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Show I The UP&L asks for revenue hike to fund new facilities .1 C t s s Vh Utah Power & Light Company this week asked the Utah Public Service Commission for an additional $104.9 million in annual revenues to recover costs of new customer facilities and to offset the effect of inflation and cost of environmental control equipment. The utilitys application also asked for immediate interim rate relief in the amount of $91.1 million of the requested $104.9 million. The interim amount would be subject to refund pending ' hearings and a final order by the commission. The request, if granted in full, would mean an average increase in rates of 19 percent. The utility said that almost half of the requested increase is due to new facilities that go into the companys rate base including the Hunter Plant third unit, authorized by the PSC in 1978. The company said it had been operating for the past year under an austerity program including a hiring freeze that has reduced the payroll by 100 employees, contract work has been canceled such as tree trimming and line construction, maintenance programs have been deferred, the 1982 and 1983 construction budgets reduced by some $100 million and operation expenses have been cut in all other areas. The company said that its present rates are not producing sufficient revenues to pay for all of the costs of Remember Us When You Need READYrMIXai XONCRETEI Sand-Grav- el Moab x Ready-Mi- 767 W. Cane Creek Blvd. 259-531- 8 providing service to the the public, to maintain companys financial integrity, to attract necessary capital or to fairly compensate investors. The last general rate hike amounted to a 6.8 percent increase and was granted in two parts, the first late in 1981 and the second in the spring of 1982. These two rate decisions had little effect on residential rates, because of a PSC order that reallocated the increase to Nifty Fashions 45 E. Center Street 20 Levi & Off Ladies Slacks Filica, Size 10 thru 46 20 Off Entire Stock of Ladies Nightwear way Your Winter Coat Now! Lay-- A Vi i 1 1 1 1 , i sJE?5 Mi t, Thursday, Sept. 30, 1982 A5 Capitol Reef grazing extended other classes of service. In fact, many residential users received decreases. The companys interim request represents an approximate increase of $6.30 per month for the average residential user without water or space heating. If the full company request is also granted, it will mean an additional increase of 42 cents per month for the same type of customer. UP&L serves some 413,-00- 0 Utah electricity users. The open bull elk 1982 hunt opened September 29 and continues through October 12. The La Sal Mountains are an open bull elk unit. Proclamation can be obtained from local license agents, Brigs Sporting Goods, Yellow Front, Walker Drug, Family Drug, La Sal Store and Thompson 66 in Thompson. Private lands closed to general hunting include Tommy Whites, Pace Ranch, Doyle Ranch Property and Taylor Livestock land. often fell down. Sometimes Hunter Orange on head, they were beaten by the chest and back is required. . guards." All hunters must have to the According league, licenses and hunting permits over half the 2,500 missing in possession while hunting. men were either known or Evidence of sex must be suspected to be prisoners. attached to the carcass. With About 150, the release the exception of upland continued, had their names, game hunters using shotpictures or voices used by their captors for propaganda guns only people with valid purposes. The league urged citizens to write to the President, senators, and congressmen and request that the effort to obtain information on the Members of the Youth POWs arid MIAs be increased. The group also Activities Committee of the suggested that letters be Moab Elks Lodge met recently to outline programs sent to the Hanoi govern1982-8- 3 school year. ment, SRV Representative to for the marks the September 20 the United Nations, Waterside Plaza, New York, beginning of a new program, Teenager of the Month, NY 10010. designed to recognize outFor further information, contact The National League standing young men and of Families, 1608 K. St., women for achievements in D.C. school and commumty life, m N.W., Washington, The both Grand and San Juan 20006, (202) counties. An award certifi-c- at Mrs. of is Utah coordinator will be presented month- Barbara Endicott, Brigham ly by the Elks to teenagers City, Ut. (801) who excel in scholarship, citizenship, the performing arts, fine arts, hobbies, athletics, church, school, club and community service, industry and farming. In 12th Circuit Court on Ary resident of either a of county 22, may nominate a Sept. charge driving under the influence of teenager for the award. (DUI) Nomination forms are availaintoxicating liquor against Randolph John Sun-di- n ble at high school offices and was amended to driving at the Elks Lodge. Each high with a blood alcohol content school will have a nominaof .10 percent or higher. The ting committee consisting of defendant pled guilty and students, teachers and the Judge Donald Crist set school principal. Working in conjunction with the Youth sentencing for Sept. 30. A charge of DUI against Activites Committee, high Andrew Gene Tangreen was school selection committees amended to driving with a will screen nominees, and a blood alcohol content of .10 winner will be named each percent or higher. He pled month. The Elks annual guilty, and bail of $305 was awards banquet is scheduled ordered forfeited. Trial was' for May of 