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Show V ,-. j f ,, ' , V f h j't t (C !"m 2 Vernal Express Friday, January 20, 1984 ,u!3vJ,vw,ll"ll J VERNAL CITY J, DESIGNATED TRUCK ROUTES POUT THE ONLY THING-TO LOOK FORWARD TDTNtS a LI' U : IV v. I- v SR121 500 I" worth 1 V ji51 TIME OF YEAR IS HEAVY LINES show designated truck routes in Vernal City which were approved by the Vernal City pegs roads for truck routes The Vernal City Council Wednesday designated nine city streets and highways as truck routes and implemented im-plemented an ordinance to fine trucks over 24,000 pounds who use other streets except for deliveries. Highways coming under the truck route designation are U. S. Highway 40. U. S. Highway 44 and State Route 121 . City streets included on the list are r(i0 South between east U. S. Highway 40 and 500 East, 500 East between 500 South and 100 North, 500 North between bet-ween Vernal Avenue and 500 West, 500 West between Main Street and 1500 South, 100 North between Vernal Avenue and 500 East, and 100 East between bet-ween Main Street and 100 North. The new ordinance allows the Vernal Ver-nal chief of police the authority to require re-quire any person driving or in control of any vehicle on a designated truck route to proceed to any public or private scale. If the driver is violating the ordinance he will be fined. Signs will be placed along the roads designated for truck routes. Nielson... continued from page 1 since Nielson has attended junior high, he was able to pass the test with flying fly-ing colors. He correctly answered all 27 questions on the test and the most questions correctly answered by a student stu-dent was 24. "1 had better have gotten 100 percent the test was on Congress and their procedures," Nielson said. He was invited to attend VJH by the student stu-dent body a few months prior to his arrival. ar-rival. "Ilie students at the school were very disciplined and I had very little difficulty following the lectures by the instructors." he said. Vernal Express (USPS 6580-8000) Published every Wednesdoy and Friday for $14.00 per year in area and $20.00 per year out of area by the Vernal Express Publishing Company, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utah 84078. Second class postage paid at Vernal, Ver-nal, Utah 84078. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to VERNAL VER-NAL EXPRESS, P.O. Box 1010, Vernal, Utah 84078. Jack R. Wallis Editor and Publisher Steven R. Wallis News Editor Traci Menke Asst. News Editor Aldon Rochele Sports Editor Janeen Cook Women's News Joyce Williams Advertising Phone 789-35 11 Member of Utah Press Association and National Newspaper Association Area correspondents: Jensen Vera Snow, 789-0628 Manila Clara Robinson, 784-3463 Naples Ada Openshaw, 789-3145 Tridell Lorno McKee, 247-2350 Lapoint .Paulo Huber, 247-2425 Maeser .Eloise Allen Parker, 789-2178 Ballard Tracy Phillips, 722-4925 Whiterocks . . .Virginia Ferguson, 353-4584 Glines Norma Damon, 789-1302 Ouray, Leota, Rondlett...Sheila Bloxhom, 545-2327 Deadlines Wednesday Edition Newt Monday 5:00 p.m. Advertising Tuesday 11:00 a.m. Friday Edition News Thursday 10:00 a.m. Advertising Thursday 2:00 p.m. Mineral leasing consolidation is major advance in BLAA By Helene C. Monberg Vernal Express Washington Correspondent Washington Director Robert . F. Burford of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rates the consolidation con-solidation of the activities of the old conservation division of the U.S. Geological Survey under the BLM umbrella um-brella as the most important program that he has accomplished since taking over the top BLM post. On the other hand, he rates his major ma-jor disappointment the failure of BLM to control wild horses on the Western range. As Burford rounds out his third year as a top agency official of the Western-Oriented Western-Oriented BLM, this correspondent asked him during a Jan. 7 interview to assess his successes and failures as BLM director. "The most important was the consolidation con-solidation of the old conservation division divi-sion leasing activities in BLM. This couples surface and underground leasing leas-ing and technology, for oil, gas and mineral leasing," said Burford, a former Mesa County rancher-turned bureaucrat. . In the past BLM handled surface leasing activities, while the U.S. Geological Survey handled the subser-face subser-face leasing activities, by and large. Former Interior Secretary James G. Watt split the work of the conservation division of USGS between BLM and a new