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Show Utah Press Association U67 E. 300 So. SLC, UT 1111 Emergency Call: Volum Eighty-Sv- 462-232- 3 n 'MS enrollment climbs: nears Enrollment MT. PLEASANT- North Sanpete schools is nearing enrolled in the district's five elemen-tarie- s and two secondary schools. Up nine percent from last year. This number is up from the an- in the mark district officials said today. k According to the latest enrollment figures 1597 students are 1600 first-chec- ticipated 1,544 students officials Kvon Mortensen works with a brand-nekindergarten student. Growth in the school district is heaviest in the elementary grades with 161 children enrolled in kindergartens in the district's five schools. Only 97 are enrolled in the senioi class at the high school. w i News scene Pickup-cycl- e projected in August. The figure is 25 percent higher than the 1195 students enrolled when school started in 1973. During the past six years the district has shown a steady climb, in enrollment after dropping off in the late 1960s. In 1976, 1,318 students were enrolled and in 1977, 1,377 started the school year. Last year school opened with 1,504 students. District officials estimate that by 1988, 4,500 children will be attending North Sanpete schools. 368 at Mt. Pleasant Mt. Pleasant Elementary is the largest school with 368 children enrolled. This is up from last years 347 students. Which included kindergarten children from Spring City. This year Spring City kindergarten children are attending their own school. Figures show the following class enrollments at Mt. Pleasant Elementary: kindergarten 61 ; first 53; second 53; third 54; fourth, 58; fifth 42; and sixth 47. Moroni Elementary is also up with 218 children enrolled. Last year 211 students including Fountain Green kindergarten children were enrolled. This year Fountain Green kindergarten children are attending school in their own community. By classes, enrollment at Moroni Elementary is as follows; kindergarten 27; first, 19; first, 20; second, 19; second, 22; third, 27; fourth, 35; fifth, 17 and sixth, 32. Fairview continues up Fairview Elementary continues to show an increase with 196 children enrolled this fall. Last year 187 children were enrolled at the beginning of the school year. By classes, the following is the enrollment for the beginning of this year: kindergarten, 33; first, 27; Wasatch students second, 30; third, 27; fourth. 25; fifth, 31 and sixth 23. Spring City has topped the 100 mark for the first time with 109 students enrolled at the beginning of this year. 19 first 13; By class: kindergarten; second, 14; third, 18; fourth, 1J5; fifth, 20; and sixth 12.. At Fountain Green 83.' children started the school year. By classroom: kindergarten, 11; first, 16; second, 12; third 12; fourth, 8; fifth, 9 and sixth, 15. SJ II increases 12 percent Enrollment is up 12 percent at North Sanpete Junior High in Moroni but has declined nine percent at North Sanpete High School in Mt. Pleasant. District officials say this is due to the small sophomore class which is down in size from the senior class which left last spring. The seventh grade is the largest class at the junior high with 123 students enlisted. The ninth grade is the smallest with 89 students. The eighth grade has 108 students enrolled making a total enrollment at the junior high of 320 students. Last year 282 students began the school year. Based on the present figures which indicate 129 sixth graders will move into the school next year, 360 students could be attending the junior school opens in 1980. high when Enrollment could be near the 400 mark next year should the nine percent growth rate continue. MORONI - Two local men were injured early Friday morning when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a pickup truck driven by a Salt Lake man. Injured were Boyd Nielsen, a passenger on the bike and Maurice Anderson, driver. Both were taken to Sanpete Valley Hospital by the Fountain Green ambulance. Anderson sustained a broken collar bone and head injuries. Nielsen was transferred to Utah Valley Hospital and was treated and released. Both men are doing well and said they appreciated the assistance given by the ambulance crew and others. Driver of the pickup truck, Thomas Taylor was not injured. The accident occurred about 7 a.m. when Anderson and Nielsen were aton Main Street near First East. The early morning tempting to make a sun apparently caught Taylor in the eye, and he reported not seeing the men on the bike. The bike hit into the front end of the pickup. The accident was investigated by Deputy Bruce Tidwell, Sanpete County Sheriff's Department, who said damage to both vehicles