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Show on Utah State Frees Vlt City ttfh CU1D A A ; frX-- - - - . a: Serving East Juab County ?, A 2jT ', - ? Arts group will syij.Vw.y O'- present 'Cheaper by the Dozen' W 7 ASC. k; : t - the mouth of Pole Canyon, behind Mt. Nebo. TNPhoto A California man narrowly escaped death la6t Saturday morning when Four events have been calendared for presentation during the winter season by the East Juab Arts Council, according to Terry Menlove, chairman. California man escapes injury in Saturday wreck A California man was hospitalized over the weekend with severe scrapes and abrasions after his car rolled four miles north of Levan on at 7:30 Saturday morning. Released Monday from the Juab County Hospital was John Fredrick Kelso, 20, of Spring Valley, The opening event will be the presentation of Cheaper by the Dozen, a play being presented by Dixie College at the Juab High School auditorium on December 10. Mrs. Menlove said that the play is outstanding entertainment for adults and school children. However, the officers of the council are not recommending attendance by young children. Trooper Paul Mangelson said that Kelso apparently dozed and then as the car hit the right shoulder of the road. He was thrown from the car as it rolled the highway, Trooper Mangel-sosaid. A passenger, Mathew Dennis of El Cajon, California, was not injured. over-correcte- d ac-cro- ss n Other events on the schedule are the Sound Column a band of five musician, who will be here on February 2; Camelot to be presented by Snow College on March 23; and Karen Gibbs Cleghone, a folk guitarist, who will present a concert on School district does 'Fair to poor' job, committees say doing only a fair job in the same area, a tabulation of a poll given the students reveals. The second most important goal as listed by the members of the committees is to give students a general education. The members of the committees said that the district is doing a poor to fair job of carrying out this goal. District teachers said that the district is doing fine in this area and the students of the district said that their schools are doing only a fair job of providing them a general education. Students felt that current district programs were doing best in meeting the goal of helping them to understand and practice democratic ideas and ideals. Members of the goal setting committees rated the district highest in helping students understand and practice the skills of family living. Neither group gave current programs a leave as is rating or a too much is being done rating. All groups felt more needs to be done in meeting all objectives, the report The Juab School District is doing a fair to poor job of teaching district students the skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening, say members of the school citizens committees on goal setting. So says a story released last week by the office of the district superintendent. Students in the eleventh and twelfth grades said that the schools are district-appointe- d Levan furniture thieves arrested in Rock Springs, Wyo. Antique furniture and personal items valued in excess of $2,500 were recovered by Juab County Deputy Sheriff David Carter on Monday at Rock Springs, Wyoming following more than a year of investigation into robberies involving furniture in three Levan residences. Arrested at Rock Springs and brought to the Juab County Jail on Monday were Tracy and Sharon Southwick. Bail on each was set on Monday at $15,000. Bail was reduced to $3,000 each on Tuesday and the pair were released on payment of bail. According to Deputy Sheriff Carter, the homes of Mrs. Dulcie Fran-coLane Harward, and Herb Malmgren were broken into about a year ago. Considerable time was spent checking leads, the latests ones last week from two Utah communities leading to the Rock Springs couple. Brent Aagard and Lane Harward accompanied Carter to Rock Springs to make positive identification of the stolen property. said. April 6. 'Sales were up in second quarter' state agency says Gross taxable sales in Juab County during the second quarter of 1977 increased 12 percent over the same quarter of 1976, according to the Employment Newsletter, published by the Utah State Department of Employment Security. Employment increased by three percent in the second quarter of this year and unemployment was down nearly 40 percent. New car and truck sales from January through August, 1977 were up 18 percent, the report shows. Motels in the county had a 73 percent increase in their volume in the second quarter of 1977 as compared to the second quarter a year ago. Young people scuffling in front of Nielsons store on Saturday night resulted in the accidental shattering of a display window in the store, according to David Lunt, Nephi City Chief of Police. Bruce Beal of the police department brought two juveniles in for questioning in connection with the breakage. !'$ 'p l i d n ; ! . nearing the maximum safety overload capacity and that construction in the city of new houses (especially those using electric heat) could result in the substation reaching its breaking point within a very short time. The city council clamped on a building moratorium on September 6, and approved the ordering of a transformer for a new substation. Since that time, the council has ordered the installation of a large bank of capacitors at the substation to prevent the "blowup of the transformer, but this is only a stop-gameasure, city officials say. If voters approve the bonding elec-- , tion we can have a most modern electrical system which will take care of our needs for at least ten to 20 years Mayor Eyre pointed out on Tuesday. We regret that growth of the city has been stymied during the past several months under a building moratorium issued by the city the mayor continued, but we had nothing else to do the substation was overloaded to the point of probable dis- - .... . touched the valley's of the Wasatch Front, but things ere different at the mouth of Pole Canyon behind Nebo, as this picture shows. TNPhoto - If adopted, the 55 speed limit would remain in effect until amended, modified, or repealed mile-per-ho- The lights will be up and on by Friday says city Nephi Citys main street decorations and Christmas lights will be in place by Friday, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Mayor Donald J. Eyre. However, the mayor pointed out, the decorative lights will be on for only about two hours a night because of the citys power shortage. The lights will not be turned on until after the evening electrical peak is passed and will be turned off at 10 is new Ute Stampede Assn, president for 1978 Leo Osborne was elected president of the Ute Stampede committee for 1978 and Russell H. Jackson was named vice president of the organization at the annual meeting of the Ute Stampede Association