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Show Sample Copy THE MANTI MESSENGER TfDDE (USPS No 3284 0000) published weekly for $12 00 per year (In Counlyl ond $14 00 per year (Outside Sanpete County by 35 S Inc Messenger Enterprise Mam Monti Utah 84642 2nd class postage paid at Mcinti U'ah POSTMASTER Send address changes to The Monti Messenger is Home of the Mormon Miracle Pageant 35 S Mam Vofum 100 Number 20 MANTI, UTAH 04642, THURSDAY, 30 NOVEMBER 28, 1985 Monti Phone pr copy 84642 LJtnt 8J5 424 New Manti Temple President named President Wilbur W. Cox is released BYPATMELLOR later as superintendent of the Alpine The Manti Temple welcomed a new Temple president and malron on Sunday when Alma P. Burton and his wife, Clea Rich Morgan Burton, were installed in those res- He has served the LDS Church in a variety of positions, including missionary, stake high councilor, stake president, member of the General pective positions during special ceremonies held in the Manti Temple. President Gordon B. Hinckley of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints presided. Dr. Burton, 72, was called by the succeed First to Presidency President Wilbur W. Cox, who has served as president of the Manti Temple since 1978. Since the Temples this summer. President Cox has served without counselors. Counselors for President Burton will be Wilbur P. and Leonard Manti, Lund, Schtappi, Richfield. Mr. Lund is a Manti native and a former executive for Sweet Candy Company of Salt Lake City. He has been assisting as a supervisor as a supervisor since the reopening of the Manti Temple. Mr. Schlappi served at the Manti Temple prior to its closing for renovation and has been a night supervisor since its a retired Brigham Young University teacher and administrator and until his calling as Temple President resided jn Orem, Utah. He served as Dean of Admissions and Records at BYU and also as a professor of Church History and Doctrine. Dr. Burton is also a former Assistant Administrator of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion for the entire LDS Church Educational System. President Burton is President Burton is a native of Nephi, Utah and a graduate of Utah He earned his State University. masters' degree from Brigham Young University and a doctorate in education from the University of Utah. his career. President Early Burton was a high school teacher, then served as executive secretary of the Utah State Extension Service and in School District. Board of Young Men, member of the Priesthood Home Teaching Committee, and director of the LDS in Center Visitors Church Independence, Missouri. He is the author of several church books. Mrs. Burton is a native of Liberty, Idaho. She holds a degree in child from Utah State development University and has taught at Utah State University and in the public school system in Coalville, Utah. She has taken graduate courses at both Utah State University and Brigham Young University. Mrs. Burton has two books with her husband and has served in a number of LDS positions, including Slake primary ordinance Temple president. Relief ward Society worker, presidency and teacher, and codirector of the Independence Visitors Center. State Patriarch President Temple Outgoing Wilbur W. Cox has since last spring held two positions, that of Manti Temple President and also that of Patriarch of the Snow College Stake. He will continue to serve in the position of Stake Patriarch. Cox is a Manti native and attended Snow College in Ephraim. He earned a degree in electrical from the engineering University of Colorado. He served several years in the U.S. Navy, retiring with the rank of lieutenant commander, and later was president and general manager of a New England life insurance company. President President Cox has served the LDS Church as a stake president in Boston and as Massachusetts, Manti the Stake Utah of president until his calling as Temple President in 1978. He also served as a mission president in California and as chairman of the executive committee of the Mormon Miracle Pageant. President Cox was set apart a Manti Temple President by the lak LDS Church President Spencer W Kimball on Sunday, July 30, 1978 in ceremonies at the Salt Lake Temple His wife, Leonora Bench Cov, was born in Fairview, Utah. She has been active as a leader and teacher in a number of LDS organizations as well as an unfailing support to her husband in his various callings. President and Mrs. Cox wc married in the Manti LDS Temp'c and are the parents of three married daughters. During President Coxs term as Temple President, the Manti LDS a underwent major Temple restoration and renovation effort that began in 1980 and culminated in of the Temple in the June 198S. Cox is alone President for many of the responsible decisions which have been made which resulted in the saving of thi building's original pioneer architecobserved ture, inside and out, Lee R Manti Stake President Barton. dont believe we can ever fully appreciate how much work President Cox has put into ho 1 calling. Increase use Wilbur Lund, the new first counselor in the Temple Presidency, said Monday that the presidency is hoping for increased local use of the Temple. "I would estimate that we are running at about 50 percent of our stated. Mr. Lund capacity," in 200 see cars the parking "People lot and a couple of buses and figure we are cowded in the Temple sessions. Actually, we can handle many more people than we hae at most sessions, and quite rapidly. closed for Temple restoration, we would have large daytime sessions and few people at night for the evening sessions. That Before the New Manti Temple President Alma P, Burton and Temple Motron Clea Rich Morgan Burton. Standing: Counselor Wilbur P. Lund ond his wife Pearl (left), Counselor Leonard Schlappi and his wife Carol. trend seems to have reversed itself, and we are getting more Temple patrons in the eventng sessions and fewer during the day. The