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Show lA WESTERN AMERICANA THE CACHE VALLEY O' EAUTY VOL. X Prof Urges Study On Landfill The Richnond Park School held a successful Mrs. Tripp of PTA president, Mrs. Dell Tripp. direction under the night introduced the PTA officers, home room mothers and the teachers in the school. Following the brief introduction there were three demonstrations presented by Principal Harold Grunig and members of the faculty. Claine Benson demonstrated the record program along with. the other enrichment materials. Principal Grunig discussed and demonstrated the EDL reading machine and closed circuit TV, and Clair lessons end earphones. The classes were Hollingsworth demonstrated the cassette visited by the parents annd music was furnished by the third grade rhythm band, conducted by Mrs. Joseph Day. BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT Back-to-Scho- ol Meeting, Hearing Slated On RC&D Application The application for Franklin county to join the RC&D district will come up for hearing on Nov. 4 and a public meeting has been called for Franklin county on Oct. 20. According to Marion Olsen, Logan, president of the Box Elder - Oneida - Cache RC&D district, the Franklin county executive board was notified of the hearing this week. The application of Rich county to join the district will also be heard at the same time. The hearing will be held in Logan. The Franklin county appli cation has been completed and printed for some time, but has not been formally presented to all interested persons in Franklin county, officials said. A meeting for the residents of the county will be held on Oct. 20 at 8 p.m. in the court room of the Franklin county courthouse. ' The meeting was called by Stephen Hinckley of the Soil Conservation Service, Woodrow Porter, county commissioner, and Mayor Glen Gamble of Preston. The meeting is open to the public. Barley Being Seeded In Grain Program Pointing out that barley is now being seeded in Franklin, Caribou and Cache counties, local farm program official, J. Myron Fonnes-becreminded growers that barley is Included in the 1972 feed grain program. It was not included in the 1971 pro1971-cro- p k, gram. Eligible growers who plan to participate in the 1972 feed grain program should take note that an acreage will be required of between 20 and 35 percent of the farms barley base as well as of the corn and grain sorghum base. The exact preentage will not be known until the 1972 feed grain program announcement is made by the U. S. of Agriculture Department within the next few weeks. Inclusion of barley in the 1972 program means that the payments will be made, as they are made for com and grain sorghum acreage. No announce-- j ment has yet been made for set-asi- de set-asi- de set-asi- the payment rate. The barley payment rate will be in an e equitable ratio with the payment rates far corn and grain sorghum. The reminder that barley will be included in the .1972 feted grain program is also important because of the substitution provision. Substitution permits a program participant to choose a crop best suited to his farm and market operations and still earn payments and history credit for the crop historically grown on the farm. Provided acreage and other program requirements are met, this means farmers with a wheat allotment may earn wheat propayments and gram retain wheat history and allotment credit by growing barley instead of wheat. A wheat and barley farm may go 100 percent to barley, or any other combinations of the permissable crops may be set-asid- set-asi-de set-asi- de (Continued on page 5) County Auditor Hurt In Logan Accident C 1 e o Swenson, Franklin that it had to be removed, county auditor and dean of Idahos county officials, suffered the loss of an eye in an wreck in Logan Tuesday. Mr. Swenson, who has been suffering from a heart disorder, was being taken to a hospital in Salt Lake City by ambulance when the vehicle collided with a jeep at tiie intersection of Main and Center in Logan. There was about $300 damage to the jeep and $500 damage to the ambulance. According to tee attending Mr. Swensons physician, condition stabilized so he was taken on to tee hospital in Salt Lake City Wednesday morning. One eye was lacerated so badly in the accident auto-ambulan- the physician said. Though he suffered discomfort to the neck, there was no fracture of tec neck, the doctor added. According to the Logan City police report, both vehicles came together at tee intersection at the same time and a collision couldn't be avoided. No citations have been issued. Driver of the car was Beverly Louise Ozmun, 18, of Logan, and driver of the ambulance was Henry G. Coleman, 33, of Logan. The ambulance was owned by