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Show f- T - 7 I UINTAH BASIN STANDARD. MlV 14. 2002- - Page Farm Bureau reacts Homeowners urged to be wary of "travelers" door-to-do- or As spring approaches in Utah, groups of nomadic con men and women known as travelers may be working around the state. Travelers typiin a neighbor- cally go door-to-do- or jobs such as asphalt paving, roofing or painting. A common tactic is for a salesman to approach a homeowner .about having materials left over from another construction job and is willing to make you a good deal to get rid of them. If the homeowner agrees to the work, the job isdone with substandard materials and not professionally. After the work is completed, the salesman will return and present an invoice with a price much higher than was initially agreed on. After some compromise by the salesman he will then demand payment in cash or by check. Once the travelers have used up a neighborhood tliey will move itothe next location. There area few things you can do to avoid being taken advantage of by these travelers. 1. Be skeptical of anyone sell i ng r. services 2. Dont be pressured into accepting any work on a must do it now basis. 3. Always ask if the contractor is licensed and obtain a license number. You can verify the license by contacting the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing at toll free at web the at on con-tracti- door-to-doo- 530-662- 8, Gusher resident to farm bill passage www.commerce.utah.govdolp. 4. Ask for references and check them out by actually visiting the other construction project. 5. Ask the contractor for identification. A valid Utah Drivers License is best. 6. Always ask for a written contract that completely describes the work as well as the cost. Make sure any changes to the work and its cost are docu- mented in the writing. Keep a copy of the contract for your words. 7. N ever pay for the work in fu 11 until the job is completed. 8. Always remember, If the deal sounds too good to be true, it probably Leland Hogan expressed Farm Bureaus great disappointment in the emergency assistance program previously adopted by the House of Representatives. With much of the nation facing unprecedented drought - including Utah, it is essential that there be emergency assistance for lost crops and livestock range and pasture land feed, Hogan said. If this doesn't happen, much of our livestock breedis. ing stock will be lost. Already, early If you feel you may have been the data b how the nation will harvest the lowest wheat crop in years. victim of a travelers' scheme or think Hogan said that Farm Bureau is such a group might be operating in joining with other national agriculyour area, please call the Utah Divitural organizations to support a $2.3 sion of Occupational and Professional billion emergency agricultural assisUnit at Licensing's Investigative tance amendment to the FY2002 Supplemental Appropriations bill. The emergency agricultural assistance provision would provide support for income losses in 2001 and payments to eligible livestock producers who suffered losses due to natural disaster. The separate bill would make $4,825,000 available in Utah for the Livestock Assistance Program and $900,000 available for disaster assistance. Beyond the initial emergency assistance disappointment, Hogan noted Herbert McLendon , 32, Vernal, was Farm Bureau was pleased with other arrested and booked in the Uintah aspects of the form bill that will sig County Jail for possession of metham-phetaminpossession of marijuana and possession ofdrugparaphemalia. Jintah County Deputy Leonard I saacson Btcrpped a vehicle for a May 6, and subsequently arrested the driver for DUI. During an inventory search of the vehicle a bundle of methamphetamine was found where a passenger had been seated. The passenger had been previously Aformer Roosevelt man cou Id serve released and was by d to 45 years in prison on up Deputy Isaacson. The passenger susand fraud convictions. Marshall pect admitted to a pipe and Ilyer III, was sentenced late last month to prison terms of years on -degree felony racketeering, 5 Wood charged with felony years each on five third-degre- e counts of forgery, and 6 years on a 2"d for third-degre- e felony felony for possession of a controlled substance. The sentences in jail are to run consecutively. illegal Dyer was also ordered to serve a term in the Duchesne County The man accused in the death of one-yeRoosevelt Police Chief Cecil Gurr is jail on a class A misdemeanor for confacing an additional charge. Lee Roy viction for an illegal financial transaction. The jail ti me will run concurrent Wood, Vernal, made his initial appearance last weekin 8 District Court with the prison terms. in Vernal on a second degree felony Dyer pleaded guilty previously to a firearms charge in federal court and county of having contraband in a corwas sentenced to 27 months in a fedrectional fecility. Vernal attorney John Beaslin has eral penitentiary. His defense attorney asked the been appointed to represent Wood in court to let his federal prison term the case. Wood has been incarcerated since suffice, and place Dyer on probation his arrest on Ju ly 6, 200 1 , after he was for his multiple felony convictions in apprehended following the