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Show 2 Vernal Expte wxWoy, ByJockWallis Important Primary election Uintah County's Primary election this Tuesday is probably more important impor-tant then the General Nov. 4th election. elec-tion. The office of assessor, attorney, auditor, recorder and treasurer will be determined by the Republican party Primary because these offices have no party opponents. Also the office of state representative for District No. 56 with Republican Dan Price and coun-ty coun-ty surveyer Nelson Marshall both have no opponents. A write-in vote in the November election would be the only threat these seven candidates face. A write-in is very unlikely to succeed according to past experience. A write-in candidate must file and pay the required fees to be eligible for political office. No write-in write-in votes are permitted in the Primary Election. Many questions have surfaces this year because of all the interest in the political races. Two of the major concerns con-cerns is how to vote with the new punch card voting system and how have the voting district boundaries been changed. Instead of a regular ballot with squares to X out, voters this year will get a punch card to insert into a vote recorder listing the candidates. Instead In-stead of marking X's the voter will punch holes in the squares next to the candidate of his choice. This election the election districts have been reduced from 24 to 21. The districts are numbered in consecutive order starting on the east side of the county with Jensen and moving west ending with Lapoint. Most boundaries have been changed and because of this the voting district Registration Agent will call every registered voter in his district. In the 1984 Nov. election Uintah County had 12,389 registered voters with 69.4 percent of them voting, 63 percent voted Republican and 17.3 percent Democratic. This year, according accor-ding to registration records there are only about 9,400 registered votes to date. The drastic reduction is paratial-ly paratial-ly due to voters moving away from the county. This year there are six ballot formats, for-mats, three for school districts, one for the westside justice of the peace race one for the westside state represent PUBLIC FORUM LETTERS TO THE EDITOR What is your opinion? The Express welcomes letters from its readers concerning any subject pertinent to the Uintah Basin. There are no restrictions as to contents, if not libelous or vindictive vindic-tive and of reasonable length. Letters must be submitted exclusively to the Express and bear the writer's full name, signature, phone number and address. The name or names of those submitting letters must appear on aH published letters. All letters are subject to condensation. Clyde info Dear Editor: Just to set the record straight for those of you who may think that Robert (Bob) Clyde has returned to Utah, and again become involved in politics. 1. Robert Clyde lives in Connell, Wash. He has not lived in Utah for 8 years. 2. His name is Robert F. Clyde NOT Robert B. Clyde. 3. Mr. Clyde says he did NOT write nor did he sign an endorsement for any political party. CHAD EVANS Vernal Express (USPS 6580-8000) Published every Wednesday and Friday for $18.00 per ytor in shopping area and $28.00 per year out ol shopping area within date and $30.00 per year out of state within USA by the Vernol Express Publishing Company, 54 North Vernal Avenue, Vernal, Utoh 84078, Second class postoge paid ot Vernol, Utah 84078, POSTMASTER: Send oddrest changes to VERNAL VER-NAL EXPRESS, P.O. Bon 1010, Vernol, Utoh 84078, Jack R, Wallii .Publisher Steven R. Wollii Editor Aldon Rochele Spam Editor Merle Young feature Editor Janet 0. Wallii , . .Advertising Sue Ann Robinson , Advertising Nell Curr . , , . Circulation and Classified Adt Nancy Colton .Accounting Phone 789 3511 Member of Utah Presi Association ond National Newspaper Association Areo torreipondenfi: Jensen .Veto Snew, W 0628 Manila .Clara Robmson, 784 3463 Nnplei ........ Ada Opemha, 789 3 1 45 Tridell lorno McKe, 247-2350 lopoinl , .Ardo Mansfield, 247-2375 Moesef Enid HaHh, 789 3150 Whiierotli . . .Virgmia fe'guson, 353 4JB4 Deadline! Wednesday f di'iofl N.i Monday i 00 pm. Advertising Tuesday 11 GO 0 m. Friday f d''on Newi. . ........... .TMsday 10 00 8 . Advertising .Tiuvidoy l &C p August n, 1986 tative district No. 55 race and the standard stan-dard ballot with only the state school board member race. In the nonpartisan non-partisan races the two candidates getting get-ting the most votes will face each other in the November election. This means that the candidates running for schoolboard members will be reduced to only two candidates for each district for the general election. Another voter question pointed out by county officials is that a voter must reside in the district he is voting for. He can vote for only one local school board member. The election Tuesday is probably the most exciting Primary most Uintah County voters have ever experienced. Because of its impact it is very important impor-tant that every registered voter votes. Another change this year is that the Primary election is being held in August instead of the traditional September, about three weeks earlier. We hope every voter will take some time and study the issues, look over the campaign material and then contact con-tact the candidates that you may have a question concerning. Ask them how they stand and why they want to be elected. Check over the candidates response to the questionnaire published publish-ed in this week's issue of the Express. Thursday is the last day for voter registration. Those who will not be in the county on election day may vote an absentee ballot until August 18 at the clerk's office. We would like to see 100 percent of the registered voters exercise their franchise to vote in the Tuesday Primary election. This would be an all-time all-time record that would go into the history book as one great election. To have 100 percent voter turn-out will take the cooperation of everyone. During the 13 hour period August 19 every voter in Uintah County should take time off to make that special trip to the polls. With 100 percent voter turnout we could get state and national recognition recogni-tion as probably the most dedicated political voting county in the nation. Whynot try it, it's a worthy goal to reach. See you at the polls Tuesday. LPN problem Dear Editor: Now that House Bill 180 is law in Utah and a definite part of the Nurse Practice Act (which law in essence states graduates of accreditedapproved accreditedap-proved one year LPN programs and two year and four year RN programs may not be denied application for licensure by the State Board of Nursing Nurs-ing in the State of Utah) we need to ask a very hard question: Why are our major hospital corporations corpora-tions in Utah such as Intcrmountain Health Care and Hospital Corporation of America discriminating against the hiring of our LPN graduates from accreditedapproved ac-creditedapproved programs in Utah who are also licensed to practice by our State Board of Nursing through the State's Department of Business Regulation? These large hospitals in the state want to go to an all Registered Nurse nursing staff. They say this Is because patients ore more acutely 111 and need the higher educated nurse; yet studies elsewhere (Mount Sinai Hospital in the Los Angeles area is one) have shown the Licensed Practical Nurse or Licensed Vocational Nurse has proven very costffective on general Medical-Surgical Medical-Surgical Nursing floors, in maternity ond pediatric areas, emergency room, surgery areas, orthopedic areas, psychiatric nursing areas and In many other areas of nursing In industry and the commitics where just not enough working Registered Nurses of us are to be found. Some of the RN't on the nursing floors of our bigger hospitals are "burning "bur-ning out" I understand, because of new shortages of working RN's cropping up and current hospital policies w hich shut out the hiring of the LPN'i helping help-ing hands. VVj certify U'N'i after graduation to help RN'i and Charge Nurses by starling I .V.'l on their own patients and most LPN'i readily learn to be effective when given epen opportunities. The experienced t jcensed Practical Nurse is truly valuable. We, the health care consuming public, pay the health care consuming bills and hopefully the insurance company's com-pany's stamp "Paid in full" will continue con-tinue fo function for all of us as our fields arise. Give our LPN's a chance, huh? CAROL D. JEPPMiN, RN. MA Director, LPN lroram Uintah Rasin Area Vocational ntcf Japanese plan Uintah Basin magazine tour In an ongoing effort to promote tourism, Japanese media personnel will be in the Uintah Basin Aug. 22, the hosts of local and state organizations. organiza-tions. A crew of three from "Vacation Magazine" "are being brought to the area by Don Hatch River Expeditions, Expedi-tions, the Uintah Basin Economic Development District and the Dinosaurland Travel Region in association with the Utah State Office Of-fice of International Development and the United States Travel and Tourism Administration. "Vacation Magazine" prints articles ar-ticles and color photographs about travel destinations around the