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Show Wednesday, April 22, 1981 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah 3A Green River considers Circuit Court option the advantages of a circuit court in Green River will be the task of the city council at a public hearing Thursday. Green River City attorney A.J. Coffman proposed an ordinance in Weighing February that would alternate 11th and 12th Circuit Court judges at Green River each month. The advantage of the circuit court is its ability to handle class A misdemeanors and civil cases up to $5,000, according to Coffman. Deputy state court ad- ministrator Ron Gibson said municipalities not designated by the state as a primary or secon- dary municipality can pass an ordinance to create a municipal department of the circuit court. He said there is no specific waiting period for the transition from the justice of the peace to the circuit court system, should Green Rivers city council decide to pass the ordinance. One advantage to the circuit and he is court judge is elected to a term, Gibson said. Fines collected in the circuit court are split 0 with the state. The states share is offset by the fact that the state pays the judges salary and assumes other financial responsibilities to support the law-train- six-ye- ar 50-5- Twitchell said it was his opinion the city did not need the services of the circuit court. In the first nine years, I can remember having only one case go to circuit court," he said. The expenses to maintain a circuit court may be too high for the city, he added. Gibson said the city may have to e court hire more than a clerk to handle the case load in the circuit court. The cost of a court clerk would would be above the amount spent by the city on its justice of the peace system. court. He said with the justice of the peace, the city gets all the revenues generated, but must assume all the financial support of the court, including the salary. Justice of the Peace Howard Twitchell serves both Green River and Precinct 3 of the Emery County court system. He collects no salary from the city appointed job, but takes in more than $22,000 each year for his service to the county. City recorder Maxine Baker estimates approximately $22,000 in fines was collected in 1979 and 1980 by the justice of the peace. part-tim- The Emery County Board of Commissioners approved a move to raise the property taxes throughout the county 100 percent during a rescheduled commission meeting April 15. According to County Assessor Gerald Stanton, he was directed by the commissioners to raise the property taxes 100 percent and follow the the State Legislatures order to roll back 20 percent. He said that this was one of four options that his office had considered A $34.3 million a year rate increase for Mountain Fuel Supply Co. has been ratified by the Public Service Commission. The order announced Iasi week continues the rates in force since the commission granted the increase last September. Manager of Communication Dale Zabriske of Mountain Fuel Supply Co. said the increase is about a 22 percent boost. He said a typical residential customer in Utah will pay $34 more a year a total of $412 per year altogether. This is assuming the customer is using 160,000 cubic feet of gas. The commission has also ordered that Mountain Fuel refund to customers about $2.1 million because the company has received some federally mandated refunds from suppliers. Zabriske said the rate back will show up as a reduction in any rate increase or surcharge the commission may approve later. Last July, the utility had asked for a $50 million hike in revenues. of Public Utilities : The Division argued that the request was unrealistically high and asked that the figure be trimmed to $34.3 million. Primary elections will be held April 30 for students at Green River High School. Students will be vying for president, first and second vice president, secretary and historian. Girls in grade 8 through 11 will suit has been filed against a Castle Dale truck driver who was involved in a fatal collision in 1979 near Castle Gate. Nella Mae Trask filed the more than $200,000 suit earlier this year. She claims Nile Kay Wilberg and those holding ownership in his 1978 Peterbilt truck were at fault in her husbands death. She has also requested a jury trial in the Seventh District Court of Price. James D. Trask of Kaysville was driving on U.S.