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Show A' . t The Voice of Volume Ninety-On- MT. PLEASANT, UTAH 14647 e - Sanpete County Price 30 May 12, 1983 Number Nineteen UP&L wants in Power rates to climb if cities lose allocations MT. PLEASAN- T- Municipal municipalities, public corporations and electric power rates could increase from 76 and agencies to 309 percent if Utah Power & Light cooperatives that have their own is granted an allocation of some power systems. These are 200,000 kilowatts from the Colorado preference customers and there River Storage Project according to are 27 of these cities and electrical local officials who are concerned cooperatives in Utah. Among these that their cities may lose their preference customers in Sanpete allocations from CRSP. County are Ephraim, Fairview, Mt. Within the past few weeks, Utah Pleasant, and Spring City. None of the power is made Power & Light Co. has commenced two actions designed to lower the available to privately owned utilities companys Utah and Wyoming such as Utah Power & Light, who residential rates by obtaining low-co- contends that its residential customers have as much right to the federal hydro power. On April 15, UP&L filed an apbenefits of this cheap power plication with the Western Area generated at federal dams as do Power Administration, an arm of electricity users of the Department of Energy, to preference customers because taxes receive an allocation from the paid by customers of the company CRSP. helped pay for the projects. UP&L officials maintain that if an Sanpete towns affected At present, the power from CRSP allocation of some 200,000 kilowatts is made available by WAPA to were obtained from CRSP, UP&Ls st residential rates would be lowered by about $50 million annually. Allocations expire in 1989 The power in question includes about 1,500,000 kilowatts generated at Flaming Gorge and Glen Canyon. The power is fully allocated, but in 1989 those allocations expire. CRSP power was marketed in 1981-8- 2 for about eight mills per kilowatt hour. The thermal-base- d power that UP&L used costs in excess of 50 mills per kilowatt hour. Current projections for new thermal-based power are 70 mills plus per kilowatt hour. Although this appears to be a savings for UP&L customers, those preference customers now using the power generated by CRSP would stand to lose their inexpensive allocations of power and would see an appreciable rate increase, on page 2 Inauguration scheduled for Snows twelfth president EPHRAI- M- Dr. Steven R. politics and government for Bennion will formally take the helm national, professional and local as the twelfth president of Snow publications. College at inauguration activities Tuesday, May 17. Among the honored guests exIn last weeks edition of The pected are former presidents of Pyramid, the date for President Snow College, and their wives, Mr. Bennions inauguration was in- and Mrs. J. Marvin Higbee; Hazel correctly listed as May 12. The correct date is May 17. We regret any confusion this may have caused. Holms, wife of the late Floyd S. Holms; J. Elliot and Maxine Cameron; and James Nuttall. All inauguration events have been Doris planned by Larsen and Karen Bliss. The days activities will be open to the public without charge. two orchestras. will graduate from Manti High School this spring. She also performed a piano solo. May 7. Kathy Willmore was chosen first attendant and Sylvia Nibley, second Miss Nibley is the daughter of Nadine and the late Richard Nibley. She will graduate from Manti High School this month. She is a member Scholarship Pageant held Saturday, aVerdar. Mayor Halbert Jensen presented flowers to the queen and her at- tendants, and each girl received a $50 cash award from Ivan Howen-stei- n representing Commodore Home Systems. Each girl received a to Snow College for the 1983-8- 4 school years full tuition scholarship year. Other contestants received tuition scholarships to Snow. All girls were presented with silk one-four- Elder Neal A. Maxwell Dr. Steven R. Bennion SALT LAKE CITY Because of so many complications including the continuous movement of the Spanish Fork Canyon slide, the pumping of water out of Thistle Lake, and the placement of the overflow tunnel, of Tranthe Utah Department sportation has decided to delay no longer in getting a road started around Thistle Lake. Rep. Ray Nielsen- - D. Fairview UDOT Director Bill Hurley told him Monday that the State Highway Commission voted unanimously to move rapidly to build a bypass road. The engineering and surveying is being done now on a road which will come off near Diamond Fork northwest of the slide, go up and across the saddle behind Billies Mountain said The they feel represent the county. Deadline for entries is June 25, 1983. $50 will be given to the winner of the contest, he added, and the winning entry will be made into a flag which will be flown this year during the Sanpete County Fair and the Utah State Fair. Anyone needing further information can contact Reed Hatch at the Sanpete County Recorders office in Manti. and staying above the railroad all the way, joining