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Show Universal Microfilming Corp. Kll-'ierpoi- nt Salt Ave. Lake City, Utah Comp. Volume 14 PAGES Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Thursday Morning, March 1 2, 1 970 63, Number 10 To Host Mm Foreign Students ' Friday, March 13, should prove to be a lucky day for the students of Box Elder High school, as the Brigham City chapter Of the American Field Service has scheduled Its annual as sembly on that day. Mrs. DeLonne Anderson, new president of the chapter, promises an ex citing program to be presented by students from nine Utah high schools, representing 12 foreign countries. Assemblies will be presented at Box Elder senior and Junior high schools. The student review will be under the direction of Miss Porntip Slnta, BEs student from Thailand, and Miss Mary Jo Knudson, recently returned after a year as a student in Chill with the AFS Americans Abroad program. The foreign students will be over-nigguests of various Brigham City families Friday. They plan on attending the Sadie Hawkins dance that even-ln- g at BEHS. Saturday morning they will travel to Golden Spike National historic site for a tour and picnic. Any BE students Interested In join-ln- g the picnic are welcome. They should furnish their own sack lunch and meet at the home of Dr. Wm. 0. Knudsen Saturday morning at 10:30 a.m. If transportation Is desired contact members of the committee, Including Peggy Anderson, Liz Knudson, Karl Seashore, Doug, Packer or Dana Favero. The American Field service is a organization which, through Its international scholarship programs at the secondary school level, endeavors to bring about under ' standing among people of many nations ' a Seven new homes, being constructed t in the Lindsay Park area are not housing but represent dwellings which are within the financial reach of low and middle-incom- e families. This point was clarified Tuesday by John Webber of Webber Real Estate, Ogden, in remarks to the Brigham City d are fine homes which the building code and we feel a real service to the community. Were Just sorry that they misunderstand and its dont have the proper information, told the Box Elder Journal Webber ' NEW LIGHTING SYSTEM This photograph shows the junction of U.S. 89 an4 its alternate near tne mouth of. Box Elder canyon, illuminated by new highway lights installed as a cooperative Brigham City-Uta- h Highway department project. New lamps were turned on for. the first time Iasi week. - Wednesday. He pointed out that the homes which sell for $16,200 and $17,500 may be purchased not only on the federal government's subsidy program but also may be acquired through several other -These Include mortgages, Veterans terms and Federal Hous-lnadministration plans. If taken on a conventional loan, the monthly payments would be about $150 and it would take about $9,000 of effective income to qualify, said Web-be- r In emphasizing that these are not cheap homes. e Under the FHAs 235 section, families (and middle-incom- e in some instances if the family is large enough) who qualify are expected to pay 25 percent of their monthly Income toward payments. The government will make up the balance. In the petition It was suggested that, this type of home would quickly deteriorate and have an adverse effect on other homes in the area. Residents ask-e- d city officials to work against con. structlon of any additional such homes In this section of town. A change in zoning was mentioned as a possible weapon to thwart further construction. However, the city attorney has opined that since the Lindsay Park lots have been Improved and were accepted In good faith by an earlier city council and since local ordinances and the building code are being met, the city can do nothing to prevent construction. Wades, Inc., have a total of 28 lots in Lindsay Park. Webber said he has been encourag-eby the response thus far of pro. spective buyers, although no loans have yet been closed. However, as to plans for building on additional lots here, Webber said: cas.'p-conventiona- Urgent Plea Sounded For Red Cross Blood Inflexion Ssid Culprit In Rising School Costs "This is urgent! Box Elder county needs blood. This is the message being sent out by the Box Elder Red Cross chapter in advance of the bloodmobile which will be in Brigham City on Monday, March 16. Hours will be 2 to 7 p.m. at the Elks lodge, 20 East First South. All persons in good health between ages 21 and 66 who weigh 110 pounds or more are eligible to give blood. Those between 18 and 21 may give with their parents consent. Joining with the Red Cross in this newest plea are the Box Elder and County Medical society, Cooley Memorial hospital, Brigham City, at Tremonton. Valley hospital and the normal "Because of various illnesses - influenza, etc. beholiday decline in blood donations, our local blood supply level has come critical, it was stated. . s pupil. Without