held last sanitation, When Old Man Winter came a couple of weeks ago, his hand barely . A public hearing on the speed limit will be held in December 20 at Juab High on Nephi School, the state department of transportation has announced. The meeting is one of three that will be held in December to receive comment on the permanent adoption of the speed limit. The other two meetings will be held in St. George on December 13 and in Salt Lake City on December 15. All hearings will begin at 7 p.m. , v Leo Osborne The Central Utah District Health Department has announced the appointment of Bruce Hall as the new sanitarian for Juab and Millard counties. Halls responsibilities will be to educate the public regarding environmental health and perform inspec-tiona- l duties as well as enforce the laws in the field of environmental health department of- ficials say. Hall previously worked for the State Training School in American Fork with their occupational therapy program for the multiply handicapped. He graduated from Brigham Young University. Hall and his wife, the former Darla Strong of Provo, plan to relocate in Nephi in the near future. He will be working out of the Juab County Public Health Office in place. The polls will be open from a.m. to 8 p.m. 7 All registered voters within Nephi City, including those in the recently annexed areas, are eligible to vote in the bonding election, Frampton said. City Councilman W. Leon Pexton, head of the electrical department, has worked closely with the city administration, engineers, and bonding company representatives in setting up the bonding election. Councilman Pexton has pointed out that the general obligation water and sewer bonds of 1948 have now been paid off and the proposed bonding amount can be paid off without increasing the tax levies for this purpose at this time. UDOT will hold speed limit hearing Dec. 20 p.m. Bruce Hall is new sanitarian for Juab, Millard - With the growth of the industrial park, planned subdivisions, the new school complex, and numerous residences and businesses throughout the area, keeping up with the growth becomes a big undertaking. The bonding election is the only way that the city can keep abreast of the current and projected growth, the mayor said. Only one polling place has been set up for the bonding election on December 13. City Recorder Evan A. Frampton said that the National Guard Armory at 68 North First East has been set as the polling p - .V necessary to act and to act promptly- s. - tmi aster, and to protect the substation and the communitys utility, it was Not only will voters be voting for or against the issuance of bonds, but in effect they will be voting for or against the continued growth of Nephi City in the immediate and extended future said Mayor Donald J. Eyre on Tuesday in discussing the bonding election scheduled for Tuesday, December 13. At the bonding election, the citizens of Nephi will decide whether to authorize the city to issue $600,000 in bonds to defray all or a part of the cost of rebuilding and adding to the substation of the electrical power system . . . and rebuilding a portion of the electrical distribution system ... of Nephi. Nephis citizens were told of the city's power problems in the August 11 issue of the Times-NewThey were told that the city substation is Chief Lunt said that juveniles have also been arrested at Juab High School for taking money and items from lockers in the boys locker room at the gymnasium. Some money, a wrist watch, and a pocket knife were among the items recovered. The suspects have been referred to the juvenile court for further action, Chief Lunt said. ' if-- 'City's growth depends on bond election' Eyre says Scuffle results in broken window at Nielson's - Tt Nice Place to Live! December 1, 1977 ' ,'VJ A Wednesday evening at the Juab County Courthouse. J. M. (Ike) Lunt was named secretary of the committee and Maurice treasurer. Other Tolley was members of the committee are Bob Garrett, Bob Worwood, and G. W. Ches Williams. Ute Stampede dates for 1978, as set at the meeting, are July 13, 14, and 15. TN will print service- men's , missionaries' addresses Dec. 8 The will publish addresses of servicemen and LDS missionaries in its issue dated December 8. In order that all the addresses can be included in the one publication, they should be brought to the Tiit office at 96 South Main by 5 p.m., Tuesday, December 6, 1977. Addresses may also be mailed in or put through the TivusNtws mail slot before or after hours. Addresses will not be taken over the phone, however, because of the possibility of making errors in copying them. Timks-New- s by the Utah Transportation Commission or by the legislature of the State of Utah. The Transportation Commission first adopted the 55 speed limit on January 25, 1974 in response to congressional passage of the emergency highway energy conservation act. That resolution was due to expire on June 30, 1975, so the commission passed another 55 resolution on May 23, 1975 with no expiration date. However in January of this year, the Utah Supreme Court ruled that the resolution was not based on appropriate safety studies and declared it invalid. That ruling led to the commissions latests action, which is based on safety studies by the National Traffic Safety Administration and the Utah Department of Transportation. All persons interested in the 55 speed limit are encouraged to attend the meeting and participate in the discussions, say mile-per-ho- mile-per-ho- ur mile-per-ho- state personnel. There'll be no 'in-lieu-of-ta- xes' money for school Members of the Juab' School District board of education learned at their recent meeting that they will not receive any of the in lieu of taxes money recently received by the county from the federal government. The news came in the form of a letter from the Juab County Commission. The letter was written by county attorney Milton T. Harmon. The board took no action on the leter, but decided to wait and see what other school districts in the state do with the same problem. Some of the other districts have threatened court action to force their county commissions to part with some of the funds. The district board also heard an audit of the Juab School Districts financial and student accounting. According to the report, attendance at the district elementary school is 96.6 percent and attendance at Juab High School is 95 percent. Board members also heard that there has been an increase in enrollment of 30 students in the elementary school and a decrease in enrollment of 17 students at the high school. Headed by Yard White, representatives of the Nephi Chamber of Commerce met with the board and requested that gymnasium facilities in the new high school be adequate to attract regional or area events. The board also reviewed the work of the committees called by the school district to set goals for |