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Show VaUME 66 NUMBER 41 --October ' ' 12, 1978 THEUINTAHBASIN SERVING ALL Of DUCHESNE COUNTY, PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY Regional park being fenced against vandals The new regional park in Roosevelt is being fenced off from the public this week and there will be no ice skating on the pond there this winter, in an effort to protect the new grass which was seeded there this fslL Vandals twice drove vehicles across the soft surface and the damage cannot be repaired at this time because moving the equipment in to do so would cause further damage, city administrator Jerrol Syme said Tuesday. To prevent further damage by vehicles and snowmobiles, city crews installed barbed- - wire fence around the park this week. City officials hope that the grass will be established by next spring. However, Mr. Syme said July would be the earliest time that the park could be used and the landscape contractor recommended that the public not be allowed hi for an' entire year to allow the grass to get well sodded. The park contains ball parks, a sand area for playground and voDeyball, an amphitheatre and sound system for outdoor productions, an open area for field sports, and picnic areas. Mr. Syme noted that it will be at least a year before the picnic areas will have facilities such as picnic tables, barbecue pits and stoves installed. Equipment for the playground is also not included hi current budgets. There are restroom facilities at the park but they will not be open to the public except at organised activities when a representative of the city is them. present to unlock and k Vandals destroying restroom facilities at other locations in the city have brought the city council to that decision. In other recent action, the city . re-loc- tv; "ii? four-wheel-dri- ve and problems beyond our control, we ended up with just about zilch! This week-abea- dy on the books-cove- rs . the junior highs, junior varsity and varsity games of football and volleyball games. Reporting the news is a lot of fun and work and one thing about the Basin...there's plenty of action going on! Inflation proves that in a few more years a dolls r-pincher will mean the same thing From The HPtpr Bo f that a penny-pinehmeant a generation er ago. The opportunities that are offered here provide the main factor that keeps us all happy in Duchesne County. There's plenty of sporting activity going on, but I enjoy the efforts of people who try to keep a balance between sports and finer arts. Music at Union is on the upswing with a real marching band! Mrs. Breedenbrooker at Duchesne mentioned a Region Air travel will be much safer when they eliminate the automobile ride between the city and the airport. Feast or famine is the name of the game around the newspaper office! Last week we had four pages of football pictures with their stories and information and this week because of away games council: Recommended that Roosevelt Police Department officers not be deputised as federal marshals under a plan to work with the Ute Indian Trive on law enforcement matters. Authorized the hiring of Dave ten president's action as head in the "a mockery of our sand, anti-Wework. ' Gov. Robert W. Straub of Oregon was joined by Govs. John V. Evans of Idaho, J. James Exon of Nebraska and Michael O'Callaghan of Nevada in defense of what Straub called a very courageous stand by the president However, Straub noted that no projects in Oregon would suffer by the billion public works bill, which would have funded new starts in the Central Utah Project The stray of the public works bill had been a story of extremes from the beginning and the end of the story is not yet fa sight Carter has defended his actions-bportraying himself as the champion of fiscal responsibility, labeling the bill as in flationary ...wasteful.. .absolutely unacceptable. Members of Congress and governors of affected states have decried the ' veta , The effects of President Carter's veto will be most strongly felt by Utah's CUP water project CUP'S. Bonneville Unit may move to construction, but at a reduced funding leveL A Continuing Resolution expected to, be jhf . , i T'i . f iV'-- . , V.,' - l .' . " ' ; s y V'; I s .s' . s' ' S V-j.',-- v ' . . 'f ' 'T V.' jV,.. y v s ;.j.,s i": v , "V DEFYING FATE Joan Crozier maintains she is not superstitious, as she meets Friday the Pa ' vi;- about to meet up with a black cat. The work must go on, despite all the bad omens. under a ladder, with her umbrella open, with salt spilled on her desk and just 13th sessor seat Don Moat of Duchesne, who was county welfare director for 15 years, is challenging incumbent Jessie Peatross for the county assessor's seat in next month's general election. His platform is that he feels he band in the forming with an upcoming concert. Drama and forensics don't even have to be mentioned because of teams in both SA all-st- state-winnin- g and 2A competition coming from our county schools. The efforts of a Fine Arts Council in Roosevelt are bringing together a wide variety of plays, musicals and talent groups. Their season opened Wednesday night with a film festival. After 13 years in the Basin, it is exciting to see the efforts of all the communities making an input to make it a better place to live! Act your age Yfl you're then you can imitate the young fa a reasonable 40 - In Roosevelt,! city league basketball program, it has been said that a team fa being formed in Altamont that should be tough to beat There should be some exciting games played this year to determine who's the best! Carter veto dashes hopes for local President Carter brought