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Show V Abortion Counseling Killed Please turn to page A-- 2 & v Vol. 3 No. 8 Thursday, February 2G, 1981 20 cents single copy f Grove Finance Company Files Petition For Relief J It has been more than six months ince Grove Finance Company filed s voluntary petition for relief under tie provisions of Chapter 11 of the 'Sankruptcy Code in U.S. District lourt, according to a report prepared y the trustee, W. LaMonte Robison. Continual attempts have been made wing this period to gather the ebtor's assets, to collect receivables, 1 ollect and reconstruct the books and ecords and check claims filed to see iat they are proper and allowable. Sitobison said that the books and ords, at this date, have constituted r ' the largest problem in the ad-ministration of the case, since they were not maintained in accordance with sound accounting principles. A number of lawsuits have been filed against the principals of the company in the Bankruptcy Court, to restore to the company assets which appear to have been improperly transferred, the trustee reports. Claims are frequently disputed and must be established in court. Trial has been scheduled to commence Oct. 5, 1981, Robison said. . Pre-tri-al hearings have been set during May, June, and July. Both S. Hal Haycock and his wife have also filed a Chapter 11 proceeding in the same court. No-twithstanding that filing, the court has granted permission to the trustee to proceed against the Haycocks in the Grove Finance case. Robison men-tioned that most of the real estate which is claimed as Grove Finance Company assets is also claimed as the personal assets of Haycock. These disputes are expected to be settled in the trial. Haycock shows liabilities of $2,843,875 against assets of $1,954,660 in his filing. "Preliminary schedules of assets and liabilities have been filed and are available for inspection either in my office or in the office of the clerk of the court," Robison said. Mr. Lorin F. Wheelwright, chair-man of the creditor's committee said, "If the winds of good fortune blow our way, it is possible that the new in-vestors, the present creditors and hopefully the Haycock family could all benefit. This is the most optimistic view I can take at this time. ' ' Dog Licenses Due Friday February 28 Pleasant Grove City residents who own a dog should purchase a dog license by Friday, Feb. 28. After this date a $5 late fee will be assessed. All dog owners must license their pet by the time the dog is four months old. By the time the dog is six months old it must have received a vaccination for rabies. For those citizens licensing dogs which are six months or older, a current rabies vac-cination certificate should be presented at the time the dog license is to be purchased. Licenses can be obtained at the city offices, 35 South Main. Briefly: Mayor Visits PG High School Mayor Cornell Haynie discussed Pleasant Grove city policies and problems with the Pleasant Grove High Student Council this week. When asked about today's youth, the mayor said that today's young people are better than in years past and that he takes great pride in what the high school students are doing. The studentbody president, Justin Bone, put before the mayor a resolution on the Viet Nam War Veterans. The mayor was pleased the student government was getting involved and encouraged them to get more involved. The mayor told them to present the resolution before the city council and he would help to set a week aside in tribute to the Viet Nam Veterans. The mayor briefly explained the way he started in politics. He first moved to Pleasant Grove in 1953 from Colorado. When he came here he quickly got involved in the Kiwanis Club and the Strawberry Days celebration. He commented how Millin Radmall asked him to run for th,e City Council, in which he served one term. He has now served two terms as mayor. Local Geologist: Anatomy Of An Earthquake Thrust Fault Cross-sectio- n Fault Line old rock J fc younger rock Normal Fault Wasatch Mtns. This diagram represents the earthquake that occurred here Friday. Originating ' yvv ydk 7,000 feet beneath the town of Lindon, the Nvo tremor awakened many from sleep but did little damage to property. J LINDON jAl : ' Utah Lake LMkM. x i Faillt Line Graphs By L. Mont Call Strike Slip Fault Aerial View ratm --- --- -- tifttli .Z1X:- roadway you say? That's what most people said about Mount St. Helens. We should not worry, fret, and think the end of the world will occur if we have a major earthquake but, we should plan and be ready for whatever comes. How do you plan? Store food, water, clothing, and shelter. Chances are you could be camping out just like the Italians and Algerians were in the latter part of last year, so plan to have what you would need within easy reach if your house fell in. Long-ter-m plans might include consulting a geologist to ask him where the safest places to build your home might be. You might also want to consult a geologist or an engineer about how to build an earthquake-proo- f home (plans and materials). Go to your local library or write the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver for more information on earthquakes and emergency preparedness. I By LYNN MEIBOS, Geologist Special to the " Citizen, Free Press and Review Yes folks it finally happened - the moment we all have been anxiously waiting for. Friday, Feb. 20, 1981 at 2:13 a.m. near the town of Lindon, Utah, there was an "earthquake." 