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Show fltafi City Council Volume 91 Number MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1977 41 1 5 Raises Electrical Rates a copy Stake Conference When Manti residents examine their April billings for electricity, they will discover that the age of energy has ended. That's because the Manti City Council at its Tuesday night meeting voted to raise electric rates by about 30 per cent. The average resident, whose monthly bill has been about $15.00 for the electricity to light his home, cook his food and heat the water, will now find himself paying $18.00 or low-price- d Call Issued Manti Utah Stake quarterly conference will be held Saturday evening and Sunday morning in the Manti South Ward Chapel. All adult members of the stake are invited to attend the special Saturday evening meeting at 7, Pres. Wilbur Cox said. No general authority will visit the stake for this conference, according to President Cox. However, President and Mrs. Cooley of the Salt Lake Utah Mission will be in attendance. Sunday's general session will open at 10 a.m. There will be no afternoon general session. Sacrament meeting will be held in all wards Sunday evening. CONGRESSMAN GUNN MC KAY emphasizes a point with a gesture as he addressed members of the Ephraim Rotary Club and their wives at a noon luncheon. Congressman McKay spent all day in Sanpete County. Cewgressonasi Gunn in Snnpefe Comfy Spends EL The drought and ways of was a mitigating its effects major topic for discussion as Representative Gunn McKay met with his constituents in a series of meetings throughout Sanpete County Monday. The Congressman spoke at Snow College and Manti High School assemblies, fielded a variety of questions at an Ephraim Rotary Club luncheon, had dinner at Cedar Crest and then participated in a public meeting at the Sanpete County courthouse. Everywhere he was bombarded with a variety of questions concerning energy, water projects, the Congressional pay raise, the $50 tax rebate, foreign relations and other topics much in the daily news. But the current drought and federal programs in the works to help alleviate its effects drew the most attention. Representative McKay said that legislation providing major funding for drought relief is now in the pipeline and money should be available by May 1. Utah, he said, has about 374,000 acres eligible for drought relief under the emergency program. That program ly will provide funds for projects like sprinkle irrigation systems The $50 income tax rebate would probably have a stimu- and improvements to canals and other distribution systems. The funds will be administered by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation and Farmers Home agencies and will' be in the form of lating, though temporary efon the economy. He questions that it will receive Congressional approval. Repeal of legislation probably dead for this term. Common Situs Picketing Bill was probably defeated because of public pressure brought on Congressmen by their constituents. or low-intere- loans. The closing date for applications is Sept. 30 and projects must be completed by Nov. 30. Projects will be considered on a first-com- first-serve- In response d basis. to a question about energy, Congressman McKay said that Utah is an energy treasure house containing 20 to 60 billion tons of coal, which he called the fuel of the future. Atomic, solar and other exotic energy sources are far down the road, he said. In the meantime oil, half of which is imported, and coal, in abundance, must in the short haul fill the requirements for fuel. President Carters energy program will probably be heavy on conservation and research. cars will Large be probably penalized. Responses to other quesgas-eatin- g tions: Swimming Films Available From Red Cross Several films that deal with swimming techniques, safety and rescue are now available to Boy Scout troops and school and civic groups on loan from the Sanpete Red Cross chapter, according to Mrs. Blodwen Olsen, Sanpete Red Cross chairman. The films have been purchased with $350 contributed for that purpose to the local chapter by the Sanpete County Commission, Mrs. Olsen said. Chapter Some of the titles available are Skilled Swimming. "Boating Safety and Rescue, "Survival Swimming," Preventive Life Guarding" and Defenses, Releases and Escapes. The films are mainly used for Life Saving and Swimming Instructor classes. Arrangements for their use should be made with Mrs. Elaine Reid. Sanpete Red Cross water safety chairman. fect, Right-to-Wor- k Atomic Power Plants President Carters policy on breeder reactors is foolish. Proper control would reduce the amount of plutonium available for explosives. Other countries will continue their development regardless of what the U.S. does. Congressional Pay Raises Congress has not had a raise since 1968. The Founding Fathers did not intend that Congress should vote on its ow n salary, but that it be handled by an independent agency. Central Utah Project Money for the Bonneville unit will be appropriated by Con- gress. He (McKay) has requested additional money for other phases of the project. If the President vetoes the bill, Congress will hopefully be able to override. Congressional Scandals Even though some exceptions have had great publicity, most Congressmen are honest, honorable men. The new President Carter President has created an atmosphere of openness and trust. The "honeymoon may indeed be at an end, but disagreement between the Congress and the President is healthy and is as the Constitution intended. The American system seems to move on crisis, Representative McKay said. It functions on the basis of incompromise, formed public opinion, checks and balances. It is still the best system in the world. Check Child's Immunizations, District Health Director Asks Many children in the Central Utah District, which includes Sanpete County, have inadequate protection through immunization against a number of