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Show V LOXO HUPXg Adventures in scouting Page 16 rdtoln Our Japanese visitors having fun Page VOLUME 63 NUMBER 11 10-1-1 WEDNESDAY APRIL 27, 1994 COLOR COUNTRYS HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER 50c Drug manufacturing discovered by chance By Dixie Brunner You couldnt have called it a coticsUnitarrestingnine people for drug manufacturing. vacation anyway. The motel room Jackson Kane County Narcotics Strike checked into had a double door Force agent Scott Jackson was connecting an adjoining room. returning home from attending He heard some suspicious acthe Utah Narcotics Officers As- tivity going on next door, and sociation meeting in Ogden. The discerned by conversation and previous week he had attended noises, that someone was manua Clandestine Lab Certification facturing drugs in the next room. It was unusual activity course in Salt Lake. So when Jackson stopped at a for late night at a motel room, d Provo motel for some said Jackson. You could hear sleep, the last thing he them talking about the drugs, expected to do was work. and their talk had narcotic ref-Jacksons sharp observations resulted in the Provo City Nar- See DRUG, Page 2 well-earne- Senate approves Bennett bill to increase PILT The U.S. Senate recently Scout-A-Ram- a lots of fun (R-Uta- " years theme Buckskin Pioneers offered the Paria District scouts many different activities. These two scouts are racing against the clock bucking this log Photo by Barbara Pyles This Fredonia Town Council meets fice that the Marshals Office will The Fredonia Town Council respond only to met on April 13. emergencies outside of the incorAs construction on a porated town limits. to Peter Solie reported on his stand is soon begin, Councilman Button was meeting with CDBG concerning asked that the w'ater hook-u- p grant funds and the sewer sysand drainage hook-u- p be fin- tem. Lotto funding is available ished very soon. The town crew for transportation development will haul cars and other large for economic development items to the landfill during the projects. The Town Council was By Barbara Kimball conces-sionannounc- er May cleanup. If cars are not moved during the cleanup, citations will be written. FreondiaTown Marshal Mike Mellow took out 13 case numbers which included dogpoisoning, drugs, unexplained death (still under investigation), dogs at large, possible burglary, traffic accident, theft ofbike athigh school, theft of money at high school, theft of VCR. Ten moving violations. D.A.RE. graduation is April 28 at Fredonia Elementary 2-- 9 School at 6 30 p.m. Memo was presented to the Council from the Marshals Of asked that the Utah Arizona Action Team Funding be considered in the next budget year. Jordan is checking into a full- family housing. Prospective ten- ants must have stable income, good credit and have to get their own mortgage. Turf Paradise requested an k betextension of the ting at the Buckskin Tavern. A motion to extend the betting for another year was passed. Other items: General Plan approved for the y process of review. Grandfather clause on trailers was discussed. Zoning codes will off-trac- 60-da- be enforced. NACOG is helping with the time counselor for Fredoniathrough income survey and the procurea grant from health services. ment notice. Seth McCoy, of Kanab, of the Kanab 4th of Room tax was discussed. The July celebration, requested that Council explained that they were Fredonia join with Kanab by looking into this tax for adverhavingthe Fredonia parade join tising. The feelings of the motel Kanabs parade, join in fireworks, people were that all businesses work together in other activities. should be taxed for promotion Sam Coffi of Coordinated Com- efforts not just the motels. y 15 was proApril munity Services of Arizona, told of the housing plans that they claimed by Mayor Mackelprang an 15-Ma- are working on for Fredonia. They are considering affordable percent over five years and will passed legislation sponsored by be indexed for inflation in future Senator Bob Bennett years. Bennett noted the inwill the crease in payments will not formula whjich readjust See FREDONIA, Page 2 for Payment-In-Lieu-Of-Taxe- s (PILT) payments resulting in a significant financial boost to Utah counties. The federal government is the largest landowner in Utah. Unfortunately it has not been paying its fair share of property taxes like any other landowner would. This legislation will correct the inequities Utah counties have faced as they watched inflation and costs of providing services rise, and PILT payments shrink. These payments are not federal subsidies as some would argue. Rather, they are compensation to Utah counties who are mandated by federal law to provide law enforcement, search and rescue operations and other services on federal land. Given the choice, Utah would obviously prefer to manage and own its land, but since the federal government has chosen to be the landlord, we expect it to be responsible, said Bennett. Thebill, S. 455, which Bennett helped guide through the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will increase the annual payments by 120 from other programs within the Department of Interior. PILT payments, authorized by Congress in 1976, are administered by the Bureau of Land Management within the Interior Department and are intended to help off-sthe loss of property tax revenues due to tax exempt status of federal lands. The formula by which payments are made has not been adjusted for inflation since the program began. Payments to counties have shrunk as costs of providing services have increased. Utah received $8.8 million in PILT payments last year. et KANAB WEATHER April Courtesy: Dan Merrell Family |