Show Page 2 Millard County Chronicle Progress January 4 Comments I know I promised to get on the ball and get my series on Taiwan underway but I haven’t done so yet Monday holidays just have me so confused I haven't known what day of the week it is since about December 23rd I’m not going to promise but maybe next week I can get the series started It is frustrating to type w ith one hand not that I am real great with two so that has also made it real easy to use that as an excuse I want to begin the scries with their first Democratic Election as that is why I was their guest So I have been 122Q Media Man! Never trust a by Sue nekkid hitchhiker the election literature and I can definitely say that unfortunately they patterned a bit too much after the United Slates They put out mounds of material and I only have their English version I went nuts with the picture taking and shot up 8 rolls and at that I feel like I should have taken more So once I get going hopefully I can use a lot of pictures I hope everyone enjoyed the holidays I survived broken arm and all but I still haven't finished my Christmas shopping maybe by Valentine by Ken (not related to Calvin Klein) Rand of mine tells me of an A unfortunate incident at a local laundromat (Editor’s note: Laundromat Is a copyrighted name for a coin operated laundry operation Not all laundry operations are Laundro- mats) Are you going to be difficult again Ed? This is going to be tough enough as it is trying to make sense out of robbery and mayhem right here in Delta City amen I mean here we are innocent bystanders yea verily subject to crime in our very midst hallelujah and you want to interrupt to get technical about some peddly little (Ed's note: We’re sure he meant “plddly” but we’ll not correct him so as to gran t him the Illusion of editorial Ask the Help Unit Highland Ridge Hospital answers your questions about addiction to alcohol orother drugs If you have a question please write to: Dee Thorell Highland Ridge Hospital 4578 Highland Drive Salt Lake City Utah 84119 If you or someone you care about has a problem and you need immediate help call the confidential (801) helpline All letteis and calls will be kept in strictest confidence Question: Why is it said that the holidays are a particularly difficult time for people addicted to alcohol or drugs? Answer: There are several reasons First of all the holidays are a time of celebrating and for some people that means getting high Even the television commercials push the connection between alcohol and holiday cheer For people w ho already have a problem with alcohol or drugs this provides an excuse to drink or use even more than usual There is more free time days off from work vacation time and addiction people often use this time to drink steadily or go on benders Another important fact is that the holidays are a time when families come together Addictive disease isolates people The more a person drinks or uses the more they turn ward isolate themselves from colleagues friends and family You may not think so to see people laughing in a bar but the comraderie of alcohol is not true friendship There may be laughter and but there is no intimacy Faced with the true family feelings brought out by the holidays alcoholics are often driven to drink more or use more to hide their underlying feelings of guilt shame and loneliness Combined these factors make the holiday season a very difficult time for people Independence) Anyway as I was saying in the first said after paragraph my washing her clothing she put her favorite pair of blue jeans on a chair outside the laundry operation in order that the said blue jeans might dry via solar heat rather than mechanical means to which she had subjected the remainder of her sundry clothing hab moicy To make a long story short is (Me again: The management grate At I) somebody ripped off my ladyfriend's pants (Eddy: Whoa! Slow down there pal You don’t mean while she was in them do you hah hah hah) The term “expletive deleted" was invented not only to launder the language of (as well as to describe) the but to provide Nixon administration response in public forums such as this column to the kind of crude inane insensitive sexist exploitative dirty liberal pinko commie ratfink commentary for which the journalistic profession is oft justly criticized amen (Ed: The management apologizes to those sensitive readers offended by the use of the term “expletive de- The County Agent by Carry Campbell USD Extension Agent Nitrate poisoning Many weeks and crops can accumulate nitrates in toxic levels Some for our area are: Kochia pigweed sorghum russian thistle nightshade sorghum com and even oat hay when the right conditions are present Other sources of nitrate poisoning are fertilier machine oil and some water sources The right conditions that favor trate build up are: long periods of cloudy cold temperatures weather plants growing in the shade restricted water damage to plants Remember nitrates are broken down to nitrite and finally ammonia Nitrite is ihe form most quickly absorbed by the blood Nitrite converts hemoglobin to mclhcmoglobin and results in its inability to carry oxygen In essence they suffocate Signs of poisoning in mild case clude: Watering eyes unthrifty reduced milk flow reduced weight gain Severe cases have a blue coloring of membranes of the eye mouth and nose shortness of breath staggering gate and death Prevention: - Test susceptible crops w ith d for nitrates - High grain diets speed the conversion of nitrate to ammonia and also dilute the concentration - Drop protein supplementation til animal recovers Added protein or area will compound the problem - Dilute with low nitrate feeds such as grass hay and straw Treatment: Call your veterinarian he can use methylene blue I V and other drugs to help save the animal leted") Ribbon Cutting at new Fairgrounds left