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Show - yWV,yvV' rT a y '"" y i' Emery County featuring Wednesday, January 28, Volume 82 Number 4 1981 Sheriff accussed of fixing CASTLE DALE- - Emery County Lamar Guymon has Sheriff recently come under fire for tearing up a speeding ticket and booking reports of a Utah Highway Patrol captain. In a copyrighted story in the Deseret News, Jan. 26, Sheriff Guymon said he tore up the ticket issued to S. Duane Richens who was then the captain of the UHP in the region. In an interview with the Emery County Progress, Guymon said that although the story in the Deseret News is generally correct, he said that the writers, Robert D. Mullens and Joseph Bauman didnt get all of the facts right. Wanda Summers works at tying yellow ribbons following news of the release of the 52 American hostages from Iran. The ribbon decorated door knobs and trees throughout According to Guymon, the incident in question occurred in April. Sgt. David Oveson and Norman Vuksinick were on patrol duty during a graveyard shift. Oveson was training Vuksinick in the art of approaching individuals. Vuksinick is the son of Norm Vuksinick who works for the Price City Police. Guymon said that the pair had just left Castle Dale when they observed a brown four door car speeding. They clocked it at 68 miles per hour. Oveson stopped the car to give Vuksinick a chance to issue a warning to the driver of the vehicle. It is a personal policy that we Castle Dale as the universal symbol helped express the communities gratitude that the Americans were free at last. Your Representative speaks Utah House pass laws with local clout The Utah House of Representatives passed several bills last week, some of them directly affecting the Emery, Carbon and Grand County areas. John M. Garr sponsored House Coal Mining and Bill 66, Reclamation Act Amendments. The bill passed the house unanimously in the House and is presently being considered in the Senate. The bill changes existing state provisions for surface mining regulations to agree with the Department of the Interiors provisions. This bill qualifies payment for the Small Operators Assistance Program not to be subject to receipt of federal funds, but that it be paid for by state funds. As of this date, there is no one who qualifies for the SOAP in Utah. Garr says the program basically ensures payment for test borings and core samplings in exploration. Consent must be received by both the surface owner and the mineral owner if the two are different parties for their permission to which mine. Any land cave-in- s might result from mining must be predictable by the mining party to allow for long-rang- e land restoration. The determination of property rights will be in compliance with existing state codes. The end result is that the new law becomes consistent with West side grows more than East enforced. House Bill b6 is in essence an attempt to make sure Utah mining laws agree with federal mining standards. The bill guarantess that the state will have the right to manage coal mining operations in the state rather than the federal government overseeing Utahs state Emery county and 64 living in Grand County. The 1980 figures show 961 in Emery and 104 in Grand. A total 1,131 population lives in and around Green River. The largest city in Emery County is Huntington with a population of 2,303 compared to 857 ten years ago. Castle Dale is second with 1,905 compared to 541. Ferron comes in with a close third at 1,713, much larger than the 663 residents during the last cencus. development and production, but cannot issue more than one lease on the same land for the same purpose. The terms and provisions of the lease will be at the discretion of the Board which operates in the interest of the state. The lease may not be less than 10 years, as long as the mineral extracted is producing a profit. Both Bills 2 and 3 are under consideration in the Senate. Two resolutions passed both the House and the Senate. The first recognized the return of the 52 exAmerican hostages and pressed appreciation for the service of the men and women held hostage in Iran and welcomes them home. The ; v V' - il of 2,961. The Emery - Ferron area, which includes Clawson, Ferron, Moore and Emery grew to 2,493 from the 1,077 counted in 1970. Housing units for the county grew from 1,866 in 1970 to 3,704 in 1980. The most dramatic housing unit growths occurred in Huntington, Castle Dale and Ferron. Colorado last week. j Continued on Page 2 ) $ 4! , Ai t V i', G ?U ' r N&V'N V' Farley and the three juveniles were allegedly involved in three burglary and vandalism incidents in the Green River area during the past month. On December 19, 1989, two of the suspects entered the Green River ( if , . , Castle Dale and Huntington. The bureau counted 7,831 people compared to the 1970 census figure CLEVELAND More than $1500 worth of vandalism and missing artifacts were discovered Tuesday at the Cleveland - Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry 17 miles east of here. Bureau of Land Management officials and Emery County Sheriffs deputies investigated the scene Friday. Paleontologist Jim Madsen of Utah Division of State History said the plaster casting humerus of an allosaurus, a section of the left tibia of an allosauros and the rib of a sauropod were missing from the site. Madsen said the artifacts taken w T jk V, 1 . vV :$ .4 Emery County Sheriff's officers footprints at the Cleveland-Lloyd i inspect quarry Now I am being accused of fixing tickets, said Guymon. If I were to want to fix somebodys ticket I would do it for someone that I would benefit from fixing it, he said. Guymon said that one of his officers was given a ticket by the UHP for speeding, and paid it. One of his dispatchers got a ticket for speeding on his way to work. The dispatcher even had his uniform on, Guymon said. He quietly paid his fine. Even a county commissioner has been ticketed. He said that he could have fixed those ticket, thus benefitting himself, Guymon said. Now that the viiob' thing is blown out of proportion, I worry about the other guys involved. I can take the heat, but Vuknick is attending the Police Academy in Salt Lake and he is getting a lot of unneccessary heat from this