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Show I T 4t 7 i in ( .i 'vk' I if UN I'Ui'J SOUTH U,1 UrY, IT Mill V v. i .U1 JJ Serving East Juab County A September Nice Place to Live! 27, 1979 At Sept. 19 council meeting Nephi City accepts Nebo Heights subdivision; will wait on Main Street trees Subdivision and shallow The Nebo Heights has received Nephi Citys blessing. The subdivision was approved during the Sept. 19 meeting of the city council and mayor. Dale Worwood, one of the developers of the approximately 130-lo- t project attended the Its a real good submeeting. division and its ready to go, we would freeze in cold weather. Councilman Paul McPherson said he had gone to the subdivision to measure the hydrants and, lacking a tape measure, had used a metal file he found in his truck. He said one hydrant base was two file lengths above the ground. Then Bob Steele, a director of the development, volunteered to drive to the site and dig down to the main line to get an measurement in feet and inches. Soon after Steele left, City Engineer Steve Ludlow arrived at the meeting and said the water mains were plenty deep. From the knuckles of the bolts located about a foot from the top of the hydrant, its five feet to the bot- - feel Worwood said. But there were several questions before the council voted for approval. One concerned the depth of the water main at certain points of conection with fire hydrants. At those points, the bases of the hydrants are fairly high above the level of the ground and the concern was that the underlying water main was too tom ot the pipe, so he said there was plenty of soil cover over the pipe. Ludlow said the line had been tested and as far as he was concerned, the water system was ready to go. He said he felt the entire development was ready for approval. Other concerns voiced by were the deadline for installing light poles and the legal description of the easement the developers will give the city. r A limit was agreed to on the light pole installation and City Attorney Donald Eyre was to draw up the easement agreement. Also, the developers said homeowners will have to agree to 12 restrictive covenants which prescribe such things as size of houses and driveways and the coun-cilme- n one-yea- like. A motion was then made and seconded and the council OKed the project and approved several building permits for houses there. juab County has new conservation officer Sept. 24. He replaces Neil Bingham, who has been After the other interested parties had gone, Steele returned and said the ground around the hydrant was too hard to penetrate with the equipment he had. Somebody joked that it was just as well that he hadnt dug a hole, since the hydrant was now Please turn to page four The new officer has been work- City GOP plans David Swenson has been appointed Utah Division of Wildlife Resources Conservation Officer for East Juab County. Swenson began his new job transfered to another area. ing at the divisions Salt Lake office and participating in a training program there. This will be his first assignment in the field. Swenson graduated from Utah State University this year with a degree in wildlife science. He is originally from Salt Lake City. The new officer is married to the former Coleta Doms of Salt Lake City. They have one child, Michael, who is convention tonight Nephi City Republicans will hold their convention 27 at the Sept. tonight, Thursday, county courthouse. The meeting will begin at 8 p.m. New officers will be elected and three candidates for city council positions will be chosen. The public is invited to attend. Shades of Mary Poppins! Chimney sweep practices art As oil, gas, and electricity prices increase, many people are turning to wood or coal stoves as sources of heat for their homes. But as more and more stoves are installed, one of the old problems of the past is flaring up again chimney fires. old-tim- e Van-Dyk- the incomplete combustion of ' at Nephis Red Carpet Inn motel Monday. Damages were set at $20,000 TNPhoto Monday fires plague Red Carpet Inn; Allred family compound Men and equipment from four localities and one state agency fought a motel fire and two brush fires in or near the county Mon- day. Nephi City Fire Chief Boyd Park said local volunteer firemen were called to the Red Carpet Inn on North Main Street at 6:08 p.m. Monday. He said four fire trucks and 23 men eventually were utilized to control the blaze. It took an hour to put it out and fnop it up, Park said. The fire chief said there was smoke damage to all units of the motel, as well as some water damage. Fire damage was held to one of the units and a storeroom, where the blaze apparently started. