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Show Hey Look! My Pop's mm Home i VOLUME 57, NUMBER 3 BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 16, 1952 MOlRNING, Dies On Korea Battlegrounds Corinne Soldier BIGHT PAGES TANKER ANDPANELTRUCK WITH Killed In TRAILER COLLIDE AT UNDERPASS One Injured in Morny Evening Accident; $3,000 Estimated Loss Korean Battle Cpl. Dennis Bruce Bradford, 18, son of Samuel B. Bradford, was One person was injured killed in action in Korea, Jan. 7, the family was informed on Monday by the Defense department. when a panel truck pulling a trailer and a Kenworth gasoline tanker and trailer collided near ithe underpass one mile vwfst of Brigham City. The panel truck and trailer, driven by Lloyd M. Bankhead, Salt Lake City, was being passed by the semi truck and trail-e- r, driven by Oarl E. Adkins, Idaho, when the vehicles ground together, , Robert Patterson, 36, Twin Falls, a passenger in the semi received an injury on his left knee for which he was treated at the Cooley Memorial hospital. , The two trailers Sheered lose and smashed into a cement abuttment crashing wheels loose. Damage was estimated at $3,000 for the vehicles. Trooper (William Sackett investigated. Bom Aug. 4, 1933, Cpl. Bradford was active in Boy Scout work and activities of the Co- rinne ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints, be fore he enlisted in the army in November, 1960. He was sent overseas last July and was assigned to an infantry division. He attended Box Elder high school, ' Brigham City, prior to his enlistment. He is survived by his father, Corinne; four sisters, Mrs. Ver- la Spencer, San Francisco; Mrs. Alice Manley, Sparks, Nev.; Mrs. Roujean Frank, Elwood, Box Elder county, and Ruth Bradford, Oorinne; three bothers, .Blaine Ger-wiBradford, Corinne; Bradford, with the air force in South Carolina, and Sgt. Darwin Bradford, with the army engineers in Germany. , r4 & 4 y . o, y Seth A. Jensen Dies in California. n t. i - - 1 Dies In California 1i icivSiiijJI , Sgt.' Grant Olsen, fresh from Korea with the 204th enjoyed a 'postponed Christmas last Friday when he arrived home after almost a year in Korea where he fought as a heavy artillery mechanic. On the right is his thrilled wife, Beverly, s and In the center his higgesChristmas present, Cristine, his old daughter he saw for the first time. Grant wasrone of many G. I.s of the 204th to arrive home recently. . . . nine-month- 2nd Freedom Try Snuffed By County Sheriff Steaks On The Hoof Will Be Number One The first Inmate ever .to escape from the Box Elder county jail failed miserably in his second attempt. Vernal Pierce, '28,' '"Tremon-ton- , who sawed a hole In the ceiling of the jail, slipped through and disappeared into the night, several years back, failed in his second , try last Sunday even though he had the assistance of another exconvict, Bay Thompson, 46. Pierce was the first man ever to escape from the jail. The pair, awaiting extradition to Washington state to face armed-robbercharges, pried without success on the bars of their cell. When they failed they planned to use a heavy iron bar and tire iron on the sheriff or deputy when served their evening meal. A 'tip-of- f put Sheriff Warren Hyde wise to the plot which he epediently snuffed. Source of the irons was unknown. The Washington officials arrived Sunday and the duo, were shipped back to the state of their allegel crime. Sheriff Hyde arrested the two in Christmas night. , -- y Feature of Polio Chuckwagon Dance Someone is going to have an the bolder to a dinner of chuck inexpensive steak pan $ couple in wagon fact, cakes, A coOpto eggs, --bacon, cot fee or fruit juice and of course Number One prize, and you the dance. wont have to Ibe there to Win It, To polio sell the tickets All of Brigat the Chuckwagon dinner and ham City wiH be canvassed. dance, sponsored as a polio benin the city, as well Everyone efit by the Junior Chamber of as communities, will outlying Commerce and the club, have the chance to" make their will be a prime beef. Infantile Paralysis donation this The animal, donated by Del- unique way, Chairman Petersen bert and Parley Holmgren of said. Bear River City, was hauled into Brigham City last Saturday in preparation for the event to Will Help Public With be held Saturday, Jan. 26, at Tax Forms Jan. 17-1- 8 Box Elder high school gym, bei i A collector of Internal reve ginning at 8 p. m. According to Farral .Jensen, nue will be at the Brigham City chairman of the Polio dance and post office, Civil Service room, Perc Petersen, chairman of the January 17 and 1I8, to assist the drive in Brigham City, the ev- public and give advice in preent will Ibe a triple feature af- paration of tax forms. fair. Besides the chance on the He will be on duty from 9 beef, the $100 tickets entitle a. m. to 4 p. m. each day. 20-3- Beef Going To Fine Cause Corinne Counselor CORTNINE Assuming duties as a counselor in the Corinne L. D. S. ward this week was Earl Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Se rell Nelson. He replaces Walter to Oheal who recently moved Smithfield," Cache