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Show Utah FrtM Associaticn k6j East JOO South Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 WEDNESDAY, December 28, 1983 Vernal, Utah 84078 91st Year No. 103 28 Pages Single Copy 25c INSIDE Computer market 2 300 Cabbage Patch dolls 6 Drive cautiously 11 Ken Aycock given award 12 Choosing a pet 13 Uintah wrestlers beat Orem 21 Editorial 2.3 Obituaries 9 Public Notices 8.9 Classified Ads .... 10-11 Expressions 13-20 Sports 21-28 TV Guide 17-18 Four Adv Inserts Jb yflDlk CD yipls)1? Though the Uintah Basin started 1983 with one of the gloomiest unemployment rates in its history, projections for this summer are that unemployment will dip to the three to four percent range or nearly full employment. Reasons for the glowing reports for next summer stem from an already declining unemployment rate, a stable oil industry and construction projects. According to Larris Hunting, Vernal Job Service manager, construction projects which will lower the unemployment rate in the Ashley Valley next summer include the construction con-struction of the Ashley Valley Water Treatment plant, a new high school, county and state buildings and jail, and Ashley Valley Water and Sewer treatment plant and enlargement of the Geokinetics oil shale project. Though most of the general contractors contrac-tors on these projects will most likely be from the Wasatch Front, chances are they will employ local labor, Hunting Hun-ting said. The high employment rate on the Wasatch Front will keep many contractors con-tractors from bringing their own labor. A prime example is the excavation excava-tion of the new high school. Though most of the equipment was provided by H.K. Construction General Contractor, local labor was used to operate the equipment, said Phil Ellis, Uintah School Superintendent. Contractors are less likely to take employees off a job and bring them out here on another, Hunting said. They are more likely to hire locally. The Uintah School Board has attempted at-tempted to foster local labor on the co:k',uUCuon cf the ne' high school and west, side auditorium, but one board member said, "When you require re-quire that a contractor employ a certain cer-tain percent of local labor you lose in both time and cost." Bids will be opened for construction of the new high school and west side auditorium Feb. 22, 1984. It will be nearly a $20 million project including the renovation of the old high school. Bids for construction of a water treatment plant on Doc's Beach Hill has been awarded to Clegg Construction Construc-tion Company of Provo, Utah, in the amount of $7,084,238. The construction of the facility is expected ex-pected to require about 18 months, and it is anticipated that it will be producing produc-ing water by the summer of 1985. The plant is being financed by the Central Utah Water Conservancy District and will be paid for in full at the end of construction. The Ashley Valley Water and Sewer Improvement District has also accepted ac-cepted bids on a treatment plant to be located at the mouth of Ashley Canyon. Ca-nyon. Awarding of the bid on the project pro-ject is expected the first part of January. Hunting also bases his prediction of a below 5 percent unemployment in Ashley Valley on the present decreasing decreas-ing unemployment rate. During the fourth quarter, unemployment for the Uintah Basin decreased from 9.6 percent in October to 9.4 percent in November. The statewide unemployment rate decreased from 6.8 percent in October to 6.4 percent in November, the lowest in two years. ( Contracts on the construction of a new county jail are yet to be awarded. award-ed. The final three have been selected, however. Though the Uintah Basin is pulling out of its unemployment slump, it entered in the recession later than the rest of the state and it will be longer before the area has totally recovered. Though December figures have not been released, Hunting predicts a slight . increase in unemployment because of the weather. The projected increase in unemployment unemploy-ment is due to traditional construction layoffs which occur when the colder weather begins. Despite the slight increases during the colder weather, Hunting is holding his ground for a lower unemployment rate next summer. &-. - . . - . - i - ' .. " - '. ; . -: : -. I t- lib F" if-'t'i i Xr-'Xv - A 1 fc? ff J , m ' x T V t:'r'V c$$W iP I :TtvX- . V CLIFF HEENEY and Floyd Bowden, Vernal Elks time for Christmas breakfast, lunch and dinner Lodge, fill Christmas boxes to be delivered in to 31 needy families. Elks give gifts to the