Show Community Profile Kurt Alloway son of Mr and Mrs Ron Alloway completed the required 11 week Peace Officer Training Academy on Dec 23 Kurt has been employed by the Utah Division of Parks and Recreation since June 11 1988 He is currently stationed as a Ranger at Yuba State Park He will be involved in the central Utah district snowmobiling program this winter with grooming of the trails and in enforcement of the registration laws Kurt is a Natural Resources management graduate of the University of Wyoming While there he achieved the Dean’s honors and provided research for the Wyoming State Park system He also has received the associate of applied sciences degree in Law Enforcement from Southern Utah State College Kurt is a graduate of Delta High School He enjoys working with the public in the interpretation and preservation of our natural resources Dennis McCarty Electrician by day writer by knight by Ln Rand Why Dennis McCarty writes: “It's something I’ve always wanted to do for various psychological reasons lm sure only my analyst could really explain" Well it sure isn’t the money You'd figure a guy with two paperback books in their fourth printing and two more due out this summer and a fifth one in the works would be well off but it just isn’t so Dennis doesn’t drive a Mercedes or live in a mansion or vacawith tion in the Bahamas or Norman Mailer or get his picture in "People Magazine" And it’s not because that’s the way Dennis wants it It’s just that there isn’t a lot of money in writing Yet Dennis lives in a mobile home in Delta and wears Penney’s jeans and work boots and has a regular job as an electrician at IPP and drives a pickup truck to work But that’s just to pay the bills Dennis works to live but he lives to write It’s always been that way and it probably always be even if he does make it big '"I was always going to De a writer" he says "Lithcr that or a major league baseball player but I’m too short and fat and clumsy to be one of those” Dennis’ father was a construction worker so he had many homes many of them mobile He was born in Grand Junction Colorado and lived in Kentucky and Minnesota and Michigan and Illinois “or someplace over there” He made his first attempt at writing a novel at the age of seven while living in Fruita Colorado He started several more but never finished any of those early attempts While attending the University of Utah he wrote his first novel for publication “It was horrible” Dennis says “I still have a copy of it somewhere but it was so bad I wouldn't even show a copy of it to my friends” But he kept “plugging away” He wrote a novel while in the Coast Guard and started another when he got out After he got out about 1975 or so Dennis leturned to Salt Lake City worked as an electrician and pursued his other passion stock car racing He got quit writing for three years depressed and realized he needed to write He got back into it in 1981 He wrote another novel and felt a lot better But it didn’t sell It was about an electrician who raced stock cars “It wasn’t too bad” Dennis says “Nothing special but it showed a lot of improvement over the first two and half” But he was back in gear and he got He the idea for writing a fantasy described this character he wanted to create as “kinda noble and kinda tortured and very honorable and about the only way anybody would ever believe him would be in a fantasy” The result was “Flight to Thiassa Mey” and the sequel “Warriors of Thiassa Mey” He began writing the first book in 1982 it sold in 1984 and was published in 986 in paperback by Del Rey Books a division of Books one of the biggest New The second book York publishers followed several months later Both books went into their fourth printing 1988 in “I knew that first one was going to sell” Dennis says “The story wasn’t all that original but the characters were really good Standard fantasy plot but the characters were neat” His experience as a copyboy with the Salt Lake Tribune was helpful Dennis says “I do a lot of editing on my stuff” he says "I refer to my method as ‘the fussy old woman method’ of writing You get the whole rough draft down on paper and then you start going through it and putting red marks all over it When you can’t see the print anymore for the red marks you retype it” Dennis had originally called the first book “Flight to the Inner Sea” but he discovered Roger Zelazny had used ’Inner Sea' in a novel “So went to the bookstore and bought a dictionary and changed it to ‘Thiassa Mey which is very bad Greek for ‘the sea that isn’t The map in the front of the book provides a due as to why Greek was used rather than any other language Lester Del Rey it Dennis editor “He is a very hands-opublisher" Dennis says ‘‘I’m lucky He it one of the very few editort who has a personal with hit writers There relationship aren’t very many left like that" Hit agent it RusselJ Galen who it with Scott Meredith Literary Agency Galen also represents