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Show ICV I 1' ' I :t -- f 1 a ' rs, fcj 3 m3 M ( ,i I n, - I Jk f ? ? 4 & l;4IP) 1 . : nd ,' rfj f; mb &.. s, yAh f ,.$& $4$ "'6,-- Volume 54, Number 30 Start Seen Brigham City, Utah, Thursday Morning, July 27, 1961 This Week On Park Development CHASE who heads parks and rethe creation for the city, said ground will be seeded as soon as weather permits. Bunderson students probably will benefit from it this fall with the grounds being opened to public use next summer. Installation of playground equipment also is in the planning. Other property due for development this year is a site at Lindsay Park subdivision. Brigham City has assumed the deed for about acres which are now being graded. When this is completed, Chase said the sprinkling two. system materials will be ordered. BRIGHAM CITY and the Box Other park planning, including Elder Board of Education this past expansion of Rees Pioneer park, is spring agreed to share the cost but still in preliminary stages. deliberations over water to sprinkle the area has halted progress. Chase said irrigation water owned by both the city and school district will be used. Estimated cost Of the project including the sprinkling system and planting of grass is $3,264. The area includes roughly two acres on the north side of the school While many businesses are sufproperty. fering from summer slack, Rees park is buzzing like a beehive full of activity. It is the heart of activity for reunions, ball games, picnics, boating, swimming and numerous other activities in Brigham City. The development of Bunderson schol grounds for joint use as a city park was imminent this week as Councilman , Don Chase announced that materials had arrived for the sprinkling system. Chase said hinged on the city streets department making digging equipment available. The streets department is currently engaged in extensive work in Special Improvement District No. 13. However, Supt. Paul Garner said he thought the project could be started within the next day or long-awaite- d ground-breakin- g Warning Issued On Children Tagging Foggers Fogging units of the Box Elder Mosquito and Fly Abatement district may repell pesky insects, but they also have a special attraction for children who create a traffic hazard when they tag the units. Police Chief John I. Johnson cautioned parents Wednesday against letting their youngsters play around the foggers which have been on city streets this week. The dense chemical fog Itself is not harmful, he noted, but youngsters run the risk of being run over when they run in and out of it in the street. Johnson also advisetr drivers to use caution when approaching the abatement units or even to take another route. Bugham City merchants are planning a really big she-oand Saturday when they move their merchandise outside for a genuine sidewalk bazaar. Its the first event of its kind here and prom, ises to transform downtown Main street into a midway of bargains. There will be clowns baaloons, banneis and music. Best of all, re tail merchants plan to exhibit some of the best buys of the year in an summer bargain festival. The big starting time is am. Friday morning with vendors plying their wares until 9 pm. And on Saturday merchants will be back at their stands from 9:30 a m. until the regular closing time. Any way you look at it, there are plenty of hours for everyone to market place of roaring values. Shirts, TV inspect the carnival-lik- e sets, kitchen chairs gardon hose and pots and pans will be there to see. Many local merchants are timing the promotional event with July clearance sales. And as an added inducement, the city of Brigham has agreed to present shoppers with a gift right off the bat . . . free parking on all downtown streets. In fact, parking meters will be covered with sacks which also will advertise . . . you guessed it . . . the sidewalk bazaar. So if there are some sheckles burning a hole in your purse or pocket or even if theyre not, you cant afford to miss the offerings of Brigham Citys sidewalk bazaar Friday and Saturday. 22 PAGES County Gives Authority For Annexation See you there! Wont Seek The Box Elder county commission Tuesday gave Chairman J. Erie Compton authority to sign any necessary legal documents in connection with Tremontons plan to annex the county fair grounds and other adjacent property. commission The unanimously a resolution endowing adopted Compton the authority. It was done in response to a recent request by a Tremonton represen- Mayor Ruel M. Eskelsen an- nounced this week that he defithis nitely will not seek fall and then declared that Brige ham City must have a mayor with commensurate pay or a city manager to handle the burdonsome administrative work load. Eskelsen who is 68 and whose administration has guided Brigham City through some of its most pressing growth problems, says four years in the chief post is plenty. Hes willing to step down in favor of a younger man. But the mayor had some to words voice about future city governn ment. He thinks the council meeting weekly can handle the myriad municipal matters but only if a chief executive is installed. tative. g Popular Activity Center Garland Sets Queen Contest The Wheat and Beet Days queen contest will be held Aug. 10, according to the queen committee. Any girl in Box Elder