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Show Omnlweit aCorp, 3322 $ 3rd E Salt Lake City, Utah WHO MM Volume 55 Number 49 Tremestefl, Utah 84337 August 28, 1975 rQjfcsl Is i SCHOOL STARTS ON TIME Supt J.C. Haws (far left) announces the decision of the Board of Education (seated far right) to go along with a 9.5 percent salary increase for the district's professional employes. About er Teachers and the Box Elder County School Board averted a last minute deadlock Monday evening over salaries to enable school doors to swing open on sch- cent of the district's teachers (in background) were on hand Monday night at Bear River junior high to hear the decision. 80-p- edule Wednesday. The settlement was prompted by an unexpected nudge from the But There's Still A Chance Fat Sale : Numbers Increase ranchers Businessmen, and farmers put out more money than ever Saturday at the Box Elder County fair i.riual. Junior Fat Stock sale. The total money output was higher than ever thanks to higher lamb and hog prices and increased numbers of animals displayed by Future Farmers of America and H club members. This year's grand champion beef belonged to Ben Ferry of Corinne, FFA. The animal was sold to Bear River State Bank for $1.65 a pound. . Hg-tri-tiw 4-- cont. on page 13 As a result of the last minute settlement, teach?r gai-n- ed a 9.5 percent increase in salaries over last year along with 1.7 percent in additional benefits. The settlement was Hopes Dim For Deweyville Post 3 J? one which is currently in operation, was out of the Horace Gardner, Mayor of question. It was bad news first, then Deweyville, announced Tuesday that hope remains that the good. Greenburg told the community will keep its Gardner that there is still local post office. a chance to retain local Gardner met Tuesdaywith postal service. If someone four postal service represubmits an acceptable bid on sentatives: Lorenzo Palagi a contract station the postal and Tom Port from the Ogden service would loan the equipoffice, and Robe rtGreenburg ment to them to start a new and an assistant from the Salt office. The individual would Lake Regional office. At the have to provide the building and furnish the utilities. Acmeeting residents of Deweyville were told that a fourth cording to Greenburg, the class post office, such as the specifics will be posted soon Fe,,er board's team. one-perc- ent higher than board members had hoped to get away with. Board members were put on the spot by their own negotiation team which came to themagainst board r'irections with a joint rec- -( ... me ndation with the teach- at the present post office. A nn Earl, 'the- acting pev-- ' team that mistress, relinquished her er's negotiator! 9.5 at settle the they figure. position as of last Monday Board members last week because of teaching duties this year. She took over when in executive session apparMrs. ently instructed their three her mother-in-laJessie Earl retired last man team that 8.5 percent - w, was the maximum they had authority to give the tea- chers. Morgan Hawkes, head of the Board team, said Tuesday that the 9.5 settlement was the only way to get school started on time. In a Monday night meeting following a mass meeting by teachers. Hawkes told the board that all non -- money items were settled easily Monday morning. But things got sticky in the afternoon on the money question. Teachers had made their demand of 9.5 and the board had made its offer of 8.5. "We had nothing else to negotiate," Hawkes said. "We weren't in agreement and there were some very serious problems," Hawkss told board members. The two teams canra to a decision "... that we couldn't agrms." "We had no aumoruy to negotiate beyond the 8.5 limit, Hawkes noted. tt ws at that point that the board members apparen tly decided to stick their necks out by signing a joint recommendation thatthe board approve 9.5 percent without actually making the offer to teachers themselves. The board team apparently reasoned that 9.5 percent eventually have to be the final figure to get a settle menl. They decided to give the boaro. a arm tigure to make aaecisiononMonaay night rather than risK being sent Dactv to negotiate further Tuesday a move which would have insured school starting at least a day late. news The of the joint recommendation actually came from Box Elder Education Association President Ted Hougaard. It obviously caught at least some board ... members cold. Board member Deloris Stokes immediately called for an executive decision which prompted brief laughter from about 350 district teachers who had come to the board meeting at the Bear River junior high following their mass meeting at the high school. What was promised as a half-hosession went ur five-minut- es. When the board returned, Supt. J.C. Haws announced the results. Haws said the board had hoped to overcome a deficit of about $370,000 in two years, "but with 9.5 per- cent it can't be done," unless other money is cut from the budget to the tune of about $60,000. (The cost of the additional one percent lor