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Show SALINA, UTAH, THURSDAY, MAY 7, VOLUME 59, NUMBER 19 PRICE 25c 1981 iners Need Okay From UMWA Oviatt commented, The coal miners want to go back to work, but the company says they have to first get approval from the United Mine Workers of America union. them more control, Miners at Consols whose bargaining agent Emery mine, is the UMWA International Union, have indicated a desire to return to work. The companys response, however, is that until such a request is sanctioned by the could . High and Dry Forms are in place for the outlet structure of the new Salina irrigation reservoir, which remains empty until the pipe which will carry the water to the citys 30-in- and southern Sanpete County residents employed at the solidated mine have been off work since the UMW strike began March 26. Local 1261's 112 members voted 8-- 1 to accept the contract worked out last month between the UMWA and the Bituminous Coal Operators Assn., but union members in the east, the largest port- is installed. Water in about two weeks. underground Irrigation system should begin filling the reservoir System should be complete by July. ion of the membership, voted against accepting the contract and it was re-- . Cookie Bandits Zoning Change S Nabbed By Cops cookie The case of the bandits, who spread flour, cake mix and spices around a Salina home, has been solved, but not with a Disney happy ending. Police investigated an unauthorized entry and vandalism April 27 at the home of Bob and Renonne Robins, and found the house in disarray, including the kitchen mess described. A 29 similar incident was reported April at the Brett Gates residence, first North and Second East. Police Chief Gordon Kiesel, checking the following boy trying morning, found a to open doors in various homes in the northeast section of Salina. public hearing Wednesday, May vestigate possible child neglect. About midnight, police officers were called by a neighbor to come to the home. The boy had been beaten by his mothers boyfriend, and had run to the neighbors home for help. Stan James Shipley was charged with assault in connection with the beating of the child and was jailed. Both he and the boys mother will be charged with child neglect, which is being handled through the Division of Family Services and juvenile court, Chief Kiesel explained. The boy was taken to a shelter home after being treated, The boy and one girl are 4 years old, and the other two girls are l'2 and V-years old. The police chief took the child home and talked with his mother, then called Family Services to ask that they in worth of gasoline. They were fined and ordered to pay for the gasoline. A felony warrant has been issued by Salina Police for Gyula Fogasi, 43, a California resident sought in connection with the theft of five color televisions April 20 from the Scenic Hills Motel. got his picture, Ive got his fingerprints, all I need is his body, Chief Kiesel said. 12-in- diameter corregated steel households were Chad Beach Is Selected As Outstanding Utah Craftsman for Southern Utah Fuel superintendent Co.s coal mining operation exceptional ability in their trades. This years awards were given nstrated oustanding craftsmen from directly related to energy and its production. Richard B. Mills, Price, is the other recipient of the craftsman award will make the a lun Beach, who has been employed by SUFCo for the past seven years, a and implemented designed preventive maintenance program which has increased equipment availability from an average of 68 per cent to over 83 percent. State land which the city plans to Reed Lorentzen served as mayor utilize for a new sanitary landfill has in the absence of Mayor Leah been evaluated at $187 per acre by the He established the first alternating Conover, who is ill. Also absent were State Land Board. The board will trade program with Utah Technical Councilmen Ted Shepherd, who is state land for an equivalent value of College in Provo and serves on the hospitalized, and Lynn Reynolds. Salina City owned land of their advisory board for the diesel Redge Hansen and Wes Cherry made choosing. mechanics program there. He also up the quorum. with Sevier Valley Tech on a coworks Judge Thad Wasden collected $2,049 op program in diesel mechanics and Robert Johnson, city building in- in fines during April. welding and is a member of the adspector, discussed the planning and acbusiness license was One visory board for the welding departcity which outdated are zoning ordinances, ment. and need to be revised and updated. cepted. Councilman Johnson, Reynolds and Zions First National Bank was Beach went to work for SUFCo in 1974 City Atty. Mike Jorgensen were designated the depository for collec- when there were only 26 persons emdelegated to review the present or- tions from the new pressurized ployed. He worked on building a new dinances, and suggest amendments irrigation system. The account will be mine portal, and as a miner. He was necessary to meet present needs. set up separately from other city ac- promoted to maintenance foreman in ' 1975, with a crew of four men. Police Chief Gordon Kiesel and counts. co-o- p maintenance schools, management seminars, and wrote service schedules on all equipment in the mine, as well as implementing a maintenance partial preventive He attended A registered EMT, Beach served with the North Sevier ambulance squad and still works part time with them. He was maintenance coordinator for the group for one year. schedule. The award, instituted in 1975 by Gov Calvin L. Rampton, is given to Utah men and women who have demo- . . Meanwhile, local union mine sitting and waiting it out. El, culvert which is under the the familys home Mrs. Crunk attempted to r dislodge the child but was so. She then called the Sevii ambulance for assistance. A member of the Monroe ambulance crew, LaRae Anderson, a certified EMT who lives nearby, heard the call on her beeper and rushed to the scene. Mrs. Anderson dammed off the water up the stream and was able to pull the victim from the ditch. cident occurred. The utlity pole, located on the east side of the highway, was the last one before the highway bridge over the river. It was anchored in aU four directions, according to Ray local UP&L manager. n, The pole broke off at the bottom and also broke at the top, leaving wires strewn around the area. Andreason said he and Jim Reynolds, Utah Highway Patrol trooper who investigated, could find no evidence that car had touched the the ground between the pole and the opposite side of the river, a distance of about 100 feet. full-size- d I went out close to 5:30 a.m. to find the cause of the power outage, Andreason said, and I saw the broken pole, but I couldnt see the car. It was just getting light. Andreason located the car across the river. I called the dispatcher, who asked me if anybody was in the car, AnI told him I was dreason related. afraid to look. Beach now has five foremen and 49 mechanics reporting to him. He ime plemented a training program for maintenance, as well as a machine shop at the mine. Presently he is involved with installing a computerized maintenance program. full-tim- A pany. Car Smashes Pole, Clears Sevier River Don Anderson, the driver of the northbound car, went off the Redmond road and hit the pole. His vehicle cleared the Sevier River, which is dammed up at that point, and came to rest on its wheels on the opposite bank. Anderson, 24, of Redmond, was returning home about 4:50 a.m. when the ac- - C-- cheon in Salt Lake City. In conjunction with the craftsman awards, over 79 scholarships to Utah vocational schools from will be given to students throughout the state. 