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Show Basin women balance careers, families -- See page 9 75th Year No. 42 Wednesday, October 19, 1988 Roosevelt, Utah 18 Pages 50 Cents Altonah residents hurt in accident Two Altonah women were injured in a ear accident, Friday afternoon, just north of Altamont. Lola Carol Jones, 82, and Sandy Sue Shiner, 17, were taken to the Duchesne County Hospital and Provo Hospital, after their vehicles hit head on. Both suffered head and cheat injuries and Shiner received a broken leg. The accident occurred when Jones crossed the center line on the road to Altonah and hit Shiner. Both were taken by ambulance to the hospitals. As of Monday morning; Jones was still in ' the hospital. Sergeant Doyle Thorne was the investigating officer. Citation are pending Montes arrested on burglary, theft By Karla Cox After a lengthy investigation, Roosevelt City Police officers have old Thomas arrested Montes on charges relating to the November IS, 1987 burglary and theft of SaUiers Jewelers in 27-ye- ar ALTONAH ACCIDENT Two Altonah women, Lda Carol Jones and Sandy Sue Shiner were injured in a car accident, Friday afternoon, just north of Altamont. Both suffered head and chest injuries and Shiner received a broken leg. Jones had crossed the center line on the road to Altonah and hit Shiner head on, according to investigation officer Sergeant Doyle Thome. Jones was still at Duchesne County Hospital as of Monday morning. ' The Bureau of Reclamation its Uintah Basin Construction Office in Duchesne, will close January 14. It is painful to dose up an office after its been established in the community, said Barry Wirth of the Bureau. Unfortunately its the reality of the construction business. You use an office until construction is dime, then ifa time to move out The remaining field work associated with refilling Upper Stillwater Reservoir will be conducted by the Bonneville Construction Office in Provo, he said. Future plans for the building are not certain although the Cen the Bureau of Reclamation or other federal agencies. Earlier in said Edward Fowler, Assistant ' 1988 the employees were placed regional director in Salt Lake on a surplus list which gave them City. We had an agreement when some preference in placement There are some employees it was built, that the Conservancy District had the right to it. But we who are local and some transferred workers who want to stay havent negotiated, yet The Conservancy District ha there," said Wirth. They have the employees in the building now and same job opportunities if they will continue to use it Well keep want to move. They are under the building for awhile and see federal employment At its peak the reclamation what the needs in the area are, maintained a mqjor presence in said Fowler. Duchesne, said Regional Director Approximately thirty' emClifford I. Barrett The office offideciaffected are by the ployees sion to close. This number is cially opened in 1964 with a pristeadily decreasing as employees vately owned building on main are plaice in other positions with street that was rented by the tral Utah Water Conservancy District may make more use of it, Bureau. Prior to that, about 60 ployees a week commuted to the Winners named in Standard contests After six weeks of competition in the Uintah Basin Standards Diamond Jubilee word puzzle contest a winner was named last Friday. Anita L. Scholl, Roosevelt the third entry in the contest correctly solved the word puzzle, which was: Your Newspaper, a Living History-t- he eyes, ears and voice of the Community it Serves. Her entry was received Sept 19, at 10:10 a.m., after the second week of the contest Two earlier entries, by Gary Wold, had at least me word incorrect He later made a correct entry, but too late. Contest officials were amazed at the number of correct entries after only two or three weeks into the contest with less than half of the squares uncovered. Since Sept 30, hundreds of entries have been received, a large percentage correct after mors squares of the. puzzle were exposed. Entries in the word puzzle contest were received from many parte of Utah, and from many other states, including Washington, Idaho and California. As winner of the word puzzle, Ms. Scholl will receive the 13 carat unmounted diamond. In the final week of the mystery question contest Jeanette Larsep, Roosevelt was the winner, Tceiving a sleeping bag. The contests were sponsored by the Standard, and participat ana from Provo. A new building waa ing merchants, in recognition of the beginning of the 75th year of publication of the Standard. Other historical features, including periodic flashbacks, will be included in the paper throughout the coming year, with a final commemoration in August 1989. Capping the Diamond ubilee festival, the Standard will issue a con- - tracted in 1982 and constructed the following year at approxi- mately $4 million. The size of the first building was inadequate and there wasnt a large enough parkTrailer ing area, said Fowler. pads were built for the employees and camps were expanded because ofthe large number of