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. It will probably cost $20,000 to open it back up, Park said. Earlier in the day, a brush fire errupted near the Allred family complex just south of the Juab-UtaCounty line. Juab County Fire Warden Greg Newton said that blaze blackened about 250 acres of sagebrush, grass, and juniper trees in the two counties before it was contained by men and equipment from Nephi, Mona, Santaquin, Payson and the state Division of Forestry and Fire Control, whose truck Newton drives. One fire truck was lost in the flames. Newton said the brush fire was traced to a barrel which had been used for burning garbage. He said it was fortunate that the wind was blowing from the south on Monday, because if it had come from the opposite direction, wed have had a hell of a mess. There d be nine houses and trailers gone, no matter what they the fire fighters did. A Payson City fire truck was destroyed when it apparently developed a gasoline leak and caught on fire. Four guys bailed out of it just before they would have got cooked, Newton said. The fire warden described the The Juab School District Board of Education met with Juab County commissioners Sept. 19 to discuss the countys possible use of the main building of Juab High School. The two groups met during the school boards regular meeting. The county has for some time been interested in converting the old building into an complex. When the new High School and Middle School buildings in the northeast corner of Nephi are completed, the present campus will be left vacant. Nephi City has also expressed interest in using one of the buildings on the campus. The board of education asked the commissioners to arrange meeting for them, the school district, and the city council to discuss further the possible transfer and conditions which would be necessary for such a move. In the event a plan is Please turn to page four office-courthous- . 1 & Complete with top hat, Gary Thatcher does his work sweeping chimneys. Its an ancient and honorable profession revived for todays TNPhoto heat sources. and floors around your Solidified creosote in pipes and woodstove. If your wood stove is chimneys is very flammable, and if it is left to build up in your properly installed, creosote will not be visible, but will collect on chimney or stovepipe, it can cause stove walls, stovepipe, and inside a fire. the chimney. Once it has cooled, it The Provo city fire marshal resembles crystalline sugar and is told me that last year chimney brittle and shiny. Please turn to page three wood-burnin- g f e blaze as a July fire at the end of September, explaining that conditions are at least as dry now as they were during the summer. Smoke from the fire was visible from the Nephi area and at least as far north as Provo. Richard Stowell, a Nephi insurance agent, said he had been in Provo on business and saw the cloud when he started for home. Newton said the brush fire was contained at about 5:30 p.m., about the time he was called to a smaller fire elsewhere in the county. He said the third fire burned several acres of highway just across the County line. right-of-wa- y Juab-Millar- d City is looking for new landfill site, city manager says Nephi City is trying to get approval from the state for a new site for the city landfill, City Manager Ted Anderson says. He said the proposed site is in a wash on the east face of the mountains southwest of Nephi. He said the fact that the site is in a wash would simplify landfill operations since its easier to cut off a bank to cover trash than it is to dig pits, fill the hole up with garbage, and then push dirt back in. Were trying to work with the state to see if theyll approve it, Anderson said. He said, it wouldnt be any further than where the present dump Commission, board discuss JHS plans e, e wood. It is deposited when smoke from the stove cools. It may drip from improperly installed stove pipes and may splatter on walls , Nephi City fire crews battle a blaze by owners Lee and LuDean Sperry. h solution to an Enter an old time problem Gary Thatcher, the chimney sweep. He looks exactly like Dick who played a chimney sweep in Mary Poppins. He sports a black top hat (how about stove-piphat?) and will probably be covered from head to toe with soot by the time his work is done. He is the person who risks his life (insurance companies wont allow him to buy life insurance) by standing on top of your chimney with brush in hand to get rid of flammable deposits so that your house will be safe from chimney fires for another year. Thatcher, a resident of Spanish Fork, is one of the new breed who have taken up the art of sweeping chimneys. He is a graduate of the "Pacific Northwest School of in Boise, Chimney Sweeping Idaho. Thatcher says chimney fires are caused by a super hot fire torching up a a buildup of creosote on the insides of chimneys, stoves, and stovepipes. What is creosote? It is a brown, smelly liquid that is formed by , is. Lan Ealey gets Eagle badge at Sunday event Harold Lan Ealey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ealey of Nephi, was presented his Eagle Scout badge at a court of honor held Sunday afternoon in the Nephi First LDS Ward. He is the grandson of Mrs. Horace Ostler of Nephi. J. Barres Jenkins is the troop's scoutmaster. Also receiving advancement awards at the court of honor were Mark Memmott, Star; George Ostler, Star; David Johns, Star; Russell Thomson, Life; and Cur- tis Park, Life. Back to school nite planned for Thurs- day , Oct 4 Heres your chance to go back but dont polish that to school apple until Oct. 4. The local Parent-Teacher- s Association is sponsoring Back To School Night at the Nephi Elementary School at 7:30 p.m. Julie Chase, vice president of the organization, said the event had been scheduled for Oct. 3, but it was necessary to change the date to Oct. 4. She said the evenings activities will include an introduction of PTA board members and teachers and four opportunities to visit classrooms to see just exactly what the kids are doing. I V |