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Show Universal Microf ilning Box 2608 Salt Lake, Ut. 84101 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER HELPER, VOLUME UTAH li!) 22, 1973 472-5C- NUMBER 42 10 Interior Dept. issues impact report - ,. .." r, . 7( .; ,.' : - r Coal 1 easin sf may ouen . " The environmental feature competitive coal statement on coal leasing based on the basing policy, begun 30 months principles of multiple use ago was released recently land management and by the U.S. Department of nominations for or against Interior; it recommends a and development by whole new system of coal leasing and the public at industry . land leasing. ,arge Future policy, the involved are some 85 statement said, "would million acres 0f identified mcm - ft 1 h reserves in the area extending from Montana to New coal Mexico and Arizona. Ap- plications are already pending for preference right leases on 478,000 acres containing an estimated 10 to 12 billion tons of recoverable coal. Hunting accident claims man near Clear reeK Release of the environmental statement does not imply an immediate resumption of coal leasing, Acting Interior Secretary Kent Frizzell stressed. "The statement," he said, "contains vironmental which will valuable en- information guide the department toward a decision, but no action will occur until we ascertain that coal leasing is comour with patible requirements for protecting the environment and is in the national interest in developing coal resources." y After the waiting period following publication of the statement, and after further consultation with the Congress and the governors of the affected will Interior states, determine whether to proceed with the proposed 30-da- An aboard the ambulance from the site 300 yards from a trail, Robinson's report said. The ambulance arrived at the hospital at 8:10 p.m., but Harvey apparently died en route, according to the Emery County man, Boyd Kimber Harvey, 34, Cleveland, was killed i r- ' - ., - - ' ' . , - . ., v-;;- .' - . " " ..... Saturday, Oct. 18 above Clear Creek of a gunshot wound in the side. The Carbon County Sheriff's Office said the death was the result of a hunting accident, and an , familiar terror to Helper drivers is the game of "chicken" that often results when a vehicle of any size attempts to share the narrow North Helper "Martinelli" bridge with a large truck. The "fun" will end next span will be replaced w ith a 3G- - or spring however, when the A One's a crowd autopsy Monday was to model. Mining museum suffers big drop in attendance North The Helper "Martinelli" bridge will be rebuilt next spring with $225,000 in federal funds allocated at Attendance at the Helper Museum has Mining declined drastically in the past two years, but reasons for the drop, according to Curator Fred W. Voll, are largely out of the control of city officials. People came to the museum this year from such diverse hometowns as Trail, British Columbia, "off-syste- the Sept. State 26 meeting of the Transportation according to James Deaton, Department of Transportation District 4 director. Deaton said the DOT has long realized the need for Commission, rebuilding the bridge but has not had the funds to do the job. Now, he said, the federal funds imfor earmarked provements not on the federal highway system are in the proverbial pipe, and construction will begin as soon as the design is complete and a contract can be awarded. The bridge, constructed in 1923, will be widened to 36 or 40 feet, Deaton said. Standard time to push clocks back one hour area Intermountain timepieces will put in an hour of overtime early Monday morning, Oct. 27, as residents move their clocks back an hour in the conversion back to standard time. Insomniacs throughout the area will wait till 2 a.m. Canada; Virginia; Woodridge, Florissant, Missouri; Milton, Vermont; Hallandale, Florida; Minnesota; Waycross, Georgia, and St. Pipestone, Ohio, but their numbers hardly compared with earlier years. Between 3,000 and 4,000 people visited the museum during the 1973 season, Voll said. The following year, attendance plummetted 50 per cent to approximately 1,500, then, this year, the guest register further shrank to include the names Clairsville, Harvey came from his own gun, a rifle, or another. of only 900. Voll set out four reasons for the decline. First, and perhaps most important, he said, is that the cost of traveling gasoline, meals Museum project can't start without donations An room, adding the space from an old office and a portion of the old Kiwanis meeting room, is the tentative plan for expanding the Helper Coal Mining Museum, according to Museum Board member Mary Rebol, but the city will receive none of its $11,596 grant from the State Bicentennial