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Show V iiow nets on A Consolidation with Saturday, May 14, 1977 Price, Utah Volume II Number 20 the Helper Journal rvr rt'i : ',ct i gf ' ;V Vl ' "s. . ilUFpM Fishing at Scofield Reservoir this Saturday should be good but judging by the number of chubs caught in the Division of Wildlife Resources netting survey Wednesday, fishermen will catch a large share of the nongame fish. The DWR dropped their nets in the lake earlier in the week and retrieved them Wednesday morning to check the number of fish. The netting near Pondtown seemed to produce the most trout but the ratio still remained as high as four or five chubs to one trout. DWR Biologist John Livesay said the official results of the netting survey will not be ready for about a week. ! V,I4'1' .. . : ' - , 'U' ,yv k V'' tv'TV t ' ' .v- l t' l.V't For the past two and a half years engineers and officials East Carbon have been attempting to solve the problem of sewage disposal. On May 17, a local election will be held in East Carbon to approve up to $300,000 in revenue bonds to pay for the local share (about 25 percent) of a new sewer lagoon system. But the clincher in opting for lagoons is the constantly if increasing effluent standards of the State of Utah. Even we built the most sophisticated mechanical plant possible with modem technology we would have no assurance that it too would fail to meet state discharge standards within a very few years, said Mayor Gordon Parker. A revenue bond is repaid solely from revenue received :rom the service provided, in this case sewage collection ind disposal. Residents in East Carbon now pay $3 per nonth for sewage service. This will increase by only 70 tents to $3.70 a month, officials say. The extra money will y off the bonds and provide a reserve for operation and naintenance of the lagoon. The total containment lagoons represent the least expensive permanent solution to the sewage problem, he said. There is no question that the lagoon will meet the most restrictive effluent standard promulgated by the state, because there is no discharge from the lagoons all water is held in the large ponds (120 acres) until it evaporates, Parker explained. Since the lagoons are located on land lower than the towns they serve, the entire system will run by gravity, hence there is no electrical or pumping costs. The money allocated for maintance will be spent to keep down weeds and clean the ponds perhaps once every 10 years or so. East Carbon officials considered many alternatives lefore deciding on the proposed total containment lagoons, liey considered repairing (again) the existing mechanical reatment plant, or building an entirely new mechanical jlant. These options were rejected because the old plant las patch upon patch and is not worth any further repair. A lew mechanical plant would cost two or three times the 1,340,000, estimated for the lagoon. Furthermore, a new mechanical plant would reauire a certified operator or two ind hence the operating costs would be nearly six times the 115,000 per year need to operate lagoons. The Environmental Protection Agency will grant $990,150 to East Carbon 75 percent of the total cost. The City of Sunnyside has agreed to join the East Carbon lagoon system. However, Sunnyside residents are not involved in the vote because the Sunnyside local share will be paid in cash. i r.V-- - C p k : I) rkfc-- Vw a- -. J r t . V , t 't0H , fsj- - , , . V v DWR men and helpers remove fish from the gill nets The house the chtss built by 23 of the best craftsmen in Carbon County will soon be on the sale block. A house That house was not built by old and wise craftsmen who have had long years of experience in building trades, but by students from Carbon High School. of school and graduate a year Anderson said. That one sooner, year of school is worth about $10,000 in costs. Along with the savings, the carpentry students can be out in the work force a year earlier which could be worth another $15,000, he said. The three bedroom, two bath house setting on railroad ties and rails next to the school district bus garage is the work of the Carpentry and Construction class taught by Gerald Anderson. I dont think you can find more than half a dozen bent nails in this If house, Anderson says proudly. they bend them, I make them pull them out and replace them. The house was designed by Anderson. I designed it so the students would face about everything they would face if they were on the job, he said. It has a cathedral ceiling, a metal fireplace, three bedrooms, two baths and complete cabinets in the kitchen. The students made the kitchen cabinets, put the walltex wall coverings on, sprayed the ceiling with