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Show ut. h : ;f 7 C. 3rrl Bo. Ut. fAIII Entertainment Guide 88th Year-- No. Saturday March 22 17, 1979 Price, Utah 12 Pages 15t City joins rate protest group by Jeff Moscow News Editor The Price City Council halfheartedly joined a group of wholesale electric users who are challenging a proposed Utah Power and Light rate increase during its meeting Wednesday evening. Some ten Utah cities affected by the rate increase have been invited to join the effort initiated by Lincoln Service Company, a power supplier in southwest Wyoming. The group has already hired lawyers to represent the interests of the power users in a formal hearing before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. UP&L has asked for nearly a 50 percent rate hike. If this is approved by the commission, Price City would pay around $500,000 more per year for electricity, a charge that would be passed on to consumers. Two years ago the Lincoln Service Company intervened in a UP&L rate increase hearing and alone paid for the entire expense of the challenge, according to city financial officer Hampton comMcArthur. The federal not UP&Ls did mission approve entire request, and Price. City then received a $278,000 rebate from the power company for two years of excessive charges for electricity, according to McAr- thur. The group asked Price City for pay a share of the legal expenses. The group also asked for permission to keep billing the city for more money if the costs of the challenge runs $9,100 to help over the estimated $50,000 price tag. But the council balked at both the amount of money reqested for participation in the effort and at the groups open - ended request to keep billing the city for cost overruns. Walt Mayor Axelgard recommended that the council not join the effort. When it comes to lawyers, Im gunshy, he said. However, other councilmen felt differently. I think its time we started saying, Hey, hold it fellas, said councilman Jim Jenson. Sometimes we let outfits like this (UP&L) go roughshod over the top of us. Theres no conscience in what they ask for. The council finally voted to give the group half of the money it asked for, $4,550, without committing the city to pay any additional costs. In other action the council: gave final approval to the 21 unit Turnkey Housing Project; -- decided to continue to deliver Price Water Company water for one more year; granted a preliminary approval to the Pizza Deli in Castle Gate Mall for serving beer on the premises. The owners plan to purchase an existing Class A license and transfer it to the new restaurant. granted a Class B beer license for the sale of beer to a (Continued on page 3) Henry Simone, 37, a history teacher at Mont Harmon Junior High School pled guilty in Juvenile Court on March 8 to a charge of providing an alcoholic beverage to a minor. Additional charges may be pending, said County Attorney Keith Chiara. He declined to elaborate. The complaint stated that Simone provided the beverage to a minor on Jan. 7. The complaint did not specify where the offense took place or at what time of day. Carbon County Sheriff Ross Horsley said that the case had been under investigation for two months but he refused to comment on other aspects of the investigation. Simone could not be reached for comment. Juvenile Court .Judge Paul Keller continued the hearing to allow for a inAdult by the vestigation Probation and Parole Department. The sentence will be handed down on April 10. an alcoholic Providing beverage to minor is punishable by up to six months in jail and - or a fine up to $299. Simone told the court that he had resigned his teaching position before the hearing. The official letter of resignation was brought to School Board Clerk Bill Jewkes Tuesday and the, school board accepted, the resignation Thursday night. Simone began his teaching career at Wellington Junior High School in 1963 and transferred Hope conquers handicaps at Ann Self school by Carol Thompson and Clarke Dunnam Staff Writers The teacher held up a flash card with the letter M on it and asked What sound is this? The faces of the three kindergarten age children lit up and one responded, Right, Give me mmmmm. said the teacher, five. The student and the teacher slapped their hands together in the popular form of congratulations. This scene is not from an ordinary classroom, but from the Ann Self Opportunity School in Spring Glen. The school serves DISTAR approach. Children at the school begin the program when they are in the preschool. Sounds, rather than names, are identified with letters on flashcards. Once all the phonetic sounds are mastered, the sounds are put together and words are created. to Mont Harmon when the Wellington school closed, according to School Superintendent Dennis Nelson. Teachers in Carbon County schools are evaluated every year and Simones evaluations were all favorable, Nelson said. He really related well to the kids and was a good teacher, Nelson said. Simone was also this years chairman of the Notre Dame carnival. Neighborhood receives large renewal grant phonetic large section of south Price receive a $745,000 facelift courtesy of the U.S. Department of and Urban Housing A will Development, according to city manager Jeff Killian. The money is earmarked for the rehabilitation of homes, improved water and sewer lines The beginning readers have no capital letters, and phonetical marks are used. As the student progresses, letters and a new park. The recipient of this grant is the bounded neighborhood by Fourth South on the north, Seventh South on the south, Carbon Avenue on the west, and the alley between Elm and Third on the east. The largest chunk of the money, $350,000, will pay for improving public works in the neighborhood, such as sewers, are capitalized and the markings are eliminated. The program requires that students read orally a certain number of words per minute. In the midst of what "We want to give them...basic skills so they don't have to depend on someone all their lives," the school's director said. students in Carbon and Emery Counties who are mentally or physically handicapped. Students and staff alike keep up a frantic pace at the school, engrossed in learning program that would seem foreign in a conventional school. The children learn to read through a program called DISTAR and math is taught by a method dubbed Chisan bop. Both DISTAR and chisan bop are more like games than hard work. But both are successful educational methods. Academic teacher Bill Jensen said the retention rate is very high for material covered by the programs. The chisan bop method utilizes the hands as an abacus of sorts. Sums can be figured quickly and accurately. Fingers tly as numbers are added and answers are enthusiastically written on worksheets. Students work at their pace and at their own level. The answers are checked trequently during the class period. Reading is taught through water lines, streets. seems to be utter chaos, people watches time the readers. If the reader doesnt make the word limit, its time to have another go at it. Many of the students who are reading at a third grade level theoretically were not supposed to be able to learn to read. School Director, Mrs. Tonita Crookston said that several years ago, children who were labled trainable would not have been given the chance to try to learn. We want to give them as a minimum, basic skills, so they dont have to depend on someone all their lives, she said. The school is named after a Price woman, who was active in Marie Zundel, teacher, performs physical therapy exercises with an Ann Self student suffering from Cerebral Palsy. (Staff Photo by Clarke Dunnam) Pre-scho- (Continued on page 4) and Another $70,000 will be spent on a new park for the area. The park will be located on a half block lot between Rose Street and First East facing Sixth South. The city already owns five lots in this section and will donate them to the park, according to Killian. He estimated the value of ' the citys contribution to the park a $40,000. The plans for the park call for the installation of picnic tables and playground equipment in a newly landscaped area. During the winter, part of the park will be flooded to make a natural ice skating rink. Included in the federal package to the neighborhood is money to help homeowners upgrade their property. Approximately $30,000 will be given to low income families to improve their homes. Another $100,000 will be awarded in no - interest loans to other homeowners within th area for housing improvements. The government also plans to give $60,000 to Price City for the cost of administering the program. with-sto- developing a program for special children. "Because of Ann Selfs efforts, the school was realized, said Mrs. Crookston. The program began in 1971. Since then, the students at Ann Self have shown that they can learn, regardless of their ages or IQ scores. The students are not sidewalks (Continued on page 3) dk i |