shooting district court, on the condition that if he at the Maverik Country Store in he were arrested for Ballard. Senate-remove-d Vernal man arrested on drug charge e, faces attempted homicide charges A Gusher man was arrested late last month and charged with attempted homicide and attempted aggravated assault after a heated argument over a stray dog. Vem Eugene Murray, 70, was arrested and booked into the Uintah County Jail ancharges. was dispatched to a Gusher residence on April 29, to respond to a reported assault. According to S laugh, the victim had attempted to stop the suspect from shooting a stray dog, when the suspect turned the gun on the victim. Murray allegedly threatened toshoot the victim and put him in the ditch next to the dog. A struggle started over control of the weapon and the suspect fired the weapon, the bullet narrowly missing the victims head, said Slaugh. The victim gained control over the firearm and Murray allegedly picked upa piece of iron and attempted to assault him. The fight broke up and the parties separated and summoned Mom charged in infant's death traffic-violatio- n, nificantly impact local formers and ranchers: Loan rates and direct payments for corn, sorghum, barley, oats and wheat are higher and will be a better safety net for producers in Utah. Authority for loan deficiency payments on grazed wheat, oats, barley and triticale will be helpful for Utah livestock producers. The permanent $9.90 Milk Price Support Program will be particularly beneficial to Utah dairymen. Marketing loans or deficiency payments based on a loan rate of $1 per pound for graded wool and $ .40 per wool is a signifipound for cant victory for Utah wool growers. An increase of 2.8 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) will provide more help to Utah farmers and ranchers. A $200 million annual increase to the Market Access Program will allow Utah producers to secure more foreign agricultural markets for their products. Hogan also noted that the $190 billion farm bill is authorized over the next 10 years. Subsequent budget reconciliation will follow, however there is a provision written into the bill to pay for some 2002 program costs without waiting for budget reconciliation. The form bill does not include the billions of dollars spent on school lunch programs, WIC, Meals on Wheels, etc., although those consumer programs are charged to the U.S. Department of Agriculture budget. non-grad- Consecutive sentences ordered in fraud case drug-relate- 1-- second- 0-- 0-- degree possession ar could be sentenced to prison at thut time. Dyer has a lengthy criminul history dating bnck to 1985. He was arrested in February 2001 when his car was stopped on 1 Iigh way 40 near Duchesne. A search of the vehicle found numerous forged identification cards, driver's licenses and checks, stolen credit cards, a sophisticated computer scanner, printer and software allegedly used to make phony documents. He was initially charged with 1 13 felonies for forgery and drugs. He will serve the state sentence first and then the federal charges. This case was clearly identity fraud and it was of major proportions. We are satisfied that he pled in as charged to the racketeering and the forgery charges andthathewillbe serving his sentences consecutively, said prosecuting Duchesne Coiinty Deputy Attorney Roland Uresk. He has served 452 days in the Duchesne County jail, where he has been held on $800,000 bond since his arrest. I f iiei.ii.iJUiL s fl.- - i I ; IP..,, fc, 'finf' in 1 11 Iff lu1 . j-- Ifni V Roosevelt City Quick Response team has recently HOT STUFF acquired new fire trucks. The new trucks pictured above, will serve the Roosevelt area. Beanbag bullet" help; Jj police end stand-of- f Roosevelt police officers used a new weapon to help end a stand-of- f with a man who allegedly wanted to commit suicide. Police were called to a domestic dispute at a trailer court at 700 South and 100 East at 9:15 on Friday morning, May 10, when neighbors called tocomplain ofa screamingcom-infrom a trailer. According toRoosevelt Police Chier Steve Hooley, Joshua Christen Krisan Schultz, 19, Roosevelt, was upset over a breakup with his girlfriend and had entered the trailer through a back window and was threatening to kill himself with a butcher knife. Schultz wasinanarrow hallway whereoflirers attempted to talk to him into drop-ping the knife, said Hooley. After about 15 minutes it became apparent that Schultz wanted police to shoot him something known as suicide by cop. g could really feel that coining said Hooley. Thats wheti: e I liinlry gave the goaliead for assist chief J.C. Hansen to use t he giifi that fires bullets containing u 2 im-l- i by 2 inch bean bag. We just aim in a anvi thut would lie ing, siil I down, ant-polic- non-leth- at Hooley. Schultz was struck in the th igh an I knocked oft his feet and taken into custody. Noone was injurt!. Sclmlf was taken to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo for sycliiijL rir evaluation. jj Schultz isacilizenoflndia. I !e lin.