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Show Jury ay Guilty In Three Death Automobile Crash Judge Tibbs set sentencing for Apri, An jury Tuesday convicted William Paul Mortensen, 28, Salina, of automobile homicide in the Nov. 8, 1980, death of three Utah County residents. eight-memb- er 22. Mortensen was charged shortly after the collision about two miles north of Salina on U.S. Highway 89 when the truck he was driving collided head-o-n with a station wagon in two-vehic- The jury returned the verdict late Tuesday afternoon following two days of trial in Sixth District Court, Richfield, before Judge Don V. Tibbs. which the three victims were passengers. Killed in the accident were Brett N. Jeppson, 16, American Fork; Jean G. Kamer, 43, and her daughter, Marilyn Karner, 15, both Highland, Utah Coun- driven by Jeppson was struck in the northbound lane by the Mortensen vehicle. The report stated Mortensen was ty. southbound and was passing a string of vehicles. His unit sideswiped a northMortensen remains free on bail. bound car driven by Earl B. Brown, then continued into the path According to investigation at the time Greenwich, of the accident, the northbound vehicle of the northbound station wagon. VOLUME 59, NUMBER 12 for Mr. Mortensen. The three victims were apparently killed instantly. Jury selection began Monday morning and witnesses were called to the stand before the noon recess. Mortensen was treated at Sevier Valley Hospital and later released, the report said. R. Don Brown, Sevier County Attorney, prosecuted the case for the state. Craig Snyder, Provo, was counsel The jury took the case for deliberaafter 1 :30 p m. and reached their verdict some four hours later. tion shortly SALINA, UTAH, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1981 Grievance Committee Budget Revision Gets Approval Of School Board Appointed Salina City Council appointed a grievance committee Monday night to hear individual problems concerning the pressurized irrigation system. In capital outlay and debt service, revenues wikll be budgeted up by $361,813 .most of which is from investment earnings. Sevier School District board of education approved a revision of the fiscal 1981 budget during a special hearing held in conjunction with regular board meeting in Salina Alma Blake, Jade Learning, H.O. Madsen, Duane Shaw, and Kyle Torgersen were appointed to the committee. They will meet tonight (Thursday) to select a chairman and outline their duties. The public will be notified when the group will be available to hear grievances. However, expenditures will increase Thursday morning. by $1,296,896, $1,000,000 of which is for Major changes came in the maintenance and operation (M and 0) fund; capital outlay and debt service and payment toward building construction which is ahead of schedule. A major change has been noted in the school lunch program. Revenues are expected to increase by $10,849, mostly with an increase in lunch prices. Expenditures are also budgeted to increae by $13,267, with slight increases noted in employee benefits, purchased services, food and supplies and student help. school lunch programs. Patrick Wilson, district accountant, presented the proposed revision to the board, explaining that some of the changes resulted from a crossover in accounting methods. Increases in many items, however, will require the using of some unappropriated fund balances into the budget to complete the year. Figures provided by Mr. Wilson showed $345,924 in the unappropriated fund. Total revenues for the. original budget in M and 0 totaled $6,655,276. The revised budget will increase by $139,023. Expenditures are anticipated to go from $6,885,520, to $7,023,889, an increase of $138,368. Not every item is an increase, however. For example, there will be $132,134 less in instruction, due to a reclassification of bookkeeping and procedures, general administration is down by $1,434. Sc hod lunch salaries will go down by $5,000 in the budget. Participation in the lunch program is down and prices are up, which results . in a general maintenance of about the f same amount. audit in Changes procedures also accounts for some of the figure changes. In other action, the board reviewed the end of the first term enrollment figures, showing a district-wid- e decrease of 68 students since the beginning of the school year. (See (Continued on Page Two) CAP Calls Off Search For Missing Aircraft The Civil Air Patrol officially called off its search for a missing airplane believed to have gone