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Show 3tzh Stnu r nracuraf Lufcr-Sar- . J Pr Ai.;.c. I TV tf KMl UCEUUCE & IE & & S9 S) VOLUME 57 NUMBER 30 TREMONTON, UTAH , Tim lute-Cw- 13 84337 28, 1977 APRIL In Garland New Branch Bank Construction Is Near contractors within the next Construction of a branch Bank of Brigham City in Garland should begin during the month of May, according to Richard Nielsen, vice president. Approval for the branch bank was granted by the Utah Department of Financial Institutions back on Dec. 23, 30 days, Nielsen noted. And construction should be completed before the end of the summer. The branch facility will be a "full service" bank providing the full range of banking services. Initially, the bank will be staffed by five employees. 1976. Nielsen said the facility will be located just north of the Garland LDS Seminary at 1300 So. Main and has frontage of 190 feet with 148 feet depth to the property. Plans for bidding should go to Bank of Brigham City, the parent comorganization, is a locally-ownepletely independent bank which is a subsidiary of the Bank of Utah, Nielsen added. II Will Your Mom B7jQ O0?8d0( JiU f L i 111 & Ifq . One? l Be The Lucky - I: " Tremonton City will implement restrictions on outside watering beginning May 1 in order to conserve water through the summer months. Other local communities have also placed restrictions on culinary water use. City Councilman Harry Gephart announced a summer watering schedule this week. The system allows home owners with even numbered addresses to water outside on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Odd numbered homes can water on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. There will be no outside watering on Sunday and no watering between the hours of noon and 6 p.m., Gephart said. The councilman pointed out that because of evaporation during the summer months, watering: between . noon and 6 p.m. is extremely inefficient since much of the moisture never gets into the ground. The councilman urged Tremonton residents to cooperate in a voluntary basis but said "other methods" will be enforced if needed. Gephart said until recently one pump at the city's springs in Dewey-vill- e was sufficient to keep reservoirs , Some deserving mother from the Bear River Valley will win a night for two in Salt Lake City at the Howard Johnson Executive King Suite, a show, lavish dinner, plus breakfast and lunch the following day. "Will your mom be the one"?. Just take a few moments and use a little thought - no purchase required," according to Graling Garrett, promotion chairman for the merchant's committee. "Write why your mother is special, -use up to one page, - then deposit your reasons in a box in any participating Tremonton store." , The outstanding 25 entries will be selected and then each of those will win either a gift from one of two dozen downtown establishments, or; the grand prize - an exciting trip and evening awayfrom home. Garrett encouraged "everyone with a special mother to take the time to show her how much you appreciate everything she does all year long." ' Reception Will Host Governor Governor and Mrs. Scott Matheson by the Box Elder County Democratic Party at a reception and dinner Friday, May 6, at the Brigham City Community Center, 120 North 300 East, Brigham City. The reception is being billed as an opportunity for county residents to meet and hear the first-terUtah governor. The reception will begin at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Reservations must be made by Tuesday, May 3. 4 Call in Tremonton or in Brigham City. Gov. Scott Matheson 723-719- 2 ' town clerk, said water pressure is down some, but it is "not a major problem." Elwood City has put a ban on the outside watering of lawns but does allow culinary water use for gardens, a town official noted. No restrictions have been implemented in Garland yet. But, they have been the subject of talk around the city council table. One suggestion was to ask the school and stake center to water lawns during evening hours and early morning. Lynn Hardy, a town board member, said at one point water was so low the town's reservoir was not filling at all. "We knew we would have a shortage," Hardy noted, but officials felt the town's well could " keep up. It couldn't. f; .;.r Since lawn watering has been the situation at the reservoir has improved, Hardy said. When canal water is released to eastside canals it could provide water to some for lawns. Hardy said the town board hasn't had a meeting but will be "trying to develop water." "Bear River City is drilling a well and that might be our route," he said. Band Concert Tonight will be honored 257-561- full and overflowing. But another pump had to be turned on recently and overflowing has stopped. The summer watering schedule is nothing new to Tremonton residents. It has been implemented in past years in order to insure adequate pressure in the lines for residents in certain areas of town. Problems in those years