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Show Lisbon Valley pipeline part of hydrocarbon system Keele Utah segment of a 1,172 mile liquid hydrocarbon pipeline from Wyoming to Texas is being constructed by Curran -- Houston, Inc., prime contractor under bid to M A PC O Inc., Tulsa Oklahoma, Valley through the Moab-Lisbarea. Entering Utah near Fruita, Colorado, the pipeline proceeds south through Moab, then underneath the Colorado river bed, on to LaSal and then back into La Plata County, Colorado. The project, with an estimated cost of $120 million, represents efforts to tap the petroleum rich overthrust Belt in the Northwestern United States. Butane, ethane, gasoline and propane will be carried in liquid form to a cracking plant in Hobbs, Texas, where it will be processed or relayed eastward. The pipeline which parallels the Northwest pipeline for 75 of its route, will By M. on During construction , extra care was taken so as not to disturb the natural vegetation , such Cow Canyon is open again. as the cottonwoods shown here. Photo and caption by Alvin Reiner iso-buta- ne, eventually carry 65,000 barrels of mixed -- steam hydrocarbons per HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH Vol. 63 , No. 43 20 November cents day. Bill Taylor, manager of the 13, 1980 School Board awards Montezuma Creek School bid of over $2.5 million to Tekton Curran -- Houston temporary Cortez office, said crews have been averaging two miles per day, one starting from La Plata County and the other from Moab. Glen Collier, Curran-Housto- n field office manager, says he has 150 men working in five separate crews day and night. He commented on the rocky terrain around Moab stating that special equipment and lots of were necessary. The 10 inch pipe laid underneath the Colorado river bed north of Moab and pipe-bendi- By Marcia Redd Contract for the construction of Montezuma Creek Elementary School was awarded to Tekton of Salt Lake City on a low bid of $2,781,500. Ceremonies will be held next Wednesday, Nov. 19 at 10 a. m. with county officials, school district personnel and a medicine man on hand to dedicate the ground. Utah Bishop named by Pope The bid was awarded after a review of costs cuts and a closed door session necessitated because bidding contractors were in attendance. Following the awarding of the bid to Tekton, a Change Order was approved to reduce the bid figure by $201,249. Jon Taft, architect for the new school, reported that he was able to reduce estimated costs by $150,000, mostly in areas of mechanical heating and plumbing. He stated that he had been unable to obtain competitive bids in those areas prior to bid opening on.Oct-ob- er 25. Cuts included deletion of a constant water pressure ge pump; a change in the roof-draina- system: surface mounted instead of built-i- n drinking fountains; a sprayer and drain instead of a special garbage can cleaner; asphalt paving; changes in kitchen equipment, carpet and fire sprinklers. There were no changes in size of building or number of classrooms. business before the Board, a decision was made to withhold $4,000 from payment to Ernest Wilking Co. to meet expenses for water damage to the In other Next Monday at 7:30 p.m. during a Mass tobe celebrated inSpanish and English at the Salt Palace Arena in Salt Lake City, Reverend William K. Weigand, 43, will be ordained and installed as seventh Bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Utah. The announcement came from the VaticanSep-temb- er 9, on a Tuesday in accord with Church tradition. Fr. Weigand, a Spanish-speakin- g missionary, recently returned from over nine years service in was Colombia, South America pastor of St.. Huberts parish in rural Homedale, Idaho, at the time His Holiness, John Paul II, communicated his choice to over 60,000 Utah Catholics. (Please turn to Page 18) gym floor caused by the blocking of a roof drain during the companys re -- roofing oftheMon-ticell- o High School last summer. Larry Thompson, CPA and district auditor, met with the Board and made five suggestions in response to a request from the Mon -ticello High School for a review of sports expenditures, a service recently provided for San Juan High School in Blanding. Thompson recommended (1) employment of the same bookkeeping system in use by two other district schools (2) discontinuance of the practice of ordering personal items, such as snowmobile suits, through the imbursement school with reto come from private parties (3) a policy that precludes payment with school funds for invoiced personal items (4) assignment of responsibility for ordering all sports equipment to one coach and (5) requirement of more detailed receipts for all expenditures. Monticello Highi School Principal Dale Maughan expressed appreciation for the suggestions. A review of district field trip and conventions policy produced no changes. Farm Bureau fights to prevent range from becoming tortoise preserve Utah Farm Bureau and a group of Washington county ranchers will take legal action against a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to eliminate livestock grazing from more than 22,000 acres in Washington county. Frank O. Nishiguchi, Garland farmer and head of the 15,000 member family organization, said the American Farm Bureau, Utah Farm Bureau, the Washington county Farm Bureau and individual ranchers will resist the establishment of a desert tortoise ng a section of line underneath the railroad and through solid rock were especially challenging, he said. The first crew digs a trench the jfcpeline route; the along second crew lays the pipe and a third bends pipe to match the terrain, sometimes perpendicular to a cliff. A fourth crew fits the pipe and a fifth ties it together. The pipeline when completed will transport materials nov, being shipped by railroad car. The Utah portion of the line is expected to be completed in December. School board fills newly created position By Marcia Redd Jeff Bailey was selected from a field of eleven applicants to fill the newly created position of San Juan County School trict Maintenance Dis- Supervisor' Construction Inspector at the monthly school board meeting held last Monday. Baileys job will include inspection of school buildings under construction ana review of architects s. He will also act as a watch-do- g for materials aland other contractors locations by persons associated with the construction of school buildings in the county. Bailey is from Monticello. on-si- te blue-print- Arix radiation assessment fieldwork underway in Monticello Field work preparatory to issuance of an engineering assessment for remedial action on two Monticello structures showing radioactive readings was undertaken this past by Arix, an engineering firm with headhigh-lev- el quarters in Grand Junction. One commercial enterprise and one private residence were mapped arid air readings were taken to confirm radon and radon A concentration. daughters radioactive survey, consisting of gathering samples of structural material and samples of soil, was conducted. A reading inside and outside both structures. A reading to determine anything other than normal radiation level inside and outside both structures was also taken. Arix will prepare an engineering assessment and remedial action plan for the two Monticello structures, but approval by the Utah State Health Department and federal agencies will precede initiation of corrective action. Tell Tappan, Arix spokesman, and John F. Hutchens, Arix project designer, said target time for seeking contractors for remedial work is spring of 1981. Arix, a sub -- contractor to Bendix Field Engineering, prime support contractor to the Department of Energy in Grand Junction, has prepared remedial action plans for 600 structures in Grand Junction and 50 in Edgemont, South Dakota. They have also assessment of several homes in Salt Lake. Tappan said that on all structures they have assessed in the United sub-contrac- ted States, they have been able to institute remedial action making the structures safe for habitation. The U.S. Department of Energy will spend $1 million during the next two years in assessing and beginning remedial cleanup action in Monticello, as reported in the October 30 issue of The Record. preserve on Beaver Dam slope near St. George. The Washington county commission has also decided to join in the suit to preserve the livestock industry in their county, he added. Nishiguchi explained that the legal action will be taken as part of Farm Bureaus continuing effort to preserve the traditional multiple use of public rangelands. Farm Bureau already has a major lawsuit underway against the federal government challenging (Please turn to Page 18) Gartner and David Reinertsen test Monticello soil for radioactive elements. Bryan |