Marion Zimmer Bardley Arthur C Clarke and Norman Mailer Cover art for the books it provided by Darrell Sweet who did cover art for Covenant the Thomas books of Stephen Donaldson and others of the fantasy and science fiction genre When the books first came out Dennis lived in Vernal "Basically I'm out of Salt Lake” he says “1 was in Vernal following the construction and I’m down here doing construction quit construction a couple of times and really went broke Writing full Lime is a good way to do that” His third book got lost “I got paid on the third one in March of 87” Dennis says But he didn’t see Lhe galleys or the cover art when he expected them so he wrote to Galen to find out what happened “I finally got a letter from an assistant editor at Ballantine saying Lester (Del Rey) had been waiting for the revisions to Dennis McCarty's novel for ages When will it be done? I just hit the ceiling” Dennis had the books Fortunately on disk “That’s one big lesson” he says “Don't ever throw away a disk had been 30 seconds away from erasing those disks different times and I'm didn’t” lucky Number three will probably be out in August “Four was actually accepted before number three because three had disappeared” Dennis says “But that’s the end of that bunch and ”11 never write another one of them because I'm just tired of them” he says “Palamon is an interesting guy but by the fourth book I’d done everything I wanted to with him” A fifth book is about Sherlock Holmes but due to legal problems with the Conan Doyle estate it won’t be published “It’s a shame too” Dennis says “because it’s a fantasy and it has Hutch Cassidy in it And it takes place during the Trojan War It was a lot of ‘U fun” But there’s more: “I have a three book series” Dennis says “of which the first is now being marketed and have one book about a movie actor who suddenly finds himself pupping up in the world of his movies He’s an Flynn type That one’s giving me some problems Then the one I have with Del Rey now is about the conversion to Christianity of King Clovis who was the first Christian of the Franks and the founder of the French Monarchy” All this while holding down a fulltime job as an electrician at IPP “This is the first job where I haven’t quit when got an advance check” Dennis says "I've learned that much" Y'ou see writing still doesn’t pay the bills Maybe some day “It may take five years or ten years” Dennis says "but some day I’ll write full time” found both “Thiassa Mey” books at a comic book store in Salt Lake City I’m halfway through “Flight from Thiassa Mey Right now I’m up to the part where the fugitives are guests of Reovalis the Master Sage at the ancient library of the Polonians after eluding the pursuing cavalrymen of Iothar the Pale by plunging down the Cauldron of Stilchis and Palamon has discovered he is in love with Princess Berengena but the Knight of Pallas haunted by his mysterious past and aware that young Ursid is jealous of him but wait haven’t even mentioned wicked wizard Alybol yet think maybe know why Dennis writes: to find out w'lia happens next bun tin 5 19X9 - Page J Hinckley ‘Cleanest Town’ nona! agricultural adult program and an area trophy Cash awards of $425 in prizes were presented to tfar Hinckley town This money was used to buy trees and shrubs to beautify the town T he money for the prizes was furnished by sears Roebuck and ( ornpany foundation to improve farmstead conditions $125 cash award went to Mr and Mrs Mahonrt Cropper for winning the dividual award in Millard County for outstanding work m beaunbca'ion SwenUnder the direction of May' son Mrs Esther Swenson I rrna Cropper and Beh Ander xn a rose garden was placed on the cor rer near the hgh chord In the cever of the lot rs a rnemoruil plaque which lists all names of all the solders who set ved in W or Id W ar II I his was dedica'ed wi'h tate ceremonies in MV 'f re was purchased by the town before V or id V a If ended I a'er it was mounted on a monument ty Mayor Randall b wen sen One ol the outstanding celebrations in West Millard is the 24 h of July celebration sponsored each year by Hinckley One of the finest ama'cur rodeo arenas Las been built at he park A parade west of town program children's sjxzrts and a baseball game climax with a rodeo arid dance male it one of the ou's'aridiig even's of the year in the cue n In 949 and 959 new Lie a lets were budt tf e feld hgh'ed and new corrals built and the sea's were painted wf re Record crowds a"end the twongb' performances of ‘)e rodeo from Milestone of Millard fn 1907 Hinckley became an incorporated town At first it included a vast territory Hosea F Stout was (he first town mayor from 1907 until 1912 He was followed by Joseph W Blafe Joseph L Blake Richard Parker who served four terms T George who served four terms Theobald Harold R Morris Nephi R Stewart Leslie two terms Rulon Hinckley Workman and Randall Karl Wright Swenscn Mayor when "Mfestones of MJlard" was