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Show Uth St&fa. n. Aaan- - lDSk13rmj Dtafc Serving East Juab County A 54210 Nice Place to Live! July 7, 1977 Do you think they've made up their minds ? Vi'M'. tn.ir.t ; Nephi City Council rescinds Jlftuv Fireworks displays such as these camera snapped by the Times-New- s were common at the Nephi Third Ward Carnival held on Monday night. Although rain drove spectat- ors on the park to the safety of near- - by trees, the display went on as usual and the rains did not dampen the spirits of those watching. Juab School District adopts 77-7-8 for million $4 budget Juab School Districts budget for 1977-7totaling almost $4,304 million was adopted at a public meeting held on Wednesday evening of last week. The total budget is up from $2.3745 million for the 1976-7fiscal year. This years budget is the largest in the history of the district. Because of an expected sale of building bonds and state aid for critical school buildings, the budget for capital outlay, buildings and debt service is $2.78 million, more than 8 7 double tenance and operation budget from to $1,415,800 $1,232,306 in 1976-7in 1977-7The comparison of expenditures scheduled by category is as follows, with the 1976-7figures listed first: administration, $44,503, $46,026; instruction, $782,192, $908,707; health services, $3,564, $3,950; transportation, $43,491, $50,595; plant opera 7 8. 7 tion, $62,687, $68,500; plant main- fixed tenance, $48,943, $51,300; charges, $240,566, $280,229; student body activities, $1,200, $1 ,200; community services and recreation, $5,150, $5,293; capital outlay and buildings, $1,043,200, $2,780,957; school food services, $98,943, $107,189. Total budget for all funds, $2,374,449, $4,303,946. wafer usage ordinance Water restrictions implemented by the Nephi City Council on June 22 were rescinded at the regular meeting of the council held Tuesday evening of this week, according to a review of the Councils actions presented to the Times-NewThis removes the surcharge, or increase in rates, for water quantities used above a set minimum of 22,000 gallons per month, based on a family of s. four. The City Council, in rescinding the surcharge resolution, urged citizens still to work to conserve water and to follow the sprinkling hours set up earlier in the season by the city. The water from the citys well behind the Nephi Fire Station has been going into the culinary system since last week as flow from Bradley Spring last years $1,043 million. At the meeting, the budget for the fiscal year was also revised 1976-7- 7 to compensate for changes in revenue and expenditures that were not contemplated at the time of the budgets adoption a year ago. A breakdown of the adopted budget for the new year shows an increase of 14 percent in the main- - cache of Nephi Mercantile script 50-ce- nt Frampton, city recorder. In other action, the council passed an ordinance establishing an employees appeals committee and approved the mayors appointment of three employees and two councilmen to the new committee. Named to the committee were Harold Jackson, Gary Howarth and David Lunt. Councilmen W. Leon Pexton and Fenton Broadhead were also named Commission to research River Ranchettes The Juab County Board of Commissioners authorized on Tuesday a research of sales and other documents on the srdes of property in the area known as the Sevier River Ranchettes in south Juab County. Russell Mahan, a law student who is getting training in the office of County Attorney Milton T. Harmon, was authorized to make the necessary search and to prepare a report on the present status of the property titles for the Commission. The Commission made some adjustments in the employees wage rates as adopted at a recent meeting and heard a discussion of hospital problems from David Peterson, administrator. Ronald Jones, foreman of the Juab County Road Department, spent some time at the meeting discussing priorities on the county roads system and problems which are confronted from time to time in maintaining the road system. County Attorney Harmon, Deputy Sheriff Glen Wilde of Eureka, Cleo Judge and Vernon F. Jones met with the commissioners concerning the renewal of a beer sales license for the Summit Drive Inn at Eureka. The license was granted for a period with the understanding that some irregularities would be overon-the-j- Nielson finds A little bit of nostalgia literally came to light last week when Winston Nielson, proprietor of Nielsons Department Store discovered a cache of specially minted coins (script) used by the Nephi Mercantile Company of Nephi for many years. The coins in $1, 25 cent, 10 cent and 5 cent denominations were found in an abandonned chimney, through which Nielson was running a television antenna wire for the store. The $1 coin is about the size of piece, the 25 cent todays script is about the size of todays quarter. The 10 cent coin is slightly larger than todays nickle and the 5 cent coin is about the same size as the nickle. Each coin is thinner than the official coins. One side of the coins had the words Nephi Mercantile Co., Nephi, Utah while the other side stated how much the coin was worth in merchandise at Nephi Mercantile. That brings up the question, what were the coins used for? In the earlier days, rather than getting the stores supply of eggs from an egg company truck which made weekly stops at the front door, eggs came in from dozens of persons who had hens in their back yards. Likwise, many folks kept cows and some made butter for sale and when the local farmer harvested his potatoes, several hundred pounds may have been turned in to the local store and the coin was used to pay for such produce of the home and farm. By paying for such produce with coins redeemable only at his store, the