| Show Thirteen Win Top Honors In Sterling Scholar Event (See Page 3-- A) J Compromise Plan Sevier Millard Officials Irritated By CUP Offer Reaper Staff Writer The Central Utah Water Conser- vancy District continues to play games with Sevier and Millard counties to try to keep them in the district But the two counties aren't playing along Last fall CUP officials played hard ball with Sevier and Millard counties after they filed petitions ' and S500 checks to secede from the Central Utah Project The counties then received letters asking for an additional SI 0000 each to cover 'existing and anticipated immediate (w ithdraw al) expenses" That ploy d A key feature of the compromise is the redistribution of fees paid by the giant Power Project in Millard County to the counties upstream in the Sevier River Basin CUP-pro-pose- Inter-mounta- in Millard County Attorney LeRay figured that out very quickly ’ll sounds like you want to suck money from IPP and give it to the Elks Lodge Sets Easter Egg Hunt Saturday The Richfield Elks Lodge extends an invitation to all area children to participate in their annual Easter egg hunt By Hal Edwarda reported it to firemen who were just concluding their regular Monday Heavy smoke from burning trash and tires filled the inside of a warehouse east of the Grand Western night meeting Four fire engines and over 20 firemen responded to the scene However efforts to get inside the building owned by Darvin White Richfield required breaking a lock on a north door and firemen had to use axes to destroy the lock to gain entrance Reaper Editor Motel near 500 South Main late Monday sending billowing black smoke into the air but causing little damage Firemen were called to the scene shortly after 8:30 pm when Larry and Sydnei Mills Richfield who were driving by the building no- ticed smoke coming from the smokestack Mr Mills went to the building and touched the north door noting it to be hoL They immediately drove to the fire station and It was finally discovered that the source of the smoke was in the back of a truck which had been trash from a cleanup proMr White had underwhich ject taken earlier in the day inside the building filled w ith Rumors Confirmed Three Key UP&L Managers Will Go To Cedar City By Bill McClure Reaper Staff Writer Utah Power officially announced Monday the transfer of three key employees from Richfield to Cedar City ending several weeks of speculation and rumors George A Cox operations manager Marie B Cox customer service manager and Phillip G "Gene" Cardon accounting supervi- will move to Cedar City within the next year the company sor said Public concern in Richfield over the impending transfers climaxed Wednesday when a citizen asked Mayor Paul Lyman what he knew about the situation during a local radio station's talk show A fire department spokesman said Mr White had been cleaning the building which he recently purchased and had dumped clinkers from a stove ’He said he thought the clinkers were cool when he put them in the trash" the spokesman said d An vehicle and a farm tractor also inside the building off-roa- were not damaged mise Both w ere present at the meeting after being invited by respective county commissioners Tm concerned that the two county attorneys weren't notified of the meeting" Brown said "1 see no reason for that" Making the situation more curious is the fact the two attorneys have been working with the CUWCD staff to effect acceptable parameters under w hich the counties could withdraw from CUP A "Concepts in Agreement was reached Jan meeting was scheduled for April 4 11 and another "I don’t know what the status is now after yesterday's meeting" Brown said Thursday Under the January agreement designed to avoid expensive and lengthy litigation the tw o counties would be allowed to withdraw from CUP and receive tax rebates plus interest after the value of benefits received by the counties and prorated administrative charges had been deducted Sevier County's rebate would be about said $23 million Brown 2000 candy eggs and According to the plan 1994 taxes would be returned to the Of county as soon as possible but not later than March 1 19 the remaining balance one third would be paid by March 1 1998 the second third by March 1 2001 and the final third by March 1 2004 shrubbery and trees at the park Children 12 years old and younger arc invited to the hunt There will be two hunt areas one for those five years of age and younger and those for six years of age and older Weather Stiff Fines Levied For Assault DUI By Hal Edwards Reaper Editor Monroe man was A fined $11100 and sentenced to six months in the Sevier County Jail follow ing a plea bargain in connec- Firemen quickly doused the smoldering material w hich included several tires and the truck was pulled from the building by a winch on one of the fire engines Sevier County Attorney Don Brown and Millard County Attorney LeRay Jackson weren't invited lo the Central Utah Water Conservancy District’s Wednesday meeting to hear a proposed compro- The formula for repayment of taxes included an inflation clause to prevent the county from being adversely affected by deferred payments More than Inside Downtown Warehouse By Bill McClure Reaper Staff Writer The event w ill be held Saturday April 2 at 10 am at Richfield Lions Park candy packets some with money inside will be hidden in the Firemen Quell 'Smoke Fire it will CUP Compromise Meet Surprise To County Attorneys didn't work so Wednesday CUP officials pulled out the "divide and conquer" tactic in the form of a compromise Jackson "It appears to me they're trying to drive a wedge between us" Sevier County Commission chairman Sevier County Attorney Don T Merlin Ashman said Thursday Brown agreed "That's just not going to happen "Distribution of IPP money upThis county has never expected stream is not legally defensible’ he (See CUP Page 3-said other counties I don’t think pass legal muster’ he said By Bill McClure tion with charges of aggravated assault and DUI last December Water year precipitation to date 286 to the same date last year 598 all of last year 1023 Greg Percy was fined $9250 by Sixth District Judge David L Mower on the aggravated assault charge and SI 850 for DUI A third charge leaving the scene of an acci- - dent was dropped as part of the plea bargain Mower suspended the jail sentence and all but $300 of the fines and placed Perry on 24 months' probation He was also given 48 hours credit for time he served after he was picked up following the incident The charges stemmed from an altercation between Perry and Daryl Lewis 41 Richfield Dec 9 on a county road east of the Brookly n Road near Elsinore m which Lewis was severely beaten and struck by his own pickup truck driven by Perry Lewis suffered multiple head injuries six fractured ribs injuries to one kidney and spleen a concussion and internal bleeding as a result of the incident ' Spring' Ahead Sunday Lyman was openly critical of Utah Power's plans to move several people from the Sevier Valley to Cedar City He expressed concern about losing good jobs about the ability of the company to respond to power failures and the ability of the company to support economic development efforts in the Richfield area At 2 am Sunday morning clocks should be moved ahead one hour as most of the nation (including Utah) moves to Day- light Savings Time By "springing ahead" (in the spring) there will be an hour more daylight in the evening and an hour less in the morning Lyman's public comments apparently caused Utah Power to send Scott Rasmussen the company's Scenic Southwest Area manager in Cedar City to meet with Lyman This will continue through the last Saturday of October w hen the nation switches back to standard Friday time "I'm very pleased" Lyman said following a two-homeeting with Rasmussen and Paul Henry Richfield District manager "I feel posi- - To make things simpler most people will change their clocks and watches upon 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