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Show ! : :J . S': T 4 V .:rigsm 110th ur '.fVrh'HtJf i 3f. fc . . y j. Vi:aT Year-N- J00;:. o . , a vV& team W. - v ' ; . , . The UtahTkroayers Assoda- - and the date, time and pjace of tion annually reviews the budgets .. fee public hearings- In addition, the 1986 statute developed by county govern- . , the ments across state requires taxing entities to place t statewide the to page fttii jn a local According newspaper jwblishing the prowatchdog orgranization,CarbQn v countys tentative 2002 financial posed increase; ; Tlx ads must be published at devaluation passed guidelines ; , ' least lOdaysin advance of the With flying colors. ? Carbon's proposed 2P02 bud- - hearing and in least seven days get will result in asmall tax cut apart.' The title, border size and in--; . Car focal residents, fodicated the , formation are dear specified in ; associations fiscal analysis. V, Carbon County commission- - the law and arc designed toe intend to adopt a property tax ity draw attention to thei notice rate registering lower than the and the amount of the proposed increase. certified leveL At the public bearing, all tax- Carbon Counisalso care health its in in that unique payeiX are allowed to comment surance costs art? actually bud- - on the proposed hike, its impact geted down," points out the asso-- to: individual budgets and whether they consider the in-tiation. The decreased expenditures crease as ..associated with employee health ;. Only after the designated pro- -' care coverage are due to a con--. cess is completed and verified by ' tract Caibon officials negotiated the Utah Thx Commission can an with the county insurance pro- - entity officially adopt a property vider. assessment rate higher than the Addressing astafowikiKun, - certified tevd.: Along with the public hearing' ( the association explained that the Utah legislature enacted truftfoV aixlnotificatkm, truth in taxation taxation in 1986 'to provide a works to control the amount of measure ofrelieffircm the seemrevenue an entity may collect by ingly unending increases to prop-- calculating a certified rate. ' A certified tax rate is adjusted erty assessments. 1986 legislation sfipiii- - as values fluctuate in order to ; .llie latex that taxing entities must generate the same revenues as last with two requirements: year from the same properties, otifkation and a public continued the association. . Several current proposals by Thepublicpr&sureandscru- - local governments will fossenthe tiny eleded Officials face in try- - effective ness oftruth in taxation, to raise property taxes is fen- - maintained the aMociation. midable underthe process and According to the. watchdog, v acts as a barrier to unnecessary organization, cities mUtahstig-- v hikes, according to tire assoda- - gest that the state should elinu- lion. nate the public notice in news- Infmming the public starts papers advertising a tax increase, assessment notices. The dties daim the newspa- ; The notices indicate dollar im- - per ads are infiammatory and do the entities increasing taxes (Continued on page 2A) 500 CEU'a Lady Eagles win, 28 a iv r . Price, Utah - ; 1 Thursday ' December 13, 2001 W. - a . f v ,:,.-'.. - ?...'-r:- i; 31 . . . ; - , t A. , .i". .:x.v i . ..&,i ' . ., . -- i' : a ,A C . - . one-quart- er . - ; -- ! . - as-e-re . : '1: Jmnifar Fitzgerald weighs and monitors a setnMnick passing through Peerless port of entry: Although the most noted responsjMiti! of a port agent is to' Agent on ensuring , .?' . , V : S . . weigh irucks, employees atmness do nuicnnmre man cneck me trucks tavet-..in- g ' along U.S. Highway 6. The primary focus is to ensure motorist safety. ficatfonsanid trairred to monitor driven and their qualifications. Agents will examine trucks as the vehicles pass through the port If port employees feel that Motorists traveling on U.S. Highway 6 have alLpassed by the Peerless port of entry, there may be a problem or they The structure has became are unfamiliar yith the trucking known to all as the weigh company or operator, the agents; scales." But the port (foes much will signal for the driver to enter more than just weigh trucks. the building with all paperwork Peerieasis operated bythc and kboota required for an in.. Utah Department of Ttansporta-in- g spection. tion and currently empdoyees six After the driver enters the .port agents. The. duties of the building, the agent wfil examine agents arenumerous and are not the licenses and registrations the restricted to weighing trucks. truck opwy tor possesses. Port employees are trained to . He agent will verify that the driver is authorized to travel operate equipment used to tor the weight of trucks. He through Utah.Ifthedriverisnot, a temporary pass will be issued, agents sire taught codes and stridkms regarding truck quali- Each mick and driver enter- . . . : rty : j ts, ing Utah foe required to be licensed to travel the roads located inside the state lines. A gas tax is also required for met and no tired truckers are on theroad. ... In addition, Peerless employees examine the trucks as theve-the driver to operate the truck hides pass through the pert, , Anything minor from a loose legally in the state. ' Each driver is required to strap or a missing mud flap will keepaiog book. The book shows require the agent to notify the fhe number of hours worked and .. .driver, If a truck is found withloose number of milcs traveled by the or tom straps restraining the load, driver, The agent will review the the driver will be required to fix numbeis and determine whether the problem at thcjxprt before .the driver is within regulations. ' continuing travel- His ensures If