OCR Text |
Show 2 Vernal Express rridoy, October u. i?83 ' at""" "THEY ARE high but not out of line," says Dick Winters, French fries are really French It's known as the "french fry," that slender cut of fried potato that's now as American as the hamburger. Where did the french fry come from? Is it really French? The french fry did originate in France in the 18th century, but long after the French had "worn" potato blossoms in the hair and as boutonnieres. A French pharmacist named Antoine-August Parmentier, while a prisoner in Prussia during the Seven Years War, lived for a year eating only the roots of the "potato flower." Returning Retur-ning to France, he cultivated the potato as "an answer to his country's food needs." Hosting a banquet for Benjamin Franklin, then Ambassador to France, Parmentier served nothing but potatoes prepared in 20 different ways, including deep fried! President Thomas Jefferson began America's romance with french fries when he served them to White House dinner guests in 1801. A gourmet, Jefferson Jef-ferson had "imported" a French chef to his home at Monticello and continued con-tinued the tradition of serving "exotic" foods in the White House. John Adams, Jefferson's presidential presiden-tial predecessor, thought his successor was putting on airs, "serving such novelties as 'french fries'." Today, french fries account for 50 percent of all potatoes ordered by customers in restaurants throughout the United States. In addition to the unique taste, diners can enjoy nutritional nutri-tional benefits: potatoes are rich in vitamin C, protein and minerals. McDonalds, which serves more french tries than any other restaurant organization, makes it a priority to retain re-tain the nutrients and good flavor of its fries. "Our unique patented process for making fries has won us the praise of millions of customers," explained McDonald's Chief Operations Officer, Ed Rensl. "Our fries are continuously continuous-ly put through rigid quality tests to ensure en-sure they remain America's favorite." Renal explained that the more than one billion pounds of french fries customers order each year are Inspected In-spected by government, Independent suppliers, and McDonald's own corn-puny corn-puny Inspectors to be certain they meet strict quality standards-from the lime potatoes are harvested through preparation. McDonald'! french fries are made from Idaho Kussett Hurbank potatoes. They are carefully inspected at Harvest, and again before they reach the proreving plant. "TAXES I am paying are too high," says Pastor Richard Asire. Taxes... Continued from page 1 Vonneal Maddsen of Vernal said yes, her taxes had gone up, but then so has everything else. She doesn't feel that the taxes in Uintah County are unreasonable and added she doesn't mind paying the increased school tax because "we need good schools." Joseph Winder of Vernal said that even though taxes are high, if they are for a good cause then he doesn't paying pay-ing them. He said he felt that the school tax increase was necssary in order to insure good schools for future and present students. Outage... Continued from page 1 Along 1500 East at 450 North the power lines were spaced out from the pole and was hung down on a short rope from a pole. Winds Thursday night blew the line into a metal transformer tran-sformer collar on the pole which caused caus-ed the outage. UP&L crew were able to cut the line and reroute the power through another line. Construction of the new power lines to Naples is planned to be complete by December. There are about 80 more poles to be placed to complete the project. Deannex Continued from page 1 their approval of the action to deannex the property, on this particular deannexation. Because of the increase in Ashley Valley district mill levy from 8.39 mills to 16.93 mills other areas who have recently annexed into Vernal City are eyeing the opportunity to deannex out of the district. A resident from the Pick annexation, annexa-tion, which is being contested by the Ashley District in the Utah Supreme Court, questioned the Vernal Council about the deannexation. Council members said that the city is acting as if the Pike annexation is inside Vernal City limits, based on the ruling of the district court, and that the Pike annexation should file for deannexation dean-nexation like any other annexation into Vernal City. The Pike annexation is 1000 South to 500 South and 1500 West to 2100 West. Replacement needed at Dinosaur Quarry Although the search is not as extensive exten-sive as finding the quarry site, the Dinosaur National Moument is now searching for someone to help continue uncovering and documenting the fossils at the quarry. Jim Adams