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Show i Vernal O r . '"ml1 ""J BARRELS OF TOXIC waste are spilled along SR 191 as two-ton truck rolled over Saturday injuring the driver. The highway was Go-iMveir The lost co-driver in an accident that spilled hazardous material along S.R. 191 was located in Rock Springs, Wyo. Saturday afternoon. The accident occurred 14 miles north of Vernal, when a two-ton truck, carrying 20 barrels of chemicals chemi-cals rolled at 1:40 a.m. The driver of the truck claimed the truck lost its brakes. The speed of the southbound south-bound truck was estimated at 66 mph. Trooper Keith Squires, Utah Highway Patrol, who was at the scene said Sycd Salccm Hyder, 32, of Chicago was transported to Ashley Valley Medical Center to be treated for scrapes and bruises. Hydcr claimed that his brother, Syed Abid Hyder, 26, who was a co-driver, was in the wreckage or had jumped from the truck before it Teachers on Board Attorney general A recent Utah Attorney General's opinion state thai a school teacher may lawfully run for a local school board, "bui if elected, he could not, under law a Utah Court would likely like-ly follow, hold both positions at once." The decision by the Utah Attorney General has baring on the District 3 Uintah School Board race by Michelle Klnscy V.,,1 V.iM had t-crn lie (,i.:--C f rr.iu h 'itty J.t J,k ai tr:.n!.-:s !ui f.-ar t'.fif I'., tin- will I'c n Vz !) i f lc K't. !; -W nrt.t tli -u-'. gut i Cftf fl.C mruluMU no UC f u,c.l in hm.H- ,!r-.;-.ie .iT n-"- men' aid ortw-n' tl'i!"n U',TC r-..n 4;:tNof.l !e bi..l,i.rf: cf 3 Wi .v in Ui t,'n. At 8 u-m.n t-t.r.v-TrJ ty 1'ml.Jl C -itV 'r,v-iC lrvrl ;-tmt fl-J t' Nrr-.Al Arrn x'.'-t C'f -rr-f,C lVrl-;1'-. St 7,1 v i-rrirs I r l-rr , f "TV 5 i"f t1-5- " t ' 1 lv. - v 1 r.' nn i t t 3 ' - $ CR UT P REf.t UT " 0 UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 467 E 300 S SLC UT 84111 V J loactted rolled over. Trooper Squires said he and Deputy Jerry Cook, Uintah County Sheriff's Department, walked through the wreckage and found no one. The barrels were not clearly marked, but their contents were determined de-termined to be hazardous because the vapor burned officers' eyes. Trooper Tim Trujillo, UUP, and members of the Vernal CityUintah County Fire Department searched the wreckage equipped with a breathing apparatus, but did not find the co-driver. Twelve police officers and 13 Uintah County Search and Rescue members searched three hours for the brother. At 2 p.m. Saturday Trooper Squires spoke with Hydcr at the hospital to verify his story. I Ic where a teacher has filed for a school board position. Uintah Teachers' Association past president Glen Mccham and elementary el-ementary school tocher in Lipoint said lie knew there would he a ques-lion ques-lion of whether he could run. Two months or-o the Utah Attorney General's ctficc said there v, as no pn t !cm, but a more indepih l!-.r.-.:s were the Only i..i lypcS i l ytwes Inu-J as hot suffering aJvef 54 clients (run W,4 M.i?L i..,.!-e (-f l!r :.'tc" l' Jiiif-, l.i"C 'fv. h i t.--i mcf ,r; I p'p.'..:.i)r u - -. . m f:.m ciy ra w..v. I. "l.nl s I i..I I : f a ;--f !.-. nt :tc n ' I ' f I Al r ! V tc M 1 " V V;'" 1 e h f r . n .n a I Ivf c ;t, I'.r r . - l r t ..- j t y I f t ,il f '. i i' ' f tv i i 1 t irr, t u t "Jr.Vr.Vnt tr ? ' 'J Ir.f - (;; i - .f r i t '.J i ivf lln ',(' I p ' f 1 " Cpf- J T- - -C f " i - I it a" .- ,!t. - t a- r r r i t -n I'-f r v i" i e : f ocm? - - .-' ' closed for four hours while crews cleaned up the mess. The co-driver co-driver was found 1 2 hours later. affile? toxic sol assured Trooper Squires that his brother was in the vehicle. About 45 minutes after the interview in the hospital Hyder contacted Trooper Squires and informed him that his brother had called from Rock Springs, Wyo. His brother's story was that he jumped from truck before the accident, acci-dent, was picked up by three people who robbed him and left him in Rock Springs. Trooper Squires said the co-driver was unable to verify his story and there was no indication in the log book or wreckage that there was a co-drivcr. The co-driver was also unable to describe the landmarks along the highway from Rock Springs to the accident site. The brother also had no in juries. sees conflic report has brought up some doubt," Mccham said. There is no Utah statutory or case law preventing a teacher from holding hold-ing a position on the board of education, edu-cation, suites Ralph L. Finlayson, avsisJ.inl Attorney General. In Fwbyson's opinion, if a teacher's teach-er's seal on i local school board 3i challenged, "he could not, un L V TAtlCU r: 5 lo st? r v'". a: A t:-v I'm aS.f !; 1 C. ' '1.1 1 i " ' " 1 :'- (- I- ' !. O.' I M ! (V t.M M t - Si I ,-s y t ! WEDNESDAY, August 1, 1990 Vernal, Utah 84078 98th Year No. 31 22 Pages Single Copy 500 ' Jitr iiii J ' 4 The company the brothers were driving for, Roberts Express of Akron, Ohio, has a policy that there must be a co-driver accompanying a driver. Both brothers were charged with filing a false police report, the driver driv-er was cited with wrecklcss driving and a log book violaJcr.; The brothers broth-ers were booked into the Uintah County Jail. The driver pleaded guilty to traveling too fast for conditions. condi-tions. Monday the brothers were out on bail. Cleanup of the hazardous materials materi-als look about 6 hours and was done by West Hazmat of Roosevelt. Stale Highway 191 was closed to traffic for four hours and restricted to oneway one-way traffic for two hours during the cleanup. The barrels contained a de-watering de-watering agent. der law that a Utah Court would likely follow, hold both positions ai once." The assistant attorney general cites the ci.c of Haskins v. Slate of Wyoming and Visotcky v. City Council of the City of Garfield, N.J. as possible supporting cases. The Wyoming case stipulated Continued on paga 2 i r, 4 t Inside Basin business volume up.