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Show City Buys Ground (Jli Vi, 1 1 1 . 3 i 'll , o Galt :.i Ml u 1 A ve . Jity, Jt3h e. To Enlarge Site Brigham City officials voted Thursday to purchase addi. tional property adjacent to Brigham Young park, a move which will provide more off. street parking and site space for the proposed community center. Cost of the property on which a home is located is $13,000. The purchase is being made from Mr. and Mrs. Mar. cus Smith, 29 North Second West, who will continue resi. dence on a lot adjacent to the purchased property. The ground will provide parking for an additional 60 cars and access to the center Second from West, it was pointed out. AN PIECE, It is 165 feet deep on the long side and borders on the east side of the north area where the center is to be construe, ted. Terms of the purchase agreement call for the present owners to vacate the property by April 1; the city agrees to construct a fence by 1970 and will issue a quit claim deed to an easement which it no longer needs. The city probably will sell the frame home which has been a rental unit for Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Volume 72. Number 6 Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Sunday Morning, February 9, 1969 nfMtm 3 T to Hear Burton at Lincoln Fete Tolman Recorder City Burke said it would mean a reduction in monthly power costs for owners of trie homes of which there are six or eight in Brigham City. A protest has been lodged to the proposed construction of a National Guard armory in northwest Brigham City. It was made public Thursday night when Keith A. Hansen, a resident of the area and head of a local engineering firm, presented a petition bearing 108 signatures to the city council. The prime objection voiced by Hansen was that such a facility with its accompanying heavy equipment, does not belong in a residential area. all-ele- strong, Claudius Olsen and Baline Olsen together with Mayor Olof Zundel and Public Works Director O. Neil Smith were named to negotiate for services on a engineering newly proposed special lm provement district. They will bring recommendations back to the council table. unanimous vote, the council adopted a resolution urging the Utah State legls lature to pass House Bill 193 By a measure providing for ci. ties to issue interim warrants as a means of purchasing property for parking lot de- velopment such as that pro posed in the citys downtown plan. The council directed that of the resolution and cover letter to be sent to each member of the legls lature and to mayors of Utah communities. Lawmaker States County Pay View Box Elder county representative Friday aired the at. titude he said is generally held in the 1969 Utah State legls. A lature concerning salaries for county commissioners. Ruel M. Representative Eskelsen City) in. dicated the mood is away from setting a celling for county boards and to letting them set their own pay, reason, ing that it is county money they spend and county voters to whom they are responsible. Eskelsen explained it more fully in this statement: One of the most contro. verslal Issues to come before the state legislature is a proposal that the limit for sal. aries for county officials be raised above its current rate. The controversy arises a. round the method of provld. ing the raise and not in the raise Itself. THE PROPOSAL before the legislature ceiling salaries would provide on commissioner of $15,000 per year. Some legislators feel that a totally new concept in coun ty salaries should be taken, providing the home rule for the county officials. In other words, the county officials would have the right to set their own salaries, controll- ed only by the knowledge that if the people objected they would turn them out of office at the next election. Under the current system (Continued on Page Five) i NOTICE annual stockholders meeting of the Box Elder Water Users As Creek soclatlon will be held Tues day February 11, 1969, at 6:00 p.m. in the City hall. BOX ELDER CREEK WATER USERS ASSN. The F-- 9 Arawy Ask City Help to Change Location 1. COUNCILMEN Byron Arm Representative Laurence J. Burton from Utahs First Con. gressional district will be the guest speaker Friday, Feb. 14, when Box Elder county Republicans stage their an. nual Lincoln Day dinner. The event will be held at the Elks lodge, 20 East First South, Brigham City beginn. lng at 8 p.m. Also expected to be on hand are members of Box Elder countys delegation to the Utah State legislature. Ross Bowman, Brigham City, and Jerry Rose, Snow, ville, are heading ticket sales. Bowman announced Friday that tickets may be purchased from the various GOP district chairmen and vice chairmen or officers of the county cen. tral committee who include James Brown, chairman; Mrs. Della Armstrong, vice chair, man; Mrs. Margaret Evans, secretary, and S. Paul Holmgren, treasurer. Ini km SPEAKER Congressman Laurence J. Burton will adBUSINESS OTHER IN dress Box Elder Lincoln Thursday, the council voted to rate Initiate an Day gathering. Identical to that Introduced recently by Utah Power and Light company. It was made effective retroactive to Jan. GOP 8 PAGES We urge you to use your power and influence and ask the state armory board to look for another site, Hansen Members of the Box Elder Board of Education and ON INSPECTION TOUR staff aides are pictured leaving McKinley Elementary school in Tremonton, one of five stops on a tour Thursday. WEDNESDAY AT IDS