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Show UTAF CTATE ?V&8 ACC P.C. Box 1827 Salt Ltk City, Utah t Volume 50 Numbor Don't Want To ft amass sass 1 TREMONTON, UTAH 84337 C C - r ( ( A vv TTPMUm ) fan Uto-- November 3, 1977 Repeat It fombwme Crew Mew tasoirdi tfc c Tremonton's volunteer ambulance crews set a dubious record last Friday, one they don't especially want to repeat. The ambulance crews made a total of seven emergency runs, starting at 6 a.m. and ending about 11:45 p.m. a record number for a single day, department members say. Things started early when the ambulance was called out to respond to a wreck two miles north of the Cross Roads. At 9:30 a.m. crews were called to the Lyle Hanson residence in Tremonton on a house call. At 9:50 a.m. the ambulance was" called out again to the Howard Glenn residence in Tremonton. :r$ At 2:30 p.m. the ambulance rolled on a reported electrocution mishap at the Rose Ranch in Snowville. Fifteen minutes later at 2:45 p.m. a second crew was summoned to respond to a wreck at the Valley exit about 22 miles west of Tremonton. At 5 p.m. an ambulance crew was summoned to the Bear River Valley Hospital to transfer a patient to the University Medical Center in Salt Lake City. - mm M5 fx, - - . 7 T V"J k JV r. i 4 The day ended as it had begun, with an ambulance crew called out to respond to an accident at the Snowville turnoff about 11:45 p.m. ii i fl 6 A. Commissioners Soy Staeiriiffi? Bm Uo' o iin) Where aro wo? etf 111 BEEADhesn't Necessarily Supp ort ERA Wo.PsiyieihiQek Box Elder County Sheriff Art ReddFBI law ing can attend an enforcement school, but it will have to be without pay. That's what Box Elder County Commissioners said Tuesday when asked by newsmen about the school. Redding has been offered an invitation by the FBI to attend the school beginning in January. But a travel request submitted by him to commissioners was turned down. "He can go if he wants, but his wages are withheld while he's gone," said Commissioner Ted Burt. "We don't pay for other county employees while they go to school," he added. "I couldn't justify him going," he said. Burt said he might be able to justify sending a deputy to such a school, "But, gee, he's got to run for election in one year." "If he lost the election it would be money down the drain," Burt said. Said Commission Chairman, Don Chase, "Basically, I just don't feel any elected official's got any business being away three months." Chase said it is the commission's responsibility to make sure county officials are doing their job. Burt said he doesn't care if the sheriff goes without pay. He could take a leave of absence, he noted. If the sheriff were to leave the county for 30 days commissioners, apparently, have the power to name a temporary replacement. "We've never told him he couldn't go," Chase said. Chase offered that he has signed a number of blank travel requests for the Sheriff's department, but "never has anyone mentioned a three-mont- h request for any school that I have signed." "Normally, we'll consider one convention trip a year," Chase noted. The commission approved a travel request for the sheriff for the period June 19 22 to attend the National Sheriff's Association in San Diego. Chase pointed out that the commission action can't be viewed as political. The sheriff ran as a Democrat and two of the three commission members are Democrats. All concurred in the action. Relations between commissioners sheriff have shown and the first-terobvious signs of strain in the past year. Commissioner Burt Tuesday indicated the strain centers around the number and variety of requisitions which the sheriff's department sends across the commission's desk for approval. He also said he feels the sheriff has done a "good job." cont. on page eight -- m Members of the Box Elder Education Association (BEEA) don't necessarily support passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) although the national Education Association ; t (NEA) does. That's the consensus of opinion of the BEEA president and presidentelect and Director Ray Hall. The question of ERA and NEA came up at a recent school board meeting. Supt. Leonard Dalton passed out copies of a UPI article citing the effect a boycott by pro ERA groups has had on Chicago, one of the nation's largest convention centers. ERA groups have vowed not to hold conventions in states which have - Charges Pending County Deputy Attorney John Bund-erso- n Wednesday said insufficient evidence exists to justify filing a negligent homicide charge against a Salt Lake man involved in a fatal accident. But Bunderson said a lesser charge is pending. James LaVern Hall, 63, 4580 So. State, Salt Lake City, last Wednesday failed to heed a flagman's signal to stop. As a result, the track of a large "It appears that all of our people who belong to NEA are subsidizing ERA," Dalton told board members. "That bothers me." however, we feel they do enough good things for education ...to persuade us to believe it is an organization we should belong to." ERA is "one of those things" which local BEEA members don't necessarily support. Discussions among members indicate a general anti-ERsentiment," she indicated. A "I don't think teachers in Box Elder County would be very happy if they knew their dues were going to support ERA," he added. "If nothing else, people need to be alerted that this has happened." BEEA President Tonie Ririe, a teacher at McKinley School, said, "There