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Show Utah Press Assoc. U67 E. 3C0 So. Salt Lake City, La.- - y wk. f tV X V 1je jpagjgfltt $$.,$? CEtprafck - ohIx Thursday February 23, 1 984 H Number 8 Volume 95 Back by popular demand Payson Chuckhole Contest Because of numerous requests and a bumper crop of chuckholes, the Chronicle and Payson Tire Company will again sponsor the famous Payson Chuckhole Contest. Payson has traditionally been way ahead of most other Utah County communities in the area of noted chuckhole production, Chronicle Editor Kent Fuellen-bacbut with the record-breakin- g weather nearly every city has streets in the same pockmarked condition. Some have even surpassed Paysons prolific pothole production. The first Payson Chuckhole Contest was held in 1980. Because of declining interest the contest discontinued. was However, h, braksa pavement sad s large, hole make this one of the many potential entries In the Pavaon Chnckhole Contest betag spon- Chunks of p slosh-fille- d i aorsd by tbs Payson Chronicle sad Payson Tire. The contest will ran through March 31 with the winner receiving a free front-en- d alignment. Pool this summer. The rates were raised 254 each. Children rates went from 504 to 754, students from 754 to $1, and adults from SI to SI. 25. It was noted that the pool was subsidized by the city, with $9,095 last year. Councilman Steve Hanson voted no, saying he thought the raise in rates would prevent some children from swimming. The council voted four to one to eliminate the primary election in the municipal election process. It was noted that the last primary was not needed because there were not enough candidates for Officials, volunteers meet to plan flood control strategy Representatives of the LDS Stakes in Payson met with Payson City officials Tuesday in an effort to coordinate flood preparations for the comihg high water season. Twelve representatives met with Payson City Administrator Rodney Watkins and Police Chief Jim Box at the police station. Watkins presented maps and aerial photos and explained how the high water control system worked and what hs been done to improve the system following last years flooding. The city has cleared much of the stream bed of logs and debris, stream banks, beefed up the log catch and the diversion at the mouth of the canyon. He noted that as soon as weather permits, the steam cleaning will continue and the rock catch basin above the log catch will be deepened. Chief Jim Box told about the communication center which is being set up at the police station that will allow communications between the city crews, police department, and state and county flood control agencies. Chief Box also explained preparations for d shelter setting up a in the Payson City Center if it is needed. The city will also be sponsoring a class on shelter management in the near future. Watkins explained the - flood control center will be manned 24 hours a day during the high water season and men will be patroling and watching trouble areas. The potential trouble areas have all been marked on the flood control map which will be located at the flood control center. LDS The representatives were asked to set up systems to contact volunteers if they are needed for flood control. We may need help in watching the trouble spots, filling sandbags and we may need help on the log catch, Watkins said. He also noted rip-rapp- "S 'I duplicate entries the one received first at the Chronicle office will be counted as the official entry. We are also interested in locating the largest patch of chuckholes in the city, the editor noted. The person who nominates the largest chuckhole will win a free front end alignment for his or her car, courtesty of Payson Tire Company, 318 East 100 North in Payson. The contest will be judged by the Chronicle staff based on the surface area and depth of the chuckhole. All chuckholes must be formed by normal street wear and ice action. Chuckholes created or enlarged by other means, such as vandalism, excavation, tunneling, or freeing stuck vehicles, will be disqualified. The contest ends March 31. Payson City Council raises swimming rates, drops primary The Payson Council City raised the rates at the Payson Bicentennial Pool, voted to eliminate the primary election for municipal elections, and heard a report from Dick Bradford of UVIDA during its council meeting on February 9. The council voted four to one to raise the rates at the Payson Bicentennial Swimming i; according to Fuellenbach he has had numerous requests to hold the contest again this year. Since early November 1 have had readers asking what happened to the chuckhole contest and if the Chronicle was going to hold the editor another this year, said. There is a public demand for the contest and plenty of new chuckholes for entries, so we will again hold the contest through the month of March. The contest is to determine the largest single chuckhole in Payson City. All you have to do to enter is send a card with the address of the chuckhole you wish to nominate to The Payson Chronicle, P.O. Box 385, Payson, Utah 84651. Include your name and telephone number. Or you can bring an entry card into the Chronicle office at 35 West Utah Avenue. In case of 200-be- AAA boots, pitchforks, and spotlights would be very helpful for volunteers to have handy. - Control was of sightseers another concern. We are planning to close the canyon again during the high water, Watkins With all the vehicles noted. moving in the canyon, we just cant have a bunch of extra traffic in the canyon. It was also pointed out by Chief Box that there were a lot of problems with small children from the subdivision in southwest Payson interfering with flood control efforts last spring. Even with a recent history of a small child drowning in the high water ditch we had kids down there climbing on the sandbags and getting in the way, Chief Box said. Watkins noted that the city has about 4000 sandbags which will be used for flood control. However, the bags will be used to control the major flooding and not for protection of private property. Those living in flood prone areas (see map on page 5) are urged to purchase their own sandbags. The city is not selling sandbags, Watkins said. "However, we will take orders for bags which will be purchased in a bulk order through Utah County. The bags will cost 26.5 cents each. The city will be taking orders at the city office. The bags must be paid for when the order is made. "We will be stockpiling sand at strategic locations throughout the city. These locations will be published and people will be able to use the sand to fill their own bags, Watkins said. Those attending the meeting were: Steve Hancock, Roger Hansen, Carmen Davis, Doug Lamb, Wayne Lindsey, Lyman Bahr, Thayne Larsen, John Powell, Stanley Riding, Scott Duvall, Boyd Gorley, and Arnold Frisby. one. However, the city had to pay registrars and election judges for the primary even though it was not held. This cost the city more than $1,000. The council also noted that the primary costs the candid dates more in campaign expenditures. Most of the council members noted they were in