number of vehicles and buses one might see on a Saturday morning is deceptive, also. Most Saturdass, we could handle many more people at the Temple." Mr. Lund said President Burton had stated that his experience wiih this type of Temple is limned. "He hasn't come here with any preconceived notions about how to do things. I believe he plans to study the operation and carefully assess the We all changes he will make the this and thai Temple recognize Salt Lake Temple are unique within the Church, and are special in their situations." vi ? State will appeal ICC railroad ruling BY PAT MELI.OR The State of Utah will appeal an Interstate Commerce Commission ruling which says that Utah will have to pay the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad $1.3 million for the Marysvale Branch. Ruth Ann Storey, an assistant to Governor Norman Bangerter, said the states attorneys believe they have found a miscalculation which accounts for the SI. 3 million figure handed down by the ICC in the ruling presented last month which allows the D&.RG to abandon the Marysvale Branch. Earlier, the state had set some funds aside for the purchase of the line if its abandonment were approved, calculaiing that Utah could purchase the line for about $621,000. Slate officials were siunncd when the final decision set the sale price for the line at $1.3 million. The sale price figure has been appealed to the U.S. Circuit Court in Washington, D.C., according to Mrs. Storey. The branch extends approximately 130 miles, primarily and Sevier through Sanpete Counties, ending at Marysvale. It has been closed since the April 1983 mudslide which wiped out the line through Thistle in Utah County. The Denver and Rio Grande restored rail service eastward from Thistle through the more lucrative coal 3hanksghing Have a GOOD day! fields in the Price area and reconnecting with Denver rail service, but elected not to take any action on the Marysvale Branch, which served a number of industries in Sanpete and Sevier Counties. According to the Denver and Rio Grande, restoration of the Marysvale Line would have cost $15 million and was financially impractical from the standpoint of potential profits compared to the restoration costs. icr Industry in Sanpete and Counties has been in a decline once the loss of rail service. Sanpete and Sevier counties estimated a low of $100,000 per year in tax revenues alone since the rail service shut down. At the urging of Sanpete and v v 1 - gv t agencies and government the Stale businesses, private challenged the railroad companys to abandon the line, request that restoration costs claiming would only run between five and seven million dollars, not the DARG But estimate of $15 million. administrative law judge Paul Cross Sevier f 2 ) "n approved the abandonment request, while with the sympathizing devastated counties economically victimized by the rail loss. The full Interstate Commerce Commission listened to the State of Utahs appeal, but confirmed the original abandonment decision. At this time, the ICC also set the fair sale price of $1.3 million if the state wanted to the line. Earlier, the purchase (Continued on Page 8) New Manti City Councilman to be named soon Selection of a new Manti City councilman to fill the remainder of the unexpired term of Councilman Kent Larsen will probably take place on December 4 at the regular City Council meeting, city officials decided last Wednesday. The council had hoped to receive from the Manti suggestions Democrat party of a replacement for Mr. Larsen, who resigned earlier this month. But local Democratic Party chairman A. William Peterson said had not early last week that he still been able to contact all of the local voting district chairmen for their input regarding a replacement. Mayor Bob Bessey said at an earlier meeting that the Democrats would be asked for their input regarding a replacement on the council, since Mr. Larsen was a Democrat, and by tradition the replacement for a resigning member of the council is chosen from the same political party. Mr. Peterson said the Democrats were anxious to select possibly two or three names from which the council might choose a "replacement, since Democrat council members are a dying breed in Manti. The final decision on the of Larsens appointment replacement will rest with the City Council. Mr. Peterson said he definitely planned to have all the voting district chairmen contacted and suggestions turned in to the council by the next regular meeting on December 4. Councilman Lee J. Anderson advised the council that he would donate a live Christmas tree from his tree farm to be planted on the public library lawn and used in the coming years as the annual community Christmas tree, and said he also planned to provide the replacement trees for the city cemetery. Just when the city council thought had covered every eventuality regarding sewer fees, a mobile home owner told the council he is planning to move his residence off his Manti City lot, and asked if he would still be charged a monthly sewer fee if no building were left on the lot. The discussed this newest council development, and determined that the lot would be considered vacant and no monthly charge would be made once the lot is vacated. The same provision will apply if old it buildings on lots are razed and removed. With the advent of cold weather and slick streets, delineator posts need to be placed over culvert crossings at several points in the city so motorists will know where the sides of the culvert are before they wind up in the creek, councilman Galen Christiansen observed. The council agreed that delineator posts would be placed at several spots. The small business building on the same block as the old city hall has now been repaired and is complete, and the city will begin collecting rent from the business occupying the structure, councilman Lionel King stated. Councilwoman Natasha Madsen (Continued on Page 8) |