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Airport Airport one-hal- The local health district is looking for ways to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate in Carbon County and Southeast Utah. The county and the region have the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the state. The main thing we need to do is first, recognize there is a problem. Then we can hopefully give some reasons. After that we can attack the problem, said Wayne Ball, health education specialist with Utah Health the Southeastern District. A federal grant for $12,178 has been appropriated through the state family health services division for a teen-ag- e pregnancy prevention project. The district, comprising Carbon, Emery, Grand and San Juan counties, was one of three sites to be chosen for the project due to the high teenage fertility rate here. Tooele County and the Central District comprising Juab, Millard, Sanpete, Sevier and Wayne minor injuries. Teen dies East Carbon water system improved in crash; four hurt A Price girl died Monday afternoon after the car lf she was riding in rolled about mile north of Carbon County Airport on the Airport Road. one-ha- Colleen Nielsen died at Castleview Hospital. Four companions in the vehicle were treated for minor cuts and bruises, said Carbon County Deputy Sheriff Chuck Semken. Injured were Daniel Lopez, 22; Alex Lopez, 19; Kenneth Dean Garrett, 19 and Teri Bryner, 14. All the victims are Price residents, he said. The auto was northbound, when the driver, Daniel Lopez, lost control, Semken said. It skidded to the left, rolled and landed on its roof in a ditch at the side of the road. No charges have been filed, he said. But results of a blood test on the driver are pending. The auto belonged to the parents of the two Lopez brothers, Semken said. He would not say how fast the vehicle was traveling until the investigation has been completed. EAST CARBON Improvements in the drinking water facilities here have been completed or are in the process of completion. On May 5, the Department of Health made recommendations on improvements that should receive early attention. According to East Carbons water superintendent, most of those recommendations have been followed. Dean Anderson said screens have been installed on the intake pipe from the lower open reservoir and mesh screen has been installed over the end of the 500,000 gallon storage tank to prevent the entrance of mice. He added that a second booster pump, the number one recommendation made by the Department of Healths Division of Environmental Health, is on order. This pump, at a cost of $4,000, will deliver water to the Columbia portion of the East Carbon system. The Department of Health said if the current pump should go out, there is no backup system and Columbia could be out of water. East Carbon is emptying its 20 million gallon open reservoir to begin the process of cleaning and relining the water storage facility. Tara Valdez, East Carbon city administrator, said funds are being sought for the work. We need more than $100,000 for the cleaning and the bentinite for the sealing, she said. It is difficult for the city to comply with all the recommendations at once because of our limited funds, she added. Executive Director Linda Borrell has announced her resignation from the executive directors post after holding the spot for five years. On January 5 Byron Larson, the owner of shoes, will take over the position. Mrs. Borrell will then search for a HUD position opening with the Reagan administration. Larson is a former member of the housing board. He is a graduate of BYU and has accounting, budget planning and She-Sh- es CEU students may take the brunt of Legislative budget cuts imposed at this months special crease, while other session. The Utah State Board of Regents is considering a tuition surcharge for winter and spring quarters, despite some disfavor for the proposal from state legislators. CEU President James Randolph said this is the first time college and university presidents in Utah have asked the students to share in budget reductions. Randolph said he has submitted comments to the regents in regard to raising tuitions at CEU. The amount of tuition adjustment requested to meet the need of the reduction would be $2 per credit hour up to a maximum e of $20 for a student, he said. "The charge would be incurred students, he said. The special meeting of the regents was held Monday at the suggestion of University of Utahs president David P. Gardner. He has proposed a tuition increase at presidents have felt the amount of increase would not hurt individual UofU. experience at cor- porations such as Xerox and Holly Sugar Corp. Mrs. Borrell is assisting her successor during these next few weeks to become accustomed to one of the Carbon Countys most City Housing Authority that was finding its area of service expanding. As the Price City authority we had so many resolutions with outlying areas to provide service it was easier becoming a county agency, she said. Mrs. Borrell was appointed six months after the authority was The sixth, and most important according to Department of Health officials, is the complete treatment of surface water. Larry Mize, chief of the compliance office at the bureau of public water supplies, said the basic problem is the lack of treatment for the East Carbon water supply. G Legislature did not wish to 'increase tuitions when the cut was implemented. My impression is the regents will not approve the increase because they dont want to create work - organizing advisory councils made up of community leaders in each of the counties. Utah has the third highest teenage pregnancy rate in the exceeded nation, only Wyoming, which is second, West Virginia, which has highest rate. The dominance of the LDS belief indirectly affects the rate in Utah, he said. People here are a little more reluctant to have issues of sexuality taught in the schools. The church teaches they should be raised in the home and that attitude is correct. The problem occurs when it is not mentioned in either place, Ball said. As for the rate being higher in this region than in the rest of the state, Ball said, I guess I would relate that to rural conditions and the lack of services information