Show s it Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Delta Utah $1800 In out ol county 6 month $1000 (In Advance) Senior Citizens Copy 50 (65 and older) $15 00 in county $18 00 out of County a m v 9 £ Yrfl ri USPS Vol 7 78 No 5 Aug 6 1987 Great Basin National Park Nevada Dedication Dedication ceremonies for Great Basin National Park are scheduled for 10:00 am Saturday August 15 1987 Nevada Baker “The ceremonies in mark the first time in sixteen years that a new National Park has been formally dedicated” said Regional Director Stanley T Albright of the National Park Service’s Western Region “The new area was established by Congress October 27 1986 and joins 48 other unique US national parks” The program is open to the public and will be held under a 20000 square foot tent two miles south of Baker and west of State Highway 487 The dedication will be followed by an open house at the new national park including tours of Lehman Caves Former Senator Paul Laxalt GoverChic Senator nor Richard Bryan Hecht and Senator Harry Reid are among the dignitaries who have agreed to serve on the honorary committee for committhe ceremonies A tee also includes former Senators Howard Cannon and Alan Bible US Barbara Vucanovich Representative and Jim Bilbray Lt Governor Bob Miller Assembly Speaker Joe Dini Ken Redelsperger State Senator Assemblymen Virgil Getto and Robert Price White Pine County Commissioner John Lampros Ely Mayor Robert Bartlett former Ely Mayor Barlow White Park Superintendent A1 Board Hendricks Baker Township Member Peter Ford and First Lady Bonnie Bryan who is also chairperson of the dedication planning committee “We’re extremely excited about the dedication of Nevada’s first national park” Mrs Bryan said “The Great Basin Dedication Planning Committee has been working diligently for several months to ensure that the dedication weekend is a big success” Glen Swalberg of the Delta Chamber of Commerce is a member of the dedication planning committee Among the featured speakers for the day will be former US Senator William Penn Mott Jr director of the National Park Service Nevada US Governor Richard Bryan Senators Chic Hect and Harry Reid Vucanovich of and Representatives of Nevada and Bruce Vento chairman of the subcommittee on national parks and public lands A special postal cancellation of the Great Basin National Park dedication is also planned by the US Postal Service Festivities will begin Friday August 14 in Panaca with the Lincoln Coun- ty Rodeo On Saturday a breakfast will be held in Ely from 7 to 10 am sponsored by the Ely Boy Scouts Another breakfast will be served from 7 to 9:30 am in the Baker Town Hall It is under the direction of the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce The cost of the latter will be $450 for adults and $250 for children 12 and under There reservations will be no advanced necessary A western barbecue hosted by the years of age activities Additional weekend will include a show at the Bristlecone Center in Ely rides on Nevada Northern Railway dance in Ely during the cowboy art Convention the historic and a street Fillmore’s Main Street has new look Fillmore’s Main Street which is actually owned by the State of Utah has been undergoing a complete rejuvenation A year ago Mayor Gillins of Fillmore was approached by the Dept of Transportation with the intent on resurfacing Main Street However at that time Fillmore was in the process Main of renewing Street’s old sidewalks curbs and gutters a project which begin early last summer the actual work started in September Mayor Gillins asked if the street resurfacing could be postponed until the sidewalk renewal was finished The request was granted and was scheduled for the summer of ’87 True to their word the job was contracted out to a private company under the supervision of State Highway Engineers Complete resurfacing of Main Street was accomplished in one from week interchange to interchange A V inch layer of plantmix seal was spread as a covering layer enabling traffic to use it almost immediately Within a week or two a sweeper will ‘ Parent Teachers r also is scheduled from Association noon through 5:00 pm at the park’s Upper Lehman Creek Campground for those who have purchased tickets in advance Contact the Delta Area of call Chamber of Commerce for tickets $850 per adult or $400 for children from five to thirteen come to sweep up all the annoying little pieces that are flaking off until it is well packed or those that are now laying in the gutters and on sidewalks In the meantime shoes will be leaving little crumbles on your car floors or business approaches However it does mean an excellent road is at your disposal for summer and winter traffic for at least five to seven years or longer The main streets of Meadow Kanosh Holden and Delta will also be resurfaced this summer MISS MILLARD 1987 is Julie Mace of Fillmore Her court includes 1st Attendant Susan Topham of Delta and 2nd Attendant Sandy Larsen of Holden The pageant was held Saturday August Miss Millard 1987 Julie Mace daughter of Sally and Marlow Mace of Fillmore was selected as the 1987 Miss Millard County She received a $500 scholarship plus a $200 evening gown allowance Her responsibilities as Miss Millard will include reigning over the County Fair participating in the Utah State Fair and the Miss Utah contest next summer She will also be expected to attend any function to which she may be invited in her official capacity Susan Topham daughter of Opel and Ken Topham of Delta was 1st attendant and was the recipient of a $200 The 2nd attendant Sanscholarship dy Larsen daughter of Dean and Con nie Larsen of Holden received a $100 scholarship Debbie Wardle daughter of Julia and Allen Wardle of Delta was third runner-uand Darnee Dutson daughter of Afton and Howard Dutson of Oak City was fourth runner-uand winner of the $100 talent award scholarship Polly Zeigler daughter of Ken and Janice Zeigler of Holden was chosen as “Miss Congeniality” Judges for the pageant were Coleen Gardner from Ogden Peggy Mason a certified judge who has been involved in dance for twelve years Chad Hulet a certified judge from Payson Dixie Lewis also a certified judge and former director of Miss Mi Pleasant and Tracy Lewis who has been involved in pageant work for six years is The Miss Millard Pageant reported as being “a smashing success” and many of those in the capacity crowd