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Show Also in this section: Local Obituaries B2 Opinions B4 Comics B6 Payson official! has his 001 trial scheduled for Jan. 30 - plea by way of a letter to the court from his attorney. A pretrial conference scheduled for Tuesday was SPANISH FORK A Payson city councilman is scheduled to go on trial Jan. 30 at 1 p.m. in the 4th Circuit Court of Spanish Fork on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol. John Michael "Mike" Rogers, 49, was arrested Oct. 4 in Payson. County Sheriff's Deputy Mike Mo Connell said he had just come from patrolling Payson Canyon about 2 a.m. when he spotted Rogers and pulled him over. While not detailing Rogers driving pattern, McCon-ne- ll said he had reason to stop the vehicle and determined Rogers had been drinking. McConnell said he arrested Rog; ers and took him to the Utah iCounty Jail where Rogers refused s. ;to sign a promise to appear Rogers posted a $600 bond. I Rogers entered a "not guilty" canceled and Rogers' attorney, Robert Van Sciver, requested a jury trial be scheduled. DUI is a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in the county jail and a $1,000 fine. Because he has a DUI conviction within the last five years, he faces a mandatory 10- - day jail term if convicted on this charge. The councilman became the center of attention on Dec. 3, 1988, when he was arrested on a DUI charge. He contested the charge and was found guilty during a jury trial March 1, 1989. He was sentenced to 100 hours of community service in lieu of jail time, was ordered to attend alcohol rehabilitation classes and pay a fine of sum-;mon- : r.,, t... . '.,... Thursday "...i - ,.,-- L.,- -, i.,. To maintain Justice Court, certification must be requested' According to the precinct court records in Provo, he completed payment on that fine July 5, 1990. He was also convicted of DUI in 1985. Rogers was also under fire in 1988 when several residents complained that the man was not living in the city but had taken up residence in American Fork. Rogers denied the charge and The Daily Herald reported at the time that he said he was living in a camper and still claimed the same Payson address while he was going through a divorce. There were also complaints that he was not attending the monthly council meetings because he worked out of town. He took office in 1987 and will conclude his four-ye- ar term in 1991. ... ,',,..,a,. R- Commissioners ink resolution By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN $870. February Nov. 29, 1990 Herald Staff Writer Utah County commissioners Wednesday signed a resolution of the requesting county's Justice Court. In order to maintain a Justice Court within a jurisdiction, the entity creating the court must request certification from the Judicial Council of the State of Utah. Utah State Code specifies the standards and requirements of a Justice Court by a county. Hours during which the court is open must be posted conspicuously at the court and in local public buildings, and the judge and clerk must attend the court at the regularly scheduled times. The county must assume ex 1..,.., .J.rJM penses of travel, meals and lodging for the judge and clerical personnel to attend training sessions conducted by the Judicial Council. The county must provide a sufficient staff of public prosecutors to carry out the duties of prosecution and must provide adequate funding for attorneys to serve indigents. Law enforcement officers must be provided to attend court when required to provide for security. Witnesses and jury fees must be paid by the county, and the judge must receive a fixed compensation. The county must also provide furnishings for a courtroom, as well as a judicial robe, gavel, current bail schedules and a copy of the Code of Judicial ....,.,,. xX.a.y..r-- - .. .... ' Administration. Office space must also be provided, with telephones for the. clerk and judge. Utah County currently has two on justices who serve half-tim- e alternate days. Both judges have offices in the old county courthouse. In other business, a public hearing scheduled for Wednesday morning to abate a nuisance created by the Lehi Cattlemen's Association was 'continued to Dec. 10 when representatives of the association failed to appear. Jeril B. Wilson, deputy county attorney, will write the association informing them of the hearing and also telling them that they must remove a locked gate placed across a county road on the west side of Utah Lake. ..... .....I." JJ:;,?aj;isaaKt., Herald PhotoTrent Nelsoa Four "sunburst aerators in a pond west of the Utah Valley Community College administration building are an attractive way to oxidize the water and help slow down algae growth. Irrigation project an attractive addition By KAYLENE NELSEN Herald Senior Reporter Utah Valley Community College has made an irrigation project an attractive addition to the Orem campus. According to Dick Chappell, vice president of administrative services, four sunburst aerators and a spout in the ponds west of the administration building have been added to oxidize the water and halt algae growth. The pond water will be used to 30-fo- irrigate the campus during the summer months. The "fountains" created by the aerators add to the campus atmosphere. "It's an irrigation project that happens to turn out to be very pretty," he said. Chappell said the campus prop- erty includes several springs which are fed into the ponds. The college also has some water through the West Union Canal Company during the summer. But UVCC has had to use Orem Experts won't acknowledge past civilizations By CHRISTI C. EVANS Herald Staff Writer Many manuscripts in the world document the possibility of past civilizations traveling over the earth's oceans, but experts fail