Show Page 2 : May : Thursday sx xx x x xsx xkk 6 1971 FFA Chapters x To Compete At GUNNISON VALLEY NEWS Snow College MEMBER ULL Future Farmers of America and comwill see demonstrations pete in contests in livestock judging range evaluation practices land judging and agricultural mechanic skills at an FFA Field Day on the Snow College Thursday of each week at Gunnison Utah S4634 Second Class postage paid at Gunnison Utah 84634 Published H Subscription W Cherry Jr in Advance $400 100 Copy per campus Tuesday for the day will Registration begin in the foyer of Snow Adat 8 am An openministration ing assembly will follow at 9 will then The FFA members attend demonstrations by experts in the various areas and compete in the contests “The Field Day is planned to give the FFA members educarelated to tional experiences their studies Professor Robert deSnow agriculture Hartman partment chairman said and conThe demonstrations tests will be conducted by the Telephone I x xosox ax vax vax : vax vax ym EDITORIAL I’Jho Loves A Who loves a hospital? The hoshave been about as one can get In selecting the theme for this 1971 National Week 'The Hospial question portrays the huge public which our hosmisunderstanding pitals have to keep working so hard to overcome are thought of as Hospitals places where most people go when they are sick More accurately hospitals are places where most people are being restored to healthy lives or told what to do to stay healthy Hospitals are often thought of as medical hotels for the few who can afford the tariff Actually pital people realistic as today are deeply Inin delivering care to the and are increasunderprivileged ingly visible in community health hospitals volved programs tributing' hospitals are accused of conto Inflation Instead are victims of inflation Hospitals Hospital? Recent raises in hospital wages were long overdue yet it takes 279 hospital workers to provide proper care to 100 patients compared with 156 workers a quarter century ago Boosts in the prices of hospital supplies are Justified but it takes even more equipment and supplies to provide the adand diagnostic vanced clinical services now expected of the hospital Hospitals are front and foremost in the quest to control operating costs reduce the length of stay and provide comprehensive health care prepayment Since It is so important that a good hospital be available to any of us at a moment’s notice it behooves all of us to keep informed of hospital needs and problems Getting informed is a logical way for you to observe National Hospital Week and we are sure your favorite hospital will be glad to help - as usual following specialists: Livestock Judging - Hogs by Ray Jensen Manti breeder beef by Jack Herring Sanpete County Extension Agent Agricultural Sheep - Nyle Mathews Utah State livestock University specialist Land Judging - Dr Paul Christensen soil specialist USU and John Swenson soil scientist Soil Conservation Service Range Evaluation - Karl Par- Miss Veda Kaye Dittmer ker Time to Retire All new passenger car tires have “wear bars” These thread wear indicators serve as a warning that the tires are worn to the danger point The wear bars appear as smooth narrow bands running across the face of the tire thread when it is worn to the 1 level so desirable (4) We need it for clean mass transportation systems that our metropolitan areas have known (5) And not least we need it if all those who are Just emerging from dire poverty are to enjoy a standard of living that we have come to take for granted And utility advertising and promotion of attempting to build loads helps make more efficient use of generation and keeps the cost of power low There are available ways to eliminate smoking stacks by use of electrostatic precipitators For example Utah Power 4 Light's all the environmental Huntington Canyon Plant is incorporating that present-da- y technology can offer and the utility safeguards just placed an order for an electrostatic precipitator which will cost $325 million and will remove 995 percent of particulate from stack emissions is You'il bo bine to find big selection of CARDS - PERFUMES BATH BUBBLE gift for MOM from our BOXED CANDY and many - - WATCHES WATCH BANDS WATER MOVEMENT There are a series of ground water reservoirs or basins along the Sevier River Each one separated from the ones upstream and downstream by a relatively geoimpermeable underground logic dam These reservoirs are filled by water from the river channel as it traverses the valleys deep percolation from irfrom precipitation and rigation from tributary inflow entering the When the valleys