worked in the Quarry area of the moument for 25 years, before retiring recently. He was responsible for uncovering and documenting fossils in the Quarry and various other duties. Dennis Davies, National Parks Department, explained that it is a long and complicated process to select Adam's replacement. Personnel at the Quarry must first send a notice of the opening and a knowledge, skills and abilities list to their regional office located in Denver, Colo. After the Denver office has reviewed the qualifications and the wording of the list, they will place an inhouse notice of vacancy. The notice is then sent out to designated areas, it is up to the Denver office how many National Na-tional Park areas will receive the notice. Davies said because the position posi-tion requires such a highly trained person, per-son, the notice will probably receive nation wide coverage. Quarry personnel have also asked Denver to request a list of eligible candidates can-didates from the office of Personnel Management (OPM) which Is the former Civil Service Commission. The OI'M office is located in Salt Lake City. When the Salt take office receives the request from Denver, they will check their register for eligible people who ere currently employed by the National Parks Department. If there is not enough qualified people on the register, the OPM will open the vacancy vacan-cy up to persons outside of the department. Applicants outside of the department depart-ment will be required to file a standard SF-71 application. The SF-71 is about a four page application that must be filed for government employment. After notice of the vacancy is filed applicants ap-plicants have about 30 days in which . to submit their applications. Davies said that applicants should , be about a GS-8. They should be, . familiar with-the anatomy of vertebrate animals, experience with working with fossils in rock, museum and photography skills and curtorial work (museum recordkeeping). Since the applicant must be highly skilled the Parks Department speculates that it will be difficult to find someone qualified to nil the position. posi-tion. They are hoping to have it filled by mid-December. According to Davies, there is at least eight to ten years of active quarry work left to do but there will always be maintenance work available. Maintenance work includes vacuuming of the bones, patching and repairing bones and cracks and various other duties requiring a skilled skill-ed person. Since the cliff in which the fossils are embedded Is alive and moving, there Is a constant need to repair cracks In the bones, and cliffs. Davies also said that quarry personnel plan to work on fossils uncovered during the first 13 years of operation so they will stand In high relief. Vernal Express USPS 6510 80O0) Mi)4 wj WJf 4 tt4f to $ U 90 pn t 4 SJO OS pt t M 4 hf Vvti 1 rWikj U' NCI $ mi i'-n sg e UMi 101 NAUmsi,F0 t ie.avv,.i,ufc tti A. Nw tS ii lV Sr! f f fit-w C t,.... t4w fcyr W& . .. .4tRj m... yA ?t,5r.'(.i 4-4 MH . . . W, Or"", fiS t.'M! m.m. W-im ut-im tfcnw (mM !'ICt MktI . . W 'Tir. H S WWt ,. Vvfm HI AMU C-A-, Hm f-Cj t i-. kfrS JMfe -. m" 1 ! - t ttmm . .... tl5 JnM iW $ illlMltltllllltUtllllK I Vernal City insnr wmr Program mm WHAT THE 8WE OF UTAH NEEDS IS A GrOOQ .1976 DROUGHT f X I 1 1 1 . OKe M m mm m Life and other trivialities . . . On a police fake down By Steve Christensen Express Assistant Editor Occasionally reporters have reason to accompany police officers for various reasons. Such an instance occurred oc-curred for me last week. The reason for the trip is insignificant, but what happened got my blood pumping a little lit-tle faster. It was after the intended detail was really over that the excitement began. The police had been staking out a mailbox at the post office looking for a felony suspect whose name was registered to the box. It just so happened on our way back to the police station, someone picked up the mail from that box. The general description fit, but the man appeared to be considerably thinner than the suspect. The officer staking out the mailbox didn't stop the man immediately, im-mediately, feeling that if this was not the suspect, he might lead them to the right man. That is where the officer I was with came into the picture. We were in an unmarked car, so when the tailing officer came on the radio with the information, this officer moved in to the tail. The tailing officer told us to take over the tail, and he would drop off, so the man did not become suspicious. We did so by turning down another street and coming up to the side, so it didn't look like we were really tailing him. Unfortunately, the tail didn't work too good because a couple of marked cars