down in southern Utah Feb. 28 with six persons aboard. that area, but the signal disappeared before a location could be established. It was never determined that the signal came from an aircraft. CAP officials said the search officially ended March 11. The search has been headquartered at the Richfield Airport, and planes continue to fly each day weather will permit. Friends and relatives have been attempting to raise money for the private operation through donations since CAP ended its search. However, relatives and friends of the which passengers of the Cherokee-Siis missing on a flight from Page, Ariz., to Provo, are continuing the search in private planes. x, While the search included the entire airlane betwen Page and Provo, much of the search concentrated in the Sevier and Garfield county areas. An initial report that a plane was lost from radar in the Escalante area the afternoon the plane left Page, led searchers to believe the craft could have gone down in that area. Later, searchers heard what they believed to be an emergency signal in the Johnson Reservoir area near Fish Lake, and ground searchers combed I- Poster Girls Decreases in enrollment from the school yeur beginning of the 1980-8- 1 were noted in all but one of the nine schools of Sevier School District in a report presented to the district board of education by Supt. Richard Bell. lost 22; Richfield High School Pahvant Elementary Monroe Elementary School was the only school showing an increase and had six more students. Other schools and the amount of enrollment decline since last fall include Koosharem Elementary, three; Salina Elementary, 16; North Sevier School officials pointed out that a High, seven and South Sevier High, 10., in decrease enrollment is general normal and that there are never as Total enrollment at the beginning of many students at the end of the school year as at the beginning. Die Richfield attendance area with its four schools showed the largest combined decrease. Ashman elementary 20 school .was . down by students, while Richfield Junior High Weather Allen Madsen. Sunday is die effective date of file postal increase of three cents tor first class letters. Postcards will be 12 cents under the new rate. District Court, Richfield. Frank A. Durham, 38, and Darrel Eugene Brady, 42, are charged in the Feb. 9 robbery of Jerrys Jewelry, 24 North Main in Richfield. the case. Don V. Tibbs will preside over Jury selection will begin at and arguments will follow. 10 a m., Sevier County Attorney R. Don Brown is prosecuting the case while counsel Milton Har court-appoint- Miss Hansen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Deon Hansen, Salina, wifi represent the area in the Miss Utah Pageant in June. The new Miss North Sevier will compete in the 1982 state pageant, a preliminary to the Miss America contest. area businesses are Miss North Sevier scholarship patrons, according to liliian Hales, who is chairman of the Jaycette-sponsorepageant A complete list is included in this issue of the Salina Sun. He advised patrons to check with the post office for other postal rates affected by the increase. 1 mon, Nephi, is defense attorney for the accused. Durham was captured moments after he and Brady ran from the back of the jewelry store, when he was struck in the head by several pellets from a shotgun blast fired by Richfield Police Officer Mayo Jacobsen. Durham had previously fired a shotgun blast at RCPD Officer Alan DeMille. Brady was captured about an hour and a half later at the summit of the Glenwood Dugway 10 miles east of when Richfield near Utah Highway-11- 9 he fled in a truck stolen from the rear of The Richfield Reaper. Public Meeting Set For HUD Project Another public meeting to discuss Salina Citys applicatiqn for federal funds to homes, streets and sidewalks in the southeast the section of the city and to city sanitary landfill is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, at the city library. d that meeting was opposed project, Reynolds said. Lynn Reynolds, city councilman in charge of the project, said the meeting to gain public input and finalize the application to the Housing and Urban Development agency is among the requirements for obtaining the $500,000 in federal funds. Several meetings concerning the project have been held, the latest on March 4. None of the 24 persons attending City Atty. Michael Jorgensen will review the franchise contract. The firm has leased, with option to buy, property at West Fourth North and North State Street and is refurbishing