Show ¥ h The Herald Journal Logan Utah Monday July 27 1998 — Page 5 ThelWest In brlof Survey reveals work project difficulties Mormon Church president dedicates monument to the Pony Express SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A monument recognizing the contribution of Pony Express riders from Utah is now a part of This is the Place Heritage Part The statue was dedicated on Saturday by Mormon church Resident Gordon B Hinckley who noted that the riders of die 1860s were paid ' “$125 a month riding day and night in storms and dear weather" 1 Beehive State residents provided horses way stations and riders SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah survey of 334 residents found frustration and barriers for those trying to make the transition from welfare to Results Donations paid for die monument's bronze statue created by the late ' Avard T Fairbanks The sculptor and artist who died in 1987 first depicted the Pony Express monument in 1947 for the Utah Pioneer Days celebration but idied before he could complete the work The work was finished for the ture shows a Pony Express rider i animal for a fresh one ' “One fourth of the Pony Express riders were from Utah risking their lives" said son David Fairbanks Gov Mike Leavitt said letters could be sent via Pony Express to California in 10 days Sending the mail using stage coaches took three weeks or six weeks by ship “But the telegraph which was used to send Utah's statehood proclamation took five minutes for the message" he said The telegraph rendered the Pony Express obsolete just 18 months after it was founded Hinckley said there were benefits however to mail delivered in the 1860s“No junk mail moved on the Pony Express" he joked wins national acclaim SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah doctoral candidate is this year’s winner of the coveted Yale Series rtf Young Poets competition collection of poetry was Craig Arnold said he knew his good but was shocked when renowned poet WS Merwin picked him as the winner from among 700 entries “For the first book there ain’t nothing better" said Arnold whose winning entry Shells also is a rough draft of his dissertation The annum contest started in 1919 with the goal of publishing the work of an artist who possesses “the fairest promise for the future of American poetry" It is open to anyone under 40 who has not published a book of poetry and it has launched the careen of some of 64-pa- ge America's best poets including Merwin and framer te poet-laurea- Robert Hass as well as Adrienne Rich and Carolyn Forche Yale University Press will publish Arnold’s work this spring The subject matter is traditional: love friends loss The title Shells reflects the theme of his book Some shells are literal like in die poem Scrubbing Mussels Others are metaphorical Artificial heart pioneer wins honor — Heart Michael Utah PARK CITY (AP) DeBakey was surgeon honored over die weekend as a pioneer in artificial heart research DeBakey who turns 91 next month was the first surgeon to implant a partial artificial heart in a patient nearly 40 years ago He also is among the developers of a new generation rtf heart pumps that are smaller more reliable and last longer The Sixth Congress of the International Society of Rotary Blood Pumps awarded DeBakey on Sunday with the Barney Clark Award which is named after the first patient to receive a frill artificial heart at the University of Utah in 1982 The award is given to those who have k V :y i ' - ' ‘i t '!l iri ji : j T ' WhlTT Ol bk Tresn Sir Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act Utah has combined all its assistance programs under the umbrella of the Department of Workforce AP photo of Chesterfield Idaho Justin White 7 of Bancroft Idaho and Bambi Butterfield to Preston Call 10 of Dayton Idaho right combine their breaths to Mow a giant soap bubble out of a bicycle tire at the Bancroft Idaho centennial celebration on Saturday SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has been called a “pretty great state" It also happens to be a pretty crooked state and we're not talking crime It's the state's borders that are not so tidy Minus the distinctive notch in its northeast comer Utah is commonly thought of as a perfect rectangle However those fourth-grad- e Utah history students are drawing it all wrong with straight lines In fact if the borders had been drawn straight as intended some Idaho border towns like Franklin might straddle die state line And one ghost town Strevcll definitely would have been in Utah Also the state would be somewhat larger perhaps by several hundred acres that ended up instead in Idaho Colorado and Wyoming Utah’s true borders contain at least seven crooked spots that are considered crooked by mapmaking standards The irregularities vary from as small as a Services quarter of a mile off the true mark to almost a mile in error Looking closely at the official Utah State Highway Map two of the irregularities can be spotted On the small statewide map on the cover of the Utah Atlas & Gazetteer a third crooked spot can be seen With the Gazetteer's detailed topographical maps three more crooked locations can be readily seen The seventh error stands out most on the Bureau of Land Management's overall state map Three of the irregularities involve a mean- dering Tine while three others look like notches and the seventh resembles a hump Were these six crooked spots meant to be there? “They're survey errors that were made when the state boundaries were laid out” said Gary Nebeker chief of operations for the Salt Lake office of the US Geological Survey Center The Salt Lake office of the Bureau of Land NMIMWUinit 201 1 can (800) 'xV ‘v®I3LEYY0® : s' - crooked lines “It was primarily survey errors" said Daniel W Webb a chief BLM surveyor in Salt Lake City He said surveyors in the late 1800s had crude instruments and pulled chains for measurements A colleague of Webb Dave Cook is a cartographer with almost 40 years of map expe- rience with the BLM and the National Weather Service After several hours of examining the origidiaries of die different nal federal surveyors he could find no apparent reasons for their mistakes Cook speculated that surveyors were paid by the mile so they were in a huny If they made a mistake — even if they knew it — they weren't likely to go back and redo it 95 I C' V- u FRED’S FLOWERS 642-994- 2 m pmihaircom ( boundaries It agrees on the cause for the ONE DOZEN ROSES ARRANGED ONLY t Main Salt Lako City 41 North Main Logan 752-624- 2 S3 EE 7A t “peuMca PwatM fUqbt S' a Management is the caretaker of the original survey documents made on the Utah state line 41 'Jr L 40 partnership Summer Rose Special 11 753-56- dence and Dignity (JEDI) for Women one of the three nonprofit groups that make up the The advocates for the poor criticized the department and its caseworkers on Saturday saying IT'LL GROW ON YOU i call chaotic system said Monet Steen an advocate for Justice Indepen- Utah borders not so straight f1 the best lawn seeding around eligible fra child support were not receiving it and those working earned an average of S690 an hour below the federal poverty level fra a family of three Welfare families moving toward employment are finding a Clinton signed the Personal r-- For vices the survey found The survey also found 87 percent of respondents who appeared fit lift HydraLawn of Northern Utah know or understand the appeals process available to them at the Department of Workforce Ser- conduct- were released on Saturday Three non-proadvocacy groups comprise the partnership In the two years since Resident V (! i of the survey ed outside food pantries in four counties by the Utah Welfare Redesign Partnership Project made outstanding contributions in biomedical engineering or who have developed innovative surgical procedures for patients - Sixty-fiv- e percent of respondents surveyed this spring didn't work who carried mail via horseback along the Pony Express route that extended from St Joseph Mo to Sacramento Calif U student-po-et Utah’s program has become confusing and inadequate for needy families low-inco- £': Z ‘Vi ? 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