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Show Universal Microfilm Corp. lhl Pierpont Ave. TNfflBjL VOLUME 38 Ml III School District Faces H? 3.5 Million Bond Issue NUMBER 28 TREMONTON .UTAH. THURSDAY. APRIL 27. 1961 Blue Creek - Howell Watershed Project Approved Wednesday Moss Meeting Called To Discuss Needed The Department of Agriculture, ed the Blue Creek-Howewater Wednesday approvshed project in Box was disclosed by Senator Wallace F. ll Sanitation Systems Elder County, it Bennett of Utah. Senator Bennett sgid the application was signed Wednesday by assistant Secretary of Agriculture and will now go to the Bureau of the Budget fcr final approval. He said, however, that the Bureau's approval .is certain and the project will be submitted to congress within about ten days. Discussion of a proposed The project previously had been approved by the sewage treatment plant, which To has been drawn up by qualified Eisenhower administration, but the approval had High engineers, will be discussed. been withdrawn administration the by pendKennedy The 1953 state legislature Present Annual ing further study. The study showed the project to be enacted a law giving each comfeasible Senator Bennett said. munity ten years to comply Music Festival with sewage and sanitation reThe first annual music festThe federal share of the project will be $710,440.00, quirements of state and federal ival of the Bear River Junior and total cost, $1,673,010.00. The project is intended governments. high school will be presented to prevent erosion and flood damage in Blue Creek The meeting will be held in this evening (Thursday) at 8:15 the Visual Aids room of the in the school auditorium, feaValley West of Tremonton. The work plan covers an Bear River high school at 8:00 turing the outstanding selectarea of about 115,500 acres, extending from the p.m. State and local officials ions of the choral and instruline. will be present. mental groups. great Salt Lake to the Utah-IdahLar-sein Included the wide Mr. Hansen reports that Instructors are Gareth variety of meaproject are a band, and Carl Ashby, larger communities of the state sures such as construction of canals, debris basin, and except Payson, Salt Lake City, choral. small dams, land leveling, critical area planting and Logan, Wellsville, Garland and ' are or built have Tremonton, improvement of existing water control facilities. Team Park Valley "A number of meetings have been held with the building disposal treatment plants. farmers involved in the project during the past two As this is the only meeting Wins Bear River which will be called for open years, and all have indicated their willingness to asdiscussion of the problems, it Stake Crown sume their share of the burden in raising local funds", is hoped that a large number evening Park ValThursday Senator Bennett said. "This project is an excellent exwill be present to participate. ley volley ball team traveled to ample of what can be accomplished by cooperation The need for immediate action East Garland where three evident. is between local groups and the federal government". teams played eight games. deA public meeting of interest to property owners of the Qarland-Tremonto- n municipalities has been set for Tuesday, May 9, according to Leland J. Hansen, secretary of the Bear River Valley Chamber of Commerce. Following a special meeting of the Box Elder Board of Education Wednesday evening, announcement was made of a decision to hold a special bond election within the district May 23, to raise a needed $3.5 million to give the schools of the county adequate building facilities. I m ' o Any additional housing velopment will be retarded unless proper sanitation is provided; there is less than two years left to complete the project, federal funds may be used in other areas unless applications are made immediately. Free discussions will help Six teams entered stake competition. Park Valley team iwon six of eight games and reached first place. East Garland senior team also took first place. A regional tournament will be held in Brigham City three days during this week, as it was clarify the problems the tiwo indicated last Thursday. cities face, the economy of a Park Valley will be the only two-cit- y plant, methods of finteam to go into regional conjunior and other problems ancing Play-Larrnected With the project. Hirschi, Virgil Pugs-leMuch footwork has been done Elliott Morris, Lavell Lar-seand councils, two city by the valuPalmer, Bobby Montto Lyle give they will be able able information on the result gomery, Bruce Pugsley, Clinton Carter, and Grant Larsen are of their surveys. members of the stake champion team. y, n, Garland P.T.A. Meets Tonight The Garland P.T.A. meets tonight at 7:30 at the Garland School. A film will be shown and new officers for the coming year will be elected. First grade teacher, Mrs. Millie Welling, will be honored. Trio Arrested On Forgery Charge CUB SCOUTS WILL GET A PLANE RIDE Cub Scout Pack No. 141 will meet Saturday at the airport at 11 a.m. to continue their study of 'Things that Fly', their theme of the month. Leyan Nelson and his wife Mary have arranged for the boys to have a free plane ride. They will then go to the north park for lunch and the contests for model plane and kit flying. Dennis Redfield will receive his two year service WEATHER REPORT The weather report is incomplete this week with part of o the equipment at out of order. Sugar Company The storm of Monday deposited .22 of an inch of moisture but the drop in temperature Which came with it did considerable damage to crops in the valley. The high for the past week was 64 on April 21 and the low recorded was 21 on April 19. Utah-Idah- Beet Crops Nipped by Late Frost i- . I "" "I - School handled without increasing taxes as the present mill levy for capital