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Show c 2.'f X 't TBI aiaaasa fiasg Volume 54 NjfrJber 3 Farmers were reminded this week that the Box Elder - ceptlng nominations for ASC community, committee ection candidates. Boyd K. ill f j F - " ' . - - ' i. ,v, i . i . r ! Gardner encouraged farm- " ., PtPSXBD U ers to use this opportunity to nominate their farm neighbors as candidates in the ASC committee election. The ASC election will be conducted by mail from November 22 to December 2. Eligible farm voters will be provided with instructions for filling out the secret ballot and returning it to the county ASCS office. In filling out a petition, farmers should be careful to include the name of only one nominee, the signatures of at least three eligible A SC who support voters the nominee, and certification that the nominee is willing to serve if elected. Petitions must contain this information: without it they will not be accepted. The completed petition should be dated and mailed or to the county ASCS office no later than October 29, 1974. ASC committee elections are open to all eligible A SC voters without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Mr. Gardner explained that any concerned farmer with an interest in serving fellow producers would be an asset to the ASC committee. For this reason, farmers are urged to petition for the farmers of their choice. The individual producer will benefit in the long run from a responsible, concerned team of ASC ...... Committeemen in the local administration of U.S. government farm programs, Gardner said. ' Jf-- The possible improvement of Treminton City parks took a big step forw ard recently maybe a $56,000 step. Max Mason an- Mayor nounced Tuesday evening that the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, a division of the State of Utah, had approved for federal matching funds to be used to make park improvements. The city's application has been forwarded to federal officials for final approval a step which M.iyor Mason said would take at least 60 days but which is expected to bring the necessary ok. Federal funds will provide $28,000 with the city matching the funds with cash of its own as well as credit for materials and labor. a request Shuman Park, lighting of the tennis court there and construction of a tennis court on the grounds of the community center. In other action at the regular Tremonton City council council meeting Tuesday, members received a letter from the North Ilox Klder Wants er J 5 - b Sheriff Being 't .'. t l i Judged s The Elder County race became a three way affair recently with the announcement of a write-i- n candidacy by Robert "Bob" Limb- -a sheriffs deputy. Box sheriffs Those members of the Utah Community Progress judging team who were supposed to inspect Tremonton recently will be in town Monday, October 21, instead. The team of five judges will arrive at 9:30 a.m. and spend one hour talking with city officials, club and civic leaders and touring such things as the community cen and ter, hospital site cemetary. are enCity officials couraging Tremonton residents to take the time to spruce up their own residents prior to the visit. The judging could re suit in a $500 prize. County ft Hospital County who roughly $18,000 re- during the first quarter of the year--th- e period in question. The council agreed to turn over tl money although Councilman Jesse Day questioned: "Wasn't it tobe held by the cities until the construction starts." Mason said he viewed the letter as a "single request" for the architect's retainer. " The city won't be in the practice of turning over sales tav funds as they come in." currently To arl md(7 (HJse Cost of the project was shared with the State Aeronautics Board. 2e9 W V. do ISISt The state-wi- de debate over the Utah Land Use bill is coming to Box Elder County. John Preston Creer, head of the ProLand In Utah Sensibly (PLUS) and Austin Belnap, the man who lead the fight to have the land use bill placed on the November ballot will meet in open debate at Bear River high school October 24. Activities are slated to get underway at 7:30 p.m. The debate Is being sponsored by the American party. Republican party, Box Elder County Concerned Citizens group and Women For Constitutional Government and the Rotary Club of Brlgham. In addition to the debate, candidates from each of the three parties will be tect in grade schools today not only SHI' C.nES--Kibut as well. Bottom: PrinciH's rockets three the study pal Don Fdvalsm, Fielding school, and students ready self-marockets for firing. Middle: A rocket leaves the launching pad. Top; ". Vow" did you see how far it wont. 'Hie rocket firings have become an annual affair at Fielding and other school's such as North Parkin livri'.i.itnr,. I'P de ds &el&tie eff. 24 presented to the public. Time is also provided for questioning of the debaters and the candidates by the public. Creer, heads the PLUS committee which was set up to present the public with the "pro" side of the land use bill. He is a former Salt Lake county councilman and an attorney. Belnap, a Salt Lake insurance man and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives, headed an organization named the Concerned Citizens For The Protection of Property Rights which headed up the referendum movement against the land use bill. being i do so md provides that he be replaced if he fails to do so. Taylor said he was unaware of his position on Uie council until recently and also questioned whether his seat on the commission and the council isn't a conflict of interests. )ohn Fridal asked the city for informal