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Spectrum Tuesday, December 24, 1985 3 Proposed 20-aore land exchange moves forward hVF sistant in the branch county library at Enterprise. David Leavitt as a custodian in the county library in St. George at $875 a month. Nellie Ballard as Springdale branch librarian at $4.25 an hour. Wayne Shamo as a literary coordinator at $667 a month.

He will be paid from a grant received from the State Library Board. Dallas Hartman as a custodian of the Enterprise Senior Citizen Center. He will receive $300 a month. Jan Godfrey as director of the Hurricane Senior Citizen Center with her receiving $200 a month. Durward Terry as director of the Enterprise Senior Citizen Center with him receiving $100 a month.

1 The commission also approved a cooperative agreement between the county and the Utah State University Extension Service in which a pass-through salary will provide for a part-time 4-H aide and a full-time secretary. The money will be passed through from the county to the state. The positions will be advertised by the university. ST. GEORGE Members of the St.

George Veterans of Foreign War Post Will Thompson, Rhea Thompson and Jack Bratcher pass out food to needy families as part of the VFW's Kris Kringle program Saturday. More than 150 families received boxes of food, Will Thompson said. In lighting contest Barquists home wins top honors dar City, apparent low bidder (with a base bid of $169,500) on the Hurricane Senior Citizen Center addition, did not comply with provisions of the federal Davis-Bacon Act, the commission awarded a base bid of to Lyn Williams of St. George. Commissioners also set aside 10 county holidays for the 1986 year, but instead of celebrating Columbus Day on Monday, Oct.

13, employees will take the day off on Nov. 29, in concert with Thanksgiving Day which falls on Thursday, Nov. 28. The adjustment was made to further align county holidays with holidays taken by state employees. This means the county assessor and state driver's license division office, in the County Administration Building, and the county clerk's office and 9th Circuit Court's St.

George in the Hall of Justice building, will be open approximately the same days. Other holidays include: New Year's Day (Jan. 1); President's Day (Feb. 17); Memorial Day (May 26) Independence Day (July 4) Pioneer Day (July 24); Labor Day (Sept. 1); Veteran's Day (Nov.

11) and Christmas (Dec. 25). The commission will hold its regular weekly meetings on Mondays during 1986 except Tuesday, Feb. 18 (President's Day is on Feb. 17).

No meetings will be held May 26 because of Memorial Day; Sept. 1 because of Labor Day and Dec. 29 because of the Christmas holidays. Commissioners also discussed whether it was worthwhile to continue holding an occasional commission meeting in Enterprise, Hurricane and Springdale. Commissioners Kurt Young and John Whitney said the level of interest shown by residents at those meetings had diminished over the years.

In addition, the cost of transporting county officials from St. George to the outlying communities was an undue burden. Commission Chairman Jerry Lewis indicated the meetings in the outlying communities should be continued. No official action was taken. Based on County Treasurer Lynn Gardern's office, 18 individuals or organizations were granted $1,726.88 in property tax credits for 1986 while 62 individuals or organizations will receive a total of $39,956.74 in 1985 tax refunds.

The commission also: Approved hiring Ila Slack as a technician I in the county assessor's office at $873 a month, effective Dec. 18. Reappointing Royden Wittwer for another 3-year term on the Color Country Board. Reappointing Nick Hammer of St. George, Alma Young of Spring-dale and Don Wiley of Washington City to 2-year terms on the County Travel Development Board.

Appointing Ben Liebick of LaVerkin and reappointing Dona Parkinson to 3-year terms on the Council on Aging Board. The following are 1986 employment contracts signed by the commission: Beulah Peterson as a special assistant in the County TV Department at $60 a month. Susan T. Staheli as a special as by Loren Webb Staff writer ST. GEORGE A proposed 20-acre land exchange between Spearex International and Washington County involving an area above the Dixie Downs Race Track complex moved forward Monday.

