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Show Utah Sute Press P.O. Box 13V lead & IB !L & 5f OS) VOLUME 56 NUMBER 49 Sslt re e L-J- ct City, TREMONTOri, UTAH 84337 Don't Call Us About Utah SEPTEMBER 16, 1976 Interchange To Be Revised -1-- 15 (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) "I , .ssoc. Inc. CORRIDOR MAP Ring But, Dad, everybody has one. familiar one to parenThat phrase--ts-will probably be voiced once again to parents as Juniors at Bear River High Schiiol go through the annual process of purchasing a school ring. The high school administration, on the other hand, is making it perfectly clear that not "everybody" has to have one, an impression that some students might like their parents to believe. "People tend to blame the schools for any costs that are incurred," said Principal Darwin Woodbury, regarding school rings. A parent doesn't "free education" too equate well with a $75 school ring. Because of that, Woodbury said school rings are "bad public relations at every school..." "Year books are a similar problem, although not as bad," he said, "because they're not so expensive." Woodbury said he tried to "get ahead of the game" this year by it clear that "parents don't making . i nave 10 iuuy scnuui rings. - "We do want the parents to know that this is an expenditure that they have control of," he added. Where most parents can remember buying their rings for $25, the price iui trMijie gii t ring idiiges Hum to $75 for a man's ring with all of the 'extras' that are available," Woodbury noted. The biggest problem is that rings are a tradition which creates "mixed emotions" among the administration, whether they should support them or a ' (J COLLINSTON i -- After years of debate, the Utah Transportation Commission has settl-- ; ed the question once and for all by naming the west alignment (Alternate A) for through the Bear River Valley from Tremonton to north of Plymouth. . ' run west of Tremonton and along the foothills of the West Hills and join a section of currently under construction north of Plymouth. A The Commission arrived at the decision after carefully reviewing the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, comments received at a public hearing held last June and presenta-- i tions made to the Commission Friday A final Environf by area residents. mental Impact Statement will now be prepared analyzing the specific route chosen in more detail. After approval is received on the final EIS, construction work will begin, a spokesman said, i, Commission members had a difficult time choosing between the west alignment and a proposed center t alignment which would have paralleled the Malad River: Roth alignments . have strong arguments. in their favor.,. However, the' Commission members felt that the west alignment would, in w ill , vCnfj l) run, provide more economic benefits and cause fewer impacts to the environment, the spokesman add- selves. Harris and Foxley told commisMon ers that both Tremonton and Garland ed. deserve interchanges located on then-maiThe Commission directed that streets, west of town, so that interI! DOT review the proposed neither would be isolated by the western route. change locations.Tremonton residents They also pointed up the safety expressed concern that the proposed hazard that would be created by interchange would channel traffic past Bear River High School. funneling large amounts of trailic getting on and off the highway past Proponents and opponents of the school facilities where students are various routes had a last chance to forced to cross the street hourly. present arguments to the Commission Cleon Kerr, East Tremonton, a Friday in Salt Lake City. long-tim- e vocal spokesman and organ Reed Harris, president, and Mel Foxley! executive secretary of the . izer of support for the central route or eastern route, as he terms it) was Bear River Valley Chamber of Commerce, raised the issue of the proposed disappointed by the decision but seem ed to accept it. location for an interchange on the west route. gel a "My position was this.-le- t's The Chamber pointed out that the decision, but I favored the east side.' In earlier - testimony before the only proposed interchange on the route was located on 10th North, the street commission, Kerr had pointed up which the commission's leng which runs east and west past the high school, junior high and LDS Senior thy uncertainty on the question had A created for landowners along tlx Seminary. Chamber members recently met central route. Said Kerr: "The State Department ot and voted to raise the issue but not to oppose or support either the western qr . j. Highways, due to indecision, has : central alternatives since they could problems for the Gariiti.tl ' ' on not reach agreement among them-- cont. three page .. f the long -il not. The principal explained that all companies interested are invited each fall to display their wares at the .. rc: i i i . mi .TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE members recently voted to accept the "i mirth from Alternate "A" as the route for the extension of Tremonton to Plymouth. Hut the commission agreed to revise an off-- i anii which had been located at Kith north. . t West the final judges as to which company will be the official dealer. The principal also makes it perfectly clear that students can still choose to purchase a ring from a local dealer at their own discretion. No local dealers this year opted to compete for the right to be the official dealer as selected by the students. Woodbury also pointed out that the school receives no "kickback" of any sort from the official dealer, although "some schools do." A few years ago, the school handled the school rings through the school bookstore and did charge $1 for cont. on page three