i Fierront -- Member National Editorial Association VOLUME 33 TREMONTON. UTAH. THURSDAY. OCT. Member Utah State Press Association 13. 1355 NUMBER I Valuable Prizes to DeJhert C. Firth Named New Bishop of Bothwell Be Given at Cooking of the Both-weBishopric was affect- ors, Reese B. Mason and Deloras night in their regular Stokes, and clerk Donald Sten-quiwere present to conduct meeting. President Ficklin, his counsel- - the reorganization. Delbert C. Firth was sustained as bishop, with Virgil Anderson as 1st counselor, Reed Harris as 2nd counselor, Henry Newman was chosen as ward clerk and Dean H. Anderson as assistant Two days for registration are clerk. The retiring bishopric are announced before city election Nov. 8. All who did not vote Deloras L. Stokes, Clyde M. in the last city election must Anderson, Delbert C. Firth, with register to be able to vote next John F. Eberhard and Max month. Sarah Adams is the Anderson as clerks. registrar for District One. She lives at 492 North Tremont St., and Mrs. Ann Zesiger at 108 So. 1st E. will handle registrations from District II. The two days for registration are Tuesday Oct. 18 and TuesAbout twenty citizens met at day Nov. 1. the city hall Monday night and nominated three candidates for city councilmen to run on the Citizen's ticket. Mayor Jesse M. Day appointed Mel Foxley as chairman and Halvor Glenn as secretary. Mayor Day and Councilman Ed Quinney acted as tellers. Alf Manning, DeVerl Payne and Melvin Foxley received the nomination. The People's ticket will meet tonight, Thursday, at the city hall to nominate a ticket of three candidates to appear on the city election ballot in November. The meeting is called for 8 o'clock. A reorganization School Oct. 13, 14 The women of the valley have a special invitation to atin the tend and participate and Laundry Cooking, Freezing, School in Tremonton Thursday and Friday afternoons. Different phases of the program will be featured each afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Tremonton First ward hall. Many valuable prizes will be given away, and a $100 merchandise certificate will be presented to some lady each afternoon. Prizes include also a waffle iron and electric iron given by Allen Furniture; a ll Ward ed Sunday sacrament George C. toaster and iron from Bradshaw Appliance; a kitchen clock or popper and a mixette from Freiss Hardware & Appliance; an electric clock and toaster from Fronk Chevrolet; an electric fry pan and iron from Northern Furniture; a combination grill and waffle iron from Russ Electric; two Betty Crocker cook books and six Westing-hous- e cook books from Leader Publishing Co. The Ward Relief Society having the largest percent of attendance will receive an electric oven from the Utah Power and Light Co. Conducting the program of the school will be Utah Power and Light home economists, Miss Hazel Bishop and Miss Merle Chipman. Local Officials Guests on Special Dining Car st Two Registration Dates Announced Citizens Ticket Names Candidates ! . Wednesday at noon various representatives from local firms and industries dined with officials from the Union Pacific. The dinner was served at noon aboard the special diner car which was stopped on a siding at Tremonton. Representing the Union Pacific Railroad were Mr. C. C. Larkin and Mr. Homer Mclntyre. Mr. Larkin is a of the railroad and Mr. Mclntyre is a traffic manager. Local guests at the dinner meeting were Mr. Ford Scalley o of the Sugar Company, Mr. Jesse Day, Mayor of Tremonton; Mr. George Reynolds, Manager of the J.C. Penney Store, and Kleon Kerr, representing the Bear River Valley Chamber of Commerce. Among the various problems discussed was the eventual possibility of a fast commuter train from the Bear River Valley to Hill Field, Ogden, Brigham and industrial areas. Mrs. Dee M. Firth vice-preside- nt Stanley Reed Palmer Reed Palmer To Compete for Post On School Board Utah-Idah- Tremonton Reed Palmer, businessman will have his name on the ballot for election as a school board member in November, following the filing of a petition Saturday by several local citizens at the last minute deadline. Signing the petition, which was notarized by Mel Foxley were S. Ray Ashcraft, R. Z. Heppler, June N. Holmgren, Henry Van Sweden, and A. W. Fredricksen. LaMoin Cowley filed in Both are competing for the post held by Wayne Sandall, the past ten years, Sandall having served two terms. Palmer is owner and manager of the Palmer Jewelry Company, has been active