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Show mrnw Hardscrabble Canyon sewer PRWID pledges support to Helper project By CHUCK ZEHNDER Managing editor Price River Water Improvement District board members gave their complete support to Helper City and Castle Gate Coal Companys outfall sewer project at their regular meeting Tuesday. Helpers mayor, Robert Olsen, and Roger Allison from the coal company asked the board for their support of the coal companys sewer project in Hardscrabble Canyon west of Helper. Olsen told the board that the state Community Impact Board has discouraged them from continuing with their application for funding the project, stating that there are more requests for funds than funds available. PRWID attorney Stanley Litizzette told the board, Olsen and Allison that this is a very good project to fall under the CIB They (the CIB) funded a ferry boat across Cal Blacks lake (Lake Powell), a fire truck for Scipio and Cedar Citys even a golf course, he said. This is a CIB project if ever there was one, he added. Litizzette commented that most of the funds coming to the CIB are from the coal companies and indicated that money should really go back into projects like the proposed sewer outfall. The board encouraged Olsen and Allison to contact the County Commission for their formal support of the project and to also ask Sen. Omar and Bunnell Rep. Missing children found safeand sound Wednesday page 2 Second walking tow of historic homes Is Saturday page $ 95th Year No. 42 Friday, May 23, and festival Shakespearean Mike Dmitrich for their support and to possibly appear before the CIB in their behalf. Castle Gate Coal is improving the old Price River Coal properties in Hardscrabble Canyon and intends to begin mining coal there as soon as possible. Part of the preparation included a sewer package plant at an estimated cost of $70,000. But the Utah Board of Health encouraged the company to put in an outfall sewer line and hook onto Helper Citys system at a cost doubling the other project. Carbon Ditto j State health officials originally encouraged funding via Helper City from the CIB and that is the course the company and the city has taken, the board was told. The board finally and unanimously agreed to fully support the project and to facilitate both construction and funding in any way possible. The board also heard a from request Nordic Con- structors, general contractor on the waste water treatment plant expansion, for an extension of 41 days on the contract. Russ page project estimated the contractor is about five to seven weeks behind on the project. Nordic based their request on the fact that a subcontractors materials had been faulty and that had put the entire project behind schedule while waiting for repairs and testing. Board members agreed that was not a sufficient reason according to the contract and the general contractor may have to pass any costs in the delay along to that sub-- ( Continued on Page tricksters make Academic All state Castle Valley Watch Vernon, engineer, 10) page 4 I 10 12 1986 Pages Single Copy 25t Old caboose at new home By ED McKEEVER Staff writer A Utah Railway HELPER caboose found a new home Tuesday as it was placed into position at the Western Mining and Railroad Museum. Originally built in 1918, the car was numbered 55 and was built by the Mount Vernon Car Manufacturing Company in Mount Vernon, 111. According to Sam Quigley, advisor to the museum board, the caboose was purchased from the Utah Railway Company by Andalex Resources and remodled in 1955. He said he thinks that is when the caboose was covered with steel rather than left with the wood siding. Quigley said the caboose remained in service until about 1980 when it was moved to the siding at Wildcat and lifted off the tracks. He said since that time, it has been sandblasted inside and out and the windows replaced. When the museum board was granted permission by Helper City to use the vacant lot north of the museum building, arrangements were made to have the caboose moved there. Quigley said a crane from Price Steel Fabrication was used to lift the caboose onto a flat bed trailer and it was moved . to the city. Crews from Utah Railway Company built the roadbed and track assembly at the museum. Paint has been ordered for the caboose and Quigley said the museum board plans to return it to as close to original condition as possible. The words Utah Railway Company 55 will be restinciled on the side of the car as it was when it was new. The caboose is the first part of an antique equipment park begin organized in the lot north of the museum. Quigley said along with the caboose, they have three-to- n mine locomotive from about 1920, a Sullivan Short Wall machine from about 1910, a wooden coal cart from about 1910 and a Joy 12 BU loader, vintage 1940. Museum officials are hoping to have parts of the park finished before the annual Butch Cassidy Days next month. Copies of correspondence about the original construction of the caboose have been aquired, along with the original ownership certificate. It ap- were some problems with the original lettering on the cabooses as the first owners of the two cabooses ordered, 54 and 55, was the Union Pacific Equipment pears there Association. In the collection of letters and Utah Railway caboose is lowered onto its wheels at its new home Wednesday afternoon. The caboose is now part telegraphs, there are several kept also, as there are equiprequesting that the Union ment orders and repair orders dated throughout caboose 55s Pacific name be obliterated, since Utah Railway had paid for working career. For the original order, Utah the two cabooses. The history of the car was Railway authorized an ex A the Western Mining and Railroad Museum collection in Photo by Ed McKeeve, Helper. penditure