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Show Moonlight Magic . VI ir Special Advertising Insert in Today's Paper x 89th Year Wednesday, October 29, No. 88 Tax slips A hearing regarding HELPER plans for requesting a grant to begin re - vamping the business district brought out many south Helper residents to the city council meeting Thursday. The first U.S. Housing and Ur- clerk. Delinquent date for payment of the tax is noon on December 1. Taxes may be mailed. Taxpayers must bring in the tax notice if they pay in person at the treasurers ban Development application will be for $825,000 to get the project underway, Charles Mayor GhirardelU said. The proposed program is to re vamp the area between Hill Street and Maple Street along Main -- office. Home owners are noticing fairly large increases over last years tax. Factors contributing to this are the raise in mill levies, and in some instances, the annexation of county property into incorporated Street. If the money is forthcoming some of it will be used to purchase off - street parking areas. Eventually the project would be extended to take in all of the business district along Main Street from Nolans Market to the R & A areas. The school district raised its levy 7.57 mills; Price City, 4.18; county 1.30; Scofield, 2.80; Hiawatha, 8.30; East Carbon City, 1.60; water Market. There was no opposition to the district, 2.06. Sunnyside did not increase its levy and Wellington 1.28. Each notice shows which taxing units are included in that tax. Photo by Don Vetter Spooky traveled the haunted basement hails proposal from any of the group attending, several making the statement that Helper must take some action soon to retain the badly sagging business district along Main Street. A Sun Advocate representative, Glen Wright, told the council of plans to print an energy supplement planned for January. Wright expressed a desire for a historical story on Helper for the issue and solicited an advertisement from the council for panys plans had gained the ap- proval of the city planning and zoning commission. He now required final approval from the council. Concern was expressed by some council members over the lack of roadway access to the area if the residential area continues to grow. The city planning consultant, -- Rodney Despain of Provo, presented five options available to the city in relieving access problems that may be forthcoming to the Castle Gate Sub - division and the new adjoining Spring Canyon Estates. One included the reservation of Lot No. 18 in the Indeco plans for a future access road. The road would be contingent upon the city securing a right of way over the former road bed of the Rio Grande Railroad when its branch line served the Spring Canyon coal district. manuevering and economics are 20 SALT LAKE back holding Political CITY the com- mercialization of coal liquifacation in Utah. That was the word from Dr. Wendell H. Wiser of the University of Utah. Wiser also said he felt the liquifacation research done at the university has been overlooked by the U.S. Department of Energy. - The Germans demonstrated in that a high quality liquid fuel can be produced from coal. Toward the end of the war, the German war machine was entirely reliant upon this synthetic fuel. Wiser said research continues on ways to improve upon the GeWWII rmans method, including discovered at the technology University of Utah. Wiser said the heated reactor t-- system devised at the fuels engineering department converts the coal to liquid in a matter of seconds compared to other systems which take up to an hour. He said even greater efficiency is added to the system when Utah coal is used in the process. Under conditions where we would convert 75 percent of Utah coals to liquid and gasses, those same conditions would only con- - Charles Craft Associates of Indeco discussed the possibilities of Phase Two of his companys plans for the con- - 35 to 40 percent of an eastern coal to liquids and gasses, Wiser said. The secret in the University of Utah liquifacation process is the introduction of hydrogen and a zinc chloride catalyst without the use of a coal solvant. Despite the abundance of Utah coal and an efficient system of turning it into gasoline, the Department of Energy has shied away from the process. A decision has been made to build large pilot plants on the Exxon, Gulf Oil and HRI process. At the same time officials at the vert Public road is posted the Department of Energy are rather Hunters in Carbon County found road posted as private property during the deer hunting season just passed. The Consumers Road which goes through Beaver Creek up into Scofield was being posted by members of the United Sportsmen one public Club. Larry Wilson, area supervisor for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said there has been public access over that road for more than seven years. Wilson said posting of property must be done on boundry lines to Kp pffotivP County Attorney Keith Chiara said last year problems arose when access roads were posted. A lot of times private land may be near, lets say, BLM land. And land owners just post the access trail. If someone goes on this trail many times they want us to he prosecute for trespassing, R ' Scott Wooden of the United Sportsmen Club posted signs, warning hunters to stay off the Consumers Road. Hunters complained that the club was wrong for posting a public access road during the recent deer hunting season. said. Commissioner Jim County Simone said he received a complaint from a hunter who said members of the United Sportsmen Club stopped him from traveling on that road. Scott Wheeler of Price said a similar thing happened to him this past weekend. The man said all the property in the area belonged to the United Sportsmen and it was their road as well, Wheeler said. Jack Topham, conservation officer for the Division of Wildlife Resources, said the club has been (Continued on Page 16B) slow to give significant funding for development of new technologies, Wiser said. The funded pilot plants add solvent to the reactor process in the liquifaction, he added. Wiser said added political problems for Utah occur when DOE officilas come out in