Minerals Management Service thru a reorganization in 1982. MMS became a separate agency within Interior, In-terior, and it is largely the accountbookkeeper ac-countbookkeeper of the revenues from public land leasing for minerals, including coal, oil and gas. Another area where BLM has progressed pro-gressed has been in clearing up some 20,000 outstanding oil and gas applications. applica-tions. This was done last year, according accor-ding to Burford. This had been a longstanding long-standing gripe in public land states. It was done mainly by wiping old applications ap-plications off the books, as long recommended recom-mended by several old BLM hands. Burford said BLM is looking into the problem of what is a known geological structure. There has been a lot of controversy con-troversy over this term, and it's far from settled. It applies to whether a certain mineral or geothermal energy is known to be on the public acreage to be leased, if it is a known geological structure the area must be leased competitively. com-petitively. If it is not, leasing has been by non-competitive bid (competitive leases come higher than noncompetitive non-competitive leases). Burford readily Joseph Bonacci tried in 7th Circuit Court Joseph B. Bonacci of Columbia Falls, Mont, who has been charged with two counts of negligent homicide was tried on Tuesday in 7th Circuit Court. He has been charged with a Class A misdemeanor for the deaths of two Vernal residents following a two vehicle vehi-cle accident on Aug. 6, 1983. Killed in the accident were Peggy Jo Jenkins and infant daughter Randi Danielle. The accident occurred on U-44 at: Windy Point about 14 miles north of Vernal. Bonacci lost control of his semi-tractor trailer when he lost his brakes. After leaving t! ,e roadway and swerving back into the lanes of traffic, traf-fic, the Bonacci vehicle hit the northbound north-bound Jenkins vehicle, and both semitrailers semi-trailers burst into flames. The Jenkins semi-tractor trailer was driven by Mrs. Jenkins's husband, Allen. Judge Whitney Hammond listen to evidence presented in the trial which lasted most of the day. He took the matter under advisement and should have a decision, regarding the case, some time next week. City Council. Trucks over 24,000 pounds will not be permitted, except for deliveries, on other city ci-ty streets. admitted the problem wasn't settled yet, but he observed, "we're working on it." Burford rates wilderness as an area of advance for BLM, primarily because it will complete its wilderness studies long before the 1999 deadline. But he admitted that he was disappointed disap-pointed by BLM's inability to manage the Western ranges which are the habitat for wild horses and burros. "We have not been able to get legislation legisla-tion passed to dispose of excess animals where the population is too high. This is a problem for us in Southwestern Wyoming and parts of Nevada and California. We have done everything we can to push the adoption program" under a plan started in recent re-cent years to get citizens to adopt a wild horse or burro. "But we still have 2,000 in corrals, the prospect for a higher population next spring, and the outlook for Congress Con-gress to approve legislation in election year Jetting BLM dispose; of excess animals is not good," Burford said. "That's a major disappointment for us," he stated. BLM figures show 2,200 animals excess to the range in BLM corrals as of Nov. 1. Poultry as basic meat dish By Helene C. Monberg, Vernal Express Washington Correspondent Washington Poultry is creeping up on meat as the basic protein dish for the American public after years of cultural bias in favor of beef, according accor-ding to figures from the U. S. Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. The amount of poultry consumed by one person, on the average, has increased in-creased by 50 percent in the past 20 years, while the amount of beef and pork consumed per capita on a yearly year-ly basis has not changed much in the past two decades. There are many reasons for the inroads in-roads that poultry is making on the beef and pork market, but the main one is economic: chicken or turkey is usually as cheap or cheaper than beef and pork, and it isn't subject to the cyclical ups and downs that characterize cattle production, in particular. "We know that red meat purchases are price-related," Ronald A. Michieli, of the National Cattlemen's Association, Associa-tion, told this correpondent in a Dec. .27 interview. "They are about 95 percent per-cent