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Show 67th Year Thursday March 13, 1980 No. 11 Roosevelt, Utah 24 Pages 20 Cents hit over weekend Earl's Paint Store, Roosevelt, was burglarised last weekend, with a yet undetermined amount of cash and jewelry taken. According to investigating officers, the burglars broke through a wall at the back of the store, rifted the desk drawers, and plundered cabinets in the gift shop area of the store. Lee Ann Wabel manager of the store, said that she closed the business at 6:15 p.m. Saturday, March 8, and discovered the burglary when she opened the store Monday morning. Officers Roosevelt City Ponce Wayne Embteton, Jeff Stagg and Date Smith are investigating the burglary. Also last weekend, a residential burglary and an attempted burglary occurred, in a west Roosevelt neighborhood. According to investigating officer Jeff Stagg, evidence was discovered Friday morning that burglars had unsuccessfully attempted to enter a Roosevelt residence as the occupants , slept. Saturday night, March 8, another Roosevelt family that had been away from home for the evening apparently surprised burglars in the process of plundering their home. The burglars escaped with an undetermined amount of jewelry ' ' City Police Chief Cecil Roosevelt Gurr reminds area residents to secure their homes when they leave, and to be especially vigilant about unfamiliar vehicles in their vicinity. Anyone who observes a suspicious" vehicle or person is urged to take note of license numbers and descriptions of individuate they see loitering about, and notify police promptly if they suspect something may be amiss. Hwy. 40 project Is on again . Necessary approvals have been received to reinstate the $1,100,000 project to widen Hwy. 40 west of Roosevelt to four lanes. Originally designated as a Federal project, the matter was reassigned last year to State responsibility so that work could begin at an earlier date. The state legislature had cents per gallon granted a increase in the gasoline tax, which was earmarked for maintenance, rehabilitation and resurfacing, and for state 1-- a construction projects. Subsequently, Continued on page 3 u Roosevelt City has finally zeroed in on what has been a problem - the condition of Sixth East between Lagoon Street and Hwy. 40. What has been an ZEROING IN long-standi- ng , ' now covered, the street has been widened, and paving crews will soon be at work creating "real city a street." origin of fires in mobile homes because of the limited attic space and small storage compartments.'' Eldredge also stated The department has much better success with mobile homes if they are located inside the city and if the fire does not have a headstart." Roosevelt firemen answer alarms Burglary suspects remain in jail .06 throughout the area, serving Duchesne County, Uintah County, and Roosevelt City. Roosevelt City maintains a record of the fires and sends a quarterly bill, determined by a percentage share of fires in their area, to the counties. Law enforcement issue remains unresolved A meeting Wednesday, March 5, regarding the problem of law enforcement at Union high school and the Uintah Basin Area Vocational Center, Med to resolve any of the jurisdic proposed the annexation of Roosevelt City of the area occupied by the two the second educational facilities; involved a contractual arrangement by which the Roosevelt City Police Department would assume enforcement responsibility, with Ballard to ray half a patrolman's salary, or $7,200 per year. The Wednesday meeting was attended by representatives of Duchesne snd Uintah County School Districts, Roosevelt City Police, Roosevelt City Coundl, Uintah and Duchesne County Commissions, Duchesne and Uintah County Sheriffs' Departments, Union high school and UBAVC administrations, with Ballard Mayo: Karl Shister conducting the meeting. Shister had, at an earlier meeting, asked individuals representing tin above entities to report back with their ideas as to a solution to the which has long been problem, recognized but which has drawn recent widespread attention because of three incidents of vandalism of visiting school buses in late January. The Duchesne-Uinta- h County line, and the Roosevelt-BallarCity limits, runs through the middle of Union high school, and school officials allege that youthful offenders frequently take advantage of uncertainty as to which law enforcement agency has jurisdiction over which area of school tional issues, snd ended with Roosevelt Citys proposed contract with Ballard City apparently rejected. The City of Roosevelt had submitted two - options to Ballard; the first d property. HOME DESTROYED The mobile and