as groundwater reservoir is full it spills over the relatively impermeable under ground dam andcontributestothe downstream flow of the river These reservoirs remain relafull year after tively year keeping the soil profile near the surface saturated or waterlogged g thus enabling high vegetation to grow creating our and wet meadow lands As the supply of water from rain and snow declines or when large volumes are pumped from the underground basins the water table is lowered drying up wet areas with a subsequent decrease in consumptive use by the wetland When this happens vegetation water which normally drains to river as return flow percolates downward to refill the reservoir and regroundwater duces the river flow water movement Ground Is continuous but with less fluctuation than surface water flow " RESERVOIRS ” o According to ground water! studies by the US Geological' the nine ground water Survey reservoirs in the Basin contain over 5470000 acre feet in the upper 200 feet of th alluvial fill in the valleys If just 10 percent of this storage capacity were used for regulation the volume available would be 547000 with surface For comparison storage Otter Creek Piute Gunnison Nine Mile DMAD and Sevier Bridge reservoirs have It capacity for 413137 also exceeds the average annual 511250 used on irrigated rotated cropland UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR USE All of the water now appropriated resources are so water for must be development from existing use or Water now consumpimported tively used in the wetlands by phreatophytec plants is available for development Further development of pump wells In the would be necseveral essary to convert these lands to more valuable crops and water to more efficient use Studies potential converted TRAVEL IS oils DIISIUESS Globe Travel Agency Kent Peterson 540 North 300 West American Fork Utah Phone Phone Corner 4MMMMMMMMMVMMMMMMMMMMMI “Doctor Zhivago by Boris Zhivago is still a very young boy when his mother dies He has no one to take care of him so he goes to the city to live with his uncle and his family Because of his uncle Yurii becomes a doctor At the beginning of World War I Yurii is called to be a doctor in the battlefields He must leave his wife and child with his uncle When Yurii returns from the war he finds that things have changed greatly The whole city is under a form of socialism His wife and family are nearly starving There is a place that he knows about where there would be plenty of food and shelter for his family But upon arriving there he finds that there is a war going on between the reds and whites Excellent adult novel estimate the salvage potential from wetlands at 215000 acrefeet The maximum desirable limits to which this water could tie salvaged has not been estab- lished PRESENT GROUND WATER DEVELOPMENT Library Hours 4 to 5:30 pm Mr and Mrs Clyde Rosenvall and Mr and Mrs Royal Whitlock flew to Las Vegas Nevada in the Rosenvall plane for a weekend vacation They left Saturday Present development of ground returning water reservoirs is quite limited Most of the existing wells are for domestic and stock water purposes Although numerous they are generally low yielding small diameter and shallow feet deep) Most are flowing wells but some must be pumped Generally the high producing better quality wells yield water from the deeper at acquirers depths up to 800 feet A majority of large wells have been drilled since 1950 Prior to 1950 most of the well water used for irrigation was produced by flowing wells As large wells are developed the yield from flowing wells decreases US Geological Survey water data reports show in 1964 that 70000 from wells and used discharged for irrigation purposes and 1 3400 use for domestic and other purstockwatering poses About 65 percent of that used for Irrigation was in the Delta area Sunday Mf and Mrs Wilda Jensen daughter of Mr R Jensen Warren and Mrs Salina and Leonard Dean Gold son of Mr and Mrs Leonard M Gold of Salt Lake City were married March 31st in Salt Lake City A wedding reception honored the young couple April 24th in the Salina Third Ward For her reception the bride chose a gown of nylon dotted swiss over satin with chapel train A shoulder length veil of bridal illusion was held in place by a tiara of pearls She carried a bouquet of pink roses and carnations with blue ribbons” Bridesmaids were Diane Curts and LaRee Jensen Rachelle Rasmussen was a flower girl and Shawn Jensen was a ringbearer The bridesmaids were attired in pink and blue dotted swiss gowns and each carried a single pink rose bud Leonard Dean Gold The mother of the