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Show r Emery County featuring O- Entertainment Hageilne i - 25 S' Wednesday, Novembers Volume 82 Number 44 1981 .Bond issue is big winner Emery County voters turned out and overwhelmingly voted for the Castle Valley Special Service District $15 million bond. In what was termed an unusually large turn out for an off year election, the bond passed by a vote of 1,619 for and 508 against. This was nearly a 3 to 1 ratio. Im surprised we did so well, said Gayle Chapman, chairman of The people just the district. received their tax notices a day or two before the election. I didnt think the people would be willing to add another six mills to their property tax bill. Chapman said the board would begin to work on the projects so that inflation didnt eat up the earned a spot on the council with 71 votes. Calvin Willson received 24 votes and Mervin Day had nine cast in his favor. Elmo voters said yes to the bond issue with 73 ballots to 17 against. In Cleveland, Delyle Larson had 107 votes cast for him in an uncontested race. Also uncontested, Tony Maridakis was given 95 votes and Ron Allen was given 107. council seat back with 230 votes. Stuart K. Jensen will join him, having received the most votes, 249. Newell Koffard, who was uncontested for a two year seat vacated by Dixon Huntington, was given 360 votes. Ron Sanders had 169 votes and George Stucki had 118 votes. In the bond issue, Castle Dale voters cast 309 for it, compared to 1,619 For the Issuance of Bonds Against the Issuance of Bonds 508 Cleveland was in favor of the bond 88 to 31 against. We would like to be in a position Huntington voters had a large to install the irrigation systems in turn out to put Robert Roberts into the Spring of 1982 or early Fall. We the driving seat as mayor with 331 have to move ahead on the votes to Grant Wilsons 163. engineering and designing of all Darrell Cannon received the the work that we have to do, he most votes in the city council race said. with 413 votes. He was followed by Darrell Leamaster, district Roger Myers with 410. Warren manager, said that he hoped to do Oviatt had 126 cast in his losing as much as possible as soon as effort. possible. Huntington voters said yes 334 We will need to watch the intimes for the bond election, terest rates very closely. Im just compared to 169 against. Hunglad that we had such a good voter tington was one of the towns that turn out. The vote showed that the some people thought would vote people wanted to have their towns against the bond issue. fixed up, he said. In Castle Dale, Mayor Don Jn municipal races, Elmo Mayor Jorgensen received only nine more Varden Willson gained 77 votes in votes than his opponent Ron an uncontested battle. Stanley Barney, 202 to 193 to keep him in Gordon won back his city council for another four years. seat with 67 v.otes and Johp Lofley Bruce Anderson was given his bond. . 86 against. In Orangeville, Tom Humphrey was able to withstand a barrage of write - in votes garnering 230 votes to Ben Killpacks 165 and Joyce Bremers five votes. Sherryl Allen was given one vote. In the City Council seat, Pat Jones was given his seat back with 315 votes. Dixon Peacock will be the new member of the council with 203 votes. Marge Ball was given 133 votes, Ron Alien received 27 votes, William Dellos, 50 and Kenneth Thompson had 63 votes. In the bond issue election, Orangeville voted for the issue, 354 st formed by the Legislature last week. If the the governor does veto any bills, the Legislature has already agreed to return on Nov. 17 at 2 p.m. to dispose of one bill left up in the air and to attempt to override any gubernatorial veto. Garrs new district was created from an argument that combining San Juan, Wayne, Garfield and Kane counties would make traveling difficult for that of because representative barriers. geographical Garr said the House majority took heed to this argument and began looking for numbers as they shifted the boundaries suggested in plans recommended by the governors reapportionment task force. This same task force also split Sanpete County in three parts which was met with opposition Bomb threats prompt reward offer by EMC Several bomb threats and instances of vandalism has prompted Emery Mining to offer a $5,000 reward for the information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons involved in any acts of sabotage and or bomb threats. On Monday evening, Oct. 26, a phone call was received at the Deer Creek Mine indicating that a bomb had been set to go off at 2: 15 a.m., according to an EMC press release. The workforce employees elected to leave the property and did not return to work that shift. The premises were searched and employees returned to work dayshift on the 27th, it said. Emery Sheriff Lamar Guymon said someone has called in three bomb threats in recent weeks, and vandals have been damaging EMC property. Investigators are not sure if the threats and the vandalism are related, Guymon said. LeGrand Wilberg, director of Safety for EMCs five mines, said that the vandalism has been very costly for the company because officials have had to evacuate the entire mine sections. Guymon said that it costs the company about $50,000 every time they lose a shift. Larry Saling, EMC com- munications manager, said that the cost to the workers in lost wages is great. Neither Emery Mining Corporation nor its employees can tolerate such threats made upon its operation and especially on the lives of the men and women who work here for a living, he said. Besides the bomb threats, Saling said belts have been cut which haul coal from the mine. He said he didnt know of any recent salary disputes, problems with the recently proposed incentive program or strikes that could be related to the threats. People having information on the bomb threats or sabotage should contact the Emery County Sheriffs Department in Castle Dale. 4 I Truman gained 204 and Dale Johnson had 177 to become the new city council members. The other candidates earned, if t Barbara McKell, 71, Lee Wareham, 104, Rhonda Cozad, 71, Jim Owens, 131, Phil Funk, 50, Craig Larsen, 83 and Larry Cook, 36. In the bond election, Ferron residents followed the rest of the county and voted for the bond issue, 349 for and 125 against. Emery residents gave Morris Sorensen a vote of confidence with 121 