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Show 13 Christmas decorations arrive at Duchesne City Tin first shipment of Christmas decoration for Duchesne City has arrived. These lighted fixtures and garland are the first of its kind to be installed in Duchesne City. Usually the decorations for the Yuletidc season consists of colored lights and pine boughs and homemade decorations made by civic groups and clubs and by the school children, used to decorate a favorite evergreen tree in central Dark. This first shipment of decorations included a lantern scroll and a bright green frosted garland to go the breadth of the main slreet-- U. 8. highway 40., repjirts Jim R. Cowan, the councilman assigned to this project. The cost of the lighting project is expected to be nearly $10,000, to be paid over a four-yea- r period. This cost will valuators from the State Board of duration were in Duchesne county last week visiting schools in Tabiona, Duchesne, Altamont, Neola and Myton for a report to the state legislature on the effects of consolidation of rural schools. The Oct. 2 and 3 visit by the evaluating team came as a result of legislation passed in the last stale legislature requiring the State Board of Education to study what the result of consolidation might be of schools, according to district SuHarintendenl Thomas J. Ahplanalp. The team, he said, studied maps of the area, checked daily attendance, percentage of attendance, projected growth, and visited the schools. Secondary schools rereived particular attention in the areas of faculty and assignments, library and media centers, class schedules activities available to the students, and other factors concerning older students staled the superintendent. Usually the Christmas lighting has been confined to the very renter of the business district, but the new project was planned to take in the populated blocks front one end of the city to the other, about six blocks. Further extensions of the Christmas decorations will be made as the inventory can be increased. The City Council hope that with this good start", the civic organizations, the business community, and others will promote projects to help decorate the Central Park area, in the center of the city, and adjacent to U. S. Highway 40. 722-213- 1 GOAL: CLEAN AIR Kennecott Copper's refinery on the south end of Great Salt Lake, is the site of a $15 million study to devise a means of bringing refinery emitants within tolerances of clear air standards. Millions has been spent allready on cleaning the air, but the ultimate step may be the complete change in refinery methods. October 11,1973 State education team inspects, evaluates county rural schools include cost of guide wires and installation. Fhonc News Items to STANDARD t-- ' HELP WANTED The following job openings wist in Duchesne County at the present time. If you are interested in my ef these job openings, please contact the Utah State Employment Service at 780 West Main Street in Vernal, Utah, or call Press group hosted on tour of 722-221- 3. Ns. sf Kennecott facilities Members of Utah Press Association toured Kennecott's mine and smeller near Salt Lake City last Saturday, and were briefed on current operations and developments in Utah Copper Division's emission abatement planning. UPA members and partners rode buses through half-mildeep Bingham Canyon Mine where they were briefed, observed truck and shovel operations, and witnessed a controlled blast. After lunch at the Copper Golf Club in Magna, and an overview of the concentrator and refinery plants, smelter operations were described by D. A. Kinne-bersmelter plant superintendent, followed by a tour of the smelter. K. E. Kefauver, division communications director, introduced two Kennecott officials who described environmental efforts. Dr. Robert J. Heaney, division chief proress control and environmental engineer, explained company research to determine the criteria for removal of additional sulfur gas and particulate matter from smelter emissions to meet state and federal sir quality standards. C. A. Zeldin, division smelting and refining manager, said that to meet air quality objective, modifications must be made in the Utah smelling process. Two alternative smelting methods are being considered, he said. One is a continuous reactor proress: the other, flash smelting. Mr. Zeldin said current development, proress design and detail engineering are being done in conjunction with Western Knapp Engineering Division of Arthur G. McKee ft Company. This work will provide the basis for installation of new e facilities to begin early in 1974. The UPA group later dined with division officials in Salt Lake City. Kennecott Copper is the largest civilian employer in Utah, with some 7,700 workers. The mine, west of Salt Lake, which is now more than half-mil-e deep, is visited by over 300,000 persons each year. - . , r . A BIG HAUL use at Kennecott's Bingham Copper Mine, was one of the unique features of last week's tour. The beast will carry 1 50 ton, some 5 times more than a regular dump truck. The tires are heavier than a Volkswagen, cost more, and are about twice the height. These trucks are used to carry waste material from the mine BYU journalists This huge.truck, in assist Kennecott 1 in communications Interning Brigham Young University students have been contributing to Kpn-neco- area. lt communications projects since part of Communications 435, an advanced public relations research and projects class. The students, who work on complex assignments for Ken Kefauver, communications director for Utah Copper Division, receive college credit but no pay. The unique program was devised by Mr. Kefauver and Dr. Rulon Bradley, professor of communications at BYU, in an attempt to help students bridge the practicality gap between classroom assignments and the workaday world of business communications and public relations. Students have responded favorably, and the program has been expanded to allow them to accept independent internadships with other public relations and vertising departments in the Provo-Sal- t 1971 as take area. Our Chevy Quartet is in Harmony with "Old Time Values!" Our Lot is back in shape, and Stocked with 1 974 CHEVY CARS AND TRUCKS! TRADE NOW Refrigirotor, Storm Windows and Door, Dining Room Hutch, Detachable Hitch, Double Insulation and Fome Core, Lap Siding, Phis many, MANY MORE OPTIONS AND FEATURES YOU'LL HAVE TO SEE TO Time's a wastin'!! 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