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Show SeuSt CenM Walt .Supplement To: Gunnison Valley News - The Salina Sun Garfield County News The Richfield Reaper VOLUME NUMBER 42 3 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, , 1982 Geothermal Power Unit Construction on Schedule Work on Utah Power & Light Co.s geothermal electrical generating plant in southwestern Utah is progressing on schedule with the second of four construction stages near completion. 20,000-kilowa- tt And work of placing concrete foun- dations for the facilitys turbine pedestal and cooling tower will be soon. The plant site is located at Roosevelt Hot Springs in the jumpered foothills of the Mineral Mountains some 12 miles northeast of Milford. When it goes into operation in the spring of 1984, it will be the nations only commercial electrical geothermal generating plant outside of California. Utah Power & Light said this initial unit is expected to provide the necessary data needed to evaluate the power generating capacity of this geothermal resource. The company anticipated that additional geothermal units will follow if the resource is proved up. UP&Ls geothermal well and its accompanying steam water separator is framed' by earth reinjection piping for A 20,000-kilowa- geothermal tt The utility said it expects to begin the fourth and last stage of construction early in 1983 consisting of erecting structural steel for the turbine and auxiliary buildings. electrical generating plant slated for commercial production. In the meantime, recent drilling activity at Roosevelt Hot Springs by Phillips Petroleum Company is confirming predictions that a major source of geothermal electric power can be developed at the field. Phillips analysis of data collected in May and June during preliminary flow tests of two new wells drilled at Roosevelt Hot Springs has demonstrated a combined flow capacity of greater than 2V4 million lbs. per hours of geothermal Quake Study Reveals Extensive Damage in Sevier Valley Region ' More damage than was originally reported occurred during an earthquake in Sevier Valley on May 24, according to Bruce N. Kaliser, chief, hazards seciton, Utah Geological and Mineral Survey. blocks stacked seven high outside were dislodged, also to the north. The 4.0 magnitude earthquake shook ' the area at 6:13 a.m. News reports on that day indicated the event was felt as far away as Salt Lake City, Kaliser said, but a reconnaissance made later revealed that the felt area was confined to a portion of Sevier Valley between Aurora, 16 miles north northeast of the epicenter, and Joseph, 11 miles southwest. Damage to buildings, also not reported at the itme, was found during in Annabella, Central, Glenwood and Sigurd. there was no effect to Hot the Monroe Springs resort. owners noted no a check, Following change in spring flow nor turbidity. Monroe City, however, reported three distribution line leaks after the earthquake and cobbles and small boulders across the road in one location in Monroe Canyon were reported about a mile from the canyon mouth. The report said Several broken windows, along with possible structural damage, was noted in a house some 80 years old, Kaliser said. A teengager, leaning over an irrigation line in a field at Sigurd, was pitched to the ground and a number of farmers south of Joseph, who were milking at the time of the earthquake, reported neither having felt the tremor, nor having observed an anomalous cow behavior. Objects on shelves were tipped Monroe, road from ledges or table deposits above. A study of 1500 outstanding achievers in nearly every walk of life reveals that all have certain traits in common. What is surprising is that these traits are not inborn, as one might have thought, but are responses that can be learned by anyone. The study was conducted by Charles Garfield, director of the Peak Per- - the followup investigation, Kaliser said, in Monroe, Annabella, Elsinore, Central, Richfield, Glenwood and Sigurd. The bulk of this damage was in Annabella, Monroe and Elsinore. One curious phenomenon was the turning on of stereo and television appliances in homes in Annabella, quite near the epicenter of the quake, Kaliser said. In one unit, all three Hass. elements (AMN, FM and record player) went on and required un- R.I. N.J. 84 Hd. 99 Del. D.C. 111 105 111 plugging of the unit to turn them off, Kaliser said. old A double garage in a five-yea-r house in Annabella, showed evidence of horizontal force, as the top shifted over one inch to the north, the report said. Kaliser said that in the attached home, a childs metal chair was overturned to the north and cinder Above At U.S. Average Belov U.S. Average Prepared by UTAH FOUNDATION froa a report issued Utahs tax capacity is only about 86 services in Utah is high, while its taxing percent of the national average. In capacity is low. other words, the same tax rates will the revenue percent less revenue per capita in Utah than they would in the nation as a whole. 