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Show 6 Tuorl Transcript, Friday, February 16, 1979 Tilt mall boat ini Tuuclc oulhide a uprwlrd by big ind rdnrday. Winds , Water Raise Havoc Truck Route Bill Moves T o House (Continued from Front Page) ing some road, there was water in some of the igloos. Cost of the damage was negligible meeting with the Legislatures Natural Resources committee in an effort to keep the citizen's advisory board on the Great Salt Lake in tact. THE GOVERNOR has recommended that the committee be abolished, but Rep. Smith says there is a great Rep. Beverly White, She estimates the bill will be intro- deal of support for retaining the board. duced on the floor of the House of Rep. White reports that the legal services for senior citizens has been cut Representatives Friday. UNDER THE proposal, the state out all together by the social service of Utah will build two and three tenths committee, despite her efforts to save miles on the road and Tooele County the program. will build one and a half miles. The Senate will begin sifting bills This will take the ore truck route today. Sen. Swan reports. The legislafrom in front of schools and reroute ture must eliminate many bills that them along the Droubay Road. they will not have time to consider and consisted of manpower to clean up water in the igloos and to reroute traffic on the roads, she said. MOORE SAID workers who drive past Staasbury Park and into Salt Lake were advised to take a route home other than highway 36 north of Tooele because of flooding on that road. Tooele County Sheriff s office reported that most of the damage during yesterdays excess water runoff was to mads and highways, along with basements flooding in Erda and Vernon. Vernon Mayor Harlan Bankhead said conditions looked better there Thursday morning, thanks to low temperatures which froze the standing water and eased flooding conditions. THE WASH which runs through the town is still full of water, but the culverts are handling it, he said. The road west to Look-Ou- t Pass is washed out and shoulders have been washed away from other roads. Bankhead said the water on Highway 36 north of town was a foot deep Mere Tlh Comfeimiafiiom) Pair your savings with a plan to give you maximum interest, Two year certificates earn 7.50 quarterly from day of deposit to day of withdrawal for an effective annual yield of 8.01, minimum deposit, $500. Tooele Federal Credit Union Office Building 1010. TEAD Main 2 All Oowntown Tooele Post Office Annex 0 Accounts Insured Up To $40 000 &NCUA Wednesday night and there is still a big area to be drained. He also reported that the bridge on the road which goes to Faust from 36 was washed out durlots of waing the night. There is still ter going down that road, he said. The mayor said that water in Shermans Pond (not to be confused with the Vernon Dam) was going over the top of the dyke, but the dyke was holding. Wednesdays freezing helped to cut it down. The water has dropped this morning, he reported. THE MAYOR deplored the rumor that the Vernon Dam was leaking or spilling. He said that the dam has been full for sometime but that any excess goes down the spillway. There never has been any danger from there, he said. In fact there was less water there than there was in town. He said the flooding around the town was due to snow melting on the flats and flooding because of the frozen condition of the ground. It was not from the canyon at all, he said. Bankhead said that phones in Vernon were out for over two days from Sunday to Tuesday and then service went out again on Wednesday. He said this added to the problem when he was unable to contact the Sheriffs office to let him know the story about the dam was untrue. Shirley Iverson, Utah Department of Transportation information officer said her department had had no information of major roads being flooded or closed in Tooele County. Lip-insk- SHUBERT SAID that the westbound tourists who were on their way to Alaska, became sleepy and pulled their car off the side of the freeway at approximately 2:30 a.m. They reported they were awakened by two men, one on each side of the car, who knocked on the window and asked if they were all right. Upon receiving an affirmative answer, one of the suspects then put a shot gun through the window. The suspects then fled westbound in a light colored Pinto. The two victims I flagged down a 28,1930 Smith found literature and application blanks of the League in the attic of the old home. It names in addition to Jarvis of Magna, R. R. Judd of Grantsville who at the time was a member of the Tooele County Commission. THE LITERATURE of the League states that equalization of taxes is the more vital problem facing the property owners of Utah today. In Rep. Smiths opinion, that sounds very current. The League promised citizens sending a $1 membership fee to their office in the state capital that they would be fully informed on the three proposed constitutional amendments dealing with taxation. Rep. Smith plans to present copies of the letter and the literature to Howard Jarvis when he visits the Utah Legislature Friday. reSen. Karl G. Swan, this session. FOR EXAMPLE, the Senate has ports that a bill dealing with the alcohol and drug abuse problem among youth 338 pieces of legislation that must be was considered in the Senate. Youths either eliminated or introduced for acarrested would be required to attend tion. The House will begin sifting bills classes on alcohol and drug abuse, pay 15 days before the end of the session. for the classes, and be required to bring A discovery by Rep. Smith while their parents with them. he was remodeling the old Charlie WorDRUNK DRIVERS who are second thington home in Grantsville where offenders within the past five years would be required to serve a mandatory jail sentence. A bill passed unanimously by the Senate passed Wednesday he states. Senate Bill 9, which many local citizens objected to, has had its parts removed, Sen. Swan reports, and now increases the allowances for persons over 65. Rep. John E. Smith, reports that Tooele County officials and industrial business leaders are mum Quick Action Results In Arrest V Of Robbery Suspects Quick action on the part of Tooele County Sheriffs office personnel, with assistance from Tooele City Police and the Utah Highway Patrol, resulted in the aDDrehension of two suspects after an armed robbery early Thursday, on 31 miles east of Wendover. Sheriff Walt Shubert reported that the two suspects, Russell L. Carter, West Virginia, and Clarence A. i, Great Britain, were apprehended near the Union 76 Truck Stop at Lake Point after they allegedly took $300 at gun point from two unidentified tourists. Don Worthington identifies Howard Jarvis as a member of a Utah Tax Group called The Citizens Tax Reviin a letter dated Sept. sion League by Hugh Barnes An appropriation bill to provide $866,000 for ore truck route from the Anaconda Carr Fork mine to the Union Pacific Railroad was reported out of committee Wednesday, according to trucker who broadcast a description of the car. The car, by then eastbound, was spotted by an unidentified trucker, also eastbound, who radioed the location to police. SAID the men were SHUBERT armed with a shotgun when they were apprehended which subsequently proved to have been stolen from the Reno area. Money in the amount of $300 was also recovered. The two men were arrested at the scene and transported to the Tooele County jail where they were identified in a police line-uShubert reported the suspects have been charged with two counts of aggravated robbery. They were to be arraigned Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Circuit Court. p. a universal leveling of talent in business and government. It may be that the rage for security has done it. A job has become more important than accomplishment. It is no longer necessary to be good at a job. It is only Carl Riblet Jr. necessary to hold it. There OF THE MONTH January 14 was a special day for Heidi Strieby when she celebrated her 2nd birthday at a family party. Heidi enjoyed all her gifts, but was most excited about her Bert and Ernie cake. Having trouble believing shes two already are her parents Chris and Kathy, and big sister Kristen. 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