was estimated at about $200 each. Measles confirmed; immunization urged - A case of red measles has been confirmed in Moroni acto Health Public Nurse, Sherron Boynton. cording Mrs. Boynton said the case was diagnosed over the weekend. Parents are urged to have their children immunized against the disease, Mrs. Boynton said and said a clinic would be held today from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the city hall in Mt. Pleasant. Local health agencies have been cooperating with the State Board of Health in a "Summer Search for Measles program to seek out and interrupt chains of measles transmissions. It is part of a national effort to eliminate measles from the country by 1982. All school children must have adequate immunization or proper exemption before October 1 health officiels said. MT. PLEASANT Donations needed to replace blood supply EPHRAIM A blood drawing will be held in the Ephraim South LDS Ward today, September 6 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. according to Wayne Ross, Sanpete Valley Hospital Administrator. Ross said blood donations were urgently needed to replace blood used by patients in this area. He added that the blood could also be used to build up a ward or organization's blood bank. "There is a deficiency in this area, he said and cited several examples of patients who had recently used large amounts of blood. Ross said further that blood given here can also be credited for future use. He fee and that the also explained that the patient is only charged for the set-u- p costs of all blood used in transfusions could be replaced by donated blood and the patient is not charged for it. It is a good program Ro6S said and benefits patients both at Sanpete Valley and also at Utah Valley Hospital in Provo. t Totals for the district show 974 students enrolled in elementary schools including 151 in kindergarten. 623 are enrolled in the districts two secondary schools. Using these figures the 1979 enrollment shows an average of 139 students per grade on the elementary level and an average of 103 students per grade on the secondary level, Oil, gas drilling in Sanpete rises SALT LAKE CITY- - Oil and gas drilling in the central Utah vicinity of the Thrust province is acconsiderable attention attracting cording to Carlton Stowe, spokesman for the Utah Department of Natural Resources. The U.S. Geological Survey approved acre unit agreement 40,000 surrounding the town of Moroni this a week. The acreage within the unitized area... 39,731 acres, is held by Hanson Oil Company, the operator of the unit and Phillips Petroleum along with Cities Service Oil Company. Hanson and True Oil just recently temporarily Moroni well at abandoned the No. 1A-a total depth of 21.204 feet. Just west of Ephraim, Mobil Oil is drilling at a depth of 10,550 feet at the No. lirson Unit, a scheduled 13,100 loot Navajo formation test. Mobil will also drill a projected 3,000 foot exploratory test well in this area at the No. 1 Neilson. The area is some 20 miles southwest of the abandoned Joes Valley field. The nearest current production is 30 miles to the northeast in Clear Creek field. In Sevier County, Gulf Oil is drilling below 7,700 feet at the No. 1 Johnson Livestock venture about 20 miles southwest of the town of Emery. Gulfs exploratory lest is scheduled to at least 10,600 feet. It is 25 miles northwest of lasl Chance field, which has produced gas. and 30 miles southwest of the Ferron Field. 1 MANTI- - Protection or the public lorm of hilling for the work was conthe Golf Course operation, and the interest by adequate control of land sidered. County Attorney was listed to bring the on an "Error other items on the agenda included a Commission developments in Sanpete County and at and Ommissions" report. the same time not diminishing the report from Gary Holman, concerning owners opportunities for full control of r,' ' I"' wi marketable lands was the main focus ol the Sanpete County Commissioners' hmm September 4 meeting. Complicating the process is a current attempt by the county to study and revise the present Subdivision orMT. PLEASANT- - Wasatch Academy dinances. The commissioners, the school district attorney and the county students will start the 1979-8year tomorrow, Friday, September 7. representative for the State DepartNew students will be welcomed with ment of Health have expressed serious activities beginning with a picnic reservations about the current subsupper on the soccer field, parents and division ordinance. all faculty members. County Attorney Paul Frischnecht New student orientation will consist talked of the dilemma when he said, of three days of various meetings, "Our problem is not with the