to right Commissioner Mike Styler Miss Millard 2nd Attendant Kathy Anderson Miss Millard Jennifer Smith 1st Attendant Teresa Nickle and Commissioner Frank Baker I mean why would anybody want to steal a pair of pants silting on a chair outside a laundry operation innocently basking in the sun? Do you think maybe somebody needed them? Picture this nekkid hitchhiker passing through town (Now there’s a story) and he spots the jeans One of the pretty great attributes of living in Millard County is the trust in one’s fellow man woman lawyer or auto mechanic that we take for granted We brag to our city cousins (as often as we can and for lack of other things to Fairgrounds "V- Delta Area built Delta City approved a zoning change last year that allowed Millard County to begin construction of the county fairgrounds east of Delta The indoor exhibit building was finished in time for the county fair in August and the indoor arena was finished shortly after An outdoor arena will be added in time and the parking lots around the grounds will be paved Fillmore Area Precip Archuleta guilty Community Calendar Motor Vehicle Schedule: Fillmore & Della weekdays Millard County Assessor’s Office 2nd Thursday of Month Great Basin Historical Society meeting 7:30 pm The Millard County Chronicle Progress US PS Published Publishing at 40 N 300 W Publisher Susan - Delta Utah Editor B Dulson Editorial Ken Rand Reporter Advertising Julie Ward Goertz Design Sales & Accounts Riley Wood Rua Robinson Sales Evelyn Mallet - Fillmore Rec Office Manager - Rita Robinson CirculationComp CirculationProducnoi! Commercial Printing Shell ic Dulson Subscriptions in Advance In County - S2000 per year $1300 per 6 months Out of County - $2500 per year Single Copy - 50 cents POSTMASTER: Said Address cJtanges to PO Box 249 Delta Utah 84624 Rates on Request Pottage Paid at Delta Utah 84624 Advertising Second Class Delta: or Fillmore: 743 DUWTL PUBLISHING OWNED SUSAN WILLIAM f I 5340 COMPANY BY B DUTSON V WILSON A in public Story Hour Delta City Library 4 “Systematic Training for Effective Parenting” model at Fillmore Immunization Clinic Delta Public Health am & pm S Robert J Wilson and Deanna Lynn Dunkle wedding reception Oak City Ward Cultural Hall 7 10 pm January 6 Eugene and Nayon Cahoon Young Golden Wedding Open House Sutherland Church pm Shaunali Spor and Joel Mcinhardt wedding reception Delta Stake Center 7 - 9 pm Shayn Nielson and Kerri Willey wedding reception Oak City Cultural Hall pm Surprise Birthday for Ruth Ashby Ruth’s home 34 North Center Delta 3 - 5 pm January Circulation Julie Ward Goertz Force official discusses electronic battlefield project hearing in Eskdale Air January January at Della every Thursday Utah 84624 by DuWiI Located Every Thursday TOPS meets at Delta Middle School dining room 5 pm 10 am Wednesdays 8 President Millard Fillmore Birthday Anniversary Open House pm Special Everyone invited 24th January Medical Emergency Training Course IXita Tuesdays pm St Saturdays 9 am-pm January 10 Delta City Library Literacy classes begin 7 pm Sign up prior to class January 12 VFW Field Service Officer Delta City Job Service Office 1:30-pm Heidi Tolbert and Eric Redd wedding reception pm Deseret LDS Chapel Great Basin Historical Society program on Oasis 7 p jn Delta City Council Chambers January 18 Mothers March Seminar pm Rick 'a Family Restaurant Michael Anthony Archuleta 1989 Continued 'Ihe original idea was to have a popular vote on each siting application but that approach was found to be legally weak The alternative was an “advisory" vote It would not be legally binding but Commissioner Mike Styler said it would be “politically binding" In May County Attorney Warren Peterson was accused of sandbagging preparation of the ordinance for voter approval Peterson rejected the notion citing his current caseload which cluded three homicide trials pending and a major tax lawsuit involving IPP among other tasks A Salt Lake law firm was asked to draft an ordinance It was discussed by the Planning and Zoning Commission in July and County Commissioners viewed the draft in August and again in September Just before the election in November it was reported that the vote may not be constitutional A court in another state ruled that popular sentiment alone was insufficient cause to deny a siting permit But on Nov 7 voters made it clear what their sentiment was: PROHIBIT rather than PERMIT The margin was about Rollins announced plans to abandon Millard County and build near Green River As he had promised Commissioner Mike Styler took the wishes of the voters to the Planning and Zoning Commission in December and requested the appropriate change in the county Master Plan To the shock of the group of citizens who had fought to prohibit hazardous waste in the county the Commission rejected the requcsL Styler said the County Commission could bypass the PAZ Commission as P&Z had bypassed the voter referendum and rule on the issue That action ia expected to happen during the first month of 1990 On May 26 1989 Nancy and David Church received the first annual Gordon R Church Memorial Award from friends of the SUSC student They received their son's posthumous bachelor’s degree in theater arts on June 3 Gordon Ray Church was murdered Nov 22 1988 A few days later Michael Anthony Archuleta and Lance Conway Wood were arrested and charged with murder A preliminary hearing held jointly for the pair began in Fillmore in late January 1989 It was continued to April The two men were bound over to 4ih District Court to stand trial separately Both pleaded innocent Archuleta was assigned to Judge George E Ballif Wood was assigned to Judge Boyd L Park The press and public were excluded from the preliminary hearings on the order of Justice of the Peace Ron Hare The order was reversed Oct 23 and the transcript of the hearing ordered released to the public Archuleta's