county is eligible to enter provided she will be a high school graduate by September 1962. All entrants must be single, and never have been married, divorced or had marriage annulled. The entrants age on September 1, 1961, should not be less than 18 or more than 28 years. The committee also explained that the entrant must have a good character and possess poise, charm personality, intelligence, and beauty of face and figure. Entrants must also display a three minute talent routine. This talent may be singing, dancing, a musical instrument, playing dramatic reading, art display, dress designing or she may give a three minute talk on the career she wishes to pursue. ' Members of the queen contest committee are Mrs. Hazel Rogers, Mrs. Inez Deem, Mrs. Frank Johns, Mrs. Pearl Cullimore and Mrs. Ruby Nielson. HAROLD ... ANDERSON, park manager, reports that more than 75,000 persons used the park for reunions last year alone. People from every state in the union have made use of the facilities and Anderson explains that he has receivcalls from more ed than 13 western states asking for park reservations. The new bowery at the park built by the Brigham Lions club, can furnish facilities for 500 persons at one time. This year an additional 200 seating capacity was added to the park with the addiThe means tion of new tables. that 850 can now use tables at the park at one time. More people use the park facilities on Saturdays and Sundays than any other day in the week. Reservations cannot be made for tables long-distan- on holidays. SOME 17,064 persons have been swimming in the municipal pool at the park already this year. Of this total, the majority are boys. The busiest day at the pool was July 15 when more than 700 swam in one day. When the pool was first opened j full-tim- In other action at a regular meeting, the commissioners named Commissioner Grover Harper and James Nessen and Earl Wood of Howell as three members of a n board of trustees over County Service Area No. 1. County Attorney Omer Call said it would be up to the town of Howell to appoint another person to the board. THE TRUSTEES will have authority to set a levy for 1961 over the area. The service area was created last year to help expe-d- it three years ago, two instructors water conservation measures Now taught swimming lessons. in the Howell area. e e and more part-timseven Approval was given an applicateachers instruct over 15 Red tion for Mountain Fuel Supply Cross swimming classes in a day. to extend or replace its Some 360 children and adults re- company mains along U. S. 30s and gas instruction ceive swimming every MFS has announced intenday at the pool. extend natural gas serto tions When the summer is over, the four vice into the Bear River valley pool will have accomodated k Red Cross swimming ses- area. commissioners indicated The five sions, swimming meets, a syna would merit systhey appoint chronized exhibition, swimming sheriffs many swimming parties and hun- tem committee for deputy regular meeting, dreds of hours of public swimming. at their next This was after Deputy The Rees Park ball park is in Monday constant use. The Brigham City Stanley May said that most other for Salt sponsored minor league uses it for counties were waiting eight teams to practice each morn- Lake county to set up a merit sysing. The service station league of tem and would pattern theirs affour teams also plays there as do ter the Salt Lake system. some little league teams. However, he suggested that a three-macommittee be appointof the home is the THE PARK the in ed interim. May noted Brigham City Peaches who were that the committee is to be nonlast year. And to fill no more than out the day the park is used every partisan but that two members of the same polti-c5 to but from Sunday night p.m. party can be named. midnight for baseball and softball teams. Anderson reports that plans are underway now to complete a little league ball park and a playground for basketball, volleyball, and tennis. ..Within the next year they also RR park plan to cement the ball bleachers and finish cementing Four railroad cars loaded with around the pool area. lumber and grain were derailed traProbably one of the oldest north of Honeyville yesterday, ditions at the park is the use of 26. The Union Pacific cars July row boats on the pond. Xhe boats blocked the UPs can be used six days a week. main line for almost six hours. Damage was reported to be slight n five-ma- ... full-tim- two-wee- n Accident Derails Four Cars Ogden-Pocatell- o and no one wa shurt. The accident occurred at Madsen north of Hon- on, Declares Mayor Eskelsen four-ma- Rees Pioneer Park Proves Re-Electi- Yes his is . . . inviting everybody to Brigham Citys CLOWNING sidewalk bazaar Friday and Saturday. Anf if you guessed this of the Box Elder clown as being Ross Bowen, secretary-managChamber of Commerce, youre right. er Badger Enters BC Pony; All-Sta- Weather Story rs League Cop Area Tourney Win the weather has really done it this time. It taes a pretty long hot dry spell to drive badgers down from the mountains into Brigham City but that is what it Well, Brigham Citys Pony league team downed Tooele, Tuesday in the opening game of the Northern Utah area tournament at Bountiful. all-st- has done. Mrs. Glenn Andersen, 313 South Main, couldnt quite believe it herself when