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Show Page Two - The Springville Herald - July 29, 1987 EDITORIAL We need another sign The State of Utah has been good to the City of Springville Spr-ingville in providing marking on roads leading into the city about the Springville Art Museum, and we appreciate their efforts. We would like to ask for one more sign in the mouth of Spanish Fork Canyon noting to travelers that a right turn to the city is also a right turn to the art museum. Many are the comments at the art museum from tourists that the best kept secret in the state is the size and magnitude of the Springville Museum of Art with its beautiful building and grounds. We know that the brown signs used by the state road commission are expensive as well as the poles used to support sup-port them, but a sign noting the existance of the Springville Museum of Art would be a big help in drawing greater crowds of tourists to our city. apleton hearing hv Franklin O. Nielsen A Public Hearing has been scheduled to create a new employee position in Mapleton. Other council action included hearing a citizen group ask for a stop sign to be placed on Main Street and 400 North Street and other traffic controls. The June Treasurers Report listed six building permits with receipts of $34,368. A zoning administrator position is in process of being established in Mapleton and the ordinance must be changed to create this new position. A public hearing for citizen input on the matter has been scheduled for 7 p.m. on August 4. A full-time position of administrator for the city parks will also be considered. At present the parks are being handled by a part-time position and the time of three youth employed by federal revenue sharing funds. The groups of citizens who want the speed decreased on Main Street said that they represent 15 children and want the city to do something about the speed before something happens to one of their children. They also asked if School Zone signs could be placed at that point. They were told that the area was too far away from the school to do this. They were told if school crossing signs are placed on a street the" city must also furnish crossing guards. The speed zone in that area is 30 MPH, reduced from 45 MPH for the Springville firm gets road job at Jordanelle W.W. Clyde Construction Company Com-pany of Springville were the apparent ap-parent low bidders, $21,384,918, on a job to relocate a section of highway U.S. 40 in Wasatch County. The 4.4 mile section of road from South Mayflower to Midway Junction, that is located between 1-80 and Heber, is being moved to accommodate the future Jordanelle Reservoir. The Utah Department of Transportation Tran-sportation engineer's estimate for the job was $34,095,544. The relocation of US-40 involves constructing 10.5 miles of highway on a new alignment along the mountainside to the west of the existing road. It has, been broken into two separate projects for contruction. This first project is for the construction of the south half of the road. A second contract will be let this fall or next spring to construct con-struct the north half of the road. A third contract will be let several years from now to surface the entire highway with concrete pavement. The new road will be built to interstate in-terstate standards. When construction con-struction is complete it will be a four-lane, divided highway with controlled access. The new road will skirt the future Jordanelle Reservoir Reser-voir on the west and will be about one hundred feet above the future water level. This project includes complete construction of all four lanes of the south half of the highway, including She (UPS 513-060) Published Weekly by Art City Publishing Co., Inc. 161 South Main Street Springville, Utah 84663 Phone 489-5651 .... . 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Mayor Everet Predmore told the group that the city would move the "Reduced Speed Ahead" sign a greater distance from the 30 MPH zone and that a larger sign would be installed to help give motorists more warning that the 6-block long 30 MPH zone was present. 