Commission unless $1,500 is raised from citizens and merchants of Helper. Anyone making a donation to the museum fund will receive a postcard bearing a cancellation from the Castle Gate post office on its last day of operation, said museum curator and board member Fred Voll. He added that proceeds from the sale of Helper Mining Museum decals, which go for 50 cents each, would also go toward the $1,500 goal. The original expansion plan, which included knocking down a side wall of the main first floor room of the auditorium and expanding the museum into that room was nixxed by the city council at a recent meeting, because too much space would have been lost in the main room. was adopted, because it Instead, the would yield a smilar amount of additional floor space, more wall space for the museum's photo collection, and would not interfere with the large room. The state grant is to be matched by $25,904 from the city, in addition to the $1,500 in donations, making the total remodeling project a Monday, then move their clocks back to 1 a.m., but the best advice for most is $39,000 set clocks back an hour before retiring Sunday Contributions may be sent care of Voll at Main in Helper. . to venture. 20 S Deputy Jim Robinson said Harvey, the son of Joe Harvey and the nephew of Braztah Corporation General Manager Boyd Harvey, was found by Max Cunningham Jr. at about and lodging expenses have skyrocked in recent years, leaving vacationers unable to afford long trips. Cool weather lasting later than usual into the year in 1975 further discouraged said alone. Funeral services were scheduled for Wednesday. Candidate interviews to tell election issues pending 0 'Martinelli' Bridge to be rebuilt Acquaintances Harvey left camp on horseback at about 4 p.m. He was thought to be hunting program. Moreover, determine the blast whether that killed 40-fo- ot report. 4:45 p.m. with a wound in his right side, just above the hip. An from ambulance Carbon Hospital in Price arrived at Clear Creek at 6:20 p.m. at which time the crew was taken to the site of the incident in a vehicle owned by travel, he said. Sr. Muddy Roadway signs, which Cunningham the once informed travelers on conditions prevented 'ambulance from going into Highway 50 & 6 of the museum's existence and the area. Jack Topham, a conlocation, are now gone, Voll officer for the servation a leaving explained, Wildlife significant number of Division, andResources 15 hunters vacationing families with in assisted getting Harvey of no way knowing that they are passing up the attraction. Finally, he said, who do pass travelers through town and see the sign at the entrance to the Since last December, one museum are likely to find nurse has left Carbon no available What do Helper's seven city council candidates feel are the most important issues facing the city in the coming years of projected growth? And what specific proposals do they have for dealing with these issues? These questions will be answered for Helper voters in next week's edition of the Helper Journal, when interviews with each of the candidates will be published. Also appearing in the Oct 29 edition will be a sample ballot for the Nov. 4 vote. The decision of who will fill the three council terms expiring this year will be the only one on the ballot, with no referenda, initiatives or finance questions being submitted to the voters. For registered voters who are either physically handicapped or plan to be out of the county on election day, absentee ballots are available from the Helper City Recorder's Office at city hall. Following completion of an application form, voters must return the marked ballots to city hall by Monday, Nov. 3. Ballots mailed to city hall must arrive by the same date, City Recorder Albert Fossat said. readily parking. What can be done? Weather and the cost of gasoline, Voll said, are beyond control, but the city could probably bolster attendance by replacing the signs on the highway and by supplying adequate parking for the facility, he asserted. Word of the museum is also being spread throughout the state via the city's new travel brochure, recently published with funds from the area travel council. Hospital to go into public health, one has gone into mental health, one has retired, one has resigned to teach at the College of e Eastern Utah, two nurses resigned and two nurses were taken off regular duty to serve in the Intensive Care Unit. The result is a serious part-tim- of registered shortage nurses at the hospital, a shortage officials say they have no sure way of remedying in the near future. e Two of the nurses have been replaced, and qualified licensed practical nurses have taken over some of the duties of the lost R.N., but schedule juggling and extra duty hours are