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Show 4 Vernal Expren Wednesday, April 10, 1991 'iitiiiiiiiitiiiiftiuiiiiiiiiiiiiniiif ifiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiitiiiiiiitiitit iiititf t nit in iftiffimif tf iifiiifii ttiifit Western Resources WRAP-UP 100 years ago... UINTAH PAPPOME, - . -i Cf'j ? 'V ''O 1 ' f'v" ... 1 A "V :-i - Danielle Gardiner Danielle Gardiner Danielle Gardiner, 6, passed away March 31, 1991 in the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City. She was born Dec. 9, 1984, in Provo, the daughter of Chad V. and Andrea Evans Gardiner. She enjoyed swimming, singing and dancing. She attended the Learning School. Danielle is survived by her parents of Vernal; one brother and one sister, sis-ter, Gatlin Blaine Gardiner and McKielle Sue Gardiner, both of Vernal; grandparents, Blaine and Linda Evans of Spanish Fork and Darrell V. Gardiner of Benjamin; great grandparents, Dan and Jane Evans of Spanish Fork and John Lohman of Benjamin. Funeral services were held Tuesday, April 2, at 11 a.m. in the Spanish Fork Eighth Ward Chapel. Bishop Russell Stubbs conducted. The family prayer was offered by John Lohman. Prelude and posdude music was played by Kathy Nielsbn. The invocation was offered by Chad Argyle after which Robin Parkinson sang 'The Test," accompanied accom-panied by Kathy Nielson. Linda Evans then spoke, followed by "My MotherMy Daughter," by Pauline Hartvigson and Robin Parkinson, accompanied by Kathy Nielson. Dr. Thales Smith spoke, after af-ter which Bishop Brownie Tomlinson gave some remarks. "The Dance," was sung by Suzee Evans, Amy Cloward, Teresa Argyle and Jenny Stringer, accompanied accom-panied by Ronda Spotten. The benediction bene-diction was offered by Danny Evans. Pallbearers were Blaine Evans, Danny Evans, Justin Johnson, Clark Mortensen, Chad Argyle and Kirt Swalberg. Honorary pallbearers were Gatlin Gardiner, Shane Gardiner, Jeramy Gardiner, Jed Argyle and Jake Argyle. The dedicatory prayer was offered by Blaine Evans. Interment was in the Spanish Foik City Cemetery under un-der the direction of the Walker Family Mortuary in Spanish Fork. Temperatures Date H L Prec. April 2 69 37 April 3 64 39 April 4 68 29 April 5 76 33 April 6 77 36 April 7 55 48 trace April 8 50 25 Courtesy of SkyWest Airlines. DEMOCRATIC COUNTY CONVENTION Saturday, April 13th at 1:00 Potluck lunch at the Elks Lodge Special Guest: Bill Orton Lorraine Higgins Lorraine Higgins succumbs April 5 Lorraine Pope Higgins, 61, passed away April 5, 1991 at her home. She was born Feb. 11, 1930 in Vernal, daughter of John Wendell and Eva York Pope. She married Albert (Al) Higgins May 29, 1954 in Vernal. Mrs. Higgins was a homemaker. A member of the Ladies Golf Association, President of the Ladies Petroleum Club, member of Tuesday Afternoon Bridge Club and Thursday Evening Bridge Club. She was an avid golfer and camper. She enjoyed spending time with her family and grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Wendy Kay; grandson, Brock Massey; father and infant sisters, sis-ters, LaRue and Carol Pope. She is survived by her husband, Al, of Vernal; son and daughter, Scott L. Higgins of Vernal and Mrs. Kelly (Vickie) McElvain of Bakersfield, Calif.; three grandchildren; grandchil-dren; mother, Eva Pope of Vernal and sister, Mrs. ArLlyn (D'Ann) Roberts of Vernal. Funeral services were held Monday, April 8, at 11 a.m. in the Vernal Sixth Ward Chapel. Bishop Lyle Southam conducted. The family prayer was offered by Lawrence Kay. Prelude and postlude music was played by Becky Allred. The invocation was offered by Gregg Shipman after which Bishop Lyle Southam gave some remarks. Bruce Scholar then spoke, followed fol-lowed by "You'll Never Walk Alone," by Jan King, accompanied by Laura Hacking. Scott Higgins and Deann Stringham each read a poem, after which Corine Calder presented "Wind Beneath My Wings." Mike Weber read a poem, followed by the benediction by Leonard Heeney. Pallbearers were Gregg Shipman, Jeff Shipman, Earl Staley, Lamar Hawkins, Raymond York and ArLlyn Roberts. Honorary pallbearers pallbear-ers were Ralph Richardson, Gary Richardson, Lynn Richardson, Dale Slaugh, Jim Slaugh, Mike Slaugh, Wayne Roberts, Boyd York, Grant York, Kelly McElvain and Scott Stevens. Vernal Sixth Ward Relief Society was in charge of the flowers. flow-ers. The dedicatory prayer was offered by Norman Long. Interment was in the Vernal Memorial Park under the direction of Thomson's Vernal Mortuary. Fuel economy bill By Helene C. Monberg, Vernal Express, Washington, D.C. correspondent Environmentalists and others here are using the auto fuel economy bill (S 279) by Sen. Richard H. Bryan, D-Nev., to try . to block an Administration-backed bipartisan effort in Congress to open up the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) on