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Show i I n t SERVING AU OP DUCHESNE COUNTY, PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY After receiving a strongly worded "second notice from tlic IRS about taxes overdue, a worried taxpayer hurried get the bill straightened up. After paying, be commented that in to he couldnt remember re- ceiving the "first notice. The clerk replied, Oh, wo decided wo get better results with the second notice, so we stopped sending out the first one. Boy its been quiet around lately. The warm weather and the wanderlust seemed to have combined to send people away in droves. If it's not on a distant vacation, it's just to the canyons for the day or the evening. Theres been a lot of activity in the high lake country of the Uintahs this last little while. After being so late getting up there because of the snow, it seems that everyone is now either there our making plans for a trip into the high lakes. We understand the vegetation is lush on the mountain this year, making for a beautiful setting. However, with no rain for well over a month, all that vegetation is very dry, making for some dangerous fire conditions as the summer progresses. Its a beautiful year to enjoy an outing or two but please be very cautious with fires of any kind. Dry lightning was the cause of the big fire in Bear Hollow last week and we don't want man to be responsible for any at all this pioneers arrived in 1847. The writer Thoreau once made a statement to the affect that although every laughs at the generation fashions of the past, they fastidiously follow the new fads. By the way, you may want to get into the pioneering spirit, and enjoy an outing at the same time, by putting on a pack a trudge into some back country for a day or so. If you just imagine you are treking towards a new home in a new valley, carrying all your - belongings on your back, you can picture what our forefathers went through during July about 141 years ago. Or, if you are not that hep on high country hiking, be on hand Monday for one of the activities that will be sponsored throughout the valley commemorating the contributions made by those who settled this state. Again ft is good to recognize their contributions to us. year. As long as the high country stays as lovely as it is, and the valleys stay as hot as they have been, the migration levels will rise and the valley may get to be just about as deserted as when the ' ng after Ada Bush of Fort will Duchesne, center, reign as the UBIC Indian Princess this year. Chosen as her attendants in the pageant at Bottle Hollow July 8 were Brenda Murray, first attendant. INDIAN ; Thomas J. Ablplanalp, superintendent of Duchesne County schools for the past 15 years, notified the Board of Education last week that he will retire the end of August. He said he made the decision to retire on the advice of his physician, primarily for health reasons. Assistant Superintendent .Lowell Caldwell will fill 'in. as superintendent between Aug. 81 and the date that a replacement is hired. The Board indicated it would work through the Utah School Boards Association in advertising the position and screening applicants. Mr. Abplanalp said he has been involved in school administration for 32 years, since he returned from the Army and began teaching at Tabiona high school. .After .two weeks of leaching - he was made principal, served there for four years, and has been in administration ever since. He holds a master's degree from Brigham Young University and has attended Stanford University, the University of Utah and Utah State University. He spent 13 years in Cedar City, where he was principal of East elementary for nine years and administrative assistant in the board offices there for another four years. He came to Duchesne as superintendent June 16, 1963, and said he found that the district still did not have a budget, there were 27 teacher vacancies, the teachers had not settled their negotiations and a state audit showed the district had a deficit of $229,000 in its budget He said things were settled down in time for school to start but other problems he faced were an "extemely low salary schedule which made recruiting teachers difficult and more than 30 teachers in the district were uncertificated, and many of the school . facilities Thomas Abplanalp . . .retiring as superintendent of schools. MWl were old, decrepit buildings." In the following 15 years, he said the district has build to the point where every staff member is fully certificated, the district is on sound IMMWy . financial footing, and there is a good building program which is on a " basis. The current building program putting additions on Duchesne high school, Altamont high school and Roosevelt junior high and a building a new elementary at Neola, plus the new elementary, being planned for the west side of Roosevelt, there will be new facility in nearly every community within the next five years, Mr. Abplanalp said. "One of the things I like to dwell on," he said, is when I came here, with the teacher shortage and poor fiscal picture, there was only one music teacher in Duchesne County. Now he said the district has placed a certificated music teacher in every secondary school and has placed music instructors on special assignment in some of the elementary schools. He cited improvements in band and ehoral programs as a result Mr. Abplanalp underwent open heart surgery seven years ago and said he fully recovered but now, with the reoccurrence of some health problems, his physician has urged that payas-we-build- he retire. He said he would maintain his home in Duchesne, where he has two boys in school, but will relax for a while and do some of the things we really want to da He called his tenure in Duchesne 15 wonderful years" in which he has tried to up grade the curriculum, building better schools and better programs. Along the way, he said he found the people to be receptive and helpful in supporting the schools. WllW W 11 PRINCESS and Connora Chapoose, second attendant. Both girls are also residents of Fort Duchesne. The Indian court will ride in the parades and will be honored at the queen's reception. UBIC Construction new Roosevelt West stake center near nark Construction is expected to begin this week on the new stake center for the Roosevelt Utah West Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, to be located on Skyline Drive between First and Second South. The site is just to the east of the new regional park in Roosevelt A construction contract was let last week to R.D. Sawyer of Salt Lake City for $1,414,635. Many of the subcontractors on the building are from the Roosevelt area. The Sawyer company moved a trailer and forms for pouring concrete onto the site Monday. Following a conference with the builder, architect subcontractor and others involved in the project the end of this week, site preparation and construction is expected to begin almost immediately. The company has 14 months to 25,000-square-fo- finish the structure. The contract was let for an amount higher than the estimated construction costs but William Trowbridge, Roosevelt First Ward Bishop and agent, bishop for the building, said a number of features were added to the $83,000 of building, along with was estimate after the furnishings, made. He said double entries and doublepane windows win be used throughout the building, as well as "about twice the insulation" required in an effort to conserve energy costs in the finished structure. Another feature aimed at cutting operating costs is a swamp cooler system instead of the standard refirgerated air conditioning system. The building will house two wards of the church, as well as serving as stake headquarters. It contains office space for two bishops and clerks, a stake president and stake clerk and ' v high council As many as 20 classrooms could be utilized at one time, counting the Relief Society room and the children's meeting room which can be divided into three classroom areas. The multipurpose room also divided into , three classrooms.' ; area The chapel with an over-floand the cultural hall, can seat as many as L252 people within sight of the pulpit Stake headquarters are presently located in the Second and Seventh Ward chapel, which wu not designed for such large numbers and, consequently, stake conference has had to be held in two sessions. Bishop Trwobridge said the decision Continued on page 3 . |