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Show Deadlines: News: Thursday 10:00 A.M. Advertising: Thursday 2:00 P.M. Phone 789-3511 ' Single copy 25 Friday, May 31, 1985 Vernal, Utah 84078 93rd Year No. 44 12 Pages GfloycUy skies slhadlow gcads With thunder storms looming dent, will welcome those attending, overhead, 226 Uintah High School and Richard Augustus will speak. A seniors are preparing for an outdoor group of seniors will sing "Look graduation ceremony at the school's Beyond Tomorrow." Other student football field. speakers will be Nathan Hatch, Clad in shorts and wrapped in Wayne Rust, and Kim Drollinger. blankets, because of the sudden frigid Principal Thomas Wm. Caldwell weather, the seniors practiced the will present the senior class, and graduation ceremony Thursday. Fri- School Board members, Verlin Vin- day at 10 a.m. was the dress rehear- cent and Garth Atwood will present sal, and the weather was looking diplomas. Steve Lent will give the worse. benediction. Kathy Hawkins, teacher advisor The graduating class is the second for the graduation ceremony said, that largest class to graduate from the before the dress rehearsal, the pro- Uintah High School. With one more gram was still being planned for out- student it would be the largest. In the side, but would be moved to the UHS class are three state 1985 Sterling gymnasium, if it rains. Scholar winners: Paul Kay, social Graduation will beein at 7:30 n m. studies; Dennis Vincent, speech and with the potential graduate processional proces-sional crossing 200 North from the school to the football field. Jill Wilson will give the invocation, and Gary Gray will lead with the Pledge of Allegiance. Dennis Vincent, senior class presi- drama, and Daine" Chamberlain, general category. Honor students' are Richard Augustus, Troy Caldwell, Paul Kay,Joe LeBeau, Wayne Rust, Teri Allred, Diane Chamberlain, Maralee Palmer, Kimberly Wall, and Jill Wilson. f v.-r ;.; -.It H I - - - ' x " w 4' -.. ' " ' ' . " J 4 f CLAD IN summer shorts, but bundled in blankets to keep warm, Uintah High School seniors practice for graduation ceremonies to be held outside, if it does not rain. 226 seniors will be graduating this year the second largest class ever. Vernal precincts combined under new voting method The Six Vernal Citv voting Prwinrt M Vprnnl Clitv Nor. nf fhp Vntnmntif vnHncr svsfpm thev will Vw fpH into a nnnph card Vprnal Pitv nlnnp Write-in Votes Can The six Vernal Citv votins precincts have been changed to three because of a more efficient voting method to be implemented by Uintah County for the first time this November. , The precincts affected by the change, approved by Uintah County Commissioners Monday, will be 23, , 25, 21, 4, 20 and 3 which encompass all precincts in Vernal City north of 500 South. Precinct 23, Vernal City Nor thwest, will be combined with precinct 25 Vernal City West to form precinct 23. Precinct 21 Vernal City North Central will join with precinct 4, Vernal City northeast; and present 20 Vernal City South Central will join with precinct 3 Vernal City ' Southeast. The reason for the consolidation of the precincts is the county purchase of the Votomatic voting system which uses a punch card system for voting and tallying the votes. The punch card system will allow larger precincts, and fewer election judges for each precinct because the ballots will not be counted at each precinct. - Rather, the punch cards used far voting will be put in a box and taken to the County Clerk's office where they will be fed into a punch card reader. The entire process of counting all the votes will take about an hour and a half , county officials said. Total cost of the system was $30,573 which is paid annually over several years. With the reduction in precincts and election judges, $450 will be saved in Vernal City alone. "There will need to be some education educa-tion to familiarize voters with the new method," said Dorothy Luck, Uintah County Clerk about the new voting system. Instead of a pencil, voters will use a metal stylus for punching small holes in a computer punch card which will be submitted as the ballot. Write-in votes can be cast on a jacket that fits around the punch card. Nationally the card election system has gained in popularity. In 1966 fewer than 1 percent of the voters in the U.S. cast ballots using the method. In 1980, 28 percent of the electorate used the system. The system also speeds recounts Continued on page 2 c 5 -' -j jl: ",i HiMmmm.--. mm. iiipwuljw. p-jil l..