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Show ft Tanker causes oil spill roll-ov- er Nearly 200 barrels of crude oil were spilled in Hancock Cove Tuesday morning when a tanker truck taking the crude from the Bluebell area to Plateau Oil's refinery rolled over while attempting to negotiate a turn. The truck, owned by EM CO Trucking of Roosevelt, was driven by Richard Bunch, 87, who recently moved from Salt Lake City to Roosevelt. Bunch suffered a dislocated shoulder, bruises and lacerations and was taken to the Duchesne County hospital by the Roosevelt ambulance. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Joe Bennett said Bunch was southbound on the Hancock Cove road and had passed a car pulling a travel trailer on the section of road which parallels the airport runway. Bunch failed to negotiate the turn, Bennett said, and the rig rolled over, coming to rest on the east side of the road near the gulch. The tractor rolled over once and the tank trailer rolled over once and a half, ripping off the exterior insulation and springing the seams so that the crude flowed from several holes. Bennett said the rig was a total loss and estimated the loss at (57,000. The accident was under investigation at press time. Duchesne County Deputy Sheriff Travis Mitchell assisted Bennett at the scene. Bennett expressed thanks to Pla- teau Oil and Don Biggs for taking backhoes and a bulldozer to the scene to prevent the oil from flowing down the watershed of the gulch. CUP topic of local meetings tanker truck was considered a total loss after it rolled over while attempting to make a turn on the Hancock Cove road Tuesday morning. The driver, Richard Bunch, suffered a dislocated shoulder and cuts and COMPLETE WRECK This was considered fortunate in light of the damage The corner, near the end of the airport runway, was the scene of a fatal accident about two years ago. bruises but to the truck. VOIUME 67 NUMBER 29 June 21. 1979 lTHETUI NTAHIDAS I N - BEHIND RJHSL The status of the Uintah and Upalco units of the Central Utah Project will be the topic of the Roosevelt Area Chamber of Commerce meeting Thursday (today) and at a public information meeting next Friday, June 29, in Roosevelt. Lynn Win ter ton, a member of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District Board of Directors, and Jim Johnson of the Bureau of Reclamation will be the guest speakers at the Chamber meeting at noon today at the Zion's Bank building. Winterton said they would give an update report on progress on the two units, which will provide water for use within the Uintah Basin. The public meeting will begin at 8 p.m. next Friday at the Moon Lake Electric building and the speakers will include the board of directors of the Dry Gulch Irrigation Co., Dry Gulch president Ron Duncan, CUWCD board members Winterton and Leo Haueter, and Johnson, again representing the Bureau of Reclamation. Winterton said they will review the units, emphasizing how much water they will generate and who will get it, as well as the cost per acre foot. He invited everyone who is interested in the projects to attend and ask questions. Meanwhile, Utah Congressman Gunn McKay said last week that were on the way to positive construction on the Uintah and Upalco units. The House Appropriations Committee had accepted his funding formula for the water project. With this money we could very soon turn out first spades of soil on these two units," McKay said. Of the $61 million earmarked for CUP in the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, $2.2 million would to to Upalco and $2 million to Uintah so construction can begin on Upalco and advance planning can be completed on Uintah, with construction beginning later in the fiscal year. The appropriations bill is due to be considered by the full House later this month. ' Site for new Roosevelt elementary selected After several months of negotiations with landowners and meetings with patrons, the Duchesne County Board of Education has decided on a site for the new Roosevelt elementary school which had not been included in previous discussions. The school, which is expected to be in use for the 1981-8- 2 school year, will be located north of the Roosevelt junior high school The site is a large field north of the bus garage and across an irrigation ditch from the junior high schooL Superintendent Lowell Caldwell said he was investigating the site on another matter a week ago and, when he found that the parcel totalled 82 acres, he felt it would be an ideal location for the new school. He said he canvassed the board and the members had an opportunity to familiarize themselves with the location before the school board meeting Thursday, June 14. The vote to place the new. school there wu unanimous. Caldwell said the locale is practical because sewer and water lines are already installed to the property and the road is "very close. In addition, since the school district already owns the property thaw will be a