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Show Utah Press Association Box 1327 Salt Lake City, Ut. 84110 WEDNESDAY, FEBUARY 11, HELPER, UTAH-472-5- VOLUME 8 pjTl 70 1976 671 10e NUMBER 6 PAGES Markle: 'Step in right direction9 Lease moratorium ends ; tracts open to coal firms A North Carbon area coal mine operator, has called the recent lifting of the moratorium on federal coal leases "a step in the right direction" but has declined further comment on the move Jan. 26 move by Secretary of the Interior of the government's vast coal reserves only when it could be shown that the other Intermountain projects would be Colorado and New Mexico. en- and vironmentally sound. It will economically not mean that leasing will automatically resume in the immediate future, he said. Thomas S. Kleppe. The new regulations call Roger Markle of Valley for "diligent development" Camp of Utah said his firm, of federal coal lands. which had previously apSpecifically, a company would must begin paying royalties plied for a need more time to study the after the sixth year of the lease even if development possible effects of the not started. It must Department has documents. have mined 2.5 percent, of the reserves after 10 years Boyd Harvey of the Corporation in Helper and 100 percent within 40 was unavailable for com- years. ment. "We are not in the In lifting the ban, Kleppe business of leasing coal for vowed that new mining will speculative purposes," be ailowed "only when it is Kleppe said, "We are in the business of seeing that the needed." are The opening is expected federal resources to be important to such produced for the nation's companies as Kaiser Steel benefits." There are approximately at Sunnyside and Braztah 190,000 square miles of Corp. at Castle Gate, whose coal properties lie adjacent to federally owned previously untouchable deposits, officials estimate,of with only four percent federal reserves. Kleppe cautioned that the that total currently under end of the moratorium lease. In addition to the would mean that federal Utah lease areas, most of officials would allow mining the reserves are located in 160-ac- re In-teri- Br-azta- h &SLJ fry SI I ' ! Matt Kloepfer, above, evading opponent; right, going in for lay-up. Though basketball league's changed, Malt's still there three games to hit 100" in 1950, he recalled. Kloepfer attributed the greatly increased scores also, in part, to the advent of the younger, more schooled players into the league. Matt was scoring 11.4 points per game in the early 50s, a hot enough pace to place him fourth in the league. Now, though he scored 15 in one recent tilt, he calls 4 to 6 points a good game. It's a function his having added a few more years and to switching to the guard position, he said. Born in Chicago, Kloepfer came to Helper in 1947 when he was in ninth grade. There was no opportunity to play basketball back east, he said, so the local recreational league was a new experience for him. His teams won league championships several times: twice it was the CYO team in the '50s; the D&RG team triumphed in 1971, '72 and '73. Matt quit playing basketball early in the 1960s and switched to bowling, but after seven or eight years of it, he said, "I added up the money I'd spent and it scared me." Basketball, he said, better suits his pocketbook, and besides, it keeps him in shape He owns for motorcycle racing in the street and dirt bikes. These days, he "can't compete with the kids," Matt said of bike racing. It's "basically . . the fun of riding" that keeps him going. Despite his claim that he doesn't move as fast as he once did, Kloepfer plans at least two more years of basketball competition possibly with some of his fellow quadragenarians at his side. Plans for next year, he said, include organizing an gang" of players over 40 for a shot at the league title. In 1949, Matt Kloepfer, at 5' 11" and 173 lbs., was a forward and one of the "big men" on the CYO (Catholic Youth Organization) team in the Helper city recreational basketball league. In 1976, at a young 43 years of age, and still at 5'11" and 173, Kloepfer, the oldest player in the league, is now a guard and is of average size at .best. Matt is now in approximately his twentieth year in a league now dominated by younger players, and he reminisced for the Journal about the changes that have taken place over the years in the league. First and foremost has been the disappearance of nightly fisticuffs at the games. "They used to say, 'Let's go watch the fights,' "Kloepfer said, noting that while the modern version of amateur basketball in Helper is perhaps a rougher game, tempers don't flare as they once did. The games featured two or three fights per night through the 1950's and into the '60s, Kloepfer said, but they began to change five to eight years ago. Meanwhile, he said, many high school players entered the league, bringing with them a tougher, more calculated, but also a more gentlemanly style of play. Hence the demise of the nightly don-n- y ' n high-scorin- range. Matt's Rio Grande team scored 100 points in a game two seasons ago. "You would have to play m national Public Service, is now Braod-castin- g being beamed into Helper, to county according television technician Ed Burnham. Burnham said workmen new installing began the for equipment educational station about three weeks ago at the primary translator at Beaver Mountain and the secondary one on Helper's "Cemetery Hill". Reception in the Helper area and throughout the Firemen's Ball slated Saturday The annual Firemen's Ball will be held Saturday at 8 p.m. at the Helper Civic Auditorium. Tickets, at $1 each, are available from all Helper firemen. Proceeds go toward scholarships for North Carbon Area students. v months, Burnham said, as technicians install additional receiving and equipment. transmitting When the project is complete, the signal will be several times stronger than its present level, Burnham explained. Price tag for the Helper portion of the project is $15,500, including $12,000 for the Beaver Mountain hardware, which will serve the entire county, and $3,500 for Helper's secondary translator. The funds were drawn from the $60,000 appropriated specifically for the project by the Carbon County Commission last year. ComThe Federal Commission munications (FCC) has approved use of the new equipment on a trial basis. for Future plans " KSOP-Fa country music radio station. Delivery of the radio equipment is expected in the near future. Burnham said some areas of Helper would be able to receive the new station. In response to the ending of the moratorium, U.S. Sen. Jake Garn, h, assistant and former secretary of interior Jack