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Show 8 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Friday, December 18, 1981 Here's your chance to be editor Pick the top 0 stories for 981 and you could win one of 5 prizes. We have listed 50 stories from 1981. You pick 1 0 and rank them 1 1 according to their newsworthiness. You could be a winner if your list is closest to ours. o o o O Energy and industrial development in Carbon County: tar sands development at Sunny side; Coastal States Energy Corp.s Skyline Mine; various coal leases entered into by federal, state and local governments; foreign coal contracts consummated between Utah companies and Asian interests; exto pansion of rail lines by Union Pacific of involvement coal handle exports; probable area coal mines in Intermountain Power Project 2. Fires temporarily shut down Price River Hard Scrabble Canyon mine Coal Co.s (January) and Soldier Creek Coal Co.s Soldier Canyon Mine ( December ) . 3. Carbon County spearheads an effort to reexamine the state property tax structure d vs. locally assessed relating to property. 4. Local government and industry officials solidify stands on coal severance tax; Utah Legislature takes no action in January. 5. Carbon County affected by statewide power outage lasting about four hours 1. (Januarv-December- ). state-assesse- (January). coal miners join fellow union nationwide coal strike members in a 6. Local 1st PRIZE $50 Gift Certificate 72-da- y, (April); contract calling for 37.5 percent wage increase over 40 months is ratified (January-June- ). State gives East Carbon City tentative approval to install less expensive Culligan water treatment system aimed at solving problems of impure water (January-Junecommercial development 8. Stepped-u- p occurs here, including establishment of City Market and other Creekview Shopping Center stores 9. Area women coal miners organize local chapter of Coal Employment Project, an advocacy organization (February). 10. Stomp Out Drug and Alcohol Abuse (SODAA) committee continues efforts; loses support as year progresses. d 11. Bishop William K. Weigand, bishop of the Salt I.ake City Catholic Diocese, visits local faithful (February). 12. Helper receives $850,000 block grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (February) for revitalization of the downtown area; planning progresses throughout the year. 13. U.S. Army schedules Pershing II missile tests at Green River, Utah, Launch Complex for fall of 1982 (March). 14. Betty Jane Billington, pleads guilty to September 1980 slaying of a Columbia woman; she is sentenced (February) to zero to five years in the Utah State Prison. 15. Price Mayor Walter T. Axelgard is appointed chairman of the Utah State Industrial Commission (March); Councilman H. Mark Hanson is appointed his successor June);' Theressa Frandsen becomes the citys first council woman (June) filling the resulting vacancy. 16. Local area begins to feel consequences of federal and state austerity (March). 17. Fourth District Court rules against Carbon County in feud with Sanpete County over water in Gooseberry Reservoir (March). Case is appealed. 18. Separate traffic accidents in the area claim the lives of eight people (March-MaDecember). 19. A Carbonville youth, 16, is arrested and charged with the stabbing death of his older brother, Joey John Sanchez, 20, at a Carbonville residence; his attorney asks that he be tried as an adult ( March ) . 20. Employee of Brown and Root Construction Co. is victimized by a bombing at his home and later a shooting in Price (April), labor dispute is thought to be the motive. 21. Jim and Julie Hunt, Green River, are found dead at their home following an apparent murder-suicid- e (April).' 22. United Way comes to southeastern Utah (May). 23. Carbon County school district experiences a 25 percent faculty turnover voted (May). Voters defeat a proposed leeway to raise salaries (November). 24. Voters defeat a proposed bond issue to fund a 1.5 million expansion to Carbon County Jail (June). 25. City hall employee problems raise ire of East Carbon City Councilmen (June). 7. ). (January-December- 2nd PRIZE $40 Gift Certificate ). newly-installe- 3rd PRIZE $30 Gift Certificate i 4th PRIZE $20 Gift Certificate y, 5th PRIZE $10 Gift Certificate ill i t I i Contest entrants must live in Carbon or Emery Counties or be subscribers and must not be professionally involved with news gathering or reporting. Sun Advocate employees and their immediate families are ineligible to enter. 1. Ballots should be completed by selecting the 10 top news stories from the 2. i list provided and writing their corresponding numbers on the 10 blanks in descending order of importance. The spaces provided for name, age, address and telephone number should be filled in and the ballot should be sealed in an envelope. 