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Show Synfuels... Practice fire... Wednesday, October 12, 1983 SeTM hptttt 3 TRACI MENKE, new Vernal Express Assistant. Editor. New editor takes position at Express Traci Menke has recently joined the Vernal Express staff in the position of assistant news editor. Ms. Menke is a 1981 graduate of South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. Her degree is in journalism with an emphasis in advertising. She also holds a minor in sociology. Since graduating, Ms. Menke has worked at various small newspapers and advertising publications in the midwest. Ms. Menke recently moved to the Vernal area from Kansas City, Missouri, when her husband, Mark, was transferred to the Deseret Generation and Transmission Power Plant at Bonanza. Mr. Menke works in the power division for Burns and McDonnell, an engineer consulting and architectural firm based in Kansas City, Ci-ty, Mo. He is assigned to testing and controls at the power plant. Ms. Menke was born and raised in Rapid City, S.D., where she lived until un-til moving to Brookings to attend college. col-lege. She was married in January of 1982 and has lived in Kansas City until un-til relocating in the Ashley Valley. The Menkes have located in the Maeser area, which Ms. Menke said they like, but, "It would be nice if there were some trees." "I wag very Impressed with Flaming Flam-ing Gorge," said Ms. Menke, "except for the dead skunk that 1 about stepped step-ped on." Ms. Menke said she is excited about ' her new position, although she is a little lit-tle apprehensive, since the area and people are all new, and she Is expected to know what's going cm. However, she Mid the people have been very nice and that make thinju earner. The Menkes have no children, although they have one cat, which Ms. Menke says, "May jut be the bet lot ing cat tn Maewr " Big Mac... continued from page 2 Now the question of whether the $17 million increased taxes less than the cost of a Big Mac. Let's do a little figuring. Take the 2.51 mill levy in a capital outlay and multiply it by the assessed valuation of an average home, let's say about $6,765. (My home is pretty average.) Usually the taxable assessed assess-ed valuation is 20 percent of the 1978 market value of the home. Other factors fac-tors enter in to make the assessed valuation of a $55,000 home $6,765. The total increase I paid to the school district this year is $16.98 in the capital outlay budget. And yet, I can buy a Big Mac a month for that amount. The total increase in school property taxes cost me $27.24. "A meager amount to pay for the better education of my kids," you might say, but where then does the massive increase in-crease in taxes stem from if it isn't in the school tax? Let's apply the Big Mac theory to all the taxes assessed to Uintah County residents. Every resident in Uintah County will have to forego two Big Macs a month because of the increased increas-ed taxes for the school district and Central .Utah Water Conservancy District. (That's saying 2.5 mills equals a Big Mac a month.) Uintah County's mill stayed the same. Now it you live in Vernal City add two more Big Macs a month, for Ashley Valley residents add three Big Macs a month, and for those who live in both Vernal City and the Ashley Valley District add five Big Macs. If you live in the Maeser Water Improvement Improve-ment District add seven Big Macs to the two from the school district, in Jensen add three, and Tridell-Lapoint add one. For a guy who only goes out to eat maybe twice a month, cutting seven Big Macs as in my case out of your diet could be deterimcntal. Apparently other people in the county are also feeling feel-ing the tightening of the belt as many are complaining about the increases, but by no means should you blame it on my favorite meal-a SI 47 Big Mac. Yes, the school district did keep their promise to hold down taxes to a 2 51 Increase because of the bond, but when that increase Is lumped with other Increases then it has gone too far. It's time we cut out alt the tax In- cream's and let us eat our Big Macs In peace. Jones Hole manager... (0AttAvJ Item fxg I n (Wfi tWrt-atr Kifly ibawMwd a to Nrinakit Jke and the remain M fih t U the Indian tteem(inn and !f surrounding are. The fish thai r iied to hrv ar hatrhfxt at th fanJilie In tot rU f rnvn a 4irwiMha about of fhew larA The r ere Mft$ed to it I We h otbrt fal Hatrhrtw in fc jtwnint, tUta and jur a.tvtty p tVMwnSljr IhftP v to letfipatttj pttifAaype a( fh ffitf tvtuV Tone? They're fatAy mh fw Up$a a . rrwnJh Mwtwl m Ajtil and t , it rMf prt tn Vnvtnt? lann nr fetfe an a rvf. fa fmri. tw?pi-t a fHNfj f the in ihc fwHj).- 4 M inrTiT njr4 al He 1M flsm m thm M Tmtv . H N if. Va Nri Kentucky, KUabeth lives with her husband and child in Itoulder City, New tWa lives tiih her hteUiand ami three children in l Angrlrs and thanne, who Is singk. livr and works in llwmi V". f i J v : : " )t I'), lY ' fr(' ; if' ; !i vVi Den tc?eey iNlJTYvitti; 1 'iuij Continoed from page 1 forces the corporation to substantially substantial-ly increase its level of assistance, and reduce the number of projects gaining assistance. The expiration of the affirmative date for eligibility of synthetic fuels facilities for the Energy Tax Credit (ETC) would have an effect equivalent to reducing the effective assistance of the Corporation by $6.7 billion. The expiration ex-piration of the ETC on Dec. 31, 1982 for certain projects by itself will cost potential synthetic fuels sponsors over half a billion dollars. "I would like to say that I believe all of us at the corporation realize now that we have taken on a far larger and more difficult task than anyone imagined im-agined in 1980," Noble said. "But the necessity to complete that task, to develop the capability to use our own domestic resources.. .is every bit as critical today as it was in 1980." Continued from page 1 to conceal inside activity. Oviatt feels that the practice was successful in that it gave the firefighters a chance to see what it really was like to fight a fire. Some of the crew entered the building to get the feeling of being in a burning structure to better prepare themselves for the event of an actual fire. They wore a self-contained breathing apparatus while in the building. According to Oviatt, firefighters "knocked down flames" so they could enter the building further. Firefighters knew that the practice fire was being planned but did not know the actual time it would be, until un-til about 15 minutes before it was set. They spent about three hours putting the fire out. The hardest part of the job accor ding to Oviatt is cleaning up the debris, after the fire is out. He said that practice prac-tice fires are an inexpensive way to demolish a building and are good experience ex-perience for the crew. High blood pressure is often of-ten called "the silent killer" because it can affect a person's per-son's health even though he feels fine. 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