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Show 2 Vernal fcpttSt Fridoy, September 16, 1983 . on LMTS I?. fwoKT maniacs un.cs citt nam 1 I '1 S. NPLS Mt SMCT NO. I H New boundaries of Naples City bond election Naples City residents who have been voting in the South Vernal 13 voting precinct should be aware that they will now vote in the Naples precinct number 2. "The upcoming bond and municipal elections placed Naples City residents in a Vernal City voting precinct," said Dorothy C. Luck, Uintah County clerk. "It was necessary to change precinct lines to coincide with Vernal and Naples City boundaries," she said. Naples City residents not registered who wish to vote in the Sept. 27 bond election may register at the county clerk's office no later than Sept. 16. Cities holding municipal election this year are Vernal, Naples and Ballard. Residents wishing to register for municpal elections, Nov. 8, may do so at the clerk's office no later than Oct. 18 and Nov. 1 and 2 at their respective precinct. Impact board gives funds to local area The Permanent Community Impact Fund Board promised funds Sept. 8, to the Maeser Water and Sewer Improvement Improve-ment District and Naples City. ' The Maeser water district received a $70,000 grant to purchase a portion of a water line being built by Vernal City. The grant award is contingent upon the district obtaining a formal letter of agreement from Vernal City, State Health Department approval for the project and the availability of grant funds. The proposed 20-inch water line will be about a mile in length from Ashley Spring to the proposed CUP treatment plant. Naples City received $1 million loan promise at 44 percent Interest repayable over 12 year for road repair , construction of a city hall and i city park and road. The loan award to conttnfirnt upon the city successfully pawing a bond election Sept. 27. The Impact Board allocates fund that are generated by mineral lease royalties in the state for the purpose of providing financial assistance to energy impacted communities. Vernal Express (USPS 6580 8000) S 1 4 00 p ad $W 00 p fm M O fcf Van! (i9M Co"' ', J4 Ne VrJ An, , POStwAStfi S4 Vt I Nat ttrm, 0 t 100, v(, U' tm I M 4 V W' I Nifg W V C"- . . Am Hm t40 .4p " Jee" t4 .4At Wyw'i Hm ssn, tftWu., ?f JU t-M t4 M- Jlf.J JS I tiji ?;jt;i IflB e WB s V4s & PUBLIC FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What is vow opinion? The Express welcomes letters from its readers concerning any subject pertinent to the Uintah Basin. While there ore no restrictions as to contents or reasonable length, letters must be submitted exclusively to the Express and bear the writer's full name, signature, phone number ond address. Names must be printed on political letters but may be withheld for good reasons if requested on others. All letters are subject to condensation . Gas prices Dear Editor: In one of your recent articles a lady complained about how she hated to be ripped off at the gas pumps. I have news for her. She is being cheated long before the gas arrives at the pumps. We are a small service corporation that like many others have gone through the oil boom. As the work became less and less competition between bet-ween the small companies became stiffer. Larger energy companies have laid off personnel to shorten the work week and have even cut out travel pay to and from work in order to lower production pro-duction costs. Now it is generally known that when the oil boom was as its peak, several unscrupulous contractors acquired work by over charge paybacks. This is how it works. A service contractor purchases material or performs work on a company com-pany manager's home or personal property. pro-perty. The material and labor is then charged to a cost plus job performed by the same contractor for the oil or gas company. The company manager approves the invoice. The contractor is working. The manager is getting his home remodeled and the oil company and the poor consumer is getting the bill. Are you about to go into shock? Not yet, get this. After the contractor has done this illegitimate il-legitimate service several times the manager realizes his company may become suspicious. He now employs another contractor and the cycle is re-enacted. re-enacted. Why doesn't the contractor report the manager? By this time he is involved with illegal Invoices, and many times included in sharing the bounty himself. Some energy companies attempt to bid all their service work and this could put an end to this type of situation. situa-tion. But the unscrupulous manager has this figured out. Very seldom doe an energy company com-pany require a written bid. It is usually verbal quotes. This is how It works, The manager tell this partner In crime) the contractor be must give him a quote