needy They weren't dressed in red Santa suits and didn't have long white beards, but they did make a lot of people peo-ple happy on Christmas day . Members of the Vernal Elks Lodge 2375 carried boxes overflowing with food for three meals on Christmas to 31 needy families in the Vernal area. Also, each child in the 31 families, some 104, were given a toy and some article of clothing. All gifts are bought, wrapped and delivered by members of the lodge. The project also includes delivering food to 15 elderly couples and the delivery of 35 baskets of fruit and nuts. After about two hours of sorting out the food items, and many more hours earlier in the week wrapping the gift, the Christmas deliveries were made Friday night. "Most people are very pleased with the gifts," said Cliff Heeney, Lodge member who has been in charge of the project for the past two years. "We try to give the gifts to the truly needy," Heeney said. Names of people to whom the gifts will be delivered are obtained from Social Services, and the Elks add a few other people who need the gifts to their list. Money for the Elks annual Christmas project is raised by a Christmas raffle and auction. This year the Dec. 11 raffle and auction raised over $8,000. This is the 14th year for the Elks" Christmas project. According to Heeney, the Elks traveled between 500 and 600 total miles delivering their Christmas packages as far away as Duchesne and to the east side of Uintah County. There were over 200 hours involved in the project, and the Elks were busy until fi p.m. Christmas Eve making the deliveries. Tribal member faces murder charge A Ute tribal member has been charged with murder in connection with the fatal shooting that occurred on Dec. 25. According to special agent in charge, Mr. Terry Knowles, who is investigating in-vestigating the incident for the Salt Lake City FBI office, Rick Chapoose, 25, of the Ute Tribe, has been charged with murder on a government reservation. reser-vation. He is charged with fatally shooting Kerby Roy Andcrton, 29, of Montwcll, Utah, which Is near Ttoosevcll. Mr. Chapoose is charged with the fatal shooting that took place at the Ouray Indian Reservation in Fort Duchesne at 2 a.m. Dec. 25. A federal complaint authorized by assistant U.S. Attorney Sam Alba, charges Chapoose with the violation of title 18 sections 1153 and 1111 of the U.S. Code. Chapoose allegedly shot Andcrton with a .357 magnum revolver a the Bottle Hollow Resort. Andcrton was shot twice. There was no information informa-tion available as of Tuesdsay night on a woman who was also involved in the altercation. Chapoose will be arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Daniel Alsup on Wednesday, Dec. 28 In Salt Lake City. Bond has been recommended to be set at :o,ooo. V 4.1 J kv r -.1 7 'f 1 air xW v ' j mtM 1 KW"L , '! takwd CHRISTMAS BOXES overflowing with enough food for three meals were distributed by the Vernal Elks Lodge. Fornraer governor sees sicoie crises for funding of education, prisons "A financial crfets is facing the slate which can't be rwolved by the gove r nor of lb legislature; but by the people," peo-ple," former Utah governor Calvin Hampton said al the Vernal Chamber FORMER GOVERNOR Calvin Rampton & financial crini. of Commerce meeting Tuesday. The former governor, who served three terms before Governor Malheson. identified the two financial crises lacing the state are the funding of schonls and state and local Jails and pTiwm The result of the ' Nation at Risk" trport is "shocking." Rampton said. Schools are not turning out students with basic training needed to be conv pelHive wilh other nations. funding of education in I" tab is harder than anywhere else because of a greater percent of the taxpayers ' dollar goes toward education than any other state, and also for the past 30 jrears tlah has alternated with New Menico for having the highest permit of the population in public schools. "The la effort is Inert, but it is spread over more students making tlah have a Umrt dollar per student ratio." Rampto uid. Rampton supported the proposal of a state tank force asking the slate Irgislalure for II) million for increasing increas-ing teacher pay, implementing a merit system and lengthening the school year, but he said that isn't the only place where improvement is needed. All are concerned about the increas-ing increas-ing crime rate in Utah The UUh State IVnitentiary originally was built for WW inmates, later expanded to house una and now has l.lno inmates. "City and county jails are totally inadequate." in-adequate." Rampton said. Improvement