OCR Text |
Show A 7 State Press Assn. L 1327 P.0, tcx Salt Lak: City,, tit 84110 Wednesday, August 31, 1977 86th Year Number 36 Price, Utah 15 cents THF VOICE OF UTAH'S CASTLE COUNTRY" 62 percent called unsafe ' Kr . i, L, sTt; ar , VC77a;v4i -- I V' v'Vrrrra-a Vc I f rI ..7 v i 5 ., S , f v. V- - J''( 1 ' -- v 17 ASt '7 7 ' 4 u - . k - 7. 't 5 ft ' k M ' ?., 7 ? demonstrate their Friday and Saturday. The competition between the local continues Saturday morning when a softball tournament begins at 9 a.m. at the Helper softball diamonds. Most of the area UMWA locals will field teams for the tournament. The finals of that tournament will be held Monday. Sunday will be kids day and a parade is planned down Main Street in Helper at 1 p.m. Games and booths will be open after the parade. Along with the games and booths, a kids talent show will be held in the afternoon. The bid celebration begins Monday with a parade down Helper Main Street at 9 a.m. It will include floats, bands, the Rodeo and Labor Day Queen and members of area locals. The booths and concessions will open after the parade and will be open all day. The final softball championship game will be played at 11 a.m. Raffle tickets are now being sold by Labor Day queen contestants and the prizes from the raffle will be awarded during the afternoon. Those prizes include a $500 savings bond, a deer rifle, 150 pounds of beef, a 10 speed bike, watches, a camera and gift certificates. The featured speaker for the Labor Day Celebration will be Steve Galanti, assistant to UMWA President Arnold Miller. He will address the gathered UMWA members at 3 p.m. in the Helper City Park. During the afternoon, tug of war games, coal shoveling tests and other games will be going on. con- As an added feature, Singer Cher Hendrix the afternoon. 5 shows will present throughout Country-Wester- n Old Helper locomotive to go on auction block American LeFrance fire finally going on the sale block. The Helper City Council decided to offer the old truck for sale after kicking the issue around for three months. Fire Chief Jim Pugliese asked the council to sell the old engine so the fire department could buy needed equipment. He told the council in May the fire department needed four new $350 nozzles and other equipment for the trucks to keep the city in the present fire rating. The council decided then to sell the engine but some Helper residents did not want the antique to leave the city. As a result the city held off on the sale. Pugliese stressed that the taxpayers of Helper would not have to pay for the new equipment if the truck was sold. June, the council discussed the possibility of trading the engine In for work with II. E. Lowdermilk. That was abandoned when the council found out it was illegal to trade the work for the engine. The city is finally taking action to sell the antique. Helper purchased the fire engine in 1923 or 1924 and it was delivered on a flatbed railroad car. It was used to fight fires in the city until about I960 when it was retired and used only as a pumper truck. About five .V procedures. grounded. of Carbon Countys mobile home face electrical and fire hazards because a federal agency ruling prevents local inspection of Proper hookup of a mobile home is crucial since an improperly grounded mobile unit will likely result in an electrical fire, electrical shock, or even in electrocution of the occupants, an Association of Governments report concludes. years ago, one of the iatons broke and the old engine was put out of commission for good. After 54 years, the old workhorse of the Helper fire department will be sold to the highest bidder. two-thir- County Building Inspector Herman Beckman said the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will not allow local officials to inspect the mobile homes it approves. This ruling affects almost all mobile units built since 1976. Beckman explained that the HUD standards are fine and that the countys main lines are all right, but that the two dont work when connected. The reason is in the metal wiring. A State Electrical Inspectors survey shows that 62 y percent of the units in the county are hazardous because of improper connecting materials Seventy-on- e or Most new mobile homes use aluminum wire. The power supplies use copper. When a mobile home is (Continued on page 2) It is beginning to look like Helper City will still be without a major source of water this fall and received from the state drought relief funds to repair the lines. wont be completed before freezing weather hits. winter. Helper City Administrative Assistant Albert Fossat told the City Council another $20,000 will be coming soon but about $5,000 of that is already spent. He said there are several low spots in the line and if the water does not continue to flow those low spots could freeze and break the line again. Lasnik asked the city council what they would like done with the water in the line since the work The Council asked Lasnik to go as far as possible on repairing the line and then turn the water into the river. Helper City Watermaster Erik Lasnik told the Helper City Council Thursday night that work on the Lower Fish Creek waterline