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Show ' 3 TfuB Trcmonton, Utah 84337 Volume 53 Number 32 April 25, 1974 lounty C ommissioners have announced a public hearing to consider raising commission salaries from $6,600 annually to somewhere in the $8,400 to $S,y"0 Commissioners range. The uary 1. raise, if passed, would not take effect until Jan- 1975. The commission will near public views on the question nevt Tuesday at 11 a.m. during the regular session of the commission. All county commissioners have been in agreement on one point. If commission salaries are to be raised, the action should be taken before the currently filing period y. is up. That period ends in Commission Chairman Don Chase said he feels anyone considering filing for either of the two commission posts up for grabs this year should know in advance what the salary will be. The move to act on their own salaries comes after the commission has acted to increase the salaries of the county's employes and other elected officials. The commission acted just last week to up the salaries of five elected officials all of whom receive more annually than do commissioners. In a public hearing on that q stion, some elected officials urged the commissioners to take action on their own salaries noting that the job has become a full-timid-Ma- xUi i h SPRING CONCERT auditorium at H:!5 lps force Bear River high school's A CaDpella 111 iLlium' choir will present a Spring Concert May 3 in the school To 25 Men City Seeks Four BR Volunteer Firemen Spring Concert Guesf Arfisf verybod.v wants to be a at some timj in their life. Well, here's your chance if you live in Tremonton. I fireman Tremonton Volunteer fire lJepartmenl Chief Lynn announced this week that applications are being taken for the appointment of four new firemen. Written applications may be submitted to Lynn Ewer or Lynn Iverson and must be received by Wednesday May 1. To be eligible applicants must "live and work in the city." requirement. The commission also recently acted to increase the salaries of county employes. p.m. Chief Iverson said the city council has given the okay for the addition of four men to the department bringing its total strength up to 25 men. But the hiring of the four men will still leave the city five short of the 30 men which the department should actually have according to Iverson. To be fully staffed, the Pacific Fire Rating Bureau require cities and towns to have "10 men per pumper and we have three pumpers," Iverson said. The additional five men are not being hired now because of "budget," he added. Eventual upgrading of tlic department size is necessary before the city's fire rating can be lowered. "F rom what I understand, we will have to have 30 men before it can be lowered," Iverson said. The rating which determines the rate paid by local residents for fire insurance was upped in 1970 from a ratings of 6 to 7 following a local inspection. The rate increase meant about a ten percent increase in premium costs, a local insurance executive noted. A number of items con tributing to the increased fire rate such as pumping capacity and too small a water line down main street have since been corrected. But other conditions such as a lack of water storage and the size of the fire department force are still to be corrected inorder to low- er Choir Plans special meeting Tuesday Bear River high school's A Cappella Choir will present their annual Spring Concert, May 3, at 8:15 p.m. in the school auditorium, Director Carl Ashby announced today. The concert will precede the choir's eight day tour to southern California May 26 June 2. Highlighting the evening will be the choir's performance of "Ceremony of Carols" by Benjamin Brittain! The choir has also made arrangements for a guest artist to appear at the concert. Details have not yet been completed. The respected choir will depart May 26 on the tour which includes stops in Cedar City, Utah; Los Angelos, Disneyland, San Diego, Redlands and Las Vegas. A total of six concerts are scheduled during the eight day trip. Choir members have been conducting various fund raising activities throughout the year to finance the trip under the direction of choir officers Shawn Reid, president; Todd Miller, vice president; Marie Holland, secretary and Valerie Vance, historian. file a list of requirements must be met before the Pacific Fire Rating Bureau will consider reducing the rate back to 6. "!f:ht of the Tremonton City Council to consider the zoning situation in the city seemed to raise more questions than it answered. The main question seems ff0y KJewe Pfleira? to be whether a former city council did or did not give their stamp of approval to a master plan for the city which sets guidelines for zoning of various areas. "Our feeling was that the A Whirl -VJind Safe Fri. ffff's It's a whirlwind sale in Tre -m on fori Friday evening from and on special bargains and 6 to 9 p.m. Come on down get in COoCie continued on page twelve The Northern District of the Utah Federation of Women's Clubs has selected Mrs. Merril (Faunice Lar-se- n) Laub as club woman of the year. The Tremonton woman who was also named Tremonton W'omens Civic club woman of the year will now compete for state club woman of the year honors. That selection will be announced May 3 at the state convention to be held in the Hotel Utah. As Tremonton's club woman of the year, Mrs. Laub competed for the district honor with club women from four other clubs in Garland, Brigham City and Logan. Mrs. Laub joined the Civic League in 1943. She has served as president, vice president, secretary, historian, music