Show WX7 VOLUME 80 NUMBER 49 UTAH THURSDAY GUNNISON DECEMBER 3 1981 PRICE 25c LSD Stamps in County? Sanpete County police are waning children in the county to beware of postage-sizstamps with cartoon characters on them - one lick could take them on a very unpleasant The stamps have been distributed in and central abundance in northern Utah counties and according to some sources have begun to drift down to South Central Utah “trip" Children in the county’s elementary and middle schools were warned that the glue on the stamps contains LSD a hallucegenic drug A resident of Moroni told police tliit he has seen the stamps in the area but no child has yet turned any stamps into his parents or teachers The stamps are decorated with Walt When Disney and Snoopy characters licked the child would take the ding into his system Any child given such stamps should turn them over to his school oflicials teachers or to his parents Elder Lloyd C George To Preside At Gunnison Stake Conference Elder Lloyd C George regional of the Council of the representative Twelve Apostles of The Church of Saints will Jesus Christ of conpreside over the ference of the Gunnison Utah Stake this weekend Sessions will begin Saturday at 4 pm with a Priesthood leadership Those invited to attend are meeting all Melchezedek Priesthood leaders High including the stake presidency Council bishoprics High Priest group leaders Seventies group leaders and Elders Quorums presidencies weitare session at 8 a in Sunday Invited are stake presidency members Relief high councilmen bishoprics and all others Society presidents involved in the IDS Chureh Welfare A 7 pm meeting Saturday is for all adult stake members The theme of is A the meeting “Activation " Responsibility of the Entire Church invitation The stake will conduct a special program President Paul P Dyreng extends an to all stake members to the and general session at 10 am Sunday al the Stake Center visitors Area Farmers Need Strong Voice Union President Says in Ephraim EPHRAIM County Farmers pete and Sevier Union members held their annual policySanpete planning meeting Nov 24 David Strate told County President members that Farmers Union policy represents the interests of the family farmer in America “We need state level a strong farm voice at the and in Washington especially at a time when farm and ranch income is as low as it’s been in several decades” he said Holman of the president told Farmers Union members that utilizing farmer cooperatives is imperative to America’s family farm system of agriculture Holman complimented turkey producers on the success of Moroni Feed Company and Roy that are the “free noted system at its very best” enterprise allowing farmers to maintain control of their product a little further along the marketing chain “Farmers Union has been linked to the cooperative movement organizing Cenex and Grain Terminal Associaand locally tion large regional in Roy and organizing the U & I in Feed Mt Ogden Cooperative Ogden” he reported He told the group that another proposal Intermountain Livestock Packing Association would have the sheep cattter greatly benefited “Discontinuance and dairy industries of this project can be attributed to lack When agrof industry cooperation iculture unites anything can be It’s a case of a great accomplished need but the farmers loose” he said The farm group’s executive secretary Randy Parker reported on the activities here and in organization’s the nation’s capitol Booster Station Delayed 90 Days Yuletide Painting Merlene painted Peterson of Gunnison the windows of most nison Valley businesses original Christmas designs has Gun- with such as this one at the Gunnison Valley Hospital She has been painting the scenes for several years and their popularity steadily increases for Sanpete The booster station County has been delayed for at least 90 days according to Mayor Lester Hill Dale Lund Manti engineer told Mayor Hill there is a back log of orders needed are and the three translators at this time unavailable See Our Story! Gunnison Valley Residents Trying For Unique Holiday Decorations Residents of East First South in decided to do something Gunnison unique for Christmas decorations They wanted to turn the street into a Christmas Street by depicting the story '‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” With pictures and words Each house with the beginning south comer by the Gunnison Hotel is decorated complete with spotlight for nighttime viewing Residents plan to have the lights on from 6 - 8 p m on and longer on weekends weekdays through the Christmas holidays The idea began this summer when a neighborhood party was held at the McArthurs Barbara Sanderson suggested the idea based on the streets found in Salt Lake City From there the ideas suggestions and plans were made Committees were formed with the Sandersons McArthurs and Robinsons in charge of various projects and homes of the elderly Beckham has been organizing his campaign for months with the help of Ronald Richard Reagan’s pollster Withlin Beckham’s Sevier County in both other candidates in interest have expressed for the seat in the new Sanwhich includes Sevier Wasatch Summit Daggett pete Carbon Uintah Duchesne Emery Grand San Juan and Utah counties and 132000 people in southwest Salt Lake County Several parties running district A truck was