on a certain Job, And that certain items are cost plus, Then the manager calls two or three other contractors con-tractors but conveniently forget to trU them about the cost plus lietn. The feult i hi friend) is low bidder, We were just recently a victim of uch a plot. This tady would go into shark if she anew of the many houses that have hren remodeled and the fenres thai et installed at her espense, a I A, I will close with my most remit t pettenr A company official that were working for asked me to do a job. Thinking it as lefiitimal I infottned him to Have the material delivered 10 my shop, tte did and when he ton' laded me he asked if t would invoice the tehof to a dtJTerenf Job tie inform' ed me that it was a personal job. Knowing that the material bekmted to his company, t refused tie lhn informed me that my com p w finished doing work for his. fte aied thai t was not the only per wr looking for work. Itis ssifvrinr irvForrnni of ths ft has hn four months and e hate had no work from this cwmpanr and the material is still taring 'm our ftrt. no dwM charted owt afainsl sme phowy Jnjj at tvifiewmet rtpvn t dwn 1 mean la mpT that !? energy comp" da this In fact e do tateine! srjih sretal that fee; And swnM p FM t ktm t the prtml time swme cow-pa thai this is ff on! nns of err" And hM&eve me. i a rwio if is a tenp- f , fht m" MTTir--l t e winhMii mm rf-7 Shady Place Dear Editor: This article is in response to statements made by Mr. Seeley, to the Uintah County Sheriffs Office, concerning concer-ning the Shady Place Saloon published publish-ed August 24, 1983. During the 9 years prior to Mr. Seeley's management it was operated strictly in compliance with State Law. The customers could enjoy a drink, a game of pool and visit with one another without being exposed to lewdness or illegal acts by others present. pre-sent. I never had a customer display this type of conduct. It was a respectable respec-table establishment and a customer could enjoy the evening without his reputation being damaged. In those 9 years it was never operated in the manner it has been in the past year and a half. It was not necessary to have the Law Enforcement Enforce-ment Officers enter the place of business for any reason. I respected and appreciated my customers and they respected me. We have had some l good competitive pool games but none that ended in violence. It was a respectable respec-table business, no assault charges, it was never open after prescribed hours, no lewdness, no dancing girls, no alcohol to minors, no disturbing the peace no public intoxication on my part. Had these conditions existed I would have deserved being hassled by - the Sheriff's Department Had I been guilty to these charges I wouldn't have been closed for 30 days because of a health problem due to raw sewage or a dump truck full of garbage, I feci my license would have been removed permanently per-manently because of unlawful charges. An owner of this type of business must operate it In a respectable manner man-ner In order to have respectable clientele. If he doesn't have control over his business he certainly shouldn't be operating it, especially in a residential area where people are exposed ex-posed to the rowdy environment that exist because of the tack of taw and order. If a place l run tn disrespect of the law and a unwholesome reputation is established it Isn't likely that the clientele will be much better than the atmosphere created there, CUrrON HACKFufU) t Previous owner of Cliff" 1 Bar-now the Shady Place), School asked (VillTH AM TI4P PEOPLE HAULING- www orr inc. wuun 1 11 viPMNCi 1 nfc wetysHUNTi BcTTF IS 1 THERE WONT BE A TKEE. LEFT TOP. uinc 70 HIDE. BEHIND Life and other trivialities . . It's time to harvest By Steve Christensen Express Assistant Editor You can tell what time of year it is by the smell of your neighbor's garbage gar-bage can. To walk down my street on garbage day the last couple of weeks is nostral suicide. There is nothing worse smelling than the remains from a daylong ordeal of home canning. On my way down the street I smell apricots, peaches, pears, and several other things I cannot identify. The problem pro-blem is that by the time they make it to the garbage can at the edge of the street all of those things are way over ripe and verging on rotten. There is nothing better than a peach just picked, pick-ed, firm and beautiful, but there is nothing worse than rotten peach skins. Okay, I must admit I'm guilty of the infraction myself. I love home canned cann-ed foods. I was so proud of myself when I actually bottled tomatoes all by myself. I was going to school at the time and my wife was working. I thought it was only fair I help out, although I'm not sure she appreciated the mess I made. Most times I just leave the domestic