world. While in Vernal, the magazine crew will take a two-day river trip through Dinosaur National Monument Monu-ment and a flight over Flaming Gorge and the Uinta Mountains. Feature stories of the Uintah Basin attractions are planned to appear in the November edition of the magazine. The group also plans to host a crew from "Winds" magazine Aug. 29. "Winds" is the in-flight magazine of Japan Airlines. Plans to bring "Winds" to the Uintah Basin will be finalized by Aug. 12. Following a ground tour of Dinosaur Monument and Quarry and the air tour of the Uinta Mountains, Aug. 24, the crew will depart for Lake Powell. j m flk ' " f . " 4i J K Jf j ' j lit IL ' ' AK, sSTr.u 1! " V . . i J I it ' tt ? , ' i K J ' 1 f v -' k V ' I h ) ' f ; j i . V L fx . y vvfxi ; cV Z .1,7V r.V m r . - v - - UINTAH HIGH School architect Fire Marshall's office examine during fire inspection. School board meeting... Continued from page 1 day to give the reason for the absence. Illness and unavoidable emergency, according to Utah State law, are the only acceptable excuses for absence from public school. Students should not be excused for any other reasons. The policy will be taken under advisement ad-visement by the board and those present pre-sent were promised that a decision would be reached on the policy before school started so it could be implemented im-plemented this year. Dirk Harris reported on the com-pletition com-pletition of the new high school and said thut the football field would be ready for the first game. He did report that the grass was not seeding down as it should, but the field had been aireated, fertilized and leveled In low areas, "with some luck and help we can hold the game on the 2!ith at the new field", concluded Harris. Other areas, except for the playgrounds which may not bo com-pli'ted. com-pli'ted. are or will be 99 9 percent complete com-plete with only minor painting and adjusting ad-justing to do after school begins, according ac-cording to Harris. All other summer projects ore complete, com-plete, said Harris, or will be for the beginning" of school. The Junior High remodeling will be completed as w ill playground improvements at Central and Ashley Elementaries. John Christians of the teachers association said that the teachers were willing to accept the proposal discussed discuss-ed by the board end the teachers association at on earlier meeting. The board will read the proposal and if they approve of the minor changes incorporated in-corporated will approve. Negotations tieUreri the teachers and the board will then be Completed. A fee schedule for the lrw R? schonl year as approved with a second reading Ted Taylor reported that with the end of double sessions, the bus drivers would have time to drive school bues for athletic trips. For the pat! several years Wtlkins buses have hern rented for the athletic trips Prii e comparisons showed that school buses could be used more economic ally than U I CUT DOWN TWO POWEP. POLES FOP. UPS, L BECAUSE THErWERE THERE.' UNi SAW DU ST ON TEETH SAWED UP HIS GRANDMOTHERS ANTIQUE ROCKING CHAIR. WHILE SHE WAS , STILL IN IT. and Mark Atkinson, Utah State fire extinguisher at new school Wilkins buses, but that the school buses were not as comfortable. Also insurance coverage would have to be adjusted if school buses were used. Other items discussed at the meeting included building rental fees, the district drug use and prevention policy, extra-curricular pay recommendations recom-mendations and vacancies. Excused from the meeting were board members Tom Howells and Garth Atwood. The next meeting will be Thursday, Aug. 14 at 6:30 at the school board office. Soward gets national honor Senator Glade Sowards, Republican of Utah, was awarded the Utah Knergy Man of the Year Award at the National Conference of State legislators Energy Committee at the Marriott Hotel In New Orleans, La.,' recently. Sowards was in attendance at the NCSL Energy Committee which he chaired or two years to make a presentation of a resolution concerning concern-ing Indian jurisdiction. The resolution concerned, among other things relating to taxation, the taxation of oil, minerals and other energy related commodities which. are produced on Indian reservations and are important to the economy of states in which they ate situated. Sowards received broad-biised broad-biised support for his resolution and it Was referred to staff for drafting. The resolution w ill be presented at the next NCSL Energy Committee meeting to I held in Washington. D C. The Senator was cited for having helped to write the present energy law in Utah which created the Citizens Council on