gram Award of Excellence and the 1986 National Iris Award for outstandocumentary ding Public Affairs Associate producer is Colleen Casto and the videographer is Carl Seibert Many Millard County residents were interviewed for this project of USPS County 0 Vol 77 No 43 Apr 30 1987 Mormon Tabernacle Choir to entertain at IPP dedication The world famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake City will the featured entertainment at the formal dedication ceremonies of the termountain Power Project on June 13 1987 In preparation for the choir’s performance an accoustical back drop will be erected and a special piano will be transported to the site Rod Clark IPP project director announced that everyone in the area is invited to participate in the enjoyment of the music and the other featured festivities of the day as guests of IPP The dedicatory event planned will be an open house consisting of a program tours luncheon and a barbeque musical entertainment It is anticipated that from 8000 to 10000 people will be in attendance for the ceremonies to be held on the ball field at the Construction Worker Housing Complex be Guided bus touors around the site will be provided for interested guests A packr providing information about the plant will be distributed by guides to the spectators before each tour Tours will begin at 9:00 am stop at 10:45 am resume at noon and continue until 4:00 pm Boyd Christensen is to be the Master of Ceremonies for the dedication ceremony which will begin at 10:45 am Reece Nielsen is to welcome guests and make introductions Invited include Utah Governor dignitaries Los Angeles Bangerter Mayor Bradley Los Angeles Water and Power Official Jim Anthony Utah senators and Secretary of the Interior Hodel LDS Apostle President Hinckley will give the prayer of dedication The program will include a keynote speaker remarks by several dignitaries musical numbers by the Tabernacle Choir and the Delta High School Band the Dedicatory Prayer and the presentation of the dedicatory plaque Various musical groups will perform through luncheon and during the tours following lunch BURTCO under the direction of Ken Merganthal will provide a luncheon from noon until 2 pm The menu will include barbequed meat potato salad baked beans soft drinks and ice cream Rod Clark and the Dedication Committee at IPP have been planning this Tents event for several months canopies chairs flagging stages parking arrangements and signing are being handled by the site coordination team Bob Larson sjfety supervisor for the site is directing safety arrangements and Rex Stanworth is coorwithin Utah dinating transportation Educators propose new plan for elementary school students Governor Norm Bangerter and the state superintendent of schools have sighted a need for more efficiency in education The governor has charged educators with the responsibility of coming up with innovative plans that provide quality educational programs without increasing costs State funds have been designated for these productivity implementation programs In an effort to follow the governor’s directive Barbara Nielsen principal of Delta South Elementary and Scott Bassett of Delta North principal Elementary have done extensive study and research Many hours have been spent in this search for the best program for Delta’s elementary children Following the researching studying and observing in other school systems if a written proposal is submitted it will result in state funding for local schools The state awards $35000 for each approved productivity implementation project The money cannot be used for salaries nor can it be divided between schools Funds are strictly for supplies and equipment and are to be used for one school only It is possible that one school would receive funding and the other would not The proposed program for the two elementary schools in Delta is for split sessions One group of children will attend school from 8 am until 2 pm and another group will attend from 9:45 am until 3:45 pm (This is the same amount of time each child presently spends in school) Those children in the first session will be with their core teachers for basic skills from to 11:30 am In the afternoon the same children will have special art physical education music and science instruction The children attending the second session will have the arts in the morning and the core subjects in the afternoon There will be a lunch period in each session but recesses will be eliminated Classes for the core curriculum-ma- th reading language arts social studies— will be smaller allowing more individual attention and review Classes in the arts art be somewhat larger Teachers for the arts will come from within the system They will teach the particular arts that are most suited to their personalities training and interest No additional specialists will be hired The new program would require that teachers be at school from 7:30 am until 4 pm To compensate for the tra work hours and responsibilities each teacher will receive an additional $2900 plus one hour preparation time daily According to Superintendent savings from reduction in Topham staff will be redistributed to cover the increase in pay Dr Topham also pointed out that transfers within the system may occur in order to maintain current teachers affected by the reduction in personnel at a particular school Both Barbara Nielsen and Scott Bassett report that the teachers in their schools are supportive of the proposal In an effort to inform parents of and to assess their response to the split session proposal two meetings have been held North Elementary’s meeting was 8 on Tuesday April 21 and South Elementary’s was held Monday April were the principals 27 In attendance Dr Board of Education members Topham teachers and parents Scott Bassett reported favorable response by most people attending his meeting Speaking at Delta South’s meeting Board member Pat Manis explained that the Board had felt a need to study different programs Since the state can come in with mandates for overcrowded schools the local Board wanted to educational plans have alternative Delta received a study grant from the state and three programs were researched by Barbara Nielsen Scott Bassett round Dalton-ye- ar and Eleanor schooling the four day week and split sessions “The split session” said Mr feasable Manis “was chosen as most for Delta” In order to assess the parents’ attitudes toward the proposal Mr Manis stated that the Board is considering preparing a questionnaire or survey He urged parents to put their unanswered questions in writing and to feel free to call school officials andor members of the Board Both Dr Topham and Pat Manis emphasized that no final decision has been made Parental support and apimproval are necessary to successful is If the proposal plementation the it will be implemented adopted first year on a trial basis Test scores Math and reading will be evaluated scores which are good now must main good and improvement in science and other areas is expected Delta South Elementary has Coyote College When the governor cut back on funds for education he asked parents their services to the to volunteer schools It didn’t take Kevin Chapman anytime to get the ball rolling at Delta South Elementary School The result is Coyote College Last fall Mr Chapman began making phone calls to parents soliciting terests and areas of expertise What could they offer to the children that fun and challengwould be different ing in the way of instruction? Later at a parent meeting suggestions and ideas were made and a plan was formulated Beginning in January an eight week program was conducted and another was implemented The parent volunteers have offered a wide variety of classes on Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 2:45 According to Susan Hender one volunteer the program has been “fun and a great idea” Elementary teachers in Delta have no preparation time during their working hours Therefore the volunteer pro- gram provided release time for the teachers to work on the Outcome Basa program of perfored Education mance and corrective objectives Prior in the to the volunteer participation had had to do all the teachers school the planning after school hours The courses currently being taught are Ceramics Arts and Crafts Spanish and 2 Computers Aerobics Sports Health Drawing Fitness Beauty and Water Color The children grades one through four were asked to make choices They were then scheduled for a class that matched one of their choices in Parents who have participated Coyote College are Marva Jean Anderson Karen Lovell Sandra Lester Hazel Maben Debrorah Jones Ovidia Tarin Susan Sumsion Shelia McCann DeAnn Betenson Shuanee Harrison Susan Hender Lisa Black Crystal Palmer Linda Smith Christine Cindy Clark Melody Bishop and Roylane Tolley SUSAN HENDER teaches cosmetology to third and fourth grade girls |