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Show THE SAN JUAN RECORD Thursday March 18, 1982 - Page 16 Changes in Utah boatman permit Changes in fees and requirements to hold an apprentice boatman and boatman permit have gone through the regulative process and became effective January 1, 1982. The Apprentice Boatman Permit was increased from $1 to $5. Tliis permit will expire annually on December 31. It is expected that by setting an expiration date Apprentice Boatmen will seek to become qualified for a Boatman Permit, thus avoiding the necessity for renewing their permit annually. Boatman Permit will increase from $5 to $10. A fee of $2 will be for a duplicate charged Apprentice Boatman Permit and a duplicate Boatman Permit will cost A $5. by nch nch identification photograph must be furnished by the Boatman Permit applicant. Increased fees for the above permits became necessary to cover the cost of handling permits and administering the required tests. additional First Aid refor boatmen states: quirement river "Any trip carrying passengers for hire shall have within that party at least one (1) boat man who has a valid "Boatman Permit" and "Advanced and CPR" Red Cross First Aid Card or equivalent. The added require- An Benefits less Social Security benefits to students attending colleges schools and other a under will be sharply curtailed recently enacted law, John Moore, Social Security district manager in Durango, said recently. First, children who become eligible for Social Security benefits after July 19 82 will not receive school students 18-- 22 post-second- ary post-second- ary benefits. school Second, students who first become eligible for benefits in the period Sept1982 will only ember receive benefits through July 1982 (one month for some students). Finally, students currently receiving benefits (or child beneficiaries who begin their college education or bfefore May 1982) will receive limited students benefits. , Benefit rates for students who for continuing are eligible benefits will be frozen at the July 1981 level, Moore said. Furthermore, these rates will be reduced 25 percent each year starting with August 1982, and benefits cannot be paid to students during May, June, or July or August starting in 1982. As a result, no further student benefits will be paid after post-second- ary 1981-Ju- ly post-second- April ary 1985. ment of at least one boatman on a commercial river trip holding an advanced First Aid Card has obvious benefits to those passengers who are under their direct supervision. Standard First Aid Card is being accepted as an equivalent to the Standard First Aid Card which is ond of the for obtaining a requirements A Multi-Med- ia Cortez jT livestock I u Auction 3 miles Cortez, Co. N- - 303-565-34- 56 SALE EVERY WEDNESDAY Market report for March 101982 31 Boatman Permit. Applicants may call or write to obtain applicantions and information from the following Utah of Parks and State Division Recreation offices: Salt Lake City Office, 1636 West North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84116. (801) 9; 9. SHEEP Grazing Advisory Board meets March 2 5 The Grazing Advisory Board for- - the BLM Moab District will meet Thursday, March 25 at 10 a.m. at the Moab District Office 125 West 200 South. All Advisory Board meetings are open to the public. D.L, Taylor, Bill Cunningham, Dale Mathi and Ellis Wilde were from the previous whose charter exBoard Grazing pired in 1981. Newly elected rancher representatives serving on the Grazing Board are Don Barton, Mack Huntington, Boyd Marsing and Clarence Perkins. These rancher representatives were elected by members of the ranching community in Carbon, E mery, Grand and San Juan Counties in southeast Utah. The Grazing Boards function is to tap the knowledge and experience of local ranchers in giving advice to BLMs District Manager on any matter related to grazing on public lands. The rancher representatives provide this public service on a volunteer basis. re-elec- ted The agenda for the March 25 meeting includes discussion on election of board members and the charter through February of election of officers, and 1984, range improvements proposed. Status reports will be given on the Price River Grazing EIS, the soil and vegetative inventory, and the maintenance policy. Questions on the national range policy will be discussed. $50 to 52 Fat Lambs Feeder Lambs Fat Ewes Feeder Ewes $15 to Goats $12 to 25 Weaner Pigs For more Livestock Marketing Information Call Jimmy G. Suckla 30 565-77- Larry Suckla - 565-36- 34 Gold recovery The ations Veterans Administrmedical system has a prostringent the since gold provided gram for patients is government property, says