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Show rKyv rjCv M I USPS 446-74- ILLARD COUNTY Founded NNA IN 1894 25 CENTS 0 MILLARD COUNTY'S FIRST NEWSPAPER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION V FOUNDED V 1M SUSTAINING MEMBER 4soc'3?'On Y f 1085 3' --- f MCWlER of 1982 Millard County Progress, Fillmore, Utah 84631 Volume 88 Number 29 AVERAGE DAILY -- ACUTE Friday, July 6, 982 1 1 - the OltJfe CuXi . Fund Raising for New OCCUPANCY CARE- , if fill ii 41 Library (AN INCOME The near future offers opportunities INDICATOR) PATIENTS to all citizens of Fillmore and surrounding communities to assist in fund raising to help finance the new library. The Millard County Fair Board has granted permission for some sidewalk 6 concession booths during the coming Fair in Fillmore August Also the Chief Kanosh Pagaent Committee has granted permission for concessions plus the serving of dinners in the park prior to the four presentations August Loyal citizens are asked to volunteer food and help in carrying out these projects. You may sign up on pledge papers displayed in stores in the communities prior to these dates. Watch for them and show your interest and willingness to do your part in obtaining this new and most needed facility. The Library Board 11-1- First Kanosh Ward 24th 6 months Celebration Kanosh Ward invites you to attend their 24th of July celebration. The day will include a parade at 9:30 a.m. Auction at 10:00 a.m. Dinner follows the auction. Dinner Prices: The hospital just completed a very FamUy- - $15.00 thorough state licensure inspection and Individual $4.00 received a special letter recognizing its Children under 12 years - $2.50 obvious dedicated nursing and professional Come and join us for a day of fun ! I care and hospital leadership. Community Rallies To Save Hospital The East Millard County residents rally and turn disaster into hope. Last December community leaders, church leaders and local citizens were informed of the possible closure of the Fillmore Hospital. The hospital had lost money for 21 straight months due to limited use, and closure was a close as three to six months away. After six months, it is very evident that community members did not want this to happen. Many turned to community physicians and the hospital for their health care needs. As evidenced by the graph above, a two year declining usage trend has been stopped and sharply reversed. Many community individuals and groups as well as staff and physicians have worked hard to reverse the trend. A few examples are: Memorial funds from the Mark Paxton, Ruth Mundy and LueDa Mitchell families are being used to purchase some new small items of equipment Castle k Cooke Foods purchased a $5,000 major item of equipment Janet Cooper and Linda Edwards put up a new mural in the labor room with new items of equipment being given by Dr. Jackson and Dr. Limburg. Craig Bartholomew, manager of DCR, will begin offering new mothers using the hospital, a free movie of choice on their second day after delivery. Sharon Olpin, an interior decorator and Pink Lady, is spending volunteer hours to assist in some redecorating at the hospital. The Hospital Auxiliary (Pink Ladies) program has received state level recognition for their outstanding program and service offered. Many individuals have made this program successful under the able leadership of Sylvia Huntsman. Dr. Bristow, a Provo physician, is now providing EENT surgery in Fillmore. A Nuclear Medicine and Ultra Sound service is now being brought into the community every week in cooperation with Utah Valley period. Dr. Hospital. In the y Jesse Hunsaker will bring a new service to Fillmore in cooperation with die American Fork Hospital who will be providing many costly items of equipment free for this service. Both local physicians. Dr. Limburg and Dr. Jackson, have spent many extra hours in medical education programs and community service to ensure a better quality of health care is available. The hospital governing board has been wrestling with plans for a new hospital to ensure the best facility at the lowest cost is offered the community for their approval in the next few months. A new facility will again raise the level of care available and be the means to attract an additional physician into die community. A new facility will depend gready on the communitys willingness to support its own hospital both now and in the future. PRECIP July-Augu- Opthal-molog- The East Millard communities are a spunky bunch who have proven habits can be changed and pride developed in their own. Keep up the good work. We will soon be on top where we always should be. .16 .16 Public Comes Through for the Fire Department The Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department would like to thank the public for their cooperation over the 4th of July weekend and for their generous support at the fireworks display. A total of $213 was donated during the fireworks display and will be put towards next years display. Anyone wishing to donate may do so by sending their contributions marked "FIREWORKS to the Fillmore Volunteer Fire Department, Box 817, Fillmore, Utah 84631. Utah Hay Growers Co-o- p Opens for Chief Kanosh On The Way Business By Arva Dale Ashman Production is well on its way for this year's Chief Kanosh Pageant Mike Eaton, the new director, is