of $6,316.64 on June the trailer Tuesday afternoon of 30, 1918 for cabooses 54 and 55. Francis Cunningham, curator as of the museum, was on hand the caboose was unloaded from and watched with the eyes of a child opening a new toy. It was thrilling to see it unloaded and alot of fun to watch it come in, she said. Fire chief spells out burning regulations By DALE EDWARDS Staff writer If you still have some weeds or other trash that needs to be burned and you hesitated because of Utah Air Co- nservation Committee regulations, take heart because those regulations have been changed to allow some burning. Price City Fire Chief David Barrett said open burning is now legal again. Thats the good news. The bad news is you only have another week or so to burn before it becomes illegal again until fall time. The new regulations, which were spelled out in a letter to at county cemeteries veterans, several different Memorial Day services have been set around the Castle Valley area. In Price, the American Legion Post 3, the Veterans of Foreign Wars iVice Post 2379 plan to join together Monday with a special service to honor all veterans of all wars. The service is set for 11 a.m. at the Price City Cemetery. The two organizations invite veterans of all branches of the military to participate and pay tribute to American servicemen and women alive and dead, who served their country during wartime. of clippings, bushes, burning plants and primings from trees incident to clean-u- p activities in areas outside the Wasatch Front. That burning is limited to the periods of March 30 to May 30 in the spring and from Sept. 15 through Oct. 30 in the fall. The also Memorial services set In remembrance of American Barrett recently, allow the open The public is inivited to attend the memorial service. Those veterans who wish to participate in the service should assemble at the south entrace of the cemetery by 10 a.m. Veterans in Helper are planning a memorial services in and around that area. Ceremonies will begin at 8 a.m. in the Castle Gate cemetery followed by services at the two Spring Glen cemeteries before moving to Mountain View Cemetery where services are scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Church and fraternal services are also scheduled in Helper. A story elsewhere in todays Sun Advocate outline those services. limit the regulations materials burned to thoroughly dry items. It also prohibits the burning of trash, rubbish, tires or oil and also prohibits residents from using those items to start fires. The reason for those provisions is to prevent thick black smoke from being emitted from the fire. The new regulations also allow certain other types of open burning under a variety of circumstances. Those include burning in forests, within railroad rights of way, when under the direction of a fire department, in remote areas where no other method of disposal is possible, etc. Barrett said he will again issue burning permits for city during the times specified in the revised regulations. Burning permits are still required within Price to do any type of burning. residents In other areas of the county, Barrett suggested residents contact the fire authority with jurisdiction over the area in which they live to find out what policy should be followed. In the area of the county covered by the Price City Fire Department, residents should notify the Carbon County 1986-8-7 Sheriffs Office and the local fire department of their intentions. Barrett said the idea of burning permits was originally to see that burning was done safely and that only dry materials would be burned. He said with the new regulations, the city will basically go back to the same ( Continued on Page 10 ) school calendar set calendar for the school year has been approved by the Carbon County School Board. It calls for school to start on Tuesday, Aug. 26, The official 1986-8- 7 this year. The day calendar calls for school to end on Thursday, May 28, 1987. The year will start earlier for new teachers, who will participate in an inservice day on Monday, 180-scho- ol Days on which school will be closed include Labor Day, on Sept. 1; UEA Convention on Thursday and Friday, Oct. deer hunting recess on Monday, Oct. 20; and Thanksgiving recess on Thursday and Friday, 0; Nov. 27-2- 8. Schools will close for the Christmas recess beginning on Dec. 24. Classes will resume after Christmas on Jan. 5, 1987. will be closed for Presidents Day on Monday, Feb. 16. Aug. 18. Schools The regular teachers institute will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 19. The regular teachers inservice will be presented Aug. The teachers will have a day in the schools to prepare their rooms on Monday, Aug. 25, and classes will begin the next day. There will be two other holidays observed with the closure of schools. The Easter recess will include Friday, April 17, and Monday, April 20, next year. Memorial Day will be celebrated on Monday, May 25, 20-2- 2. requirements as before. The main difference is that there will be specified times of the year when burning can be legally done. He urged local residents to still be careful to observe basic fire safety principles. He said no fire should be started within 50 and schools will be closed that day. Holidays which will be observed in school, but for which school will not be dismissed include Columbus Day, on Monday, Oct. 13; Veterans Day, on Wednesday, Nov. 11; Lincolns Birthday, on Thursday, Feb. 12; and Martin Luther Kings Birthday, on Monday, Jan. 19. School will end for the year on Thursday, May 28, 1987 and teachers will use the following day to check out. Parent-teachconferences have been scheduled for er elementary schools on Friday, Nov. 7, 1986, and Friday, March Dates for secondary conferences will be announced later. 27, 1987. t mli |