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Show County will have to pay $650,000 plus UTAH FRFSS Juab County regains control of Juab County Hospital following Monday meet $XR C It ASSOCIATION 467 Fast third South Lake City, ITT 84111 As of Monday, Feb. 23, Juab County is back in the hospital business. Juab County Commissioners R. Roscoe Garrett, Joseph A. Bernini, and Claude R. Lomax signed an agreement to govern and control the termination of the contract with Advanced Health Systems at their Monday meeting. AHS has managed the hospital since April of 1979, but the commission voted Jan. 19 to ter- Serving East Juab County minate the management contract, saying that it was the commissions intention to provide good hospital care at substantially less cost than the present rates charged by the hospital. The termination of the contract creates a major problem for the commission, , A Nice Place to Live ! February 26, 1981 The however. .An Juab County Hospital is back in the hands of local officials, but $650,000 bill will be hard for county estimated $650,000 owed to AHS 'must be paid by the county by July 20. The bill is for management services provided by Advanced Health Systems over the 22 months it controlled the hospital at the rate of $5,000 per month, plus about $420,000 for remodeling costs, $90,000 for inventory needed to keep the hospital running, for accounts receivable, and other items. The exact payment amount has not yet been negotiated. Not in- 18 . to pay. TNPhoto percent interest on the amount, a rate insisted upon by AHS financial management Bob Ladenburger. $20,000 that has been held for the county by First Security Bank will go to help pay the obligations. The funds have been collected by the bank from its Professional Management Services program, under which patients have financed hospital services. Money may also be temporarily transferred from the general fund, the class B road fund, or the collector road fund until long-terfinancing can be obtained. Any amount so obtained would be repaid by the end of the fiscal year and would be without in- cluded in the $650,000 figure is another $80,000 which AHS has not paid to building contractors because of the pending manage-men- t contract termination. The commissioners have not decided just how the debt will be paid, but County Auditor Dave Cloward had several suggestions for the commissioners to consider. Until the time when the debt is paid, the county will pay Power rates to climb 11 percent with March bill . m terest. A bond issue could also raise money, the commissioners decided, and a concerted effort to collect unpaid accounts at the hospital could also bring in funds. If these methods of raising the money are not successful, the commissioners may consider the outright sale of the hospital. Whatever the outcome, the commissioners are certain that The body of a Sacramento, the hospital will continue to Calif. man, Theodore Alvin Pratt, ' John "'McLain, the operate. 50, was discovered sitting in the will stay administrator, hospital cab of an earthmoving machine on in his position. The terminawest of Levan Saturday. tion agreement further states Sheriff David Carter said Pratt the commissioners must that was apparently hitchhiking current keep hospital employees. through the area Friday night Steps have already been taken to cab climbed to the into and get insure that employee health, inout of the cold and the wind. and malpractice industrial, Carter theorizes that Pratt surance will remain in force. went to sleep. He died of Before reaching the commisposure, an autopsy report from sioners hands, the agreement the state medical examiners of- was checked by former Utah fice says. Bob Hansen, who general The earthmoving equipment tomey secured by the commission was belongs to the W.W. Clyde Confor help with the severance procstruction Company of Springville. ess. Hansen stated that there was The cab was not enclosed. It had a in the contract that nothing windshield and a back window. A would place Juab County in an iltarp had been wrapped part of the legal position. way around the cab, Sheriff County Attorney Donald J. Carter said. Eyre Jr. strongly disagreed with Hansens assessment. He said that statutes say that the county cannot obligate itself without a public vote on the matter, and that the commissioners do not have the authority to sign promissory notes under these conditions. Commissioner Lomax Oliver N. Hoop Sidwell, 72, argued, however, that the county died Feb. 18 in Nephi. has been obligated to AHS ever He was born July 10, 1908 in since the company began incurrNephi to Oliver and Katherine debts on the countys behalf. ing Jensen Sidwell. He worked as a sheep herder and as a butcher. Survivors are a sister and a brother, Rachel Stickney and Loren Sidwell, both of Payson. Funeral services were held Saturday at Anderson Funeral Home in Nephi. Burial was at the Two law suits totaling $1.26 Vine Bluff Cemetery. million were discussed at the I Hitchhiker found dead near Levan 5 . Funeral held for Oliver N. 'Hoop' Sidwell Saturday kilowatt hours. If more electricity is used than '"u Should Nephi City's irrigation water go through culinary lines? City council discusses the problem ' . . Nephi residents can expect a higher electricity bill April 1. The Nephi City Council, at its ' Feb. 18 meeting, approved a power rate increase averaging 11 percent. The increase came about because the city is being charged higher prices for power it purchases from the Federal Bureau of Reclamations Colorado River ; Storage Project, i Not all the towns rate payers will get an 11 percent increase, however, says Councilman Paul McPherson. Those residents who do not have electric water heaters will be 7 percent more on up to I charged 900 kilowatt hours. 1 Residents who heat water with city power but use other sources of energy for heating their homes, will receive an 8.6 percent in- crease on up to 1100 kilowatt i hours. Families who have homes will experience a price hike of 16.4 percent on up to 1700 As springtime nears, Nephi City is trying to decide whether or not to use the citys culinary water system to deliver irrigation ' water. Some experimentation has been done in previous years in supplanting the citys ditch system, and the council discussed the merits of each system at its meeting Wednesday. Councilman Earl Jarrett said that there are many problems with the ditch system. The ditches tend to clog up, and consumers near the end of the ditch often get barely a trickle. A lot of water is lost through seepage into the ground and evaporation. It is estimated that for every gallon going through the ditch system, one more is lost. Theo Westring attended the meeting to bring his findings. He figures that last year he was allowed 977,000 gallons of water for irrigation