Cache county. The doctor said that Mr. Swenson was apparently thrown from the bed in the ambulance, head first. Committee chairmen and members of the various committees will be notified as will advisory members. Ceremony Starts New School A large group of civic, church, school and business leaders turned out Thursday lor the ground breaking ceremony for the new Eastside Elementary school. which will The building, cost more than $800,000 when It Is completed, is to be completed in time for school next year. Welcoming the group was Robert Lindhardt, chairman of the school board. He also expressed the appreciation of the board for the cooperation of those who worked on planning the new school and for the cooperation of the community. Dr. Orson Bowler, superintendent, described the new building which will be somewhat revolutionary in design. He also told of plans for the district in connection with the school. Contractor for the building is Mitchell Construction company of Pocatello. The bid was $692,000, which did not include architects fees, cost of ground, cost of the kinder- ( Continued on page 6) A USU professor proposed Tuesday that he and a representative of the extension service draw up and submit a study project on the sanitary landfill problem in Cache county. The professor, Norman B. Jones, a member of the civil engineering staff, said that he and Robert A. Gearheart, USU Extension Service, could submit the project to the En- - andMan program. NO. 27 THURS., OCT. SPOT 14, 1971 UTAH LEWISTON, M320 Garbage Disposal System Big Item At Richmond City Council Meet The Richmond City Council discussed at some length the problem of garbage disposal and tiie city garbage dump. It was reported that gates have been installed on the city garbage dump west of town and they would be closed three days a week 10 days filter public notification. The area will be closed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and will be opened Tuesday and Thursday from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturday from io a.m. to 5 pjn. There will a cjty empioyee .there to help people put the garbage in the right place and to discourage use from outsiders. him reasons why water cannot be taken to certain areas of the city. He was counseled not to issue permits where it ' would ' become a hardship on the city to extend extra lines. They explained that the planning and zoning with a city was to get people to build within reasonable limits close to services. The roofing on the post office was checked by an experienced roofer and he recommended that the city have their own people do the re pairs as it did not need a complete roofing job at the present time. The council acknowledged a gift from Faye Johnson of Salt Lake City to the City Li- ( Continued on page 4) of Jones said that he is concerned about the future of Cache Valley because he intends to live here and rear his family. He also said that This has been about he has had experience in solid because residentsbrought starthave waste disposal programs in ed the habit of dumping garCalifornia. and it inbage Gearheart has had exper- volves anywhere a great deal of expense ience with landfill projects in hiring a bulldozer and opin Arkansas before coming to erator frequently to push the Cache Valley. refuse back. There is also a Both men are enthusiastic deal of abuse from citiabout doing this work. Jones great zens not of the Richmond said that the Environment and Man Program has been community. It was that those set up to tackle problems re- from out decided of town would be lating to the environment on charged to dump garbage in the Wasatch Front and that tiie area. The fee would be he would like to see a pro- 21.50 load and $5 per pick-u- p set Cache for Valley. gram up large truck load, " There Jack Clawson and Arden per are certain types of things Lauritzen accompanied Jones that are in the area and Gearheart and were the such as prohibited anidead and useless ones who had made the sug- mals old cars. and gestion of drawing up a study Amos Bair of the zoning proposal to Jones. met with the Coun-i- u The commissioners said pnmiUee and discussed building that they would welcome any permits. He mentioned some AT FFA MEET -- Sky View participants to the National FFA Judging contest are could in get solving of the help they requests for Don Sandberg, Ken Godfrey, Michael Merritt, Rodney Rindlisbacher, Steve the landfill problem for the water. unusual The Council discussed man and advisor, 'Mr. Larsen of the school staff. Absent from the picture county. Todd G. Weston ' said is Jay Dee Anderson. that the commissioners had been working on the problem for over a year and had hoped to have an operating landfill before this time, but