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Show $ i St 155 E Main Ao one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. --Charles Dickens 84078.2G95 Uintah Basin nXtni. 50C Threat of TB is real Tuberculosis has become a scourge that is spreading easily across borders. Ifseven 1 Tuesday Sept. 19. 2000 touched Duchesne and i ? Roosevelt, Utah Uintah counties to a small, butrealextent Vol. --See page 2 87, Number 38 www.ubstandard.com REASSESSED PROPERTY WILL STAY AS IS seeks Tribe d Commissioners order a j rollback on "factored" property one-thir- injunction i The Timpanogos Tribe is a preliminary seeking injunction to prevent the Division of Wildlife Resources and the State of Utah from prosecuting their members who hunt on the Ute Reservation without a permit from the Ute Indian Tribe. --See page 10 The decision by commissioners to reduce the factored property valuawill tions by one-thir- d mean $85,000 less in county coffers this year. What's for lunch? For many high school By Lezlee E. Whiting students the lunch bell signals their favorite subject of the day ..FOOD! At many schoc an open campus allows the starving hordes to ado lunch around town. : The next area of the county to be impacted by the flourishing real estate market will be Tabiona. When the Tabiona area undergoes their scheduled reappraisal next year, property taxes are expected to climb dramatically due to the rapid increase u property value in the area. lots selling for With five-acr- e $50,000 the reappraisal is going to have some impact. If they are on Greenbelt they won't see an increase in property taxes, but will see an increase in market value, said GarfT. LATE REPORT BRINGS POSTPONEMENT Court oleays delay in sentencing for Pinder In a year when the majority of property owners in the county saw their property taxes increase, you can bet that Duchesne County Commissioners got an earftil during Board of Equalization hearings. The hearings By Lezlee E. Whiting Defense attorney Ron allow property owners to appeal the assessed value placed on their land, Sentencing has been postponed for Yengich did not receive a business or home. All 58 available three months for John R. Pinder. a Duchesne County rancher convicted crucial Board of Equalisation appointment slots were filled, and most of those of murdering two of bis former emreport on Pinder in time for who protested will receive a down- ployees. In 4th District Court in Heber ward adjustment in their property adequate review. taxes, said Duchesne County Assessor Wednesday afternoon. Sept. 13. Judge deDavis a Lynn granted request by GregGarfT. The biggest adjustment made by fense attorney Ron Yengich to conpostponement and noted that the earliest time all parties could meet again rollback tinue the sentencing date to Decemcommissioners is a one-thir-d ber 21, because Yengich did not re- would be just prior to Christmas. for all property which underwent facThis seem like it's a king way a process in touch a sales ceive a crucial report on toring'' ratio study is conducted so that an Pinder until late Monday night. down the calendar, but it appears it a updated valuecan be assigned to prop- Yengich told the court be add his as soon as it can be set. Davis said. client needed time to review and reIn JulyaWsMtchCountyjury found erty which isnt in line for a five-yeevaluation Pinder guilty of agth reappraisal The study is mandated spond to the by the state legislature and overseen compiled by Adult Parole and Proha-t-n gravate! murder, first degree felony, to detmrmine ifthe information it in the deaths of Rex K. Tanner and by the Slate Tax Commission. TbeTax Commission has become contained accurately portrayed June Fkud. Tanner was a former ranch hand on Pinder'a vast JJNP Ranch, very aggressive on that (factoring). Pinder. The report contains information and Flood worked in the office as a The real drive is the uniform school fond they want every county and and recommendations that are used secretary. During the penalty phase of the everyproperty canyingan equal share by the judge todetermine sentencing, of that tax dollar load, GarfT stated. including whether the sentence will tnaljuron decided that Pmdrrshould On property that was factored in run consecutive or concurrent. SEE PINDER on page 12 Duchesne Chunty this year, property Judge Lynn Dana agreed to th taxes increseed anywhrrvfrom6to32 percent depending on the location. Some of the areas where property taxes were factored include Tabiona. the unincorporated areas in Myton, Hancock Gove, Hanna and Duchesne City. The decision by commissioners to reduce the factored property valuawill mean 185,000 tions by leas in county coffers this year, however, taxing entities will (till receive the same amount of tax dollar they did last year, said Duchesne County Commission Chairman Giqr Thayne. The state will conduct their own sales ratio study on the decision by commissioners to reduce the factored areas by one-thirsaid GarfT. For the owner of a home who saw their lair market value climb from $100,000 last year to $130,000 this year, due to factoring, there should be a decline of $10,000 in the market value in the final tax notice, thus rrduangtheamountofUsre assented. The one-thirfactoring reduction NO COMMENT The CuniN of murder victim Rex Tanner stopped briefly does not include areas where property to talk to Salt Lake television and radio reporters after the pottponement of taxes jumped after the property went sentencing for John Pinder. The Tanner tamth said they were informed die through a reappraisal GarfT noted, would seek a delay in sentencing w hen they arm edit the Wasatch defense area included the Xeola, Reappraised Altamont, Bluebell. Upsdo and MounCounty Courthouse last Wednesday. They are re sen ing further comment tain Home areas. Specific areas ofthe on the case until Pinder is sentenced on the 1 1 felony charges for which he county undergo a reappraisal every was found guilty . five years to make sure we have the current property characteristics and PILOTS RAISE AWARENESS valuation. explained GarfT. On subsequent years other than the five the county factors property by conducting a sales ratio study. In some areas ofthe county which were reappraised, property taxes jumped by 20 to 30 percent, mainly due to new additions on home that were built since the lest reappraisal five years agoi v? "'r pre-senten- 4 t! I ' - Homecoming fun! '4 Duchesne High kicks off their homecoming celebration events this week and