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Show tlmt SMt111 McCulloch donates sl,000 for Castle Gate monumenl A monument to Castle Gate, long discussed and argued over, received its' first real boost last Thursday night as McCulloch Oil Corporation, represented by Tom Griffin and Lou Roth, the supervisor for all development at the Castle Gate site, presented the Helper City Council with a check for $1,000 to construct a small monument in the Helper Mining Museum and to help with the cost of preparing and presenting artifacts to be brought out of Castle Gate. Roth said that after discussion with the State Historical Society and museum curator Fred Voll, it had been decided to build the monument, which will consist of the "Pleasant Valley Stone" and the stone which bears the Utah State Historical Society plaque marking the spot where Butch Cassidy and Ezra Lay are thought have robbed the coal company, in the museum itself instead of constructing a larger monument to set outside of the museum. Roth said officials at the historical society had expressed concern over the prospect of people vandalizing an outdoor monument and so decided to construct the monument This action taken at last Thursday's city council meeting probably ends discussions that have been carried out for more than a year concerning a fitting monument to the former town of Castle Gate. When the subject was first brought up, the local attitude was that the Pleasant Valley Office and Store building should be preserved. However, after it became apparent that state wide support was lacking for the project, monuments at various sites were suggested until finally the stone marker in the Helper Mining Museum was settled upon. New recorder In other action brought at the last council meeting, Albert Fossat, a former Helper City recorder for a number of years was accepted as the new city recorder to replace Yosh Amano, whose resignation becomes effective Feb. 1. Fossat, who himself resigned from the recorder post slightly over a year ago, was the only candidate in the running for the job. City councilman Frank Scavo, head of the city's water (Cont. on Page. 2) Health report, issued last month, A Utah Division of described the Helper culinary water system as being in "generally fair" condition and concluded that the city would retain White River readings, Area residents, already taken Jan. 7 revealed that water troubled by problems, can expect even White River snow course more if the latest snow and No. 1 had a total of 32 inches water measurements taken of snow on the ground which by the Price field office of contained 5.5 inches of the U.S. Department of water. This figure is 98 per Agriculture Soil Con- cent of normal. At White servation Service holds true River No. 2, Soil Conthroughout the rest of the servation Service personnel found 25 inches of snow, 3.8 water year. These measurement inches of water which is 11 statistics, compiled mon- per cent above normal. thly through the snow White River No. 3 showed 21 season, show that local inches of snow containing water sheds range from 3.6 inches of water, which is slightly above normal in one 97 per cent of normal. area to far below normal in Readings taken Dec. 31 of many other areas where last year revealed that the measurements are Mud Creek snow course had 21 inches of snow on the routinely taken. The statistics, released ground which contained 4 last week by the Soil Con- inches of water. However, servation Service in Price this reading is only 74 per show that snow moisture cent of normal. Jones content in the White River Meadow site had 7.9 inches water shed are running of snow containing 1.3 innear to slightly above ches of water which is 50 per normal for this time of year. cent of normal. The Dry measurements Valley Divide site had 15 However, taken in the Mud Creek, inches of snow on the Jones Meadow, Dry Valley ground containing 2.8 inDivide water shed are ches of water. That figure is running far below normal. 66 per cent of normal. its' "provisionally ap- proved" rating if it met with certain recommendations in the near future. Yet, says Helper watermaster, Kerry Neilson, if a person was to make a careful study of the recommendations them compare progress Spring Creek near the spring collection areas be rechanneled or reshaped to protect against possible contamination. . , , through the area and the conof possibility tamination. 4. provide a stirring device for the and fluoride with redesign the plumbing apparatus in the city's chlorinator to permit made being toward meeting them, he would find that most of the recommendations had already been met before the report had been issued. The report, written after a survey taken last August by a Utah Division of Health recommended, engineer, among other things, that 1. solution tank. 5. proper operation and understanding. In a recent interview, Neilson said he could find a number of personal objections to the Division of Health report. First, as regards the rechanneling or reshaping Carbon blood drive set February 3, 4 The Carbon County Chapter of the American Red Cross is preparing for blood its donation drive in Price set for Feb. 3 and 4. It is critical that the drive semi-annu- al reach its goal this year, since the Intermountain Red Cross bank has threatened to quit coming to Carbon County because of