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Show Volume Fight v-- T Tooele, wo I 'tali, Friday, February 21, Cost 197S - Twenty Cents Voters OK $10 Million School District Bond Tooele County residents authoriz-ethe Txele County Schixil District to issue and sell lxmds in the amount of $10 million after a special bond elec- d tion Tuesday. The $10 million school bond was e approved nearly by Tooele voters. However, only 18 per cent of the registered voters cast ballots. Totals revealed that 1,278 voted for the issue and 717 against. That is alxiut percent for and 30 per cent two-to-on- 0-- against. ONLY three of the 16 districts voted against the !ond. Stockton, Clover and St. John voters did not approve passage of the Ixind. However, the other small communities in the county highly approved passage of the schixil lxmd. Lake Point voters unanimously approved the bond 51 to 0. It is expected that the first school that will lie built in the county will lx? in Stanslmry Park. IT IS necessary that an elementary school lie built in Stanslmry Park to help alleviate the problem of overcrowdedness in the elementary schrxils in Tixiele City, Johnsen said. This school will draw 3(X) students y Federal charges were filed Tuesday against four Tooele Army Depot employees in connection with what was thought to be the loss of 24 nerve gas shells. Three of those charged are civilians, the other is a retired Army lieutenant colonel. A fifth man pleaded guilty to the case last week and may testify against the other four. THE MEN allegedly became concerned about a missing shipment of nerve gas shells and painted 24 dummy shells to take their place. Later, it was discovered that the shortage was a result of a bookkeeping error. .As to obstruct justice Conspiracy through altering physical evidence charges were filed against Berner Laver McIntyre, the chief of munitions; Ray Victor Blickensderfer, ammunition officer and James Duane Strickland, a toxic material handler. Also charged was retired Lt. Col. Lawrence A. Williams, the former deputy director of maintenance. MC INTYRE and Blickensderfer are residents of Tooele County and Strickland lives in Utah County. The four are charged with creating a pallet of dummy 105mm artillery shells representing them to contain GB nerve gas, in an effort to conceal, destroy or alter physical evi- - for Utah savs. Those charges filed against the employees are misdemeanors. RELDON EARL Barnes, Lehi, the head of the chemical munition branch at TAD, awaits sentencing after he plead guilty to charges in connection with the matter last Friday. The complaint alleges that McIntyre, Blickensderfer and Barnes agreed to create the shells in an effort to prevent the discovery of a known inventory discrepancy which had not been previously disclosed in inventory The complaint says Williams discussed the matter with Barnes in a telephone conversation. The complaint also says Strickland discussed the matter with Barnes and agreed to participate by accepting the assignment of obtaining dummy 105 mm artillery shells. THE COMPLAINT says the allegedly dummy rounds were placed with nerve gas shells between genuine April and June of 1976 so as to agree with the inventory records. The men have been summoned to appear in court on the charges. our debt decreases and our d Wixxlmff recently won a Sterling Scholar award at Ttxx'lc in mathemaof the basket-lul- l tics. He also is team and jiarticijutes in fixitball and track. According to Reji. Marriott, all young men must meet stiff requirements for nominal ion to the academies by a Congressman, itu hiding high standards of character, scholarship, as- sessed valuation in the county increases, we will lie eligible to sell more lxmds and proceed with other buildings if neeJed," he said. leadership, jihysical aptitude and Garn Tells Tooele Mayor He Supports Mission Of Depot is - - In County was reassessed in 1974. According to the Foundation report, projierty assessment ratios have been declining generally despite the fact that the first cycle of the revaluation program has been completed in 25 of Utah's 29 counties. Assessment levels in Utah have declined from an average of 17.98 percent in 1967 to 12.88 percent in 1977. Foundation analysts point out that the effect of the projierty revaluation program has been to equalize assessments among individual projierties and to raise assessment levels in the coimties that are revalued. During recent years, real estate values have been rising faster than the assessment changes. As a result, the overall average state wide level of assessment has been declining. . THE INITIAL aim of the revaluation program was to equalize the general level of local assessments at about 20 piercent of fair market value. In general, the program has come reasonably close to achieving this 20 percent objective, at least in the initial stages following revaluation. However, because of inflation and rapidly changing projierty values, the initial equalization results soon become outdated. Shed Those Coats I Auto Accident jxit. Claims Life Of Erda Man The last few days, Cam savs, "I have expressed concern over the alleged security deficiencies at the base, realizing, however, that the dejxit is doing all that it can with the budget allocation that it has received. An Erda man was killed in an automobile accident in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, February 22. The victim was identified as Dale Lee Sanger, 19. Funeral for Mr. Sanger will be held on Monday, Feb. 27, but time and place will lie announced later. Dale was Ixim in Wilbur, Nebraska on April 3, 1958. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Arthur DeBois of Erda; father, Larry Sanger, Tooele; sisters, Mrs. Michael (Debra) Geraghty, of Ogden; Rita, Erda, and a half sister, Emily DeBois, also of Erda. GARN ALSO says the $17.4 million increase in this years budget authority will, in part, provide TAD with necessary increased security. The budget boost will also help the depot retain its reputation, as a responsible, efficient military installation, Gam says. Sen. Gam, a Republican, serves on the armed services committee in the U.S. Senate. MR. SANGER Contact With People Make Country Store Owner Wealthy by Vickie Price Double After Tues. Editor's note: This is the second installment of a tiro part series on the country store in lemon, the Silver Sage. Urban expansion of the Wasatch Front, which has crept around the mountains toward Tooele, has not yet crossed Stockton Pass into Rush Valley. The intrusion of urban sprawl into the vast stretch of sagebrush and juni-jiethat surround Cosetta Castagnos big little store would kill one of the last of an endangered sjiecies - the by a wild stud horse. The passerby continues the narrative of his adventures as he pays for I his gas and walks out the door. dont have to travel for adventure, adds Cosetta, it enters those doors several times a day. I enjoy jieople, says Cosetta, most of them are good hearted. I received a letter awhile back and when I ojiened it there was a five dollar bill with a note saying I took a can of peanuts from your store in 1962 and didnt jiay for it. If you werent the owners then would you see they get this money? FOLKS are basically honest. Ive had jieople drive back as much as twenty miles because theyve forgotten to jay for something. I have a good attitude about peomuch of it is because of the Siland ple ver Sage. I dont suppose Id ever sell it; I enjoy my days here; I enjoy my life. I like the country and I like coun- men. rs crossroads store. THE VERNON Piazza, a name fondly given Cosettas establishment by her customers, is a prairie stop located a few miles south of where the jxiny express and Overland Stage routes crossed the valley in the late 1800s. Eighty-thre- e year old Lilly Greene comes into the store three or four times a day. Sometimes I come in just to visit. Maybe to find out what time Co- setta wants to quilt. I couldnt count the quilts I have made, she said as she held out a sore finger. Pushing the needle through can make your finger sore; which reminds me of another reason I came in, she says. ALWAYS ABLE to satisfy her customers, Cosettas store becomes the local medical station as she applies medicine to Mrs. Greenes finger. The store is the South Rush Valley - local and political sounding board national. The Mayor comes into the store two or three times a week, perhaps to talk about a forestry meeting he has just attended, the importance of ujigrading the tree growth; or new jiolicies of the Dept, of Interior and its local affect on the cattle and sheep -- Mayor Bankhead says that voter turnout in Vernon is 100 jiercent. Cosetta nods in agreement. She is also the local voting registrar. CHARLIE Larson likes to come to the Silver Sage because You dont have to buy anything to come in here. Sometimes I come in just to talk; maybe cash a check so I can take a girl out on a Saturday night. Cosetta here is the local bank. Cosetta takes on a duel role of bank teller and listening audience to a young mans plans as Charlie tells her the details of the coming evening. There are many like him, says Cosetta as Charlie leaves who used to come in here as kids. With the years Ive watched them grow from choosing what flavor of bubble gum they want to deciding what college to attend or what their hopes are for the future. COSETTA explained that although she has visited other places It was only long enough to decide I wanted to come back to the Valley. Id just as soon be sitting in my store here in Vernon as anywhere else. The panorama of life walks through that door in the daytime, but at night when I close the store I can also lock out the unpleasantness that people in the city have twenty four hours a day. The differences in each customer that walk into the Silver Sage are as contrasting as the isolation of the store and the well traveled highway on which it stands. IM A WILD mustanger, claims one customer in a loud voice as he stops for a tank of gas. I could tell you stories you wouldnt believe. Look at this ear. Do you see how its been chewed and gnarled? Well it was chawed off K300SE LODGE, FEB. 25 Mrs. Coselta Castagno rings up another customer who spends time at the Silver Sage in Vernon. Mrs. Castagno savs it is the