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Show Communities offer activities We hive another three-daholiday weekend coming up, with Monday a state holiday honoring the pioneers who settled the Salt Lake Valle? as the forerunner of the present state of y Utah. Celebrations are planned around the county for Pioneer Day, some id them lasting all weekend. They include the annual Scout breakfast in Roosevelt, the Longhorn Roundup in Altamont, Mytons Homecoming, and a Huckleberry Finn Day in Duchesne. ROOSEVELT The Roosevelt District, Boy Scouts of America, will sponsor their annual breakfast beginning at 7 a.m. at the north end of the city park. All proceeds will go to the scouting program and the troops in the area and posters advertise that all contri- butions will be accepted. MYTON The annual Myton Ward Homecoming activities begin at 8 p.m. with games for young and old and A barbeque is planned for 6 p.m. and a musical program starts at 8. All events take place at the Myton Ipl Mat contest for kids on a stretch of the Strawberry River near the Indian Ward church. ALTAMONT The annual Longhorn Roundup begins Friday at 11 a.m. with a baby show. A pet show follows at 1:80 p.m. and a talent show begins at 8 p.m. The first events of the rodeo will gist under way at 8 p.m. Friday. Saturday a sunrise breakfast will begin at 7 a.m. and run until 11 on the church lawn. A parade starts at 10 a.m. and the second da? of rodeo will open at 2 p.m. A disco dance will be held at 8:30 p.m. on the tennis court behind the church. Monday's Pioneer Day celebration will include ball games, foot races, a watermelon bust and a fireworks display. DUCHESNE The city of Duchesne, the Chamber of Commerce and the Lions club have joined together to aponsor a Finn day July 24, Huckleberry beginning at 8 a.m. with a fishing Canyon bridge. Children age 12 and under will be included in the contest and adults are requested not to fish the river at that time to let the kids enjoy the river. Prizes will be given in each age group for the biggest fish caught and weigh-i- n will be at the IGA market before noon. Prizes are donated by the local merchants. From 1 to 3 p.m. a swimming meet will be held at the city swimming pool with races for all ages, under three, three and four, five and aix, seven and eight, nine and ten, and eleven and twelve-year-old-s. Trophies will be awarded the winners. In the evening, there will be a Little Buckaroo Rodeo for children age 14 and under, followed by a fireworks display. The mayor and dty council donated $300 to be used for the fireworks. Children are urged to dress like Huckleberry Finn or Becky Thatcher to get in the spirit of the day. VCXUAAE 66 NUMBER 29-J-uly VO 'if K B A iSri s.. 20, 1978 ' oafe-.- - - "" . , ' - r - SERVING ALL OP DUCHESNE COUNTY. PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY .1' ,4 resulted Redcaps arrest the following morning by the Ute Tribal police department at Fort Duchesne. Several other area law enformement in agencies assisted in the search. The FBI was called into the case and transported Redcap to Salt Lake City July 13. He appeared before the United States Magistrate Daniel A. Alsup July 14 on the murder charge and was ordered held on $10,000 bond. He wss remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshal The announcement of the arrest and charges filed came last Friday, July 14, from Jack N. Egnor, special agent UBAVC board to meet The regular monthly meeting of the Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center governing board will be held on Tuesday, July 25, at 7 p.m. in the UBAVC Board Room at 950 East Lagoon Street in Roosevelt Board members presently serving are Dennis Mower and George Terry, Duchesne District; John Milleeam and Max Todd, Uintah District; and John Tinker, Daggett District DENNIS JENKINS Sears 'V . vi k QUEEN Tammy Davies, center, was crowned queen of the Altamont Longhorn Rouundup rodeo, which will be held Friday night and Saturday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Davies, Mt. Emmons. First attendant is Tami Lester, 16, daughter of Mrs. Vearl B. Lester, Roosevelt and second attendant is Lisa Shiner, 14, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Shiner, Altamont. 10-ye- Duchesne needs higher water rates, study says The water audit for the dty of Duchesne haa been completed, revealing that the dty was losing more :m . than $25,000 a year on its water system, and recommending changes in the billing structure. Tlie audit, funded through a grant Corners Regional . showed that there were . Commission, 51 broken water meters, 43 inaccurate meters and another 61 meters that were being improperly read and billed. Underground leaks of 40.2 million gallons per year were discovered. Another 13.2 million gallons was being wasted in reservoir overflow, caused by a faulty altitude control valve, The firm of Community Consultants, from the Four ribbon cutting in the front entrance the building. An open house is cheduled for the remainder of the lay. welcome Lik t Provo, which performed the audit, noted that locating the water meters was the first problem. Till grass and weeds obscured some. Another had been buried by a back fill operation for eight years. Another had been paved over with asphalt and not located for i at three years. t . k. Mm a v es mw f.J y- - ' t. two-phas- n. rojecL - RODEO catalogue store will be moving to a new building at the owner of Lagoon and Fourth East in Roosevelt in about a month. Mr. Jenkins is constructing the new facility for his Sears franchise and a combined grand opening and anniversary sale will be held for three days in September.' if for the entire ' TED MCBRIDE has joined the staff of S trout Realty in Roosevelt Mr. McBride, an Idaho native, has lived in Roosevelt for about 10 years and was formerly employed at Dalbo, Inc. He received his real estate sales license-- , in May and began selling real estate for