a decorative spray and did all the tile work in the bathrooms and around the fireplace. te x-r- Construction on the $1,450,000 wing began in the last part of January, 1968; and patients were moved to new wards June 24, 1969. The Price City Hospital became the Carbon County Hospital Jan. 31, 1950, when Price City and Carbon County signed a joint operating agreement. and complications from communicable diseases proved deadly more often than not. Wages for medical personnel were working hours were long. Little f low, equipment and understaffing further compounded the obstacles to good medical care. During her years in hospital work, Mrs. Forsyth has formulated many opinions about obstetrics. I like it. The rewards are just helping those babies. But I didnt care what floor I worked on, my feelings about the patients were the same. She remembers became conditions especially significant to Mrs. Forsyth this week as the county celebrates Hospital Week, which focuses on the advancement of health care since those early days. many touching moments in obstetrics, but her high ethics prevented her from relating the personal ones. One incident which she keenly recalls is the birth explosion after World War II. Sprinkling her recollections with the names of early day Carbon County doctors, such as Ruggeri, McDermitt, Robinson, Merrill, Long and Gianotti, Mrs. Forsyth traced the history of hospital care through her They (the babies) were coming so fast that we had to place some in cardboard boxes. Two babies one at the head and the other at the bottom were placed in one crib, she These career. doctors have become legends for breaking through the barriers of cultural eccentricities to heal the ranks of the railroad and coal mining communities. These Nurses received less notoriety because their unending work mostly went on behind the scenes. Nevertheless, Mrs. Forsyth pulled some of their names and deeds from obscurity, including Daphne Dalton RN, head nurse at the former Price City Hospital. Mrs. Forsyth returned to Helper for a vacation after graduation from nurses training at St. Marks Hospital in Salt Lake City in 1926. This was shortlived when she went to the Price City Hospital to help care for her two Anna C. Forsyth admires picture of herself after graduation. each month in 1932. This salary dropped to $80 a month during the Depression. also recalled Dr. Charles Ruggeri of Price and Dr. J. C. Hubbard, deceased. They and Mrs. Dalton really were the foimders of Mrs. Forsyth The rewards helping those babies .iat first hospital, said. Mrs. Forsyth The hospital was so short on help. Daphne Dalton said I just had to stay. So, I said I would for two or three weeks; and as a result, I stayed here .for 43 years, Mrs. Forsyth said. The Helper nurse found only 16 beds but no quarters for isolation care. Nurses worked 12 hour days and earned a starting pay of $100 While Mrs. Forsyth worked at the hospital, a young Dr. Roy W. Robinson had just finished medical school and had opened a practice in Donald sillectomies. Castle Gate. In November, 1934, the hospital moved to a new building north of the Price City Park. The facilities, a 1933 WPA project, offered 32 beds, and carts for food trays. Twelve nurses were employed. are just In 1928 the Helper nurse, whose maiden name was Carrera, married Jack Forsyth, a Price electrician. The couple raised two daughters, Mrs. Ronald (Donna) Christensen of and Mrs. William Richfield; (Merlene) Frank of New Orleans, La. They also have five grandchildren, iwo of whom have died, and four great grandchildren. and Carlos Giacoletto, who underwent tonnephews, Kenilworth. Dr. Lavelle Merrill started a practice in Rolapp, north of This was when Mrs. Forsyth launched a 35 year career in obstetrics. She assisted Dr. Ernest Gianotti on December 21, 1934, with the first delivery at the new hospital. The baby girl, Carol, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Menotti of Price. Those were the days when we had to set the mother up on a bed. Now the hospital has delivery tables. We just had to improvise in those days, Mrs. Forsyth said with a smile. a new addition that cost $1,151,640.65 was completed which In 1958 recalled. Although she has delivered as many as three generations, Mrs. Forsyth doesnt recall the number of births at which she assisted. Thats what I kicked myself a thousand times for not doing keeping track, she said. The smallest baby she helped f deliver weighed two and pounds. It was premature, but it survived. The largest baby weighed 11 pounds and four ounces and was stillborn. one-hal- Forsyth retired in March, why today she has only her memories to remind her of early health care in Carbon County. Occasionally she