sale (of testing session, registration and the land) but with the building." recreational activities. Returning students will arrive on Richard Anderson. County Sanitation campus on Sunday. The school year will officer, described to Commissioners the officially begin Sunday evening with a problem of adequately policing the convocation held in the First ordinance. No building permit is issued in the County until water and sewer Presbyterian Church at 7 p.m. The Senior ( lass at North Sanpete elected Becky Rees, third from left, as their In addition to all the new students requirements established by the Health new president. Seniors also named LeGrand Brotherson, treasurer; Melanie arriving this week, new faces will be Department have been met. (Toward, secretary and Kent Christensen, vice president. seen on the faculty list. Larry Thompson is the Director of Appearing before" the Commission in Studies and holds a master's degree a continuing effort to bring their plats from Northwestern University as well and their developments to a point of as a bachelor of science degree from approval were Ralph Pitts and Maryville College. He most recently associates of the Holiday Oakes served as a teacher in Somers Point, Estates, located in Salt Creek Canyon; New Jersey. His academic background Dennis Strong and associates of the is in music. English, history, and Black Hawk Mountain Estates, near educational administration. His wife Indianola; and Clyde Naylor and Marney also has a bachelor of science associates of Indian Ridge subdegree from Maryville College. She has division. near Indianola. been an elementary school teacher and Making their first appearance before has taught in high schools overseas. Marney will be a teachers aide, tutor the Commission was Leslie and Doris and librarian at Wasatch. The Gleaves with a preliminary discussion development near Thompsons have raised two daughters, for an Mary and Margaret, and they enjoy Fairview. reading and music. Two proposals were made by firms to Dr. Michael Kowalski will be an English Teacher. He is interested in allow county employees to secure acting and drama and enjoys fishing benefits by payroll deduction. Joe and rafting. He says Wasatch Johnson made a presentation for Heading the Sophomore Class at North Sanpete this year will be Dawn Bynum, Academy represents an opportunity to Corporate Benefits Inc. and Edwin center, us president. She will be working with Maralee Miller, left, who was be involved with young people in Miner and John Swindle made a elected vice president and Trudy Gilgen who was chosen as secretary. recreational as well as academic presentation for a cancer insurance situations." He holds a B.A. from program. In both instances the comTemple University and an M.A. and Ph. missioners voted to allow meetings ol the employees to see if a sustained D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His wife Karen has earned interest justified the bookkeeping degrees from Sar Francisco State and process by Auditor Wayne Beck. the University of Utah; She is a second Jay Jensen, Ephraim appeared grade teacher at Mt. Pleasant's before the board to ask for work on the elementary school. The mathematics department will county road running south from include Robert Leffert who has had a Ephraim Canyon. Jensen expressed career in the U.S. Army and is ex- appreciation for himself and the neighperienced in teaching in independent bors he represented when reported that schools. He received a B.A. degree the road work was already on the from the University of Albuquerque county road schedule. and is also certified as a guidance Wayne Olsen presented a copy of the counselor. Bob is a ham radio operator court order and of the signed petition and has also built his own microcomputer. His wife Betty has been active in that involved the Johnson Slough Road, Ephraim. admissions, bookstore management, and substitute teaching. Mike Katterjohn has conducted Commissioner Keith Sorenson concert and marching bands, pep and reports that crews had met to stage bands, and choral groups: He has the weed-contrprogram of the jazz-rocThe Junior Class elected Eric Jackman, second from left, as their new composed for a county, Great concern was manifested ensemble and has conducted the for the increase of weed infestation. A president. Working with him will be Ruth Westenskow, secretary; Scott new proceedure for spraying nd a new Jenkins, vice president and Marie Christensen, treasurer. Continued to page 5 U '' .y. 0 injures Moroni men 303 listed at NS District officials said early reports show 303 students enrolled at North Sanpet High School. 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