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Show t yw H m. IS tjfrtltilrte&KHk , 4KYi rtl fWi fiw gpijptiaMPWM mCTtfftiflfimrtiffin'frM rtiliiiinlif- iifffniA BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID OGDEN, UTAH 84401 PERMIT NO. 278 Serving North Ogden, Pleasant Viewand Plain City Vol. 3 No. 48 MWg Thursday, December 28, 1978 . tt&s MV. SW1 V X ,'v. . spy'th V IP .. V, a; hAK vi 7 i s H -District LAKE School SALT Weber superintendent CITY G Leland Burningham said ihe consequences of the decision that it is unconstitutional to grant public school credit for Mormon Seminary classes could be far caching, and may force big changes in the state The sipo. aton between chuuh and slae as set out in ihe U S, Consti ution was the basis of the ruling by Judge Clai era e A Bi unmer that the Logan Utah School is; xt cannot grant credit for students enrolled m I liter day ns Utah School Di ducts may have to pay $6,(XK) 000 to lure more teai hers as a r suit of ti.o ruling, said State Si hool Superintendent Dr Walter Talbot It would cost this - - , 1- 4' v Latter-da- y Saints (Mor- mons) The Mormon Church operates seminaries in almost every high school and junior high school in Utah 5C is jlYSi It would cost $6,000,000 to hire teachers to take up the time filled by seminary, and that does not include providing classroom space, said State School SuperinWe think tendent Talbot we need a clarification of If what the ruling means are by local church groups even New Years Eve falls on a this year Young Special Interests Young single adults from the ages of 26 to somewhere in the 40s will celebrate on a regional level A New Years Eve morning breakfast will le held at A1 Talbots home starting at 1D30 pm Sunday night He lives al 489 I6th Street in Ogden Breakfast, games and other activities will be featured Cost villhe$2 pel son US VP tonight per Enid 394 8639 SPECI or VL to Carol Al 392 7255, 9 INTERESTS Single LDS adults from 26 to any age are invited to attend the weekly Special Interest dances held each Thursday evening starting at 8.30 8 im seminary cannot be counted towards the minimum school attendance vySy S requirement, then we have a conflict r 44 vf j Beacon C orrespondent Public hearings were set for next weeks North Ogden City Council meeting, and the garbage collection schedule for the holiday week was announced, approval was given for a volunteer income tax service to be held at the city hall again this year, and the 1979 Council City Meeting Schedule was discussed Jim Shupe and Hay Sliankula have asked for 7one changes involving property each of them owns A public hearing has been called on each piojiosal for next Tuesday evening starting about 6pm The Shupe property, if apiroved will be the first area to be rezoned under the new manufacturing zone ordinance as MP1 It is an area near 2000 N which is now zoned SIS. Hay Shankula requested that a strip of land near the stake farm and adjoining the hospital properly be reoned from R .5 to H 4 He would like to develop his property in the area with condominiums At 6:4) a public hearing will he held concerning a community development block grant, which the city is going to appiy for The purpose of the hearing is to get public input m order to prioritize projects Administrator. City Dennis Shupe suggested that the city apply for a federal HUD grant for around $200 000 to upgrade the utilities, mainly the water, in Ihe older section of Ihe city The affected area would include from 400 E. to pvn E and 2.HX) N to 2850 N He further suggested that some rehabilitation work be 'kmc to help elderly and low income families, in the same area to upgrade their -- ! Dress is church standards Donation $2 at the door to cover expenses of the live band and refreshments 5 Fireside program morning breakfast and an early housing Neither proposed project require a matching fund by the property owner would Garbage collected Rather than offset each garbage collection day, as has been done m the past, due to the Monday holiday, 2 days worth of garbage will be picked up on Tuesday, Dennis Shupe announced He said that it worked well this week when they not only had to do 2 days worth on Tusday, but a lot of extra garbage that always comes with Christmas He explained that they used extra men on the cities back up truck in order to accomplish the task According to Mr. Shupe the trash collection has gone much, much smoother since the city took over IT Program approved Sharon Dikkerson. an employee of the IRS. asked the council for permission