1983. The Elks National Hoop set for Oct. 1 for Deborah V. Cheek, on two charges of Shoot Free Throw contest theft. Trial was set for Oct. will be getting underway in 22 for James David Wright, of a on a charge of interferring arrest, possession controlled substance and a with a public servant. Richard Benally was senstop sign violation. Trial was tenced to 50 days in jail, on set for Oct. 29 for Roger two counts of retail theft. Balsley, on a charge of Harding Yazzie Jr. pled interferring with an arrest. A guilty to a charge of driving jury trial was set for Oct. 26 with a blood alcohol content for Tommy W. Lammert, on of .10 percent or higher, a charge of DUI. He pled amended from DUI. Bail of guilty to a charge of leaving $305 A the scene of an accident. was forfeited. report was Sentencing was set for ordered for Pete A. Terwille-ge- r thetime of the trial. On Sept. 28, a charge of on a charge of DUI, and sentencing was set for Oct. disorderly conduct against 21. Wesley E. Nelson was Trial was set for Oct. 29 for dismissed. He was sentencTracy John Balsley, on ed to three days in jail, on a charges of DUI, resisting charge of public intoxication. Missing Viet prisoner activities continue are American citizens being asked to help the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia in on obtaining information over 1,400 servicemen and civilians officially listed as prisoners of war or missing in action at the end of U.S. in involvement military Southeast Asia. approximately Including 1,200 listed as killed in action, body not recovered, the group reports that nearly 2,500 Americans are unaccounted for. A release from the group charges that Communist governments in Indochina deny holding additional prisoners and refuse to provide information on those whose fate remains unknown. The release cited a statement by Lt. General Eugene Tighe, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, to a congressional subcommittee in June of 1981 that in his personal judgment, Americans are currently held captive in Indochina. He added that all U.S. intelligence agencies are involved in an effort to locate POWs. The League of Families stated it received information that in 1978, about 30 American POWs were being held in three camps in Thanh Hoa, Vietnam. The group quoted the source as saying The POWs I saw were very thin and were covered with scabies. They were just skin and bones. The Americans were forced to carry wood from the forests and they Times-lndependen- elk permits will be allowed to legal possession firearm on the elk unit. No handguns will be legally allowed on the Elk units (classified as temporary game preserves). Bull elk will be defined as an elk with at least five inch antlers. Due to the wet weather in August and September the animals will be widely scattered. A good percentage of the elk are presently feeding on acorns in oak brush stands. Safety first - and have a good hunt. -- The U.S. House of last week Representatives passed a bill which extends grazing permits within the Capitol Reef National Park for five years and mandate a study by the National Academy of Sciences on the impact of grazing on the Parks lands. The bill now goes to a joint HouseSenate Conference where major differences must be ironed out. Congressman Jim Hansen ), the main proponent in the House for extending Capitol Reef grazing rights, called on the HouseSenate Conference to act quickly to reach a compromise. We dont have much GKC- Trappers must apply for bobcat possession tags prior A to trapping. special application form is available at all Division of Wildlife Offices or can be acquired through mail. Elks plan youth activities for year 223-684- 6. time before Congress ad- similar to legislation originHansen warned. ally introduced by CongressPersonally, I dont believe man Hansen in the House. the five year extension is The House version was long enough, but we had to changed to considerably compromise on my original insure its passage. bill to get anything passed by The Senate version, introthe House, Hansen stated. duced by Senator Jake Gam Ive been pushing for a ), extends grazing lifetime extension from the permits on Capitol Reef beginning, and Im confident National Park lands for the that the compromise version duration of the permit of the bill that comes out of holders lifetime. It also the joint HouseSenate Conextends the permits to any of ference will be much more the permit holders children favorable to Wayne and who were bom before 1971. Garfield County ranchers than the five year extension Quality job printing the House passed today, Hansen added. done at The The Senate version of the Times Independent Capitol Reef Grazing bill is journs," Frustrated over taxes? the near future, spokesman said, tion will be held on the local, state and national levels, for boys and girls aged 8 through 13. Details of the contest will be released at a later date. Our new IRA Tax Deferred Savings Plan can help. Everyone earning a living is eligible for a First Security IRA Tax Deferred Savings Plan. And First Security makes it easy to invest with four different plans. Shelter up to $4,000 annually. Check with First Security for the IRA Deferred Savings Plan just right for you and begin to ease that taxation frustration. LAKE POWELL Mr. and Mrs. Tom Balsley enjoyed a trip to PoweU over the week First Security Banks fy Each affiliate bank of First Security Corporation is a member of FDIC. Each depositor is insured to $100,000 by FDIC. 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