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Show trl i i ES--m,t"iC- ir A full day of activities is being carried out at Bear River City today as the Box Elder community stages its annual Pioneer day celebration. Activities began at 6 a.m. with breakfast at the town park, location of most events. A junior stock show, kids' parade, baby show, talent program, ball games, horse shoe tournament, junior rodeo and boxing and wrestling are on the agenda. Town officals have issued an invitation for all Box Elder residents to join in the celebration. Food concessions will be open at the park all day. Volume 70, Number 30 Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Sunday Morning, July 23, 1967 Brigham Man To Preside as Councilmen to Study Plan, BC Suggest Cost on Thursday election, in which production workers are listed as eligible voters, will be con. ducted under direction of the D.D. Billings, Brigham City National Labor Relations board. resident currently serving as It will be by secret ballot. Grand worthy president of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, will CLARENCE PALMER, na. preside over the 69th annual tlonal representative' for the Salt Lake City, met grand aerie convention of the AFL-CIOrder being held at Kansas City, with a number of Brigham ApMo. July 26.29. employees parel Thursday Billings has appointed two afternoon to explain election local F.O.E. members to serve procedures and answer quesas special presidential aides tions. He told the Box Elder News at the convention. They are Roy S. Olsen and that petitions for the NKRB e to conduct the election were George E. Tltchner, both In local aerie affairs. filed by both the company and unlon'after 110 employees signed BILLINGS ALSO announced union application cards. that the 1967 convention would Commenting on the upcoming be dedicated to Harry S. TruKenneth V, Rosvall, plant vote, of the former man, president United States of America, who manager, made this statement lives at Nearby Independence, Friday: Because this election Is so Mo. Truman, a lifelong member of the Order, Is expected to vitally Important to the sucaddress the convention at one cess and continued expansion of our operation In Brigham of the business sessions. H. Roe Bartle, former mayor City, we urge all employees of Kansas City, will be the key. both present and potential to carefully study all aspects of note speaker. the company and the costs and THERE WILL BE $100,000 consequences Involved with a union In our area and then presented to various hospitals we ask that all voting employees and research centers, as the express their own carefully con. Eagles continue their fight sldered feelings In private at through the against disease Max Baer heart fund, the Eagles the ballot box. cancer fund, the Jimmie REPORTEDLY, only perma. Durante childrens fund and the nent type employees hired on or muscular dystrophy fund. before June 24 will be entitled Among enteralners attending to vote. Office personnel at and giving performances, will the local plant will not particl. be Jimmie Jim pate In the election. Durante, Backus, Alan King and Dennis Only a simple majority of Day. From the world of sports, 5 0 percent plus one vote Is need, lmmoratals Buddy Baer, Jim ed to organize. However, If Braddock, Joe DIMagglo, Phog the union loses It will not be Allen and the three living mem- possible to have another elec-tloPalmer bers of the Four Horsemen for one year of Notre Dame, Crowley, Lay. told the workers, most of them den and Miller will be among the women. guests at one of the conven. HE SAID IF THE UNION bid tlon highlights, the sports ban. Is successful, contract talks quet. would begin Immediately after GRAND MADAM President, certification by the NLRB. Another meeting of union rep. Kay Williamson of Pamona, Calif., will head the ladles at- resentatlves and employees is scheduled Aug. 2. Expected to tending the auxiliaries 16th held in conjuctlon. They attend are local officers from have contributed heavily to the a clothing manufacturing plant childrens fund and the muscular In Pleasant Grove, Palmer fund this past year, noted, Home Style 3-- 2 The mayor is available 164 ITS PIONEER DAY Beverly Kaye Morrell, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Morrell, 377 North Fourth East, has her sights on celebrating Pioneer day today in bang-ustyle. Parades, rodeos and other activities are scheduled all across Utah in observance of the July 24 holiday. p Brigham City officials Thursday voted their endorsement of a proposed new home style Job Corps program for north-er- said that $2,000 In the budget n and produced a letter from the four local stake presidencies who originally proposed the undertaking, assuring manpower to put the lights up. The Issue grew as one of the most controversial to come across the council table In some time. Bill Davis atCouncilman tempted to sidetrack It early by moving to refuse the pro-jecstating that reaction he had received from the public was overwhelming. t, Utah. Merchants Set Value Spree The action came In response to a formal letter of request from Joseph Kelly director of curriculum for the Thlokol Clearfield Job Corps d Here This Week Center. Proposed is to draw eligible youths from within a radius of the Clearfield center and allow them to commute from their homes while enrolled In the regular Job Corps program. e Looking for a bargain? Then aim your pocket-booat Brigham Citys annual Sidewalk Bazaar, coming up Friday and Saturday, July Local merchants plan to display their wares right out on the sidewalks