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Show Universal Kicrofll iki pierpont Corp. Ave. 4 ' - W ' Li VOLUME 34 THURSDAY. JULY 4. 1357 Hunt's Food Plant Begins Annual Run Almost 150 workers went on two shifts at Hunts Food cannery this week handling the big crop of peas coming off 600 acres in the Bear River Valley. Frank J. Garbe, plant manager, said the production is about 500 cases an hour, with the rush being caused by the harvest .'coming all at once." U Tin icvciac suililg tic oaiu Luc: weather experienced in the valley this year caused the growers to do all their planting at once, resulting in the heavy flow of peas to the cannery. Ninety workers have been at the plant since June 28 and anA new bishopric was installed other 50 were to be added in a in Tremonton Fourth Ward late shift Wednesday. Cannery 14, and since that time April operations will extend through several of the ward organizaabout 18 hours a day until the tions have been harvest is over in about three under the directipn of the new weeks, Mr. Garbe said. Reid Oylen and his Bishop, He described this year's crop counselors. Garland Puzey and as "normal," or above that of W. E. Kerr. the last few years, when drouth to receive The latest and other conditions cut down new officers auxiliary is the ward Relief on the .yield. He said the qualSociety. Olga Allen was sustain ity was also good. ed as president, Sunday evenAfter the pea harvest is com- ing, with Grace Brough and pleted and packed, operations Donna Worley as her counselors will slow down for a few weeks and Dotty Whitney as secretary. until the tomato harvest starts. Released were Wanda Giles, The latter will be in full swing Vilate Archibald and president, in September, winding up in Luella Sandall counselors and late October. Ethel Miller, secretary. A short time ago, Sharon was sustained as Archibald superintendent of the Sunday are School. His counselors Garfield and Dallin NielDaryle Don Woerner of Chalmette, sen with Cleon Summers as La., has spent the last two weeks secretary. Released were Loyal with his mother, Mrs. Rose Glenn, superintendent, Frank Woerner, who has been serious- Nielsen and Jess Garfield as ly ill. counselors and Gloria Norr, On Wednesday of last week, secretary. v he and Mrs. W. I. Richins drove The YMMIA is now under the to Salt Lake City, where they direction of Gerald Simmons, met Miss Lillian Bertheaud, who Russ Waldron visited at the Woerner home superintendent, and Oleen Watt, counselors and until Saturday. Saturday night, Brent Rytting, secretary. The the Richins and Woerners drove former officers were Chuck back to Salt Lake City, where Nelson,, superintendent, Gerald Miss Bertheaud and Mr. Woer- Simmons and Wayne Anderson ner boarded a plane for Louisi- as counselors and Melbourne ana. Archibald, secretary. A new counselor has been chosen to assist Lucille Waldron and Marjorie Oyler ,ir the Primary Presidency. She is Ruth Harris. irl Fourth Ward Organizations Are Reorganized Louisianans Visit At Woerner Home - ri - '&lz,!ZJ .JL. - I s UP. UP IN THE AIR is the steel tower constructed to aid in the building of two giant reinforced concrete bins to store bulk sugar at the Garland plant of the Utah-Idah- o Sugar company. Plant will be ready for storage of this years crop. Construction Started On New Sugar Storage Bins The pouring of cement on two giant size storage bins at the: Sugar company plant in Garland is expected to start within the next week, according to Ford Scalley. district super intendent. A 192 foot steel tower has been erected to handle the cement and steel to" be used in the con-struction. A foundation of rein- - T i 7 i T forced concrete with 40 tons of 1, lias uccn lnlA structural sicei and forms for the ten foot bins supports are ready for the pourA British woman. Mrs. Joan ing of concrete. Each of the two bins will be Kev and wo dnugM-- s. Maur-pfr- . of 50 feet inside diameter and ani Doren. arrived here will be 129.8 feet in height with Thursdnv last week under the a 14 foot headhouse. making a nonsorshin of Mr. and Mrs. total of 154 feet overall height Tame- Walton. Th f?m 'v cam from foundation to the top. from New CatK England, and The new structure will pro- will make their home in vide storage for 2.250,000 one hundred pound bags of sugar, Other guests for Sunday dinor 22,500,000 pounds of bulk ner at the Walton home were the transfer will Scrolls sugar. bulk sugar to special railroad Mr. and Mrs. Walt Eastlin and cars and trucks for shipment son Dick, Mrs. Maraprct Humto large consumer markets. The phries and Morris Pack, Logan, plant will be ready for this and Duane Kerr. Utah-Idah- o ? 