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Show mr nin 9rm News Ambulance Phone 529-367- Vol. 57 Phone 1 529-332- No. 29 Thursday, January 1 Fifteen Cents 5, 1978 New Years Day Fire Monies Aonrora Fammnly Fromm Homme The rest of the year has got to be better - it cant get any worse, Sharon Hill observed after a fire on New Years -- extensively Day damaged the family home in Aurora. Mrs. Hill had just finished baking a cake for her youngest daughter Venettas third birthday about 9:30 a.m. Sunday. She was in the living room in her robe dressing the little girl, who was going to church with her uncle, Steven Mrs. Hills Lowe, brother. I looked at the stairway and saw lights flickering, she recalled, and then realized that it was flames she was seeing on the stairway. We threw the kids outside, she said, and neighbors Jerry and Connie Hansen took in the five youngsters while Mrs. Hill, her brother and husband, Ron, organized a bucket brigade to douse the flames, which were on the west side of the second floor of the older house. Nearly all the familys possessions were rescued from the burning house, which the Hills were in the process of buying from Ted Burr and had been remodeling. conwas There water siderable damage to both the structure and the furnishings, Mrs. Hill said, with icicles over everything. They told me I picked the coldest day of the year to have a fire, she commented wryly. Hill disconnected the main breaker supplying power to the house, and neighbors called the Salina Fire Department. We had the tire pretty well under control by the the time firemen arrived, Mrs. Hill said. Firemen tore off the Firemen chopped through roof to help fight fire in Aurora home. roof and one side of the second floor fighting the blaze and searching for its cause. After the firemen left, I found hot coals alongside the chimney, Hill related, and a gap in the chimney where the Construction of a new also be added to Salina times as much as was fire apparently started. coal stoker on the first service customers service spent by the company in Afloor $287,000 was used to heat the operations center in during 1978. AIS is the 1968, just a decade ago. and apparently house, Richfield to serve Moun- latest in intercept tain Bell customers in technology and will be inburning particles While spending has from the chimSalina is a major item on extended to every ex- creased five fold, escaped the companys 1978 con- change in the state, in- customer rates have only ney and ignited part of a struction and capital im- cluding Salina, during increased an average of wall. The east side of the provement budget, ac- the next 12 months. 30 per cent, according to floor escaped fire second to also Phil Selander said that Selander. cording Selander, as did the in new district manager cable damage, will $46,000 customer services. be placed in 1978 in the While many of the downstairs, but the west The center, already Salina exchange to meet projects will directly im- portion of the second under construction, is the needs of new prove service in many floor was extensively scheduled for completion customers. areas of the state, most damaged, the Hills said. The family had put a adthis In Mountain Bells total of them are unseen by early year. of 1978 construction and customers but are new roof on the house dition, the Salina central office capital improvements necessary if telephone since moving in four is planned to meet an- budget for Utah will service is to be main- months ago, but hadnt ticipated growth in the reach a record $92.6 tained at a level yet put in the insulation area. million. This is ap- customers have come to in the attic. You really find out An Automatic Interproximately $15 million expect, Selander poinwho your friends and cept System (AIS) will more than 1977 and five ted out. .s Mountain BellfTo Construct New Service Operation Center neighbors are when you have a tragedy, Hill, who is one of the partners of D & R Manufacturing Everybody was on their way to church, and they stopped to help us, he commented. The family of eight stayed with the Hansens while looking for other housing. And Venettas birthday cake was rescued from the snowy front yard and decorated for her birth- ft 1 hi Ex-may- or day celebration. Its been my pleasure serve the City of Salina for the past four years, retiring Mayor Courtney Larsen remarked Mon- and Reed Lorentzen were sworn in as councilmen. Larsen described Mrs. Conover, who defeated Kay Nielsen handily in the November municipal day during swearing-iceremonies for the new election, as a woman mayor and two new with lots of guts and councilmen. who is very capable and sincere. Larsen, who has accepted a position a dii ector Cherry and Lorentzen of the both bring years of active Economic Development participation in comAssn., said Salina has the munity affairs and expotential to become . . perience to their new one of the finest small positions, the former communities not only in mayor remarked. I have the utmost conUtah but in the Intermountain West. fidence that these three Some of the citys persons will make a conproblems have been tribution to the welfare of solved, he noted, some Salina City and its are close to being solved, residents, he said. and . . some may never Handing over the keys to the city hall, Larsen be solved. The