in church and civic affairs, having been recently appointed to the Tremonton City council, and is a member of the South Bear River Stake Sunday School He was also president of the Tremonton Jaycees, and a chairman of the Tremonton Businessmens Association. Superin-tendenc- y. William D. Burton Named to Education Post Bishop William D. Burton of e has Ward been named Director of Community Education for the , current school year, according to announcement by the Board of Education this week. Bishop Burton will supervise and organize all courses in adult education in the Bear River high school area. He began his work in the new capacity October 1. Bishop Burton will be the man to see regarding adult courses to be taught during this school year at the high school. Dale Showell Will Serve in Canada Elder Dale Showell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arch Showell will be honored Sunday night in Tremonton First Ward beginning at 6:30. He has been called to serve as a missionary in the Western Canadian Mission. Speakers of the evening will be Bishop Lamoin Cowley, Kleon Kerr, the missionary and his father. Music will include prelude and postlude by Carol Jane Homer, songs by the congregation, a violin solo by Dr. C. W. Gurnsey, an organ solo by Mrs. Gene Jorgensen and a vocal solo by Virgil Francom. Buried Wednesday Funeral settees were conducted Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Marian Hazel Arave Firth, 25, wife of Dee M. Firth, who died Sunday in an Ogden hospital. The services were conducted in the Hooper ward, where she was reared, and burial was in the Riverview Cemetery. Mrs. Firth was born Feb. 19, 1930 in Hooper, a daughter of Vernal L. and Hazel Simpson Arave. She married Mr. Firth in Salt Lake City, April 20, 1953. Surviving are her husband, Tremonton; her parents, Hooper; a brother and a sister, Kenneth Arave, Roy; and Mrs. Melba Bushnell, Hooper; a grandmother, Mrs. Alice Simpson, Hooper. Thatcher-Penros- Chamber of Commerce Committee Places Markers on Western Hoards Saturday, representatives of the Bear River Valley Chamber of Commerce made a tour of western Box Elder County. New road signs were placed at various intersections pointing toward the Bear River Valley centers. From Strevell to Grouse Creek the touring group placed road signs indicating mileage to Tremonton and Garland. Going south from Grouse Creek road signs indicated direction of travel to the Lucin junction with State Highway 70. From this Junction to highway 30 several more markers were placed at appropriate locations. While at Grouse Creek the chamber delegation discussed various problems with the Elder Dale Showell ranchers in that area. Also stops were made at the Muddy Ranch and other places along the Highway 70 coming toward the Highway 30 junction from Park Valley. Making the trip from the Bear River Valley Chamber of Commerce were Mr. Stuart Young, President; Ron Hales, Chairman, Merchants and Retail Committee; Don Rcdfield, Director; and Kleon Kerr. Secretary and Manager. Roads in the western part of the County are dotted with many markers, but none for Tremonton or Garland, shopping centers of the valley until those placed Saturday. NEW BISHOPRIC AT BOTHWELL WARD. Members of the Bothwell Ward bishopric sustained Sunday evening are, seated; Virgil Anderson, first counselor; Delbert Firth, bishop; Reed Harris, second counselor Standing are Henry Newman, clerk and Dean Anderson, assistant clerk. Polio Vaccine Available Every Utah child between the ages of five and nine is now eligible for free Salk polio vaccine. Some of these children qualify for vaccine being provided by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The others .are eligible to receive vaccine furnished by the United States Public Health Service under the National Poliomyelitis Assistance Act of fcW 4F- V , - r It 1 : f THE WAY TO TOWN Is indicated by road markers placed in western part of county last week end. Nailing up the signs are Don Redfield and Kleon Kerr. The High Priests Quorum of South Bear River Stake was at the regular reorganized Priesthood leadership meeting Sunday. Reginald Hunsaker was sustained ,as the new president and his counselors are Milton L. Johnson and A. Earl Buchan- the market at the present time. Mervin E. Holt is the out All manufacturers' supplies are going for the NFIP or the Polio Assistance Act programs. Both of the free vaccine programs are being supervised locally by the Utah State Department of