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Show r OmnJwej aCorp. 3322 S 3rd E Sa!f Lake City, Ufah MliO Construction Wadman Company of Ogden will apparently build both a new hospital and a community nursing home on the grounds of the old migrant camp in Tremontan. The Ogden firm Tuesday submitted the apparently low bid for construction of a new hospital which has 17-b- ed been more than four years in the mill. The firm's $1,137, 636 total bid for the construction had hospital board members smiling as it proved to be about $18,000 less than architect Mike Henderson's estimate. Wadman is already busy at the Migrant camp sight on west 6th North in ed constructing a nursing home for the county a bid he won only a few weeks ago. Not included in the bid is a list of movable hospital to according equipment, North Box Elder Community Hospital Board chairman Mel Foxley, That equipment Tre-mont- on 30-b- extra $134,234 according to estimates. Design West of Logan, the architectural firm handling the project, will also get a fee of seven percent of the bid price or about $80,000 roughly bring the total hospital cost to $1,351,870. The hospital board has bonded for $900,000 already will cost an and nil! receive from funds feral through $618,000 Hill -- Burton the Depart- ment of Health, Education and Welfare. Subtracting the cost of a bond ejection, that leaves 000 available and give the a cushion of about $18,000, roughly $1,500, for the project hospital board about $148,000. Foxley said the extra bond money will be placed in a trust account to help pay off the payments on the total package. A total of ten contractors submitted bids on the hospitala number which hospital administrator Theron Godfrey termed "excellent." The range of bids gave evidence of close competitive bidding, he added. Following are the total bids submitted by the contractors. Two of the ten contractors are left out since they submitted incomplete bids which were rejected from consideration. Tekton, Inc.: $1,239,300; Darrell Anderson: 500; Wadman Construction Co.; $1,137,636; Raymond Construction: $1,183,250; Christiansen Brothers: $1, 204,619; Knowlton H. Brown, $1,196,917; R.W. Taylor; $1, 258,614; Spindler Construction, $1,209,000. The construction contract carries a 420 calender day deadline. $1,180, Tin) Volume 55 Number 41 Teri Parkinson Joene Alice Maihis Chairwomen of this years ll, event are Mrs. Richard Mrs. Myron Giles, Mrs. Ted Roundy, Mrs. Ruth Shumway, Mrs. Thad and Mrs. Gary Poulter, Bar-dwe- Potter. audRiver high school itorium. Miss Rudd comes from Fielding and her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rudd. She is being sponsored by Jones Equipment of Jolene is a gra-co- Tre-mont- on. The pageant will be presented July 31 in the Bear $S,000 Grant Marked For Arena Museum nt. on page three Local officials have received word that $18,000 in bicentennial funds have been approved for construction of a museum and work room adjacent to the new indoor arena at the Box Elder county fairgrunds. The matching grant will be used to construct a 30 foot by 80 foot building to house "artifacts re- It is to be used exclusively for the museum. "They (the commission) were anxious that funds go for the museum work room because they thought it tied in with the goals of the bicentennial and could be identified as a seperate bicentennial pro- lating to contributions of the horse and horsemen" to Box Elder County, according to Teddy Griffith, member of the vJtan Bicentennial ching grant just about depletes the $177,219 allocated for District 1 (Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties). Only about $3, 000 is left unallocated in the district, Mrs. Griffith said. The district bicentennial com Coin-missi- on. She said the commission granted the money June 26, mil Wit fU sX Mh PLYMOUTH RODEO ROYALTY-Selec- ted to reign over the Plymouth Rodeo Friday and Saturday are (1 to r) July 2, 1975 Rudd Three More Enter Pegeent The la'fist girls to enter the Garland Wheat and Beet Days Miss America preliminary pageant are Jolene Rudd, Teri Ann Parkinson, and Alice Mathis. The pageant is sponsored by the Civic and Home Arts Club of Garland. Tremorrton, Utah 84337 m Q- - Public Beck V j Jan. Rhodes, queen, Shannon Allred, and Julie Lansford, second attendant. Bonds? first attendant; she added. The awarding of the mat- ject," will be asked to mission recommend where the remaining money should go. There are eight projects still up for some money, Mrs. Griffith noted. The district committee "will just have to help us decide which has priority. Projects awarded within Box Elder county amount to $47,970 and include: $1,470 for the restoration of a pioneer cemetary in Willard. $10,000 to the Box Elder County 'School "distfict for construction of learning modules which will be circulated from school to school. Two public hearings will be held in July to determine interest and support for four pospublic sible "future construction projects" by the Box Elder County school board. The hearings have been scheduled to explain possible plans to hold a bond election for the construction of swimming pools at Bear River and Box Elder an auditorium at Box Elder junior high schools, district office in Brigham high school and a school City, School board members will be on hand at Bear River high school Wednesday, July 9, at 8 p.m. in the visual aids room to hear public discussion on the issues. They will meet Tuesday, July 9, at Box Elder-higschool in the choral room at 8 p.m. have been prompted in part The public hearings fro m northern county residents for by pressure construction of a new pool at Bear River high. A