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Show Volume Seventy-Seve- Eureka. Utah 8HI2S n - July 21. XumlxT 1!)SJ 2!) Two fires blacken Mona area On the heels of a rangeland fire that destroyed 2,440 acres of vegetation in the area west of Burraston's Pond on July 12 and 13, another blaze on the slopes of Mt. Nebo east of Mona burned out of control from Saturday until about p.m. on Monday. The Willow Creek fire, as it has been dubbed, began when a fire was started at the Mona City garbage dump d southeast of the city. The which threatened inferno, seven homes and had fire workers fighting whirling winds that kept switching directions, destroyed 800 acres of forest land and burned more than 2,000 acres of 4 wind-whippe- private, state and federal grassland. An air tanker, which began dropping fire retardant on the blaze within three hours of its beginning, plus the ad- ditional help of two seismic helicopters which began dropping water on the fire almbst immediately, enabled workers to contain the fire by 6 p.m. on Sunday. (Contained means that the fire was kept from roaring up the rest of the western slope of Mt. Nebo). However, a contained fire is not considered safe, because it can quickly get out of control again. men shifts The last of the seventy-fiv- e who had battled the blaze for many hours, was dismissed about 2 p.m. on Monday. hit hard with fire Another brush fire was raging out of control in Juab County on Tuesday; this one in the Champlin Point area southeast of Little Sahara and near the Dog Valley road. The fire was reported at about 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday and is thought to have been started from a spark off the hot brakes of a semi truck. All available equipment in Juab County was called to the fire line plus five BLM tankers, a Eureka tanker, and brush trucks from Mammoth and men were fighting Delta. Thirty-thre- e the growing inferno. According to Greg Newton, county fire marshal, the blaze burned through dry grasses at the rate of 1,500 acres every 30 minutes and had destroyed upwards of 10,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management and private land. Despite efforts to contain it, the fire had reached the Gilson Mountain area. As of Wednesday morning, fire fighting crews were attempting to get a fire line around the fire. The line would have to be hand done and would be over five miles long. t m; wv s ry-IwV. jfoft i v v.vXJvMvXvfc. y ; ' , .... .. . i i V . Fire spreads over the western slope of Mt. Nebo. The fire was contained Sunday at 6 p.m. ihurera July 24th mm sire wail ib schedule announced The Utah State Legislature apThe Utah Transportation Commission Friday approved plans for the con- propriated $1 million for fiscal year struction on new sidewalks in Juab, 1983 for new sidewalk construction Utah and Millard Counties as part of along state highways around the state. The projects are for areas that are the Safe Sidewalk Program. New sidewalks and curb and gutter potentially dangerous to pedestrians. A formula was devised to distribute will be installed in EUREKA. A total of y a $9,500 will be spent on this Juab County the money fairly on basis. It takes into consideration project. In Utah County, new sidewalks will population, school enrollment and the be built in Lindon, Orem, Spanish Fork number of pedestrian accidents in the county. Then the local ITA and governand Springville for $124,144. Delta, Scipio and Kanosh in Millard ment officials work with the Utah in selecof County will be allocated $4,512 for pro- Department Transportation ting specific projects. jects in those cities. county-by-counl- UBm 24th weekend. Many people will have Friday the 23rd off and will be tak- July weekend ing advantage of the three-da- y to take a short trip or go camping. Routes to popular vacation spots will be congested during the peak travel times beginning Thursday evening and Friday, and again on Sunday afternoon. Motorists should plan a little extra travel time to offset time lost on con- gested roads, and long-distan- ce travelers should take advantage of the rest areas along our highways. Law enforcement officials will be concentrating their efforts near recreation areas and especially watching for tired or intoxicated drivers. Although work on most road construction projects on state highways will be shut down during the .weekend, warning signs in the construction zones must be heeded to assure safe travel. We particularly ask motorists to be alert, slow down and make allowance for changed conditions at points where freeway lanes have ended and revert traffic. back to two-wa- y a.m., also on the school campus. At noon, a bazaar and bake sale will begin at the LDS Church cultural hall. Scheduled for the evening is a Firemens dance with music by Rex Elliott and his Country Highlanders. The dance will be held on the school parking lot and will begin at 9:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. Admission will be $5 per couple and $3 for singles. Commission travel The Utah Department of Transportation urges motorists to use extra caution when driving during the upcoming The planning committee for the July these activities scheduled for Saturday. Races will be held at 10 a.m. on the high school lawn. Games and booth will follow at 11 24th celebration announce meeting reported County business matters considered by the Board of Juab County Commissioners at their meeting of July 6 in- clude: Ken Young, auctioneer and owner of Western Auction Co., met with the commission to inform them of his interest in auctioning off any properly or furniture continued on page 2 |