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Show kkCR ut presort -o UTAH PRESS ASSOCIATION 467 E 300 S SLC, UT 4111 WEDNESDAY, September 19, 1990 Vernal, Utah 84078 98th Year No. 38 24 Pages Single Copy 500 rnal Inside Ouray refuge announces changes ... .3 Possible tax shift- . ..................... 12 Utes lead in golf 20 New tennis frontiers ..... 22 E A I I I 1 Daggett attorney charged lire onto Uintah County is no longer interested inter-ested in selling the Uintah Care Center, but wants to lease the facility facili-ty or find a professional management manage-ment firm to operate it Commissioners said the proposal to sell the Care Center after an employee was charged with embezzlement embez-zlement was only a rumor. The Uintah Care Center Advisory Board recommended last month that the commissioners sell the Care Center to a qualified buyer, but commissioners said they did not act on the recommendation. "I had a company call me today about the sell, and I have not returned the call," said Commissioner Nyle Bigelow. Commissioner Jim Reidhead said that the accounting corrections recommended rec-ommended by the auditor have been put into place. A full financial audit of the Care Canter shows about $70,000 is unaccounted for. A criminal crim-inal case is currently charging an Recycling r one Vernal City will likely be the first city in Utah to offer curb-side recycling. recy-cling. The service is being offered for two weeks beginning in October, to determine if a recycling program in Vcmal is worth while. The program is being headed by the Vernal Chamber of Commerce Conservation Committee, Econo Waste and Vcma! City. Mayor Leonard Hccney, Vernal City, is showing support of the pilot project by signing a proclamation making October "Recycling Month." The Chamber Committee has been working on the project for the past four months, Each member has studied a different materia! common in garbage to determine if recycling is feasible. The committee members have come up with a three pronged approach: education, convince and economic reality. During the first two weeks in Octnlx-r, Vernal City residents will he asked w separate glass, aluminum alu-minum and paper into separate con-uincrs con-uincrs fur pickup the day after the regular garbage pickup. r county residents and business, deposit sites sulfcd by volunteers will be at the Ashley Valley Medical Center, Central School and Naples lite Department fading lots. The d.T oil' points will accept cardlxiard and X Vernal to t ! l - j if if"-, r '.vi employee of the Care Center with the embezzlement Reidhead said that past audits did not uncover the problem because they are only audits of programs. "A full financial audit includes all transactions," Reidhead said. Because of the incompatibility between the county's accounting system and the Care Centers, it has been difficult for the county to monitor the Care Center's books." Reidhead said. Things like Medicare are not picked up on the county accounting system, he said. Commissioner Bigelow said the company contacted about managing the Care Center said thy were in favor fa-vor of adding a Day Care Center to the facility. It would be a place where people could be dropped off for the day and picked up in the evening saving the expense of 24-hour care, Bigelow said. ry b mon office paper. According to Jim Gardner, member mem-ber of the Conservation Committee, 50 to 60 percent of the material in the local landfill can be recycled. Sally Wackowski, committee member, said that by recycling energy ener-gy consumption is reduced, air quality qual-ity is not as impaired, and exhaustible resources arc conserved. "With the energy it takes to produce pro-duce one aluminum pop can, 20 can be recycled," she said. "Pollution can be reduced 95 percent." Currently landfills across the country arc in violation of EPA standards, and state imposed standards. stan-dards. "Vernal's landfill in also in violation," Gardner said. Many communities arc starting a recycling program because they have a landfill land-fill problem. "Why wait until there is a problem." Some states have mandatory recycling laws. If the two-week recycling pro-gran pro-gran receives community support, it will be continued. Volunteers will have to operate il until a contract can be negotiated. A possible scenario sce-nario could be an additional charge for more than two garbage cans picked up and no trurpc ht additional addi-tional gailyge cans paled up filled with recyclable materials, This would penalize tho'.e who rmW4 the Imdftil. i, 9 1 I - I f w CONTROLLED BURN on Little Mountain Tuesday last week was used by the DIM to Controlled burns The Bureau of Land Management conducted three separate controlled burns during the- week of Sept 10 W create better habitat. They were located on Utile Mountain and two en Diamond Mountain. The Utile Mountain burn encanv pavrxd ftn,roima!c,y -fc ,li eliminate .i,:r! ru -h SO that Other gt jisc tan grow. Ihe two on Diamond Mi-unum, at Poonc Spring and til KVIlrf ! i " ' t r ampro create better out the same ve Iia Draw, eliminated pinort junipers. The junipers prevent a clear water shed fur gracing grasses. The ELM w ill replant with shrubs and grasses for wildlife and Jivestixk. The total acreage fir the Diamond Mountain, burns was 250. Ray Tate csf the ELM reputed that all three were completed and ml within a few hours. BLM per- Furs' I item for commHSSion: Iiow to select coiancll tc of i!