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Show tj J - Volume iarpo.it Ave. Lzzs City, Utah 252 Brigham City, Utah, Tuesday Morning, April 3, 1962 65, Number 14 8 Bids Total $175,059 To Handle Work in 53 Pages Improvement District Accident Rate Shows Decline A Brigham City firm Thursday submitted apparent low bids totaling $175,059 27 to handle curb and gutter, street pavings and other work in proposed Special Improvement District 14. Fife Construction company bid $115,312.07 on the curb portion and $59,747.20 to do the street pavings. There were five companies represented in the bid opening which took place during a city council meeting. Second low bidder to install curb and gutter, irrigation pipe and some sewer and water lines was Bouchard & Stark with a bid of I During March Brigham City streets in March hosted the lowest number of traffic accidents this year with police investigating only 14 mishaps, according to a month-ensummary. 17 The figure compares with accidents in the preceding month and 30 during the month of Jand $126,053. Parson uary However, property damage totaled $3,650, a slight increase from the February figure ot $3,390. The month also contributed anlow point: only two persons were injured in traffic accidents compared with seven during February. other significant OFFICERS Issued 12 citations to persohs involved in accidents and handed out 106 tickets for all offenses. Speeding was again the leading violation with 59 drivers cited. Six persons were cited for failure to possess a drivers license. Other violations: Negligent collision, 5; public intoxication in an auto, 5; through stop sign, 5; through red light, 3, 4; failure to yield parking in a restricted zone, 3; improper parking, 3; improper turns, 2; reckless driving, 1; following too .close, 1; improper backing, 1; improper registration, 1; fail1; driving on revokation, ure to set brakes, 1; faulty equipment, 1; driving too fast for existing conditions, 1; and other improper driving, 3. Eighty-thre- e persons were victed of violations during month. . right-of-wa- April Brings Spring Fever ... This is an architects sketch of the new office building MFS OFFICE BUILDING which Mountain Fuel Supply company will build in Brigham City. Wayne Jensen Con MFS Contracts Local Company To Construct New BC Office Jensen Construction company of Brigham City has been awarded the contract to build a new Brig-ham City office for Mountain Fuel Supply company, it was announced this week by S. W. Vandehei, local manager for the natural gas utility. The new building will be located on the northwest corner of Forest and First West streets, and is to be completed In 110 days. Six contractors entered bids to construct the building. Jensen Construction company was low among the six with a figure of $64,940. The firm Is to begin construction within the next 10 days. The new building is to be a brick structure which will provide office and warehouse space for Mountain Fuel Supply companys operations in the Brigham City area. The company is now renting office space at 129 South Main, but will vacate that space 1 by July 15. ONE OF the features of the new parkbuilding will be its ing area which will provide space for 14 cars. The parking area as well as the building will be illuminated by gas lights. Entrance to the building will be from Forest street and the parkA spaceous ing area. lobby has been provided not only for the convenience of customers but for the display of gas appliances as well. off-stre- BE County Fair Set Aug. City Office Manager Tolman Burke reported Thursday that Brigham City received $193,873 in tax revenue from the Box Elder county treasurer. x .W'Vv 23-2- 5 center, sales office, and managers office adjoin the lobby, Back of the sales and managers office is a field office for service personnel, meter readers, and the collector, and at the rear of the building a garage and warehouse. Rest rooms for men and women also are provided. A service THE PROPERTY on which the new building will be constructed was purchased last fall and has been cleared preparatory to construction, It measures 81 by 132 feet. The new building was designed by Carpenter and Stringhum, a Salt Lake architectural firm. Mountain Fuel Supply company has been distributing natural gas in Brigham City since 1957. It now serves eight Box Elder county communities. Clean-U- p Spring Slated in City Construction Climbs Starting April 16 To $1.3 Million Mark Brigham unity-wide slated to pickup of Citys annual spring clean-ustart April IS trash, leaves, comm- is p Building permits issued in Brigham City during March combined a total valuation of $1,353,300 the second-highefigure ever re corded here in a single month. Listed as the two most costly projects were a