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Show u.itut d.ty, M.iy Sun Advocate, Price, ULsh 4 19 ivv Editor's note: With the leaving of Managing Editor Jeff Moscow for Dartmouth Medical School a new column written by his replacement will be published on this Saturday every page: By NELSON WADSWORTH Managing Editor Well, here we are in beautiful Price, Utah, home of King Coal, gateway to the San Rafael Swell, the Robber's Roost, Lake Powell and all the other beauties of Canyonlands and The Colorado Plateau. My colleagues think I have slipped my trolley. After all, they (ibe, it is a long way from Time Magazine and The National Observer to the Sun Advocate. Yes, will admit there is a great distance between New York, Washington, D.C. and Carbon County. But somehow anticipate enjoying this assignment even more than my last sojourn into so - called I I "bit time journalism." Ruby Sandoval cherishes the short time she spends with her husband Rick, son Earnie and Photo by Ravell Cali daughter Maylene. There is really something challenging and exciting about small town newspapering, and when Bob Finney asked me to fill in as managing editor this spring and summer, just couldn't resist the temptation. Academia at Brigham Young University was getting to be a drag, anyway, and at the Sun Advocate I will have a chance to sweep out some old cobwebs and clean out the pipes. It's easy for a journalist to get stale, so every now and again he has to clean off the rust and renew his committment to his profession. Besides, before one can effectively teach journalism, he or she must at least serve some time in the front - line trenches. I "Wy If- . f ? - 'v - ' tf High school ' , (continued from page - b Utah State Prison. They scared us to death! she exclaimed. We I J,. 4 ir "9 n:. t'i'i 1 A' ; - , 1 i t V1 a ) f 1' ,9 ,- s Alternative School. She receives both wages and high school credit for part - time work as a bookkeeper at the Timber Lake i , Manufacturing t n xV V5' " V I also Sandoval continued, devote a great deal of time to the job secured for me by the ri 1 T, A...4AS were left alone with inmates for two hours to make us realize that getting in trouble isnt a joke like on TV. I didnt dare smile for fear the inmates would hit me! she added. I have to be a hard worker, said Mrs. Sandoval. Before I go to school, I have to prepare meals for my family and send each family member to work, school, or to the baby sitter. Mrs. t 1 r r V v1 I ; M ,vV V-S- : A .$ V 4 . Sc v N ? a ) e- v ' , f- 4 ' , ,, ' 1 ,A Photo by Ravell Call ; addition to bookkeeping, Mrs. Sandoval spends extra work time manufacturing beds at the Timber Lake Manufacturing ? Company. In - ,t y .y r.ry Vandals inflicted more than damage to the Lions picnic area above Helper City Park Wednesday night, according to Mayor Charles Ghirardelli. The vandals lifted the cement mantle off the fireplace and dropped coming 2 a n n n a n n n n D and 0 I8 Dali a a Grand Opening announces a ii a Change of Time for their Braivisiq MAY n u R 13 U 19 0n u The drawing will be held at the Castle Rock Square Parking Lot a p n ii m Need Not be present to mul Rj a n H IE p X3 13 13 IS H Ifl 13 El n n INDIAN ART SALE u Before 10 p.m. d jj -- n I on SATURDAY, D I in Corinne, Utah. My cousin and spent a lonely night in Price while we waited for our order to be filled. I Then, after a hitch in the U.S. Marines during the Korean War and a degree from San Jose State, came to live in Utah as a budding young journalist. That was 23 years ago. I On the general assignment desk at the Deseret News, when taking stories over the telephone from our Price stringer, Bob Mullins, I envied his exciting leg work from such a fascinating place, work which eventually earned Bob a Pulitzer Prize. Later, got a chance to become even more familiar with Carbon County when the News sent me here to cover a mine disaster at Spring Canyon. I I asked? had Before asking the question, looked upon coal miners as moles, working in a dark and dirty place, facing danger every day and not getting much pay. Then the miner told me why he worked in the mines. I "My father and my grandfather worked here before me," he said proudly. "It is all we know." It was not said in a complaining or whining way. There was enough pride In his voice to convince me he was have genuinely happy with his work. since been down in the mines and walked, at least for a brief moment, in that miner's shoes. Now can understand why some men like to work in the mines. I I Price has always been a pleasant stopping off place on way to numerous adventures into the Southern Utah wilderness . . . Escalante River across 1 IT 3 N.i'r.e American blankets, uvwlry kj hmas sandpaintings and Meuaiily reasonable prices A ith'MilK ; -, UTAH MUSEUM of NATURAL HISTORY Utah Campus ery day 9 30 to b 30 y of P. to May 20 ' shall never forget interviewing one face as he miner with coal-blacken- ed are going to fix it again and take actions to help prevent from it re occurring, Ghirardelli said. -- and Light crew was at the picnic area Thursday A Utah Power help prevent vandalism. Steel cables, anchored by steel poles, will be placed on the dirt road to the south and on the softball field access road to the north of the picnic area, the State lists one was gonorrhea in- K However, gonorrhea did take its toll in Salt Lake County with 116 cases, and in Weber with 13. Tfce state total for the month of April came to 164 