county. Another change in, the Co, rinne ward bishopric . was the Installation of Melviri Jones as ward clerk, replacing Floyd Car-- ' ter, who will fulfill an L. D. S. . mission. North Stake Play Try-Ou- ts Planned Monday s for the North Box Elder stake play, The Saturday Evening Ghost, will be held at the Box Elder ihigh school Seminary building Monday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 p. m., according to leone Christensen, Stake drama director. There are parts for every Mutual group', from Beehive and Scouts to the Special Interest She said, so everyone, group, especially- those of the Special Interest, are urged to tTy. Try-out- nual Snow Carnival, announced today that Robert Smith, recently returned LD.S. missionary from the British Mission field, will be master of ceremonies during the carnival to he held on Saturday, February 2, at Box Elder high school gymnasium. Nominations. for Snow Queen aTe coming in fine according to Queens committee members. Nominations will be tecelved until January 30. Only require-- , ment is that the young Miss be 17 yehre of ' age.i Nominations are to be mailed to Snow Carnival, Post Office Box , 5, Brig- ham City, Utah. In previous years the queen has been chosen by the number of votes received by ticket and food sales at the carnival. This year the selection will not . be made in this manner. All girls competing will have an equal chance to serve as queen. As announced earlier there will be no judges. As in years past the queen will be presented a . woolen blanket Inscribed Snow Queen. ( Snow And Rain, High Winds On Weather Menu . Will Be Honored In action 197 Lt. Seth A. Jensen, 33, ' died Monday at the Oak Knoll Na val hospital, Oakland, Calif., af ter a brief Illness. He was bom Dec. 17, 1918 In Brigham City, a son of Alma N. and Christine Nelson Jensen. He was reared In Brigham City and graduated from Box Elder high school in 1936. He worked for two years as a driver of a Union Pacific bus. He enlisted In the V. S. navy, Dec. 9, 1942 and received a comLicense plates are now on mission of Ensign, in November sale at the county court house, 1944. He was promoted to Lt. commissioners rooms, every In July 1951. He had served In 5 9 a. m. m. from to p. day Alaska, Japan and the South Each Tuesday the state tax Pacific. He was a member of the IL.D.S. church and at the time agent will handle transfers of his death was in the iAaronlc and large trucks at the comof the Sixth (ward. priesthood room. missioners ( Survivors Include his mother, Tuesday from 10 a. m. un- 060 south Second1 east; a brother, til 4:30 p. m. license plates Loyla Jensen 'and a sister, Edna will be on sale In Tremonton. Jensen, all of Brigham City, The following Tuesday and Funeral services will be aneach alternate Tuesday, they nounced Iby .the Harold (B. Felt may be purchased in Garland. funeral home. Persons Are Unemployed In. Box Elder County As of January, 1952, 197 persons were registered as unemployed at the Employment Security office at Brigham City, compared to 157 for January, 1931 and 284 for 1950. Registered unemployment is estimated to be about 5Q percent of total License Plates Now On Sale At The County Court House unemployment in the area. Higher levels of unemployment during, the, winter months is , a normal situation for this area, due to the, fact that the majoVlty of our employment' la seasonal,' according to Dougins Miller, head of the employment -' office in Brigham City. Total employment, excluding government and schools, fluxuates as much as 800 workers during the year, from a high of approximately workers down to a low To 2200 approximately' 1400 workers. Box Elder has a total labor 6500 force of approximately D.S.A. Climax workers. Statistically a normal labor force is between 30 and 40 percent of the total population of the county, which,: is Junior Chamber of Commerce Louis, Missouri. Week (January 14 to 21) is beNow the J. C. of C. has 2,000 about 20,000. In Estimated unemployment ing observed in Brigham City clubs all over the United States this week and will be climaxed with 175,000 members working the area is about 6 percent of by the annual Distinguished together for betterment of their the total labor force, which acService Award banquet Satur- communities. cording to statisticians is a modThe D.SJA. banquet Saturday erate labor surplus. Unemployday evening, January 19, at the Indian school cafeteria. night will honor a Brigham ment under 3 percent is considThe Junior Chamber of Com- City man between 21 and 36 ered to be a tight labor market, merce was organized 32 years years old chosen by Judges as 3 to 4 percent, a slight surplus, ago by Jenry Gelssenbier, when the young man who has done 5 to 6 percent, a moderate surhe felt there wasnt enough most for his community during. plus, 7 to 111 percent a substantial surplus,' and 12 percent and young mens activities in St. Ithe past year. over a very substantial surplus. The applicants that are registered at the office represent a wide variety of skills and offer to employers a good selecTo tion of qualified workers in most Class