bride chose pink gown and the bridegroom's mother wore blue Ralph Shaw acted as best man and ushers were Derk Jensen Richard and Ray Starr Refreshments were served by Lori and Teri Huntsman Julie Mickelsen and Natalie Sorensen' with help from Mrs Vernon Crane Mrs Brice Poulson Mrs Norma Robins Mary Lou Robins and Lori Mickelsen In charge of gifts were e Vorihies and Gayle Curtis Carol Starr was at the guest book The young couple will make their home In Salt Lake where Wilda is attending BYU School of Nursing Mrs Terral Huntsman and Mrs Clay Westlund entertained at Open House April 29th at the Huntsman home in Salt Lake City a Start Saving Today! reservoirs are Underground not utilized at their greatest potential They could be regulated so that water could be withdrawn during dry years and recharged during wet years Sufficient control is necessary to assure a stable supply over long periods of time Next week opportunities for coordinated will be development presented Weekly Weather Record GUNNISON Every Penny Counts other GIFT ITEMS — CLOSE OUT SPECIALS Instamatic complete GROUND the COLOGNES WALLETS - leuier Eliver UNDERGROUND VWMVWMAAftAAflMWS Library Yurii Electrical Energy Necessary (Editor’s Note - This is eighth in a series on Sevier River Basin) t A valuable water resource in the Sevier River Basin is ground water Ground water inflow contributes about 183950 or about 16 percent of annually the water supply for crop production Thereisanadditional21370 of ground water outflow to the Virgin and Colorado River drainage VMM Pasternak EDITORIAL The demand for power is doubling every ten years Some conservationists argue that this perpetually accelerating expansion of power is not necessary They maintain that people should replace the outmoded “standard of living concept by the more human “quality of life concept f The fact is the quality of life and electric energy use are bound without electricity our whole civilization as moreover together we know it come® to a halt There is hardly afuijye you can make if there were no electric power to help us accomplish what you want to do It is false to argue for the discouragement of the use of the electricity by curtailing its use by charging premium rates for greater use of electricity and the curbing of the industry’s advertising and promotion of electricity Increased use of electricity is fundamental to solving the very environmental problems facing the nation: (1) Electricity is the cleanest energy known capable of powering and will provide jobs for millions of young people machinery moving into the labor force each year (2) We need it to operate the vastly expanded sewage treatment and water purification plants that a growing population demands (3) We need more power to do the very recycling of waste that HOSPITAL DONATIONS Donations received recently by the Gunnison Valley Hospital include $2600 in memory of Mrs Alice Nelson and $100 from Mrs Eugene Jensen Mrs Gary Madsen and Mrs Thuresa L Alger USU range specialist Agricultural Mechanic Skills Jesse Birch Leon Christensen and Clayton Stout Snow College Dr and Mrs AL Dittmer of Logan announce the engagement and forthcoming marriage of their daughter Veda Kaye to Craig E and Mrs son of Mr Richard Cowley Cowley of Axtell Miss Dittmer is presently attending Utah State University and plans on becoming a home economics teacher She is a member of Lambda Delta Sigma sorority Mr Cowley filled a mission for the LDS Church in Scotland and is a graduate of Utah State University An early September wedding is planned by the couple and folSouth lowing a honeymoon will make their home in Brookings Dakota They will continue their studies at South Dakota State University Medical patients during the week at the Gunnison Valley Hospital: Parley Rees Harold Blackburn Mrs Bonnie Brown Loa Mrs Vanerva Chappell Lyman Mrs Clayton Crane Toni Lee Nicholas Otto Ardell Mrs Isabelle Salina Mrs Beatrice Lay Marysvale Bic knell Mrs Gail Brinkerhoff Madsen Richfield Surgery patients at the hosMrs Ronnie Bateman pital: Mayfield Mark J Nielson Leath Allred Centerfield Mrs Linda Gagne Salina Mrs Earl Elmont Gunnison Having their tonsils removed were sisters Callie Ann and Jane Kiesel of Manti Treated for accident Injuries: Mrs Marilyn Worwood Levan Salina Colleen Nancy Brand Lewis Redmond past Camera - model with flash and film Instamatic complete Camera 124 $1495 model $1795 JEIISEII DRUG 134 People who save with us get top interest rates Ask us today which savings plan (we have several) is best suited to your purpose Get the most for your money Come in and talk to us this very day — |