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Show .1 HO 0 Helper team loses four. I I ' (JcJ 3 JV 11 ii.ii JO ' ! 4A ' 11 ' ij'.Jj Civic volunteer observes city growth. Page Coal City's demise and deca- y- ! Page 6A Page 5A Five Butch Cassidy Blowout i - yv --ip1-') I 5 & By LYNNDA Staff writer A v?S f k iT V v ? . 1 ' Racers from ail over Utah converged on Price Saturday for the Butch Cassidy Blowout mountain bike race. With 145 racers competing, several local cyclists placed in , their divisions. Price refers memorial to committee Price City Council has asked proponents of a miners memorial to get approvals from the Colosimo advised the men they shouldmeet with the com- mittee and city staff members to reach a final decision. The council gave the committee percouncil. mission to proceed with the At a council meeting project planning. The council delayed a deciWednesday evening. Mayor Lou Colosimo told Jim Young sion on the proposed autoand Blake Hanna to meet with mated garbage system until the committee to make deci- more responses to a survey are sions concerning the position received. City engineer, Gary of the memorial. Young had Sonntag, indicated the quesjust finished a presentation tionnaires were still coming in explaining the advantages of and about 600 had been rebuilding the memorial where turned to date. it had first been planned. The council had been worried that However, because the the memorial might obstruct county is likely to transport vision and cause other probgarbage directly to the East lems in the park. Young said Carbon landfill rather than to moving it back further would a transfer station, the garbage cause steeper slopes on the fee structure will change. nearby grassy areas, which Transportation costs will be even higher without the auto might be a safety factor. Peace Garden committee, rather than come back to the mated system, according to Lamond Williams, owner of City Sanitation, which has proposed the automated system. He explained that two drivers would be required on the old system, where the new system could be operated by a single tion night and police calls for alcohol related offenses have been minimal The city council approved a conditional use permit for Fashion Bug, a womens fashion store that will be remodeling the former Sprouse Reitz driver. space for its use. The permit Williams indicated even if was for a sign on the premises. the automated system had been approved at the meeting, A city employee whose spouse also works for the city and is fully insured, had asked for dental insurance. It has Chief Aleck Shilaos com- been the policy of the city to mended Wayne and Leslie provide insurance for only one Woodward for their organizaspouse if both work for the city. tion of the annual graduation After lengthy discussion, the spectacular. Reading from a council decided to maintain its letter of commendation. Chief policy, but offer employees in Shilaos said since the incep- that situation the option ofbuy-in- g tion of the graduation spectheir own additional insurhave no been there ance from the company insurtacular, on teenage tragedies gradua ing city employees. it would be December before it could be in operation. The city council and Police Dispatch installing interagency number ments regarding JOHNSON Effective July 28, the majority of Carbon County residents will be able to contact local law enforcement offices, fire departments and rescue agencies concerning ' non-emergen- cy rash of joyriding and Discussing ' By LYNNDA Staff writer JOHNSON missing motor vehicle complaints have plagued the Price City Police Department during the past several weeks. The latest purported joyriding occurrence resulted in five male juveniles being taken into custody early last week. The teenagers, ranging in age from 13 to 15 years old, now face criminal referral to the 7th District Juvenile Court. Kw Vi' Pi matters by calling one telephone number. The only exception will be citizens residing in the East Carbon area. Residents wishing to contact East Carbon Citys police and fire depart- - non- emergency matters will continue to use the same numbers currently listed in the phone book. During an interview last Thursday, Marjean Hansen explained that on July 27, the public safety dispatch center in Price will start installing a new non-emergen- cy lead number for the Carbon County Sheriffs Office and all local rescue, police and fire agencies except the two departments in East Carbon City. Army begins work on The Army will be providing information about its proposed theater missile defense test range at libraries in Green River, Moab and Salt Lake City. In a release dated June 24, the army listed several questions that surfaced during its scoping meetings concerning the test range. It will now address the questions, and oth ers, while preparing a draft environmental impact statement. The Army has proposed an extended test range for the- ater missile defense between Green River and White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Three other test ranges have been proposed over ocean sites. Missiles will be launched and interceptors like the PATRIOT POOR COPY The service will be completely on line at the dispatch center by the next day. The lead number will pro- vide direct access to the business offices of all police, fire and rescue agencies head- quartered in Price, Helper, Wellington and Scofield. Once fully operational, the new telephone system will enable Carbon County residents to reach the designated administrative