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Show BrlgVian Carnegie Feb i 9 City Career Is Mixture Of War And Musk Native Brigham Box Elder City Pioneer 'd Kur.. Davia !'ns, K. ifornia r served Dies Wednesday nd Nor f the sj )ke on n 95, early pioneer Sarah Forsgren motion n The pri( ay at morr,; sessions stake Brigham City Pioneer chi of Harold Lrge Eagles Will Hold Initiation Tuesday g matured etng Elder and first white children to be born in Brigham City, died Wednesday evening at 11:45 oclock, follow-insix weeks illness of causes incident to age. Mrs. Christensen was born in Brigham City July 23, 18S1, the eldest daughter of Peter A. and Christine Knudson Forsgren. Her father was the first convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints in county, iing We;, direction efare VOLUME 42, NUMBER 34 Christensen, of Box one of the cro t i! :o 727. Regular monthly initiation in the Fraternal Order, bf Eagles will be heid Tuesday evening at the War Memorial home. The meeting will open at 8 oclock with President Parley Lee in charge. Following the initiation services a dutch supper will be served and a social evening will be enjoyed. All Eagle members are urged to .attend the initiation. Norma Jean Arbon Dies Wednesday Norma Jean Arbon, 17, of Brigham City, died WednesNovember 16, day morning, at 9:10 oclock at her home following a seven months illness. She was bom June 1, 1932, in Brigham City, the daughter of Harold J. and Pearl Smith Arbon. She was reared and educated in Brigham City and was a member of the L. I). S. church in the Fifth ward. She is survived by her parents, and grandparents, Mr. and Concert Pianist Jorge Bolet will who appear in Brigham City Saturday evening at 8:15 oclock. His performance will open (tomorrow) concert season in Brigham City. Bolets tour the 1949-5last season included stops throughout Mexico, an appearance at New Yorks Carnegie Hall, and concerts with such orchestras as the New Orleans Symphony, the Pittsburgh symphony and the Dallas Symphony. His appearance here Saturday is under the auspices of the Community Concert association, and admittance will be by membership ticket i 4 0 Passes Away only. Famous Pianist To I m:ALSPim: Sarah F. Christensen CONCERT SEASON OPENS who was born in Brigham City in 1894, died Wednesday evening following six weeks illness. She was one of the first white children born here. . . . Perform At Stake Tabernacle Staurday At 8:15 P. M. a Up to now I have been called Cuban pianist, and rightfully exclaims Jorge Bolet nil appear here at the so, orchestras as the New Orleans Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony and the Dallas Symphony. His concert at Watergate with the National orchestra won him an ovation reminiscent of the ovation he received at his impromptu concert in that city at the beginning of his professional 4 career. who stake in Brigham City, evening, 'Nov. 19, at 8:15 oclock. "But at present that appendage is a bit outdated, he I am an American continues. Bolets citizen and proud of it. career is a mixture of war, musPoliic, and the Good Neighbor an assorted background cy as from which he has emerged one of the foremost pianists of tabernacle Saturday ' tie day. - Sym-phon- Third Ward Plans -- . Jorge Bolet reeved the major iportion of his musical education in the United States at the Curtis Institute of Havana-bor- n in Music e Follow-in- Philadelphia. Big Annual Dinne I g dinner is in prefrom the his graduation paration for the members of the Curtis school, Bolet toured ward to be held at the Vienna, Third London, Box Elder high school cafeteria Madrid, The Hague, Amsterdam evening, November 19, and continental Saturday other major said today. music centers. Then he returne- w'ard officers win to to d the United States years the During previous the coveted Naumburg AW'ard, dinner has been in the nature which carries with it the privilof a welfare dinner to raise the ege of a Town Hall recital. wards welfare quota but this 'When Cuba entered World year it will be for all members War II, Bolet enlisted in the of the ward twelve years old or Cuban army and was eventually over. All the auxiliary organitrained and commissioner as an zations of the ward are cooperainfantry officer. However, the ting to make this event an outCuban government (which had standing accomplishment of the honored for A big ward his him recently feats by presenting him with Cuba's highest distinction, the Order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes) decided to take advantage