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Show Fish season opening draws anglers to water hiiusands of anglers took to the rivers, Micams. and lakes of the Uintah Basin Ihc week-en- d with what was ribed as poor to moderate success. As usual. Starvation reservoir was the most popular fishing site with Big Sands nulling in second. Conservation Officer Steve Cranncy of Duchesne said the state Fish and Game counted about 1 ,500 people on the shore and 320 boats at one time. Fishing was described as generally "real poor" at Starvation. There were some limits caught, but not many. However the Standards Denny Osborn spoke w ith one Salt Lake party of five that had 2b catches by about 3 p.m. Saturday. Big Sands also was rated "poor" by lakeside fishermen. John Logan, a conservation officer, said there was about one catch per fisherman average when he checked Saturday. He counted 110 people on shore and 22 boats. At other places: Lake Boreham. or Midview, had three dozen people Friday who came up for some early fishing on Indian land. Fishing I here was generally poor and by Sunday ihc numbers were down to less than 10 total. The ice broke off Moon Lake late in the week and the six or seven boats there had fair success said Fish and Game officials. Snow was still on the ground there. The lakes in the primitive areas are still frozen over and there is a reported three to five feet of snow on the ground. Pelican Lake was reported to have small crowds and fishing success from boats was about one catch per hour. From the shore, fishing w as described as poor. Bottle Hollow, another Indian lak is open year around, but still had a good crowd and fair success. Of the rivers: The Strawberry was "good" Saturday with a few German Browns according to officer Cranney. Sunday it dropped off to I 'kt J(-- t tawy Oiksm'i Editor's Notebook ) I Saturday was the opening day of the fishing season, as most of you 1975 housewives know. around with my trusty Travelling camera to note the event I found most fishermen to really be eager for the season. Saturday morning I walked down the Strawberry river from the bridge at Indian Canyon and noticed two young fishermen, Mjrk Ostler and Kevin Rhodes, busily easting. Pretty quick Kevin gets a good bite and the two of them pull it in and then posed tor a picture. Then less than two minutes later young Ostler pulled in another. The last time I caught two fish was when one of the local markets has tunafish at two cans for 89 cents. Graduation ceremonies were held at the county high schools last week. Congradulations to the former seniors. Of course many of them will be going on to more schooling this fall. As far as we know Tabiona must be setting a record of sorts, with almost the entire class going on to college or vocational schools... of course there were only seven of them. Six are going to college or vocational school and one is going into the military. Speaking of Tabiona, those people are real fighters as state school officials found out last week in a public meeting called to discuss the rutting off of state funding to the high school in Tabiona. listening to their presentations on why the school should not lose the funding was rvallv impressive. Fact is. if the state people made as much sense as the Tabbie farmers and ranchers, the state education system would be in better shape. Tabiona area residents held a public meeting last week school board officials to explain why they feel special state state funding for the school should not be cut off. Jerry Christiansen standing was the spokesman for the group. Tabiona residents feel the long rides and unsafe roads make keeping the school open a KEEP SCHOOL with necessity. four Tabiona takes case to state school officers Let us keep our school" was an often repeated plea last week as more then 200 Tabiona-Hann- a residents met with state school officials to carry on their fight to This programs and teachers salaries. school year Tabiona received $32,000 as one of the smallest high schools in the state. The state has told the Duchesne district that it will provide $32,000 to the district for two years if Tabiona is consolidated with Duchesne high school, none if it is not. The district may continue to operate Tabiona if it is willing to fund it entirely. Tabiona-Hanna residents fear that if the state funds are cut off the district will choose to take the consolidation funds and close the Tabiona high school. The status of the elementary is not affected and wily, remain open. For more than three hours the Tabiona parents explained their reasons for keeping the school open. Among the claims of the Tabiona parents: Students would be on the bus for more than two