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Show 9 5 6 7 8 9 Executives Offices Onniwest Corp. lVQ-Bo- 2608 x r ThurstSayMay 975 Price, Utah 841 h Year Number 22 20 Pages Price 15c The Courage To Be The world became a different place for 216 Price - Helper area young people last as diplomas signifying the completion Thursday of their high school days were handed out in ceremonies at the Carbon High School auditorium. The school auditorium was filled to overflowing as the new graduates filed in to be honored for their achievements. The Courage To Be served as the theme for the evenings activities as students, school administrators and board members recalled the past activities and achievements of the graduates and looked forward to the future. The events got underway with the processional played by the school band as the graduates filed in. A presentation of colors under the direction of Tom Bonacci, Kyle Tomsic, Leslie Etzel and Shelly Woodruff was next followed by a chorus of the Star Spangled Banner and an invocation offered by Jan Johnson. A welcome to friends and relatives was offered by Senior Class Vice President LaRae Keller. Lynna Tone and John Ghirardelli followed with Valedictory addresses stressing the evenings theme of courage. Carbon High principal Eugene Crocco and vice principal Claude Cowley presented the graduating class to Carbon School Board Chairman Albert Breznick and board members Charles Cuburu who awarded the diplomas. A final rendition of the school song, The Halls of Carbon was sung by the now graduated class followed by the benediction by Carol Jensen and the recessional by the band. Musical numbers were offered by the Senior Madrigals and a group consisting of Janeen Blanc, Joan Tomsic and Lorraine Sides. The machinery for receiving Prices fight to maintain Bureau of Land Management district offices in the city appears to be stalled in bureaucratic decision-makinas a letter sent recently to Price Mayor Walter Axelgard from Utah Congressman Gunn McKay had no real progress to report on the BLMs final decision of where to place a Southeastern Utah district office. In the letter, received last week fiom Uie congressman, McKay said that he had noted the objections of the people of Price and had passed them on to those now studying the proposal. McKay eluded to the fact that he was only one imput into the final process as he said the final decision on whether to place the new district office in Price or Moab rested with the Secretary of the Interior. g decision-makin- g McKay then went on to recall his earlier objections to the proposed BLM district management merger of the existing eight district offices in Utah into four larger district offices. The congressman said he had been afraid that too little public involvement had been employed in formulating this reorganization plan and added that he had objected to it because of the possibility that the move might impair BLM field services in the future. This letter means that Price City officials are in much the same place datee they were nearly a month ago when they first learned that the BLM was considering the possibility of changing their announced plans for establishing this new Southeastern district office in Price and moving it to Moab to placate complaints of residents of Moab and Monticello that moving this district office to Price would strike a serious blow to the economies of the towns as well as lessen services. This BLM plan was originally formulated to enable the bureaus local supervisory personnel to work more closely with other local branches of government agencies, thus increasing agency efficiency at the management level and eliminating duplication of management activities. A of this ct reorganization in management was supposed to be more field personnel being freed from administrative activities and being able to spend more time in the field. Price was chosen as one of the four district office sites originally because of the existance of a number of government agencies in the city as well as the social atmosphere the city offers. However, the complaints of the citizens of Moab and Monticello brought an apparant reassessment of thinking in the BLM management which also apparently is still going on. Career Center start slated on Thursday College of Eastern officials are preparing for the formal ceremonies beginning construction of the new $2 million dollar Career Center on campus. That program will be held May 29 at 1 p.m. at the construction site just east of the CEU Science Building. Educators, industry leaders, representatives of Alder Construction Co., and the general public have been invited to ine ceremony. The building when finished in the summer of 1976 will be the jewel in the crown of the busy vocational education program at CEU. On the top story of the two level structure will be facilities for nurses training and the cosmetology program as well as classroom space and study areas. On the ground floor, there will be lab space for technical courses such as welding, auto mechanics, electricity and the schools extensive mine training programs. On that level students will be able to work on large pieces of equipment such as continous miners, shuttle cars and other equipment that they cannot work on at present because of space limitations. The college now has several different training programs to prepare students for work in the expanding coal industry and industrial development in Utah. The buildings construction is being Conley reseeps the pulmonary laboratory and director of the Southeastern Utah Health District, informed the hospital staff that he would not consider serving as director of the new laboratory and resigned as of the intensive care unit at the hospital. In a letter addressed to Dr. William Gorishek, chief of staff at the Carbon Hospital, Dr. Cowley said he had been informed indirectly of the hospital boards decision to discontinue the contract with the present pulmonary laboratory, which is a respiratory therapy service called and replace it with one supervised and staffed by the hospital. Cowley charged that he, as clinical director of the pulmonary unit, had