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Show State Press Assn P.0, Box 1327 Salt Lake City, Ut 84110 Utah Thursday, AAarch 25, 1976 Price, Utah 85th Year Number 13 24 Pages Price 15c Honoring Americas Bicentennial Celebrating Our 85th Anniversary Year Key Airlines files for air service end Price left without scheduled air service if PSC approves leaves the Carbon Airport last as week they usually are, nearly empty. Airline officials say the continued lack of support for Key Airlines plane application would probably be forthcoming and made good on the promise last Friday. No opposition is expected from the PSC as Gov. Rampton reportedly has requested that they not oppose the application and also asked that they move quickly on the request as airline officials would like to discontinue service by May 1. Key Airlines had been flying the southeastern Utah route on an experimental basis following Frontier Airlines request, of two years ago, that that carrier be allowed to discontinue service on the route. At that time, Key officials believed their smaller aircraft would allow for more economical service on the routes, however, subsequent experience indicated that substantial subsidies would be needed to continue. ' The first signs of trouble surfaced last summer when Key officials announced that a subsidy to continue service would be needed and said tneir best alternative was that of seeking a flowsubsidy from Frontier (an through arrangement whereby Frontier would have accepted an FAA subsidy for flying the route and passed it along to Key). However, the Four Corners Regional Commission stepped in at that time with a direct subsidy and a promise of more (See KEY AIRLINES, Page 8) The prospects for continued scheduled air service into Carbon County appeared dim Friday as officials of Sun hlley Key Airlines, citing operating losses of over $60,000 per year on the southeastern Utah route, submitted its application with the Utah Public Service Commission for permission to discontinue service from Salt Lake to Price and Moab. Keys withdrawal application had been exacted since Tuesday of last week following a meeting between Utah Governor Calvin Ramp-to- n and members of the Utah Aeronautics Committee concerning progress of a planned commuter airline service study of southern Utah which was to be funded by the state. Announcements made at that meeting indicated that a promised operating subsidy from the Federal Aeronautics Administration for Key airlines and Sky West Airlines would not be forthcoming and that only $40,000 of the $130,000 earmarked for the commuter airline study could be used for airline operating expenses while $83,000 of that total has been set aside for consultants fees. With these announcements, Key officials, who had been asking for a $65,000 operating subsidy since last summer, indicated that a withdrawal scheduled airline service in the area (an average of less than two passengers per day) led to the company's decision to discontinue flying the route. Herrera murder West Price access, Tenants asked to leave Hiawatha homes Mrs. Smith (not her real name) is a year old widow and lifelong resident of Hiawatha who, along with some 16 other pensioners and widows living in that town, have joined the hundreds in this area seeking housing-housin- g that, in many cases, is nonexistent. Mrs. Smith and the others are victims of the local energy boom. They have been living in cheap housing owned by the U.S. Fuel Company in Hiawatha, some for over 25 years in the same home and are now being asked to leave by the company because the homes are needed to attract miners. This situation arose late last month when these people 17 in all and all living on UMW pensions and social security-receive- d letters from U.S. 75 -- Suspect says 'not guilty' 6th West extension probable termination of these leases. Gushee said the company had encountered severe problems In both its miner recruiting program & m holding present miners because they could not offer additional housing and added that termination of these leases was the only solution presently open to the company. Gushee said the company was trying to be as sympathetic as possible to the problems of these ' people who would nave to relocate but added, when questioned if the company would help in locating new that the company was housing, neither prepared or equipped to help in relocating these people and suggested that they would be best served by contacting local social (See LEASE, Page 8) Fuel informing them that the company will soon be terminating their lease and, upon receiving notice, would have 60 days to vacate the premises. Many were soon beating a path to the doors of local social agencies, seeking help and maintaining a diminishing hope that something could be done to keep them, in their homes. However, those prospects are dim as the leases on the homes state that the companys purpose in easing is to help facilitate and to be for the convenience of the operation of the coal mine and preparation plant at Hiawatha. In an interview with Oliver Gushee, an attorney for U.S. Fuel, problems in attracting and holding labor was raised as the main reason for the Gary A. Mitcheson, 18, the Price man accused of killing Richard Herrera, 21, Price, last February, pleaded not guilty in Seventh District Court Monday, March 22, to a charge e of murder. Mitchesons Don attorney, Blackham of Salt Lake City, asked that bail for his client be reduced from $25,000 to $5,000, but the motion was denied by Judge Edward Sheya. Sheya said, however, that Mitcheson could be assured of a speedy trial. Mitcheson is being held in the Carbon County Jail. The judge said a set on April 5. trial date would be Jack Carlson visits (D-Uta- coal-fire- d Utah. Carlson, who is a former assistant U.S. Secretary of the Interior, said in an interview with the Helper Journal and Sun Advocate that the proposed new air quality standards are 50 times more stringent than present standards and that even natural haze would at times violate the proposed regulation. Despite the air pollution that a plant such as Kapairowits would cause, Carlson said, banning the plants in the relatively uninhabited, unpolluted areas in the southern part of the state would force such projects to move to populated areas such as the Utah Valley, where their emissions might add to the pollution health hazard (See CARLSON, Page 8) US. Senate hopeful Jack Carlson, (left) Interior, visits with CEU president Carlson's stay in the Carbon area last college's new career center and the need DOT hearing second-degre- Senate hopeful Jack Carlson, candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat now held by said Frank Moss Friday in Price that he is strongly against U.S. Clean Air Act amendments which, he said, would effectively electric ban power plants in Southern set for a former Assistant Sec. of the Dean McDonald during week. The two discussed the for more trained coal miners. Dr. A delegation of Price business and civic leaders will meet Friday with officials of the Utah Department Of Transportation (DOT) to discuss issues involved in the West Price connection to the Price bypass route controversy and a recent reauest made by the city that the DOT allow an extension of 6th West to connect with the proposed access, it was announced Monday evening by Mayor Walter Axelgard in regular city