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Show City sells utility to Empire The Monticello city council at its regular meeting last to week voted unanimously dissell the city's electrical tribution system to Empire Association, Inc., of Cortez, Colorado, for $351,000. The bid had been submitted to the council at a meeting and was the only 8 August sealed bid received by the city at the meeting. City Administrator Richard Terry said this week that the sale is contingent upon approval by Utah Public Service Commission and that takeover by Empire probably would not take effect for another three or four months. The city will assess Empire 8 per cent franchise tax on the utility's revenues, and an proceeds from the franchise levy will go toward maintaining the city water and sewer plant, street lights and other city needs. The city council voted several weeks ago to offer the electrical system for sale, using authority granted the council last April when Monticello voters approved by a margin a proposal to grant such authority. The council approved a notice of offer to sell the system after adding a provision that the city may buy back the system if it so desires in 20 3-t- A field of thousands of sunflowers each joyously dancing in the late leads up summer breezes Photo by Alvin Reiner . to an old farm near Blanding . o-l years. The proposal approved by the voters last April gave the council authority to sell the electrical distribution util- (Please turn to Page 2) HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH Vol 62, No. 34 15 cents September 13, 1979 a copy .1 Fatal fall Monticello Stake Conference this weekend most interesting, President Anderson said. Elder Poelman was called to be a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ Saints on April 1, of Latter-da- y ference Monticello Utah Stake Conference will be held this Saturday and Sunday, September 15 and 16, in the Monticello Chapel, according to an announcement by Stake President L. Robert Anderson. We are very fortunate to have Elder Ronald E. Poelman as our presiding General Authority," President Anderson said this week. C onference meetings for the general membership will begin Saturday evening at 7 p.m. At that time a women's fireside meeting carried by direct wire from the Salt Lake Tab- ernacle will commence. All women age 12 and older are invited. Concurrently at 7 on p.m. Saturday, Priesthood leadership meeting will be held for appropriately invited lead- ership. 1978. He graduated with high honors from the University of Utah in 1953 and received his juris doctor degree from the univer- Law School in 1955. In 1965 he graduated from sity's Harvard University Graduate " program. ' Elder Ronald E. Poelman o'clock Sunday morning with all invited. Non - members of the church are especially . . School of Business Administration, advanced management The general session of conference will commence at 10 invited, and may find the con At the time of' his call to fuUtime church service, he was vice president, corporate secretary and a director of Consolidated Freight-way- s, Inc., in San Francisco. He is a member of the Utah State Bar Association, American Bar Association and Blanding man was fatally injured last Thursday in a fall from a utility pole while working in the area of Energy A Motor Carrier Lawyers As- sociation. In civic life, he is a rehabilitation counselor for the American Cancer Society, active in .the Boy Scouts of America and was a director of Junior Achievement of Bay Area, Inc. He is a member of the SanFranciscoSymphony Commonwealth Foundation, Club of California, World Trade Club and San Francisco Commercial Club. He has served his church as counselor in the Palo Alto Stake Presidency, bishop, high councilor, seminary teacher and missionary to the Nether- -. lands, 1945-4- 7. Born May U), 1928, in Salt Lake, he married Claire Stoddard, graduate of Brigham Young University, on March 30, 1950. She died May 5 of this year. Three daughters and a son were born to them. Fuels Nuclear, Inc., at Blanding. The victim was Chris M. Woodard, an employee of Utah Power and Light Company. The accident happened about 4:30 Thursday afternoon. Witnesses said Mr. Woodard had gone about 28 feet up the utility pole just before the mishap. One witness said the victim apparently hit the snap of his safety belt but that it did not catch and failed to hold him when he leaned back. As the victim fell to the Ronnie ground, a Nieves, tried to grab him but could not prevent the fau. Mr. Woodard was taken to San Juan Hospital in Monticello and then put aboard an co-work- air ambulance for transfer to Salt Lake City. He died aboard the plane enroute to Salt Lake. San Juan County Sheriff Rigby Wright said the victim suffered a punctured lung, numerous fractures and other injur- Missile launch planned in Blanding area the ASALM s propulsion tech- Blanding will be the site of one of seven test flights of the Advanced Strategic Air Launched Missile (ASALM) planned by the U.S. Air Force in late October or early November. .The Air Force is consid- ering the ASALM for possible use on future cruise missile carriers. Using supersonic speeds over long ranges, ASALM would extend the car- an integral rocket ramjet engine. The launches of the ASALM nology will be from an Air Force . rier aircraft's "footprints" and increase the survivability of both the aircraft and the subsonic cruise missiles. The seven test flights scheduled in this series are to demonstrate and validate vehicle, A-7- . D. One launch is sched- uled for each the Blanding and Green River, Utah, areas. Two tests are planned for the Fort Gallup, New Mexico, area. All flights are scheduled to terminate (impact) on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. As in the past. White Sands, through the Corps of Engineers in Albuquerque and SacramWingate ento, has negotiated evacuation and co agreements with residents living un der the missile's drop zones. 500 people in Approximately the Fort Wingate Gallup drop area, 70 in the Green River area and 350 in the Blanding area have agreed to evacuate during the launch phases in their immediate areas. The number of White Sands personnel moving into the test areas for any off - range launch will be minimal, the Air Force said. During the ASALM flight tests, military police personnel will block some state roads, in cooperation with state and county law officers in Utah and New Mexico. San Juan County Sheriff Rig - ies. , by Wright said this week that he had had several meetings with representatives of White Sands Missile Range regarding the blocking of roads and temporary evacuation of res- idents in prescribed areas. The sheriff said the White Sands representatives have been negotiating a contract with the county for the sheriffs department to help with these duties. Sheriff Wright said the evacuation area would run rough- -' ly from the Zekes Hole area on 5, west of Blanding, in a southeast direction to the (Please turn to Page 16) U-9- er, Driver killed A . By Marsha Keele Moab 20-year-- old man was killed Saturday afternoon about 20 miles northeast of Blanding when the truck he was driving rolled off the highway west of the causeway. The victim, Robert E. Cooley, was driving a water truck with a trailer, of steel pulled behind, when he apparently missed a gear and rolled backward. The victim was found dead at the scene of the accident. |