disappointing results, according to Josephy Delpha, blood ' ;. . . install stagnant water running chairman chapter. I I 2. gates and locks on the fence surrounding the area. 3. redevelop the Fish Creek spring source because of -- X procurement of the county The Bloodmobile will be at the Price Elks' Home on Monday, Feb. 3 from 2:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and at the College of Eastern Utah on Feb. 4 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. fifty donors One-hundr- are requested at each N ft l ' ' r - . i location. Mr. Delpha said the last several donation efforts Price area have been disappointing in that only of the requested donation of 300 pints were in-th- one-thir- d collected. Lions ready Mi I' i' i. ' . '.' ) ! ; i-- t ' h V r- a m iii Hunter Safety . Seminar ft. 3. mi'. It won 9t be long now residents, long without a area's main street that access as workmen Lowdermilk Construction Co. have completed work on the first phase of the rebuilt bridge on Spring Glen's south end. With the completion of the main construction phase, county road construction crews will soon begin work to lay down a new road surface and install guard rails. The new concrete structure replaces the old wooden bridge that had deteriorated to the point where county school buses Spring Glen second access will soon have from the II. E. were to the not allowed to cross it. Actual construction on the bridge began about Nov. 20 of last year. The new bridge is longer and wider than ' the old structure. It was changed from a one lane to two lane roadway as required for collector road specifications. The total cost of the bridge is expected to run in the neighborhood of $35,000 of which $27,000 was awarded to H.E. Lowdermilk for construction of the box type concrete foundation. The money to be spent has been collected from a one cent tax on gasoline charged by the state for such projects and distributed to counties according to population and road needs. lititk Johnson, Carbon County road foreman, has been in charge on converting the old bridge to meet state requirements. Keith Reid, chairman for the Hunters Safety Course being sponsored by the Helper Lion's Club, announces registration for the course to be held Jan. 29 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Helper Junior High. Those wishing to register will gain entrance to the school through the back door. The class is expected to run 5 weeks. Beginning Feb. 5 and ending March 5th. Children from the ages of 11 and older, who are interested in the hunting sports, are urged to attend the course. Mr. Rtiid said parents are welcome to come with their children. If unable to register the 29, Mr. Reid will accept phone calls to his home and he will register those names called in. Any adult wishing to take the course is (472-586- also welcome 69 NUMBER 5 V -. !- ;f"ft t f r ' j f if i 4 ' It K - ' 4 till ' v stream has a spring source similar to that of the city water itself and the stream cannot be interferred with because the water rights belong to the land owner. Neilson also points out that because the spring project had not been completed when the inspection took place the fences and gates had not yet been finished, yet all are in place and locked up tight now. Neilson said he would be the first to recommend that the Fish Creek spring area be rehabilitated. However, he points out, this project is needed only because of the need for more water and not because of any health hazards. He explains the water received from this area is all derived from and in spring boxes and the pipe is watertight, thus there is little chance of collected contamination from this source. The watermaster says he was surprised to learn fluoridation UTAH 10c x against seepage. Furthermore, said Neilson, this city's r-- .Si rehabilitation project had been completed. When the Division of Health engineer voiced some objection to the location of one spring near the stream, said Neilson, he was told that the box is surrounded by a two foot layer of clay, which is an approved method to insure sources VOLUME s of Spring Creek, Neilson said the Division of Health survey was taken in August, before the Spring Creek spring HELPER, 1975 172-567- 1 7 Watermaster voices complaint on report Snow tallies show low water total WEDNESDAY, JAN. 29. ap- paratus needed a stirring device in the injection tank especially when one considers that a stirring device already operates in the tank. Neilson indicated that his major complaint about this health report comes as a result of the recommendations made in conwith nection the chlorinator. Neilson said the apparatus is really quite easy for anyone to understand who has a background in plumbing. Neilson said the chlorinator works perfectly well and that the extra plumbing and gadgetry act only as a safety device in the event of a main system failure. ft . - Mrs. Gertrude Christensen, who celebrates her birthday Feb. 5, spends much of her time reading, walking and gardening. The Helper th Open House to honor Jtv4 centenarian says her greatest joys in life have been "living a good life and gar dening". H-- J photo Returning to Bloomington, where she spent most of her adult life, Mrs. Abram married Christensen. The couple served their community and church for over fifty years, and produced, along the way, four children, who