OCR Text |
Show New Gymnasium Nears Completion; Board Tours Buildings The new North Cache junior high gymnasium will be completed in about a month and other projects in the district are well ahead of schedule. This was the report to the members of the Cache county Group Plans Study Of District Representatives of the South Sanpete school district are scheduled to study the consol idation program in the Cache county schools this moron According to a report made to the Cache county school board last week by the superintendent, the group will be in the district on Sept. Supt. Bryce Draper said that this will be followed by an inspection tour by State Supt. T. H. Bell. In other business the board suggested that a new purchasing policy be prepared for the district which will be fair to all suppliers. Members of the board said that if the price and quality are competitive, they wiH try to distribute their business within the school district and will go further away only when they can't get the services here. The policy statement will be "polished up" and put into writing soon. If there are suppliers in the area who would like to make comments or offer suggestions, they are invited to call Supt. Draper personally. 23-2- A last week during an inspection tour of building projects in the district. The building program at North Cache includes the new gymnasium and cafeteria as well as eight new classrooms remodeled from old cafeteria and farm mechanics facilities. Food for the students is now being prepared at the old Benson school and transported to the North Cache school. Athletic classes are meeting outside until the building is completed. The old gymnasium has been remodeled for other uses. Four projects were visited by the board on their tour, and included the new Vocational building at Sky View It is expected high school. that the new Vocational building, which is ahead of schedule, will be completed during the latter part of this year. Other projects included the three classroom "pod" at which is now being used, and the River Heights multi purpose room which is almost finished ana is being usea. school board Hy-ru- 4. TOUR OF SCHOOLS Dean Haslam, Supt. C. Bryce Draper, Principal Richard Bagley, WilBs S. Hall, president of the school board, Clifford Stauffer and Keith Hansen, district clerk, discuss the North Cache Junior High School during a recent inThe Citizen Photo spection tour by the school board. NEW NORTH CACHE GYM The new gymnasium afld cafeteria for the North Cache Junior High School, is scheduled to be ready for use in about a month. The building is located just north of the present school building. New portable classrooms are in the rear of the two buildings. The Citizen Photo In Cache Comity THE Past Voting CACHE VALLEY BEAUT VOL. VI NO. 23 84328 h er h utah THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1968 Lumber Mill Bertrand Pond Dies Tuesday In Salt Lake transportation report pre- UTAn LEWISTON, Mayor For Three Terms iPOToryNORT Y Record A 1968 Guide? sented by Keith Clayson indicated that there are 39 bus drivers in the district this year, including five newly hired ones. There is a little ovBertrand T. Pond, 81, lifeerloading in certain areas and schedules in unsatisfactory long resident of Lewiston, and others but these problems are out mayor for three terms, died ironed expected to be in a Salt Lake City Tuesday (Continued on back page) hospital following an extended illness. Mr. Pond was born Sept. 20, 1888 in Lewiston, a son of Brigham and Aroetta Whittle Pond. He received his edu cation in the Cache county schools, and had served for 41 years as manager of the LEWISTON The Lewiston Lumber Company Anderson met Lions club Monday night in the Community Building store in Lewiston. for their regular dinner meetActive in civic affairs, he ing with Odis Talbot, presi- was instrumental in building dent, conducting the meeting. the amusement park in LewWillis Hall, program chair- iston while serving as mayor. man, introduced the program. He managed the Community Two vocal solos were given by theater in Lewiston for many Grant Flygare, accompanied years, and under his direcby Mrs. II. G. Wood. The tion many improvements speaker for the evening was were made. the district governor, John A high priest in the Benson E. Brown of Ogden. He was Mr. Pond had also fulstake, K. James accompanied by filled a mission to England alPacker, cabinet secretary, 1908 to 1910. He was a so of Ogden. Dinner was ser- from Lewiston ved to 30 by the American member of the Fourth ward. Legion Auxiliary. On June 5, 1912, he married Villnwincr the meeting, the district governor met with the Myrtle Shepard in the Salt officers and the Doara oi air-- uane lempie. ne is surviveu ectors for a meeting. by his wife, a son, Thorne Pond, both of Lewiston; two daughters, Mrs. D. V. (Kath-ryn- ) t, Mardis Jr., of Doris Mrs. and Calif., Murdock of Salt Lake City. Also surviving are six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren; a brother, Leon Pond of Lewiston, and a sister, Mrs. T. R. (Mildred) Bowden of Ogden, and the following half brothers and sisters: Rufus R. Pond, Preston; Zera W. Pond and George S. Pond of Lewiston; H. Ray Pond, Richmond; Preston W. Pond, Ogden; Dr. Howard M. Pond, Taft, Calif.; Mrs. Laura E. (Blanche) Crookston and Mrs. Fred E. (Edith) Peterson, both of Logan, and Mrs. Sterling (Abbie) Forsyth of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at noon in the Lewiston First and Fourth ward chapel under the direction of Bishop Rex Plowman. Friends may call at the Nelson Memorial Funeral Chapel in Logan Friday evening from 7 to 9 p.m., and at the church in Lewiston prior to services. Clare-mon- District Lions Governor I Speaks Here I i Proposed In County The White Swan Lumber in Co., with headquarters White Swan, Wash., has re- new-comtr- quested that the Cache County Board of Commissioners rezone a tract of land on the railroad spur near the Hess-to- n Manufacturing plant in Nibley for the purpose of building a saw mill. Tha rnmrniceiniwri AtrraaA . I to auiuJ a Hearing on we mat-' SEMI FINALISTS Sky View High School announces ter on Oct. 18, 10 a.m., in in the Merit Scholarship Program. They the Hall of Justice. All citizens