Mrs. John Leigh, Old Air Mr. of home port Road, was completely destroyed when it caught fire Friday, March 7. The Leighs were not at home at the time of the fire. MOBILE is A Fniday fire Ballard residence mobile home of The double-wid- e Mr. and Mrs. John Leigh, Ballard, was completely destroyed by fire Friday, March 7. Rqosevelt firemen received the alarm at 1:30 p.m., and were on the scene within minutes. When firemen arrived, a major portion of the home was involved with the inside already totally consumed. Because no one was at home, the fire had a head start and nothing could be done to save the residence, according to Burke Eld-re- d ge. Firemen do not know what started the fire, but speculate that it probably began in the kitchen area located at the rear of the home. The residence was located north of Highway 40, one mite up Old Airport Road, in the Ballard City limits and in Uintah County. The family was in New Mexico at the time of the fire. It is According to Eldredge, extremely difficult to determine the open irrigation ditch . Roosevelt firemen received the alarm at 1:30 p.m., were on the scene within minutes, but the fire had too much of a head start to be abated. - In addition, school administrators have .reportedly had difficulty in eliciting prompt response to calls to the law enforcement agencies, because officers themselves have encountered difficulties in determining jurisdiction in cases they have investigated involving students. Eloise Turner, Uintah County School District, said that her district would be willing to contribute $1,500 Continued on page3 Gary Mecham, 23, and Patrick Hackford, 19, both Roosevelt, appeared in Seventh Judicial Circuit Court Monday, March 10, for a scheduled preliminary hearing. The pair are charged with second degree felony theft involving 20 button bits valued at $5,000 stolen from Leon Ross' shop in Hancock Cove the weekend of Feb. 16. Mecham and Hackford were out on bond at the time of their arrest, having been arraigned earlier in the month in connection with burglaries at Roosevelt Enterprises and the Frontier Grill. It was thought, as late as Monday morning, that the two defendants would waive the preliminary hearing, but they apparently changed their minds. The . prosecution was not prepared to proceed, and the preliminary is scheduled to he held in Duchesne next week. Defense attorney James Hall requested that bail be reduced from $6,000 each, since the pair had assurance of immediate employment if they could make bond. Judge Kenneth G. Anderton declined to reduce the amount of bail, and denied the request continuance in the matter. for a y Mecham and Hackford were returned to the Duchesne County Jail Also in Judge Anderton's court, William Bruce White was arraigned, along with Neil Frank Neet, on charges of assault against White's wife. The charge against Neet was dismissed when Mrs. White declined to proceed with action against him. White was released on his own recognizance, after entering a plea of guilty, with time for sentencing to be set upon receipt by the court of a report from the Dep of Adult Probation and partment Parole. 30-da- Cattle producers disapprove beef research program Preliminary results of a nationwide referendum indicate cattle producers have voted against inaugurating a national beef research and information program. Ray Fitzgerald, Administrator of the U.8. Department of Agriculture's Stabilization and Conservation Service, which conducted the referendum, said of the 231,032 ballots cast, 151,119 (65 'A) were against the program. There were 79,913 votes in favor. Fitzgerald said there were 288,445 beef producers registered and eligible to vote in the referendum conducted Feb. 19-2- If the referendum had passed, the program would have provided for assessments on beef producers to finance research and information activities designed to improve markets for cattle, beef and beef products. . The Beef Research and Information Act was enacted in May 1976 and Continued on page 3 Streamflow forecasts released by SCS Streamflow forecasts for April . through July 1980 have been released by the Soil Conservation Service. According to LaMar Wilson, SCS conservation technician, the amounts given, in acre feet, are the amounts of water expected to pass a given point between April and Jute, provided there is a normal increase 'in precipitation during that period. Abo given is the percent of the Ac average represented by the figures. Duchesne River near Tabiona 151 percent of 162.000 acre-fee- t, April-Jul- y average. River at Duchesne 151 percent of Duchesne 291.000 acre-fee- t, average. Strawberry River at Duchesne Continued on page 3 ' -- |