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Show mmm-- - - iJim.iBui.-ja- ff1- Sm s. WijriTWMIt Paue 20 - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD- - November 13. 2001 Thanksgiving travel could mean more risks to motorists and their families motorists and their families across the nation are as great as they have Thanksgiving has always been one of the most dangerous holidays for motorists and their families and this year is no exception . Despite the sharp drop in air and vehicle travel follow ing the Sept. 1 1 attacks, holiday road travel is expected to bounce back, with onlya 1.6 percent drop from last year, according to AAA. And a record promore than 87 portion of travelers are choosing to drive. percent While recent increases in travel may signal a lesKeningofpeO pies fears, the dangers on Americas roads every day remain very real, said Chuck Hurley, executive director of the Air Bag & Seat Belt Safety Campaign, a program ofthe National Safety Council. The Council predicts as many as 532 people will die in traffic crashes over the weekend holiday Law enforcement in all 50 states are mobilizing to save lives through stepped up enforcement of child passenger safety, seat belt and drunk driving laws. More than 10,000 agencies will be taking part in the nationally coordinated Operation ABC Mobilization from Nov. Nearly 8,000 adults and children will die in traffic crashes for one reason alone they failed to buckle up. Statistics show that the risk of dying in a crash is almost cut in half by ever been. The Operation ABC Mobilization is beingkickedoflfateventa across the nation to honor law enforcement for wave participating in the week-lon- g of coordinated enforcement. During the Mobilization, officers will set up saturation patrols, checkpoints and conduct other enforcement activities. Drivers found above the legal blood alcohol limit and drivers failing to restrain themselves and their child passengers will be stopped and law enforcement action will be taken. The Mobilization comes on the heelsofs National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) g report finding that deaths have increased by more than drunk-drivin- 19-2- 5. . l Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA),55pcrcentof passenger car and light truck occupants killed last year were unrestrained. As our nation responds to recent terrorist threats which seem beyond our control, we must remember to continue to address the ongoing tragedies we can all do something about, said Hurley. Bcingunrestrainedina vehicle or riding with a drunk driver places children and adults at tremendous risk and with 30 million vehicles on the road this holiday, the risks to four percent, which is the largest annual increase since the agency started keeping records. The risk of being killed by a drunk driver is up significantly from recent years. Combine that with increased holiday traffic and we have a recipe for disaster, said Millie I. Webb, national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. High visibility enforcement programs like the Operation ABC Mobilization couple intense enforcement with widespread advertising to notify the public about the enforcement. The program model is based on years of research showing that for may people who don't wear seat belts espethe possibility cially young people of receiving a ticket is a more powerful incentive to buckle up than the threat ofiqjury or death. Enforcement is what moves the numbers, added Hurley. Seat belt use in states that conduct high visibility enforcement is ten to fifteen percentage points higher than in states that simply conduct public awareness campaigns. yeftps Novembers Girls' Hoop, East Carbon at Tabiona November 16 More Girls' Hoop, East Carbon at Altamont Additional Girls Hoop, DHS at Green River November 1 7 More Girls, Tabiona cagers at Green River November 20 Girls Hoop, Juan Diego at DHS . November 27- Wrestling, Duchesne High School at Union November 28 Girls' Hoop, Duchesne at Union High School November 30 Boys'Basketball, Grantsville at Union, North Summit at Duchesne High School a (? Rick and Staci Myrin now have their baby girls home. Bless their hearts, they waited for so long for them, but surely the wait was worth it. Rachel Henderson had company from Littleton, Colorado here to visit with her for a few days. Lena Thomas returned home on Wednesday, Oct. 31. She had been up to Casper, Wyoming to spend time and to spoil her first baby of Markand Becky Thomas. She also went hunting with some of them. They got an elk. Carman Michaels who has been here since her mother, Pouline Herrera, passedaway, had her brotherPat come to spend time with her. Carman says shell be going back home to Virginia on Nov. 14. Emmett and Dorothy Evans had their nephew Paul Pritchard and his friend out to spend the deer hunt weekend with them. Carman Michaels had her cousin, Inez Lopez, of Salt Lake City out to visit with her for the weekend. Emmett and Dorothy Evans had his friend Paul Pritchard and his wife Diane of Magna out for this last weekend for the deer hunt. Orinda Gee was surprised at the Duchesne Gateway Seniors dinner on Thursday, Nov. 1 when the Uintah Basin Standard hadabeautifiil planter tree delivered to her wit h a lovely card of thanks. Orinda has been a correspondent for 18 years. Then the seniors gave her a beautiful crocheted lap throw that was made by Joann Riding. She also received a plaque with glass and a beautiful note signed by everyone. Thanks a lot, it makes me feelgood. On Oct. 30 Orinda Gee went on the senior bus to the Crossroads Center to their Halloween dinner. A lot of seniors dressed up; they were cute. They even had a fortune teller there. Orinda had her fortune told. It said a friend that has been onyour mind offand on will be calling you Boon, and can you believe it, that very night the phone rang and it was a friend from Peoria, Arizona who called to tell us that her mother.Melba Strickland, had passed away. She was 99 years old. She was double surprised when I told her that Harold had passed away on Oct 23. We had known her and been dear friends for better than 30 years. Don't forget, the November birthat days will be celebrated on Nov. the center. Don't forget that our DUP meeting willbeNov. 