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Show Roosevelt airports runway gets paint job The Green Thumbera of Roosevelt are putting the municipal airport on the charts. They are painting the new markings necessary for the instrument approach on the runway - by hand. using brushes and rollers, the three men from Green Thumb, with some assistance from city employes, are painting the markings on the 6,500-lon- g runway. That is about one and miles. The instrument approach into the airport, utilizing the radios at the My ton VOR, was approved by Federal Aviation Administration officials last year. New markings on the runway are necessary for instrument approaches. The city of Roosevelt, battling their fund shortages, have since sought a number of ways to get the runway pointed and this summer decided to make it a Green Thumb one-four- th ever-prese- project Under the Green Thumb program the wages of the workers are paid from federal funds. With the paint -the same type as used on highways -donated by the Division of Highways snd the Division of Aeronautics, the city is getting the painting done for no expense. The project has been organized under the supervision of city administrator Jerrol Syme and Paula Bell, chairman of the Airport Board. The citys contributions include Mr. Symes time in organizing the effort plus the use of city crews in such phases as sweeping and washing the runway in preparation for the paint The work includes enlarging the center-lin-e stripe to three feet wide, painting narrower lines down each side of the runway, moving the numbers which designate the runway direction, and painting the instrument grids at the ends of the runway. At press time, 12 work days had been put into the project With good weather, the project is expected to be completed by the middle of November. The dty is plessed with the project We didn't have the $3,000 it would have taken us to hire it by-han- .. , done," Mr. Syme said. He added that by doing the painting at this time of year the paint is easier to work with than it would have been in the heat of July, when the paint would have evaporated on contact with the hot asphalt. However, a sudden change in the weather could bring the painting to a complete halt Mr. Syme admitted that he had never heard of a d runway before, but Mrs. Bell said the 99 era, a women's flying dub,' has projects to at small airports paint runways frequently. hand-painte- Hunter dies first day of season A hunter from Bountiful died Saturday, apparently from a heart attack, while hunting near the splash dam above the dude ranch on the North Fork of the Duchesne River. Leo Monks, 53, was hunting with a party on the first morning of the deer hunting season and had shot a deer up on a hillside. He apparently was hurrying up to the site when he suffered a heart attack. When other members of his party, VOLUME medical including an emergency technician from Provo, readied him he was near death, according to Duchesne County Sheriff George Marett. The ambulance was called from Duchesne but by the time it arrived he was dead. Mr. Monks was a candidate for sheriff in Davis County and Sheriff Marett said he had a history of heart trouble. 66 NUMBER 26,1978 UINTAHlBASIN HAND-PAINTED-- of Green crew A Thumbers and city employees at work painting the markings on the runway at the Roosevelt Municipal Airport, using hand SERVING ALL OF DUCHESNE COUNTY, PLUS WEST UINTAH COUNTY Drillers busy in The Natural Buttes area of Uintah County and a region southwest of the town of Duchesne are busy with drilling activity, according to Carlton Stowe of the state Department of Natural Resources division of oil, gas and mining. Six companies are very active in the Natural Buttes area, Mr. Stowe said. Beloo Petroleum of Big Piney, Wye., is working 25 locations there with 18 of those drilled to total depth and either testing or waiting for completion equipment to begin testing. C2G Exploration Inc. of Denver has 18 new locations in the Natural Buttes area, with 14 of those in various stages of completion. They were to probe the Wasatch formation from 5300 to 7,400 feet in depth. Continental Oil Co., Mapco Inc., Gas Producting Enterprises and Enserch job because the runway is nearly one and miles long and some of the have to be three feet wide. markings one-quart- er Schlueter are two-count- y rollers and paint brushes. They've got a big Exploration are also very active in the region, according to Mr. Stowe. Meanwhile, W. A. Moncrief of Casper, Wyo., has filed notice of intent to (brill three new wells in Duchesne County. All three are being held confidential as to depth and formation exploration. One is the Rowley 2--1 and another is both in the the Texaco Tribal Cedar Rim area. Moncrief is drilling below 200 feet at the Bates 9-- a new exploratory test two miles south of the Cedar Rim Field west of Duchesne. The operator has not indicated how deep the well is to be drilled, but it is a little more than a mile northwest of his 15-1- , Gulf-Tribwhich went to 13,062 3-- 1, al feet Continued on page 6a The race for the Utah State Senate district 26 is a face-of-f between Utah Speaker of the House Glade Sowards of Vernal and Hal Schleuter, office-seeka first-tim- e from Heber City. The district includes Duchesne, Uintah, Daggett Summit Morgan and Wasatch counties. Mr. Sowards has been involved in state and dty politics for 18 years, as a Vernal dty councilman and in. the House of Representatives. There he has been assistant minority whip, on the Legislative Council, chairman