stolen at the Gunnison Elementary at 6:40 pm Monday Nov The truck belonging to Royal Jensen was parked at the Gunnison 23 chairman is W illiam Pratt Lee Farnsworth is a state representative from Provo and Congressman Jim Hansen’s coordinator A BYU professor ot government and Asian affairs Farnsworth has told supporters he will formally declare his candidacy after the January budget session Democrats however have not given up Regional Demos are setting their sites on Provo's popular mayor Jim who won election and Ferguson in the heavily Republican Other democrats mentioned territory as possible state contenders are senators Omar Bunnell Price Eldon Money Spanish Fork BYU political science tax Sian Taylor professor commissioner Robert Bowen Spanish Fork BYU government professor Omar Kader former and Orem Richard Dndsay legislator Taylors ville Nielson is a former speaker of the and Utah House of Representatives Utah County Republican Party chairman Other possible GOP contenders are Salt lake County GOP chairman Laura Ferguson and les Titus aide to Sen Orrin Hatch former Howard Nielson words help them or had another neighbor said they enjoyed The neighbors doing it together and hope everyone will come and view their art work for years to come Boyd Goble To Open Snow Messiah Concert The Snow College Community Chorus and Orchestra under the direction of McLoyd Erickson will the annual performance of present Handel’s “Messiah” on Sunday Dec 6 at 5:30 pm in the Manti Center Ward Boyd Goble opening aria People” Exalted will sing the Ye My Valley Shall be Gunnison “Comford and “Every Other area soloists will Melba Armstrong who has performed with the “Messiah” every year since it was first performed in Bertha in 1934 Sanpete County Anderson Pauline Blad Barbara Other Barton and Kay Willardson tenor arias will be sung by Jerry Dahl and Carl Purcell Montel Green and David Willmore will sing two bass arias be ’’ The concert is free to the public Elementary while Jensen went in to help the milk man unload a supply of milk He was gone about ten minutes A to police hitchhiker according Gilbert J Urban 25 saw Jensen pull into the school and while Jensen was gone Urban stole the truck police said Urban was charged with auto theft Judge Louis Tervort set bail at $2500 Chief of Police contacted the Utah who were able to with the truck in officer was Norm UUP Children of the valley are invited to and Walt watch movies Disney cartoons on Saturdays from now until Christmas They will be shown from 3 30 p m to 4 40 p m at the Gunnison Civic library Jerry Jorgensen Highway Patrol Urban apprehend Arresting Nephi of the Anderson Kids Invited To Disney Movies Utah County campaign Republicans believe that a nomina tion is nearly equal to electing a because the new district congressman is heavily GOP Howard Nielson BYU professor of is a native of Richfield He statistics graduated from Richfield High School at the Sevier and worked parttime and Richfield Auto Parts Valley Raymond Beckham is a newcomer to but not to the the political arena a professor of public eye Beckham at BYU is president communications of the Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America campaign primed and Plywood was purchased cut into halves or thirds The scenes were then drawn on from coloring at the books using the projector The scenes Gunnison Elementary and the were cut out if needed neighbors painted their own pictures Police Charge Man In Truck Theft Three Provo Republicans Strong Contenders for New House Seat Three Brigham Young University professors one a former Sevier County have openly declared their resident candidacy for the Republican nominathird tion for Utah’s US Congressional District “Christmas Street" They hope everyone will come see their story of “Twas the Night Before Christmas" Some of the children that live on East First South in Gun- nison got together to show off part of the display on their Evaluation Expected In Salina Sex Case A Salina man was expected to plead guilty to one count each of sexual exploitation and forcible sodomy Wednesday in Sixth District Court Marcus Taylor who was appointed his defense counsel by the court Forcible degree ploitation William Richards pleaded guilty in Sixth District Court before Judge Don case involving several young Salina girls It was expected that Rogers would be ordered to undergo a evaluation at the Utah State Hospital Richards had with three charged sexual exploitation and rape originally counts forcible been each just It Don Sevier County Attorney Brown who is prosecuting the case said evidence to date indicates there are “in excess of six girls” between the ages of five and 13 involved He suid the incidents involving Richards have been going on for the past two and a half years The exploitation charges were made of with the taking connection of children for sexual photographs Conviction on that charge gratification carries a sentence of one to 15 years in the state prison while the sodomy and rape convictions carry sentences of five years to life in prior sodomy and rape are first while sexual ex felonies is a second degree felony of sodomy to his scheduled hearing preliminary Tuesday afternoon before Tenth Circuit Court Judge Louis G Tervort Richards agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charges through his attorney However as |