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Show ) t i C005 e UTAH 37 ."Hi von must JSSCIflTI0N SUITE SALT LAKE Fish farminy (12) IB Ifyou would persuade, rather than intellect. interest to appeal Benjamin Franklin intah Basin 5O0 the desert srmmsmammmmmamm When Alan Ginn opens the doorto a cavernous dark backroom, its apparent this Tuesday March 12, 2002 isn't Just an ordinary classroom. A d round tank, called a 500-gall- Roosevelt, Utah on water screen-covere- Vol. "grow-out-" www.ubstandard.com tank, with 20 live purebred cutthroat occupies a large portion ofthe room at Uinta River High. LD Seepage f 88, Number 11 14 DRIVES OFF CLIFF Woman trapped in car for 35 hours S.Ns . . She would have died right there with the cold temperatures. She was in a position where she couldnt get out of the vehicle. By Lezlee E. Whiting Marilyn Herald spent 85 hours trapped inside her Ford Focus before she was rescued last Friday morn- Behind swinging doors As a child growing up in was intrigued with the dark, smoke-fille- d saloons she passed daily on her way to and from school. Her curiosity resulted in a new book that has been flying off the shelves of local Vernal, Doris Burton bookstores. Seepage 13 Identity theft Roosevelt police say they found evidence they believes ties an n living in Roosevelt to severalcases of identity theft, some of ex-co- them involving local residents. Seepage 12 Star hoopster JeffDavenportfinishesas top scorer for his college team in California. He is named to an team. Seepage 16 ing, March 8, around 8:80 a.m. Temperatures plunged dose to sero with the windchill factor following a winter storm Friday morning. Police said it was doubtful that the woman would have survived much longer. When she was discovered, her core body temperature was 91 degrees. Heralds car had plunged about 15 feet off a cliff near Shades Fron- tier Diesel Just off of Highway 40 on Wednesday night sometime between 8- -9 p.m. Its unknown why the woman, who had moved to Roosevelt recently from Cheyenne, Wyo., was even traveling on the roughed-in- , that runs from Conrugged dirt-roa- d stitution Park to the back ofShades, which is located across the street from the city cemetery. No one had reported Herald missing. To further lessen the dunces of a timely discovery, the car landed in a salvage lot and didnt look particularly out of place. If curiosity hadnt gotten the best of two mechanics working at Shades Frontier Diesel , Herald may not have been found until it was too late, said Rooeevelt Assistant Police Chief J.C. Hansen. She would have died right there with the cold temperatures. She was in a position where she couldnt get out of the vehicle, said Hansen. Casey Anderson said he noticed the car for the first time Thursday night around 5 p.m. At first he thought that perhaps it had been stolen and driven off the cliff. He planned to take a look at it, but got busy and forgot about it until he returned to work Friday morning. Thats when Anderson and Glenn Page walked ld . - is extricated from her car after HELP ARRIVES! Marilyn spending 35 hours trapped inside. She was discovered quite by accident by two mechanics from Shades Frontier Diesel. She was in the car from about 8 p.m. Wednesday night to 8:30 a.m. Friday morning. She was treated and released from the Uintah Basin Medical Center. .' over to the car and heard a womans voice asking for help. "She said hello to us. As soon aa we got to the car we knew there was somebody in there. We talked to her for a minute and kept her calm and called the cops, said Anderson. "She said she wanted me to get her out I told her Bhe needed some help and she said she didnt want it. NEW READING CLASS FOR ALL 7 GRADERS Roosevelt Junior High SAT scores show significant improvement By Therena Morrill Eighth graders at Roosevelt Junior High have shown remarkable improvement in their Stanford Achievement Test scores over those they earned taut year as seventh graders. The SAT is a test mandated by the state to be given to all third, fifth, eighth, and 1 1 th graders every September. However, in the Duchesne County School District, all students are given the test every year. The approximately 230 eighth graders at Roosevelt Junior High scored a median complete battery score of 48, compared to a score of 50 for the entire district. (See accompanying chart.) The median score is determined by plotting all the stu dents scores and determining the score that is exactly in the middle. A score of 48 means that the median score was in the 48k national percen- tile. Roosevelt eighth graders highest score was in mathematics, with a 54, compared to 46 for the district According to Guy Coleman, principal at Roosevelt Junior High, the big story is the fact that a median acore of 54 represents an improvement of six points for this same group of students when they took the test last year as seventh graders. "You cant look at eighth grade test results from year to year because thats like comparing apples to oranges, Coleman said. "But when we look at test scores of last years seventh graders and this yearaeighth Theres plenty of water for Ballard, but the towns water storage and delivery system is in need of an estimated $1.6 million in improvements. The Balltird Water Improvement District is formulating a grant application to submit to the Community Impact Board in hopes of obtaining money they need to increase their water storage capacity and install larger pipes for water delivery. At the same time, the water district is proposing a hike in water rates to help offset the cost of planned improvements. A culinary water master plan charted for the district by Sunrise Engineering calls for replacing a 75,000 gallon water storage tank on Montes Creek Road with a 600,000 gallon stosage tanl The masterplan also recommends the installation of 20-ye- ar POOR copy! comparative water ; rate study by the district shows that . . even with the ' proposed rate hike ; Ballard water rates remain reasonable. five miles of larger