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Show Duchemo Santa visit Announcement was made this week that the annual visit of Santa Claus to Duchesne is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 17. Santa is planning to be at the Legion Hall starting at 3:30 p.m., until all children are given a chance to meet him. The visit is being sponsored by the American Legion. J Ioka 3164 canal Sets new concrete lining The Dry Gulch Irrigation Co. has job on the completed a canal-lininsidehiU south of the Ioka Lane which will increase the capacity of the canal to Class C stockholders by some 50 per cent. The project cost a total of $99,755, with $75,000 of the sum paid by a federal g under the agricultural and Conservation Stabilization Committee and the remainder paid for grant SERVING UTAH'S VOLUME 65 THURSDAY, NUMBER 48 December GROWING UINTAH BASIN 1, 1977 The m RTM) IAS IN c 'I by the stockholders in Class C. Gass C director Leo Haueter said the grant money came from the emergency drought relief fund. Haueter said the project was prompted by a serious break in the canal and by a large section of the sidehill which was in danger of collapsing because of saturation from the water of the canal. On Aug. 21 the side of the canal broke, gutting the hillside 30 feet deep and 100 feet long and flooding the fields below. After the break was repaired with a cat, haueter said he noted that an area 600 feet east of the break, where the south side of the hill was nearly vertical, was saturated with water and water was leaking from the south side of the hill. Haueter called the situation very dangerous'' and said the whole hill could have slid down and the canal ruined. He said he called a class stockholders' meeting and explained the situation to them. They approved the lining of the canal and a board of directors meeting upheld their decision. Application was then made for the emergency drought fund grant. Bids on the project were awarded on Oct. 3 to Nile Chapman Construction Co. and work started within two or three days. The company lined 1,923 feet of the canal with concrete and relocated sections of the canal with about 600 feet of fill and another 670 feet of cut, straightening the canal along hills and across gulches. Haueter said the realignment shortened the canal by about 430 feet by eliminating several zig-zag- s. The work was completed Nov. 14 and . have a nice weekend... Ballard voters to elect water district trustees Voters in the Ballard Water Improvement District will choose two district trustees in an election Wednesday, Dec. 7, in the Ballard Ward Recreation Hall. The polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. All registered voters in the district are eligible to vote. Candidates for the six-yeterms on the board of trustees are incumbents T. Golden Collins, and Karl Shisler, Charles L. Miller and Zane Asay. ar visit an "aging' water was turned into the canal Nov. 16. Haueter said he ran 60 second feet of water through the section for a week. The canal brings water from the Sand Wash reservoir on the Lake Fork River drainage to the stockholders east of the Ioka area. Haueter said the canal previously could carry 100 second feet of water but with the lining it now has a capacity of 150 second feet and that would still leave a border" above the water level. Tied into the middle of the new sections were two short concrete sections of concrete which had been put in 25 years ago, Haueter said, one about 70 feet long and one about 200 feet long. He concluded that the project will result in a safer canal with a larger carrying capacity. The improvements will cost the stockholders about $2.87 per share of water. NEW COURSE A fill across a gully south of the Ioka Lane shortened the route of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Co. canal, which formerly 'vW v h i ' i ' A v , ' ' ' s , ' followed the side hill, as part of the $99,000 canal-linin- g project recently completed. s Roosevelt wins state awards for beautification 'Jtb.-V- Teller charged in funds discrepancy Following three weeks of investigation by personel from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a complaint was filed last Wednesday, Nov. 23 before U. S. Magistrate Danniel Alsup, bringing allegations against a Duchesne bank teller. Following the filing, a summons was issued directing that Leonna Guzzo, a teller for First Security Bank in Duchesne, attend a hearing in Salt Lake Dec. 8, to answer to charges against her. According to information released by Gark Brown, special agent in charge, FBI, the complaint alleges that between the dates of June 17 and Oct. 28, 1977, the accused did willfully perloin and misappropriate funds from the bank, totaling about $28,000. The act was in violation of Sec. 656, Title 18, U. S. Code. The newly remodeled Uinta Theatre will open to the public this Friday evening, according to John Chasel, owner. The front has been completely rebuilt, with impressive rock structures, and the seating is all new. OPEN THIS WEEK County bond sales at 83 Monthly statistics issued today by the Department of the Treasury credited Utah residents with an investment of $2,519,652 in U. s. Series E-Savings Bonds for the month of October. This brings the total ten months figure to $26,387,136 which is 82 percent of the 1977 quota of $32,000,000. It was reported by State Chairman W. E. Gile and TSIA Chairman John G. McMillian. October investments of $3,982 in Duchesne County were announced today by County Bond Chairman Gifford Casio. This brings the investment to $68,685 or 83 percent of the County's 