in the penal sysletn would require at least ISO million. "There is no answer to raising funds for the improvement of education and the penal system escepi by taxation." he said He didn't favor increasing property taes to meet the crisis because "It bares hardest on the people ." That n why M tfil statt pnxwrtv tax PSC rules in favor of Moon Lake Electric Assn. Grant J. Earl, general manager of Moon Lake Electric, announced this week that the Public Service Commission Commis-sion of Utah has ruled in favor of Moon Lake Electric in its dispute with Utah Power & Light Co. over the White River Oil Shale Company's project that is to be located south of Bonanza. After long negotiations with Moon Lake, White River broke off talks and approached UP&L requesting them to serve their project. Moon Lake Electric Elec-tric requested of the commission that they investigate the situation since the White River project is located in Moon Lake's exclusive territory and a portion por-tion of the Bonanza Plant that is now being built was justified based upon the future requirements of White River. A hearing was held on Dec. 8 w here the Commission heard arguments and a request by Moon I jke for a restraining restrain-ing order against UP&L to cease const con-st uction of any large line to that area. The order that was' released on Wednesday, Dec. 21, supported Moon Lake in as much as it ordered UP&L to stop any construction activities. Mr. Earl comments, "The order that the Commission handed down was indeed in-deed a fair and logical order. UP&L has never served any loads in tlmt particular par-ticular part of the country and they were trying, in my opinion, tocircum-vent tocircum-vent the territories defined by the Commission by attempting to serve a load in the Moon Lake area." Earl said, "I am very pleased that the Commission ruled in our favor. This may be, however, not the Inst we hear of this situation, but at Irnst it is a step in the right direction to stop a gross Injustice that would have cost our members substantial amounts of money in the future, not to mention the additional problem that it would h.ive created had the territorial bnumlar irs been found to be mm existent for all practical purposes " done away with completely, leaving only city and county property taxes. "I don't believe that more money will solve these problems, but t've yet to see a viable solution lhal didn't twt money," he said. Ramptom said the public nerds to ak themselves two questions: "Do we need to strengthen education1? and Do we need to strengthen the penal system?" "tf the answers are 'yes' to these questions, the automatic third question ques-tion is 'how'V Rampton said he has always favored an increase in severance tax because the 2 percent on oil. I percent on hard rock minerals and the no tax on coal Is unreasonably n . "I don't envy Governor Matheon or Legislator Gayle McKearhnie or Senator Glade fard. but the public needs to convey their opinions to than" SFC to close its in 1984 Journal says The U.S. Synthetic Furls Corpora linn may close up shop as soon as the end of IW4. according to a Dec. 19 ar tide in the Wall Strert Journal The phawtut of the federally bark' ed corporation will probably occur with only two thirds of the SFC US billion for syntnelic furls development allocated The remaining funds will be returned to the Treasury, and Rragan administration officials said the corporation cor-poration won't request " additional money. tnreclors and senior officials confirmed con-firmed in interviews with the Wall Street Journal that by the end of l4 probably only five or six cnmmercial-scale cnmmercial-scale synthetic fuel plants will have been funded and that preliminary aid has already been approved for all but tn of the proieits ' The new strategy rneans. in effect of the large projects it intrtvU to help." the Journal article-. "It will spend the next year mostly determining the sieof final aid packages, monitoring engineering or cnnt rwclion or k and preparing to disband. So far the corporation has given preliminary ot final approval of I man-ciat man-ciat aid totaling about M ) billion to nine projects The enrpntatiofi ha promised pro-mised to review two projects in I'in tah County, the White Hivef and t'afaho project in April for possible funding from leftmet f unrls Thre two projects w ert denied funding ea lief this month An official with the SFC said that the crporation hasfi I released an official response to the article in the Journal, but will do short It. Presently the corpm atioti is examining examin-ing tool gaific8tn pmjetts lot |