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Show Uprjr i Unlve.3,! ii'isrpoint 3 Ave "0rP mW3" ,ltj jt!h C03. Volume 61, Number 44 NEW Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Thursday Morning, October 31, 1968 RIVER BRIDGE? 20 PAGES To Hallo ween Began as Time of Terror! County Says Okay Halloween nowadays is an evening of fun for the little ones, of dress, ing up in costumes, going to parties, and begging goodies But Halloween once was a time of and the costumes children terror wear on Halloween night reflect that door-to-doo- To Tavern License far-of- beer license has been missioners consider making reinstated on a probation ba- the bridge completely at some sis for the owner of a tavern future date because it will aclocated west of Tremonton. commodate an interstate high, The Box Elder County com- way feeder road. mission took the action MonTHE COMMISSIONERS took day after conferring with Sherunder advisement a county, iff Warren Hyde. The license for Point Look-ou- t wide planning proposal as subtavern was suspended this mitted by R. Clay Allred and and George H. past summer at the sheriffs Associates request after he reported that Smeath, Mountain Area Planjuveniles were served in the ners. Also on hand were A. Wayne tavern. At the commissions prev- Owens, chairman of the county ious meeting, owner B.Y. planning commission, and A. Westmoreland requested that Fullmer Allred, Utah State his license be reinstated. university extension agent. The county officials said Sheriff Hyde agreed to it this week but stipulated that it they would study the proposal be on a six months proba- and meet again with them to discuss it further. tionary basis. The commissioners acceptbusiness at ed a bid with county trade, IN OTHER the county boards regular in for a patrol car to serve weekly session, Paul Gilgen, Sheriff Hyde. The vehicle will secondary roads engineer for be purchased from Packer the Utah Highway department, Motor company in Brigham said that secondary road funds City. Several insurance matters will not be available for relia. pair of the Honeyville bridge were discussed, including Meover Bear River until after bility coverage at Pioneer morial Nursing home and addJan. 1, 1969. The bridge has been closed ed coverage and increased because of deterioration in costs of Blue Cross-BluShield health and hospital deck. as of Jan. 1. com the Gilgen suggested A cred, and believed that cats once had been human beings but were changed as a punishment for evil deeds. From these druidic beliefs, World Book encyclopedia siys, come the day use of witches, ghosts, and cats in Halloween festivities mer, and for this reason the custom using leaves, pumpkins, and corn, stalks as Halloween decorations also comes from the Druids. The Roman Catholic church named as All Saints day, and the Nov. evening before it was called Hallo, wee, which means hallowed or holy evening, pre-sent- 1 time. f The Druids, an order of priests in ancient Gaul and Britain, believed that on Halloween ghosts, spirits, fairies, witches and elves came out to harm people. They thought the cat was sa- - The Druids had an autumn festival called Samhain (pronounced SAH win), or summers end. State Director Robert D. Nielson of the Bureau of Laiul Management has announieil a proposal to class-iran area of 957,377 acres of public domain for retention in federal ownership for multiple-uspurposes. The proposed classification action is being taken under authority of the Classification and Multiple Use Act, passed by Congress on September 19, 1964. y an occan all the foods sion for feasting which had been grown during the sum It was The Christian feast day and the old pagan customs were combined into the Halloween festival. e That act directed the secre-tarof the interior to determine which of the lands by BLM shall be disposed of or retained and managed by the bureau under multiple. use principles. This proposed classifl-catioencompasses the majority of the public lands A public hearing will be held in the conference room of the Box Elder County courthouse in Brigham City on Nov. 14 at p.in. The proposal would prohibit acquisition of the public lands under the old public sale law (Section 2495 of the U.S. Statutes) and the agricultural land laws. THIS action HOWEVER, does not preclude acquisition of public lands for agricultural development and other public uses under the Public Land Sale Act of 19G4, nor does it preclude mineral and development, for a few small parcels intended for recreation development. Maps and details of the proposed classification are avail, able for review from the BLM State Office in the Federal Building, Salt Lake City, or from the Salt Lake District office, 1790 South Redwood Road, Room '214, Salt Lake City. Written comments, sugges-tion- s may be submitted Dec. 1C, 1968, to the Salt (Continued on Page Two) "V 1 ? d ,r? able, I am withdrawing from candidacy. I express my to those who me and who arged me to enter the election. I would like to give my personal endorsement to Dr. Arnold Gilbert, whom I believe highly and uniquely quail- Tuesfied for this position. announced university, Dickey is the second per-soday that he was no longer a to step out of the school candidate for the four-yea- r board election picture. A Wischool board term. Here is a statement issued llard man, J. Richard Wilson, withdrew recently as a hope-fu- l by Dickey: from Representative PreI became a candidate for the Box Elder County School cinct No. 4. board because I felt there was t STILL IN THE RACE in an absence of qualified candNo. 