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Show ,ti '1)tn''iy)Tfr i Deadlines: Friday, September 6, 1985 News: Thursday 10:00 A.M. Vernal, Utah 84078 93rd Year No. 72 Advertising: Thursday 2:00 P.M. Phone 789-351- 1 c 12 Pages Single copy 000 pyft A ordinance that prohibits the sale of beer on Sunday will meet public scrutiny during next Novembers municipal election. The over ordinance is being questioned by Leonard Heeney, Vernal City Council and Mayor Sam Snyder who requested that discussion of the ordinance be placed on Wednesdays council meeting agenda. g Uintah County is one of three other counties in Utah that do not sell beer on Sunday. Neighboring counties, in Colorado and Duchesne, sell beer on Sunday. It is amazing the amount of beer sales that goes to other counties on Sunday," said Mayor Snyder, who supports changing the ordinance on a trial basis to determine if there will be an increase in sales tax revenue. Councilman Leonard Heeney, tended that the ordinance is con- People who want to drink beer to get it By not making it convenient, we are putting them on the highway to travel to another county to buy it " are going Not selling beer on Sunday enand courages larger purchases DU drinking while driving, Heeney tended Roosevelt City officer at the time of the change. The purpose for the prohibition of You have a responsibility to beer sales on Sunday was questioned represent all Vernal residents, not several times with no convincing just the LDS," Harding said answer. Most thrust to change the ordinance is coming from retailers because of the I dont understand the purpose of inconvenience to customers. Since it is the ordinance., even Salt Lake City not practical to take the beer out of allows beer sales on Sunday, said their coolers on Sunday, most retailers beer Vernal John Harding, face the problem of telling their distributor. Especially when you can go to a restaurant on Sunday and customers that they cannot sell beer can buy hard liquor (mini bottle) to on Sunday. drink with your meal. Councilman Jack Seitz also recomOther members of the city council mended that the issue be put on the ballot were not as valiant to see the ordinance changed. In all the time Ive been on the Councilman Greg Hawkins said he council (five years), I have never had no problem with allowing the had a beer drinker request opening Sunday to beer sales, Seitz said sale of beer on Sunday, but he recommended that it be placed on the next The council instructed City city election to get a feel for public Manager Kenneth Bassett to draft sentiment on the issue. the wording of the proposed ordinance change for the November The ordinance change would only ballot, and the council would make affect packaged beer and would not any changes and approve the worallow the Sunday opening of bars. ding at the next council meeting Even after the election the Chief Robert T. Downard, Vernal City, said that when Roosevelt City council will still have to made a decichanged their ordinance to allow sion on whether to change the orSunday beer sales there was no dinance. The ordinance is actually a noticeable increase in alcohol-relate- d county ordinance with which the city arrests on Sunday. has gone along con- Pipelines near completion, to be operational next year Construction on two pipelines being built for Chevron will be complete by the end of the month, construction Manager L E. Johnson said Thursday The over $40 million project, which began early this spring, will place a carbon dioxide carbon steel phosphate pipeline and a slurry pipeline from the Rock Springs, Wyo. area to the Vernal Chevron Phosphate operation at h Brush Creek north of Vernal and to the Rangely oil field The carbon dioxide pipeline will carry pressurized gas from a meternear Rock Springs ing station through Clay Basin, Browns Park and to Diamond Mountain where it slips off to Jensen and parallels the highway to Dinosaur, Colo, and to the Rangely Oil Field. It will carry what I call soda pop tfrom IMIod Sometime in November Uintah County residents will be faced with voting on a $335 million supplemental repayment contract needed to complete the Central Utah Project The Vernal and Jensen units of the CUP, in Uintah County, are already completed but the largest of the four units, the Bonneville Unit, is 10 to 15 years from completion The majority of the supplemental repayment schedule will be used to complete the quality C02 to the field to enhance oil production, Johnson said Chevron will purchase the C02 from an Exxon plant 50 miles north of Rock Springs. Exxon will transport the C02 to the metering station near Rock Springs The phosphate slurry line will transport polverized phosphate mixed 60 percent with water The line Continued on page 2 Bonneville and Upalcn units. Don Christiansen, Central Utah Water Conservancy District manager, said Wednesday at a Vernal Chamber Power and Water Resources Committee meeting that the supplemental repayment schedule was approved