Show USPS 349 - 520 CwySQz V Vol 80 No 47 June 7 1990 v how held by Ken Rand The 59th Junior Livestock Show was June heldWednesdayMay at the new Millard County fairgrounds indoor arena Few as long as can remember many the event has been held in its own facility at the north end of Della but it was moved to the county site this year and the old arena has been sold Slock Show Board President Vic Monroe of Scipio praised the new stock show bam “We are really excited about our first year in such a grand building" he said “It’s much larger with more washing areas stalls and pens and lots of seating for everyone" The bam has three or four times the capacity as the old facility While calling it "a tremendous facility" Monroe added “of course we've made some mistakes in setting it up as you would with any new facility but it’ll just keep getting belter each year" Show Secretary Ten Taylor of Hinckley said the number of animals was down this year compared to last "We started ouswith 113 sheep entered and 70 pigs and 110 beef "she said "but we’ve lost a few that didn’t show up" Taylor said the decline in numbers was because exhibitors could sell only one animal for support prices in the The ring was crowded for each division in the hog fitting auction tin g this year instead of two as in years past A second animal may be sold she said but without the support price added to packer prices The reason for the new procedure Monroe said is that the show has been growing faster than local businesses could support “We weren't trying to punish anybody" he said “we were just trying to slow our numbers down Gathering support money for that number of animals is quite a chore Our community and our business people have just been tremendous to support the show but of course their revenues are limited like and showmanship contest anybody else" The show is primarily an educational activity for rural youth Participants are all members of 4 H or high school FF A ages According to the stock show book the show “should create a greater interest and appreciation in the minds of rural youth of the area fur the producaon and marketing of better livestock" Exhibitors come to the show from all over the state Taylorsaid there were no state entrants this year A variety of awards were presented m several categories Awards were presented in livestock judging for dairy cows lambs hogs and beef to first second and third place winners in senior years) junior and beginner 1) divisions In fitting and showmanship contests awards of both cash and trophies were Winners were selected for presented first second and third places in the same age divisions as for livestock judging Grand Champion and Reserve Champions were selected in several classes of the different divisions of animals shown in both Open Show and Junior Show Premium money was not paid this year in open classes Record hooks were also judged A rale of gain contest was also held for Millard County residents only with cash pnzes Selection of judges for the various events is a major undertaking of several show committees Monroe said “I think we're getting some of the best" he said An awards banquet was held as well as a carcass contest banquet and a dance were available Food concessions throughout the event A weight guessing contest for the public was also held Monroe said the show in Millard County is “probablyone of die biggest in the state And the people who come here say it is one of the better shows in the state" Correction CPR saves Fillmore child by Ken Rand Alee Moua was dead when she was pulled from a creek Tuesday May 29 but she is now fighting for her life in a Salt Lake City hospital after efforts by an EMT revived her Millard County Sheriff s dispatcher Diane Peterson said the department was notified at 4:33 pm Tuesday that a child had drowned in Chalk Creek Chalk Creek runs near a trailer park along and under Main Street in downtown Fillmore "The water was dammed up at one spot and I guess it was a good three feet deep where she was found" Peterson said "Nobody realized that she was missing or even in the water until an hour and a half later" Sheriffs Deputy DeVon Quainbcrg investigating officer said Moua had been swimming with some friends in the creek He said it was not known how long the girl had been under water She was last seen by friends at about 3 pm EMT Jolynn Mitchell of Fillmore was the first medical person to respond She was driving down Main Street and was only a few feet from the scene when her bee pier went off "I came around the trailer and this little girl was laying in her dad's arms on the ground" Mitchell said "She was obviously dead" Mitchell said the girl was white and her lips were blue She was cold her eyes were d il ated and she had no heartbeat and Mitchell began she wasn't breathing "She was just full artificial respiration of water" she said "just full of it" Bill Jackson was standing nearby He knew CPR He assisted “I just never dreamed in a million years that she would ever ever come alive" Mitchell said "I just thought she was dead” The ambulance arrived in five minutes CPR was continued while the girl was being transported to the hospital Enroute Mitchell saw Moua "pinkening up" she said "Her lips were pinker and her face was pinker It was just unbelievable I thought I was seeing things" At the Fillmore Community Medical Center Moua showed small pupil dilation