5 are Delvin (Del) idates. Ayotte, Leon W. Carver, Kath-SINCE THERE are some lyn L. Coffman, Marvin R. persons avail- - Cope, Tom Cracas, Arnold B. Gilbert, John L. Hotchkiss and W.J. Skidmore. Those seeking the board seat from Precinct No. 4 include Charles H. Clifford, V. Thomas Dinsdale, E. Wayne Loveland, Thomas M. Mower, Newell B. Perry and Robert' Richie Ricks has been nam-e- B. Shelton. to head the Students for Precinct No. 5 is located Burton organization at Box entirely in Brigham City and Elder High school. consists of Voting Districts A senior and member of the No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, state-bounfootball team, 12, 13, 14, 16, and 17. stated this Ricks week, Precinct No. 5 includes Young people should get ac. Brigham City Districts No. 6 quainted with the candidates and 11 plus Mantua, Willard and Perry. and the issues. - . n sup-porte- d a e Pre-cinc- 1 well-qualifie- d Student Heads Burton Group d TRICK OR . . . WOW ! ! ! ! ! What would you do if you were a and someone - or something - like this came to the door? Stand your ground and hold out for a treat or t it to the next house and hope for a less chilling reception? Well, its the bewitching season and nohing is unexpected. hot-foo- trick-or-treat- e LDS Ezra APOSTLE Taft Henson, I.DS ili-- u rill leader, will attend Box stake conference here Nov. 2-- LDS Apostle To Attend Conference Elder Ezra Taft Benson, a member of the Council of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-dasaints, will speak at the quarterly conference of the Box Elder sessions stake on Saturday and Sunday, in the stake taberNov. nacle. According to Stake Pres-blen- t O. Dee Lund, the general session of the confer-encwill begin at 10 a. m. Sunday. Visitors are welcome to attend, he said. Special sessions will be held Satur-day- . y 2-- e Sun Gives Way to Rain Burton Says Nixon Would Tonight Restore U.S. Law, Order Local Area Schools Plan The prolonged Indian sum-me- r weather in this area was forced to leave Wednesday morning when moisture-ladeclouds moved in and dropped half an inch of rain before This is a festive week in 2 p.m. local area schools with most The daytime temperature youngsters looking forward to dropped 16 degrees Wednesday annual Halloween carnivals as after a warm 74 degrees was a of this traditional highlight registered Tuesday. season of spooks and goblins. Most of the activity will take place this evening, (Thursday) while high school-agyouths were around Wednesday evening seeking funds for UNICEF. Here is a rundown on the parties at each school as reby the sponsoring PTA .50 ported organizations: Box Elder Junior High school will open its program at 6:30 p.m. with a variety of foods served in the cafeteria, a dance, games and spook alley in the gymnasium. n e A call for law and order through a Republican admin- ing to continue until 7 a p.m istration bake sale, games, white sale, and fortune teller are planned from 5:30 to 8:30 A ele-plia- p.m. Corinne school will start at with a meal in the followed at 7 p.m. with a variety of games, a spook alley and fortuneteller. There will be door prizes and announcement of the costume 6:30 p.m cafeteria winners, ELEMENTARY CENTRAL school also will offer food and games to youtliful participants there beginning at 6:30 p.m. A quilt will be given away as a door prize. Perry school's carnivalwill begin with supper at 6 p.m. with many new and exciting games being planned in ad. dition to the traditional spook (Continued on Page Ten) was made Monday by Rep. Laurence J. Burton during a birthday dinner in his honor at Bear River Junior High school Congressman Burton, campaigning for a fourth term in the U.S. House of Represen-tatives- , earlier the day several Box Elder visited county communities, answerin tion, headed by Dick Nixon, can do much to restore our courts to upholding the law and finish this Coddling the criminal which weve had under the present administration, Burton said. "If Mr. Humphrey goes in to the White House, many of the same men which President Johnson has appointed will stay. But Dick Nixon will clean house. ing questions from citizens. THERE ARE 94 federal The number one issue on which Nixon can the domestic scene is law and order, Burton said. Every-wher- appoint and hundreds of feder-a- l I have been in Utah, judges all over the nation, the people want to know what Burton went on. Nixon will car. be done to restore law begin by appointing a new U, and order. S. attorney general and when vacancies occur on the U.S. THE UTAH Congressman Supreme court, you can be said a new administration in sure Nixon will not appoint