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Show Brigham to Receive icrofilulng Corp. Universal 14 Salt $5,900ParI(sGrant The federal government has approved a $5,900 grant for Brigham City, the funds to be used for parks beautification and improvements, It was disclosed Thursday by Sen, Frank E. Moss 1 for making price offers on the land and May 1 for g remaining acreage one way or another." Another prime park project on the city agenda this year Is of the south pond area of Rees Pioneer park cost of more than $24,000. However, I . j5i f ; -- I. 1. u T I- ! I - Value .i Centennial Is Your Show Box Elder Audience Told ft to begin budget planning m AS PART OF THE parks plan, negotiations are now und. erway to acquire 11.7 acres of ground in the area between First and Third North and Fourth and Sixth East streets. Reportedly, a number of the 32 property owners involved already have agreed to sell, A has been deadline of March set on negotiations for the with later cutoff dates of !!!! ,7 meeting. Murray Moler who is chairman of the Utah Travel council and also an ex officio of the Utah Golden Spike Centennial commission, referred to the happening at Promontory Summit as "The most monumental event in railroad history." I pro-pert- y Federal Grant in $3,331,914 The great significance of the golden spike driving, linking this nations first transcontinental railroad, and the importance of the upcoming 1969 centennial observance of the event were emphasized Thursday in a speech at the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce annual dinner V 1 Box Elder School V district will awarded i W, J, I - . by the U.S. Office of Education for use in Utah for various ed. u cation programs assisting handicapped children. The local district has been apportioned $51,326.50 as its part of the funds, i M' Dee Glen Smith, right, presiJOINS FOOD KING dent of Food King Markets, stands with Manager Oleen Watt in the store at Fifth North and Main in MOLER MADE HIS remarks to an estimated 100 persons gathered in the Tropical rest-aura- Brigham City which has been purchased from Mayfair. Smith said there will be some improvements to the building but that personnel will remain the same. Power Hearing Including Brigham City Store County Juggles Meetings Sm ltlis Food King Markets has negotiated for the purchase of four Mayfair markets in north, ern Utah, including one in Brig, ham City at Fifth North and Jan. 28. Stores at Ninth North and Fourth East In Bountiful and at 5600 South Ninth East, Murray, will come under the Food Main, it was officially announc. King ownership on Feb. 11. ed this week. Dee Smith, Brigham City, IN CONJUCTION WITH of the independent of the local Mayfair marpresident Food King chain, said his com. ket, Smith said his store In pany would take over the Brig, downtown Brigham City was ham City store and one at 39th closed Saturday. The Inventory South and Wasatch Blvd., Salt there will be sold through other Lake City, effective Sunday, store outlets. Personnel at the downtown location are being absorbed at the new market and at Smiths pur-chas- e Is Bound Over Cache County man has been ordered bound over to First District court, Brigham City, on a forgery charge. He is James Russell Ransten, 20, Clarkston, who appeared for arraignment in Brigham City court last Monday. He waived preliminary hearing. The court set bail at $1,000 and remanded the suspect to the custody of Sheriff Warren W. Hyde. A Plane ITas Down to drive his Jeep back to the Promontory road and then head into the area on a gravel road leading north from the Coden Spike monument. He would be directed from there to the crash site. Sens, lng the opportunity, I hitched a ride. Then came the news; the crash site hadnt been spot- Bruce Keyes, Box Elder News editor By light aircraft is down north of Thiokol with three men aboard! That was the Initial report received by the News" at mld.afternoon Friday. The Information was sketchy. But Sheriff Warren Hyde had ted. We continued anyway on the dispatched two patrol cars and several units of the Jeep patrol route previously described. to Howell valley. Twenty minutes later, we pulled Some one reportedly had seen up on a snow. crusted road that a plane go down and a Cessna had taken our Jeep several 206 was tagged as the probable miles Into hilly dry farm and cattle country. craft. A northern Utah with two each in Brigham City, Ogden and Salt Lake City and one In Logan. Bountiful, Roy, Layton and Murray. Its the biggest move weve ever made but It fits into our program," the president SMITHS FOOD King Markets will now have total employment of more than 600 employees and total annual sales of about $20 million. The successful supermarket owner said the firms general Food King on Seventh South In office, now located In the Se. venth South Store, will remain Brigham City. in Brigham City tut faces a EMPLOYES at Mayfair will move into larger quarters. be retained with Oleen Watt to Eighteen persons are employ, continue as manager. Andrew ed on the office staff with two A. Hansen who headed the down, more to be hired soon. The town store, has been named two Brigham City stores have a combined employee force of assistant manager. Department