the power of the presidency to bear in a massive effort that resulted in the vote by the House to sustain his veto of the S10.2 - , Continued on Page 3 FENCED IN Vernon Hamilton and Glen D. Olsen, along with Dale Kell, are installing a barbed wire fence around Roosevelt's new regional park. On two occasions drivers of vehicles have used the newly-plante- d for "making donuts" and the fence is designed to pregrass vent any further such occurrences. ..' d ' S ''.,',) , will make some 45 million available for the project A Continuing Resolution makes funding available at the previous years level, protecting money already spent but not providing any new money. Local concern centers about the Upalco Unit and the Uintah Unit of the Central Utah Project The Uintah Unit designed to store the high flows at the Uinta and White rocks Rivers for irrigation purposes, municipal and industrial use, recreation, and fish and wildlife flood also incorporated purposes, control features. Plans provided for Continued on page clerk or treasurer or are every bit as capable as this guy, he said. But the assessor should be required to be in the field most of the time, be conversant with construction people, oil well people, men who know anti-femini- recorder 3 As women machinery." Mrs. Peatross, who was appointed as assessor seven years ago to fill the unexpired term of Lawrence Luck, then won election in 1974, said the job is a real challenge which she enjoys and which fa bring held more and more by women. She said she was the first woman assessor in Utah but now there are three and there could be five by the first of the year, depending on the election. She said other states have many women as assessors. I feel Ive proven that a woman can handle the job," she said. some assessing out in the boondocks herself, hires field deputies to appraise livestock and heavy equipment and a man from Salt Lake City who is familiar with the area to assess She-doe- property. She. does the cabins and other property that requires a lot of travel because she feels it would be wasteful to pay a daily fee to an assessor to spend most of the day traveling and only look at one or two piecea of property. Youre learning more every day," she said. It's like going to school. Mrs. Peatross was born and. reared in the Duchesne area, graduated from Duchesne high school and is a certified appraiser, as sssessors are required to easfly-accessib- passed by Congress . knows values of property, would get out of the office and do his own assessing, would fight for higher wages for the deputies in the office and he feels it is a job for a man. It (assessor) appears to be a job that's more oriented to a man than to a lady, he said. I still visualize ladies as being feminine and sweet ?nd not wanting to go out to oil wells to assess machinery." He emphasized that he was not le bq. Mr. Moat fa a native New Yorker who has a degree from Brigham Young University in education administration. He served in the Nsvy during World War II and the Korean conflict He came to Duchesne after graduating from BYU and served as welfare director. He then worked in California as a controller fra three years but took all the smog I could take and returned to Utah, working as office manager fra the construction company Jessie Peatross paigning for . . . cam- on the Starvation Dam. He has a small accounting business and was formerly executive secretary for the Duchesne Chamber of Commerce. I love people, he said, and a public servant has to bend over backwards to help people. He said he would spend a large part of his time, if elected, in working directly with people and doing his own assessing in the field. He added that he would fight for better salaries fra the people working in the office, to try to correct what he called the trend to train underpaid people, even if it meant a cut in the I18JB00 a year salary fra himself. He said he would refuse any pay increases during the four-yea- r term, even those fra cost of living, and would gladly give up some of my pay to get those girls a salary. He also pledged to assess everyone's property fairly, because I hate taxes, too." Mrs. Peatross, on the other hand, made promises dealing with activities in the office. For instance, she said the county will be due for another reappraisal within the next few years and when it fa done, the new valuations will be held on the books until the entire state has been reappraised and all the new records can go into effect at once. She said a complete double set of books will have to be kept up to date during this period and said the county fa looking half-dece- Don Moat ing . . .thinks assess- man's job. is at a computerized system to assist with the massive paperwork. She also said she will fight to have, local assessors do the reappraisal I' know we have people in our county that are far more knowledgeable about land and the problems we have here than Salt Lake people, she said. It would be a far fairer appraisaL She would also like to see local people get the pay for doing the work, instead of someone from outside the Basin. She would also like to see higher salaries fra her deputies, who are ' way underpaid. I appreciate working with the public," she said. I appreciate the confidence they've had in me and I hope they will always feel free to talk to me about problems. It fa the policy in the office that if we've made a mistake we want to be the first ones to know about it and make the change to correct . . it High October October October October October October October 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 71 78 74 78 Low 35 80 34 34 Unavailable 85 77 80 87 Prec. . |