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Show 4. LIlDIl ebbs VOLUME 56 GEO w 11 TREttOriTON, Oust If jA Md UTAH a mm 84337 DECK2 16 1976 0it9 Facility 4? ' ' . .UTAH'S YOUNG FARMER and Ranchers, Mr. and Mrs. David Eliason of Snowville, receive free use of a new Ford pickup from Rick Warner Ford in Salt Lake City. The Utah Farm Bureau Federation bestowed the honor on the young Farmer, Rancher' A summit meeting between Garland and Tremonton city representatives mediated by State Division of Health and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials may have produced a truce and cleared the decks for action to upgrade the sewer treatment plant serving the two cities. Tremonton City recently asked for the meeting with the state and federal agencies through which 75 percent of the funding for the project is being furnished. The request-camafter Garland officials said they i ! Thai prompted new Garland Mayor, Eldon Griffen, to respond, "why not?" Because step one and two in the project have "already been completed," Thatcher said. The project is almost to a point where a contract can be awarded. r Both the State Division of Health and EPA suggested that formation of a sewer district encompassing the two communities might be one answer to plan to provide an economic teview. "I think the people of Tremonton should ask for that reevaluation because it is a changed plan," Hansen contended. Original plans, he pointed out, called for a sewage lagoon system which has been scrapped in the final plan. The engineer said there is enough "confusion" in the plan to indicate a need for reevaluation. differences. Summing up, the concerns of the two - "I don't think e the State Health cities,. Thatcher said it appears both Department or EPA care if it's a "want a clear deliniation of what is district which is funded," Thatcher no longer considered themselves actproposed and justification for it." added. The state's role, he added, will be to ive participants in the project and Garland's consulting engineer, "develop facts that are necessary to suggested it might be cheaper for Keith Hansen of Hansen and Associthem to build their own facility. lay this thing out to facilitate commates, Inc. of Brigham City, said that unication." Lynn Thatcher, State Division of Added Mayor Griffen: "If we're Health, quickly put any talk of Gar- city has never said it wanted to build land building its -- own- facility using i fits own plant. going to spend Garland's money we , no pressing the issue ui, a ' Thatcher said the "problem here" QtiM&i& separate system, but we feel we're ' best of the alternates. , . '. has to be solved within "present-restraint- s" of The work with Garland and he added. being pushed into it," question ownership of the1 which means a "single He said the council wants to know sewer treatment plant is still up in the ? they can work with us," he added. Another concern aired at the meet- "what are we going to build (what is air. plant serving both facilities." "This means that federal funding the final plan) and is it the most Tremonton Councilman, Harry Gep-har- t, ing by Garland was alleged discrepanread a statement from the cies in how the original contract has really can't be supplied in any other economical solution?" context." He asked for an amendment to the original contract between the two Cont. on page three Gar-land-- at million-dollar-pl- - Bureau Honors Box Elder Couple k David Eliason, 30, a grain and grower near Snowville, has been lamed Utah's Outstanding Young farmer and Rancher for 1976 by Utah Tarm Bureau Federation. Eliason and his wife, Gaylynn, will eceive an expense-pai- d trip to the American Farm Bureau convention in iawaii in January 1977 and a year's ree use of a Rick Warner Ford pick-u- p 'ruck as a result of their winning the itate honor. In Honolulu, they will compete with other states YER wirings for three national awards. The Utah Farm Bureau Insurance Company also furnished a year's free nsurance on the truck, presented by A. E. Carroll, executive vice president if the company. The young Box Elder County farmer vas honored for his achievement late ast week in an awards program luring the Utah Farm Bureau's ann-lconvention at the Salt Lake Hilton lotel. More than 300 Utah Farm eaders attended the event. The Eliasons won out over 12 other Jtah Farm couples under 30 years of ge in competition which measured live-itoc- al County Commissioners have proceed a total budget for 1977 of 4,117,538 compared with expected evenues and expenditures of 4,064,036 for 1976. The new budget was prepared under he provisions of a new state-wid- e tudgetary procedures act which nakes a number of changes. The big hange is that all county money now is acluded in a general budget. In the past, certain other budgets vere used to control auch things as a 'ariety of road money supplied from he state. Federal Revenue sharing noney is also included in the new mdget. In the past, commissioners utve opened the budget at various imes during the year to include the noney for a variety of projects. The new budget will not mean an ncrease in the mill levy next August, leadership in Farm Bureau and other community affairs as well as farming and ranching achievement. Eliason and his wife started, farming full time in 1971 after he attended Brigham Young University for four years. He only needs five hours credit to receive a bachelor of arts degree in Agricultural Economics and is currently taking a correspondence course towards this goal. Starting with 205 acres of cropland and 350 head of cattle, the young couple have bought land during the past five years to Bring their present total to 1,500 acres of cultivated land on a total deeded acreage of 7,290 acres. Eliason runs 410 head in a cow-caoperation and is now raising 380 calves produced on his own place. He holds graxing rights on many acres of BLM and Forest Service land, as well as owning his own rangeland. He is bishop of the LDS Curlew Ward in Snowville and served a mission in Australia. Gaylynn is PTA president and a leader in church auxiliaries. The Eliasons