delegation met with the school board recently to ask what their intentions were. The public hearings grew out of the proposal. The district office and auditorium approposed pear to face the roughest going in the north end of Some citizens voiced their opinion at the the county. earlier meeting that swimming pools would go but not an auditorium or office building. modules will contain items which can be utilized in displaying the heritage of the area. $1,000 for restoration of a log cabin in Reese Park in Brigham City. $14,000 for restoration of the Perry Ward chapel as a theatre. $600 to Deweyville for construction of a monument to house the old school bell. $4,500 for restoration and adaption of the Plymouth elementary school as a fire station, ' museum and com munity center. It had been assumed that about $68,000 of the total would be allocated for Eox Elder County projects based on a per capita distribution of the funds. But, Mrs. Griffith said the state commission "never did consider the money allocated by counties. We're not concerned with allocation within counties." Members of the Bicentennial commission are still steaming over the state's decision not to grant $4,000 for developing a museum in the old McKinley school. Members of the Board Planning which instigated the project said this week they will still push on with the plans for the museum. "We're going to go ahead come hell or high water," Mrs. LaRene Napoli said. The group has a "nest egg"of less than $300 to The ." Tre-mont- on Tre-mont- on start with which was left- over from donations received when it sponsored a museum during the Golden Spike Centennial. She also said the group has decided to "get some powers together and go down there" to confront the state cont. on page three Queen Named For Plymouth Rodeo July 4th Celebrations Planned In Valley Most ordinary activities will stop momentarily Friday as Bear River Valley residents take time off to celebrate the 4th of July with traditional observations. The biggest local fete usually takes place In Plymouth where the annual rodeo and other activities are planned. are also But activities on tap at both Elwood and Bothwell. At Plymouth, petite Jan Rhodes, 18, will reign over ht rodeo, July the as rodeo queen. 5, She won the honor with her last Friday horsemanship evening In competition with 15 other cowgirls. two-nig- 4-- Jan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rhodes of East She is a recent Garland. graduate of Bear River high school, At the state high school placed rodeo finals, she fourth in break- away roping and fourth in cowcutting. Reigning as attendants will be Miss Shannon Allred, first attendant, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Allred of Bountiful. Shannon is the third Allred daughter to take to the rodeo queen circuit Her older sister's Karen and Krissy were successively Miss Golden Spike Rodeo at the Box Elder County lair. Second attendant will be Julie Lansford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erdie "Buck" Lansford ofElwood. She will also reign as Miss Golden Spike Rodeo queen at this year's Box Elder county Miss fair. Rodeo activities at Ply- mouth will get underway both nights at 8 p.m. Events include calf roping, team roping, bull riding, bareback riding, barrell racing, goat tying, hide racing and kid's calf riding. Admission will be $2 for adults, and $1 for children. Kids under six will be admitted free. In addition to the queen and her attendants, the traditional little prince and princess will circle the rodeo arena In pre -- rodeo show. Selected Friday as prince and princess were Charol Simpson and Lance Starr. She Is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Simpson of Fielding. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Starr of Tremonton. Attendants to the princess are Holly Butler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Butler of Garland and Becky Rudd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rudd of Fielding. Attendants to the prince are Rex Iverson, son of Mr, and Mrs. Carter Iverson of Bear River City and Billy Bell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Bell of Plymouth. Activities will actually get underway early on July 4. The Belmont Ward plans a flag raislngceremonyat7:30 at the LDS church in West Fielding. Breakfast ' will be served from A parade will kick off in Plymouth at 11 a.m. marking the start of "Fun Day" activities on the grounds of the old elementary school. Homemade candy, food, and snowcones will be put up for sale. Games will also open following the parade. A Mark Twain style frog jumping contest is set for 1 with foot races and p.m. bike races scheduled at 1:30 p.m. A watermeoon seed spitting contest is also planned. Other activities include an auction in mid afternoon following the 1:30 p.m. games with pillowcases, dish towstuffed animals and els, aprons among items to be sold. Beginning at 3 p.m. an antique car show will be viewed with fifteen to twenty of the ancient cars from the Ogden area on display. Calf riding forthe younger cowboys will take place at 4 p.m. under the direction of Cleve Steed of Plymouth. A small admission fee will be charged. Written permission from parents will also Belt buckles be required. will be awarded to the win ners. Ballgames will be played 6 p.m. to bring the July 4th activities to a climax 'before the rodeo. at At Elwood, Dewey Wife... Elwood and Deweyville communities will hold July 4th flag raising ceremonies at their respective LDS church houses Friday at 7 a.m. The ceremonies will be followed by breakfasts starti- ng at approximately 7:30 a. m. Everyone is invited to |