and promise plenvalues ty of for downtown shoppers. As an additional feature, the Jaycees will be selling hotdogs and other refreshments in front of the old Van Engelens store. A new car show also is planned across from the city hall, said chairman Margo Flint. k KELLY HAD MADE A verbal request at the previous city council meeting. He noted that efforts to attract Utah young men to the Job Corps program had not been as successful as 28-2- FILLED UP PRACTICALLY EVERY NIGHT ac-tlv- n Endorses Job Corps There will be colored lights placed on the Lt)S Brigham City tabernacle during the coming Christmas Season. But the project was much in doubt during Thursdays city council meeting. A motion authorizing city participation passed on a vote with Mayor Olof Zundel deciding the issue after a tie des eloped. - Employees at Brigham Apparel In Brigham City will vote Aug. 4 on whether or not to become union affiliated, It was disclosed this past week. Proposing to organize the local workers Is the AmalWorkers Clothing gamated which presently has three locals In Utah, Including plants In Salt Lake City, Ogden and Pleasant Grove. At FOE Meet PAGES Mayor's Vote Decides Issue at The 6 For Tabernacle Brigham Apparel NAMES AIDES Utah Cosp. City Approves Yule Lights Union Vote Slated August 4 CUy 64113 Pioneer Day Celebration Today at Bear River City orp- Tourists like BE Campground Shade, peace and quiet. ha-cool stream and son they stopped at this These were some of the reasons tourists gave this week when asked why they stopped at the Box Elder campground, just minutes away from Brigham City up Box Elder canyon. A Colorado family on a vacation trip said the rea. y City Talent Contest Set The annual city wide talent contest Is scheduled Aug. 3 In the Box Elder High school auditorium, It was announced Saturday by Recreation Dlrec. tor Less Dunn. All Interested performers are Invited to participate In the event which will start at 8 p.m. This year, the winners of each division will be given an au dltlon for appearance on telethe recreation aide vision, noted. In preparation for the show, this week Is being observed as talent week In the various city playgrounds. The Friday day camp will fea. ture a talent show at Rees Pioneer park with awards to be handed out to the entertainers judged best. par-ticul- was campground It was close to cities like Brigham City and Ogden; yet it still had cool shady trees, a stream and was a good place for the children to play. VACATIONERS from Ohio on their way to Yellowstone Indicated that they looked up the campground in a campground directory and It was the best place available. Just plain coolness, was a comment from an Ontario family who stopped for a night while on a trip to British Colum- bia. Ben Nelson, of the U.S, For-es- t service who Is assigned to the campground said he has sold 61 Golden Eagle passes ($7) and 75 passes ($1 each) since the season opened. one-da- y tourist crowd was just about the same. HE ALSO SAID that 90 per. of the camper tourists that he comes In contact with want cent the HE ARGUED THAT regard-les- s of the councils Intent, It would be criticized as favoring one religion and he read from a local Protestant ministers letter which stated that government and church should remain separate. Councilman Robert Keating who voted with Davis, said he did not consider the religious as. pect as significant. However, he did not want to detract from the Christmas village project which the Jaycees handle on the city and county grounds each yuletlde season. pass. are very tourists neat, he said, I even saw a couple of them washing the "I WAS SKEPTICAL at first tables before they left. He also when we put $1,000 In to start Indicated that there are some It (Christmas village.) But It that leave their camp In a mess has built up and last year real-lbut only a few. began to take shape. Nelson said that the major We still have a long way problem the campground has Is to go but I think we should with vandalism, such things as keep building, he explained. tearing off signs and damage to the Forest Service station. POINTING ALSO TO CITY to Nelson, the outlay According for Main street deccamp was vandalized two weeks orations, Keating declared, It ago and since this has been seems to me weve got quite a bit going.. .enough going. reported to the Box Elder County Sheriffs office, there hasnt Mayor Zundel who has been been any trouble lately. (Continued on Page Two) $7 The y hoped. One of the prohibiting factors, It was felt, has been the reluctance of the youths to leave home and live at the center, Kelly explained. As yet, federal approval has not been received for the new program but center officials are seeking support for their proposal from local governments such as Brigham City. top-notc- h More Holidays Garbage collection personnel City are going to have more holidays off In the In Brigham future. From now on, theyll note New Years day, Memorial day, Fourth of July, Twenty. Fourth of July, Labor day, Thank, giving and Christmas. A double, crew will be assign-eto catch up on the day after ADDED THAT the Is filled up prac tlcally every night. We have people come In from every state In the cou-trsaid Nelson, Including people from Canada. . . and were also had persons from Germany, England and Switzer, NELSON campground IN OTHER BUSINESS, the council accepted the resignation of Reese Jensen from the city board of health. He had served for more than three years. Approved by the council to take his place was Albert Han. sen, local abstractor and Insurance agent. The appointment was