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Show 13ESS .USOCIVTION 467 E.0T THIRD SOUTH SALT LiKE CITY, UT 84111 UTAH Serving East juab County A June 7, 1979 Says National Transportation Safety Board resurface job bids opened; work to begin 1- -15 The section of Interstate 15 South Santaquin to two miles south of the Juab-Uta- h county line is scheduled for final surfacing. The Utah Department of Transportation opened bids Tuesday for the section. The apparent low bidder was Rick Jensen Construction, Inc. of Draper with a $925,286 total. The official engineers estimate for the job was $993,330. The work requires placing a four-inclayer of bituminous surface course on top of the existing roadway followed by a bituminous seal coat. The sealer is much finer and gummier than the regular roadbase, and for that reason it has greater durability and smoother driving qualities. The project wil also entail paving the on and off ramps on that and upgrading the portion of turnmaintenance existing arounds. Shoulder flattening is also planned to improve the safety of the emergency lanes. The project should produce only minimal traffic interference. Many traffic control devices will be used and only one lane at a time can be blocked off to traffic. Richard Egan of the UDOT Roadway Design Division We are concerned about said, protecting the motorist. The contractor must follow a predetermined plan which includes a limited use of maintenance crossovers. We plan to handle any . ,, interference as ' smoothly' as Driver error blamed in 1977 deaths of California family from The - ' one-inc- h , y possible. Funeral held June 6 for Yale Brough, 68 for (Shirley) Newell. Also surviving are five grandchildren. Burial was at the Vine Bluff Cemetery in Nephi. Juab Several displaced persons who had office space in the Juab County Medical Clinic Jiay? .found homes for the present in the offices of the local physician who is working in the clinic. The switch was arranged Monday during the regular meeting of the Juab Coun- in Nephi owned by Dr. Robert Birch. Birch has moved his prac-.tifjinto the clinic adjacent to Juab County Hospital and now is associated with Advanced Health Systems, the firm which took over the hospitals management June JNv in l during 1977, according to statistics compiled by the Utah Department of Transportation. There were 12.71 deaths per 100 million miles of vehicle travel in the county, compared to a statewide rate of 3.98. There were states that available J. D. Elder, the new x. - I sioners. The office trading agreement calls for AHS to pay $810 per month until Dec. 31, 1979, because, under the firms agreement with Birch and the county hospital board, it was necessary for the physician to move to the clinic. That move county-owneforced out the persons in the d Birchs As Commissioner Ted Johnson put it, hes up there in a building but still practicing rent-frehis for building. The responsible commission decided to allow Randy Blackett, who oversees the e countys alcohol and drug rehabilitation program, to move into Birchs building. The county will pay $190 to rent Blacketts Please turn to page five Area students graduate from Snow, CEU, USU Graduating from The College of Eastern Utah at Price June 1 was Tony M. Sperry, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Duane Sperry of Nephi. Sperry received an associate in science degree. , Clara Munk, center, is the queen of the 1979 Ute Stampede. Her attendants are Lisa Park, left, and Carla Sherwood. This years Stampede promises to be better than ever. The 45th annual event will be held this TNPhoto year on July 12, 13, and 14. graduating University Young, 1800 students from Utah State were Gordon Marc the Among Mona, agriculture; Jodene Menlove, Nephi, education; and James William Shaw, Nephi. science. Weber County. But the number of annual vehicle miles driven in those to counties far exceeded those in Juab (2.808 billion in Salt Lake and 679 million in Weber compared to 181 million for Juab) so the respective fatality rates were lower (3.45 for Salt Lake and 4.71 for Weber). There were no highway deaths during 1977 in Daggett, Garfield, or Wayne Counties. truck, tractor 4 Separate ad- ministrator of the hospital, and Dave Peterson, another hospital official, met with the commis- clinic, while leaving building vacant. 23 persons killed in the county during the year, contrasting with 97 in Salt Lake County, and 32 in fires damage 1. honors. it. f Juab County had the highest highway fatality rate in the state e. from the states universities and technical schools recently. Louise Shepherd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kent Shepherd of Levan, received an associate of science degree from Snow College June 1. She graduated with high r report physical evidence, research data, and the truck drivers testimony did not permit the safety board to confirm or deny that the truck drivers described evasive actions were necessary, took place, or would have produced his described loss of control. Sunday, Monday Several students from the East Juab County area have graduated : was just across the centerline. One of the