Show Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley DHa Utah $1500 In out ol county 6 monthi $800 ond $900 (In Advance) USPS Copy 50c Continental Lime hosts association Statewide firedrill set Oct 0 Vol 77 No 13 Oct 2 1986 9 Can you get out safely? "If fire threatens your home does your family know how to escape?" That’s the question on the front of a pamphlet being distributed around Utah this month It is also the purpose of a statewide fire drill planned to help families learn how to safely exit their homes in case of fire That’s right: Plan on evacuating your home Oct 9 at 6:30 pm At that time KUTV and some 65 radio stations will sound an alarm signaling the state’s largest planned fire drill in history The pamphlet distributed by fire and McDonald’s departments offers tips on how to restaurants evacuate and includes a grid that a resident can use to map out a fire escape plan Fillmore open house In conjunction with the Tire Prevention Week the Fillmore Tire Department will hold an open house from Oct 6 through the The open house will be at the Fire Station each evening from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm On Sat Oct II it will be from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm There will be fire prevention materials on a wide range of subjects on the display s and demonstrations use of fire extinguishers This year a drawing will be held on Sat Oct II for a Sunbeam fire and smoke detector a 2 pound ABC fire and a quarter extinquisher and a pound Halon fire extinguisher Delta proclamation In Delta Mayor Ruth Hansen and city council have issued a special proclamation declaring Oct 9 as “Plan to Get Out Alive Day" throughout the city of Delta EMT’s Honored RN DON by Debbie Shelley The Millard County Emergency were recently Medical Technicians honored at their local meetings by the staff of DCMC and FCMC This in conjunction with was done FMergency Medical Services Week September 21 to 27 Most people are unaware of the many hours donated by the EMT’s in leaching CPR Tirst Aid and other Over 100 people from all over the US and Canada visited Millard County's Continental Lime Cricket Mtn Plant last week as part of the National Lime Association's annual conference in Salt Lake City Plant Manager Don Wakin treated the association members to a tour of the plant's quarry operations and showed off construction on the plant's $4 million expansion project which includes a new kiln designed to double the plant's capacity for producing quick lime from 150000 to 300000 tons per year community services We appreciate the sacrifices made by the EMT’s who are required to be on call twenty four hours a day They arc often called out during the night and in hazardous weather conditions The EMT's are trained extensively in the handling of critically injured patients and extrication of persons trapinside or underneath an ped automobile Since there are changes in emergency cate each year continuing education is vital to their pioficiency In the past three to four years most of the Millard County FMT’s have gone M from a I evel to a evel with special training in intravenous certification We are grateful to the LMT’s lot service and contheir compassionate cerned care Their skilled emergency care helps save lives each year Attention Fillmore residents The city offices will be closed Monday Oct 13 and Tuesday Oct for the purpose of moving into our new building The new address is West Center (old hospital) Nevada Test Site is focus off 14 75 battle It’s not often that events in the West Desert make the headlines but this year one of the world’s hottest international issues — a proposed nuclear bomb test ban treaty— is cooking right in the county’s own backyard Nuclear bomb testing is an issue long familiar to Utahns including many longtime Millard County residents Chronicle Progress columnist Mary Henrie remembers when above ground nuclear explosions in Nevada lit up the western skies in Millard County "like in the early morning full noonday” hours during the 1950s Suits have been filed from over 200 Utah residents for alleged fallout duced cancer deaths and injuries as a result of nuclear explosions Since above ground testing ended in 1962 underground tests have leaked numerous times creating lingering concern by activist groups over the ongoing health problems which may be caused by nuclear testing Larger debate How'ever the local health issue has now become part of a larger debate over banning nuclear tests entirely With a nuclear test ban proposed by the Soviets the worldwide concern over the arms race has focused on the Nevada Test Site In Utah the the testing issue is being targeted by Congressional candidate Wayne Owens who is trying to make the test ban a major political battle this fall In addition this past weekend a nuclear physicist with the country’s leading nuclear testing lab visited Salt Lake City and urged adoption of a verifiable test ban treaty The Nevada Test Site is located 65 miles north of Las Vegas and directly employs 8000 people Owens’ new TV ad shows shots of underground nuclear bomb tests in Nevada and then a voiceover explains Owens’ stand on nuclear testing The nuclear tests are only conducted when the wind blows toward Utah the ad says Through accidental and planned venting after the shots over has drifted more radiation Utah — albeit a small amount at a time — than was released during the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster in the Soviet Union this year the ad says It concludes with the announcer saying Owens stands firm against nuclear which harms in Nevada testing Utahns and will stand strong against the tests no matter what direction the polictical winds blow has continually The government denied that radiation leaks have lead to increased cancer rates They maintain that underground testing is completehas ly safe The Reagan Administration justified the need for underground of testing on the basis that modern weapons designs are faulty and need constant testing to make sure they also claims work The administration that a test ban would be useless because it would be difficult if not impossible are to verify that the Russians complying However Dr Hugh E DeWitt of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory University of California claims these arguments hide the real reason for avoiding a negotiated test ban with the Soviets During a special test ban conference in Salt Lake City this past weekend Dewitt who works with the governsaid test ban ment testing program verification difficulties are merely a smoke screen for the Reagan administration which wants to continue the ongoing development of nuclear Star weapons specifically the Wars program The nuclear said the physicist is Lawrence Livermore Laboratory working on a weapon called an a Powered nuclear bomb laser” by laser space weapon directs the as they stream out of the nucleai explosion at the target Dewitt said that three to five nuclear tests at the underground Nevada site have already been exploded to test the new technology at a cost of $30 to $50 million a test He said it is estimated that it could take 50 to 100 tests to make the scheme work With this much work left to do on the prodoes not want ject the administration to ban testing the scientist said In addition Dewitt and other scientists said that the technology exists to verify a test ban in Russia As for the need to continually test the nuclear arsenal they said that design problems exist with only a few warheads and most of those have already been isolated and should not be an excuse for continued testing Elsew here the Sov iets continued to put pressure on the US to negotiate a test ban by allowing western journalist to isit an abandoned Sov iet test site The Soviets claim that they have not done any testing during the past two years and that by not doing so are falling behind in the weapons technology But the journalists noted that they were not allowed to visit all the Soviet test sites and so far it has not been completely determined whether the Soviets are testing or not The most recent Nevada Test Site bomb experiment was exploded Monday Sources said it was the largest allowable explosion under current ternational agreements |