'Children at Play' signs will also be installed. The Mayor promised more selected speed enforcement not only in that area but throughout the city. The request to reduce the speed to 25 MPH was not a realistic request the group was told. Building permits and improvement im-provement fees totaling $3718 were issued in June. Permits were issued to Kyrt Nay, Craig Taylor, Kenneth Ainge, Harold Gividen, the LDS Church and Norman Barker. Utah State sales tax collected for the quarter was $17,275. County tax advance was $6,220. Business license collected was $204. structures and signing; however, only the westbound lanes will be paved under this contract utilizing bituminous pavement. This bituminous pavement, which replaces the lean concrete layer that is normally used as the base for concrete pavement, can be placed more quickly than concrete pavement, allowing the road to be completed and opened to traffic sooner. Plans are to have the westbound lanes of the new highway opened to traffic by the fall of 1989. Two-way traffic will utilize that side of the highway until the third contract is let, possibly in 1990 or 1991. Under that contract, the eastbound lanes will be paved with concrete pavement, then traffic will be switched to those lanes while the westbound lanes are repaved with concrete. Some work on this project is expected to be done this construction season. Because the work is being done on a new alignment away from the existing road, little or no traffic interference will be experienced until the connection is made to tie in to the existing road. The contract allows for 360 wo'rking days for completion. The Jordanelle Dam project is providing one hundred percent of the funds for the cosf of the US-40 relocation. V, Mortin W. Conover Patricia Conover Betty Lou Bailey state declared owner of Utah Lake bottom A check for $52,179 will be sent by the federal government to the State of Utah as a result of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that the state, and not the federal government, owns the bed of Utah Lake. The check is half the money collected col-lected by the Bureau of Land Management since 1976 for rental of lands in federal oil and gas leases issued by BLM in 1976 and 1977. Because of those leases, the state began litigation which resulted in lower court and appallant court decisions that the bed of Utah lake was owned by the federal government. govern-ment. However, the Supreme Court in a 5-4 decision issued June 8, 1987, overturned the lower courts' findings. fin-dings. BLM issued 17 leases for 33,049.44 acres of the lakebed. All of those leases expired in 1986 or earlier and the BLM records on them are now closed. At the time rentals were paid to BLM, 50 percent of those revenues was paid to Utah, as provided by the Federal Land Policy and Management Manage-ment Act of 1976. "Since the State of Utah has already received 50 percent of the rentals collected, the remaining 50 percent, which totals $52,179, will be refunded by Minerals Management Service," according to BLM State Director Roland Robison's letter to Governor Norman H. Bangerter. A total of $104,358 was collected on the 17 leases. Police report Springville Police were called out on 25 animal calls during the past week and took care of seven reports of illegal fireworks. They also investigated in-vestigated a traffic accident on July 22 at U.S. 89 and 400 East intersection in-tersection that sent five people to the hospital. Arrested during the week were the following: Jerome Preston, 824 East 100 South, Springville, for public intoxication; Ginger D. McKell, 900 North Main No. 16, Springville for driving under the influence of alcohol; Lazaro G. Gonzales, 209 West 200 North No. 19. Salt Lake City, for reckless driving; and Carl Lowery, 128 East 400 North, Springville for assault. A citizen was charged for having a dog running at large. Two 14 year old juvenile girls were caught shoplifting at Allen's Market. Between the two of them they had taken $80 worth of cosmetics. An 11 year old boy and a nine year old boy were caught taking quarters from the video machines at Brookside Service. There were a lot of thefts during the week. They included a radar detector valued at $60; a car stereo, speakers and tool box valued at over $200; fishing gear valued at $80; rifle valued at over $200; toolbox valued at over $200; and a Ram hood ornament or-nament valued at $70. One citizen had motor oil and household cleaner poured all over inside his vehicle. There was one dog bite and several bags of ice were taken from Sagecreek Market. Three bicycles were stolen and three were found. Postal positions open, test set An examination has been set by the US Postal Service to establish a hiring register for post offices in the Orem south area of Utah County, according to Van Washburn, Springville Postmaster. Applications to take the exam are being taken at the Springville Post Office beginning August 3 until August 7. The exam will be given within six to eight weeks in Prove Positions open are for postal clerks and carriers in Orem, Provo, Springville, Spanish Fork and Payson. Application forms will be available next Monday and must be returned by no later than 4:30 p.m. Friday, August 7. Applicants may only apply one time at one office, Washburn said. ' Applicants are asked to fill out the proper forms in the manner prescribed by the postal service. Improperly completed cards may cause the applicant to be dropped from the list of those to be notified for testing. A woodchuck is so-called from his American Indian