of both his command of the English language and his with the United familiarity States by sending him to Washington as Assistant (Military Attache of the Cuban embassy. It was Bolets mission to vaid in year. been A very fine menu has planned and through the cooperation of Mr. Scott Hillam a picture show will be shown in the Visual Education room to entertain the members of the ward before and after eating. artistic 's Sturdy Dinner will be served cafeteria style to the adult members at C oclock. At the same time the mili-toping picture will be shown to all the tary cooperation at peak effect- teen agers. Later as the teenwill be eniveness and in promoting cult- agers eat, the adults Enterural understanding between his tertained by the show. conctainment is also being provided country and ours through ert appears neps. during the dinners. under The (All Third ward kiddies D. pianists Washington, C. with a 12 will be entertained debut was accidental. purely A member of an audience of picture show and a treat at 2 3,000 assembled to hear a war-tim- o'clock in the Scout house Satperformance of the Sig-on- urday. Romberg orchestra, Bolet heard Constitution Halls frantic manager explain an unavoid-blTo delay and beg for local BEHS klent to come to the fore. The Cuban-America- ir 2.39 . n e d e tall, JaaI. V handsome l. ? one of Cuban diplomat. rts . the most successful pearances of his In December,' ap- Students i career. '1. Ranges lets commission void. The answered this chalvnge by enlisting immediately n the s United States army. as a private, he a chosen to be valedictorian his naturalization class at nip Croft, S. c. He is the only mst now on the concert stage ho is a veteran of. two armies, discharge from the ony two years ago, Bolet has - Af-eek- ly ck 98c irdy w Gr .ndle-- oof ng, red Mexico, Central Amer- West Indies and Latin Arnerl and has recorded sev- , Programs for the Canadian oadcasting company Cuban asJe,nPPS have often heard h im soloist with the Havana Phil du10nic und(r such noted rs as Erich Kleiber and liassi: Freccia. Last season, .Mr. Bolets sched- reeit Pear- lie a tour Mexico, highlighted by an ap- - Uded i - in Npw Yorks Came-na- l and concerts with such Julia L. Gilbert Dies Thursday Julia Frogner Larsen Gilbert, Brigham City, died November 17, at 10:45 oclock in the evening at the Cooley Memorial hospital following a long illness. 79, She was born January 5, 1870, Oslo, Norway. She was reared and educated in Norway and came to the United States in 1905 as a convert to the Church of Latter-daof Jesus Christ Saints. at Journalism conference at Brigham Young University, Saturday, November 19. Making the trip are Wesley Barlow, editor of the Bee and Leland Seely, also of the school newspaper staff. The local journalists will compare notes with student editors, writers, business managers and advisers from S5 other schools in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada. About 150 persons are expected at the convention. Other exhibits at the convention will show processes of creating a yearbook, the steps in the production of a daily newspaper, valuable old newspapers and magazines of Utah, and means of communication in ancient times. . The students will also see demonstrations of the press, big new B.Y.U. newspaper the offset method of printing, mimeographing, and radio She was an active member of the L. D. S. church, serving as Relief society teacher and was active in genealogy. Survivors include one grandBrigham son, Howard Larsen, Mrs. City; one daughter-in-law- , Lafe Jensen, and the following Merlin Larsen, Ira Larsen, both of Brigham City, and Mrs. Lester Hubbard of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held Monday at 1 oclock in the Sixth ward chapel with Bishop Richard Hansen officiating. Friends may call at the mortuary between 7 and 9 o'clock in the evening Sunday and prior to services at the family home Monday. Interment will be in the Brigham City cemetery under the direction of the Harold B. Felt funeral home. step-chiidre- Phone your news to 727. Heads For County North Box Elder M.I.A. Leadership Meet Sat. Ag Deparments meeting for all Mutual workers ot North Box Elder stake will be held Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Third ward chapel, it was announced today by Mrs. William W. Smith and Howard Call, Mutual presidents. All ward and slake Mutual workers are urged to attend this meeting, they said, as a number of matters of interest and importance will be considered. Through arrangement