Alaska's North Slope to oil drilling and to cut down on U.S. dependence on oil imports. The Bryan bill cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee on March 19 by a 14-5 vote. If enacted into law, it would require manufacturers manufac-turers of passenger cars sold in this 'country to increase cars' average fuel fu-el economy by 20 percent beginning with the 1996 model year and by 40 percent for model year 2001, according ac-cording to Bryan. This increased performance would be based on a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard which measures an entire auto manufacturer's man-ufacturer's new car fleet It would result in the new car fleet averaging 34.4 miles per gallon (mpg) in 1996 and reaching 40.2 mpg by year 2001. A major concern is that the average fuel economy in new cars has dropped in recent years, It was 28.1 mpg for 1990 models and 28.5 mpg for 1989 models, according to the Bryan bill sponsors. The Bryan bill is sponsored by 35 Senators including Bryan and Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash. It is expected expect-ed to pass the Senate easily, as an earlier version of the bill came close to passing the Senate in 1990. Bryan and Gorton introduced their CAFE bill in this Congress on Jan. 28. Following quick hearings in the Senate Commerce Committee's Consumer Subcommittee chaired by Bryan, with Gorton as ranking GOP member, the bill cleared the Senate Commerce Committee without major ma-jor change in mid-March. It is likely to be scheduled for debate in the Senate shortly after the Senate reconvenes re-convenes on April 9, a spokesman for the Senate . Commerce Committee told the press on April 2. ' ' Link established between fuel efficiency, effi-ciency, ANWR and imports Public Citizen on April 2 released its report on fuel efficiency prior to expected Senate action on the Bryan bill. The Public Citizen report recommends rec-ommends average fuel economy in new cars be raised to 45 mpg, as provided in a bill (HR 446) by Rep. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. But most of its data were based on the 40 mpg CAFE goal in the Bryan bill. If the 40 mpg CAFE standard were operative opera-tive in year 2000, as provided in the Bryan bill, the United States would consume 10 percent less fuel, and would save 7.1 billion gallons of gasoline, thereby cutting down on the need to open up ANWR and lessening our demand for oil imports, im-ports, Robert Lockhart of Public Citizen on April 2 told Western Resources Wrap-up (WRW). The savings would go up sharply by year 2010, the Public Citizen report indicated. With higher CAFE standards, by 2010 this country would consume 18.5 percent less fuel and would save 13.3 billion gallons of gasoline annually, it said. The higher CAFE standards would also reduce carbon dioxide (C02) emissions in the air by 70 million tons in year 2000 and by 130 million tons annually by year 2010, Lockhart said. The Public Citizen report was based on estimates of additional vehicle miles traveled annually at 2.2 percent and increases in the number of vehicles on the road at 2.58 percent a year, ie, 1970-90 averages. The National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) put out a report on Feb. 20 called "Looking for Oil in All the Wrong Places." The NRDC report maintained within 15 years efficiency could deliver more than five times as much oil as ANWR, assuming oil in commercial quantities quanti-ties is discovered at ANWR. "Opportunities to improve efficiency effi-ciency of our nation's transportation system and buildings represent an energy resource more than 90 times larger than the expected total yield from despoiling the Arctic Refuge over the next 30 years," NRDC said. , The Bryan bill has gotten vigorous vigor-ous support from the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) and from 27 other environmental groups that strongly oppose opening up ANWR and more Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) areas to leasing. In a letter sent to Mr. Bush on Feb. 5 urging him to make "automobile fuel fu-el efficiency the centerpiece of your to reduce oil need national energy strategy," NWF President Jay D. Hair and the other members of the Energy Conservation Coalition stated, "Advancing our automobile and light truck standards by 60 percent over the next 10 years would, by the year 2005, save Americans more than 10 times the expected rate of oil production from drilling the ANWR. AN-WR. . .over three million barrels of oil per day. . .with larger savings as years go on." Brock Evans of the National Audubon Society (NAS) told WRW on April 2 "no national emergency exists" to require the opening of ANWR to exploration and production, produc-tion, now that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait has been halted by the allied