- ..m-..mT,.., p i p p m i ! i i 'Tii . T mSMM&Aijmam DATSUN 4X4 comes 13 skidding oo on its side dfScr throwing t-rc from M bed. S were in-voWed in-voWed in th ctidet. however, injuries wt$ C-n'y rfiinof-bfuiscs nd Cuts. Injufici were treated ad released from AsNeyVa" Wcd-cal Cn?ef, Pickup skids on its side in accident involving six Six area teens escaped serious injuries in-juries in one vehicle accident south of Naples City on the new Bonanza Road at approximately 11:13 a.m., Wednesday. The driver, Joseph W. Newell, 18, of Vernal, was northbound on the Bonama Road when the accident occurred. oc-curred. The 1330 DaUun pickup he was driving left the road, came back on to the road, tipped over on its side and skidded several fret down the road. There were a total of five passengers in the truck Including one tn the cab and four la the pickup bed. I'BiienReri Included Rod llilkey, Scott Itohn, Kenny Mclhrr son, Kicky D. Porter and Nicholas Snyder, ail 1? year old. Thrrfi of the four pa&ste,ri In the pickup trd weft Cjetled from the vehicle during the ectUlenl, All five pan.MT.Errt ami the driver cr transtxirtrd to Ashley Valley Medical Ccntrr by ambulances, The Irrns texre trraied for bruiiie and ul.irasiorA and lalef ftlrawd from the hfnpiul. The ectiilrrl s ratroiman Tim TwiUSiJ. fill frt. l t-Ar.fnfd Mid thai the Vehicle a lrvr!;r.g at ariffia?c1y 34 fnri hen He ecti'5rTi otrttfred aftd lh trtt ratf (if ?--rd tnajf have ttfl" tri!nii to lfw fflaineJy thinof in-jurip. Naples goes after $1.7 million grant The Naples City Council has applied ap-plied for over $1.7 million in grant money from the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program for major improvements in the city. Council members have requested funding for several different projects including a request for additional funds for road repairs. Last year the city was awarded a grantloan from CDBG for road repairs. Actual work on the first phase of the road repair project will not begin until June 13. Because the grantloan was awarded in the late fall 1364, the contractor was not able to begin the project immediately. Slaker t'aving was the low bidder on the project which ts exited to take is days to complete. Roads slated for it pair Include In-clude 2500 Soulh, 500 East and I'M Smith, Council members requested $.w. to construct a city office Complrx, llgi.WO fgf a publiC Works slnraee area, fjao.&o for lm-prevernrfiti lm-prevernrfiti and expansion of the city park, and $-uo for a storm drainage plan. They Have also fr-!rd fundir.g for trtmlfwrim of I eef tine to hth Cwiniry luim. The rawest for fmling of A lewrr line U CtM lififimt on the flcceplancf tsf the fesiilrnt, m the iutxlivis?rta. A put)iitf Jiraring ti fa'.hrr Input on the iwed t"C 1 "ef !)t!rm has ln Set for 3um 19 ifl the Napta City offk. All mitktsta are enceurge4 td atteftd the public hearing. The tj tmifxii. Craig ttfutit, Cily thafiagpfi in4 UtwtrtKt Kay, mayor; will go before the Impact Board June 20 in Sail Lake City to review their funding requests for projects. pro-jects. The city has asked that the entire en-tire funding be awarded in grants. City council members rejected a bid Wednesday evening for the installation in-stallation of sprinkler system in the city park. The bid which came in at $57,000 was well over the original estimate to install the system. Officials Of-ficials have voted to rcbid the project. pro-ject. Naples City has voted to follow suit with Vernal City and Uintah County and join the Uintah Basin Association of Governments tl'BAGh Naples officials will join UBAG on a tlx month trial basis. At the end of the six months the council will review their involvement with the association associa-tion and determine if membership should be continued, !kh Vernal City Ci-ty and the couniy agreed to rejoin the association earlier in the manth. The county has agreed la join UBAG on a one year trial kai, City council members have approved ap-proved a Class C beer license and B regular btiws licrfts to Roh DrCol and Chuck Il ftf Vernal Kill already eM and fperatei two bassinee In .Vernal and DeCol tns the building wher the Vernal Mife Company and Miners of the Sea are bmid. The pair plaft to build 9 $:nr and dinning tlub fof Naple ftrei resident, The mtattfant mM be fot$'e4 in IN former CFty tort a) builJiPg. Th-y plaft to twiid m frciaurafit 14 N'ap! rT?it!rr;a iil (f""i ?" 2 Insido f Wardrobe update t in' it flf . V End ol year . . activities , ' fa nrtt f Bmmf. f( It. k t , . J 1 U Big Improvement ! I. |