heads at the new about 80 persons. store Include Danny Jensen, PURCHASE OF THE Fifth meats; Kent Jensen, produce, s North store Inventory and and Elsie Heusser, bakery. (the building Is being According to Wayne Brown, division manager for Mayfair, leased from Mayfair) will have $1 million was Involved in the no effect on operation at the Seventh South market. Hours four.store purchase. Smith now owns 11 stores In will remain the same. News in f,Inking . . . A 1 PILING OUT, EACH of us THIS NEWSMAN, camera in the nearby mounhand, stopped long enough to scanned pull on a pair of boots and tainside. Where can It be. ..where can grab an old coat before headI asked myself over It be? ing toward the area. and over. walkie-talkiJust beyond the Howell road Then turnoff, Jeep patrolers Ron Pac-ke- r squawked; There isnt a plane and Dale Bess were stand- down. Were all going to meet ing, eyeing the western horizon. near the Thiokol air strip and A plane was circling over a peak head back. on the valleys west side. said Ron, a smile Well, Theyve spotted It," said dancing across his face, thats a walkle. what you call a wild goose Dale, manipulating the e REPORT THEFT Victor Motor, 17 East Second South, reported the theft of a stereo from one of its cars Friday, according to Brigham City police. TACHOMETER STOLEN n in Recess, A spike episode in Americas history. He made reference to its prominence in history books and noted that In a 1966 visit to Paris, he observed a model replica of the gold spike cere-monwith the engines of Union and Pacific e Pacific meeting, at the summit 30 miles west of Brigham City. Youre so close to It that you dont think much about it, he told the local audience. area. Central nose-to.nos- centennial obstate and said Moler servance, federal commissions were lay. lng the groundwork for a pro-pe- r celebration but no one is trying to take a thing away from Box Elder county... Its your show and the rest of us are simply trying to help make It a THURSDAY EVENING success." Moler, who is a director with the Greater Ogden Chamber of Commerce, then paid a to Mrs. Bernice G. of Corinne, long-timpresident of the Box Elder Golden Spike association, for untiring efforts to stimulate Interest in the golden spike. IF IT HADNT been for Bernice and a lot of other folks around here, we wouldnt have progressed to this point, the speaker declared. He noted that the U.S. Golden Spike Centennial commission Is planning a meeting In Utah Feb. 14.15 and has opened an office In Ogden from which to trl-but- e BINS Music Concert Winds," Charles Carter, and The Gallant Men, John Ca. cavas. Orchestra . Intermezzo," Bizet; Miniature Concerto for Plano and Orchestra," Alex Rowley, pianist, Debbie Rubin; highlights from The King and I," Rogers and Hammersteln, Jr. e Concert band . El Alamo, Howard E. Akers; Toccata for correlate activities. Frank Erickson; over Band, The state legislature didnt ture from Brigadoon," Lemer much money and appropriate and Loewe, and Grand Pro. failed to earmark any Congress cesslonal," Don Haddad. for the centennial but the Lighting for the program will commission Is comprised be under the direction of Keith (Continued on Page Two) Johnson County .y f Mu Clerk-Auaito- K.B. r Olsen was named to the posl-tlo- ciations resolutions committee and also has been on the nominating committee. Some 860 persons took civil defense courses In Brigham City during the past year, It was disclosed this past week In an annual report Issued by City CD Director Floyd Andersen. Of those who received 380 were taught In conducted overnight classes In the citys CD headquarters, located downstairs In the city hall. These classes were con. ducted each weekend from Jan. through the middle of May, the director noted. 1 SPENDING FROM 7pm. Frl-dauntil noon the next day, with six hours for sleep, the y IN ADDITION, he has had numerous assignments In de. partmental sessions. In Box Elder county, been secretary of the health department and man of the local arm Salvation Army for a number of years. Until recently, he was as. sistant county civil defense director. HE ORIGINALLY became clerk.audltor by appointment in 1949, filling the unexpired term of C. Henry Nielson who Olsen gain, ed election to the post In 1950 and has served In it since. A native of Brigham City, he graduated from Box Elder High school and attended We. ber State college. The county official served a two.year LDS mission inAus. tralia and spent five years In the Army during World War be-ca- post-maste- participants were Instructed in shelter living and sustained themselves during the period on two meals of survival ra. II. tions. He is a member of the Brig-hahave activated these City Chamber of classes again, beginning Jan. 12, and has been bishop of and already have enough the LDS Brigham City Third for the course to last ward. until the end of March, he Olsen is married to the form-e- r (Continued on Page Two) Barbara Knudson of Brigham We Com-merc- trr nr j- w I ! 