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Show 9 5 6 7 8 9 Executives Offices Onniwest Corp. J0, Box 2608 i 84110- -' Thursday, September 11, 1975 Price, Utah 84th Year Number 37 8 Pages Price 15c 1 J V. Mayor reports Price City Volunteer Fire Department and procedures are being reviewed and rewritten as a result of problems and criticism that have recently arisen in the department through the lax application of the reported Price mayor Walt Axelgard at Monday evenings city council meeting. Axelgard said a letter was being sent from his office to every member of the fire department advising them that a review was taking place and asking for any pertinent comments and input on the situation Stressing that he was very pleased, on the whole, with the job the fire department was doing, Axelgard outlined four policy areas needing review because of difficulties arising through the lax application of pertaining to these areas. The mayor said these issues included: 1. employment release forms, which the say must be obtained by every member of the fire department, which releases the member from employment during regular business hours to attend a fire. Axelgard said, by-law- s s, Ted Poulos Von Davis Walt Maynard ' Action Party by-la- Three announce candidacy s ticket of three candidates has filed for the three city council seats up for grabs in the Nov. 4 municipal election in Price. The Action Party slate consists of Walt Maynard, Ted Poulos and Von Davis, who will be running for the seats now held by Jim Jensen, Amel Denison and Harold Patterick. Jensen and Denison have inPatterick said he would not. dicated that they will run for Maynard, 70, is a retired railroad signalman with extensive political experience in Carbon County. He served two terms on the Price City Council, two terms on the county commission and one term as mayor of Price. He also served on the Price Hospital Board and was chairman of the boards building committee when the new Carbon Hospital was built; he served for eight years on the Governors Advisory Council for Local Affairs. Maynard said the central issue in his campaign would be the city water system and the citys policy on sharing water with surrounding A Action vowed on hospital insurance by towns. administrator Between now and the time the Price River Water Improvement District installs its new culinary water system, the city system should be upgraded, Maynard said, and Price should take care of its neighbors in the area. Von Davis, 48, a Price auto dealer, has no formal political experience but said he had been on the boards of directors of the Richfield and Price Chamber of Commerce and had been a member of the Price Jaycees. Davis said his slate combined business and political experience and could give residents what theyre looking for in government ... government on a good, sound business basis. Ted Poulos, 52, operates a laundry in Price and, like Davis, has no background in politics. He is a member of the Elks and the Masonic Lodge. City council seats in Price pay $300 per month, with candidacy open to any resident 21 years of age or over. Filing may be accomplished by party convention or by petitions obtained from the city recorders office. In Wellington, three council positions are also open. They pay $25 a month, and qualifications are the same as those for Price. Three city council terms will expire in East Carbon City, where the salary for the job is $40 per month. Candidates must be residents over the age of 21. Residents of Helper City wishing to run for one of the three council seats open this year must have lived in the city for 30 days and must be at least 21. Salary for the Helper council is $100 a month. Carbon Hospital Administrator Don Fifield is working to secure a better malpractice insurance rate than the lone bid of $39,953, the administrator told the hospital board at its regular meeting Tuesday, Sept. 2. Asked the reason for the over 2,000 percent increase in the malpractice premium, Fifield told board chairman A1 Veltri that, based on per patient-dacost, there was no justification for the jump. Board member Gary Prazen, calling the bid irresponsible because it was based on hospital statistics irom outside the state of Utah, then suggested that the hospital drop its malpractice insurance altogether, thus leaving any victor in a lawsuit with the sole option of taking the self-servi- y hospital. Board members Promise high court appeal Murderers denied new trial Motions for new trials were denied Monday for two of three men convicted last month in the shooting death of a Price man in action before Seventh District Court Judge Edward Sheya. The two, Gypsy Allen Codianna and Craig Marvel, were convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death in connection with the April 9 killing of Michael Hogan whose bullet torn body was found in Crandall Canyon. arguing Codiannas case, Helper attorney Bryce Bryner In claimed Codianna was a victim of and raised three circumstances points which, he felt, had prejudiced the eight man, four woman jury that had heard the case and had returned the guilty verdict. First, Byrner argued that the verdict was contrary to the evidence in that no evidence, he claimed, actually established Codiannas participation