what have kept a full nursing staff on duty, and those stopgap measures can't be taken forever, said Janet Goudge, R.N. the full-tim- director of nurses. An L.P.N, is in charge of hospital's the obstetrics department at times, Mrs. Goudge said, though an R.N., has traditionally taken that Fire threatens Kenilworth residence A "raging blizzard" kept a fire that originated in a wash in Kenilworth from getting out of hand early Monday, Oct. 13, Helper Fire Chief Jim Pugliese reported. One truck and six men responded to the 4:50 a.m. alarm, Pugliese said, and ' "7,1" arrived in Kenilworth to find that the fire had spread to a tree which overhangs the Burnside Clyde residence. Burning material was dropping on the house, the fire chief said, and only the severe weather kept the blaze from spreading to the wri" .'V 1 ti 1 iii . , it vironmental structure. Pugliese said he would recommend to Kenilworth officials that dumping refuse in the wash be prohibited. The fire was controlled in approximately one hour, he said. L.P.N .s will have to be moved into positions of greater responsibility next month, if no nurses are found. Mrs. Goudge said she had with a communicated number of nurses, including one male nurse, who were Price area residents attending school upstate and who planned to return here (Continued to Page 2) impact ad- statement (EIS) with ditional, more specific information on impacts of leases within given areas. If implemented, the proposed EMARS (Energy Minerals Activity Recommendation System) includes a nominations process and a lease tract recommendations process. The nominations process allows industry, state and local governments and the general public to suggest which specific tracts should or should not be leased. The lease tract recom- mendations process then considers the nominations in light of the resource data analysis, environmental information and demographic studies, as well as input from governmental bodies. The Interior Department is also proposing new lease terms R.N. shortage plagues hospital In- terior officials said that prior to any leasing, it will enthe supplement and requirements encourage diligence designed to prompt development or relinquishment of existing federal leases not presently committed for development. The requirements would enable the department to recapture some of the existing backlog of un- leases and will discourage excessive accumulation of leases under the new program. Leasing was halted in February 1973 by a directive from the Secretary of Interior and has not resumed since. developed Vote registration set Oct. 28 Voting registration agents in the North Carbon area have been announced by the Carbon County Clerk's Office. Residents wishing to register to vote in the Nov. 4 municipal election may do so from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 28 at the following locations: No. 2 Scofield-Clea- r Creek, Frances W. Helsten, Scofield; No. 7, East Helper, Mary Mullins, 32 S. 2nd E.; No. 8, West Helper, Neta Lopez, 564 S. 3rd W.; No. 9, Spring Glen, Myrna Bauermeister, Bauers Bluff, Helper; No. Fern 10, Kenilworth, Jewkes, Kenilworth; No. 21, Northwest Helper, Caroline Tomsic, 27 Bryner St.; Martin, Arlene Reddington, Rt. 1, Helper. Residents may also register during business hours at the Helper City Hall. ' night. Sen. Bunnell named floor leader Sen. Omar Bunnell, a state senator for with Senator Pettersson 12 years and minority leader in the senate in 1967, was named majority floor leader by the Senate Democratic Caucus last Wednesday, Oct. 15. Sen. Bunnell, 63, a mobile home dealer in Price and Moab, replaces Sen. Carl E. Pettersson, whom the caucus removed from the Dost a month ago after friction developed hi mm t 'a . w Omar Kunncll I; between him and Senate President Ernest Dean, Fork. was Bunnell the unanimous choice of 13 of Senate Democrats, th leaving the caucus before the vote for his successor. Bunnell, serves on the local advisory board for Zions First National Bank and has been a committee leader on education matters. He recently received an award from a University of Utah professional fraternity for his "out- standing contribution to education." He was defeated by Sen. Dean for the Senate president position at the opening of the regular in legislative session January. Open wide Jelly, jam and day, Oct. 13 at grade students Joyce Martinez preserves were the order of the (lay MonSally Mauro Klementary School, as sixth of Mrs. Carol Arnold (pictured) and Mrs. got a combination cooking lesson and in sight 111(0 their pioneer heritage. Michael Sanchez, 11, Helper, is shown stirring preserves but appears to be quite willing to trade jobs with Jimmy Timothy, 11, Kenilworth, w ho drew the pleasant task of sampling the confection. |