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Show Utah drilling scattered SERVING UTAH'S VaUME 65 THURSDAY, New wildcat oil and gas drilling is scheduled in several counties in Utah this week, announced the Division of Oil, Gas & Mining, Department of Natural Resources. In Uintah County, Exxon USA wi drill the No. Pine Spring Unit, a wildcat in the southern portion of trf county, to about 10,500 feet. Exxon M drilling below 3,400 feet at the No. 1 well a little more than a half a mile to the east. Taiga Energy Inc., Denver, has scheduled two 5,600 to 5,900 foot wells in Uintah County, some 12 miles south of the Oil Springs field in the southeastern portion of the county. Operations are expected to begin shortly. A deep projected test well, already drilling below 640 feet according to Petroleum Information Corporation's drilling report, is scheduled by the American Quasar Petroleum Co., at the No. 31-- 1 Drunkards Wash miles southwest of Price. PI says the well is to be drilled to at least 12,500 feet 46 November 17, 1977 NUMBER GROWING UINTAH BASIN The mmm iflSIM AHomonf Myton Honno Tobiona Anon' 1omo9 Frusta Indgslond Noo Trail Mwatwll Wtmafoito lopotf Bous'd Go Fi Dwchomo Ouray Hamm lf for testing of the Mississippian formation. It is five miles northwest of the Miller Creek field. An 8,000 foot test is scheduled by Union Oil of California at the No. 1 Federal J-- a wildcat in central Utahs lightly drilled Utah County. The new well is 20 miles northwest of production in the Clear Creek gas field and about 17 miles north of the town of Fairview. An 11,200 foot test on the Overthrust Belt in northern Utah's Morgan County is scheduled by Amoco Production. It is the No. 1 WI, 21 miles northeast of the town of Morgan. It is of about 20 miles Pineview field in Summit County. Three new wells are to be drilled in Summit County. Champlin Petroleum will drill the No. 1 Jones 42-5- , a scheduled 10,500 foot Nugget formation test well a mile west of Pineview field. It is a little morel than 11 miles east of the town of Coalville. Some 10 miles southeast of Coalville, American Quasar Petroleum has made location for the No. 19-- 2 UPRR, a west offset well to its oil discovery the No. 19-- 1 UPRR which flowed 1,530 barrel of oil daily from 11,000 feet. The new well is to go to at leat 11,100 feet And, about two miles west of the of Wyoming line, 17 miles Coalville, Amoco Production will drill a 5,500 foot well at the No. 1 Champlin-45- 8 Amoco-Maratho- n north-northwe- st east-northea- st AMoco-A- . Other new drilling scheduled this week includes a 1,200 foot test well in the Cisco area by the C. C. Company of Salt Lake City. The well is the No. 14-Buckhorn Nuggett. Boltons holds grand opening this weekend A new home improvement geared to the its grand opening center, conducts this weekend in Roosevelt. Bolton's Home Improvement Center will be giving away free balloons and holding drawings for prizes Thursday (today), Friday and Saturday. The business opened its doors Nov. 3 on Second South Street in the former Reb-- building. The daily drawings will give away such gifts as a cordless drill and No macrame hangers and plants. is for to the necessary purchae register drawings and area residents do not need to be present to win. Many of the items in the store will be on sale during the festivities. Hie center offers products to decorate, finish or remodel rooms or entire homes and gives advice on how to do booklets these projects. are also offered on such areas as plumbing and remodeling. Partners in the business are Greg Bolton and Chad Jacobsen. Bolton is a native of Salt Lake City but his parents, Don and Norma Bolton, now live in Bluebell. He has 12 years' experience in the retail business, managing discount and home stores and in centers Sandy. improvement Jacobsen has lived in the Roosevelt area for about five years. He is a Certified Public Accountant with a degree from Idaho State University. He has been working for oil companies in this area and this is his first business venture. UBAVC board to meet Tuesday The Board of Directors for the Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center will be holding their monthly board meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 22. The public is invited to attend this meeting, which will be held in the board room of the Center at 950 E. Lagoon in Roosevelt 2 School board meeting date changed Duchesne County meeting usually held on the fourth Thursday of the month will be changed from Thursday, November 24 to Monday, December 5. The primary business to be conducted during the meeting will deal with the Bid Opening for work to be done under an EDA School Beautification Grant in conjunction with Roosevelt City. Work to be contracted under the grant will be done on the four Roosevelt schools. The regularly scheduled School District Roosevelt Job Service office is moved Bolton's Home Improvement Center, offerdecorator or remodeler, is ing products for the this weekend. Roosevelt in its holding grand opening GRAND OPENING Persons who are in need of facilities offered at the Job Service Office, should be aware that the office has moved. At the present time the mobile unit housing Utah Job Services, is located on the new Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center complex grounds. Entry can be made to the office by driving south on the road east of Union high school, about one block south of Lagoon Street, then driving into the vocational center parking area. The mobile unit is located south and east of the vocational center buildings. Personel at Job Services report that a number of jobs are now available, in various fields of activity. An 18 year old Duchesne resident is being held in lieu of $20,000 bond in the Duchesne County jail. The arrest of Robert Adams, formerly from Colorado from a 3 stemmed month king investigation by Duchesne City Police which began after a break in at Kohl's Hardware in Duchesne on August 10. Since that time, Mr. Adams, who turned 18 in September and several Duchesne juveniles whose names have not been released have been linked to burglaries at the Duchesne Elementary School and the Mini Shoppes store on Main Street Adams has been charged with 2 counts of burglary theft with a preliminary hearing on these charges to be scheduled later this month. According to Police Chief Horrocks, 3 and possibly 4 juveniles will be referred to juvenile court in connections with the burglaries. In all, the three break-in- s involving all or some of the boys netted the group over 5,300 in merchandise, nearly all of which has been recovered by the Duchesne Police Department. No estimation of the total amount of damages to the two businesses and the school has yet been made. According to Police Chief Horrocks, several juveniles broke into Kohls Hardware in Duchesne on August 10, stealing approximately $600 worth of merchandise, mostly stereo equipment, from the store. Police were still investigating this burglary when a group of boys, aided by Mr. Adams apparently went on a one night stealing spree, on Tuesday, November 8, first burglarizing the elementary school and later the Mini Shoppes. Police believe the younger boys entered the school either through an unlocked window or by some other means and removed several items from the school by the kitchen doors. They then contacted Mr. Adams for assistance and he entered the building and removed additional items. The theives took approximately $2,000 in goods, including 2 typewriters, stereo equipment, tape recorders, projectors and a lengthly list of foodstuffs including 12 pounds of fish and a turkey. Extensive damage to the school was also reported as thieves searched and vandalized teachers' desks and classrooms using magic markers and Hard Rock plaster. Later that same evening, thieves believed to belong to the same group burglarized the Mini Shoppes store on Main Street, breaking a rear window to gain entrance to the building. Owner Bruce Funk is still taking inventory to determine the complete extent of his losses. Police recovered items identified as merchandise from his store totaling more than $2700.00 and including a microwave oven, clock radio, chain saws, CB and stereo equipment, jewelry, belts, 80 to 100 tapes and various other valuables. Duchesne Police broke the case shortly after the Elementary School burglary, using approximately 10 to 15 feet of tire tracks and footprints left at the scene. They traced the tire prints to Adams vehicle and obtained a search warrant for his home. Police officers then waited for Adams to return home and found Shadow screens on car windows ruled illegal Shadow screens, which have been proliferating in the inside or rear or side windows of vehicles in the area are illegal, according to an opinion released this week by the Utah State Attorney Utah Symphony to make records Abravanel and the Utah have signed a contract with Symphony Angel Records, the classical arm of Capitol Records, to record four discs next May, bringing the number of Utah Symphony recordings released thus far to 102. The recordings will contain music by composers Igor Stravinsky, Darius Ferde Milhaud, Randall Thompson, Grofc and Aaron Copland. The Utah Chorale will participate in some works and one will utilize the organ in the Mormon Tabernacle. Youths charged with 3 Duchesne burgarlies most goods recovered Maurice Receiving their "first dollar of clear profit" from the Roosevelt Chamber of Commerce are Chad Jacobsen, left and Greg Bolton, center, partners in Bolton's Home Improvement Center. Presenting the certificate is Dave Bailey for the PARTNERS Chamber. General's office. The Utah state law states, No person shall drive any motor vehicle on which any substance or material has been sprayed or applied to any front windshield, sidewings, side or rear windows. . .when such substance or material reduces the visibility initially provided by the manufacturer. A press release from the Utah Highway Patrol stated that, while the sun screen may reduce heat and glare, there is no question that visibility from outside the vehicle is reduced. The Department of Public Safety said the greatest liability of the sun screens rests with polire officer safety. Law enforcement officers in Utah feel that this product is a definite hazard to their activities as it reduces their ability to detect what could be a very dangerous situation in the performance of their duties, the release stated. For these reasons, said a Patrol spokesman, the citizens of the state