new elementary school, $471,000, and the LDS stake center and chapel, $297,000. Only when work started on the new Box Elder High school has the valuation of building here soared to a higher figure. Residential construction zoomed duuring the month with permits being issued for 46 dwelling units. This more than doubles Februarys with for clip- for 12 pings, etc., continuing days. The starting date gained approval at Thursday nights city council meeting. Using Forest street and Main street as lines dividing the city street-sid- e into four sections, pickup will begin in the southwest area and then move in a clockwise direction to the northwest, northeast and finally, southeast sections. The collection crew and equipment will be In each area for three days, according to Councilman Verl Petersen. residence, Edman Brigham City Improvement club which listed the light as one of three problems needing study. Also asked were investigations into open culverts which pose a danger to children and into the possibility that obscene literature is being distributed in Brigham City. Acting on both points, the council directed that grates be installed where necessary on local irrigation ditches. And Mayor Willis Hansen asked that the previously-organizecommittee on obscene literature be reactivated to determine il such material is being sold locally. d The citys insurance agent, Jack Moffit, was asked to prepare an estimate of cost to provide fire insurance for certain structures and equipment at the sewage disposal plant. C. R. MITCHELL was referred to the city planning commission on his question involving a d sewer line and at Eighth proposed subdivision West and Seventh South. The council directed that a written list of city requirements be provided Joe Carr, builder of Carr Plaza, which must be met before licenses will be issued to new businesses at the shopping center. city-owne- right-of-wa- y Firemen Called To Ferry Blaze corridors. The Brigham City fire department was called Monday to its first grass fire of the season, a blaze that burned a small area in Perry near the Big See drive-itheatre. The fire was reported shortly after 11 a.m. It was started by sparks from an incinerator. n & Jolley, 66 North Sixth $30,000. Bob Allred, 357 South Fifth West, residence, $12,000. Utah Homes Inc. 1093 Grandview Rd., residence, $10,000. Northern Builders, Inc. 656, 664, 672 and 684 North Fifth West, four residences, three at $11,000 each and one at $12,000. Ray Parkinson, 633 West Fifth North, 457 North Fifth West, and 459 North Sixth West, three residences, $12,000, $11,500 and $10,-50- Worth Brothers Const., 823 Oak Drive, and 756 North Second West, two houses, $19,000 and $14,750. W. H. Young, 523 North Fourth East, remodeling, $3,500. Wynn Christensen, 39 South Fifth East, alteration, $4,000. Charles Stuart, 33 West Fifth North, motel office, $3,000. Loren J. Peterson, 218 West Seventh South, garage, $800. MarVeon Inc., 90 South Main, sign, $400. Utah Homes Inc., 328 and 315 Westland Drive, two residences at $10,000 each. "Scott PHorsley, 127 South Main, alteration, $2,000. Dewey Cottle, 134 South Main, alteration, $800. y Melvin J. Rennemeyer, 564 Place, residence, $11,000. Gene Clark, 247 North Sixth East, residence, $12,000. Boyd Sheftield, 58 South Sixth East, residence, $15,000. Albert S. Thorsen, 555 South Third East, residence, $13,000. Edwin P. Hay, 74 North Seventh East, residence, $21,000. Ray Parkinson, 665, 644 and 630 West Fifth North, three residences, two at $13,500 and one at $11,000. Ray Parkinson, 538 West Fourth 457 North, 465 Parkinson Ave., and 475 North Parkinson avenue. Two residences at $13,500 and two at $11,000. 507 North Harmon Campbell, Second West, residence, $12,000, 851 Co., Skyline Construction South Second West, elementary Mar-mon- school, This Is the floor plan for elementary schools In southwest Brigham NEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL City and at Tremonton. Bids have been accepted for both projects and officials hope to see the schools completed this year. This unique design was drawn up by Hodgson and Holbrook architectural firm of Ogden. The four classroom units are connected to the central building by covered outside $10,000. East, residence, On Seventh South Light . y Hearings Set park. ji The new lines will be laid along Second East between Seventh and Eighth North. This will provide sewer service to ten lots on which Sprinter Construction company, Clearfield, plans to build homes right away. Approval was also given to extend a sewer line for 120 feet on Fourth North between Fourth and Fifth East. Mayor Willis Hansen named himself and Councilmen Petersen and William Packer to meet with the Box Elder county commission fire protecanent the tion agreement. First