Show I t Volume 67 Number 41 Wednesday October 1969 1 J ' Price 35 cents Mound in Park is missing Gunnison The Gunnison is missing from Ihe mound at the comer of the you noticed that flowers haven’t been doing well so some new dirt has been ordered to replace what is there Thanks to Ruth Rosen vail the plants were taken with expert hands and replanted in the rose bed where they will serve another purpose next year Many things need to be done for next year if we are going Park If to win a mint park Anyone interested in how this could be accomplished and be part of the planning please step forth and sign up as a volunteer Contact City Hall or any City Council member or Marilyn Hatch We need more garden club members as well as beautification planners this is the time to help make the difference in how we look and grow Michael Martin Murphy Concert will be held Oct Michael Martin Murphey popuwill lar singer present a benefit concert in behalf of the Sanpete Valley and GunniOcson Hospitals on Wednesday tober 18 The concert is sponsored by First West Brokerage and Far West Bank Both have tickets available After expenses of the concert are paid the profits will go to the two hospitals The concert will take place at 8 pm in the Snow College Activity Center For ticket reservations contact Far West Bank Fairview 18 or Mt Pleasant or Snow College Activity Center Ticket Office music has always Murphey’s been hard to pigeonhole and cateHe has had hits on both gorize sides of the popcountry divide and racked up over 12 hits in the last four years alone His catalog of classic sons include “Cherokee Fiddle’V“Wild-fire'“Carolina in the Pines” and “Geronimo’s Cadillac'” with Murphy recently performed the Utah Symphony in a concert at Deer Valley GUNNISON IS MISSING FROM THE MOUNDRuth Rosenvall is pictured removing the plants from the mound A wet Sept ends a dry vater year A wet September ends a dry weather year But most Sanpete Valley residents were undoubtedly water year glad to see the become history because the story of the year is almost uniformly dry The dry cycle began with the water year-- Precipitation only 88 percent of normal at the was Manti weather station not a catch up year barely average And the water year that ended S Aturday at midnight produced only 1176 inches of water in 91 percent of average into prepared soil Annett Allred daughter pf Marilyn and Vern Hatch 'f petting 5 ome lessons from Ruth Hermansen Greener named as Alumni Director Phyllis Phyllis Hermansen Greener has ben named alumni director for the Gunnison Yalley High SchooLby the High School Booster Club according to Dr Richard Nay club president is presently engaged in assembling the names and addresses of all former students of the school for the past 69 years in obtaining Assistance these Mrs Greener has been given by memThus the various classes far the lists are complete for 27 of the classes addresses bers of Voluntary help is being sought to complete the lists and addresses for the following years: 1924 to 26 1919 J932 1933 1944 J945 3957 1979:1987 J988 andJ989 Years not listed are being worked on at this time Any member of the above listed classes who has or is wiling to take on the task of compiling the names and addresses of classmates please notify Mrs Greener Jeleplioiie The ultimate goal is to organize is to preserve an alumni association the history and spirit of the school Jo promote a yearly reunion (or aU alumni to encourage periodic class reunions at least every five years The loan of several eol(f yearbooks has resulted in making copies to be lcit at the school to preHowever yearserve the history books of 39242526 J943 and J944 are needed would be returned 'THesc promptly copying But September did give promise of better days to come JLee J Anderson weather cooperative observer measured 118 inches somewhat better than the longtime average of the month in The month that did was FEbruary usually a wet month that delivers a lot of water that’s stored Local Task Force is being formed Sanpete County and local health service agencies are organizing a task force that will help alleviate the financial plight of the county’s two hospitals The Sanpete VAlley Hospital in Mt Pleasant is continuing to operate in the red and its survival is uncertain George Winn the hossaid pital’s administrator Mark Stoddard administrator of the Gunnison Valley Hospital said that the hospital is now operating in the black after several years of operating in debt The emirc hospital community has rallied around us" Stoddard said “But we need to do still more to ensure our future” he added The precarious situation of the Gunnison and NOrth Sanpete institutions is not peculiar to them but typical of most rural hospitals in the United States Stoddard and Winn said “Hundreds of small rural hospitals have closed in the past few years” Winn said The problem is mainly financial Winn and Stoddard said And they put much of the blame on federal reimbursement programs mainly Medicaid - which require to provide a wide the hospitals range of services below their cost “The public needs to be informed W inn as to our financial situation’ said be one assignment of the task force It will have others too evaluation of the rural hospirectal’s role in the community on ways to cope ommendations with the financial squeeze and getting the people involved through That will action programs “It’s urgent” Winn said Sanpete County Commissioner Robert Bessey whose assignment includes public health will be a member of the task force The six other members will represent various groups throughout the county “We hope to have the task force organized in a two week period” Bessey said “We want to get the people involved" Commissioner Leonard said that public health is a major county responsibility “Our hospitals are a vital to our well being as roads law enforcement and other services and they play an important role int he county’s economy” Blackham added Their payrolls are significant And one of the idling inquii ies we get form firms considering a move to our county is the quality of health care available “Some of Utah’s small hospitals have already gone under” Bessey said “We cannot allow that to happen here" in the snow banks on the high mountain drainages who takes the Gary Jorgenson for the Great BAsin measurements Station recorded Experimental for similar drought conditions Sorensen Field a mile southeast of Ephraim For the measured water year he 1068 inches That’s 96 percent of normal And February and June were again the culprits The consequences of even a two inch precipitation shortfall in the valley and five to six inches on the watershed are evidentevery where in te rationing of both culinary and irrigation water in some communities in dry fall pastures in fields of grain an d hay much below normal Friday Forum David R Willmore Instructor at the Ephraim LDS Institute of Religion and Second Counselor in will the Ephraim Slake Presidency be the speaker at Friday Forum on October 13 198 at 12:30 pm at the Ephraim LDS Institute of Religion Rummage and bake sale set The O' w North Pack Cub Scouts will be sponsoring a Rummage and Bake Sale and Bazaar on the parking lot of the Rasmussens Ace Hardware Store in Gunnison on Saturday October 14 1989 starting at 9:00 am Please come out and support the Cub Scouts and pick up a delicious treat and a great bargain NEW CITY EMPLOYEE: Mallory hermansen will be the new face at the Gunnison City Offices She will be replacing iinda Malmgren who is pictured here with Mallory The city sends over 600 Mallory will be responsible for mainly the billing of the utilities bills each month for the water sewer and pressurized irrigation systems Mallory is the wife of Scott Hermansen and they have one daughter books after |