TABERNACLE stated. Mayor Olof Zundel, obvious, Intent upon keeping the issue under control, said he had talked with local National Guard spokesmen and was informed the Guard does not want to build where the ar. mory is not wanted. But I assured them we River High school. do want the armory here. THEY LUNCHED AT Field, I think Brigham City needs Laurels of the four LDS ing, accompanied by Mrs. Eula one and it would be an asset the mayor stakes in south Box Elder Wood, district lunch super to the community, county area are looking to visor, on hamburger and rice declared. their Ideals for Laurels mixed vegetables, cassarole, Wednesday, Feb.12, tossed salad, rolls, milk, HE NOTED THAT plan, Night, -when Joan Fisher, Mrs, Amer-ic- a peaches and cookies. ning is underway and that 1969, will be their guest Also in company with the funds may become available was speaker. and board within a year for the facility. superintendent will begin at The Ike Ward, supervisor of buildMayor Zundel said the pe. 7:30 program in the Brigham City p.m. and the be should studied grounds. by tition ings tour was the council and planning commis. tabernacle and is open not The first part of a planned visit sion and all aspects of the sitto all schools of the district. uation discussed in an effort New board member Dr. Arn to reach a mutual agreement. TCC old Gilbert declared the schools inspection to have THE PROPOSED site is a AF been extremely valuable to five. acre parcel located at him. He was joined in this Fifth East and fronts on conclusion by a veteran mem- the north haul road (about panber of the Ninth North.) el, Warren Hansen, who said observations the first-hanIT IS A CORNER piece trad, The Air Force Friday were enlightening. ed by the Box Elder Board awarded a contract of Education to the National to $2,189,199 Guard in connection with pur. Thiokol Chemical corarmof the chase existing for work to be ory, 250 East Forest, by the poration done in Box Elder counschool district several years ty , according to Sen. ago. Wallace F. Bennett The board has tentatively planned to build a junior high school on an adjacent 15 acres, The firm will produce using gymnasium facilities the basic motors and rewith the National lated data applicable to p.m. is continuing, Trooper jointly Guard. said. the Genie rocket, an Naylor He said both autos were tactical missile. HOWEVER, THERE are in. totaled. There was no visible di cat ions now that ifanewjun. The Genie is flow n ior high is constructed in from the damage to the tanker. fighter Brigham City, it will not be bomber. at the northeast location. Hansen said the petition was circulated as a result of sur. WINDOW BROKEN vey activities on the Nation, Brigham City police were notified Saturday that a win-doal Guard site, had been broken at the Objections listed on the pe. tition included the sites close rear of the state employment (Continued on Page Five) security office 'laurels' Night' ly Bo md fsaspeefls And Mrs. Amenta Conditions at Garland Stir Concern of Box Elder Panel The Box Elder Board of Ed. u cation Thursday took a first-hanlook at two grade schools theyve been asked to replace with new buildings . McKinley at Tremonton and Garland Ele. for inWOULD THEY, stance, support a bond issue and an accompanying two.mill property tax increase? This is the question, one of many, which the board faces as it a decision on mentary school. approaches The inspections repre. school building needs. sented two stops on a six. The board let it be known school tour in Bear River val. that needs will be met on a ley. priority basis, hinting that Although the board's pur. some school patrons might be pose was to observe, not to disappointed. take action, the general con. Other schools visited by the sensus was that Garland board included Bear River school is most in need of Junior High school where they attention. dined on breakfast of muffins, donuts, prunes and milk; MEMBERS WERE visibly and North Park EleFielding impressed with what they had mentary schools, and Bear seen. The PTA people were not exaggerating about Garland, one official said, referring to a board meeting in late Jan. uary at which the PTA listed reasons why a new school should be constructed. 2-Car Concern for the structural soundness, inadequate space, heating, accoustlcal quality Four women were hospital, and other complaints were voiced at the board session. ized in Ogden Thursday night after the cars in which they A SIMILAR plea was expres. were riding collided headonat sed by a McKinley school Perry. The victims were; PTA spokesman. Shirley R. Mecham, 38, of There were about a dozen PTA representatives on hand 1126 South Century drive, She suffered head to greet the board when it was reported in and at Garland arrived Thursday satisfactory condition Sat. morning. at Dee Memorial hos. The visit to McKinley came urday in Ogden. pital in the early afternoon and K. Zimmerman, 18, at each school, the board and of Marda 1791 Village Green road, to Haws sought Supt. J.C. Salt Lake City, head injuries. clarify the feeling of patrons She was released from the as the extent of their desire Friday. hospital new schools construct, to see Dianna Herg, 18, of 1774 ed. Salt Lake d only to the girls but also their parents and MIA ward and stake leaders. Also to be featured on the program are girls of the Box Elder High School Concert choir. MRS. AMERICA, on being contacted to speak, remark-e- d that because of her tight schedule she was declining