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Show v'- -- " a Mi:r ! n C LEADER mm TREMONTON, UTAH 84337 VOLUME 52 NUMBER 61 NOVEMBER 19, 1973 In Tremonton Special Xmas 9 Coming Friday it isn't Thursday. This abbreviated addition of the Leader is in your hands today because Thursday is Thanksgiving. And because Friday morning you'll be reading a Leader special addition kicking off the Christmas holiday season in Tre-mo- nt "the town with the old fashioned spirit." Watch for it Friday morning, if you can get out of bed after stuffing yourself The tabloid size Thursday. special edition will bring a host of bargain buys from local stores into yojr homes. The special edition will also feature article son holiday cooking, letters to Santa Claus from your own kids, and other Christmas fea- mm No, UVrJ ft Local residents can tak another Alka Seltzer following Thursday's traditional tummy bustin Thanksgiving holiday and hop right into the Christmas season. Tremonton merchantslike those in almost e very other city around the United Stateswill kick off Christmrs season as ornamental lights flicker on stores feature special holidiy bargains and Santa Claus arrives from '.he North Pole. The jolly fat men will arrive in Tremonton at 6 p.m Friday, Nov. 23, with the assistance of the Tremonton Fire Department and their fire truck. The firemon will transport the old fellow from tfie airport to the Senior Citizens Center (old There school). McKinley youngsters and oldsters alike will have a chance to crawl upon Ms knee once again. Tremonton's streets shsuld tures. Meanwhile, have a happy Thanksgiving. If o ff;v J ' be decorated by then with brand new Christmas ornaments ordered recently by the city council. And unless there's a power shortage they'll be lighted for 1 weekOn the Nov. end merchants are planning an "old fashioned Christmas bar-gi- n" weekend. Dec. 8 will see a special "Christmrs Dollar Days" sale. Then an Doc. 14, Santa Claus will return to town with the assistance of the lo:al Lion's Club to help celebrate th "Santa Claus is com" ing to to An" sale. Stores will remain open until 10 .m. that evening and a choral group will provide music for the festive occasion. Hot choclate will also be served on Tremonton's main street. The next day, Dec. 15, Santa Claus will return to town to make sure he gets orders from those children he missed he time before. Details of that visit have not yet been announced by Santa's assistants. And for the last minjte shoppers, local merchants will sponsor a "last minute gift id 30-D- 7-- the ioccasion.. Tremonton merchants will keep their stores open until 10 p.m, Friday nigh.. Stores will remain open until 8 p.m. on Fridays throughout the holMerchants will iday season. be sponsoring additional holiday bargains on Saturday. Kids under 12 years of age will be featured guests atafree movie at 3 p.m. this Saturday at ths NuVu theatre, according to Harry Gephart a for the holiday activities. Herman Miller is assisting in organizing the activities. The kick off is only the beginning. Merchants will follow that event up with weekend sales scheduled right up until Christm-- s Eve. eas" sale Dec. 21-2- 2. addition to the bargains, local merchants will hold drawings for gift certificates in their stores each Friday night. In Try This Mystery Because of the Leader's updated publishing schedile this week, we were unable to announce the winner of the Mystery Entries Personality contest. can still be received until 5:30 p.m. tonight. The winner will be announced in Friday's special edition. But don't let that stop you from trying to guess the identity of the Mystery Personality hidden in the ads of this edition. Last week's bonus for guessing all the clues correctly was up to $40 it could be $60 his week. Nigh? hunting y: Han's Still On JESS'S? -- "'IS JI Box Elder County apparently will still maintain a total ban on night hunting inspite of new requirements placed on the sport by the Wildlife Board. The Wildlife Board had adop- ted a recommendation made by the Division Thanfcgiving--'Ba- h, Humbug' UNIMPRESSED WITH IT ALL It might be over the river and thru the wood ? to Grandmothers house we go for humans, but this old Tom from the Delon Stokes farm, BothwelL doesn't seem particularly impressed with it all. Despite that fact, millions of Americans will be feasting Thursday o.i birds just like him. With shortages everywhere, wars on the horizon and turmoil in the government it seems like a good time for Americans to contemplate the dream that the Pilgram?. must have had when they sat down to that first Thanksgiving dinner. dross The dream of a new hospital for northern Box Eld2r County is about as close to becoming a reality as it has ever been following passage of the half-ce- nt sales tax recently by the county commission. "For the first time in the three year3 that we've been working for this hospital, it looks like we can achieve our joal," said Mel Foxley, secretary of the Northern Box El-l- er County Hospital Board. The sales tax passage opened he door to the first realistic mil-to- n lope of financing a new $1 hospital which, officials with a ope, will be ew nursing home slated for onstruction in 1974 at the old ilgrant labor camp site north-e- st of Tremonton, Although the sales tax pro-Id- es a means of funding, it Is rno means the final step In le hospital building process. XL Ofi Mac? The next step before much else can take place is to decide what size hospital will be built. During the last three years, hospital board members have set the cost of the new hospital at a round $1 million, but that figure will ultimately hinge on the size of the new hospital. The u'timate size of the hospital will be decided by a regional facilities committee with responsibility for regulating hospital and nursing home facilities In Rich, Cache and Box Elder counties. Following a formal application by the local group, that committee will determine the number of beds that may be housed in the new structure and thus the eventual cost. That process will be largely a "formality," according to Theron Godfrey, administrator of the Logan and Valley hospitals and also chairman of the fcM regional facilities commission. "We've been very aware and Pve been keeping the committee aware of what's happening over there," Godfrey said. The committee recently concluded a study in the area to provide statistical data on hospital