name: wejak. Sept. 23 Oct. 1 1 Fall Foliage Tour Experience the Beauty of a New England Autumn and visit exciting cities of Ottawa, Montreal, Maine, Boxton, New York City, & Niagra Falls 19 wonderful days for only $1545.00 per person OSBORN TRAVEL 1080 North Main Street Spanish Fork 798-9879 1-800-248-8735 (toll free in Utah) Prices based on two people per room. ffesfrooiii facilities planned by Christi Conover The Springville City Council decided to build restroom facilities at Jolley's Ranch up Hobble Creek Canyon at the last council meeting July 21. Plans for a new bridge were also discussed and citizens were warned about the disposal of toxic waste. Action to instate the acting city recorder 'Cam Caldwell was delayed until next council meeting. Councilman "Pete" Roundy said that the city had money to utilize at Jolley's Ranch and he and a committee com-mittee recommended that restroom facilities be built. They would serve the public better than some other projects being considered. Council will advertise for bids on the project in the near future. The council decided to use con Nelson-Rees Survey to Did Lt. Col. Oliver North act properly pro-perly in following orders during the "Iranscam" cover-up? Should there be mandatory government testing for AIDS? Is Ronald Reagan still a capable president, or have age and the events of the last several months rendered him ineffective in office? You and other readers will be able to have your voices heard on vital, national issues like these in coming months by participating in The Nelson-Rees Survey. The Nelson-Rees Survey is a nationwide na-tionwide public opinion poll conducted con-ducted through more than 250 com Hansen opposes costly Democratic plan Yesterday the House of Representatives Represen-tatives passed the Medicare Catastrophic Protection Act of 1987. "The senior citizens of America should be saddened by this action," Hansen said. "Legislation which started out as a sound, simple mechanism for reducing the financial finan-cial risks involved with serious illness, il-lness, turned into massive expansion of Medicare benefits which will result in a five-fold increase in annual an-nual Medicare premiums for nearly half of all elderly beneficiaries." "In particular, senior citizens should be outraged with a provision in the bill which will allow AIDS patients, pa-tients, no matter what age, to receive medicare after 24 months of disability. This means that the elder- Thanhs for The Springville Playhouse would like to express their appreciation to the citizens of Springville who supported sup-ported our plays during Art City Days. It was a real success and we hope those of you who were unable to attend will be sure to do so the next time. Also we wish to thank those who participated in both plays. To them we owe our success and want to say thanks for a job well done. As a board we look forward to many Bus belts WHY NO SAFETY BELTS ON SCHOOL BUSES?- Here are two true statements: (1) children are precious, the gift of the future; (2) seat belts save lives. Now, can anyone put the two together and answer the obvious question of why children on school buses do not wear seat belts? Jeffery Miller, Deputy Administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Ad-ministration (NHTSA) has an answer. an-swer. "Large, heavy vehicles will provide a lot of protection in a crash," says Mr. Miller. "If a bus runs into a car, there is little chance that someone in the bus will be injured." in-jured." Mr. Miller figures that fewer than 100 of the 15,747 U.S. school districts run buses that have seat belts. That seems ironic in view of the fact that all 50 states and the District of Columbia now have mandatory child passenger laws to protect children in cars and other small vehicles. But the NHTSA, after extensive research over a 20-year 20-year period, has decided not to require seat belts in large buses crete instead of steel in the construction con-struction of the bridge to be replaced at 100 South and 100 East. Although more expensive, the concrete will last longer and make the bridge look more attractive in its downtown location, the council was told. Citizens were asked to be more careful in disposing of toxic chemicals and leaving them for public trash collection. A city employee em-ployee was injured recently when a toxic substance was splashed into his eyes while he was placing trash inside a garbage truck. Mayor Ken Creer recommended giving acting city recorder Cam Caldwell a probationary six-month appointment as city recorder. Councilwoman Delora Bertelsen and Councilman Ben Olsen voted in favor of this appointment. Coun- uUfc gpringutlk Bcralii COMMENT PAGE munity newspapers with a readership reader-ship totalling over ten million. Both sides of timely national issues will be presented by Clair Rees and Lee Nelson, whose