written in 1951 All these men made worthwhile contributions lo the building and improvement of the town Under Mayor Swenson many improvements have been made including the installing of new lights on Mam Street Old trees have been taken out and a cement curbing pul in in readiness for Mam Street to be oiled from curb to curb In 1946 a beautification campaign was launched in Hinckley to in readiness for the paint up and centennial year Sebrma C I kins was named chairman with Walter Lkins Hugh Hilton Eugene Morris Harriet Spend love and Gladys Carter as comAs a result of the mittee members work accomplished by the people Hinckley was awarded "The Cleanest Town Trophy" in live state of Utah for The (rophy came from 1947 Washington D C and Hinckley won 1 hat same year national recognition a trophy lor winning the received they sweepstakes awards of the state soca- Kurt Alloway The general tales lax still is the largest single tax source for the state accounting for 37 percent of all state taxes and 24 percent of total revenue icceipts Last year the general sales tax produced $616 million for state purposes plus an additional $146 million for local units (municipalities counties and transit districts) Other important state tax sources in Utah include the individual income tax $531 million (334 percent) and corporate income taxes - $83 million (3J perceni ) The property tax also is a major revenue producer ($731 million in fiscal 1988) but all of the proceeds from the property tax are used to finance local units of government in Utah More than 83 percent of all state spending in Utah is for education social services and transportation Lducation of course continues to be the number one area of state expenditures accounting for $1051 nnJiion or 422 percent of total state spending for all purposes during the fiscal year Not included in this total from ate education expenditures taxes expendit ures for major capital projects at the educational institutions and spending from fees and other restricted funds at the Utah colleges and universities that are not reported on the books of the Division ol Finance Social services (public assistance corrections mental health family unemployment public health benefits medicaid etc ) is the second most important ar ea of state spending in Utah Last year expenditures for these items totaled $711 million oi of all state about 285 percent expendit utes Other important spending aieas in Utah include highways and other transportation - $3 JO million (J2 4 per- $160 geneiaJ government cent) million (64 percent) capital projects - $62 million (25 percent) natural resources - $58 million (23 percent) community and economic development - $53 million (21 percent) public salety - $42 million (17 percent interest on general debt - $25 million (J 0 percent) and business labor and agriculture $21 million (08 percent) State Society to help local group what to do" he prospect of a museum in Delia that will help document and iJJustra'e the bis'ory of that part of western Utah is an exciting proposition Everyone seems anxious to get started A morning session was held wi'b the members of the ptosjecuie museum board concerning administrate procedural and issues In the afternoon some 15 additional persons listened to Cra g f uller explam flow to accession and ca’aiog Ins' or icJ artifacts After the success! ul day long affair the general response was "We’re glad you guys were able to travel down and talk to us" As budget and time allow usual ions iU cotiimue to be pan of the museum’s technical assistance piogram (Note: the following article is taken from the U(ah State Ifisloekal Society Volume Jg Number 6 Newsletter 1988 issue) "What potential!" were the words of Phil Notanannj and Craig F uliei of the Society's museum section upon their return from Delta on November 2V The two traveled to the MJlard County city to conduct a workshop on general aspects of museum development and management fee members of the West Millard Historical Society According to Charlotte Morrison a member of the Delta museum committee the local group was given a budding by the Gomel Corporation m "We want to do early November tilings right” she said "We need to have an idea of how to proceed and Nominations for art award sought Nominations for tne eighth annual Governor’s Award for folk Art and for the Governor’s Cultural Heritage Award are now being accepted by lhe Utah Arts Council These awards recognize individuals or groups that have made significant contributions to Utah’s cultural heritage through the practice of a traditional art form Living folk and ethnic craltsworkers musicians and storytellers singers dancers are eligible for nomination Particular emphasis will be placed on artistic excellence authenticity and the tiaditional nature of the artists’ work as well as on the artist’s influence on his or her community Previous recipients of the Governor’s J oik Art Award include the late Kenneth