14 These facts were reported by Utah Foundation, the private tax research organization, in a study based on a recent report of the Advisory Comon mission Intergovernmental Relations. According to the Foundation, the relatively low taxing capacity of Utah places the state at a considerable disadvantage in attempting to finance governmental services for its citizenry. Compounding the problem is the fact that Utah has a higher proportion of its population enrolled in the public schools than any other state in the nation. Education is the costliest public service in most states of the nation. Thus, the demand for governmental Steam separators at the wellhead will remove the water content, and the separated water will be reinjected into the earth. The piping for (Continued on Page 8) Parents Urged to Warn Students on Bus Safety As students return to school this fall, the Utah Safety Council urges parents to remind them of school bus safety rules. Disruptive pupils could cause the driver to lose concentration resulting in an accident, Linford says. Parents must encourage their children to follow these basic rules while onboard: stay National Safety Council studies show no fighting or fooling around, seated, school buses are a safe form of ground throw things, no loud talking, dont transportation, but school bus safety is never lean out the windows, and always still a continuing concern, especially at should be kept the driver. Aisles obey s of school bus stops. Over free of books, lunch pails and other bus transporation-relatefatalities items. so bus stops are occur outside-the-buthe most dangerous places children will be at all day. More than 21,000,000 Many students must walk across the to get on and off school busses. road U.S. in to the school are bussed pupils Linford says this can be dangerous Parents can help keep order by being because some motorists fail to see present at every stop, says Newell H. children crossing the road. Linford, Utah Safety Council president. To cross safely, parents should have They should warn their children to keep out of the roadway and discourage their children walk about 12 feet ahead them from games or horseplay. of the bus (so the driver can easily see Tragedies occur when children run or them) and wait for a signal from the are inadvertently pushed into the path driver before proceeding to the center line of the road. Students should then of an oncoming car. pause at the center line for another When the bus appraoches, students signal from the bus driver before should line up away from the road and continuing across. wait until the doors are opened before Linford encourages parents to help stepping near the bus. Then they should use the grab handle and go directly to pupils, especially the very young, to get to and from school safely this year. their seats. three-fourth- d s, formance Center, and is reported in the September Readers Digest. Here are some of the qualities that peak performers share: lives. No They live obsessive, Type A people these. When Garfield interviewed hardworking top executives in ten major industries, he found they knew how to relax, could leave their work at the office, prized close friends and family life and spent a healthy amount of time with their children and intimates. d They prepare themselves mentally for difficult tasks. Very little is left to change as they mentally work out for demanding situations. d rather than They are Garfield; They perfectionists. Says dont think of their mistakes as result-oriente- failures. Instead, they learn from them so they can do better the next time. They take risks, as opposed to staying in the comfort zone. Many high performers carefully calculate what would happen in a worst case scenario. If they feel they can live with it, they go ahead and give it a try. They compete with themselves, not with others. Because most high performers are interested in doing the best possible job by their own standards, they tend to be team players rather than loners, the article states. about Loners, often rivals, cant delegate important work or decision-makinTheir performance is limited because they must do everything themselves. over-concern- None of these skills is hereditary, none has to do with luck. As Garfield explains, You have the power to change your habits of mind and acquire certain skills. And if you choose to do so, you can improve your performance, your productivity and the quality of your whole life. Pediatric Care Unit Operating at Uof U U.S. Average by the Advisory Coaaission Utah's Taxing Ability Short of produce water. They are involved in things they care about. They want internal satisfaction, not just external rewards such as raises, promotions and power, The Digest article explains. In the end, of course, they often have both. Damages ranged in houses aged from five to 80 years, Kaliser said. The west and south walls were cracked and bowed outward in the upper half and window separation in die north wall was about an inch and a half. The geothermal fluids presently contain 18 percent steam