Altamont r; will do the same the following week. Football match-up- s include Duchesne vs. Monticello and Altamont meeting San Juan. Hi fi if M i Seepage M 17 -- 19 L 15 BUILDING SUPERINTENDENT Larry Beal stands in the student commons area. He has been in charge of the actual construction of the new addition to the L'SU Uintah Basin Branch campus on Lagoon Street for M-- 1 3 Construction Inc BeaL of Ahamont, was also on the job when the original LSU Uintah Basin Branch campus facility was built in 1 9S6. He has been in the construction business since 1961. HIKE IN USU UBBC STUDENTS one-thir- Enrollment takes a jump as new building nears completion By Leslee E. Whiling More students, new They were right. Build it and they Students enrolling in the will come. courses offered in Vernal and Roosevelt through the UtahSute University Uintah Basin Branch campus are coming in record numbers. During summer semester enrollment nearly doubled, going from 105 students in 1999, to 195 studrtiu in 2000. The same trend holds true for fall semester, said Glen Todd, USU Uintah Basin Branch campus business manager. Classes began Aug. 28, asof-da- y 12 ofthecunent semester, enrollment figures are posting 157 more students signed up for courses than onday 15of last jvaristsUstic are not yet available for day 15 of this year). Vs still have some registrations coming in; sometimes students like to sit in m a class for a week to decide ifit's something they want to sign up for. We also still have some registrations coming in from concurrent en- rollment at th high school Wall probably hit around 1,200 student this semester, said Todd. Last year, fall enrollment figures cam in at 1.020. The increase in students attending college in the summer is attributed to more high cbnol student signing up for courses through the concurrent enrollment program (it was the first summer they were eligible to do so) and to a hike in the number of gradual students attending the USU Uintah Batin Branch campus. The number of it uden to signed up to take a complete food of courses, or e equivalents is also grow-Inproportionally, said Todd. Last year there were 483 students who this year that registered number has climbed by 721, and stands at 555, with a few more day left to register. The number ofstudents taking a foil course load crucial for th college because that's how the Irgwla-turdetermine the amount of money the sto to will send to the branch campus, said Todd. Wear funded on foil time equivalent from th summer, spring and M semesters. The number are added up and divided by two to determine how much money we wifi receive. Todd explained professors and additional course offerings. Not only art more students finding out that going to college in your own backyard is definitely less costly than Waving for the Logan campus, they are also discovering that in many cases, course ofierinphaveexpanded enough to allow them to complete their degree right here. Bigger enrollments mean more classes are offered and fewer are canceled. said Todd, noting that last fall only four classes were canceled. They were not part of a degree program, he At one time there were more adults returning to the USU Uintah Basin Branch campus to obtain their degrees while working and raising fami-- lies.but that pattern is reversing with those mote traditional students between the afpsof 19 to25yearsoU liking advantage of the local opportunities for higher education. Steadily rising enrollments at the Roosevelt and Vernal USU Uintah Basin Branch campuses over the past several years resulted in the need for more space. That's just what students and LSl'faculty will get. The addition to the current branch campus facility is scheduled for completion in November, and will open its doors to students by January 2001 for winter semester. The new facility will include: a library complete with computer study areas and archiro storage spare; a large, trend classroom with a computerised screen; 10 new faculty offices, snack bar and cafeteria; student commons area; a gym- 38.000-square-fo- sta-lion- s, foil-siz- e SEE ENROLLMENT on page 12 d d demonstrates support for airports Fly-i- n By Alton Rachel Retired Senator Jake Garn. a pilot and aviation buff, landed at the Roosevelt Municipal Airport, Saturday monung along with several other flyers. The trip was part of a senes of s across th Utah in an attempt to heighten awareneM about the plight of Utah's small airports and to acquire more state funding Ronoevelt i rural airport is one of 17 in th state that could be forced to down without more state money. shut -My father was a pilot in Worid War L and the rural airport were important in the 1930's and 1940'a. There are a lot more people flying today Gam said. An elderly gentle- man from Escalante told me that ho wouldn't be alive today if hadn't been able to go in and pick him up. In addition to being used for emer-genc- i foil-tim- Pilots help raise awareness of the importance of rural airports and need for state funding. fly-in- g foU-tim- ce e, Air-Me- d y medical transportation, e AIR TAI Senator Jake Ganv left, and Bonds Yeager. nght.diwuvs sliced for rural airports w ith pilot. Bovd Seal of Bountiful Pilots parti, ipaied with-in- , Saturday at the Rooveve h Municipal Airport to promote the need Rv small airports. ien :'K . Rooervetfs airport is also used for mail delivery and by the oil field, I 'lah State University professors who f y in to tosi h cUmts. I val searvh and rrorue, Civil Air Patrol and private pilots W have been holding rallies at sma II ai rpnrt in Utah to promote th need to maintain these airports and keep them going so people like Air- - Med.Life Flight ranenme in can get a person from Roosevelt to Salt Lake City in less than 30 minutes Bond Yeager, air planner for th Utah Division of Aeronautics, detailed Rural county and city officials want to persuade lawmaker that something must be done to stop small aimwt runway from crumblingaway and that the closing of thee airports s a bad idea. Cara spoke to those gathered at the Roosevelt M umcipal Airport, and said, 1 grew up with an airplane m the family My father made the first landing when a new airport was opened A couple of million dollars are needed from th State Legislature to maintain rural airports, which isn't too much to My aviation career has been more fon than my political career. When 1 ran for the LS. Senate 1 flew myself all over the state and covered two or Air-Me- tk SEE FLYJN on n ' ;dfi - ' :? ,1 |