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Show Deadlines: FRIDAY, kl . -January 6, 1984 News: Thursday 10:00 A.M. Utah Frfc&e Aoflociation 467 East 300 South SH Lake Citv. Utah Win - ' v ? t i V- J n ... r1 ,v- jTV::-1KJL $ ::' ' l i ' L, , sy' , fr k v. . j '''' " r v-VlV ' - i ... ' s. :1 . .x-r :r-' - - :' " ;" 4; : A" ' "' - ; THE FIRST train load of coal arrived on a cold Bonanza Power Plant. This trip will start a daily and snowy night to the unloading station at the run from Rangely to Bonanza for the train. First Colorado coal reaches plant by rail The first shipment of coal needed to generate electricity at the Deseret Generation and Transmission Cooperative's Bonanza Power Plant arrived by electric train on Wednesday Wednes-day evening. Only three of the train's 35 cars were hauling the crushed coal (which is about 1 inches in size) when it arrived arriv-ed on the plant site at about 10 p.m. from the Deserado Coal Mine near Rangely, Colo. Each of the three cars were carrying approximately 100 tons of coal. The trip from Colorado is about 38 miles and is made on a track specifically designed for the Deseret Weston Railway. ' The train hauling the coal has two engines and there was about 30 empty emp-ty cars behind the coal cars. The first step after the train arrives is to unload the coal from the cars. A door to the bottom of the train cars allows the coal to be dumped by an automatic unloading system oeparated by a control con-trol board inside the terminal. After the coal is emptied from the cars, it falls through a hopper located below the train tracks. From the hopper hop-per the coal is transported by conveyor belts to the transfer building. The belts INSIDE Foster parents to many V ' can haul approximately 3000 tons of coal per hour. The coal is then directed to either the telescopic chute for dead storage or the 200 foot silo for live storage. However, unloading the coal did not go as smoothly as plant officials hoped. A small miscalculation at the control board caused a delay in the unloading of the cars and the coal spilled spill-ed on the ground past the hoppers, Wednesday. If the coal is directed to the silo it is later conveyed to a crusher which reduces the coal to pea size, or W and can then be sent directly to one of five pulverizers which turns the coal into a powder. Coal directed to the telescopic chute is used for a stock pile. The plant intends in-tends to maintain a stock pile of 120 days' worth. The purpose of the stock pile is to have coal on hand in case there are times in the future when the train is unable to run. According to employees at the plant, in the beginning beginn-ing almost all of the coal will be used to begin the stock pile. Fire-up at the plant is expected to be some time in the fall. Ci . ' -mmm School 0 be reviewed one more For the second time, a fund raising policy was presented to the Uintah School Board, and for the second time the board didn't agree on the policy, but the board liked the ideas that were presented. At school board meeting Thursday, the Uintah Community Council presented their recommendations to the board for a district policy on fund raising in district schools. Recommendations Recommen-dations were presented two months ago to the board, but the school board suggested the council do more work on a policy. The board about sent the the community com-munity council's recommendation back again for more refinement, but Superintendent Phil Ellis told the board "that it is time to make a decision." The school board is seeking for a policy to keep the lid on funding raising rais-ing activities in public school that in 1982 added $55,000 to school curriculum cur-riculum enrichment programs. Fund raiser generated $11 per student in 1982 over activity fees and other school expenses. "There is a lot of peer pressure for kids to participate in fund raisers," board member Garth Atwood said at the meeting. "If they don't have it (items sold at school) then they're v murrey ITie city-county planning office will be conducting a survey of Ashley Valley residents Jan. 9 to find out resident's views on issues that will be coining before the planning commission com-mission and the county commissioners. commis-sioners. Volunteers will be conducting the survey Monday evening between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. . All residents of Ashley Valley will be surveyed except for those living in Vernal City and Naples. There will be approximately 40 teams of one to two people going to every third home in the : valley with the survey. They will leave the survey at the house, explain how . to fill it out, and return in 20 to 30 minutes to pick up the survey. Rob Hugie, city-county planner's officer, of-ficer, said that the planner's office hopes to survey about 500 to 600 homes. After the survey has been completed the volunteers will bring the results to the library, where they will be collected and sent to the planning office at the Uintah County Deer herds no despite harsh w While deer herds are being hand fed on the Wasatch Front area to keep them from starving to death, deer herds locally are still fending for themselves. Officials at the Vernal office of Wildlife Resources said that conditions on the Wasatch Front are "radically different" than those locally. The local herds are still scattered, there is more winter range available, and the deer are still able to paw into the snow to get to their feed. Officials at the Vernal office said that two fawns are the total kill reported so far this winter. "We're going to lose deer, but if the weather continues as it has (during