19 at the new information center in Duchesne. It is just west of Pizza & Us. Please come, Alice Halladay and Orinda Gee will be great-grandso- fcX- S SESSCSt DOINGTHEIR CHURCH WORK" Construction crews are puttingup the walls on the newBishop's Storehouse - amM1 Ward church on Lagoon and State street While in Roosevelt. The building is going up directly behind the remodeled. is is church ' the new storehouse being built the being I- n, 1-- 5 - Inaccurate media reports alarm Questar Gas customers number of recent reports in the to burn in all appliances and would Somecritics haveblamed the company's continue to do so for several years, to Green Sticker ada for creatingunneces-sar- y give customers time to have their apanxiety. The fact is, the campaign was pliances cheeked. The company also warned customintended until the distorted ers that alter this transition period, news reports appeared, Rose said. improperly adjusted appliances could Our ads ran in newspapers throughproduce excessive carbon monoxide, out the state almost a month ago. Our which under some conditions can cause customers didnt become panicked death. The company plans to issue simi- until last weekend when these inaccular messages several times over the rate and needlesaly inflammatory news next few years. reports started to appear. On Oct 6, nearly a month after the For 70 years, our customers have campaign started, the Salt Lake Tri-o- counted on us to deliver natural gas to bune published an article incorrectly their homes safely, reliably and at the lowest possible price. We do not take reporting that Questar Gas was ering a new form of natural gas . . . the obligation lightly. Our Green Sticker campaign is a responsible and containing higher levels ofcarbon ide." measured effort to provide our customAn Associated Press story based on ers with information they need to make the Tribune article was released later informed consumer decisions regardthat day. The AP story repeated the ing the efficient operation oftheir apcarbon dioxide error. It caused further pliances. Unfortunately, some recent conftision by incorrectly reporting that examples of reporting have thwarted no green sticker meant an appliance there efforts and indicate a desire on cannot be adjusted to safely burn the some in the local media to inflame new gas. AP never contacted Questar rather than inform. Gas for comment, or to verify facts. On Oct 9, after Questar Gas informed its done as part ofa routine, periodic sea- - editors about the error, the AP issued . , sonal equipment check some time in a correction about the significance of AflriCIlltUrSl DNC6S the SUckfiT. tlianmtlwnn, On the same day the original AP Beginning Sept 9, Questar Gas used Utah: prices Utahfenn- newspaper ada, press releases and bill story was released, two Salt Lake tele-stufiers to inform customers that natu- vision stations aired news reports based emandhersdunngnud-October- , ral gas enteringthe companys system on the erroneous AP story. Intwo sepa-- compared with September, wereup from interstate pipelines was chang- rate reports, one channelused graphics for barley and alfalfa hay, but the behinda reporter that read Natural ing The lamb price for September was The company urged customers, to gas hazard and Dangerous gss.lBoth $62 per cwt, down $13 from October check their fUmaces and waterheaters stations mistakenly reported that 2000. The September sheep price, at fora green sticker that it began making Questar Gas was switching gas to appliance manufacturers, plies. Neither station contacted $25 was unchanged from October of installers and dealers three years ago. Questar Gas for comment or to verify last year. Barley, at $2.Q7 per bushel, was The stickers indicated that the equip- - facts. ment was acfj usted for proper combus- On Oct. 10,onKUTV2News,alead- - three cents higher than the pervious tion of current and foture supplies, in to a report by reporter Bill Gephardt months price and 18 cents above last Customers without stickers were ad- - incorrectly claimed Questar Gas was year. Baled alfalfa hay was $98 per vised to have their equipment in- - telling customers that your flimace ton, $3 higher than last month and $16 above last year. Other hqy, at $57 spected and, if necessary, adjusted by a wand water heater will soon be ton, was unchanged from last per for an unless professional. $200 lete, upheating you pay .month, but $5 higher than October The company assured customers grade. 2000. that is was currently processing the Company literature clearly states United States: The preliminary supplies it received to make them safe thatchanginggcnmviMtinindiMWinnt All Farm products Index of Prices ' require the replacement of any appli- Received Farmers in October was by ances. 100, down a Later in his report, Gephardt erro- 95, based on 1990-9- 2 record ten points (9.5 percent) from neously concludes that Questar Gas is the September Index. When compared responsible for the change in gas com- to the historical base of is and position providing lousy gas. Bhows a 66 point decline, index ft8 In foce, the supplies coming to mingthelarstmonth-to-mont- h Questar Gass system (and which it is decrease m recorded history. The pre-processingduringthis transition phase vious record dwlinn was to make it safe for all appliances) meet all federal and local safety standards 57 points, and occurred between the and contain the me Btu content as months of August and September, natural gas used by customers around 1973. When compared with October the nation for decades. 2000, however, the AllFarm Products A local media contained inaccurate information about Questar Gass Green Sticker consumer awareness campaign. Errors in television and newspaper stories about the program distorted the companys message and created unnecessaryconcern among natural gas customers about their safety. We prepared a very detailed campaign designed to inform our customers about important changes that have been occurringover the last threeyears in the composition ofthe gas entering system, said Nick Rose, Questar Gas president and CEO. Unfortu- some very careless reporting and the failure on the part of some to adequately check facts have created a climate of fear. The company is takingsteps to reas- sure customers that the gas in their homes is perfectly safe Cor use in all appliances. Its also reminding cus- - ur deliv-natel- y, diox-reporte-rs ' reby le I obso-licens- ed i I'tanksgioing 1910-191- lUs 4, one-mon- th I h,Bherincreases from Uieaeftcts were ignored anddisre-- 0ctober for than Alarmed by these news reports, decreases in oilseeds, cotton, customers have contacted the many vegetables and eggs, company by Phone, email and in - 4 Fast Response son, upset and concerned fortheirs 4 Emergency Service 24-Ho- ur 4 Vans Are Rolling Warehouses Now Taking Orders for Holiday Pies 4 Save Money 4 Up Front Fiat Rate Pricing MILL m ExtTCab 4x4t Pumpkin Cherry Dutch Apple t v't.200l ,2001? 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