combined combin-ed published works include 26 books and more than two thousand magazine ann newspaper articles. Nelson is author of the popular Storm Testament series, appearing in serial form in more than a hundred hun-dred publications. Rees is a widely read feature writer published regularly in national magazines. Each week, Nelson and Rees will debate the issues. Then you, the ly in Utah will have their premiums increased to pay for the prescription drugs of AIDS patients. "In addition, other add-ons not related to catastrophic care will require re-quire those who can least affort it -the elderly - to pay additional dollars every month for these non-acute non-acute care benefits. "I could not in good conscience vote for a bill which saddles the elderly with additional and unjustifiable un-justifiable premium costs. The bill offers a false promise of affordable catastrophic protection to the elderly. elder-ly. The expansion programs will strain the Medicare program at a time when it can ill be afforded. "While I strongly support viable efforts . to protect against more years of good times and plenty of fun. In closing a very special note of thanks goes out to Janet Bird. Janet has served for many years on the playhouse board, has been the director direc-tor of the children's plays, and has acted in many of the productions the playhouse has presented. Thanks Janet for all you've done and the very best to you on your mission in California. Springville Playhouse Students at U receive honors Several Utah County students have been elected to the University of Utah chapters of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi, prestigious national na-tional honor societies. Randy Lynn Jensen, 1981 Springville Spr-ingville High graduate, son of Stan and Nancy Jensen, of Mapleton, who received a bachelor's degree with a double major in chemistry and biology. Stacy Wright, 1983 Springville High graduate, daughter of LaRell and Avona Wright, of Springville, who received a bachelor's degree in nursing. She plans to study for a master's degree in nursing at the U of U with an emphasis on critical care. 155500061 support! For free Estimates call ELDMDGE ROOFING 1491 East Center Springville 489-8431 All types roofing and repairs shakes, shingles, tar and gravel modified bitumen and rubber roofs. cilmen Roundy and Doug Strong i f ..nfinrt Ac t Vi , abstained irum uu6. wcie were not enough "yes" votes, the appointment could not be passed Councilman Max Knight was not present to vote. Further action will probably be taken at the next city council meeting. Duane Alleman asked for a business license to open an auto parts and home and garden products store in the old A & I Supply at 45 East 200 South. The license was granted on the condition that the building pass inspection. Mayor Creer proclaimed August 3-7 to be the "Week of the Gifted." He said the city would join with the governor this week to celebrate the development of the minds of children. begin reader, will be able to make your opinion known by calling one of two telephone numbers. The calls are tabulated by AT&T, with a $1 toll charged for each long distance call. Survey results will appear in this and other participating newspapers nationwide. The results will also go to all major television networks, news wire services, both houses of congress and the white House. Through the Nelson-Rees Survey, your opinion counts. Watch for this new interactive journalism, appearing appear-ing in this newspaper beginning the first week in August. catastrophic illness. I believe this particular piece of legislation does not respond to the health-care needs of our senior citizens, and in the long-run will do them a disservice," Hansen said. Citizens ask to clean up This week the Springville Beautification Committee will be passing out yellow and blue reminders to citizens and businesses of the city. The yellow is a gentle reminder of some area that needs some kind of work or cleaning ,up. It is not the intent of the committee com-mittee to offend anyone, only to remind them that their areas need attention. There are some places in our community that need a little more work before the Tidy Town inspection at the end of August. Following the recent hail storm the committee noticed many people taking pride and cleaning up their yards. This is great, but citizens should remember that it is their responsibility to haul away the trash they clean up. Spring Cleanup is the only time it is permissible to place trimmings and clippings to be hauled away on the streets. The beautification committee say, "Let's all dig in and clean up with Springville Spirit." State Farm's Homeowners insurance with inflation Coverage SEE ME . DEAN BRIAN J2 WEST 200 SO. 489 9444 Ik V Lid i good notghboi. Stat Farm la thor. INSUKANCI Slata farm F ut CmNTf CtmiMV U (1 |