present US6 above the point where the new rail line will take off. There will be no crossing of the railroad. It is hoped that the road can be kept under a four percent grade on either side. The road will be wide enough to have passing lanes so traffic will not be held up, Hurley said. C. V. Anderson, UDOT assistant director said the road may be only gravel for a while. It will add about two miles to US 89, coming off Highway 6 at the point it intersects the present US6 east of Thistle and joining present US89 south of where the end of the lake is now. The state has applied for $22.5 million to construct the six to eight miles of new road. Contracts will be let for both roads simultaneously in an effort to complete the project possibly by late summer. life-lon- Utah. 9 phony and the Utah Valley Youth Symphony. Her talent number was preformed on the cello. Miss Ephraim 1983 will represent Ephraim in local parades and activities and be eligible to compete in the Miss Utah Pageant in 1984. Contest planned to design new flag for Sanpete Revellers at 8 p.m., and Cambridge at 9 p.m. During intermission at 10 p.m. new studentbody officers will be installed. Elder Maxwell has held numerous positions with the LDS church serving as bishop of Salt Lake Citys University Sixth Ward; member of the general board of the Churchs youth organization, member of the Adult Correlation Committee; one of the first Regional Representatives of the Twelve; member of the Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy; Commissioner of Church the for Education Educational System; and Assistant to the Council of the Twelve. g educator He has been a and has held a variety of administrative and teaching positions with the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, including vice president of the University. He has also served as a legislative assistant to United States Senator Wallace F. Bennett of Elder Maxwell serves as a director of several business firms including the Mountain Fuel Supply Company, Deseret News, and Zions First National Bank and has been active in public service. He is a member of the Snow Board of Regents. He has written a number of books and authored many articles on of the Southern Utah Youth Sym- Bypass on US 89 to resume traffic studentbody, and alumni feature EPHRAIM Mary Ann Swan was crowned Miss Ephraim 1983 by Kim Dove, last years queen, at the for Sanpete County. petition. Miss Swan is the daughter of John Hatch pointed out that the county and Nell Swan. She is a 1983 presently does not have a flag to graduate of Oakley High School and represent them in various parades, has attended Ricks and Snow state functions and fairs. He asks that anyone wishing to College. She chose a jazz piano solo for her talent competition. participate in the contest send an Miss Willmore is the daughter of eight by ten drawing of their original David and Patricia Willmore. She design along with the colors which Saints will be the featured speaker. The ceremony will begin with a procession at 2:30 p.m. from the Noyes Building to the Activity adSnow Center. faculty, ministrators, instructors, members of the Institutional Council and of Board Regents, faculty emeritus, and dignitaries from other institutions of higher learning will be invited to participate. The inauguration under the direction of Arthur Nielsen, chairman of Snows institutional council, will begin at 3 p.m. with Elder Maxwell performing the investiture ceremony. Speeches will be given by President Bennion, Elder Maxwell, members of the will Mary Ann Swan is Miss Ephraim Reed Hatch, Sanpete and a single MANTI they carried County Fair Secretary announced a during the evening gown com- contest is underway to design a flag Latter-Da- y commissioners. A reception will be held at 7:30 by the fountain in the outdoor plaza area south of the Noyes Building. The inaugural ball in the old gym Willmore, second attendant Sylvia Nibley, and Miss Ephraim, Mary Ann Swan. Photo by Marvin Edwards. flower arrangements, silk carnation which Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Snow Royalty from the Miss Ephraim 1983 Scholarship Pageant are from left first attendant, Kathy Thistle Lake continues to grow as water flows into it from Spanish Fork River and Thistle Lake Fork and Soldier Creeks. Workers are looking I from the top of the newly formed dam south over the lake. j Nielsen quoted Hurley as saying that the final decision was made when it was decided that UDOT couldnt take a chance putting a road across the dam. The Corps of Engineers recommended pumping water out of the lake to relieve some of the pressure and barges were put on the lake at the south end early this week. Water will be pumped out through the diversion tunnel and into the bed of the Spanish Fork River. The lake was at a depth of 160 feet on Tuesday and rising from three to four feet per day according to one of the project engineers, who said it will be stabilized at a depth of from 190 to 195 ft. Thistle lake began to form when a hill to the west of the Billies Mountain started to slide on April 12 and blocked the canyon. |