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Show rCv MILLARD COUNTY USPS y V FOUNDED 4467-400- 0 oundeti 1894 25 CENTS MILLARD COUNTY'S FIRST NEWSPAPER NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION IN 'BBS NNA SUSTAINING Millard County Progress, Fillmore, Utah 84631, Volume 88, Number 53 Association ' UtJfc Friday, December 31, 1982 - F oonaed ItM Of THC cZ GUEST EDITORIAL Progress Offers Contest and Prizes Crime reports can reveal safety to of area To celebrate the New Yeat and the Millard County Progress 89th Birthday, we are offering a new feature starting with an ongoing contest for next w eek 's issue our readers. We will continue to otter this contest throughout the year. T he prize will be "Dinner for Two at the Rustik Kitchen restaurant, owned and operated by Dwight and Geraldine Church. We could think of nothing better for a prize than a taste of Geraldines delicious cuisine. Dinner choices are: Barbecue Spare Ribs, Chicken Dinner or Hamburger Steak. n 'Ae will select a resident ol F ast Millard County as our "Featured Personality, starting next week. Clues to our "Featured Personalitys" identity will be placed among our advertisements, both display ads and classifieds. By JohnRozsa Hobart, Indiana During vacation traveling my wife and I like to pick up newspapers from tow ns and cities along our route, usually dropping a coin in the vending machine as we leave a restaurant. Its interesting to compare with your hometown area publications. Moreover, reading one loaded with crime stories is a good indication to get that car back out on the road again! And since crime is the biggest problem in the U.S., lets zero in on that these newspapers JohnRozsa subject. We stay clear of the big cities as much as possible. The bigger the city, the bigger the problems, especially crime. I just completed looking over and reading The Sidney Telegraph," Sidney, Nebraska, Sept. 15, 1982, and evidently this newspaper doesnt want to cooperate with this article at all. It has two sections, 16 pages with absolutely no crime news. Either the newspaper staff doesnt believe in printing crime news, didnt have any to print that day, or could it just be possible that Sidney is a relatively crime free city? In "The Millard County Progress," of Fillmore, Utah, that week's publication carries a short column on crime news on the front page and thats it! A 23 year old man Was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail on a burglary charge. He will be held in jail on a work release program, it he can find a job." And, a 20 year old man Was sentenced to five years in prison for Theft of Services for not paying his motel bill. Finally, an 18 year old Transcicnt received zero to five years in prison for auto theft and burglary. The owner of the Spinning Wheel Motel in Fillmore told my wife and I that the biggest problem the police had when his kids t m to school was shooing teenagers olf the streets after hall games and other school lunciions. Big deal. Now. let's move on to "The lake Havasu City Herald, located m Arizona and home of the London Bridge: "Police look into mailbox vandalism." Now there's a familiar prank that continues to appear on the national scene. Teenagers armed with baseball bats and tire irons duel with defenseless mail boxes. Someone ought to invent a mechanical arm with a boxing glove aitachcd that would trip an uppercut to the jaw of the vandal. Of course, the trap would beset after dark and released in time so the mailperson vs The three were all occupants of a Rambler driven by Valerie Day Beuhler of Fillmore. Valerie and her passengers. Constance Robins and Shirley Day. received their injuries at 6:20 p.m. when the Rambler after was involved in a collision from the curb block of North Main St reel it pulled in the Kkt . Beck! Jo Edwards Is dwarfed by M.E.A. Credit Union contest. the giant Christmas stocking she won in the Lucky Winner of GiantChristmas Police Officer Thorpe Robison, the investigating officer, said a plymouth driven by Edward Brown of Salt Lake City was northbound in the inside lane and Ms. Beuhler pulled into his lane. When the two Grazing Feefor Stocking BLM Featured Personality will be awarded the prize. Call your answer to or at the Progress, or to Marge at home, I get clobbered. At last we finish up wnh the "las of the county, they may select the 1 . Becki Edwards, 1, was the lucky winner of the Fillmore office of MEA Credit Unions "Worlds Largest Christmas Stocking. Becki is the daughter of Glade and Arlene Edwards of Fillmore. Bcckis Christmas Stocking huge measured eight feet tall and was stuffed with many toys, games, and goodies. Officer Robison said there was no damage to the pickup. He estimated damage to the Hollingshead Toyota at $2500, to the Brown vehicle at $8i)0, and said the Beuhler vehicle was demolished. Brown's two children, David and Tammy, were passengers in his car. Tammy was unhurt, but David received a bump on his head. Brown refused treatment for the boy. setat who use lanJc operators administered by the Department ol the Interior s Bureau of Land Managcmcn' (BL M) for grazing purposes will pay S' .45 per animal unit month (the amouni ot Grazing Fees lowered on Western National Forests and National Grasslands Fees for grazing livestock on National Forests and National Grasslands in 17 western states will be reduced next year. R. Max Peterson, Chief of the U.S. of Agriculture's Forest Deparment Service, said. Peterson said the 1983 grazing fees will be $1.40 per animal month, 46 cents less than in 1982, on National Forests and Grasslands in Kansas, Montana, Nevada, Nebraska. New Mexico, North Dakota. CDF 4 j .. South Oklahoma, Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming. Utah. An animal month is the grazing of one cow, one horse, or five sheep for one leasing private grazing lands, between total costs of grazing on public and private lands, beet cuiilr prices, and the costs of produsing month. livestock. Peterson said fees are grazing determined by a formula established in the Rangelands Improvement Act of 1978. The formula, which is being used on a seven-year trial basis, considers rates for Grazing fees are lower again this e.u because the prices farmers and ranchers received for beef declined while the costs ol livestock production increased," Peterson said. lorage consumed by one cow month) for