outlay can retire the bonds under 10 year amortization plan. In outlining the needs of the district, Superintendent Talbot listed a new elementary school at Tremonton, two elementary schools at Brigham City, additions and remodeling of buildings at Fielding, Bear River City, Corinne, Brigham City and Willard. While no indication was given of the order in which the funds would be spent, if approved by the taxpayers, the superintendent stated that the elementary projects and the should be Fielding school among the first. The Fielding school has already been approved for federal aid. If the bond issue is approved, the district will be further qualified to receive additional funds from state and federal agencies Mr. Talbot stated. of $6,090,000 which is approximately $700,000 below the max- - i.i Free Eye Tests Offered Tonight At High School DON LAMB R Senior Attends Youth B Leadership Don Lamb, Bear River High school athlete and scholar has spent most of the week in Salt Lake City as a guest of the Salt Lake Rotary Club with eighty other senior boys from high schools of the state. He was chosen for his scholarship, school activities, leadership and personality to represent the school at the annual youth leadership conference. He was a guest at the home of one of the Rotary Club members for the duration of the conference. Testing programs, educational Prospects foi natural gas tours, special programs and to the communities of coming other activities were arranged Bear River Valley look promising, according to Leland J. to fill the time of the boys and Hansen, secretary of the acquaint them with the facilities at the University. Chamber of Commerce. Don is the son of Mr. and 'Meeting witfi officials FriMrs. Jesse Lamb of Plymouth. from Mountain Fuel day He is one of the top scholars of Supply, Mr. Hansen was Inthe school and is planning to formed that a recommendation had bwn formulated and continue his education in the would be considered at the field of engineering. next meeting of the board of directors of the gas com- Prospect For Natural Gas feei indebted- ness can be Lake City. The bonds would be financed over a ten year period, according to Superintendent Walter D. Talbot, and would place the district in bonded indebtedness - officials board that the added bonded Advising the board on the legal aspects of the t'und raising effort were AI Burrows of the Edward L. Burton Company and George Denton of the First Security Corporation of Salt ... 1: 1 Junior n, ' c" imum limit. An opportunity is afforded the people of this valley for free eye tests Thursday (tonight) in a clinic at the high school. All persons over 35 years of age, should have such eye tests to reveal the beginning of any Glaucoma, a disease that causes blindness. Early discovery of this condition can be treated to save the eyes. As part of the Lions International sight conservation, the Garland club is sponsoring the clinic with the cooperation of the Tremonton and Corinne New Officers Named By Farm Bureau The Farm Bureau held their directors meeting Friday at the Utah Power and Light Building. Ross Rudd reported on the Convention Peoples Young which he attended in Michigan last month. New officers for the coming year were elected clubs. Ross Rudd, Pres. and Will-ia- n with Physicians and nurses on duty OutRoberts as at the clinic are contributing R. Wynn Zun-dpresident, going their service to make the tests was thanked for his good without charge to those attend- work. An Executive Committee will be appointed in the future. ing. Vice-Pre- s. el Promising Fielding to Hold Homecoming Sat. Garn who is in charge of the evening's entertainment. An interesting program is being arranged. A small door donation will be asked. Ward members are asked to bring their own silverware. Everyone is urged to attend. Friday afternoon April 28th a banquet will be held for all children of Pr imary age. Both old and new friendships renewed when ward members and former ward members gather at the Fielding ward hall Saturday, April 29th for their Annual Ward Reunion and Home Coming. All former members of the ward are cordially invited to attend. The banquet begins promptly at 7 p.m., announces Wayne will be pany. Sugar Company officials are busy this week surveying the beet fields of the district to determine the amount of damage to crops by the cold weather of the past week. Field men felt that farmers in the northern part of the valley would suffer greater loss, except when the beets had been planted later and were not yet up enough to be star. killed. Franke is cub master Robert They report that most fields The burglary of the farm for the and Helen De have troop suffered some frost damProf. of Creek Blue home in Jarnett, den mother. age, but it was hoped the loss C. W. Roskelly of Logan on would be light in most cases. March 10 has been solved by One field west of Bear River the County sheriff's department City, however, was a complete in the apprehension of three loss and at least 70 acres will men who are reported to be inhave to be replanted. volved. a were Taken from the home personalized check book, gasoline and a coat. The check book contained 225 checks, having a payroll appearance. They were forged and cashed in various parts of the country and the men iwere traced through them Senator Kleon Kerr, principal at Boise and Lewiston, Ida., of the Bear River High School, Afton and Jackson, Wyo., Grand has been assigned to the LegiJunction, Colo., and Weber and slative Council's Standing Comof Salt Lake Counties. A total mittee on Education and Wel$2,000 had been forged when fare. Town-senCharles P. Thomas, 28, As a member of this comMont., and his brother, mittee, the local senator and Howard Keith Thomas, 19 and principal will do considerable Clyde Earl Stamper, 20, of research into pertinent