in the murder itself. Further, he said, evidence did show that his client had been in Utah for only three days and did not personally know the murder victim. Bryner followed this by stating that evidence presented established any motive for Codiannas part in the incident nor, he claimed, was there any evidence presented of Codiannas (See MURDER, Page 2) no Dr. William Gorishek and LuCylle Pace concurred, but the board let the idea drop when trustee Rev. Richard Taylor reminded them that if the hospital could not pay off in a lawsuit, then staff and board members could be held personally liable. The board voted unanimously that Fifield should seek out a blanket policy for the hospital, including malpractice and other insurance, then, if a satisfactory one is found, take a short term cancellation on the malpractice policy. A raise from $10 to $13 an hour was requested by a group of resident physicians who have been serving in the emergency room, in a letter from a spokesman for the group. The letter said the raise was justified by the fact that the doctors do not receive a mileage allowance from Salt Lake City, that higher pay is available elsewhere and that inflation has taken a large bite from their salaries. The physicians also criticized the hospitals emergency room treatment as antiquated, saying that certain simple, inexpensive medical instruments were at present, seven members of the department cannot comply with this requirement because of employment; 2 after working hours availability- - the mayor said it would probably be preferable to begin scheduling available men on a day time availability basis; 3 meeting attendance- - Axelgard indicated that records show some firemen are not attending regularly scheduled fire department meetings and added that the call for the reprimand of any member who misses two consecutive meetings without good cause ; 4. fire attendance- - it was reported that some fire department members are at 80 percent of the fire while others show up as little as 12 percent of the time. City councilman Mark Hansen, who is in charge of the fire department, said an executive and general meeting of the fire department had been held recently where these problems were committee was discussed and a three-maappointed to study and rewrite portions of the A preliminary purchasing procedure, designed to tighten up on minor abuses cited McArthur, was by city recorder Hampton presented to the council and drew both praise and criticism from members. Stressing that "I dont want to hamstring any department, however, many times the citys present purchasing procedure has led to the unapproved purchase of anything and everything, McArthur outlined the new purchasing program in city departments, which through the use ol new purchase orders, prevents any department head from making a purchase of over $50 without executive approval. Mayor Axelgard threw his support to the plan in saying, "Our purchasing has been quite loose in the past and I intend to tighten it up. However, councilman Toy Atwood, head of the recreation department, took exception to the implication that any irregular purchases had taken place but was assured by McArthur that the new procedures were being installed only to help firm up accounting procedures n time-nig- by-la- n Fairground bids rejected, livestock policy adopted by Carbon Commission Can you imagine what Asking kind of bathroom you can get for Carbon County com$50,000? missioners rejected all , submitted bids for construction of a restroom facility at the county fairgrounds in action at the last regular county commission meeting held Wednesday, Sept. 3. In rejecting the bids, the commissioner noted that estimates on the facility, which is a small six stall restroom, had been made at approximately half of the $50,000 bids that had been submitted by three out of the area contractors and said they would hire a county supervised crew to perform the construction. Commissioners got something of an expected surprise at the meeting when they were presented with a letter from county sheriff Albert Passic asking them to schedule a public hearing on a salary increase that Passic was requesting. Commissioners noted that Passic had said in a recent public hearing that resulted in raises for his deputies that he did not mind that certain deputies would be making more money than he as a result of the requested pay increases. The commission set the hearing on the pay request for Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. Commissioners met with Roger Markle, president of Valley Camp Coal Companys western operations to learn his companys position on the coal rights to a piece of land owned by the county that has been requested for lease by both Valley Camp and Western Reserve Coal Company. The property in question lies contiguous to both Valley Camps and Western Reserves properties and both claim a lease to this property is necessary for their further operations. However, Valley Camp appeared to have the inside track to leasing rights as they border the property on three sides and are already into full scale coal production. In other business: The commission directed county surveyor Art Barker to begin a study of county building permit fees in order to bring them into