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Show Mona Reservoir dam may break if water's not released '.The seasonally adjusted County, 6.0 percent; and Wayne unemployment rate in Juab County is now at 13.9 percent, . according to a newsletter issued by the Utah Department of Employment Security. The report says 303 Juab County citizens were without jobs at the end of the third quarter of 1983, down 17.4 percent from last year's 367 who were without work. i The rate is the highest in the departments central planning district, which includes Juab, Millard, Sevier, Sanpete, Wayne, and Piute counties. ; The unemployment rates in the other counties are Millard County, 6.9 percent; Piute County, 5.9 percent; Sanpete County, 12.2 percent; Sevier County, 7.1 percent. The number of increased nonagricultural jobs by only 1.1 percent from 1982 to 1983. Mining was the hardest hit of the job categories listed. The number of persons employed by the mining industry at the end of the third quarter of 1983 was 70, down 17.6 percent from last years 85 persons. The number of jobs in most of the other job categories in the county either did not grow, or grew by only one or two percentage points. The category receiving the largest percentage of growth was government. The number of persons employed by local government went up 5.3 percent from 1982 to 1983. Wage freeze unfair, commissioners told The Juab County Commission is being asked to raise county employees wages at the beginning of the year, instead of waiting until the middle of the year. At a recent budget meeting, the commission decided to wait until later in the year to see if there was enough money in county coffers to raise county wages. But according to Juab County Sheriff Dave Carter, the countys employees should not wait in limbo for most of the year before wages are increased. I think when the budget is set the decision should be made, Carter said. He said it was unfair to the employees to let the issue drag on and on for months before making a decision. Last year, it was October before the issue of raises for county employees was settled, Carter reminded the commission. He said he doesnt want the same thing to happen again this year. County employees wages are already behind those of other counties, and we were the only ones I know who didnt get anything the first of January last year, the sheriff said. Carter says the situation sion he would rather make cuts in other areas in order to assure that employees get the 6 per- 5 mo. He was a member of the Levan Water Association. He served as a counselor in the Levan LDS Ward and as a member of the Levan Ward Sunday School Superintendency. He had been chairman of the ward genealogy committee. He served an LDS mission to the northern United States. Survivors are three sons, Val E. Christensen of American Fork, Neil C. Christensen of Pleasant Grove, and Norris A. Christensen of Provo; 13 grand- BAST THIRD SOUTH The amount of gross taxable sales in Juab County from 1982 to 1983 decreased 7.2 percent, from $6.9038 million in 1982 to $6,405 million in 1983. Gross taxable sales in Nephi h were down of a percent from 1982s $20.12 million to 1983s $20.1 million. Gross taxable sales in Mona went down 36.9 percent from $319,300 in 1982 to $201,400 in 1983. one-tent- Levans gross taxable sales increased 17.5 percent, from $597,000 in 1982 to $701,700 in .' Serving last fuab County December 1983. Tourist room sales were up 47.9 percent from 1982 to 1983. The 1982 figure was $155,500. This years figure is $230,000. New car and truck sales were up, also, increasing by 45.5 percent in the period examined. Building construction on the State Engineer Dee C. whole was off 1.5 percent from Hansen has recommended the 1982 to 1983. Although the release of water from Mona amount of new nonresidential construction was up 66.8 percent, the amount of new residential construction was down 78.3 percent and the number of new dwelling units constructed was down 77.8 percent. Snow College will offer The number of residential additions, alterations, and repairs business courses in Nephi soon. The courses to be offered are was up 231.7 percent from Introduction to Business, $36,300 in 1982 to $120,400 in 1983. beginning Tuesday, Jan. 10; 29, Nice Place to l.iv(r A 1983 County unemployment rate is 13.9, down from 16.8 Diamond rings worth $2,080 stolen Two diamond rings valued at $1,000 each were taken from a PRUo ASl V,1ATJa)N salt ukf city, ut sain says Acting Chief Ken Reservoir be substantially increased in the coming months. Should the release not be Snow will offer Nephi business courses Nephi LDS Stake plans New Year's Eve dance tend. The admission charge is $1.50 per person. The sponsors have asked that those attending wear best dress. Women and girls should wear dresses and the men and boys should wear dressier outfits. Refreshments will be served, and hats, horns, noisemakers, etc. will be provided. The music will be furnished by Bastian Brothers Sonic Sound Dance chairmen are Lynn and Diane Brough and Bart and Michelle Feaman. Microcomputer Business Applications, beginning WednesPersonal day, Jan. 11; Finance, beginning Thursday, Jan. 12; and a speech class, the starting date of which is still pending. The classes will be taught from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. each night. A meeting for those interested in the courses will be held at Juab High