and had a weak pulse and weak blood pressure “We got a heartbeat as soon as we hooked herup"Mitchell said “It was unreal Then she started gasping She was having spontaneous breathing right then as soon as we got her onto tne table" Moua was suffering from hypothermia She was put on a ventilator to aid her breathing because of fluid in her lungs heliShe was transported by copter to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City late Tuesday Peterson said as of Wednesday afternoon the girl had not regained consciousness but a CAT scan has shown normal brain waves Colleen Clark public relations spokeswoman for Primary Children's said Moua was in seriin ous condition intensive care as of Thursday morning May 31 Clark had no further information "She’s doing well" Mitchell said Thursday afternoon "They called up today and found out she's doing a lot better” Moua had not regained consciousness yet “but she’s responding" Monday morning June 4 Moua had "taken a turn for the worse" officials at Primary Children's informed Fillmore Hospital Director of Nursing Mark Wood Wood said the girl was just fine" but noted it was the first negative report on her condition “She’s a miracle kid" Mitchell said “I never ever thought in all the world that she would ever come back to life" As this goes to press Alee Moua continues her fight for life Millard schools to get technology money by Ken Rand Officials must decide how Millard School District will use $170461 the district will get as part of a statewide technology initiative fund The 1990 state legislature set aside $13365000 as technological support for public schools percent of that total or $3341250 will be divided equally among Utah's 40 school districts at $83531 each The remainder will be distributed among the districts accord mg to student numbers Millard's portion of the remainder is $86930 for its $1 70461 total State Rep Richard Bradford of Sandy who sponsored the bill creating the initiative said it is the first serious partnership in Utah He said the challenge now is for districts to come up with plans to show legislators the program is valid and useful Educators must take the concept "beyond tinkering on the periphery" he said The bill calls for the $134 million appropriation to be repeated for two more years Supporters say it could turn out to be seed money The fund could grow to $200 million over the next four years when the bill’s provisions for contributions from business the state and school districts and certain vendor discounts are all taken into account Districts must match the state money with one dollar for three School districts get the first installment June 30 but the money can't be spent until they have submitted acceptable plans to a review committee Colleen Colton education aide to Gov Norm Bangerter said the review committee its director and a project office will be in place by A study committee of 4 members has been formed in Millard District to prepare a plan to submit to the review committee The Millard group is made up of administrators and teachers from each of the district- nine schools and two lay people "The two lay people are representing business and have skills in the computer field" District Superintendent Kenneth Topham said The group has already met twice Most of the members attended a convention called ExpoMart in Salt Lake City Monday May 16 The three day meeting featured seminars and workIt drew 87 vendors from the shop business community Topham said the committee meets again Friday June 8 to review a rough draft of a plan to submit to the state for “What we're trying to do is approval prepare a master plan" he said In "Meet produces waste law cord" in our May 3 990 issue we said materials Ash Grove Cement Co wants to bum as alternative fuels are not classified as hazardous We believe an informal waste legal opinion we sought tends to support the statement as made But it should be noted that a handout provided by Ash Grove at a public information meeting on Nov 8 1989 referred to the materials the company intends to test for use as "hazardous waste” In that context the May 31 article was in error Trucker killed on Interstate 15 A truck driver was killed on when his Friday June truck drifted off the highway and jackknifed The Utah Highway Patrol said the accident was reported at 6:20 am Friday It happened just north of Dog Valley about 22 miles south of Fillmore Krzystof Chmura 24 was northbound on the freeway hauling produce to Chicago when his rig drifted off the road Chmura fell on its side and jackknifed suffered severe head injuries when the He was pronounced cab was crushed dead on arrival at Fillmore Community Medical Center “It appears he was possibly fatigued” “We may UHPofficcrDeanShiclJssaid never know He kind of started into the turn but not very much so" Dove pleads guilty to 8 counts Deon Dove pleaded guilty Friday June 1 in 4th District Court in Provo to charges eight The former owner of 11 bankrupt Dove’s Happy Service grocery stores including one in Delta had been schedbefore uled to stand trial June Judge Boyd L Park Dove had backed out of two previous plea agreements Five of the guilty pleas were to felonies They were for two counts of tax evasion communications fraud theft by deception and racketeerfelonies ing Three were They were thine counts of failure to pay sales tax felonies carry jail The term of one to 