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Show n , ' - I :1 T 0 , People do lit trolly Jt!:idt iheir fu&rr... They decide thzir huhm iJieu tfwir fudvs decide the ir futuie. ' . ' r ? , i ENCHANTED FOREST AT CROSSROADS Holiday season will sparkle with parades By Aldon Rachels sil on SantaClaus lap and tell him gifts they VISIT WITH SANTA--C!ii!drwould like for Christmas. Some wanted a puppy, a computer, a Furby, a motorcycle and a trampoline. Santa was spotted by children at the Roosevelt Twin Theatre on Saturday. cn j a rjvvjw beginningal 6 p m. After the Electric Light Parade spectators are treated to hot chocolate and donuts at the Blue building in Duchesne. Theres also a special surprise for the kids. Ifyou have never entered s parade before.organisee say this is the one to begin with because decorating with lights is fun and easy. With some bright lights, a little creativity and ofcourse electricity, you make just about anything look appealing, noted Roosevelt City Council member Roger Dart. Parade officials say they hope to make the parade twice the sin it was last Duchesne County Children's Justice Center will be presenting The Enchanted Forest" tfortneriy the Parade of Trees), Friday, Dee. 3 from 1 1 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Saturday, Dee. 4 from 11 a m. to 6 p.m. at the Crossroads Senior and Community Center in Roosevelt (50 East 200 South). Admission to "The Enchanted For est will be $1 per person with pro-- I ceeds going the Chili Center. The Parade of Lights wiO be travel down main street in Roosevelt on Friday, Dee. S, at 5:30 p.m. The Electric Light Parade will wind down main street in Duchesne, Saturday, Dec. 4, yr"We just want to make it a Ain ; WISH LIST -- Sanu took down orders for hundreds of Christmas toys on his stop in Roosevelt Saturday. One little girl made a request for a bay dog because"Mom doesn't want any puppies!, and when that trampoline order was taken, Santa said. You don't want that-y- oo will hurt vourselfT" SEE HOLIDAY EVENTS on page 3 vj wmr Uintah Basin Herd infected 50$ Kngs Pea horse herd near Bonanza tests positive for th e deadly equine virus again. To stop the disease from spreading the herd has been quarantined for two months. -- See page 2 A wild Tuesday 1999 Nov. 30, RooseveS, Utah Vot. 86. Number 48 www.ubstandard.com Isthere money foryou? t is holding $53 million in un-fclaimed property, and the J names of 164 Uintah Basin residents are on the fist of those who have money wait-in-g t ; $1.3 MILLION IN CUTBACKS The state treasurer's office -'i Proposed budget posts revenue loss 'y for them. - See paae 3 1 I fi shortly, said Duchesne County Commissioner Ted Happen. The tentative budget requests requests $20,000 more $20,000 more in general property taxes over last year's $1,700,000. in property taxes over Revenue loss were noted in sales and use taxes, indudi ngoptiona! sales lastyear. taxes dropping by $30.51 1 . Oil royal ties and lease monte dropped $8,000 Bv Chenrl Mecham General fund spending increases IXidtesiw County officials recently were noted in commission $4,929. re leased figures for their tentative East Justice Court $5,375; West 2000 budget which was slashed by Justice Court $1,945; personnel - over 1 14 million doUaro due to toes of management $6,975; auditor oil royalties and airline fees. $9,880, clerk f 11.200; assessor -Last years budget showed that $17,888; building and grounds -$15,190,129 was allotted for county $11,602. elections $20,900; sheriff $13,400, fire $192,500; weeds -expenses; this year, $13,791,459 is $17,940; library Bookmobile projected to go out. Toaccommnrtatr the revenue tomes $2,636; Extension Services - $4,820; budgets were cut in the general hind and retirement incentive $250. Decreases were proposed in Dis$117,683; road fund $200,000, in the Municipal Building Authority -$- trict Court, information systems, mi37,900; and Capital Projects funds - crofilm, treasurer, recorder, attorney, - $1,195,533. These cuts will result in surveyor, aging, planning and coms hold being pul on building projects, munity development, state wildland although the budget will allow con- fire, agricultural inspector. roads, exstruction work which has already been hibits, hone haras livestock sale, started to be finished. grant administration, and miscellaOther budget items such as the neous budgets. Duchesne County will hold its 1999 library, landfill, solid waste and grant trust fond received increases. Some of budget hearing on Mondsr.Dec. 6 at those funds show increasee because of 7pjn at the Duchesne County admingrants due to come into the county istration building. Vw- - " Tussling about j- Aftamont'smatmcnputup Union a good fight but matmen defeat the one-- team in a match-u- p last week. 3-- A -J A 3 -- Seepage 16 is.