are asked not to purchase these products, and to remove them from their vehicles. This law will be vigorously enforced, he said. Some of the screens appearing on vehicles, particularly pickup many trucks, are plain silver on the outside. Others have scenes and designs printed on them. nearly all of the stolen merchandise in his attic, using two pickups to haul the evidence in to polire headquarters for examination. Adams has verbally reportedly confessed to officers concerning the burglaries, directing them to a site about 3 miles west of Duchesne where additional bounty was hidden. According to Police Chief Horrocks, no written deposition has been taken. Unfortunately for the businessmen and school officials victimized by the thieves, things cannot yet return to normal. Damages must be repaired and all the stolen goods must be held as trial formal until after evidence see Police are that to proceedings. trying the due process of the law is conducted as swiftly as possible, hut it has been as long as 6 months or more before stolen goods could be returned to their rightful owners in past cases. Chief Horrocks states that Duchesne City Police have a lot of hours put in already on this case" and says he is hopeful but doubtful that goods could be returned to the stores in time for the Christmas buying season. Altamont sets fire engine hake sale The Altamont Community square dance for the fire engine fund, held Nov. 9, earned $700, enough tp make a payment on the new fire engine, according to committee chairman dune Roper. The committee is now planning a bake sale, to be held Tuesday, Nov. 22, at Mohlman's Store. The sale will begin at 9:30 a.m. and continue all day. The group will be selling pies, cookies, cakes and other Thanksgiving and Christmas desserts. Their last bake sale earned $286 for the fire engine and the new fire house. fund-raiser- s' Frying fresh spudnuls for the 'fire engine' bake sale at Mohlman's store in Altamont are volunteers from the community who are working to raise money to pay for the engine, equipment and the new fire house. The bake sale will be held Tuesday, Nov. 22, starting at 9:30 a.m. BAKE SALE USFS sets Christmas tree cutting dates The Ashley National Forest will be selling Christmas trees for family cutting, beginning Nov. 25, and extending through Dec. 18. Cutting is limited to one tree per family. The trees are $1 each and tree heights are restricted to eight feet or less. A breakdown of the sales program by districts is given below. Further information can be obtained from the ranger district involved. e Flaming Gorge Ranger District fir permits will be sold by a Forest officer at Cart Creek Overlook on Highway 44 on Dec. 3, 4, 10 and 11 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pinon pine permits will be sold at the Dutch John, Manila and Green River offices from Nov. 28 to Dec. 24, except on weekends. Cutting is permitted district wide, except in and around recreation sites and adjacent to main roads. Vernal Ranger District fodgepole pine permits will be sold by forest officer at East Park Reservoir on Nov. 26 and Dec. 10 and 11 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. e fir permits will be sold at sub-alpin- Davis Hollow on Dec. 17 and 18 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Roosevelt Ranger District permits e for pinon pine, Douglas fir, and fir, . Engleman spruce lodgepole pine will be sold at Elkhorn Guard Station (seven miles north of Whiterocks) on Dec. 3, 4, 10 and 11 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Duchesne Ranger District 150 perfir and mits for Douglas fir, Engleman Spruce will be available for individual sales in the Log Hollow and Blind Stream areas. 400 individual dual permits for pinon pine will be available on Nutter, Antelope and Gilsonite Ridges. These permits will be sold from the Duchesne Ranger District office on week days from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from Nov. 25 until Dec. sub-alpin- sub-alpin- e 16. Festival of trees set Sub-alpin- Basketball meet tonight in Duchesne David Wilkey, Community School Director in Duchesne has announced that there will be an organizational meeting for all men interested in forming a Duchesne Community Basketball league. The meeting has been set for tonight, Thursday, November 17' and will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Duchesne high school. At least one representative from each team interested in joining the league should he present at the meeting, league rules, entrance fees, schedules and other details will lie discussed. Dec. 7-- 10 The 1977 annual Festival of Trees" has been scheduled for Dec. 710 in the Salt Palace. The annual holiday event features 200 decorated Christmas trees, boutique, sweet shoppe, and entertainment groups. Festival or Trees" is sponsored by the Women's Endowment Committee as a benefit for the children of Primary Children's Medical Center. The 200 trees are decorated by and church companies, community contributions as individuals and groups for the festival. The public is invited to the festival Ticket prices are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. Any individual business is group interested in contributing Tor a special Christmas tree may call 7222071. |