January) the loss will not be monumental," said Don Smith, Vernal Wildlife Resources. fund raising propos reluctant to come back to school." The Community Council recommended recom-mended to the school board that fund drives for other than school activities or school projects should not be conducted con-ducted in the public schools. When fund raisers are conducted for schools projects, they should be under the direction of the principal in each school. They should not interfere with regular classroom attendance, compete com-pete with established local business, be door-to-door and should enhance en-ducational en-ducational growth, the council recommended. Board member Thomas Howells noted that in 1982 Dicovery Elementary Elemen-tary raised $10,187.61 from fund raisers and Ashley Elementary generated about $1,197.12. "What did Ashley go without that Discovery had?" Howells asked. Naples Elementary principal, Bill Murphy, said that money from fund raisers are used for special field trips, computers, asemblies, movies and classroom activities that enrich teaching. Since there is an inequitable amount of money raised in the different schools, the board suggested that maybe a ceiling on fund raisers should be implemented. The board could Utes get beat Vernal, Utah 84078 92st Year No. 2 12 Pages "f inm University of Utah for analysis on their computer. It will take approximately approx-imately two to three weeks before the results will be available. The commission solicited questions for the survey from the city recreation department, the community center, social services, the library and the sophomore civic classes at Uintah High School. Questions on the survey will deal with zoning laws regarding trailers, city recreation programs, drugs and alcohol awareness and the tabernacle. There are 10 questions on the survey regarding zoning regulations, 19 on educational and cultural events, eight questions on park and recreational programs, three on community services ser-vices and eight personal questions. Some of the sample questions include: in-clude: Do you feel that double-wide mobil homes should be allowed in all residental zones, while single-wide mobil home should be restricted to Smith said that feeding the deer becomes very expensive and once it's started it has to be continued through the rest of the year. It is usually a last resort. Most of the deer losses in the Uintah Easin will be fawns and bucks, as fawns are the weakest and the bucks have just come out of the rut. "But is it not unusual to lose fawns during the winter," Smith said, Many deer are still holding out on wind swept ridges, but many are finding fin-ding easier food at lower stack yards. "We spent a lot of time recently fencing fen-cing in stack yards," Smith said. Smith said the conditions for winter range is totally different here than on the Wasatch Front and also there is less snow than on the Wasatch Front. allocate each school a certain amount which would be used for enrichment programs and the school would be allowed to raise additional funds to a certain limit. Board members agreed to an idea of suplimenting enrichment programs Rolene Smith i 1 r V'A . i ' . . it v.. 1 V-V A; ii Breast cancer risks See page 5. Advertising: Thursday 2:00 P.M. Phone 789-351 1 25c Single copy mobile home parks or mobile subdivisions? subdivi-sions? Do you fell that use of drugs is a major problem in the Vernal Area? Are you in favor of preserving the old Uintah Stake Tabernacle? How often do you and your family participate in community recreation programs? Hugie said that the sophomore civic classes at Uintah High School would also be taking the survey but their results would be calculated separately. He said that the survey was being conducted for three main reasons: 1) to formulate proposals and recommendations recom-mendations to the planning commission, commis-sion, county commissioners and other public entities for actions. 2)to help all public entities access public opinion on some important issues, and 3) to aid in long term county planning. Hugie said that the commission still needs more volunteers to complete the survey. "It's hard to believe.the areas can be so close, and conditions are so different," dif-ferent," Smith said. But the local deer herd could be in real trouble if snowfall is the same in January ?s it was in December, Smith said. Also, if the snow melts because of warmer weather and later freezes and crusts over, there may be problems with deer getting to feed. Since the problem of the starving deer on the Wasatch Front, Smith said, the Vernal office has received a lot of telephone calls and inquiries about the local deer herds. "We appreciate the concern," Smith said. "If we do need help, it appears there are a lot of concerned people willing to lend a hand." time and holding fund raiser to a minimum, but since the district's budget was already set, such a program would have to wait until next year. Board President Gary Taylor sug-Continued sug-Continued on page 2 Rolene Smith appointed Naples JP Rolene Smith was appointed, Wednesday as the new Justice of the Peace for Naples City. She will replace former Justice Brent Fletch who asked the city council coun-cil last month to appoint a Naples resident resi-dent as a justice. Mrs. Smith has some background in the legal field as she has worked as a a para-legal assistant for the law firm of Nielson and Senior for three years. Prior to moving to Vernal, Mrs. Smith lived in Salt Lake City. While there she worked for 11 years for the State Continued on page 2 f bod off either ; -----; I ' ' A . If I ? , U See page 8. See page 4. |