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Show "r rti r i ini nr mi nyiftftirwinnmfvartr wirtrnr rtrrr- 2 EDR BOX Weui-ourn- Semi-Weekl- 'liiiMTTfri'iilfifi tree, that nice, big stoiig tree. "Im going i to do that every year or so, and then, m twenty or thirty years, Im going to bring that them show grandchildren up here and He put his tree and tell them the story. truck in gear and gunned it a couple of But like we said, the man was mighty times, the way truck drivers do. "But, he with grateful. Not to Ron, of course. But to added thoughtfully, as he started rolling don't "I suppose he his load of wet lumber, As soon as I get home, that tree. said, Im going to hitch my trailer on my theyll believe me. car and load it up with fertilizer and come up here and dig it in around the roots of that Maybe this will help, fella! The driver picked up his load of lumber off the ground and along the creek where it had washed downstream. Ron picked up the truck and set it back on its wheels, on the road. The man reloaded his lumber, started up the truck and drove away. ai Brigham City, Utah A - Friday, April 29, 1949 Newspaper Successor to y THE BOX ELDER NEWS (Established and 1896) (Established 1909) THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL William M. Long, Editor . Charles Claybaugh, Business Manager Published every Wednesday and Friday and entered as Second Class Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the act of March Rates: Box Elder County 8, 1879. Subscription $4.00 a year; outside Box Elder County $5.00 a year. Single copies 5 cents. Member United Press, Audit Bureau of Circulations. Utah StaP Press Association jdiJtoiidU, Dist. Business Idaho fishermen can fish Bear Lake, all or any part of it, Sunday, while Utah fishermen can start their fishing on the big northern Utah (and southern Idaho) puddle Monday morning, some of the local Waltonians were pointing out unhappily today. The fish and Up game department confirmed the report, unIsnt that a heck of a note? the The U. S. bureau of the Cenhappily. girl on the phone at the I, and G. was asked. sus recently established a new in the federal Replied she, gloomily, It certainly is and district office building at Ogden in preparaweve been hearing about it! for census of Set first-grad- l. ey er well-inform- ed - I because be built. John Phillips is on the school board to look out for the interests of south Box Elder county, but at the same time, and more importantly, hes on the board to look out for the best interests of all Box Elder school district. The same is true, with respect to their own representative areas, and with respect to the entire school district, of all the school board members Presumably Wayne Sandall and Leonard Bishop are under continuing pressure from their constituency to see to it that they dont get our gymnasium money. Probably wed be helping exert that pressure, if we lived in the Bear River valley and our youngsters attended high school out there. Morally, a part of the $600,000 bond issue is earmarked for construction of Bear River highs new gymnasium, and other remodeling and improvements out there. The people of the valley suported the bond issue with that understanding although we have found no one who admits there was anything in the nature of a promise. The funds are not actually earmarked, but that makes no A moral obligation among citidifference. zens of Box Elder county should be as binding as a legal obligation an we believe it is Before we are entitled to a new Central school, we should, make up our minds once and for all that Bear River high school is to have that gymnasium, at the soonest possible date and that it is to be of adequate size and of the only quality that is practical for such ! construction the best ! And we must find some way of assuring of ours, the people of these Bear River valley, that well support them, that our personal opinions and the action of our representatives on the school board will be with them and for them; even to the extent of voting another bond issue to pay for their job, if necessary. It isnt necessary, of course. Elementary arithmetic shows that without an undue tax burden we could pay for both the new Central building and the Bear River gym in very few years. It would seem as absurd to build an elementary school building in Brigham City fellow-citize- ns hed have drowned anyway. ticularly for all), the rivalry between north and south from the board of education office, and keep it on the basketball court and football field, where it belongs, and where the youngsters (emotionally-adu- lt and superior in wisdom to their elders) can take it in stride, without letting it work lasting harm! be out-date- d SAVE 55 Luo AH, In Ogden on DINNERWARE SETS anything in stock, including the new