price-related during hard economic times, so that shoppers substitute other purchases, mainly chicken," he said. Furthermore, it is much easier for a chicken farmer to get back his in- vestments and costs of production than it is for a cattle grower, Michieli pointed out. "The turn-around time for poultry is about three months, and for pork about six months. For beef it is about three vears. If the market goes down, our fellows have to take an economic bath, because they are locked lock-ed into the three-year cycle," Michieli said. As cattlemen have watched poultry consumption rise at the expense primarily of beef, they have taken several actions. Some farmers and ranchers are getting get-ting out of the cattle business entirely. entire-ly. Jim Martin, the conservation farmer for the state of Indiana, told a group of newsmen early in December many farmers in his part of the state are phasing out cattle entirely or switching swit-ching to poultry production. "It is more efficient," he explained, regarding regar-ding the use of capital, or per dollar spent. The National Cattlemen's Association Associa-tion (NCA) has appointed a commit MORE SNOW, AfNU am ncrwinMAL V CHIMNEY Para ho continues otf Uinf ah Counfy Larry A. Lukens, President of Paraho Development Corporation, announced an-nounced today that Paraho, in cooperation with its private industry participants, will continue to pursue its plans for the proposed commercial Paraho-Ute Project to be located near Vernal in Uintah County, Utah. Additionally, Lukens announced the results of operations for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 1983 which included a decline in working capital of $5,021,413 (compared to $1,828,989 for fiscal 1982) which was primarily attributed to Paraho's ongoing commitment to the Paraho-Ute Project. The Paraho-Ute Project, a proposed synthetic fuels facility to recover oil from shale, is designed to produce initially approximately approx-imately 14,100 barrels of hydrotreated shale oil per operating day and may be expanded to produce approximately approximate-ly 39,000 barrels of shale oil per day. The future success of this project is dependent upon the ability of Paraho and its industry participants to obtain loan and price guarantees from the United States Synthetic Fuels Corporation Cor-poration ("SFC"). tee to monitor closely not only the results of the payment-in-kind program pro-gram for grain offered by the U. S. Department of Agriculture last year and continued to be offered for wheat in 1984 crop year, but also all emergency emergen-cy feeding programs and new legislation legisla-tion which, as Michieli puts it, "subsidizes "sub-sidizes grass." Concerned about a trend toward grazing permits going unused in the West, NCA is planning to battle an expected ex-pected proposal by the Reagan. Administration Ad-ministration to ask for an increase in public grazing fees in the next year or so. "The Office of Management and Budget has been claiming that outlays for the public range total $33 million, while grazing fee receipts total only $16 million a year. That's ridiculous. Half of the range improvement work is for wildlife, not livestock. Livestockmen are paying their way. Congress will never agree to an increase in-crease in the grazing fee," at this time, Michieli maintained. Michieli said NCA had conducted a lot of studies to check on public eating ' habits and found that what he called '"health nuts and dieters" at the most make up only five percent of the population that may not be eating meat at the moment. But for the rest of the population, he insisted, "beef is still king. It is still the preferred item," particularly if economic times are good. But the figures clearly show that poultry is moving rapidly into the national na-tional diet at the expense of beef and pork. Even for 1984, when no increase in per capita consumption of poultry is expected, it is expected to stay constant, con-stant, while the consumption of beef and pork declines slightly. The figures are from the United Department of Agriculture's economic research unit. PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION IN PAST TWO DECADES (1965-1984) OF MEAT AND POULTRY (retail weight in pounds) Year Beef Pork Poultry 1965 73.6 54.7 40.7 1970 84.1 61.9 48.4 1975 87.9 50.6 48.6 1980 76.5 68.3 60.6 1983 78 62 63 1984 76.5 59 63 (projected) FlfE In addition to continuing its efforts to obtain the necessary price and loan guarantees from the SFC, Paraho is working to obtain other revenue-producing revenue-producing