an old building on the site. A building permit sought by Ted in the southwest Burr for a residence section of Salina was denied by the council when a water pressure check made by the dty engineer showed that the two-inc- h culinary water line serving the area does not deliver enough water for another home. Seventeen business licenses were accepted. One license was turned over to Jorgensen for a fee adjustment. The coundlmen also authorized Jorgensen to revise a portion of the Salina City Ordinances dealing with business licenses in order to clarify it. No major changes are authorized, only an attempt to make it plainer and more workable, according to Don Bums, dty recorder. Five Give 100 Years To Posse Five charter members of the North Sevier Sheriffs Jeep Posse were honored last Thursday for one hundred combined years of service. Sheriff Rex Huntsman, who is chief officer of the North Sevier and Sevier County posses, presided at the brief ceremony held during the regular meeting at the new clubhouse. He presented to the low-inco- Forty-fou- r 18-ce- nt Total enrollment in the district at the beginning of the second term was 3875, compared with 3943 at the beginning of the school year. school auditorium. Every Theme of the pageant, Woman in the World, will be carried out in an opening production number in which entrants will be costumed to represent various cultures. We have an adequate supply of three cent stamps, to add to the old 15 cent stamps to equal the new rate, as well as the new B series stamps, Madsen noted. the second term of the schools in the show district 718; Ashman, Koosharem, 6 67; Monroe Elementary, 632; Pahvant Elementary, 287; Salina Elementary, 542; Richfield Junior High (three grades), 381; North Sevier High (six grades), 317; Richfield High, (three grades) 427; South Sevier High (six grades), 504. Robbery Suspects Trial Opens Today Trial for two Phoenix, Ariz. men, charged with robbery, attempted murder and kidnapping, is scheduled to begin Thursday (today) in Sixth Eleven girls will compete in evening gown, swimsuit, and talent presentations, as well as a private interview with judges. Contestants are Belinda Noyes, Tami Hales, Micki Roberts, Paula Harward, Stefanie Harvard, Loraine Huntsman, Hilary Thompson, Mary Kiesel, Cindy Jensen, Suzette Sorensen, and Ellise Hatch. postage, according to Postmaster and figures of Sept. 5, 1980, enrollment dropped by 68 as of Jan. 19, 1981, the beginning of the second term. At March 28 Pageant Letters mailed after 5 p.m. Saturday in Salina will have to carry 18 cents 18 School, 10. Compared with the enrollment Crown New Queen Postal Rates Go, Up Sunday 529-703- Enrollment Figures Down in Sevier Judge Stacie Hansen, the reigning Miss North Sevier, will crown her successor at the pageant March 28 at the high Sevier Jaycettes are sponsoring the blood drive. For appointment to donate blood call Lissa Hallows, Virginia Stewart, left, and Sue St. Pierre put up poster for the Red Cross Bloodmobile, which will visit Salina American Legion from 3 until 7 p.rt. Wednesday. North Val Ogden, representing Intermoun-tai- n Cablevision, met with the council to request an extension of the franchise granted them. Wesley Cherrys motion to extend the franchise until Sept. 1, with the stipulation that cable television will be installed in some homes by that date, was unanimously approved. Tim Jones of Horrocks Engineering is handling the grant application. The has been approvcitys ed, and the federal agency has invited the city to submit an application for the grant. According to the engineer, receipt of the grant is almost assured once the application is sought. City representatives were to meet Wednesday with the state land board to discuss purchasing or trading land for a new sanitary landfill site. The city is seeking final approval for a site northeast of the present rodeo grounds for the new dump. star for each four-sta- r bars, one five years of service, to Dan Anderson, Keith Barrett, Mel Briggs, Wes Cherry, and Leath Rasmussen. The five men joined the Sevier County Posse in February, 1961. They served with that group until the North Sevier Posse was organized Aug. 7, 1972. They formed the nudeus for the new organization, and most have served as commander as well as filling various other offices. Anderson has been commander of both the Sevier and North Sevier organizations. Sheriff Huntsman recalled many of 20 years, mentioning some of the heartbreaks as well as many of the good times. the experiences during the |