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Show ,.e Voice of Sanpete County Volume Ninety-fou- Number Fifteen r CIB hope to natural MT. PLEASANT Hopes for a Mt. Pleasant had applied to the CIB for $34,000 of the $45,000 needed for the study. But the set back will not deter other companies from seeking to connect to a gas line on existing natural gas line serviced by Central Utah Gas Company were dashed last week when Mt. Pleasant City lost its attempt to secure funds for a natural gas feasibility study, but two other companies are still actively per- suing a natural gas line here. According to Mt. Pleasant Mayor Amoir Deuel, a loan from the Community Impact Board was denied on the basis that large companies were better suited for' such a study. Central Utah Gas Company has signed a joint venture with Mt. Pleasant to bring the gas into Sanpete County. Mt. Pleasant was to pay 76 percent of the cost for the feasibility study and the Central Utah Gas Company 24 percent. Chamber to meet Tuesday MT. PLEASAN- T- The Chamber Commerce will meet next Tuesday night, April 15 at 7 p.m. in the Blue Room at City Hall and will approve of a new executive director. Under the new Chamber reorganization, a board of directors was appointed to make'proposals for the executive director position. of Through the reorganization, an executive director will head the chamber instead of a president. He will be appointed by the board and will choose people to assist him. Other committees will be made to meet the needs of the Chamber and the city. There is a lot of enthusiasm in the new reorganization with some new ideas to benefit all members of the Chamber and the community, said Laura Beck, secretary of the board Other board members include Mont Wheeler, chairman; Bruce Worth Larsen, Dirk Smith and er Allred. Board members were selected to represent retail, professional, and manufacturing businesses facilities of Mountain Fuel Resources, Inc. near Indianola. In a news release, Natural Gas Corporation of Utah announced that a public hearing has been set with the Utah Public Service Commission to distribute gas to portions of Sanpete, Sevier, Piute, Garfield, Juab, Millard, Beaver, Iron and Washington Counties. Gene E. Foulke, president of Natural Gas Corporation of Utah said public hearings will begin at 10 a.m. May 19, 1986 in the Heber M. Wells State Office Building in Salt Lake City. Natural Gas Corporation had earlier filed an application for a certificate of convenience and necessity to construct and operate a pipeline and distribution system. Construction of Phase I of the new system which will serve Sanpete, Juab and Sevier counties is planned to commence this summer, with completion in time to provide gas for the fall heating season. Cost for the Phase I facilities have been placed at about $19 million. The line will follow Highway 89 from Indianola with branch lines to serve communities along the route. Foulke states that Natural Gas Corporation of Utah is beginning franchise discussions with each of the towns and cities with franchise conditioned upon approval of the project the Public Service by Commission. have received numerous expressions of support from city officials and community leaders who are anxious to have the many advantages of natural gas fuel available to their cities, said Our feasibility studies Foulke. confirm all aspects of this project. The time is ripe to bring natural gas to central and southwestern Utah. Also viewing for the pipeline is Mountain Fuel Supply Co., a subWe sidiary of headquartered Questar Corp. in Salt Lake City. That company faces a May 1 deadline to apply to the Utah Public Service Commission for permission to expand its service into southern Utah, a company spokesman reported. Mountain Fuel is also considering e the pipeline from Indianola to St. George. Since the public service commission will grant only one application Mountain Fuel Supply and Natural Gas Corporation will be in direct competition for approval of the certificate of convenience and necessity. But before Mountain Fuel files its application with the PSC it must be 246-mil- met with commissioners last week to damand that the county hardsurface the road which has been degenerating the past few years. About 20 Milburn residents Milburn residents ask county to repair road sure the counties within the proposed pipeline are willing to support the venture. Mountain Fuel conducted surveys in January to natural gas update demand records within the five southern counties according to LaVon Cox, spokesman for Questar Corp., Mountain Fuels parent company. In many cities there has been no change, but some larger cities need natural gas to enhance their position to attract industry, he said. Interviews will be held in Richfield, Cedar City and St. George this week to see if the interest is really there, but no interviews are planned in Sanpete, he said. Cox said Mountain Fuel could not justify expanding its service into those areas on its own and, might y association of rely on the governments, which includes Sanpete, to establish a special-servic- e district to build the pipeline. A rough estimate of the cost for such a pipeline would be between $35 and $40 million, Cox said. Cox said new legislation gives service districts an opportunity to finance a line and cited an example at Snowbird and Alta where a service district was formed to build a natural gas pipeline following the propane explosion there last year. The pipeline was then leased back to Mountain Fuel. The company is interested, Cox said, but what it comes down to is if the cities would be interested in putting in the line. five-count- ' A delegate of about 20 MANTI residents from the northeastern community of Milburn presented a petition to the Sanpete County commissioners April 1 demanding action be taken to improve conditions of the Milburn road. The petition was signed by about who use the road 70 people Regularly. Snow removal and em- ployee inefficiency were also aired by the residents. Randy Brunger, group spokesman, stressed that residents wanted the road hardsurfaced and not just graveled. Commissioner Newton Donaldson admitted the county had neglected the Milburn road because of all the bridge repairs needed in the past few years, but that the county would repair the road. He said the county cannot relay the entire road with a new hot mix but would do what they could. If it were necessary to lay a gravel base on :wJr one-lan- stay away because the slide is still moving. Wet conditions intensified slide in activity last weekend. Christensen said that next month UDOT plans to let bids to permanently repair the road by removing the slide area and capping the underground springs. Commissioner Donaldson also said the county would try to put the Milburn Road back on the Federal Secondary