that they had had difficulty in obtaining land for this purpose. No one wants a landfill near his property even though it kas been proved that there is Four members of the Sky ' young men and women test in selecting quality animals be allowed to hold the birds no odor from such an operaView Future Farmers of Am- their ability to select quality and animal products with and observe them for 12 mintion and that in many cases land is actually improved by erica chapter will travel to livestock and animal pro- teams from four other states. utes after which they will be Kansas City, Mo., this month ducts. The contests are spon- Only FFA members who are given an additional 12 minthe operation. ' J. William Hyde suggested to participate in the National sored by the National FFA under 21 years of age and utes to prepare reasons for in contest vo- their choices and two minutes are and held PPA who Foundation are Judging currently taking Poultry Jones that and Gearheart use information available to be held during tee 44th conjunction with the Ameri- cational agriculture are eli- each to give their reasons Livestock and gible for tee contests. orally. In addition to the conthrough the Soil Conservation National Convention of the can Royal Horse Show which provides Poultry Judging teams will test for judging live birds, Service. Jones said that they FFA Oct. 13. would like to have all availMembers of the Sky View animals for contestants to judge two production classes the competition will include ' able information to assist team are Jay Dee Anderson, evaluate. This years con- of four hens each. The Sky a class of 10 ready to cook them. He said that ' they Don Sandberg, Michael Mer- tests will include judging of View team will compete 34 teams. will cattle, products, dairy against dairy (Continued on page 4) They would consider population, ritt and Kim Godfrey, who ' land use and composition, an will serve as an alternate. poultry, livestock (sheep, economic analysis and would The team is coached by Win- beef, and swine) and meats. This year 191 three member consider all problems of pol- ston Larsen, the ' Sky View lution in making the study high school vocational agri- teams will participate in the and finding the sites where culture instructor and advis- contests. Each team in the landfills could logically be lo- or of the Sky View FFA chap- contest has competed against ter. ether chapters in their state cated. Jones said that he felt much The Poultry Judging contest ior the privilege of attending needed to be done in educat-- ( is one of five National FFA the national convention where Continued on Page 4) judging contests in which they must match tlieir skills Lewiston banker, Rex G. Plowman, is tee newest member of tee State Board of Higher Education and already one of the key men in some of the Boards most pressing current projects. Immediately after his appointment to a six year term beginning July 1, 1971. Plowman was appointed by Board Chairman Peter W. Billings to be the vice chairman of REX PLOWMAN the Boards Budget and FinSlate Board Member ance Committee and to serve on a special committee to Governance in tee Study System of Higher Education, lie is also a member of the Planning and Capital Facilities Committee. As president and chairman of the board for the Lewiston The six man jury ruled tee State Bank, Plowman was pedestrian - auto fatality in able to bring 23 years of finGrace recently an accident at ance experience to the an inquest Wednesday in the boards Budget and Finance committee. During tee month county court house. The in-- j of October tee Board will finquest was called by Ted Al- alize its yearly budget relen, Caribou county coroner. commendation to the Utah The inquest was called due State Governor and .Legisla. . Hard-Wnst- on In Kansas City FFA To Compete Nationally ' Lewiston Man t Becomes Key Man On Board Fatality Ruled Accidental .. .he 71, AT TIIE GROUND BREAKING Dr. Orson Bowler, superintendent of schools for the Eastside school district, discusses the new grade school with the group teat turned out for the groundbreaking ceremony. To his left is Robert Lindhardt, chairman of the The .groundbreaking was attended by school and church leaders. school district. civic, business, Anderson Photo , of C, Jenr. of last Saturday night week on Highway 34. He was hit by a car driven by Roger Burton. Serving on tee jury were Frank Fowler, Denzil J Glen Palmer, Orrln Harris, Luther Wilson and Glen H. Peterson. (ten-so- n, -- gj srhmittcd by the nine 5 institu- tions in the system. Last year the board trimmed more than eight million dollars Ercm the institutional requests before submitting tee system recommendations. As a former member of the (Continued oa pegs 4) . |