conclusions of the Juab County tops in highway deaths in 1977 Dr. Birch, county employees play musical offices Persons starting open fires anywhere in Juab County or Nephi City must now obtain burning permits, says county fire marshal Greg Newton. The order will remain in effect until October 31. County burning permits may be secured from the county Sheriffs office in Nephi. City burning permits may be obtained from Nephi Fire Chief Boyd Park. There is no charge for the permits says Newton. The permits are issued so that county fire crews dont have to chase the smoke of controlled fires. Mrs. Ronald back into the proper lane. Physical evidence such as gouge marks on the pavement inwas dicates the truck-traile- r almost fully on the vans side of the road at impact while the van County commission notes now required in county, Nephi city Survivors are his wife, Nephi, and the following children, all of Nephi: Richard M. Brough, Lloyd and County History. Burning permits International the road and, when he applied the trucks brakes, the rig began to skid. He stated that it appeared to him that the vans driver was not doing anything at all to get TNPhoto sanitarian serving the county, and the county public health nurse will be housed in the building at 57 North Main Street Harvester Company. Brough, A picture from the scene of one of the worst traffic accidents in Tim-panog- He was the manager of Brough Antique Autos and was a former The lengthy report quotes the truck driver as saying there was was a lot of water on the road and that it was just like driving on ice. According to the report, the truck driver said the van started to drift toward his side of TC 'ff Representatives of the Mental Health agency, a Brough was born March 19, 1911 in Nephi to John M. and Alta McFarlane Brough. He married Kathleen Mansfield in Provo, April 2, 1936. dealer jured. ty Commission. Funeral services were held Wednesday, June 6, 1979 at the Nephi Sixth LDS Ward for Yale Brough, 68, who died in Provo June 3, 1979. National Transportation Safety Board says the probable cause of a 1977 accident near Scipio which took the lives of eight persons was failure by either or both drivers involved to stay on the proper side of the road. However, the board said in a report on the accident that it could not be determined why the r vehicles a and a were not in recreational van their own lane. The mishap occured on the afternoon of Aug. 26, on U.S. 91 about eight miles north of Scipio. All occupants of the van were killed and the truck driver was intruck-traile- h 60-da- Nice Place to Live ! Tom Howard, manager of Allens, says the parking lot struck again Wednesday, apparently trying to eat all those dairy products. TNPhoto Dairy truck 'wallows' in Allen's parking lot There are those who say you should never build on ground that has had a church on it, and there are those who say that thats a lot of bunk. Mark Woolf, an independent trucker from Mt. Pleasant, is leaning toward the first idea, though, after the trailer of his trailer rig sunk semi-truc- k Howard, Allens Food-towmanager, said the parking lot was scheduled for resurfacing anyway, so the damage will cause little extra expense. None of the dairy products inside the trailer were damaged. Tom n fires Sunday and Monday destroyed a truck carrying two motorcycles and ruined, the cab of a tractor. The truck burned eight miles south of Nephi on Sunday, causing about $3,700 in damages. Boyd Howarth of the Nephi City fire department said that one of several cans of fuel in the rear of the truck may have ignited. The tractor belonged to Merle McPherson. It had been turned off while the operator went to lunch. Upon returning to the field west of the fairgrounds, the driver saw smoke and called the fire department. When the door to the cab was opened, flames erupted. Damage to the tractor was estimated at between $5,000 and $7,000. lf feet through the asphalt in the Allen's Foodtown parking lot Wednesday morning. Woolf hauls dairy products from Nephi to Cedar City for Western General Dairies of Salt Lake City. He and a dairy employee were exchanging trailers in the parking lot of the local supermarket at about six a.m. Wednesday just like they do five days a week. They had just pulled one truck out from under one of the trailers and were getting ready to pull in the Woolf tractor when the 40,000-lb- . trailer sank through the asphalt. Harry Burton, who was at Allens, said he thought that the trailer went through the asphalt right where the basement of the old Nephi Third Ward LDS church was located. A large crane from American Fork was brought in to lift the trailer out of the hole. Tax equalization dates changed lax equalization days have been changed, says Erma I. Gob- county treasurer. County residents may meet with commissioners in Nephi on June 18 from 1 to 5 p.m. and July 9 from 10 a m. to 5 p m. Taxpayers may also meet with the commissioners in Eureka on June 25 from 1 to 5 p.m. le, . t , m i 'ff' $' Heres a perfect way to beat the heat. These two young Nephi ladies h..e found that playing in the sprinklers at the park is a perfect way to cool off. TN Photo |