4 ! o;: K' Xffe. hjPtl l Mr Jane Nobles, an employe at Fashlonette House of Beauty In will ft talkie. chase." City, reported to Brigham I wasnt listening too closely. police Friday the theft of a PERFORM THURSDAY This is the concert band at Box Elder s I was INSTRUCTIONS from looking around Intently tachometer from her car while WILL In the area was for Ron for a wild goose. she was at work. High school which will appear, together with the school orchestra and nfltii sear-cher- i n during the associations an. nual convention in Salt Lake City this past week. It Is normal procedure for to sucthe secretary-treasure- r ceed to the posts of vice pres-ideand president in the ensuing two years. Olsen who Is In his fifth elected term as county clerk, auditor has served on two occasions on the asso. During Year I . JD A Box Elder county official has been elected to the post with of secretary. treasurer the Utah Association of Coun. . ties. Civil Defense t? . ' Counties Job AS FOR THE cross-exami- I Named to merchants town and has been owners property called for Wednesday, Jan. 3l, in the Mountain Fuel Supply company auditorium. The event is set for 7:30 p.m. and is being called by the mayor and city council. Purpose of the session is to hear a report of a businessmens committee on downtown planning. The committee was named some time ago to meet with interested parties on the downtown plan. y Members of the Box Elder County commission, daily spectators at the PSC hearing, have cancelled their Feb. 5 regular weekly meeting in Brigham City to permit them to be on hand when the hearing However, this week the county board will meet not only on Monday, as customary, but plans to sit in session on Friday Feb. 2. When the hearing resumes, proponents of the Raft River applications will UP&L witnesses and introduce testimony of their own. Official meeting of Brigham City officials, and down- IN HIS TALK, MOLER sug. gested that perhaps many local residents have failed to appre. elate the role played by the gold-e- n and Light company sought to discredit Raft River's case for extending its Utah service tf m BE ty The Utah Public Sfrvice commission heat1 ing on Raft River Rural Electric Cooperatives petition to serve northwest Utah will resume in Salt Lake City on Feb. 5. The hearing recessed Thursday after four days of testimony in which Utah Power O K. B. Olsen ELECTED has been elected As- treasurer by the sociation of Counties. Meeting Slated Wednesday on Downtown Plan n We want our employes to have a good relationship among themselves, with our customers Instrumental students at Box and our suppliers; If we can Elder High school will appear accomplish this, then we can in concert on Thursday, Feb. succeed," Smith explained is 1, it was announced this week spelling out part of his formula by Director Earl B. Swenson. for success in the food store Performing on the annual business. mid. winter program will be the freshman band, school orches. He began his career in a and concert band. small store owned by his fath. tra The event will be staged In er at Fifth South and has since the school auditorium beginning become one of the top inde. at 8 p. m. and the is in. pendent operators in the state, vlted to attend freepbulic of charge. The Fifth South store was clos. The program will include the ed in 1961. following; Freshman band - Northport of the OTHER MEMBERS Howard E. Akers; Food King management staff March," Black, The Harmounious Include Bud Lind, Ogden; Ralph for Overture Handel; smith," Drake, Ogden, and Mrs. Dee Glen Smith, Brigham City, vice presidents; andDeLonne Ander-son- , Brigham City, secretary, f If t k treasurer and office manager. i Robert McCabe, Brigham City, is meat supervisor; Ray Madsen, Sunset, is produce su. pervlsor, and Tom Oaks, Ogden, advertising manager. for the chamber event which also featured the form-a- l introduction of new presi-den- t Clifford Graham. In addition, special recognl-tlowas paid to J. Leo Nelson, former vice president and general manager at First bank In Brigham City. Outgoing president Dr. A. Edward Warren presented Nel-sowith a golden spike desk pen set after the former bank aide and active civic worker was given a standing ovation by those present. Also appearing on the program were the Weber State i Smith Buys 4 Mayfair Markets Cache Resident 'Spike' Ai Chamber fAeetm determination for the coming fiscal year. share 10 PAGES Travel Aide Declares i m from HUD was sought in a tersely worded letter In late December, the city officials explaining that is was necessary now ' Su. W ' Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Sunday Morning, January 28, 1968 Volume 71, Number 4 fr h' OLOF ZUNDEL, when notified of the grant, de. dared, This Is wonderful. The application had been for $6,000. The city administration had Indicated it would push ahead with an ambitious parks dev. elopment program regardless of the fate of the citys funds a at a t'?u MAYOR application. .J-- Ave. City, Utah Coap. April development Announcement of the grant was made to the Utah solon by the Department of Housing and Urban Development which has been considering two Brigham City fund applications for many months. Nothing was said about a re. quest for $26,821, sought to pur. chase additional land for parks development In the city. Lake freshman band in the instrumental music department's annual concert. The public is invited to attend the program, free of charge. mid-wint- e |