Atwood of Vvest Jordan Sait Lake quilter Nina Grimes saddletnaker Glen Thompson of Huntsville the late Slovian accotdiomsis Tony Kokal Jr and John Costello ol of Carbon basketmakers County State announces waterfowl stamp art competition SALT LAKE CITY-TUtah Waterfowl Stamp Committee has announced it will hold a competition for the state's fourth waterfowl stamp Utah residents will be able to show their skills in producing a realistic rendering of Canada geese in a Utah setting for the 1989 stamp "We will be accepting entries in February This should give Utah artists adequate time to produce artwork reducible to a good quality said Committee Chairman Dr stamp” Michael Romney their Utah artists can submit original unsigned entries from 13 February through February 28 1989 to the Waterfowl Stamp Committee Utah Division of Wildlife Resources 15 West North Temple Salt Lake City Utah 84116 Artwork may be drawings or painting in any color medium and must be formatted to 13 by 18 inches and accompanied by a $15 entry fee and registration form of Artists need to be mindful anatomic accuracy and how the artwork will look when reduced to stamp size Entries not conforming to the above will not be accepted Only realistic renderings will be accepied-n- o photographs Entry packets are available from the Salt Lake Division of Wildlife Resources office Judging will be by secret ballot by the state’s Waterfowl Stamp Committee Entries by Utah artists will be judged against for the final winning nonresident artwork in 1986 tundra swans graced the stamn panned by Leon Parson The 1987 stamp features pintails pained by Arthur Anderson the 1987 federal duck stamp winner Dave Chappie created a Utah scene with a hen and drake mallard gliding to water for the 1988 Utah III stamp Funds from the stamp will help pav for wetland acquisition and development These funds are alread being used to restore waterfowl marshes destroyed b the Great Salt Lake To date over $700000 has been collected All waterfowl hunters over 16 years of age are required to have a state waterfowl stamp to hum migratory waterfowl m the state The stamps and prints also make beautiful collectors' items 20 I West Millard History State finances improved in 1988 After being in a state of crisis fiscal throughout most of the year Utah state finances improved dramatically during fiscal 1988 This observation was made by the Utah Foundation the private tax research in their annual analysis organization of state revenue and expenditures The study shows that total revenue received by the stale exceeded expenditures by $515 million The excess of revenue over expenditures would have been much greater but the 1988 Legislature meeting in special session income tax reprovided for a fund of $77 million and made other for public and special appropriations higher education totaling $10 million In addition $229 million was transferred to Utah’s ‘‘rainy day" fund to help financial problems that may develop in the future According to the Foundation part of the improvement in state finances during fiscal 1988 was the result of a stronger economy but most of it was due to the inability to make accurate revenue forecasts following the federal and state tax law changes made in 1986 and 1987 An analysis of consolidated state finances during the fiscal year shows that general revenue in Utah totaled $2543465000 and state expenditures amounted to $2491946000 Revenues in Utah rose by nearly $100 million while expenditures decreased by slightly more than $8 million This was decline the first actual expediture recorded in recent Utah history Because of the tax increases enacted by the 1987 Utah Legislature state tax collections rose by $1235 million or 8 percent during the fiscal year The increase would have been even greater but as noted approximately $77 million was returned to the taxpayers in the form ol a come tax rebate Foundation analysts point out that part of the large gain in state tax revenue was ofl set by a continuing decline in federal aid revenue from other nontax sources Federal funds to the state dropped by an additional $20 million in following a decline of more tha $30 million the previous year and other state nontax revenues fell by $35 million LSI'S Millard ( ounl) ( Local man graduates from Law Enforcement Academy Nonresident artists interested m competing for the Utah stamp may enter through Petersen Prints A Division of Petersen Publishing Compain 6725 Sunset Blvd Suite 429 Los Angeles CA 90028 For more information contact McCurdy and Motile who ate rnemlieis of the Goshute tribe of wester ti Utah raw hide braider DeWitt Palmer of M wile and musician and dance mstiuotoi Mis Merle Shumway of Provo The first Governor’s Cultutal Heritage Awaid was presented m Jyk? flower an anger to T ainae Kogua Sauki of Salt Lake the Swiss Clioius Jn J988 City Edelweiss of the Salt Lake 'Valley icceived 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