attending have been quoted as saying it was the “best pageant ever held" Much of the success is credited to director Sandra Dutson and the outstanding MC Romona Gibbons Loreen Finlinson the outgoing queen gave up the crown to the new Miss Millard County and received a ovation for her final walk standing Autovon is a complex system by Dawn Carder Here in Delta is an advanced electronic switching center known as Autovon or Automatic Voice Network The local operation and a similar one located in the Sierras above Topaz Lake in Nevada are owned by Continental Telephone Company Both are part of the worldwide governmentally installed supervised and controlled Autovon System within the Department of Defense The idea for the service was conceived in 1963 as a way to consolidate the communication numerous military systems into one more positive network Assuming there are no problems the the Autovon system provides government a guaranteed path through the machine at all times Applied solid state electronics make possible speeding up the switching process practically to the speed of light the heart of each Comprising Autovon switch is a complex and compact series of carded circuitry and relays woven into the switch matrix coming calls are automatically screenrouted connected ed for importance and verified for transmission acceptability within two to ten seconds to any one of the Autovon stations in the world The Delta Autovon was built approximately twenty years ago according to employee Roger Bliss and it was the first electronic switching center in Utah The switch was brought up and installed by Automatic Electric and the 7500 square feet building of reinforced concrete was constructed with of Salt Lake Skyline Construction City as the general contractor At the beginning of the project worked along with employees Electric of Automatic employees There were technicians from all over the country as well as a few local people who had qualified for positions Those hired had some background in electronics and they were required to attend 490 L Autovon Training at any one of several training location across the country Length of courses varied For example Roger Bliss attended for nineteen weeks in Chicago and George Dutson spent three months in Terre Haute Indiana Locally Roger Bliss has the most seniority for he began with the project twenty years ago At that time there were nineteen employees Today due o nn& SHERIFF ED PHILLIPS awards Robert as Commissioner AB Sheriff's badge Nielson a looks on The badge makes Nielson Honorary Johnson Marshall for the Millard County Fair Nielson chosen Grand Marshall Roger Bliss and George Dutson to attrition and more efficient engineerthere are only eight men ing craftsmen and one maintain the system supervisor--whr hours a day seven days a week There are three eight hour shifts and everybody does basically the same thing During the day however the men stay out of maintenance unless there is a major problem within the network They handle the test board The men on the other two shifts are responsible for repairing anything that is broken during the day Contel's Allen Wardle is the District Manager of the Delta Autovon and the supervisor is Fred Jackson The other employees are Roger Bliss LeRoy Fowles Dean Redd Gil Trujillo George Dutson Bob Jones and Bruce of the eight onTaylor (Interestingly site employees six are Delta natives) Many school and civic groups have toured the local site over the years There are also annual government and visits at which time the customer coordinate military and customers operations and suggestions To the technologically uneducated a tour of the Autovon building is overIt is whelming as well as informative overwhelming for the system is so complex There are many operating comand machines for puters terminals which only eight men must assume total understanding and responsibility Teletypes print information on any regularities or failures If an Autovon system anywhere in the world has a problem the local station is aware of the difficulty immediately Computers that once were programmed with IBM cards and took three hours for loading CONTINUED Robert A Nielson former city councilman and mayor of Fillmore has been chosen as Grand Marshall of the Millard County Fair for 1987 After 35 years of outstanding service as vocational agriculture instructor in Millard acNielson’s Mr High School complishments and honors are many InAmong his honors are “Utah Beef dustry Father of the Year” 1987 Delta City filing deadline Delta City has three council seats up for election this year Filing Deadline is Aug 25 1987 Interested persons and filing may receive information forms from the Delta City Clerk ON PAGE 3 1 Teacher of the Year” 1987 “Utah Educator of the Week” Jan 2 1984 “Utah Teacher of the Year” 1977 “Outstanding Secondary Educator of America” 1974 and FFA Advisor in Utah “Outstanding “Utah 1963 Mr Nielson known affectionately as “Ag” has given 34 years of outstanding service to the Millard County Jr Livestock show and has been on the County Fair Board for 9 years Me has a smile for everyone and shows a warm and cheerful outlook on hte The Millard County Fair Board is honored to have a man of such service and fluence to our youth and our communities as its Grand Marshall Congratulations “Ag" Judge honored E Sixth District Judge Joseph Jackson 51 has been named “Juvenile Court Judge of the Year” by the Utah State Bar Judge Jackson was honored during the Bar’s 57th annual meeting in Park City “Judge Jackson is fair and honest and has all the qualities to make an cellent juvenile court judge" said Bar President Bert Dart Jackson has been the 6th District Juvenile Court judge since 1986 coverKane ing Beaver Iron Washington and Garfield Counties Prior to 1986 he served nine years with the 4th District Juvenile Court Since his appointment to the bench m 1977 by former Governor Scott Matheson Jackson has served two terms as presiding judge of the board of Juvenile Court judges and currently serves on the Rural Court Committee for the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges Jackson graduated from the University of Utah law school in 1961 He spent several years in private practice and was the city attorney for Fillmore Beaver Milford and Cedar City before his appointment to the bench Jackson was born in Fillmore in 1935 He and his wife Sherrie have six children |