have three children, Stephanie, 6; Shane, 5 and Derek, 2. lf County Clerk K. B. Olsen stressed. Except for a bare minimum allowance for inflation and some $138,000 which will be used to upgrade salaries of county employees, the budget is "basically the same budget as last year," Commission Chairman Don Chase said. Chase said the county expects about in additional revenues in 1977 as opposed to 1976. Some of that will be raised by an increase in the assessed valuation. The county will also not have a $31,000 expenditure next year to fund a major election as it did this past year. On the other hand, Chase pointed out that some federal wage programs which have been paying part of some county salaries will end in 1977 and have to be absorbed by the county. The budget figure is also larger cities, negotiated when the plant was first constructed, in which Tremonton . is referred to as the "sole owner." The final provision of the contract, which runs 25 years, says that "have no right that time-w- ill to the use of the sewage treatment plant.. .and...shall have the responsibility of either constructing sewage treatment facilities to handle it's own sewage, or negotiating... with Tremonton City for any continued use of the treatment plant..." "I can't really agree with this comment that Tremonton is the sole owner," Mayor Griffen said. "We're not going to totally resolve this problem without going into the ownership agreement," Thatcher noted. "I, personally, favor a district." Councilman Gephart said there is "no opposition on our part to looking at tetdisMci!iw"'' '!eeai Santa's Coming To Tremonton Sat. With eight days remaining until Christmas, Bear River Valley residents are checking their lists to see what they still need and Santa has announced one more visit to meet with his kids and decide what they want. Meanwhile, Tremonton merchants are preparing suggestions for the last minute rush. Many local stores will remain open until 8 p.m. on Friday and on Monday through Thursday of next week. Santa Claus will arrive in town Saturday at 2 p.m. with free candy for the kids. He will set up temporary headquarters in the office because it will include about $250,000 for operation of the county nursing home at Tremonton for an entire year. But, Chase pointed out that the nursing home will bring in revenues of approximately $28 to $240,000 to offset the expense. Salary increases have been a primary concern of county employees. The Box Elder County chapter of the Utah Public Employees Association recently suggested a 12 percent raise would be warranted for employees. But county commissioners Tuesday weren't prepared to say Just how far the $138,000 they have added to the total salary package will go. Clerk Olsen said department heads plan to meet with their employees to make up new pay schedules "to try and make them more equitable between departments." of Mel Foxley on Main Street. an added attraction, a photographer will be available to take pictures of the kids with the jolly old elf for a charge. Santa's visit is being sponsored by the Lions Club and the pictures are being subsidized by the Jay-CeeAs 50-ce- nt s. its The Leader will alter schedule for next week also. To provide readers a list of gift ideas going down the home stretch. The Leader will present two issues next week with the first arriving on Monday and the second later in the week. Asked what they are comparing the salaries with, Olsen said the county has "already looked to some extent at the city (Brigham)." Commissioner Reed Nielsen said the salary increases should be retroactive to Jan. l, 1977 but that pay schedules might not be determined by then. Asked if the $138,000 would come anywhere close to providing the requested 12 percent increase, Commissioner Ted Burt said no. In the road department, where Commissioner Burt has complained in the past about the problems of rising costs, the budget is "based on practically the same" as last year, Chase pointed out. But about $150,000 in federal revenue sharing money has en included for equipment purch-e- s to assist the department. wer items which will be purchased A gl. were (1 to r) Clain Archibald, first counselor, Oleen Clive Uarn, stake president, and Mark H. Jensen, second counselor. They replace President James J. White, and counselors Donald Petersen and Ray Sorensen. Gordon Bronson was named executive secretary and Hugh Clark was sustained as assistant clerk. LeRoy G. Welling was sustained as a member of the High Council. President White was sustained in the new position of patriarch. . . SUSTAINED SUNDAY AS i Garland, Utah Stake Presidency from the 1977 budget include a new metal building to house the weed department. The structure will be located in Elwood by the road sheds. The department is presently housed in Tremonton in a wood shed. About $21,000 has been included for purchase of a recording device for the sheriff's office. The recorder will keep a constant record of radio transmissions. Another $20,000 is also included in the sheriff's budget for purchase of vehicles. Commissioners also plan to use approximately $20,000 contained in the new budget to set up a purchasing office. A purchasing agent will be hired to handle county purchasing. Commissioner Chase said the action has been under consideration for some time. Such an afcent, he said, "would not only pay for himself but would save the county two or three times that amount." The new budget does not contain any x money. A bill recently passed entitles Box Elder County to approximately $730,000 a year as compensation for federal lands which can't be taxed. But the bill has not had any money appropriated in Washington yet to fund it. Chase said the best guess is that such money will be forthcoming possibly in mid-197At that point, what commissioners described as a tight budget may be loosened up considerably. Commissioners will have to reopen the budget to include that money. Commissioners are also on record as saying that some of the new money will be given to local taxpayers through a cut in the mill levy. payment-in-lieu-of-ta- i U4. , |