School Thursday, Jan. 5 at 7 p.m. Additional information on the courses can be obtained by calling Sharon Bowles at 623-010- made, says Hansen, there is a will be possibility that the dam overtopped, and a complete failure of the embankment could occur. Hansens comments were made in a letter to the president of the Current Creek Irrigation Company. A copy of the letter was recently sent to the Juab County Commission. In the letter, Hansen says the level of the reservoir is approximately five feet higher than it was last year at this time. In one recent period alone, the level rose three inches. Hansen said parties having an interest in the reservoir should take appropriate steps to protect bridges, roads, and property in the area. 15-da- y 5. car parked at the Nephi Funeral Friday for Edgar Christensen , 84 25,-192- 467 cent raise talked about this year. Commissioner R. Roscoe Garrett said he agrees with Carter. However, says Garrett, last year the county experienced some special problems that precipitated some special considerations. For example, he explained, both the Union Pacific and D&RGW railroads protested the amount of taxes they were charged. More than $60,000 in taxes are being held The Nephi LDS Stake will by the courts until the law suit sponsor a New Years Eve is settled. dance Saturday, Jan. 31 at the The commissioners told Nephi LDS Stake Center. Carter they would give him an The dance will begin at 8:30 answer on the question follow- p.m., and everyone 14 years of adults and ing the next commission age and older is invited to at- meeting. teenagers Safeway store Friday, Dec. 23, the Nephi Police Department makes for discontented reports. The owner of the rings, employees. In the sheriffs Delores Barrowman, of Oildale, department, for example, the Calif., said the they were left wages offered deputies are not her cars dashboard while she high enough to attract trained went in the store. When she men. The county must then hire returned, the rings were gone, untrained men and pay for their she said. The car was unlocked. schooling. When the deputies to the police According are trained, they often seek betone ring had 17 stones report, and the county ter paying jobs The other is left to start the cycle all over. totaling one carat. had stones seven totaling Carter says the commis- ring sioners are thus defeating their 1.7 carats.. The Nephi Police have no own desire to keep costs down. The sheriff told the commis suspects in the case at present, Edgar N. Christensen, 84, died Dec. 26 in Pleasant Grove. He was born Sept. 28, 1899 in Levan to Christen and Caroline Lundsteen Christensen. He married Ruby Tunbridge Nov. in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. She died March 4, UTAH Mona fire does $5,000 in damages at Yates home A fire Friday night at the of the wall to put out the fire. Marlin Yates home in Mona Newton said the fire apparently caused an estimated $5,000 in started when the family was at the Mona Elementary School damages. The fire was reported at 9:30 p.m. Friday, according to Mona Fire Chief Gordon Newton. One fire truck and seven men worked until 11:30 p.m. to put out the fire and clean up. Christmas pageant, and was discovered when family members returned home. Sister Rebecca Bracken returned from LDS missionary service headquartered in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She will speak to members of the Nephi Fifth LDS Ward Sunday, Jan. 1 beginning at 10:50 a.m. Newton says the blaze was started by an overheated stove g pipe coming from a stove in the Yates family room. The smoldering fire started between the inside wall and the sheathing and burned from the family room downstairs Interservice on Friday. the up through the ment will be at the Levan kitchen wall upstairs. Firemen had to tear out part Cemetery. wood-burnin- Mrs. Hair dies; fun- eral is today in Mona Mary Hortense Yates Hair, 83, died Dec. 26 in Mona. She was born Feb. 12, 1900 to Joseph Alfred and Ellen Elizabeth Beard Gibbons. She married John Bryan Yates July 11, 1917 in the Manti LDS Temple. He died March 31, 1945. She married Gerald J. Hair in 1952. She lived in Provo until Mr. Hairs death on March 10, 1973, and has lived in Mona since then. Mrs. Hair was a member of LDS Church, and parthe children; 16 in the churchs ticipated two brothers, Leslie C. in Mona and in organizations Christensen of Salt Lake City Provo. She was a Relief Society and Joseph E. Christensen of in Mona. Richfield; and two sisters, president Survivors are two sons, Mont Renon Jones of Otto, Wyo. and1 Yates and Don Yates, both of Geneil Tobler of Salt Lake City. Mona; 11 grandchildren; 26 Funeral services will be held two Friday at 12 noon in the Levan sisters, Ethel Carter of Mona LDS Church. Friends may call and Berda Shaw of Coalville; Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at and a brother, Owen Gibbons of the Anderson Funeral Home in Kamas. Funeral services will be held Nephi and at the chapel prior to great-grandchildre- great-grandchildre- n; Mary Hortense Yates Hair today (Thursday) in the Mona LDS Church. Friends may call prim- to the services. Interment will be at the Mona Cemetery. - The Times-New-s Elder Thor Larsen, son of Nena and Robert Warner of Nephi and Mark Larsen of Teasdale, will report on his LDS mission to Honduras Sunday, Jan. 1 in the sacrament meeting of the Nephi Sixth LDS Ward. The meeting begins at 10:50 a.m. |