exception, the with smaller numbers of students had the highest costs for education. per dls-trict- The list was led by Daggett district, states smallest, with a projected $1,367.53 per pupil cost this year. Other highlights of the report the these; The number of students In average dally attendance in Box Elder schools has increased from 6,890 ten years ago to 8,873 projected this year. Instructional salaries which totaled or 68.46 percent of the catagories In 1960.61 will amount to an estimated $3,612,883 or 68.92 percent this year. costs totaled Administrative and $56,770 or 2.50 percent in 1960-6are estimated at $128,605 or 2.45 percent this year. Other projected figures for the cur. rent year, with the 1960-6amounts in parenthesis, Include Instructional costs such as textbooks, library books, teaching supplies, etc, $167,031 or 3.19 per-ce($72,529 or 3.19 percent) health $4,452 or .48 percent ($4,000 or .08 percent); pupil transportation, $123,. 735 or 5.44 percent ($218,425 or 4.17 percent); operation of school plant, $227,866 or 10.02 percent ( $463,605 or 8.84 percent); maintenance of school plant, $89,093 or 3.92 percent ($103,-35or 1,97 percent); fixed charges, $131,506 or 5.80 percent ($544,400 or 10.38 percent). $1,556,529 e a comparison of district expenditures U- -l Sugar Company Reach Agreement on 1 970 Contract 1 ser-vice- com-pare- Beet Growers, 9 Sugar beet growers In Idaho and Utah reached agreement with Utah- - Ida. ho Sugar company Friday on all terms of a purchase contract for the 1970 crop of beets. Paul Holmgren, Bear River City, president of the Utah Sugar Beet Grow-er- s association, who was spokesman for the Idaho and Utah growers, and Rowland M. Cannon, president of the sugar company, announced the settle, raent. Although the agreement was only for one year It also Included the bases for of a system of Individual content determination In Idaho in 1971. Utah growers have had In. dividual sugar content determination since 1967. Provisions of the 1970 purchase con. tract were similar to those In effdet for 1969. The 1970 crop of beets will be grown under acreage allotments imposed by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The department recently Increased by approximately seven percent allotments made earlier to Individual growers. installation sugar d Our attitude Is that well build homes In the communities where they want to have their people housed. We feel It is a service to Brigham City and if they dont want Us we are not going to force the issue. The Ogden real estate broker noted, however, that we felt very good the Tuesday meeting, that it was Just a lack of understanding. else. to the Inflationary spiral, Mr. Average Man has been priced out of buying a home. The homes nearing completion here contain about 900 square feet' with four models. They are frame homes. Due These g d Although the costs per student to 1960 are high, Utah still has not reached the Rocky Mountain States average of $681. In fact the nation-widaverage cost per child Is $766, with California at $790, Oregon at $882, Washington, D.C., at $1,020 and New York at $1,251, Dr. Bell said. The extensive Utah report contains, from anyone hand. non-profi- t, This has resulted In salary Increases for teachers and other employes, costs for textbooks, supplies, s chool maintenance and transportation, he said. school year, Box Elder In the 1960-6district had expenditures for administration, Instruction, health services, transportation, maintenance and operation and fixed charges of $2,273,465. The current years figure Is set at $5,242,258, a total which the state board Indicates is an estimate. one-thir- Planning commission. A petition submitted to the city coun-el- l last Thursday urged that no more such homes be built In the area. It reportedly was signed by 360 residents. When the matter was referred to the planning board Tuesday evening by Mayor Olof Zundel, the Ogden real estate broker and Alton WadeofWades, Inc., builder of the homes, were on ht It will cost an estimated $590.81 to educate each child In Box Elder county schools this year as compared to $32 9. 97 ten years ago, according to figures by the, Utah State Board of Education, These amounts compare with the state averages of $591.48 and $318.23, a news release indicated. Dr. T. H. Bell, state superintendent of public Instruction, pointed to persistent Inflationary trends In explain-ln- g the increases experienced in Utah. and It Is the feeling that of the new homes construct, ed nationally over the next 20 years will be subsidy housing. I take no sides politically as to subsidies but we are living in a day of subsidies. Many of the folks who have misgivings about this If they found themselves without housing today couldnt afford to buy a new home without a program like this, Webber explained. He said the people who have purchased this type of house include bank employes, a baker, tax examiner, plum-ber.