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Show r It Volume Fight Tooele, Utah, Friday, January 13, 197S Cost NuiuIht Thirty Three Twenty (ants Investigation By State Clears City Officials The Utah Attorney Generals office has completed its investigation into allegations of Tooele City employees and officials misuse of city property. .M 1 Attorney General Rolicrt B. Hansen said that his office has found no basis for criminal action. HANSEN one SAID, however, matter has teen referred to the county attorney and city administrators for possible legal action. t Tooele County Attorney Ed Watson said Thursday that his office would report on each separate allegation outline the allegation itself, action taken by the attorney general and his (Watson's) recommendation to the city ad- ministration. Watson said that this report would lie Issued to the city and to the public news media the earlv part of nest week. TOOEI.E CITY Attorney, Alan Jeppesen said when he received the complete report of the investigation from the Attorney General, he would review it and determine "hat legal action should Ik- - taken. The Attorney Generals office received allegations that city employees, including the mayor, administration department heads and others made improper use of city owned materials and city equipment for private purposes and city employees for personal construction. Additional allegations were received of a covemp by the chief of police and the city administrator. HANSEN SAID, We learned from onr investigation that Tooele city has Level Of Lake Declines a local jvilicv and procedure which would allow certain employees to utilize city equipment and machinery for private purpose and allow those employees to purchase items through the city for jiersonul use. City Attorney Jeppesen said that policy does not limit "certain" but applies to all employees. Hansen also said, "The advisability of having such a policy is not a determination for this office, but is reserved to the local elected officials. We only investigate potential criminal action with the exception of the possible matter referred to the county attorney. The attorney generals office reports specifically that the charges against Mayor Douglas Sagers are unfounded as are the allegations against Police Chief Jesse Petersen and others. In Rush Valley Wild Horses Corralled By Choppers n wild horses were Rush in Valley Tuesday and captured Wednesday in the Bureau of Land Man- Twenty-seve- i Si agements helicopter roundup. The bureau plans to round up ly 50 horses this week following Orrin P. Miller, project coordinator for Tooele County Wildlife Federation, stands on the site of the proposed target shooting complex. If approved, the range will be located one and a half miles south of Stockton. nearcom- - Wildlife Enthusiasts Announce Plans For Stockton Target Shoot Complex Proposed plans for the installation of a target shooting complex near Stock-to- n will lie presented at a public meeton ing January 19. . Lee Robertson will represent the Utah State Division of Wildlife Resources at the meeting which is scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in Stockton town hall. THE SHOOTING complex will be located one and a half miles south of Stockton. One of the chief purposes of the complex will lie to provide a location for a hunter safety training .22 caliber range. The location would also provide a .30 caliber rifle range with target at 100, 200 and 300 meters with enough firing positions to hold state shooting matches. Orrin P. Miller, Tooele County Wildlife Federation project coordinator, said that some Stockton residents have voiced opposition to the location of the present target shooting site. THE REASONS why some people did not like the present target shooting range is because there are some power lines that may get shot, it is located near the highway and some of the noise from the guns can be heard by Stockton residents, Miller said. Plans for the complex also call for a trap shooting range, pistol range and Bills Introduced By Tooele Lawmakers by Hugh Barnes The heavy work load of the budget session of the Utah Legislature has not discouraged Tooele County lawmakers. All three plan to seek in November. Senator Karl Swan, Representative John Smith and Representative Beverly White stated that they intend to seek places on the ballot this fall. SENATOR SWAN feels that U.S. Vice President Walter Mondales speech to the legislature indicates that the Central Utah Project is more stable. With only twelve working days left in the present session, legislators are mainly occupied with committee meetings. State1 Senate President Moroni Jensen reports that the house has failed to agree with his proposal to begin immediate joint sifting of legislation. Representative White reports that debate on budgetary measures is being delayed in