Show (junnlfron Valley Xw Thursday January 15 UP&L 1981 (Continued Gunnison Valley Sews SECO Gunnison Utah 14434 Telephone 510 South Main Street Gunnison Valley News (SECD 232 020) is published each Thursday for $800 per year in Utah and $1000 per year out of Utah by Gunnison Valley News 510 South Main Street Gunnison Utah 84434 Second class postage address changes to paid at Gunnison Utah 84434 POSTMASTER: Send Gunnison Valley News Box 403 Gunnison Utah 84434 Single Copy 25c Publisher Mark G Fuellenbach Hal C Edwards Editor — Editorial Blessing in Disguise? Last Thursday’s power outage which left nearly all of Utah and parts of other states without electricity for nearly six hours brought out some situations which if heeded will probably help everyone Perhaps a blessing in disguise Fortunately the power went off during the middle of the day during a time when temperatures were not bitter cold If it had occurred during the late evening or nighttime hours in temperatures the end result probably wouldn’t have been so good Many people realized just how unprepared they really were when it came to some basics such as flashlights and batteries which work an alternate way to keep warm if the electric heat or the coal or gas furnace can’t operate food which is available and can be eaten without being cooked gasoline in vehicles in case of emergency trips when gas pumps aren’t working In some cases people couldn’t even open a can of food because the only opener they had was elec- tric The list seems endless as to the things which which a good deal of people don’t have are basic and from Page UP&L spokesman Grant Pendleton said the incident near Antimony occurred some seven seconds after power was out throughout the entire UPAL indicating it could have been system the result of rather than the cause of the Gets $442000 Contract A (442000 federal contract from the Oceanic Atmospheric Administration has been awarded to the Utah Water Research Laboratory at Utah State University to research and National outage The pole complex on which the insulators were burned is one of two and Sigurd Glen Canyon between referred to by company employees as a pole On such poles the transposition power lines are reversed from left to right as part of an effort to assure motors safety operation of and to minimize interference to radio and television reception The state’s weather modification program more commonly called cloud seeding has been operated for the past seven years by the North American Weather Consultants Warenski said the conductor lines are feet apart on the regular poles but on the transposition poles the lines cross and come within about seven feet of each other 12 The program originally started with county funding in 1973 picked up state matching funds in 1975 and got a onetime federal contribution in the He said that while this could possibly of power there what happened lead to an easier arcing is no proof that that is drought program survival precautions dispersing produce mountain To Editor Letter three Highway Brake Failure Patrolmen the day after when they gave the truck a complete brake check paper concerning the over accident I Secondly the accident want an apology and probably wouldn’t have correction made con- happened if the flagman had been where he should cerning the accident The section in the paper have been even con- says nothing about why sidering the bad brakes the accident happened It He should have been makes it sound like I just located before the curve instead of after the curve plain hit the sheep had truck The On the sheep there were mechanical brake failure 45 instead of 47 which which was varified by were killed or had to be Editor News: Since my name is in the killed Officer Bert Willden and I counted the sheep at the time of the accident David Carpenter Statistics Gunnison Valley Hospital Jan 6 1981 boy to Mrs Dixie Koeven Gunnison Jan 8 1981 girl to Mr and Mrs Fred St Pierre Redmond Jan 10 1981 girl to Mr and Mrs Leon Beal Manti Mr Ball said several persons in Antimony stated they heard a loud explosion believed tohave been caused when the line went down Pendelton said that the outage of the line probably Glen contributed to the power being out for a longer period of time that if it hadn’t occurred He said that under normal the system is separated at conditions and that Nephi and Camp Williams when either of those areas has an outage the Glen Canyon line power can be added to the system to make up for the losses of the other areas But since that line was out in addition to jfte ’rest of the system being down it took officials longer to restore power asf only small sections could be restored at one time in order not to overload the system and cause other damages Most power was on in southern Utah while areas in the by 5:30 pm Salt Wasatch Front and metropolitan Lake City areas had power back on as early as 1:30 pm Throughout the region schools closed — most within and hour half — after power went off as classrooms have no windows heating systems failed to produce were and a many and heat there was little However generally or no damage as a result of the outage WESTFALIA of food with this 170 is 100 69613 Reg SPECIAL Eliminate the nuisance of filling and spilling ice trays with an Automatic at extra charge Ice Maker Available meat cuts Keep most fresh and ready to cook for up to 7 days in the Flowing Cold Meat Tender They never need thawing because they never quite freeze Keep melon cabbage sacks of fruit resh and crisp with Vegetable Hydrators additional areas areas Dr Geoffrey Hill a research professor at USU and director of the research and development project says the primary evaluation goal is to determine exact precipitation changes throughout the test area aircraft physics equipped dual frequency radiometer ground based equipment including new instruments developed at USU to gather the verticial profile of water will be used for the Cloud temperatures eevaluation Cloud radar a He says the program covers about 10000 square miles involving most of Sevier and Piute counties Sanpete plus portions of Juab Carbon Grand Millard Emery Wayne Beaver Iron and Washington San Juan Tooele Garfield counties & beets this mashed buttered carrots parfait jello r chic- mashed com ken fruit pie r beef soup precipitation for dry farms and reduce hailstorm damage to crops cheese stick salad cake bread sticks So all the intellectuals huddled with their books in seats near the windows while the majority of the kids clustered in multiple rooms ignoring the “quiet please" signs and began to chat Then somebody found a Frisbee in a backpack was The poor librarian really frustrated It was too dark to tell who had the Frisbee and just light enough to see that it was of whizzing by Then by course there were the students who happened to Where were you when be going from the third the lights went out? floor to the fourth floor No I wasn’t home in via the elevator Richfield to experience I don't know who it was the power outage But we trapped in the elevator were left in the same but can you imagine darkness up in Logan I spending four hours in a dark five by six cubicle happened to be diligently