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Show T to t :!n t t J- Productive Newspaper Career Ends a , With the death of Solomon Clarence Wixom, 77, Tuesday, a long newspaper career spanning 51 ended. The Flag Is Going Up If the 42,000,000 eral income taxes each immediately, the annual interest of community Born, reared and educated service in Brigham I r City Mr. Wixom also devoted practically all of his productive years on Brigham City Proving They Can Take It Could Be Poor Representation ' A toufist stopped at the office briefly Robert J. Potter, Garland, now finishing Thursday, requested two tourist editions and up his first two-yeterm as county comhelped herself to the variety of folders admissioner, recently filed for the four-yecommissioner job, trading places with Lewis vertising Box Elder county. You people could certainly tell Salt Lake S. Wight, Brigham City, who filed for the City a thing or two about publicizing your two year job. ar ar commented. Another she community, stopped in a few days earlier and asked if there is something interesting to look at newspapers. around here while Im having my car reHe started his newspaper career in 1890 paired. We handed him an armful' of illuson the old Brigham City Bugler, one of nortrated advertising and suggested the tabermoved thern Utahs first newspapers, and nacle w here they could have a personal tour, steadily up. After a short stint on the the Refuge, Brigham Young, Rees and Box Weber county Times in 1899 he returned to Elder parks. Brigham City and acquired an interest in the for Idaho, Montana or Tourists, heck-beBox Elders News. lie was editor of that slowed a little when at least are California, l, when paper and the Box Elder the two were combined, until 1941 when he they enter Box Elder county. The tourist committee of the Box Elder Chamber of retired. headed by John Howard, has adThe very nature of his work centered on Commerce, vertised the interesting features of this area community service and he did his job well. so completely tourists have a hard time There is no way of accurately guaging his up the temptation of visiting them. contribution to the growth of the community, passing committee has had the valuThe tourist but it was constant and important. able help of Brigham City, Box Elder counIn spite of a very busy newspaper life he ty and (may we take some credit) the News still had time to be active in L.D.S. church & Journal, and many others. activities and at the time of his death was The News & Journal Tourist Edition has Americans who pay Fed- a Seventy in the priesthood. been unusually successful this year and the As he writes his last thirty it should be 13,000 copies printed here are rapidly diminwere forced to pay $125 the total would not pay parenthetically added: Very, very well ishing. (If you want some before they are done. on the public debt. all gone phone 1000). The American flag will soon fly over the city hall again. t Mayor Lorenzo J. Bott said that finding a man willing to climb the 65 foot pole and replace the rope jerked down by irresponsible youngsters has been the stumbling block but that a steeple jack was contacted before the Fourth of July and is slated to work it over soon. After completing some work in Cache Valley the jack will paint the pole with aluminum paint and put a steel cable on it that cant be cut down by vandals. The steeple jack was due to work on the pole before the Fourth of July but never did He should be arrive, Mayor Bott said. here soon. That is happy news. , Raising the flag is like adding lipstick to a good looking young lady to make her j years Tourists Slow Down nt News-Journa- With George Davis, hold-ov- er i commission- er also from Garland, Potters election in November would leave south Box Elder counman (though, of ty with only a two-ye- ar course, its possible Garland and Tremonton could win that post, too). To us it seems that would be tossing the more than 60 percent of population in the southern half of the county a few political crumbs. County-levrepresentation would be very And it isnt impossible. While most of the people in this area vote by parties, the northerners forget politics on the county level and unite to vote geographically. Theyre usually as solid as the solid south. el lop-side- d. BOX ELDER JOURNAL Brigham City, Utah Friday. July 11, 1952 A weekly newspaper, published at Brigham City, Utah, successor to Smlthfleld Sentinel, established in 1908 Published every Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March 8, 1879. . . . John Reese And Jess Jeppersen new Brigham City firemen took the highly undignified initiation into the volunteer fire department with great smiles Wednesday evening. If they, live through the initiation, the rest of the department knows they can take any fire in the county by the tail and whip it to death. The ordeal was conducted on Main street. Wanda Hansony Grand-So- n Back From Calif. Herbert E. Forsgren Is Aboard USS Melvin Mrs. Wanda Hansen and Busier than bees are the men in the grandson, Albert Hess, returned in "Operation Beehive Mediterranean, especially such to Brigham City this week after vacation in Los Anmen serving aboard the destroy- a er USS Melvin as Herbert E. geles. While there they visited Mrs. Forsgren, fireman, USN, son of Hansen's daughter and Mrs. Wilford Mr. and Mrs. Neil Randall. of Route 2, and husband of Mrs. Herbert E. Forsgren, ail of Route Always On Job 2, Brigham City. NEW Conn. (UR) Ships like the Melvin hover Loren BRITAIN, Larson, a state policeman, around aircraft carriers like bees submarines apparently believes in a posto guard against Since her arrival in the Mediter- tmans holiday. Three times in ranean with the Sixth Fleet, the recent months he arrested lawMelvin has visited scores of for- breakers while on his day off. two-wee- Forsgren eign ports. These ports include Athens, Greece; Oran, Algeria; Gibraltar; Istanbul, Turkey, St. Jean, Cannes and Golfe Juan, France; Naples, Italy, and Beirut, Lebanon. The Melvin is entitled to dis- - son-in-la- battle stars for Pacific battles in World War II at LeyIsland. 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