been in thd decision completely to drop and said the decision was a peremptory, unwise and probably costly move. He went on to say that much time and money would have to be expended to receive all the state required approvals needed to operate such a laboratory. Dr. Cowley concluded in saying that he would not continue to act as clinical director of the proposed new facility and tendered his resignation as of June 16, 1975. He added that, because of the manner the hospital Med-Mar- Med-Mar- k SSU) had acted in this and other areas he would also resign as of the Intensive Care Unit committee immediately. Dr. Cowleys letter and resignation comes as something of a surprise to hospital board members and hospital administrator Don Fifield, who claims that Dr. Cowley was in attendance at the Feb. 1 hospital board meeting and said he will attest to the fact that Dr. Cowley raised no objections to the plan at the time. Fifield explained that the Carbon Hospital contracted with for their respiratory lab services in August of 1972 for a two year period and had simply decided not to renew the contract on the grounds that establishing their own lab would provide for better local control over the lab and estimated saving for the rest of this year of about $10,000. Fifield charged that Dr. Cowley was making a mountain out of a in molehill this tendering resignation in that he had not been asked, as of yet, to be the director of the new pulmonary laboratory and, so, could not resign from a position that he did not yet hold. In actuality, said the administrator, Cowley had only resigned from his post as of the ICU committee. As far as state certification for this new pulmonary unit goes, added Fifield, state agencies in charge of such certification had already been contacted and he claimed to have their assurances that the new pulmonary laboratory would retain all approvals that are required provided its reports continue to be Med-Mar- k Isa pest funded by money from state and federal sources as well as some matching money donated by several large corporations such as U.S. Steel, Braztah Corporation, U.S. Fuel, and Peabody Coal. The Carbon School District and the Utah State Board of Vocational Education each donated $100,000 for the building. Carbon School District and Emery School District have a working agreement with the college whereby the college coordinates the vocational education programs to avoid overlapping of functions in the area. two-coun- Med-Mar- d d d d ss legislation that provides comprehensive funding for most all social service activities funded by the federal government. Mrs. Roberts said all monies being made available by the federal government would be given on a 25 percent match from the local area basis. She added that Carbon County had received $216,921 for social services from the federal government last year; that Emery County had received $53,607 and Grand had been granted $37,400. Mrs. Roberts said, at present, social services in the county funded the assistance to the aging program, adult probation, alcohol and drug abuse prevention, mental health, family services, Indian affairs and veteran affairs. , New services, such as the Youth Service Bureau and a legal aid service, were being planned, said Mrs. Roberts. She explained that the Law Enforcement Planning Agency had been funding the Youth Service Bureau, but because no money was available from this agency this year, Youth Service was looking for a new sponsor. She added that social services had been discussing a legal aid system in the county for some time and had received suggestions that they attempt to get funds to hire a team of lawyers to handle such cases. She said she believed funding for this type of program would be turned down and instead suggested a e system, whereby lawyers from the area would agree to handle such cases on a rotating basis for a set fee. County attorney Ron Boutweil suggested that they investigate hiring one lawyer to handle all these cases, as he believed that would be more efficient and cost less. flat-rat- City, county agreed on 9 member board Recommended changes in the Carbon Hospital now nearly two months under consideration, have apparently been adopted by the by-law- s, Price city council according to the Carbon County commissioners as preparations are now underway to name a nine member board. Meeting last week, the combined county commission and city council, which both hold equal powers over governing the hospital, agreed to llspwte timely and accurate. In a subsequent interview, Dr. Cowley agreed that he was in fact in attendance at the hospital board meeting where the possibility of dropping the contract with Health-Guar- d (the company name recently assumed by for lab services was discussed but he stresses that the question was not brought up for a vote at that time. He claimed that he learned of the final decision to drop the Health-Guarservices on the date he wrote the letter to Dr. Gorishek when the head lab technician informed him that Mr. Fifield had given the lab personnel notice that the Health-Guarservices would be terminated. Dr. Cowley, who is a certified pulmonary specialist, charged that the sweeping change being contemplated by the hospital administration did not seem to him to be fully thought out and would probably require that the hospital administered pulmonary lab run at a loss for up to two years or more. Cowley explained that little of the equipment belongs to the hospital that is used by the lab and the lab personnel are under contract to Health-Guarand would not be available for employment by the hospital, thus, the hospital would probably have to spend between $25,000 and $35,000, at the offset, to bring their new lab up to the standards established by the Health-Guarunit. On top of that, they would be required to attract trained personnel to the area to staff the lab and provide them with continuous government agency that they intended to apply for supplemental funds to start phase two of a current expansion and remodeling program at the fairgrounds. Meeting in regular session, the county commission was approached by Cortney Brewer, a planner