Show Tirymanrt n w nr ’Mm Gunnison Valiev News Wednesday October 20 1993 Sr Citizens Letters to the Editor We welcome lettars to the Editor All letters must be signed Names withheld on request but the letter must contain your We reserve the right to edit for length ft necessary and signature all letters will be considered as to whether or not content would be of interest to our readers can be he'll BE OKAY yj thanks parents that attended last conference GVHS The staff at Gunnison Valley High School would like to thank all of the parents who attended the parent conference on Tuesday October 12 The parent support attendance and interest was the best that it has ever been We also appreciate the PTA and Thanks to ONCE "THE "SEASON OPENS — AFTERALL IT'S BEEN A WHOLE YEAR fk since he Killed anything their efforts in providing refreshments selling memberships and a fund raiser to earn promoting funds for our school We would all parents to take an encourage active roll in their sons’daughters' education for the rest of the year and welcome them to contact teachers during the year mini-dri- ll A reminder that quilting is done at the Center Menu this week includes: daily team Wednesday October 20 Chicken Ala King Steamed Rice Buttered Peas Pineapple Upside Down Cake bread butter milk juice October 21 - Roast Thursday Pork Baked potato with sauce glazed carrots fruit crisp bread butter milk juice Friday October 22 - Salisbury Steak Whipped potatoes with rain and watched their girls dance Thank you all fora successful camp Gunnison Call or write your Senators about NAFTA Dear Editor: Anyone who has been corresponding with Senators Hatch and Bennett about the North American Free Trade agreement get the impression it will bring jobs and prosperity to North America Although as you read the agreement you will see that couldn’t be farther from the truth The unemployment problem in America and the other countries in NAFTA is caused by overregulation and taxes on the economy’s not by Tariffs NAFTA will impose 1700 irreverspages of Intermountain ible regulations on the economy As wcil as take regulation of Com and merce away from Congress give it to an unclected international bureaucracy with 32 regulatory NAFTA has nothing to agencies do with free trade and everything to do with turning more sovereignty over to the internationalists If you opposed to any more regulation and any more freedom lost Call or write the two Senators and tell them to change their mind and vote NO on NAFTA Thank You Mike Lowe 434 W 1st S Brigham City Utah - PO Box 87 - Gunnison Utah 84634 - Phone USPS The Gunnison Valley News is published each Wednesday lor $15 00 per year in Utah and $18 00 in Utah and $21 00 per year out of state by the Gunnison Valley News Gunnison Utah Second class postage is paid at Gunnison Utah 84634 POSTMASTER Send address changes to the Gunnison Valley News P O Box 189 Gunnison Utah 84634 Single copy $ 50 Publisher: Jim Olsen- Editor: Charmaine Lewis Correspondents: Axtell Rilla Dee Sorenson Fayette' Ruby Hammond Gunnison Lynell Fulkerson gravy tossed green salad preaches cookie bread butter milk juice Tuesday October 26 - Pork Chops dressing with gravy yams Over $100 million goes to local governments for tax exempt lands Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt announced that payments totalling $103205555 have been 934 local governsent to about ment units across the country in accordance with the payments in Lieu of Taxes (PILT) Act of 1976 The annual payments are distributed to eligible units of general local government by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land ManThe (BLM) agement payments are intended to help offset the loss of revenue caused by the presence of certain federal land within local government boundaries “These payments arc beneficial to local governments especially for sparsely populated counties that contain large acreage of federal lands” BLM Director Jim Baca said “These payments local units prohelp governmental vide such vital services as fire and T search and respolice protection cue operations and road construc- tion” As a result of decreases in prior year federal land payments which Steve Says: in the PILT act as a deduction formula the total computational amount paid to local units this year under the PILT program was about $38 million more than that paid last year The BLM administers the PILT program because it is the largest single federal land management agency with responsibility for over 270 million acres of public lands Payments are made for federal lands administered by the BLM Forest Service National Park Service US Fish and Wildlife has too many reruns History Service and for federal water projects and some military installations These monies are in addition to revenues from oil and gas leases and sales of minerals timber and other materials and products derived from public lands which the federal governments also shares with State and local governments “While federal lands provide local recreational and important economic the opportunities status can have fiscal imunits pacts on the governmental that surround them This partnership is the federal government’s way of helping to minimize those impacts” Baca said Including the current payment more than one billion dollars has California $10459027 Utah Arizona $8855822 $8696248Montana $8239592 Idaho $7379289 and Wyoming $6789331 Sanpete County will receive $383820 and Sevier County will receive $415037 Total for Utah counties include $8885822 H By Gary Anderson USU Extension Agent As we wind up the year and tabulate what was accomplished by Sanpete County youth and their adult leaders I am always amazed at the great investment our leaders This year youth put into the over 200 adults signed up as leaders and put in thousands of hours amounts of their and considerable own money and other resources so that nearly 