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Show grfr'W.jM(Hitrifigigi t)Wily I1 mnwniwr If Its sMinti New Phone 529-367- 1 ol 57 No 39 Thursday, March - finance the performance of Ballet West on April 27th The chairman for this event is Mrs Boyd Jenson, Richfield Tickets, which are $2 50 each, bee contest, to be held in Washington, D C All participants must not reach their 16th birthday at the time of the national finals and must not have passed beyond the eighth grade at the time of their individual school finals The contest will be conducted along the guidelines tor the national spelling bee finals All have participants available to them a list of words to study from During competition, the pronouncer may be asked to re pronounce a word, define it, or use it in a sentence The contestant may also pronounce it himself Anyone interested in further information may contact their process 1977 of preparing for the Utah State Spelling Bee Contest, which is sponsored by the Deseret News, Utah Education Association, State P T A , and State Board of Education The Salma Elementary will have a spell-ofand the winner from this contest will compete in the regional district which will be held in Richfield One winner will be chosen from this meeting and will compete in the state competition, to be held in Salt Lake City on Apnl 29th and 30th On June the winner of the state contest will compete m the national spelling f, 6th-10t- Fuel Crisis-N- o Arvm and Chloeen Torgenson dont intend to get caught in the energy crisis, and have taken preventative steps to avoid it Over a period of the past five years, Arvm and Chloeen have stant use, and Lake City The statement details the social, economic and environmental impacts of the proposed construction of 32 miles of I 70 from Sevier Junction to Salma in Sevier County If the Commission adopts the document, it will be submitted to the Federal Highway Ad ministration, who will then forward it to the Council on Environmental Quality Either agency may suggest changes or lbrecht will model for Erolyn Music Guild Fashion Show. stockpiled an ample supply of firewood to last them several seasons, plus a sufficient supply to burn over the current year And they keep a fireplace blazing, plus a fire in two stoves m their spacious home They also have a furnace just in case, but it burns oil There are four large wood-pile- s in the Torgensons' backyard Individually, each measures respectively 28' 2 ft long, 9 ft wide, and 12 ft high, 36 feet long, 9 ft wide, and 12 ft high, 10ft long, 4ft wide, and 8 ft high, 14ft long, 5ft wide, 10 ft high In addition, there is a wood bin that is kept full, but it is a mere 8 ft long, 1 ft wide, and 5 ft high The wood has been cut in nearby foothills and mountain and includes both aspen and pinon pine All has been taken on legal personal use permits from the BLM, Forest Serrailed vice, and in free-usareas They still have all the permits on file from the time they started gathering w ood The aspen was cut with a chain saw, while all the pine was taken with wedges, axe and bucksaw All the wood has been split and made ready for in teachers, or the Deseret News Contact Spelling Bee Director, Deseret News, P O Box 1257, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110, telephone no Paulettes Smart Shop at Legion Party The Salma Auxiliary are annual Birthday 2nd There will Legion and planning their Party for April be a program sponsored by the high school The social hour will be at 7 00 PM, with the dinner at 8 o'clock Dinner will consist of swiss steak and will cost $6 00 per couple that are interested tending, please call All in at- 4 health permits, and they both appear in excellent condition and good for many more years No, the wood is not for sale, but they do give a little away now and then to older people less fortunate than they Not only is it free, but Arvin delivers it An open house will be held at the Sevier Valley Clinic m Richfield on Sunday, March 20th, from 3 00 to 5 00 P M The clinic is located at 1100 North 70 East The public is invited. The doctors will be moved m bv March 14th Impact will be made available to interested agencies and the public Approval of the document also gives the Utah Department of Transportation authority to begin the final design work and actual construction of the project The Commission had adopted the location of the Sevier Junction to Sigurd segment of the highway in 1968 and the design for the segment in 1970 However, the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act in 1969 required the UDOT to reconsider the location after N.S.H.S. Music Dept. To Hold Spring Concert The North Sevier High School Music Department will hold their annual Spring Concert Thursday, March 24th, at 8 00 P M , at the North Sevier High School Auditorium The program will feature Sevier's newest band, percussion feature number, a new band selection composed by a North Sevier student, three outstanding groups, and more Admission is $1 00 for adults, 50 for children 12 and under North Mayfield Man Charged After Chase And Wreck Melvin Colby, 