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Show WEATHER special long range weather report from the Springville Junior High School weather station reports the month of November will have above normal precipitation and the month of December will have far above normal precipitation, with possibly 18 to 27 inches of snow falling in Utah County. A major storm should enter norther Utah just prior to Christmas bring a white Christmas for all. A OEntcrtainmont Volume Eighty-fiv- Quid Mt. PLEASANT UTAH 84647 e - OCTOBER 20, 1977 Number Foi Flia 2iv o Threatened closure of Fairview dump prompts city action Faced with orders Irom the State Board of Health to close the Fairview City dump or do something about conditions there, the City Council Tuesday night in a special meeting moved unanimously to regulate control of the dump and charge a fee for dumping. When efforts by City officials to purchase a new dump site failed and meetings with other Sanpete towns disclosed that most of their plans for a consolidated dumping area are yet in the future, the Council had no choice but to take action to provide a dumping site for residents of the area. A motion was passed to require a locked gate to be installed on the dump road and a man to be stationed at the gate on Wednesday afternoons from 3 to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. A charge of $2 will be made for amounts up to a pickup load, and larger loads and commercial loads will be $15 each. The dump will be pushed over this week, and persons dumping in the future will be asked to dump in designated areas within the grounds, the Council said. 'Mystery Personality Contest underway At a preliminary hearing held Friday in Sixth District Court in Manti, action in which three North Sanpete School Announcing plans to hold an extensive "Know Your Gospel series are the Moroni Utah Stake Presidency. Left to right are first counselor, A. Peter Jacobson; President John Ramsay; and second counselor, Eslie Christensen. They encourage all adult members of theStake to attend each lecture. Moroni Stake plans education programs The Moroni Utah Stake Presidency 30, to the subject, "Understanding the announced this week that plans to hold Majesty of the Atonement. The series will continue in February Know Your Gospel a year-lonlecture series have been finalized, will with Brother Robert H. Daines, who begin on November 3rd and continue heads the Master of Business Adthrough the month of July. The lectures ministration program at BYU. He will will be held from 7:45 to 10:15 p.m. in be followed by Joseph F. McConkie and Ed. J. Pinegar. the Moroni Stake Center. In March, a Regional meeting will be of chosen most some the are Speakers interesting and versatile the church has held and everyone in the region invited to offer. Beginning the series will be to hear Brother Dallin Oaks, President The contest is just lots of fun and a Brother Lynn McKinlay, an assistant of BYU. The month of May is scheduled for challenge for the whole family. Anyone Professor of Communications at BYU, who is old enough to read and write, to who will speak on Wednesday, Monte Nyman with Max Waters coming find his or her own clues and fill out his November 2; Thursday, November 10; in July. These lectures are planned for all or her own entry blank is welcome to and Thursday, November 17. His adult members of the Stake. Cost will of will enter. The Key the be, subjects One final word.. .if you dont drop off Knowledge of God and The Spirit be paid by the different sponsoring Quorums and there will be no cost to the an entry at one of more of the places of Giveth Life. business in the contest, you cant Continuing the series will be George participants. W. Pace, Religion teacher at BYU, who Chairman of the Program Committee possibly win. will spake on Wednesday, November is President A. Peter Jacobson with HAPPY HUNTING! Frank Eliason of the High Council serving as vice chairman. Ward representatives serving on the committee are: Moroni East, Ruby Christensen and Betty Cook; West Ward, Brother and Sister Dermont Madsen; Chester, Brother and Sister Lucien Bown; Wales, Roy Tenney; Fountain Green, Euleda Cook and Rita Allred. Everyone is urged to plan now to attend each one of these lectures and, if Preliminary steps were taken and Ree Christensen; Fountain Green, further information is needed, he Victor Rasmussen, Thursday night to move forward on a Wales, Chestei should contact his ward representative. building program in the North Sanpete Tom Dyches and Byron Davis. Further information regarding each The teachers will be represented on School District. speaker will also be published in the Supt. Lloyd Smith announced two the committee by their school prinPyramid. meetings set for today relating to cipals and mayors of all North Sanpete or communities their school building needs and bonding representative procedures and announced the names will complete the committee. Nation-wid- e of those who