-f- c been living in Roosevelt for over a year. This wus the first time xil ice have used the bean bag bullet. They were trained in the assault met hod about a : year ago. Sheriff's office sends warning of Nigerian fraud scheme It seems Dr. George Amakiri is at it again. This time in the city of Duchesne. Amakiri claims to be the director of Project Implementation for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. He foxes or mails letters to individuals asking fur their help in transferringenomious bu ms of in the most recent case, money into a foreign ac$41.5 million count. The ruse is an old one, and depends on folks falling prey to handing over their personal financial information, and callinga telephone number that will show up on their bill costing them hundreds or thousands of dollars. The recipient of the letter is promised a share of the money, Usually millions of dollars, for their help. While most people toes the letter in the garbage, there are those who full victim, said Duchesne County Sheriffs Deputy Mark Heath. A Duchesne long-distan- : County resident brought a let ter t Ihi.v tliu into received sherift'r. recently office. The citizen didnt act upon Lhu information, but they did want to get out the word that the bogus 0101011: hud surfaced again in effort to warn-' theunsuspecling. The letter tells the recipient that:: s irthey help transfer a windfall oferude oil during theGuirWiir:;. into a safe account namely t Iikit from-sale- own, they will be rewarded wit h $M.Hr million, and it instructs the individual to call an international cell immlx-i- : It might be difficult for you to gri " through to me because of my cou nt ryi ' poor telecommunication system. Aiiy. time you tiy to reach me und you get a busy signal please keep trying, y&ii will definitely get through, tilt lab1 ter stales. Anyone who receives one or t Info' is asked to turn it over to t1u Duchesne County Sheriffs OIT111 tor , investigation. letters one-vehic- le to wait Like til the Dast mimiute? Its the last minute. Uintah County Drug Court celebrates National Drug Court Month May is National DrugCourt Month. Drug courts are intensive supervised courts that are designed for criminal defendants who have a drug addiction. Uintah County has hadadrugcourt since 1998. Currently there are 45 participants in the program, with more applications to participate being made on a regular basis. Drug courts were created when judges, treatment providers and law mforcement officials felt that just tending drug dependant criminal d endants to jail was not an effective uray to deal with drug addiction. Part fthe drugcourt philosophy is to help ui addict overcome his or her addition in the same environment that ,hey were using illegal drugs in. Drug courts use a approach to treating drug addition. Participants are required to en-e- r an intensive treatment program, regularly aubmit to testing for substances and report to supervisors and judges who check compliance. Participants must also complete a GED or high school diploma, btain and maintain employment or jursue higher education. Northeastern Counselingprovides treatment for the Uintah County Drug Court. Participants are required to somplete an initial evaluation and participate in individual and group wunseling. They are also required toittend twelve step meetings regu- This spring, you could put off nuking home improvement., buying a new car or convihdamg dclns. But wu won't want to put off taking advantage of these rates the way the economy going, they wont be here for long. And your loan can be approved in as little as 60 minutes through Teleloan, or 'Hi minutes m person. Visit your local Zions branch, visit zionsbank.com, or rail 1.800.789.5fi2fi today. You'll see why we sav wv havenl forgotten who keeps us m teiMiiow ZIONS BANK y WE HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN WHO KEEPS US IN BUSINESS. con-roll- )PYi & BUSS m MFvnrn ro c in iii'j..r.i' mimo ix tbmw mu ' u 1 m xw . - If m- Friday, May 3, Colorado State Patrol Troopers investigated.a traffic accident on Colorado Highway 64, ten miles east of Rangely, Colo, involving a woman from Vernal. Brenda J. Jolley, 2 1, was westbound on Colorado 64 and an upgrade curve to the left attemptingto pass another vehicle, when she swerved to the right and went off the right side of the roadway. Jolley's vehicle the roadway, skidded clockwise and skidded oftthe right side of the road. It then rolled over one half time, collided with a fence 40 feet from the roadway and rolled again. Jolley's son, Tyler, 2, was qjected from the vehicle 53 feet from the edge of the roadway. The child's body was found under theengine compartment. Jolley is being held on charges of child abuse, vehicular homicide, DUI, reckless driving, failing to provide proof of insurance and possession of one ounce or less of marijuana. .. T w t. nwmw vjh rep1! TV standard Annual IVmiiuy Rate (APR) iwriaHr me and imibyrct to increase. The maximum APR it 21. The APRi an accurate at of4.Vi02.The introductory turd mt h valid fix six months after opening the linc.ifta ihx. iV Aim would irvnt M the prime raw. 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Your rate may be hqtiier based on errda qualifications, the amount and term ot thr loan, and the tape of annum (him which automatic paymena ate made. Loan amounts ate Immed is cwtent Kr8y Blue Book value. Oder availahie on model year 2000 auras or nrwrr. A1 rain subject ro change without notve. h0 minute approval, by Tetri nn fid 5 - |