In On Dollar Day you can SAVES-oreceived. just pattern or over. $19.95 for set selling any Your choice of SAVE SAVE 1 ious business organizations, trade associations, Chambers of Commerce and merchandising associations in order to secure .statistical information regard- - I ing the various aspects of trade and business in the United States. The law requires busi-ness men and merchants to submit certain statistical in-formation about their 1948 oper- ations that "has significant ap-plication to the needs of the public, business, or industry. The law also provides for confidential treatment of the information given to the sworn representatives of the census bureau and prohibits the disclosure of individual reports. Such information given to the bureau may not be used for purposes of taxation, regulation of Statistical investigation. summaries only will toe published and they are expected to be made available to the public beginning in the latter part on Men's and Ladies' WALLETS "I 1 of 19-1- The bureau of the census for some months has been preparing for the enormous job of counting, classifying and measuring the activities of some three million or more trade and service establishments to be included in the scope of the census. Representatives of over fifty individual trade associations participated with the bureau in a cooperative effort of planning and developing the schedules and forms to be used in the enumeration. Wixson stated that plans for the enumeration work in the Ogden district are rapidly nearing completion and field work in Box Elder, Rich, Morgan, and Wasatch counties to follow swear saw that alligator I SPECIAL at the pigskin! bag snap Priced regularly at $2.50 or more. Big selection leathers to choose from. DOLLAR DAY OFFER on BRIEF CASES and ZIPPER BINDERS Big stock to choose from. SAVE $1 on Dollar Day only. 6-- Photos 3x5 1- -- regular price, SAVE 1 8x10 Photo reg. $6.50 for uf SAVE 1 on CHAIR CUSHIONS Theyre priced from $5.95 up. SAVE you want at $2.95 and up. $3.00 $1 and buy the oik JEWELRY Saturday Only! 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Such a boner has levied upon us the better part of a nights sleep, and heartache that is difficult to express, twice in recent months. The first, we forgot to put in the paper an obituary. It was an important obituary, because all obituaries are important. If possible, it was even more important because the family of the deceased was and the funeral was held before the subsequent issue of the paper was publish- $is si $ V CONKLIN FOUNTAIN PENS Regular $2.75 pens, Dollar Day special ( COOKIE JARS 04 fine Mother's Day gift, your choice for Dollar Day selling A PER GALLON IFtFS BOOK yl (WlM Vj Aour choice of any picture frame in stock selling up to $5.50, now FRAMED PICTURES Beautiful prints, framed in glass, formerly marked $5 to $7.50, now $1.00 off, priced one day sjot only POTTERY VASES Get a beautiful new potterv vase for your spring ers, or Mother's Day ' ' gift. Your choice of any in slock 18-PIE- BREAKFAST SET Service for 4 including cups, saucers, plates, large cereal' bowls, cream anl sugar, assorted colors in set includes, grey, ' bowls, cream and sugar, assorted colors in set includes, grey A PICTURE FRAMES The regular price is $5.85 per gallon. We're offering this FIRST QUALITY paint for Dollar Day at ed. NDS IJceularly priced from $5 to $7.50 a pair, Dollar Day special Best grade, FIR8T QUALITY MOORES HOUSE PAINT in outside white and six colors. Sold under a positive satisfaction guarantee. Benjamin Moore & Co. paint is the best that more than half a century of paint manufacturing has been able to produce. n, The second was Wednesdays paper when we got two death stories and a picture incredibly scrambled. Boyd Sheffield, a relative of the deceased, came in Tuesday with the story of the death and an engraving of City Sylvanus Iverson, former Brigham resident well known throughout Box Elder county. He was as helpful as a person giving us news for the paper can jiossibly be, waiting for us to type the story, then reading it for error. But somehow, the story failed to get in the paper, and the engraving got into print with a scrambled caption that meant a good deal less than nothing. What can you do about errors like this? Our most abject and sincere apology does not right the wrong. People who have come to depend upon their own home newspaper for accurate and reasonably complete news of local events are disappointed. There is no excuse. We can only assure those we have wronged that we sire truly, y0u jj of lo. wholesale and service Select a Hallmark card for Mother. We have them priced from 5c to well-know- 2 Select any piece of luggage in stock. We'll give to $2 off depending on price. Our new shipment priced luggage is included in this offer. visor. Retail, to