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Show Home of: Watch carefully in future issues for a special The Mormon Miracle advertising offer! Pageant 1 998 Attendance, 94,800 VOLUME 112 NUMBER 52 50 CENTS MANTI, UTAH THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1998 Manti sweats out power outage Monday Power crews work for six hours to repair broken equipment By David Call According to Gene Rogers, power It's a moot point now, but Manti supervisor to Manti City, the outage saved residents were forced to endure a city- - more hassle than it caused, wide power outage Monday morning During routine line inspection and while crews made repairs to a 46 KV maintenance in January, Rogers noticed a cracked support arm on the metering rack power line feeding the city. at 2nd North and 5th West. The crew consisting of Rogers, Blake DeMill and d a splint that Cory Daniels, would hopefully hold together until new parts could arrive. If the splint didn't hold and the arm broke away, power crews would have a serious problem on their hands. The 46 kilovolt line from Utah Power & Light affects not only Manti City but Ephraim City pow er as well. Repairs can't be made on a "hot" 46 KV line and power would have to be shut off in both towns until power could be diverted to Ephraim. But Manti would be left out in the dark jury-rigge- in either case and power crews would be scrambling to find suitable replacement parts. And with that in mind, Rogers held his breath for six months until the parts arrived. And the splints did the trick. To minimize down time, power crew s from Ephraim worked alongside Manti crews. The cooperative effort saved precious time. "We were fighting the clock, but we tried to pick the best time for the outage," said Rogers, "we figured after the Pageant and before the Pioneer Day weekend - and since the Temple doesn't open on Monday - the day and time we picked were the best we could do." So while some Manti residents grumbled in the summer heat and business owners watched profits plummet in their darkened shops, they can all take comfort in the fact that the repairs went relatively quickly. appreciate the patience of the residents and the help of the Ephraim City crew," said Rogers. "Nobody was looking forward to it, but now it's over and we can all get back to our normal "We day-to-d- living." LDS Church organizes 5 new By Don LeFevre Continuing growth in membership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints has resulted in the organization of five new geographical administrative units, effective August 15, 1998. The First Presidency of the Church has announced that new units - know n as will be organized in South areas America, the Pacific, Africa, and the United States, bringing the total worldwide to 28. At the same time, new area presidency assignments were announced, also effective August 15. New areas South America West, resulting from a division of the South America North Area. The new area will be headquartered in Lima, Peru, while the North Area headquartered in Lima, Peru, while the North Area headquarters will remain in Quito, Ecuador. The existing Brazil Area will be divided. The resulting Brazil North Area will be based in Recife, and the Brazil South Area offices will be in Sao Paulo. - The Pacific Area will be divided, resulting in the Pacific Islands Area, based in Auckland, New Zealand, and the Zealand Area, with ofTices in Sydney, Australia. Meanwhile, Guam and Micronesia will be transferred from the jurisdiction of the former PhilippinesMicronesia Area -now the Philippines Area to the Pacific Islands Area. Africa will be divided into two areas. The Africa West Area w ill have headquarters in Accra, Ghana, the Africa w - Southeast areas Area will be based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Finally, the existing North America Northeast and North America Southeast areas will each give up portions to create the North America East Area. Offices for the North America Southeast Area w ill be established in Atlanta, Georgia, where those called to the area presidency will reside. The new area presidencies are comprised of members of the Churchs Quorums of the Seventy. Manti Youth City Council Report By Chris Johnson The Manti Youth City Council met on Monday, July 6 to discuss summer plans. Although many of its members will probably not be around until school starts, the council still plans to carry on with those who remain. Mr. Lowell Clark will be the councils new advisor. Mrs. Janice Cluff, was the former advi sor. Anyone who would like to contribute to the Manti Youth City Council is invited to attend the next meeting, which will be held at 5 p.m. on Monday, July 20th in the Manti City Building. New members are always welcome, as well as new ideas. Encore performance of Black Hawk War documentary will air Friday night By Monte Bona Power crews work to repair tapes first. The documentary, also produced by The documentary Utahs Black Hawk War: Cultures in Conflict, pro- - KBYU TV and the U.S. Forest Service, by the Sanpete County Heritage first aired on KBYU in April. The film Council, w ill be rebroadcast on KBYU explores the clashes that developed when two very different cultures -- Mormon set- Friday, July 17 at 8 p.m. broken metering rack Monday morning. Video cassette tapes of the feature also tiers and American Indians tried to live -be available soon and sent to those on the same land. It looks at the battles, photo courtesy Peterson Studios, Manti is out. South Sanpete School District came out with a B- -. Ranking at the top this year are Rich, Provo, Cache, Logan, Park City, Morgan and Piute school dis-- 1 tricts. San Juan, Daggett, Ogden and Tooele ranked, at the bottom of Utahs school districts, according to a report issued this week by the Utah Taxpayers Association. While some districts are peforming quite well, this study B- - raids and how the two groups learned to get along. The Sanpete County Heritage Coun-duce- d cil received funding for the film from the U.S. Forest Service, Brigham Young Uni-Tversity, the State Division of Museum Ser- vices, the Utah Council of the Humani-wi- ll ties and the Division of State History. V on state report card and Ogden, which received Ds. The Association study evaluated districts using two equally weighted measurements: overall performance in 1997 and performance relative to expected perforraises serious questions regarding an accountability measure for mance in 1997. While we recogthe effectiveness of other school Utahs schools. Since percentile nize that the SAT test scores are districts in Utah, commented Greg scores are not easily interpreted, but one measure of educational Fredde, Association Vice Presi- the Taxpayers Association gives quality, they provide important indent. letter grades in much the same way sights regarding areas in need of In the fall of 1997, all Utah as many Utah teachers grade their improvement, noted Wes Quinton, Utah Taxpayers research public school students in grades 5, students, Mr. Fredde said. 8 and 1 1 were given an achieveScoring highest in the state this analyst. ment test, the Stanford AchieveOverall performance: Stuyear were Rich and Provo, with ment Test (SAT), designed to mea- final grades of A- -, followed by dents in Utah generally outpersure student scholastic perfor- Cache, Logan, Park City, Morgan formed their national counterparts mance. This annual testing pro- and Piute, which received Bs. San on the SAT in 1997. However, stugram was initiated in 1 990, as man- Juan and Daggett were on the low dents in Utah are expected to score dated by the legislature, to provide end with D-- s, followed by Tooele higher because of the states low South Sanpete ranks slightly above average with standardized test scores This years annual report card pre-order- - South Sanpete earns of Utahs school districts who poverty level, low percentage of have a strong relationship to school single parent families, and a homo- outcomes such as achievement test geneous student population. Per- scores, the Office of Education formance on the tests varied notes. In order to calculate a greatly by district. Of the 40 school districts expected performance, districts, 18 reported fifth grade the Association used the lower end scores at or below the national of the minimum expected range. norm (50th percentile) and six School districts in this area, school districts reported scores at and the GPA and letter grade they or below the 50th percentile in all scored were: three grades. Millard 3.15; B The Wayne Expected performance: 3.00; B is SAT for scores South ............... expected range 2.65; B- Sanpete calculated by the State Office of Nebo 2.65; B- the Education, using 2.50; C percentage of Sevier students in each district obtaining Grand 2.15; C free lunch. The greater the percentJuab 1.85: C- 1.65: C- age of district students qualifying Emery for this program, the lower the ex- North Sanpete 1.50: D pected test range is. These data Carbon 1.30; D |