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Show Tress Association 167 E. 300 So. UUtah slc, iff nmi rvi 1 TV Listing Inside The MT. PLEASANT, UTAH Volume Ninety 84647 - Moroni favors MORON- I- Citizens gave the city council overwhelming support Tuesday for their request to issue $210,000 in general obligation water bonds to improve the citys water system. Favoring the proposal were 149 voters while only 32 voters said no. Graduation speakers chosen at N. Sanpete However, only 32 percent of the registered voters turned out to the polls to make the decision. The election followed a well attended public hearing which was held in Moroni last Thursday. About 50 citizens met with City Council members, John Call and Steven Anderson of John Call Engineering Co. and Jim Matsumori of Burrows, Smith and Co. Background information on the water system was presented. For the past year, Moroni has received a not approved rating from the State because of a high coliform content in the water system. Most areas of the city do not have sufficient water supply to control a May 20, 1982 major fire for two reasons: wide obtained funds from the Water spacing of hydrants, and insufficient Resources Board and the Community pipe sizes and low storage reservoir Impact Board. elevation. Water Resources has allocated a loan Several areas within the city water of $211,000 to Moroni City to be paid The system cannot be served properly back in 18 years, interest-free- . because of insufficient pipe sizes. Community Impact Board gave Moroni Storage capacity is insufficient to a $250,000 grant and $150,000 loan to be serve the needs of the city. Moroni has paid back beginning in seven years, The $150,000 may be only one useable storage reservoir with . interest-free- . a capacity of 180,000 gallons. if the impact is not as Moroni forgiven Inadequate pressure great as is presently expected. The city does not have the water Mayor Morley reported that the City pressure or water flow necessary to had looked into a loan from Farmers service the new Middle School now Home Administration for $200,000. By the time this loan was paid back over a being built outside the city limits. Mayor Mack Morley reported to the period of 40 years, the City would have group that the City Council already has 4o pay over $1 million. Speakers at next ceremonies for North Sanpete High School will be Suzanne Turpin, Dawn Bynum, Kathleen Mayers, Bobette Allred, Laurie Hall and Valerie Krouth. The commencement will begin at 8 p.m. in the Mt. Pleasant Stake Center. Theme is Plan Your Destiny. Karl Ivory will welcome persons attending, and Maralee Miller will give the invocation. Several musical numbers, including an organ medley to accompany a retrospection by Marli Mickel, are included. Principal James T. Thornton, assisted by Wade Jacobsen, will present the class. Dr. Harold R. Johnson will award diplomas to the 61 graduates. Trudy Gilgen will give the benediction. for growth Call said the chlorinator would be automatic, just like the pump. Call said that everything possible had been done to avoid chlorination but, water samples have been consistently bad for so long, chlorination will have to be a part of the new system. He also assured the group that, if thd problem is cleared up in the future, the chlorinator could be shut off. In response to Garth Andersons question regarding the rest of the system, Call said the city would have an eight inch loop around it to prepare for future growth growing around the present site of Moroni. Six inch lines will be put wherever there is anything less than four inch water lines. inch line beginning about where the school is located. The school will have an automatic sprinkling system with 1200 gallons of water needed per minute. The water system has been designed to provide adequate fire protection. The School District has agreed to pay for having the system brought outside the city limits. Steven Anderson said tests at the school site have shown a pressure of 8 lbs. per square inch. The sprinklers installed at the school require a pressure of 55 lbs. per square inch in order to operate, therefore requiring the twelve inch line. Other areas tested also have only 8 lbs. pressure. Two-zon- e system The water system will be built with a system, upper and lower, and everyone will have a pressure of between 40 and 70 lbs. That is a good water pressure, said Anderson, one that gets the water out without destroying the taps and you can turn on more than one e faucet at a time. Without the town would the of be lower part system, bursting with pressure while the ones on top would be about right. two-zon- e two-zon- Anderson went to sav that fire hydrants will be put at every block so that homeowners will be within 200 feet of a hydrant. The entire system should help lower fire insurance