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Show Vor.57 ElinSf No 41 Thursday, April Sheriff Rex Huntsman, 63, has filed tor his seventh term as Missing Aurora Man A search for a missing Aurora man, Gerry Mickelsen, pand accordingly. Sheriff Huntsman was born and raised in Aurora, and when he was elected to the sheriff post, he moved to Richfield. He and his wife, Vonda, are the parents of four sons. Sevier County Sheriff. Sheriff Huntsman has served a total of 24 years and currently holds the record of longest service of any sheriff in the state. When Sheriff Huntsman first took office in 1964, he had one mit. deputy. There are presently seven in the department. He has had to deal with problems from murder, rape, to plane crashes. He also works closely with the State of Utah in narcotics and alcohol cases. In addition to Sevier County, Sheriff Huntsman contracts with the Forest Service for law enforcement on their lands in Fishlake, Gooseberry, and was continued Tuesday evening by the Sevier Sheriffs Jeep Posse, North Sevier Jeep Posse, and several units from the Sanpete Sheriffs Jeep Posse. The young man was last seen attemSaturday, and an all-opt to locate him had been un21, being successful. Some reports placed the man Library Week will Week Library celebrated April be 28 in Salina. Everyone is invited to come and see the new books 24 - purchased recently by Salina librarians at a convention in Salt Lake. The Salina Library is open from 3 - 7 p.m. Monday through Monroe Canyon. Sheriff Huntsman said he sees no major changes in his office in the near future, other than keeping up with any new Friday. In conjunction with Library Week, the library is extending an invitation to all local artists to enter their exhibits to be shown during the week. They ask that all exhibits be brought to the library by Friday, April methods and continually upgrading the service and performance. He also stated that with the continued growth of Sevier County, the Sheriffs Department will have to ex Fifteen Cents 20, 1978 Posses Search For Sheriff Rex Huntsman Files For Sixth Term but were uncon m Colorado, firmed. He was driving a blue infor- Anyone having any mation is asked to contact the Sevier Sheriffs Jeep Posse or the family. Gerry is the son of Gerald Mickelsen, of Aurora. To Hold DUP County Jubilee Four camps of Daughters of Utah Pioneers will hold a County Jubilee beginning at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 27, in the Sdlina Second Ward. Representatives from Sigurd, Redmond, and the two Salina camps will have a program and lunch. Ambulance Phone 1 21. Sheriff Rex Huntsman And Coal Beckons 1--70 Comments from Salina citizens are being sought at two public hearings on a request for funds to upgrade housing in the city. The hearings, on the citys for Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funds, are scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday, April 24, and 8 p.m. Thursday, April 27, at the City Hall. Last year, the city received under a similar $40,000 program and upgraded 29 residences by improving plumbing, wiring, roofs, windows and installing insulation. The work was done by local con- tractors. The first hearing is for ments and opinions on y Elder Young served as a member of the First Council of Seventy from 1945 until his apOcpointment to the Quorum in mission a served He 1976. tober, to the Central United States, where he spent 26 of his 33 months as secretary of the mission. From September, 1923, to August, 1945, Elder Young was an executive of the Ogden Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a position he held at the time he was called to be a General Authority of the Church. He was president of the New England Mission of the Church comcommunity needs. The amount of funds to be sought, the range of activities which may be under- taken with the funds and qualifications for applicants Salinas Business Booms As Housing federal 529-382- The Salina Utah Stake Quarterly Conference will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 22 23. Elder S. Dilworth Young, a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of the Church of SainJesus Christ of Latter-dats, will be the visiting General Authority and will speak at all sessions of the conference. -- 1977 base vehicle Chev. short-whewith a roll bar. S. Dilworth Young To Visit Salina Utah Stake HUD to Quarterly Conference Hear Citizens will be discussed. The second hearing is to review the If the citys is approved by HUD, the city will be invited to submit a full application, probably some time in June. Don Naser, the city engineer, is handling the project. The requested funds are from the Community Development Block Grant program. Among the information to be presented at the hearing is the fact that more will be submitted to HUD than can be