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Show 1 On ni we st Crp 3322 S, 3rd W, six " ordan Valley Sentinel Continuing The Midvale Sentinel Volume 42 Number 30 r&&. ' ' a A . A lis .8 i - W'.f T n urn r 3fsyj Published weekly at 125 YV. Center St., Salt Lake County, Utah by Midvale Sentinel, Inc. Second-clas- s at Midvale Utah. Subscription rate $4 per year. 3 years $10 in Jordan School District f ! ' n in. 4 VfVw- - Aug. i 1-- 2 Biuffdale Town Days will be celebrated Aug. 1 and 2. A program and "Dime-- a Dip" dinner will start the festivities on Firday at 7:30 p.m. The Jordan School District Board of Education instructed the district administration to begin searching for a site for a new junior high in the southeast portion of the district at the regular meeting Tuesday. The district will begin to look at property in the 1000 East to 1300 East 11800 South to 12000 South vicinity for the new junior high. The board also opened bids for the construction of a new elementary school at 9800 South 3100 East. Layton Construction Co. was the low bidder with a base bid of $1,518,200 and promised to have the work done in 300 working days. The school will be known as the Granite Elementary Saturday, from 8 to 10 a.m. the Lions Club is sponsoring a Chuck Wagon Breakfast. At 11 a.m. there will be a parade to entertain young and old, and at noon the concessions, rides, booths, games and activities will open for a full afternoon of family fun. Reigning over the celebration will be Queen Ellen Crump and her attendants Terri Turner and Shari Shafer. The royalty was selected at a contest July 1. That same evening Terri Turner was voted "Miss Congeniality" by the other contestants. Street surfacing bids awarded in Midvale School. In other action the board named Julian Brown, currently principal at Mt. Jordan Jr. High, assistant principal at Brighton High School. Fred Worlton will become principal at Mt. Jordan; he has been assistant principal at Hillcrest High School. Marvin Reid will become assistant principal at Hillcrest. Mr Reid has been assistant principal at Butler Jr. High. His position at Butler will be filled by an administrative intern. Samuel Miera and Calvin Newbold were named to serve as administrative interns by the district for the next year. Mr Miera is presently coordinator of the district's bilingual program and will continue to hold that position. Mr Newbold is presently a teacher at Westland Elementary. The school board rejected bids that they received on three different parcels of property. Only one person bid on two of the parcels, and there were only two bids received on the other. contract for resurfacing some of Midvale's streets has been awarded to G and R Contractors. The funds for paying for the resurfacing project will come from the city's B and C road funds from the state. A tentative schedule of the streets scheduled for resurfacing follows: Princeton St. east of Monroe, Marquette St east of Wood St, Wood St. Fern Drive, Adams St. Hayes St. Columbia Dr. east of Wood St., Rio Grande St. from 7th Ave. to 2nd Ave., Stagg St. from Smelter St to Depot St., Hoover St. Cottonwood St. 7800 South, Parkway Dr., Taft St., Center Square, North Allen St. Councilman A. M. Ross said that there could be additions or deletions to the list of streets if the money can be stretched or if the funds run out. A $22,400 in the back yard during the heat of July? Only What adult hasn't dreamed of the possibility of skinny-difor a quick, cool, nude dip in a back yard tub of clothes freedom the very young can exercise the shedding when temperatures hover in the high nineties. p Carnival Fair .. . M id vale's M5 traffic signal Parade route outlined bid openings Aug. 5 Bids on traffic signals for at 1300 South, 5300 South, 7200 South, and 9000 South will be opened Aug. 5, according to State Highway officials. 5 Midvale's Carnival Days parade will begin at 9:30 Saturday morning, Aug. 2, at the junior high school and proceed east on Wasatch Street. It will turn north on South Grant, continuing to Center Street where it will go west to Chapel Street, then north to the park. Saturday activities will continue throughout the day with booths, food, and games at the park sponsored by clubs and civic groups. At 1 p.m. the Midvale Prince and Princess Contest will be held, and a Senior Citizen King and Queen will also be honored. The Midvale and Sandy Fire Departments will struggle to see which group is superior with a fire fight at 2 Men's Ass'n will present a program at the junior high auditorium to select a young lady to represent Midvale as a junior miss candidate. The Midvale Roy of the Year program will be held at the same time. Mrs Earl Butterfield, Carnival Days chairmen, encourage the public to come to Midvale and participate in the celebration. They promise the activities planned will be entertaining and enjoyable for everyone. The semaphores will provide better access from frontage roads to the freeway and should help reduce