to set up a free income tax aid service once a week at the city hall for 12 weeks. The service would be available to any low income or elderly person living in the area Included are North Ogden. Pleasant View. Plain City and the North end of Ogden II w ill be held each Thursday evening starting January 25 and going until April 12 It would he open between the hours of 7 and 9 p m and would be staffed by volunteers. many of whom are IRS employees Ms Dikkerson represents a group called VITA, which stands for volunteers for income tax assistance. Mayor McColley suggested the council continue the present practice of meeting the first 4 Thursdays of each month. "Y,c have a short agenda sometimes, but it makes us more people available to the a A )., Hi If;'- tfLL jy 4 V THIS PICTURESQUE Lucin Cut-ofNote V. Perrins Going to sea by rail, with water running from nothing to thirty-si- x feet in depth is possible m Utah. As straight as a crow flies, for thirty miles, tram travelers from Ogden to Lucin experience a sensational ride across the Great Salt Lake, where it seems as if the train is running over the surface of the salty seas itself. is taken for granted The Cut-of- f now, yet the inventive genius of man remarkable route through water; twenty mile of which were made of solid rock and earth sixteen feet wide at the top and 17 feet above the water. Today the great bridge across the lake is a solid path, except for trestle work More level than a Floor The Cutoff is more nearly level than an ordinary floor For miles there is no grade then a grade so slight that an average person would need to travel a half mile to rise his own height Nowhere is the grade more than five inches to a hundred feet Day after day the Southern Pacific Lines Overland Route trams travel via Ogden to and from San Francisco over the cut-of- f going to sea by rail Tram passengers, watching from their Pullman windows, see scores of seasulls and other birds from Hat. or Bird Island, bredding place for thousands of pelicans and gulls. They view Antelope and other Islands jutting out of the lake as they spin thirty miles from shore to shore, over the Great Salt Lake These islands are famous for their wild buffalo herds, seen in the filming of the movie epic Covered Wagon Days", and other wild game ff 44 ad ! 'v mpz iy- - 4 "4 V ator. sau) i&& shot shows Overlond Limited Crossing Great Salt Lake looking west from Midlake, halfway point on trestle siding for yard in picture. (Courtesy of Glen Perrins) by Glen Cut-o- yV'Y h, , r ' OGDEN this sJ A i .. f H fi 1 ?r - f. The dance will be held m South Ogden this week at the church at 36th and Polk Avenue, but will move to North Ogden in January It will be held at the North Ogden 7th and 10th Ward building at 386 Alberta Drive (the North end of Washington Blvd ) NORTH OGDEN STAKE A New Years dance will be held Satirdav Dec 30 for everyone 14 and older. It will be held at the Stake Center. The Plain City Stake is also participating in this event. A New Years Eve Extravaganza for the youth 14 and over will also be held It will begin at 10 p m Sunday, at the Stake Center It will be a v T. ' ' x A 4.7 7 7A A V,1 w - '' created by Carol Shaw '- the decision means that tar :c ! 'V&fc'.. .v - celebrations i $. : Years it amount if the public schools has to assume the class load handled for the past 30 years by the seminaries, which are operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of V' New planned though Sunday 4K , - in Basin is located in a The entire cut-of- f no basin water which where great falls on the surface of the earth ever reaches the ocean. What is now the Great Salt Lake. was. many years ago. a huge fresh body of water Lake Bonneville. The water levels or tables now plamly shown on the mountains above the lake indicate that at one time Lake Bonneville, which was some 900 to 1,000 feet in depth, surrounded the valley. It dried and all that is left is Great Salt Lake There are many rivers flowing into the Great Salt Lake over which the cut-of- f passes: The Weber, the Ogden, the Jordan and the Bear Rivers being the largest. There is no outlet to the lake. These rivers carry into the lake great quantities of salt of various kinds from the mountains through which they flow, and these salts are held m solution, and natural evaporation produces an almost saturated solutton Its density is 14 5 per cent greater than fresh water, with a salinity of 51 times that of the ocean When bathing swimmers bob about in the water like corks, unable to sink Hardman Inspiration Constructed through the courage and enterorise of the late E H Harriman and the genius of William hood, chief engineer, the Lucin cutoff effects a saving m distance of 43 8 miles. 