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Show On television Recycling Third graders from Castle Heights Price business turns garbage into profit. Page IB A Elementary School were on television last week. Page 3A T uesday May 16, 1989 98th Year No. 40 Price, Utah 35 Cents house the mammoth skeleton CEU will The College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum has been selected as the repository for a prehistoric mammoth elephant skeleton found last summer near Huntington Reservoir. In making the announcement Monday, George Morris, forest supervisor of the Manti-LaSNational Forest, said the decision is conditional upon the CEU museum becoming an accredited insti- al tution by 1992. CEU will provide proper housing for the bones and make them available for further scientific study byscientists. After reviewing several proposals, the Museum of Natural History in Salt Lake City was chosen to do the molding and to coordinate the production of the casts of the mammoth for other interested parties. This decision is based on the staffs great deal of experience producing molds and casts and their exciting educational proposal, Morris said. Hatch said the Forest Service will pay for and maintain ownership of the molds. This will help keep the cost of replicas down and help institutions fund the project. A completed It is the intention of the replica will probably cost Museum of Natural History to about $15,000 to $18,000, declare 1990 as the Year of Hatch said. Hatch said that although the Mammoth and to produce the a year-lon- g molding process will take display making several months, it should be public the molding and cast' ing process and the story of completed by the time the CEU museum, now undergothe life and times of the Pleistocene period. Last years ing renovation, is ready for the Year of the Dinosaur skeleton. attracted between 300,000 Many people have expressand 400,000 visitors. ed an interest in this signific, Forester Ira Hatch said the ant discovery and have proMuseum of Natural History vided help and advice to will help any institution assure that these bones are acquire a replica of the mamgiven the necessary care. Mormoth. He said the museum at ris said the Forest Service is Castle Dale and Fairview city, as well as CEU, have expressed interested in obtaining a replica. grateful for this help and wishes to thank all those who have contributed. Details on (Continued on Page 3A) Criminal trial for suspended sheriff scheduled for July 12 By LYNNDA Staff writer JOHNSON Suspended sheriff Barry R. Bryner will stand trial July 12 on two criminal charges. Brynerfor personally appeared arraignment in Seventh District Court on May 15 and entered not guilty pleas on two charges, class B misdemeanor driving under the influence of an intoxicant (DUD and third degree felony evasion. Judge Boyd Bunnell ordered the defendants pleas entered into the record and, allowing two days on the dis trict court calendar for completion of the proceeding, set the July trial date in the controversial case. Judge Bunnell allowed two days for the trial and set starting time for 9:30 a.m. Bryner was arrested Feb. 22 and charged with DUI and failure to respond to a police officers signal to stop after allegedly leading local law enforcement officers on a high speed chase. The incident originated in Helper and climaxed when the then acting sheriffs patrol car attempted to exit the freeway at an excessive rate of speed and careened off the highway into a field on south Carbon Avenue in Price. Bryner was transported to Castleview Hospital where he received emergency medical attention for minor injuries incurred in the accident. A blood sample was also drawn and forwarded to the state lab in Salt Lake City for analysis. Subsequent test results on the sample confirmed a level of .14. Pursuant to Utah state statute, an individual is considered to be legally intoxicated at .08. The suspended sheriff blood-alcoh- (Continued on Page 10A) Climb celebrates 60th anniversary of fathers ascent to Balanced Rock By LAYNE MILLER Staff writer locSixty years ago last Friday, a group of als climbed their way to the top of Helpers Balanced Rock. Last Friday, a son and a celedaughter of two of the original climbers of brated that day by climbing to the top the rock again. During 1929, and perhaps later, several famgroups made their way to the top of the of a total Felice to ous rock. According Rudy climb. the made eight people eventually Felice said they followed a trail that snakes its way up the treacherous cliff to the bottom of the rock. Once we were at the bottom Gordon (Richardson) threw a rope with a monkey wrench tied to the end of it, up and over the rock, then he secured it on the other side. He climbed up the rock to the top and helped the rest of U8 get up, Felice said. Some local people say one group climbed hand-over-han- d across the gap from the ledge to the top of the rock using a "plumbing pipe. Among the group who climbed the rock on May 12, 1929 were Gordon Richard son, his two brothers Frank and Chester, Ira Jackson and Rudy Felice. Last weeks climb was arranged by Franks son, Frank Richardson Jr. and Gordons daughter, Shirley Haycock. No one knows exactly how many people have climbed to the top of the rock, although several helicopters have landed on top. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Sun Advocate. Frank Jr. said in a phone interview the group hired a professional climber to help them get to the top to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the original climb. We have been planning this for years, Richardson said. We didnt think it was such a big deal but when we came down we found out that the junior high let the kids out of school so they could watch and there were people up and down Main Street and along the highway stopping to watch, he said. Richardson is currently in the process of writing about the experience for the Sun Advocate. The story and photos taken during the climb will be featured in next weeks paper. I ol Tough sport! This cowboy failed to last the full eight seconds on the back of his bronc. Hundreds of students participated in the high school rodeo over the weekend. See story on page 4A. (Photo by Layne Miller) Controversy boils around leisure services program By LYNNDA Staff writer area. JOHNSON The controversy surrounding recreational programs in the county is far from being resolved. Price City Mayor Art L. Martines, chairman of the board, called a special meeting of the Carbon County Leisure Services administrative panel on May 11 to address problems plaguing the agency. In addition to Mayor only three other board members, Commissioner Lynda Varner, Price Councilwo-ma- n Theressa Frandsen and Delvin McFarland of SODDA, attended the specially scheduled session. Leisure Services Director Marcia AhMu also attended the meeting. Although the number of representatives present was insufficient to form an official quorum, the group did discuss several pertinent issues which have surfaced in the ongoing debate over the provision of recreational programs in the Mar-tine- s, Among the topics discussed were the countys decrease in funding to leisure services, School District Superintendent Ell Sorensons response to the cut, Commissioner Varners suggestions for reorganizing the agencys current structure and the May 8 meeting of local elected officials called by Varner. On March 28, Commissioner Varner informed the leisure services board of directors of an intent on the part of county lawmakers to open the 1989 fiscal budget and decrease the agencys $54,000 annual allocation f an amount more in line with the areas population base. The commissioner tentatively estimated the figure In a public meeting on April 12, the Carbon County Board of Commissioners opened the budget and approved a $23 ,000 decrease in funding to leisure services. After the lawmakers decision came under fire at Thursdays board meeting, Commissioner Varner explained that recreation is not a mandated program and defended the decrease by saying, Im not talking out of my mind when I say we are going to be shorter of money this year than we have ever been. According to Varner, the county is facing an estimated $129,000 shortfall in a total budget of $5.2 million and cuts are necessary to decrease the pending deficit. at $23,500. Although the board memto bers the briefly referred to Supt. Responding announcement, Supt. SorenSorensons initial reaction to son advised Varner that, if the Varners declared intent to cut county were to make the proprevenues, the superintendent osed cut, the program would was not present to explain the be in jeopardy and the school school districts current posidistrict may be forced to re- tion on funding the recreation- evaluate its position on fund(Continued on Page 3A) ing leisure services. |