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Show Standard Rate U.S. Postage Paid Milford, UT. 84751 P.O. Box 224 Milford, UT 84751 Permit No. 15 Beaver County Hlonitor % DECEMBER The Monitor will be closed next week for Christmas......Happy Holidays! 19, 1996 VOL. VI NO. 50 Tax Hike Pays For “Free” Jail Box Elder County commissioners approved a 27.8 percent increase in the county’s portion of property taxes earlier this month. Of the $717,000 revenue generated from the tax hike, about $450,000 will be spent for six or more months of training for an expanded staff of jailers to run the county’s 160 bed prison. Voters approved a $6.5 million bond last year to pay for the jail, sheriff's department offices, video arraignment _—_setup.....no courtroom......laundry and food service. The facility is expected to be open by October 1997 with about 100 beds available for housing state prisoners. On December Santa Clause is coming to town! COG meeting, Milford Elementary 10:00 A.M. Saturday December 21st meeting. Commissioners Chad Johnson, Rodney Carter, Robin Bradshaw, Rondo Farrer and Junior Davis make up the committee that will decide on a mil levy increase by August 1, 1997. Box Elder will spend remaining funds from the tax hike to pay for services the county is required to provide. State and federal funds, previously supplementing the programs, have been cut. Pictures available from Santa’s elves Sponsored by Milford Lady Lions Vetch, Portia Moore. award contracts January 20, 1997. say the prison will pay for itself from lease revenue obtained by housing state prisoners. CIB has added a $3.5million low interest loan (part available now and the remainder in the next funding cycle) in addition to the $6.5 million GO bond approved by voters in November. This is entirely separate from the tax increase for county-wide law enforcement discussed in the December 10 COG He will be at Milford Elementary kindergarten class presented the nativity scene. Back row: Sally Hass, Tanya Campeau, Cherristy Hardy, Megan Solomon, Macayla Tolman, Amber Stephens, Brittany Bratt, Michaela Bratt. Front: Nathan Young, Adam Pearson, Anselmo Gasper, Bradley 18th, Beaver County commissioners will review pre-proposals for a prison approximately the same size, but with two courtrooms. (See legal notice on page 5.) The building authority will, according to statements made in the December 10 It’s A Christmas Story ae “It was like a fairyland,” is the way Marjorie Sherwood remembers the Christmases of her childhood in northern England. To earn money for gifts, the children went caroling through the neighborhood. After “Silent Night” ....“Oh Little Town of Bethlehem” and “Good King Wencelass”’, they always finished with “Christmas is Coming, and the Goose is Getting Fat”. People would come out of the houses and give them a few pennies. The night before Christmas, the children would hang their pillow cases at the foot of the bed... Christmas morning, the girls would finda doll and a book. There would be train sets and other toys for the boys. Marjorie was the second of seven children. “My older sister always got the brunette doll, and I got the blonde one. The dolls had beautiful clothes that my mother had made for them,” she reminisced. The books were “Christmas Annuals” filled with short stories, poems, and illustrations. the Christmas list: Derek Bradshaw, Amber Thompson, Chelsie Hardy, Lynette Barnes, Sam Schofield, and Hannah Tribole. There were new dresses for the girls, and Sunday school shoes for all of the children. Marjorie especially remembers a white dress with red, yellow, and blue polka dots. It had a flared skirt, and would twirl delightfully when she whirled around. And, nothing since has ever tasted so good as the “selection boxes of candy .” The children were enchanted with their gifts and with the spirit of the season. “In those days we didn’t have television telling us all of the things we had to have,” she said. Christmas was about giving and receiving, worship and prayer. s The “fat goose” was Christmas dinner. Roast potatoes, home grown vegetables, and plum pudding with sauce completed the meal. Marjorie’s father a ship’s engineer, was sometimes at sea on Christmas day, leaving her mother in charge of the festivities. Christmas trees were small and usually decorated with paper chains made by the children. Tree lights were small candles attached to the branches. “I shudder now to think of how dangerous it was.....but it was so beautiful when the candles were lit on Christmas Eve,” she said... The Christmas Eve dance and midnight mass were added to the ritual when she grew to be a teenager. Boxing Day, the day after Christmas, there was also a dance. Traditionally, gifts are presented to people who provide a service, such as the mailman or milkman. 