very happy with the progress that is being made in all of die departments. The rehearsals are running on schedule. The people working on various committees are getting a lot accomplished. For instance, Mike and Becky Bishop, the committee-head- s have for Promotion, arranged for some television publicity. On July 19, there will be taping for a program called "Today in the West We don't yet know when they wOl show the tape on the Pageant but we will let you know when we find out Brochures about the pageant have been handed out to the businesses around here. Take one and look at them for information on tickets and performances. If you know of someone or group that would be interested, send them a copy. Also, cookies are being sold at the information booth, in the part. Buying some of these is a tasty way to support the pageant. Be sure that you do support the pageant. Its going to be even more exciting, this year. You will want to be sure that you attend. The The first performances are August two nights are "Millard County Nights and the tickets win be less expensive than they are for the last two nights. If you want to go to one of the weekend performances, then you may want to know that tickets purchased before August 1 are cheaper that those purchased after that day. There, win be a Mountain Man gathering for you to see. The fair wSl be taking place. Preparations are being made to have lots of food for sale. Plan to spend some extra time so that you can see and do everything! It's going to be a tremendous event and you wont want to miss any of it! Weather Report Utahs Hay Growers are off and running in a effort to bring more organization into the hay marketing process, so vital to their economic survival. Utah Hay Growers, Inc., a marketing organized by a group of Utah hay growers, opened its office complete with truck scales and hay yard at 13871 Chandler Avenue in Corona California on July 1, 1982. Gayle Wood of Parowan, Utah is the president of the organization with Dennis Crane of Richfield, Utah as secretary. Utah hay ri v spected in the stacks at the members 1 i by Wm. Kelly Tuttle of Holden, Utah, Field Director, and a report of the grade and quality is sent to the Corona office where salesman Warren Ross goes to work finding a buyer. Some hay is also sold off the lot. Marketing Director Joseph C. Zitting from Buck horn Pat (Parowan Valley) has reported that the is having a favorable effect on the overall market by increasing the interest by the brokers and dealers in Utah hay and by creating a more com peta five atmosphere. "Even though quoted and published prices on the Chino Valley Dairy hay market are about the same as last year's prices, the growers are being offered prices often $10 to $15 per ton above last years prices. The dealers are obviously pushing to discourage the growers from going ahead with this effort. We do have dedicated growers who are disappointed with past marketing experience and want more of a voice in their own destiny. Through a strong marketing they can achieve this, reported Mr. Zitting. A Utah State graduate of Agriculture Economics, Zitting is a Utah hay grower himself with a vested interest in helping to make the p a successful venture for all co-o- p co-o- p co-o- p Deputy John KimbaU Deputy added to Sheriffs Department A former Highway Patrolman, John Kimball, 35, of Kanosh has joined the Millard County Sheriff's Department. He started his official duties July 1, 1982. Deputy Kimball's previous police work included six years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in both Millard and San Juan Counties and eight years as a trooper with the Utah Highway Patrol. His duties with the Highway Patrol took him to Davis County and Grand County. Me is married to the former Carma Dudley of Joseph. Utah, who is employed at the Fillmore Clinic. They are the parents of two boys. Rhett, 12, and Justin. 10. Wen-dove- r, co-o- p co-o- co-o- Hospital Extended Care Unit patients prepare to Epp, and Pink Lady LaNita Brinkerhoff, (seated) Arthur release balloons containing their names in hopes of Gabler, Mary Jane Paxton, Georgia Day, and Irene finding a new pen pal. Left to right are (standing ) Pink Fullmer, (kneeling in front) Pink Lady JoAnn Day. Ladies Sylvia Huntsman and Louise Bennett, Arthur Extended Care Patients Celebrate 4th in Unusual Way Care tell us when and where you found it. Or if Fillmore Hospitals Extended you ever drive through Fillmore, Utah on patients held their own Fourth of July celebration Wednesday morning by releasing Highway 415, stop in and visit us. My name a flurry i jf colorful balloons from the front is steps of the hospital. Attached to each of Each patient released two balloons with the balloons was a note requesting the finder to write a letter to the patient whose name their names on the notes. They were absoappeared at the bottom of the note. The lutely delighted with the idea and very excited about the answers they might notes read as follows: receive. Those patients participating were "Dear Friend, So glad you found my Arthur Gabler, Mary Jane Paxton, Georgia letter! I am a patient in the extended care Day, Arthur Epp, and Irene Fullmer. They unit of the Fillmore, Utah hospital. The Vo- also released balloons for Hila Forbes, lunteer Pink Ladies helped us write this Phil Turner, and Howard Stott