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Show Because of the Memorial Day, Our Deadlines For Next Week are Friday, May 26, at 5 p.m. CAC84101 EXP. 1199 5005 ' SALT LAKE CITY, ut 84101 Serving East Juab County - A Nice Place To Live! Volume 93, No. 21 Wednesday, May 24, 1995 12 pages Single Copy Price 500 FsSsii mcMmt Glum me Hie The truck traveled across the high- By Myrna Trauntvein way, went off the right shoulder of the s Correspondent freeway and rolled several times. Most of the victims were thrown from the veA West Jordan man was killed and hicle as it rolled although some of the nine other people were injured in a one-c- children remained inside and were reaccident five miles north of Mona moved at the scene, said McAfee. William John Seare Jr., M.D., Salt Sunday afternoon. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Lynn Lake City, was following the pick up McAfee said the accident occurred at truck in a car driven by his wife and 6:10 p.m. when the driver of a 1995 Chev witnessed the accident, said McAfee. club cab pick-u- p truck pulling a new He began administering CPR to Tarr 1995 travel trailer lost control almost immediately, said McAfee. He checked each person at the scene of the vehicle. Kenneth Tarr, 31, died as a result of and determined that Tarr and Adam the accident, said McAfee. Tarr was Ashton, age 9, Pellums son, both needed thrown from the truck as it rolled. CPR, said McAfee. Melissa Tarr, 3; Rachael Tarr, 6; Becky Pellum, 30, West Jordan, diver of the vehicle, was northbound in the Rebecca Tarr, 8; Kristen Tarr, 7; chile inside lane of the freeway, said dren of Tarr, and Ashley Ashton, 11; McAfee. As she traveled in the left lane Adam Ashton, 9; Amanda Ashton, 7; and numerous vehicles passed her in the Ricki Pellum, 6; children of Pellum, Times-New- ar 26-fo- ot two-lan- right lane, he said. It was unclear whether one of the vehicles cut in too quickly or whether Pellum had decided to change lanes after one of the vehicles passed, said g FATAL WRECK One man was killed and nine people were injured in this truck and trailer wreck between Mona and McAfee. The trailer began and Pellum lost he said. control, control. new lost the trailer travel who when wreck was The occurred driver hill. pulling Santaquin were all injured in the accident. Adam Ashton is listed in critical condition in ICU at Mt. View Hospital in Payson. Also at Mountain View with multiple injuries are Ashley Ashton and fish-tailin- mormnum on nm-ma- mnum m&imm m Council members voted to review the torium for another six months, said general (master) plan for growth and Milt Harmon, city council member. He development within the community and said the moratorium was probably needed for the council to learn what they determine if the plan is sufficient. needed to know in order to make wise to there Council a was Council members members voted agreed Nephi City the general plan, al-- decisions on the general plan, place a building moratorium on all resi- - need to Harmon suggested the council, city dential building with density greater though it is fairly comprehensive, to up-da- than conventional single family hous- - ing. The council was in complete agree- ment on the decision although they agreed with a comment made by Kelly Andersen, council member, who said: I hate to see us put a moratorium on all building except single fam- homes. ily te make certain apartments and other types of housing are located where they will best fit into traffic patterns and other density requirements. The moratorium the council had placed on planned unit' development was due to expire, said Randy McKnight, city administrator. I think we should extend the mora- - Continued on page 5 We can lift the moratorium before the six month period if we need to or if we are done with the planning we need to do, said Nephi Mayor Robert Steele. I think we need to look at the density problem, said Richard Paxman, city council member. All council members agreed they needed to consider places where high density dwellings would be best located. Such dwellings should not severely impact current residential areas and traf- administration, and city planning and zoning commission study the issue with determination in that amount of time, This will not affect the housing projects which have already received approval in the planning process, said fic flow. McKnight. Only Old Orchard miniums has received enough approval in the process to allow them to proceed. Im not as concerned with duplex apartments, said Andersen. They dont bother me. However, he agreed, the council should look at all multiple family dwellings and the best placement in the city general plan. It will be nice to have a public hearing so we could understand how the people of the community feel about the location of high density housing, said Andersen. The moratorium was placed on planned unit development in December. Condo-residenti- al Ad Hoc Study Committee will be ready to make recommendations to board on June 7th special meeting Times-New- s Correspondent Juab School District Capital Rex Bailey. attended school building capacity. Schedule adaptations board meeting to make a progress re- - to meet the growing census have also port. Tompkins reviewed the been considered. We have looked at alcommittees activities for board mem-Th- e ternative schedules, said Tompkins. The committee has considered district bers. and county demographics, she finances said committee re the has Tbmpkins viewed parent, teacher, and classified said. staff surveys to discover what the vari- We meet with John Taft, architect ous groups think the building needs are with EDA, said Tompkins. and on what educational level an tional building would best serve the Tompkins said the committee is curcommit-Carsaid the Tompkins community. rently considering two options. She said tee investigated building usage and the committee had narrowed the field and was investigating the best of the two options which were to build either a new high school or a new upper elementary school. vice-cha- ir By Myrna Trauntvein Fa- - cilities Ad Hoc Study Committee will be ready to make recommendations to the board on June 7th. The committee has had three excel- lent meetings with some very good dis- on the building needs in the dis- trict, stud Superintendent Kirk Wright Tbmpkins, committee chair, and addi-cussi- on ol If a new high school were to be built, the district could construct the facility on the property owned by the district adjacent to the current high school. Either option will require remodeling of current buildings, she said. Leon Pexton, board president, said he appreciated the time and work the committee was spending to assist the school board. Its amazing how much people can learn from serving on a committee, he said. I "t FIRST CROP DONE Just like hay. Dandelions have more than one crop during the summer season. These on the Nephi Elementary lawn, have all gone to seed and with the storms and winds on Tuesday will are on their way to the second crop!. |
