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Show 5 6 7 9 8 9 Executives Offices Onniwest Corp. P.0. Box 2608 S-- t Lake, Ut. 184110 lt 83rd Year No. 43 Price, Utah Thursday, October 24, 1974 Price 15c 24 Pages THE VOICE OF UTAH S CASTLE COUNTRY" era to stage prop stops at Price, Huntington airports Joke Rare fossil The campaign offices of Salt Lake City Mayor Jake Garn this week state announced plans for a four-da- wide prop stop on Oct. 25th through the 29th, excluding Sunday. He released to the press a schedule of 25 stops throughout the state. The campaign party will land in Price on Monday Oct. 28 and participate in a political rally at 2:45 p.m. at the airport then will leave to fly to Huntington. Erly in his campaign, Mayor Gam made plans to travel state - wide and he has now campaigned in nearly every county in the State and numerous cities in each county, and has maintained a full time schedule as Mayor at the same time. He has been discussing the issues with people in small meetings and by knocking on doors in both large and small cities. As of this week he has knocked on 10,000 doors. Gam has been a pilot for over 25 years and considers his flying ability a great campaign asset. The cam- - found near Castle Dale Paleobotany students at Brigham Young University have made a rare discovery of nine prehistoric tree fern fossils standing in growth position near Castle Dale. Dr. William D. Tidwell, professor of of the and director botany field trip on which the find was made, said to his knowledge there is no recorded instance in modern times of the extinct plant being found in an upright position. The fern, called tempskya, grew extensively in marshlands throughout the Mountain West area during the Lower Cretaceous Age. There is no known currently which living plant resembles it, Dr. Tidwell, associate Safe taken from market A safe taken from the Cash Meat Market in Roosevelt during the night of Oct. 14 turned up near the Campground the next morning when a hunter spotted it. Avin-taqui- n said. Tempskya has remained somewhat of a mystery, and the recent discovery should help scientists answer many of the questions they have had about it. It is kind of a weird plant-a- n enigma. No one has really known how to classify it, Dr. Tidwell rare standing fossil of an extinct tempskya tree fern found near Castle Dale Is examined by Dr. William D. Tidwell, left, of the BYU Botany and Range Science Department, and graduate students Greg Thayn of Provo and Dave Medlyn of Grass Valley, Calif. BYU paleobotany students found nine of the standing fossils. A said. John L. Roth, a graduate student from Provo, found the upright fossils buried in a hill south of Castle Dale. He was on a fossil hunt with nine other students who were participating in BYUs Apparently the upright specimens were slowly covered by sediments which trapped them in place, Dr. Tidwell explained. The carbonaceous annual summer field course. ' materials around the fossils contain shales, sands, and iron pyrite which indicate the area was once a swamp. Another factor which adds to the significance of paleobotanical On a subsequent trip, the students uncovered nine standing specimens which (for a paleobotanist) is like a whole uncovering forest, Dr. Tidwell said. Rockhounds and scientist have found bits and pieces of tempskya plants all over the West. Log remains are usually found lying flat on the ground, and this has led some paleobotanists to speculate that the plant might have grown in a horizontal position. The recent discovery appears to refute that theory. the discovery is that fossilized leaves were found around the bases of the upright trunks. Usually we find petrified logs and leaves in separate locations,- he noted. It is quite rare to find them together. - Graduate paleobotany students are now studying the leaves to see if they actually came from the standing logs. The logs range in diameter from four to 12 inches, and it is estimated some may have grown to six feet in height. Some tempskya plants are believed to have grown to nine feet. The BYU students hope the new discovery will provide information to help scientists answer several questions about the plant-su- ch as which end is up? What was the leaf arrangement? And did tempksya grow as a single plant or as several plants in one? long-standin- g Dr. Tidwell will present a paper on the new find next summer at meetings of the American Institute of Sciences in Bilogical Corvallis, Ore. According to Duchesne County Sheriff George Marett, the safe contained approximately $5,000 in cash and checks and the only money so far recovered is 45 cents left in the safe by the thieves. Sheriff Marett said that the safe, weighs around 400 pounds, required at least two men to