Road System and in a few years the federal government would pay 90 percent of its maintenance. The county would have to pay for engineering costs plus 10 percent of the maintenance fee. The residents were told they had not been able to obtain the hot mix from the state last year to repair the road, even though they were challenged by one resident who said he had been able to obtain state hot Residents also complained that the county roads were being inspected by as many as four employees at a time in one truck which was costing the county more than necessary when one employee could inspect the road adequately. Commissioner Donaldson agreed with the residents that a recent tour of the road revealed it is a mess. Commissioners also reported that even though the county had budgeted $700,000 for roads, $286,000 of that budget was being used to cover a government shortfall that had never been received by the county. They also reported the county rock crusher was being moved to Mt. Pleasant to be closer to roads needing gravel eliminating costly travel expenses from the county grave pits. In other business the commissioners heard from Don Anderson of Valley Builders regarding a punch list of items needing combefore pleting on the courthouse-iai- l Hospital plans health fair Saturday MT. PLEASAN- T- Sanpete Valley Hospital, with KUTV Channel Two and Chevron, Inc. are sponsoring a health fair Saturday, April 12 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the North Sanpete High School. professionals from the Valley Hospital and elsewhere in Sanpete County will r about $200 worth offer the of medical screening. Beside the screening, individuals will have an opportunity to learn about keeping Health Sanpete their body healthy and in good shape. optional Blood Chemistry Test available for a small fee. Participants of any age are welcome to attend. More than a dozen exciting learning centers will be available for participants to try, test, taste, and practice health skills. Screening of the participants will include blood pressure testing, Blood Chemistry The will be available for a fee of $10. This test requires a fast of four hours and will screen for such diseases as fair-goe- vision screening, and height and and foot weight measurements, screening. There will also be an thyroid deficiency, heart disease, liver disease, and kidney disease. For an additional $5 the participant can have the 24 channel test plus a Coronary Risk Profile which measures the cholesterol and fatty acids in their blood, and ac the contract warranty runs out May 31. Kay Jensen, Public Health Nurse, updated county health programs including a sexual abuse prevention program, Youre In Charge being presented to North Sanpete schools, and classes on maturation and first aid. She. also reported tentative plans for a crisis hotline to prevent teenage suicides. There have been two active cases of TB and four cases of whooping cough but they were in the same family. She also assured commissioners there had cording to a history given by the participant, computes a risk profile for them. There is a fasting requirement for those who wish to have this combination. Fasting means going without food or drink, with the exception of water, black coffee or tea. Participants should take their medications. Diabetics should not fast. For the fasting participant, there will be juice and a snack available so that everyone can stay and enjoy the entire health fair. been no alert on the availability of DPT vaccine. Other business included approval of cleaning a cattle guard in Log Canyon; approval of beer license for the old Harris Market, Chester, and temporary approval of amended plot sizes for Big Hollow Subdivision north of Fountain Green. Sheriff Anderson Kennard reported his two new jailers are ready for jailers school and the commissioners signed the fire contract with all Sanpete cities and towns except Mt. Pleasant. Spring City council fills vacancies badly damaged roads, the overlay would be laid at the same time so residents would not be stuck with a gravel road, he said. mix. This section of the Fairview Canyon Road near about four miles from Fairview is open although an active e traffic. UDOT slide has reduced the road to Maintenance Supervisor Ross Christensen, Richfield, advises anyone who does not need to travel the road to petition signed by about 70 people who use the road each day was presented to the commission by Randy Brunger, spokeman for the group. A by Betty Robbins SPRING CITY Jean Nielson and Thurlin Thompson have been named to the city council to finish the terms of Ed Sutliff and Michael Lee Sorensen who resigned last month. The council made the decision Wednesday, April 2, after officially accepting the resignations. Thompson was nominated by Councilman Jack Tice and Mrs. Nielson was nominated by Councilman Dennis Watson. She will replace Sutliff and Thompson will replace Sorensen. He likes hunting and fishing. In his now works with wood spare time he to build many items among them beautiful wildlife sculptures. A member of the LDS Church he has served as activity chairman in the High Priest Quorum for the past two years in the First Ward. He has served as ward clerk prior to moving to Spring City. Councilman George Kenzy suggested that the council call a special election so that the majority of citizens could have a voice in selecting the new members. However, Councilman Tice read from the state code that it was the responsibility of the council to fill vacancies within 30 days. resident Jean Nielson, a of Spring City, is a graduate of North Sanpete High School and attended Snow College prior to marrying Dan Nielson of Ephraim. Jean is employed by the North Sanpete School District as a sublife-lon- g I i stitute bus driver, is historian for the county DUP and a member of the Canal Creek Camp of the DUP. She is currently community recreation director for Spring City in affiliation with Snow Colleges Community Recreation program. She has served as state camp director for the Utah-Idah- o Farmers Union and is a past officer of the PTA. She has been all of her actively involved in 4-- life. Mrs. Nielson is an active member of the LDS Church and is currently a teacher in the Relief Society and Cub Scout secretary in the Spring City Second Ward. She has also served as primary president, secretary to the Sunday School, music director and as a counselor in the MIA while in college. Thurlin Thompson was bom and raised in Spring City. He and his wife, the late Lucille Larsen, lived in Chester from 1936 to 1971 when they returned to Spring City. Thompson retired in 1981. He had been employed by Brigham Young University as a carpenter for 15 years prior to retirement. From 1951 to 1967 he worked on the BYU campus in the construction of various facilities. 1 Jean Nielson |