with the Mountain States Telephone company, a sound film, Rehearsal, showing a rehearsal for the Telephone Hour, will be presented. A leadership To Be Elected who Farmer-committeeme- n head the production and marketing administration in Box Elder county for 1950 will be elected from the countys eight agricultural communities from November 21 to 23, it was announced today by the U. S. department of agriculture. Also to be elected will be a delegate from each community to a county convention which will name the three-macounty PMA committee for 1950. All voting will be done at community meetings by secret ballot. The meetings scheduled for all communities of the county are as follows: PorPortage and Plymouth tage L. D. S. church, at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 21. Blue Creek, Howell, Hansel Valley and Promontory Howell church at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 23. Snowville and West Park Valley town hall at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 23. Fielding, Riverside, Garland and Fast Garland (East Garland church at 2 oclock, November will n 22. Tremonton, Elwood, Bothwell, Thatcher and Penrose Tremonton Power and Light company building at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 22. e Collinston, Beaver Dam, and Deweyville Dewey-villchurch at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 23. Bear River City and Corinne Corinne City hall at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 22. Harper, Perry, Willard, Brigham and IMantua Brigham City court room at 2 oclock in the afternoon, November 22. "Any person is eligible to vote or hold office who is an owner, operator, tenant or sharecropper on a farm that is participating in any program administered during the current calendar year through the councomty and community PIMA mittee, says Donald J. Homer, present county conjmittee .chaire Norma Jean Arbon who died at her home in Brigham City November 16, Wednesday, following a lingering illness. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Harold J. Arbon. . , . of Brigham City, and Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Arbon of Snowville, and a brother, Jay Harold. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 oclock in the afternoon in the Fifth ward chapel with Bishop J. Oleen Palmer officiating. Friends may call at the family home Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday prior to the services. Interment will be in the Brigham City cemetery under the direction of the Harold B. Felt Funeral home. Mrs. Lorenzo J. Smith Phone your society news to Phone 727, or the to Mrs. Charles Kimber, society editor, Phone 192. News-Journa- She married Lars H. Larsen shortly after coming to this country. They made their home in Brigham City. Mr. Larsen died in 1923. She married Martin Gilbert in the Logan temof the L. D. S. church in 1939. Box ple Mr. Gilbert died two years later. Two representatives will attend political Eider high school Intermountain at home rendered Bo the 14th annual 1944, countries and was married in Iowa while crossing plains to Utah. On April 10, 1872 she married Christian Kiem who died about six years later. She married John L. Christensen, March 25, 1880. He died Sept. 10, 1919. Mrs. Christensen continued to live in Brigham City until 1932 when she moved to Salt Lake City making her home with her Hazel Christensen daughters, and Lettie C. Cherrey. She was the mother of 11 children, five orwrrom arestill living. They are: John S. Christensen, Huntington Park California: Lettie C. Cherrey, Emille Christensen, Hazel Christensen of Salt Lake City and Leland Christensen of Ogden, Utah. She is also survived by 41 52 grandchildren, and five one brother, Elias Forsgren of Brigham City. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 12 oclock noon in the Sixth ward chapel with Bishop Richard Hansen officiating. Friends may call at the Felt Funeral home Friday evening, from 7 to 9 oclock and Saturday until time of services. Interment will be in the Brigham City cemetery, under the direction of the Harold B. Felt Funeral home. BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1949 Hon-eyvill- the Scandinavian Attend Conference at Library man. - ' participation Report On Navajo Trip Is Slated All the splendor and beauty of the Skyline country on the Navajo Indian reservation will be reproduced from movie films, colored slides, and still pictures at a general report meeting sponsored by the Intermountain Indian committee, who recently