stuff to my wife, although I love to garden. I wish there was someway you could just grow the stuff and put it in a machine of some sort and zappo, there is the bottled fruit and the frozen vegetables. My neighbors probably hate me though. I really have no right to complain com-plain about somebody else's garbage can. You see, I have this problem, I love to watch things grow. The things that grow the best are squashes. We have these chainlink fences around the backyard, and I think it looks great to have bananna squash, crook-necked squash, pumpkins, and other things with strange names hanging all over the fences. The problem comes when it's time to harvest all the things. Most people pick their vegetables with a garden pail or a basket of some sort. I harvest mine with a wheelbarrow. I take all the really nice looking stuff and put it in my basement where it is cool and we can eat it later. The rest of it I try to give away. I even tried just putting the wheelbarrow on the street in front of my house with a big sign that said 'FREE.'but it didn't work. Somebody dumped the zucchini, squash and pumpkins on the road and stole my wheelbarrow. Thankfully it was just some neighbor kid, but I never tried that again. Then I tried giving the stuff away to my neighbors. Perhaps they wouldn't have minded so much, except in my exuberance to watch things grow I don't pick things when I should. Have you ever tried to eat an 18 inch zucchini? So, eventually what happens is the stuff starts to get soft and smell. I decide it's time the garbage man is called into action. I'm sure that guy hates me. A garbage can full of zucchini zuc-chini must weigh 3000 pounds. Canning season is over finally, and my neighbors can relax. The garbage man is just getting over hating me when I go into my basement and smell this funny odor. Yes, you're ahead of me, it's the zucchini I brought down here to store for some later time. I go have a double scotch before I can face that zucchini. Then, armed with a scoop shovel I head for the basement. Just as I thought, the zucchini, and even one bananna squash has been transformed into something filmmakers film-makers would be proud to make a horror hor-ror movie about. I find a clothespin for my nose, hurriedly scoop the gooey mess into a garbage bag, and tie it up. Thank goodness for garbage bags. I'm sure the garbage man likes them too. Next year I think I won't grow zucchini. Seventh-day Adventists meet here The president of the General Conference Con-ference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Washington D C, will be in Vernal Sept. 16 thru 18 as part of a GeoSclence Research Institute field conference of leader. The group Is touring point of Interest from West Yellowstone to Grand Canyon. The conference began Sept. 13 In West Yellowstone and will end in Salt Lake City on Sept, a, Neal C. Wilson a well a ten other world division president and other leader of the Seventh day Adventist Church will be in Vernal this weekend. A special church service ha been scheduled on Saturday, Sept. 17 in the Vernal Junior Hih school auditorium from a m. until noon Wilson will be the fwtured spmknr at this me. accord in to Char) ftillam, Vernal Assistant Pastor, The field conference will arrive in Vernal Friday. A lecture will be held on "Hermenculics" at 8 p.m. in the Vernal Seventh-day church at 2B3 West Main. On Saturday the feature meeting will be held in the morning at the Vernal Junior High School. Lunch will be served at the Bicentennial Pavilion at 4 p.m. and 8 p m. at the church. Sunday the group will tour Dinosaur National Monument with lecture scheduled for J 30, 4 30 and 8 p m. at the Vernal church, President Wilson negotiated for opening of Adventist work tn Libya, Sudan and Aden. Hi book "Return of Jews" I used extensively by the Arab League throuch the Middle East Wilson was advisor to the Governor in Cairo on religious liberty, He did con skWable wk ilh the Drportmrnt of AntiquMies and leading archaeologist in Egypt. v ! . ..V .v: Neal C. Wilson to set aside We'" lus keep calling 1 public funds tVrause the Sate UTkr of Planning end Budget is presently forecasting a hortfatl in the tU4 budget ad en Wws that recerre pWk fund op ing asked to trim their hwdgef s-the tTntah School District included Governor Scott Math has re oited local schnd dMrtrf ft the state to set aside M i miR! m the puMs? school budget War awe of h shortfall. The tints fchoot District t sfvr of the Mi miRion he turn 1 acknwsriedff that scfwl drM hwdgeti te ettremefy ugH.- r Hihmmi4 t Wn hwret, he g rtitwm m m-erre pohfst hm have h t r etpnfafn fhf 0 edwatitf, pmmwo 4 8M sm Ft the pM er tvsrs tte TV has he floated ' At the fir t ft fftst limi p sfw: 4 tw sr ft t. 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