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Show Page 2 The Manti Messenger, Thursday, April 8, 1982 Editorials, Opinions Trivia POOR HARRV AIN1! BEENIfiE same SINCE THE MINE WENT ON HAlMlME . . . by Mu E.Call ijSUiils Letters lette-- s to the Editor Rules: We encourage our readers to express their opinions in our Letters to the Editor forum. Published letters must meet the following criteria: 1. Letters submitted to this paper ex- -. dusively. 2- - Not libelous or slanderous. 3. Limited to 500 words (We will edit letters to meet this requirement if necessary.) 4. Must be in good taste. 3- - Limit of one letter per month per per-son. Winner of 3rd place in national competition for "Most Humorous Column" 1981. -- Just rambling Greetings from To the Editor: IThanks very much for sending the paper each week. It keeps us in touch with our adopted home town, which, by the way, we miss very much. Good people live in Manti and we do enjoy the news. Recent issues have been going to our mission headquarters and they are not forwarded to us, but kept there until we get about four copies once a month at our zone meeting. Please send to our address. We are enjoying our work here in Wisconsin. It is a beautiful state since spring has opened up. Lots of dairy cows, good farms and rolling hills. Also considerable industry in this part of the state. Best wishes to our friends in Manti. Ira and Geneva Stevens 1 202 Vi South Main Lake Mills. WI. 53551 From seeds. Seeds of velvet leaf can remain good for more than 50 years. Velvet leaf poses a real threat to corn silage production in Sanpete County. This plant can grow and produce seed under a heavy canopy. Thus it does well in corn fields. Velvet leaf is the number one weed in corn and soybean t. fields of the The County Commission has placed these two new weeds on the noxious weed list for Sanpete County. They are asking farmers and ranchers to become familiar with these two weeds and destroy them when they are found. Chemicals that will control these two These weeds are dicamba and 2,4-sprays need to be applied when the plants are small for good kill. Plants of these two weeds are being abandoned found around turkey evidence is that the seeds There ranges. are coming in with feed. Early detection and identification are essential in order to avoid large infestation. The Sanpete County Weed Board is asking everyone to eliminate buffalo bur and velvet leaf when found. The worst possible approach is to ignore them and hope someone else will control them. the desk of mid-wes- your County Agent by Thomas A. Reeve Two new noxious weeds emerge New noxious weed species are always finding their way into Utah. In 1980 two new ones were found in Sanpete (abutilon theophrasti). Velvet leaf is an annual and the leaves are velvety to touch. The plant grows erect and can County that can become a threat to reach heights of five to six feet. Its large heart shaped leaves have a crop production. The first one is buffalo bur (solanum tapering apex and a palmate ' Notices of Yields and Acreage Bases rostratum). Buffalo bur is described as vernations pattern. Velvetstrong leaf looks a were mailed March 19 to producers of an annual with stems one to two feet little like sun flower. Flowers have five wheat andor feed grains in Sanpete high and covered with stout yellow yellow petals and numerous fused County. Acreage bases have been set as spines. The leaves are irregularly lobed, stamens that form a tube. One large a result of plantings of wheat and feed and it looks a little like puncture vines plant may produce 8,000 to 10,000 leaves. The stalks, midribs, and lateral grains reported to the ASCS office for the 1980 and 1981 crop years. veins have stout spines which are sharp , Farmers who have acreage bases and and pointed. The flowers are yellow and produced participate , in the reduced acreage on prickly stalks; the densely, prickly, program will be eligible for government price support loans and target price sepals enclose the fruit which gives it a bur-lik- e and that the proposed landfill tobkxlejlin payments) (deficiency by Pat Mellor protection appearance. The only place . d the reV by : Mr. falter "3; the 'Chester grain reserve, accordyou can pick it up and hold it without of Nielson R. id The the is the issue concernin Lynn ing Sanpete by reapportionment your hand, getting spines Banning, and the Telecom franchise roots. You need good gloves to handle ing school boards does not appear to be a proposed for the Moroni area were both