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Show . ,?J - Satina Weather Vol. 58 Thursday, June 5, No. 51 Twenty Cents 1980 City Annexes 38 Acres For New School Site; Approves $350,000 In Development Bonds For New Zions Bank BEES, BEES, EVERYWHERE-Charl- es Larsen of Salina came out of last Friday to find this swarm of bees had landed on the right Zions Bank front window of his car. Ray is pictured looking for the queen bee as many bystanders looked on - from a safe distance. A call was made to Morris Curtis, who came and took the queen bee and put her in a box and the worker bees followed. The swarm of bees was valued at around swarmed on the car window, the worker bees had tried to protect the queen bee and almost had her covered with their bodies. $100. While Annexation of 38 acres north of Salina and approval of $350,000 in industrial development bonds for a new Zions Utah Bancorporation bank building were accomplished Monday, June 2, by the Salina City Council. The property annexed is the site for the new North Sevier High School, to be located facing West Fourth North about 400 West. It includes property on the west side of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad tracks owned by Deloy and Ina Stewart, as well as the access road leading to their residence from Highway 89. Also included is about 8 acres lying north of West Fourth North and east of a gravel road leading north to the Dennis Crane property. That parcel will not be used for the school site, but was purchased from Arno Bastian by the Sevier School District. The resolution authorizing a memorandum of agreement with Zions Bancorporation to issue the industrial developments bonds was passed unanimously by the council. The bank will use tbe proceeds from the bond issue to construct a new bank at about 200 West Main Street, just east of the new store. The Utah Industrial Facilities Act authorizes Development municipalities to issue industrial revenue bonds for financing various commercial and business properties. The bonds do not cost the city, nor affect its bonding capacity. There is no obligation to the city, and its general credit and taxing powers are not affected. The bonds are payable solely from revenues and receipts paid to the city according to the conditions of a note by the banking corporation, which also guarantees payment of the principal and interest on the bonds. The industrial revenue bonds are attractive to investors. The memorandum between Zions and the city states: In view of rising construction costs, it is considered essential that the project be completed at the earliest practicable date. Rex Christensen, Zions Bancorporation officer, said the bank purchased property from Eugene Anderson and Ted Burr. A brick house on the corner of the property will be moved, probably by early July, to a site near Sunset North Subdivision. The building housing Honest Abe Realty and some sheds in the rear will be demolished. The construction on the new bank building probably will be underway by fall. In other business, the council accepted the bid of Mel Briggs, of Briggs-Leavi- tt Insurance Agency, for the Salina City insurance. The bid was the only one submitted. Effective date for the policy is June 7. A motion by Wesley Cherry to purchase a $500,000 liability policy covering the Salina Gunnison Airport, providing that Gunnison City will pay half the premium of $750 per year, was passed unanimously. Police liability insurance, now with Briggs agency, will be renewed when it comes due July 1. Fee for relocation of a grave, which involves uncovering the grave and opening a grave in a different site, was set at $100 by the council. 7-- SdlnodDfl ISoatrd OMcnaEy Ajppnows ILsumdl IFonmclhias IFcwr Blew Bloirttlhi Official approval of the purchase of land north of Salina for the new North Sevier High School was given May 22 by the district board of education. The board members approved purchase of 32.65 acres of property from Arno Bastian at $8,000 per acre, including water rights, for a total of $261,200. Payment will be made with $61,000 down and the balance to be contracted over a seven-yea- r period. Interest will be paid at the same rate the district now is paying on its most School recent bond issue district (8). administrators were authorized to work out details with the attorney to draw up the legal documents. Also approved was the purchase of 7.207 acres from Deloy J. Stewart, Ina Stewart, and D.J. Stewart Limited, for $6,000 per acre. The Stewart property adjoins the Bastian property on the northeast. Terms of that agreement are cash. The Stewart land was purchased to square up the school site, so the entire campus can be located east of an existing gravel road. By utilizing the land east of that road, the district will save the cost of moving both the road and a large irrigation ditch. The part of the Bastian property west of the gravel road leading north to the Dennis Crane property probably will be sold, according to Supt. Darrell White. It is approximately eight or nine acres. Bids for the new high school are scheduled to be let early in August. The board also approved a 12.1 per- cent salary increase for, administrators in the district, as well as adding $250 incentive for a specialists degree and $500 a year incentive for a doctorate degree. Hearing date for the adoption of the school budget is June 26, in conjunction with the regular district board meeting. Revision of the 1979-8- 0 budget will be done at the same time. Two new employees were approved for hiring by the board. Richard Cropper will replace Elmer Greenhalgh as assistant in maintenance