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Show Utah c ;e Press Assn Box 1327 Q- - P,0. Salt Lake city, Ut. 84110 Wednesday, April 6, 1977 Price, Utah 86th Year Number 14 15 24 Pages to search for Texaco Oil 5 Corporation will be searching for oil formations in Carbon County starting Apirl 18. Texaco Permit Agent Joe Tate got permission from the County Commission Tuesday to use a vibration process to search for oil in three areas of the County. I .. I 1 , i ' K I ' Tate said Texaco crews will be stretching 220 feet of cables and microphones along the roadway of the Wattis Highway, Consumers Road and Utah Highway 10 south of Price. A truck, with a vibration unit will vibrate for 15 seconds and then another truck will record the vibrations returning to it. , Tate said the technique does not involve drilling and blasting as the companies did in the past. f Sun Texaco reviewed survey work done engineers about 20 years ago and are now going back to the areas that look most promising, Tate emphasized. He said he will probably never know if holes will be drilled around here. by I did some work for Texaco in East Texas and was never told the results I was traveling of the findings. through the same area about four years later and there were pumps pumping oil out of the ground, Tate said. Texaco engineers are looking for dome and fault formations in Carbon County, Tate said. Tate said he could not guess when or if his company would drill test wells here. Advocate photo by John Serfustinl No distractions, please The fire racing through the tinder dry brush bordering the Carbon County Golf Course Tuesday afternoon doesn't distract this golfer intent on sinking a putt. The fire was quickly brought under control. Its cause was unknown. The fire dramatizes the unusually dry conditions this year. Residents oppose 00a Residents from the Miller Creek area strongly protested a request p from Swisher Coal and Coal to rezone 160 acres south of Wellington for a coal stockpile and loading industrial to build the stockpile area and loading plant. zoned industrial but the 160 acre site for rezoning would be much better. The residents of Miller Creek said the coal dust blows over their property and they do not want another coal stockpile there to add to the problem. Jensen said it would be much better concentrate a problem in one area than to make the two coal firms build elsewhere in the county to have one more problem. Jensen told the commissioners that the companies he represented have another 160 acres which are now R.D. Campbell, one of the protesting Miller Creek residents, said he was in the process of initiating Co-o- facility. The two firms represented by attorney Jim Jensen asked that 160 acres next to the Utah Power and Light Company stockpile be changed from a mining and grazing zone to Travel expenses go up with price of gasoline Travel in Castle Country may be a little more expensive in the near future. to of the local gasoline stations have raised their prices. A spokesman for the Husky Oil refinery in Salt Lake said his company raised the wholesale price of gas to the retail outlet about six weeks ago. local gas stations showed most prices for regular at 55.9 cents per gallon. The price for gas at the still were gas major oil company stations was two to three cents higher than the independent stations. A check of the Husky Southeastern Utah Marketing Manager Bruce Hill said the retailers are not making a profit on the gas they sell in this area. There is the same old story of the supply of crude oil. Some refineries have their own supply but we have to buy it where we can get it. Hill kaid the demand for petroleum products drops off during the winter and the prices usually edge down on the wholesale level. One independent retail operator told the Sun Advocate that she is not making anything on the gas and would like to see the prices go up to 58.9 cents a gallon. Another station operator said he raised his prices to 57.9 cents a gallon a week ago and probably wont come down. I buy gas from several suppliers but the price is always the same, he said. The gas is a good grade of product, he added. Most of the gas stations surveyed said they would like to see the prices go up but the competition keeps it down. One distributor said he was sick of the price war going on. I got a two cent a gallon price increase a few weeks ago and I expect another one cent this week, he said. Sometimes I feel like dropping the prices to 53.9 cents a gallon for a couple of weeks to teach the stations a lesson. The distributor said his stations and the others in town are not making any money but have just eaten the price increases. Campbell said he would not be able to give any exact information until the civil suit was through the courts. The County Commissioners personally examined the disputed area Tuesday morning and will make a decision about the rezoning later. Regents cool CEU football faces tough foe The road to bringing football back may be long and rocky if the comments by the Utah State Board of to CEU Regents are an indication. Former Regents Chairman Peter Billings said the issue of football for CEU will be kind of hard to determine. The Regents feel that Interscholastic Athletics ought to be self supporting. W. Several a suit against Utah Power and Light Company and would protest any more coal stockpiling in the area. Regent member Charles Peterson Provo said he didn't think the board would go for funding football. The Board thinks in terms of budgets, but its hard to say," Peterson commented. I'm a sports nut, though, and I wouldnt oppose it. I dont think the Board of Regents as of funds a group would give a favorable reaction to, he said. Cedar City Board Member Warren Bullock said he would like to talk it over with Pres. McDonald. I have a lot of respect for Pres. McDonald and I usually go along with what he says. Board of Regents Chairman George C. Hatch said the Regents have not been approached yet. I would have to see the proposal, the costs and benefits and then make a decision. The proposal to bring football back to CEU will probably be presented to the Board of Regents April 18. If they approve the football program, it is up to the state legislature to appropriate the money. Sun Ad vocal photo by Doug Tulllt Easy sliders Kenji Otani, center, Chris Kofford, right and Norman Shumway, left, get into the swing of spring with their skateboards. The three third graders at Durrant had little trouble concentrating on their sport as they showed their enthusiasm for being out of school Carbon senior citizens await new building by 50 foot building soon will provide relief for cramped office spaces and increasing senior citizen participation in aging activities at the Senior Citizen Center on South A 110 disturbing these women who have their offices in the same room as mine by talking to you (the reporter). of a recreation room, another small The building, that will sit north of the present center, will arrive in 7 sections from the Carbon County Industrial Park. Footings and transportation of the sections will cost $13,675. The bid for the foundation work went to Daniel Van Wagoner of Cleveland. Ross Wells was awarded the moving bid. Were just out of space in our present facility, Karl Peterson, chairman of the Carbon County Council on Aging told the Right now, he said, Im allocated to S-- The addition will consist Carbon Avenue. Manpower funding Carbon County. room, a kitchenette, two restrooms and several other club rooms. Peterson said the senior citizens will share about 20 percent of the building with the Four Comers Mental Health. The Cottage, operated by the Mental Health, formerly stood on the land. Money to remodel the interior of the addition will come from Title 5, which has allocated $5,600, Peterson said. Some labor will come from Hot meals will be served in the large recreation room. They are now served in the basement of the Senior Citizen Center. Hot meals is not the only program for senior citizens, although it is the largest. Other services include ceramic, arts and crafts, enand tertainment educational programs and a Friday night dance at the American Legion Hall. Grants from the federal government under the Older American Act amended in 1975 make the programs possible. Title 7, for example, provides the funds for the hot meals program, and Title 3 funds the ceramic and arts and crafts programs and transportation. Peterson said the hot meals program serves 135 seniors each day in Price and East Carbon City. Some are delivered to shut-inwhile the remainder go to those who come to the Senior Citizen Center. s, The meals program has two purposes, Peterson said. It's aimed to first feed the body and then feed their minds and soul, he added. A lecture, movie or some other, form of entertainment accompanies the meals at the center. This tries to fulfill the seniors social needs, Peterson said. The meals program extends to other parts of Carbon County as well Continued on page 9 |