support of eastern politicians and their plea for gasification plants using their states less efficient coal. There is another barrier in that we are importing oil at $32 a barrel and the oil we produce from coal would be more like $48 to $52 a barrel. He said in order for the United States to move forward in coal liquifaction it would have to adopt a philosophy used in South Africa. The national security and wellbeing was more important than the cost of imported oil and they were willing to pay the higher price, Wiser said. South Africa has two coal liquifaction plants in operation which provide 65 percent of the nations liquid fuel needs. Wiser said South Africa was afraid oil importers would shun their contry because of the apartheid governemnt. Despite the fact Utah coal and the University of Utah liquifaction system provide for a more cost efficient system, funding from the Department of Energy has been only for fundamental research. The University of Utah has two DOE research contracts totaling $700,000 $300,000. and grants totaling The money we have now is not (Continued on Page 16B) 10-1- 4. (Continued on Page 16B) Former legislator dies in local home Politics limit coal liquefaction No information has been given to the treasurer at this time. of old This victim Carbon County Hospital at her own risk for the CEU Drama Club's "Spooky Halls." The fright will occur Thursday and Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. Admission is $1. Victims are urged to enter at the east entrance. the edition. The council gave approval to the Indeco plans for Phase No. 2 contingent upon the availability of the lot No. 18 should progress be made in obtaining the right - of way. The present access to the development by Indeco is the county road that continues on to the Price River Coal Companys mine in Spring Canyon. A widening project for this road at the curve near Fabrizio Street is pending the re - locating of utility poles on the side of the roadway. The council approved the attendance by Police Chief Karl Stavar at a 35 - hour course on administration and management of small police departments in Salt Lake City, Nov. Approval was also given to Stavars proposal for a city ordinance on a curfew for minors. The regulation makes it unlawful for minors under the age of 18 years to be on the streets or in public places between the hours of struction of more houses in Spring Canyon Estates. Craft reported that his com- A former state , legislator for Carbon County died in a local nursing home Wednesday. Burgess Lyman Frandsen, 91, was elected to the Utah House of Representatives for two terms. He also worked for the state tax commission and Carbon County School District. Frandsen was also active in the Mormon Church. He was a member of the Carbon Stake high council for 11 years and on the Carbon County welfare board for program. 20 Development viewed Tax notices have been mailed to owners of property in Carbon County by Treasurer Jessie R. Holdaway, following assessment of the properties by the assessor and computation of taxes by the county Those not receiving notices should check with the treasurer about the correct mailing address. A question often asked is whether or not taxpayers will receive a rebate this year, Ms. Holdaway said. Earlier the state tax commission announced the rebate would be made when income tax returns were filed, but recent news releases are not definite about the Pages $825,000 grant sent out dropped 50 1980 t jc: years. managed the Carbon Welfare Farm. County For many years he was employed as Carbon County weed supervisor for the state board of He also agriculture. He was bom Dec. 5, 1888 in Mount Pleasant to Peter Niels and Caroline Simpson Frandsen. He married Ida Elizabeth Anderson on June 4, 1913 in the LDS Manti Temple. She died Sept. 25, 1968. He moved to Price in 1935 and continued to live here until his death. His survivors include daughters, LaRue Frandsen, San Diego, Calif.; Mrs. Ernest (Beth) Hartmann, LaCrosse, Wise.; sons, Duane A., Garth A., both Price; G. Pete, Sandy; Odell A., Idaho Falls, Idaho; a daughter, Nellie preceded him in death; also surviving, 18 grandchildren; 30 great grandchildren. -- Funeral services were held at the Price First Ward on Saturday. He was buried in the Price Cemetary. In lieu of flowers, family requests contributions to Ann Self Training Center, Spring Glen, Utah. Tar sands are big job By SCOTT LLOYD Staff Writer SALT LAKE CITY- - Though tar sands mining involves moving mountains, neighboring residents have a right to expect the land to be returned to its original state. Thats the opinion of a University of Utah professor who is involved in tar sands research. Dr. Francis V. Hanson, associate professor of fuels engineering, spoke with the Sun Advocate Friday, about the universitys research and development activities. Tar sand deposits near Sunnyside, which are surface mineable, would be among the first to be recovered once mining activities get underway, Hanson said. That could be in seven to 10 years; sooner if there is a complete disruption of Middle Eastern oil supplies, he said. It takes about two tons of tar sands material to yield the equivalent of one barrel of oil. I wonder if the people in Carbon County appreciate the enormity of -- what were talking about doing. With a 25,000 - barrel - a - day plant, that means 50,000 tons of earth would have to be moved daily. Thats a lot of material, he added. Bitumen, the usable portion of the material, comprises only 9 percent. The rest of it ought to go back into the mines and the land be returned to its original state, Hanson said. I think thats a very reasonable thing to ask and people in (Carbon County) have a right to ask it, he added. He estimated that in Utah alone some 25 billion barrels of hydrocarbons exist in the ground in a tar sands form. To put that in perspective, thats approximately twice the known reserves (existing as 8-- petroleum) at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Unfortunately, its not the type of resource that allows us to dig a hole in the ground and pump it out, he noted. Essentially a materials - handling problem, production of fuel (Continued on Page 16B) |