will make up the citizen committee which had been previously The opening meeting at 10 a.m. will include the school superintendent, appointed by the board. The committee whose purpose is to members of the board, Russ Merrill set guidelines, procedures and gain and Scott Bean from the State Board of information that will assist the district Education office. Also attending will be Farm Bureau officials in Sanpete in regards to the construction of new Supt. Ron Everett of the South Sanpete County are urging property owners to school buildings included: Mt. School District who was successful in take advantage of a property idenPleasant, Ronald Shelley, Diane spearheading a bonding program and tification system whereby a law enelection which passed overwhelming in forcement officer anywhere in the Jorgensen and Terrel Seely; Fairview, United States can identify the state and George Collard, Lee Mower and Mike that district last week. Mt. and Pleasant will afternoon the Bringhurst; Spring county of origin of recovered items, call meeting Attending City, Keith Jorgensen, Bob Graham be those named above plus the mayors, the sheriff of the county and determine and Osral Allred; Moroni, Joyce principals and members of the com- whether an owner has had property stolen and make arrests if needed. Westenskow, Mary Kay Christensen munity committee. Today is C Day, "C standing for clues. Youve been looking forward to it, (if youve read the last issue) and now its here. ..the MYSTERY PERSONALITY in the Mt. Pleasant Pyramid. May we suggest a comfortable arm chair, or perhaps having the whole family join in around the kitchen table to help find the clues. g Board names building committee, sets meet system tags property; Board members are charged with malfeasance in office was continued until Tuesday, October 25 at 10 a.m. During the court action Judge Don Tibbs directed attorney David Peck, .representing plaintiff Patricia Mellor, Spring City to redraft the complaint which the judge said was "ambiguous. The Mellor suit charges Board members with malfeasance in office and with not complying with the Utah Open Public Meetings Act and the Utah Orderly Dismissal and Termination Act, and stems from the reassignment of Royal Allred from school district superintendent to Deputy Superintendent. On October 25 the amended sworn complaint and all pending motions involving the North Sanpete School Board will be heard. These include, in addition to the Mellor vs North Sanpete School Board suit; a slander suit filed by Royal Allred against three board members, Kenneth Strate Spring City, Bryant Madsen Fairview and Mark Cook Moroni and Tom Mower of Fairview and a suit by Walter D. Talbott, State superintendent of Public Instruction versus David Peterson, president of the North Sanpete School Board and the other four members, Calvin Allred, Fountain Green, Strate, Madsen and Cook, and Royal N. Allred, deputy superintendent of the North Sanpete School District. This suit asks the court to substantiate the legal authority of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in the reassignment of North Sanpete School Districts superintendent. Teleford photographs at Fairview Museum The announced showing of the John Telford photographs of the Great Salt Lake featured at the Fairview Museum will continue until after the deer season and will be the last of the Museum cooperative showings for this season, according to Golden Sanderson, An exciting evening of mystery and intrigue awaits the people of North in time to catch the Sanpete towns--jumood of All Hallows Eve. On Saturday, Oct. 29, North Sanpete High School, Wasatch Academy, and the city of Mt. Pleasant will present An Evening With Sherlock Holmes in three one act plays originally adapted by the Human Ensemble Repertory Theatre, a professional theatre troupe from Salt Lake City. Curtain time is 8 p.m. at North Sanpete High School for drama and suspense with the master sleuth of all time. The dramas are based on the short stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted for theatre by Human Enst semble Artistic Directors Actions which brought the principals in the lawsuits to this court date started in May of this year when three members of the North Sanpete School Board asked for the resignation of Superintendent Royal Allred and informed him they could not support his reappointment which rame up in June. Will open Ftn. Green school The North Sanpete School District will be responsible for attorneys fees to meet the costs of pending lawsuits and court costs which involve the district board as a whole it was learned Thursday night. According to officials, the district apparently failed to renew or find new coverage when its errors and coverage was terminated in January by the Utah State School Boards Association. Speaking to the board and patrons attending the meeting, Daryl Long, Director of the Utah School Boards Association said the state association which had previously