approval of ot a plan to create an subdivision on the north side of main street in east Tre mo iton. I'ridal will submit final plans for city approval 11-l- at a later date. Volanda Allen complimented the Young Adults group of the Tremonton Fifth A ard for a project In which tiicy cleaned up more than 25 planter boxes along 3ly jL 'Bob' Limb Get Funds Towns Must Act On pleted this week. 1 v-a- he added. ate Bi-centen- ft C Councilman Charles Taylor also got the council to agree to request an financial statement and other accounting data from the board to Insure "an accounting" of tlie funds. In other action: Borup of tlie Planning Commission received permission to retain Ken Millard, a professional planner, for a period of six months at a cost of SIHIII. Millard will assist the commission in updating city zoning ordinances. Borup also noted that Councilman Charles Taylor is not attending Die commission meetings as regularly as required and noted that state law requires he anybody." But he is saying that Limb "is an extremely good man." Asked if his support of Limb marked a split w ith the Democratic Party whose candidate is Redding, the Sheriff answered: "No, It's not a split with the party... it's not the old Democrats who done that at all (defeated him in the convention... It was just new kids who were brought in." He added: "Pve been a Democrat all the time, but Tm still voting for the man..." The sheriff said he will not actively campaign for Limb noting: "I don't do that for anybody but nevertheless if anybody would ask me Pd sure tell them what I think I don't think about Bob. there's a better man in the state of Utah." The sheriff also added: "A lot of people are trying to encourage me to go on a write-i- n but Pm still trying to discourage them all... I will not entertain a write-co- nt on page three Airport Resurfacing Complete Councilman George Smith Tremonton of reported Tuesday that the summer-lon- g project to resurface the municipal airport was com Board questing that sales tax money collected "thus far" be turned over to their secretary. (ieorge Smith, the council's member on the board, said the money is needed to pay an architect's retainer fee. Tremonton collected lives in Harper Ward, also got the endorsement of Sheriff Warren W. Hyde who will go into forced retirement from law enforcement following a dramatic upset in the Democratic primary by Art Redding. "Bob's been with me for 13 12 years and Pve never trained a better deputy," the Sheriff said this week. "He's been just as loyal as loyal can be and exceptionally keen on solving cases. I've had practically every neighbor sheriff around the country saythatthey'dliketo get him from me if they could but he has ties here." The sheriff said he isn't anything against "saying You're I fit Matching Funds Limb made the announcement late last week and promptly took a leave of absence as required by the deputy's merit system law. The leave became effective Oct 11 and will end the day after the election when Limb will have the option to return to his deputy post if defeated. Limb, a native of Box Eld- Bob Limb 1974 17, 3E was made to Application the BOR several months back largely through thee Jortsof the Tremonton Kiwanis Club whose members completed costly improvements of the tennis courts at the Shuman Park this past summer and pushed the application. If approved, the program as submitted calls for lighting of the N.orth Park ball diamond, installation of a sprinkler system a", the To Be In October TTPCSIjuQQDQOQIjO Sought hand-deliver- ed v spa sag Seek $28,000 ASCS Nominations ac- "tali ty, Tremonton, Utah 84337 From Area Farmers ASCS office is now T Towns in northern Box Elder County may be missing out on some $68,000 in state allocated mat- to help celebrate the nations's 200th birthday if they don't get on the stick. Application by the towns to get various projects approved by the county commission and forwarded to state officials by Decemching funds ber 1, 1975. Only one application in the county that of Willardhas been approved thus far by the commissioners but some other towns are on the move. Grouse City, Brigham Creek, Honeyvllle, and Cor-in- ne have projects they are working on. Grouse Creek, for instance, will seek the funds for beautiflcatlon of a cemetary and to compile a his nial tory of the area, improve their rodeo grounds and a July 4th celebration. wants the Honeyville money to assist in building a city hall, and a recreation area including tennis courts and rodeo grounds as well as park improvements. In Tremonton a move was started several months ago to seek the funds for a creat- to seek the funds for the creation of a museum in the second story of the city center (old McKinley school). Processing of the application has apparentsly been stal led, Mrs. LaRene Napoli told city council members recently. A must le new chairman sought. The council agreed to turn the entire matter over to the city Planning Board. At the a recent county meeting of Mrs. Miles commission, chairman of Corinne, Ferry explained the program. Mrs. Ferry said groups and towns seeking the money must come to the county committee. The committee will not seek out the groups and tow ns. The county group will meet wittranyinterested group or town on request. The pro- gram, nationally, is divided into three aspects: festivals, heritage, and horizons. Under the festival stage, cities and towns are urged to develop programs and otlier production designed to help people commemorate the 200th birthday of the nation. One suggestion Is that each county community plan cont. on page three |