diseases, according to Wayne LeBaron , Central Utah District health director. I urge all parents with school age children to check about their childrens im- munizations, he said. A review of immunization levels of children entering schools in the Central Utah District, show that 55 of 722 children entering school apparently have no evidence of immunization, Mr. LeBaron said. Of the 667 children who have evidence of immunization, he added, 88 are inadequately protected against many diseases for which immunizing agents are available. A number of cummunicable diseases which are still a significant cause of both illness and death can be prevented by immunization, Mr. LeBaron said in urging parents to obtain immunizations for their children. Family Night Set Manti Utah Stake Family Night will be held April 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Manti Center-Nort- h Ward, according to Stake Pres. Wilbur Cox. more. The increase, first in 20 years, was necessary, city officials claim, because the drought had dramatically reduced the amount of power in produced at the hydro-plant- s Manti Canyon and because the Bureau of Reclamation and Utah Power and Light, the citys principal suppliers, have substantially increased their charges for electricity. Residential users, including the owners of electrically heated homes, churches and pump well operators will now pay a flat 2.5 per kilowatt hour. Previously, the residential average had been 1.9 cents per kilowatt hour. Churches had paid 2.0 cents; electrically heated homes, 1.75 cents, and well operators, 1.7 cents. Commercial light and power rates were raised about 30 per cent, from an average of around 4.5 cents, to 6.0 cents, and 1.8 to 2.4 cents, respectively. The new rates are expected to generate about $65,000.00 additional annual revenue, city officials say. But they add that amount w ill not go far if the city has to continue buying peak power from Utah Power & Light at premium prices. One thing that could help considerably would be an down increased stream-floManti Canyon that would enable the city to produce more power. But that is likely to be for only a brief period this spring. Music Ogden Institute Teacher Festival is Friday Forum Speaker Joseph Muren, a member of the Ogden LDS Institute of Religion faculty, will speak at Planned the Ephraim The Snow College Department of Music has announced a Spring Festival of Vocal and Keyboard Music in which Central Utah musicians will be treated to master classes and concert performances by two nationally acclaimed clinicians and musicians. Beginning April 18, EveLyn Russell, a dramatic coloratura soprano, and Myron U. Lamb, an accomplished accompanist and soloist, will be on the Snow College campus to conduct master classes and private instruction in vocal and board music. received a doctorate from the Antique The Antique Quilt and Coverlet Display sponsored by Utah State University will be exhibited at the Ephraim West Ward cultural hall on April 30 during the Mothers Day weekend at Snow College. The public is invited to view the quilts and coverlets during the hours 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. Persons having an antique quilt or coverlet 75 years or older they would like to display can call or write the Extension Office at Manti, Quilts from the Six County Area will be chosen for display at the Festival of the American West at Logan in August. A short documentation of the quilt and its maker should accompany the quilt. Information should include name, interesting facts about the artist who made it and about the exhibitor, the year the quilt w as made and where, the name of the quilt if known and fabric used. Entries may be hand quilted, woven, crocheted, or knitted. They will be featured in a book to be published in the fall. The book will present quilts and coverlets their history and craftsmanship in Utah. outstanding will be on the campus for approximately three weeks and concerts are presently being planned. Dr. Garth Beacham, director of Snows Community Services and Continuing Education Office, said that college credit is available to students who desire it. Dr. Beacham also encouraged all serious students and teachers of vocal and keyboard music, particularly those in Central Utah, to contact him at 835-215- ext. 208, for registra- 283-402- tion information. Outstanding master classes include: Music as a Profession, Accompanying and Vocal Technique, Vocal Repertoire and Performance, Keyboard Leverage, Phrasing and Touch, Keyboard Teaching Materials and Problems, Keyboard Technique and Private Vocal and Keyboard Instruction. Pageant Plans Underway Preparations for the 1977 Miss Ephraim Scholarship Pageant are underway, according to Judith Olson, chairman. The pageant will be held May 5 at the Snow College Auditorium. Assisting Mrs. Olson on the committee are Carolyn ChriVickie stensen, Olson, Aleen Riding, Erlynn Nielsen, Kathy Peterson, Marilyn Frost, Karen Raez, Clarene Brenchley, Julie Shuffler, and Jannette Anderson. The Miss Ephraim Pageant is a preliminary for the Miss Utah-Mis- s America Pageants. It seeks to encourage and recognize talent and poise in young women. The committee encourages eligible girls to take advantage of the opportunity for growth which comes from participation. The winner of the 1977 pageant will receive prizes, notably a scholarship to be donated by the Ephraim Businessmen and matched by Snow College. Miss Ephraim will represent Ephraim City during the summer in local parades and be the citys official representative in the Miss Sanpete County and Miss Utah Pageants. Writers League President Sought multi-talente- Miss Ephraim Joseph Muren Forum speaker Quilts the United States. Her New York appearances include performances at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, Cooper Union Hall and the Cloistera. d Mr. Lamb, a musician, has played with the Hartford, Portland, Gloucester and Bangor Maine Symphonies. He is the founder of the Brown