troops, and oil prices have stabilized. stabi-lized. The fast-track movement of the Bryan CAFE auto economy bill in the Senate puts ANWR development develop-ment "on the back burner," he indicated. indi-cated. Evans did express concern to WRW that many of the 35 Senate sponsors of the Bryan CAFE bill may end up backing legislation to open up ANWR to oil drilling and production, in an effort to try to please both sides, the environmentalists environmen-talists and the oil industry. Daniel Becker of the Sierra Club said on March 19 after the Bryan bill cleared Committee, "It is a top priority of the Sierra Club that the Bryan bill become law this Congress," as it would improve the environment by lessening C02 emissions and improve energy efficiency effi-ciency at the same time. It "would save 2.5 million barrels of oil per day by the year 2005, more oil than we import from the entire Persian Gulf," Becker stressed. As autos and trucks account for more than 40 percent of America's oil consumption, "the only way for America to kick the oil habit is to reduce our gasoline consumption," Becker said. The Sierra Club released re-leased a bar chart indicating the two CAFE bills by Bryan and Boxer would save as much oil (2.5 to 3.1 million barrels per day (bpd) as the United States imports from the Persian Gulf and it might get from production from the ANWR Coastal Plain and from the OCS "off the California coast The two principal sponsors of the Bryan bill claim it would drastically cut oil imports. Bryan said it would "save more than 48 billion gallons of fuel just in the period between 1996 and 2001." If and when the bill is enacted and fully implemented, implement-ed, Gorton noted, it would save this country 2.8 million barrels of oil per day. It now uses 17 million barrels of oil daily. Both observed it would improve the environment while, at the same time, lessen our dependence depen-dence on imported oil. And Gorton claimed there is no "pie-in-the-sky" aspect to the bill. 'The goals" of the bill "can be achieved with technology technolo-gy already used in today's fuel-efficient cars," he stated when the bill was introduced on Jan. 28. Altho the Bryan bill appears to be moving rapidly toward passage in the Senate, it does not have a fast track in the House, where Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Mich., is the influential influen-tial chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Dingell is not high on mandatory bills before be-fore Congress to increase the efficiency effi-ciency of U.S. cars produced in the next decade or so. The Bush Administration opposes such bills because it believes the U.S. auto industry in-dustry should operate in the free market, as does the U.S. auto industry. indus-try. Administration sources have noted if the Bryan bill passes Congress President Bush will veto it. Utah crop activity report An average of 6.3 days were suitable suit-able for field work in Utah during the week ending April 5, according to Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. Soil moisture was 65 percent per-cent short, and 35 percent adequate. Winter wheat crop condition was .56 percent good, 30 percent fair, and 17 percent poor. Spring wheat was 51 percent planted, compared with 72 percent last year, and 54 percent average. Barley and oats were 50 and 24 percent planted, respectively. re-spectively. Extreme drought is causing concerns con-cerns in some areas of the state. Winter wheat freeze damage was reported to be mostly light. Some frost damage reported in fruit trees. Spring calving was 60 percent complete, compared with the average aver-age of 65 percent Lambing in farm and range flocks was 32 percent sheared. VERNAL, UINTAH CO. Vol. 1 MINING NOTES The mining excitement is strengthening every day; the town is full of prospectors waiting for the snow to disappear enough that they many be able to go on the mountain. moun-tain. All seem assured of tfle coming boom and there are a few men in town who have not interested themselves them-selves in different prospects. Our business men almost without exception have one or more claims, and somewhere in each place of business is a small shrine, like a box, and within are the objects of present devotion, rocks, rocks, rocks and a small magic glass through which to peep at the "millions" "mil-lions" visible to those who peep with faith. We are excited ourselves for we have seen with the aid of the magic glass golden eagles nesting in the commonest looking rock. We say speed the boom, and may every one, the Pappoose included, be benefited ben-efited by it oooooo Last week Henry Woodruff, T. A. Mitchell and C. E. Carroll made a trip to the mines. They had a terrible jaunt the snow being four feet deep, and no road broken. The gendemen did some locating while gone, and came back beaming