interested are invited to are David Southard and Robert Bruce Fleming. be there at that time. The White Swan Co. proposes to build a 8300,000 mill which would employ about 50 men and would be capable of handling 15,000,000 board feet of lumber a year. Besides operating mills in Kenneth Webb able high school seniors and Washington and Idaho, the hasPrincipal announced that two stu- will compete for some 3,000 company has a mill in Heber dents at Sky View to be school Merit Scholarships City, the Provo River Lum- have been named high semifinal-ist- s awarded in 1969. ber Co. 1968-6in National The semifinalists were the Dean Smith, secretary of Merit the scorers in their states highest Program. Scholarship Comthe Cache Chamber of on the National Merit ScholRobert are students The merce, asked the Board of arship Qualifying Test, given Commissioners if something Bruce Fleming, son of Mr. last February in 17,500 schools could be done to clean up the and Mrs. William Fleming of nationwide. They constitute South and David Richmond, out area around the burned one less than A, per cent of the Mrs. Mr. and of son ard, old Juniper Lodge. school secondary The property is owned by R. Stoddard of River Heights graduating in the United States. seniors semifinalists The 15,000 ap who is George Bioomfield, pointed today are among the The semifinalists show high (Continued on page 4) nation's most intellectually (Continued on Page 4) 1 1 - 1 I 1 semi-finalis- ts Two Students Enter Contest Semifinals 9 Old Home Under goes Changes , OLD CHAIR Douglas Webb, who recently joined his father in the Webb Funeral home, holds one of the anhome from an era about tique chairs that is used in the the time the original house was built. Citizen Photo Time brings many changes, but there are probably few homes in North Cache Valley that have chanced more than the one now used by the Webb Funeral Home. The stately building was originally built by Wm. G. Par kinson, a counselor in the Preston First ward bishopric and a brother to George C. who served as daughters returned there were president of the old Oneida changes made in the building, stake for many years. most of them being made by Mr. Parkinson's daughter, Willis Hendricks who purchas- Parkinson, who used to return each Memorial day to tour the home, said that many leading church authorities were entertained in the home when their father owned it However, each time the party loyalty, for the most (Special to the Cache Valley Citizen) part, or will special considerWhich of the presidential ations this year cause big candidates will residents of shifts? Much depends upon what Cache county favor in the the report calls the "volatile forthcoming election? Will their panty preferences, voting behavior of independas expressed at the polls in ents" and upon the 11 mil- ' Wno wm. ue previous national elections, uon ou"S peupie indicate how they will votei&ld enough to cast their first votes for a president. this time? In Cache county, approxiWhile there is no sure guide as to how much fence mately 2,410 of these who were too young jumping will take place in No-vember, some important light to vote in the 1964 election, on the subject is shed in a have now reached the qualify nationwide study, based on ing age. thousands of personal interviews, conducted by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan. It shows that once a voter makes his choice of a political party and this usually occurs before age 30 he generally sticks to it for life. Only one out of five switches threafter. This, according to the study, has been the most important single influence in our elecThe Franklin county comtions. missioners this week called Do these general observa- for a $600,000 bond election to tions apply in Cache county finance the construction of the and, if so, to what extent? proposed nursing home and With respect to the last the remodeling of the hospital three presidential elections, in Preston. the local vote for the major A planning meeting will be party candidates was as fol- held Monday in the court lows: house. In 1964, 9,326 were for the The election will be held Republican and 6,509 for the during the general election in Democrat. In 1969 it was November. 10,281 Republican and 4,917 The nursing home would be Democrat and, in 195S, 10,349 built adjoining the present Republican and 3,671 Demo- hospital extending to the Bast crat. and facing on North First. Combining the results of The plans call for the location those elections, the Republi- of the kitchen, boiler room cans collected a total of 29,956 and other facilities for both votes and the Democrats, the hospital and nursing home. Such arrangement, ofThat count shows that the ficials said, would bring the Republicans have been receiv- present hospital up to standing 34 percent of the major ard with some remodeling. party vote to 66 percent for The remodeling would inthe Democrats. clude the removal of the top In the State of Utah as a floor of the old section of the whole, the Republicans garnreered 54 percent of the votes hospital and the complete floor. of the first cast for the two parties and modeling the Democrats, 46 percent. There would be a minimum The question that arises, amount of remodeling in the with this year's election, is new section of the present whether history will repeat Will voters maintain itself. (Continued on page 4) ed the home from the Cutler family to use for a funeral home. The Parkinsons sold the home to Dr. Allen R. Cutler Sr., father of Preston's mayor, Dr. Orvid Cutler. The AS IT USE TO LOOK With the exception of the tower on the east side, this is about how the old Parkinson home looked when it was built at the turn of the century. It housed the Hendricks Funeral home when the picture was taken. Cutler family at one time owned four homes and a hospital on the old Parkinson property. The only one still owned by the Cutlers is Dr. Orvid's home. The hospital was turn. ed over to the county several years ago. Mr. Hendricks purchased i s, County Seeks Bond Issue For Hospital 15,-09- 7. Continued on page AS IT NOW IS After many times through the remodelng mill over the years, the old Parkinson home is now a modem funeral home. The Citizen Photo |