are a lot of things NEA does which we're not 100 percent behind.... In Death piece of heavy equipment on the bed of the truck struck a state road vehicle parked on the Malad River bridge below Plymouth. The truck was thrown against the side of the ridge. LeRoy Alfred Atkinson, 62, of East Garland, had stopped to unload equipment. He was killed in the mishap. Hall told Utah Highway Patrolman he thought the flagman was signalling him to go around him. President-elecBob Jensen, an FFA instructor at Bear River High, pointed out that when members pay local dues they pay a "unified membership" and, in effect, join the BEEA, UEA and NEA all at one time. Part of the money goes to NEA and part of that comes t, back to help support the Uni-Ser- unit. provides a professional to look after BEEA business. Jensen said UEA and local units were faced with the same thing last year when the NEA "supported Uni-Serv- e administrator-negotiato- r Jimmy Carter." "We in no way interpreted that as saying we had to vote Democratic," Jensen noted. Hall noted that the vote by NEA to support ERA took place a couple of years ago at a national convention. At the time "most of the western states" opposed it, he indicated. Asked about the propriety of the superintendent bringing up the matter, Hall responded with a question. "Why.did he bring it up?" Towim EfleeftioiTDS Aire Tuesday This is just a reminder that all incorporated communities in Box Elder County will hold municipal elections Tuesday, Nov. 8, Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters will be selecting mayors or town presidents and two councilmen or town board members. Some communities also have bond elections slated. In Tremonton voters will decide the fate of a $985,000 bond issue for water improvements. Form Bureau, Sheriff Have Mark For You A Free Turkey f"7 T ..i.L. Wt ... ... A Tt, 1 1 ' ft' 19. Gephart noted that some 80 turkeys valued at $700 were given away last year. Names will be drawn from each stores entries and you must be present to win. opposed or failed to pass ERA. NEA is one of the groups which is supporting the boycott. Uni-Servi- Win Dozens and dozens of free turkeys will be given away to Tremonton shoppers on Saturday, Nov. 19, according to Harry Hephart, chairman of the Retail Merchants Committee November promotion. No purchase is necessary to enter. Any person who is 18 years of age or older or married may enter at any participating merchant. Additional entry coupons will be provided with each $10.00 purchase from now until Nov. A NEW BILLBOARD tells motorists approaching from the northwest on exactly where they are. The billboard was erected largely thru the efforts of Tremonton businessman Ira Hatch with help from the Chamber of Commerce, civic clubs, city council and other businesses. LELAND HARRIS, North Box Elder County Farm Bureau President, stamps a piece of hit farm machinery for identification with his own 'owner's Mark.' The Farm Bureau is promoting a new property identification system to help stem thefts. The North Box Elder Farm Bureau and the county sheriff want to make X your property a little more theft-proo- f. Leland Harris, North Box Elder Farm Bureau president, said his group is urging county residents to participate in a crime prevention program known as "Owner's Mark." The system is designed to make identification of stolen property a simple task for law enforcement officers after it is stolen and to let would-b- e thieves know that the property can be identified. "We're very much impressed with the system," Harris said. "We think it is one of the best and fastest tracing programs...." Essentially, Owner's Mark consists of a code consisting of ten letters and digits. Developed locally by the Utah Division of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Identification, Utah County Sheriff's Association and Farm Bureau, the program is nationwide. The FBI has established a system assigning a code to each state and county which is recorded in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC). A directory containing these numbers is also available to each law enforcement agency for use in identifying the various states and counties. County sheriff's offices within each state issue the remaining portion of the number to each individual. Thus, with the system, the state and county can be located quickly. Then by contacting the local sheriff's office, the individual can be identified within minutes. Here's an example of the code: UT 002 0152 D. UT indicates the state. And 002 indicates the county. The next four digits belong to the individual to which they were assigned by the county sheriff. The last letter is the first letter of the individual's last name. So, if a piece of farm machinery stolen from a Box Elder County farm turns up in Iowa, law enforcement officers there know from the code imprinted on the machine that it came from Utah, Box Elder County. A check with the sheriff soon reveals the owner's name. Harris said the system started out as a means of marking farm machinery because of an increasing number of rural thefts. " "We want to get it going he added. "We want everybody to enter into it ...not just Farm Bureau members." county-wide,- One of the problems law enforcement officers have, Harris pointed out, is that they ji" '. can't return a stolen item to its owner. The owner must be able to identify it as his. Court actions in theft cases often cont. on page eleven 'h |