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Show 30 cents Vol 78 No 16 Diamond Jubilee January 13, 1994 Monticello City Council, Mayor get raises before sworn in last night being Monticello Council Dan n Treasure Hunt concludes l., A What began in February 1993 has concluded. The Diamond Jubilee several winners. From a small child playing with his toy truck and unearthing the bottle with the certificate in it to several local adults and even a few who are not locals. We have had individuals t, win a VCR from council minutes. brought Dunow made a motion, seconded by Bert Odette, to increase the city council member salary from $600 per year (or $50 a month) to $900 per year (to Gary certificates to our office, whereupon we give them letters to the various businesses which are providing the prize. It has been a very interesting year for us More on page 2 Mantz tenders resignation, new JP is selected At Monday's County Commission meeting a letter of resignation of Paul Mantz as the new county justice of the peace was accepted. He wrote that due to cir- cumstances beyond his circumstances he control, wasn't aware of earlier, he would be unable to accept the position as county JP. He thanked the commission for the honor of being selected and considered, but resigned with regret. After accepting the letter of resignation the commissioners chose Lyon Hazel-to- n to fill the JP slot. In other business on Monday, the commissioners heard from Ken Sleight regarding a suggestion to reorganize the funding of the county's travel council and discussed policies with Frank Morrell, the county Ageing Director, and Bruce Bunker, county Assessor. Youngs San Juan County's first baby of 1994 is Michele Ruby Jim, the daughter of Arlinda and Matthew Jim, pictured here with her parents and big sister. Michele was born at 2 a.m., Jan. 9th, at the San Juan County Health Care Services Birthing Center in Blanding, delivered by Dr. James Redd. three in favor (Black, Schafer and Odette) and one opposed (Dunow). Umetco mill shipment leads Utah Agency to confront NRC A Umetco s is state agency bumping heads with the feds over radioactive waste coming to Blanding. Utah's Board of Radiation Control voted Friday, Jan. 7, to ask the Nuclear Regu- latory Commission (NRC) for environmental an assessment on the impact of radioactive waste to be imported to Umetco's White Mesa mill near Blanding. The White Mesa mill is the impending site of 3000 cubic yards of uranium waste "in situ leaching" materials from an affiliate in Texas and is considered to be the preferred disposal site of the 2.5 million tons of tailings from Monticello's mill cleanup. material The was the cause of a confrontation vote of 4 by the board. A reported undercurrent of tension was evident radioactive out-of-sta- te 5-- between Umetco's executive Richard Van Horn and Khosrow Semnani, a board member and owner of of Utah which is also in the business in Tooele County. En-viroca- waste-dispos- al re Supporting plans was State Senator Dmitrich and Blanding City Council member Lou Mueller. Senator Stephen Rees and sponsor of many of Utah's hazardous and radioactive waste-disposlaws) targeted the NRC with criticism. The Utah board does not want to antagonize the NRC and delay or impede the Mike It The increases took effect January 1, 1994, on a on motion. Fire Hydrant Project, Additional action taken swearing in of new members Dan for the Craig Leavitt, possible of bonding, report of a purpose personnel negotiations, contract included concerned citizens committee and the 1994 budget; according to the agenda. Part 2 of a series second and fifth editor, for total of 12 years, of The San Juan Record H.E. Blake The initial owners of The San Juan Record were known as Grand County Publishing Company of acres already purchased just south of the mill to Umetco's mill in Bland- McConkie as the first editor, serving from Sept. 1915 to 7 Sep 1917. ing. When McConkie left the post of editor, due to his assessment rests entirely growing legal practice, H.E. Blake became the editor. He was a staff mem- pand a uranium mill tailings disposal facility just More on page 8 Rogers and by the council, after coming out of an executive session included CA Robertson, DL Gaudelock, VP Martin, DM Cooper and HG Green. They had Oscar W. with the NRC. Colorado okay Umetco also received the okay from Colorado's Department of Health to ex- The meeting last night included discusion with the Youth City Council on the the Monticello cleanup project. DOE put on public meetings this week in Monticello and Blanding to judge public support in changing the disposal site from 850 The decision to do or not do the environmental about 11 p.m. $2400. (D-Pric- e) al This meeting adjourned jumps from $1800 a year to unanimous vote for course for 10 years, starting Jan. 1, 1994. The vote was The motion also included the mayors salary. contract management of the golf $75 a month). s, yellow Councilman Outgoing a color TV from Moss TV, the -- meeting being instructed to write a letter for the mayors signature in reference to requirements for the Vermillion Hills project and the need for a building permit. Also approved was an extension of Lowell according to the meetings Wal-Mar- tee-shirt- Shoemaker members and Mayor Jack Young received an early Christmas present, at the close of the Dec. 8th city Treasure Hunt has had $260 binoculars from Shooter's World, a night's stay at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas; San Juan Record subscriptions, jackets and hats ... and more. Many individuals have City Administrator City Moab. Members of this group Record Publishing Company consisted of all San More on page 5 1 I ' s ber of the Moab Times before taking this position. Leslie T. Foy took over as editor when the Record Publishing Company purch- ased the newspaper, on 10 December 1919. H. E. Blake |