most speaking invitations ex. cept to Laurel girls. A former teacher of Laurel girls, Mrs. Fisher has always been active in the LDS Church, and particularly in the MIA. There she has serv. ed as teacher, activity director, counselor, and president. In order for her to triumph as Mrs. America 1969, it was necessary for Mrs. Fisher to top 51 natioanl fin. alists in 10 days of stiff competition. day-lon- Receives Pact for policy-makin- Genie Work g g Four Persons Hospitalized After Crash in Perry Meadow Downs way, City, broken collar bone. She was said to be in satisfactory ZONING, STOCK PASS RATE ATTENTION condition Saturday. Lexie Drage, 18, of 4724 Hugo drive, Salt Lake City, leg injuries. She was releas. ed Friday. Patricia Tischner, 19, of 7526 South 50 West, Midvale, suffered only minor hurts and A proposal for a through 4 p.m. doption of a zoning ordinance Was released from the Ogden a road connecting Bear River The refuge manager said his and subdivision ordl. hospital after treatment. Bird refuge with Promontory, preference would be to extend nance... , Information pertaining to zon. a refuge road north to con. TROOPER RICHARD THE COMMISSION recently Utah Highway patrol, said ing, and intentions to build nect with the Thiokol highway a livestock, underpass near near Little Mountain as op. adopted a temporary zoning the mishap occurred on U.S. Snowville rated attention of the posed to the other plan. measure in the western area 91.89 during a heavy snow, Box Elder county commission There was no action in the to ward off any reoccurance storm which made visibility this past week. matter. of a land gim- poor and the highway slippery. The commissioners asked mick such as took place sev. CONCERNING THE possible eral years ago at consider, Lloyd Gunther, Bear River A car driven by Mrs. Me. refuge manager, about the pos. subdivision or sale of par. able expense to the county. cham, the only occupant, was However, planner R. Clay northbound when the mishap slblllty of building a connect. cels in western Box Elder Ing road to link roads on the by a California firm, County Allred Informed them that occurred. After initial impact, zoning regula. the Mecham auto glanced off temporary Promontory range and the re. Attorney O. Dee Lund advised the following: tlons can apply to industrial the side of a tank truck which fuge. ...That you answer Sta.e-wid- e and commerical situations Sight. seers could then visit the refuge and continue west was southbound and driven by Properties, Inc. (Sher. but not subdivisions. to Golden Spike National His. man Oaks, Calif.) to the ef. Richard A. Bastaln, 40, of The coast firm has asked 2669 West 4800 South, Roy. toric site without the neces. feet that no subdivision of The truck driver was not slty of doubling back to Brig, land may be had in Box El. if it could seel off parcels ham City, der county until and unless in five, 10, 20 and 40 acre Injured. the planning commission ap. sizes and larger. The commissioners agreed GUNTHER REPLIED THAT proves the same and a plat THE OTHER CAR, driven by federal refuges have been op. thereof is recorded in the of- that beforq answering, they Miss Zimmerman, was travel, fice of the county recorder. should determine if they could ing south with the three other posed to In the meantime it appears adopt an ordinance requiring young women as passengers. uses, noting that presently the - Investigation into the misrefuge gate is open to traf. as though the county should a minimum tax for each par fic only between 9 a.m. and look seriously toward the a. (Continued on Page Five) hap which occurred at 5:45 Scenic Road From Refuge? Nay-lor- give-awa- HER PARENTS, MR. and Mrs. Charles E. Peterson of Provo, who were present in the stands on coronation night at the Minnesota State fair, remarked, Joan was our only daughter, and she had to com- pete with her brothers. She learned to camp and to ski (R-Utah- .) air-to-a- ir and to drive and did everything well. 6 "This same adeptness en. abled her to pick up easily the many facets of homemaking which helped her win the BC Driver Mrs. America A mother of at age 29 she Mrs. America years. injured In Accident A Brigham City man head injuries Thursday night when the car he was driving was involved in a at Willard. Reported in satisfactory condition at Cooley Memorial hospital Saturday was Don C, Messervy, 48, of 468 North Third East. He suffered se title. three children, is the youngest to reign in 19 suf-fere- , vere scalp lacerations. V5? According to Trooper Highway Naylor, Utah patrol, the mishap occurred on the south outskirts of WiRich-ar- llard at 9:20 p.m. A CAR OPERATED BY Par-leT. Johns, 63, of 8C8 Blvd., Ogden was southbound when it apparently went out of control, skidded across the center line of U.S. and was struck broadside by the Messervy car which was headed north. Johns reportedly was not Wash-ingto- hurt. Both men were alone in their cars at the time. The officer cited Johns for driving left of center. - Ui I l K j y Vl KV' i yT' ' - A REPORTS PURSE THEFT LaDonna Pitcher, 334 North Main, Smlthfield, told Brig ham City police Wednesday that a purse containing a $5 bill and some change was sto len from her car while it was parked in front of 410 North Main street. v ' $ WAIT LAURELS NIGHT Looking forward to Wednesday night when theyll hear Mrs. America 1969 speak in the LDS Box Elder tabernacle are, from left, Deanne Hailing, Karen Johnson, Helen Baxter, Patrice Hansen, andVickie Valcaice . |