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Show Turn t$ fi9t 4 Ur TUi SHOW SCIM . . . News about Snow College l Volume 94 l Written by Snow College Students MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1979 7'tivia... b Mu Call Bcjc.'rrfyb Number 17 Vandals Break Windows Jud8e Orders Names at High School, Temple Fxtensive vandalism at the Manti Placed on Ballot In Sterling Election Temple and the new Manti High School building occurred over the weekend and authorities are offering rewards for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible. The vandals broke 18 windows at the Manti Temple Sunday evening between 7 and 9 p.m., according to President Wilbur Cox. He estimated the damages at several hundred dollars. ' The vandalism was discovered by the Temple security guard Sunday evening at 9. Temple authorities are offering a $100 reward in the case. Sometime Saturday evening or Sunday morning vandals went to the site of the new high school and broke out glass windows and doors, causing damage in excess of $1500. The South Sanpete School District is also offering a $100 reward for information leading to the indentification of those responsible for the damage. Law enforcement officers investigating the two incidents believe that the damage may have been caused by young children. "Parents should be reminded of the new statute that makes them responsible for vandalism committed by their minor children," President Cox pointed out in commenting on the incidents. Its beea good week! Whether youre classed as aa optimist or a pessimist depends on how you look at things. The technique of how things are said often develops the attitudes of illustration others, or as the d points up, is the cup half full or half empty?" Theres no difference in the amount its the way we say it which makes the difference. For example . . . Do you Iraow that 179,997 deer hunters (out of 180,000 in the field last weekend) didn't get shot (yet!) And in our schools . . . 99.9 percent of the high school students in the nation were not suspended or expelled. 97.3 percent were not tardy for class. 98.25 percent were not issued offenses or detentions for misbehavior in class. 98.1 percent did not cause trouble on the schooi bus. 98.7 percent were not disciplined for fighting. 99.4 percent were respectful of the staff. 99.8 percent were not cited for having drugs andor alcohol on school premises. 99.6 percent were not involved in school vandalism or stealing (but we surely wish we knew the ones who were!). Yes, its been good week! No one in Manti, Ephraim or Sterling .was robbed, beaten or. raped. My car didnt have a flat tire. Only three news contributors and two advertisers brought in material after deadline. (And that's really a good week). All kinds of good things didnt happen this week . . . Not a single state legislature approved ERA. And . . . Beth didnt overdraw the bank account this week. See what I mean . . . its how you say it that makes the difference. Yes, its been a good week! oft-use- I received a phone call at 2 a.m. the other morning. It was from a good friend of mine. He and his wife have a new baby girl. When they first showed her to me I exclaimed how cute she was (because she was cute), then foolishly added, "If you ever want to give her away, call me up." Well . . . you guessed it . . . the phone call was from my friend. Not yet able to get to sleep he had remembered my offer. "Come and get her," he said. Not so trivial: There is a Odd for critics, bo doubt, bat we dont remember seeing statues of any of them in the Hall of Fame. Attend Idea Fair Saturday Thanksgiving and Christmas projects will be included in the demonstrations planned for the Sanpete County Idea Fair Saturday afternoon at the Moroni Stake Center. The event is sponsored by Utah State University and local womens groups. One of its highlights will be a Parade of Christmas Trees. Idea Fair demonstrations have been scheduled as follows: How to Make Your Own Levis, Rilla Dee Sorenson, and Creating and Arranging Silk Flowers," Lynn Jones and Jerry Lyn ONeil, 1 p.m. "Drapery Making, Louise Sorenson, 1:45 p.m. How to Make Your Own Levis" and Gold Leafing," Betty Anderson, 2:30 p.m. Drapery Making" and Creating and Arranging Silk Flowers," 3:15 p.m. Gold Leafing, 4 p.m. Reservations for the silk flower workshop are required and can be made 1 or by calling Mrs. Jones at Mrs. ONeil at 835-854- 835-203- 1. L. by Brace Jennings Circuit Court Judge, Louis G. Tervort, sitting in for Judge Don V. Tibbs of the Sixth Judicial District, made permanent an order that in effect requires Douglas V. Ludvig sen, Sterling town clerk, to certify for placement on the Nov. 6 ballot the names of Orra Campbell and Orville Lou Mills as candidates for the town board. Judge Tervorts action apparently means that in addition to Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Mills the names of Elden Mclff, Chris Denton, Douglas