-e f.f t items f birdnctf f.t t!-.e new t.UnUft ttumiy C4W.mm.kMI in January Will H A (-t. ft "in he t'miah (Vmmiinity CiHirki! whuh the pt? tcr.l t"i mi y-it ta--led T;i"d.v Hn:m (nijTinattf of ht Community Cs ! pfC-Cnlfd If) V r t.cr.mivj:"! 3 pn-;v,.j ih,j Vol- tr tV.:u w $cKt r fled i fepC' .-r ; fnsft tie tfx md W be rfl t" f ( d. it t f r' ('"'is- i"1 -J i . 1 i r r -1 f n tv - - i ) i .- 1 . . T t r-,t 1,5 I s t t p. ::-t 'v m-! ? f'-ftv 4f :..i.nf Canvass makes no change -' I. it.'.j 'tuh ; ti'M'f tv ---.-;? t !j J vo-a hf -irU- .f habitat for wildlife. The fire was day except for a lew hot spots. bitiat sonncl monitored them until all hot spots were out. The BLM expects to have a couple cou-ple more controlled bums during the week of Sept. 17 in the Bookcliffs area if all prescription criteria arc met. The criteria includes in-cludes wind conditions, day and night time humidity and barometric pressure. Ta iivreasc panic ipatinn, mem-K-rs t f the Community Council V. .!iK- -.!ay last week &dtpicd a re-vlviort re-vlviort W iss by laws that requires the Ka tca of rrpfcscfiiaiivcs dur in the Ma-.s Meetings. Cmmi-viionef Jim Reidhead, Mid C it h? at titx'crtairi if Xuih ftttion leg id in a M,ja Meeting. CV;rr.:y mmy Alvin Kavh said he -iniJ irivf hi i .'.ifi. Cfinmr-iitn Nle DigcltT an be IcH nncrtr:ii'ft,iMc with the Cfmmuniiy tWmit fcprecrMiri i; 'f ?x the i'n vf the Mknt 't qiifMufl that td people from Ch J. t (-;t.; .r.: l!;e T,l i f the pr -;$," lirliw jui.J, r . .. iv.;l --"-.e cue! '.an help A.'tff i f.V-9tat. tcimty cJTWiaU -Ti4..f s" 1 tr iH;T,xct ctrstre t j. V;? Tbp Pfrnvary as pyt t-- I tt-'.'. I -;-r a ;i:'.t imlrnif "hS The Daggett County Attorney Wayne Searle, who demanded that he be seated in the position because he was the only qualified attorney living in the county, was arrested for driving under the influence last week. The Daggett County Commission met in executive session Tuesday to determine if any action would be taken against County Attorney Searle. Searle was booked into the Daggett County Jail and was released on $1,200 bail. The prosecution prose-cution of the case was turned over to the Attorney General's Office. Thursday last week, an off-duty Utah High Patrol trooper noticed Searle drive his vehicle off highway SR-43 a half a mile east of Manila at about 2:45 p.m., said Lt. George Chino, Utah Highway Patrol. The vehicle went through a barbed wire fence before returning to the road. The trooper recognized the driver and alerted an on-duty trooper. Searle drove home, about a mile away, but refused to answer his door when Sheriff Deputy arrived. A Utah Highway Patrol officer was called from Vernal to assist. Before Trooper Mitch McKee arrived in Daggett County, Searle left his home again and was arrested by sheriff deputies about a mile away. He was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident. Searle fought Daggett County officials in the courts in to be placed in the position of county attorney. Utah law states that the commission commis-sion will appoint a licensed attorney who resides outside the county boundaries only if no licensed attorney attor-ney who lives in the county is available avail-able for the job. Searle won his case in court, but a new law requiring a "for" or "against" box on county attorney races in counties with less than 1,800 voters was passed. If more voters checked the "against" box, the county commission could then appoint someone outside the county for the job. Searle objected to the law claiming claim-ing it took aim at him. He took his objection to the Utah Supreme Court, where Judge Michael Zimmerman suggested he run as a write-in candidate instead. He withdrew with-drew as a Democratic candidate and filed as a write-in, where he would only need one vote to win. Daggett County Clerk Gene Briggs still put the "for'' and "against" boxes on the ballot by Scarlc's name and was ordered by the Utah Supreme Court to remove them after Searle complained. Searle is in the middle of the four year term which began with his "one vote election." and sufpeaions from live Community Council, but kt the new coitimiv'toncrs Ik .if tlic bsuC find make a dewkirn " Said. Contractors to provide road repairs I'irttih Cssunty Co'.nmi'.siatKfS Tuc vj,iy improved intj'r.n-ctncnU ia the DuimriiMl Mountain t?4id donai Jb'lOt'nlfsk!i!f, Cift ai'-d CIccMte Scatlc have ftflcrtd rii,ite in.; '.re. eH.Hii 3.) )ards ( f.-..il if t!f.;.,h Cx;r.ty w.n.!. J. f.xc the luci (',.nniu;.ir-r ?;jy:.;. the ttxn4.;-.;-t t-f llwr f.wl and gsve the t.v.:: fcirs ihi pi sh.id ri Uc tvAl Tbc MTit ia imKjx; we s;:3:r::f (-f JO-nC find the fv ri -j i-f a t-t -i t'-- "I. 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