funded. from 1947 to 1951. The conference priesthood leadership meeting will be held Saturday from 3 - 5 p.m. in the Salina First Ward Chapel. Those who should attend this meeting are as follows: Stake Presidency, Stake Executive Secretary, Stake Clerks, members of the Stake High Council, High Priest group leaders and secretaries, all Seventies in the Elders Quorum Stake, presidencies and secretaries, ward ward bishoprics, executive secretaries, ward Stake auxiliary clerks, presidencies and secretaries, and all husbands and wives of the above-liste- d leaders. The conference leadership meeting will be held Saturday from 7 - 9 p.m. in the Salina First Ward Chapel. All adult lmembers living in the Slake Elder S. Dilworth Young should attend this session. A special meeting will be held on Sunday at 8 a.m. in the Redmond Ward Chapel. Those who should attend this meeting are as follows: Stake Presidency, Stake executive secretary, Stake clerks, members of the Stake High Council, all ward bishops and counselors. The conference general session will be held Sunday, from 10 a.m. till noon in the Redmond Ward Cultural Hall. All members of the Stake and Special music for the session will be furnished by the Stake Relief Society Chorus. A junior session will be held in connection with the conference in the Junior Sunday School room in the basement of the Redmond Ward Chapel for all children ages Elder Young will visit this session for a short period. friends are invited this session. Elder Young will preside at this session, and President Jerold N. Johnson will conduct. 7. A cry room will be set up in the Redmond Ward Chapel for anyone who desires to take their small children and listen attend to conference Sacrament meetings will be held in all wards as scheduled following the conference.. ' . Lions To Conduct Mobile Clinic To Be Held Tuesday , April 25 WWMMirnwr Kay-Lo- u sight and hearing conservation programs are the primary goal of the more than one million Lions around the world. The Salina Lions are proud and happy to provide this service for the community. The Utah Lions Mobile Screening Van will be at the msm Chev.-OId- s Senior Citizens Building, 330 West Main, on Tuesday, April 25, from 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. It will provide free screening .for all adults for glaucoma, "hearing loss and middle ear problems, diabetes, and high Posse Completes First-Ai- d Course blood pressure. Lion President J.B. Crane and the entire club encourages local residents to visit the clinic and have this screening done at no charge. The clinic is supported with funds raised by the Local Sales Tax In Sevier Produces $449,500 In 1977 p Brents Tire Service has it that Salina is the NEW BUSINESSES GOING fastest-growin- g city, (for its size), in the State of Utah. With the expansion of existing business and new ventures underway, there could be some truth in the rumor. In the photographs are three new businesses, which include Kay-Lo- u Wheeler, who is building a new showroom, offices, and shop; Wheeler Machinery of Salt Lake, building a large, new sales & service facility; and Brent Taylor, presently operating Brent's Conoco, is building a new gas station and tire center. This facility is nearest the freewav and first on the access road. Wheeler's will be say will Chev the Safari Motel & Cafe, and Kay-Lobe south of Shaheen's Motel & Cafe. Construction on all three businesses is at the same stage. They all have footings and foundations in and are preparing for the walls. After these buildings are complete, the entire east side of the connection area to Shaheen's will be full. The west side, howevei1, has many areas still available. The only business on that side is a new camping and trailer park. Butch Cassidy Campground, recently completed, and Birrell Bottling Co. just north of I Girls9 Day u The annual Girls' Day at North Sevier High School will be held Friday, April 21. An assembly will be held in the auditorium at 1:15 p.m.. and everyone is invited to attend. A tea will also be held, time and place to be announced at the assembly. fund-raisin- The Lions of Salina are bringing their Mobile Screening Clinic to Salina on April 25 to screen eyes, hearing, diabetes and blood pressure of local citizens. The screening is free because Utah Foundation Report Utahs local sales tax $449,590 in revenue produced Ten members of the North lor municipal and county purSevier Sheriff's Jeep Posse poses throughout Sevier County completed an extensive advanlast year, according to an ced first aid and emergency analysis completed Dy Utah 12th. The care course April Foundation, the private tax training also included three research organization. These lessons on cardiopulmonary were equal to a collections the resuscitation. Instructor for countywide property tax levy of was sessions