in turn have produced eight grandchildren, 30 great grandchildren, and two great great - grandchildren. Mrs. Christensen said rearing children in her day is much different than done today in explaining, "Children then were given many responsibilities. Nowadays mothers give them birth and turn them loose into the world." She goes on to say that the best thing a family can do is plan activities that involve all members. "Hard work" is truly a phrase not unknown to this centenarian who still walks 10 to 12 blocks daily and gardens in the summer and intends to continue to do so. One can easily see that work is as necessary to Mrs. Christensen as is breathing, especially gardening, a pursuit, she insists, that is the source of some of her greatest joys in life. Even nearing 100, Mrs. Christensen tends a garden in Bloomington consisting of vegetables such as lettuce, radishes, potatoes, peas and beets as well as flowers and fruit trees. "My greatest joy in life," says the gardener, "is taking a pan of fresh peas and new potatoes to neighbors who don't have gardens." Living for a century has given Mrs. Christensen a chance to get a good prospective on progress and she seems to be sold on the advantages of living in this day and age. Yet she still reveals much of the awe she holds for technology as she recalls riding in an ox drav n wagon and wondering at what is beyond the furthest cloud and then in later life being glad these same clouds seemed to stretch on forever as she first viewed them from an airplane. Summing up a woman such as this is hard if not impossible, but perhaps she gives a clue in her description of a Mr. Jones, whom she first met soon after her arrival in Helper 10 years ago. The story is told, she said, of a man who was asked by a neighbor how he could afford to be so generous with his meager resources and yet still seem to have so much. "The man smiled," says Mrs. Christensen and explained that as fast as he could shovel his goods out, the good Lord shoveled more back in. And he has a bigger shovel." In one hundred years, Gertrude Christensen has certainly done her share of shoveling. But, just as certainly, she has been the benefactor of someone with a much bigger spade. Christensen -- Helper centenarian person who has shaken the hand different Mormon Church presidents is not that uncommon. However, when one of those presidents was Brigham Young and that person is still around to tell about it, then you have something quite out of the ordinary. 'Quite out of the ordinary' serves as a very apt description of Gertrude Christensen, the little lady spoken of above. Uncommon is a description emphasized by the fact that Mrs. Christensen will be celebrating her one hundredth birthday next week with an open house in Helper at which she, no doubt, will be the life of the party. Mrs. Christensen was born Feb. 5, 1875 to a pioneer family in the Bear Lake region of southern Idaho. Her parents, James P. Krogh and Charlotte Amelia Krogh, were early arrivals in Utah and were asked, along with ten other families, by Brigham Young to settle in what is now Bloomington, Idaho. Mrs. Christensen was one of the first babies born in the area. Mrs. Christensen recalls that her childhood followed the usual pattern set for pioneer youngsters lots of work mixed liberally with games invented as they were needed. She could describe, at length, chores which included tending to livestock and preparing wool for spinning a job, she recalls, that paid off handsomely when her mother made a purple dress of which she "was never more proud of any dress in her life." As a young woman, Mrs. Christensen attended Utah State Agricultural College in Logan where she met Dr. John A. Widsoe, whom she describes as the greatest man she ever met. Mrs. Christensen said Widsoe, who later served as president of the college, took a special interest in her and helped her to overcome her shyness and loneliness in being one of the few women at the college and being far away from home for the first time. A of five Set Feb. 6 Health district slates sanitation meet Sanitation classes for cafe and restaurant managers and personnel will be held in Helper Thursday, Feb. 6 at 2:30 p.m., probably in the Helper The same Civic Auditorium. presentation will be made in Price the following day at 9:30 a.m. and again at 3 p.m. in the Price City Hall. Gerald C. Story, chief for sanitation for the Southeastern Utah Health District, said the two hour sessions are being held to aquaint food service managers with the latest techniques in sanitation and to encourage them to provide better sanitation training to employees. He added that all area cafe and restaurant managers would be requested to attend one of the sessions. Story said each class will be broken into two one-hosessions. The first hour will deal with growth and prevention of food borne diseases, rodent control, microbiology and personal hygiene techniques. The second hour will be devoted to a slide presentation dealing with specific restaurant sanitation problems. Story said much of the sessions would be used to encourage food service managers to give employees, especially new employees, the sanitation training they need. He felt that many restaurant managers are familiar with sanitation problems and control techniques but are reticent to with this provide employees knowledge. |