citys residents told Mrs. Conover there should be thankful, the was no limit to what could be done . . . Its outgoing mayor comto such have like having a blank check mented, to take - you can do whatever people capable office. you want to, especially Mrs. Leah Conover, with all the state and who served as a counfederal programs cilman for the past two available now. Mrs. Conover said she years, was sworn in as mayor, and Wes Cherry was looking forward to to n Six-Coun- ty . . Salina Elementary School is in the midst of a special collection drive at aimed greatly-neede- obtaining athletic d equipment. The program, Labels for Education Program, sponsored by the Campbell Soup Company and offered to public, private and parochial schools Between now and March 11, they hope to collect 40,000 labels from Camp). bell products. Students Clinic For are saving their labels, and they would ap- preciate it if friends of the school would do the same. Any Campbells Soup, Chunky Soup, Soup for One, Campbells Bean or label counts in the drive. Franco-America- n Boxes for collection will be in all local grocery will T in . TO THE this space contributed e by the pubiisher - - Larsen predicted increased growth for the Salina area due to development of energy resources, and briefly described possible expansion in production of coal and power, uranium, and harnessing of geothermal energy Highway signs should indicate that motorists can get to Denver or Las sources. Vegas through Richfield-SalinIf the Intermountain he said, and not Power Project plant is is a kind of indicate located in Millard Counto Lake City. Salt detour ty, near Lyndyl, as he said it is proposed, Agriculture has been a possible the coal to fire way of life and base of the plant may come from the local economy for the Salina area. many years, he said, and The plant would burn, will be for many years to he estimated, about one come. Programs to aid truckload of coal every 90 farmers, in conjunction with Utah State Universeconds. Coal will change the sity, are being economic base of this developed. a, Richard Criswell Is Named Councilman Richard Criswell, the third highest vote getter in Novembers municipal election, was selected to fill the unexpired two-yecity council term left vacant when Councilman Leah Conover was elected mayor. ar In the in newly-swor- n Criswell for the office. coun- Conover school. son, assisted by Mrs. Wally Nelson, Public Health Nurse in Sevier County. Stake Fireside Legion "dH Salina-Richfiel- Students may also bring their labels to s MATCH OF DIMES I didnt realize there was so much involved, she told the small group of persons assembled for the ceremony Monday stores. Salina Stake will be holding a Fireside on Building. The clinic is sponsored Jan. 15, at 8 p.m., in the by the Central Utah Redmond Ward The will be District Health Depar- speakers Irani tment and will be direc- President ted by Dr. Gaylon Peter the M.si American $287,000 service operations center vaccine-preventabl- diseases. It be held in the declared. Another area with great potential is the tourist industry, he noted. Interstate 70 continues to show increased volume of traffic, and the tourist dollar is the cleanest dollar. Highway signs dont, d give the area their just due, the new director maintained, saying getting the signs changed was his No. 1 priority. council. noon. Larsen community, mayor, and said she had learned a lot in her past two years service on the city councils first official action, Mrs. Pre-School- ers An immunization clinic will be conducted Friday, Jan. 13, in Salina for preschoolers and anyone not against Richfield to serve its customers Salina, Completion of the new facility is expected to be early this year. the coming years as Elementary Collection Drive Underway adequately protected NEW OPERATIONS CENTER Mountain Bell is constructing a new cilmen Wes Cherry and Iteed Lorentzen. s I Will ' For Salina City Fathers, Sworn In Jan. 2 (K-8th- in Salina, said. li Courtney K. Larsen, left, swears in new Salina City officials, Mayor Leah Conover, Coun- - Newly-installe- suggested d cilmen Wes Cherry and Reed Lorentzen moved and seconded, respectively, Criswells appointment. Council members unanimously endorsed the mayors suggestion, and noted, after the vote, that the public, through the balloting, had had a voice in the selection. Criswell, a Democrat, was sworn in at the coun- cil meeting Tuesday night. He garnered 289 votes, to finish behind Lorentzen, another Democrat who received - Republican, ('horn vwio a lopped the voting with 452 votes. Political affiliation, council members agreed, . . . shouldnt make any difference once elected. Outgoing mayor Courtney Larsen suggested to the council that they consider doing away with the partisan political system presently used to select candidates for municipal office. Theres no place for I politics in small city elecLarsen argued; tions, contending that Salina i$ one of the few small cities in rural Utah which has retained the partisan political system. Cherry disagreed with abolishing the present system, saying that before it is done away with, further study should be made. If the present system is changed to a nonpartisan method of selection, then another, separate organization would have to be set up at the county level, he noted. vy |