Show VOLUME 80 NUMBER GUNNISON 25 UTAH THURSDAY JUNE 18 1981 PRICE 25c Fire Burns 500 Acres A fire that burned 500 acres of Bureau of Land Management land northeast of Gunnison Tuesday took firemen nearly four horn to bring under control fire or The fire started just beyond the rodeo grounds near Highway 89 and spread from there with strong winds Mowing the fire on Two pumpers trucks were called in from Salina and two more fire trucks from Manti aided in extinguishing the blaze as well as two fire trucks form Gunnison Christensen said Two local men donated their tractors also to help set up fire breaks Also a road grader form Jonco of Orem a firm which is installing a new waterline in Centerfield donated a road grader and a seismograph crew from Salina also aided Firemen were unable to contain the Fires Many During Week Dry ground has created brush fires for the Gunnison Valley Fire Department during the last week a trash Friday around 12:30 pm fire behind Happy Service Market got out of control and burned weed areas in the creek bottom Firemen were able to quickly bring under control firemen were Monday at 3 pm called to a brush fire in Clarion at ‘he Ivan Squire property Shifting winds made it more difficult to control but it was brought under control before any damage was done to buildings As the trucks were filling up with water again the beepers called the firemen to a grass fire at the Von Childs residence in Gunnison This also was brought quickly under control Pool Repair Steve Eldredge sand blasts the Gunnison City Pool while Gary Stewart sweeps up the old paint and used sand back into sacks to be hanled away as a result of POP fundraising repaired Pool Sandblasted The fust step in repairing the pool has recently been completed Pour tons of sand were used to off the old paint in order to get to the original cement "It’s slow tedious can finish 80 square work” and "we feet an hour if everything goes right” were the statements made by summer employees Steve Ddredge and Gary Stewart of Babbitt Acoustical Tile Company Hie men are both from Provo and students at Brigham Young University where Eldredge plays football and Stewart plays basketball on BYU teams the pool will After sandblasting receive three coats of plaster The first wifl be a mixture of plaster and glue the second plaster and the third a coat of plaster troweled into a smooth finish The comers win be the ledge covered for easier cleaning on the bottom of the shaUow end removed (to prevent stubbed toes) and the Up below the top edge of the pool covered with blue tile Plans also caU for replacing the rusty metal pipe openings with PVC pipe W oik is going along on schedule and should be completed by July "When everything is completed it win look as good as any pool in Utah” both Eldredge and Stewart commented Car Explodes Burns Following Collision A car and truck were totalled and the exploded after the driver of the to miss a skunk vehicle swerved Tuesday at about 11:30 pm car Robert Allred said released Sanpete County Sheriff Dept Firemen quickly extinguished the Maze A mid 70 Plymouth driven by Virgil D Winn Aurora exploded shortly after colliding with a 1968 Chevy pickup truck pulling a U Haul trailer driven by David Avondet Arizona Avondet and a step brother were to Gunnison Valley Hospital from minor injuries and suffering "Don’t swerve to miss an animal” Steve Olsen fireman said He said that many deaths occur each year when people swerve to miss animals L Christensen Chief of Police were the inofficers in the incident Allred and Joe Gunnison taken vestigating Story Hour Starts Guard Returns From Summer Story Hour will begin today (Thursday) at 4 pm in the Gunnison Civic Library Different programs have been planned for the weekly sessions and all children from the surrounding towns are invited to attend Today Walt Disney films from the Neighborhood Watch Program will be shown on how to size up strangers answer the telephone of importance the buddy system and the dangers of A discussion taking shortcuts period will follow the movies making stoiy hour about one and hours long Parents are invited to attend with their children There also will be a story hour Tuesday at 3:30 pm A film will shown on safety in the home and member of the EMTs will talk on be a on poison prevention Scheduled for next Thursday at 3 :30 pm is a film on the Heimlich maneuver and personal instruction by an EMT member Training Camp Members of toe Richfield Unit Utah National Guard returned home last weekend after completing a successful summer training camp at Duway Proving Grounds in western Utah The unit commanded by Capt Mark saw combat training with other units in and participated in a special