-- . i Have a favorite - J - - Wewereout andabout last - ries so we can share them with you. 13 COUNSELING SESSION N inth grader Katie Cooper and junior Jon Hein take a look at the high school guidance needs assessment surv ey with Union High counselors Doug Price and Sharon Alldredge. The survey is taken once every three years to gage which services counselors need to concentrate on more. MAIN FOCUS IS STILL ON CAREER COUNSEUNG School counselors wear many hats while guiding students By ny Uikv E. Whiting f In the old days they wen called high school guidance counselors. Now what they do is called "comprehensive guidance counseling," and their job entails everything from helping student change classes and find college Kholarship informal ion to giving presentations in clam rooms on conflict management and meeting with small groups of kids faced with tough challenges like theirparent'sdi voice. Mu6t high school counselors in the Duchesne County School District say that, although their responsibilities srenuraerous, they still spend roughly percent of their time in educational counse ling - sssisting students to make sure thiy have all their credit for graduation, liningup the courses they'll have to have to get into a good college, and tellingthem about opportunities to enroll in USU classes through the concurrent enrollment 80 program. Claims of Timpanogos Tribe denied as Utes sigh relief ans calling themselves the Timpanogos Tribe, saying they could not join the Ute Indian Tribe in a nearly-settlesuit which began in 1975. On Monday, Nov. 22, Judge Bruce S. Jenkins denied the Timpanogos Tribe the authority to intervene in the Ute Tribes existing case and also denied a temporary restrainingordcr they sought to prevent the tribe from d conducting negotiations without them. The judge listened to oral arguments in thecasc and then ruled flora the bench. "First, the judge established that the Tirapanogn Tribe is not federally recognised," said lTe Tribe Deputy CfoneralOsunsel Sandy Hansen. "Second, the judge cautioned the tribe a m..m i ! f w At Union High, counselors Doug Price and Sharon AQdredge are each responsible for about 450 students. Each counselor takes two grade levels and follows them through to graduation. Right now Price has the juniors and seniors, while Alldredge has the freshmen and sophomore. Experiences Vary Challenge faced by counselors in large and small high schools in the district are ss different ss the unique individual needs of the students they - - Investigators await lab results in murders r By Lex lee E. Whiling Duchesne County Sheriff Ralph StansIMd says he anticipates it could be months before the Stale frime Lab will complete DNA testing from evidence investigator hope will link their prime suspect loaone-year-oi- d double murder. Human remains believed to belong to murder victim June Flood, who was59year old at the time other death on Oct. 25. 1998, were recovered earlier this month after Brent Brotherson and Dave Price are counselor at Altamonl High. Dave Price is also a counselor at Tabkma investigator's received information High one day a wee k.snd spend about "from an informant that led them to four hours counseling students at a sit which hadnt been searched day-to-da- y i,n or S?jroiNLqRSMi - SKULL AND HAIR FOUND ON RANCH Thompson School each week. At Tabiona School, principal Rob-ert Park helps deal with th . vv si emotional problems a student wwmmmm i mpw pi np ny Tribe may be facing, while Dave Price fomrnt be federally recognized by Timpanogos cuses mainly on academics and career the U.S. government before they can lay claim to counseling. "The first thinglsay is pleasr don't reservation lands. beasrhoolaide.Itiytogrt them to take classes to be successful," Price that before it could bring its claims for the Timpanogos Tribe said he will explained. into the federal courts it would have to still pursue "several routes" in an Parental involvement and support exhaust the administrative procedure effort to have h clients receive their comet relatively easy in a small comfor becoming federally recognised." rightfU place in history as heir to the munity, said Park.and so doe getting The judge also told Kenneth Uintah valley Reservation. the word out among parents about I lack ford and hie wife, Mary Meyer, I