600 projects could be participated in Dozens of other leaders participated as at contests chaperons and school special interest project leaders and others Many other volunteers have provided projects to raise money or have contributed specialist resources outright to insure opportunities for youth of limited means These people have made it so that hundreds of Sanpete county youth can learn a skill or have a growing experience and learn skills communication skills and gain some self esteem while they are having some fun There is no way the Extension professional staff could begin to do all It is this work for all these youth sometimes a taxing job Sometimes the youth seem to only have a passing interest in the project but many will remember that these volunteers did for them many ears alter Parents and grown-uyouth have come into our office and told us what an important experience they or their child had beleader cause of some caring To you volunteers I can only say THANKS THANKS for me for the youth and for their parents And lets do it again in the coming year If you haven't participated as a leader before and would like to help Call us at the Extension Office at and you’ll be See on evil hear no evil going to PG movies the rest of your life Research has shown that exercise kills germs What we still don’t know is how to make them exercise a surplus of simple answers and a shortage of of simple problems? Why is it that we always have 20 Off & Friday Carry Little ones like playing and they'll love grown-umetal playing with these John Deere scale models Thursday Cash There’s never a shortage of what you want at Gunnison Valley Bank FDIC been returned to local governments since the program began With the exception of Rhode Island all States plus Puerto Rico Guam and the Virgin Islands are receiving PILT funds this year The States whose counties will collectively receive the largest amounts are New Mexico $10595126 Thanks to Sanpete County 4-- Volunteers How many shopping days till Christmas? Depends whether you count by the calendar or by your wallet Your Home Owned Independent Bank The Gunnison Senior Citizens will be exercising on October 26 at 11:30 am come and work out on the new exercise machine October 27 the van will be taking seniors to the store doctors or where ever you need to go October 28 a hearing clinic will be held at 10:00 am October 29 the seniors will be playing bingo at 12:30 pm at the Center There will be some nice prizes members and parents We would like to thank all of the girls who participated in the minidrill camp We would also like to thank the mothers who stood in the News & John Deere toys just right for younger hands EQUAL HOUSING LENDER 62 South Main - Gunnison 528-727- wJl b&ctos Saturday 1 cookie bread butter October 27 - HomeWednesday made Chicken noodle soup cheese stick jello with fruit cake biscuits butter milk juice Batteries need to be changed In detectors October 31 Daylight Savings comes to an end and once again we move our clocks back one hour The UTAH SAFETY COUNCIL reminds you to change the batteries in your smoke detectors and test them to make sure they are working properly By getting into the habit of changing y our batteries at this time you will always know how old the batteries are If you haven’t yet felt the need to purchase smoke detectors hopefully Time this will convince you It is a myth that you can smell smoke and wake up on your own Fires produce toxic gases some of which you can’t smell which often kill people long before the fire reaches them In 1992 there were 9 people killed in Utah fires non of which had working smoke detecOn the other tors in their homes hand was killed in Utah fires last year that had working smoke detectors Lightning claims another victim Lightning claimed another Utah victim recently according to the San Juan Record 18 of Blanding John Thornton about 4 was struck by lightning pm while standing in an alfalfa field with his father and brothers He had returned home from college for theLabor day weekend and to hunt in the archery season All in the group were knocked to the ground JL Thom ton fatherof the victim came to his senses and began CPR on John while abrother ran to the family’s vehicle CPR was administered all the way to San Juan Hospital Monticello but he was pronounced dead Car and Truck Sales jump 14 percent in Second Quarter of 93' Unit sales of new cars and trucks jumped 14 percent in the second quarter of 1993 compared to the same period a year earlier the State said Tax Commission A total of 18387 new cars and trucks were sold during the second quarter compared to 6 32 a year eailicr Total US truck sales for the second quarter are not avai lable new car sales in the yet however nation grew 64 percent for Utah sales of Comparisons cars and trucks’ sales growth are notavailablcduetoachangeinthe Gunnison Implement applesauce milk juice way in which the Tax Commissions Motor Vehicle Division classifies the vehicle type (car versus truck) Some vehicles which were classified as cars are previously now being coded in the computer as trucks particularly in the case of minivans For this reason it appears there has been a large increase in the number of new trucks and a significant decrease in car sales However heavy commercial trucks and motor homes were unaffected by the change Heavy truck sales which tend to be volatile increased in triple digits in the second quarter of 1993 International harvester Freightlincr and White Freight truck sales contributed to this increase rising 279 236 and 150 percent respectively Mack Peterbilt and White GMC sales jumped 688 565 and 231 percent respectively Kcnworth trucks were exception slipping 28 percent in the second quarter Sales of new motor homes in Utah rose 3 percent in the second quarter as a result of the 125 growth in W inebago sales Fleetwood sales however were off 25 percent |