on LUGGAGE Apologies Aren't Enough in 20 or 60 years, as it would be to build an exact duplicate of Box Elder gym at Bear River the high school, next year or the year after. Of course the Bear River gym should be newer, better, more modern, if it is possible to build it that way. eleNow would be a good time for the ments of Box Elder district to start thinking as a unit, to Start looking at the educabasis, rather tion program on a district-wid- e than as for our kids and your kids. Let's try to oust, once and for all (and par- - deeply sorry. that would STRICTLY BUSINESS the tion business which is being conducted this the United year throughout Slates. The Ogden territory will include Box Elder, Cache, Duchesne, Daggett. Morgan, Rich, Summit, Uintah, Wasatch and Weber counties in northern Utah, it was announced by Joseph A. Wixson, district super- er er DOLLAR Census Office A phoned-i- n What They Think: Wed like to call your attention to the What would be the objection, inasmuch story in the second section beginning on as the government has appropriated $90,000,-00- 0 page 9 of todays issue of the Indian for the education of It represents the result of possibly 100 children, and the school boardNavajo is reluctant to different interviews, over the past two spend $100,000 for a school for our own kids, years, with school board members, superinto giving our children Indian names and tendents, assistant superintendents, purchassending them down to Bushnell free? ing agents, architects, contractors, Parent-Teachassociation officers and members, and last but not least, just plain taxpayers. Preposterous Someone who thinks hes ,The story doesnt bring all of their ideas going to get rich, pretty soon, now. into agreement that's something the school We sort of had a hunch there was a lot board might try, but no one ever will on in the sports world the local going is an objective story. accamplish. It Weve tried to present all sides of the argu- sports world, that is that the old N-- J was ment. Weve tried to leave out any personal missing by not having a reporter on the spot. feelings in the matter we (as parent of a We werent sure just what it would be, but second-gradin the Cen- if youll read the report of the baseball game and a in the Sport Shots From The Beehive coltral school) might have. In comparison with some of the rumors, umn today, youll see that the hunch paid reports and opinions that have circulated, off. Thats why weve got Hanline! freely and even wildly during the past year We dont have his name, but Ron Packer and a half, we declare the story is a shining fished a mighty grateful guy or rather the our of best paragon accuracy. Weve tried he had been driving out of the Box truck to check all of our facts, and have endeavElder creek bed last Saturday. The man was ored to present nothing but facts. Our opinions are saved for this depart- driving a construction company truck, loadment, where they are presented as such, ed with lumber, down through Box Elder canyon. Another car crowded him off the herewith: Unless the board of education can save road to the south, on the creek side, and the more than substantially, it surely would be truck toppled over. foolish to rebuild the old Central school A growing down in the building. Probably they decided that yes- creekgreat big tree was the bed, edge of the swollen, right by terday, when they went over the burned-ou- t walls with an engineer. As patrons have raging stream. The truck cab just missed the tree as it toppled over into the creek, expressed it, We dont want a new but the tree caught the bed, just back building. There never, so far as we know, has been of the cab, and held the truck with two wheels against the bank, lying on its side, criany authoritative or even ticism of Karl Krusmarks plan for the new over the water. The man crawled out of the Central school building. Hes one of the top truck and called Packers wrecker to fish him v ; . men in his field. By experience and ability out, , j he can do and has done as good a job of deThe driver reasoned that if the truck had signing and planning an elementary school of this size, as any other architect in the world tipped over a foot or two sooner, the tree would have caved in the cab and, undoubtedcan do'. This building can be built at the average, ly, the driver. If the tree hadnt been there or at less than the average, cost of school at all, the truck would have submerged, upside down, in the creek, and the drivers buildings, in Utah and throughout the country, at the present time. And the present chances of escaping being crushed in the wouldnt have been worth much time is when the Central school building must smash-u- p com-plet- A j Why Not Agree? News-Journa- SAVE D ' REMINDER offtaS OFFICE SUPPLIES GIFTS |