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Show SECOND SECTION inal franchise provision. Bear River Telephone Company, purchased by Mr. Chiodo in November, 1943, is today completely dial system. With its Stromberg Carlson and Northern Electric switchboards, it is one of the newest and most modern independent systems of its kind in Utah. Serving 199 business and 1067 No. 15 residential telephones, the local company is steadily improving, increasing, and gaining more favor with the people of the val- 111 THE SERVING VoL XXIX I RIVER BEAR VALLEY Published Weekly at Tremonton, Utah, Thursday, January 10 Extension of Local Telephone Service J To Snowville and Portage Assured J- ley. In a meeting with the Garland City Council Wednesday, Janu- final agreement on proposed franchise between Garland City and theBear River Telephone Company was agreements are being prepared, and it is the opinion of Vincent Chiodo that the purchase of the Bell Telephone property will be completed by the end of January. Permission was given. by the Utah State Public Services Commission some time ago for. the purchase of the Mountain States ary RECEIVES $1,000.00 CHECK The Tremonton Fire Department through Steve Hales, chief and Lynn Iverson, treasurer, presents check of $1,00000 to Mayor Kleon Kerr to aid in the payment of the city's new ambulance. - . City Officers Hold Firemen Give Funds To Buy Ambulance First Meeting 2, Telephone and Telegraph holding in Garland and surrounding area but a franchise agreement between Garland City and the local telephone company was necessary before any action could be taken. lines, be incorporated in a sep arate agreement since they were current matters not related to a long term operation. On the question of directory listings of city residents and businesses it was agreed that this would be to the desires of the city In a harmonious session the subject and its residents at the time any parties went over the franchise directory change seemed advis as drawnup by the city attorney. able. Mr. Chiodo agreed to practically The company agreed to all details of the document but the city with one and one- requested .that some of them, such as the provision requiring half telephones free instead of the moving of some present pole the three proposed in the orig Future expansion and conver- s 1 o n s to be completed before 1954, call for an expenditure in excess of $300,000 according to Mr. Chiodo and when completed, will raise the value of the company to about $625,000. Plans are now underway to convert all Garland and area to the dial system; to extend a line and dial service as far northwest as Stone, Idaho. Also to all rural homes between Tre monton and that point; to give service as far north as Portage, near the Idaho line; and to increase the capacity of 'the switchboard in Bear River City, to aptly handle the increasing demand for telephone service, and to give the people of thai area and Honeyville an improvement which will make it possible to dial Brlgham City, instead of having to call long distance. These new improvements will require the Installation of a. switchboard at Blue Creek and one at Portage, and 165 miles of poles and wire. WELLS VI LLE MOUNTAIN PROJECT MEETING JAN. Utfc On Tuesday, January 15, the annual meeting of the Wellsrille Mountain Area Project Corpora tion is called for 1:00 pjn. tat the county court house, Brlgham. City, Utah, according to Robert H. Stewart, president. Election of offleers will be held and a report of the year's work will be made. Also Mr. Stewart stated that they are in hope of securing the services of Arnold Standing of the Forest Service, to give a short talk on rang . ;' grasses.. Representatives of the communities who donated toward the purchase of lands on that Wellsville Mountain 'are urged to have as many of the etty council present at this meetlaaj . as possible. - Members of the Tremonton City Council held their first At the meeting of the Tremon- meeting of the year Monday evton City Council Monday even-to- ening1 at the new city office the Tremonton Fire Depart with Mayor Kleon Kerr presidment presented the city with a ing. All members of the council check of $1000 to help in the and the treasurer and recorded payment of the new city am were present. Reed Palmer, representing the bulance. This amount was taken from Tremonton Businessmen's Assocthe department treasury, where iation requested that the city aid funds from entertainments, and In preparing a suitable display other activities of the members for the county fair, that would have been accumulated, In ad properly represent Tremonton dition to the check, it was re City. The assignment was made ported that the firemen had laid to Ed Quinney to work with the tile floor in the new city the Businessmen's Association on building and also have contrtb the project. The budget for the public liuted $250.00 early in the 1940's to the placing of forms and brary was discussed and tabled pouring the foundations of