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Show - D, Provo, Utah Page 3 Santaquin Overspends Budget; Looks at School Sites By STEVE HARDLE Herald Correspondent SANTAQUI New informa Jone: said4 m Jones ars since 1982 When asked f t aim by Joye Shell ndrequeste rom Meacharr build a surplus $31,000 was obtained froT 1980-81 budget This past year, another $20,000 was used from the general fund to balance the 1980-81 budget. An earlier city council had designated $10,000 of the gereral fund to be reserved as a swimming pool fund However, since the current budgetcalls for using another $1 1,000 of the $14,000 remaining in the general fund. the swimming pool fund will be diminished The general fund which had $122,000 in 1979 will have $3,000in because we will the people In other council business Omar Hansen, administrative as sistant to the superintendent for Nebo Schoo! District. gave an up- two other sites arenorth of the city li The district will be working with the planning and zoning safety-relate Rex Olson r tion into the city proposals for council approval be consulted about obtaining ownersh a 56 f w called for on the plan Thecity council agreed to af prove the annexation meeting if all necessary highway between the old and the freeway The plans for school commission in submitting final is so old and the cos rchas: ing additional land adjacent to the school is too high, the district has abandoned plans of remodel ing and adding onto the existing school As an alternative a citizen's Bob Meacham recently purchased Meacham’s Trailer Court from his father. He ap: peared before the council andre: quested additional time to make necessary improvements to br ing the trailer court into com pliance with the city code date on district expansion Because the elementary school t nended purchasing a 25-acresite and using one end for a new elementary An ning f mprovements and expe completion ouraged Meacham centrate on fire, healt south Meachamexplained that to do all necessary improvements The m tabled until the city attorney wrecked cars S property. cai were worked out Salaries for city € were approved by the cil. All salaries were this vear increased Postmaster Says Osmonds Claim It Cost Them ‘Junk’ Mail Isn’t Junk The Osmond family believes newspaper reports stating the Freedom Festival received no percentage from the Osmond-Walkersell-out fireworks showimplied an Osmondrip-off, according to Osmond Entertainment Public Relations Director Ron Clark “The Osmond family actually went into the nole $10,000 for the performance.” says Clark. “The family is very public-minded, they wantedto stage a good patriotic show and they are hurtreportsimplied they were ripping off Provo City at the expense of the Freedom Festival.” Clark says earnings from the ticket sales are $140,000, but production costs were $128,000. leaving $12,000 to be split between the Osmonds and Tommy Walker, co-producer of the show Clark adds that the Osmonds re-invested the money they received into additional equipment, fireworks and a helicopter to make the show even better for their fans. Clark also says the Osmonds and Walker donated the show to KSLtobetelevised as a public service The fireworks show was sold to the Los Angeles television station KTTV, but Clark says the money received from that television sale was used to buy additional fireworks set off during the commercial breaks. Osmond Entertainment could not give an exact figure on how muchthe show wassold for, and KTTV in Los Angeles said the amount is not public informa tion. Very few people realize the importanceof third class, or advertising mail, and the contributionsit rates, says acting postmaster Stephen L. Johnson So many myths have been generated about it that the average person believesit is not only “‘junk,”’ but “All the bills aren't in yet,” says Clark, ‘But it that it is subsidized by both taxpayers and by rates looks like Osmond Entertainment wentinto the hole charged other classes of mail. Both of these beliefs are false. about $10,000 to stage and televise the show.” Few people know, for example,that thelegislation Clark says the Herald storystating the Freedom which created the U. S. Postal Service 10 years ago Festival would notreceive a percentage of Osmond- requires that rates charged everyregular class of Walker ticket sales was misleading becauseit im- mail must cover the cost of handling it, and also plied the Omonds were making a profit from the makea contribution to the fixed costs of running the Postal Service show Regular third-class bulk mail is no exception — by “The Osmondslive here,’’ says Clark. “‘They want law, it must be charged rates that will assurethatit to be good citizens. If the ticket sales would have pays its own way while covering a share of the inbeen $12 to $17 they could have madelots of money. Stitutional costs of the Postal Service Its lower rates compared to First-Class Mail are But they wanted to keep the ticket prices lowso peodue mainlyto the lower service priority third-class ple could afford to attend the performance.” mail gets comparedto other mail. It is processed and Clark also says the panoramashavelost money in delivered after First-Class Mail anddoesnot receive the past, and this year the Freedom Festival did not the cost-free forwarding services outsideof the local have to underwrite the fireworks display delivery area available with First-Class Mostthird-class mail is presorted and brought to Clark says no percentagesofticket sales could be thepostoffice bythe mailer, eliminating muchof the given to the Freedom Festival because no profits collection, processing, and retail (stampsales) serwererealized from the production. vices performed for First-Class Mail Forall these reasonsit is less costly for the Postal Provoofficials earlier said becauseofless than an- Service to handle, and its lowercosts arereflected in ticipated attendance at the Freedom Festival air lower rates. The averageperpiececostto the Postal showand becausethe city was getting no percentage Service to handle third-class mailis less than half the of ticket sales from the Osmondproduction. they per piece cost of First-Class letter mail were losing money on this year’s festival Regularthird-class mail, then, is not subsidized by any other class of mail, and it receives no subsidy “That implied we were staging a rip-off,” says from taxpayers. And far from being “junk,” regular Clark. “‘We simply didn't make any money on the rate third-class mail makes a significant Soatribuevent.” tion to our economy OUPa EALaake An agreement was signed with The cars Community Consultants, who will read city water meters at a tion ordinance requires anyone requesting annexation into the city to provide two shares of Counci Tom McCloud an: nounc pen burning will be allowed within city limits Sunshine per meter pment allows the Mine tc purchase culinary water from Santaquin where it will be trucked 35 miles southwest of town to the mine water for every acre annexed This agreement will allow the without a special fire permit that can be obtained from Fire Chief resident to continue using the water while the city has Jim Peterson This restriction will continue through the sum mer months Four Hurt on Nebo Loop Road makes to the economy and the stability of postal By DAWN TRACY Staff Writer om the city’s e city ordinances Save-a-Dollar and Carolyn's Country Corner were both franted beer licenses A new ag ni will allow residents to rent water rights owned by the city The annexa »wnership Though Spectacular WasSellout, investigator pany said that y negligence and that it is not liable to pay fed by ge Finchfive NEPHI Mrs. Chief then over Four people Mrs. Chiet and her were hospitalized follow- corrected and ran off the three passengers were ing a one-car accident toad on the opposite side taken to Juab County which occurred five of the two-lane highway. miles east of Nephi on the The 1973 Pontiac thenslid Nebo Loop road over the sideways into the Salt weekend Creek bridge abutment According to Utah Sammie into the bridge Highway Patrol Trooper broadsid Scott Duncan, MaryAnne The vehicle then flipChief, 30, Moroni, was ped over the bridge abuieastbound on the canyon ment and fell approxroad when she took a imately 15 feet into the curve at too high a rate of creek water below, coming to rest on its side speed Hospital by ambulance. 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