1 Weather R-- Gov. Scott Matheson -- Sevier County Sheriffs Sgt. Clyde Page, said the victim was Trina Crunk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crunk, Elsinore. The accident occurred about 1 p.m. when the girl was in the front yard with her mother and apparently fell into the swift running stream and swept into the North Sevier The area presently is zoned l (residential). The request is to change the zoning to l (commercial.) The area affected is from the east side of 100 Average to date 6.08 inches. West to the west side of 100 East. awards presentation Friday at Councilman Cherry were appointed to check into closing hours for various entertainment in the city, including dances, pool halls and bars, and report if any problems exist. ELSINORE - A girl was drowned in an irrigation ditch in front of her home early Monday afternoon when she was apparently swept under a culvert and lodged there without electricity for one to five hours Saturday morning when a car sheared off a Utah Power and Light Co. pole and jumped the Sevier River near Redmond. The Salina City Council will hold the public hearing on the zone change beginning at 8 p m. in the Salina Public Library. to Ive Shortest Meeting For Salina Council Opening with only half the regular membership, Salina City Council Monday night whizzed through its agenda and adjourned by 9:20 p.m., . . shortest meeting on record," ac. cording to Don Burns, city recorder. Theres hot much we can do now, 13. Upon ques timing the youngster, the Police also investigated a gas skip police chief found the boy lives with his April 29 at the and charged two Utahs Outstanding Craftsman mother and sister, and his mothers residents captured in award for 1981 will be presented Friday boyfield and his two daughters at 430 E. Richfield with failing to pay for $27 to Chad Beach, Salina, maintenance 3rd N. The four children, the boy told Chief Kiesel, had gone to the Robins home and the Gates heme. He described just what each of the youngsters had done. jected. Rezoning of property one block on either side of State Street between 100 and 400 North will be the subject of a It is clear that a national bars process located in the EaJ Easterners, for Eastern mines ditions, is not workable nor for our employees nor for Elsinore Toddler In Irrigation request. About 45 Sevier bargaining agreement. The legality of the withdrawal questionable, because of contraq stipulations. The company commented: i Emery Mining Corp., with some 1,300 hourly union employees, served notice on the BCOA April 21 that it was resigning from the organization and was prepared to negotiate its own collective International Union, Consol not even consider such a UMWA be ions. mine), said he and the unions recording secretary from Emery met Friday with. John Badovinac, mine superintendent, and offered to return to work under the 1978 union agreement. Consols official statement on the matter, released Wednesday morning by Dennis O'Neill, public relations, states: would desireable, but the union cannot pull out of the international and set up a separate organization during negotiat- Browning he said. wait it The local union leader said a separate union for western coal miners, giving Leroy Oviatt, Salina, who is vice president of Local 1261 at Consolidated Coal Co.s mine in Emery (the old I but sit and out. International The company refused, To Retar graduate of North School, Beach studied and welding in what Sevier High auto mechanics is now Sevier in the He is second counselor bishopric, responsible for the young men and young womens organizations, Primary, Deacons Quorum and the Boy Scouts. He is a past scout master, elders quorum teacher and scout coordinator. Beach and his wife, SusAnn, are the parents of two sons and two daughters. Valley Tech. He operated heavy equipment on Interstate 15 construction, worked in maintenance, and operated the Salina Conoco from When he did look, Andreason found a trail of blood leading from the vehicle to the highway, but nobody in sight. Anderson, who suffered facial lacerations, had walked to his home in Redmond. He was and released. treated for his injuries Redmond residents were without power for about five hours while UP&L crews replaced the pole. In Salina, power was out for about an hour and ten minutes. 1967-197- 4. During that time, he increased business from 1,000 gallons of gasoline a month to 100,000 gallons. Wanted: He trained nine high school students how to tune-umaintain, service and Practice Patients make minor repairs on automobiles and light trucks. Four of them are in the maintenance field, and two are working for him now. member of the Jeep Posse, and has served one year as commander, two years as sergeant, and six years as Beach is a charter North Sevier Sheriffs Local EMTs (Emergency Medical Technicians) are currently attending an Advanced EMT course which requires them to practice and become proficient at patient assessments. They will be giving free basic physical exams to practice such skills as taking blood pressure, pulse, respiration, and listening for lung sounds. The exams will be given on Tuesday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Salina. communications officer. He was a Salina volunteer fireman for eight years, and was assistant chief for three years and captain for four years. He had charge of the annual fourth of July fireworks display for four years. In addition, he headed July Fourth activities for the North Sevier Jaycees for two years, and was a director and key service coordinator for the organization, which nominated him for the distinguished service award. 3 rz9 Questions may be directed to Kerry or Jana Wahlquist Sorenson at 529-770- 1, Chad Beach at 529-360- |