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Show Onnlweit crZorp, 3322 Salt S 3rd La. C!- -, Uf 8110 W 7 Staffs Pay fli&e Proposal commissioners County have said "no" to a request by Sheriff Art Redding for a salary schedule for deputies that matches that of the Utah Highway Patrol. "We fee! the requests are beyond our ability," County Commission Chairman Don Chase said Tuesday. "And, we've said no and intend to keep saying no." Chase's statement was his first public comment on a move by the sheriff to seek public support for the pay hikes. The sheriff issueda statement published last Thurs day in "The Leader" and a second one found on page four of today's edition, in which he outlined the need for the higher pay. have ofCommissioners fered a pay schedule which would bring the deputies to a level "equal or better than Brigham City." Under the proposal a starting deputy would receive $735 a month compared to the $620 currently offered. A similar officer in the Brigham police department would get $732 and a Cache County deputy would get $700. Utah Highway Pa trol officers start at $800 a month. The schedule has five steps with the maximum pay set at $925. The fifth step is the only one of the five pay figures which falls below Brigham wages. A five year veteran of the Brigham would earn department $1,025. Chase said commission- ers are attempting to figure out a way to give $50 a month raises to all county employes in the new year. Plus, some departments would get adjustments to bring their schedules more Missed Once to create a "rank within the department. Chief Deputy Curtis Lar-se- n said the sheriff wants to create three sergeants-o- ne for each shift. The money is needed to compensate for a beginning deputy, for instance would be adjusted from $620 to $685 and then the $50 raise would be tacked on to create structure" starting salary. the $735 Chase termed the commissions refusal to budge "just a plain cut case, of keeping a balanced budget.' He said the raises sought by the sheriff couldn't be created without a tax in- the and mm for additional duties responsibility. said the rank stricture is needed to properly supervise the work of deputies on shifts when he or the hheriff aren't avail- crease. The sheriffs office seems able. Chase said the commission isn't against the rank stricture, but indicated it to view the proposed schedule as acceptable, but is bartering over an additional would have to be accomplished w ithin the money allocated. He also added that the rank structure proposal had never been explained to commissioners. In addition to the increase for deputies, tlie sheriff is seeking a boost in his salary from $11,500 to $16,000. Chase said the commissioners have not considered increases for elected officials hinting that if the sheriffs salary was acted on so would others. But he flatly ruled out increases for Commissioner Ted Burt said he has only received three phone calls as a result of the sheriffs public plea He said all for support. were negative to the sheriffs plan. Commissioners have only discussed the salary aspect of the sheriffs budget proposal so far, Chase said. But he pointed out that the proposal totals $540,000 compared with $298.000 bud the old jail has been torn down and a new and larger structure added. The sher- iffs office has also taken over dispatching duties for several other agencies. The sheriffs request also included about $70,000 for new vehicles which he says he needs to get deputies out of the office and into the field. geted in 1975. Operation of the sheriffs department and jail in 19K9 cost $83,525 and jumped to $121,000 in 1973. Since then Commissioners have to a preliminary budget ready for a public hearing have in Tile She Votes jm $2,400 into line. The pay r Every time Tremonton, Utah 84337 Volume 56 Number 2 November 13, 1975 ...Almost 'Quake' At Mrs. Grace Brough of Tremonton isn't about to break a habit she developed 70 years ago. That's why she recently made the trek to the First District polling place to cast her ballot in the election. In the last seventy years of her life, Mrs. Brough has failed to vote only once. That was in 1938 when her husband died during election time. The first vote came in 1906, slie recalled, at age 21 when she voted for William Jennings Bryan. "I'd worked at the cannery (in Will-arall day and I remember I said I rs, ' Planned Friday Mrs. Groce Brough d) better get out of here and vote," she added. Back at the time, she was one of a select group of women in states which had granted the female the right to vote. "I remember when I was a kid, they had women's suffrage in Willard." she "' ' said. In that first presidential election the big election issue was the "gold standard," Mrs. Brough noted. "That was their big talk that year. I don't know whether he (Bryan) was for or against it.. .but I do read a lot now about pol- itics," She she added. said people who fail to vote don't "really realize what a privilege it is. If they don't vote, they hadn't ought to find fault with what goes on." She is a firm believer that one thing The world may sound like the government needs is more women. "I think they need women back there, that's for sure. I think women are more honest in their dealings. And, I don't think they would be as easily led by money." She also thinks "that "politics has become big business and that big business tells the politicians what to do. She feels unions "have ruined our country." Her toughest vote? "When Nixon and McGovern were up," she said. Even though the voters seldom seen the candidate back in the days when she cast her first ballot, Mrs. Brough feels the public might have known more about their candidates than they do now. "I think you could believe them a whole lot more then than you can now," she said. it's coming to an end when the sirens start squeeling, but no one is going to get hurt even though Box Elder county is scheduled to undergo an earthquake of gre'at, than 7.0 magnitude Friday " morning. A county-wiEmergency exerdisaster Services cise is scheduled to kick off about 9:30 a.m. sending police, fire and medical teams into action to deal with a simulated earthquake. Emergency Services Director Will Cross said the exercise, prepared by Utah State University will involve police and medical and fire units from Brigham and Tremonton, the sheriffs office, Jeep Patrol and county rede SPECIAL ADDITION" - - Christopher. 