County commissioners directed that deeds be drawn up for an intended trade. Through the trade, both parties hope to consolidate scattered lands that are currently intermixed. County Planner John Willie said Spearex hopes to eventually develop the additional land once it is acquired while the county would probably sell some or all of the newly traded property. County Attorney Paul Graf will review the legal description prior to any land swap. In other business, the commission approved a $262,207 increase or a total of $4,777,163 in the 1985 general fund, $31,000 in the library operations fund, and an increase of $1,600 in the Council on Aging fund.

Part of the general fund increase included $50,105 for the county assessor office; $60,000 for engineering and surveying; $60,000 for contributions; $35,000 for non-departmental; and $11,300 for the county sheriff's department. Some of the costs also came from engineering work on Sunset in St. George, along with insurance expenses and the building addition to the Hurricane Senior Citizen Center. The commission set a $500 per acre sales figure on approximately four acres of land near the Virgin River, between Hurricane and LaVerkin, in its offer to sell to John Bell of LaVerkin. The motion was subject to receiving a letter from adjacent property owner Terry West saying he wasn't interested in the property.

There is no legal deeded access to the property, said a county spokesman. Bell is to pay for appraisal and title search costs, plus the acreage cost if he is interested in purchasing the property. Because Gower Construction of Ce- ISSN 07454611 Published dally except Saturday by Spectrum Publishing Company, 275 East St. George Blvd. St.

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Postmaster: Send all changes ol address, correspondence and POD Forms 3579 to: SPECTRUM PUBLISHING INC. P.O. BOX 40 ST. GEORGE, UTAH 84770 ST. GEORGE The elaborately decorated home of Terry and Rita Barquist in the Middleton area of St.

George won the annual community Christmas lighting contest, a spokesman said today. The Barquists, 895 North 1700 East, will receive a check for $75 from the St. George Rotary Club, said MacArthur Wright, chairman of the judging committee. The Barquist home featured snowmen creatively built from tumbleweeds that have been sprayed white, and a menagerie of Christmas themes both inside and outside the home. Second place and a $50 check went to Tom Dobrusky of Bloo-mington.

The Dobrusky home, 1413 Kanab Circle, featured a Christmas theme colored lights. Suddenly its CHRISTMAS Sheldon Jones Stucki CEDAR CITY Sheldon Jones Stucki, 69, died Dec. 22, 1985, in the Valley View Medical Center of congestive heart failure. He was born June 4, 1916, in Goodwell, to Alfred C. and Cora Jones Stucki.

He married Dorothy Williams Oct. 21. 1941. in Kanarraville. The mar- Sheldon Jones Stucki ZT.

Third place and a $25 check was awarded to the decorated home of Kline Adams, 100 West 500 North. The award for the best commeri-cal decorations this year was given to the Las Palmas resort in Green Valley, said Wright. Operators of the resort will receive a certificate of appreciation. Best neighborhood was in the Dixie Downs area at 1525 North, running westerly off Dixie Downs road, where light standards in front of the homes were uniformly decorated. The community Christmas lighting contest is sponsored each year by the Rotary Club in cooperation with The Daily Spectrum and KDXU radio.

riage was later solemnized in the St. George Temple. He was educated in the Iron County Schools and graduated from the Branch Agricultural College. He was a stockman and farmer and loved the mountains, hunting and fishing. He is survived by his wife of Cedar City; three children: Shirlee Bland of Riverton, Utah, Bruce W.

of Las Vegas, Nev. and S. Lee of Arlington, a daughter-in-law, Rosa Lee Hardy Stucki of Las Vegas, five grandchildren; a brother, Alfred Blaine of Brigham City; two sisters: Louise Peterson of Cedar Ciy and Eva Guyette of Bolder City, Nev. He was preceded in death by two children, Monte C. and Elizabeth, and a brother, Lloyd.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Cedar City LDS Rock Church. Friends may call Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

at the Southern Utah Mortuary. Interment will be in the Cedar City Cemetery. She was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and four sisters: Annie Anderson, Ida Elizabeth Hatch, Erma Josephine Broadhead, Orson Wilbur Hatch Fredrick Hatch, Geraldean Worthen, Richard Vernon Hatch and Herbert Walter Hatch. Funeral services were to be held today in the Panguitch Third LDS Ward Chapel. Burial will be in the Panguitch Cemetery.

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