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Show UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. Altamont boosters want new members - The Altamont Booster Club la gearing up for another achool year with a membership and calendar drive according to Vallorie Thacker, president. The calendar and membership drives will run concurrently and will begin the week of September 8. Local chib members will be canvassing the entire upper country area. According to Sherrie Holgate, membership chairman, the cost of membership is 86 for one and $10 for a couple. Crop and Livestock Report This includes plaques for achievement in many of the honor roll recognition, as well as programs and schedules of the athletic games. In fact, Thacker said, there an three within the organization, InrlnHing academics, sports and the arts. They try to get parents involved and interested in all aspects of their children's education. Some activities planned for this year include the annual carnival, the athletic banquet, and a 8100 The Birthday Calendars will cost donation to provide soccer equip$4 according to Jerri Batten, ment for the Elementary. calendar chairman. Thacker laid there is no functioning PTA organization, Thacker said the main goal of and that the Booster Club the Booster Club is to serve the functions much like a PTA, but school. She would especially like she said they didnt want to be to see the psrents get man bound by the National Organiinvolved in the school, and help zation. the students to feel more pride in Already this year, the Booster their school. Club has been asked to suggest The group works to enrich not names to Principal Jack Bell for a only the athletics, but the Parents Advisory Committee for academic programs at Altamont the coming school year. sub-grou- . ' five recently named to grazing board Local, cattle and sheep have elected five of their follows r to serve terms on the local Vernal District Grazing Advisory Board. Grazing Advisory Boards make recommendations to the district manager in matters pertaining to development of. allotment plans as thqy apply to grazing operations and practices, including inventories and monitoring directly related to such operations and practices. Additionally, they make recommenda-- . tions pertaining to the type, location and general tions of range improvements. One of. the chief duties of the Grazing advisory Board is the authorization of the expenditures of board funds. By law, 12 percent of all money collected as grazing on public lands is foes returned to the state from which it originated. In Utah, the money returned goes to the districts or two-yea- five-memb- origin to be used for range improvement projects such as fencing, water development, land treatment pest control and other authorized uses. Elected to the Grazing Board were: Dean Chew, District at Large Representative; Meril Snow, Book Cliffs Cattle Representative; Nick Thaos, Book Cliffs Sheep Representative; Paul McCoy, Diamond Mountain Cattle Representative; and Floyd Cook, Diamond Mountain Sheep Representative. Grazing Advisory Boards were first authorized under the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. Grazing Boards were then terminated prior to 1975. They were reauthorized under the Federal Lend Policy and Management Act of 1976, but law also specified their termination on December 31, nt Guns The average yield for barley in Utah is currently forecast at 75 . ALTAMONT BOOSTERS Jerri Batten and Sherrie Holgate are chairmen of the Calendar and Membership Drives for the Altamont Booster Club. Page 15 bushel from the 1985 record high. Production, at 840,000 bushels, is down 6 percent from last year. Corn for grain yield is unchanged from last year, at 115.0 bushds per acre, and production is expected to equal the 1985 level of 1.84 million bushels. All hay production is forecast at 2.0 million tons, 3 percent below 1985. Aphids, weevil and weeds took a heavy toll on the first cutting of alfalfa hay. A total of 13,700 forms are operating in Utah during 1986, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. This is 1 percent below the 1985 level but still above the 1980 levd of 13,500 The land in Utah farms, at 11.4 million acres, is 2 percent below last year and 8 percent below 1980. The 1986 average size of farm, at 832 acres, dropped slightly from 1985, continuing a long-ter- trend. father John Chapman, e Mrs. Clark McKee is a patient at the Duchesne County Hospital in Roosevelt with Spinal Men-giti- s. e Laura McKee, small daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas McKee fell from a swing Wednesday and broke her arm. e Clint McKee was taken to the Ahsley Valley Medical Center this week for stitches when a cow kicked him in the face. e Darwin McKee waa a patient at the Roosevelt Hospital Friday . night e Jeff Shumway, Laie, Hawaii has been a guest at the Darwin These men are planning to work together and get a new oil refinery going in the Basin. It will work to fill government contracts of diesel and aviation fuel, primarily. They are, left to right, Charles Cameron, Vice President of Operations for EAAB Incorporated; Ronald D. Brazzel, Vice President and Refinery Construction Engineer Howe-Baker for Engineers, Inc.; Ute Tribe Executive Pirector Homey Secakuku, Energy and Mineral Resource Department Director, Ferron Secakuku, Uintah and Ouray Agency Superintendent Perry Balker and Ute Business Committee member Frank Arrowchis. (photo credit: Ute Bulletin). REFINERY PLANNERS 'ute ASONI E.TH .5 .? mm w- Cw . half-fro- 1986. reunion. The reunion will be held at the home of Margaret Merkley. e Owen Goodrich, Rigby, Idaho has been visiting at the home of Rae Goodrich. e Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Betts are