County ASCS office. To be eligible to receive program still under study by his office. buffalo bur. major cause for concern in Sanpete benefits feed grain producers must Each plant can produce many burs County. Clerk Wayne Beck observed reduce their acreage planted to barley, Fire payments approved with several seeds per bur. It is following the Tuesday meeting of the In the fire at Water Hollow north of corn, oats andor grain sorghum by at estimated each plant can produce over Sanpete County Commission. Mr. Beck least 10 percent from the established 5,000 seeds. As the plant grows, the said that the apportionment will stand as Fountain Green last summer, four fire base for the farm. Two bases will be set: burs will mature at the base of the plant it is for the present in Sanpete until a departments were summoned to battle one will include corn and sorghum and and the seeds will grow. When found, legal decision is reached in the courts, the other will include barley and oats. plants should be removed from the but that only one precinct in North field and destroyed. Participants in the wheat acreage Sanpete is expected to be affected by a decision reduction program must reduce their is velvet leaf, The second one anyway. Another precinct in acreage planted for harvest by at least 15 Ephraim, Beck said, appeared to have by Bruce Jennings been thrown off by the inclusion of four Will the Gooseberry-Narrow- s percent from the established acreage project OUTSTANDING VALUES Snow College dormitories in the census. base for the farm. a project that is supposed to deliver ' in area businesses are adverThe sign up for Intention to We would prefer to make reap- Gooseberry Creek water to Fairview, in an Participate will continue to April 16 at tised in Second Section. Be Mt. Pleasant, Spring City, Ephraim and portionment changes the ASCS Office in Manti. If you sign the year, because we will probably Manti for industrial and municipal use sure to check it carefully behave to alter some voting district lines Intention and then change your mind a project that has been for most of its fore you shop. about staying in the program, you may too, and it would simplify matters to do it 58 years of the subject of controversy do so at the time you report your 1982 all at once, so we will just wait to see how and litigation between Carbon and the court decides on the issue regarding Sanpete counties crop plantings. will the Even if you do not have an acreage the school boards, Mr. Beck explained. Gooseberry-Narrow- s project soon come Land developers base, you should still report your grain of age? planting as soon as it is completed this That depends upon two developRepresentatives of Blackhawk Mountain Estates approached the commission , ments. If the Utah Messenger-- E spring. This information will be used to Supreme Court with a proposal to reduce the size of lots set your base for 1983. upholds a ruling by Sixth District Judge in the subdivision. The developers Allen Sorensen that Sanpete County requested the approval directly from the claim to Gooseberry Creek water is valid County Commission after a meeting then the last legal hurdle on the way to March 30 with the Sanpete County' construction of the project will have Planning Commission. The County been cleared. Commission, however, refused to Carbon County water interests have circumvent the process of planning appealed Judge Sorensen's ruling on commission approval and referred the'' the grounds that Sanpete's claim to the developers back to the planning water had lapsed because of the long commission. delay in completing the project. USPS 328-40- 0 DWR land purchase A second development also looks Don Christensen of the Division of favorable to the early construction of the T Wildlife Resources advised the commisPublished every Thursday at Manti, Utah. Entered in the Post project. The Utah Board of Bonding sion that the Division had purchased 300 Commissioners has authorized the sale t Office at Manti, Utah 84642, as second-clas- s matter under the acres of land east of Sterling from Avard of $14 million worth of bonds for the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Ottosen. "aconstruction of water projects. ' The county commission has accepted One of those projects is the Narrows Mailing Address: 35 S. Main, Manti, Utah 84642 the resignation of Rhea Stewart of Dam, which is sponsored by the Sanpete Milburn from the Sanpete County Water Conservancy District. The project Postmaster: Send address changes to Manti Messenger, 35 S. Planning Commission and the county consists of an earthen dam 1 15 feet high commission is interviewing prospective to from a reservoir that would impound Main, Manti, Utah 84642. 