handle it. Hie thieves backed a truck up to a loading dock at the store and used a dolly to load it into an awaiting truck, the sheriff said. which paign party, a group of seven people including Mrs. Gam and several Salt Lake press people, will fly into each scheduled city for a rally with local residents and a final campaign Carbon man PfflSi to write tar Hawk in trunk, man arrested Richard Maughan in Price, other charges pushes unified court plan Richard J. Maughan, candidate for Utah Supreme Court Justice, was in Price last week meeting with friends and supporters and bringing his slogan, Its Time for a Change to this area. The former Assistant Attorney General strongly favors the proposed Unified Court Plan which he says his opponent, E. R. Callister, has consistently opposed. The Unified Court Plan, Maughan said, will provide for the elimination of various courts with overlapping jurisdiction. It will also provide for the establishing of a district court with general jurisdiction largely preserving some of the district courts as presently set up, but also unifying the juvenile, city and district courts into a District court with an appropriate division to handle the matters which presently come before these courts. The Plan would also provide that the Justice of the Peace courts would be handled under a chief magistrate within a district court. This, he said, would allow closer supervision of JP courts. This change would be of benefit to counties outside the Watsatch Front, Maughan said. A major advantage of the Plan according to Maughan, would be in the administration of the courts. It That one little hawk sure got that kid in a lot of trouble, said Clark Warren, a local Division of Wildlife Resources officer. And how true that was for a young American Fork man as his admission to possession of a hawk, a protected animal, led to his arrest on suspicion of theft Tuesday afternoon. t f Richard J. makes for vertical Maughn administration, we now have lateral administration. The Plan would provide for a single administrator who would be administrator for the court wystem and this, he said, would make the judiciary more independent. Mr. Maughan has practiced law for 23 years. He graduated from the University of Utah and is a member of the Utah bar. According to Larry Wilson, another officer for Wildlife Resources, the auto driven by David L. Demunbrun, 19, of American Fork, looked suspicious to Wildlife officers in Emery County who alerted police in Price. Units of the Price City Police and the Highway Patrol pulled the auto over in downtown Price for an equipment violation and, noticing the sagging rearend of the car, asked what was in the trunk. Demunbrun told Larry Wilson that he had a hawk in the trunk but refused to open the trunk when ordered to by the law enforcement officer. A search warrant was then obtained and upon opening the trunk of Demunbuns car, officers not only found the hawk but also four commercial type batteries and four car batteries. In checking through recent crime records, police found that batteries matching the deserption of the batteries had been stolen sometime Monday night from a construction site in San Pete County. Demunbrun was being held in the Carbon County Jail pending investigation by the San Pete County Sheriff. S-- A Chalmers F. Hicks, East Carbon resident and, he says, A refugee from the fog, smog, haze and smoke of Southern California, will write a column for the Sun Advocate. He has in spent nearly his entire communications and comes to us with a wealth of experience and knowledge acquired in the process of carrying out his assignments in the field. Mr. Hicks begins his column with this edition of the Sun Advocate, The tentative format calls for making available to the people of East Carbon (Columbia) and Sunnyside, Uie opportunity to express their opinions on a variety of subjects. Additionally he will explore the back grounds of interesting events and that of the persons involved. He began his career, as a telegraph operator at the age of 14, plying his trade with Western Union, Postal life-tim- e, of Department Telegraph, Agriculture, Associated Press and various railroads. He joined The Southern California Telephone Company in 1929, a company later absorbed by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. There he spent the next thirty-seveyears, in a never ending attempt to Chalmers F. Hicks keep communication lines open and operating, thus enabling newspapers, the country over, to meet their deadlines and to carry important news to people. - n See COVER, Section B Owens: will open Price office if elected, high interest rates worsening inflation Some 50 area citizens turned out Oct. 16 at the CEU lounge to hear Congressman Wayne