Ludvigson and Max Often will also appear on the ballot as town board candidates. Messers Mclff, Denton, Ludvigson and Often were nominated as candidates for the board at a mass meeting held in mid September. Mr. Ludvigson and Mr. Often are members of the present board. Following the mass meeting, a group of Sterling residents, who claimed the meeting had not been representative, prepared a petition, signed by more than 30 registered voters, nominating Mrs. Campbell and Mr, Mills. When their certificate of nomination was presented to Mr. Ludvigson, he refused to certify Mrs. Campbell and Mr. Mills for placement on the ballot. At Wednesdays hearing in district court, Mr. Ludvigson told Judge Tervort that he had rejected the certificate of nomination for several reasons, including errors in names, dates and addresses. He also said that it had been the practice in Sterling for several years to hold only one mass meeting, at which time four candidates were nominated two to run as Citizen party candidates and two as Peoples party candidates. The petitioners had designed themselves as members of the Independent part on their certificate of nomination. They were represented by Ken Chamberlain, a Richfield attorney, at the hearing. Mr. Chamberlain told Judge Tervort that his clients did not object to having the names of the four people nominated Messers Mclff, at the mass meeting Denton, Ludvigsen and Often on the ballot but maintained their right to nominate by petition. Range Management Board Plans Alternatives Studied High School Dedication - t s M - 4 The South Sanpete School district board of education has approved a tentative program for the dedication of the new Manti High School but has not yet set the date. The dedicatory program will have two d history principal features: a of Manti High School and guided tours, with refreshments, of the new facility. In other action at its regular monthly meeting, the board: Reviewed the floor plan, elevation drawings, structural drawings and site plan for the new Gunnison Valley High School and instructed the architect to develop a plan that would use golden buff brick to be supplied by Interstate slide-soun- Vandals broke these windows at Manti High School's new building. Losses were estimated at $1500. A reward has been posted. f i- - Brick Co. Learned that a value engineering seminar for the new high school in Gunnison Valiev will be held in Salt Lake City on Nov. 6 and 7. Attending will be South Sanpete board members and administrators as well as representatives of the State School Office, State Fire Marshalls office and selected legislators. The results of the seminar will be presented to the board during its Jolt'S November meeting. Heard Supt. Ron Everett report that Security Fence Co., Murray, was the successful low bidder on fencing Levi Hansen inspects windows broken out of the heating building on projects at the new high school Manti Temple Hill. campuses in Manti and Gunnison Valley and would proceed with the work immediately. Directed Superintendent Everett to address letters to the appropriate agencies pointing out the undesirable effect that the opening of the elk hunt has on school attendance and requesting the opening be moved to a weekend. Approved an attendance reclaiming The total valuation of lands and and some other minor divisions. procedure that enables students to Here are the 1979 valuations with the report an impending absence, make up buildings in Sanpete County which are 1978 valuations in parentheses: tax has increased the to the assigned homework and meet other property subject Fairview $1,932,620 ($499,985); 3.08 times as a result of the State Tax requirements in order to receive credit Mt. Pleasant Commissons reappraisal program. $4,135,660 ($1,075,-255)- ;. for regular attendance at school. $1,419,460 This is revealed in valuation data City Spring The procedure works to the benefit of $1,294,-08- 0 released Wednesday by Yvonne A. ($304,855); Fountain Green students who have legitimate reasons $1,974,940 ($292,670); Moroni for absence and the district, which Howell, Sanpete County assessor. $251,050 ($53,-630- ); receives state financial aid based on The Sanpete County valuation total ($565,940); Wales North Sanpete School District attendance records, school officials for 1979 is $49,776,550. For 1978 it was outside cities and towns $14,049,690 $16,173,040. explained. Total North Sanpete The 1979 totals could be reduced ($5,340,050); $25,057,500 ($8,132,-385- ). somewhat after board of equalization School District hearings have been completed on Oct. $4,755,515 ($1,232,070) 26, Mrs. Howell said, but will remain Ephraim A hunting accident on the opening Manti Tax State as at arrived ($1,246,075) $4,434,180 by substantially Commission appraisers. $303,775 ($69,650) morning of the deer hunt claimed the life Sterling of a man in Ephraim Canyon. The 3.08 times increase in valuation Gunnison $3,247,690 ($850,375) Lloyd Lund, 55, Sandy, Utah was $1,365,510 ($309,635) doesnt necessarily mean that property Centerfield found lying in the snow by his son about ($164,975) $773,100 owners will in 1979 pay 3.08 times their Mayfield 6:30 a.m. opening morning, Oct. 21. 