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Show 5 "6 taW Salt lake City, ut. MicrofSlB Corp: 84101 THURSDAY. OCTOBER HELPER, VOLUME 24, 1974 UTAH-47Z-5- 671 68 NUMBER 40 Owens in Helper Senate contender plans area office Wayne Owens presently campaigning for the Senate post to be vacated this year by Wallace Bennett, made a brief visit Wednesday Oct. 16 in Helper as part of a swing that took him through Carbon and two other southern Utah Congressman I 1 r 4 t counties. While in Helper, Owens disclosed plans that, if elected, he would open a regional office in Price to serve southern Utah in matters concerning the federal government. Owens said this office would be manned by a full time staff member who would be empowered to act in Owens' place in assisting communites and individuals in their dealings with federal agencies. Owens felt that establishment of such an office would be of great assistance to communites in the region in locating federal agencies who could help with the problems of southern Utah and in formulating presentations to be brought before these agencies. Walking tour Owens arrived in Helper at ap- proximately Mrs. Mary Ghirardelli stops to talk with congressman Wayne Owens as he walked through Helper's business district last Wednesday. Later in an interview, the congressman, who is campaigning for the U.S. Senate said that, if elected he would be opening a regional office in Price to assist residents of Southeastern Utah in their dealings with the federal J photo government. H-- Voters choose Senator, representative Carbon County voters face few choices in the upcoming November 5 general election with races to be decided in only two state partisan contests and race, as county Democrats run unopposed in all instances. State contests that will be decided by voters next Tuesday include those for one non-partis- United States Senator, both Utah seats in the United of House States Representatives (although Carbon County voters will only be voting in one of those races) and a seat on the Utah Supreme Court. In those races, Wayne Owens, presently a Utah Democratic congressman, faces Republican Salt Lake Mayor Jake Garn and American Party candidate Bruce Bangerter for the United States Senate seat to be vacated by Wallace Bennett. Candidates for the United States House of position Representatives from Utah's first district (which includes Carbon County) are Democratic incumbent Gunn McKay Inkley," a Republican and American candidate L. S. Brown. The contest for the other U.S. Congress seat from Utah pits Salt Lake City commissioner Stephen Harmsen non-partis- Mountain Bell employee, Gary Harrison, works at splicing a 400 pair telephone cable accidently cut as construction crews were starting the final phases of construction that will bring direct dialing service and more capacity to Helper. A telephone company spokesman has told the Helper Journal that long distance direct dialing service H-- J will begin in Helper in photo Wednesday afternoon. Griffith said that the ' designation "400 pair" means that the cable is capable of carrying 400 complete circuits. Griffith explained that the action of cutting the cable, in effect, created 400 short which the circuits automatic Oct. 24 1 :30 p.m. Helper Women's Club at Civic Auditorium; 7:30 p.m. Helper American Legion at Civic Auditorium; 7:30 p.m. City Council Meeting at City Hall. 8 p.m. St. Anthony's Bingo at Oct. 25 Church Hall. 7:30 p.m. Utahna Rebecca Club Oct. 28 Meeting. 1 Oct. 29 p.m. Helper Relief Society, Spring Glen Relief Society and Kenilworth Relief Society meetings. 7 p.m. Kiwanis Club Meeting at Oct. 30 LaSalle Dining Room. switching equipment in the telephone building interpreted as calls. Griffith said that the equipment is designed to run any incoming call through a "primary" path and seek alternate routes if the primary is in use. Because the equipment interpreted all of the 400 "calls" as being blocked on the primary routes it began searching for alternates which momentarily tied up all communication. Griffith said this problem was rectified shortly thereafter but the company was still left with about 400 dead lines from the northwest section of Helper. A six man crew was immediately put on the job of restoring service in that area and worked until 1:30 a.m. when a four man crew took over and worked on the project until 6:30 a.m., according to Griffith. The exchange manager explained that the job here was to cut the damaged part of the cable out of the line and then correctly splice each of the 400 pairs of wires within the cable. Griffith said that most service in the northwest section of Helper was restored by 6:30 a.m. with the rest following approximately noon. He added that this break was probably the largest to ever occur in the area. p.m. after landing at to the marketplace. This can be done, he claims, by strict enforcement of antitrust legislation that is already on the books. Owens, explained that the federal government has estimated that the American public is being overcharged somewhere in the vicinity of $80 billion a year by companies whose overall percentage of a given market allow them to fix prices. Owens claimed that strict enforcement of antitrust laws would force these companies back into against (Cont. on Page. 5 the Carbon County airport. He had previously been in San Pete and Sevier counties during the day. Owens, following the form that had helped win him a congressional seat, immediately set off on a walking tour of the downtown section of Helper. Followed by a small entourage of supporters and campaign workers, Owens strolled through town grabbing the hand of