who were letter. We tied them to gas balloons and unable to go out on the steps to participate watched them sail away. We did this as themselves. Fillmore Hospital Pink Ladies who helped part of our 4th of July activities. "We love to get letters, so please answer with the celebration were Sylvia Huntsman, our little note. Send it with your letter and Louise Bennett, LaNita Brinkerhoff, and Millard Grads To Play in JoAnn Day. Kirk Fisher filled the balloons with helium that had been donated by Steve Frampton for the occasion. The balloons and time were donated by the Fillmore First Ward. The balloons, decorated with either a depiction of the 4th of July or a "happy face" were expected to float as far away as 300 miles, but if you are the lucky recipient of a balloon locally, please do not fail to answer the letter, or better yet visit in person. The patients are so looking forward to hearing from you. Patients would welcome visits and letters from anyone, even if they Their don't find one of their balloons. time is sometimes long and lonely, and they need something to look forward to, say the dedicated Pink Ladies, who try to find a new activity for them each week. All-St- ar Game Bob Jensen and Giff Stephenson, former Millard Eagle football stars, will play in the ninth annual United Cerebral Palsy High School Football Game on Saturday, August 7, at 8:30 p.m. at Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City. will involve This years competition Utah's 3A1 A and 4A2A team, said Barbara Piolo, United Cerebral Palsy Assn. campaign coordinator. "This change in format is due to the widespread taler.t coming out of our high schools this past season." she said. AO 4A2A and most 3A1 A players will be entering college on a fuU football scholar All-St- ship. Coach Chuck Stobart, new head football coach for the University of Utah, wiU be the keynote speaker at the annual banquet Friday. August 6, at 7 p.m. at the downtown Hilton in Salt Lake. Stobart will address the college football outlook throughout Utah for the 1982-8season. The general public is welcome, Ms. Piolo said. Tickets for the banquet are S 5 per person. The second Annual Salt Lake Athletic GubCamp Kostopulos Rus is also being r held in conjunction with the Football Game. All runners will receive free admis Utah fanners. Any hay growers wishing to join can contact any of the officers mentioned. Utah State Extension Service recently showed that alfalfa is the third largest dollar volume agricultural comodity in Utah, led by Dairy and Beef, making hay the leading dollar volume crop in the state. Ac estimated 300,000 tons of Utah hay is a Dairy area of shipped into the Southern California annually. Mr Zitting stated that there are over 500 dames in the valley within the service area of the Utah Hay Growers new office. Chino-Coron- Attention: Football Players 3 1 Paiutes Must Select only Reservation Early this year, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah completed a proposed reservation plan to the Paiute implement Public Law Indian Tribe of Utah Restoration Act. This plan proposes to establish a new reservation for the Paiute, comprising about 4,800 acres of public land administered by the Bureau of Land Management and about 10.000 acres of land administered by the Forest Service. During review of the plan by the Department of the Interior, the solicitor for the Department issued an opinion that land sion to the game among other prizes. All proceeds from both the run and the football game benefit the United Cerebral Palsy programs in Utah. BLM administered by the Forest Service was not available for inclusion in the plan under The provisions of the Restoration Act. Department therefore has directed the B1A to prepare a new reservation plan, including only lands administered by BLM. The BIA is now beginning a land selection process within the five county area of Mil Weight training and athletic conditioning for the football season will start on July 19 at 7.30. Those interested in going out for football, meet at the MHS football grades field. Coach Monsen invites evervone out Land for lard. Beaver, Iron, Washington, and Sevier Counties. A deadline of December 31. 182 has been established for submission of the new reservation plan to Congress As this new land selection process proceeds. persons and agencies that mav be affected will be contacted to obtain their comments and concerns Right To Know Petition Falls Short Efforts to strengthen Utah's sunshine law Right to Know" referendum to be placed before voters in the November election fell short of the 60.002 signatures needed for that action, it was announced Wednesday A total of 54 4M. were recorded, 5,518 signatures short of qualifying, according to reports from the Lt Governor's office. "The Utah Education Association is obviously disappointed that we were unable to qualify the petition to be placed before bv a UEA Executive Director Darvl voters, J. McCarty said WednesJav "However it was gratifying to receive the strong support from tbe various groups involved and the electorate as we went about the state seeking signatures Of particular importance is the fact that we lost only 15 percent of the number of signatures of persons who did not qualify as registered voters Also, we understand e qualified in more that the 15 counties ( ont. to Page 2 |