rates. Plans for the water system will be presented to the Utah State Department of Health for their approval and construction is expected to begin the first part of June. dog pound discussed by group County-wid- e The agenda includes a progress report on the new Middle School and information on the purchase of property in Spring City for a new elementary school. EPHRAIM Mayors and Commissioners of Sanpete County met May 13 in Ephraim. State Representative Ray Nielsen attended and spoke to the group. Mt. Pleasant Police Chief John Christensen reported on the work and findings of his Dog Control Committee. He suggested all Sanpete cities and the county go in together to build two dog pounds in the county and have one or e two dog control officers. Christensen proposed building a pound in Gunnison and a pound in Mt. Pleasant. He suggested Ephraim and Manti use the newly-buil- t pound in Manti. full-tim- ,Y v )f . Speakers at North Sanpete High School graduation exercises May 28 will be from left, back; Karl Ivory, At 'v, ' ' Maralee Miller, Kathleen Mayers and Suzanne Turpin; front; Bobette Allred, Valerie Krouth, Marli Mickel. Tomlinson said, and put them in my pocket to bring home to lowered the level of harassment of the kids, Tomlinson recalled. small businesses. The experience of having his Tomlinson described what it was like suggestions included in the proposed to be in a session with the president and budget told him that the system works, cabinet officials. He said, President he said. appointed as a delegate to the State Advisory Council on Small Business and will work with Tomlinson in that capacity. One other elected delegate will be on the council from this area. In other matters, the Chamber discussed the proposed plan to purchase a saddle for a drawing and to sponsor a ping pong ball promotion to Continued on page 3 regulations, Reagan is the kind of guy it is easy to talk to. Tomlinson asked that there be a corporate rate reduction of one percent per year over the next three years for small corporations so as to some extent equalize them with large corporations in the matter of taxes. Jelly beans n At the start of the meeting the jelly beans were handed around, and President Reagan took some and well-know- But, he said, Small businessmen need to make their opinions heard. He described the Utah Council of Small Business as strictly political. The organization takes polls, puts out publications, gathers opinions and develops positions from that material to let elected officials know how the small business persons in the state feel about certain issues. Local delegate Kerry Deuel of Mt. Pleasant EPHRAIM Snow College will have a Baccalaureate and a Commencement exercise honoring the 1982 graduating class. Commencement speaker will be College President J. Marvin Higbee, who has recently been appointed president of Utah Technical College in Provo and will be leaving Snow Snow College on June 1. Graduation will be at 10 a.m. Friday, May 28 in the Activity Center. Former struction, Sheril V. In- Hill, will address Keep representative Rep. Nielsen told of the reapportionment of the state and the problems which involve Sanpete County as a result. He warned mayors and commissioners of what would happen if Sanpete loses their State Representative. He said unless Sanpete voters stick together and vote unitedly for their representative they will lose their representation at the state level and probably will never get it back. Also attending the meeting were Newton Commissioners County Donaldson and Ned Madsen; Mayor Amoir Deuel, Mt. Pleasant; Mayor Ronald Ivory, Fountain Green; Elizabeth Jensen, Councilwoman from Gunnison; Natasha Madsen, Councilwoman from Manti; Mayor Eddie Cox, Fairview; Councilwoman Ida O. Donaldson, Moroni; Mayor John Ludvigson, Sterling; Councilman Jeff Hansen, Centerfield; and Mayor Wendell Hill, Fayette. set next Thursday the graduates at the annual Baccalaureate services to be held at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, May 27 also in the Activity Center. Hill was Dean of Instruction and Assistant to the President at Snow College from 1971980. While living in Ephraim, he also was director of the Sanpete Community 'Theatre. Prior to coming to Snow College he served as Campus Dean, Business and Technology Campus at Long Beach City College. Currently Dr. Hill is of sales of Forever Living Products, Inc. nt Snow College Dean of A county dog pound would need to be built for 60 dogs, according to Christensen, in the north end of the county. He suggested a 920 square foot building with 26 pens. The total cost would not exceed $8,000 which would be split on a per capita basis between the cities. Christensen stated the necessity of each city having a uniform dog ordinance for the convenience of the dog control officer. He said each city