delivery pipes in order to bring the district into compliance with state regulations relating to the water storage and pressure needed to adequately fight fires. "We dont have a problem with the water, we have an adequate amount. We just have inadequate storage and delivery lines," explained Metis Secrest, secretaryrecorder for the Ballard Water Improvement Dis page 8 The median score of 54 represents an improvement of six points for this same group of students compared to last year. Jr. High provement to According Coleman, the same is true of this years Fate of FFA program is still undecided By Therena Morrill "Were looking at other to the public arena, sxv(ilatioii regarding which programs will la- - cut is beginning to run minimal. Four letters to the editor t hat apNiired in the March 5 edition of the Uintah Rosin Standard lamented the loss of the FFA program due to budget cuts. UBATC Vice President nl'Finnnee Burt Morrill aaid then1 still have not been any definite decisions made regarding which programs at the college will he cut. "We haven't yet Idecidedl and wont until the hoard of trustees meets on March 27." ninth graders at Union High, who have improved two to three points in ADVISOR IS RETIRING As word of (missive budget nil s in Htore for the Uintah Basin Applied Technology College litis made its wav al- most every subject tested since they took the test last year at the junior high as eighth graders. "Since the SAT is given in September, it is really measuring what the students learned the previous possibilities to try to keep FFA going for the students." Morrill said. FFA Advisor Kirk Wood said he has no idea where the rumors originated. He confirmed that he submitted his early retirement papers on March 1, and pluns to retire at the end of this school year. "I told the students that I was definitely retiring, Wood said. "But I never said SEE UBATC on page 3 DEADLIEST YEAR SINCE 1991 Master plan for Ballard water system calls for higher rates A SEE WOMANTRAPPEDon SAT Results: Roosevelt graders, which is the same group of students we see an im- MAJOR STORAGE IMPROVEMENTS PROPOSED By Lezlee E. Whiting Rescuers found Herald conscious and slightly disoriented. She had been unable to summon help, but knew how long she had been in the car . The Roosevelt Fire Department was called to the scene to extricate Herald who was stuck between the two seats. The car roof had to be cut off in trict. "We are trying to meet fire code with our water system aa well as try to provide service for more people in the area. A public hearing is slated for this Thursday at 6:30 p.m at the Ballard Town building to obtain local input on a CIB application seeking a $1.5 million grant, with an match from the water district of approximately $58,000 to $60,000. A second public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 19, at 6 p.m. to take comments on a proposal to increase water rates, add an impact fee and reduce the current fee on new connections. The proposed rate changes are aa in-ki- follows: " Increase in the base rate from to $20 $ 1 5 a month for 15,000 gallons TeELLARD WATER on page 8 year, Coleman said. While the median reading score for Roosevelt eighth graders was three points below the district median, (43 compared to 46), that score still showed an impressive improvement of nine points over their seventh grade score. DurhesneCounty Superintendent John Aland said he would like to see reading and language scores improve for the entire school district. Historically, the scores in those two areas have been consistently below the nations 50,k percentile for every grade. Coleman said Roosevelt Junior High will be making a mqjor change next year in an effort to im-- ( prove reading scores. "Were going to modify our schedule and make Utah History a half-yea- r class instead of a full year, Coleman said. "Then all seventh graders will take a half-yea- r reading clasa. Lisa Taylor, an English teacher at the school who recently earned a masters degree and reading certification, is developing the curriculum for the new class. "Research has shown that reading skills of students are directly tied to the socioeconomic status of the region and the education level of the mother, SEE SAT SCORES on page 3 Highway fatalities increased in 2001 By Susan Collier Section Five Utah Highway Patrol troopers investigalid 11 accidents last year in which 13 isxiplc died, making 2001 the deadliest year on Ftusin highways since 1991 when 14 dimths occurred on Uintah Busin roadways. IjisI years fatalil iis were 217 percent higher than the year before. In 2000 six pimple lost their lives in traffic accidents in the Uintah Basin. "It was just a high year. I dont think our crash stat istics were higher lust year than the year before. It was just our fatalities that increased bv such a high number, remarked UHP Lt. Stan Bench. We had an unusually high number of motorcycle accidents. One pedestrian and at least two motorcyclists and a three-wheeldriver were killd last year. Only four of the 13 people who died in highway accidents where wearing seat bells, and alcohol ap- er lieared to be a factor in only two of the dent hs, one of which was a motorcycle accident. Although the 15 Utah Highway Patrol trooers cover hundreds of square miles in what is known aa section five, which encompasses Duchesne, Daggett, and Uintah counties, more than half of the deaths occurred on only two of the sections highways. The portion of Highway 40 between mileposts 68 and 64 cluirmid four lives in three separate accidents, and three deaths occurred on State Road 121 which links Roosevelt and Neola. It doesnt appear that inclement weather played a role in any of the aividcnta. In fact, all hut two of the accidents occurred within a four-monperiod starting on June 2. "It seems so far nut of kilter, hut there isn't really b reason. explained Bench. "I don't think excessive speed was really a definite factor. It was a factor in some of them, but not in a number of them." th |