for the Southeastern Utah Economic Development District, who told the commissioners the time had come to begin applying for a federal matching grant that would be used to build a planned access road, an underpass, walks, plant trees, build a playground, a holding pond and some pavilions at the fairgrounds. The work is the second phase of a project, funded last year by the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation of the U.S. Department of the Interior on a matching basis for $50,000, which will build this summer new parking facilities, restrooms, begin work on a playground, build a concession stand and help with renovations on the track at the fairgrounds. Brewer said this notification was written for a federal matching grant of $75,000 but was not to be considered a total committment that the county must meet. In fact, commissioners made it clear that they would only sign the notification if it was agreed upon beforehand that the grant and the countys match could be reduced before final agreement to go ahead with the program. Brewer said that arrangement would be line with the Bureau ot Outdoor Recreation but recommended that the notification be signed as soon as possible as all incoming requests are prioritized and much time and effort is needed to process the requests. moto-cro- Over hospital policy Citing the peremptory nature of the (hospital) administration and a complete absence of consultation with experts in reaching a decision to discontinue the present contract with the pulmonary laboratory and establish one under the direction of the Carbon Hospital administration, Dr. Ray Cowley, clinical director of social service notification informing a federal Price or ftloab office !Ufl ponders Mrs. Evelyn Roberts, acting as coordinator and planner for Social Services came before the council to acquaint the commissioners with new funding for new facilities at the Carbon County Fairgrounds was set in motion last Thursday night as county commissioners signed a training and would have to find a doctor to take over supervision of the lab, none of which he believed to be easy tasks. Cowley said it has been his experience that rural hospitals on the order of the Carbon Hospital cannot efficiently run a pulmonary lab of the quality of the present lab. It was for this reason, he said, that organizations such as sprang up to provide quality lab services to small hospitals at a reasonable price. Cowley answered charges that costs to the hospital and the people for the service offered by the lab was too high in explaining that of the $94,000 received by for lab services rendered at the lab in 1974, 32.4 percent of that total went directly back to the hospital as profit and another 42 percent was spent by for salaries, equipment, maintenance and supplies for the Carbon lab. The remainder, he for profits said, went to Health-Guar- d and other expenses. This, he emphasized, was done at no financial risk to the Carbon Hospital, who would be liable for all improper actions under the newly proposed system. Cowley said the certification of most state and federal disability boards would be lost until the new lab could establish the general accuracy of all its work. This, he added, took the present lab a year and a half to establish. What this would mean, he said, is that area residents suing for Health-Guar- Health-Guar- Health-Guar- d d (See COWLEY, Page 7) adopt most of the recommendations made by the commission six weeks ago under the prodding of a number of civic groups in the area. These recommendations include expansion of the present five member board to nine members of which four will be appointed by the county commission and four will be appointed by the city council, the final member to be a doctor chosen by the hospital staff; establishment of a regular schedule of meetings; the seating of an attorney and a nurse on the board and a requirement that each chairman of the board may not serve in that capacity for more than three years and a requirement that no board member may serve for more than five years. The meeting between the city and county fathers was reportedly stormy at times as members of the city council were apparently unimpressed with commission contentions that these changes in the would enliven the hospital board, which recently, has been charged with by-la- being too complacent about hospital affairs. The commission reported at their last meeting that the city agreed on the changes, specifically on the expansion of the board, only on a one year conditional basis although criteria for judging the relative success of the new board arrangement was not established. It was agreed that the county commission would be in charge of seating the attorney on the board while the city was assigned with seating a nurse. The commission decided at their last meeting that they would also try to seat someone in the community with a medical background although not connected directly with the hospital. They also discussed the seating of a citizen at large as well as who on the commission would serve on the board. Price City is said to have chosen its nominees for the hospital board already although the names of these people will probably not be announced until the middle of June. by-la- w Sponsored by Sun Advocate d Utah author to bo honored at June 4 autograph party The Sun Advocate is pleased to invite all Carbon and Emery residents to an autograph party honoring Lula Parker Bentenson UDon the publication of her new book. Butch Cassidy, My Brother, June 4 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Carbon Country Club. This will be the first reception held in Utah for Mrs. Betenson since the release of her book, which is being printed by the Brigham Young University Press, telling the true story of Robert LeRoy Parker, alias "Butch Cassidy, her famous brother. For many years, Mrs. Betenson has refused to give a complete accounting of the life of her brother who has been immortalized in myth and fiction as one of the great outlaws of the West. The book is foreworded by actor Robert Redford, who played in the recent movie based on her brothers life. Lula P. Betenson |