educainto taken were, Ida., tional, welfare, and tax probcustody. lems. He will also be interested The elder man who passed RICHARD MARK HALES in other major study areas of the forged checks was picked the group. Included in commitN. Mex., in Albuquerque, up tee activities scheduled for before and arraigned Judge consideration is the developin Daines Robert protempore ment of suggestions for coorwaived He Court. Brigham City dinating the work of the State preliminary hearing and was Building Board and the various bound over to District Court. boards of education to the end Bq,il was set at $1,500 cash or that a more uniform design for $3,000 property. He is being school buildings may be securheld in county jail in lieu of A missionary farewell will be ed. bail. The car used in the case Another study area includes belonged to Howard Keith held Sunday evening, April 30 Thomas, who was not directly in Tremonton Fourth Ward to the determining of causes for involved in the burglary be- honor Elder Richard Mark the excessive percentage of cause of a crippled leg. He was Hales, son of Mr. and Mrs. withdrawals prior to graduareturned from Durango, Colo., Steve Hales, who has been tion of students enrolled in and sentenced to six months in called to serve as a missionary Utah's secondary schools, vocathe county jail with the court for the LDS Church. The meet- tional schools, junior colleges, and universities. Principal Kerr ing begins at 7:15. reserving jurisdiction. Elder Hales will serve in the is also a member of the The other man joined the Thomas brothers after the Eastern States Mission with Legislative Council of the in New York City. State of Utah recently appointto a headquarters report according burglary, from the sheriffs office, and He will enter the mission home ed to study various problems his car was then used. He acted in Salt Lake City May 15 for confronting education, welfare, more or less aa secretary in the special training prior to de- taxation, auditing and many other areas. The 'group Is inforging operation. He was parture to his field of labor. from Richard Bear to provide recommenPolice structed Provo over the graduated to turned River High school a year ago. dations to the 1963 Legislature. department for forgery. Local Educator On Important State Committee d, Rig-gin- s, Sunday Farewell To Honor Elder Richard Hales 13-ma- n If recommendations are apMr. Hansen was assured that work would start immediately on pushing the supply lines into the valley area. proved, B. R. - - Students -- Name Officers v ''V' ' c 'it- to ' - I v - . i For 1961 - 62 Eight students chosen to act studentbody officers and were cheerleaders for 1961-6- 2 elected Friday, April 21, at Bear River High School. Steven Green, Tremonton, will lead the studentbody as president. Barry Kraus, Garland will assume the while Sharon Jensen, Thatcher, was elected secretary. New cheerleaders are Nan Oyler and Linda Secrist, both from Garland; Brenda Hall, Portage, Brenda Robbins and Tamera Haramoto, Tremonton. Tamera was chosen as the head cheerleader. The voting for these offices took place Friday morning and an assembly that afternoon announced the new officers. Other students vying for these offices were Darrel NewDeAnn man, Doug Ward, Frank for studentbody officers. Students vying for cheerleaders were Sally Woodhead, Jeri Oyler, Judy Bowcutt, Linda Zillas, and Ann Henrie. as as $ ' . t. y, Choir Concert Pleases - Plan Tour to Calif. The Bear River A Cappella choir sang to a full house at the Bear River Stake tabernacle Wednesday night at their annual concert. Composed of 80 singers, the group as usual pleased the audience with their selections. The guest soloists were also well received. Plans for a California tour are now under way for this summer. Stops will be made at Sacramento, Concord, Walnut Creek and others in that area. Two busses will be chartered for the six day trip. - 1 :Vr "'.IS.. ,ii are Myron Richards, STUDYING DETAILS OF SAFE DRIVING ROAD E-driver training instructor of Bear River High School and Max Heppler, chairman of the Jaycee committee who are sponsoring the yearly event May 6th. O Jaycees Sponsor Driving Contest on a point basis. at Hepp's Sport Store or from road-e-The annual Three winners from the local the BRHS driving instructor, sponsored by the Tremon- contest will be sent to the state Myron Richards. The entry ton Junior Chamber of Com- meet. Winners of the state blank below may also be used. merce, will be held Saturday, meet will go to Washington, Only those who submit signed May 6, according to Max Hep- D. C, wilh all expenses paid. applications will be premitted pler, committee chairman. Entry blanks can be obtained to participate in this event. The event will be held at the McKinley School, Tremonton, JAYCEE SAFE DRIVING ROAD-Ebeginning at 9:00 a.m. not will who Boys and girls t Name Age reach their 19 birthday before not have and who 1961, Aug. 1, Date of Birth Male.... Female.... received a moving traffic violaI hereby make application to participate in the Treto be held May 6, monton Jaycee's Safe Driving Road-etion, six months prior to Aug. 1961. 1, are eligible and are urged to in the teen-ag- e I further verify that I have not been convicted of or participate have pending, a moving .traffic violation in the six months road-e-prior to July 31, 1961. This nation-widJaycee drivwrita will of event consist ing ten test and four exercise drivApplicant Signature I do hereby promise and agree that I will not hold ing tests. from the the Tremonton Jaycee's liable for any accident or bodily Representatives state highway patrol, county injury that may occur at the above described event. sheriff's office, and city police will act as judges. All exercises Parent Signature and obstacle courses are graded safe-drivin- g o, O o o. e |