the 1983 grazing season. "I eatured Personalitys" identity has been guessed, a new "I eatuied Personality" will be selected and clues to their identity will be published in the following weeks issue ol the Millard County Piogress and a new prize dinner will heollered. will be informed in 5. Readers he newspaper when slues to a dillcrenl "Featured Personality" are published. Winners will be announced in the paper. Winners will be issued a certificate good for 30 days from date ol issue to be presented to the Rustik Kitchen when they I claim their prize. Start next week! I ook tor clues in our advertisements, and try to guess our "Featured Personalitys" name. II youare not presently a subscriber to the Millard and would like to he eligible to enter our contest, a subscription form can be found on Page 3 of this issue of the paper. Just fill it out and send it along with your check lor youi year's County Progress subscription to the Progress and start to our trying guess "leatured Personality's" name. Good luek, maybe you'll be our first winner! Star to host Fillmore, Delta presentations in presentations early January. Christopher Knight, who starred for seven seasons on televisions The Brady Bunch, will host the evening of displays and entertainment that will be held in six southern Utah and Nevada communities the week of January 10 through 15, 1983. Displays will be shown at 8 p.m. on January II in the Fillmore High School Auditorium. On January 14, displays will shown at 8:30 p.m. Displays will be at 7:00 and the show at 8:00 p.m. on January in the I illmore High School Auditorium. On January 14, displays will be at 7:00 and the show at 8:30 p.m. in he Delta High School Auditorium. Knight, who appeared as the juvenile lead in the theatrical films "Just Vou and Me Kid," and "The Narrow Chute, has acted in guest starring roles on such television showsas "C hips, "One Day at Time." "Bionic Woman, Mannix," "Gunsmokc," and the Merv Griffin and $1.45 for 1983 Livestock . TV a 1 personality 4. As soon as t he One of Hollywoods rising young actors will serve as the special guest host for Southern Utah State Colleges EXPO cars collided, it spun the Beuhler vehicle around back into the curb where it hit a parked Toyota belonging Dec to ot Della. Mrs. Hollingshead Leah Hollingshead, who had driven the car to F illmore, was not in it at the time of the accidents. The force of the second collision pushed the T oyota into a pickup belonging to Bill Emmett of I illmore. Lands order to be fair to our subscribers w ho alternate prize of one years free subscription to the Millard County Progress. Rush your answer by mail to the Progress, P.O. Box 507, Fillmore, Utah 8463 The correct answer with the earliest postmark will be declared the winner. Vegas Optic, Las Vegas, New Mexico. Another fine paper that accentuates the positive, ir.d eliminates the negative. On page J theres just a small block of print under: Police Blotter." The think I want to prove here is that there are small cities and tow ns all over the L'.S. where crime is not a major problem, where streets are safe to walk day or night, and w here you can raise your children in a good environment. n live out wouldn't Christmas marred by Accident An accident marred Christmas for three residents when they were sent to the hospital on Christmas Eve. Luckily they receive only burises and were checked and released. To be a winner, you must look for the clues (hint - be sure to read every word in every ad), put them all together and figure out our "Featured Personalitys name. The first person calling the Millard County Progress with the correct identity of our I he rules of the contest areas follows: Vou must be a subscriber to the Millard 1 ounty Progress or a member of the subscribers immediate Family . 2 Employees of the Millard Counts Progress and then families are not eligible 3. The current "leatured Personality" and their immediate families arc ineligible during the time they are our mystery in one The new fee, which will become ell ective March I, 1983, represents a reduction of S.4I front the 982 grazing fee and reflect in the price livestock operators paid for beef, as well as increases in their production costs. I easing fees paid lor grazing on priv ate land also declined. In 1982, BLM collected $20,878,691 in grazing Ices from livestock operators in all public land States. From this amount. $2,376,456 was returned to the Slates where the money was collected and S 0,439,077 went into the Bureau's Rangelands Bctterwem I und, which is used to pay lor rangeland improvements in the B1 M Districts where the money is collected. The rcmainine $6,706,732 went into the General Fund ol the U.S. Treasury. In Utah, the State received 253,404 as its shareof grazing receipts. Mike Douglas shows. His television movies and mini-serie- s include "Diary ot a feenage Hitchhiker," "I egend ol Valentine Island," "Once an I agle," and "Sara's Summer ol the Swans." He has appeared in more than 60 television commercials. Knight will host the exposition and will serve as the narrator for the evening performance ol Grassroots America, the outreach dance division of the American folk which Ballet, maintains its Grazing lees tor HI l administered lands are sei by a formula incorporated in ihc 1978 Public Rangelands Improvement Ad The lee "as established on a Inal basis im the sear- - I9"9 through 1985. ( ongiess has iron tided the HI I and the Deparment ol Airi.iiltute's I orest Service to evaluate the trial formula lor the 19X6 and subsequent ctuz.iip lee years. T he Secretaries ol the two Departments are to submit their repo-- t op grazing Ices to the C (ingress no Ian nan December 31, 1985. Christopher Knight, a star for seven seasons on television's The Brady Bunch, will serve as the special guest host for SUSC's EXPO presentation, Free to the public, to be held in Fillmore Jan. 11, 1983. educational a nil artistic licadqua-iciai he Sl'S( colleen will he choteogiaplied and directed by Hindi Mann. Distinguished Artist in Residence ai SlJSf I here will he no admission chaieed lor t he exposition and tie public is unued lo attend Shows will he presented in Humcjne on January It); I illmore on January II. Beaver on laniiaty 12, Mesquite on latiuarv 3, Della on lanujry 14; and in kunahoii l.innary 15 I Weather Report By JayT. Rogers DEC. HIGH LOW PRECIP. SNOW |