1996 marks Marjorie’s 50th Christmas in America. She met and married Jim Sherwood during the war years. Those years of danger gave her a greater appreciation of life, and enhanced her sense of humor. “There is always something to laugh about if you look for it,” she said. In 1946, she and the two oldest Sherwood children, Bryan and Linda, sailed on the Queen Mary to New Jersey. They then boarded a train with other GI brides for the trip across country to Milford. Mey Cheistmas to CHU! Historical Tidbits by Norman Baxter- in December, 1986, on the 45th anniversary of Pearl harbor, I returned to the Islands, accompanied by my Niece, her son and her husband. We visited four of the islands but made certain to be at the Arizona Memorial on Dec. 7th. I wore my old Dress Navy cap with U.S.S. Arizona printed on the ribbon. We weren’t allowed to wait in the line but were taken to the boat and on to the Memorial. After a few questions they turned us loose and even when our boat left, they did not disturb us. We spent much time before the larger wall and we could find only a few that I remembered. Then we looked for RM ratings (radiomen) and we were able to find a few more. 7 ] went off by myself where I could look over the railing and see the dark outline of the ship down in the murky water. Many memories came back to me, about the old ship. My first watch in the Radio Gang: They handed me the coffee pot and told me to make a pot of coffee. Wanting to make a good impression I was very careful in the measurements and hoped for at least a “Not bad” comment. All I got was spitting and gagging! I had used the salt water faucet! Another time when the Arizona was in dry dock at Bremerton, Washington, the Petty Officers were Derek Davis, Tyler Robins, Jackie Thompson, Russell Holm, Melissa Schow, J. D. Patterson, Erica Hass talking about the need for someone to go up the mast to determine the condition of the transmitter antennas. I fell for that and volunteered. The mast on the Arizona was a Tripod. Near the top was a three above that was a single mast with a yardarm. I climbed up the rungs welded to one of the three storied building, out the top and up the mast. Then with my arms around the yardarm to the end where the antennas were. There was a netting to stand on, wide near the mast and at the end. storied watchtower, legs, up through the I started edging out came to a point out I was doing fine until I looked down. Those were no longer men down on that deck, they were insects crawling around. | froze! My muscles wouldn't obey my brain and it seemed ages before they relaxed enough for me to get down off of there, back to the radio shack to sit down. One of the men said “well?”. I told them “You can Court-martial if you want to, but I will never go up there again”. No one laughed at me. They hadn’t thought I would go up and they realized that if I had fallen they would have been held responsible. Many memories came back to me as I looked down into that water. I had brought a post card that I had found at Okinawa, it was a picture of the largest battleship ever built. Japanese, it had been found and sunk about two months before the war ended. I tore that card into bits and threw it on the water. Something happened to me there! It was as though those men were at Peace and at rest and the same was expected of me. I came away from there, shaken! A few days later at Lahaina on the Island of Maui, we were shopping. We always looked for small shops on the side streets. They were away from the tourists and hadn’t changed in 50 years. In one small shop we were ee Spencer Wright, Benjamin Young, James Turner, Brian Mander. Boe McKay, and Cody Maver. waited on by a tall lady of Japanese Ancestry. She looked at my Survivor’s Cap and asked me, “Do you still have hate?”. I wasn't offended by such an abrupt question. Somehow, I knew why she had asked. After the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, loyal Americans of Japanese descent had gone through years of hate, suspicion and distrust. This lady was tall so could have been a fourth or fifth generation American. So I understood why she asked that and why she needed an answer. But, thanks to the Lord, I could now say, “No! Not now”, and told her of my visit to the Memorial. I have thought of that lady many times in the past 10 years and each time with the hope that, she too had received a release from those years, as I had! |