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Show a jStCIATitN UfAH PRC 33 467 ttST WHO :is The idle plant of NRP Hose The new owners have high exProducts should be back in pectations for the plant. They operation by January, and in- say the company could easily itially should employ 40 to 60 employ twice as many people as people. their conservative business So say Terry H. Jones and plan calls for. The Jones companies manuRobert G. Cypher, principals of Jones Enterprises of LaPorte, Ind. and The Cypher Company of Pittsburg, Pa. The two companies recently purchased the bankrupt Nephi plant, which has been closed since August of last year, and have formed a new company, Nephi Rubber Products, Inc. Jones and Cyphers purchase offer of $1.2 million was accepted recently by the bankruptcy court over the objections of a group of former NRP emloyees who were also interested in purchasing the plant. Because the employee group presented oral objections only and failed to file written objections by a specific deadline, the court overruled the employee., objections., and, ac- cepted the Jones and Cypher bid. facture hose components and assemblies and distribute them to agricultural and industrial users. The Cypher Company manufactures, assembles, and distributes hose products to mining industries. The companies plan to assemble the fittings and hose at the Nephi plant using half of their new divisions yearly output of four million feet of hose. The company also intends to manufacture a number of new hose sizes and other new products. We plan to offer a complete product line so the customer can come to one vendor, said Jones. Our goal is to make this a plant that can stand on its own twojef jand. neither jpnq us, will take anything out of it until then, he continued. I for kindergarten in coming years will no longer need physical examinations, the Juab School District Board of Education has decided. School nurse Shirley Lester said of the 155 children enrolling in kindergarten this year, 40, or 25 percent, had not obtained physical examinations. Lester said the average $25 cost of obtaining such exams could present a hardship for many area families. School board members decided the district cannot expect those who cannot afford to obtain the exams to get them. They strongly recommended, however, that those who could afford the physical examinations should get them for their children. The students are required by state law to have necessary im- munizations before attending with learning, to I began I Mrs. Bowles will now com- develop some pete for state teacher of the learned if a child is loved that a child can probably learn year honors. Mrs. Bowles is probably a anything, said Mrs. Bowles. natural-borMrs. Bowles began teaching said teacher, one older and Karen Wright, one of the kin- her brothers dergarten teachers at the one younger. When she was successful with them, she began school. Mrs. Bowles said she was shy teaching others. Each night the and lonely as a child. When she family dinner table was clutwas in the fourth grade in Foun- tered with books and surroundtain Green, her teacher, John ed by youngsters who knew Ord, taught her how fun learn- they could depend on Vonda to help them find the answer to ing could be. He taught me to feel good any question. This went on for about myself, she said. That more than six years. I just did was the beginning. The experi- my best to help them, she said. ence filled in the gaps in her edThough she had a burning desire to devote her life to helping Mrs. said and Bowles, ucation, she also began to feel comfort- others, she was hampered by able socially. family finances. She went to Snow College and learned to be a secretary. The new company vice presif dent said the parent companies cant make it in business with out rubber hose, which they now buy from competitors. One; of the reasons the parent com-- ' panies bought the Nephi plant? is so they would not have to buy i hose from their competitors,? who could easily raise their and force them out of;' business. Jones said their long-range plans are well thought t out and that the company in- - i tends to, be in Nephi for a long n 1 time. He said any business that the new company gets will be taken from other hose companies Because of that, the company must be competitive. Company funds will be used to make the plant competitive, including the installation of new equipment and the institution of new procedures. "Hopefully our biggest prob- - klogofr,ders ; hose-makin- fice. The office is located in the Juab County Center and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. Money not picked up by Dec. go back into the counfund. general ty's Extension secretary Carla Bailey says a number of items were found at the fair, and they are also available at the office. 31 will Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Nephi LDS Stake Center for Ray Donald (Bill) Tolley, 67, who died Oct. 7 in Provo. Friends may call at Anderson Funeral Home one hour prior to services. Burial will be at the Vine Bluff Cemetery. He was born Sept. 1, 1918 in Nephi to Hyrum and Bessie Whittaker Tolley. He married Elda Schwartz Jan. 15, 1941. The marriage was later solemnized in the Manti LDS Temple. He was employed as a carpenter at NRP Hose Products and its predecessor companies for 33 years prior to his retirement. He served in the army in World War II and served in a number of positions in the LDS Church. Survivors are his wife, of NeRay Donald (Bill) Tolley phi; two daughters Mrs. Dan (Adene) Taylor of Salt Lake Merle Tolley of Moses Lake, City and Mrs. Max (Sharia) Wil- Wash.; a sister, Ruth Zabriskie liams of Nephi; a brother, Spen- of Nephi; and five cer Tolley of Overton, Nev. and grade, Mrs. self-estee- ol Funeral is today for Ray Donald (Bill) Tolley, 67 4111 In the sixth by Myrna Trauntvein year. to be filled, Jones laughed, The company s goal is to hire no one except former employees of NRP, Jones said. He and Cypher said the company intends to be open with Juab County and with the community, and to do everything it can to help the community. school. District students have Jones and Cypher they vision screenings, will begin immediately say to fix up hearing