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Show 72nd Year Wednesday, August 28 1985 No. Roosevelt, Utah 18 50 Cents Pages flames as engines arrive in Another fire scared Roosevelt last week. About 10:30 p.m. ; Thursday night the sirens went off and the engines rolled to the ' Roosevelt Christian Church, it was in flames. An unidentified motorist, in a t Camera, made the call into the dispatcher. He reported lots of smoke coming from the Church. He stayed in the vadnity and j spoke to an RPD officer arriving on the scene before driving on. . Fire Department units arrived to flames shooting from the doorway of the former home of the Pastor, Mark Royer. That portion of the building has been converted to classrooms several years earlier and was no longer used as a residence. Crews attempted to fight the fire but didnt know the layout of the building until Royer arrived several minutes later.. He in formed them of a door in the back and they used tjhat access to eventually put out the fire. Crews stayed on the scene of the fire until almost 1:30 a.m. making sun the fin was out. Preliminary cause of the fire is unknown but Burke Eldredge ssid it looked like the fire started near the furnace of the Church. Royer stated it totally destroyed his office, including a solid oad desk and over 30 volumes of personal history he had compiled since a teenager. He felt that loss most deeply, he said. ' - - furnace as well as to the roof area immediately over the office. Royer said the insurance on the building is never really enough to replace all of the things lost in the fire, obviously rafering to the histories, but the damage could be covered as for. as recon- struction costs. ' Friday morning RPD called in a State Fin Marshall to investigate the fire. Chief Cedi Gurr said it was standard operating procedure in such a fin and refused to comment further. Royer stated there had been an arson attempt two years ago in the chapd portion of the Church but didnt know of any recent threats or incidents that might hint of such again. No further details as to the cause of nature of the origin of the fire were available. No cost estimate for damage was immediately available either. Damage to the rest of the structure was limited to smoke damage, primarily in the Chapd portion and some classrooms. The office area and adjacent rooms in the upstairs an totally lost. Damage also was extensive to the partial basement and to the alley built from CU P budget e A bowling alley in Duchesne City costing S375,000 is being paid for by a grant from the Bureau of Reclamation out of the Central - Utah Water six-lan- SMOKE Smoke pours out of the Roosevelt Christian Assembly church as Volunteer Firemen attempt to extinguish the fire. From 10:30 p.m. Thursday night to abouut 1:30 n i am Friday morning the firemen worked on the fire. Damage was extensive to office and Project's budget Duchesne City basement, but the rest of the building sustained only smoke damage. i HOLY ' , Wject.'V , According - . startled on and Ballard EMT pagers to go off and get an rahnlanrw to an seddent at The Roosevelt City Council meeting held a couple of surprizes cm Tuesday, August 20. The Roosevelt Police Deportment is having trouble with their tde- phones, the Uintah Basin STANDARD turned over some money to the city and the Ballard issue was discussed once man but quits calmly. Chief Cedi Gurr met with the Council to inform them of several problems the Deportment has with the phone service there. One problem is a static problem on timfr line, but the worst problem became apparent when the power went out on August 15. The dispatcher wasnt able to get the , - ended. However, - Ballard's candidates nominated . The meeting was almost over when Val Labrum said he had only one thing he would like to bring up. He wanted to know if the Council was going to work on the Ballard Agreement or just do nothing and just let it die. There time was wilnw discussion than was held two week previous, but nothing really was obviously decided by the time the meeting Seagull Refinery. Chief Gurr didnt comment on the liability the city could face for that equipment malfunction but only stated he wanted to have the option to eliminate that occuring again. This equipment option would keep one telephone line open when power failure occurs. Apparently at the present time the power goes off and the telephones dont function. Council discussed alternative phone systems being investigated and the cost of the equipment option and asked Gurr to check things out and return to them with recommendations and alternatives. Then Craig Ashby and Joan 'Crosier from the Uintah Basin STANDARD met with the Council to give them two checks. The checks were from the subscription drive held in con- -' junction with the Community A special nominating meeting Survey held in June. The option of subscribers at that time was to eras held at the Ballard City' put part of the cost of subBuilding Tuesday, August 20. At this meeting 'nominations were' scriptions to either the library fund or the swimming- pool made for candidates to fill two of bubble fund. the City Council seats that will Coundhnen and Mayor Yack become vacant this