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Show Page 20 - UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. June 11. 1996 loans to develop recycling outlets for waste tires Low-intere- st SUMMER JOBS continued from page 11 Studio, and Tony Fiaco is working at LCL Oil. Sarah Colton delivers your morning newspaper, Brett Kettle works for his dads sanitation company, Sid Eshler keeps the old park grou nds lookinggreat, and Stephen Eldridgo is working in construction. N ate Betts, Russ Labrum, Chris Bolton, and Beau Hancock are working at the golf course. Now thats a fun job! You will see Alisa Kowallis when you go in to get your eyes checked, Jordan Colton works at McDonalds, and Doug Murray works at Murray Motors, and Russ Labrum works for L & L Motors. For teens who may still be looking for work, or adults in need of young employees in three weeks, Roosevelt Job Service will be launching a new program caNed " This program offers temporary work for students registered with Job Service. The kids in the program will be working with an employmentcounselor their own age. The date for entering applications will be advertised within the next three weeks. The Salt Lake Board of Health would like to make more businesses aware of the low interest loans that exist to develop viable recycling outlets for waste tires. "It is the best interest of the community and . the for the Health environment to support these efforts to let industry know how to take advantage of said Norman Chester, member. Board of Health, Salt City-Coun- ty Lake Rent-a-Kid.- - DONATION TO BENEFIT ALL Christopher Liulewhitcman, Emergency Medical Technician stands next to the vehicle which was donated tcrUle Ambulance. Liulewhitcman and the staff of EMTs will be working " in the event of a disaster. s, to convert the unit into a mobile command post for use by "multi-agencie- Thelma Morrill Writes Her Account Duchesne Countys Last 100 Years: A former resident reminisces By Janey Hokett Im postponing the column about Pearl Harbor in order to print this letter from Thelma MorrilL When you will understand why. Dear Duchesne County Resident: I just want to tell you how much I have enjoyed reading your articles from the Roosevelt Standard on prohibition and the bootleggers and moonshiners from the Indian reservation there. I was bom on the borderline of Duchesne and Uintah County in 1911. My stepfather was Thomas Edgar Atkins; Roosevelt, people knew him as Tom Atkins. My mother ran the True Blue Cafe in Roosevelt. We live in several places throughout the county. My stepfather was living in Farm Creek when I was a teenager. Tom Atkins was also a bootlegger. He made his own whiskey on the sly down in the Held in a gully that was hidden away from the sight of anyone. It was made from various dried fruits, together with sugar and yeast, and poured into a wooden bancl, where it was left to stand and fenpent. When this operation coming from the Uintah Basin, I enjoy reading it. P.S. I don't recall to much about the bombing of Pearl Harbor only that I was living in Lapoint with my husband, Otto Biscl and six daughters. We had bought a 40 acre farm just south erf Lapoint from Clyde Sprouse. It was the first home we ever owned, as we had been living on Indian leases since our marriage in 1930. The Lapoint property was set up with a graincry that was used for storing grains, etc. But we cleaned it up and lived in those two little rooms. Clyde Sprouse had set us up with a few head of cattle so we could make an income to pay him in yearly payments. It wasnt easy. But the place only cost us $200 for the 40 acres which was broken up in unfarmable land. You could not hire help because of the war. I helped in the field mowing hay and racking and shocking grain and milking cows by hand. One room was the kitchen, the other was our bedroom and living room with four of our six tt shot One night when Otto had gone to the sawmill to get logs to add onto the small rooms we were living in, I heard noises in the chicken coop. I took the .410 shotgun, or it could have been the .22 rifle and, while my daughter ty Health low-intere- st eliminated practically indiscriminate dumping of waste tires across the Wasatch Front and rural areas are making great strides." As more businesses invest in the technology of recycling and reuse of waste tires, more viable and possible economical processes are bound to be discovered. The Waste Tire Trust Fund and loan program was developed to foster these innovative processes. Business that wish to apply for the secured loan should contact Richard Nelson at the Utah of Community and Department Economic Development at For those interested in the $70 per ton reimbursement, contact your local health department In Salt Lake County, contact Dorothy Adams at 538-871- 944-669- 7. held the flashlight, I shot the skunk. The smell was very bad for a long time. I remember when the war ended in 1945. 1 was so thrilled I took my dish towel and waved it as I run up and down the road diouting, "The war is over!" But there was no one to hear me; farms were far apart. We soon purchased a me and a half ton truck and Otto started hauling freight. He took sheep, cattle or whatever the farmers had to sell out to Salt Lake stock yards. In 1950 we decided to leave Lapoint, and sold the place with the cattle and machinery and moved to Echo then to Ogden. The truck furnished our transportation. After trying to make a living on a fruit farm in Willard, Otto got work at Hill Field working on airplanes. He died while working there in 1961. UINTAH FURNITURE & Carpet was completed, it was processed through a "still" that was set on top of a stove. The still separated the white alcohol from the mash and came out looking like clear water. The alcohol then ran out through a tube and into bottles. Later on, a brown coloring was made by browning sugar