teachers is about $39, uuU but it is assumed it will be extended to classified employes as well making a cost of about $60,000.) . Haws noted that what the board's team had.done in recommending 9,5 percent had "gone beyond that which the Board of Education felt it could and should go." He said he hoped teachers . cont. on page three month. This left Deweyville with no postmaster. The mail would have been delivered to either Honey-vil- le or Tremonton for the residents to pick up ifJessie Earl hadn't volunteered his services temporarily forthe postmaster position. At the meeting he was officially appointed acting postmaster for Deweyville until the dilemma is solved. "The postal reps made it quite clear that they wanted the contract station open as few hours as possible", Gardner said. "They want us now to run a survey among the residents to find out how many hours a week the majority of the townspeople want cont. on page Merchants Meet Is Postponed The monthly Tremonton Merchant's committee scheduled for meeting Tuesday, Sept. 2, has been postponed. The committee will meet Sept. 9 at 9:30 p.m. The postponement was necessary because of the Labor Day holiday. t, " mt . ,A1J 13 Get Premium Money At Extention Office Although the work is the not 1975 Box Elder County fair is over, Shanna King, fair secretary, announced this week that persons who have not collected their premium money from the fair should contact her from 8:30 a.m. until noon in the County Agent's office of the Tremonton Civic Center, 102 South Tremont until Sept. 15. After this date books will be closed. Ben Ferry of Corinne displays his grand champion steer to GRAND CHAMPION Russ Webb of Bear River State Bank of Tremonton. The bank purchased the animal at the Junior Fat Stock sale Saturday. JUST PART OF THE FAIR One way to judge the success of the 1975 Box Elder County pop consumed. By all counts the fair is by the amount of hamburgers,' hotdogs and soda fair enjoyed a record turnout. Pop, Hotdogs, Hamburgers: All Part Of Fair 1,494 consumes What gallons of soda water, digests 1.800 pounds of hamburger and 90 pounds of hotdogs and complains about having to walk so far? Give up? It's visitors to the 1975 version of the Box Elder County fair. And, the visitors were out In record numbers this year. Unfortunately, there aren't any turnstyles at the fair grounds or the entrances to the Golden Spike rodeo so nobody knows just how many people actually were on hand during the three day show. All indications point to Increased numbers , though. "I think it went just great," Fair Board Chairman Darrald Fuller said in the midst of a mountainous cleanup job. "Everybody was real satisfied." About the only complaint came from people who had to park about a half-mi- le up the road from the fairgrounds because of traffic con gestion. The county owns some property just across the canal from the fair's main gate which Is earmarked for a parking lot. "I even tried to get a pontoon bridge from the Utah National Guard," Fuller confided in hopes of getting more parking, He pledged the new parking lot "will be there next year." Fred Christensen, a fair in charge of the director livestock auction, said "pri- ces were better than ever" and animals for sale were up about 20 percent over last year. Mark Jensen said gate receipts at the Cotton Rosser produced rodeo were also up although prices stayed the same. Total receipts were $15, compared to $14. 543.40 in 1974. "Saturday night we refunded some money because there just weren't seats ava 454.95 ilable," he said. "It was the biggest crowd Pve seen in a long time." They were a hungry crowd, too. Farm Bureau members who operated a stand south of the main exhibit building said customers gobbled up 7.500 hamburgers or about 938 pounds of beef along with 90 pounds of hotdogs. At the Lion's Club stand at the rodeo, 7,475 hamburgers were served (about 1.000 more than last year) along with about 1,000 corn dogs. Coca Cola representative who supplied the two stands with softdrinks said he brought in 400 cases of canned drinks (about 900 gallons) along with 594 gallons of draft soft drinks. A Those figures don't include refreshments sold by the Carnival of Fun at the fair. Inspite of the record crothe Box Elder County fair has never been what youM call a money-maki- ng wds, proposition, nor is it intended to be. Commissioner Don Chase says he hopes the county never becomes "profit conscious" when it comes to the fair. "The fair is designed to promote Box Elder County," he adds. He Is quick to point out that the fair annually pays out more money in premiums to county exhibitors than the county puts into the fair in taxes. But people viewing the ticket sales at the rodeo, the largest source of revenue, find it hard to believe. At the end of the 1974 fair when a financial statement was issued it showed the fair association bank balance at $2,567.12. The county put $4,000 into the fair association checkbook last year from tax to help the cause. money This year they put In $5, 000. cont. on page three |