and 82 percent Study Outlines Peak Performace No ground effects were reported nor observed on reconnaissance, other than rocks moving onto the Monroe Canyon over fluids. Phillips said that while the maximum measured flows were limited by the test equipment, calculation indicates the wells may be the most prolific hot water geothermal producers completed in North America. The report shows that produced from a uniform representative tax system would vary all the way from $2,463 per capita in Alaska to $658 per capita in Mississippi. Such a ('system would produce $8216 per capita in Utah, compared with a national average of $949 per capita. These differences in the estimated yield from uniform tax rates are accounted for by disparities in the economic bases of the several states. A decision to stress or to ignore one type of tax will not affect the measurement of its tax base and potential tax wealth relative to her states. Foundation analysts point out that the federal government has provided financial assistnace to state and local units through federal revenue sharing and a series of categorical or block grants. In fiscal 1980 these in on Intergovernaental Relations U. S. tergovernmental transfers totaled $90 per capita. While these transfers added to total state and local funds, they did little to equalize the tax wealth disparities existing among the states. billion or about $395 Unlike the United States, fiscal equalization has been a traditional function of the national government in other countries with a federal stucuture. If the U.S. Adopted an equalization plan similar to that now used in Canada, the fiscal capacity of the weakest state would be brought within 5 percent of the national average. The cost of such a program would be $12.2 billion, or less than 14 percent of the amount currently spent for federal aid to state and local governments. to the Advisory ComAccording mission on Intergovernmental Relations (ACIR), equalization grants would be provided to 28 states whose Average fiscal capacity is below the U.S. Norm under such a program. The calculations show that Utah would recieve $194,843,000, or about $133 per capita with such a program. The other 22 states and the District of Columbia, however, would receive nothing under the plan. The ACIR indicates that the $12.2 billion that would be spent if such a program were adoped in the U.S. would buy 3.75 times more fiscal equalization than that achieved currently by the entire $90 billion federal aid program. In other words, the program would achieve nearly four times the equalization at less than the cost. The ACIR stresses, however, that it is not advocating such a program at this time, but rather is working to illustrate some of the underlying issues and concerns and about the growing fiscal disparities among the 50 states A new, specially equipped pediatric intensive care unit has gone into operation Tuesday at the University of Utah Medical Center. care physician Children are not small adults, according to Dr. Dennis W. Nielson, medical director of the new unit. Children have special problems. They can get into medical trouble more quickly because of their size. Seriously ill or injured children must be watched more closely than adults. Their intravenous injections must be monitored much more closely. We must be careful about how much blood is taken for tests. They suffer different kinds of diseases, Dr. Nielson says. pediatric With the new University Medical Center pediatirc intensive care unit, we will be able to take the seriously ill or injured child or adolescent out of our regular nursing units and put him under the care of doctors and nurses specially trained to care for them, the university pediatrician says. Patients up to 18 years of age will be cared for in the new pediatric intensive care unit if they are facing immediate continuous and situations. There will be a full-tim- e, critical ll 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The nurse to patient ratio is much higher. All the nurses k have just completed a special on-ca- six-wee- intensive care training course. The new four-be- d unit is with the latest equipped physiological monitoring equipment and is ready for all kinds of pediatric cases except burns, Dr. Nielson says. Because of the different treatment required, burn patients of all ages will continue to be treated in the University Medical Centers regional burn center. University Hospital has purchased a great deal of new equipment both for the pediatric intensive care unit and for use with children in the operating room, according to Dr. Nielson. "The intensive care of children and adolescents requires anesthesia, respiratory and other equipment specifically designed for people of their ige and size, Dr. Nielson says. The opening of University Medical new pediatric intensive care unit is a natural expansion of our services. We now are prepared to provide intensvie care to all patients, from the newborns to the adolescents and to adults, Dr. Nielson said. Centers |