and residential permits. The high figure in March lends credence to inspection department head Floyd Andersens prediction that 1962 will bring Brigham Citys PACKER, fire department head, construction. The year could easily bring said the present agreement has great surge of e an been in effect since 1950 and sughigh for all types of building. MARCH PERMITS: gested the need for a new arrangement. He said the city is Joseph Conrad Riley, 470 North laced with buying a $22,000 fire Fourth West, residence, $12,000. truck in the next budget period. E. H. Frost, 724 Oak Drive, resCouncilman Petersen reported idence, $10,000. more room is needed for the that Happy Homes Inc., 235 North city dump on west Forest street Third East, residence, $14,000. and then recommended the city Bob Allred, 77 South Third West, change its method of garbage distotal of 21 City Calls Showdown Brigham City Thursday called a showdown, with the Utah Highway department over the need for a traffic light at Seventh South and Main street On a motion by Councilman Olof Zundel, the city council offered an ultimatum to the state: either put in the light or the city will make installation it self. It was the sharpest step yet taken by the council and in effect, repudiated a recent state report which discouraged a traffic light at the intersection before 1965. Zundel said if the highway department doesnt move within, a week, Brigham City should proceed to install a light. IN OTHER business, the counapproved a sewer extension APPOINTED Glno Como ThursCity day was appointed Brigham City project in north Brigham which was estimated will cost poundmaster. cil $7,000. The Box Elder County fair will be held Aug. this year, according to D. R. Waldron, president, and Leland J. Hansen, manager of the Box Elder County Fair board. The dates were set last week IN OTHER action, the council during a meeting in Cedar City THE COUNCILS action was approved a recommendation of which established dates for county fairs throughout the state. triggered by a letter from the Councilman William Packer that parking space on the lot immediately west of the fire station be reserved for firemen. The spaces have been open to public patting. Packer said that in the past, volunteer firemen converging on the station during fire calls have created a congestion problem because they cant always find places to 23-2- 5 And That Aint Hay THE PROJECT affects portions of seven streets in Brigham City and will require 23,300 lineal feet of curb and gutter, 12,156 lineal feet of concrete irrigation pipe and 11,700 tons of plant mix blacktop. Councilmen Verl Petersen and Olof Zundel were named to conI uV fer with City Engineer Francis on the bids and to make struction company has been awarded a contract to build the structure which will be l0 Todd recommendations for award of cated on the northwest comer of First West and Forest streets. contracts this week. i one-stor- y The month of Match left like a lamb last weekend after' roaring like a lion most of the month, and local residents welcomed the month of April as It arrived with clear skies, sunshine and warmer temperatures than usual. However, Charles Clifford, local weather observer, said Monday that a storm is on its way to this if it will arrive or not is area yet to be seen, but the barometer had taken a drop and skies seemed a little hazy. Local residents were out en masse Saturday to cldhnAip their yards and begin their spring gardening tasks, and it was ideal weather for such activity. High and low mercury readings for the past five days are listed company, Brigham City, bid $61,887 to do the street resurfacing work. The total estimated cost of all inmprovements in the district cluding Brigham Citvs share was $260,330. $471,000. Utah Homes Inc., 263, 279 and 299 Westland Drive, and 1054, 1062 seven 1070, and 1078 Linda Way. residences four at $10,000 each, and three at $9,000 each. Charles W. Gurney, 1012 Engle wood, covered patio, $200. Happy Homes Inc., 1112 Beech er Ave., residence, $20,000. 553 North Wayne Maughan, Third East, residence, $14,000. Central Motel, 30 West First South, motel unit, $3,000. (Continued on Page Five) By PSC on Truck Route posal. Petersen said the present dump will be an eyesore when the interstate highway is completed, addThe Utah Public Service commis- ing he felt the city should go to sion has called public hearings the land fill method of disposal. next week on applications of three recommended HE FURTHER trucking companies to take over the purchase of a tractor with blade to handle the work, setting freight routes on northern Utah. The area to be covered lies be- the most of an already appraised tween Salt Lake City and the Idaho vehicle at $2,500. Councilmen Don Chase John Hadfield