to acknowledge this, said a Brigham Young University professor Wednesday. In an effort to promote study of ocean voyages by travelers before Christopher Columbus, John L. and Martin H. Raish have compiled an annotated bibliography listing 5,600 manuscripts referring to this topic. Sorenson is a professor emeritus of anthropology and Raish holds a Ph.D. in art history. The book, titled Contact with the Americas across the Oceans: An Annotated Bibliog "Pre-Columbi- an raphy," is published by Research Press and available at the BYU Library. Many scholars in this field are skeptical of voyages before Columbus. Sorenson said he believes this is because of a lack of knowledge of the documentation on the subject. His bibliography includes articles with evidence for and against the possibility of travel over the oceans by past civilizations and "anything that can be used to determine whether there were or not," Sorenson said. "We're not here trying to prove there were contacts," Sorenson said, but to provide information to make more study possible. However, many of the references 0 about shipping) (including 300-40- give positive evidence. "Many of them show the oceans are not the barriers us landlubbers think they are," he said. In the book's introduction, the conclusion is made by the authors that, "It seems to us both plausible and probable that numberous voyages did cross the oceans and in several places." articles referenced Twenty-fiv- e in the book discuss the possibility of Australian natives stopping on the Antarctica coast on their way to South America. Other articles theorize that people may have traveled during the Ice Age on the ocean around Siberia to Western Canada and Alaska. Some would argue ocean crossings had taken place as early as 3000 B.C., Sorenson said. Sorenson has included a brief synopsis with many references throughout the book which details the information which can be found in those references. Although he and Raish spent three years formally working on the book, Sorenson said he actually has spent the last 40 years gathering information. Sorenson's interest in the topic originally grew out of the Book of Mormon, which describes the travels of ancient people across the Atlantic Ocean. His interest then developed into a broader base, he said. The majority of those manuscripts referenced in the book can be found at the BYU Library, Sorenson said. Research shows Sanpete teachers' salaries up By IDA O. DONALDSON Herald Correspondent MORONI According to Utah Foundation, a private tax research organization, both North and South Sanpete teachers salaries were raised this year. North Sanpete School District raised its salary schedule by an average of $1,421, or 7.42 percent this year. In addition, most teachers not at the top of the salary scale also received a normal experience increment averaging $647 per year, making the total pay increase for most teachers in the North Sanpete School District during the 1990-9- 1 school year an average of $2,068 or 10.79 percent. In the South Sanpete School Dis- trict, the teacher salary schedule was raised by an average of $1,341, or 7.50 percent. Including a normal increment of $637, the total amount increased in the South Sanpete School District was $1,978 or 11.07 percent. The beginning salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree in the North Sanpete School District was $17,774 compared with $17,420 in South Sanpete. Salary schedules provide for regular increases based on experience and added academic training. Thus, an experienced teacher with a master's degree in North Sanpete would receie a max imum salary of $27,951 or 157 percent of that paid to an entry-levteacher with only a bachelor's degree. The maximum salary in the South Sanpete School District is $22,515. It takes 11 years to reach maximum salary at North Sanpete and eight years at south Sanpete. A teacher with a bachelor's degree who began teaching at North Sanpete School District during the 1985-8- 6 school year received a starting salary of $15,060, and in South Sanpete it would anve been this same teach$14,676. In 1990-9- 1 er with five years experience would receive a starting salary of $19,849 in the North Sanpete School el District and $19,556 in South Sanpete. Thus the total increase over the past years would amount to $4,789, or 31.8 percent in North Sanpete and $4,880, or 33.3 percent in South Sanpete. In the North Sanpete School Dis0 trict, about $1,745 of the gain in South Sanpete) represents increases in the basic salary schedules and $3,044 ($2,640 in South Sanpete) is a total of the annual experience increments. Over the past five years, the cost of living as measured by the consumer price index, rose by 22.5 percent. ($2,-24- Utah Lake Land Owners sponsor Dec. 6 program By JOSEPHINE ZIMMERMAN Herald Staff Writer Utah Lake Land Owners will sponsor a program Dec. 6 by Cliff Gardner, a concerned citizen and successful! ranger from Ruby Valley, Nev., who has recognized the serious results of the invasion of private property rights and the erosion of quality land management when the federal government takes over. Paul H. Taylor, president of the land owners group, said the meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in the Provo City Council chambers, in order to have members of the Utah ranchers present at a recent meeting sponsored by the Utah County his administrative assistant, to protest. The last word we had was that even with all this, the watere is still considfowl area ered to be a part of the Central Utah Water Project." against a proposed waterfowl refuge in specified areas around Utah Lake. "Many letters of protest were sent to our congressional delegation. Soon after this meeting, Janet Anderson, a member of our board of directors, while