story, he said. Guymon attributed the leaking of the story to the UHP office which has not always goiteri along with the Emery Sheriffs Department. If I have done something wrong, I will accept that, he said. Someone is making a big issue out of nothing. Vandals hit quarry, take artifacts, casts At 4 Green River burglaries cleared up by arrests Several burglaries and acts of vandalism were cleared up last week with the arrest of a Green Ri er man and three juveniles. Cpl. Tom Maughan and Deputy Phillip Stubblefield returned 18 year old Byron A. Farley to Green River following his arrest in resolution second acknowledged the inaugeration of President Ronald Reagan and pledged the states support during his term in office. It 1 says that Guymon called Larry E. Lunnen, state commissioner of public safety and Robert J. Reid, superintendant of the UHP. Guymon said they were the ones to make the first contact. Following a meeting between the arresting officers and the state officials, Guymon said that the officers decided not to press charges and the ticket was torn up. There have been enough problems in the past between the two agencies that the officers made their own decision to not proceed with the charge. It was their decision, not anyone elses, said the sheriff. exploration, prospecting, mining operations. The Senate considered the bill Jan. 27, but the results were not known at press time. Garr expects the bill to pass with very little opposition, since it is a house keeping bill. It brings the Utah mining industry into compliance with federal regulations and gives the state more authority than it had before. House Bill 2, Withdrawl of Consent to Federal Jurisdiction Over State Lands, passed the House with a 62-- 1 vote. This bill clarifies the right of the United States government to act in a civil and criminal capacity in all areas of federal ownership. This means places such as military bases, dockyards, arsenals and the like are under federal, not state, jurisdiction. State Mineral House Bill 3, Lands Rentals and Royalties. -- highway, said the sheriff. The reasoning behind this is that we have obligations to the cities and county to enforce their ordinances and statutes. But if I were to let my officers turn on their radar on the highway, they would probably never reach Huntington from Castle Dale. Guymon added that Vuksinick approached the car and told the driver that he was speeding and asked him to keep it down. He wasnt going to issue a ticket. The UHP captain, who had not disclosed his identity, said that he wouldnt sign a ticket if he were to receive one. Richens said that he felt the radar was wrong. By this time Oveson had gotten out of the patrol car and tried to assure Richens that they were not going to issue a ticket. Guymon said that about this time tempers had gotten the best of the situation. Oveson then issued a ticket and Richens refused to sign. He had not yet revealed he was a UHP officer. Richens informed the two officers that the vehicle belonged to the state and that only a UHP officer could transport it. A UHP trooper was contacted and dispatched to pick up the car. During this time the two officers put the captain in the holding cell at the detention center. Oveson then called Guymon and said that he thought they had a UHP officer in the holding cell, but that he wasnt sure. Guymon said that when he first was made aware of the incident he did not recognize the captains name. Guymon went to the scene of the offense and helped check out the car to be sure that there was no alcohol in the oar. A uniform, riot helmet and UHP radio were in the passed 66-- 0 in the House. The effect of this bill is to provide rental to the State Land Board for oil, gas, and hydrocarbon being extracted, not less than one dollar per acre per annum. This rental amount may be credited against the royalties for car. that year. The Deseret News story here The Board will grant leases for federal regulations and that standard mining methods will be facts are in. Emerys once The rest of the region goes as now is fourth in ranked follows, Orangeville, 1,315 comlargest city size. pared to 511; Cleveland, 524 up According to what is being called from the 244 in 1970; Emery, 372 the final figures by the U.S. Census over 216 in 1970 and Elmo with 300 Bureau, Emery County has 11,455 residents, an increase over the 141 residents in the county. This is an listed in 1970. increase over the 5,137 that were The census figures also breaks down the counties in geographical officially in Emery County in 1970. During the 1970 census, Green areas. Included in the Castle Dale River was the largest city in the Huntington area are Cleveland, : ; county with 969 people living in Elmo, Lawrence, Orangeville The only give warning citations to cars going under 70 miles an hour on the where vandals took some dinosaur bones and casts. i were more than 147 million years old and irreplaceable. Emery County Sheriffs Deputy Norman Swapp said up to four suspects kicked down the door of a storage building and then shot the lock off the door to the diggings building. Swapp said the gun used to gain entry to the diggings was probably a shotgun. Damage was also done to a window at the quarry visitors center, but there were no signs of damage inside where there is a fully assembled allosaurus skeleton. The vandalism was reported by a seismic crew working in the area on Monday. Sheriffs deputies surmise the damage happened on the previous wkend. Madsen said there was no real scientific damage to the site, though it wont be known until a thorough inventory is done this summer if any more pieces are missing. Lee Larson, BLM outdoor recreation planner, said this is the most extensive damage to occur at the site. He said yearly vadalism to signs around the area has totaled up to $1000. Last year the quarry had to close a week early because of a lack of funds. We need additional funds for general improvements, including more security measures, Larson said. The BLM has yet to allocate any money for the quarry this year, he said. Swapp said suspects entered the quarry on foot at a gate about a mile from the diggings site. Sheriffs deputies surmised it was four suspects from footprint ( Continued on Page 2 ) |