available. Although Planned Parenthood clinics are located in Carbon and Grand counties, they are often not until after a visited by pregnancy has already occurred, he said. Planned Parenthood cant get into the schools to disseminate information because they are perceived to have a bad reputation, he said. Within the region, Carbon has the highest rate in the state with teen-age- rs 117.4 pregnancies per 1,000 females 9 years of age. Grand County is second within the region with 101.2 pregnancies. Third in the region is Emery County with 96 pregnancies and San Juan is fourth with 66.7 pregnancies. The region has an average of 93.8 pregnancies per a 1,000. The region with the lowest pregnancy rate is 46.6 in northwest Utah. The county with the lowest rate is Morgan County with 23 pregnancies per 1,000. The Utah average is 64.2 pregnancies and the U.S. average is 52.4. Among community leaders being asked to serve on the advisory committees are student body presidents and secretaries at each of the four area high schools, Ball said. According to the project timetable, by Feb. 15, the committees will have identified problems and developed a written plan to reduce the identified problems. By April 1, each district will have implemented a minimum of one intervention procedure to reduce the problems. The committees will develop approaches which may include such programs as family planning clinics involving parents and teens, parent workshops, public school staff workshops and mass media campaigns, Ball said. 15-1- five-memb- er five-memb- The regents deferred action at this meeting on the tuition increase request until next week. Having the students carry the brunt of the state education fiscal problems may be shortsighted, Though the Randolph said. tuition increase would be the most practical and easiest method to implement the reductions, it may also be the most politically unwise. Randolphs feelings were mirrored in a letter from the state House majority leader Norman H. during the spring quarter, added. Randolph Bangerter (R-- ranger) to the This would mean a student who regents which indicated the in past would pay $180 tuition for 10 units would have to pay $200 for quarterly tuition. Weve had mixed reaction to the proposal, Randolph said. Some are opposed to the in Health. counties were the other two sites. Ball is in the first stage of the Former CCHA board chairman Lee Hofeling said HUD directors in Denver would often call Mrs. Borrell to ask how a certain regulation should be applied. Toy Atwood, the current board chairman, said she knew the ropes controversial administrative having come from a Minnesota Housing authority. positions. I would say Linda is very The job is a political one and could answer any question 1975. on created Mrs. under 11, Aug. sharp, fire, youre constantly The CCHA authorizes 118 rent and knows how to write grants, Borrell said. The position is also difficult subsidies and manages and own 31 Atwood said. Mrs. Borrells expertise was because there is no local conunits. two to Borrell Mrs. are sites answer said added. she spread throughout the state. to, stituency In Delta this year, she was The Carbon County Housing under development to provide 80 helping write grants and secure Authority (CCHA) was born on more low rent units to the area. Jan. 3, 1978, a child of the Price The CCHA was the first rural tenants for a proposed city center housing agent in the state and the in that rapidly expanding town. Mrs. Borrell was working in third largest. with Bush and Gudgell, in are authorities Utah conjuntion Housing charged with providing rental an engineering firm which has assistance to low and moderate done survey work for the CCHA on its elderly housing project income persons. ill will with the Legislature, This is done through establishing southeast of Price. Carbon County Attorney Keith low rent housing units or subRandolph said. CEUs alternative to raising sidizing part of the monthly rent, Chiara said research into Mrs. Borrells consulting work has tuition would be a selective cut to known as a section 8. meet the extra one percent In Carbon County, the housing (Continued on Page 3) autonomous and reduction. is is authority board The brunt of the $24,608 reduc- governed by a tion would come from limiting appointed by the county comcomputer service to the college mission to a term of five years. and extending vacant positions Mrs. Borrell said the until Feb. 1, 1981 as proposed by board is who the the CEU Budget Committee. executive director must answer to. We are autonomous, almost Cuts would also come from the elimination of the remodeling like a body politic and we have the ability to bond for buildings, Mrs. program. Burrell said. said the cuts Randolph proposed Housing authorities receive will be painful and probably have a U.S. negative impact on the operations, subsidy money from of Urban and Housing Department at the college. and some state funds Under the governors 2.5 percent Development for the acquisition of housing. cuts, the college has already had to The federal money is negotiated reduce its budget by $60,000. for through an annual conAt the Monday meeting, Gardner tributions contract. pointed out that Utahs institutions All money from HUD is evenof higher education have had to paid back. tually cope with a succession of fiscal One of the Very competant, reductions. best In the business, and The Dean Walton, administrative smartest in the state, are plaudits Sem Lurtsena studies Santa's beard while sitting on his knee vice president, said CEU has had thrown to Mrs. Borrell by fellow to relinquish more than $175,000 in housing administrators, CCHA during a recent Operation Santa Claus radiothon. Santa was cuts the last board three and members situated near the community Christmas tree adjacent to the budget during engineering fiscal years. firms. Carbon County Courthouse. Photo by Tom Surges analysis Tuition surcharge proposed full-tim- East Carbon has yet to complete work on two other recommendations by the Department of Carbon County housing head changed A change of guard in the Carbon County Housing Authority will take place next month. 20 Teen births high locally M ' Pages One in 10 ; , V 13' 18 1980 ; tf Entrtainmnt Magazine er Did it come true? V |