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Show Mayors seek veto of tax sharing bill MonticeUo Mayor Keith Redd, along with Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson and mayors of all Utah municipaUties who will be adversely affected by House BiU 228, is calUng Utah Governor Scott Matheson to ask him to veto the tax redistribution bull. revised local-optisales tax redistribution biU was HB228, a passed by the Utah Senate on the last day of the 44th general legislative session last Thursday. The bill will take sales tax revenue from commercially stronger communities and pass it on to communities with more population but fewer sales. "The revised biU is not as bad as the 0 redistribution originally proposed," says Mayor Redd, "but we feel local-optisales tax revenues should remain in the area where they are colUnder the new law, lected." 90 percent will remain in the area of the collection with 10 percent going to areas based on population. To accomodate sales tax redistribution, Utah senators repealed the current local-optisales tax 1. HB227 The exby passing isting law would have conflicted with the new plan of distribution. Mayor Redd said MonticeUo is on a tight budget now. "Ten will he percent hurt." said. on are snowflakes to disrupt one1 s thoughts . is only the sound of Photo and caption A. Reiner a plhce to find peace as there Sam Jyam Record Tto on 16-1- HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER FOR SAN JUAN COUNTY. UTAH Vol. 64 20 No. 8 cents March 19, 1981 Commissioners approve Service District resolution District. Persons being considered for appointment to . the The San Juan County Commission approved, in their regularly scheduled meeting last Monday, a resolution to create a special board are Tom Knight, Luther Eisenhoover and Jerald G. Baum. service district and contempla- ted legal action against private contractors who are using road materials. Commissioner Bailey said the county may have to take legal action against private contractors who are using materials from the Montezuma Creek gravel pit. Bailey reported that approximately 160 yards of county processed and had been used by contractors for the Montezuma Creek Elementary concrete pad. Even though designated parties, including the county-process- ed The commissioners Special Service approved District county-process- ed 1, Mexican Hat. However, establishment of the district was de- ferred until a scheduled April 6 commission meeting to allow for a written protest period. In a related motion, the Commission created an Administrative 15-d- ay Control Board for the Service Navajo tribe, have free-u- se per- - Copter which crashed in San Juan was on hostage training mission HH53B helicopter which crashed in a ravine on Peters Hill last July was part of a training mission intended as a follow-u- p to the aborted 1980 April raid to rescue the Iranian hostages, according to Fort Worth television station KXAS and NBC news. ced Press also the that practice session ported in which Airman Jay Schatte, 22, died last July 18 near MonticeUo was training for a follow-u- p to the raid that left eight airman dead and two burned aircrafts on an Iranian desert. (Please turn to page 12.) The Associated re- sion accepted a Continental Telephone Company proposal to install a new switchboard telephone system in the courthouse. The original proposal of $29,504 was increased to $35,184 to cover the cost of convertors for a touch-tosystem contemplated in the ne future. Cleal Bradford, president of White Mesa Ute Council, made a request to have the White Mesa Roads put on the county road system. He was told this was already so. Commissioner Bailey said he would ask County Road Superin- scheduled bid the Is may road was order to advertise more widely. New A According to an article in the Kansas City Star, millionaire H. Ross Perot, who masterminded the escape of two of his employees from an Iranian prison, concocted a scheme at the request of U.S. officials for rescuing the American hostages, but it was rejected by the Pentagon. KXAS-T- V reports that gifts and videotapes figured in another abandoned rescue plot, and said a Texas airman died in a helicopter crash during a practice exercise for a rescue mission. elec-tronic-la- countys materials, said Bailey. In other business, the commis- tendent Richard Traister to inventory White Mesa roads and make recommendations. -- An mits for the gravel pit, they are not legally entitled t.use the tr : Redd expects the bill, if signec by Governor Mathason, to be chal- -' lenged in the courts. He and otheij; ' mayors began a call-i- n campaign yesterday which they hope will" 1-- Canyon 12 miles south car of Mon- ticello. Ernest Erickson, Moab ore truck driver who witnessed the accident, said, that after it passed him on the canyons north downgrade, the May vehicle just seemed to run off the highway at the north end of the road-fil- l. Patrolman Claude Highway Lacy of Blanding, investigating officer, said the victim was apparently thrown from the car as question. First Western branch planned in Blanding LD. Nightingale, chairman of the Board and president of First Western National Bank, announced today that the comptroller of the Currency has given bank approval to open a branch office in Blanding, Utah. Nightingale said the branch bank will offer full banking services, including a night depository, loans, safe deposit boxes and drive-u- p window facilities. Nightingale stated that he is anxious to begin construction of the new bank, but a definite date has not been set for the opening. First Western National Bank is a locally owned, independent bank with its main office in Moab and a branch in Monticello. it careened down the steep em- BLM personnel who arrived shortly after the accident occurred used their field phone to call for ambulance service. The victim was treated at the scene by Monticello Emergency Medical Technicians before being transferred to the San Juan Hospital. He was later flown by air service from Blanding to St. bankment. Hospital in Grand Colorado. According to Junction, the attending physician, May suffered a compression fracture of the spine and head and facial Marys lacerations. May was a former Energy Fuels Nuclear employee. He is the son of Phil May and Linda Marks of Blanding. opening for the bidding bid opening is tentatively scheduled for May 18. A request made by Blanding MonticeUo CATV for lease of land north of the Blanding CUnic for installation of a cable television reception dish was denied by the commission. Jhe commission said it would not get involved in the leasing of county property for private use. PUBLIC NOTICES Your Right to Know and be informed of the functions of your government are embodied in meetings. unidentified workman from Farabee Towing in Blanding directs efforts to retrieve a pickup truck from the bottom of Devil's Canyon south of Monticello. J. Martin photo An h i ' ; : ; ; cancelled in public notices. In that charges all citizens to be informed; this newspaper urges every citizen to read and study these notices. We strongly advise those citizens, seeking further information, to exercise their right of access to public records and public . result in a gubernatorial veto of a bill whose constitutionaUty they, Blanding man seriously injured in one car accident at Devils Canyon Phil Lamont May, 20, of Blanding, was seriously injured in a accident last Monday when the 79 Chevrolet pickup he was driving left the road and rolled over at least once before it came to rest at the bottom of Devils H c on 70-3- The Abajos c Cl : |