le plans to file for federal recognieducational opportumtiea available the two Timpanogos Tribe members tion as a tribe and said he will appeal totheirchildrm. a well as when there who brought the motion, that because Jenkins ruling. are meetings witb counselors. "It's a very unique situation. Most they deny affiliation with the Ute "At Tabiona we have a real open-doTribe, they could not benefit from any tribe who lost their recognition also policy," Park related. "Parents agreements the tribe was negotiating lost their land bise, but that is not the are welcome to come into clasee anyon behalf of tribal members. case here." time and come in anytime to go over The Timpanogos Tribe, Snake Humiston said th Ute Tribe their child's records. Band of the Shoshoni Indians, claim shouldn't look at the claims of the Dave Price said at Allarnont High, they are the group to whom Abraham TimpanoffisTriheas an encroachment where enrollment is considerably Lincoln referred when he issued an by anv means. larger than in Tabiona where the se1861 executive order declaring the The Utes have nothing to lose in nior class numbers 15. "it's a lulls bit land preserved for the Indians of the this .. the only one who (in the tougher" to make sure theres adUtah Territory. Meyer, chief execu- current court derision) isgains the state of equate communication among stutive ofthe tribe, said her people never Utah." said Humiston. dents, parents and the eounsehngof- surrendered their sovereignty. MMKOCJOS Mu haol L I lumislon. the attorney oniWJ jageS -- The federal district court judge, who has presided over 24 ydare of complex jurisdictional issues on the Uintah Valley Reservation, has ruled against group of mixed blood Indi- m.ii ivy Challenges faced by counselors in the Duchesne County School District are as varied as the stutUnls they serve. JUDGE GRANTS MORE TIME TO WORK OUT TAX MATTERS By Lexica E. Whiting - - week asking people to recall their favorite holiday memo- Seepage - fly-ov- holiday memory? -- The tentative budget allegedly been placed in a barrel near the main ranch house and bhnm up. belong to Flood were found over a year ago at LakeCanynn. and socks on the feet were identified as belonging to Flood A DN A ms tch oflhe legs with the skull fragments and hair found recently would bolster the prosecution' case. Mid Stansficld. When sheriff sdcputieshcgan findpreviously, said Stansficld ing scattered human remains on the Pieces of a human skull with long ranch a few days after the homicides, reddish-blonhair attached were rumor circulated that the missing found the week of Nov. 1 near the body part were thrown in the nearby main ranch house on the JJNP Ranch Straw berry River A search ofthenveir in western Duchesne County The failed to turn up any evidence. The ranch is owned by the Pinder family. handgun believed to have been used John Pinder, 42. is in jail awaiting to shoot the net ims before they were trial on capital homicide chargee in blown up ha yet to be found The motive far the killings center the deaths of Flood and her companion. Rex K. Tanner, 48. around possible thefts and drugs. The remains had allegedly been On Nov. 1, Finder's ranch hand, placed in a barrel which wasblown up. Filomrno Valenchia Ru:x, 35, enInvestigator had to dig to locate the tered guilty pleas to reduced charge scattered evidence. No jaw or teeth of murder in a plea agreement with were found, which means that dental prosecutor. In return for the chance records rant be compared. Hid to escape a possible death sentence, he Stansficld. agreed to cooperate fully with investiTannershead and torso were found gator and testily against his former in plain eight on Halloween Day 1 998, boss st his tnal. when invengtor went to the rePinder s girlfriend. Barbara J. mote Lake Canyon sit on the ranch DeHart, was found guilty last June of after getting word that Tanner and second-degrefelony obstruction of Flood may have been killed. justice for driving Pinder tothe Virgin Numerous searches over the pest River hotel in Mesquite NV. knowing year failed to turn up evidence that that he was wanted for questioning in could positively identify Flood as a the double murder. victim. Even the new rluee may not Pinder tnal is scheduled for Jan. supply prosecutor with conclusive 10, in 4th District Court in Wasatch evidence about the identity of the County, but is expected to be postsecond victim of the grisly murder. poned to give attorney more time to Two leg which are believed to review the latest evidence in t he case. d e 3$'? y, |
