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Show Board mulls plan to stiffen academic requirements at JHS Recommendations to update academic performance afc Juab High School were revie fed by the Juab School District Board of Education at its meeting of Feb. 16. Dr. Kirk Wright, JHS principal, listed five recommendations, drawn up by a faculty Class such as speech, journalism, and drama would not count as English classes. The UTAH 467 Salt PRLiS ASSOCIATION BAST THIRD SOUTH LAKE CITY, UT 84311 performance level of students to receive A and B Please turn to page 3 committee: Students should take a ininimum of three basic academic classes a year (math, science, foreign language, Epglish, or social studies). Michelle Harmon wins Dixie College honors Serving East Juab County A Nice Place to Live! February 24, 1983 Michelle Harmon made the honor roll at Dixie College fall quarter, the school has announced. Miss Harmon is a daughter of Larry and Pat Harmon of Nephi. She had a of between 3.75 and 4, the St. George school says. Michelle was one of 24 students at the school to be honored. road is one of the nation's 10 most dangerous Nephi-to-Scipi- o grade-point-avera- The road between Nephi and Scipio is one of the 10 most dangerous roads in the United States, a national safety organization has said. The charge was made by Gerald Donaldson in an article appearing in the Feb. 28 edition of magazine. People Donaldson is the director of the Highway Safety Project of the Center for Auto Safety based in Washington, D.C. From 1977 to the present, there have been 57 fatal ac-- . cidents on the road counting one last week and one this week. Nephi First Ward will hold reunion Friday from north Nephi to south Nephi scheduled to be completed by fall. Work on other portions of the freeway from south Nephi to Scipio is . UHP Trooper Paul Mangelson of Levan was named Utah Peace of the Year Wednesday in Salt Lake City. Officer The Nephi First LDS Ward Friwill hold its annual reunion day, Feb. 25. A roast beef dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m., and a program will follow the dinner. Those attending should bring The Utah Highway Patrol their own dishes. Utah Highway Patrol All members and former has targeted the stretch of road for increased enforcement, and members of the Nephi First Trooper Paul Mangelson of Ofdeaths on the strip steadily Ward are invited to attend, Levan was named Peace ficer of the Year for 1982 by have been going down. Last ward spokesmen say. the Salt Lake Exchange Club year there were no deaths on Feb. 16. the road, although there were American Legion The award culminated the many accidents. annual crime in prevenNephi groups rep Work to replace the aging, tion week, and was presented at v outdated next his and the wife, highway with freeway Mangelson a luncheon at the Hotel Utah. former Sandra Jackson, have - is continuing. Nephi will be - Mangelson was congratulatA. representative. of., the : six children. "bypassed by a strip of freeway American Legion will be in ed by Governor Scott M. Matheson and representatives Would-b- e Nephi next Thursday. Dave Parkinson, department of the Salt Lake Police Departservice officer, will assist ment, the Salt Lake County veterans and their dependents Sheriffs Office, the Utah with Veterans Administration Highway Patrol, the FBI, and benefits from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. members and guests of the club. at the Juab County Center. Mangelson joined the Utah Mangelson is 'peace officer of the year' - to be Thursday - abductors disappear Duo attempts to kidnap Mona teenager Two men tried to abduct a Mona teenager.. Friday, the Juab County Sheriffs Department reports. Sheriff Dave Carter says at about 5 p.m. Feb. 17, Cindy Harward, daughter of Ike and Joyce Harward of Mona, was jogging about a mile and a half north of Mona. ride. When she declined they left, but drove by her two or three more times. Finally they stopped, and one of the men got out of the car. At that point, Miss Harward ran to the nearby residence of Dale Christof-ferso- n and the car drove away. The Sheriffs office was notified, and police officers in the area were alerted, but the Two men in a light blue or car was never located. Subaru with plates stopped and asked Miss Harward if she wanted gray-colore- d The driver of this car was trapped in the vehicle