moving to Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. Betts has been employed by Ron and Merlin McKee, e Emily and CJ. Betts are visiting in Alaska with their McKee home this week. Continued frgm page 14 passed there wen five times as cretkmary authority to reinstitute 1985. many. Grazing Advisory Boards and of of In 1986, Secretary May L Almost two decades before had their charters rewritten. The the Interior Donald Hodel, after a Kennesaw, the city of Orlando, newly elected Grazing Advisory review of the function of the Florida faced an epidemic of ' Board Members are serving boards, determined they were under the provisions of the new rapes. The police department valuable in management of public charter. urged women to buy guns and rangelands and used his dia- sponsored a highly publicized program on how to safely use a firearm. In the nine months following the program, there were only three rapes--a 90 percent reduction in the rape rate. Burglaries also decreased. According to economics professor Bruce Benson, similar gun I Li - . training programs have led to a reduction in armed robberies in Highland' Park, Michigan, drugFor many farmer in the Basin it is the beginning of fall planting store robberies in New Orleans, winter wheat and barley. Wheat generally has been the most of in robberies store and grocery preferred to plant in fall in that it seems to have weathered the Detroit. winters a little better than fall barleys. However, some barleys usa even Sometimes single person ed in Utah the past few years has shown to survive the winters as who has a gun and uses it can effect a dramatic decrease in a well as any wheat. The most common planted barley in Utah and the Northwest specific crime rate. Bernard Goetz probably did. In the week states is Schuyler, a public variety that has been used very sucfollowing his use of a gun in self cessfully in the Basin, with yields as high as 150 Buacre. Schuyler defense, the rate of subway has a heavier test weight than Steptoes Barley and yields as well. robberies inexplicably dropped Plant height is 3 less than Steptoe, and generally has no lodging around 145 a almost in problems. Maturity is 2 to 3 weeks earlier than spring planted Step-to83. week to only One farmer in Cache Valley plants Schuyler in the fall and Despite these major success it early in July than plants Bracken, a short day spring no is harvests stories, however, there to doubt that old ideas die hard. barley, get two crops in one year with a yearly yield of 220 bushels and better. Clinging to the foiled gun control will be Without a doubt the best winter wheat to use must be the policies of the past, many repelled by the prospect of Washington State developed Stephans variety, it has consistently viomoting guns as a solution to been the top yielder in the state the past 3 years at Utah State lent crime. They will tenp it Universities test trials, with a 156 bushels per area 3 year average. barbaric. But it ia time to New gains, another top yielding winter wheat was 5th in the test seriously ask whether the real' trials yielding 146 bushelsocre. Stephans best characteristic is its barbarism is not something large kernels. It does little if any lodging and bushel weight is allowing our follow be murdered, raped, usually 60 lbs and better. citizens to The costs for both schuyler barley and Stephans Wheat is as low robbed and battered indiscrimas new grains or Steptoes, in that they're public varieties. inately. . Yields are at Fall planting gives one a big advantage in that To prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak.. .This least 20 BuVacre better than spring planted grains. 2. Fall feed is is the natural, the original office produ&d far pasture. 3. Much less water is required per bushel of of a government," wrote Herbert grain produced. 4. Better weed control. 5. An earlier harvest. was not Spencer. He added: It Some disadvantages of fall planting include-- 1 . The chance of our intended to do less. But winter kill caused by too dry a winter, or snow mold caused from governing institutions are guilty too much foliage laying under the snow. 2. The cost pertaining to of doing much less. The courts the us; to production of the crop are spread out three to four months longer protect have refused want to we If than cannot truly spring planted grains. police Next week end the rising spiral of violence, seeding and fertilizer rates for fall planting. We accept your commodity credit certificates. we must be ready to defend ourselves. There is nothing uncivilized in doing this; indeed, there seems to be something 4 j4? Si indecent about a society that has not the will to do so. 0 bushels per acre, up 1 bushel from 1985, according to the Utah Agricultural Statistics Service. Production is projected to decline slightly from last year to 11.6 million bushels. Spring wheat production is expected to decline 10 percent to 1.52 million bushels in 1986. two Average yield dropped bushels from 1985 to 40 bushels per acre. The July 1 winter wheat forecast of 7.2 million bushels was 2 percent above 1985. The yield forecast of 32 bushels per acre was the same as last year. Oats yield is currently projected at a record high 70 bushels, up 1 Augmt 20. m FUL-PRU-F. e. else-nam-ely, -- 1 Fertilizer, Micro Nutrients Liquid Or Dry Seeds, Barley, Oats, Alfalfa, Grass Chemicals For Impregnating & Common Use Bernhard Goetz comprehended the truth two years ago on a York. grimy subway in New some two Cicero understood millennia earlier: it "There exists- a law, not written down- anywhere but inborn in our hearts.. .a law which has come to us not from theory by but from practice, not Intuiinstruction but by natural tion. 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