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Show Millard County Progreu, Fillmore, Utah 84631 Friday, March 21,1980 Page 8 VA Natural Gas Pipeline veteran If Question: dies before a home loan guaranteed by the Veterans Administration is repaid, will VA pay off the balance? No. The sur Answer: viving spouse or other must continue making the payments. However, mortgage life insurance, available from private companies, can provide protection against a survivor Proposed Pacific Gas Transmission Company of San Francisco, California is proposing to build a natural gas transmission line through Utah in 1985, and that line will pass very close to Nephi. Because Utah law stipulates that a portion of the natural gas must be allocated to the state, the line could be a new and important source of energy for Utah, officials say. A line from Bonanza, Utah and a line from Wyoming will Thistle. near merge The resulting 30 inch line will come south to near Nephi. From Nephi on, there are two possible One would go routes. Fillmore and through h Kem-mere- h r, Nephi, and into Nevada. The other would pass and through Richfield near Cedar City. Whichever the route, the line will eventually end up at Searchlight, Nevada, where it will connect with established lines to transmit gas to Cico, Sacramento, Fresno, and San Francisco, California. The pipeline will be in constructed seven different segments, each of them 100 miles long. Two hundred workers will be used to build each The workers segment. will be temporary, however, and there shouldnt be any long-tim- e social or economic impact to the area, officials say. The steel line will be buried from three to five feet underground. Higher Unemployment Rates Four of the six counties in applications taken in 1979 Central Planning increased 13.5 percent over District experienced higher 1978, just slightly higher than unemployement rates in the increase in job placements 1979 than in (12.9 percent). The number December December 1978, Juab, of new job openings reported Millard, Piute and Wayne by employers during this time counties all had higher rose by 8.9 percent. This is a unemployment rates. healthy indicator when However, the two counties compared to the decreases in which experienced lower job openings experienced by unemployment rates for the most other districts of the same comparative months state. Gross taxable sales (Sanpete and Sevier counties) overbalanced the other four, increased in fourth quarter resulting in a lower district 1979 from a year ago. Tourist unemployment rate for this opposition. The Air Force last December than has held a series of meetings December (4.7 percent and to gain local inputs into the 5.2 percent respectively). planning process. The Air Nonagricultural jobs in the Force extimates that 25,000 district during December workers will be needed during 1979 totaled over 12,800, an peak MX construction in increase of 4.5 percent since Utah and Nevada from 1985 December 978. Job gains to 1987. That figure will drop were generated in every to 13,000 workers when the major employment category project is completed in 1989. with the exception of The Central District has nondurable goods several construction projects manufacturing and federal presently underway. Among govenment. these projects are the Activities in the districts Continental Lime Plant south offices Service Utah Job of Delta and the new First during 1979 evidenced a Bank Building in Security fairly active labor market. Richfield. of new number The the inheriting large monthly payments. Question: I waived a xtrtion of my military retired pay to receive Veterans Administration If I recompensation. ceive a VA clothing allowance due me because of devices, my prosthetic will it also be deducted from my retired pay? No. Veterans Answer: retired pay receiving are not required to waive any portion of it in order to receive the VA clothing allowance. Question: My wife and I are both veterans. May we acquire property jointly, combine our entitlements, and increase the amount of a home loan guaranteed by the Veterans Administration? Answer: Irrespective of entitlethe combined ment, VA will not guarantee more than 60 of the loan. Ninety Miles of Magnificent Mud Millard Fuller Ellle That is exactly what greeted the 200 racers who made it to the Cove Fort Stampede. It was late in the week before March 8, and all over the state racers were wondering if the storm would stop us. After that snowfall Thursday night and we Friday seriously thought about canceling the race. Race chairman Kevin Bogue, insisted the course was ready to go, and could survive the storm. We went ahead and Kevin was right. It was a day racers will remember. Sunshine, gooey mud, and melting snow. One section of the course actually developed dust by the time several hundred had racers pounded past. Other sections became dangerous, deep, dark mud traps. This course presented an all around challenge, close riders keeping for compeheavy enough tition. It was late in the second loop before Kris Morgan, Husky Ace from Goshen, was able to pull ahead of Don Fuller, and they finished 1 and 2. Allen Gerber placed third. Final results are not yet available, but some of the local riders did well. Hurricane Day, of Fillmore, was 1st 125 novice, a big win for him. Jeff Ribison, back on the race scene cruised to 3rd overall amature, and 2nd open amature. Dan Bring-arSugarloafers Gub (his wife, Sue is the other president) raced in this event. The next event sponsor- d, WHAT 71 Of V0 A M VO IN A Whats Good About tho Guard? Questions ed by the Sugarloafers will be the Desert Gassic, Cherry Creek. It will be run over the Memorial Day weekend, and will be the 20th annual. It is generating excitement all over the western states. We want to keep the big trophy in Utah, but Nevada Ace, Jack Johnson wins this year it will be his third in a row, and he will get to keep the giant trophy, which only stays with the winner one year, unless he wins three in a row. Hes been talking about this one for months already, The race season was kicked off by this last race. The next District 26 SRA event is a Buzz- ards race at Sand Moun- tain north of Delta on the last of the month. 01ST ftxf scf SOLPER? recognition of the age-ol- d yearnings of free men and women for liberty and dignity. It is a part of the system of guarantees for the protection of individual rights against ancient abuses. 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