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Show ;r tt a 94th Year Price, Carbon County, Utah Friday, March No. 18 12 1, 1985 Pages Single Copy 25 it .f Deputies arrest man after crash Carbon County Sheriffs deputies arrested a Price man Tuesday on suspicion of DUI, having an open container in his vehicle and of driving left of the center line after an accident which resulted in injuries to a Helper woman. Johnny Lee Blackham, 31, Price, was placed under arrest after the 6:10 p.m. accident on the old Road near the West Car-bonvi- lle Husky. Deputies said Elizabeth W. 75, Helper, was the driver of the other vehicle involved in the accident. She was taken to Castleview Hospital for treatment of her injuries. The first deputy responding to the scene said Blackham had allegedly admitted that he had been drinking and had been driving the car. One of the three passengers in the Huff, a- car also told deputies Blackham had been driving. Deputies talked briefly to Mrs. Huff at the hospital. She reportedly told them she was . driving on the highway toward Price when she saw the other vehicle coming towards her. She told deputies when she saw the other vehicle she drove to the right side of the road to avoid the collision, but was still struck by the oncoming car. version corroborated by That was eye- witnesses. One, who said he 7 was driving his car immediately ahead of Mrs. Huffs, told deputies the other car appeared to be traveling at a high rate of speed. witness told had seen he deputies Blackhams car cross the Another center line and hit the Huff car. Deputies said the actual speed of the vehicles has not been determined. However they said the impact of ? the collision knocked the Huff vehicle off the road. The investigation into the accident is continuing. Damage to each of the vehicles was estimated at , $3,000. Deputies said Blackham was placed under arrest at 6:20 p.m. on suspicion of the three charges. He was transported to the sheriffs office later and refused to submit to a breath test. He was booked into the jail on the charges, but later released on bond. Home transfer set by co. commission By DALE EDWARDS Staff writer The Carbon County Commission took the necessary steps Wednesday to transfer control of the Carbon County Nursing Home to Western Care Consultants, Inc. The transfer became effective at midnight last night. In Wednesday mornings Carbon County Commission meeting County Clerk Norman Prichard reviewed the procedure followed in the transfer. An agreement to sell the home was approved in an earlier commission meeting. At that time Prichard said county employees were to punch out at midnight Feb. 28 and the new staff hired by Western Care were to punch in at the same time. The home was officially under control of that staff from that point on. Prichard said county employees will be paid for the last pay period in February and for any accrued vacation time that has not been used. Those checks will be available after noon Monday. (Continued on Page 3) Sheriff's Deputy Sgt. Dennis Blackburn (in car) inspects one of the cars involved in an accident Tuesday evening near the West Husky in Price as Price Police Officer Axelgard and an unidentified woman look on. A Helper resident injured in the accident and a Price was arrested on suspicion of DUI. accident is still under investigation. , , fliMbrH For Pioneer Park City mulls theater idea images of Carbon County. In the proposal, a suggestion n was to hire a to write to playwrite Price professional If the latest proposal based on the an of play original the from College City Cabon County area, utilizing Eastern . Utah comes to Butch Cassidy, one of the early new will a have Price fruition, mine disasters or the trials of entertainment facility and a settling the area. tourist attraction few communities in Utah possess. A second western theme In the city council meeting play, changed every season, such as Annie Get Your Wednesday evening, council members looked at a proposal Gun, could also be done to submitted to them by CEU add variety to the play President James Randolph schedule. The summer season would run about six weeks, the calling for the construction of an outdoor live theater in thereby adding to the proposal suggested. economy, the proposal said. Pioneer Park. The theater area could also The concept of the proposal be used a established council The during the summer for committee to begin in- is to develop, in Carbon other outdoor activities such vestigating the proposal as to County, ongoing summer, as Blue Grass concerts, fiddle theater productions contests, its feasibility, but the general clogging comand workshops and feeling during the meeting was and related activities. petitions For reasons that are all the like. favorable toward the idea. Several possible sites for together unclear, Wasatch The proposal even had such a theater project were Front residents look upon suggested sources of funding listed, but the Pioneer Park Carbon County as an area of for the project, both in the site was given top priority as the state that lacks culture and construction phase and in the the best site, utilizing the interest, the proposal stated. natural contour of the land to A high quality activity that production phase. Seating capacity800 was provide elevated seating and a could become an ongoing sketched and for about over a attraction may, period high control booth. over a constructed be could down break to of of the time, help A rough sketch park of showed the theater situated in some of the (false) historic period years. By CHUCK ZEHND.ER Managing editor the northwest corner of the park with the stage on the southeast comer of a fenced area, while seats were designated going up the hill to the northwest away from the stage. A control booth would top the hill in the extreme northwest comer. The proposal said there is a need for an activity in Carbon County that will have wide Such an audience appeal. activity, if successful, could attract thousands of people to Carbon County, out-ofar- . well-know- ea out-of-do- . |