-... ..... ...........3 School schedule announced ............................9 Bodily wins at raquetball.. ............................ 15 HS sports schedule . 18 w off Following a short executive session, ses-sion, the Uintah School Board approved ap-proved salary increases to which both teachers and classified personnel person-nel have given initial approval. The classified personnel negotiating negotiat-ing team came up with a request for a 4 percent increase on the base of classified employee salary, funding on the increment and five cent increase in-crease for elementary secretaries and a ten cent increase for high school employees per hour. Other concerns were for bus drivers to be considered full time employees at four hours as other districts are and half hour increments. The team also proposed that they grandfather insurance in-surance for one year. If an employee is not working at a Full Time Equivalence (FTE) they will pay a percentage of the insurance for the time they do not work. After the board discussed the classified clas-sified proposal in public and in an executive session, board member Lyle Taylor moved to accept the and Board Vice President Kay Campbell seconded the motion. The vote was unanimous to accept the proposal. The team for the classified employees em-ployees said they will present the proposal to the mass and give a positive pos-itive recommendation to ratify the proposal and get contracts underway. under-way. The team for the teachers requested request-ed a new base of SI 7,000 and a new longevity increase of S 34 ,000. This proposal will bring Uintah County School District teachers up to this coming year's stale average. Suggested cuts in the budget were from the contingency and reserve fund, possibly cut programs and services ser-vices and if necessary raise the teacher-student raiio to 291. President Blayne Morrill wondered won-dered why they were willing to increase in-crease the teacher-student ratio where before people didn't want it. It was explained that if the parents really want class sb.es down then they'll need to make a choice and vote for the mill levy. "It will be the most effective," said one teacher. The teachers would be willing to do (his to get die parents stimulated to vote for the mill levy in November to lower class sizes. Campbell explained a negative response re-sponse may result from telling the public that the teachers would rather have higher salaries than smaller classes and the public will not vote for the mill levy. Morrill asked what the highest raise would be for ihc teachers. Curtis May, a math teacher at li'dDD1 WcSlt K M N Top Goes On aCces UHS and member of the teacher negotiating ne-gotiating team, said that it will be around $6,000 because of the new longevity. Morrill was also concerned about hiring new teachers and whether, they would use the money to get new and brighter teachers to come to Vernal or not. Teachers explained that by increasing in-creasing teachers' salaries on the base, teachers who are here will want to stay here. The salary could be used as an incentive to get and keep new teachers. "We want to hold teachers and keep them here for stable and better programs," said May. After further discussion in executive execu-tive session Gwain Snow moved to accept the proposal but eliminate suggestion three, dealing with teacher-student ratio. Taylor seconded second-ed the motion. On a 3 to 2 decision the board accepted the proposal. The teachers will also give a positive posi-tive recommendation to the Uintah Teachers Association to accept the proposal and start on contracts. Uintah Education Association member Wade Olsen, said all the teachers he had spoken to were "real "re-al happy" with the new contract proposal from the board. "I was pleased to sec the board leave the salary schedule intact and add a longevity step," Olsen said. "It was an honorable gesture as far as teachers' contracts are concerned," con-cerned," Olsen said. Negotiations with board broke down last month after teachers and classified personnel rejected a salary offer from the board. The board later pulled its offer after conferring con-ferring with their attorney. 'Teachers and classified employees employ-ees were given a very good package," pack-age," said Superintendent Grant Drollingcr. "We will have to work with the budget to come up with the $100,000 over the last proposal which teachers rejected," Drollingcr said. The extra funds could come from the budget's $200,000 reserve, a decrease de-crease of S3 per student given to principal of each school, hmii cus tsxJial services and pc5ssibilify iha elimination of programs, such as Outcome Bawd Education, said Richard Tolley, district business manager. "The cuts will be made where the board decides," Tolley said. The leat hers met Tuesday at 630 p.m. and ratified the contract offer. ..4 l ' ' "" ... 1 |