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Show f Utnh ' re ns ;oc. E, Jrd oo. 4-6- GLC, 88th Year Ut. G4111 Wednesday, May No. 38 16, 1979 38 Price, Utah Pages 15c tate eyes Gireemi Rower Nuclear Park millions of customers The U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Utah are going on a regional basis in the western and eastern states. ahead with feasibility and preliminary impact studies on a proposed, $10 billion nuclear power park near Green River, despite recent public outcries about the hazards energy. Two gigantic of nuclear The located Utah complex, to be near sparcely populated Green River, would include about 10 nuclear power plants capable of generating up to 10,000 megawatts of power for customers in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. This is four times the current total atomic power complexes are being contemplated, one in Utah and the other in South Carolina, which federal officials say would serve generating capacity of Utah Power and Light Co., which serves Utah and parts of Idaho and Wyoming. Utah Gov. Scott Matheson, who has expressed concern about the hazards of nuclear energy in the state in the past, agreed to the feasibility study only if it could be managed by the Utah Energy Office. A spokesman for the governor said Matheson had also insisted the study include a comprehensive energy plan for Utah, including the future of other sources of power like coal and solar energy. Reed Searle, director of the Utah Energy Office and executive secretary of the Utah Energy Conservation and Development Council, said the state has been going the red tape route with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for the past six months, but the study should get under way within a few weeks. It will be directed by James Byrne, nuclear energy specialist in Searles office. The study will be funded by a appropriation from the federal government, with about $40,000 in matching funds from die state, Searle added. It will include assessments of such $500,000 things as environmental and sociological impacts, water needs for nuclear energy, the risks and safety hazards and other impacts on the quality of life in Utah. According to Searle, the study will not only provide DOE with information about the proposed nuclear park concept, but will give Utah valuable knowledge about nuclear energy, knowledge upon which future decisions about this kind of power can be made. "I say if we are going to make decisions about nuclear energy, we ought to know what we are talking about, Searle said. Asked what he thought about the study, Searle went on to say, I think its great. Tremendous amounts of material have been cranked out based entirely on I think its emotional issues about time we get to the real facts. ... Dr. Kent Evans, research administrator for Utah Power and Light Co., and a member of a state - appointed advisory council on the feasibility study, said the major constraint on such a (continued on page 3) .v--- w Price hosts state Elks convention The Price Elks Lodge No. 1550, celebrating its 50th anniversary, will host the 65th Annual Utah State Elks Convention Thursday through Sunday. Lyle Mower, exaulted ruler, estimated about 300 Elks from the 17 lodges in Utah will attend. Registration has been scheduled from 5 to 10 p.m. in the foyer of the Elks Home, 23 East 100 North. Highlight of the convention will be the election of state officers Saturday at 9 a.m. Running unopposed are Buckingham, of president; Dennis Salt Lake City, president; William C. Tooele, for McGuire of vice first Jermone -- Danny Wright of Park City, second vice president and W.F. Robirts of Price, third vice - president. The election of a state treasurer and a member of the Board of Trustees also will be held. Jeff Miller, who heads a committee of about 50, has been making arrangements for the convention for some time. He said the hardest thing he has had to face is finding enough motel rooms for guests. Miller said there is enough rooms in Price, but motel owners want to hold some open for their -- can't look Rudy Sandoval tries out an old time black powder musket at the Rendezvous held at the Price Elementary School, Friday May 10, while Bobby Rhodes, Justin Bently and Rick Wright look on. The Rendezvous is held each Spring at the school as the finale of Marge Curtis' fourth grade Early Utah History class. Rick (Badger) Callor and Chuck (Pilgrim) Bently of the Biook Cliff Muzzle Loader's Club exhibited several old time rifles, knives and revolvers and explained the of each to the fourth graders as well as pitching an Indian teepee. The students each had a turn in firing an old musket loaded with a black powder use charge. CEU plans to buy 500 acres By Nelson Wadsworth Managing Editor The College of Eastern Utah is in the process of acquiring 500 acres of land northeast of Price as a long term investment to expand the college in the next 50 years. CEU Donald stacles college President Dean M. Mcsaid this week all obhad been cleared for the to purchase the land for $173,000 from the State of Utah. It is just a matter now of finalizing a contract and making the down payment, McDonald added. CEU will pay $17,300 as a down payment for the parcel and then go to the 1980 Utah Legislature to request the remainder as part of its buildings and capital facilities funds. The CEU Institutional Council, the Board of Regents and the Photo by Clarke Dun rum of land State Land Board have already approved the acquisition, which has been discussed since 1974. The parcel is located northeast of the Price City Limits, about one and one - half miles from campus. It is adjacent to and just north of a 40 - acre piece of land acquired by CEU on a 49 - year lease from the state in 1969. We dont have a definitive, long - range plan for this land, McDonald said. What we have here is a long - term investment in which we are looking, not in years but in decades, down the road. One possible use of the land mentioned by the CEU president, however, was a mock mine for training miners in the use of heavy equipment. Such use would tie in with the colleges heavy emphasis on homes, he added. Miller said the Price Elks want to exploit our resources during the convention. Pictures of early days in Carbon County featuring coal mining and railroad work, displays by mining parts companies and a bar in the basement of the lodge decorated like a coal mine will greet guests and members. The bar, constructed by retired coal miners who belong to the Elks, features brattice curtains for walls held in place by large timbers. A sign on the bar reads, Company script only. No cash. The convention will draw special attention to the 50th anniversary of the Price Lodge. Organized on May 4, 1929, the lodge first met in the old Carbon High School auditorium. Throughout vocational (continued on page regular customers. As a result, about 50 out of town guests must bring their motor 7) the years the meeting place moved to several locations in the city until the construction of the lodge at 23 East 100 North in Price in 1960. The first officers of the lodge were Dean Holdaway, exalted ruler; Harold V. Leonard, leading knight; Clyde J. Roberts, loyal knight; C.E. Powers 3 - year trustee; Joe Barboglio Sr., 2 J.E. Flynn, 1 - year - trustee and Frank W. Averill, tiler. Today the lodge is led by Mower, exaulted ruler; Robert Milano, leading knight; Monty Hatch, loyal knight; Evan Reid, lecturing knight; Roger squire; Raymond Ariotti, chaplain; Julius Spigarelli Jr., innder guard; Sam Tallerico Jr., tiler; Cloyd Plummer, secretary and Oscar Davido, treasurer. (A special history feature on the Price F.lks Club appears on Page I of the Living section in todays Sun Advocate). -- ear-trustee; See Special MOONLIGHT MADNESS Advertising on Pages 5,6,7 & 8 of this section Sponsored by PRICE RETAIL MERCHANTS ASSN. Proposed 40-acr- 500-gcr- e purchase. acquired in 1969. For-dha- . |