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Show Universal Microfilming Corp, 141 Salt Pisrpont Laka Ava. City, Utah 2432 IrdlWl Volume 65, Number 33 Brigham City, Utah, Tuesday Morning, August 14, 1962 8 Pages Schools Chief Describes Need Demo, GOP Conventions Name County Candidates Salary Raises Given For More Teachers as Critical With the opening of school less than two weeks away in Box Elder district, Supt. Walter D. Talbot this r com Two incumbents and a pair of banner bearers for described the need for additional teachers as week 11 primary political newcomers won nomina- missioner in the Sept. "critical. from field the tions as primary candidates for election. Trimmed the most Iji fact the schools chief said it was the Box Elder county commission of hopefuls was Thomas A SumTremonton mers, both the as Republican Saturday pressing teacher shortage he had experienced as a and Democratic county parties THE GOP delegates, school administrator. And he issued a plea for permeeting conducted nominating conventions 181 in the Box Elder High strong sons who are certified to teach or who might be in Brigham City. auditorium, gave Commissioner authoribed to Demo cofab, the by the state to contact him. Delegates Robert J. Potter, East Garland, staged in the Box Elder Junior and north Talbot said that persons who are within 15 Brigham dairyman auditorium, picked Frank 0. Reeder their nod for High school credit hours of obtaining their teacher's certificate can present commission chairman Gro- election berths Knocked from in the district for one year. This is with the teach ver Harper, Corinne, and Edward contention for r commisA will that Silvester, Penrose, as their sioner were former commissioner understanding complete the necessary they Lewis S Wght, Brigham City, and certificate for the following year. a earn and schooling S Leo Miller, Elwood The Board of Education last week approved 375 The two contests were the only including persons to teach in the district in 1962-6ones offered at the conventions 56 new teachers. sub-- To City Employes, Proposed for Council four-yea- two-yea- County Fair, 3 which were dued Rodeo to Open Loreen Todd BEEHIVE COAL & APPLIANCE Saundra Roche JOHNSON INSURANCE comparatively 1 Adoption of county party plat- forms constituted the other major Both platforms Box Elder county Fair and Gol- item of business. den Spike rodeo events will get un- pledged support for agriculture in responsibility, derway in a week at the Fair the county, fiscal de-Tremonton. education, efficient highway west of Grounds Events begin Aug. 22 with the an- velopment, and encouragement to nouncing of the Box Elder Fair industry. and Rodeo queen. THE DEMOCRATS also called Judging of Art, handiwork, caned food, livestock and horses will for continuing development of recreational facilities for young and also begin Wednesday. The County Fair parade will be- old and tourist attractions. gin at 5 p.m. Thursday in TremonOther planks of the GOP platton and the Monte Young carnival form recommended steps be taken will open that night at the fair to halt stream polution and engrounds. The Golden Spike rodeo courage multple use of resources. will begin at 8 p.m. Aug. 22, 23 and The Democrats were specific in 24. one issue, the long- Horse races and little league touching on half-cesales tax in-- 1 baseball are on the slate of events proposed not endorsing the Though the afternoon. Saturday Friday said Auction tax increase, the platform Junior Livestock Public 1 will begin at p.m. with more than this: If a one-hacent sales tax is 100 animals being sold. d to The Box Elder county Sheriffs imposed, it should be Posse will sponsor a chuckwagon incorporated towns on a per capibreakfast on Tremontons Main ta basis. street Thursday, Friday and SaturTHE GOP PLATFORM was less day of the celebration beginning at direct and referring to the coun6 a.m. each evening. sevOfficial rules and regulations of tys expanding communities, the fair are available in the Box eral of which have asked for the Elder county Fair and Rodeo books lax raise and been turned down, available at the county agents of- twice, said this: The Republican party recognizfice. es the growing importance of the expanding urban communities of this county. We pledge our support to city governing bodies in their effort to solve financial difficulties In a late action at the GOP confab, delegates approved two motions which called for greater participation in forming the platform and a review of the platform prior to the primary convention. Advance ticket sales continue for ON HAND at the Republican the 1962 Peach Queen contest and Rulon R. Garfield coronation ball which will be held gathering were and Laurence J. Burton, candi30 of new in