line with city building fees. Price man found dead in jail cell Carbon County Jail prisoner, being held on drunken driving and driving charges was found dead in his cell early in the morning of Wednesday, Sept. 3 apparently the victim of a hanging. Arden DeLoyd Livingston, 65, of Price was found dead in a holding A self-inflict- cell at 12:54 p.m. by sheriffs deputy Rex Sacco after the Price man had been arrested earlier in the evening in Wellington, following a series of accidents that left three cars damaged. Sacco said Livingston was hanging from a shirt that was tied to bars high in his cell. Livingston was alone at the time. Highway Patrol Trooper Steve Douros said he arrested Livingston at approximately 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 2 after Livingston allegedly hit three different cars in Wellington and left the scene of each accident and finally was stopped when he wrecked his own car. Douros said the deceased was arrested on charges of driving while under the influence of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident. Sacco said Livingston arrived at the jail shortly after 8 p.m. and was put through the usual procedure of removing his shoes and belt and being placed in a holding cell while he sobered up. The deputy said he was checked frequently and gave no indications that he was thinking of harming himself. Sacco said Livingston was last seen alive at about 12:30 p.m. by deputy Jim Robertson. not available. Salinity control plo n hocked Several government agencies threw uncontested support to a proposed salinity control program of e the Colorado River at a held Wednesday, Sept. 3 in hearing Price. The program, proposed by the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum, seeks to set numerical criteria on salinity loading at different points on the river and outlines 16 salinity control projects that, they feel, would maintain the desired levels of salinity in the river until state-wid- 1990. Deputy state health director Lynn M. Thatcher, the architect of this plan which seeks to control salinity levels in the lower main stream of the Colorado River while, at the same time, protecting the rights of upper basin states to development unapportioned, compacted granted waters from the river, explained this plan, which must be approved by all seven river basin states, in detail to the 25 persons in the audience. Thatcher said the plan was formulated as a response to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 which require the adoption of water quality stan dards on all interstate waters. The standards must be submitted for approval to the Environmental Protection Agency by Oct. 18. The seven state salinity control forum was established, said Thatcher, to study and propose a solution to the problem which was acceptable to all concerned parties in the river basin. He added that this was not an easy task as the concerns of upper basin states were far different than those in the lower basin. Thatcher explained that one of the reasons behind the federal legislation requiring control over the Colorado River was the ever increasing salinity load in the river in the lower stem. Yet, he added, upper basin states still had Colorado River compact apportioned waters that had not been developed as of that time. What this meant, he said, was that salinity loads were sure to increase a these upper basin waters came into use. Thus, he said, upper basin states stood squarely against applying strict numeric salinity load standards, fearing that such application would prevent them from developing their apportioned waters from the Colorado River. This proposed program, said Thatcher was an attempt to compromise the concerns of the upper and lower basin states while, at the same tirpe, satisfying federal water quality standards. He said that through negotiations, the upper basin states, which include Utah, were assured that they would be able to further develop Colorado River water projects because temporary fluctuations above the standards set would be allowable. The lower basin states were assured that their concerns that the river not become more salty were set at ease by implementation of a number of federal and state salinity control programs that are projected to hold the rivers saline content at or below the standards set by 1990. Control measures recommended by the forums plan include the immediate construction of four salinity control units, including one at Crystal Geyser in Grand County, that are estimated to remove 521,000 tons of salinity from the river each year, plus the eventual construction of an additional 12 projects, that would, he said, reduce salinity loading in the river to below standards by 1990. Locked out This was the scene last Friday morning at the new addition of the Carbon Nursing Home after the contractor, Ron Mast of Remco Construction Company closed the wing the night before. The work stoppage on the nursing home addition, which continued through Wednesday, was ordered after the Thursday, Sept. 4 publication of a Sun Advocate story that quoted nursing home officials' criticism of the workmanship of the job. Mast and county commissioners were scheduled to meet Wednesday morning to air each side of the controversy. Photo S-- |