9. and Kimberlee, 8. get a howl out of the family's newest addition, unnamed. sources. Education Continues Long After School Hours The person who thinks education in Box Elder County is limited to day time classes in one of its several schools should drop inonthe largely unseen worldofadult education. Unknown to many county a program of con- residents, tinuing education that ranges from adult basic education activities is recreational thriving. Pott's According to director Les Dunn, the program rates at "top" of the state in terms of size in relationship to the population. "Adult education has been an important part of Utah since its inception," Dunn said, noting that the Mormon's conducted a "School for Elders" in which reading and writing were part of the curriculum. the The need for adult education on the basic level still exists. Dunn cites figures showing that there are 5,060 individuals in the county who are old enough to have earned high school diplomas but haven't. The high school drop out rate in the state in 1974-7- 5 was 26.7 percent, he add- - cont. on page 13 In Tremonton, members of the Bear River high drama class will set the stage on mainstreet while acting as injured victims hurt during an earthquake. Tremonton officials will converge on the city center for a "table top" exercise where they will plan outact- ions that would be taken to meet various situations were the earthquake really happening. In Brigham City, officials will meet at a command post in the Public Safety building to assume control of the entire operation. From there, medical, fire and police resources will be allocated to various priority trouble spots. CB radio units will also participate. The entire diaster ' Browns Adopt liberty's1 Son Since Gerald Ford was boosted to the Vice Presidency and hence to the Pre sidency of the United States, Tremonton has become accustomed to Washington visitors. And now, the James Brown family of Tremonton cannot only boast of owning the bed where "Jerry" slept but also the kennel where "Geo- rge" sleeps. should be completed by noon. Who's George? Well , his name isn't of ficially George, but anyway, a four week old Golden Retriever who showed up at the Brown's home Sunday evening in the arms of Steve Ford, the son of President Gerald Ford. The young retriever is the first of nine pups born to the President's dog "Liberty" to leave the nest he's a present to the President's close friends. The younger Ford brought the surprise gift along on his return trip from WashUtah State Unington to iversity where he is a freshman student. Mrs. Frown said the newest addition to the family is adjusting well. On his first night in a strange home, the pup got to sleep down stairs with a ticking alarm clock to keep him 'A'ith true prescompany. idential dignity, he "didn't even howl," Mrs. Brown claimed. Mr. Brown is already look- ing for a good training school to get the dog ready for fut- ure hunting seasons. The family will take its time to come up with a proper handle. The family wants to "bicentennial get a name," Mrs. Brown said. Nine-year-o- ld Christop- her Brown's suggestion? "George," of course. What could be more bicentennial than that? Hollow, Zarahemla, Manilla, Fairview... tos? Town$?...QStm Editor's The folNote: lowing Is the second in a series of articles on ghost towns of Box Elder County prepared by retired educa- tor Phyllis Christensen, BY PH Y I L IS C . 'George'? R 1ST E NS E N Place names so familiar to us in 1975 are not always the names of the same sites at earlier periods in Box Elder County's history. Some have changed several Plymouth, neve r more than a village in size and often much less but which has a history dating back to the time of explorers and trap- pers, perhaps holdsa record in the name change department. It has been variously known as Pott's Hollow, Mound Springs; Zarahemla, Square Town and Manilla was the Plymouth. site previously called Fair-vie- w and Is now Elwood. Harper is the present day alias of the area earlier desIfnafoH fall' Vnrt North or Lake Side. Perry's former name was Three Mile Creek. Haytown is present day ltortage, Row-eviis Bothwell, and North Deweyville is Beaver Dam. Hampton and Bigler compriWard lle sed a part of what now bears the name Collinston. The Crossroads embrace what at earlier period, was known as Haws, East Tremonton, or North Elwood. Willard was once North Willow Creek and Sunset and North Garland are today a partofGar- InnH Pl an Up to W&mes the seanames and this point rch for derelict their sites had accounted for less than a fourth of the long list. Probing for causes and clues in the vanishing act had to continue in other directions. The geography of the places In question ruled out the possibility of forest fire or flood doing sufficient damage about the total to bring abandonment of communities. That observation was reinforced of amount by the absence In olH w"'"" ffav Just Change ers Indicating those or similar disasters. Nor has the history of the county bee n one of Industrial "boom and bust" which might bring about economic casualties of In such great proportions. short, there is no evidence of great disaster of any kind destroying on masse people or their homes. Apparently the demise of the majority of lost communities in our area did not follow the usual pattern of ghost towns of tlie west. Hut onwnrtnVPrfHnrtHm historic period of white settlers in the county, the lost of the 180()'s, according to a DUP account, gold was discovered in a part, or parts A small of Park Valley. was erected stamp mill which turned out about $500 worth of cold each day. The yet unanswered questions to the puzzle are: Where were the mill and mine, or mines, What were their located? name s? Who we re the people Involved? How long did the places did share at least one On the thing in common. whole, the exit from each site was completely unspectacular. It couldn't have been more quiet if each citizen had left secretly, In the dead of night and on tiptoe. The Intriguing search for "the missing" became even more tantalizing when it Involved a hunt for not only the missing location but for its lost name as weJL For enterprise last? And, just twenty or thirty years ago there was a flur- lnefmv ry of mining activity in tlie (lithe plouinc vears Grouse Creek mountains. Tungsten was tlie mineral involved. The questions in this case are similar to the ones above. Perhaps there are still people living in the area who could shed light on these my ste r ie s . The ir cont r ibut-io- n would be of ga-a- t value in the compilation of the county's history. Climate, undramatic but ruthlessly inexorable, may have been the key cause of It desertion. settlement cont on pigo three |