the for further action. city building. Sixty per cent of The possibility of using the city am ambulance by the city police dethe collections from the over partment was also discussed, bulance fund are turned to the city, with the department with the matter being referred to a committee from the city retaining the balance. council and the fire department. The perennial problem of taking care of the dogs that are permitted to roam the city was discussed, with the possibility of creating a kennel where dogs could be and if not An appeal made to Bear River claimed impounded, reasonable time a within Valley people by school officials they would be destroyed. Bear River High School to The . of parking problem was also aid in the formation of a com- discussed, with the possibility plete and correct listing of Bear that some parking lots may be River High boys who have died secured, through cooperation of in the service of their country owners and the city. in World Wars I and II and the present Korean conflict, brought SCHOOL CHILDREN TO marked results.: As a result of the appeal, sev PRESENT "RADIO PROGRAMS eral names have been added to Arrangements have been made the list previously published. by the Box Elder Education cor was names of some, Spelling Association for" the different rected and some changes were made on the given names and classes in the schools of the the initials of the boys listed. county to furnish the program The list which follows repre- for a fifteen minute weekly sents what appears to be the ros- broadcast over Radio Station ter of names to appear on the KBUH. Parents of the county will be interested in the things plaque to be placed in the foye the.children will do on these of the new Bear River Memorial should be listenprograms and is next when it Gym completed whenever The proing possible. fall School officials are still anxious that no names be omit grams can be heard each Monted or that no. errors occur in day at 11:45. spelling. Patrons are again urged to FARM BUREAU SETS MEETING contact Principal Frank Stevens immediately if any additional The ladles of the Tremonton corrections are needed in the list Farm Bureau will hold their as it appears. meeting at the home of Mrs. Gunnell on Thursday, s. Francis World War I Devere January 17, at 2:30 p.m. A special program has ben arranged World War n Glen B. D. Adams, Milton for the afternoon. L. Adams, George L. Allen, Voy G. Andersen, Jesse Rl Anderson, Wayne P. Anderson, LeRoy. E. Borgstrom, Clyde E. Borgstrom, Rolon D. Borgstrom, Rulon J. Borgstrom, Blaine Bowcutt, Daniel W. Bradshaw Jr., William O. Funeral services for Mrs. John Bunderson, Luther V. Burbank, P. Lillywhite, wife of the presiWayne H. Burgess. Stanley H. Castleton, Darrell dent of the Netherlands mission were conducted Thursday afterM. Dustman, Delbert L. Mark Gad die, Carlow noon at Brlgham City. Mrs. Lillywhite died December A. Hansen, Ewem Hoskins, Dallas L. Hyatt, Herman L. Hyatt. 21 in Holand. where she was liv Adam John Imthurn Jr., Har- ing with her husband and dau old E. Isaacson, Dale E. Jensen, ghter, Dorothy Ann. President Rulon W. Klmber, Darrell P. Lar-se- Lillywhite, former president of the North Box Elder Stake has Willard Reed Larson, been serving as president of the Lyle Loveland. Arthur D. MlchaeUs, Lloyd K. Netherlands mission for the past Nlelson, Thomas E. Owen, Lester several months. She was a former school teach J. Peterson, Richard R. Roberts, Orril Rudd, Orion Dewey Snow, er, former member of the Relief Conrad D. Steffen, Marston J. Society stake board of the North Box Elder Stake, and past presStokes, Wllford J. Stokes. David Dale Thomas, Alfred ident of the Kindergarten Club Vert Toyn, Keith L. Wheatley, of Brlgham City. Jake Woerner, Richard O. Watt. Surviving besides her husband Korean War Val C. Bone, and daughter are two sons, John Clayton Conley, John J. Gleason, B. Lillywhite, Pullman, WashingGrant Rose, Broadls Y. West- ton, and Joel Lillywhite, Sacramento, California. moreland Jr. g, doll hod nEUiSED ' TREMONTON IS CALLING SNOWVILLE: PORTAGE n, i7" TO OFFER A-- N i i i .ons uonqratuiati AND A HEARTY Welcome TO THE GROWING Teleph one Family of Bear River Valley l As of January 2nd, 1952, the last of the lega obstacles were overcome. The Bear River Telephone company has been working on this project since 1946, and with the aid of the Rural Electrification Administration, funds have been made available for the completion of the project. Lillywhite Buried Thursday Fred-erickso- $ 0 Wat-kin- Mrs. John O. ( AND " Plans are now proceeding from blua print to actual reality and field work is expected to begin from 3 to 6 months. Hie entire project must be completed in less than two years. MEMBERS OF TUE Tremoimtoin omsniniessinnieinis A n n, ion extend congratulations and are happy that this added convenience will toon be available to you and your communities. "We'll Be Talking To You Scon" REED PALMER, President ED KERR, Vice-Preside- nt ADAM BRENKMAN, Secretary , |