3.919 degrees of curvature and 1,515 feet of rise and fall, found in the old Central Pacific Railway around the lake to Promontory point. Here was the Golden Spike scene in the joining of the old Central Pacific and the Union Pacific in a transcontinental building race of the railroad history. was opened for passage The cut-oof freight trains in April, 1904. and used for entire traffic, freight and passenger, m September, 1904 it f years to required one and build and cost $4,500 000 How Cut-Of- f was Built Hee is how the cut-of- f was built Great steam shovels were set to work at Promontory Point on Great Salt Lake, where an arm of the mountain runs down to the salty sea. shovels picking up 7 Tons of dirt tons at a scoop were taken from this spot Mountains on the shore that came up through the lev el cover of the lake bed that Lake Bonneville left Little Mountain and ages before were also cut Hogup Mountains away. Soon tramloads of rock and dirt were ready to make a solid pathway through the water, over a thousand feet each work day. In June. 1902. tramloads of steel rails reached the lake and in July the first piles many ot them so tong that three ears had to be chained together as one to carry them. The railroad was going to sea in earnest. A stern wheel steamboat, the Piomontory," was employed along with seven tugs and many smaller boats They carried supplies and messages and gathered in logs about the lake shore. The dead sea was becoming alive with workmen. Three thousand men were employed. night and day, summer and winter. At night they labored in the gravel pits by electric light. Steadily the great pathway grew. Each day the pile drivers made hundreds of yards of progress. Each day the pit men loaded hundreds of cars of gravel sometimes 400 cars. More piles were brought to the scene of the cut-of- f until, all told, 38.258 trees were cut down to make a forest of piles for the great trestle two square miles and was transplanted into Great Salt Lake, to become coated with salt The trestle grew at the rate of 1.140 feet per day, until at length twenty- ff one-hal- three miles of trestle was built eleven in the end filled with earth Every fifteen feet five piles were driven in a row crosswise to the track. They were fastened together on their sides w ith heavy timbers eight inches by eight inches thick Across their tops and joining them together is a heavy beam eighteen feet long and a foot away are twelve heavy timbers (stringers) laid lengthwise with the track Abov e these stringers is a plank floor three inches thick. Above that is a coat of asphalt, then a foot or more of rock ballast m which the track and rails are laid The floor of the trestle is sixteen feet wide Most Unique Station At a point midway across the trestle M idlake apis the station of proximately named for its location It is probably one of the most unique stations on any railroad m the world Other roads have stations built on mountainsides and m unusual locations, but Midlake is perched on a trestle, over a body of water so salty in intensity that othing can live m it except tiny salt water shrimp no larger than a part of a toothpick. The depth of the w'ater underneath the Midlake station is 36 feet Underneath the station roll the heavy waves of the lake when lashed into fury by the strong winds that often prevail sending salt spray over the buildings yet secure in its novel position the building and its occupants are undisturbed An unusual feature in connection with Midlake where residents have a railroad track for their main street, and a railroad siding for their backyard, is that there is a small garden plot Here flowers are grown by Midlake residents, and chickens and the kiddies" are successfully raised Tracks Joined at .Midlake It was here that the track from the east and the track from the west across the Great Salt Lake were m the center of the lake joined November 13 1903 Today in there is talk of erecting a huge earth fill dike from the mainland to the islands so that autoists may drive their cars across Great Salt Lake as well Mor-mondo- a v V 4 K , i s v.' i f '! v. azHy A CD 0 I t 4 1. It SOUTHERN PACIFIC freight tram pulls into the Ogden railroad yords and is silhouetted by the sun shining on Malans peak and Wasatch Mountains (in background) after crossing Great Soil Lake s Lucin cutoff earlier in the day. |