cases, an increase of 16 over Aprils tally for nl . . the motorcycling Cou- Sinbad the Goblin photographing down the Flint . . . ntry jeeping Valley . Trail . . . winching out of quicksand in the Waterpocket Fold . . . marveling at the magnificent Indian pictographs in Horseshoe Canyon . . . visiting Arthur Ekker at the old homestad on the Rob- . . camping with Bates Park in Canyonlands-- . . . and chewing the fat with old Doc Inglesby in Fruita before his death. ber's Roost . . . Wilson in Chesler "You can spend your life exploring the Colorado Plateau," Doc once told me," and then, after you die, you will have only scratched the surface." hope to be able to continue a little "scratching" of that intriguing surface. While in Price, VD I In my first week on the job, I've discovered Price to be a friendly place ... not stuffy like Provo. And in the weeks to come, hope to get to know a lot more of the delightful people in Castle I Country. the way, I used the word "Observer" in the title of this column in honor of my favorite publication, the late National Observer, a Dow Jones By publication, for whom worked between 1962 and its demise in 1977. hope we can inject some of the quality of journalism and writing into the Sun Advocate that was espoused by the editors at the ObI I server. my first week on the job here, I was pleased to be able to work with a fine, energetic young journalist who has occupied this desk in the last few months. wish Jeff Moscow Godspeed in his new career at medical school and hope I can adequately fill his shoes. In I Publicinvited to free film The public is invited to a free showing of the film. winning Teenage Father. The film, which won an academy award for best short film will be shown at the Planned Parenthood office Friday the 18th, at 6:30 p.m. S30? case award academy 00 Marilyn Sage Baker County fection. Li . mayor said. AJso stepped up patrolling of the park area went into effect Thursday by the Helper Police Department. In spite of the damage, the city is committed to keeping the area maintained for local residents, Ghirardelli said. If the steps we have taken dont prove successful in stopping the vandalism, we may consider a evening park curfew, he added. Communicable diseases are at epidemic proportions having a tough time getting throughout Idaho. around in Carbon County. The Idaho Department of According to Utahs Monthly Health reports an estimated 1,000 Morbidity Summary, only one to cases of rubella (German 2,000 of communicable a disease case have occurred this measles) was reported during the month of are advised to year. Physicians April. be on the alert for cases of rubella The summary outlined 11 the report says may spread communicable diseases ranging which Utah. into from gonorrhea to primary and secondary syphilis. The Utah Outdoorsmen should also be Department of Social Services watchful for rabid moose. The Division of Health Disease report said what may be the first Control Branch also mentioned case of rabies recognized in the that the one case in Carbon moose has been population, a u a p a u a down backpacking I to install a network of lights to The lawn in front of the picnic I S ground, area was also torn up by four wheel drive vehicles which came from a blocked - off dirt road south of the picnic area, he said. This type of destruction happens about once a year. We DODB&HBS2 20013012 23 err BASKIN-ROBBIN- it on the Ghirardelli said. Cracks were also produced which go the length of the fireplace, he added. $1,000 BLUE WATER 472-315- must admit have fond memories of Price. My first encounter came as a teenager from California many years ago when drove a truck to a local mine and hauled a load of coal to my uncle's farm I I Vandals cause damage to Helper picnic area ills is Company, Crookston said. Its hard for my kids because I rush them around so much, Mrs. And its Sandoval said. discouraging to come home at the end of the day, too tired to work, and find the house torn up. According to Crookston, on May . 24, in the school board offices, the Carbon - Emery Alternative High School will for the first time award its won diploma to six graduates. Mrs. Sandoval said she plans to complete the high school equvilancy test next week and graduate on the 24th. Ive learned a lot and this is Mrs. Sanjust the beginning! doval said. I plan to continue my education at an accounting school after I graduate. (h i 1) emerged from the portal of thein mine. these Why would anyone want to work and death, mines after this explosion identified. A moose in Northern Utah was noted as under - nourished and acting stragely. In examining the animal, the Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory found the brain to be infected with Negri bodies. last year. Hunters are cautioned with Perhaps more impressive, is that no one in Carbon caught respect to consumption of meat rubella which the report states is and approach of these animals. Sherman Thomas Darrell Story Bill Roybal Helen McDonald Uxler Geraldine Blevins Coffey Robert Anderson Dixie Cottrel Seely Bartley McDonald Cara Redd Nelson Bonnie Mae Horner Newland Janet Beckel Trowbridge Howard Bartlett Paul Huse Jones Eigene Killian Glen Charles Lucero Akema Nitsuma Faye Russell Janice Simonson James Taranjo Olive Sheets Hoopes If any information write Committee for Class of '49 Reunion, coCharmaine H. Jones, P.O.Box 809, Helper, Ut., 84526, or call Ruth Fausett, or 637-080- 6 637-203- 6 |