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Show n mil?- ?l2hirnSs Association 7 E. 300 So. flLC, UT 84111 UEBR report says expansion for Utah coal unlikely in 80 5 - A rapid expansion Utahs coal production ' is highly Hally Miner, center, was chosen Junior Miss at the annual Pageant held Saturday night in the North Sanpete High School Auditorium. Reigning with her are Charm Lauritizen and Maria Christensen. Miss Miner succeeds Sandy Osborne who was the reigning Junior Miss and will participate in the state pageant coming up in the near future. Hally Miner Fairview miss chosen as 1980 junior miss MT. PLEASANT- - Hally Miner, vivacious daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin Miner of Fairview, was named North Sanpete Junior Miss at the second annual Pageant held Saturday night in the high school auditorium. Miss Miner, who is head cheerleader and sang the leading role in the musical recently, succeeds Sandy Osborne, the reigning Junior Miss. As Junior Miss she will compete in the upcoming state pageant. She also received a College and a scholarship to First Security Savings Bond Bank. For her talent number, Miss Miner played the piano and sang. Charm Lauritzen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orson Lauritzen,' Ml. Pleasant, was named first attendant and Maria Christensen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Christensen, Fair-viewas chosen second attendant. For her talent number Miss Lauritzen did a dramatic monologue and Miss Christensen did a vocal solo in French. Japanese and English. Robyn Hamad, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. John Hunter Mt. Pleasant was selected by the contestants as Miss Congeniality." Bruce Mehew was Master of Ceremonies and LuDon Peterson was Both performed several musical numbers. The theme song Lady" was sung by Todd Hanks. Judges were John Keeler, Randy Clark, Gert Muser, Sheila Sorenson and Diane Denton. The event was sponsored by the Junior Cultural Club with Pam Larsen, Shauna Draper, Renee Madsen, Rebecca Washburn and Sheryl Petersen as general committee. On the pageant committee were Gay Baxter, Marilyn Bean, Kathy Jo Keisel, Carma White and Teri Wilcox. Robbery suspect term ;ets 5-ye- ar tO VO- - Flight from the law ina high-speechase in which a peeled bank robber and his two sale companions were captured near Alburn early Thanksgiving morning ime to a dead end for Michael Alan tocher Friday when he was sentenced ko a term of five years to life for armed robbery. Fourth District Judge J. Robert Bullock imposed the sentence after the defendant entered a plea of guilty to armed robbery, a first degree felony. Kochcr was captured along with two king d female companions shortly after midnight November 27 after he robbed an Albertsons Food Store on West Center Street in Provo. The chase began when Kocher came from the store with a small amount of cash and jumped into a sports car with two girls, and store employees gave chase. They were, however, unable to keep up as the suspect's vehicle sped down reaching speeds of tip to 90 miles per hour. Law enforcement officials from Provo, Utah County, and Sanpete County soon became involved as the vehicle turned south at Thistle and proceeded down Highway 89. After running two roadblocks at the Utah County line and near Hilltop, the suspect for a time lost officers as the driver, sometimes traveling with his lights off, doubled back north out of Fairview in the cold winter darkness. t. Shortly after 10:30 Mack and Winona Vance who had just retired for the night checked to see what was causing the family dog to bark and found two young women standing by the front gate. They soon came to the door and told the Vances a story about being picked up by a man they did not know and being put out because they rejected his advances. They asked to be taken to a bus station, but since there is no station in the north end of the valley, finally decided they would go to a Fairview motel. It was when Vance went to get the car to take them to town that he discovered a sports car with a Continued on page 10 Sandy Mortensen and Vickie Shepherd were on the contestant committee and Claudia Jarrett, Dana Lee Sorensen, Shelley Vincent and Cindy Nay were on the publicity committee. LuCinda Brotheson, Cheryl Madsen, Liz Ream and Julie Pehrson headed the Tea Committee. accurate reading of the potential for ' development in a regional coal industry unlikely during the 1980s according to a must be based on three centrally imrecent Utah Economic and Business portant economic considerations; (1) Review report. coal is a low specific value commodity, The report goes on to say that this is (2) it is produced in a workably comUnfortunate for Utah mines because petitive industry; (3) coal prices, current production capacity now exunlike those of oil, will not increase in ceeds the market demand. An outlook anticipation of the exhaustion of coal lor even 30 million tons per year of Utah deposits in general. coal by 1990 now appears optimistic, the Because coal is a widely occurring report says. commodity of low specific value (one to While Utah contains an estimated two cents per pound) transportation 23.fi billion short tons of low sulfur, high costs have major influence on the liTU coal at a time when national pattern of regional coal mining. Olten the cost of delivering the coal to its energy policy has emphasized the increased use of domestic coal resources, point of consumption exceeds the exthe short term market outlook for Utah pense of mining the resource. coal is clouded bv a variety of factors. Central Utah coal and the coal fields of Southern and Western Wyoming Among these is the prominent fact that underground Utah coal is conhave a strong current advantage to the west over the coal fields of Arizona and siderably more expensive to mine than are the strippable coal reserves found New Mexico which are not linked by in Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico. rail to markets in California and Ncvadartout which may be in the future-i- f of Earlier optimism over the use conditions warrant. western low sulfur coal in midwestern The 1990s hold possibilities for large the boilers was severely dampened by coal shipments from Arizona and New Clean Air Act of 1977 requiring the use of the best available control technology regardless of the nature of the coal being burned. As a result the Kevstone surveys of future capacity expectations, which were reported in the magazine Coal Age, have shown a significant downward revision in the projected expansion of Utah Coal mines. The UEBR report says that while MT. PLEASANT- - Mark Allan Beck, a Utah's rich