46, of Mayfield, has been charged with under driving the influence and driving under license revocation' following a car chase and accident m Salma early the morning of March 10th, according to Police Chief Gordon Kiesel The morning event started at 12 45 A M when Salina Police Officer Larry Miller received a call from the Utah Highway dispatcher in Richfield to be on the lookout for a pickup truck with the driver possibly under the influence of alcohol Miller spotted the truck eastbound on West Main He turned around and followed the vehicle which turned north on State Street Otlicer Miller signaled the driver to stop, and Colby pulled over on 2nd North and State But as the officer neared, the driver accelerated and sped north on U S Highway 89 The chase ended about a mile north when the truck, loaded with ore, rolled over on the turn on the approach road to Redmond The North Sevier E M T crew of Grant J Stubbs, Lynn Reynolds, Lyn Christensen, and Lee Christensen were summoned and took Colby to the Sevier Valley Hospital in Richfield, where he was given an examination and Because of the extreme dry conditions and high winds this time of year, Salina Fire Chief Gordon Kiesel urges extreme caution for any type of outdoor Arvin Torgenson in front of one of the wood piles. especially around buildings and fences where one little spark can be whipped into an inferno in a matter of She will be accom pamed on the piano by Ken a native of Richfield, who has thrilled audiences m this area on several previous occasions At age 13, Kristen gave a benefit concert for the Utah Symphony and raised $1,000 She has been a first place winner of the annual Utah State Sevier are roughly nine citizens with serious drinking problems in the U S More than 25,000 alcohol-relate- d traffic fatalities, 15,000 alcohol related homicides and suicides, 20,000 deaths from There million d Several fires have been reported in recent weeks, but the quick work of volunteer Salina firemen have kept losses to a minimum The most recent of the fires occurred the night of March 12th at the Boyd Nelson stackyard northeast of the City Burning weeds were believed out and at 9 20 P M the alarm , What Price Alcohol alcohol-relate- November, the greatest public henef.t and least adverse impact on the en vironment Looking at the adopted route north tosouth the highway will begin on the east side of the Valley at the Salma Inter change in the mouth of Salma Canyon It will then follow the east foothills and cross the valley a few mile's north of Sigurd The highway will then skirt the west foothills, passing near the west side of R.clifieid, before connecting into the I 70 project currently underway in Clear Creek Canyon When completed, I 70 will connect with I 15 near Cove Fort and will serve as a major carrier of traffic between Denver and the West Coast determined 1976, that the west alternate, which was the route that was originally selected, would have Truck Route Underway In Salina Work got underway Monday on a leg of what is planned to be a truck route that will enable the the heart of Salina. The heavy vehicles to new road takes off from the Salina approach road mile north of the about leading from It Motel. new Shaheens proceeds west for about one mile, where the project ends unless financing can be obtained. The end is just east of the Ruby Casto residence. Salina City is handling the project under Federal financing. Heavy equipment is being furnished by Rodney Rasmussen. The new stretch of highway will necessitate the Salina City moving of a small section of the of part of the line and also culinary the canal leading from Salina Creek to the farms in the southwest sector. y road on South State The Lost Street is closed until the project is completed. by-pa- ss one-ha- lf 12-in- released to the officer, who placed him in jail The late model Ford truck involved in the rollover was damaged extensively Creek-Tipperar- Redmond Water Bonds Purchased An additional $25,000 worth of bonds for the Redmond Culinary water system improvement project, hiking the total cost to $225,000 will be purchased by the Utah Board of Water Resources The Board at its March meeting agreed to make the additional investment after the Fair competition and has held the positions of concert Ormistress with the chestra Her other accomplishments include a Sterling All-Cit- y Scholar nominee in Music Highland, where she also with the Nadngals and lead rolls in both school state drama productions, from sang held and plus Warnings On Fire Danger burning, conducting an environmental impact study on the routing of the highway The Draft Environmental Impact Statement prepared hy UDOT outlined three alter natives for the location of the highway One route proposed to follow an alignment on the west side of the Sevier Valley, another along the east side of the valley, and a third to travel through the center of the v alley After considering the findings of the draft E I S and the testimony received at public hearings on the proposed high way, the Commission, in town engineer determined a new line would have to