toured the reservation, for the general public, Wednesday evening, Sept. 23, at 7:30 oclock, J. D. Gunderson, chairman, said today. At a recent meeting the best of a large group of pictures taken by the Brigham City delegation on the trip were selected for presentation. the Many pictures showing beauty of the desert country and the aridness of it will be shown along with many pictures of the Indians as they live and play, Gunderson said. Also on the program will be short talks by John W. Howard, of the Box Elder president Chamber of Commerce; Mrs. Klitgaard, Boyd Packer, K. E. Weight, and Dr. George A. Boyce, superintendent of the Intermountain Indian school in Brigham City. Questions will be answered by member of the group who made fhe Navajo trip. (Pictures on Pag 8) El-m- a Rotary Club Holds of farHeavy mers in their committeemen elections is one of the best methods of demonstrating their e support of the system of local administraMembers of the Brigham City tion of national farm programs, Rotary club and their Rotary Homer concluded. Anns were entertained at a novel and hilarious dinner party Reminded Of Friday evening. The party was Jaycees and presented by the Annual Duck Hunt Sun. planned iadies night committee of the is Members of the Brigham City club, . of which Wes Shirts Junior Chamber of Commerce chairman and Ez Owen, S. M. were reminded today of the an Rasmussen and C. B. Stratford nual Jaycee duck hunt, to be members. Events of the evening includheld Sunday. Hunters will meet at the How ed contests, games, stunts and ard cafe for breakfast Sunday a visit from an oriental mystic morning at 5 oclock, where and seer, who solved the probteams will be organized and the lems of those present with sound hunting season contest outlined philisophical wisdom. The role All Jaycees planning to at- of the mystic was played by tend should notify Jesse Jepper-so- Earl Madsen. A concluding feature of the or Bob Pella, in charge of arrangements for the hunt, not party was a Battle of the later than Saturday, they an Sexes, in familiar songs and nounced. parodies, with Harold Felt and farmer-committe- Novel Party Friday 12 PAGES GAY TIME FOR ALL Kiwanis Club To Honor Children In Brigham Saturday With Kids Day Saturday is the big day for the kids of Brigham City, because thats the day the local Kiwanis club will recognize kids of this city officially in cooperation with the Kiwanis Internationals national Kids day. , SDon Sheffield is chairman of the boys and girls committee and in charge of the program which is to be held in the Brigham City armory Saturday, starting at 1 oclock in the afternoon. All kids who are 16 years of age and under are invited to attend. There is no admission charge and a good time is in store for all those attending. The program will consist of games, with Vern Oberhansley in charge. The National Guards equipment will be displayed and there will be a man there to answer questions of the children. Lloyd Huist will have his trained dogs on hand to entertain the crowd with his nationMiss Oletta Miller ally famous trained dog act. If enough of a good . . . who recently returned that isnt mis- thing, there will be an amateur from a nineteen-mont- h show which should furnish fun sion in the Texas-Louisiaand laughter and handsomely A welcome reward those who mission field. participate. home program will be held All kids should come preto in her honor in the Third pared participate in the amaward, Sunday, November 27. teur show. Appropriate prizes will be awarded to those participating. The program at the armory will last until 3:30 oclock. So kids, tell your friends and plan now to have fun on Kids Day LDS Mission at the Brigham City armory. Returns From Mission na Oletta Miller Back From Miss Oletta Miller of Brigham City Third ward, who recently returned home after spending 19 months in the mission, will be honored at a welcome home program In the Third ward chapel, Sunday, November 27. A letter from (President Glenn G. Smith who presided over that mission to Bishop James Jensen, 3ays, Sister Miller has been a faithful servant of the Master and has endeavored to the best of her ability to do Mi she euld in spreading the truths of the gospel among the good people this southland. Besides filling the assignments of 4th Ward Carnival The members of the Fourth ward are planning a celebration for Wednesday evening, November 30, beginning at 6 oclock in the Armory building. There will .be games for young and old, with valuable . prizes it given free to