favor of nonpartisan elections where all candidates ran as independents but felt the primary was unnecessary. Councilman Don Dixon voted against the measure. He also stated he was in favor of returning to the partisan nominating process. Dick Bradford, Executive Director of Utah Valley Industrial Development, reported to the council on the activities of the organization during the past year and asked the city to, continue to support UVIDA. He noted that the organization had helped attract the Stoffer plant to Springville and had aided Payson in its attempt to attract to the empty American Greeting plant. That attempt failed because a proposed c merger, fell through. However, Bradford noted that he had never seen a project come to Utah County that had not been cancelled at some stage in the planning. He said he was still optomistic about Soft-Pa- c Soft-Pa- Soft-Pa- c. We may spend $1523 and not have one industry locate here. But, all Payson benefits from increased numbers of jobs even if they are in Springville, Spanish Fork or Provo, Mayor Tassainer told the council. He thanked Bradford for his .help in the c negotiations. In other action, the council made several appointments to committees and boards. Tony Donahue and Brent York were named to the Industrial Development Committee. Jim Hone was appointed to the Planning Commission, and Larry Stanford was named to the Public Safety Committee. The council also heard from JoEllen Whitelock who presented some ideas for beautifying Payson. Some of the ideas include: a paved computer parking area, a cleanup of the area south of the north freeway interchange and a sign welcoming people to Payson, clean up the corner of 100 North and Main Street, fix the sprinklers and plant flowers down town, remove the buildings and clean up the corner north of the Huish Theatre, have a general community cleanup and remove the weeds along the sidewalks by the Middle School and Park View Soft-Pa- School. Allison Hickman sad Lynn Frost exchange lines in PCT production of Prisoner of 2nd Avenne. PCT production of Prisoner of Second Avenuestarts tonight Mr. Charles Lynn Frost and Allison Hickman star as Mel and Edna Edison in Payson Commu- nity Theatres production of Prisoner of Second Avenue. Mr. Frost and Miss Hickman have teamed up several times District hears of major changes studies ematics, science, citizenship (including introductory and principles and practices), arts, movement (fitness and health), and computer literacy. Foreign language will be offered as an option. In secondary education, the same type of reconstruction is developing. Formal assessments are to be made of student mastery of core courses after eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades. These are to be implemented no later than the graduating class of 1988. social Major changes in such things as standards curriculum, tests, core requirements, and credit requirements are imminent. Last week at Nebo School District Board Meeting, Director of Vernon Secondary Education Finch and Director of Elementary Education Boyd Goodrich previewed some of those changes for the local board. Goodrich noted that a formal assessment, some kind of minimum standards test, will be developed by the District under mandate from the State Board of Mr. Finch outlined some other Education, to be administered at the completions of third and sixth requirements. The general core for grades seven through eight grades. According to the curriculum reform implementation plan, will be twelve units, including two the third grade test is to be ready of English, two of math, 1.5 of by September 1986 and the sixth science, 1.5 of social studies, one grade test by September 1985. of art, one half of computer The policy states that provisions literacy, 1.5 of movement (fitness for remedial work will be offered and health), one of for all students who fall short of exploration, and one of local mastery. In general terms the district option. States policy is to make sure units will be reTwenty-fou- r that each elementary school be quired of students in grades nine provided with effective leadership, through twelve. Currently, 17 are required, which allows greater meaningful standards, a balanced curriculum, sufficient means, and flexibility, especially for the many local students who now take competent staff. The required subjects for seminary. kindergarten through sixth grade will be reading, writing, speaking, Under the new set of requireto be math listening, problem solving, ments, there may have school pre-vocati- scene from the changes in class structuring as far as number of periods offered in the day, though Nebo high schools are on a seven period day that accommodates the change well. The new requirements will be three units of English, two of math, two of science, one half of computer studies, three of social studies, 1.5 of arts, two of healthy lifestyles and fitness, and one of vocational education. J In addition to those fifteen required units in the core classes, there will be nine units required as electives. Those include three separate options. One is to take nine units of credit in a high interest cluster of classes, featuring selected electives. Another is to take a college entry cluster including two units of foreign language, one additional unit of math, one additional unit of English, one additional unit of science, and four other electives of the students choice. Finally, a student could opt for a entry clus-- i choice of four a ter, including units in a technical core, or five in a vocational core, or five in a Cent. oil 2 theatrical comedies throughout Utah. Miss Hickman has performed in The Farley Family Cat on a Hot Tin Reunion, Roof," "Father, Father, Mother, The Seagull, and many Mom, She has other productions. appeared on the stages at Brigham Sundance, Young University, Castle Production, and Walk-On- s Inc. n Lynn Frost has become for his excellent artistic directing abilities. He has added well-know- greatly to the respected reputation of the Payson Community Theatre. He has appeared in numerous plays in the past. However, the past five years have been very involved for him as a director. He performed in "Harvey (and won the Acting Award for his role as Elwood P. Dowd, in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, as Pseudolus; "The Imaginary Invalid as Argan; and Servant of Two Masters as Truffaldino. During his teaching at Payson High School he lead the drama group into the state championship meet, as well as top honors at Southern Utah State College At present he competitions. teaches at Mountain View High School in Orem. Mr. Frost is also working on his masters degree at Brigham Young University. He holds positions in the following organizations: Board of Directors of PCT, Theatre Arts Panel of Utah, Castle Productions, and Trustee for International Thespian Society. Prisoner of Second Avenue runs February 23, 24, 25, 27, March 1, 2, 3, and 5 at the Payson City Center, 439 West 100 South. Ticket information is available at The Clothes Line, 30 East Utah or at the Avenue, or call door eaili evening. We request no childicn under five. 465-281- 7, |