tests, and spine devia- the plant so it can begin operation tests. Those screening will tions. Getting the heating continue, but physical exams system in working order is the will be optional. first priority, because some of g the equipment is water cooled and the water lines will freeze and break if the plant is not heated. The plants roof also needs to be repaired before the snow flies. Premium money from the Juab County Fair is now available at the county Extension of- Fair money is available dt The Juab School District has Bowles had another great selected Vonda Bowles, a teach- teacher, J.R. Christiansen. He er at the Nephi Elementary taught her far more than book School, as its first teacher of the learning. I not only fell in love ! Physicals no longer board says needed, registering Children cm, Vonda Bowles named Juab District's teacher of the year Nephis NRP Hose Products has been sold to the Cypher and Jones companies for $1.2 million. The company should reopen in January. NRP sold; operations to begin in January SOTT.4 ; Schools have highest load, lowest finances ? the best value for the dollars exSchool , load and the lowest pended, says the Utah Foundafinancial ability to support tion. A foundation report observes public education in the nation, it has had to adopt practices that Utah was one of the early and measures that will provide leaders in the reorganization of school districts and the consolidation of schools throughout the nation. More recently, be Utah has promoted productiviNephi Because Utah has the highest Dermatologist to at Medical Clinic Dr. Kraig K. Jensen, a dermatologist, will be at the Nephi Medical Clinic one day a month, starting Oct. 16. Jensen was raised in Provo and did his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University. He earned his medical degree from the University of Utah College of Medicine. He has served six years in the Navy, completing his internship in surgery and a three-yea- r residency in dermatology at the Naval Regional Medical Center in San Diego. Jensen was chief of dermatology at the Naval Regional Medical Center in Great Lakes, 111. at the time of his discharge from the navy. Jensen will be at the Nephi Medical Clinic every third Wednesday from 10 a.m. to noon. Trial to be- 'jf Brett Park Sperry Funeral is today for Brett Park Sperry Brett Park Sperry, 7 months old, died in Salt Lake City Oct. 7. He was born March 7, 1985 in Nephi to Alan Duane and Becky Park Sperry. Survivors are his parents, of Nephi; three sisters, Loreal Summer, and Angela; a brother. Brock; his grandparents, Gae D. Sperry and Boyd and Theral Park, all of Nephi; and a greatgrandmother, Edris F. Wall of Santa quin. Funeral services will be held today at 11 a.m. at the Nephi 1st LDS Ward Church. Friends may call at the chapel an hour prior to the services. Burial will be at Vine Bluff Cemetery. gin Tuesday ty studies and has ex- mother taught while her husband school. When Karen was two and a " half, she came down with men- ingitis. She died soon thereafter. Because all the other children were in school, said Mrs. Bowles, time seemed heavy on her hands. So, each day she traveled to Levan and helped her husband with the class he was teaching. Her husband finally told her that he would support her in returning to school and getting her teaching certificate. She attended night classe and summer school. During her schooling, two more children, Kevin and Craig, d perimented with schools in an effort to improve educational efficiency in the state. The study points out that Utah ranks last among the 50 states in the amount of personal income available per school child and first in the percentage of its population that is enrolled were born. At one time, she, her husin the public schools. During 10 the past years, school band, and their children were all travel trailer enrollments in Utah climbed by living in a 27 percent, while enrollments while she attended summer nationally were declining by 13 school. With 2.4 feet of space per perpercent. Forty of the 50 states reported declining school son, family togetherness took enrollments during this period. on a new meaning. She taught school five years Nearly every comparative measure shows that Utah is before tragedy struck the famimaking a superior effort to ly again. Son Kevin developed a finance public education. Cur- brain tumor. Nothing could be rent figures reveal that Utah done to save his life. ranks among the top five states When I lost my children, I in the tax effort made to sup- learned how valuable each port education and in the childs life is and how short a percentage of the total state time they are really children. Please turn to page 6 We never know how long any of them will be with us so we Please turn to page 3 year-roun- 16-fo- ot ,; The circuit court has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to bind over Tom Fowkes for trial on charges of theft of public funds and misuse of public funds. Fowkes is chairman of the Juab County Commission. Judge Joseph Ira Dimick refused a motion made by Fowkes attorney, Spencer Austin, to dismiss the charges. I do find that on both counts, the state has responded to the burden of proof, Dimick said. Fowkes is scheduled to appear Oct. 15 before the Fourth District Court to be arraigned on the third-degre- e felony charges. Prosecutors claim Fowkes, while serving as the county assessor, disregarded a county commission directive to stop pocketing money received from the State Tax Commission for work his office did in issuing license plate decals in Juab County. She eventually married Jay Bowles and had four children, Michael, Von, James, and Karen, and settled down to being a 4 Sister Thalia R. Mickelson has accepted a call to serve an LDS mission headquartered in Rochester, N.Y. She will speak to members of the Nephi 3rd LDS Ward Sunday, Oct. 13. The meeting will begin at 10:50 ajn. Sister Mickelson will enter the LDS missionary training center Oct. 16. ; . i X Elder Daren L. Bender, son of Russell and Colleen Bender, will leave soon for LDS missionary service headquartered in Geveland, Ohio. He will speak to members of the Nephi 1st LDS Ward Sunday, Oct. 13. Tbe meeting will begin at ajn. 0 |