workers. At one time the office em250 people engaged in ployed building the Strawberry Collection System, Upper Stillwater Dam and Bottle Hollow Dam which are componenta of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project. Duchesne based workers also built the Jensen Unit of the CUP including Red Fleet Dam. caught in Holmes, and the act, states is also in jail. He 'He will be in for a long time, with all the charges they have against him Roosevelt Bu rea u (Reclamation to close local office, efforts Duchesne County Jail. Lyle Hendricks, the other suspect, has been arrested in Ogden on separate charges, including armed robbery and felony possession of a firearm. He was According to RPD officer Dave Holmes, Montes was ar- rested on October 8, after war-rants , weref finally obtain through' extensive interrogation' of principles and in the case. Montes was charged with burglary (the breaking and entering of any acene for criminal intent) and theft, a felony charge due to the value and quantity of objects stolen amounting to over $1,000. Damages to the building also totaled over $1,000. Montes is one of two suspects in the November 87 incident. Montes will face a preliminary hearing on Thursday, October 20, in Circuit Court, and is currently incarcerated in the will be in for a long time, with all the charges they have against him out there in Ogden; he hasnt even been charged with this case added Holmes. yet, ' The' stolen goods'ftave' not been recovered, with the exception of one ring found in a pawn shop in Ogden. Most were apparently sold from Ogden on the interstate black market, says Holmes. Montes and Hendricks both have Ogden addresses. A large number of major crimes in file area are attributable to criminal elements from outside the Basin, making the investigation and charges very difficult to cany through. Holmes declared, Weve been lucky (and effective in our investigation) on this one. Severance tax in question as Tribe goes to Phoenix The Ute Indian Business Council traveled to Phoenix, Oct 18, to present a proposed severance tax, said chairman Lester Chapoose. It hasnt been officially approved, yet, said Chapoose. During a meeting with Gov. Norm Bangerter and local government officials last week, tribe officials said the tax severance would be implemented although the rate ia not certain, according to a Salt Lake Tribune article. The Tribe proposed a 10 percent tax on minerals on trust lands. Trust lands are those that are given to the Utes by the government to take care of. The tax would be added to a four percent tax already taken by the state, plus a small advalorem tax imposed by the local governments in the basin. The state and local taxes currently bring in about $4 million in revenues and the tribe has been living off royalties from the companies, according to the Tribune. The price of oil has dropped to $12 a barrel along with the income to the tribe from $20 million ayear to $4 million. It cost the tribe approximately $8 million ayear to run governmental services, There are concerns in the Basin because of the price of oil and the expense of the crude wax oil. You cant just shut a well down and start it up in the fu- ture, said Steve Malnar of Sam Oil. You have to keep it at 180 degrees or it will dry up. It takes to much in expenses to get a well going again. The crude wax oil is 75 percent oil and 25 percent wax, said Malnar. "You get $12 per barrel, yet in this case it isnt quite a barrel. The well costs are too high to get investors in this area. There are too many good deals out ofthis area. Chapoose told the Tribune. J commemorative edition during the first week of November this year, which will include all of the newspaper history articles that have been published to date, plus updated material, clippings and other features. Copies of the edition will be sent to all subscribers of the Standard, and will be available to others who may be interested. The Standard staff is indebted to those who have offered information on the history of newspapers of the area, that was known. Some of not this information will be included in the commemorative edition. Additional help is needed, however, to find issues of the Roosevelt Standard from 1920 to 1926; any copies or further information on flie Uinta Standard, published in Roosevelt in 1909; missing copies of the Myton Free Press (when it closed); and any information about the Duchesne here-to-fo- re Uintaland. FINAL CONTEST WINNER-Jcannc- ttc Larsen, Roosevelt, was the final winner in the weekly treasure question contest. She won this cozy warm sleeping bag for correctly naming offset printing as the new technology at the Standard in 1966. DEMISE EXAGGERATED Infonnation printed with this picture last week, concerning George Harrison was basically correct, except that the person at the Linotype is not George Harrison. He is a son, Howard. George, as reported, has passed away. His sot, Howard, has not Several callers last week reported this fact Further infonnation on the Harrisons will be included in the commemorative edition to be published Ike first week in November. |