most likely with total studying up in the library when the power went off strangers? The students Which was okay with me trying to leave the library It gave me an excuse to couldn’t go through the tear myself away from electric eye except for the my books But have you books Instead they had ever been in a library to wait in line and have a when the power is off? library attendant go Some students do go there through all of their stuff to study And when the purses backpacks coats power went off so did the gym bags briefcases but Just Stuff Jan no one had stolen a book lights r Wednesday-Cub- increase to evaluation pineapple cake steak the says pickled cheese-ha- results of the research and evaluation upcoming project will have a valuable impact on worldefforts modification weather wide “Federal funding of such an is unique too” Summers evaluation adds A summer croud seeding program also is conducted in Cache and Box Elder counties not connected with Summers Nutrition Prothe week Seniors gram menu for is as follows: And what happened to the rest of the school? Those kids lucky enough to have classes in rooms with no windows didn’t have to go to class All others did The bookstore All the had to close were electric registers They almost had to cancel the basketball game Back at my apartment no electriciy meant no heat many among other things One lives by force of habit expecting that when we flip a switch the lights will go on When we turn up the the furnace thermostat will start to chug Ovens won’t work freezers TV’s don’t don’t freeze blow driers blink on don’t blow doorbells don’t even ring The power outage made me realize what a great luxury if not almost a necessity to this day and age the power is And a special thanks to the power crews for getting the lights back in working order after such in a major catastrophe short such a relatively time and other of wind turbulence the distribution of silver iodide particles in clouds and cloud seeding methods are among study needs ffects The Utah project also could become a test of the validity of transferring cloud results from one area to seeding another avoiding research duplication in newly seeded areas according to Dr Hill Paul C Summers coordinator of the cloud seeding program for the Division of Water Resources says the effort cooperative is the largest wintertime probably cloud seeding operation in the US considering the land area covered and Are your heating bills the roof? f budget MILKERS TO THE WORLD systemat Then it’s our Reversing Valve Stainless Steel time you discovered energy-savin- g THERMA Vacuum Cylinder Milk Flow Monitor “With Westfalia ACR it’s like having an extra hired Save up to 50 In 2006 construction! Electronic Control Unit cu ft r Frigidaire Forget the mess and time consuming bother of defrosting This remote or generators particles to snowfall in by ground iodide silver The typical cloud seeding season is from November to April and last year 71 ground generators were operated is paid to high attention Careful flood levels and potential freezing conditions A statistical evaluation bv the Division of Water Resources shows an overall increase of 125 to 15 percent in snowfall over the life of the program Utah’s weather modification program is viewed as an economical way to supplement water supplies in selected FRIGIDAIRE APPLIANCES Get plenty of organized storage space for all kinds are seeded Winter storms Mr Ball said the report of the downed line was made by Van Wiley Anwho had been in the area timony gathering firewood He said Mr Wiley had driven past the area and was on his the way down when he encountered large line strung across the road about six feet off the ground pulled between the two poles Reports of an aircraft striking the after the power line were discounted Federal Aviation Agency reported a missing plane in the area All in all Thursday’s outage could be termed as a good exercise in preparedness and the public should take from this situation a lesson in providing a certain amount of individual year Counties involved have formed the Utah Water Resources development state Corp and a number of federal and private agencies participate in the When the line hit the ground or when it was torn from the insulators grounded out and power was shut down between Glen Canyon and the Sigurd switching station officials said it Suppose the power had been out for 24 hours or even several days? How long could we really get by without things becoming a real hardship? But even now officials after not being able to pinpoint the cause for over 24 hours are being challenged on their announcement of what they believe is the cause which leaves an air of mystery as to just how much control humans have over such a situation weather the Utah of modification program Resources and of Water Division Utah’s central and southern counties The evaluation will be conducted Jan 15 to Mar 15 in the Tushar Mountains near Beaver There are many other things which the outage points up For example our complete dependence on electricity to operate heating plants keep food in cold storage operate practically every small appliance in our homes operate radio stations and radios to keep us informed of what to expect and on and on it goes And while the power company is as vulnerable as anyone else when it comes to unexpected emergencies it would seem that an even better method of getting power restored should be possible True having a system which keeps the entire operation from being damaged by cutting off all power is a ‘ good precaution winter the evaluate He turned around and went into Antimony on another road and reported the situation to the power company For years we have been advised both by church and civil defense officials to be prepared Last Thursday’s outage proved how most of us weren’t prepared at all It is doubtful that anyone would have actually died or been placed in a serious health situation if the power had continued to be off But surviving could be easier and more comfortable if we are ready for the worst Seniors Menu Region Cloud Seeding 1) hand” manhours That’s right The Westfalia Automatic Cluster Remover can save you time and money while minimizing the threat of mastitis All you do is prepare the udder switch on the ACR attach the cluster and that's It The ACR wprks with any system And its unique memory system” advises the unit that the milker is in the strip phase when milk flow drops This eliminates extra time and speeds the movement of cows through the parlor No other system offers this computer-likmemory feature which assures you of getting all the milk in the fastest most efficient way possible When the stripping phase is completed the ACR shuts off vacuum pauses and gently Home energy is costly Heating bills have nowhere to go but up unless you look into Boise Cascade Homes’ Therma 2000M construction You’ll save energy dollars 1 6 ways year after year We’ll show you how You can cut those big bills TALK TO US ABOUT FINANCING 734 mm detaches the cluster The ACR See OTHER - it devices a revolution in now at your Westfalia Sales Center APPLIANCES ON SPECIAL SALE! 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