the winners, was announced. ' There will be numerous good things to eat, such as hot dogs, barbecue, chille, hamburgers, pie, cake, cookies, ice cream, hot chocolate and soda pop. Bring nd have your whole family supper wdth the gang, the public is urged by those In charge of the affair. There will be a Relief society bazaar where those attending the carnival may do their -- - work customary to missionary such as trading, holding cot tage meetings, meeting with in etc., Miss Miller vestigators, spent considerable time in the office at the mission headquar ters at Houston, Texas, as the statistical clerk of the mission. In this capacity she set up a new system of record keeping of the mission and its missionChristmas shopping early at aries. bargain prices, it was further , announced. of There be will tests skill and Edward Rose is believed to for the publics have been the first American to sideshows take up permanent residence in amusement. And finally, there the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming. will be a huge auction sale where you can buy what you need most, at your own price." Mrs. Alf L. Freeman leading Purpose of the carnival is to the contesting armies. raise funds toward completion The Rotary club will not hold of the Fourth ward chapel. Evits regular meeting this noon, is invited. Meet eryone will be guests, friends from all over town your and instead at along with their Anns, of Fred the Armory Wednesday evening, Kuhiman at the Continental November 30. bakery in Ogden. - Brushing Up On Their First Aid Margaret D. Davis Highway Patrolmen Dies Last Tuesday Mrs. Margaret Diana Forsyth Davis, 80, of Brigham City, died Tuesday noon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Vera D. Seder-holBrigham City, where she had been visiting for the past three weeks. Born March 25, 1869, in Glasgow, Scotland, a daughter of James and Katherine Davidson Forsyth, she was married to Alberta John Davis September 19, 1888, in the Logan temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. He died in Meet In Brigham Brigham City would have been a poor place to commit a crime Wednesday, November 16, when Utah state highway patrolmen from Box Elder, Cache and Davis counties, convened here to take a refresher course on first aid, and to review the new and more stringent traffic code that since has been in operation May 10, 1949. The meeting, which was under the direction of Joseph Dud-ler- , state superintendent of the patrol, is one of a series being given in the state, according to Captain Rulon Bennion, inspector for the organization from Salt Lake City. The meeting opened in the morning with Supt. Dudler giving a special lecture on the work of the officers. Lt. E. superintendent for the northern district, also gave a talk. Patrol Instructor Myron C. the afternoon Gale conducted session with lectures and demonstrations on first ard and care of traffic victims. He stressed the points of watching the breathing, stopping of bleeding, fractures, shock, and artificial including speed, respiration, pressure, position and care of the victim. Lt. T. Earl Hunsaker of Logan is director of this area with William C. Sackett of Brigham City, Evan Green of Tremonton, Leonard Jeppsen of Brigham City and Eldrod Wood of Willard, other members. Public Invited To Texas-Louis-ian- a y 1939. Mrs. Davis was active in church work, being a member of the Center ward Relief so ciety for 17 years. She fulfilled a mission for the L. D. S. church with her husband from 1891 to 1894 in the Hawaiian Islands. She is survived by a son, A. Wesley Davis, Salt Lake City three daughters, Mrs. Sederholm Brigham City; Mrs. Lulu D. Per ry, Salt Lake City and Mrs. Ed na D. Hollingsworth, Holladay three sisters, Mrs. L. H. Farns worth, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Jes sie Morehouse, Chico, Calif., and Mrs. Jean Frost, (Los Angeles; 12 grandchildren and one greatgrandchild. PONY EXPRESS Northern Utah Highway Patrolmen L. who were among the group of troopers that met in Brigham City Wednesday to re view their first aid and to examine the new and more stringent traffic code set in operation in Utah, May 10, 1949. They are: (from left to right) Evan Green, Tremonton; r Myron Gale, instructor; Trooper William C. Sackett, Brigham City ; and Trooper id ge Wood, Willard. . . El-d- imaaa'.u; IIIPWIIIUUUMJJJIII This television idea aint to hot I IP bad enough to have to listen to omo of these paid over the radio performers without havin' to look at 'em tool Calamity Jan. |