will not be finished before freezing weather. The city has spent the $50,000 percent of them are not I5y JOHN SEItFUSTIXI Managing editor wiring. jlv Martin said he could not superintendent accident. One railroad caused the what explain worker who was on the train said one car left the tracks in a tunnel a mile south of the depot and before the train could stop it dragged the other cars off the track. There were no injuries. Martin said cleanup operations would begin at midnight. of each local will get an opportunity to ability to milk a wild cow during the rodeo 1923 engine is -- Don The United Mine Workers Labor Day Celebration gets underway this Friday night with the Southeastern Utah Rodeo Association Rodeo at the Carbon County Fairgrounds. Citys antique " V 4 &!' Labor Day fast in Carbon County Helper lUTlinrr 7 UMWA plans members 4 Nearly dwellers Twelve coal cars of a Utah Railway Co. freight train derailed about a half mile south of the Martin Station Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The northbound cars spilled hundreds of tons of coal on the tracks and down the embankment. Each car carries about75 tons of coal. About a half mile of track was twisted and smashed. Assistant Two ; -- 4 K f a , S' . at , .xlj 7 7v 77 x - V f Right now, all the water from the Fish Creek Springs goes back into Fish Creek and on down the Price River. That water accounts for at least 11 percent of the city water supply. Lower The line froze last winter after the water flow was stopped. Several sections of pipe broke and city employees have been working on the line since May. attorn sy General's probe continues The investigation of Carbon County law enforcement is continuing while Helper Police Chief the only man Karl Stavar awaits charged so far arraignment and preliminary hearings. Assistant Attorney General Robert Wallace said Tuesday that there are still no charges to be filed against other top police officials. Stavar was arraigned in Salt Lake City Court Thursday on a complaint of perjury. This is a second degree felony and carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. The complaint arises lrom Stavars sworn testimony in the investigation. The preliminary hearing at 2 p.m. is Construction began this week on the Little Valley 6 west of Price next to the Lanes Country Bowling Alley. Developer Marianne Saunders plans a 108 unit rental a complex, a 350 seat restaurant, Mall located on U.S. Stavar is also scheduled to be arraigned in Judge Edward Sheyas Seventh District Court Sept. 6 at 10 a.m. This charge is malfeasance in office and is a civil action to have the chief removed from office. County has no plan for windfall cash Carbon County officials have no definite plans for over $300,000 they will receive the first week in October from the In Lieu of Taxes Were not going to spend it until we get it, Land Management officials are working with Treasury people to get the checks ready to mail the last week in September, he said. Mary Lois Boren, 31, 355 East, was wounded in her home Sunday afternoon. The bullet entered the left side of her face. Ambulance crews rushed her to Carbon Hospital for Semkin said the would go before it must be opened by advertising it and then holding a public hearing. into the general fu could be used, the The In Lieu of Taxes bill was passed last fall by the congress and signed into law by the President. The bill allows the federal government to pay counties for federal land. non-taxab- The addition of the $300,000 to the county budget will push the unappropriated funds in the budget over $1 million. suspect arrested serious condition in the intensive care unit of Utah Valley Hospital Tuesday, two days after she had been shot in the face with a .357 magnum pistol. Lee The checks should be mailed out by the last week in September, Don Olsen, a spokesman for Sen. Jake Garn said Tuesday. Bureau of bill. hospitalized, Price woman was in Commissioner Semkin said. Gunshot victim S. 500 scheduled to be completed by May of 1978. set for Sept. 8 A recreational vehicle village and a bank or savings and loan institution. The first phase which will include part of the rental units, the restaurant and the recreational vehicle park is Semkin said one possibility for using the money is the much needed criminal justice building. As yet, no plans have been drawn up and no accurate cost projections are available. emergency treatment then transferred her to the Provo facility. Police arrested her estranged husband Larry Boren shortly after the incident. Boren is charged with aggravated assault. Carbon County has had to rely on property taxes in the county for much of the revenue to pay for county services. Over half of Carbons 946,530 acres are owned by the federal government. Another 96,000 acres are owned by the State of Utah. s Semkin said the county has received no information on how much money they are to receive. Estimates range from $325,000 to He was released Monday on $5,000 bail by Price City $344,000. Court Judge A. John Ruggeri. The judge set arraignment for Olsen said he didnt think there were any restrictions on how or where the counties could spend the money. A I . |