hours and 40 minutes. (State law places a maximum bus time of two hours and 30 minutes for ideal conditions.) Students from the Tabiona area would be deprived of many social benefits they now receive because of time and distance from Duchesne. keep Tabiona high school open. The state school board has told the Duchesne school board that it will cut off S3 2, 000 of state funds for Tabiona as a "necessarily existent small school." The public meeting in Tabiona was called to persuade the state officials to change their minds. Necessarily existent small schools receive special funding to help with Annual set at DHS June 7 Scout-O-Ram- a For the thrill of seeing the efforts of Scouting come to life, the public is urged Uinta Basin to attend the annual to be held this Saturday at the Duchesne high school. This annual event will be kicked off with a Scouters parade through downtown Duchesne at 10:30 a.m. followed by the flag raising ceremony at the high school by the Uintah Basin order of the arrow. Booths and displays will run from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Several different Scouting units will be serving dutch oven chicken, pancakes, and bread prepared Scouter's style. A lifesaving and First Aid Scout-Oram- a. demonstration will be presented by the Duchesne County Sheriffs Fosse. The award ceremony will commence at 3:30 p.m. where the awards for skills, demonstrations, and posters will be rubber life presented. Also s ten-ma- n Sunset of Sporting raft, complements g tents, Goods, and several compliments of Smileys Sporting Goods, will be given to an Explorer Pst and Scout back-packin- The social, cultural, and economic base of the community would be destroyed. Up to 38 families would move from the Tabiona-Hann- a area to be closer to a high school. Nearly all the local businesses would be forced to close with the loss of business. State school officials said several times critera to they have determine what constitutes a necessarily existent small school and Tabiona does not qualify. They cited limited programs and facilities, staff teaching out of their primary fields, and the relative nearness of Duchesne. However, said State Superintendent Walter D. Talbot. "If the bus route is over the state law (in travelling time) maximum, the school will be kept open." State officials earlier this year conducted route tests and decided that a bus could make the proposed run in about 68 minutes. Tabiona residents say that is not possible and that the state tests were run at unsafe speeds and over an unsafe road (the river road to Duchesne.) Three people told the state officials, and local school board members, they would not allow their children to be bussed out of the area because of safety factors. -- -- Troop respectively. Scout-O-Rais unique in that the public can observe first hand the effort of the scouting program. Plan to attend and support the young men of the Basin, Says local scout leaders. -- ed , muddy water. Hut il should be good since planted last week. Some of the larger streams in the county were still closed and will not open until July 1, these include the upper parts of ihc Slraw berry. Current Creek. Red il was Fork of the Fishing in the area waa rated only moderate at best by Fish and Game officers and crowds are said to be down tram previous years, especially at Starvation. Ostler prove that age catch of five fish by about 10:30 a.m. Saturday and within two minutes of this picture Mark had pulled in another trout. Fishing on the Strawberry below the dam was rated good Saturday and poor Sunday. The Duchesne river is running high this car and few fishermen were observed on it. The North Fork of the Duchesne had low pressure, mainly because of high and Paraho shale process development plans announced e the West YOUNG SUCCESSKevin Rhodes left and Mark is not a factor in getting fish. The two had a "poor." Plans were announced last week for a $76 million experimental project to construct and operate a commercial-sizParaho oil shale retort and hine, the largest complex of its type ever to be built, bringing the elusive dream of a large scale shale oil industry to the threshold of reality. Plans for the project resulted from the Paraho Oil progress of the Shale Demonstration program at the federally-ownefacilities located on the Naval Oil Shale Reserve near Rifle, Colorado, in which 17 companies are participating. The privately financed $7.5 million project was launched on Sept. 1, 1973 and is scheduled to be completed in February, 1976. Purpose of the demonstration project is to prove out a patented process and hardware, owned by Paraho Development Corp. of Grand Junction, for recovering oil and gas from