| Show PRE” i:: -f 5 0 cu- iji 341 - Region Water Supply 6Good’ Despite The 1961 water supply River Valley is forecast streams are forecast of normal for the Sevier from 70 to of normal assuming average occurs far the remainder precipitation of the season In the first water supply forecast of the 1961 season the National Weather Service stated the outlook for southern below normal Utah is for generally Nearly all headwater spring runoff to at However forecasts in the lower Sevier continue to reflect the ground water influence of two consecutive high runoff seasons and streamflow in the lower Sevier is forecast at to of a vet age December was almost precipitation with reports ranging from of precipitation at higher with measirements ranging of average and no precipitation at Marysvale Capitol Reef National Park to 50 inches at Kanab Most amounts were of generally less than 15 to elevations from 17 to Mountain snowpack reflects the to however continues Streamflow reflect the previous high runoff years The flow from Sigurd to Gunnison on the Sevier River of was 30000 acre feet or lack average near Kingston 33000 acre Piute Reservoir feet inflow 57000 acre feet inflow 43000 acre of average feet of Reservoir storage in the Sevier Basin is above normal with the combined contests of Otter Creek Piute and Sevier Bridge of 312000 acre feet which is of capacity and of average and 128000 t more than a year ago at this time average from October Seasonal precipitation is 60 to through December along the Sevier drainage JLDrought The East Fork Sevier River near Kingston is forecast at 12000 acre feet for of average and Clear Creek near Sevier is forecast at 15000 of average acre feet for The streamflow forecast for the Sevier River is as fellows: average At Hatch 35000 acre feet Preparedness Fair Readied Saturday by Gunnison Stake disaster Gunnison LDS Stake will hold a fair personal and family preparedness Saturday from 10:00 am until 4 pm Interest is mounting week s power shortage due to sponsor College formation last drying sprouting Industries Deseret will Snow have furniture & Trade Tech on careers will Bob on Bunnell will lecture benefits of regular exercise Sherri Crandal will lecture on aerobic dancing at 2 pm Roland Beck will have a seminar at 100 2:00 and 3:00 for one hour each Mark Anderson will speak on spiritual in the morning and Garth preparedness Monson will speak ir the afternoon There will be free literature on making things such as survival candles that are used for heat and can be cooked upon survival bars which are a meal for one full day and other information needed to survive even an earthquake or sudden evacuation Over seminars food rehabilitation At 10:00 am Becky Blackham will instruct beginning aerobic dancing at 10:30 Donna Peterson will instruct on becoming physically fit at 11:00 and 1:00 Sondra Clark will demonstrate at 2:00 and at 3:00 uses of trampolines booths plus lectures and films will be presented on 17 subjects such as emergency and Defective Brakes Gets Blame for Sheep Deaths 9 Manti Concert Mark Reinfurt of New Hampshire and formerly of Gunnison will perform at a musical concert at the Manti High on January 17 at School auditorium For the past two weeks ninth graders at Gunnison Valley High School and their parents have been meeting with Larry J Henrie guidance counselor at the school to discuss career goals and 7:30 subjects pm Mr Reinfurt began his music studies at the age of six and received his associate degree in music piano emat Rides College and later phasis studied piano with Paul Pollei while attending BYU are with Mr Reinfurt Performing seven other musicians including among the group is Ren Anderton and Wendell Hurst pianists Leana Terzani and Nancy Yost vocalists Carolyn Ostler and William Schade violinists and Karl Lee cellist The Lions Clubs of Sanpete are sponsoring County and the concert proceeds are being offered for a music senior in to a graduating scholarship one of the Sanpete high schools Tickets purchased the for at concert local may to be taken in the 10th grade Each student who enters the seventh grade is given a folder containing a six year plan and school record Mr Henrie keeps them on file with each vocation annual student’s perferen--cecharts and results a tests showing from standarized student’s intelligence aptitude and in1 terests scores to Tenth graders are encouraged interview a person in a vocation that interests them eleventh graders have to hear talks on a an opportunity variety of professions and twelfth Weather Graders graders learn ships grants open to them about various scholarand other financial aids The By the time a student reaches the senior year he has a good idea of his career goal and how to achieve it Because of this program Mr Henrie to 90 percent of this years or will go on to college seniors vocational school of their choice states that 80 Before the program was introduced only 50 percent of the students went on to higher education Assessor’s Schedule in Sanpete County Assessor will be 29 - 31 area Jan the Gunnison according to Mayor Lester Hill Hours are from 9 am until 4 pm The assessor will be at the Mayfield City Hall Thursday Jan 29 and at the Gunnison City Hall Friday Jan 30 and Saturday Jan 31 be merchants County and at Sanpete throughout KJ’s Dept Store Rasmussen’s or at at Furniture in Gunnison Valley donation of adults $250 suggested students $150 children $100 License plate decals will be sold on Jan 31 Bert head herd was ewes Willden said 700 pregnant their oil During the power furnace continued to pump oil instead of shutting off When the power was resumed the home filled with oil and Sancom was not in greasy smoke operation mostly Residents in the Gunnison area are reminded to call the Gunnison Valley to report a fire Hospital at Fire Chief Steve Olsen and assistant both carry beepers Karl Humphrey and are alerted by the hospital with the location of the immediately the siren Within 52 seconds fire blows to alert other volunteer firemen as the They have been classed response time in Utah states Chief Olsen Because the hospital has firemen are able to its own generator serve the public better even during a power outage fastest It took about three hours to remove the carnage from the highway finally being cleared with a tractor and blade scraping the animals off the road was The truck loaded with gravel by following the accident inspected and Utah Highway Patrol troopers found to have defective brakes Trooper Gunnison City firemen responded at 6:10 pm Thursday to a call at the Craig Topham home in Gunnison juries owned by Sanpete County and driven by David Carpenter plowed into the herd owned by Kay Manti Frischknecht A Guidance Program Is Blaze in Home said about 25 sheep the investigation were killed outright and another 20 had because of their into be destroyed Faulty brakes have been determined as the cause of an accident Dec 30 in which some 45 sheep were killed when C ammed by a truck along US Highway 89 near Christianburg Mark Reinfurt To Play at Firemen Quell who headed Willden Grade School Hits Peak Enrollment The greatest number of students ever at Gunnison enrolled Valley Elementary School was recorded following the Christmas 431 students in classes holidays with The present building has been occupied since 1961 and was built to house records show 400 students The enrollment study indicates that and first grade classes have the largest number of students with next year’s projected kindergarten enrollment expected to be about 70 students kindergarten of class enrollments with 75 first grade show kindergarten with 73 second grade with 59 third grade 63 fourth grade 57 first grade 48 46 and sixth grade A 4 breakdown In addition there the special education are 10 students in class ' '4 Dixie Olsen daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Koeven is the proud mother of a son born January 6 the first baby of 1981 born here Kip was delivered bv Dr Von Pratt and assisted by Dr Lamar li Stewart Dixie is a beautician in her parents’ Kexall Drug Store here in Gunnison She is also the mother of two daughters Mindy and April Power Flows Again After UP&L Crews Restore Service on Glen Canyon Line Near Antimony ANTIMONY — Utah Power and Light Company crews restored electric line power to a major transmission between Glen Canyon and Sigurd after a morning outage resulted in a 240 kilovolt line ripping away from a wood standard and dropping to the ground four miles east of Antimony Friday The line in operation since 1961 was first believed to be a contributing cause of the blackout which kept many areas of the state including southern Utah without electricity for some six hours Thursday at former Gunnison Mark Reinfurt resident will be featured In concert at Manti Public Is Invited to the with which Is a benefit event tickets now on sale at reduced prices in several businesses However after analysis of time elements it was concluded that the line went down as the result of the power outage rather than being a cause of it Power company officials ultimately concluded that the cause of the outage was the result of trash being burned under a high voltage line at the Utah State Prison and an explosion of a barrel of volatile material which caused some ionization of the air near the power lines and caused the system to shut down UP&L Gunnison crews from Richfield and worked through the night Thursday and Friday to repair damages to two power pole arms and get the huge one and a half inch thick steel electric conductor back into place Telluride Division Boyd Warenski for UP&L said the line superintendent A was energized about 9:30 am Friday some eight hours after crews actually began work on the job Power went out about 11:30 a m maintenance crew working in the to the Richfield area was dispatched area early Thursday afternoon after the power firm was advised that the line was dowa A Paul Ball crew supervisor along with Dave Burrows and Clark were sent to the scene to Dickinson await arrival of several repair crews who began arriving about 5 30 pm Mr Warenski said some 18 men were involved in the repair operation cluding linemen and persons providing materials from the division’s headquarters service center in Richneeded field He said work got underway about 1:30 am and continued throughout the night and crews remained at the scene until power was restored to the line Warenski who spent the night at the scene with the crews said it appeared a which held the string of insulators conductor burned out allowing the line to swing As it did the reaction pulled the line on another pole some 800 feet to the south with such force that the inon the sulators and other equipment pole gave way from the weight and force and the line fell to the ground (Continui-- On Page Two) |