Rabies Clinic Set In Honeyvilje A rabies clinic will be held in Honey ville Sept. 16 (today) from 5 to 7 p.m. at the park across from the LDS church. Cost for the innoculation is $3 m fin LTU i'4 mm Ms -- m A 4t;; . . YARD OF THE MONTH honors for September go to Mr. and Mrs. Leon Kerr, 651 No. 3rd East, Tremonton. The Kerr home will be the last monthly winner until next summer when the judging resumes again. One more selection will be made during September to name a "Yard of the Year" from among Tremonton's homes. For September O O Probably a decade after someone first attempted to make an idea a reality, the opening of the new North Box Elder Community Hospital in Tremonton is only.a month away from becoming just that-- a reality. Mel Foxley, hospital association" chairman, announced Tuesday that a ribbon-cuttin- g ceremony for the new facility will be conducted Oct. 16. An open house will apparently be held the next day, Sunday, during which valley residents can tour the completed facility prior to its opening for business. Architect Tony Wagner of Design West said the contractor, Wadman Construction, indicated this week he plans to be out of the building by Oct. 1 . A couple of weeks of "spit and polish" will follow, he added, as furniture and movable medical items are hauled in. Foxley estimated that the new facility could begin receiving patients ribbon-cuttinpossibly a week after the ceremony. Officials had hoped to be in the facility in September, or even earlier, but admit that "we were unrealistic as One problem , d has been the sizable amount of "technical" equipment which must be installed by company representatives, Foxley indicated. The opening of the new hospital will mark, completion of an medicdl ifehttecorriplex when combined with the d county nursing home adjacent to it. Like a young bride, the new hospital will undergo its initial rites with something borrowed. Foxley said a fluoroscopic table in the new unit will actually be a used unit. The new unit, which costs $34,700, will not be on hand in time for the opening, but the company has agreed to furnish the usetftable in the interim. The association chairman said the unit is a ew" addition to the facility plan prompted by a request from local doctors. Foxley said the main reason for the unit is that it will help attract a surgeon to the facility, not necessarily on a full time basis, but on a specific day each week or whenever enough operations can Ik- lined up. The unit should "give us anything any doctor needs in the way of y y g hell." per animal. Dr. Brent McKinnon will conduct the clinic. Dogs and cats should be at least four months old and not pregnant, if female. . Foxley noted. Foxley also noted that he was able to convince the federal officials who n administer funds to pay half the cost of the new unit. money is already paying about half the cost of the new facility. A private clinic scheduled to be built adjacent to the new hospital, currently is in limbo. Wagner of Design West, one of the participants, said the problem is a lack of comm itments as yet from doctors to occupy the clinic. "Without commitments from Physicians, we don't want to commit finances," he said. He added that the Question is not really whether to build, but "when." The architectural firm and some Bear River Valley investors have already purchased the site for the clinic. Meanwhile, the opening of the new hospital will create one minor to do with the old hospital. That facility will apparently he put up lor bid by the Valley Leasing Corp.. Hie organization formed by total Ihn ncssmcn to salvage the hospital when the slate fire marshal forced il Inclose sonic years ago Garland Plans Kerr's Own Yard Of Month Hill-Burto- Hill-Burto- n The Leon Kerr's are the proud owner of September's Yard of the month in Tremonton. Judges informed the couple, who live at 651 No.3rd East, in Tremonton, of the honor Tuesday and posted the sign designating the honor on their Taylor Farm Loft Off List A list of animals businesses which purchased at the Box Elder County fat stock auction inadvertently left out that of Taylor Farm Service. The local farm implement dealer was one of a long list of businesses and individuals w hich support the sale annually. Conference ' front yard. The selection is the last monthly selection for this year. The judging, sponsored by the Tremonton Planning Board, will resume next summer. One more home will be selected in September as "Yard of the year," committee members said. Judges for the monthly contest this time were Clyde Anderson, Bothwell, Carlyle Johnson and Mrs. Carole Harris, both of Tremonton. !.,, Here's what they had to say about their selection: :., "The general appearance house is very atlractive.lt has a well maintained lawn with good color. The small hedge in the front of the house is very attractive and well maintained and shrubs well trimmed. Flowers in front of the hedge are very attractive and colorful. Also, hanging baskets in front of the house, with colorful (out. w . t;c three .M,.JJ'! The quarterly stake conference will be held Saturday and Sundav, Sept. in the Garland Utah Stake, according toPresident James White. Conference activities begin Saturday at 5:30 p.m. with a meeting for the stake presidency, bishoprics and high council members. A special meeting starting at 7 p.m. Saturday evening is open to all parents T'ahcf all married people of the stake. The regular conference session will ' be conducted Sunday at 10 a.m. in the Garland tabernacle under the direction of the stake presidency. Proceedings of the conference will be transmitted by closed circuit television into the chapel and cultural hall to accommodate an overflow crowd. Junior Sunday School will be held also under the direction of the Beaver Ward. 18-1- |