shale, according to Harry Pforzheimer, program director, and John B. Jones, president of Development Engineering, Inc., a Paraho subsidiary. DEI is the project operator. vertical retort will have "The about 20 times the throughput of Para ho' s present plant, or some 11,500 tons of oil shale per day," Jones said. It will have an outside diameter of 42 feet with an overall height of 104 feet, compared to the semiworks retort's 10- - Va foot diameter and 75 foot height. Pforzheimer said the primary objective of the retort's operation is to eliminate any concern over the ability to successfully scale up the proven Paraho Creek, and Duchesne. operatechnology to a commercial-siz- e tion. Accomplishing this objective shuld accelerate the development of an oil shale industry. . .by encouraging private industry to simultaneous construction of commercial plants, he said, and make an toward important contribution alleviating the national energy shortage in y of shale, producing a 11,500 maximum yield of 7,300 barrels of shale oil and eight billion BTUs of product gas. The retort and supporting facilities will s be located about of a mile south of the existing mine, at an elevation of 7,000 feet. The retorted shale will be deposited in a stable manner in the existing disposal lons-per-da- three-quarter- area. The shale oil produced will be piped to existing storage tanks for shipment to a refinery. The refined fuels will be supplied to the U. S. Navy under an agreement that takes into account production costs and market value of the products. The low BTU gas will be burned to generate steam and inert gas for plant use. the future. Like the Paraho demonstration program, private companies will be invited to participate in the new project, although the facilities will be on government-owne- d property at Anvil Points and will be government-owne- d facilities. The project is estimated to take about four years. Retort construction and expansion of the existing mine is expected to take about 18 months and the operational period about years. Maximum design capacity of the e retorting system is a feed rate of full-siz- Little league baseball standings Standings in Little League baseball play. Mustang league, 6--0 Meta; 4 Utes; and Red Dodgers; r.Sox In the Bronco league the Oriolea stand Colts at Rookies, &3, Braves, 3-Chiefs and the Devils 0-Reds Pony league stands at Giants and the Altamont Longhorns 2-- 1-- 5, - 1-- 7-- 5-- 2, 8, 2-- 1-- 1; 1-- 1 1-- 1. full-siz- e semi-work- s full-siz- e One woman told the standard. "The here is that if the school is closed there will be only empty busses going to Duchesne this fall." Jerry Christiansen, spokesman for the Tabiona citizens, in a working meeting after the public meeting, asked the slate for a five year life for the school, "give us an opportunity to progress, we'll do anything you say (to improve it.)" Superintendent Talbot said the state school office would agree to rerun the potential bus routes, "If the tine oxceeds the maximum, "he said, "you have no way people feel Miss Duchesne Co. Entries due June 6 problem." Prince left talks with Mark Ostler about his will be displayed in the this which collection rock will of Hundreds scouters display their talents and Saturday June in Duchesne the high school . at annual the at meeting projects SC0UT-0-RAMA-Stu- art Scout-O-Ra- 7. ma Or he said, there will be no cutting off of funds if the area can have the school accredited and social impact critcra are established that closure of the school would harm the community. Duchesne Superintendent county Thomas J. Abplanalp urged a quick decision since the district can not hire new teachers or make some transform until the situation at Tabiona is settled. He noted the local school board favors keeping the necessary existent status of Tabiona high school and its continued operation. KSL radio presonality Danny Cramer the MC for the 1975 Miss Duchesne County Pageant to be held June 28th. Entires will be accepted until Friday, June 6 from girls wishing to run. Contestants must be 17 years old and have resided in Duchesne County for at least a year. Pastel protraits of all the contestants are being done by Joel of Las Vegas and because of the time factor involved in gettng these done contestants are asked to contact chairwoman Lin Stafford or any member of her committee as soon as possible. In Roosevelt call' Kathy Taylor in Duchesne Lin Stafford at at or Nancy Morrison at is ' 722-275- 738-229- 3 1; 738-573- EMCEEDanny Crammer, one of KSL radios most popular the Emcee for the Miss Duchesne County contest this month. Contest officials say that deadline for entries are due this CONTEST DJs, will be Friday, June 6. |