3. Entries must be sent to Top 10 Stories, Sun Advocate, P.O. Box X, Price, Utah 84501, and postmarked no later than Dec. 23, 1981, or brought to either of the Sun Advocate Offices at 76 W. Main, Price, or 123 S. Main, Helper, no later than 5:30 p.m. on that date. In the event of a tie, the entry received first will be declared the winner. If they were received at the same time, a random selection will decide the winner. 4. The committees ranking will be determined and sealed in an envelope prior to the contest deadline. No contest entry will be opened until after the deadline, at which time, all ballots will be 26. One killed, four injured in an accident at Utah Power & Iughts Hunter 3 power plant construction site ( June ) 27. Sherleen Jaussi, a Price student pilot, is injured in an airplane crash in Colorado and survives four days in the wilderness (June-July. ). Carbon County formulates and passes major part of a comprehensive new zoning ordinance; objections come from mine operators and Spring Glen residents (June). 29. Separate mine accidents claim the lives of three workers; one at Soldier Creek and two ai Valley Camp. 30. Price River Coal Co. unveils a $40 million improvement project in Crandall Canyon north of Helper ( July ) . 31. Ed Burnham, Carbon County television translator technician, quits during a dispute with the county clerk; Frank Brady is hired as his replacement (July). 32. Price City Police Officer Clarence Christensen is arrested for and pleads guilty to the theft of $220 from Sunset Sports Center in Price; he is sentenced to 12 months in the Carbon County Jail 33. Five die in miscellaneous events of unusual circumstances: Kathleen Joy Lane, 31, Wellington, drowns while trying to rescue her son from Price River near Farnum Dam (July); Med Norton, 15, Wellington, is struck by lightening while riding a motorcycle in the foothills near Wellington (August); Clifford Delono Freeze, 21, and his brother, Carl, 17, both of Salt Lake City, are asphyxiated by a charcoal stove in the family cabin east of Castle Gate (October); Bobby Newbold, 14, Carbonville, dies while sniffing fumes from a degreasing agent (October) ; David Harrison, 13, East Carbon, dies while playing with a handgun which discharges (November). 34. Price Care Center is closed after voters reject a proposed $1,175 million bond issue which would have funded the purchase of the center by Carbon County 35. Utah Energy Office leads a study aimed at establishment of a nuclear center in Green River 36. Three men killed in two separate airplane crashes in Carbon County (June-July- ). 37. Following setbacks caused by the Federal Highway Administration, construction resumes on Price bypass 28. (July-Septembe- (July-September- ). (July-Decembe- r). (August-December- ). Carbon County sets property tax allowed the by state law levy, highest (August). 39. District 22, United Mine Workers of America, begins construction of a new office complex in Price (August). 40. Helper turns 100 years old; parade and celebration (September) are held. 41. Wellington City Council seeks to change citys image and revamps its planning and zoning ordinances ( September ) . 42. College of Eastern Utah unveils plans for mine training facility costing up to $4.98 million (October). 43. Carbon High Schools Lisa Larsen wins third consecutive state 3A cross country championship (October). 44. Carbon High football team gains state absence (Ocplayoff berth after tober). 45. Incumbents unseated in county-wid- e municipal elections; Art Lee Martines upsets Price Mayor H. Mark Hanson (November). 46. Price City Police Chief Art Poloni announces early retirement, effective Jan. 31, as a result of city council pressure; about 750 citizens sign petition of protest (November). 47. Comments made by Price Mayor H. Mark Hanson and City Councilman Amel Denison excite protests from citizens; a crowd of more than 200 attends a turbulent council meeting to shout protest about this andor the Poloni matter (November). 48. Don Larsen succeeds John Harris as Castleview Hospital administrator; outlines open-dopolicy ( N ovember ) . 49. District 22, United Mine Workers of America, elect leaders (December). 50. Utah House reaportionment bill puts Helper and Price in separate legislative districts and splits Emery County three ways. Governor Scott M. Matheson lets bill become law without his signature (December). 38. 16-m- ill 17-ye- ar or ENTRY FORM ! 5. checked against the Name Age. Address committees ranking. Phone City The committee will base its selections on established principles of newswor6. thiness: proximity, timeliness, iminterest and immediate as well portance, as long-terimpact. 1 6. 2 7. m 7. The committees ranking and the contest winners will be announced in the Sun Advocate issue of Jan. 6, 1982. 8. The decision of the judging committee will be final. t I 3 4.. - 8. 9. |