id the Joint Legislative Management Committee and speaker of the house. in er of the Assembly of the National Conference of State Legislators. He has also served in the mission presidency in the Uintah Basin IDS Mission and presently is a regional representative for the LDS Church. His business is petroleum marketing and distribution in Utah and Colorado. Mr. Schlueter has been involved in politics for many years, mostly in state and local Democratic functions. He said he ran for the office only after a search of the district for a viable young candidate failed. He is a Winconsin native who has lived in Utah for 80 years. He has been in the wholesale and retail furniture business, then spent seven years as the first statewide movie development director for Utah. He is now director of public affairs and filming locationa far Schick Sunn Classic Productions. Mr. Sowards said he feels it is vital that the Uintah Basin be represented He is now in n' Duchesne homecoming pageant Tracy Galloway, daughter of Mr. and Mn. Duaine Galloway, was named Duchesne high , school Homecoming Queen in the pageant held Wednesday, Oct 18, in the Duchesne high school auditorium. : Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Greenwood were Master and Mistress of Ceremonies for the event which had aa its theme Three Times a Lady. The judges were indeed to make a decision, as nine girls competed in a variety of events. Winner of the talent competition was Paige Meriwether, who was also selected first attendant to the queen. DeeAnn Young was chosen as second attendant and was the winner in the ' judge's interview event Shauns Ohm won the essay competition and Lana Malinski baked the cake judged best of the various : entries. SqeAnn Mitchell was named Miss Congeniality. , The annual homecoming award was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon G. Horrocks in recognition of their unflagging support of student activities. The cakes baked by the contestants were auctioned, bringing a total of $493. Tony Ivie, Dave Marion and Kelly Cowan pooled their resources to pay $110 for a cake baked by Lana Malinski. Two cakes were donated back for Neill C. Jensen served as auctioneer. the Senate and it is easier fin: someone in Vernal to visit the rest of the district on his way to Salt Lake City than it is for someone from the western counties to make special trips to the Basin to discuss the issues and problems with the people here. Mr. Schlueter has expressed a definite interest in the Basin and its problems and has made several visits here during the campaign. But, he said, I chose to run beesuse I can't see, in this day and age, where any public office should go unchallenged. The STANDARD asked each of them about their views of several issues facing the people of the Uintah Basin. Here are their comments. TAX LIMITATION: Sowards, I have not put my stamp of endorsement on any tax limitation proposal yet. We (the House) were charged to make a study of taxes and my committee has not reported back to me yet The Senate was definitely against tax limitation but I definitely favor tax limitation. My committee should report in the next month. Schlueter, I favor tax limitation but I think that each district might have different methods of wanting or not wanting it. I do not favor a constitutional amendment because we do not know what lies ahead. We could run into terrible, catastrophic things and we'd have to be able to provide for our citizens when they need help. SALES TAX DISTRIBUTION: Sowards, I dont think this will come up again this term. I would like to see both sides of the story. As a member of the rural community that buys $100,000 of equipment in Salt Lake State-Feder- al City each year. Im very resentful of that money staying there, but aa a member of the Vernal city council, Vernal was a point of collection and that money helped build water and other systems so I would want to know the feelings both ways and I would listen to both sides. Schlueter, I would say that the matter should be reviewed by the legislature and put up to a public referendum. Leave it up to the people. He added that he opposes the sales tax on food. - CENTRAL UTAH PROJECT: Sowards, "In order to resolve this on the federal front, we've got to be unified on our position here in the state. I would like to hear the views of all people in the Uintah Basin and approach the federal people on a unified front" Schlueter, There's nothing to be done before January when the new Congress comes in. I think the money for the Upalco unit will be straightened out I feel the Utah State Senate can bring pressure to bear to the Coangressional delegation on water and .. agricultural matters. ' WILDERNESS AREAS: Sowards, 1 feel that the environment forests and wilderness areas have to ' be protected but there should be a e both for recreation and the development of timber and some of these things. I favor as little wilderness as possible. Dont lock up this land to energy, timber and agricultural use. Schlueter, "Wilderness areas are fine far what they are intended for but we co-us- . t Continued on page 6a hard-presse- d REIGNING ROYALTY-Rid- ing onto the field game last week for their Homecoming were Duchesne high school's Homecoming royalty. They are, left to right. Miss Con geniality Sue Ann Mitchell, queen Tracy Galloway, first attendant Paige Meriwether and second attendant DeeAnn Young. re-sal- e. Sf p- . - k , . f7 -. Glade Sowards . move to Senate. . . wants to Hal Schlueter . . for state senate. candidate ' |