use. Through his sprinkling system he used only , - 549,000 gallons, saving 428,000 gallons which, though unused, were not wasted. He also told council members that he raised three times more produce last year than in the previous year, although he used and wasted less water. Though the sprinkler system sounds encouraging, there are definite problems in switching over to this method. The most Please turn to page 5 the amounts on which the rate schedules are based, the prices, after those amounts, will decrease. said that complaints about the increases are expected, especially from total electric home owners. The council McPherson explained that in the past, before the energy crisis, there was an excess of electricity and those who used a lot of power were rewarded with a cheaper rate. But now, with power costs at a premium, those who use less electricity are being rewarded. Even with these price increases, Fire does $3,000 dam- age to Nephi home Fire caused about $3,000 damage to the home of Dennis L. and Diane Sorensen of Nephi last Thursday, Feb. 19. Nephi City firemen were called to the home at approximately 50 East First South at about 1:10 p.m. to find the back of the house in flames. Firemen removed the furniture from the back room and had the blaze extinguished in about ten minutes. Mrs. Sorensen was sewing and her two daughters Were sleeping Carlson of Lehi her door and reported when Wesley banged at the fire. Carlson was just passing through town when he noticed the blaze. According to Boyd Howarth, secretary of the fire department, the fire was started when an improperly installed pipe from a g stove wood and heated a wall to the point of combustion. He urges paeons who use such stoves to call the fire department for a free inspection coal-burnin- of their installations to prevent other such fires. The Sorensens are not sure whether the fire is covered by Union. i UP&L residential customers without electric water heating pay 13.5 percent more than Nephi residents will. Those with water heating pay 22.8 percent more, and UP&L customers with allelectric homes will pay 19 percent more than those in Nephi. The city has absorbed the CRP increase since Jan. 25 when it took effect, but feels that the rate increase must be passed on to customers by their March billing, which will come out April 1. Work is progressing on Nebo Loop road The rebuilding of the first 11.5 miles of the Mt. Nebo Scenic Loop road is substantially complete, says Don Nebeker, supervisor of the Uinta National Forest. The finished section goes south from Payson, and includes the site for the newly developed Blackhawk Campground, which will be open for use this summer.. The campground will accomodate up to 1,100 people. Major excavation work on the 9.5 mile section II of the road, which begins two miles south of Santaquin Canyon and runs to just inside the Juab County line near Devils Kitchen, is complete. The section includes the Monument trailhead facility, complete with parking lots and a loading dock for horses. The trailhead facility will be located near the junction with the Privateer Mine road. Funding for the completion of section III of the road, from Devils Kitchen to the Salt Creek Canyon road, has not been allocated, Nebeker says. Monday is groundbreaking for center Groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Mt. Nebo Training Center will be held Monday, March 2 at 1:30 p.m. in the Nephi Industrial Park. The construction of the center is a joint project of TRAIL, Inc., a organization for the of promotion the handicapped in Juab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier, Piute, and Wayne counties; the Farmers Home Administration; and the Juab School District. non-prof- it , t The new building will cost about $511,000, says TRAIL president Kenneth D. Beardall. A large part of that money has been made by contract work by the handicapped persons who will be using the new facility, Beardall says. The public is invited to attend. Law suits ask $1.26 million from county Monday meeting of the Juab County Commission. Dr. Robert Birch and anesthetist Mike Hale are being sued for $1 million by the Floyd Evans family. The amount is above that covered by the Juab County Hospitals malpractice insurance. Evans alleges that while he was having a cyst removed several years ago at the hospital, he had a serious allergic reaction to the anesthesia used. In another suit, Nick La Rochelle is asking $260,000 of Juab and Millard counties. He charges he was deprived of his civil rights because an attorney was not appointed for him. La Rochelle was charged several years ago with drunk driving and aggravated assault in Juab County, and tor leaving an injury accident in Millard County. The suit has been brought by the American Civil Liberties Nephi is better off than those cities who are obliged to purchase all their power from Utah Power and Light, the councilmen said. Signup to begin Lori Morgan, 9; Michelle McKenzie, 11; and Anna Horton, 10, are among local Girl Scoots who will be selling Girl Scout cookies beginnTNPhoto ing Friday. to stage cookie sales in area Girl Scouts Area Girl Scouts will be canvassing the area beginning Friday selling Girl Scout cookies. The girls will sell seven different varieties of cookies Samoas, a carmamel, coconut, and chocolate cookie; a crunchy peanut butter sandwich; Vanchos, assorted chocolate and vanilla cremes; Tagalongs, a peanut butter patty with a chocolate coating; Trefoils, an shortbread; Forget Me Nots, a new natural granola cookie; and Super Mint, a rich fudge cookie with a thin layer of Do-si-do- s, peppermint and chocolate coating. The cookies cost $1.50 per box. The sale of cookies is' the Girl Scout organizations chief fund raising event for the year. Local leaders say buy a box of each or even a case as the annual cookie sale helps Girl Scouts maintain their established camps and provide special programs and council events for the girls. The sale ends March 9. Persons who are missed in the sale may call Judy Orback at 623-124- 6. t soon for girls' softball league Signup for participation in the South Nebo League Girls Soft-ba- ll Association will begin March 2 and end March 7, officials say. Registration will be held at Linda Greenhalghs home at 666 North Fifth East in Nephi. A fee of $10 should accompany the girl or boy at the time of registration. The fee will provide team shirts for each member. Organizers also ask that team shirts from last years games be returned at the time of registra-tio- n The teams will be as follows: boys tee ball ages girls tee fawns, fillies, ball, ages and foxes, Persons who are interested in coaching a team or who would like more information about the program may call Gloria Ludlow at or Debbie Carter 'at 6-- 8-- 9; 6-- 7; 13-1- 5. 10-1- 2; 623-064- 9 623-071- 4 |