merchant was assured that the money would come back to him at least in part. Nephi Mercantile Co. was the successor to Hyde and Whitmore and was originally located on the comer of Main and Center Streets where the First Security Bank building Please turn to page eight has been lowered to the point that it is not taking care of the needs of the community. The well water will continue to be placed into the culinary system as long as the water usage demands exceed the flow from Bradley Spring, according to Evan A. The force of the impact which claimed five lives on Tuesday afternoon is dramatically shown in this Times-New- s photo. The collapsed motor- - home and contents, the covered bodies of victims and the smashed front end of the huge diesel are all mute testimony of East Juab Coun- - tys worst traffic - Jff Kn ;i accident in several The accident was still being years. investigated prior to press time on Wednesday. A to the committee. Neal Menlove will serve as an alternate member of the committee. The motion passed by a vote of the council. Terry Haney of the ambulance association discussed proposed rate changes for ambulance services as approved by the state and necessary maintenance costs involved in the use of the ambulance. The council took the rate structure under advisement for possible future action. In other action, the city council; Approved building permits for Merrill Walker and E. I. Wilson and approved a motion that a building permit fee schedule be set on the valuation set by the County Assessors three-to-tw- o office. Approved a maximum cost of $200 for a luncheon given by Miss Nephi and her attendants for visiting royalty during the Friday of the Ute Stampede. Approved, subject to FCC approval, the use of the citys radio frequency for a radio base station in Eureka for the county sheriff. , Appointed Ramon Memmott as a temporary police officer following a review of applications by Councilman Charles Mellor and Police Chief David Lunt. The motion on appointo ment was carried on a vote of the council. Approved a call for bids on 1,000 tons of road base gravel to be hauled to Nephi and stockpiled. Approved a call for bids on a contract to read the citys utility meters. three-to-tw- Elaine Jensen, Delta, satisfactory following crash Elaine Jensen of Delta is listed in satisfactory condition at the Juab County Hospital following a one-ca-r six miles west of Nephi on highway 132 Tuesday afternoon. She was alone in the vehicle when it left the highway and rolled over one and a half times. Deputy Sheriff Greg Newton investigated the accident. roll-ov- er six-mon- th Fnve killed do crashup tiruck-omotoirho-me Five residents of Akron, Ohio were killed on Tuesday afternoon, three of them instantly, when a huge diesel truck plowed into their motorhome. The investigating officials said that it was the worst accident as far as the number dead was concerned for several years in Juab Coun- ty. Dead were Gordon S. Myers, 30; his wife, Linda J. Myers, 28; their r old son, Gordon James Myers; Catherine Dooley, 58, the mother of Mrs. Myers; and Martha Stocum, 51, a sister of Mrs. Dooley. Three of the victims died instantly and two died enroute to the Juab County Hospital. The accident occured at 5:20 p.m. on Tuesday at about 1025 South Main, near the Sunset Inn complex, according to the official Highway Patrol report compiled by Trooper Norman Anderson, the investigating of one-yea- I ficer, and Sergeant Kenneth Clements, who assisted. A truck owned by F&B Truck Lines of Salt Lake City and driven by Jon Willden, 23, of Fruitland, Ohio, left the southbound traffic lane and veered to the left across the northbound lane. The motor-home- , which was northbound, veered to the driver's right apparently in an effort to miss the truck and crashed head-owith the truck at a point four feet east of the east side of the highway. Sergeant Clements said that all occupants of the motor-homwere thrown from the vehicle-o- ne was found nearly ten feet away from the crash site it is impossible to determine who was the driver of the northbound vehicle. Willden, the driver of the truck, and his brother, Lyle, 17, were only slightly injured, and following treat n le-cau- e come. ment at the Juab County Hosital, they were released. The investigating officers said that the highway was completely dry and that the weather was not a factor in the accident. Also assisting at the scene on Tuesday were Deputy Sheriff Greg Newton and Nephi City police officer Bruce Beal as well as members of the East Juab Ambulance Association and members of the Nephi City Fire Department. Sergeant Clements said that the total material damage in the accident would probably run in the neighborhood of $45,000." The truck damage was approximately $25,000. Investigation into the accident was continuing at press time on Wednesday. Elder Tracy lielliston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Belliston of Nephi, has accepted a call to serve in the Canada Halifax mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. Elder Belliston will be honored at a farewell testimonial on Sunday, July 10 in connection with the Nephi Sixth Ward Sacrament meeting. He will enter the mission home on Saturday, July 16. Bishop Ned Worthington invites all members of the ward to attend the meeting and testimonial. Mrs. Richard Bean of Nephi, has aca cepted a call to serve in the of mission the Church of Saints. Jesus Christ of Latter-daElder Bean will be honored at a testimonial on Sunday, July 10 in connection with the Nephi Second Japan-Fukuok- y Ward sacrament meeting at 4:30 p.m. and will enter the language training mission on Thursday, July 14. Bishop R. Clark Greenhalgh invites all members of the ward to at- tend the testimonial and sacrament meeting. s |