W. Carlson, issued nearly identical statements of reserved praise for the move. Both men said they were pleased with the lifting of the moratorium but expressed doubt about the wisdom of the "diligent development" regulations. The rules do not take into account projects such as power plants in which government themselves said. - traditional academic courses. In past years, though, jobs in professional areas have become harder to find, while employers have been unable to fill many jobs for skilled workers for lack of properly trained applicants. Hence, the voc. ed. program. The courses fall into five areas: work experience, directed by vocational counselor Jack Kobe; office simulation, taught carpentry, Gerald by Marilyn Kraync; vocational An- derson; Mining technology, Claude Cowley, and health occupations, Blanche Kobe. I Director 11 if ' Scott Grundy joins Sally Mauro School youngsters in an early morning game of volleyball. of vocational education for the district is assistant superintendent Frank Worthen. Some 241 students, over 25 percent of the Carbon High student body, are now enrolled in at least one of the vocational courses. Most varied among the vocational courses in the work experience program, which allows students one to three class periods a day to work at "training stations," jobs at businesses in the community. "We emphasize learning ; earning of money is secondary," Kobe said. North Helper resident, dies in pedestrian accident Price; Jack Hatch and Gary Harwood at Bob's Texaco; Scott Grundy, who supervises recreation at Sally Mauro School; Katie Banasky works at Wycoff; Gary Barnes at Price Pet Shop; David Kirkwood at Jack's T.V.; Perry Seal at J & F and Anthony Sanchez at Eben's Service. Red-D-Mi- p Council. x, Approximately 80 students are involved in work experience and the program draws help from Harry Mangus of the Manpower Program. College of Eastern Utah facilities are utilized in vocational programs in office simulation, cosmetology, mining automotive technology, mechanics, machine shop and welding. The office . simulation course teaches students the use of various office the through two-bedroo- m house. said Anderson students who have gone through the course and then sought jobs in the building industry have all been successful. Students enrolled in the Helper man, John bulance to Carbon Hospital, where he died at 10:50 p.m. of head and chest injuries. The UHP said Funk had not been cited. Bonacci was born in Emery County and lived in Helper for 60 years. He was Helper's street superintendent and assistant for 18 years ending in 1966. Last November, Bonacci, as a member of the Action Party, ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Helper City area Carbon students involved in the work experience program include Kelly Sillitoe, who works at Potter's Farm in operation of a mythical loan company, Moe, Inc. In the carpentry class, now in its eighth year, students expect to spend some 540 hours this year constructing a John Bonacci, 74, A be responsible for delays, they machines Bonacci, 74, died Monday night, Feb. 2, after he was struck by a pick-utruck as he crossed the street in front of his home at 4 North Main St. at about 8:35 p.m. The Utah Highway Patrol reported that Bonacci was apparently not in the television technology in crosswalk when the truck, Helper include replacing all driven by Kenneth H. Funk, the translating hardware 60, Helper, hit him. Witwith new equipment. The nesses said Bonacci was $10,500 project is expected thrown approximately 50 to begin early in 1977, and, feet by the impact. He was taken by am according to Burnham, it agencies might Carlson, a candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate, whose responsibilities at the Inrisks terior Department included environmental inherent in mining. energy and minerals, also The. new policy also noted that reclamation for standards might be too makes provision establishing standards for demanding and that the reclamation of mined land, requirement that the lessee and for developing regional show "profitability" would environmental impact force operators to open statements in areas where their books to the several mining plans could mark National Vocational Education Week (Feb. 8 to 14) in area schools, according to school district officials. Vocational education was once synonymous with "shop," but this is no longer the case in the Carbon schools, and district officials have invited parents to see this for themselves by visiting Carbon High any time this week. The district's philosophy is that vocational training has for too long been in favor of the St' "over-the-hi- ll would give Helper the best equipped TV translating operation in the state. Much of the new equipment will be paid for out of federal matching funds, he said. Also on the horizon for the county is the beaming in of Development has been slowed by conservation groups fearful that renewed mining on lease lands would severely damage the environment. In addition to the lifting of the moratorium, the new leasing policy includes an Energy Minerals Activity Recommendation System, which will include development of local land use plans in areas of known coal reserves and environmental and economic analyses of the tracts. Kleppe explained that the value of the coal must be ascertained in order to determine whether competitive bids are adequate and whether the value is sufficient to warrant the te KUED, educational TV, now beamed into Helper; reception to improve soon county will probably be only fair for the next two or three Montana, North Dakota, An attempt to the public to the benefits of vocational education will All new equipment due next year KUED television, the Salt Lake City affiliate of the states, be covered in a single Wyoming, report.' Vocational Ed. Week proclaimed; 'Smooth transition to work world ' n. brooks. Another striking change in the league, though one not typified by Kloepfer himself, might be called "score inflation." Matt hauled out a Helper Journal clipping from the '50s and chuckled at what was g conreferred to in the story as a test ... Both teams had scored in the 30 to including health occupations class Jack Manchester, left, of Jack's Radio and Television Service in Helper, and' Board of Education Chairman Albert Breznick look on as David Kirkwood check's into electrical ailment. 11.1 Photo work in the nursing home or at Carbon Hospital, according to Mrs. Kobe, the teacher. In all, Carbon High principal Eugene Crocco termed the community ". . .a great learning environment," and said the program has been successful in helping students make "A smooth transition to the world of work." a ' |