by the Secretary of Interior had approved the supplemental repayment contract. However, federal legislation pre vents any new construction until there is an election to approve the supcontract." plemental repayment Christiansen said The Central Utah District board would have liked to have the election m conjunction with municipal election in November, but laws forbid the mingling of the two The CUWCD will meet Sept. 12. to officially set the date for the election which Christiansen projects will be in November reported in The V'ernal Highway patrol office has received results back from the state on blood tests taken at the scenes of two fatal accidents during the latter part of August. Tests showed that the driver of a motorcycle, Warren H. Hales, 47, was not driving under the influence at the time of his death. PAVING BEGINS along 100 North at Vernal Ave. as Staker Paving is on the job Thursday to overlaying road base prepared by Esco Construction of Vernal. Delays and environmental costs are blamed for the increase in cost to complete the project which was $440 million in 1965. The CUWCD, covers 12 counties, only has to repay the cost of municipal and industrial water agriculture development, water development is paid by the federal government The passage of the repayment schedule will not increase taxes The CUWCD is tied by law to 2 Haleswas killed Aug. 22 when he was struck by a vehicle traveling south on State Road 191 Investigation by the Utah Highway Patrol indicates that Hales sustained massive head injuries in the accident. accidents State test results on Arick Cotonus. 32. showed that he had a blood alcohol count of 1 2 percent Cotonus was the driver of a vehicle that collided with a Coca Cola truck on Highway 40 near Gusher Friday evening, Aug 23 Cotonus and two passengers San32, and Samuel inCesspooch, 34, died as a result of accident the sustained in juries Samuel Cesspooch was pronounced dead at scene Cotonus died later the same evening of the accident and Sandra Cesspooch died Saturday, dra Cesspooch, Aug 24 Sr ( nulls in property taxes." Christiansen said But if the district is about to default, it can assess an addition 5 mills, that is it " The CUWCD increased its mill levy this year from 1 70 mills to 2 mills, so another increase because of the passage of the supplemental repayment schedule is impossible, he said Uintah County will not receive any direct benefit from the passage of the but local $335 million increase, member of the CUWCD board sup-po- i t its passage "Our project is done and we should support the Bonneville Unit. said Board member Daud Rasmussen "It has to pass or we're in big trouble " Because the project does not directly help Uintah County, Commissioner Neal Domgaard said he thought it would be voted down" in Uintah County "They hae supported us, but when someone else has a project they dont care," Domgaard said about those opposed to the supplemental repay ment schedule The Bonneville Unit, under con struction for 21 years, is 30 percent complete Numerous delays, reduced Congressional funding, environmental lawsuits and even competition form the Vietnam War played a role in dm ing the project's reimbursable cost (the money water user must pay back to the federal government) from $140 million to $475 m llion The reason for the increased debt is Salt Lake County is dependent upon storage in mountain reservoirs for its water supply No major water storage project has been constructed for Salt Lake County since the Deer Creek Reservoir 40 years ago Without the storage planned by the CUP on the Provo River, Salt Lake County w ill experience severe hardship during a drought Congressional opponents to the supplemental repayment schedule contend that if the people of Utah get behind the project and there is a repayment schedule they will vanish, Christiansen said "It is important that we see the total picture of what the project will do for the entire state " said Rondal McKee, CUWCD board vice president "I am from the Tridell area which will no see any benefit from the project, but not all my children will live in Tridell, they will be scattered throughout the state," he said Christiansen said if thing go as planned, the project will only incur S 335 million more in debt "We are getting smarter in how we work and in projecting costs " After the election, if it passes, there w ill be a 100 day waiting period before any construction Irw- - r I others and 150 cantaloupe voter Alcohol tests results Inside Searle The Crimson Sweet melon is one of 60 in the same garden. Watermelon raised in the Ashley area is the pride of Jonathon, 9, Samuel, 4, and Nathanel, 7, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Roland Tourist 'A.' Xv v information N Local 'y . . j artist makes display for mine overlook. See page 4. ::: Time to ready mtnf I V homes Residents prepare home for winter. See page 5. Utes win opener , fVH V t t V 'fir-- 9 i Q 1 ms volleyball team defeats Duchesne. See Page Cv vX; r |