Strout this month. i $2,073,000 Aj Vv so BRIEFS A 10 a.m. dedication ceremony will ;ick off the daya program, followed by tribe S ' The Ute Indian Tribe will dedicate ts new administration building today Thursday) in Fort Duchesne. be - r tv.x !' tJte tribe dedicates building Tribal Chairperson Ruby Hack will the visitors followed by e marks from state and local officials. i tribal elder will officially dedicate he building. The new facility, which is located rest of UteFab in the Industrial Park, louses the tribal headquarters. The 0,000 square foot structure is capacity eaigned with a 800-seuditorium, surrounded by a multi- urpoae room, tribal council chambers, nd offices for the Tribal Business lommittee, administration office, division, accounting division, (ETA, safety, grants coordinator, roperty and supply, and public elation, r Architect for the project is the firm f Markham and Markham of Provo. IEMCO Construction Co. of Salt Lake !ity constructed the building. e The project was funded Economic the Development Admin-itratioy Phase L which is the tribal dministration building, cost EDA 1,144,064. The second phase is the' onstruction of the building to house lie Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, his phase is expected to be ompleted this fall The EDA awarded .'M :l ' V 1 Vs in charge of the Salt Lake City office of the FBI. No further information on the circumstances of the stabbing, the search, arrest or basis for the charges has been released. ,: t -. BUSin ESS "v fc- . IS ' v n Redcap charged in Wyasket murder - IS uintAhIbasin Robert Redcap, 25, has been charged by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with murder in the stabbing death of a Duchesne man on the Ute Indian Reservation July 9. Theron Wyasket, 23, died after he was stabbed in the chest in an incident at Fort Duchesne. ' A search which began Uuat evening v r ... Land preparation and foundations Roosevelt are evident at junior high school as work continues on the addition to the school. One new school and three school additions are in progress in Duchesne County this summer. MORE CONSTRUCTION High ground water and leaks created other problems. The firm had to pump water out of about 5 per cent of tiie meter boxes, and had to remove grease in one instance. The broken or. completely stopped meters were replaced with new meters, the inaccurate ones were repaired or replaced and the company recommended that the large, four-inc- h meters be every year to insure accuracy - and the smaller meters be checked at least every three years. They said about 15 per cent of the small residential meters should be checked every year, so all of them would be checked at least once every seven years. leak survey The underground showed that transmission line, main line, and service line leakes were wasting more than 44,000 gallons of water per day. The leaks were located with a sound sensing device that picks up the sound of water escaping out of the pipe. The survey also showed peak water usage occurring about 8 a.m. each day, with a flow rate of more than 250 gallons per minute. Another peak come about 6 p.m. each day.' Water usage was at a low between 11 p.m. and 4 a.m. After a study of the present water rate structure, the consultants found that the city collected $81,470 from the water system during 1977 but the average yearly cost for operating it wss approximately $99,600. It can be readily seen that the water sales revenue is not presently keeping up with the expense," the report stated. "Also, this does not include any depreciation on the system or equipment and no allowance is made for a capital improvement budget." ", consulthe to the future, Looking tants said that now that all connections are properly metered and billed, they could make projections on total yearly water use. They estimated that the average customer will, use an average of 650 gallons per day. If the city continues to use about 206 million gallons of water per year, the total cost of production, supply and delivery, including operation and maintenance, will be about 60 cents per 1,000 gallons, they said. They recommended that the base rates be adjusted according to the size of meter, ranging from a $10 monthly rate for a 58 or 34 inch meter, to meter. $350 per month for a four-inc- h The present base rate is $10 per month for a residential connection and $7 for a commercial cnnection. They also recommended that the V V overage rate to be charged after the minimum 100,000 gallons per month be increased to 50 cents per 1,000 gallons. Presently overage charges range from 15 to eight enls per thousand gallons, depending on the amount used. The? said the suggestion "is based on the true cost to supply water." The firm said connection fees should be set at $500 plus the cost of the new meter, which would range from $50 for the smallest to $700 for the largest meters. If these rates were implemented, revenue from the water system would be approximately $120,000 per year, the same amount they said will be needed to operate and maintain ft. The group also studied sewer rates and said the user fees should be based on the true cost to collect and treat the sewage. They said the cost; of treating the wastewater amounts of 50 cents per - 1.000 gallons. .. The sewer charge would be based on the amount of water used because about 95 per cent of the water used inside a house enters the sewer system the study indicated. . The recommended that the sewer rates be based on a $5 per month minimum rate for 10,000 gallons, plus an overage charge of 50 cents per 1.000 gallons based on winter use. Present sewer rates are month. $5 per The study noted finally that fire flows and pressure in many areas of the city are low, caused mostly by undersized distribution lines. The low fire flow rates are located in the northwest and northeast parts of town and Blue Bench pressures and flows are for below acceptable, they said. 1 |