could donate existing equipment to the county facility. Christensen estimated the cost of a jointly owned dog facility would be approximately $5,500 per city for the first year, and $1,700 per city for the dog catchers salary. Dog license fees would remain with the individual city. Cities interested in participating in the county dog pounds need to budget for it now, since new budgets must be made up by June 15. MHS commencement has been Snow commencement scheduled May 28 both Not needed Ephraim Mayor Halbert Jensen said Ephraim already has a dog pound and a very effective dog control officer. The Manti pound was built for $1500 and contains six cages, with each cage holding two or three animals. The chain link fence, pound has a cement walls, and drains. A roof covers the pens. Businessmen told to get involved with Prepare h North Sanpete MT. PLEASANT School Board meets at 7 p.m. today (Thursday) in the board office. compliance For this reason, the Council went to Burrows and Smith for the rest of the money needed for the system. John Call explained the plans to improve the water system and to put in a chlorinating system. Leonard Syme said he remembered the chlorinating system used in Moroni about 60 years ago and said the city had a lot of problems with the chlorinating system not working when the power went off and on. Call described the service planned for the new Middle School. An eight-incloop will be put down the lane east of the school and around in back with a twelve School board meets tonite government Number Twenty Six inch lines are recommended as a minimum now, he said, "and so we dont recommend putting four inch lines in a new system. 1 Get politically involved was the advice given to some 30 Mt. Pleasant and Fairview Chamber of Commerce members at Tuesdays meeting by David L. Tomlinson, president of the Utah Council of Small Business. Tomlinson, president, chief executive officer and owner of Amwest, a hardware distribution firm with branches in 11 western states, said Small business people better be in politics or they will be out of business. He urged all to become involved and said the system works if approached in the right way. Tomlinson, from Bountiful, is a candidate for the Utah House of Representatives in District 44. He recounted his experience's in Washington, D.C. as a part of the National Unity Council and said that body was successful in getting two bills passed which will help the small business person. Bills passed One bill was to require a report by the president to Congress every year on the state of small businesses in the United States. Tomlinson said a statistical data base will be established in gathering this information and the administration will be aware of the state of small business. The other bill is the equal access to justice bill which says that if the government sues a business to force them into compliance with regulation and it is later proved that the government had no basis for doing so, the government will pay all the legal costs of the businessman to defend himself. This bill has raised the level of Sanpete County water bonds lOoOOO MT. PLEASANT MT. PLEASAN- T- of Price JO Fridays graduation Also listed for board approval are a music program, early kindergarten admittance, personnel, coal bids, budget approval and revision, policy approval and summer board meeting schedule. Voice Sheril V. Iiill MANTI Manti High School Commencement exercises will be held Thursday, May 27 at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium according to Principal Ivan Rowley. Addressing the seniors will be Ben Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee J. Anderson who was named valedictorian as he has the highest grade point average for the class. Other seniors making addresses in the traditional services will be Lori Cox and Pamela Bean. Both have identical grade point averages. Miss Cox, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ronnie Cox, was the schools Sterling Scholar in social science. She plans to attend Utah State University on a scholarship. Miss Bean is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Scott Bean and transferred to Manti High School from American Fork High School last fall when her family moved to Manti. Miss Bean plans to attend Brigham Young University on a scholarship. Mr. Anderson was the school s He plans to Sterling Scholar in science. a attend Snow College next year on scholarship. Other Manti seniors will also participate in the program. Graduation exercises will be on May preceded by the senior program and auditorium in the 25 at 8 p.m. School followed by the Manti High Alumni Assn, banquet on May 29. Alumni president Rodney Cox has extended an invitation to members of the graduating class to join in the alumni association and to participate in its activities, |