-- 6 in his pickup truck on Jan. 22, 1979, when he collided with Wilbergs truck near the Castle Gate 3 intersection. Trask died that day. U-3- Plans are GREEN RIVER taking shape to bring in more visitors to this area during the 1981 tourist season. Rex Phillips, director of the Green River Business and Travel Council, said the annual Melon Days celebration in September will probably be bigger than ever. Commercial booths will be allowed for the first time since the event began in the towns early days. There has been kind of an unwritten law that we dont allow commercial booths, but we had so many inquiries last year that we decided there was no reason not to have them, Phillips said. Between 75 and 80 booths are expected at this years celebration, Phillips added. The Business and Travel Council sponsored Melon Days for the first time last year, and some observers Clell Duncan removes a limb from an ancient tree in front of the Cottage Motel in Green River. The tree has been dead for some time. It was removed a piece at a time last week by Duncan and fellow motel owners Nolan and Lowell Curtis. also be competing for four junior varsity and four varsity cheerleader spots. Final elections will be held May 7. set The winners in the cheerleaders 0 GREEN RIVER from (Continued from Page 1A) announced May 14 at Class Night. April 8 by MSHA. He added that the citation was made in the same area of the mine officials refused to comment on the report, a Mid MSHA M. Berry, has denied any fault exists on his clients behalf. Berry works for the Snow, Christensen and Martineau law firm of Salt I .akc City. throughout the at gunpoint SPANISH FORK A to take $800 from the Green River man was robbed at gunpoint while he was dirving through Spanish Fork Canyon Thursday. victim after he was flagged down by the gunman on U.S. 6. Utah Highway Patrol officers from Price were involved in A Utah County Sheriffs spokesman the unsuccessful said the suspect used a search for the Wellingtonites from 1935 to 1946? Harold Bear Duane Board Dorothy Beach Bob Dimick Vivian Eastwood Delpha Gonzolas Neldon Miller Thermos Engle Barbara Russell Barbara Staley Richard Timothy Dixie Cotteral Adrian Griffiths If you know how to Del ma Eves Fred Haskin Marion Pinegar Orlean Montoya Beverly Taro Munson Betty Dimick PeteZakis joe Perkins Tommy Miller contact any of these people, call Carol Powell Fausett or Donna Norton Jensen 637-274- 6 637-101- cancelled For only the GREEN RIVER second time in 24 years, the annual Friendship Cruise on the Green and Colorado Rivers has been cancelled. As of April, the runoff from the upper Colorado River drainage was so low it could not maintain a definite noon, will take place from to 11 : 30 a.m. Saturday. 10 a.m. 564-819- 6, 564-323- 3. children need attend designated day. Parents will receive all necessary information to enroll their child in school for the coming year. time control, during which national the session and no regular kindergarten class will be held that May is National attention is focused on High Blood Pressure the need for hypeMonth. It is a rtension detection, education. and channel, 0 said -- The big bike race sign ups will be held Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., with the races starting at 10:30 a.m. The Dubinkey is a district point event race for all United States Racing Association Classes. Race categories range from amateur and expert to sportsmen and powder puff classes. For more information call or No river Marshall Thompson, secretary of the cruise board of directors. Thompson said the eight member board decided they could not depend on the weather enough to plan for the annual event which usually takes place Memorial Day weekend in May. The cruise was also cancelled in 1977, when Utah and other parts of the west experienced a severe drought. The water level is a little bit higher this year than in 77, but we figured it was just not safe enough to turn 300 or 400 boats on it when many of the boaters are inexperienced at river running, Thompson said. the boats are Traditionally, launched at the city of Green River and run down to the confluence of the Green and Colorado rivers. From there, they run back up the Colorado to Moab, he said. The river is lowest in the first 25 miles of the route, Thompson said. In the remaining portion, there are about 10 shallow points where gravel bars pose a hazard to the boats, he said. Green River Residents Enjoy the expanded coverage of Green River and area every week. . . ONE YEAR Subscription Where are you Joe Moore In- Hypertension checked Man robbed (Nalorn) Dirt bikers GREEN RIVER Kindergarten registration for next school year is at 10 a.m. Friday at the Book Cliff Elementary School. Parents of children who will be five years old before Oct. 31 should attend the meeting to be held in the Kindergarten room, located in the northwest corner of the building. -- Continent spokesman said he was unaware of such a citation. Mid - Continent employs approximately 450 men in their operation and a good number of former Carbon and Emery miners are counted among this total. Officials from the Federal Mining Safety and Health Administration have closed the mine. Virginia Moore Friendship Cruise is School registration opens where the explosion occurred. small caliber weapon Mrs. Trask contends that the death was due to Wilberg not having an adequate lookout when he was crossing into the eastbound traffic lane and into the path of the Trask pickup. Mrs. Trask is requesting $200,000 in general damages and $2,700 for the costs related to her husbands death. Mrs. Trask is being represented by David E. Bean of Layton. Wilbergs attorney, Raymond said the firm was cited for exceeding legal methane gas levels in Dutch Creek No. 1 as recently as - - termountain West will meet here for the 1981 Dubinkey Still Run Saturday and Sunday. Sponsored by the Green River Jeep Posse, racing gets underway at noon Saturday. The course is