director and reporter and corresponding CLUB WOMAN the Laub of Tremonton Faunice Mrs. Women's Civic League was recently honored being named secretary. She has also serClub Woman of the Year for the Northern District which ved as chairman of all deincludes women's clubs from Box Elder and Cache counties. partments of the club. The two years she has served as chairman of the C.I. P. committee and was very active in the local drive to reopen the hospital. Mrs. Laub was born in Spring City, Sanpete County, ne to William Lavor and Anderson Larsen. At the age of six the family moved to Tremonton and the next year to Garland where she spent her girlhood and received her schooling. She is a graduate of Bear River high school and Seminary. She married Merril J. Laub of Fielding in 1933. They have lived in Tremonton all of their married life. Mr. Laub was a grocery-ma- n at Laubs market for 22 years. For the past 13 years Mr. and Mrs. Laub have owned and operated a local Fabric store, Buttons and Bolts. Mr. Laub is a member of the local Kiwanis Club. Mr. and Mrs. Laub are the past Iva-de- of four daughters and they have 15 grandchildren. Their oldest daughter Gaye, is married to Hartley Anderson of Bear River City. parents They now make in Hooper. They their home are owners of Trace Minerals Research Labs. Inc. They are parents of six sons. The oldest is now serving a mission in Saigon, Viet Nam. Both are active in the LDS church. Arline married Boyd W. Parker of Wellsville. He is an Engineer at Thiokol Chemical. They have two ne daughters and one son. is also a member of the Civic League. They are both active in church and civic affairs. Merrilyn is married to Neil Nelson of Bear River City. They now make their home there. They have four sons. Her husband is owner of Neils Barber shop in Brig-ha- m Ar-le- City. They are Sett; Year-Loc- al League Member MM Councilman Jesse Day rehe said felt the cords should be searched to determine if the master plan had been put up for public hearing and adopted and it not action should be taken to do just that Borup told council members that all requests directed to the Planning Commission which makes recommendations to the city council on subdivisions and other such matters be in writing. City council members also the discussed proposed master plan which recommends that property along east main to the cross She's Mrs. Faunice Laub Club Woman Of 1 plan was adopted by a former city council," Carl Borup. chairman of the Planning Commission noted. Mildred Shumway, also a member of the Commission, said she believed the plan which was prepared by a professional planner working in cooperation with the city and the county, was advertised and that no one showed up at a public hearing to oppose it. The zoning review was instigated because of a number of recent requests for chanin ges present zones and criticism that the requests were being acted on piecemeal with no overall master plan to guide the city council's actions. prizes the rate. The city currently has on which s both active in the LDS church ac tivities and Little Leagxrc Baseball. Valoy is married to Blair R. Hawkes of Preston, Idaho. They now live in Logan whe re he is Vice Presidentof Commercial Security Bank of Logan. They have one daughter and one son. VaLoy attended USU and her husband is a graduate of the college. She is a member of the Lo-g- an He is Jaycee Janes. a member of the Jaycees and the Kiwanis clubs. They are both active LDS members. The Tremonton womens Civic League is honored to present this award to Mrs. Laub and wish to congratulate her on herachievments. She has been entered in competition with other club wothe state. men through-o- ut Mrs. Laub will be presented with a corsage and gift on a local basis in her own club. Area farmers who hold water rights with the Bear River Canal Company will be paying more for their water this year. The local canal company-ireadying letters to inform water users of an increase in its rates. The move seems likely to fuel the efforts of a group of water users who organized themselves several months ago to establish their rights as water users. Winford Barrus, manager of the canal company, said the rate will be raised to $3.17 an acre this year as opposed to the $2.63 an acre established last year. Barrus said the Board of Directors of the company and its president met with an advisory group of water users headed by A.V. Smoot of Corinne to work out the increase. Said Barrus: "It's mainly due to inflation, but partly due to some work that we have scheduled to do like replacing part of a flume and building a new spillway." The canal company encountered some opposition a s ago, shortly after it was organized, when it established a uniform water rate of $2. 63 an acre abolishing the varying rates that users had paid previously. year A group of about 60-7- 0 farmers met last fall at the high school auditorium to protest the increase. At meeting the group es tablished plans to collect a defense fund to test the sugar company's right to adjust the rate. The group of users claim that when they purchased their original water rate at, for example $2 an acre, it was perpetual and could not be changed. Bill Waldron, one of the water users instrumental in forming the opposition, said recently that the group had collected about $7,000 which should be enough to pursue the legal question in court The canal company, a subsidiary of Utah-IdaSugar Company, has offered in the past to sell the canal to a water users organization but with no success. That same offer is reportedly being the ho made now. |