Owens, D., speak at a question and answer session. Rep. Owens, who is opposing Salt Lake City Mayor Jake Gam for the US Senate seat vacated by retiring Senator Wallace Bennett, accused his opponent of supporting high interest rates. The federal government is unwilling to take strong measures against inflation and the traditional restraints are not working because of the high interest rates Mr. Owens If elected in November Mr. Owens said he will open up an office in Price with a full-tim- staff member to e assist Eastern Utah citizens. If necessary, he said, he would raise the money necessary to such an office privately. In answer to a question about gun control legislation, Rep Owens said he hasnt found any legislation he could support. said. Mr. Supreme Court candidate The four - day trip will take Mayor Gam to much of northern Utah on the first two days and will appear in 14 cities. The second leg of die trip will take him to communities in southern Utah and 13 more cides. Owens blames former President Nixon for letting big business go unchecked. Big businesses today are he said. As an not competing, example, he cited the raising of automobile prices by the big four auto makers at a time when auto sales are way off. This, he said, is price fixing and if it could be proved, would be a felony. But no one knows for sure laws are not being since the enforced, according to Mr. Owens. anti-tru- st Deer hunters shot in area over weekend Two deer hunters were injured by gunshot wounds while hunting in Castle Country this week. Francis Jensen, 41, of Murray, was wounded Oct. 19 at Joes Valley in Emery County while picking up his rifle. A Highway Patrol report said Mr. Jensen pulled his gun from the end gate of his truck and it slipped from his hand and the stock struck a rock and went off. The bullet went through his right hand and part of it hit the right side of his face. Mr. Jensen was treated at Carbon Hospital in Price and transferred to St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City where he was listed in fair condition. Thomas Hanes, 39, of Salt Lake City, was injured Sunday at 2 p.m., when his .22 caliber rifle accidentally discharged and a bullet struck him in the foot while hunting in Sunnyside Canyon in Carbon County. His brother, Gerald Hanes, took him to Carbon Hospital where he was treated and released. m. ilife Rep. Wayne Owens The difference I have studied it all and have seen nothing that would have significant impact, said Mr. Owens. I have found that about ninety percent of the people of Utah dont support such legislation. Mr. Owens attacked the big companies by referring to a recent New York state grand jury report which found that the oil companies in New York last year foresaw last years oil shortage and also the jury found the oil companies could have done something about it but didnt. Such action on the part of the oil companies, he said, was a result of their desire to raise prices. And just as the Russian wheat deal, if you can short your product - you can double the price and never let it go down. Mr. Owens further charged that if the Oil Allocation Act had not been passed last year, the independent oil companies would be out of business this year. If the act, which is due to expire in February 1975, is not renewed, Mr. Owens said, there will be a $10 billion increase in the amount of money paid to the oil companies by consumers. Mr. Owens sees the current slow down in construction, particularly harmful since, when everything slows, down, you get penned up demand and when money later becomes available, the supply and See OWENS, Page 3 a vote makes A get out to vote campaign is now underway in the State of Utah. Even though this is not a Presidential election year, the importance of getting Utahns out to vote is as critical as ever. Did You Know? That by a one vote margin we speak English instead of German? That by one vote Elizabeth was made Queen of England? That one vote saved the President of the United States? (Andrew Johnson.) That by one vote Thomas Jefferson was elected President of the United States? That by one vote John Quincey Adams was elected President of The United States? That one vote set the world on fire? Adolph Hitler was elected by one vote as head of his party. That the Alaska purchase was ratified by one vote. And that in 1941 congress extended the draft by one vote? And that was done before the start of World War Two. This campaign is being strongly endorsed by the Utah Press Association, The Utah Broadcasters Association, The Utah Advertising Federation, Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce, and businesses throughout the state. Make a date on Nov. 5 to go to the polls. It may be the most important date you could have. |