the the White House will begin likes of Abe Fortas. Burton indicated he plans to to work out the plans to put some guts into the judicial be in Box Elder county again e system. A Republican administra- Friday for some more poll-ticin- - HOLDS KICKOFF MEETING Spike Panel Gears for Centennial Brigham Citys golden spike pulled away from the station Tuesday evening. It occurred when the citys official golden spike centen-nia- l committee held its first meeting in the city hall and began to map plans for local activities next year. On hand to give the panel an official sendoff was Mayor Olof Zundel who expressed delight at the enthusiasm and ambition demonstrated by r committee. the No committee has ever been more carefully picked during my administration than this one because we, the city council and I, look at the gold-espike centennial as an extremely important thing to our community, Box Elder county and all of northern Utah, express Meeting to kick off planning for the 1969 Golden members centennial these of Brigham Citys celebration committee. were Spike Left to right, Mrs. Drauca Holmes, Reed Hadfield, Cliff Graham, Dallas Stiser, T. Frank Coppin, Dwight Reeves, Mrs. Doris Martinez and Mrs. Helen Felt. music for the Sun-damorning meeting will be provided by a Primary child-renchorus from the stake, under the direction of Sheryl Rasmussen with Jean Packer as accompanist. Mrs. Rose Must is stake Primary presl-dent- . Spec ial y s Carnivals for Halloween BUNDERSON Elementary school plans a meal in the cafe-teriat 5:30 p.m. with serv- CITY SPIKE COMMITTEE " the west half county. Nielson pointed out that the proposal is consistent with views and recommendations of local citizens and governing bodies. ex-ce- A Brigham'- City educator has withdrawn from the race for the Box Elder Board of Education from Representa-tivPrecinct No. 5 and given his endorsement to one of eight remaining candidates. Myfon L. Dickey, a mem-be- r of the faculty at Utah State i i of h Drops From Race 4 the BLM in Box Elder by e Board Candidate & CITY OFFICIALS already have indicated their desire to HE SAID THE group is place special emphasis on May charged with formulating a 10, the 100th anniversary of the master plan, to driving of the golden spike at celebration a prepare budget and to draw Promontory Station, and also on festivities for the Fourth into the activities all interested clubs, schools and rother of July and Peach Days. The committee gave hint organizations. We know the centennial that it would broaden the calendar of events bey-- i will bring thousands of visitors into our area next year ond these three dates. and we intended to have acCommittee Chairman T. tivities to keep them entertained. We know its going to cost DISEASE REPORT money but we consider the dividends well worth the investment and express a hope City Brigham reported that other communities and three strep infections and two the county as a whole will cases of influenza, while Box also plan to have centennial Elder county reported two Mayor Zundel programs, trep infections for the week stated. ending Oct. 25. Mayor Zundel declared. Frank Coppin reported on plans by the National Golden Spike Centennial commission to have a special train arrive in Utah carrying an estimated 800 special guests for the May 10 occasion. UNDER COPPINS direc-tion- , the citizens panel agreed to hold regular meetings and indicated it several rechave would ommendations for the city council when it meets again next week. Members of the committee include L.D. Wilde, Bruce Keyes, Drauca Holmes, Helen Felt, Cliff Graham, Dwight Reeves, Dallas Stiver, and Reed Hadfield. Doris Martinez is secretary for the group. semi-monthl- Elder Benson served dur-inthe eight. year Eisenhower administration as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. He is a official of the Boy Scouts of America, and serves s as a director of Corn Co He recently was president of the European of the LDS church with headquarters in Germany. The Saturday evening meeting of the conference will be held at 7 p.m. in the taber-naclElder Benson and stake leaders will be the speakers. The following leaders of the stake are expected to be in attendance: stake presidency, high council, stake clerks, ward bishoprics and clerks, branch presidency and clerks, presidencies and group lead, ers of all Melchizedek priesthood quorums and secretaries; stake auxiliary presidencies, board members and secretar. ies; stake auxiliary presidenand cies, superintendencies secretaries, ward Aaronlc priesthood general secretary youth and adult; and all other members of the ward councils. long-tim- e Pro-duct- mis-sion- s Paper Drive Continues Senior citizens are in Brigham continuing their paper drive and to date, have collected and sold four tons of old newspapers, a spokesman said Wednesday. The drive will continue as long as the newspapers are the needed by the outlets, spokesman noted. Chairman for the project is Desmond Christensen and he asked that persons with news, papers to contribute bundle them and leave them at his home, 70 South First West. City |