assists with a blood drive or mass innoculations. She said, If they got in a pinch, Id drop everything and help. Mrs. 1969, The workmanship, both inside and testify to the fact that the students have had good instruction and a watchful eye on their progress. out, addition also offered equipment in the laboratory, and surgical departments. This was 51 years ago when antibiotics were unknown and infections U .S. provided an obstetrics division. The Doctors carried patients who had just undergone surgery to beds upstairs in the former Price City Hospital, north of the Masonic Temple, on canvas stretchers when Anna C. Forsyth, RN of Helper began her nursing career. s' m&&iir'4 -- JOE ROLANDO Staff Writer Wsc, V nurse recalls 43 year career By 4 4 et bond vote of - ' f . ....... E,C.Co n 'W i ! N . ivM' Livesay said the netting survey seemed to produce about the same results as last year, but the trout seemed to be larger than those netted last year. DWR Information Officer Clark Warren said a firm decision has not been made to kill the fish in the lake. He said the decision will have to be made later when the use of the water in the lake is completely decided. 4 ' rw; . : ' By DOUG TULLIS News Editor , v.v thats Her memories point out how far health care has come since 1923. The young nurses who are receiving their degrees besides their nursing certificates provide an example. college registered Theyre good nurses. Theyre well educated and trained. But to be especially good in every line of working youve got to add ex- perience. And Mrs. Forsyth has just that. We spent about a quarter in class, reading and studying textbooks on carpentry, blueprint reading and math for carpenters before we We did started, Anderson said. everything from leveling the floor joists to putting the shingles on. We had Carbon Plumbing and Heating advise us on the plumbing and Skiff Electric advise us on the woring, but we did all the actual work, Anderson said. The class is not an easy one, according to the comments of a few of the students. This is a lot harder class than I thought it would be. We really have to work, one junior said. Anderson says the dropou rate shows that it is a tough class. We started with 30 ro 31 kids and were down to 23. The class is well worth the time and effort the students put into it. If one of the students who have taken this class go to Utah Technical College in Provo, they can skip their first year . I have the kids split into groups of five or so and they have to work as a crew. Its surprising, but you find out how guys get along and what personality conflicts there are, Anderson said of the students working together. When the home is finished, the school district holds a closed bid sale and sells it. Without having to add extra expenses for labor, financing, profits and taxes, the house usually sells for about half the cost of a normal home. The seven or eight houses which have been built by the students in other years have been transported as far as Joes Valley and Heber City, Anderson said. Tom Hyatt, one of the top students in the class, says he is not planning on going into carpentry, but with costs of home building on the rise, but will probably build his own. As a showcase of skills the high school students can perform, the house the class is building is a prime example of how well the youth in Carbon County can do a job and the pride they take in it. Too much salt Mine water called unfit for irrigation President Steve Hatsis commented. By JOHN SERFUSTINI Managing editor Anybody got a desalinization plant they want to sell cheap? Thats all that stands between Carbon County and an underground reservoir that could be as big as Scofield. Kenilworths abandoned In- dependent Coal Mine, 13,000 feet deep and filled with water, is the reservoir. But after a preliminary analysis, the water has been declared unfit for irrigation. The Utah State University Soils Laboratory found severely high levels of sodium and chlorides in the mine seepage. They said youd have to run that water over five miles of gravel to purify it, Kenilworth Water Board Hatsis led a team a mile and a half into the shaft last month to collect the samples. He said the steeply sloping part of the mine and all its connecting tunnels were filled with water. Thats too much water to ignore, Hatsis said. He went into the mine again Monday, this time to get samples right at the entrance. It may be that the water there hasnt leached as many chemicals as the deeper stuff, he said. If its clean, or can be cleaned cheaply, it might be an ideal water source, Hatsis explained. He said all that would be needed is a small pump to get the water out. Gravity would do the rest of the distribution. |