trial began Nov 16 Jury selection was conducted behind closed doors in Provo It waj interrupted by the Thanksgiving holiday and delayed by several legal actions The trial itself began on Monday Dec 4 The jury went out Friday Dec 15 and returned more than eight hours later with the verdict of guilty of murder in the first On Wednesday Dec 20 the degree same jury that convicted him sentenced Archuleta to death Execution date was set for Feb 19 1990 but all dcith peinlty cases are automatically appealed to the Utah Supreme Court Wood wjll stand trial Feb 20 Electronic battlefield The Air Force announced in 1988 it plana to build a huge electronic battlefield in the West Desert of Millird and Juab counties to lest combat equipment In January 1989 they announced an Environmental Impact Statement on the project would be ready in May In December they announced it would be ready in January 1990 Meanwhile opponents and proponents of the project spoke their minds Millard County Commissioners in 1989 said they supported the project as did Sen Orrin Hatch a rd the Ogden Chamber of Commerce Juab County Commissioners objec don’t lock up our brag about) that we homes cars or daughters at night because there is no crime here There was a time before I became a and famous humor columnist for a prosperous rural newspaper conleft my I glomerate when deliberately car unlocked rationalizing thus: if anysteal to that is enough desperate body hunk of animated boat anchor it’s my Christian duty to help them do it In the spirit of charity I often left the key in the ignition Hallelujah So I wouldn’t be too upset if it were my pair of pants that got ripped off er stolen if could believe that somebody actually needed them But it would be easier to believe somebody needed my 1969 Hen way then it would be to believe somebody needed those pair of pants Unless of course there was this nekkid hitchhiker with cold knees Or maybe it was a busload of East Germans enroute to Hollywood clad only in their Or maybe there were these aliens on a scavenger hunt Maybe you noticed the article in the Tribune Lake Salt Monday Jan “Drunken Californian Sans Trousers Cited" where the police report was quoted (I am not making this up) “He did not realize he was nude from the waist down in apublic place until the responding officer informed him” Scratch him from the suspect list Chances that the pcrloined pair of jeans would fit anybody but their rightful owner are of course remote Jeans have a sort of way of fitting a particular you know form And the form of which I speak here is (how best to put this?) definitely well within the approratio They priate were her favorite jeans you see Yea verily Look it doesn’t matter who Jack (or r is If the Jill) the Pants jeans are not returned the consequences could be awful Imagine what will rural beloved of our become tranquility if we are unable to trust one another Imagine tanks cruising Main vigilantes occasional with New car the burning Jersey license plates snipers atop Christensen's armored school buses curfew at 6 pm instead of 7 pm A reward is being offered for return of the said blue jeans Exact nature and amount of the reward will vary depending on how clever the excuse provided for their possession and in how many pieces and what color they are when returned So come on have a heart whoever you are and return the jeans Hab moicy (Editor’s note: Amen) tions to the project have not been mollified during the past year The Utah Cattlemen’s Association and many West Desert ranchers also object Ditto Salt Lake military watchdog group Downwinders Inc JuabCommissioners asked for a study of the project by a federal agency Sen Jake Gam said he would ask the General Accounting Office for the study Commissioners were angry when they learned that what Gam asked for was not what Gam admitted the they had requested deception saying the commission would just use the information to try to scuttle the project Juab Commissioners rezoned the West Desert in an attempt to give them greater control over the region Downwinders said the Air Force had withheld information about the project The group tried to get more data through the Freedom of Information Act The Air Force rejected the request Downwinders sued It was learned last year that Delta or Fillmore could become a staging area for jets to fly over the West Desert to use the battlefield Several meetings were held in the past year by Air Force officials to discuss the project They occured in Nephi Delta and in the West Desert towns of Eskdale and Partoun Opponents plan meetings on the project Thursday Jan 4 at 6 pm in Partoun Friday Jan 5 at 6:30 pm at Della High School auditorium and Saturday Jan 6 at 3 pm at Westminster College in Salt Lake City New doctor When Dr Brent Black left Delta last summer the community was down to two physicians It could easily employ four according to hospital administrator Gary Stay The hospital offered a $5 000 reward fur anyone who could lure a general The practitioner to work in Delta bounty offer intrigued media across the state Since a lack of good doctors is a plight common to rural hospitals across the nation the reward offer also caught the attention of national media When Dr Robert Nix of Louisiana reported for work in Iaie September a camera crew from CNN was there to record the event Nix’s Kevin Damron got the check for $5000 for his recruiting effort Delta police After several weeks of discussion and negotiations Delta City and Millard County agreed on a contract that would disband the city police department and provide police protection by the County Sheriff s Office Delta became the last municipality in the county to disband it's own police department Under the contract which was expected to go into effect Jan 11990 the city police officers will be hired Sheriffs Deputies Cost to the city U about $176000 by Ken Rand u |