wonderful jieople who sjiend time in her crossroads store that make her rich. In a letter to Sagers, the U.S. senator said, I think it is imjxirtant that you realize I am not prejudging the Army in calling for an investigation, but acting in the best interest of Utah and in the best interest of Tooele Army De- Craig Dart, son of Paul and Ceneal Dart, takes advantage of the spring weather and pumjis in a couple of two jxiinters on the East Elementary playground. TemjxTatures rose to a comfortable 48 degrees Wednesday. Animal Licenses Tooele City Animal Control Officer Tony Perry reminds Tooele residents that after Feb. 28 all dog and cat licenses will double in fee. By city ordinance, all dogs and cats in Tooele City need to have licenses. We hope the remainder of the citizens will purchase licenses for their animals by Tuesday so they can avoid jiaying a double fee, Perry noted. Sen. Jake Cam, who has called for an investigation into security at Tooele Army Dejxit, has told Tixx-lMayor Douglas Sagers that he con- tinues to sujijxirt mission of the dejxit. GARN SAID that he has called for an investigation into the security at TAD, because of press rejxirts of substandard security at the installation. e schixils. program while Juab County was revalued in 1976. Property in Tooele County me- dical fitness. authorized to sell only $1.1 million of the newly approved Ixinds at present. .An expected increase in assessed valuation in the county, from $60 to $85 million, will raise the district's lxxiding ceiling so that the additional Ixxids can lie sold to finance other THE DISTRICT TIIS Senior Nabs Posl Al West Point Clive E. (Sam) Wixxlmff received an early axiiiitment to the Military Academy at West Point, Rep Dan Marriott announced. Hiuh St lnx Sain, a senior at Tixx-lis the son of Mr. and Mrs. James D. Garcia. He was doscrilx-- as extrenie-I- v qualified" for aixiiiitiiient at West Point, by Marriott. sHiiewhere else. 1 dence that might aid in the discovery, apprehension or conviction of another for the commission of the crime, the complaing filed in U.S. District Court r our state "We cannot laws do not allow as to get that far into debt," thesujxTiiitendent adder). With the money we now owe from previous Ixmdmg, the most bonds we could sell now would only build the Stanslmry Schixil and another schixil It is estimated that county population will reach 5.600 by 1985, Johnson said. If this is true, an intermediate schrxil would probably have to be built on the Tooele east liench." Now that the lxmd election has passed, planning and development of schixils can move ahead as growth occurs, he said. JOHNSEN NOTED that localise the lxmd election passed, it will not raise taxes in Tixxde County. The Board of Education has no intention of raising taxes. State law requires all schixil districts to levy 13,5 mills for building programs. Four TAD Employees FaCe Federal Charges v (Mice. the county. TIIE STUDY' shows that assessment levels of locally- - assessed property throughout the State last year averaged 12.88 percent and ranged from a low of 5.63 percent in Sanpete County to a high of 18.95 percent in Juab County. Sanpete County never has been revalued under the state wide reappraisal . Our district can continue to payoff its present building lxmds as well as the new building lxmds with the money collected from that levy, providing the assessed valuation dixs not decrease significantly, Johnsen said. HE ALSO said the district cannot and will not build several schixils at from the Point, Erda and Stans-burareas and would help the problem of over crowded class rixinis in some of the elementary schixils, he said. Johnsen jxiinted out that architect plans for the Stansburv Siluxil have already liegun, and if construction plans carry on without any problems, the new school should lx? ready for occupancy in August 1979. the ACCORDING to Johnsen, Board of Education has carefully studied population projections as well as the current population distribution of Assessment Ratio Averages 14.6 The assessment ratio of all locally assessed projierty in Toix?Ie County averaged 14.06 percent during 1977. This fact was reported by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization in their analysis of an assessment - sales ratio study recently prepared by the State Tax Commission. Numlier Thirty Nine try jieople. a cattlemans daughter and a wife. Perhaps Ill never become rich from the money I take in at the store but if I were to count the worth of the jieojile Ive met and known over the past 20 years Ive been in business, Id consider myself a very wealthy woman. THE VERNON Piazza like the comer grocery store cannot compete with the urban shopping malls; but in some ways the huge city piazzas can never comjiete with the Silver Sage. The store and its few scattered counterparts are a reminder of our Im cattlemans western heritage and past that we cannot afford to lose in the computerized progress of the present. One cannot help hoping that there will always be a Cosetta and a prairie crossroads store Dinner from menu 6-- 8 p.m. Dance to Silverlights 9:30 Ceremony 9 p.m. Donation $5 per couple |