council session. Reading from a letter sent to the city by Sam Taylor, district representative to the DOT, Axelgard said a delegation of Price leaders would be welcomed to meet with the DOT state board Friday morning at their work session in Salt Lake. Taylor said in the letter that the citys request that the west Price access be placed on First North and that the access be included in the first phase of construction would be discussed at that time. He also said the citys request for an extension of 6th West would be taken up. In connection with this situation, Price Chamber of Commerce president Don Denison met with the council and informed them that the chamber supported the recent Price Retail Merchants position backing the placement of the access on First North and its inclusion on the first phase construction schedule. Spring Glen trailer park owner Ivan Fiddell appeared before the council with attorney Ken Hisatake on the citys order to appear and explain a situation in which the city believes he has, without prior ap- - ( , proval, hooked up four trailers to his home water supply. City attorney Luke Pappas said city records indicated that Fiddell had only one legal hookup on the site and added that should the city determine that these extra hookups are illegal, could cut off these connections and could even cut Fiddell off if they believed these connections were made with the intent of defrauding the city. Fiddell contended that multiple hookups had been present on the line for the past 26 years, which, he felt would predate any city attempt to account for all hookups. No action was taken by the council as they decided to study the situation further. A clarification of the citys subdivision ordinance, fpllowing a recent question concerning' the timing for the posting of performance bonds, was offered by city engineer John Huefner and administrative assistant Gary Tomsic who informed the council that the citys present system was correct in requiring developers to post performance bonds or similar securities at the time that the final plat for a subdivision is accepted by the council. Council members had questioned, at an earlier meeting, if the city was being protected adequately from unscrupulous or underfinanced developers with the present timing for the posting of these bonds but were assured Monday that provisions covering building permits (whereby they cannot be issued until this bond is posted) provided ample protection. Discusses problems with local officials Third county ambulance need fold by administrator The possibility of the county purchasing a third backup ambulance was aired last Thursday evening as both Carbon Hospital administrator Joe Delpha and chief ambulance driver Carlos Romero told county commissioners that, with the recent accident involving a county ambulance, extreme problems in providing services were being faced and recommended that the county buy another ambulance to supplement services while the wrecked unit is being repaired and have that unit act as a backup when both regular units are operable and in use. Delpha told commissioners that he had been in touch with state agencies and local mines and had received pledges for donations toward the purchase of another vehicle. He said that the State Division of Health would pledge $3,300 Swisher Coal Company would give $1,250 and that Transportation costs, population growth and paper shuffling are the major concerns of rural school boards, Carbon Board of Education president Albert Breznick told the Utah State Board of Education last Thursday evening at the College of Eastern Utah. The state board held regular business meetings Thursday and Friday in Price, in addition to the discussion session, as a part of its current round of similar meetings Braztah Corp. had pledged an additional $3,500. When asked about the advisability of purchasing a used ambulance, Delpha cautioned that many ambulances are put to extremely hard use but added that it should be possible to locate a unit that would be satisfactory. , Romero told commissioners that, with only one county ambulance in service, support units from local mines would have to be called in if needed and said certified Emergency Medical Technicians could not ride in substandard ambulances, such as those which are available from local mortuaries because they could loose their certification if they did so. Commissioners seemed in agreement that another ambulance is needed and asked Delpha to cnec into the situation fruther and report back. throughout the Breznick, a Helper resident, told the state board that partly as a result of the realignment of athletic com- petition regions within Utah, the Carbon district paid over $50,000 last activity-relate- d sportation costs. Breznick said he hoped ) ' state. Present along with the Carbon District were representatives from the Emery, Grand and San Juan School Districts. y:?.r would recommend to legislature some sort pensation, since similar often not incurred by districts. tran- board ' the state of comcosts are the urban The projected population increase in Carbon County will surely put a strain on the districts incomegenerating resources for new buildings, the local president told the board. Again he asked that the state look into financial help for the area. Finally, Breznick mildly chided the board for the high volume of paper work required locally, much of which, he said, is generated by the state board. Speaking loudest, longest and with the most direct criticism of the state board was Grand District Superintendent Bill Meador. Meador rebuked the board for its lack of consideration of rural districts in formulating the proposed new high school graduation requirements. He said first (hat in light of widely stated assertions that students can not read or write adequately, it was inconsistent that the new graduation requirements would lower the language requirement. Foreign languages, Meador continued, should not be required but, rather, suggested. Foreign language programs are extremely difficult to maintain in rural districts, he said, and often can not provide students with a consistent and quality background in the subject. Meador also said that the proposed and Responsible Parenthood Personal and Family Finance requirements were already in- corporated in most school curricula. One important purpose of vocational education programs dropout prevention is defeated by the lack of any such program for 9th and 10th grade student, Meador stated. Many students have already quit by the time they are old enough to enter the program, be said. Meador touched on the expense incurred through excessive paperand work audit frequent requirements but ended on a positive not by thanking the board for the line cooperation he said he had received from various specialists supplied to his district by the state. San Juan District Board President Harold Lyman said two problems had arisen as a result of a recent lawsuit brought by the Native American Rights Organization. First, be additional state funding was n for the education program; he also asked state help in paying the $50,000 legal bill, which he said otherwise would have to come from program budgets. Also speaking of the effect of Indian students on the district, San Juan Superintendent Kenneth Maughan said more certified Indian teachers and administrators were badly needed. |