every passer-by- , many of then unsuspecting, and introduced himself and stopped to chat. In an interview, after the tour, Owens said that his main message to people on the street was tht inflation can be stopped and said his method for doing this was to reestablish free enterprise businessman Allan Howe. The contest for Justice to the Utah Supreme Court has incumbent E. R. Construction crew slices Helper line, temporarily ctits off northwest section If you happened to pick up your phone last Wednesday afternoon and couldn't seem to get a call through, you may take some slight comfort in knowing you were not alone. The continuing telephone company construction work that will soon add approximately 400 new lines as well as better service to the Helper area seemed to backfire Wednesday afternoon as a construction crew, setting poles near the telephone company building on West Janet Street, cut una large through derground telephone line leading into the building. As a result, the automatic equipment in an effort to right itself, tied up telephone use in much of the area for a short time. According to Ron Griffith, local exchange manager, the pole setting crew sliced through, a "400 pair cable" leading from the northwest section of Helper at apon 4:30 proximately challengers Ron facing ), 2) principles competition. Owens used as an example the of some who say that restrictions and guidelines should be removed from the oil companies. Owens claimed this move would do nothing to curb inflation and said that the rise in fuel cost would be "devastating." Sick of prices Owens said that voters were telling him that they are "sick of inflation, sick of shortages and that they expect action." Owens said that this action had better be forthcoming or a number of elected officials would be on their way out. Owens, who has been a of federal land-usplanning bills and is a strong supporter of the Utah land-us- e planning bill, said that areas such as Carbon County are especially in need of assistance in identifying resources and in planning for growth. He said he supports the Utah land-us-e planning proposal because it would "provide the resources with which to set up effective planning procedures and would provide local areas with the assistance when needed to set up and carry out this planning." position e Waste lands When asked what he had personally done as a congressman and what he planned to do, if elected, as a senator to insure that mineral rich areas, such as Carbon County, were not simply developed and exploited for their wealth and then left by the industries and the people as a wasteland as the resources dwindled, Owens answered that he now had legislation pending before the House that would change the present royalty fee structure paid by the companies to governments in the areas from which they are extracting resources. Owens said that this legislation, if accepted as planned, would set up a loan fund supported by these royalties against which these local governments could draw to develop alternative industries and attract new ones. Owens said that hearings on this proposal would probably begin sometime in the fall. In answer to a question on the impending strike of UMWA coal miners throughout the country, Owens admitted that he was unfamiliar with most of the issues involved. He did say that he stood behind miners' efforts to get a cost of living increase but declined to comment on the other issues because he was not familiar with the positions of the groups involved. Spotlight on nutrition Helper schools hold lunch week "You Are What You Eat" was the slogan carrying a special nutrition message to students across the country in schools participating in National School Lunch Week held October 14 through the 18th including students from Helper's schools. In keeping with the weeks' activities, students were presented with nutrition lessons from dolls set teachers, adults were invited to join with students at lunch time for a meal planned around the four basic food groups, and Wednesday, the school in the participated Universal Menu Day. At the Sally Mauro Elementary School, students were reminded of the weeks' activities by 2 clown up in the lobby of school. Food service workers, as always, were kept busy preparing meals the for students and, throughout the week, some parents who accepted the special invitation to get a better look at the food program at the schools. One teacher at the school, Mrs. Pauline Whipple, gave her third grade students a treat by holding a fruit tasting party as part of their regular health studies. Mrs. Whipple said the students were eager participants in the tasting and said that a vegetable tasting party was planned in the future. Wednesday was a special day at Sally Mauro and (Cont. on Page 2) Republicans speak here during month Two Republicans who are running for Congress from Utah have scheduled Carbon apCounty pearances during October. Jake Garn, Salt Lake City mayor and candidate for the Senate, will speak Mon., Oct. 28 from 2:45 to 3:45 p.m. at the Carbon County Airport. A discussion period will follow the talk. his Preceding ap pearance, Ron Inkley Ogden, candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, will be in Carbon County Sat., Oct. 26 for a fund raising dinner. Mr. Inkley will speak at the dinner at 7 p.m. at the Carbon Country Club. It was School Lunch Week in Helper Schools and across the having a fruit tasting party. Trying out a lemon are from nation last week and 3rd grade students of Mrs. Pauline left to right: Annene Halliday, Joe Via and Micheal Whipple observed the week by studying nutrition and Hreinson. J photo H-- |