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Show CLENTLN NIAL 1 89fS- - I 9)ft Eureka Reporter Celebrating move than 90 years of service to the citizens of Eureka. Volume ICUREKA, UTAH - November 8, 19 Ninety-On- e (Vice $.40 Number 45 Eurekans buck statewide trend; vote for Clinton Willi riHilliall season in Tull swing, the Tintic Historical Society thought you might enjoy this picture of the Tiulic High School football team, circa 1919. No numes were supplied with the piclurc-perhour readers can help identify some of these gridiron heroes of the past aps Wildfires expose many artifacts Wildfires that burned tens of thousands of acres of brush across the west Utah desert this summer, uncovered a bonanza of ancient American Indian artifacts that had been hidden by overgrowth. Archaeologists have persuaded the federal Bureau of I .and Management to postpone reseeding, tree removal and other fire rehabilitation work to give them more time to search for additional sites and artifacts. "The fire went across there and that exposed more of ihc ground, exposing stuff that in large part we didn't know was there." said Dave Henderson, the Richfield area manager for the Vets Day program set for high school er. appear to be "very, very old; predating even (lie Fremont or There will he a special VeterDay Assembly at the Tintic High School auditorium Monday. November II, 1996 at 10:40 a.m. William Boyd llowarth of Ncphi will he the main speaker, lie is a Korean War Veteran; has been a member of the Army National Ciuard for 35 years; and is a proud member of the American Ixgion Post in Ncphi. The public is invited to join the high schixil students, and we especially welcome veterans to attend. an's Its worth another lixik. Henderson said that now its a matter of finding (lie best way to protect the sites while still rehaareas. bilitating the burned-ou- t The BLM had hoped to re- move dead vegetation and then Henderson said few of the seed the area with grasses and sites involved structures. "What shrubs to stabilize the soils and we're seeing are things like Hint reduce widespread erosion, said chipping stations, or maybe the Richfield district manager Jerry Goodman. remnants of a fence." he said. Some of the artifacts, howevHUM. Anasai cultures." The delay involving nearly acres 182.000 wildlire-scorehe- d in Millard and Juab counties, was ordered after Romanski, an archaeologist helping BLM survey the area, complained that inspections for artifacts were inadequate. "A couple of our archaeologists were developing the same concerns," said Garth Portillo, the HLM's state archaeologist in Utah. "They were just starting to compile their data and saying 'Oh my. We didn't expect to find the densities and distribution of artifacts wc'rc finding.' e) Before proceeding, federal law requires BLM to check reha- bilitation areas for "cultural resources." such as dinosaur hones or (lie artifacts left by American Indians and Western pioneers. BLM brought in 25 archaeologists to help inventory sites identified as most likely to have artifacts. Eureka citizens followed the national voting and elected Bill Clinton President with a vote of 188 to 54. However, Juab County favored Boh Dole with 1287 to 925 which indicates that Eureka is still a democrat strong hold in the county, which due to the larger population to the cast is more republican. This trend held up with most of the other races except in the case of the county commission race with llowarth winning over Brough in the county with a 1554 to 998 vole. Eureka supported llowarth with 180 votes to 93. Mike leaviti won in the county with i960 voles to 572 for Bradley. However, Eureka voters gave 153 votes to Bradley and only 137 to Ixavitt, going against the state trend. Jim Hansen, incumbent running for Congress got 87 vines in to Sanders' 155. Juab county went for Hansen with 1644 votes to 642 for Sanders. Jan Graham won in Eureka 213 votes to 62 for Burns, but Burns was tlic county winner with 1347 to 1191. Graham did win in the total slate election. Pignanelli, vocal candidate for State Auditor who wanted to do away with tlic State Auditor job, won in Eureka, but lost in the county 867 voles to 1521 for Ed Alter, incumbent. In the State Treasurer race Truman the Democrat won in Eureka 209 to 56 for Johnson, the Republican, but tlic county as a whole went for Johnson 1301 to 987 votes. In the local schixil board election Nielson was victorious 68 to 10 voles for Terry. Some early amusement parks were called "trolley parks," because tliey were located at one end of trolley routes to encourage the weekend use of trolleys. Romanski. 3b, of Southern California, was one of them. He thought BLM's process violated There are thousands who can several laws and wrote off that a statement is nonsense see archaeological sites" of historic and yet are quite unable to disvalue in pushing the rehabilitation it lorinally. prove work. Election night found the Republican and Democratic Parties holding a long election return vigil at their respective headquarters in Ncphi. The Democrats held their wake at the community center and the Republicans held their wake at the Ncphi Fire Station. Food was served at both headquarters and the Democrats held a cake auction. Planning board fills empty seats Four people applied for the two vacant positions on the Eureka City Zoning and Planning Commission. Applications were received from Darby Sharp, Darrin Carlson, Grace Condcr, and Kathleen Anglin. It was suggested by Mayor Kay that those applicants present at the Council meeting, stand up and tell a little bit about themselves and why they were interested in serving on the commission. Darrin Carlson explained that lie thought that it would be a gixxl opportunity to serve the community. He plans to build a home in Eureka sometime in the future, and would like to get involved to sec how things worked. Kathleen Anglin was interested because she would like to become more involved with the community. She has lived in Eureka for a little over a year. Darby Shaip, who is a property owner, is concerned about beautification and a clean up of the community, and would like to gel involved in the community action and try to make it fair for one and all. After (hanking the four for (heir interest and their desire to become involved, and explaining (hat, unfortunately, only two positions were available, the council approved the applications of Darrin Carlson and Darby Sharp. |