provided the coverage for all districts in the state terminated the policy when it could not find a company to underwrite the insurance. He reported that obtaining errors and ommission coverage was a problem similar to that faced by doctors looking for malpractice insurance. Mr. Long told the board that even though companies had not spent any money on claims in over two years in Utah, the underwriter still cancelled the policy. District Clerk, Ron Ivory, reported he had sent requests into companies as early as April and just recently received an offer from the Fred. A. Morten Company who said they would underwrite the coverage for all district employees and the board for $3,315 for a three-yea- r premium. The board approved the expenditure, noting that the coverage would not apply to lawsuits version of Alice in Wonderland was picked up by PBS for television and aired for intermountain viewers in 1975. Tickets for An Evening With Sherlock Holmes may be purchased at the door, or call the Wasatch Academy office for further information. This now pending. executive Following a two-hou-r session, the board approved in a decision, to retain Attorney Thomas R. Blonquist to represent the board in the pending legal complaints. It had been reported in the media that Blonquist had withdrawn or resigned his services and would not be 3-- 2 representing the board. However, Blonquist explained that he had not withdrawn as the boards attorney, but said it would be a conflict of interest to represent each board member individually. He said he would continue to represent the board as a whole in its defense against the lawsuit filed by Patrica Mellor, Spring City. Each of the three board members named in the suits have retained their own individual attorneys. Acting on a motion presented by Calvin Allred, Fountain Green member of the board, the board in a unanimous decision, approved the necessary repairs needed to open the Fountain Green school for use by the district. The school has been closed for the past six years, but the board has continued to maintain the building. The building has been used for community activities. The district is proposing the renewed use of the building to alleviate crowding at the Moroni Elementary School. The board approved spending $6,000 to $7,000 to renovate 1,000 square feet of now unused space in the White Building at the junior high for use for special education needs at the school. program is brought to Mt. Pleasant through the Utah Rural Arts Consortium Tour funded, in part, through special grants from the Utah State Division of Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Juda Youngstrom and Charles Cochran. In each of the three dramas, Sherlock Homes and his dear friend, Dr. Watson, are confronted with a new mystery or puzzle. The audience is invited to match wits with the master of deduction and cunning, said company manager Brent Curtis. The first drama, entitled A Scandal in Bohemia, finds Holmes and Watson entangled in the affairs of the illustrious King of Bohemia. In this case, the unrequiting love of a beautiful adventurous threatens to alter the course of European history and bring down the noble House of Bohemia as well. The Twisted Lip is the title of the second thriller involving missing Miss Pamela Blackhams first grade won top honors in the PTA membership drive contest and were treated to a special movie Friday night at 6:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room. The children will see a Walt Disney movie The Pigeon who worked a Miracle and a Donald Duck cartoon. The class had 66 percent of their parents join the PTA. The membership drive ended last week with 140 parents joining the PTA. persons and mistake identities. A desperate woman seeks the sleuthing skills of Sherlock Homes to unravel the mystery of her husbands disappearance. The eerie Adventure of Charle will draw Augustus Milverston Holmes into a web of insidious black mail destined to threaten his own integrity in the eyes of his friendly adversary, Scotland Yard. The Human Ensemble Repertory Theatre was born in 1970, conceived by a group of University of Utah Theatre graduates dedicated to the art of creative theatre. The Human Ensemble has presented performances through the intermountain west and Canada, and has been hailed by critics for their of such outstanding interpretations productions as "One Flew Over the The Hotl Cuckoos Nest, Baltimore, Happy Birthday Wanda June, and The Haunting of Hill House. Their multi-dimension- al mystery or puzzle confronts Sherlock Holmes and his dear friend. Dr. Watson in each of the three dramas to be presented in the North Sanpete High School Auditorium on October 29. The dramas are the first in a series of cultural programs to be offered to the residents of the North Sanpete area. The tour is brought here through the efforts of the Utah Rural Arts Consortium and by the North Sanpete School District, Wasatch Academy and the City of ML Pleasant A new |