4 1 1 1 1 JiritlSll anillV Arrives in Utah VI;1T tALUOKiA Coraleigh and Margie Dider- icksen recently accompanied Mrs. Avard Fairbanks of Salt Lake City to Los Angeles, Calif. While in Los Angeles the girls stayed at the home of tiieir aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Eggen. They visited many points of interest throughout the city. ATTEND FAMILY REUNION Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Checketts and family were in Preston, Ida., Sunday to attend the family reunion with others of the Checketts family. ALICE WOODRUFF TO GIVE RADIO TALK Alice Woodruff of East Tre monton will be the speaker on Mrs. Axel Fredericksen's WCTU radio program Sunday at 1 p.m. over KBUH, Brigham City. Tour of Howell Watershed Site - Farm-ingto- n. year's harvest. Garff, Ryberg and Garff of Salt Lake City are general contractors, with the steel work being subcontracted to Western Steel Construction. Fife Construction of Brigham will furnconcrete. ish the itady-mi- x o The Sugar Company will install its own machinery. Is Scheduled Tuesday Morning tour of the proposed How shed project will be discussed. Creek Watershed pro A tour of the local dry farms ject will be held on July 9. The will then be made, showing tour will commence at 8 a.m. at what can be done to reduce the Howell Chapel. A short runoff and get more moisture meeting will be held in which into the soil. The group will details of the proposed water- - return to the Howell Chapel for A ell-Bl- a light lunch and soda pop. The supervisors of the North- it I t '" - m . x - V' J v . ' - - , - i I . i, ' 1 f i 91 . Ifiti Utah-Idah- Safflower Officials Plan Local Visit Carl E. Claason of Pacific Vegetable Oil Corporation has planned an itinerary in this section next week, during which time he will meet with safflower growers and make visits to various fields. He will be at the Stohl Elevator Monday. July 8 at 2 p.m.: at Crowther Elevator in Malad, Tuesday at 2 p.m. and from there will go to Franklin County, Downey, Bancroft and American Falls. f GUESTS AT BEYER - - " H I 'J"r HOtME Mrs. Reed Mason and sons Lyle and Vaughn are visiting at the William E. Beyer home, from Rexburg. Ida. Saturday guests at the Beyer home included also Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fullerton and two children, Pleasant Grove. Mrs. William Getz, Salt Lake City spent Tuesday at the Beyer home. 'ifrr ' m I. ,' i ' '' r ' , 'l' I k "''''iJ - i - t TfJ - ; - .. - . r , ? - . ,f '. 1 h : n GROUND OBSERVER CORPS BUILDING in the north Tremonton Park is ready for use by the local organization, under direction of Mrs. Donna Worley. The Valley Kiwanis Club prepared the building for occupancy and the Tremonton Lions club painted and furnished the building. George Smith Lions Club president and Zeb White have completed the pairfting project. ern Utah Soil Conservation DisCreek trict and the Howell-Blu- e Watershed project committees are sponsoring the tour. James County Offices To Be Closed On Saturdays Box Elder1 County offices will y close Saturday, effective immediately, instituting a five-da- y week for employees, county comimissioners decided Monday night. The commissioners voted unanimously to arrange the Saturday closing after being told by board of education and welfare department representatives that those groups would join in the Saturday closing. Office hours will be 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friall-da- day. will work the same number of hours each "slack" week, the Saturday-of- f being taken up by shortend lunch periods, commissioners Employees decided. School Board Adopts Budget of $2,913,126 Box Elder County School District's budget, approved by the board of education after a public inspectioon period, totals an increase of $2,913,126.71, $420,000 over the 1956-5figure. 1957-5The expenditures will require a 32.00 mill levy, compared to 29.12 mills for the preceding year. for Budgeted expenditures next school term (to be published in greater detail next week) include $1,107,230 for instruction expenses, the biggest item on the budget, followed by $821,021 for debt service. Instruction costs rose sharply as a result of an increased pay schedules, and costs went up in all other parts of the budget, with the exception of the school lunch program and fixed chargcosts es. School lunch were 7 8 Problems Of Beet Production Are Studied at Denver Meeting Continued efforts to equitably regulate sugar beet production quotas in the West and secure a price increase still are meeting with official resistance. E. J. Holmgren of Garland, president of Utah's growers association, attended a Denver meeting last week at which producers and processors increased pressure on department of agriculture officials to secure the creased 24 percent in eight years without a price increase. changes. He struck out at "bureauMr. Holmgren, reflecting the growers' apparently increasing crats and politicians in Washinganger over federal sugar pol- ton." He, said "we must appeal icies, offered little hope of to them for relief and if we success of the current efforts. make them mad we are punished Mr. Holmgren, in reporting for our complaints" by the conthe growers' and producers' tinued high quotas and the lid lack of success at Denver point- on prices. Pointing to the big increase ed out, "In ancient Sparta, I am told that when a messenger in Federal Land Bank loans in the sugar beet areas, he said brought home an unfavorable farmers to report or news, he was killed follow theare being forced borrowing habits of for his endeavor. I am glad such severe payment is no longer the "bureaucrats and politicions who seem to think the governfashionable." ment can borrow its way out of He said the sugar branch of debt." the department agriculture wants the processing industry to administer the allotments of sugar. This is generally opposed by the" farmers, he added, stating that they are satisfied with the current ASC operation in which they participate. The department's total proTwelve women and five boys duction quota for the current bisited the State Filteration attack. came bitter under