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Show 6 Vernal ExpreSS Wedn$doy, September 28, 1983 1 l-H JT3 1lr ii r' 13 . 'A -J C!!3 ' ' 'r' ill, la " W " s &. . ' - . Valley Funeral Home has open house The newest funeral home in the state opened its doors Friday of last week. The Vernal Chamber of Commerce's Dinah-Mites welcomed Valley Funeral Home to the community through a ribbon rib-bon cutting ceremony. The ribbon cutting cut-ting preceded an open house which continued from six p.m. on Friday until un-til nine p.m. on Saturday. Many residents of the valley toured the entire en-tire facility. The building was built by Angus Construction Co., and will be owned jointly by Bert Angus and William Jolley. Financing was provided through Basin State Bank. Jolley will lease the building and carry on business as a licensed funeral director. William Jolley has been associated with funeral service most of his life. Starting by working with his father, Arben J. Jolley, he apprenticed at Berg Mortuaries of Provo. He furthered fur-thered his training at Cabot & Sons in Pasadena, Calif. Valley Funeral Home is equipped with the necessary supplies and inventory inven-tory to carry out all needs relating to funeral service. Jolley said he can also assist with burial plans, burial insurance in-surance or any arrangements that might be needed. Valley Funeral Home is also the area representative for Walker Monument, featuring excellent ex-cellent monuments and grave markers. Jolley's wife, Marilyn, teaches second se-cond grade at Central Elementary School. The Jolleys live at the funeral home to provide 24-hour availability. They have a two year-old daughter, Robin. Treatment plant to bid Nov. 17 Lynn S. Ludlow, manager of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, announced today that bids will be opened Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. in the Central Utah Orem office for construction construc-tion of the Ashley Valley Water Purification Plant. The plant will be built 4 miles northwest nor-thwest of Vernal at Doc's Beach, and will deliver treated water to Vernal City, Ci-ty, Jensen Water Improvement District and the Maeser Water Improvement Im-provement District. Construction will consist of raw-water raw-water influent lines, meter vaults, floc-culation floc-culation basins, filters, concrete reservoir, reser-voir, steel reservoir, pump stations, operations building, chemical feed systems and central systems. It is anticipated that the plant will be producing treated water by the summer of 1985, and the cost will be about $8 million. VALLEY FUNERAL HOME ribbon-cutting opening ceremonies were conducted Friday. Fri-day. William Jolley, funeral director, is assisted with scissors by Vernal Chamber Dinah-Mite representative, Darrell War- die in cutting ribbon. Bert Angus is left of Jolley. Mrs. William Jolley and daughter, Robin, are also watching ceremony. Irrigating power rates lowered By Steve Christensen Express Assistant Editor Schools, parents, and students share education responsibility Schools, parents, and students all share in the responsibility for improving improv-ing education in the United States. This was the gist of the summary of the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education as prepared by Utah foundation, the private research organization. The National Commission, headed by Dr. David P. Gardner, former president of the University of Utah, was critical of the decline in education throughout the nation during the past quarter century. It observed "if an unfriendly un-friendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves." In order to improve education in the U. S., the report addressed a series of recommendations to the schools and colleges, to the parents, and to the students themselves. It stressed that all must play a crucial role in the reform of the educational system. Included among the recommendations recommenda-tions to improve the school system were the following: 1. High school graduation requirements re-quirements should be strengthened. 2. Schools, colleges, and universities should adopt higher standards for academic performance and student conduct. 3. More time should be devoted to learning the new basics. This may require re-quire more effective use of the existing school day, a longer school day, or a lengthened school year. 4. Teaching standards should be improved im-proved by adopting the following: a. Require new teachers to meet high educational standards, demonstrate an aptitude for teaching, and demonstrate competence in an academic discipline. b. Increase salaries for the teaching profession, but require that salary, promotion, tenure, and retention decisions deci-sions be tied to an effective evaluation system so that superior teachers can .Clllttlllllllttllllif If llllttlf Itlltlltlllltllllllltlllltlllllllltlllllltlllllftllllllliltltllllllllltlllllllllllllltllltlllltlttlltlltllll Western Resources WRAP-UP iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiimiuiiiiimiiiMiiuumw Colorado River salinity By Helen C. Monberg