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Show r Rams rule History found Helper Junior High beat Mont Harmon again to remain un- search of the site of Joe Walker's shooting death locates his 'last shot.' Page 2B defeated in the league. Page A 10A J V. 0 0 T uesday October 27, 1987 To form a tourist 96th Year Price, Utah No. 86 35 cents attraction Museums band together for funding Plans are moving ahead to secure a grant for funding four area museums, Thelma Jones, tacular scenic and recreational executive director of the Carbon County Chamber of Commerce, said recently. Jones recently informed the Price city council of plans being worked on to create a funding program to enhance the museums in Price, Helper and Castle Dale and begin a fourth in Green River. Plans for the immediate future would call for expansion of the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in the Price Municipal Building, the Western Mining and Railroad -Museum in the old Railroad Hotel in Helper and the Emery Museum of Natural History in Castle Dale. Green River History Museum would begin with the funding from the Community Impact Board. She said many artifacts dealing with the Green River and the Colorado River have .already been secured and people from eastern Emery County and Grand County have indicated a desire to help the community develop a history museum there. Carbon and Emery counties are endowed with paleon- tological and archeological resources which are world renowned. We also have a unique cultural and historic experience to preserve and display. All this is set amid spec opportunities. By working together as a region to develop and promote these resources, we can create an attraction with enough diversification and uniqueness to bring in many tourist dollars, while at the same time providing educational and scientific opportunities for local schools and the public, Jones said. She said such a complex of good local museums emphasizing different areas of study would make the Carbon-Emer- y area a destination point for tourists. It is being proposed to develop a natural science and history corridor which will be worthy of state and national attention. This is to be achieved by expanding and enhancing the local museums, dinosaur quarries and archeological sites within our region. With the broad base of museums which already exists, we can provide a diverse array of sites and attractions. This diversity will encourage visitors to stay here for more than one day and thus spend more of their tourist she dollars in our locality, added. Jones compared the final museum complex with the climate at St. George and the Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City in being known throughout the intermountain region and having an ability to draw people to the area. It is envisioned that many national and international institutions will be involved as we increase in stature and exJones said in a pertise, statement. prepared Universities can be involved in digs, displays and student field work. It is anticipated that the College of Eastern Utah will figure prominently in these activities and benefit ac- cordingly. Hopefully we can even attract traveling exhibits from such entities as the National Geographic Society- - and Institution. These have already indicated an interest in our endeavors, she added. Jones suggested such a complex of museums and dinosaur quarries (Cleveland-Lloy- d Quarry and Long Walk Quarry, both in Emery County) would be coordinated through an advisory board which would help pool resources, talents and pursue funding sources. Jones asked Price City to become the funding agency with the Community Impact Board. She said a request would be made for more than $1 million in funding to begin work on the project. I think you should be commended for your work on this, Councilman Chuck Davis told Jones. Its innovative ideas like this that will get us off square one. "Al" the allosaurus at the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum may be moved to a new Hall of Dinosaurs if funding plans for four area museums are successful. Plans call for a single grant for the museums in Carbon and Emery counties. Helper museum has biggest summer ever HELPER The Western Mining and Railroad Museum has closed for the season following a fantastic summer during which more than 7,500 visitors came from all over the world, Carolyn Birch and told members of the Helper city council at their meeting Margaret Garavaglia Thursday. Birch, assistant director, and Garavaglia, volunteer coordinator, have operated the museum with the help of 38 volunteers from Helper and Spring Glen. Birch said from March to October visitors from foreign countries numbered 92 from Canada, 86 from Germany, including a retired professor of geology and a man who as a youth had worked as a forced laborer in the coal mines of Germany under the Nazis, 62 28 from from Switzerland, France and 43 from Hong Kong. Most came individually and as families but the 43 from Hong Kong were part of a tour and came by bus, Birch said. There were representatives from all parts of the United Registrants sought for lighting contest Cash prizes are being offered again this holiday season the second consecutive year for outside Christmas lighting. There are two categories in for residential entries, Coun-cilwom- an Theressa Frandsen said. They are Christmas and religious. fantasy Frandsen said cash prizes for first place in each category will be $100. The commercial entries will all be lumped together with a plaque going to first place. All that is necessary is to maintain a Christmas theme, she said. Entry deadline is Dec. 4. Entries should be mailed to Price Municipal Building, P.O. Box 893, Price, Utah 84501 and include name, address and category. Judging will be done between Dec. 13 and Dec. 19, she said. Kingdom, Belgium, Israel, Holland, Greece, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, the Scandinavian countries, Japan, China, Mexico and one family of five from Brazil. She said an Italian was so delighted to meet another Italian Gus Pollastro, one of that the volunteer guides after leaving, he wrote Pollastro a letter that contained a passage in Italian. To translate, Pollastro went home to get the Italian English dictionary used by his father. Pollastros father many years ago taught English to Italian immigrants, she said. Glenna Pollastro, Pollastros wife and also a guide, said the man told her husband he was surprised to find Italians in Helper. Her comment was, He doesn't know Helper very well. Birch said that a delightful older gentleman from Britain flew to Salt Lake City and then toured Utah alone by bicycle. His wife refused to fly. His bicycle was 50 years old, Birch said. Beginning with the southern Utah parks, he moved on to Carbon County where he spent three days, including one full day in Helper. He was particularly interested in mining history because his father had been a British coal miner. The Garavaglia said, museum will put Helper on the map. It is important and can effects. have She said that when she was far-reachi- seeking support for the museum someone asked, What ax do have to grind? have no ax, she said. My major interest is and always you I has been the building up of Helper so that we do not have to board it up and move away. Both women said they got a delighted reaction from tourists when they handed out black jelly beans as coal candy. Other times they gave small pieces of coal which met with interest. (Continued on Page 2A) For sex discrimination Seeks action against Elks By CHUCK ZEHNDER Managing editor Brian M. Barnard, attorney for the Utah Legal Clinic in Salt Lake City, notified County Attorney Nick Sampinos on Friday and Price City Attorney Bryce Bryner (through former City Attorney Luke Pappas) that he would like them to pursue a criminal complaint against the local Elks Lodge. Sampinos responded to had already Barnards letter on Monday with a letter telling Barnard the county attorneys office would not institute criminal actions against the local lodge. In a letter last week, Barnard said he was representing several women who are concerned about the continuing gender discrimination as to membership practiced by the Elks Club in Utah. As you are aware the Elks Club of Price (1550) operates a private liquor club which sells beer and hard liquor in your community, Barnard said in a letter to the two local lawyers. The Elks Club refuses to allow women to be members. However, women are allowed to patronize the establishment and spend money there, he added. Barnard has asked Sampinos and Bryner to pursue a complaint against the local lodge on the basis of a state civil rights law which he claims defines a business establishment which sells beer as a public nuisance if it discriminates on the basis of gender. Barnard further said in the letter Utah law empowers the city attorney and the county attorney, each, to institute an action for injunction in the name I of your governmental entity to abate this public nuisance. Please consider this letter a formal request to each of your offices to: (A) institute criminal action against the Elks Club of Price, and (B) institute a civil action for the abatement of this public nuisance against the Elks Club of Price, his letter concluded. Barnard also placed the Elks Club in some unsavory company. I would also note that these legislative enactments would put the Elks Club, as a public nuisance, in the same statutory category as... houses of prostitution and pornographic movie houses, he wrote. Sampinos told Barnard in his letter that there are no facts before me that would justify commencement of a criminal (Continued on Page ISA) |