1 Wow! Big deal, some of you say. Several people I know said they didn't feel a thing. I probably wouldn't have felt anything either if it hadn't been for that noisy wind that was blowing the same night. What is an earthquake, anyway? Why do they occur in our "happy" little valley? What is the number they always tell us about in the news but never, never explain? What is dif-ferent between our little earthquake and one occurring in someplace like Italy or Mt. St. Helens? What causes earthquakes? You know, I bet I could continue to list several questions that some of us have thought of at least once after hearing about an eart-hquake on the TV news. But like many other things that happen in our lives, that is as far as the question goes. What is an earthquake? Everybody knows the answer to that, you say. And you're probably right. But just to set the record straight in case you don't know, an earthquake is a group of elastic wave motions produced in ztthe earth by a quickly-movin- g .disturbance of a usually stable por-- j tion of the earth. Earth?- - Rock? Move quickly? You bet. J The next question you might ask (after reading that might go something like this, "What onearth makes something as big as the earth move?" Good question. Questions like this one and other similar ones about the earth helped establish geologic "principles known as the Plate Tec-tonic Theory. Today the principles of plate tectonics have been found to be applicable to every aspect of earth study, from the study of earthquakes to the search for economic recourses J buried in the earth. jkSimply stated, the principle of plate Jfctonics puts forward the idea that the earth's crust is made up of several individual plates that move around on the surface of the earth at the rate of 1 to 10 centimeters per year. The in-teraction of these plates with each other produces several interesting effects. One of these is earthquakes. Earthquakes occur regularly at the boundaries of these plates, everywhere in the world. Mount St. Helens lies on such a boundary, so iovs Italy, so does California. Do we? If we do are we in for some volcanic lust or Italian devastation? To answer these questions let me soint out that there are three different 4ypes of plate boundaries: those yjjoundaries that are crashing together, those that are pulling apart, ind those that are grinding past one mother. Earthquakes in Italy and the iarthquakes associated with the 'olcanism of Mt. St. Helens were aused by the collision of two plates. Earthquakes in Iceland, in the "rift 'alley" of East Africa, on the eastern lank of the Sierra Nevada Mountains near places like Reno) and in our wn little valley (in fact, in most of :entral Utah) are caused by plates hat are pulling apart. Earthquakes 'f Southern California along the San Andreas fault system are lenerated as two plates grind past ach other. Earthquakes are generated, as the lefinition says, where the earth has noved. I've mentioned that J movement is caused by the in-fraction of crustal plates. This, more pimply stated, means that solid chunks of rock slip up and down, or back and forth, in relation to one another. These slippages of rock are called faults. There are three main types of faults, all three of which can be found within the confines of this valley. These three types of faults (see diagrams) are normal faults, strike-sli- p faults, and thrust faults. Of these three only the first is of active influence on our valley. The other two were once influential in forming our topography but have since been overprinted by the effects of normal faulting. The mountains that we see every day here in Utah Valley were formed by a major series of normal faults. The valley and the mountains were formed when extensional stresses stretched the crust to a point that it couldn't take any more. At this point the valleys dropped and the moun-tains were lifted up. This event was not a single event in time but is a recurring phenomenon that has been taking place for more than one million years. In fact a major part of the uplift and subsidance occurred before the last great Ice Age. The series of normal faults that has formed the Wasatch mountains is called the Wasatch Fault System. Most media people shorten this to "the Wasatch Fault," where in ac-tuality it is a complex zone of several small faults that extends from as far south as Cedar City to north of Brigham City. The earthquake that we felt oc-curred because of movement along one of these faults in the Wasatch fault zone. The movement took place 7,000 feet beneath the town of Lindon. This point is called the focus of the earthquake. A point on the surface directly above the point of movement is called the epicenter. When we hear that the epicenter of the quake was in Lindon, that point on the surface is what is being referred to. The quake we felt was reported to have registered 3.5-3.