University Orchestra and presently teaches piano in Maine. These Institute Jose State University and key- According to Professor Richard Nibley of the college music faculty, Miss Russell has toured in concert and with opera companies throughout LDS auditorium Friday at noon. Mr. Muren will July 1 begin a three year service as a mission president for his church. He has previously served four missions and been a bishop and stake president. He is presently a high councilman. Mr. Muren is a convert to the LDS Church from Catholicism and his wife is a convert from Methodism. The parents of five children, they make their home in Ogden. A native of Richmond, Calif., Mr. Muren is a graduate of San University of Southern California. He is the author of three books: Into Your Heart Like Fire, Causes and Prevention of Inactivity in the Church and The Temple and Its Significance. There is one minor consolain the situation, city officers say: although a 30 per cent increase in the price of electricity is a drastic one that will affect everyone adversely particularly the heavy users of power for home heating, people who heat with coal and oil have experienced even heavier cost increases in the past several years. tion Will Be Guest Speaker Dora Flack, state president of the League of Utah Writers, will be guest speaker at a meeting of the Sanpete Chapter, which will be held in the Ephraim Club Rooms April 19 at 2:00 p.m. Mrs. Flack's topic will be Writing Personal or Family History. Mrs. Flack is as a writer and entertainer. She has published in all LDS Church publications as well as other national magazines. She has also published seven books, including Butch Cassidy, My Brother, which she with Butchs sister, Lula Parker Bctenson. Her eighth book is a collaboration with Janice Dixon of Salt Lake City entitled. Preserving Your Past, which will be published by Doubleday in the fall. The book gives extensive help in writing autobiography, family history and diaries, with the necessary guides for finding genealogical data and preserving current well-know- n phase of writing, but particularly those engaged in writing personal histories or historical data, are invited to attend. Any questions about the meeting or about the League of Utah Writers can be answered in Ephraim by Margaret Russel., or in Manti by Joy Clarke at 283-446- 835-479- history. All people interested in any Utah Writers President Business Activity in Manti Exceeds $5 Million; Percentage Increase is 16,9 Business activity in Manti last year, increased by 16.9 a to just study according released by Utah Foundation, the private research organization. This compares with a gain of 14 in gross business volume for the state as a whole in 1976. for the declining purchasing power of the dollar, the effective gain in sales volume throughout the state during 1976 was 7.8. This adjusted increase compares with an effective gain of in 1975 and only 0.7 2.5 during the recession year of ments are made 1974. Part of the increased dollar sales volume last year, however, was due to inflation. The foundation report notes that the consumers price index rose by 5.8 in 1976. When adjust According to the foundation study the increased business activity in Utah last year was a reflection of a strong economy and a growing job market. During 1976, nearly 27,000 new jobs were created in Utah. This that the sales and use tax represents a gain of 6 in total provides an excellent guide to employment. the volume of business activity nonagricultural Unemployment in the state, on in Utah. It includes retail sales the other hand, declined by and rentals of tangible personal 13 during this same property along with restaurant meals, admissions, hotel and period. motel charges, and many Gross sales in Manti last services such as telephone, year, as measured by local sales electric, gas, laundry, repair, tax collections amounted to etc. In addition, it cleaning, with This $5,110,000. compares which become reflects sales total business activity of construcof industrial an part in 1975, $2,805,000 in or tion program. expansion 1965. in 1970. and $1,968,000 Excluded, however, are sales of Foundation analysts point out materials and equipment used this same period. According to the foundation report, this pattern of the past six years is an almost direct reversal of the 1960 experience when business activity in Utah was growing at a much slower pace than that of the nation. During the 19b0s, the rate of business growth in Utah was 28 below that of the United States as a whole. Since the beginning of the present decade, business in Utah has been growing more than twite as fast as the rest of the nation. in the installation of pollution control equipment for industrial concerns. Since 1970, business activity in Utah has been rising much more rapidly than that of the nation as a whole. Between 1970 and 1976, sales volume in Utah (after adjustments for inflation) has risen an average of 6.9 per year, compared with an average increase of only 2.9 in adjusted personal consumption expenditures throughout the nation during The report shows that more than 50 of all business activity in Utah is concentrated in Salt Lake County with nearly half of the Salt Lake County total emanating from Salt Lake City proper. Over the past 15 years, however, there has been a considerable shifting of business activity away from the central business districts to the suburban areas of the county. In 1960, for example. Salt Lake City accounted for nearly 72 of all business activity carried out in Salt Lake County. By 1976, this percentage had dropped to less than 49 of the county total. This shift is explained by the steady movement of population from the city into the county along with the construction of large shopping centers in the surburban areas. Completion of the downtown shopping mall in Salt Lake City has slowed down the movement of business from the city to the county somewhat but has failed to reverse the trend. V i |