located 12 miles east of Green River on then south on the dirt road near Floy Wash dirt road to the Dubinkey site. Sign ups for the mini bike race at 75 killed in Colorado some 30 miles south of Glenwood Springs. Mid - Continent produces a high - quality coking coal sold primarily to the Geneva Steel Plant in Orem and Kaiser Steel in Fontana, Calif. The workers at Mid - Continent are not affiliated with the United Mine Workers of America so consequently are not involved in the strike that has closed most of the mines in Carbon and Emery Counties. The miners at the Colorado mines are represented by an independent union known as the Redstone Workers Association and their contract with the company will expire on May 13 of this year. Ironically, the first bargaining session between the association and the company was scheduled for the very afternoon of the accident and one of the main issues to be pursued by the association bargainers was the topic of mine safety. Charles Corey, president of the Redstone Workers Association said it was the best it had ever been. Other innovations expected to attract visitors are one - day river raft trips, one - day horse trips and one - day combination river raft and four - wheel drive vehicle trips, Phillips said. The trips, conducted by Ken Sleight Expeditions, will allow visitors to take advantage of scenery around the Green River and Canyonlands areas without making lengthy advance reservations, Phillips said. He estimated the raft and jeep trips would cost between $20 and $25 a person. The council is planning now to draw tour buses to the Green River area next season, he said. Several inquiries have been received from companies in the eastern United States, Phillips said. Dirt bike race slated will be announced the next night, May 8 at the Girls Day Dance, sponsored by the cheerleaders. All other student body officers 2 school year will be for the 81-8- Truck suit is filed A Stanton said this was a temporary move made to get the UTC "off our backs. If we can get away without doing something next year, then we will have to do it again the third year, he said. Besides the cities, the Castle Valley Special Service District said it could cut back one mill and the school district earlier volunteered to reduce its mill levy by one mill. With the mills being cut in the school and service district, as well as the cities, a home owner in Castle Dale could receive an increase comparable to 40 percent, he said. The county wants to avoid reducing any mills because that would decrease the taxes paid into the county through the state assessed property, such as the UP&L power plants. and presented to the board. Other options that he listed were to factor 200 percent that the Utah State Tax Commission had ordered or do nothing at all. Representatives from each town were in attendance. Stanton said that the cities will have to roll back their assessed mill levy. The law says that cities can only collect six percent more revenue in property taxes following a re- - assessment or factoring of property, he said. Tourist hunt begins GR High School prom begin at 10:30 p.m. Following the promenade the junior royalty will be announced and a dance will be reserved for the king and queen, junior class members and their parents. Tickets to the prom may be purchased at the door and are $5 single, $7 couple. The public is invited. had been originally scheduled for March 19, but had been twice postponed by the council. Melon Days i on Loving You. The floor show is scheduled to Hall. The public hearing Emery approves tax hike Mt Fuel gets hike approval GREEN RIVER Plans for the upcoming junior prom at Green River High School are coming down to the final hour. This years theme is Sailing. The prom will be held from 9 p.m. to midnight in the Green River High School Gymnasium. Prom chairperson Julie Powell said this years event will be unique because of some recently purchased decorations. The decorations are lavender and midnight blue with silver highlights. ' The music will be provided by the Orem group Ocean Breeze. The promenade, arranged by Lana and Bill Bacon, will be performed to the music of Keep procedures under the circuit court act in Utah. He cited professionalism as one advantage to the circuit court system. It also gives the state a uniform court of record, primarily in the criminal field," Ruggeri said. The council will hold the public hearing as part of its regular meeting to be held at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Green River City Coffman told the council during the ordinances first proposal said the city could almost save the cost of a court recorder from the money presently used toward traveling expenses for officials attending circuit court hearings in Castle Dale or Moab. He added that some zoning violations are ignored because of the nuisance of sending them to court. These violations could be economically pursued with the proposed system. Judge John Ruggeri of 11th Circuit court said he will go to Green River following the Attorney .$150 Wednesday and Friday Sun Advocate P.O. Box X Price, Utah 84501 Postal regulations require that all subscriptions be paid for in advance. |