Uintah School District adopts 1982-63 budget at 2.36 million
The Uintah School District Board of Education held a budget hearing last week and adopted a 1982-63 budget of 2,355,480.08 including 1,542,427.14 for maintenance and operation and 30 mills total levy. Eleven of 46 teaching jobs remain vacant and housing for about 46 teachers is a continuing issue as classes begin after Labor Day on September 4. The next board meeting is scheduled for August 1.
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Uintah
Board of Education
Officer Kills Escapee In Artesia Gun Duel
Artesia patrolman fatally wounds escapee John Black after a gun duel that left seven shots exchanged near a Jamestown school. Patrolman Johnson, alerted by dispatch, witnessed Black fire at him as Johnson returned fire, killing Black forehead. One escapee, Clarence Heitz, 20, surrendered with no resistance.
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Artesia
State Hospital
Jamestown
N. D
Pan Raiman
J. L. Johnson
John Black
Black
State Highway Patrol
Craig
Highway 40
Pats Yolman Johnson
Clarence Heitz
Cme
Pioneer Day Fete Attracts Community Plans and Attractions
The Pioneer Day celebration features a grand parade, floats, a patriotic program with U.S. Senator Wallace Bennett guest address, and a dawn salute followed by a dance. Organizers urge local groups to enter floats, with a traveling trophy prize for the grand winner. Additionally plans include goose transfer efforts at Ouray Refuge and a push to boost Canada geese population for migration and home nesting.
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Utah
Stanley Anderson
Noland Merkley
Hugh W. Colton
Alvin Bowden
Ferron Hacking
Agron Hansen
Tabernacle
Colton
United States
Wallace F. Bennett
Senator Bennett
Washington, D. C
Stake Center
Vernal City Adopts Budget and Sales Tax Change
Vernal City adopts a fiscal year budget of 122000 starting July 1, moving to a fiscal year from a calendar year under state law. A 44 percent sales tax is expected to raise about 100000 countywide, lowering the 19.5 mill property tax by at least a third. protests trimmed several blocks from the Special Improvement project, and bids are invited for the remaining curb and gutter work. The next City Council meeting is set for Thursday July 5.
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Vernal City
Vernal Avenue
Sth South
White River Bridge Work Underway
Sen Bennett reports from the Bureau of Indian Affairs that bridge work on the White River is progressing with 48 workers on site. Steel erection began on the north abutment and is planned for the south abutment next week.
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White River
Wallace F. Bennett
Washington
Bennett
The
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Rancher Finds Missing Plane East of Meeker
Roy Sizemore of the White River Valley in western Colorado reports finding Air Foresights’ missing plane east of Meeker. The craft vanished April 26 with four aboard. he saw the pilot’s body in the cockpit. Civil Air Patrol suspended its May search due to deep snow. the Air Force resumed reconnaissance from HAN Base after melting snow revealed the area. Aboard were two men and a woman from Norton Air Force Base California and Airman Calvin I. Sheldon at Salt Lake City.
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Roy Sizemore
White River Valley
Colorado
Meeker
Civil Air Patrol
Utah
Air Force
Han Air Force Base
Norton Air Force Base
Calif
Calvin I. Sheldon
Salt Lake City
Two Killed One Hurt In Dutch John Crash
Two men were killed and a third critically injured Monday at 7 25 am in a truck car collision at Dutch John. Gene Brashear 40 Joplin Missouri and Jack Watkins 45 Bartlesville Oklahoma died at the scene. James Clayton 30 Warner Oklahoma was hospitalized with head injuries in serious condition. The accident occurred at the Bureau of Reclamation access road intersection with South Goble vard as a gravel truck driven by Boyd Peterson 21 Lehi Utah approached. Clayton was found 140 feet from impact. All three men worked for Arch Cat Constructors, Flaming Gorge project. The last traffic fatality in Daggett County before this dated to New Year’s 1959.
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Dutch John
Gene Brashear
Joplin
Jack Watkins
Bartlesville
Oklo
Salt Lake City
James Clayton
Warner
Okla
A. Martin
Forest Ranger
Flaming Gorge Dam
Boyd Peterson
Lehl
Bureau of Reclamation
Goplevard
Martin
Clayton
Arch Cat Constructors
Flaming, Gorge
Daggett County
Ralph Ashton Captures Top Am Golf Trophy at Dinosaur Land
Vernal golfer Ralph Ashton won the Dinosaur Land amateur with a two day total of 149, edging Utah’s Bob Osgood by one stroke. Bud Pease finished third at 151, with local leader Cecil Wall praising the event as the largest tourney here with 105 entrants.
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Dinosaur Land
Usahy
Topy Golfens
Cecil Sec Wall
Vernal Men's Golf Assn
Ralph Xenton
Ralph Ashton
Mr. Ashton
University of Utah
Bob Osgood
Bud Pease
Cecil Wall
Ile
Asa Johnston
UHS Yearbooks On Sale Friday at Uintah High
Uintah High School will offer yearbooks for sale this Friday. Principal Leland G Nox announced sales start at 9 30 am in designated rooms for seniors juniors and sophomores. Students were asked to bring receipts or remaining payments.
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Uintah High School
Leland G
Nox
AVA
Com 24
Tex
Guardsmen to Return Home After Year of Active Duty
The Utah National Guard plans homecomings for about 1600 guardsmen from 1,800 called to active duty nearly a year ago. Arrivals at Utah armories are set for August 5 to 14 with ceremonies in Salt Lake City and other cities. Returning units include 1 Corps Artillery and the 1st Target Acquisition Battalion, 140th Artillery, plus 6th Ordnance Co and 3659th Ordnance Co from Fort Hood, and 144th Evacuation Hospitals.
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Utah National Guard
Utah
Maxwell EK
Rich
Salt Lake City
Cittes
Salt Lake
1 Corps
Artupiers
140Th Artillery
Fort Hood, Texas
6Th Ordnance Co
3659Th Ordnance Co
Bt. Lewis, Washy
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Guray Refuge
Itional Wildlife Pictures
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Fee Reales
Canada Goose
Leota Bottoms
H. Walter Woolley
Walter Woolley
Utah Meart Association
O. Marvin Tewis
Johnson
Maurice G. Hoag
Denver
Holtzix
Moffat County
C. L. Gadd
Ouray Refuge
Don Medfearn
Bear, River
Ouray
Bear River
Glade M. Sowards
Martin W. Curtis
Phil Watkins
Main Street
First South
Fifth West
al Higgins
Alan
Mae
G. E. Untermann
Utah Fieldhouse of Natural History
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Foundaion Endowmant
Osgood
Pease
Ralph
Big Bad Peas
Ashtott
Hob Taylor
Henderson
Nev
Ehamp—Ivaded
Jack Colvin
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