the number of accidents that occur at each of the intersections. School district contemplates suit against Salt Lake County p.m. There will be drawings for prizes throughout the day, and at 6:30 at the bowery an amateur pop combo contest is slated. Two dances are scheduled for Saturday night. One begins at 8 p.m. at the bowery; the other, sponsored by the SOCIO group, begins at 9 p.m. at St. Therese Church. Friday's activities will begin at 5 p.m. with a sky diving exhibition at Midvale Jr. High School, followed by a ball game at 5:30. Hot dogs, hamburgers, drinks, and ice cream will be sold during the evening. At 8 p.m. the Midvale Civic Young The bid opening is a year later than originally scheduled. The Jordan District Board of Education will ask their attorney to look into the possibility of suing Salt Lake County for interest that the district might have collected from invested tax revenue if the county had paid the district what was due to them on time. Kenneth L. Prince, director of business services, said that the county collects property taxes for the district and before the money is redistributed to the district, the money is invested with interest from the investment going to the county general fund. The county also bills the district for the cost of tax collectioa The county bill to the disfor collecting the taxes in 1974 75 was $204.868.. The district feels that if the county would pay the district all of the money that is available at the due date, Dec. 1, that the district could invest the money and collect the interest themselves. Rough figures compiled by Mr Prince indicates that the district lost $62,238 in interest during 1972 73. $73,676 during 1973 74. and $148,334 during 1974 75. During the same periixis the district paid the county $176,515, $173,943. and $204,868 to collect taxes for the district. trict postage paid Jordan district will seek site to build new junior high Biuffdale 'Town Days' :i l'WWtZa , Thursday, July 24, 1975 Tradition marks The old West Jordan Elementary School will be advertised for sale to the highest bidder the board decided after they were given a letter from West Jordan City stating that they were no longer interested in the property. The school district has received feelers from several large grocery chains and of the others for the purchase property. The school board will proceed with plans to remodel the auditorium building at the old Jordan Valley School in South Jordan. The district received a bid of $65,500 for the remodeling at their last meeting. The board approved a plan to increase the price of adult meals in school cafeterias during the next school year from 50 cents to 60 cents. There will be no increase in the lunch price for students at the present time. School lunch policy revised in Jordan Dist. School lunch will be served on the opening day of school, Sept. 2, in Jordan District. The policy on free and reduced-priclunches has been revised, and information letters will be sent to student homes explaining the criteria and application procedures. School principals make the decision to approve or deny free or reduced-pric- e lunches, for students. If parents are dissatisfied with the ruling, they may appeal to Raymond Whittenburg, administrator of support services, or Mrs Virginia Williams, director of food services. e Draper's July 24th For as many years as most townspeople care to remember, Draper has had a 24th of July celebration. This year is no different. Thursday crowds of people will throng the streets of Draper on the way to the park for the traditional activities. The parade, will be viewed by many residents who have attended since they were children. The ball games, programs, rides, booths, concessions, and fireworks will go forward as they always have, according to committee chairman, Ron Smith. Something new this year is the addition of a Shodeo which will be presented in the newly completed horse arena at the park. Newcomers as well as veterans are The invited to the celebration. committee advises that by taking the freeway exit at 12300 South. Draper, turning east, and following the crowd visitors may find the 24th of July celebration. fcr f J ;( ,X H. Raby home at 3560 Summerhill Dr., Cottonwood Heights, has been selected this week as one of the outstanding efforts in home beautificotion by the Wasatch Men's Garden Club. The Rabys will be presented with a certificate from the Garden Club and cosh and merchandise gifts from the Sentinel and Big V Store. The Lee Moratorium imposed; sewer expansion faces more delay by Pot DoM Wntin! StoM A moratorium on subdivisions and commercial developments is in effect ir south Salt Lake Valley. The StaU Board of Health recommended tht action because the Midvale Treatment Plant, designed to handle 4.000.00C gallons of sewage flow daily is re criving our 8.000.000 gallons daily, and it is feared that greater increase' will create a serious health hazard. While the moratorium may have mmc as a surprise