year called "di- Center of the civilian Ground Mr. Holmgren abolical" the department's action Observer Corps in Salt Lake Tuesday. in increasing the production Citv Under the direction of Mrs. quota by 700.000 tons, while Gordon Worley and members of normal consumption increases the Women's Civic League, the resulting from rising population group was taken through the can account for only 150,000 new at center radar detector the ton;',. and .also to the airport where "This appalling increase has jet been permitted with the pur- on afighter planes and pilots are alert. pose of holding down the price Mrs. Worley states that they of sugar." have need for additional volunThe department has permitted teer workers in the vitally higher sugar imports from Cuba, needed Ground Observer Corps. the Virgin Islands and Peru, Mr. Holmgren charged, and has "scraped the world's available VACATION IN CHICAGO sugar supplies to keep the price Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rytting down during the last eight and son Brent and Miss Esta years." Jones of have spent the "It is unfair for farmers to past ten Fielding in Chicago with days pay higher wages, more for Mr. and Mrs. Owen Jones and machinery and increased fuel family. costs and get no improvement Mrs. Jones and two children, in the price of their product." Kellie and David returned to He said the growers have Utah with the group arriving in proof that their costs have in Tremonton Saturday night. long-need- ed . Group Visits State G.O.C. Filter Center 24-ho- ur Nessen of Howell is the chairman in charge of arrangements. All farmers are invited. For those from Blue Creek and Howell area it is especially important to be in attendance. The speed in which the Howell reservoir is losing its storage capacity by silt deposits from the dry farms above makes it mandatory that more soil con servation measures be established on the farms of this watershed. The purpose of thus tour is to show what is being done by the Howell Valley dry farm ers. Come out and listen to the comments of those farmers who have these soil conservation practices 'in operation on their own land. New Man Assumes Duties At Safeway NUMBER 40 r1 r budgeted at 8175,794, compared with $191,309 last year. Books Are Added Kenneth Superintendent Weight reported that 155 books have been added to the Bear River Junior High School library. The books were transferred from the circulating library and from McKinley and other schools. Supervisor Hervin Bunderson reported that preliminary sketches for additions to the Honey-vill- e and Corinne schools have been aproved by the state office. e Salary schedules for e and custodians also e cuswere approved. todian pay ranges from $3,100 for the first year to $3,500 after eight years. The schedule also provides for extra pay for outstanding work based on an ape proved evaluative scale. custodian pay ranges from S333 at Lucin. Lakeside and Junction to $2,500 at Willard. Other employee salaries will include $8,400 for the superintendent and administrative assistant salaries of $6,600, $6,200 and two at $6,000. A salary of for the $6,562 was approved building engineer. All of these are jobs. Approves Purchases The board approved the purchase of two new buses and a Internatitruck. A onal-Superior bus was purchased on a bid of $7,611 by Jay Dee Harris of Tremonton. A Ward bus was purchased from County Farm Service for $4,881. A one-toInternational chassis was purchased from Coppin Motor Co. for $1,854 and a body for the truck from Williamson Body and Equipment for $1,'476. The board heard a report from member Lamoin Cowley that some patrons of Bothwell school felt that their children would receive better instruction if they were transported to McKinley SchooJLin .Tremontqn. . The booard indicated it would approove the transfer if it is determined that McKinley can take care of the additional students. full-tim- part-tim- Full-tim- Part-tim- th n Constable Named For Little Valley Sheriff Warren Hyde and a representative of the Morrison Knutson Co. met with the Coun- Commissioners Monday to report that Pat Redmond, who had been appointed constable at Little Valley was no longer located there. They recommended that Virgil Rick be appointed to take his place. The commissioners agreed and made the appointment subject tp proper bonding. It was also suggested that the bonds taken for Mr. Redmond could be transferred to Mr. Rich, making the appointment official. ty MRS. UDY HOSPITALIZED Riverside will happenings have to wait until next week. Mrs. Myrl Udy is hospitalized in Valley Hospital but expects to be back on the job next week. Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Baer and family and Alma Theurer spent Sunday at Bear Lake. v 'X, ? 'i ' ( '4- it Kendricks Campbell. Logan, has been hired as first man at Safeway Tremonton store, reports Kenneth Somerville, local manager. Mr. Campbell and his wife. CURB AND GUTTER PROJECT on First June and their two children West Street was well under way this week. expect to make their home in The present construction is North of Main Tremonton as soon as living Street with large trees removed and part of the concrete already poured. The Water quarters have been located. 't fall Construction Company of Ogden Is the contracting firm. The curb and gutter work is to be complete by August, after which the street will be oiled. |