with triumph, for of the many specimens speci-mens to ore they brought back all were good. Mr. Woodruff is considered consid-ered a competent judge and he feels assured that they have "struck it" in the mine they are developing. In a letter dated March 27, Mr. V. L. Halliday, Clerk of the County Court of Utah County, writes as follows fol-lows to Wm. G. Reynolds of Ashley. "I have heard today that the 'Dyer Mine' was now valued at a million and a half, and that $50,000 had been offered for the 'King'--I am sanguine that the oldl ' Taylor Mountain is full of ore, and that we have one of the doors that lead to it" Rock Springs Miner- There is News from Naples by Ada Openshaw 789-3145 A first visits Nellie Richens Lila Jannette and Shawn Johnson and new baby, Danielle Aleen, Cedar City, spent Easter weekend at the home of Bob and Gloria Fox visiting family and friends. Baby Danielle, is the first great-greatgrandchild of Nellie Richens. Fenn Simmons and family of Kennewick, Wash., spent a few days last week with his father, La Veil Simmons. Also visiting at the Simmons home was another son, David, of Salt Lake City. Gawin and Phyllis Goodrich, Las Vegas, Nev., spent Saturday and Sunday with their daughter and son-in-law, Robin and Reid Merrell and family. The Goodrichs also visited their sister, Vergie Gee-, while in town. Glenn and Ada Openshaw were weekend guests of Dale and Dorothy Openshaw of Salt Lake City. MONUMENTS ICUIII'DI COIQNLI All ft HM I n.v Largest selection Highest quality ft William K. Jolley Funeral Home . I ' ' Vnl. uun IJO'I ! 'if'K ? Valley Funeral Home, Inc. Rangely Funeral Service il t4 MI 100 iWdt 789-9228 or 1 UTAH, APRIL 10, 1891 No. 15 great excitement in the neighborhood neighbor-hood of the Victoria and Sam Basselt's mines, about one hundred miles south of Rock Springs. The latest assay of Mr. Bassett's ore reaches $1400 per ton, and prospectors are crowding in on snow shoes. A special session of the County Court met at the county cabin in Old Ashley March 3,. 1891. The Pappoose representative arrived a few minutes after court was called. As we came in the subject of the bridges across South Creek on Old Ashley, road, seemed to be under consideration. Judge Burton asked the question, no doubt for information, informa-tion, whether the contract was let to build a dam or a bridge. The redistricting of the county into in-to school districts was then begun, ... and the way those zig zag lines were run off showed that the Doctor was determined to earn his four dollars. dol-lars. Jas. Hacking was left out in the cold, that is, in the Vernal district. Poor little Hutchie was thrown back into the Ashley district from which he moved last winter that he might send his children to school in Mill UlSUiCl. The hear ye, hear ye of Sheriff Pope opened he hall after dinner. The bridge question was taken up again, but without any special action ac-tion was tabled for the present. Then the doctor made the unusual discovery that the court had been a little previous in the redistricting business, and made a motion to annul an-nul all previous actions of the court in districting the county. The clerk was instructed to put the matter right in his minutes; in other words, put the horse in front of the cart. A certain party expressed himself to us as not only willing but determined deter-mined to find out if the county court has a right to squander, as he expressed ex-pressed it, the peoples money to benefit a few individuals in Vernal and if found that the law will not bear them out in what they are doing, do-ing, they had better look out for they will certainly hear something "drap." News from Whiterocks by Virginia Ferguson 353-4584 Service award presented Reed Tavapont has just received a medal from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, as a service award for his years of police work. Frances Poowegup, who is stationed sta-tioned in Germany, spent ten days home recendy. Sherry Kay Rasmussen, Salt Lake City, spent the Easter weekend with her family. ; Loren and Zella Pike entertained 18 family members at an Easter din ner. Janna Gygi, Salt Lake City, daughter of John and Cherie Dickey, spent the Easter weekend with her parents. Ron and Sherry Morrill and family, fami-ly, drove to Salt Lake City where they visited Ron's mother, Karma Lund, for three days over the Easter weekend. . RaeAnn Moosman rode on the bus to Emery in Price, to attend the regional re-gional competition for senior class members in a one-act play. Flynn and Teri Paulson, with Mikalyn, Salt Lake City, were visitors visi-tors with parents, Steve and Loraine Paulson, over the Easter weekend. The family enjoyed an Easter picnic together at the Bacon Park. UMfJ H GfSt IAS rXiT Miy , rn Personal local service Prices starting at $129 711 b(l Uin Rmg. CO UMI - 800 - 662 - 9228 |