1978 tax, Mrs. Howell said. $293,975 ($75,465); South Fayette The man was taken to the Mt. The amount they pay, she explained, Sanpete School District outside cities Pleasant Hospital where he was prowill be determined by the mill levies set and towns $9,545,305 ($4,092,410); nounced dead on arrival. Cause of death by local taxing units, including city Total South Sanpete School District was attributed to a heart attack. school $24,719,050 town boards ($8,040,655). boards, councils, , ?!; SSV, Heres an idea . . . Tfcj Aloc.t;cr County Y aluation Up by 308 mid-wee- k - Hunter Dies An additional alternative for range management of the Mouatai YaUey '7 Planning Area will be examined by the Richfield District of the Bureau of Land Management as a result of public comment received at the October 16 scoping meeting. The Mountain Valley Planning Area consists of public lands in Sevier, Sanpete and Piute counties. District Manager Donald L. Pendleton said today that in addition to the five management alternatives previously proposed to be addressed in the environmental impact statement for the area, the district will also address an alternative for management based on range condition, range condition trend, and past licensed use. The new alternative will also address management without the proposed combination of grazing allotments with fewer acres of vegetation treatment. -- Other management alternatives discussed at the scoping meeting for inclusion in the environmental impact statement for the Mountain Valley Planning area are as follows: 1. Optimization of non-livesto- grazing use resources. 2. Optimization of livestock grazing. 3. A multiple use recommendation developed by BLM planning specialists combining alternatives one and two. 4. Elimination of livestock grazing. 5. No action: the current management would continue unchanged. Nineteen range users attended the meeting at the district office, including representatives of Utah's Division of Wildlife Resources and Department of Natural Resources. U.S. Forest Service, Six County Organization, Soil Conserve- tion Service, Utah Woolgrowers, and Utah Cattlemen's Association. The guests met with BLM employees on an individual basis to discuss the five proposed alternatives and to rank several criteria for developing range management plans. The majority of the participants identified improvement of vegetation and production of forage as the most important criteria for making range management decisions. The guests recognized the significance of protecting threatened and endangered species and preserving archaeological and historical resources; however, they agreed that these criteria should be used only in site specific areas as mandated by law and felt they should not govern entire range management programs for large areas such as the Mountain Valley. In addition to the criteria listed by BLM, the participants noted control of predators, effects of plans on the local economy, and cooperative relations with state agencies, local government, and range users as important criteria in making land use decisions. Comments on both the alternatives and the decision making criteria will be accepted until November 1 by Donald L. Pendleton, District Manager, Bureau of Land Management, ISO East 900 North, Richfield, Utah 84701. The public will have further opportunity to comment on the alternatives for land r use management for the Mountain Valley area when the draft environmental impact statement is released in 1980. Plans Forum Address David A. Christensen, director of international and special curriculum for the LDS Church Education System, will K' ' Ku- Tv - be the speaker at Friday Forum at the Ephraim Institute on October 26 at 12 noon. Mr. Christensen, who has his office in Salt Lake City, spent five years in the &', x. David A. Christensen Ephraim and Manti area as principal of the Ephraim Seminary, instructor at the instrucManti Seminary and part-tim- e tor at the LDS Institute of Religion in Ephraim. Presently serving as second counselor in a stake presidency, Mr. Christensen has been president of a stake YMMIA, counselor in a stake missionary presidency and has held numerous other church teaching and administrative positions. He teaches a missionary preparation class at the University of Utah Institute of Religion, participates in the BYU Summer Youth Conference, teaches at BYU's Education Week and is a speaker for the Know Your Religion Series in California and Nevada. His is a Rotary Gub member, plays the violin and participates in several sports. Mr. Christensen is married to the former Patricia Williams. They are the two boys and parents of four children two girls. 4 |