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Show Utcfc 7 E, S.i,C , -- ';s'C, 3rd So, Ut. (.4111 $53 million Council Utilities ask for hike approves disco hall Two utilities are asking the state Public Service Commission to increase rates a total of $53 million. Utah Power & Light has asked for a $33.4 million rate increase and Mountain Fuel Supply Co. has asked for a $19.6 million fuel rate hike. The UP&L increase would represent a 9.3 percent increase over present rates. For residents without electric water heating the increase would mean an approximate $3.25 jump in monthly billing. All - electric residences would be charged an approximate $15.61 more a month. Senior citizens would pay only about two percent more than they currently are paying. The city council agreed to issue a disco dance hall near First West and First North a business license. Gary and Debbie Weight said that they saw a need for some class wholesome, high recreation in the county. It will take the Weights' some time before they have rebuilt the walls, ceiling and floor of the hall so they can open for business. I think it is obvious when you drive Main Street that a number of people are wasting their time on the streets, Weight said. Council member James Lee Jensen said he was concerned about the noise level and ByRAVELLCALL Staff Writer A $62.6 million pollution plan for Geneva Steel that they have p.m. to midnight. On these and other nights there will be dance classes for all age Photo by Ravetl Call Truck groups. The hall, which contains 2,200 square feet of floor space, is situated between Love Floral and Eastern Utah Paint and Supply. Weight said that he will be working with Walker Bank to see if he could use their parking lot during the evenings for the dances. Clinic is trucked in - GREEN RIVER The Green River Clinic will have a new, spacious and permanent home and none too soon, according to Nurse Practitioner Sue Allen. For the past ten months, Ms. Allen has seen her patients in a clinic building that flooded and had to be condemned, in a motel room fixed up to serve as a clinic and in the cramped confines of a small trailer house. She has also seen patients in her own mobile home. But thats all in the past, Ms. Allen said. Our new building is here and will be finished within a month. Its like Christmas in October. Green Rivers new clinic building was prefabricated in Salt Lake City by Interstate Homes Inc., shipped by three large trucks to Green River, and is now being finished at the site by. Quality Enterprise Construction Co., a local firm. It will have three examination rooms, a medical supply room, an room, an emergency room, a business office, a laboratory, waiting rooms and rest rooms. The specially designed 2,352 square - foot structure will cost $111,700 when complete. X-ra- will be proposed Thursday night to the Utah State Air Friday will be the disco music from clean - up formally already decided on the hall hours. On Wednesday from 8 p.m. to midnight there will be a ladies night where the Weights hope to draw the foxtrot and waltzing couples. 7 roll-ov- er Driver Lynn Frandsen, 18, of Price was uninjured when the truck he was driving overturned Wednesday evening west of Price. Trooper Phyl Johnson said damage to the truck was estimated at $1,000. Damage to the cedar siding and steel the truck was hauling was not included in the estimate. Water model reviewed SUNNYSIDE City officials met with Utah Department of Health and Culligan Water Conditioning representatives Tuesday to examine a scaled down water treatment plant in operation. If a larger version of the scaled down Culligan water treatment plant is approved by the state, East Carbon and Sunnyside could from here cut $750,000 from the cost of a conventional plant. Larry Mize and Larry Scanlan of the State Department of Health questioned the ability of the to meet plant Culligan requirements. Craig Dansie of Culligan Water Conditioning in Price felt the state was too particular about types of technology rather than water quality. Its a different type of system and therefore not acceptable to the state even if it works, Dansie said. Art Williams, also of Culligan, said, The system includes all the steps and processes required for treatment of a surface water supply by the state. We use the same order of steps but a different technology. The Culligan plant gets better results. Its just green instead of red, Williams added. Scanlan explained that Culligan proposed the use of a pressure filter. None have been approved in the state, he said. We feel better about the use of a gravity filter because we can see the sand and observe problems as they develop, Scanlan said. A gravity filter may be more foolproof than a pressure filter that is out of sight. A second problem is the proposed direct filtration. This means that a settling step is (Continued on Page3) Conservation Committee. The Environmental Protection Agency opposes the $62.6 million clean up and holds firmly to a $110 million clean - up of Geneva, Jane Von Halban of U.S. Steel said. The future of the Horse Canyon mine near Columbia will be determined by the fate of the Geneva Steel clean - up program. U.S. Steel officials have stated Geneva cannot afford a $110 million expenditure. In a Tuesday meeting in Salt Lake City representatives from U.S. Steel and the state of Utah came to a tentative agreement on a total clean - up package of $62.6 million. Governor Scott Matheson gave Long-tim- e - KENILWORTH Mrs. Evelyn A. Wilmonen has received her as permanent appointment postmaster of the Kenilworth post office according to an announcement from the office of Postmaster General William F. Bolger on Oct. 5. Mrs. Wilmonen has been in charge of the Kenilworth post office for over a year since the retirement of Mrs. Nora Hatsis. as a She had worked replacement and Saturday relief for Mrs. Hatsis prior to her appointment as officer in charge of the office. cited delays in previous rate hikes, higher interest rates and increased operating costs as reasons for the