November. all commented on how they Also nominated at that time was one candidate for the office of appreciated the finurial help in ' those two area and the mayo:. STANDARDS work. , The council seats that will be Several other subjects were those vacated are for election up discussed, including the airport, Karl Betts and Orian Cook. by ; now the city has taken it over The nominees for these seats were again. They stated the carpets John Cheney, Harry Scott, Mark are cleaned and several jobs need Earl and Kettle, Murphy. Cheney to be done there before cold and Scott, had both previously weather sets in. One they all filed for candidacy and the other agreed needed to be done was to two were nominated from the insulate the offics ares. Thqy. also floor at the meeting. discussed the need to Sterilize The mayoral candidate that the ground, and get rid of the was also nominated from the floor is Karl Betts. He said that he had prarie dog population there before they undermine the runways.. .never thought ef running for Bob West provided an initial mayor, but that he was willing to serve anywhere the people, of report on the UBIC and answered several questions on the reason Ballard wanted him to. It was made clears at the for severing the tie with the city. cormeeting that the nominations are ' UBIC became a for from ' being dosed. The poration on July 80, 1985, and was provided the impetus toward HHHna for filing is September 24. Anyone wishing to file as a"' that direction by Bob West! A formal report on tha financial candidate for either, mayor or situation of the UBIC Com- councilman may do so at the mittee, will be given to the Ballard City building Monday Council in the September 10, 10 a.m. from until Friday through 2 p.m. meeting. ; . on Friday it: was' reported that the Utah Code stipulates a 90 day period before any initiative election can be held. With this time limit already passed, it was Carolyn Kriss- - , to said. The bowling alley began con. arid County have, also put revenue' toward the - . With' the bowling alley being built, he said, the city reaps the benefits of its use end the bureau have some enteremployees tainment. . The bureau was going to build a four-lan- e bowling alley, Grindstaff said. And the dty and COUnty decided to help financially in building another two lanes, he Duchesne s Bureau Administration Officer, Connie Chapman, the grant was applied for by the city in March 1984. The city received positive notification of the grant in May. The grant came about after conducting an informal survey among bureau employees as to the type of entertainment they would like in Duchesne, Chapman said. After the survey, the dty was approached by the bureau to apply for a grant through the bureau, according to Duchesne City Manager Alan G rinds taff. that the interpretation item could not be on the general election ballot per that section of the Code. Labrum nor Jenkins had actual comment cm this but felt it would have to ' be' discussed at the Tuesday weak meeting. Nothing can be officially done during a work meeting but a discussion of the background of the subject and how members of the council Continued on page 3 struction April scheduled "to 1, 1985 be- - and is completed- October. 1. According to the Bureau of Reclamation 'Assistant Regional Director Ed Fowler, the repayment of the grant out of CUP funds will be through a variety of means. The M & I water of the CUP projects win count for 39 percent; Colorado Basin Power from the Colorado Rivers Storage Project will account for the biggest percentage with 54; the remaining long-terrepayment will come from the Diamond Fork Canyon Power Project and the Utah Fish & Game. The reason for the justification of pairing for a bowling alley out of CUP funds is to help Duchesne City with the projects impact on the dty, Fowler said. ' The dty has to subsidize m through their taxes the services the bureau employees sre receiving from the dty (police protection, road services). The bureau employees account for percent of the total population of Duchesne, he said. , 30-3- 5 - Note new numbers The Duchesne County Sher- iffs Department has new phone numbers for all areas of the County due to the consolidation of the dispatching service. All dtizens are urged to make special note of. these new numbers in their areas. ble business numbers for Sheriffs Department, Non-repor- ta business, items and routine 5 are or 738-201- 722-444- numbers for the Department for the different areas of the county are: Emergency Sheriffs Duchesne- police matters and ambulance. 738-242- 4 for for fire Altamont, Tabiona and Fruit-lanfor police, d- fire or ambulance. Neola Myton, Myton- - matters. ambulance. 722-455- 8 and South for police for fire and . . . - . . . non-prof- - . . it BIG OOPS A front-en- d loader owned by Uintah Basin Concrete did a little damage to a main street building last Wednesday. The driver lost power and had no brakes, so chose to glide into the building rather than hit pedestrians in the crosswalk. Witnesses say the building shook and it sounded like a sonic boom, almost. Damage was minimal to the loader's bucket but substantial to the building, owned by Don Hicken. |