transportation, and Shana K. Andersen will replace Georgia Peter 1980-8- 1 son as Ashman Elementary School secretary. Greenhalgh and Mrs. Peterson have retired. The administration was authorized to call for bids on projects needed to maintain blacktop and roofs at the various school sites in the district. Next meeting of the school board will be held at 8 A.M. Thursday, June 12, in the District Office in Richfield. -- IFteft Amumtmall (Gammes Ml Star Inflation Nullifies Fuel Taxes - in terms of - of Utahs construction highway motor fuel tax dollars in 1979 was only 62 of the purchasing power of 1970 tax dollars, even though there were almost twice as many dollars last year as in 1970, according to Utah it Foundation, the private, research organization. The reason for. this paradoxical situation is the double impact of the petroleum crisis on highway conPurchasing power non-prof- struction and maintenance operations, the Foundation points out in a research report released this week. The double impact is felt because: -- The rising cost of motor fuel induces motorists to drive less, to use cars and trucks, more and to reduce or eliminate the use of recreational vehicles. As a result, less motor fuel is purchased and less tax program fell far behind schedule. Major rehabilitation comprises such things as complete resurfacing of worn highways and the inclusion of highway safety features that have been developed since highways were originally constructed. While this program has a lower priority than new construction and standard maintenance, it has real significance and if it is g neglected, a highway may have to be completely rebuilt at much higher cost than that of timely rehabilitation. too-lon- It was on the basis of this reasoning that the Utah Legislature in 1978 apincrease proved a (from 7( to 9) in Utahs motor fuels tax. The tax increase took effect on July 1, 1978, and for the next year the program worked as planned. Approximately two years backlog in the rehabilitation program was erased. However, by August, 1979, the double impact of spiralling petroleum prices was so severe that the situation with regard to the rehabilitation program Continued on page 6 Lavell Edwards, BYU football coach, announced recently that the First Annual Multiple Sclerosis All-StBasketball and Football Tournament will be held June 13 and 14 at Snow College. The athletes playing in this event have been chosen from Deseret News and Salt Lake Tribune Selections from classes and Jan Smith, Morgan High School football coach, and a victim of MS, is the originator of this event. According to Smith, There are other all-stgames in the state. Unfortunately, these games have been exclusively ar All-Sta- A 2-- ar A summer basketball clinic for junior and senior high boys will be held at North Sevier High School un- der the direction of Bruce Hoggard, new head basketball coach at the school. The junior high clinic for boys entering the seventh and eighth grades this fall will be held daily from 9 a.m. until noon from June 9 through June 13. Cost is $5. The senior high clinic will be held from 8 -- 10 p.m. on each Tuesday and Thursday from June 10 through July 31. Boys entering the ninth through twelfth grades are eligible to participate. Cost is $5. The program will consist of fundamental instruction, play, play for all play, and some age groups. Trophies will be awarded to winners of jump shot, foul shot, contests in each grade and level. North Sevier Basketball will be given to each participant. collected, even though considerably more money is being spent for motor fuel. -- The cost of asphalt, a petroleum product and important element in highway construction and maintenance in recent years has risen more than two and one-hatimes as rapidly as the consumer price index by which the average citizens cost is calculated. .The allof living components Utah construction index has risen 1.6 times as fast as the consumer price index. As a result of this situation, the Utah Department of Transportation has had to curtail its major highway rehabilitation program and there appears ho prospect of its being restored unless and until there is a major improvement in the financial situation of the department. In the aftermath of the first petroleum crisis in 1973 - 74, a similar situation developed and while the DOT was able to continue its construction and normal maintenance programs, its major rehabilitation for athletes from the metropolitan areas. Until now, those very talented athletes from smaller high schools in the rural areas have been excluded from such recognition. The basketball game will be played at 8 P.M. June 13 and the football game at 2 P.M. June 14. All proceeds from the games will go to the Multiple Sclerosis Society. Tickets for this event are available from the MS Society, 2900 South Main, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115, or at Snow College. Karl Hales, Redmond, will pargames. ticipate in the All-St- CASH SAVER fuel-efficie- Summer Clinic For Basketball 1A-2-A lf i OPENING Alan Gurr, Premium Oil Co. manager Cash Saver Station in Salina, prepares GRAND 1 of the new for the grand opening scheduled Friday The new and Saturday, June 6-- station, at 1365 South State St., is between Wheeler Machinery and Taco Time. It has 12 gas pumps, 5 diesel pumps, and a canopy over one section to protect motorists from the weather. is located inside the office A mini-stor- e are restrooms. Gurr and as building, his wife, Elaine, manage the station. Employees are Larry Lawrence, Merrilyn Gurr, and Linda Schow. Hours of the station til II P.M. Daily. are from 6 A.M. un- 7. . t |