the Aug. gymnasium dates for congress from Utahs Box Elder High school. Tickets may be obtained for a $1 First district; A. Pratt Kesler, atdonation from any Jaycee member. torney general, and representaTickets will be sold until the 3000 tives of Wallace F. Bennett and J. Bracken Lee, U. S. Senate seat capacity gym is filled. Latest entries in the Peach Queen hopefuls. Senate aspirant Calvin Hampton contest are Saundra Roche, 18, 545 South Third East. Her guardian is and attorney general candidates Mrs. Etta Gilbert and she is spon- William H. Henderson and Bryan sored by Johnson Insurance. Croft, along with representatives Juanita Searle, 18, daughter Mr. of Congressmen David S. King Clarence and M. Blaine Peterson were presand Mrs. Mary and Searle, 165 North First East. She ent at the Democratic session. is sponsored by American Carpet State Demo chairman Stephen P. Smoot complimented the delecompany. Carol Jensen, 17, daughter of Mr. gates for the most successful turnand Mrs. Nello C. Jensen, 25 West out at a county primary convenThird South. Her sponsor is the tion he had witnessed to date. Peach City apartments. Loreen Todd, 17, daughter of Mr. 148 and Mrs. Francis S. Todd, North Tenth East. Beehive Coal and Appliance will sponsor her. 1 - pro-rate- Janita Searle AMERICAN CARPET Carol Jensen PEACH CITY APARTMENTS TO DISCUSS TAXES, DETENTION HOME Officials From 6 Counties To Meet in Brigham City Commissioners from six northern to Utah counties are scheduled meet in Brigham City Thursday to discuss several matters of particular importance to the area including the privilege tax law and joint juvenile detention facilities. The county officials will gather in the Box Elder County commission room starting at 10 a.m. Represented will be Box Elder, Cache, Rich, Weber. Morgan and Davis counties. Primary purpose for calling the session is to discuss the priviege tax which is on the threshold of being tested in court. Representatives from the Utah Tax commission and attorney generals office are expected to be on hand. THE COURT case in which Thio- kol Chemical corporation is seeking return of $125,801.29 paid under the controversial tax law is scheduled for pre-trihearing on Aug. 28 at 12 noon in First District court. Also slated for discussion is the state's tax on goods and merchandise in transit through the state. The commissioners will hear a report from a special committee named last June to study the juve nile detention problem. They will explore the possibility of a centure to finance the new quarters Envisioned is a $200,000 detention home for which The Brigham City Fire depart- the stale would pay half. ment answered calls to four LISTED AMONG problems to be fires during the last week. discussed Thursday are sharing of No damage was caused when a operating expenses, staffing and grass Fire broke out between First and Second East on Sixth North programs. George T. Frost, Weber County Aug. 7 at 10: 15 a.m. Fireman Gordon Reeves says the fire was star- Commission chairman and chairman of the special committee rep ted by an untended incinerator. resenting the six counties, said last The department also answered a week that an architect could be apcall to another grass fire at Third pointed this fall and construction East and Fifth North at 4:15 pm. started next spring if the rommis-sinnerAug. 9. No damage was reported can reach agreement at the A third grass fire on the Henry meeting. J. Cox property at south Willard Members of the Box Elder com broke out Aug 12 and no damage mission indicated this week that was reported. they are completely satisfied with An estimated $50 damage was in the present juvenile facilities caused when a shed owned by county. However, these quarters 4118 North are located downstairs in the Harold Sycamore, Fourth Fust, caught on fire county jail which is in violation of 4:45 p, m. slate law requiring juvenile quarters and jails to be kept separate. Local Department Answers Calls to Area Grass Fires L. . 44 city employes and a vote to prepare ordinance for the city council and mayor stood as major action taken at a special Brigham City council meeting Thursday morning. The pay increase for salaried employes including members of the police department and department heads had been anticipated. They averaged out a six or seven percent based on recommendations of the department heads and councilmen in charge of the various departments. What came without benefit of in discussion regular previous council meetings this year was the council and move to jump the mayor pay salary-boostin- 1 g Sewer Plant Project Near Done The proposal includes boosting councilman salaries from $100 to $175 a month and the mayor from $175 to $375 monthly. Also considered was $300 as an