appeared on the scene, and the most naive person would have become suspicious. Since it had become apparent the man would not lead the police anywhere, they "took him down,' meaning they stopped the car. Since the man fit the general description, the police had to assume this was the suspect until proven otherwise. Therefore, the officers approached the car as if they were dealing with a felony suspect. This meant revolvers drawn and ready. The man got out of the car, understandably a bit concerned about what was going on. When the man was found to be unarmed, he was handcuffed handcuff-ed before the interrogation began. It became even more understandable why the man was concerned when it was determined he was not the felony suspect after all. , The handcuffs were removed, apologies were made, and the man was assured that man over there taking tak-ing pictures (me) would not use them, since the man was guilty of nothing. He, however, did know the felony suspect, although he was not aware the man was wanted. He had been asked ask-ed to pick up the mail, and deliver it to an address, although he did not know for sure if the suspect was staying stay-ing at that address. Since the man did not know the friend was wanted, he was not an accessory ac-cessory to a crime, although the police later told me it is a crime to know of the location of a fugitive and not report it. He was also willing to tell the police everything he knew about the wanted man. I can imagine what must have been going through the man's mind as he was frisked and handcuffed. I was standing 50 feet away and in no way involved and my heartbeat was twice normal. His probably didn't return to normal for a week. Have you ever looked down the barrel of a loaded .357 magnum revolver? We may at first be apt to think the police should use a little more discretion discre-tion in how they approach situations. While it is certainly unfortunate that innocent people are subjected to that kind of treatment, we rrjust realize the position the police are placed in. They must assume the man is a fugitive of justice, and may be capable of force. While we probably all hope this type of situation will never happen to us, we must also be willing to allow it if necessary. In the end the man was not injured, photos were not printed, and his name was never referred to in public. In essence, he was not really hurt. In fact, it might be a good story to tell his grandchildren someday. City passes hike in cable rates Vernal City residents will be paying more for cable television services as the Vernal City Council approved a rate hike for Action Television Company Com-pany after the company fulfilled a promise pro-mise to improve service on Dole Avenue. Wednesday's public hearing for the rale hike was a continuation of several meetings last July considering the Issue, Action is required by the FCC to receive Vernal City approval for any role Increase even though they are a private firm. At a meeting last July, the council approved the rale Increaoe for cable television lo be effective when the installation in-stallation of cable Is completed in the Dale Avenue area, sooth of Main rib ftba Vut Street on 1100 West. About 10 cable subscribers attended the July meeting complaining about the poor service by the company. Most didn't object to the rate Increase. At the meeting the council narrowed narrow-ed the majority of complaints to the Dale Avenue area which had been left without service when a new cable system was Insulted. Action recently Invested over 1500.000 In equipment end cable to replace the old cable system to mont of the homes In Ashley Valley, At this week's public hearing only one objection to the cable service wag voiced, Floyd Workman objected to the lack of service to the Sage Motel end also to hts residence, Gary KonveUkl, Vernal manager of Action, told the council thai hts conv pany had tried to Improve cable service ser-vice to the motel, and that he was unaware that It hadn't been taken care of. He guaranteed that Mr. Workman's complaint would be taken care of the next day, Agreeing that Action had lived up to their end of the agreement last July, the council approved the rate increase, The approval will allow the company com-pany to increase monthly fees from 17.50 to 19, charge tt 80 for the second set, a basic installation charge of Its and a second set installation charge to be tt, The new prices will be effective this month, man. i.o EVIL ) GET YOUR SALES LICENSE Class Beginning Oct. 27-29 & Nov. 3-5 - 9:00 a.m. at tho SHERATON INN Wesl Highway 0, Vernal (Thoso interested in a broker liconso call, too) SPENCER & STRINGHAM Rent Ettate Education Center Call ToH Fres 1800662653? |