for 20 minutes Tuesday before rescue crews could extricate her. Driver swerves to avoid deer, rolls car -- Two Sanpete county women were injured Tuesday when their car rolled over just east of Nephi on SR 132. The accident happened at about 6:45 p.m., according to UHP Trooper Blair Bradford, who investigated the incident. The car was driven by Shelly Timm, 22, of Moroni. A passen- ger in the car was Julie Ann Shepherd, 23, of Mt. Pleasant. The car swerved to avoid hitting a herd of deer and rolled one and a half times. Timm was pinned inside the car for about 20 minutes while Sheriff Dave Carter, UHP Sgt. Sterling Christiansen, Nephi City policemen Ramon Memmott and Bruce Beal, and Juab County emergency medical technicians worked to free her. Shepherd was thrown clear of the vehicle. Timm, who is four months pregnant, had her seat belt fastened, said Bradford, and that may have saved her life. She suffered head wounds and was kept at the Juab County Hospital for observation. Shepherd was treated for minor injuries and released. out-of-sta- te Says SCS report the driver in front of you pulls a heres what your car might look like. Snowy conditions at the accident scene caused When U-tur- n, poor visibility. Poor visibility blamed for Friday wreck Poor visibility caused by a snow storm contributed to an automobile accident Feb. 18 near Levan. There were two cars involved in the accident. The first car, a 1978 Fiat driven by Margaret B. Strickland, 47, of Salt Lake City was headed west on about a half a mile out of Levan. Passengers in the car were Joyce Sohler, 51, of Salt Lake City, and Ruth Holland, 60, of Elko, Nev. According to UHP Trooper Paul Mangelson, the investigating officer, Strickland had wanted to turn onto SR 28 at Levan, but missed the turnoff. When she realized she had taken the wrong rode, she atHer tempted to make a car was hit broadside by a westbound 1972 Buick Skylark driven by Morris A. Dastrup, 1-- U-tur- n. 4 21, of Holden. Passengers in the Buick were Dastrup s wife Kathy, 24, and Tamara Jackson, 22, of Fillmore. Sohler and Holland both had broken ribs, and Holland had a broken pelvis. Strickland had an eye injury. All the women had cuts and lacerations. They were taken to the Juab County Hospital by the East Juab County Ambulance. Sohler and Holland were later taken to Utah Valley Hospital The occupants of the second vehicle had no injuries. Mangelson said both cars were totaled. Helping him at the scene were UHP Sgt. Sterling Christiansen, Sheriff Dave Carter, Deputies Bill Tompkins and LuWayne Walker, and Deputy Ross Johnson of Millard County. Area's water outlook for 1983 is good The water supply outlook is good for the communities of East Juab County, according to the February report of the United States Department of Agricultures Soil Conservation Service. According to the report, soil moisture is above average as a result of greater than average fall precipitation. Snow coverage in the area ranges from 131 percent of normal on the Lower Sevier to 181 percent of normal on the south fork of the Sevier. The SCS is forecasting that streamflow in Salt Creek near Nephi will be about 120 percent of normal for the period of April through July. On chicken Creek near Levan, streamflow is forecast at 165 percent of normal for the same period. Water storage at the Sevier Bridge Reservoir in southern Juab County is at 222,000 acre-feof water. Last year the reservoirs storage was 178,700 acre-fee- t of water. Average if 113,600 acre feet. et 0 This car carried LaRee Layton Raty to her death Thursday, in 1983s second fatal accident on Temporary 5. rollover on Edik Ogden woman; One-ca- r 0-- 15 LaRee Layton Raty, 42, of Ogden, was killed in an one-ca- r automobile accident Feb. 17 seven miles south of Nephi on 5. when it lost control and went off the road. The car hit a roadand was way coming into airborne for about 30 feet. It hit and rolled four or five times, 1-- she lata died. A passenger in the car, her daughter, Angela, 10, had minor injuries. The car was totaled, ford said. Brad- Bradford said. Raty was Assisting at the accident scene were Deputies J.R: car. of out the thrown UHP to According Trooper Blair Bradford, the accident Raty was taken to the Juab Belliston and Chad Bowles, and at about 3:50 p.m. Ratys County Hospital by the East UHP Sgt. 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