anual contingency for each councilman to take care of expenses said they incurred in city business. The allowance contigency designated mayors would be reduced trom $500 to . . . And Boasting New Fail Colors Currier the project. The latest colors in sewage plants ate bright yellow, tur- will hit close to the . . Sept. 25 completion date. quoise and a balancing beige A at least m Brigham City structure, digester control building, main conThe municipal plant, now in the trol building, and new primary home stretch of a and clarifiers are fin'ar expansion project, is sporting ished.secondary these colors. And if Brigham City has one of the finest disposal faOnly windup work is left on cilities in Utah it also has the other structures. brKhtest-crease- . Trucks have been running on a basis since last week ex Currier, project foreman, in to get rock hauled into the huge said the yellow was included But he attri- new filter which is 175 feet across the specifications to Howard and by far the largest single butes the turquoise Kelly, plant superintendent, who, structure on the plant site. together with the painter, decided SAYS CURRIER cubic 5,200 the colors would go nicely togethyards of the rock, a special kind er. brought in from Uintah in Weber ConAT ANY rate, Alder-Chilcounty, are needed. This means struction company of Salt Lake many truck loads at 18 yards per City is about 90 percent along on load, he added. . $300 a year. COUNCILMAN Olof Zundel cast the lone dissenting vote on the motion and planted the seeds of a genuine controversy. Undoubtedly more discussion will precede a vote on the ordinance at this Thursday evenings regular session. Zundel contended that the city officials should look first to the hiring of a public works coordinae tor and a city engineer APPOINTED Dewane E. Jenson before thinking of a pay raise. has been named manager of the His argument was that if a co- BLM Brigham City district. e ordinator and engineer are employed, it will relieve much of the load from the councils shoulders. But if the two are votOne ol the more significant hired and a pay raise is still Brigham City will be paying steps in construction is scheduled ed, too much for its administration. for this Friday when an lid weighing 30 tons will be lifted HE SAID THE money could be onto the new digester building. better used if applied to the salThe cover has been fabricated on ary of a public works coordinator the grounds during the past two or engineer. weeks. At present, Brigham City has There are presently 14 men on the services of City Engineer Neil Dewane E. Jenson Monday was the job which was started a year Smith on basis. installed during 10 a.m. ceremononly a part-timago. The coordinator referred to by ies in the Box Elder County courtThe Brigham City municipal pool The enlargement project more Zundel would oversee the house as manager of the Brigham operawill be the scene of a water show than doubles the plants capacity, tion of all city departments and City district, U.S. Bureau of Land Friday, Aug. 17, at 8 p.m. to serve a be making it adequate to the Management. directly responsible Members of the Brigham City population of 30,000 persons council. girls sychronied swimming team, The district, with headquarters Creation of such a post has re- in a boys synchronized swimming Brigham City, includes Box Elceived some consideration at ear- der, Cache, Rich, Weber, Morgan team and a clown act will entertain at the show which is under lier meetings but the prime atten- and Davis counties and parts of the direction of employees of the tion has been aimed at getting a Summit and Tooele counties. Ine local swimming pool. An admiscluded in the districts are 1,257,973 engineer. sion fee will be charged acres of the national land reserve, L. PacCOUNCILMAN William The main numbers in the moet administered by BLM. one in Zundel's echoed ker will be from the girls synchronizfeeling The .48 inches of rain that fell R. D. Nielson, Utah state direcdefinitewas ed team directed by Carol Morgan Aug. 10 in the Brigham City area respect, saying he tor for the Bureau of Land Under the theme Hawaian Holi- didnt seem to pull down temper- ly in favor of hiring a director of Monday installed Jenson e engiday the team will perform to hula, atures for very long. Additional public utilities and as Brigham City district manager. added neer. Packer little brown However, fair is nightclub, tropical fish, weather predicted for the In attendance at the ceremony jug gals and grand finale num local area during the next few that the councils scale should be were members of the district advisbers. considered separate. days according to local weather board, civic officials, personHawaiian decorations will be used observer, Charles