the House because the House rules committee will not release bills for consideration. SENATOR KARL Swan has intro- duced a measure to bring legislative pay into line with inflation. He points out that since the last legislative pay raise in 1969, the cost of living has gone up 75 per cent and he feels that citizens will be discouraged from running for office unless legislative pay is more realistic. Under his proposal, the $25 per day salary will be increased to $47 per day and expense allowances will increase from $15 to $28 per day. Because the constitutional amendment is required to raise lawmakers salary, even if the bill passes, it w'ill an archery course. Water and electric installation ing complex. In the near future a meeting will be held to get feedback from various hunting and shooting organizations throughout the county. If public support is predominant and objections can be satisfactorily met, preliminary plans for the project will be completed in 1978. PROJECT BUDGET and funding programs could be prepared by the DWR and submitted to the state legislature in 1979. The project will be constructed and managed by the Representative Smith reports that he will introduce a resolution for a feasibility study of the Danger Cave Park Complex near Wendover. He says recently Governor Matheson said that he would seek money from the Four Comers Fund to finance such a study. Representative Beverly White reports that her informal poll of house members shows that of the 47 lawmakers who are sponsoring bills this session, only 15 are democrats. SHE SAYS she is very concerned that legislation be passed to provide 250 maximum security cells for the state prison system. Mrs. White suggests that the danger of riots at the prison is steadily inof overcrowding. creasing because White feels that state funds can be used to help cities and counties expand their jail facilities in return for them caring for state prisoners. Representative Smith feels that the emphasis on development of Utah water resources can eventually result in state funds being made available for the purposes of South W'illow Reservation southwest of Grantsville. He feels there is a need for supplemental irrigation water for Grantsville City and surrounding areas. Mary Kerr of Tooele is on the staff of the Utah State Senate during the present budget session. $3 per couple donation BOYS AND GIRLS Commercial Security Bank will open branch office in Wendover on Thursday, Jan. 18 at 10 a.m. Dean Johnson of Grantsville has been appointed manager of Commercial branch. 1UKS InlOOP newest He also said that the new branch will employ two other people from Wendover. Prior to his Wendover assignment, Johnson had been the real estate loan officer at Commercial Security Bank in Tooele. Johnson and his wife, the former Beatrice Palmer of Grantsville, are the parents of four children. They are Chad, Krista, Craig and Jared. p.m. Natl Guard Armory Securitys We are very excited about the new assignment and look forward to making friends and business acquaintances with the people in W'endover, Johnson said. This will be Johnson svd, the first bank in Wendover and I am sure it will add a new dimension in the community. Prior to now, Wendover residents had to do their banking in Wells, Grantsville, Tooele or Salt Lake City. Dance 9 p.m. Jan. 21, 1978 spokesmen said. AND UNDER the 1971 Federal Wild Horse and Burro Act, the BLM must remove wild horses from private property when asked by ranchers. The first four horses herded off the mountains had no brands and two of them were blind in one eye. Due to pressure from the Utah Humane Society, the BLM has agreed to leave 15 of the herd in the mountains, said Brice Nelson, the societys executive director. Two other herds of wild horses roam in the Cedar and Onaqui Mountains further west of Rush Valley. Those herds will be allowed to grow and prosper, according to the BLM. biflation: Being broke with money in the bank. 48-ve- 1976. Tins June measurement was prior to the drought period. The report also said in Decem-lie- r the lake was alxmt 1.4 feet lower than when the Mormon pioneers first arrived in Utah in 1847. THE AGENCY said December and January moisture increases on the West Coast are not enough, alone, to erase the prolonged West Coast drought. Of the nations five major rivers, the report said, two were above normal stream flow. Alxive normal were the Missouri River, 34 per cent, and the St. Lawrence River, 8 per cent. Below normal were the Columbia River and the Mississippi River. The Ohio River was normal. Scout Recognition Banquet Attention all scouters and friends of scouters, this is the last chance to get tickets for the Scouters Recognition Banquet Saturday, 7 p.m. at the 11th-15t- h Ward Cultural Hall, 180 So. Coleman. Tickets are available at the Scout Committeemen and Scout representatives for $3.50 per person. For more information call or 882-195- 0 884-603- The menu will be roast beef, mashed potatoes with gravy, green beans with cheese sauce, jello salad, hot rolls and butter, cheese cake and topping. This dinner will be catered by the 15th Ward Relief Society. Light entertainment will follow. Wendovers First Bank To Open TOOELE MOOSE LODGE JAN. 14 'u es- cape and head back into the hills, said BLM spokesman Martha Diehl. The horses, some of them believed to lie former domestic animals, have been grazing in area grain fields, BLM THE REPORT, released in Utah during Decemlier, 1977, shows the lakes measurement of Dec. 1 to lie down 3.65 feet al Hint 20 per cent of its voliune-frothe high of 4,202.25 feet in June, Federal aid will provide 75 per cent of the funding with the state providing the balance of funds. Federal funds are derived from excise taxes paid on guns and ammunition and the state funds available to the DW'R are derived from hunting license sales on state appropriations. So far the proposal has been granted support by the Tooele County Wildlife Federation and the Tooele County Sheriff. sales tax. b-- 8 le-liev- en off the mountain were able to logical Survey. DWR. have to be voted on in the November elections before it can become law. SENATOR SWAN says he has introduced measures that failed to pass in the last legislature to exempt oxygen use for medical purposes from the state Dinner served wo- uld be provided for proper service and for a custodians trailer house. Spokesmen for the group said that a clubhouse or a bowery along with a storage shed is also included in the proposed plans. THE PURPOSE of the Jan. 19 meeting is to determine if local citizens favor or oppose construction of a shoot- plaints from area ranchers that the wild horses are grazing in their grain fields. THE HORSES, some of them to be former domestic animals, must be removed from private property when asked by ranchers. This is liecause of the 1971 Federal Wild Horse and Burro Act. The wild horses are herded into a portable corral about 10 miles west of Fairfield, Utah County close to the southeastern comer of the Tooele Army Depots South Area. The animals will be kept in temporary quarters five miles west of Faust. They will lie taken by van the 15 miles from the round up area. Near Faust they will lie inspected, checked for age and disease by a veterinarian and assigned to adoptive homes. THOMAS ENRIGHT, an official with the BLM Salt Lake District, said the bureau has received inquiries from aliout 400 persons interested in adopting a wild horse and new owners will le selected from those names. Wednesdays roundup was hampered by fog so thick that horses driv Measurements of the Great Salt 1.1 trillion gallons were lost last year due to drought conditions. These findings were the result of a report released by the U.S. Geo- lake indicate Ages 8-- SlnlT Tooele County Board of Education approved Roy Stout of Sandy to fill the school district clerk vacancy. Mr. Stout will begin his duties on Jan. 26. School Board Calls Sandy Resident To Fill District Clerk Vacancy The Tooele County Board of Education has selected the new clerk to replace Lynn Buys who passed away last month. The board took action to appoint Rov Stout of Sandy to serve as the new clerk. He will begin his assignment on Jan. 26. STOUT HAS served as the fiscal service coordinator in the division of data processing for the state board of education for the past six years. He and his family plan to leave their present home and move to Tooele in the near future. The school district clerk received a liachelor degree in business and a mas TO FEATURE SKINNY AM!, in business administration at the University of Utah. Mr. Stout and his wife Carolyn are the parents of three sons: Jason, age 8; old JonaJeffrey, age 7; and one-ye- ter ar than. CLARKE JOHNSEN, superintendent of Tooele County Schools, said following the death of Mr. Buys notices were published in newspapers throughout the state and within the local school district seeking applicants. Thirteen applications w'ere received and all interviewed by a committee. This committee then made three recommendations to the board of education. four-memb- These final three were interviewed by the board and Mr. Stout was selected. ALL 13 applicants were very capable of filling the position, Johnsen said. But we feel that Mr. Stout had the best qualifications and most experience to fill this very important position as school district clerk. Stout will oversee the various business affairs of the district which includes payroll, investigating different ways for the district to obtain funding, and the gathering of data to help the administration make management deci- - JOHNNY MITCHELL SAT., JAM. 14 (Stereo Sound) Tooele Elks lodge, 8:30 to 11:30 Admission $2.00, public invited Casual dress. Priiesl |