votes. Robert Homer received 17 and Lynn Mangum was given 21 votes. Merlin Christiansen was the only incumbant in the county that turned out as Cameron Brinkerhoff was given 112 votes and Joel Jensen was given 111 votes to his third place showing of 81. As far as the bond election, Emery voted for the issue 115 to 50 against. Municipal leaders will take their to 47 against. Max Ralphs held onto his job as Ferron Mayor with a vote of 248 to defeat challenger Henry Larsen, 142. Write - in candidate Dave Saley garnered 78. In the city council contest, Scott Huntington, Castle Dale made part of Sanpete Utah Legislature District Rumblings of a challenge toward the Utah Legislatures House reapportionment plan are starting from the representative whose district was the battle ground in last weeks special session. John Garr, Carbon, Emery, is the incumbent in a district 300 miles long stretching from east Carbon County to Kane County and encompassing parts of seven different counties. Garr said he is writing letters to Gov.'Scott M. Matheson and those who influence him about the incongruities of the newly formed district 73 (see accompanying map). The district really doesnt share any common interest or philosophy, Garr said. The governor has until Nov. 9 to decide if he wants to go along with the House plan and the reapportionment of Senate, state school and U.S. Congressional districts 04 09.. from Democratic and Republican members. Theres just as much a geographical barrier in the district they created, Garr said. The incumbent would have to travel 500 miles to reach all parts of the district. He added that a classic case of gerrymandering occurred in forming the district when the House majority made a peninsula out of Castle Dale and carved Huntington away from the county into Sanpete County. What the House actually did was argue that it shouldnt cut up Sanpete County three ways and then turned around and cut up seven other counties, Garr said. ' Allan Thorpe, Republican party leader for Emery County, said he felt it is important that Emery County be left intact because of the impending energy impacts. He testified in June before the at a hearing governors reap- portionment committee to leave Emery County intact, but his pleas fell on deaf ears when the redistricting process leaped into its final stages. If we hadnt gone with the Democrat Garr for so long, we may have had better redistricting for Emery County, he said. With the growth, Emery County may dominate any district it is put in, thus having two legislators directly representing its interests. This scenario is not the current situation for the new District 73, according to Garr. He said most of the votes will be in the southern part of the area, which consists of more than 19,000 voters. Mike Dmitrich, had his district left intact by the House. It wasnt really touched at all, I guess its a hard district to screw up, Dmitrich said. However, his opinion was just as adamantly opposed to the House reformation as fellow Democrats and members of the Senate who had to accept the conjured plan. It will open up the possibility if the governor vetoes the plan and se ( Continued on Page 10 ) Gene Harding cast his bailot for the candidate of his choice in huntington. The voters turned out in larger than expected numbers throughout the county to keep all but one incumbant councilman, and to approve the special service district bond issue. Nuke hearing draws crowd to protest A new city of 20,000 could replace the 1,000 that now inhabit Green River if a conceptual nuclear energy center is built on Horse Bench 15 miles south of here. Fears of depletion of Green River water, and radiation leakage were expressed Tuesday night at a public hearing at Green River High socio-economi- c, School. The conceptual plan is being studied as a possible future energy source by the Utah Energy or;?e for the Department of Energy. James Byrne, director of we Utah Energy office, said that ir the plant is built it to would be equal to 11,000-megawa- tt two-thir- ds the present assessed valuation of the entire three-fourth- of s state. He said the plant would use of Green about 200,000 acre-feRiver water annually, which is et about one-seven- of th Utahs allocation. Approximately 60 people attended Tuedsays meeting. Among them were several experts who have been part of the $500,000 study. Preston Hunter of Ford Bacon and Davis, which has been doing radiological studies, said building the plant could raise the radiological background by .5 millirem at Green River to five millirems at the plant site. He said five millirems is about equal to one dental Keith Burnett, representing the Southeastern Utah Association of Governments, said plant construction would change Green Rivers population, which has been stable at 1,000 persons for almost 30 years. He said studies indicate that the beginning of construction is projected for 1995 X-ra- y. socio-econom- and could bring as many as 25,000 to 27,000 additional people to the state. Ken Sleight, a river guide from Green River, said building the complex would be detrimental to water activities because of the reduced water level. Mary Boucek, representing Science Applications, a firm which has been studying environmental impacts, said the greatest impact would be on water recreation. This would suffer even more impact because of the increased population. The Green River is home to several threatened or endangered fish, including the y Colorado River squawfish The tremendous draw-dow- n of the river below the reactors intakes would have serious effect on these species. once-might- Because of the increased population, problems are expected to occur with vandalism of recreational facihtes and archaeological sites with sanitation, vehicle use, litd safety, tering and overall increase in area use conflicts, according to the Science Applications report. So far, no utility has expressed any interest in building a nuclear park in Green River. Byrne said the studies are conceptual and there are no commitments on the part of the Department of Energy, the federal government, the state or any utility to implement the concept in off-roa- Utah. Most of the comments were negative toward the conceptual plant. However, a few residents did express a desire for the plant, stating that those against the proposal were not Green River residents. |