1977 goal Americans - whether they purchase Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan, the Plan, or over the counter have discovered that the safety and convenience of Savings Bonds is unequaled by any' other savings method. As a result, they are putting a portion of their incomes into Bonds at a record rate, and keeping their money there longer - as evidenced by the jignificant decline in redemptions, stated W. E. Gile and John G. McMillian jointly today. H ten-mont- h Bond-A-Mont- h - The projectipn room 'of the "New" old Uinta Theatre has been automated to make reel changing obsolete. As the reels are received, they are joined on these units, into one large reel for continuous showing without breaks. AUTOMATE! narrow and, on one side, vertical hillside was saturated by water and portions were sliding down to the valley below before the Dry Gulch irrigation Co. of the canal with completed their project to line a quarter-mil- e DANGEROUS SPOT The concrete. A number of Roosevelt locations and businesses have received state beautification awards in a contest sponsored by the Salt Lake Tribune. The local entries were submitted by Paul Bell, executive secretary of the Roosevelt Area Chamber of Commerce. Mr. and Mrs. Parley Rawlings and Mr. Anderson Sherman and Mrs. represented Roosevelt at the awards presentation Oct. 8 at the Garden Center of Sugarhouse Park in Salt Lake City. Winners included: Zions First National Bank for continuous improvement; Roosevelt Park, first place; Roosevelt continuous improvement; Cemetery, City street plantings, special award; Moon Lake Electric, continuous improvement; Roosevelt Civic Building, first place; Roosevelt Golf Course, continuous Roosevelt City, conimprovement; tinuous improvement; Roadside Park, continuous improvement; Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center, Plaque No. 36. BLM offers Community school sets Duchesne events The Community School Program in Duchesne announced Tuesday that three special events - a winter sports equipment swap shop registration for a candle-makin- g workshop and a children's basketball clinic - will take place on Saturday, Dec. 3. The swap shop will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday in the parking lot south of Duchesne high school. Skis, poles, boots, ice skates and other small winter sports equipment, which is outgrown quickly by children, can be traded there. All persons who bring equipment to the event will be responsible for their own bargaining. There will he no supervision of the trading so children under 14 years of age are required to have a parent or guardian with them to make transactions. The dip and Carve candle-makinworkshop will he taught by Glenn Arts in Vernal Spencer of Glenn-Ma- r beginning at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. Der. 8, at the high school. Participants must prv register Saturday at the high school gymnasium. A t $5 charge for the workshop will cover the cost of candles, materials and instruction. The basketball clinic for fourth, fifth and sixth graders at Duchesne Elementary school will begin Saturday. Registration will be done through the g one-nigh- school. The clinic will be conducted by Bruce Boggard and Steve Reeder, Duchesne high school basketball coaches. Further information on the clinic was to be sent home with the children in fourth, fifth, and sixth grades from the school. Similar basketball clinics are planned for Tabiona and Altamont. For further information on the clinics in thise areas, contact Kim Peterson at Altamont high school and Bennett Josie, principal of Tabiona high school. For further information on any of the Duchesne contact Dave programs, Wilkey, community School Program director for Western Duchesne Countv, or at 738-256- 1 738-595- Zions Bank slates Lights on ceremony The annual Zion's First National Bank Lights On ceremony will be held at the bank at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7. Elementary school children who have made decorations for the Christmas tree will be paid 25 cents for their creations by the bank. Punch and cookies will be served to the public. Santa Claus will make an appearance at 5:30 p.m. and children accompanied by their parents are welcome to talk to the jolly old elf. tree permits Like to choose and rut your own Christmas tree this season? The Bureau of I.and Management has opened certain areas where chances are good that you may find that special tree. To legally rut a tree on public lands, a permit is required. A permit costs $1.00 and ran be purchased at the BLM office located at First West and Main Street in Vernal. Since these permits have been made available to provide fun and enjoyment to individual families, one permit per family will be sold. Only pinyon trees may be cut. Selected areas where you may cut your tree are the north slope of Diamond Mountain, south of the Taylor Flats jeep road in Browns Park and the Bookcliff Mountains, south of Bonanza and Ouray. These cutting areas are about 75 miles from Vernal. Best places to find trees are at higher elevations along the borders of sagebrush parks and on rocky or shaley ridges. Further information, permits and maps ran be obtained from the. BLM District Office, 89 West Main Street, above the Rexall Drug Store in Vernal. Chamber to meet today The Roosevelt Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday (today) at noon at the Zions First National Bank Building. tarry Abplanalp, director of the local Community School program, will speak to the group, outlining the program and activities of the community school. |