were created by the lack of sufficient storage in city reservoirs and some main transmission lines which are too small to deliver sufficient quantities of water to . town. Other communities in the Bear River Valley have also placed restrictions on water users. In Fielding, the Ukon Water Company last week informed shareholders that they are limited to 100 gallons, per share per day. The limit has effectively curtailed most outside watering-from the culinary system, although some residents have access to canal water when it is turned in or operate shallow wells. The company announced that there will also be no more hookups on the system until further notice. One resident, E. Forest Munson, ..SPRING AND SLIPPERY slides go together like kids and dirt. But this Great Dane owned by Dan Bertsch of Tremonton apparently doesn't know dogs don't play on slippery slides. The dog goes up and down the slide at Tremonton's library park like a veteran. The Bear River Junior High spring band concert will be presented tonight (Thursday) at 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The general public is invited to attend at no charge. Three concert bands are scheduled to perform along with the jazz ensemble. $r rt'--uj Tji leasts .J. a 7 j "',,'1 'J Tj 'A &m.3jSi No Health Hazard Uranium Deposit At Crystal? A possible deposit of uranium has been detected in northern Utah at a health resort, but a geologist who helped make the find, says there is little danger to the public health and it is unlikely that a gold rush style uranium hunt will develop. The possible uranium source was detected in the waters of Crystal Springs, a health spa of Honeyville, when two U. S. Geological Survey scientists measured amounts of radium - a decay product of uranium. J. Karen Felmlee and Robert A. Cadigan, USGS geologists, Denver, Colo., said the spring water apparently picks up the radium produced by the radioactive uranium as the water passes underground through uranium-bearin- g rock before reaching the surface. On the basis of concentration of radium in Crystal Springs water, the rate of flow of the water, and the known rate of decay of uranium into radium, Felmlee and Cadigan calcu lated that the amount of uranium required to maintain the present production of radium at Crystal Springs is at least 6,000 tons. They added, however, that the uranium could be either concentrated in a small area which might make it worth mining - or it could be scattered over a wide subsurface area so thinly that it would not be worth mining. "People in industry realize that if the uranium is say at 10,000 feet below the surface, it's pretty hard to make a mine out of that," Cadigan said by telephone in an interview with The Leader. Cadigan said that there is no danger to the public using the spa "as far as I know,. ..not unless you drink the water." And, it is unlikely anyone would drink very much of the salty water at the Springs. The limit for internal consumption of water containing radium is five "pico curies" per liter. As a pico curie is a "millionth of a millionth," Cadigan - Radium measured in Crystal Springs water ranges around 400 pico curies per liter. Cadigan said there have been "instances where farm wells have had this much radium and no recognizable effect." But, he added that 400 pico curies "is a pretty high level to ingest." The geologist said he and Ms. Felmlee sampled many of the springs around northern Utah. Water at Belmont Springs, south of Plymouth, also "contained well above the average" amounts of radium. But Cadigan said he could not release those figures. There were three or four other springs in the area with measurements of radium in the "same order of magnitude." Cadigan said they checked no culinary systems but did check some springs which had been used for drinking water. All were below the limit for internal consumption. The geologist said the radium meas- explained. in water at Crystal Springs, Bdmont Springs and Stinky Springs coJld "all be related to the same gi'leral mineralization along that part of the Wasatch Front." lear River Health Department offices said they were unaware of the filings of the two geologists and said testing required by the state generally dsn't include radiological testing. One official said, "We might have to deck into this. It could be we should do some testing." Ihe two USGS geologists outlined their findings in a paper prepared for ddivery to the Second USGS Uranium-TiriuResearch and Resource 8 at the Colorado April School of Mines in Golden, Colo. The two geologists said their tech-niju- e of locating possible uranium deposits by measuring the concentration of radium in spring waters could be used in exploring for uranium in urd Con-ftjen- 27-2- olAer areas. cont. on page two . .JAN FRONK enjoys the warm spring weather poolside at Crystal Springs. Geologists who measured radium in the water stress that it poses no health hazard. Geologists say the presence of raiduin indicates the presence of uranium underground. |