Army Training and Evaluation Program ARTEP in which each solider is tested to make sure he knows his job and is fully trained in it Fiellenbach action along southern Utah session Spec 5 During the Lynn Christensen received his Soldier of the Quarter Award and SgL Paul Anderson graduated from NCO Academy over $50000 in payroll In addition was issued to the men which will add to the economy of their various home towns Pool is being efforts Outbreak Of specialist at Utah State University wiU conduct a workshop on and meat curing at the cheesemaking Gunnison Stake Center June 23 from 1 Food Science - 5 pm Hepatitis riublic Health nurse LaKue Johnson of the Central Utah Health District and doctors at Gunnison Valley Hospital of the valley that inform residents ttifire is an outbreak of infectious hepatitis in the area Dr Mendenhall received his FtiD’ degree in food science and microbiology from Oregon State University He was on the faculty at the University Symptoms are similar to the flu of Florida for three years and has been nausea fever headache including on the research and teaching faculty at and fatigue USU since 1972 He joined USU Extension in 1980 Infectious hepatitis virus is excreted in the feces two to three weeks before and up to one week after any jaundice He is married and has four children appears and lives in Hyde Park There should The workshop is being sponsored by the Gunnison Stake Relief Society There will be no charge for this class be strict attention to personal hygiene and sanitation FYequent advised handwashing is strongly bring it under control until it nearly reached a cedar forest Reuben Christensen assistant Guimsion fire chief said contained the blaze when it reached land he added flat The fire was put out at about 6pm But firemen were called back at about 7 pm when a hot spot developed Firemen were able to quickly extinguish the hot spot Weather The fire jumped several fire breaks Christensen said Firemen finally New County Recent investigation by a state inspection team of the Sanpete County Jail in Manti has proved what law enforcement officers have said all a new jail is desperately along needed for the county - The Sanpete County Jail is outdated and inadequate for use by a county whose continued growth also has more crime to the area brought officials said The facility is located in the basement of the courthouse behind barred and metal doors There is no fire escape nor audiovisual equipment and no jailer to watch the prisoners either In the last two years the jail has almost always been filled to capacity and sometimes overflowing with male prisoners sleeping on the floor Women and minors are transported immediately to other facilities Due to these limited conditions have to be many male prisoners to other jails in Nephi transported (Juab County) and Richfield (Sevier County) Sanpete officers have also transferred prisoners to Emery Provo and Salt Lake City This is not only but also can expensive for Sanpete take officers out of their jurisdiction Chief of Police Joe L Christensen said "From July 1979 to December 1980 Gunnison spent $166370 outside the county just for housing of That’s only housing and prisoners doesn’t include transport of prisoners to and from the jails outside the county or the man hours away from the dty I have gone to Price Richfield and Nephi to either pick up or house prisoners Then they have to be transported from the jail bade here for court and then taken Jail Needed back to that jail again It's a super problem for me and all the other law enforcement officers in the county the of prisoners outside the transport It takes law enforcement county officers out of our towns and leaves our dties unprotected And it takes money out of our county and puts it in some other county’s pocket” Christensen also noted that if the county could afford to gravel all county roads it should be able to afford to build a new jail "The county is reluctant to spend the money but if they get just one suit arising from the negligence present facility they’ll end up spending a lot more money than a new jail would have cost” he said Cow Gives Rare Birth To Triplets On June 4 a Holstein cow in the Charles H Peterson herd Centerfield gave birth to triplet calves one male and two female The occurence of triplets in dairy cattle is very rare being about one in 48000 cows The occurence of twin calves in dairy cattle is more common and is about one in every 100 cows The triplets were bom without any assistance and are well and doing fine This cow was not treated with any hormones that might induce multiple births but was an act of natural causes The public is welcome to come and see the calves Peterson said |