to some, it was fully expected by sewer district officials. Karly in December 1974 Mayor Boyd Twigg. Midvak. rr leased a statement U the Smtinel explaining the problem the treatment plant would fare whi-irrigation and fh-- r matrr infiltrated t.p yifm during lh" umm r nwnt hv s mm moss MsroriuGf j Wondrow S. MifiHM-n-. dirertor tf Sewer Irr provrmrnt I)ilnrt 1. mm mrnting on the moratorium in an Mid. We have interview th: invtffkiaHv dvi:rn iCint b g . bn developments for some time: the action by the Board of Health just makes it official. The moratorium does not affect private homes which may continue to hiKik on to the system." he added. STATE CALLS HALT According to Councilman Phillip Kemp, sewer board member from Mid vale, action to improve and expand the Midvale plant began oer a year and a half ago. But in May 1974 the state called a halt to local plans while a 303 tudy was completed to determine the future of developments in the valley. Kemp further explained that it as that the state and inMriwted the not until November 1974 made it to hnard to take interim measure until the eight handle ? f!n treatment ibnt along the Jordan P--nr into a rmld be d.nw.i.rj;)! With mnwiltdat n ji-ntopUit br f hawd out the Midvale plant and e age tUm from the outh end (4 taken to plant at Slt Ijike XVl South ' i majrr trvrk hr. Vry LAGOONS PLANNED response to the state art ion. engineering was begun on an aerated lagoon system, which was considered the most economical way to hand.e increased sewage flows for the interim period. According to Jack Zupan. Midvale Treatment Plant operator, the planned expansion will include three aerated lagoons and will be the largest system of its type in L'tah and one of the ten largest in the U.S. It will cover 35 arres of ground adjacent to the present plant Flows will travel through each of the three lagoons for purification, aflen hitch the effluent will be safr!y returned to the Jordan P.iver. Sewapp How from Wel Jordan ar, l District One will continue to ( treated at the present trickling f.'ier i from M.dvale and itrx1 T ' w.I! tie treated at the Ugrun n'.f" In n" Zun ha that budgeted for repair at the f.rfkr! fw.;h Ilant to improve it effioenr ytem will operate Bn'Vr a .nr management, hut eer fi" Mid -i ( l measured separately so that officials w here excess will be able to determine flows come from. DELAYS I'LAGt E EXPANSION lief.ire bids were let. the aerated lgoon plans had to be approved by the State Hoard of Health and EPA. It wa? not until January 1975 that the firt bids were let. They were opened in April, ami after review by the board were all rejected. "The bids were too divergent." MirJu-lseaid. explaining the board's anion. "Bids were for equipment costs only, and it appeared upon examination thai the lowest bids on equipment w ere the hich'-s- t on performance cost, and vire versa." June V huts were let again, with tjhter salification including both :t of opera' ion and installation i iatixj f'r Jul 30. but at two of the three b.di rg com Water parnes. l!.-Equipment. work, ad Poifon, are asking for a 13 day ot ri4rew-by the pi,h,!ity of r V 'nil her itia'k to rxrni-m- Twiggs said. "If we can guarantee expansion will begin before our Sept. 15 meeting with the State Board of Health the moratorium will probably be lifted. If not. we don't know howling it will last or what the economic repercussions will be." OTHER PROBLEMS The mayor pointed out that getting the expansion system underway is only one of the problems facing the sewer sy stem. If the state consolidation plan fails to be in operation by the 19S3 elite, another kind of difficulty may have to be dealt with. The lagoon system will be built on ground leased from Robert Soehnlen of ae is for f;ve Valley Materiais. The one y ear options. with year pU" to devf lop the area U when run ojt to Sx-hnie- r Of-m- d W te not interested m e hevorid the seven I e ex'f rnj:'g tr.e year l,f it. de '. . Anothr probWin thai .Ued by the interim p- - f 'trst ion A r tudv ;2f"', won't expansion bv ! i tle federal government and administered is by the Council of Governments, determining where all water comes from that empties into Jordan River. I'nder the direction of Dave Eckhoff. on leave of absence from University of Utah, the 308 study w ill attempt to find and stop surface and subsurface water from infiltrating the sewer systems. "We know the measures we are taking now are not adequate for the future, but we must go by state direction to lake only interim measures now. We realize our obligation to not dump unsafe water into Jordan River, and hope to work cooperatively with all entities to see that the problems ar solved." Mayor Twiggs said. Een if bid are let on schedule and e:iartion is completed before the high r fJtrst.ufi period again next spring and the study proven effective, fcewer offnal all agree that the pro-tert-i uth end of the valley will in the be far from over and sewer wiD ronttnue to h a ron-- e rn for year to mp-i- e |