contracts. In order to preclude further decreases in working capital and pending Paraho's success in the Paraho-Ute Project and success in obtaining further revenue-producing revenue-producing contracts, Paraho has reduced expenditures by making substantial staff reductions in late 1983, upon the completion of pilot plant work for two foreign clients. To assist in supporting its operations, opera-tions, Mr. Lukens also announced that on Jan. 10, 1984 Paraho borrowed $57,000 from another corporation. Paraho borrowed an additional $85,000 from this corporation on Jan. 12, 1984. These advances are evidence by Paraho's promissory note and secured by certain Paraho fee interests in land located in Utah. Paraho and this corporation cor-poration are currently negotiating a definitive loan agreement with a view toward further funding. Paraho believes that the definitive loan agreement agree-ment will provide for funding during Func rajsjng Continued from page 1 Junior high and high school students may sell tickets to school activities-drama, activities-drama, musical, sports, yearbooks. The policy supports the PTA in raising rais-ing funds for the operation of their organization. The policy, if given final approval, allows principals to approve fund raising rais-ing activities within their own school up to an amount approved by the Board of Education. At Thursday's meeting the board didn't set a limit for fund raising revenue. Plan B which was liked by some of the board members, but because of administrative ad-ministrative problems was not approved, ap-proved, would allow no fund raising in . the schools. Activities outside the basic program would be funded by a combination com-bination of users fees and recreation mill levy assessments. ENROLLMENT Enrollment in the district schools as of Oct. I,"l983 was 2983 in the elemen-taries, elemen-taries, 804 in the middle school, 758 at Vernal Junior High and 875 at Uintah High School. Because the school district projects "There's no room for mistakes when it comes to my taxes. That's why I go to H&.R Block. They really stand behind their work. And they're around all year if I need them. So when it comes to taking care of my taxes, I take them to H&.R Block." People who know H&R Vernal Roosevelt 390 W. Main 171 E. Lagoon 789"3335 Mon.-Sat.9-5 722-3047 Appointments Available but not necessary f "I pursuit project the period from January through June 1984 in the approximate total amount of $980,000. The agreement will provide for the grant to the corporation of a right to acquire a substantial equity position in Paraho, will contain provisions granting gran-ting the corporation a security interest in substantially all of Paraho's assets, and will be subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of Paraho and of appropriate authority of the corporation. cor-poration. Paraho anticipates that the definitive agreement will be executed during February 1984. Additional financial information for the fiscal year ended August 31, 1983 was: Net Income in 1983 was $191,003 for 1982 was $82,238. Earnings per share for 1983 $.08, for 1982 for $.03. Revenues for 1983 $2,264,026 for 1982 $7,808,228. Even though revenues declined 245, net income and earnings per share increased as a result of the Company's Com-pany's decision to capitalize certain direct and other costs employed for the Paraho-Ute Project. activities... large increases in students on the elementary level, between 330 and 360 each year, Superintendent Phil Ellis proposed that two elementary schools should be in the five-year building plan of the district. Also Ellis proposed the building of a middle school should also be considered in the next fiv years. Ellis based enrollment increases on present student populations without any consideration for impact from energy related projects. The middle school population is expected to increase in-crease from 803 to 1083 students by 1990. VEHICLE PURCHASE The School Board gave final approval ap-proval to a vehicle purchase policy which puts the purchase of vehicles for adult education purposes on a rotation basis from local automobile dealers. Dealers who are able to provide student stu-dent drivers education cars, free of charge, will be placed on an accelerated ac-celerated schedule of every fourth purchase. pur-chase. Otherwise the vehicle purchased purchas-ed will rotate between eight local car dealers for every individual vehicle purchase. "I know every bolt and beam Block knows every deduction and credit" their business go to 53 |