Health. National Foundation Under the program of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, all of those school children who got only one shot of vaccine at school before the NFIP immunizations were halted last spring may receive a second shot. In addition, "polio pioneers" who got the real vaccine in the 1954 field trials are eligible for the "booster" shot which was promised them this , year. First ProgTam Starts In October Children seeking immunization under this program will be required to present a "parental request form" supplied by the Elder Rodney T. John public health nurse and signed of or the by the parent guardian child. These forms have been sent out. Shots will be given at School on October 25, 1955, at 9 a.m., with the following schools going to Tremonton: Deweyville, Bear River City, Rodney T. John of Portage Elwood, Howell, Grouse Creek, Promontory, Snowville, Yost, Ward will enter the mission Thatcher, Bothwell and Park home in Salt Lake City next Wednesday in preparation for Valley. in the Shots will be given at Garland his work as a missionary Mission. New England at School on October 27, 1955, He will be honored at a fare9 a.m., with the following testimonial Sunday evening well schools going to Garland: Fieldthe in Portage Ward at 7:30 p.m. ing, Plymouth and Portage. John is a son of Mrs. Elder 9 Given age Group Priority Grace John. He is a graduate This priority age group of Bear River high school and which is first in line for the free has attended the University of consists' of children vaccine Utah for the past two years. five to nine years of age, excluding those who are eligible for COMMUNITY vaccine under the National METHOD! ST CHURCH Foundation for Infantile Paralysis program. Sunday October 16 Layman's Day Children eligible for immunization under the assistance act Speaker will be Edgar Winprogram will receive their shots chester of Ogden. not in school clinics, but from their own family physicians. will administer the vacinne at a They will get two injections, charge of not more than $2 per two to four injection. approximately Parents of children, eligible weeks apart. The vaccine itself will be for free vaccine under this plan furnished free of, charge, but should contact their family parents must pay the doctor's physician immediately. He will fee for administering it. The arrange an appointment and executive committee of the Utah order the vaccine from the Utah State Medical Association' has Health Department. Orders will announced that member doctors be filled as rapidly as possible. Portage Youth Called to New England Mission 5-- V TT 1 1 TT 1 wmaia nunsaiver liamea neaa Of Stake High Priest Quorum 1955. No commercial vaccine is on an. Mc-Kinl- I 11 IT going president. Vernal T. Hol- land and Thomas Roberts served as his counselors and W. A. Westmoreland as secretary. Another change made was the release of Evan D. Thompson as secretary of the 153rd Quorum of Seventy and Lynn Markham sustained to that position. . Sheriffs-Offic-e Investigating Two Burglaries Investigations are under way by the sheriff's office on two burglaries committed in this end of the county. Sheriff Warren Hyde reports Ihe has a good lead on the person or persons who broke into the Don Limb UTOCO Service Station In Garland and took three cases of shotgun shells. Other merchan dise including guns and tires were not bothered, according to the sheriff. The second theft was at the D. G. Nelson Service Station In Snowville, where about 15 tires, a case of oil and a case of engine detergent were stolen. The two separate burglaries were committed by different parties, states Sheriff Hyde, after investigations. Services for Robert McCrary Held Thursday Funeral services for Robert McCrary, 70 who died Monday morning, will be conducted at 1 p.m. in Thursday, the Portage Ward by Bishop Walter E. Gibbs. Friends may call at the family home from 10 a.m. until time for the service. Burial will be in the Portage Cemetery. Mr. McCrary had been ill for several months. He was born in Portage March 19, 1885, a son of Don Carlos and Mary Ellen Harris McCrary. He married Pearl May Allen June 30, 1915 in Ogden. He was a member of the LDS Church. Surviving are his widow, and the following sons and daughters, Mrs. May Larsen, Billings, Mont.; Farrell, Portage; Mrs. Cleo Nielsen, Roswell, New Mex.; Mrs. Beverly Timmons, Layton; Don, Sacramento, Calif.; and Mrs. Boyd McCrary, Portage; also six grandchildren and a sister. M. (to-da- y)