savings of at least $70,000 in land acquisition price. Tm concerned, this is an As far excellent site for us, Caldwell stated, panting to its isolation, lack of traffic problems and good feeder area. He said having children cross the Neola highway is the biggest problem but no matter where the school is located there will be children crossing a u ' highway. The board members have negotiated over purchase of several large plots of ground for the school, most id them in the western portion of the dty near the new LDS stake center. A committee of patrons also held several meetings to discuss the various sites. At one point a recommendation wu made to build the new school next to East Elementary and make one large elementary school complex. Caldwell said the current program, with primary grades located in one the remainder of area students elementary attending the other, will be further evaluated before a decision is made regarding attendance at the new school He said the school staffs like the current program but the community will be polled to determine whether parents want to continue the present system or return to neighborhood schools containing all school split-grad- and e grades. He said the facility is to built the with an future being eye and, with its completion, the two elementary schools will be able to contain children a population of 8,000 in the Roosevelt area. Architect Rowe Smith hu drawn up plans for the school as far as possible without knowing the site for the building. He will now complete design woik with completion of a topograph- ical survey of Nearly 200 barrels of "Altamont crude" spilled from this totalled tanker after it rolled while carrying the crude oil to Plateau Oil's refinery at Roosevelt Tuesday OIL SPILL the lot, a water level check and soil tests. Caldwell said bids for construction of the school will probably be let in Continued on page 3 Fire destroys bam, kills animals at Bridgeland Sunday A fire, started by wires blown together by high winds and then fanned by the wind, destroyed a barn at Bridgeland Sunday night, hilling Myton plans homecoming celebration Former residents and friends of Myton are reminded that the Myton Homecoming' for 1979 will be held June 29-3- 0. Friday, June 29, the celebration will a rodeo hosted by the local the rodeo will begin at 10 a.m. At 7 p.m. the same evening, there will be a showing of a film on the Uintah Basin, made in the Basin jn 1976, with much of it filmed in Myton, with Myton people participating. The showing will be at the LDS church and will be followed by a local talent begin with Clubs, 4-- H Roosevelt's new elementary school will be built in this field fust north of Roosevelt junior high school, on property SCHOOL SITE already owned by the Duchesne County should be able to School District.' Students move into the classrooms in two years. morning, crews from plateau brought equipment to the wreck site to contain the crude and prevent it from flowing down a nearby gulch. two horses and five head of cattle. Mrs. Art Kelly smelled smoke about 10:30 Sunday night and when Kelly went to check he saw the fire in the area of the feeder power pole by the barn. He said within 80 seconds the fire had spread along the back of the barn so strongly that he could not get to the gates to let the livestock out. Duchesne Fire Chief Dave Baum program. At about 9 p.m., a disco dance will be held at the tennis court Saturday, a parade will begin at 10:80 a.m., with the theme, Passing On To Our Youth, Pride In Their Heritage. Following the parade, an awards program will be held at the park with some special talent presentations. Saturday evening the Lions Chib will hoat a barbeque, followed by a 'special square dance on the tennis court The Myton Homecoming Committee cordially invites everyone to come join in the fun! said when the fire crews got to the scene the barn was completely engulfed In flames. They drove the truck up on a canal bank and pumped water to knock down the fire and protect other buildings but the barn waa a total loss. Two registered Palomino stallions and five cows died in the blaze. The firemen fought the fire and the wind for nearly three hours. Baum said apparently the wind Mew two wires on the electric pole together, creating a short, which in turn started the fire. The Ducheane firemen were called out last Wednesday afternoon when a small trailer house caught fire at the Don Martinez home about five mile from Duchesne on the Bridgeland highway. The trailer waa gutted and the food and clothing stored in it were destroyed. Baum said the fire wu also caused by an electrical short, this one in the drop cord running from the Martinez house to the trailer. Baum said the trailer wu engulfed in flames and the fire wu breaking through the windows when the fire engine arrived and, though they knocked down the fire quickly, the structure wu a complete lose. He credited R. W. Bob Jones Trucking with providing water tank-er- a at both fires. |