15 yean and a possible $10000 fine for each count The felonies carry up to five years in jail and a $5003 fine for each count AD charges were in connection with allegations that Dove bilked the state out $52 million in unpaid sales tax in 984 through 1988 About $110000 of that is owed to Della city Sentencing is scheduled fee July 20 First trial for the former Springville resident on 56 criminal counts was scheduled for December 1989 Dove agreed to plead guilty to 12 counts in exchange for But he dismissal of the other counts backed out and a January trial date was set Prosecutors asked for a delay The June trial date was Dove's third It was going to be vacated when Dove promised to plead guilty April 13 Dove changed his mind (gain so the June date was kept on the book But Dove changed his mind yet again last week Dove 54 now lives in Log and ale Nevada where he works in s gro cry store owned by his of - Marcie Mortensen of Sutherland prepares her entry with father Ken looking on Marcie has been participating in the Junior Livestock Show tor six years She has had three Grand Champions and a Reserve Champion Memorial Day in county was quiet by Ken Rand With minor exceptions the long Memorial Day weekend was generally quiet throughout Millard County “As far as accidents and other incidents that would involve our office" Shenff Ed Phillips said “it was a pretty uneventful weekend” Deputies investigated only two noteworthy incidents One involved major vandalism and theft of county road equipment near Gandy another involved livestock west of Meadow Phillips said this year was quieter than last year but he had no idea why “Probably the roll of the dice is the best I can figure" he said Juab County was "almost overwhelmed with activity" Phillips said Both the Little Sahara Sand Dunes and Yuba Lake Reservoir in Juab are popular weekend and holiday vacation spots Yuba attracted 15000 Memorial Day visitors w hilc the Sand Dunes drew 3500 At the lake there were 98 alcohol arrests 8 DL’I arrests 25 misdemeanor drug arrests 88 traffic citations five assault complaints and one loaded firearm charge Fifteen Juab officers and deputies were on patrol at Y ub Three of them were assaulted In Millard County Phillips said his department used a normal schedule No extra deputies were on patrol Tourist activity on public land in the West Desert and elsewhere in the county was “really pretty quiet" according to Dave Henderson Bureau of Land Management Henderson is BLM Manager for the Warm Springs Resource Area which covers most of the county "Millard County is still kind of undiscovered" he said “We get our routine folks poking about looking for rocks and tnlobues and watching horses and those kinds of things Tomy knowledge we didn’t have anything excessive" Henderson said between here and the Wasatch Front a lot of activity absorbs For example "Little tourist pressure Sahara and Yuba both get really pounded on a weekend like this" he said Noextraord inary measures are taken for the Memorial Day weekend but Henderson said the BLM specifically patrols earlier in the year around Easter “when we have some folks who lend to run the horses some out on the Swaseys and on the Conger Mountains" People will go into the desert and spook horses to watch them run “It's a real problem" Henderson “especially in the Swaseys especially early in the year when they'll run the horses and they'll separate the mares from the foals and then the foals die” Henderson said the Swascy herd is not growing at nearly the rate of the other four herds in the desert He said if you encounter a horse herd in the desert “just stop like you would with any other wild species and watch them If they're running down the road stop and let them run their course wherever they want to go and try and not disturb them" The horse herds are there to look at Henderson said "That’s one thing about these horses out here is that they're very visible and very very healthy It’s a very neat resource we have here" Merchants countyw idc witnessed predictable sales traffic for their particular kinds of business in Delta for example At the Seven-1business “was really good” Manager Mark Bardin said “It doesn't compare with last year but last year IGA wasn’t open at this time and our business picked up quite a bit while they were closed" Bardin said he sold “a ton of the weekend On the other hand Delta Auto and Appliance had relatively routine traffic and Saturday Friday Predictable traffic patterns w ere also seen in east county businesses “Actually summers are our slower time of the year" Ron Baker of Baker Drug in The store was busy Fillmore said “We probably’ had a little however increase I would think"Baker said "but it isn't anything major" The film business picked up he said and a lot of sun screen and similar supplies were sold Ken Sanderson Manager of Hillside Farms in Scipio added extra workers to mind the active gas pumps "It was a hot Southbound freeway spot” he said traffic prevailed early in the weekend The reverse was true at the end Traffic was also boosted at Hillside by the influx of people to nearby Yuba Dam in Juab County which draws vacationers for the Memorial Day weekend Sanderson said his gross was "probably the same" as last year at this time Lower gasoline prices were offset by a higher volume inside the store "Our restaurant just did really wdl over the holidays" he said |