were border, including Brigham City, named and with Petersen to study the and Tremonton, Logan, Ogden matter further. other points in this vicinity. The council agreed to settle two The route is open for bids since sewer backup damage claims for the recent application of the na- $250 and $302.50. Mayor Hansen was authorized tionwide Consolidated Freightways to abandon its short-hau- l service in to notify Utah Power & Light comthis region. pany that Brigham City intends to The hearings are scheduled as use its two new wells at Mantua The power company follows: Barton Truck Lines, April this year. a construct 11; Beehive Motor Lines, April 12; has been asked to Carbon Motorway Inc., April 13. power line to operate the well pumps. THE PRESENT franchise ownThough they touched only briefer, Consolidated Freightways, inon it, council members were ly for not enthusiastic sists its a hopeless money-lose- r about a county1 them. Another company that tack- commission proposal to set up a led it for a few weeks finally had The matter to toss it back in the lap of the county library board. will have further undoubtedly claimed commission after the firm it lost thousands of dollars within a few days. However, spokesmen for Consol- Reports Hubcabs Missing idated still insist a smaller local operator who isnt saddled with the Don Eugene Watson, 755 North more expensive national Teamster Third East, told Brigham City poUnion contract might be able to lice March 28 that four hubcaps were taken from his sports car. make it pay. USDA Notes Flood Damage; Federal Aid Seen in County flood disaster relief for Box Elder County residents appeared virtually assured Thursday with the disclosure that the Department of Agriculture has established that the recent floods substantially damaged land and ditches in the county. Sen. Wallace F. said that the department has tentaBennett the area is eligible for assistance decided that tively in the form of federal loans and federal assistance basis to rebuild reservoirs, replace on a irrigation structures, and make other repairs required as a result of the recent flood. Sen. Bennett said the Department of Agriculture is now in the process of establishing the amount of money required to restore the area. Most of the damage caused by the February floods were on agricultural land, and the federal assistance is therefore being handled by the Secretary of Agriculture under a law giving him authority to initiate emergency agricultural assistance programs. cost-sharin- City Council Appoints Poundmaster Brigham City embarked on a more efficient animal control program Thursday when the city e council appointed a new, . poundmaster. j . Named to the post was Glno Como, 660 South Second West. Como was recommended by Mayor Willis Hansen from among seven applicants for the job and gained unanimous approval, Como, a year ago served as e basis. poundmaster on a e In the position, he will receive $350 per month. The city also will provide a truck at the start of the next budget period in July. full-tim- part-tim- Full-tim- AS POUNDMASTER, Mayer Hansen said Como would receive all calls and complaints involving dogs and cats and other stray animals. Other prime responsibilities will include: the licensing of all dogs In Brigham City. Enforcement of the dog ordinance which requires that dogs be confined to their owners property, that all dogs be licensed, and that dogs not confined to property must be on leash. Maintain the city pound as a clean and sanitary facility and humanely dispose of animals not claimed within 72 hours. Como took over the job on a part-tim- e basis Monday but will go into it full time starting April 14. The new poundmasters telephone number is State Selects Station Sites The State Highway patrol Sunday announced selection of the site for a weigh station on InterElder state Highway 15 in Box county, along with four other sites on interstate highways in the state. The new site on Interstate 15 will be located directly west of the present station at Hot Springs, the announcement said. Patrol Superintendent Lyle Hyatt said the five stations would be at principal entry points in the state. Other locations include the following; Interstate 15, south of St. George; Interstate 80, rear the Wyoming line which will replace the present station at Echo; Interstbetween Mills Junction and ate-80, Black Rock which will replace the Interstate 70, Wendover station; near Green River, when the new highway is constructed. g Man Manages Valley Drive-I- n BC Brigham City theatre operator, Reed Walker, last week assumed management of the Moonlite drive-i- n theatre at Tremonton, according to owner Leon Dunn. Walker alto operates the Capitol theatre in Brigham City and the Big See drive-i- n at Perry. |