Vernal Ex pre Washington Correspondent WashinRton-With a show of strength unusual for water agencies these days, the seven Colorado River Basin suites Arizona. California, Colorado. Col-orado. Nevada. New Mexko, Utah and Wyoming-had two Congressional hearings this past week on their ma jor common problem: salinity In the Colorado Klver Basin, The Colorado Basin states' top water men scored a minor coop in persuading per-suading Chairman K iKikal de la Cara. I)Texa, of the House Agriculture Committee Id introduce the agricultural pott ion (ItK JWJt of the Colorado Kiver salinity program on Srpt 15 with hearings held on the bill on Jrpt, 20 by the House Agriculture Conservation Koticommitire. Mr. de ta tJara also testified in favaf ol his Nil on Sept 3W. He said thai Mcrn f 10 million Ions of sail annually ere entering Lake Mead at M.rf um in the lrvt Colorado Hivrf tin adversely Impacting the quality nt life for mot than 10 million rftidmi ho drpend ttpnn the Colorado Col-orado KneT fnf ihrtf alef swpply. The Mil from the rirf and it lrihiarps adversely arietta ttwps ftxmft iih Color River atef and olci rat" ' increased alef treatment treat-ment cu and aTVtaled pipe ttf-fni ttf-fni a1 ?prrf af , he Mated 'Th pmeram as iMKned hy my Nil has heVn recommended by the V tary of Arvniwr? i'h fwll en- rtVxmen of fc fVa A4miMra lino." la Crta aH in N tit-fn tit-fn tpeJiftwwt He rl thai N V A JirparirtwH of ACTirvltivrC iCOA I a Mnle Cflnr9di Rit M?- ty line item In the annual budget to help reduce salinity on the U.S. side of the Colorado River Basin. It now uses several authorities for this work. He said his bill would do five things, If approved by Congress and signed into in-to law. It would allow USDA agencies to identify salt source areas and determine deter-mine salt loadings resulting from Irrigation; Ir-rigation; develop plans for Implementing Implemen-ting measures to reduce salt loads; provide technical asistance and voluntary implementation of water management and salinity control measures; provide for monitoring and evaluation of the program ; and carry out related research, demonstration and education activities, working particularly par-ticularly with Individual (amrrrs on on farm problems of wlinity control, Mr, de la Carta urged early and favorable consideration of hii bill by the SbrommiUne chairrd by Rrp Kd Jones, D Tenn , and mark up is scheduled later this fall after the Jonel Subcommittee Has completed its bearings bear-ings on the conservation measures befor the pafwl on Spt. V Salinity t no yoking matter, de la ttarra wnoVfsore4 in his mtitlen iPMimooy, "tjri me remind yi thai in crtitutKs past, et.liff civilisations hare been eliminated Nvaus of Mliniration. Jvaliniralion is a slo Jioww" that pnianm Mh the lef that carries the salt and the her the salt is drpmiipd ,!!wch W-s M develop orpf nififcf Llr"i,4 as a soil and aef rwMTT' rnanafMtwnl pr-Metn. pr-Metn. siniMtn ptms tnrw4 be mired ot cwtmed ref ncW Salini-f Salini-f ftfnMctn ar city; salinity pr bfctn bare tdeptead impacts, atvf . isKri d Inrg ?mn im-fka'iww.4 im-fka'iww.4 de U CtMta M4 n Ns be rewarded, average ones encouraged, encourag-ed, and poor ones either improved or terminated. c. Adopt an 11-month contract for teachers. d. Develop career ladders for teachers that distinguish among the beginning instructor, the experienced teacher, and the master teacher. e. Employ non-school personnel to help solve the critical shortage of mathematics and science teachers. f . Use incentives, such as grants and loans, to attract outstanding students to the teaching profession. g. Involve master teachers in designing teacher preparation programs pro-grams and in supervising probationary proba-tionary teachers. 5. Educators and elected officials should be held responsible for providing pro-viding the necessary leadership, and fiscal support and stability should be provides to bring about the needed reforms. ' According to Foundation analysts, the report emphasizes that parents have a right to demand for their children the best our schools and colleges col-leges can provide. But parents also have a responsibility to monitor their child's study habits, encourage the child to take more demanding rather than less demanding courses, nurture the child's natural curiosity, creativity, creativi-ty, and confidence, actively participate par-ticipate in the work of the schools, and serve as positive role models for their child. Even with parents' best efforts, however, the report recognizes that students must assume ultimate responsibility for determining how much and how well Ihey learn. The Commission warns that when students withhold their best effort in learning, they forfeit their chance for life at its fullest. In his book, "The Twenty-Ninth Day," Lester R. Brown says, "Each year some of the world's cropland goes out of production. It is paved over, strip-mined, eroded, and left to dry out when irrigation water is diverted to other purposes. Deserts and cities encroaching en-croaching on cropland on every con tinent are claiming uncounted millions