recommended by Mayor Olof Zundel. In accepting Jensens resignation, the council formally expressed Its appreciation for his service to the city board. d BASED ON A PROPOSAL to plant replacement trees, the council accepted a shade tree commission recommendation that the LDS Eighth Seventeenth wards to pull existing shade trees from In front of the chapel on Third North, The removal Is part of a project proposed to move the sidewalk In and make room for more parking at the church. A long discussed Issue ap. parently was settled when the council voted to close an opening In a traffic divider Island on Main street at about Eighth land." According to Nelson the local s crowd has fallen off for because the tourist take all the places. This may also be because of the $1 fee for the campground, he added. Nelson compared this year with last year and said that the pic-nlc- North. The action complied with a recommendation of the traffic advisory committee. An exist-inhazard to traffic prompted g CENSUS SHOWS SLIGHT DECREASE the action, STOP SIGNS were formally approved for northbound and westbound traffic at Sixth East and Fifth South, A proposal to eliminate a tree on the Inter. ectlons northwest corner was referred to the shade tree com. Ranks of School Children Hold Steady The number of grade school youngsters living In the Brig, ham City and Tremonton areas has taken on a stable Image. Morgan Hawkes, director of pupil personnel, told the board of education this past week that July census figures Indicate a decline of just 12 students from projected figures of last March. He said there Is an upswing Firemen Respond To Car Blazes Brigham City firemen were called to douse two automo bile fires Friday, according to Chief Dee Earl. The first summons took them to Perry where a rear wheel brake lining on a transient work, ers car had caught fire, Chief Earl estimated the damage at $100. Later In the day, a fire In the engine compartment of a car owned by Valerie Huff, 545 East Sixth South, caused an estimated $25 damage. The fire broke out at Sixth West and Forest. in Brigham City population while other areas of the county are holding just about steady, law, district property View school, and Leona Mer. By must be put out for public rell, Perry school teacher, The board named Marsha Ann bid when being sold. Smith to teach at Box Elder AN INCREASE IN klndergar. BOARD MEMBERS Indicated (Continued on Page Two) ten students entering Box El- that bidders must specify to der schools as opposed to sen. what use they Intend to put lore who left this past spring the property. They set Aug. Is expected to result in a total 7 as the deadline for receiving enrollment hike when school bids and will open and consld. opens Aug. 28. er them on Aug. 9. Based on the July figures, and Ike buildings Ward, Supt. J.C. Haws said it ap. grounds supervisor, reported pears unlikely the district will on progress of several site Imhave to employ several teachers provement projects. aides as earlier thought. He indicated that a sprlnk. Three temporary metal build, will be completed lngs used at Box Elder Jun. system ling A SHIFTING OF families with. this week at North Park school lor High school as classrooms In school areas Is largely re. In Tremonton with Neighbor, during construction of permsponsible for this development. hood Youth corps boys doing the anent facilities, have new Aides generally are enlisted work. when a class becomes burden, The Box Elder Board of Edu. somly large for the teacher and ATTENTION WILL shift next cation this past week agreed to a mixed class Is not feasible. to sprinkler installation at let the county use a single-rooIn other business at a reg. Mountain View school In Brig, unit at the fair grounds this ular board meeting, the board ham City. year. Ward noted also that top soil The county will absorb the agreed to call bids on the school Elto hauled the Box cost of moving the structure building and grounds at Dewey, was being der Junior High school for to Tremonton. vllle. Two other buildings, triple-rooIt took the action at the re. grounds Improvement there. In size, will be moved Resignations were accepted quest of Deweyvllle town rep. e to new school property at Eighth resentatlves who said they want, from Michael Lllley, social teacher at Box Elder Jun- West and Second South for use ed an opportunity to purchase education vocational the site and develop It as a ior High school; Roberta Holt, In Mountain programs. community park. special education, mission. The council decided to wait for a week on a traffic com. mittees recommendation that parallel parking spaces be painted on Forest street from First to Eighth West. Metal School Buildngs Have New Use scl-enc- Ensign Ends Flight School Navy Reserve Ensign Brent L. Bradbury, son of Mrs. La. Rue Johnson of 147 North Se. cond West, Brigham City has completed the four .week course of flight preparation school at the Naval Air Station, Pensa. cola, Fla. During the course of study he received Instruction In basic PARK MASTER PLAN This is the master pond area at Rees Pioneer park. It was adopted by tne city council inursday night. City officials have ordered engineering for costs to install a sprinkling system and plant lawn as a first phase. Service clubs will be asked to participate in further development. aerodynamics, aviation physio, logy, naval air operations, air' navigation, physical fitness, power plants and accessories, and swimming. He will now proceed to the next phase of his training under the Naval Aviation Program leading to his Navy Wings of Gold. |