training 15.62 mills ($15.62 per $1,000 Lyn Christensen, an Emergenassessed valuation). cy Medical Technician. Local sales tax revenue a included complete Training received by Salina City in 1977 study of the accepted American totaled $86,622. According to the National Red Cross advanced Foundation study, this was with training manual together equivalent to an added city practical application in all property tax levy of 39.71 mills cases of emergency. $1,000 assessed members were ($39.71 perAnother Posse 1.08 mills valuation). mock-uaccito treat required would have been needed to wide dent victims for a variety the local sales tax of injuries as the final part of replace revenue now being received by their instruction. the county government. Members of the local E.M.T. During the 1978 Budget team assisted Mr. Christensen a proposal was made Session, s during all the practical ap-ato begin phasing out the sales observers and made recomtax' on food. Foundation mendations as to improvement analysts calculate that such a in techniques. These E.M.T. lood exemption would reduce members were Carol Dean sales tax revenues currently Christensen, Rick Deaton, and received by state and local Lee Christensen. units in Utah by about 16. Posse members passing the Total revenue loss from such an course included Dan Anderson, would amount to $56 Chad Beach, Mel Briggs, Wes exemption million per year throughout the Cherry, Bry Rasmussen, Robin state and would be equivalent Jack Earl Mickelson, Steiger, to one of the following: Wood, James Erdie, and Larrv 1. A one percent increase in Shaheen. the sales tax rate on all nonfood items Wheeler Machinery Lions of Utah through the annual White Cane Day, paper g drives, and other efforts. Remember! ! One day only April 25, 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. 2. A 23 across-the-boar- d food tax credit that can be applied against the state income tax. Utah established a onetime food tax credit of $6.00 per person in 1973. The credit amounted to $5.9 million and of the was claimed for 86 state's population. Foundation analysts indicate that Utah probably would have to raise some other tax if a food tax exemption is provided. Although Utah reported sub- stantial state surpluses in several of the past years, it is unlikely that any large surpluses will be generated in the years immediately ahead. The report notes that the prospect of rising school enrollments, retirement and social security costs for public employees, a backlog of building the scheduled needs, repayment of authorized bond issues, along with other factors will place considerable pressure on future stale budgets. In analyzing the local sales tax. the Foundation observed that the local option tax now is imposed in all 29 counties of the state and produced more than $44 million in revenue for lwal o Proponents of the change to distribute local sales tax money according to population contend that a large part of the revenue received in some of the cities currently is paid by individuals living in other communities or in unincorporated areas. Opponents of the change, on the other hand, argue that cities must provide many gover- nmental services ' for nonresidents who work, shop, or otherwise enjoy the amenities provided by the city. As a result, they claim that the sales tax paid by such nonresidents of the city merely reimburse the community jfor a small part of the added Costs ' ' for such services. ' Energy-Relate- d Funds are again available through the, Special Crisis Intervention Program to help persons who are m a crisis situation due to an e rise in individual income tax rates. 3. A property tax increase of 12.9 mills ($12 90 per $1.(HM) assessed valuation). of By July 1. 1978. twenty-twthe states plus the District oi Columbia will have eliminated the sales tax on food Several ol the other stall's provide lor a units. At the present time, the local sales tax is allocated on the basis of the locale where the tax is levied and collected. Proposals have been made to change the method of allocation so that the local sales tax would be distributed according to population. Such a change would require an amendment to the state constitution. energy-relate- problem. d There will lie people taking applications in Sevier County in the basement of the Sevier County Courthouse. Room -- 5 on April 20. 1 1978 until April 27, 978 If you wish to apply, please bring prool that a crtsi d's Help (current utility bills or medical bills required). Also, the program can help with emergency heating unit repairs or an immediate delivery or coal or fueloil. Funds have boon g I located lor each county, but they are very limited, and grants will be d made on first-comt basis. Eligibility-i- s based on the Community Services Adinmisi ration Poverty exist, first-serve- mmlelines |