of hectares each year." In recent years technological advancement ad-vancement has enabled agricultural producers to produce enough food to feed the world. People have starved in recent years not for a lack of food, they have starved for lack of money with which to buy food. However, with world population growing substantially substantial-ly very year, it may soon be that people peo-ple will go without enough food even if they have the money to pay for it. A landmark decision by the Utah Public Service Commission last week, took one small step toward averting that possible catastrophe. The ruling will give farmers a break on electricity electrici-ty rates for pumping irrigation water. State farm leaders said the ruling may have plucked Utah's agriculture industry in-dustry from the brink of economic collapse. "The ruling comes just in time to save a lot of farms from going out of business," said C. Booth Wallentine, executive ex-ecutive vice president of the Utah Farm Bureau Federation. . For over two years farmers have been fighting to have something done about the problem. During the past eight years Utah Power and Light rates for irrigators has risen an average of 21 percent annually, according accor-ding to information provided by the farm bureau. In 1982 there was an increase in-crease of 36 percent. Although irrigators will pay less for electricity, UP&L will be able to interrupt inter-rupt their electrical service during peak use hours if the company needs the power to meet demand elsewhere. The farmers' service will resume as soon as UP&L has the electricity to do so. UP&L has maintained it has been only fair to make farmers shoulder their fair share of the cost of electricity, electrici-ty, especially because the added demand de-mand which is placed on the system in the summer months runs UP&L to their generating capacity. The Utah Farm Bureau has maintained that farmers take only 5 percent of the overall electrical output from the UP&L system, and yet farmers have been forced to pay an ever increasing portion of the total cost of producing and distributing electricity. UP&L finally agreed to implement a "load management" method to accommodate ac-commodate the needs of irrigation pumpers. UP&L spokesmen said the compromise with irrigators should protect them from severe increases in coming years. Under the system, UP&L will be able to put the power where it is needed most during peak use times. However, farmers will still have the option of having the power when and where they need it, but they will pay for the privilege. That is one of four options op-tions farmers will be offered. A second option will offer lower rates, but will allow UP&L to automatically shut off electricity to participating farmers between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., one day a week. Two other rate schedules will pro vide even lower rates, but will give UP&L even more latitude in how power is used. One schedule will allow automatic service termination for up to 12 hours a day, three days a week. The other schedule permits UP&L to shut down power to participating pumpers during selected daily time periods. Wallentine said the compromise is not a total solution, and there will be problems. For instance, on a windy day, if power is shut off, the water will drain from the sprinklers, making mak-ing them susceptible to being blown around and damaged by the wind, since they do not have the weight of the water in the pipes. Nonetheless, Wallentine said the compromise should save many irrigators from bankruptcy. Actual rates for the different schedules were not immediately available, but the discounts should be substantial. There are farmers in the Jensen area who pay as much as $40,000 a month in the summer for power to run their sprinklers. Any discount dis-count will be a welcome relief. TALLEST TREE The tallest tree in the world is as high as a 36-story building, says National Na-tional Wildlife's Ranger Rick magazine. The tree? The coast redwood red-wood of California and Oregon. SHARE AT&T HOLDERS: Five Vernal workers to be honored by CIG live Vernal residents will be among 44 honored guests Thursday night CSVpt 291 when Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG), a subsidiary of The Coastal Corporation, holds its annual an-nual service awards dinner for longtime employees, Honoring veteran workers from the northern portion of CIG's pipeline system, the dinner will be held at the fienver Hilton Inn t South in tenver, Colo. Ken E. James. District ? (Xlke. and H Kenneth Hash and Hilly J Swim, both of Natural Dulles Gathering, will be honored for years of service. To receive loyear aards are James B. McCulloch. Jr., also of the Natural ttuttes Gathering, and Michael C. Kennedy. Well Test. Similar dinners sr held in Colorado Springs fof headquarter employees and in Amarilto. Tes , for veteran employees of the southern settinn of CtG s pipeline system. Do you know what alternatives you have with your stock before the divestiture takes place? 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