in a pan on the stove and then added to the alcohol. Later on they invented an ingredient that they pul in the whiskey to make it age. Finally, labels were put on the bottles to show it was aged whiskey and the best you could buy. Tom Atkins sold his whiskey to many people, getting a good price for it. However, his downfall came later on when he started selling it to the Utc Indians. At this time, he was running the whiskey off in the kitchen with all the blinds pulled so no one could see in. I grew up with a great dislike for this whiskey making, as we were always under pressure for fear that the government authorities were coming to search the place. Bottles of whiskey were hid in our flour bins and other places in the house where they Figured it couldn't be found. Yes, it was hid in the hay slacks and taken to the dances every Saturday night that were held in Bennett. People used to come to the house at all hours of the day and night to get whiskey. One day, were in when our parents Roosevelt, a man came to the house asking for whiskey. I told him I didnt know where it was, but I knew where he made it down in the field; I sure got heck when they arrived home. It isnt any wonder I hated liquor and drinking. It wasnt a pleasant life. The UBIC was held every .year in our area and people came and camped in tents for the duration of the event. When I was married, my folks carried my baby on a pillow into the UBIC with whiskey hid inside. This is the way it got into our tent. It was here the Indians came to buy the whiskey and that told where they got it after getting drunk. Tom was arrested At his trial, he was told to leave the of Utah and not come back for several years. Yes, the mash was thrown out into the yard where an old brood sow, with several young pigs, ate the mash. She became drunk and lay for three days before she came out of it and was back on her feet I was living in Lapoint at die lime we decided to leave in 1950 and come to Ogden. The Robbs in Roosevelt and surrounding areas are my relatives. Keep die news At daughters at that time. Christmas, they were all sick with the measles. We had no electricity or phones at this time. I washed the clothes cm a washboard. We hauled water to drink in a barrel. I had all of my children born at home except the last two. Two of my daughters were bom without a doctor or midwife. The babies were bathed in the washbasin with the oven door to the stove open for heat. The family bathed in a galvanized tub after heating the water on the kitchen stove. The tub was set on the floor with quilts hung on chairs for privacy and heat We froze cm one side and were too hot on the other from the stove. We had no refrigerators. Our meat from the farm was hung cm the outside of the house, where it froze and was brought in and sawed off for codring. Our butter was hung in a bottle and put in the cistern or spring if you were lucky enough to have one. We did or own bottling of vegetables for winter use. The Great Depression had hit us while we lived in Lapoint Ouo drove his team and wagon and worked for the county for $40 a month. We had coupon bodes that allowed us to buy so much sugar and food. Shoes, gas and clothing was rationed. We also had tokens made from aluminum far sales tax. It lode ten of them to make a penny. Everyone who couldnt make a living was in the Work Progress Administration (WPA). Many times the water in the buckets and wash basin would freeze solid inside the house at nights. Our toilets, as usual, were outside outhouses. The older girls packed the younger ones on their backs to the outhouse at night when they needed to go to the toilet When we moved into this place in Lapoint, skunks had taken over the place. We heard noises overhead. The skunks were partying at night We set traps outside where they went under the house and up the wall to get to the rafters above. A wire was tied onto the trap and anchored to a log so the skunk could be led down the road and City-Coun- Department The Waste Tire Trust Fund was created in 1990 with the enactment of the Waste Tire Bill. The bill originally implemented a $1.00 per new tire fee, which will drop to .50 cents on July 1, 1996. TTicre is $6.8 million in the Waste Tire Trust Fund. The Fund is dedicated to encouraging the recycling or reusing of waste tires. Companies that develop viable ways of recycling or reusing waste tires receive a $70 per ton reimbursement from the Waste Tire Trust Fund. In addition to this reimbursement, current changes to the Waste Tire Bill now allow for loans up to $250,000 (Waste Tire Recycling Industrial Assistance Loan Fund) to businesses which demonstrate they have a commercially viable product resulting from tire recycling. The loans are intended to offset initial costs incurred with equipment purchases, however, collateral independent of the project is required. The Waste Tire Bill, and other bills like it nationwide, has encouraged the use of waste tires as a tucl supplement to coal. Furthermore, waste tire derivatives have been used in the production of asphalt, garden hoses, mats and running packs. Locally, waste tires arc being used as a fuel supplement to coal in the production ol cement. to was enacted The Bill eliminate the illegal dumping of waste tires and to divert them from landfills. Illegal waste-tir- e piles pose both environmental and health risks because they can harbor rodents disease and carrying mosquitoes and they emit toxic fumes when they catch on fire. "Waste tires in landfills create management problems and use a large amount of expensive space that is better used for disposal of municipal waste," says Dorothy Adams, Waste Minimization Tire Program SpccialistWaste has "The program Manager. E Limited to Stock on Hand only. KtewUDO TVs , VCR's, Big Screens, Home Theatres, Camcorders, Boom Boxes, 8" Satellites, & Accessories. We're 1 6. |