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Show Utah Fre38 Association t7 East 300 South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 ! 1 JUL, Deadlines: NoveK 1983 News: ThursdaV 10:00 A.M. Vernal. Utah S4M7S Advertisin9: Thursday 2:00 P.M. 91st Year No VU 12 Pages Phone 789-351 1 Single copy 25c Oil shale future fedler! hell p The fate of oil shale development in Uintah County is in the hands of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation and the deadline is Dec. 1. That is the picture Senator Glade Sowards, chairman of the Utah Ener-ty Ener-ty and Conservation and Development Council, painted Tuesday. "I feel strongly about getting the funding," Senator Sowards said. The communities have spent considerable con-siderable time and money getting schools, water and sewer systems and roads ready to accommodate the anticipated an-ticipated increase in workers that oil shale companies will require. Without heavy federal government financial assistance, the project might die and with them goes the effort provided pro-vided by the local governments, Senator Sowards said. December 1, in a meeting in Washington D.C., the SFC will determine deter-mine if three Uintah County oil shale projects will receive funding. The three projects in Uintah County Coun-ty that are on the chopping block are the Paraho-Ute Project, Seep Ridge Project and the White River Project. Paraho Development Corporation, with sponsorship from a joint venture comprised of Wheelabrator Cleanfuel ' Corporation and Kellogg Rust Syn-fuels, Syn-fuels, Inc. and Raymond Kaiser Engineers, Texas Eastern Corporation and Sohio Shale Oil Company is proposing pro-posing a project which will use the proprietary pro-prietary technology of Paraho for a surface retort system to ultimately product 39,500 barrels per operating day of hydrotreated shale oil. Planned field construction is to begin immediately after funding. Oil production would begin the fourth quarter of 1985 on a reduced scale. The sponsor is requesting loan and price guarantees. The project site is north of the White River 35 miles southeast of Vernal. Geokinetics, Inc. is sponsoring the Seep Ridge Project located south of Vernal. It will produce 1,000 BPD of shale oil. Construction is scheduled to begin in 1983 utilizing Geokinetics' "LOFRECO" in situ extraction technique. techni-que. The crude shale oil will be upgraded to diesel fuel and other refinery products. Both a loan guarantee and price guarantees have been requested. Phillips Petroleum Co., Sunoco Energy Development Corp. and SOHIO are proposing the White River Project with production of 14,000 BPD of shale oil utilizing the union B retort by 1989. Ultimate production evision-ed evision-ed is 100,000 BPD shortly after the year 2000. Senator Sowards said he felt the SFC would fund the Seep Ridge project because of its low cost and one of the other projects in Uintah County. "But if none of the projects go, it will leave us high and dry," Sowards said. The other project in the contending for the $4 billion for development of oil shale is the Union II project in Colorado. 5SC1 I lip 3tj c? THE BUREAU of Land Management would like to remind people to clean up their campsites when they leave. This truck load of trash Photo by Traci Menka represents a small amount of trash collected from the Book Cliffs area. Col Ruppe Dcay planned tfo help pay medical bills Following a lung-heart transplant, Cal Ruppe, 22, remains in critical but stable condition and probably will stay that way through next week when Governor Matheson has said he would proclaim Nov. 26 as "Cal Ruppe Day". Ruppe, who underwent a lung-heart transplant Saturday, Nov. 5, will enter the critical point of recovery from his surgery this weekend, when his body Naples winners aplauded With all the votes canvassed, the official of-ficial results are in for Naples first general election that was held on Tuesday. Reactions from the candidates on the results varied somewhat, but most of them were pleased with the results and were glad to see the number of voters that turned out. V ! Mayor Lawrance Kay said that he feels good about the council. "Council members have to be able to work with the new members. He said that both of the new councilmen have valuable experience and have already contributed con-tributed a great deal to Naples. "It's too bad there weren't more voters. People should have a say in their elected officials," Kay said. Newcomer, for a four-year term, Larris Hunting and also the top vote getter said "I feel pretty good about it (the election)." He said that he felt himself and the other newcomer Glen Fleener brought some conservatism to Continued on page 2 y A 'f : !w Lynn McCarrell i ' I T I .... ; v ,- j. IJ I k L could possibly reject its new organs. A new drug, which has been successful in the past, cyclosporine, is being used us-ed to stop the body's reject of the new organs. .! Wednesday Cal sat up for several hours while the doctors at Stanford University Medical Center worked with him. His mother Reita Ruppe said that htscolor is back and he is looking much better. , us Since the transplant is still con-' con-' sidered experimental, Ruppe, who is the 16th, insurance, medicaid and other programs won't help with the costs. Community support to help defer the cost of Ruppe's medical bills, upwards of $250,000, is surmounting as clubs, businesses and individuals are donating time and money toward the cause. Senator Glade Sowards said Thursday Thurs-day that Governor Scott Matheson had agreed to delcare Nov. 26 as "Cal Ruppe Day". On "Cal Ruppe Day" there will be a dinner at the Vernal Junior High School cafeteria. Some entertainment at the junior high auditorium will precede the the dinner and an auction will follow the dinner. Members of the community are invited in-vited to bring items to auction. Proceeds Pro-ceeds from the activity will go to the Reita and Jack Ruppe Heart-Lung Fund. Persons will also have the opportunity op-portunity to donate money at the dinner. The Sunrise Lions Club has pledged $1,000 to the Ruppe heart-lung fund and challenges other clubs to do the same. The club will be using its Christmas activities to raise the money. This Sunday Sun-day the Sunburst Recreation Center will have a day of roller skating from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and all proceeds will go to the fund. As of last week there was $1,500 in the fund. Also during "Cal Ruppe Day" there will be a telephone where persons can call in and make pledges. "We encourage everyone in the community to donate," said Verlin Vincent, member committee to help Cal Ruppe. Persons who wish to mail in contributions, con-tributions, the committee has opened a mail box in Vernal: P.O. Box 1199, Vernal, Utah 84078. BLAA wants help to clean up Officials from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), have asked residents to aid them in their efforts to clean up the large amounts of trash that are being left in campsites around the area. According to Tom Steger with the BLM, they have just returned from two days of extensive cleaning in the Bookcliffs area. He said, "we were barely able to stratch the surface because we weren't able to get to all the roads," He added, "Some of the people think that, if they dump the trash behind a tree it will simply go away." Officials said that the main thing they are asking of people in trash pickup is, "If you haul it into the campsite, camp-site, haul it back out." They said the main culprits of the discarded debris seems to be hunters and oilfield related people. In one particular campsite on Winner Win-ner Ridge in about 10 foot by 10 foot area officials hauled about 18 garbage bags of trash. Each of the bags holds about 60 gallons of trash. Steger said that the Bureau really has more pertinent things to do then pick up trash all the time. He said that people that leave trash behind because they think it will go away or because they think someone else will pick it up, are merely fooling themselves. "Tax dollars help pay for the salaries of the buearu staff, so by leaving garbage behind, that we have to clean up, people peo-ple are only costing themselves money," Steger said. High School bids to be awarded in January Bids will be awarded for construction construc-tion of a new high school in Ashley Valley on Jan. 24, architects on the project, Dana Larson Roubal. said last week. Bids will be let on the project sometime near the end of December. Contractors will have 30 days to prepare their bids on the project. The westside auditorium addition to West Jr. High will also be bid with the new high school project. The new high school project will be located at 500 North and 1700 West. Continued on page 2 Drugs, recreation, dogs basis for joint meeting Larris Hunting Glen Fleener -I I ' ' ' ' '" U,.t.W).! i V ; Dennit Judd Donna Merrell Drugs, recreation and stray dogs were all dmcuKfted at the monthly city ci-ty county mertlng Wednesday as these problems teem foremost in the minds of community Iradrrs. The Vernal City Council Uintah County Commmslonor' mwtmg firstly first-ly dealt with a Joint drug prevention that Is being proposed by the Uintah County Sheriff and Vernal City Police. Basicaly the program Is formalizing a standing agreement, that the police and sheriff's departments already share, The agreement would form a drug task force of the two departments to help in the prevention of drug abuse and enforcement of drug violators, The three person committee would be comprized of two police officers and one sheriff's deputy. The departments also allied for fun-ding fun-ding on a supplimental program. "A Reason for Tears", ii a hor they fe-ould like to purchase to distribute in the area. Ideally the departments would like to purchase about 4.w of these books to aid in the drug prevention preven-tion pmgram. While the commissioners and roun cil members feel that the task force would be a useful tool, they mentioned mention-ed the fact that Naples City should also be Involved in the program. The felt the committee should be able to aid them also. City Council member Karl Migliori said that he felt the wording in the proposal pro-posal on the task force needed to be more definite. The Commissioners also requested that the annual reports on drug problems be switched from an annual to quarterly. The council commission decided that the proposal merited further discussion and a decision is expected in the December meeting, Also on the agenda was whether or not a Recreation District should be formed Members of the commission slated that while they agree with the concept of a rerreation district, they did twt think that this was the appropriate ap-propriate time to add another taking enitil Members of the board mentioned men-tioned the possibility of having a special election and letting the people decide what they want to do about a recreation diMrid The board also discussed the idea of hiring additional support people to help Pam Beyers, city recreation director, with the implementation of the recreation department program. Commission members indicated that they would possibly help with the funding of additional staff and of Ms. Beyer's salary. The members will discuss the matter in greater detail in their December meeting. In other business, the board decided decid-ed to allow the landfill to be closed on the three major winter holidays: Thanksgiving. Christams and New Years They did not approve, however, the projtosal that the landfill lie closed clos-ed on Sunday, The board also decided that some definite bylaws were needed to be drawn up In order to aid the Airport Board In execution of their duties. Another problem, facing the city and county is the issue of stray dogs. Members feel that more nords to be done to enforce the leash laws. The board plans to research the matter end bring some possible solutions to their nett meeting Lawertnce Kay INSIDE Veterans Day w Leril veterans spe ik their minds m freedom. Ree pages 4 4 I. ' . 1 Bye Bye Birdie1 Mdrts ftrrast I rfm NwktL Sports MandMI plat Wins tig in mqwethiill. e ft . - Sx ( A t |