19,000 acre feet of water. appointees for the post. In other d action, the The reservoir would store winter and Rate: ; - Subscription commission approved the hiring of Ben spring flows from Gooseberry Creek in $10.00 Sanpete County (1 year) Jenkins. Mt. Pleasant, to construct two high in the Price River drainage. The (or save $3.00 on subscription for $27.00) signs, one for the Fountain Green area water would come into the Sanpete and one for Indianola, advising Valley via the already existing Fairview $12.00 outside Sanpete County (1 year) incoming persons that Sanpete County Tunnel. is zoned, and that building permits are save $3.00 on for The Gooseberry-Narrow- s $33.00) (or subscription project is 4 one of 14 that the Utah Division of Water required in the county. Weed Board Resources is designing. Paul L. Gillette, Editor & Publisher Max E. Call Two new members were appointed to assistant director of the division, says : Associate Editor Bruce Jennings the Sanpete County Weed Board: that the $14. million raised by the bond 1 Robert Jorgensen, Mt. Pleasant, and Circulation Manager Beth H. Call sale wont be enough for all 14 projects, Leo Gillespie, Milburn. so the ones designed and authorized Call E. Lloyd Advertising Manager A xtell bond election will be constructed first. first Salesman Joel Pratt Advertising The commission also passed a resoluBids for the $14 million in bonds will Writers : Staff Pat Mellor, Marion Lee, Eleanor Madsen tion approving a May 4, 1982 election for be opened on April 22 at 1 1 a.m. in the Randa Black, Hal Moffett the Axtell Special Services District. The Governor's Board Room of the State Bruce Jennings, Pat Mellor, election will decide whether the district ; Photographers Capitol. Blen Talbot, Lloyd Call t The $14 million in bonds will complete may issue $152,000 in bonds for the t Office Phone Number: 835-424- 1 improvement of the culinary water a $25 million bond Issue that was Deadline for ads, including Classified ads for Sanpete County authorized several years ago. The first system. Under study bonds In the authorization were sold in MONDAY NOON Messenger section Sanpete County Attorney Paul 1980. Deadline for regular paper TUESDAY NOON Frischknecht advised the commission, Construction could start on some of for intention newspaper's policy to ignore the terms, chairwoman, chairperson, etc. We figure the term chairman" means a female as well as a male. Reminds me of the story about the woman who had been named to head a division of state government. She refused to use the title "chairman" because it was masculine, chairperson" because it sounded silly, and "chairwoman" because it reminded her of "charwoman. When someone asked her small son what position his mother held, but the child said, "Shes a chair it's not the kind you sit on." Elaine Gray left a little thought for me a while back which seems to give us an out" when we make the Wisconsin Sign up now ... to participate inevitable mistakes which newspapers are bound to make. Her contribution: "If you find mistakes in this publication, please consider that they are there for a purpose. We publish something for everyone, and some people are always looking for mistakes!!" Thanks, Elaine. I couldnt have said it better myself. Cathis dad. Dean Bishop, who lives in Los Angeles, and is an avid reader of my column, (he has to be; hes just like family) sent me a rubics cube that he says even editors and school teachers (of which he is one), can solve. He says its for the slower generation. The cube he sent me is solid blue! ! ago I became restless as Beth went and irritated on and on with the local gossip. Finally I said, "Would you please stop your incessant chatter? Its driving me crazy. Your blah-bla- h keeps booming in my head even after you leave the room. I should have known better. I knew the minute I said it, that she would get the best of me in the interchange. Sure enough, back she came with: "Well, its elementary physics. Sounds echo in hollow spaces." Wont I ever learn? A few nights Its good to have Pat back on the after having her baby. She job again brings Brigham with her to work and we're all getting attached to the little tyke already. Yesterday she took the baby to school for her youngest daughter, Sara, to use for show and tell." I can understand the "show" part, but I wonder how much she said in the tell" part. Knowing Sara it could have been interesting. If you havent noticed its Not so trivial: Kindness goes a long way lots of times when it should ' stay home. this Reapportionment will not greatly affect Sanpete farm-owne- inadvertently set by. the seismograph exploration company the fire . working in the area. Moroni, Fountain Green, Spring City, and Fairview fire departments responded, and when the county was reimbursed for the costs of the fire suppression, it did not reimburse the cities, assuming that they were on the county fire contracts and that this standing contract would cover ' . ' such costs. ; r " But the three cities i whose area of responsibility in the county did not cover the Water Hollow area, which is in Fountain Greens district, requested that the funds remitted to the county be turned over to the fire departments who travelled out of their area for the fire. The commissioners agreed to remit the funds to the fire departments. Gooseberry -Narrows project a reality? Quality job Printing nterprise thi rvnANTTO KJgoogmqgq - land-relate- I the projects next summer, Mr. Gillette said. Sanpete County water users are hoping, of course, that the Gooseberry-Narrow- s project is one of them. The project would have several benefits for the Sanpete Valley, Reuel E. Christensen, Sanpete Water ConDistrict chairman, pointed out. servancy Although the water is designated for industrial and municipal uses, there is an urgent need for water for these purposes, Mr. Christensen said. And this would free water, now used for culinary purposes, for irrigation use. In addition, the water could be used c for the generation of in of the mouth Fairview power Canyon. And the reservoir, several miles east of Fairview, could be a major recreational facility. hydro-electri- Clubwomen of Year to be honored at convention The m spirit of friendliness, generosity to others and her willingness to serve the club. Her positions have included secretary, treas- urer, as serving on the parts of the nation. She committee has been a long-tim- e when the district met for member of the Literose their annual meeting in Club who selected her as Manti. their Clubwoman of the While club work has Year in 1982. been a single purpose in Louise B. Sampson is her life, she has been the Richfield Culture in the Manti Gubs nominee, a unaniinvolved Business Improvement mous decision for her Association where she outstanding work within served as one of the board the community. of directors and continues Married to Joe Sampson to help this organization in Ogden in 1968, the function. Church activities couple have four children. have involved her in A member of the Sunday School, the MIA, General Federation of Primary and Relief So- Womens Clubs for 54 ciety. years, has given Luella B. She is married to John Fournier a history of Major Domgaard and the achievement within the couple had twins. They Richfield Study Club. boast two granddaughThe Richfield Study ters. Club honored her recently Leonda Mann is the as their clubs selection as Elsinore Literary Club's Clubwomen of the Year. choice. Mrs. Mann is All five of these married to Philip and the distinguished women will couple have two children, be honored during the Deanne and Ronnie. They upcoming April are members of the First District Baptist Church of Rich- Convention being held in field. Manti beginning with Erccl Olsen is the registration at 8:30 a.m. honoree from Monroe. She is also well known In Do you know well GFWC-Sanpete-Sevi- District will honor Clubfive women as women of the Year from their district clubs during their annual convention set for April 17 in Manti. The Manti Ladies Literary Cub is hostessing this 49th annual event in their clubroom at Manti City Library. These carefully selected women are chosen because of their high ideals, their contributions to the club, community, to the Federation and as someone to emulate. the Manti Heading Ladies Literary Club as their symbol of volunteer-isis Mrs. J. Major Domgaard, a member for 42 years. While plagued with illness, she has still given totally of herself in a vice president, convention president, corresponding secretary and a director for the Marysvale, Fountain District. She has Green, Richfield and also worked on the social Annabella. Mr. and Mrs. Olsen committees, the Washington Tea program and have four children, all invitation committees as grown and living in varied 17GFWC-Sanpete-Sevi- the emergency number? S-23- 40 er |