in Washington D.C., visited on a basis with each Utah congressman, or Taylor said the land owners are fortunate to have Gardner available to make this presentation, as he is on his way to a meeting in Grand Junction, Colo. Gardner stated. "The slide presentation that I have put together counters today's popular attack on private agriculture. In fact, the information I have gathered clear County Council of Governments in attendance. The council will meet at 7 p.m. Taylor said all farmers and Farm Bureau voiced protests one-to-o- ne set-sid- ly shows that it is the government itself that is destroying our most valuable wetlands and the wildlife that is dependent on them. "Everyone needs to be fully aware of what is actually happening to our resources under government management. If we allow present trends to continue, not only will we lose our most valuable resources, but our individual rights and freedoms as well." Taylor urges all farmers and concerned citizens to attend the meeting and see Gardner's slide presentation. city water to irrigate the lawns, trees, flower beds and shrubbery until this system was installed. Piping has been placed around the campus in preparation for using the pond water next year. Chappell said the college will save $150,000 a year by using the water they already own for watering landscape. It cost $400,000 for the pump station, aerators, pipes, computer controls and other things needed to get the system going. "It's a project that looks niofi and will pay for itself in a feir 1 years," he explained. The "fountains" will be turned off soon, he said, although they could run through the winter. The spring water will then be turned into irrigation ditches and flow on to Utah Lake. He said there has been some talk about leaving some water in the ponds to freeze over, possibly for ice skating, but no firm plans have been made. : " . " -- Dam proposed by Sanpete Water Conservancy District By IDA O. DONALDSON Herald Correspondent FAIRVIEW A $7.4 million dam on Gooseberry Creek is being proposed by the Sanpete Water Conservancy District. Chairman David Peterson said the dam would be built on one of two proposed sites in the valley between Lower Gooseberry Reservoir and the Fairview lakes. Water stored in the reservoir would be carried through an existing tunnel beneath the mountains to farmers in the Sanpete community areas of Fairview, Mt. Pleasant and Chester. Funding is coming through a low interest loan from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Small Reclamation Loan program. The Sanpete District would be required to pay 25 percent of the cost. . The project would reduce the quantity of water available to Carbon County residents, and it is meeting with opposition. The issue is that Gooseberry Creek begins in Sanpete County but flows eastward - toward Scofield Reservoir, and eventually flows into the Price River. er, no real benefits can be realized from it until a dam is constructed in which to store the water that now flows into Scofield. The dam would allow the water i to be diverted to Sanpete. Officials of the Division of Wildlife Resources say that the flam would destroy some valuable tjreut spawning habitat. Ken Phipjj'en, DWR fisheries biologist says jjthat losing these spawning areas would be devastating. He added that WW e would be trading a stream fisfSery for a lake fishery." He notes that there are dozens of lakes hrlhe area for anglers, but few streams. Officials say they are not certain what effect the annual diversion of 5,450 acre feet of water from Scofield would have on that fishery. ' One Sanpete district option is to build a 110 foot high dam in a narrow canyon cut by Gooseberry, while the other is to build a dam near the creek and divert water into it for storage. The 'Narrows Dam' would have a storage capacity of 17,000 acre feet and an annual yield of54O0 acre feet. The option offered by! an reservoir is that; it would have a storage of 5,400 acre feet of water and would be .com! pletely drained each year. A recent study showed that; if the preferred Alternative A is built, there would be a 100 percent loss of the fishery in Middle Gooseberry Creek, and about 25 percent loss in Lower Gooseberry Creek. In .addition there would be a net loss of 224 acres of valuable wetlands. pro-pos- -- -- m Several years ago the courts awarded Sanpete County enough water to justify construction of the dam. An agreement between water interests of the two counties when the new dam at Scofield was built, is the basis of the Sanpete claim. Under this premise, the tunnel under the mountain to bring water to the west was complete. Howev rmed rbbe,y suspects jai,etl Provo pohce have been jailed in connection with an armed robbery which took place Wednesday in southwest Provo. Police said the robbery was between three people who knew each other, with two of the suspects ganging up on the third and taking his wallet. Wednesday's robbery, according to one police official, has no connection with recent robberies of two businesses in downtown Provo and one in Orem. BREAK-IThe Provo police a report burglary occurred Wednesday at a business located at 43 E. Center St. The burglary netted a golf bagged-shape- d tele N - phone, videocassette recorder, compact-dis- c player and discs, cassette player and cash. In all, $775 worth of goods were taken. BURGLARIES Orem police report a burglary of two speakers from a car parked at 200 N. State St. When the owner went into the building at 11 p.m. Wednesday, the suspect took the speakers valued at - $200. - Orem police also report thai 'the wheels of a car were taken late Tuesday or early Wednesday morning near 1200 N. 1300 West.,' The suspect apparently jacked uptlie car, took the wheels and leftthe car wheel-les- s on the ground. |