usage, patient loads and origin and potential growth. According to Godfrey, the study has traced every medical patient In the area during a test period showing what facility he or she choose to useeven when the patient went to an Ogden or Salt Lake City hospital. "We feel we've got very valid figures," Godfrey claimed. But the figures are still just that and must be figures translated Into a workable report which can be studied by the facilities committee. The committee will view the tri-cou- tri-cou- of Wildlife Resources to require night hunters to procure free permits from the Division and from vha sheriff of the county they plan to hunt. Following a lengthy discussion of the night hunting issue in public meetings earlier this year, Law Enforcement Chief John Nagel made an outline of proposed rules and regulations for the popular sport. Director John E. However, Phelps told the Board that controversy had been so strong on the subject that the above outlined requirements would be recommended instead. Nagel explained that many persons were not aware that night hunting was already legal in Utah, and so they had opposed what they felt was initiation of a new activity. The permit requirement adopted on a one year was trial basis. County Commission Chairman Don Chase said Tuesday that he had heard of the Wild- life Board action and requested a copy of the action. But Chase said, "from what I understand, I don't think it does anything to our ordinance." Elder commissioners voted several weeks ago to enBox act a complete ban on night hunting in the county. The ban does allow land owners or their "agents" to hunt at night to con- trol predators. Chase said he felt that the 7: ' hi :. k ons. Chase said ranchers in the western portion of the county where night hunting had been a problem nave reported that the ban has been very effective. l:;f If , kV'i&JI structed so that some of the facilities such as heating and kitchen areas can be utilized by both structures. The architect will also provide the hospital board with the first authentic cost estimate for the sturcture. And with a cost estimate in hand the hospital board could then begin to determine what percentage of the total cost each of the nine towns Involved in the con- struction effort will have to bond for, Foxley explained. Tremonton, Garland, Snow-vill- e, Elwood, Portage, Plymouth, Fielding and Howell city councils have all signed a resolution pledging to give any and all of their portion of the sales tax for construction of the hospital. The commit les also indicated they would enter into an lnter-loc- al cooperative agreement for the purpose of conthe hospital. They structing iii-- i zmm NEW BRIDGE Grade school kids in the Sandallwood area will have a shorter and safer route to the new McKin'.ey school soon. City workmen are in the process of constructing a new cement bridge over the canal. A road thru the area will eventually open up sixth south into the housing division. Meanwhile, kids will be able to use the bridge and walk thru the fields. The bridge-w- hen complete will include a walkway complete with handrails for the kids. faow tam study findings and "then we'll have to let the local situation enter in with the raw data," Godfrey said. "Optimistically, I hope by the first of the year we would have the study back." The committee would then give its recommendation to the Health Planning Division of Social Services at the state level for final action. In the past, that office has followed the recommendation of the regional committee, Godfrey said. With the size of the hospital approved, the local hospital board could then hire an architect to begin design of the facility. According to Foxley, the board hopes to hire the same architect who is designing the county nursing home to design the hospital. That would insure that the two structures would be County Commiscompatible. sioners have Indicated that the nursing home is being con WVi M if county ban superceded the Wild- life Board restrictions. "I don't see where they've done anything except goof It up a little," he said spsalting of the effectiveness of the restricti- M Hvdir have also pledged to "lend" to the hospital board a percentage of the total cost of the hospital to be paid back by sales tax. That loan will come in the form of bond issues which citizens in each of the eight towns will have a chance to vote on during a special election. Hospital officials also hope to include Deweyvllle in the because of that agreement town's relatively high bonding capacity. According to State Tax Commission figures the nine communities could have provided about $84,000 in half-ce- nt sales' tax revenue towards construction of the hospital had they been collecting the tax during the last fiscal year. Since the tax will be collected on a point of origin basis, about 85 percent of the revenue will be collected In Tremonton while some communities like idforo Dec. 1 inorder for collection to begin Jan. 1, 1973. That deadline has been extended two weeks to allow the councils more time to act Since the communities have only signed a resolution saying they will enter Into the interlocal arrangement, they will also have to finalize thatagree-me- nt The terms of the interlocal agreement alsopro pose that the hospital board be reorganized vu reuewt sentation from each of the nine the Because communities. agreement Is a legal arrangement between the bonding com- Following successful bonding .,.tM - 3, ..l.n' mimhert com- nn the board nine 11 lUIUblin the efforts unln- - , munities, an architect could who currently reside in to have will to areas corporated begin final plans leading The agreement be excluded. the eventual bidding of the pro"proposes" that three repject Meanwhile, city councils in resentatives be selected from Tremonton, two from Garland the nine towns have been informed that they must enact and one from each of the other local sales tax ordinances by comnwnltles. Deweyvllle and Howell have no stores and so will collect none. That point has caused some concern. Tremonton Mayor Wayne Sandall questioned during a recent city council whether that city would be liable for bonds floated in the other communities. Hospital officials point out that the sales tax will be paid by every citizen who shops in any of the nine communities will be pooled together within the hospital boardand will be used to retire all the bonds equally. ; . |