current rate request. The application said that UP&L would request another rate hike if the commission does not approve the current request. $1 UP&L plans to spend more than billion in the next four years on construction and services to meet customer demand, the application noted. Mountain Fuel Supply Co. said in its request to the Public Service Commission that the hike would amount to a 7.5 percent rate hike for the average residential Co. The pipeline companies have hiked their rates since Canadian gas has been increased from $2.30 to $2.80 for 1,000 cubic feet. Consumers have more bad news since the Canadian price is anticipated to rise next month from the $2.80 figure to $3.45. Mountain Fuel just received a $26 million rate increase from the commission in August. Less than a half of the increase was attributed to raising natural gas prices. his blessing to U.S. Steels proposal after the U.S. Steel, state of Utah, EPA meeting Tuesday, Ms. Von Halban said. U.S. Steel had originally proposed a $50 million program but after updated engineering raised the proposed expenditure to $62.6 million. The EPA originally asked for a $178 million clean - up but had come down to $110 million prior to Tuesdays meeting. The EPA holds to this figure. If the $62.6 million plan is passed by the state Air Conservation Committee in the meeting that was scheduled Thursday night, public hearings will be held in Orem the first week in December, Ms. Von Halban said. The pollution control plan will then be submitted to the EPA, and a decision could be expected from that agency in January or February of 1980. Ms. Von Halban said even if U.S. Steel spent $110 million, according to their engineers, EPA standards would not be met. She said with the $62.6 million plan, EPA air standards would be met in all areas of Utah Valley except for 10 acres between the Geneva plant and She said this area is mainly uninhabited and that the pollutants there are dirt rather than'chemical in form. 5. It would be catastrophic to the economy if Geneva Steel closed down, Ms. Von Halban said. She said U.S. Steel provides 5,700 jobs in Utah and that the taxes paid by U.S. Steel provide a base for many Utah Schools. A press secretary for Governor Matheson said if EPA does eventually refuse the $62.6 million clean - up proposed by U.S. Steel, the state would likely initiate legal litigation against the EPA. employe Mrs. Wilmonen has worked at the post office here for nearly 13 years. She has been a Kenilworth resident since Sept. 1946. Women also hold the office of postmaster in Sunnyside, East Carbon and Helper. The appointment of Mrs. Wilmonen ends speculation and fears that the office would be closed and residents would be provided only rural delivery type service. Apparently the Postal Service has shitted its position somewhat in the last year or so in regards to the closing of small post offices throughout the country. Evelyn A. Wilmonen Locals dump despite closure the here their run WELLINGTON The city dump is continuing to be used by some residents despite the dumps closure more than a month ago. Continued use of the dump is causing consternation on the part of elected officials and is posing health Emery Country contributed about $15,000 toward the purchase and Stateland Board sold to the city three acres of land for the clinic site. The Utah Department of Community Affairs granted the county an additional amount to complete the project. This total project includes a new home for the nurse practitioner and her family, located adjacent to the clinic, an improvement almost as dramatic as the new clinic itself over the trailer home accommodations 111 utility appointed postmaster y she has occupied for the past four years. As a registered family nurse practitioner, Sue Allen provides the only available medical care to (Conlinurit on Iagp The consumer, or an additional $2.21 monthly. The company noted that nearly half of the increase would go to Mountain Fuels primary pipeline gas supplier, Northwest Pipeline -- School. As for the noise level, disco is not rock - n - roll. The noise level will be lower, he said. On UP&L wants the rate hike to take effect at the first of the year. Clean up decision pending supervision of the hall. Weight responded that he is dealing with many of his customers at school since he is a basketball coach at Carbon High Ms. Weight said requested Wellington residents apparently haven't paid heed to the signs warning them that A few tickets will be issued to those using the dump despite it's being closed a month ago. and environmental problems for the area. In a Wellington City Council meeting Wednesday night, Mayor Ray Davis and council members learned some residents are still unloading their garbage at the dump. Wellington council members implemented a program a year ago to have garbage pick - up service available for its residents. Despite the availability to have their garbage picked up by City Sanitation Company of Price at $3.25 a month charge, many of the residents opt to dispose of it themselves. The dump was closed because it posed problems with a rising rodent population, scattering of trash by the wind, and the release of pollutants in the atmosphere caused by illegal burning. People who continue to use dump for garbage drops the risk of a fine by the Wellington Police. Officer Don Rhodes stated they face a penalty of up to $299 fine if they are found guilty of the Class C" misdemeanor charge of littering. He informed the council the police department has names of people who apparently have used the dump within the last month. After being informed of people using it, Wellington police officers extracted envelopes, bills and receipts with names of people on them from the dump site. The problem at the dump is not entirely being caused by Wellington residents, councilwoman Alice Mae Shorts stated. Many of the people using the dump site are from outside the city limits and not subjected to the mandatory garbage pick up fees. 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