occupations. Call your Employment Security office, phone 689, Bear Rivers wood shop looks Job, with its walls and ceilings for workers to fill your needs. and thanks to new, the shiny on a new paint look. This is a free service," Miller efforts of 45 high school shop taking Students participating In the concluded. students, Who put in an average of seven hours each, to give it painting, which was done most new paint job. ly during regular shop hours, Mumps ContraSetad in B. E. Under the direction of shop in- were allowed to use that time Two cases of mumps were the structor, Charles Last, painting as makeup work for days of ab only disease reported contracted of all machines and cabinets sence, reported Mr. Last. Paint In Box Elder county (during the were completed. The classroom was furnished by the school week ending Jan, 4, by the Utah underwent a complete refacing board. State Health commission. t Junior Chamber of Commerce Week Elder Jay Kotter back from mission. Homecomng Will Honor LDS Elder Homeeonjing for Elder Jay Kotter who returned last week r from a mission in the Central Atlantic States, will be held next Sunday In the Brigham City Eighth ward chapel at 7:30 p. m- . Elder Kotter labored under the direction of Mission President J. Robert Price from the time he arrived in the mission on Dec. 17, on 1949 until he was released Dec. 10, 195(1. He served six months in Hoges Chapel, Va., and eight months as branch president at Buena Vista, Va. He was then transferred to North Carolina where he worked for five months at Piney Green and the last five months of his misson he traveled with the supervising elder with their headquarters and office in Goldsboro, two-yea- With Banquet Saturday v Shop Students At Bear River Take Over Decorate, Paint Their Rooms Putting Bear River Shop 'f 1 i sygx- sr'Pi In Top Shape i Accidentally Shot Korea Dec. VFW Drum and Bugle Corps Meets Thursday Hyrum Dance Is The dance scheduled at the Hyrum Elite hall, January 16, has been changed to February unforseen cir16, (because of cumstances, according to Lowell Anderson, chairman of the committee for the (Hyrum Amusement association,.,. Corporal Dennis Bruce Bradford, 18, son of Samuel B. Bradford, Corinne, was killed January 7, 1952. He enlisted in November 1950. f. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Reed er, general chairman of the an-- ' ' Earl Nelson New Postponed to Feb. 16 jf High winds, snow and rain with milder temperatures added to the weather during the past three days, Charles Clifford reported Tuesday evening. Rain and snow falling Sunday and Sunday night supplied 1.35 inches of moisture, Clifford said, with four inches 'of new snow remaining after the sterm. Had the entire fall been in snow, it would probably have totaled 16 Inches, he added. N. C. High winds Monday night (After his release Elder Kotter reached an estimated 45 miles was met by his wife and father per hour, Clifford said. and mother and their five weeks trip home began In Chicago, 111., after which they visited Kiri-lanPheasant Coffee Ohio, Niagara Falls, Hill Smith Cumorah, . the Joseph Proceeds Will farm. New York City, WashingGo To Polio ton, D. C., various places In VirNorth Carolina, the city ginia, ' Every cup of coffee con- of New Orleans, Mexico and sumed al the Pheasant cafe other points of interest. tomorrow from 1 to 5 p. m. Commenting on his mission will go to a mighty fine cause Elder Kotter said "I wish to exbesides down thirsty throats. press my love and gratitude to The management Mr. and the people of the South as I exMrs. Cecil Bradbury, will put perienced a wonderful mission. every cent taken in for coffee Im so thankful to have been during those hoars into the able to go. Polio "Iron lung! in support of the current March of Dimes. "Drink plenty,- - commented Brigham City chairman Perc Petersen, "those dimes are f badly needed. In 17 n - J Annual Snow Carnival Seth A. Jensen Lt. Robert Smith To MC At and two vehicles were damaged on Monday evening at 8.05 p. m. ,9b Farral Jensen, back, . . . poses with two Holmgren bos, sons of Parley and Delbert Holmgren of Bear River City, with the steer donated to the March of Dimes. It will be first prize at the "Chuckwagon dinner and dance, January 26, at BEHS gym. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Drum and Bugle corps will hold a rehearsal Thursday at 6.30 p m. at 'the War Memorial home, according to Dolores Lauritzen, director. , All 'members who have not turned in their uniforms were asked to bring them to the prac tice. When his rifle accidentally discharged December 17, Gerald Carey was wounded In Korea and has been recuperating in a hospital in Japan since, it was learned today. Mr. He phoned his parents, and Mrs. M. M. Carey of Brigham, last Saturday morning at "7130 a. m. to report he was up and around on crutches and expected to be flown home with in a month. ...... -- ..... f'lWti tSM Freshmen at Bear River High School . . . busily painting the Bear River high school shop, under the direction of , Charles Last, structor. Most of the classes donated time to the project. in- - |