- 6 on the Richter Scale. What is a Richter Scale? Briefly, it is a magnitude scale for expressing the size of an earthquake. The scale gets its name from a seismologist (a person that studies the movement of waves generated by movements within the earth) by the name of C.F. Richter, who invented the system. Each number on the scale does not, however, have the same value. For a one-un- it increase in magnitude, the energy released by an earthquake increases between 30 and 60 times. Thus, between 25,000 and 200,000 shocks of "magnitude 5" are required to release as much energy as a one single shock of "magnitude 8." So our little 3.5 quake was in-significant compared to the shock that we would have felt had the tremor measured even as low as 5 on the Richter scale. Some older citizens may remember stories about the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco which measured 8.25. The Alaska ear-thquake of 1964 had a magnitude of between 8.4 and 8.6 and was at least twice as energetic as the earthquake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906. Enough of numbers. Will we have a quake as energetic as the San Francisco quake of 1906? I hope not, in fact the liklihood is rather low that we will have any magnitude 8 quakes in this area. Why? Because the physical process generating motion along the Wasatch fault zone is only gravity. The mechanism generating movement along the San Andreas is that of two major crustal plates grinding past one another (strike slip faulting). The movement along the Wasatch fault zone is thought by some to be slightly influenced by the movements in the San Andreas zone. Movement here, however, is thought to affect only this area. Has there ever been major movement along the Wasatch Front in recent time? Yes, as recently as 200 years ago, movement of 15-2- 0 feet vertical displacement occurred northeast of Nephi. Such movement would have generated at least a mangitude 7 earthquake. A quake like that today would destroy many things we take for granted each day: our homes, schools, churches, power facilities and drinking water. Some geologists and seismologists feel that we may have such a quake sometime in the future - at least within the next 50 years. Impossible -- V. $ ':r " ' r , , . s " - t ;. Si ; , ; LYNN MKIBOS, a of American IGF.fl.O(;iST li house sway luriuj; Friday's lreinir. i Stake Sets New Boundaries Pleasant Grove East Stake changed boundaries and acquired two new wards Sunday with Seventh and Eighth Wards being realigned to form the new 18th Ward and Eighth and Thirteenth Wards to form the new Seventeenth Ward. President Evan Mack Palmer said the Stake Presidency was concerned about the rapidly growing wards, and the strains that it put on the bishops. He said that some of the bishops were spending from 40 to 70 hours a week at their callings because of the large wards. The new wards will start meeting together the second week in April. This will allow the new bishoprics time to reorganize and staff their wards. President Palmer also noted that in 1957 all this area was one ward and there are now eight wards comprising an entire stake. Vision Clinic To Be Held Amblyopia (Lazy Eye) is a problem related to the eye muscle in young children. Preschool children need to be tested at the age of 4-- 5 years. Clinics will be held Thursday Mar. 5. In PI. Grove the clinic will be at Grovecrest School 200 East 1100 North, in American Fork it will be held at Forbes School 281 North 200 East, in Alpine Elementary, 400 East 300 North Alpine and in Lehi this years clinic will be at Lehi Elementary 651 North Center. All four clinics will begin at 2 p.m. and will end at 4:30 p.m. Last year in the Alpine School District more than 1,000 additional students were screened than had been screened the previous year 1979. This success is due to the exceptional effort made by the Public Health Nurses and the PTA Organization but most of all this outstanding record is a direct result of the concern parents have for the well being and health of their children. The "Lazy Eye Clinic" is important because a child's central vision develops gradually through the first six years of life. Lack of central vision in one eye is called Amblyopia. It is gradual in onset and readily correctible if discovered early. If your child was screened last year and is not in school, he should be rescreened because visual defects can develop rapidly, especially in this time of his life, according to the Public Health Department. In case visual defects are noted, referrals will be made for professional examination and follow-u- p for correction. Plan to have your preschool child participate in one of these state-wid- e clinics and remind your friends of this very important date! |