offices via dialing 637-089- 0. Citizens wishing non EIS for arrested for joyriding in Price A, ii iy it i' i J ' tinpTri'jjnt lit'' .i" a i"i TrTV T P emergency assistance will also have the option of either using the lead number to contact the Utah Highway Patrols regional office in Price or continuing to use UHPs nonemergency listing in the phone book. Although appropriate law enforcement officers, fire and rescue personnel will be dispatched in response to lead number calls, Hansen stressed that Carbon County residents should still dial 911 (Continued on Page ZA) the matter Thursday, Sgt. Kevin Drolc explained that to date, local law enforcement officers have investigated 10 separate complaints involving unlawfully taken motor vehicles. The majority of the incidents eight separately filed reports technically fall under a joyriding criminal category. Two joyriding occurrences culminated in traffic accidents, and an unknown perpetrator or perpetrators recently abandoned one automobile in the Soldier Creek area after it became stuck in an irrigation ditch. Five of the vehicles in question were taken without the owners knowledge and then returned toor in close proximity to their original parking places, Drolc said. Most owners were virtually unaware the vehicles had been taken until they noticed empty gas tanks or slightly different parking locations. However, one owner con- - tacted public safety dispatch regarding a missing automobile at approximately 1 a.m. last Tuesday, Drolc revealed. Shortly after hearing an attempt to locate radio broadcast, Officer Julie Ori spotted a suspicious vehicle behind Market Express on south Carbon Avenue. When the Price police officer approached the cai , four young men allegedly fled the scene on foot. But Ori succeeded in taking a fifth teenager into custody. The follow-u- p investigation into the incident led to four additional arrests. According to Drolc, two of the juveniles purportedly admitted to having participated in four or five similar incidents. But both teens denied being involved in any joyriding occurrences that ended in traffic accidents. All five teenagers will be referred to juvenile court authorities, the sergeant advised. The two remaining incidents currently under investigation by the Price police department appear unrelated to the six joyriding episodes and actually fall under felony level, vehicle theft criminal statutes, Drolc pointed out. Briefly detailing the recent auto thefts, Drolc indicated that the Utah Highway Patrol recovered a Honda Civic on 1-- and arrested an adult male suspect in connection with one missing vehicle complaint. The arrest resulted when UHP troopers stopped (Continued on Page 2A) Operation Greenleaf yields little in area By LYNNDA JOHNSON Staff writer Last week, the Utah Division of Investigations latest Operation Greenleaf yielded only six maryuana plants in the Carbon-Emer- y County area. But agency officials view the annual effort as an effective deterrent to illicit drug activity within the state. Briefly discussing the matter during an interview Friday, Lt. Mike Nepolis of UDIs Salt Lake office confirmed that the local Operation Greenleaf effort culminated with the removal of only six marijuana plants in the two-coun- ty area. The Carbon Emery Drug Task Force had discovered the plants prior to the operation and subsequently requested assistance to determine if additional illicit drugs were being cultivated within the two counties. Despite the fact that few marijuana plants were uncovered, the lieutenant indicated that the agencies involved in Operation Greenleaf classify the statewide effort as a strong deterrent to illicit drug activity and consider it a valuable tool in Utahs war on drugs. Were driving them (crimior nal offenders) indoors were driving them out of the area," Nepolis pointed out. Operation Greenleaf constitutes a yearly joint effort between the UDI, local law enforcement agencies, drug task forces, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, the Utah National Guard and Bureau of Land Management, the lieutenant explained. (Continued on Page ZA) theater missile defense test range sent to destroy the missiles. The Army has said the spread ofballistic missiles now represents a clear danger to the security of the United States, its friends and allies. Theater missile defense has a potential use within a theater, which refers to a geographic area outside the U.S., such as the Persian Gulf during the Desert Storm conflict. It is not anticipated that the defense would be used within U.S. boundaries. Some Green River residents favor the proposal, in hopes the project would bolster a struggling economy, but there have been several protests against the projects potential environmental effects on national parks between Green River and White Sands. Since the Green RiverWhite Sands range is the only overland analysis would be limited. The Army considered a variety of its implementation is assured. While conceding that the overland range would provide an opportunity to recover missile debris for analysis, Army spokesmen have said the tests can be carried out entirely within the White Sands Missile Range,if necessary, but ranges and eliminated all but the White Sands Missile Range because it is the only land range that is large enough to conduct missile intercept tests and also has experience with missile flight and the necessary equipment to conduct the tests. range proposed, some believe fltkSAi.Ata4fl other overland extended (Continued on Page ZA) |