- .. These folks are no different 1970 during low-cos- Busy Year Ahead For Chief of l Counties Group This is going to be a busy year for County Clerk K. B. Olsen, president of the Utah Association of Counties. Needless to say, hell be doing quite a bit of traveling. One of the trips will take him to Atlanta, Ga., for the convention of the American Association of Counties, July There will also be quarterly board meetings, the annual county officials school which visits all of Utahs 29 counties and other related responsl-bllltles- . Box Elder newly-electe- d 25-3- 0. it all comes during an election Olsen said with a feigned smile. The Brigham City man was previously aware that he would become the state organizations chief, having served last year as vice president and prior to that, And year, secretary. treasurer. Hes only the fourth person from Box Elder county to head the association since It was founded in 1923 and the first In the past 20 years. Olsen has been Box Elder county r since he was appointed to the post June 1, 1949. He since has been elected to five terms. Serving with him In the Utah of Counties this year are Todd Weston, Cache county commis. s loner, vice president; Ann OBrien, Carbon county recorder, lady vice president, and Truman Bowler, Washing-to- n county commission, secretary-trea- . clerk-audito- surer. The executive board is comprised also of a person to represent each of the elective offices In county govern-ment- , Including three county commis. s loners. Questioned Wednesday, Mayor Zundel said the matter has been referred for action back to the city council. He that this was just a start of what the city anticipate In the future with the posslbllty also of new pro. housing and mobile posals for sug-geste- d With City Officials Coiroftf Box Elder county and Brigham City officials may meet soon for an Initial discussion on the possibility of cooper, atlve development of a Jail complex and related facilities. This prospect emerged Monday as the county commission examined blue prints of proposed buildings to be con. structed on west Forest street by the county Jeep patrol and scuba team. The structures, to serve the two vol. unteer organizations for storage of equipment, would be located on coun. ty .owned land west of the Union Pa. cific railroad tracks. Commissioners previously had given the low-co- fcafs FJi OffD Jmt Ml Plm However, Chairman Frank O. Reeder s Monday said he wanted his fellow com-mis- loners and the Brigham City plan-ne- r to look over the site. He referred also to the coming need to construct a new Jail complex and suggested that the projects might be combined. Commission members did take a look at the site Tuesday and concluded that they wanted to meet not only with the planner but also the Brigham City coun. ell to discuss development of a coun. ty.clty Jail complex. Contacted Wednesday afternoon. Com-mis- s loner Don Chase said he was mak. lng efforts to arrange a meeting for sometime this week. It would be the first such meeting over what has been expressed by both governing bodies as a wise direction In which to move. Meanwhile, plans for the Jeep and scuba teams buildings are being held In abeyance. The county has purchased property on west Forest in two parcels, hav. lng taken substantial quantities of gra. vel from the first site, for eventual Industrial use. In other business Monday, the commissioners voloed their support for Utahs Rubella measles Immunization campaign. The county Is being asked to furnish clinic supplies for the April program, Including cotton and al. cohol. Commissioner Chase said he had talked with health nurse Marie Olsen and estimated that It would cost the county less than $100 for this support. A letter from Paul Gilgen, local gov. ernments projects engineer for the state road commission, asked that the coun. ty designate one person with whom his office can correspond. Clerk K.B, Olsen was so deslganted. the state highway officials to discuss the collector roac program, Class B and C matter and county federal-ai- d secondary program for fiscal 1972 has been scheduled In Box Elder county April 13 at 2 p.m. A session home parks. It will be wise for us to reevalu-at- e our master plan now and pick areas where these will lend to our com munlty, he commented. Referring to the quality of homes being constructed at Lindsay Park, Web-be- r said they are the result of two year's planning to get the most for the money. Seventy of this type were built and sold in the Ogden area last year with plans to erect 85 more this year with 40 under construction right now. He quoted an FHA official as estimating that 2,000 will be built In Utah Gasoline Gone with Gasoline was reported taken from a pickup truck and a car by Don Bis. 521 South Fifth East, segger, this week, according to police reports. PRESIDENT Box Elder County K. B. Olsen faces a busy year as president of the Utah Association of Counties. Clerk-Audit- |