she found abadger in her back yard this week, but confirmation from the neighbors verified it. It was a real badger but it didn't stay long. Who would stay long when Brigham City is as hot at is has been last month? The local nine was scheduled to play the hosting Bountiful team Wednesday evening. Bountiful edged past Midvale, in one extra inning in opening-roun- d play. Stuart pitched for Brigham City against the Tooele club and gained credit for the Ron A few very scattered rain drops fell briefly yesterday in the area but no precipitation is reported victory. Traffic eyville about 2:35 a.m. for the near future, according to was restored at 9 a.m. Charles Clifford, local weather obThe derailed cars were headed for Salt Lake City. UPs Butte Ex- server. Low High press passenger train was held up 74 93 for more than three hours north of July 25 67 95 the derailment point. July 26 full-tim- e ESKELSEN, a Republican, stands in a position to know what hes talking about. After his election in 1957, he gave up an electrical contracting business to give the city job his full attention. The monthly salary: $175. e And where the mayor is concerned has been just that, including countless telephone calls at his home, day and night, pertaining to city business. Some are abusive; others are demanding; in all, they add up to a bundle of headaches, Eskelsen said. The terms of two other city officials also will expire this year. They are Councilmen John Larsen and Verl Petersen, both Democrats. full-tim- CONTACTFD Tuesday, Larsen said he is not a candidate for After two terms, Im ready to let some one else have it, he said. Petersen, nearing the end of his first term, said he was still undecided. The monthly salary for councilmen is $100. The city Democratic and Repubwill lican party organizations meet sometime in October to nominate their tickets for the three vacancies. The city vote will sum up the political activity this year with no county, state or national offices from Utah up tor grabs Reminiscing about the past four years, Eskelsen said the city fathers have been fortunate to receive staunch support from local service clubs and he praised the efforts of the citizens committee on water development, the board of adjustments and the planning and zoning commission. THIS SUPPORT has enabled us (mayor and council) to set our sights and then build for the fu- ture, he said. The sights to which he referred in everything was a potential population of from 35,000 to 40,000 persons. Probably the biggest feather' in the administration cap is the nearly completed water and power project. Eskelsen said he envisioned a reservoir in Mantua valley when he was a youngster e Thats living there. planning. long-rang- OTHER accomplishments: Construction of the city swimming pool, airport improvement, creation of a master street plan and land use map, extension of sewer for southwest area, construction of a power and 44,000-vol- t trunk line, pending enlargement of the sewage disposal plant, purchase of old sugar factory site for future use as city yards, annexation of about 160 acres on the citys north side, creation of city inspection departof ment, employment 0 health inspector, additional in road equipment, and perfection of planning and zoning regulations. major n full-tim- e $150.-00- Corinne Ward Sets Barbecue The Corinne LDS ward will hold an barbecue Saturday, July 29, starting at 6 p. m. at the town park. Tickets are available from the bishopric and also may be purchased at the park Saturday. Prices are $2.50 (18 and older), $1.50 and $1 ) commissioner Former county and noted chef, Emery Wight, will be in charge of the barbecue. Pei sons who attend are asked to bring their own eating utensils. (12-18- ). Box Elder County Floats Merit Awards in Ogden Parade Four floats from Box Elder county, colorful in an always festive Ogden Pioneer Days parade, Monday rated awards in their respective divisions as an estimated 35,000 persons watched the traditional procession down Washington Blvd. An entry of Thiokol Chemical Partners in Progcorporation, ress, received the sweepstakes award in the commercial division to reap the top honor. Judges awarded first place in the division to the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce which float, Beautiful Always, was graced by three beauties, n Partners In Progress, an entry of Thiokol Chemical corporation, walked SWEEPSTAKES WINNER away with sweepstake honors in the commercial division of the annual Pioneer Days parade in Ogden Monday. the 1960 Peach Days royalty inand cluding Queen Karen Seely attendants, Darla Rockwood and Joy Steed. Third place in the division went to Intermountain School Employees association for Todays Youth Tomorrows Hope, and Intermountain school students rated honorable mention for their float, Patriotism and Citizenship. All four floats will appear in annual Peach Brigham Citys Davs parades Sept. Approximately 75 units are expected to participate in the parades which highlight Utahs oldest community celebration. This float of the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce was accorded first place in the FIRST PLACE division in the Ogden Pioneer Days parade Monday. The colorful unit, Beautiful Always, will be seen In the 1961 Peach Days parade, carrying the celebrations queen and her attendants, t |