the driver has worked too many safety on the roads for both the hours, the port official will re-- truck driver and the motorists jube that the trucker stop opera- - who may come in contact with tion of the vehicle in order to rest the big rig. The procedure of stopping the A missing mud flap may Seem drivers is a precaution designed ' minor to Carbon County rcsi- Continued on page A) to ensure that motorist safety.is : - - By RICHARD SHAW Staff reporter e ; was best Then .the students had to walk thb throui actually constructing the planes. lb achieve the designated grails, the student teams were allowed three tries at launching the .' ; . . - audi-enc- . . Remember the days when making paper air- -. planes in school would get a kid in tnxdle? Wl in George Uhligs engineering class at College of Eastern Utah, making a paper airplane could carp Paries.'- astudentanAgrade.' Each semester.Uhlig picks a project that teams of studentsmust design undertint parameters and make it work. His fall, the project was to build a ; ' paper aiiplane; He process can be complicated, especially when projects are being judged by a group of engineers and scientists in an audience literally ready , to tear up any idea a student might have. Hat's what happened at the alumni room and ' the CEU football field last week, when four stu- drat groupsput their projects to tire test in front of a dozen judges. '. The Bell Quartet, Flying lbasters, MAMs and the Flight of Eleanor first presented their plans and . i S - rJ rc. . a WV A I t m'& v . : designs during a luncheon. - Committees had to present development and designbuild plans in an interesting, scientific and ' simple manner so the audience members could build the airplanes with the materials provided by ...the student teams: Each group made Power Point presentatioosfol- lowing a development plan set by Uhlig. The stu' dents had to state the goals fbr their airplanes.1. basic objective was to build a plane that. He would fly for distance or one that would fly tor endurance. Two groups of the engineering students ; went for length and two Went for the time the planes would hang in the air. The students showed the teams design ules, the meetings they conducted to develop the, plans and the engineering brainstorming that went into designing the rianes. Each plane had to be of unique design; the stu- - - : . . "'... : v . . . . . : - The propukion means between the groups varied a gefo deal. The distance groups, BellQuartet and Flight of Eleanor. used a large elastic stretched between two volleyball poles, ' When folded and taped with paper clipbooks added, the aircraft looked more like darts than paper planes. Upon launch, neither plane broke the school record of 560 feet. But the Flightof Eleanor team, designed a plane th flew 320 feet down the track on the west side of the football field. Endurance team Flying Tbasters went with the most unique and complicated propulsion systems. He students designed a. plane that would be..-:launched into the airwith a bottle rocket. The rocket was a converted two liter soda filled with water and compressed air that : took off with the plane attached. ' The device was attached to fishing pole with a reel that would allow the operator to detach fhe aircraft from the rocket once it reached its apogee, thereby givingit the maximum time to float to the . CEU poloBf professor Midieile Fleck holds ths paper plana she folded, while husband Ken continues fo work on his ; He ;. rendition of the aircraft The Flecks, along with other indi dents could not knowingly build an aircraft like to launch into the air and the projects could not prior teams had constructed. All four groups, how- cost more than $5, not including donated materials. In the end, propulsionbecame one of the most ever, had borrowed ideas from past paper aircraft the. interesting and dangerous parts of fhe plane dedesigners either by using bools or ' ing refueling while the students were putting air into the soda bottle. . Interact ' , .The students had to name the enemies (con-- ! straints) and allies (criteria) of the projects. Many of the constrains were placed on the teams by the instructor. The groups could not make paper hall pop-bot- tle .grbund..-viduals, acted as judges of the contest between the four first launch of the rocket was successful who of groups engineering students competed h the design and the flight lasted27 seconds. But on two subseevent at the CoUegeof Eastern Utah campus in Price.. quent tries, the rocket blasted off accidentally dur- , signs. . Finally, the students had to show the development stages of the teams aircraft. Each grouphad basically gone through three different prototypes until the students had achieved what they thought - .f : - com-press- ed The M&Ms.or Momentum Masters came up with a simple propulsion plan - gravity. The group of students had talked local merchants into donat-- ; fog two large helium balloons to use to launch the planes. Unlike the complicated bottle rocket process, they used simplicity and it paid off. Hstenedto a fishing pole and feel, a plane at--. (Continuation page 4A). ;. Rig casts light on yalley near U.S; 6 ; gas rig drills into th ground for the natural resource that heats local homes nearUS. Highway 6 in eastern Carbon County. The rig adds, a unique lighting effect to the scen-ei- y fbr motorists glancing toward East Caibon, Sunnyside and Columbia, located in the background. The rigs light up the sky in various parts of the county forafew weeks, (fore the drilling operations have tapped into the underground natural resource, the rigs are replaced by pump stations. Then the rigs pop up somewhere else. A . . : ' F .6. j.. . . . : |