Energy, Energy Conservation Conserva-tion and Development. He has served on this committee for nine years and has been its chairman for four years. He has also chaired the Energy and Natural Resources Appropriation Commit I ere, the Transportation and Public Safety Appropriations Committee Commit-tee and is presently chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. THE GREAT ASHLEY NATIONAL FOREST WOOD LOADED SUCH A MIGHTY LOAD OF WOOD ON HI5 PICKUP THAT IT BLEW THINKS THAT THE PINE BEETLE KILL ON THE MOUNTAIN IS THE THE VOICE OF BUSINESS Beware of bearing family By Richard L. Lesher President Chamber of Commerce of the United States "I fear the Greek's, " Virgil wrote in his famous account of the Trojan horse, "even when they are bearing gifts." Like Virgil, I am a suspicious sort. I fear the liberals even when they claim to champion family values. A case in point is a proposed law put forward by congressional liberals to require every business with five or more employees to provide 18 weeks of job-protected parental leave to both male and female workers, t Like that horse outside the gates of Troy, this bill looks harmless enough on the surface. Indeed, 90 percent of all businesses grant maternity leave to women, and 40 percent also extend it to men. So what's wrong with a federal law extending the same rights to everyone? Well, lots of things. To begin with, you can assume the liberals behind this bill have a lot more on their minds besides unpaid maternity leave. The bill would set up a commission to study ways to require PAID leave in the future. It would also require companies com-panies to grant 26 weeks of disability leave within any one-year period, and a guarantee re-employment in the same or similar jos upon an Two car wreck Saturday A Saturday afternoon accident at 500 West 100 North damaged two vehicles and sent a passenger to the hospital. Vernon Christensen, 78, of New Mexico was traveling west on 100 North. A vehicle driven by Lila Johnson, 37, Vernal was traveling north. The Christensen vehicle, a 1977 station wagon was hit on the Senator Sowards chaired the NCSL Energy Committee for two years and has Just been renamed to the National Citizens Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Energy-Energy Extension Service by Department of Energy Secretary Herrington. This award recognizes the regional and national leadership Senator SLNATOR GLADE SOWARDS (center) stands with Representative Represen-tative Irving J. Stohlberg of Connecticut and president elect of NCSS and Representative Paul Coverdale of Georgia shortly after being named Energy Man of the Year. ALL FOUR TIRES, GREATEST THING- THAT EVER. HAPPENED, liberals employee's return. And it would set up a new federal bureaucracy that you can assume would immediately engulf business in a tidal wave of new rules and regulations governing employee-employer employee-employer relations. The liberals point out correctly that most European countries guarantee paid parental leave, and a host of other benefits, that make it easier for wo-ment wo-ment to juggle work and family responsibilities. What they decline to add is that this expansion of state-guaranteed state-guaranteed benefits has virtually killed kill-ed the job market in Europe at a time when the United States has been creating new jobs by the millions. There is a decline correlation between bet-ween mandated work benefits and economic growth. The businesses in this country that do not provide parent leave are, almost without exception, ex-ception, those that cannot afford to. To impose such a requirement upon them .would sound a death knell for thousands of marginal firms, mostly small, that are struggling to survive. Millions of jobs would disappear overnight. I wish that for just once the liberals in Congress could come up with a sensible sen-sible solution to a problem that did not contain a concealed weapon pointed at the heart of the free enterprise system. But they haven't done it yet, and I am beginning to wonder if it is by accident or design. driver's side after he pulled in front of the north bound vehicle. A female passenger in the Johnson vehicle was transported to Ashley Valley Medical Center where she was treated a released. Christensen was cited with failure to yield right-of-way. The accident was Investigated by Vernal City rolice: Sowards has given to energy Issues over the past twelve years. According to Sigruid Higden of the Department of Energy, Sowards' extensive ex-tensive experience and knowledge In the areas of energy conservation and energy development are well recognised recognis-ed throughout the Rocky Mountain states. |