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Show Committee members of the 22nd annual Deseret News-KSSterling Scholars of Central Utah program met recently at Snow College t(j finalize plans for judging of student nominees and to prepare for the 1995 awards program which will be held March 23 at North Sanpete High School in Mt. Pleasant (judging will be L March 21 in Centerfield. Committee members include from left: back, North Sanpete Principal Courtney Syme; Craig Mathie, South Sevier; George Richardson, Millard; Bert Christensen, Richfield; Linda Baugh, Millard; Ken Nielsen, Delta; and front, .Marty Johnstone, Wasatch Academy; Kevin Eppich, North SALT LAKE CIT- Y- Kim Bateman, MD, family practitioner at Sanpete Valley Hospital, has been named medical director for IHCs nine family practice hospitals in Utah and Wyoming. According to a recent press release. Dr. Bateman will work with medical staffs at seven Utah hospitals in Bear River, Delta, Fillmore, Garfield, Sanpete, Sevier,.,. and Wasatch couniies; and two Wyoming hospitals in Evanston and Star Valley. Although Dr. Bateman will e m continue his practice Sanpete County, he will now . part-tim- serve on the IHCs Rural Region team, management providing physician input on strategic planning, marketing and policy decisions. A graduate of the University of Utah School of Medicine, Dr. Bateman completed his residency in family practice at McKay-De- e Hospital. He has practiced in Sanpete County for 18 years. A part president of the Utah Medical Association, he currently serves on a technical advisory committee for the Utah Health Policy Commission and chairs the Council on Long-rang- e Planning i and Development of the American Medical Association. In 1992, Dr. Bateman was chosen Family Doctor of the Year by the American Academy of Family Practice and was featured as Person of the Week on ABC News. "The thing that excites me the most about this- - position is the ability to bring rural physicians together," Dr. Bateman said. He has initially identified three focuses: l)catalyze communication among rural physicians; 2)carry the rural medical perspec- tive to urban-oriente- d groups; and 3)serve as resource to rural physicians on new developments in credentialing, quality improvement, and consensus building. "The demands of rural practice and the distance involved have often precluded physicians at our family practice hospitals from interacting with each other and from participating in important committees, clinical studies and research efforts," said Mike Falck, vice president, IHC Rural Region. "Dr. Bateman will bridge that gap." help to Price open house scheduled Saturday; Fairview s mammoth replica at home FAIRVIEWPRICE Home at last! Last Wednesdays arrival of the Columbian mammoth replica to the Fairview Museum of History and Art is one of many milestones being observed by an ancient mammoth whose remains were discovered at the Hunting-to- n Reservoir Aug. 8, 1988 A "Goodbye Party" will be held Saturday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price to allow the public to view the actual mammoth bones before they are retired to an environmentally controlled facility on the CEU campus. As part of the CEU Museums agreement with the USDA Forest Service and under conditions of its accreditation, the real bones, which were not fossilized and were wet when they were found, must be placed in a humidified room and kept at a constant temperature to avoid decay. Tours of this room may be available by special arrangements during the summer months by calling the CEU Prehistoric Museum at 637-506A life-sizreplica, one of numerous replicas cast from the original bones, will remain on permanent display in the museums Hall of Archaeology on the CEU campus. 0. ed Two other specimens were shipped to Japan and additional casts have been sent to other places in the United States. The replica sent to Fairview, the town nearest to where the mammoth was unearthed, may be viewed from the outside the recently constructed Fairview Museum of History' and Art Annex where it will be on permanent display. The mammoth exhibit is not currently open to the public, however, it will be officially unveiled in July during Pioneer Day activities. The Columbian mammoth gained world wide attention following its discovery because of Number Nine Price $.50 MT. PLEASANT, UTAH 84647 - March 1, 1995 Volume 103 Sevier; Lorraine Wallace, Juab; Chairman Mark Anderson, Manti; Linda Miller, Gunnison; Natasha Madsen, Manti; Rodney Cox, Manti. Other committee members not pictured include: Jean Beatty, Larry Henrie, Dale Jensen, Betty Jo Western, and Mavanee Loftus. how complete the skeleton was and the record elevation at which it was found. Little did backhoe operator Chris Nielson of Nielson Construction Co., know that when he began repairing an earthen dam at Huntington Reservoir and struck the skull of a mammoth buried in thick mud seven years ago, he would unleash months of scientific discovery and contro- versy. The life-sizmammoth replica at the Fairview Museum was obtained through cooperation of various city and county officials and residents, volunteers and members of the Fairview Muse- um Corporation. Kim Bateman, MD, of Ephraim, has been named medical director for IHCs nine family practice hospitals in Utah and in Sanpete Wyoming. He will continue his practice part-tim- e County while serving on IHCs rural management team pnn g physician input on strategic planning, marketing and policy decisions. id-in- Neal Cox named as new LDS mission president EPHRAI- M- A Snow College vice president was among six men recently named as new mission presidents by the LDS Church. Neal LaVaun Cox, 47, and his wife, Carol Lynn Martin Cox, will begin their new assignment about Cox advised in a telephone interview Monday that he expected to leave for his new calling about July 1 and would request a leave of absence from the college. His specific assignment will be announced at a later date. A Manti native, Cox graduated from Snow College and received his bachelors degree from Utah State University. His masters degree and doctorate were earned at BYU. He served in the Northern Far East (Japanese speaking) LDS Mission; he also taught social studies at the LDS Church College in Western Samoa. Prior to coming to Snow College he taught seminary in Idaho, Wyoming, Murray and Woods Cross. His Church assignments have included: youth leader, coach, bishop, and state presidents counselor. Mrs. Cox, a native of Montpelier, ID, grew up in Preston, ID; she graduated from Ricks College and Utah State Universitmid-yea- r. y' Stan Mortensen, of the College of Eastern Utah Museum, is pictured here assembling the Columbian Mammoth specimen in the new addition to the Fairview Museum. The cast Pre-histor- ic arrived on Wednesday and took three days to finish. The mammoth may be viewed only from the outside at the present time. Her church duties have included officer and teacher in the Relief Society, Primary and Women organizations. Young They have six children Curtis and Chad, both students at Snow College; Mrs. Dale (Crystal) Howe of Centerville, who is studying nursing at Weber State College; Nathan, a junior at Manti High School; Jon, a sixth Ephraim Middle grader at School, and Kaytee, third grader at Ephraim Elementary School Ephraim man shot to death, homicide charges filed EPHRAI- M- One Ephraim man is dead and another has been charged with homicide following an alleged shooting Sunday, between 8 and 8:30 p.m. at 70 East 300 North here. According to a press release from Ephraim Police Chief Ron Rasmussen, Lucio Gonzalez Soto was pronounced dead at the scene; Jose Luis Rodriguiz was arrested and charged with murder, a first degree felony. Rodriguiz was booked into the Sanpete County Jail Feb. 26. He was being held on $25,000 bail Monday, according to a jail booking report. Another Ephraim man, Ruben Maldanado, is allegedly being held as a material witness, according to the Ephraim Police press release. |