be installed to an existing pump station to the storage tank to allow 30 minutes of chlorination contact time and another line to the distribution system to insure adequate pressure to all connections and fire hydrants The origination cost estimate was $200,000, with Redmond's initial participation pegged at $15,000 That figure will stay the same, but in order to retire the bonds, the town will have to raise monthly water rates from $7 75 to $8 50 It was estimated that will provide the $11,700 annually needed to buy back the bonds over 18 years Concert In Salina ty An accomplished violinist who began taking lessons at age five will highlight the concerts in Salina and Monroe this Friday and Saturday, March 18th and 19th, under the sponMusic sorship of the Guild She is Kristen Nielsen, whose parents were raised in Sevier County, the father in Monroe and the mother in diseases, 20,000 fatalities due to alcohol-relateaccidents, and two million arrests for simple drunkenness are recorded annually d ood piles at Arvin Torgenson residence. ( cuts 1-- 70 Sevier Clinic open House Tri-Coun- W&mm mm Environmental Statement y minutes A additions to the environmental study After the study, with any changes, is approved by the federal government, the Final 7 Problem! is cut to fireplace and stove lengths It is stacked in the four neat piles at the rear of the Torgenson home on 485 East Main Arvin is 69 years of age and Chloeen is 68, and they intend to keep their supply in constant inventory so long as their l.- Final Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed con struction of I 70 through the Sevier Valley during a regular meeting of the Commission Friday, March 18th, in Salt r Salma 16. Prepares ror State Spelling Bee The students of the Salma Elementary are now m the 1 - 17. 1977 The Utah Transportation Commission will consider the i may be obtained at the following business establishments Thomas Music, Olive s and Hazel s in Richfield, from R G s Clothing in Monroe, and from Paulette s Smart Shop in Salma The tickets are in limited supply Interested per sons who wish to attend are urged to get them early Both men and w omen are w elcome lli(inr 529-33- 2 7 FashionShow Proceeds To Help Finance Performance The Music Guild announces the Fashion Show and Dessert Luncheon at the Rodeway Inn m Richfield on Saturday, March 26th, at 2 00 P M , with proceeds to help Vnihiilamc was sounded when the wind w hipped a smolder into a blaze Only a few fence posts were burned before the fire fighters could extinguish the blaze, but a haystack and yard fences were threatened Volunteer Salina firemen were again credited in preventing the blaze from spreading receiving scholarships from the Santa Barbara Music Academy and Brigham Young University Recently, she was asked to do a recording along with six other instrumentalists for a Columbia recording The concert in Salma will be presented Friday, March 18th, at 7 30 P M in the North Sevier High School Auditorium and is free to the general public as guests of the Guild The Guild requests no childi en under 12, as there w ill be a Youth Concert the following day, March 19th, from 6 to 6 30 P M in the South Sevier High School Auditorium in Monroe for children 8 to 12 Following the Youth Concert, a performance for teenagers and adults holding season memberships will be presented at 7 30 P M in the South Sevier High School Auditorium Free Glaucoma cumc Its free, it s painless, it s important' ' It's the adult glaucoma screening clinic, to be held in the Richfield High School The clinic, sponsored by the Utah Society for the Prevention of Blindness and the Richfield Lions Club, will be held from 6 00 - 8 00 PM, Thursday, March 24th, at the Richfield High School, Richfield, Utah the actual screening at the clinic will be done quickly and painlessly by medical doctors who are experienced in using a Schietz Tonometer Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness According to JoAnn Jacobsen Wells, Executive Director of the Society, an estimated 7,000 persons in Utah over the age of 35 have glaucoma Interior Department Releases Final Emery Power Plant Statement StateA final Environmental ment concerning a proposed electrical generatingh power plant in Emery County, Utah has been released by the Department of the Interior for public inspection The proposal would involve construction of a 860 MW generating plant, coal and water transportation systems, transmission lines, coal mine and employment of approximately 800 workers in the Emery and Carbon County area of eastern Utah The final environmental statement considers the effects on the environment Emery proposal should the proceed to completion Interior officials indicated that the data and analysis presented in the final environ mental statement would be im portant factors in making the final decision and determining appropriate environmental terms and conditions to be d Copies are available for public inspection at the Rich-tielDistrict Office, Bureau of Land Management, 850 North Main Street Richfield, Utah 84701 telephone (801)896 5401 d |