Clifford. He pointed out that funds enough ory nel of the BLM Brigham City ofto augment the theme and costo cover the proposed raises and fice and other interested persons. tumes for the girls are being made to employ a coordinator and engiFOR THE PAST year, Jenson neer are included in the present by the girls and their mothers. The girls team has been rehearshas been chief of the range and forbudget. a.m. at ing each morning from No matter what action is taken. estry division in the Utah state the swimming pool since the bePacker said he felt a raise is BLM office, Salt Lake City. As the ginning of the summer. justified and will continue to be Brigham City district manager, he succeeds Garth M. Colton who has justified. been transferred to Lewistown, A SLIGHTLY different view Mont. was offered by Councilman Don Jenson, a native of Hyrum, Chase who feels the city should Cache county, received a bachelor hire a and of science degree in agronomy and engineer then feel our way into a public range from Utah State university in 1929. He also has done graduate works director from there. Councilman John Hadfield agreed work at USU. After teaching vowith Chase that employment of cational agriculture in Delta High the engineer should rate priority school, Jenson was soil technologist but he flatly rejected the need for in the Soil Conservation service in a man to coordinate operation of New Mexico, Uintah basin and Weber county. Since being emthe various city departments. Hadfield said Brigham City has ployed by the Grazing service, of the Bureau of Land competent men heading its de- predecessor he has held such poManagement, havwho resent might partments sitions as regional range examiner ing some one come in and tell in Utah, district manager, area them how to operate. range specialist, and state range HE SAID as far as saving mon- and forestry division chief. He is ey is concerned, in the future the a charter member of the American of Range Management. city could fleet considerable sav- Society Jenson married the former Erma firms having by specialized ings handle the engineering in larger Lunt of Nephi, and they have a son, Evan, at State college, Pa., and city projects. Chase and Hadfield and Coun- two daughters, Mrs, Lewis Knudson of Brigham City, and Mrs. Delmar cilman Verl Petersen all defended the salary boost, saying the job of Price, Spokane, Wash. sitting on the council is a time consuming one and is becoming more so all the time. Petersen brought out that soon after the first of the year, he and Councilman Zundel hud recommended to the council that a pubTwo Brigham City teenagers lic works director be hired. were awaiting action of Juvenile I STILL FEEL there is a def- authorities after taking three casinite need for such a man, he es of empty soda water bottles from the golf course early Monud He explained that maybe if a day morning. The, two youihs 13 and 18 years coordinator is employed, it will cut down the work load of the old were picked up at about 3:30 councilmen but until that time a. m. by Patrolmen Harvey McPLAN WATER SHOW Members of the Brigham City synchronized swimming team display their the city officials deserve a salary Coy and William Walker. They adcostumes In preparation for a water show Friday at the local pool. They are, left to right, back row, mitted taking the bottles and hidincrease. Beverly Dlckamore, Patsy Fitch, Mary Wampler and Diane Packer, Iron! row, Belly Cox, Alyson Moring them in some trees southwest gan and Martha Wampler. of the golf course. (Continued on Page Two) i lf Advance Sales Continue for Queen Contest Pay raises for about a ... full-tim- full-tim- d Water Show New Manager Named for all-ste- Set Friday BLM District At Local Pool e Rain Douses Area, Temperatures Rise full-tim- Man-agme- full-tim- 9 full-tim- e Range Fires Burn 5 Acres Two range fires in Box Elder ounty were extinguished Thursday after burning approximately five acres, according to J. D. Gunderson, district fire warden. Both were caused by lightning. The first blaze broke out at about 6 p. m. north of Riverside ind charred about one acre before volunteer firefighters brought it under control. ignited the second Lightning blaze, north of Coliinston, as headed home from the first fire. It burned about four acres but was kept from wheat fields on two sides by quick rs Gunderson said Elder county has fires. During the year ago, some 25 reported. TV to to date, Box had ten range same period a fires had been Feature BC Brigham City will be featured on a telecast titled "Discover Utah, it was announced this week. A half-hou- r film with shots of the local area and an interview with Mayor Willis L. Hansen will be shown at 12 noon on KUTV Channel 2. Youths Charged In Bottles Theft f |