energy resources place the local appliance dealer and Doug state in an enviable economic position, lleiden, of a Mt. Pleasant real estate the development of a resource within have been nominated for the firm, the near future is not guaranteed by the of the Chamber of Compresidency simple fact of its abundance. merce. Coal stocks, domestic and worldBallots will be mailed to Chamber wide, are so large that value is attached members within the next few weeks to property claims on a particular and election results will be announced in of in terms source only superiority at the annual Installation Banquet location, quality, or costs of mining. An which has been set for Thursday night, MT. PLEASANT- Mexico into California for industrial boilers (via gasification). With transportation systems in place, these coal fields will be highly conpetitive with Central Utah coals. Japanese interests have recently indicated intentions of importing steam coal from the United States. As much as 80 to 100 million tons of coal per year could be shipped to power plants in Japan. Korea, and Taiwan by 1990, the UEBR report says. However, the UEBR report says that several constraints stand in the way of a vastly expanded export market for western coals besidr lie higher cost of Utah coal. Southern California facilities are not adequate for large .unounls of coal shipping. Futhermore. in addition to the potential increase in Australian coal production, Japanese com- mitments for Canadian coal are being expanded and China, the Soviet Union, Indonesia, and Colombia are other potential rivals to the United Stales for the Pacific export market. Chamber of Commerce nominates officers January 8. Rae Woolf and Ralph Pitts have been nominated for First Vice President and Tracy Lewis and Ed Meyer have accepted the nomination for Second Vice President. Verla Olsen and Mike Lund have been nominated for secretary and Karl Ursenhach and Danny Dyehes have accepted the nomination for treasurer. Anita Farmer has been president of the Chamber during the past year. She and other outgoing officers will remain on the board of directors. Stake presents famed Messiah MT. PLEASANT- - "The Messiah," Handels musical oratorio reflecting on the life of Christ, will be presented by the Mt. Pleasant LDS Stake on December 21 at 5 p.m. at the Stake Center. The presentation will include the Mt. Pleasant Stake Choir, under the direction of Mark Woolf, and the orof Denise chestra. under the direction Wadsworth. Solos by Ed Miner, Courtney Syme, Boyd Goble, Joleen Christensen, Myrna Shelley. Luella Hall, and Opal Miller will also be part of the program. This is the first time the stake has presented The Messiah," and officials say they hope it will become an annual event. Sprinkler irrigation system meets approval MORONI- - A large crowd filled the Moroni City Hall last week as Moroni Irrigation Company presented the possibility of putting in a sprinkling system in the part of town south of the main highway. The vote to go ahead with the plan was overwhelming with only one person voting against. President of the Moroni Irrigation Company, Joseph Bulow, conducted the meeting and introduced Loren Hunt from the Soil Conservation Service. Hunt showed an aerial map of Moroni and presented a proposed plan for the sprinkling system. He pointed out that there are 158 shares of water and 155 acres of land in the area to be put under sprinklers. One share per acre is a pretty good water supply, he commented. Cost for the materials would come to about $42,000 according to Hunt and he outlined the following expenses: $75,000 for material: $5,000 for road crossing and repair: $5,000 to build a holding pond: $5,ooo for a pump; $10,000 for funding is provided by Water petition and get signatures of persons Resources, they will decide the final who will be involved. He said applan and engineer it. If it becomes a plications should be in by April 15. Don Ray Christensen said he already community project, Loren could do it. He went on to say that the electric line lias a pond and, if the Irrigation and land purchase was not included in Company wants to use it, they have his the costs he presented. permission. Once water is in the system, it , Ray D. Christensen offered to work should stay there as that is where the .with the company in buying pipe for a taxes come from," said Don Prestwich. discount if bought before March 1st. Joe Bulow said he would like to have Charles Christensen suggested the a citizens committee consisting of three once at company go ahead with the plan members to go ahead with the work on because of inflation. In reply to a question of how people on the plan. It was suggested that the fixed incomes could afford to pay for it, Water Board appoint three people of it was suggested that some plan be their choice. made for financing those who could not Ralph Blackham made the motion that the Irrigation Company go ahead in advance. pay Ross Blackham, local attorney, said with the general proposal including the Irrigation Company should be able financing for those who need it. Also to to majee reasonable rules and give authority to the Board to make and rules and regulations and to assess and regulations within the assess the people to keep the system maintain 'the system. The Irrigation Company agreed to go maintained. Bulow said a provision is already in ahead with the plans, assign a citizens to make a committee to committee, and contact stockholders. the risers and installation; $10,000 for contingencies. Total costs would If amount to $110,000. Hunt went on to say that the cost will be related to the area the sprinklers serve. A assessment would be according to the acreage, and according to shares of water. Pumping would add to the cost and would probably amount to $10 per year. For of a city block, pumping would be $12 to $13. People who have fields below town having water on the city ditch will have to contact the water board if they desire to be on the system. Otherwise, they will be isolated and have no access to water, according to Hunt. Rex Kellett commented that everyone would need to be in on the system or the time would come when they could not get water from the ditches. , Loren Hunt replied that voting for the system would have to be done acof the company. cording to the two-lev- one-four- th by-la- by-la- by-la- IK Amy Beck, as the Sugar Plum Fairy, and Karen Hansen and Kimberley Christensen, as Tick and Tock, invite you to the Spring City Christmas Party, presented by the Elementary School and sponsored by the city and Lions Club. It will be held Tuesday, December 23 at 8 p.m. at the Cultural Hall of the Spring City LDS Ward. I A |