Dr. Bob Kennemur, chief, Central Dental Lab, Dallas VA Medical Center. He said that in a pilot study in 1979, his lab vacuumed more than $2,400 worth of grindings of gold, paladium, silver and platinum alloys from bench tops and smocks grindings not normally recovered. "Its a program were very ' Kennemur conscious of," stressed. "We use 800 ounces of gold per year. Were one of four central dental labs and we serve 50 of VAs 172 medical centers. Kennemur said recovered alloys are sent to VAs Somerville, N.J., Supply Depot. The gold portion goes to the U.S. Assay Office . in New York where it is processed and returned to Somerville in ingot form for sale by the federal General Services Administration. Proceeds are then returned to the Somerville depot. gold-recov- ery to mine humates The local office of the Bureau of Land Management has made a decision regarding the application to mine humates from a 250 acre Superior is testing Ismay at 6000 feet total depth. Earlier tests of Desert Creek 0 feet perforations at water without recovered shows. A 6,000-fotest has been scheduled by Raymond T. Duncan nearly 19 miles southeast of Blanding in Bug Park, two miles northeast of the Patterson Canyon field. Investment has Resources 6600-fotest of location for a Desert Creek 10 miles southwest of Blanding in area near Westwater. According to Pete Christensen, Grand Resource Area BLMs Manager, "After careful analysis and evaluation of all public comments, and a thorough interreview of the disciplinary proposals impacts, I have made a decision to proceed with the sale of the material. The impacts will be reduced to an acceptable level, within our commitment to multiple use of the public lands." A final environmental assessment (EA) is being mailed to all who provided comment and is available at the BLM Grand Resource Area Office on Sand Flats Road in Moab. Jhe final EA addresses the proposal and traces the use of public comments 1e. Utah property taxes growing The March -- April Utah Taxpay- er Bulletin states that according to State Tax Commission figures, Utah property taxes are growing faster than population or inflation. Utah property taxes since 1971 have increased $249.7 million or 149 percent during the same period the population grew 38 In constant dollars, proptaxes went from $138.4 erty received. property taxes charged amounted to $38.2 million or 10 percent. Residential property tax shot up $19 million or 10 percent. Personal property taxes increased $1.2 million or 2 percent. Property taxes paid by commer- cial, industrial and agricultural property owners increased $18 million or 12 percent. million charged in 1971 to $153.3 million charged in 1981. The total 1981 increase in S.U.C.C.E. Offers UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY College Courses Juan County for the in San Spring Quarter Classes beginning, March 29, 1982 MARKETS Wheat Beans $5.25 $13.00 Registration begins March 15, 1982 ...in Monticello phone ..in Blanding school terms after a child reaches 19. Benefits to children who are not students will end at 18 as 587-223- 1 phone (ext. 32) 678-220- 1 Southeastern Utah before. 303-247-31- BLM says okay 31 Beginning August 1982, elemensecondary school tary and benefits as can receive students under the old law, except that no benefits can be paid for months in More information about student benefits and other changes in the law can be obtained at the Durango Social Security office, located at 701 CaminodelRio. The telephone A Is number representative will be at the Social Services building in Blanding on Thursday morning, March 25. 33 48 34 .03 57 dii ot $40 to 45 $12.50 to 20 26 28 56 31 T 46 34 .16 55 38 .02 ot Provo, Utah 84601 (801)375-366- 2; Dinosaur Natural History State Museum, 235 East Main Street, Box 396, Vernal, Utah 84078 (801) BLM Ken-Diili- Blanding Hi Lo Pre 55 60 5899-509- 259-815- 789-379- Monticello northeast, Southeast Region Office, Box 187, Moab, Utah 84532 1; Central Regional (801) Office, 176 East Center Street, 533-447- WEATHER Oil of Cortez has Superior completed an Ismay discovery approximately three and one -- half miles west of the Colorado state line in San Juan near the San Juan River and Marble Wash. The 18-was completed pumping 16 barrels of 41 gravity oil and 49 barrels of water per feet. day from Ismay at 5423-3- 8 The discovery is approximately two miles northwest of the River Bank field discovery drilled by Monsanto and 26 miles southeast of Bluff. Approximately five miles to the on Hwy. 666 81321 San Juan oil discovery noted Center for Continuing Education (Moab office 28. "SUCCESS" SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS5SS5i - phone 259-743- 2) begins with S.U.C.C.E. |