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Show Omn!we$ oCorp, 3322 S 3rd E Salt La Ufan 84II0 Ot, At Bear River High V I xBrigadoori Opens Tonight "Brigadoon" is alive and well at Bear River high school, or at least it will be Thursday (tonight), Friday and Saturday Nov. 8. Bear River theatre students will share an eternal paradise with their audiences as they bring the musical by Lehmer and Low to the local stage. The production will begin each night at 7:30 p.m. in the Bear River high school Tickets will auditorium. cost $1 for students and children, $1.50 for adults or $5 per family. The story centers around the discovery of a "blessed 6-- place" Known as Brigadoon. Two weary and lost hunters, Tommy and Jeff, wander into the Scottish village in an atten.pt to try and find out where theyare. Before leaving, 'viwi ver. Tommy played by Bryan Buchanan, falls in love iviih a Scottish girl, " Fiona, piayed by Marie Sor-- e risen. This love scene is entwined with an attempt by the hunters to relocate the village after they returned to America. The attempts that follow shape their lives and the lives of all the people of Supporting actors are Jeff d Ashby; Meg are numerous town people, dancers, swords men and the Douglas-Ro- Brochie-Mind- y Hansen; Charles McPhersen Dalary-mple-Kev- Har- Trasher; Beaton-Kel- Summers; ly Beaton-Larr- y StoArchie Stuart Dalarymple-Davi- d kes; Stokes. Other main charaters include Andrew McLaren-Pa- ul BuFinn; Mr. Lundie-Ma- rk tler; Angus McGuffie-De- Josephson; Sandy Evans; Frank-And- y Jane Ashton-Ali- Dean-Bob-- e ie Rit-te- r; Mat-hi- ce Maggie Anderson-Sus-Peterse- s; n. Also included in the cast Brigadoon. Roche. Alan Jones works as business manager and Carry George was in charge of publicity. Costuming is under the direction of Jeanett Johnson. Also helping in the costume department are Kenna Hales, Jill Cannon, Lesly Ravesten and Brian John. The scenery was worked on by Meg Treseder, Jean Nelson, Eioner Petersen, Carolyn Austin, Gordon Las-le- y, Debbie Pugmire, Andy Jeanette Schlick-eise- r, Ritter, Becky Hathaway, n, Sharrie Corbit, June Carma Stenquist, and Carrie George. chorus. In addition to the cast to appear on stage, a number of ''behind the scene" people are also involved in the production. Mrs. Betty Bone is serving as the director and Carl Ashby as music director. Mrs. Shauna Petersen is the pianist for the play. Also helping out with the music will be professional bagpipers from Salt Lake City. The bagpipers will perform a brief concert in the foyer during the one intermission. Choreographer of the play in Re id; Gene ry is Doris Hud-ma- The BRIGADOONTaking the leading roles in Bear River high school's production of the musical "Brigadoon" are (1 to r) Marie Sorenson as Fiona MacLaren, Bryan Buchanan with curtain as Tommy Albright and Rod Ashby as Jeff Douglas. The play runs Nov. time at 7:30 p.m. VolumeSS Number Tremonton, Utah 84337 1 NoveRAcr 6, 1975 6- -8 Two Women Gain W: Spew: Posts In Election Here's The Results Of Other Races Portage Two women topped the voting in both Tremonton and Garland on election night. Tremonton Marjorie "Marj" Oyler won a council seat with 681 votes, Dr. Reese Mason(518)andBenDan-si- e (374) will move to the In council with her. Defeated were Mike Treseder (369), in the closest contest Don Southwick (333) and Jack Fronk(237). ' In Garland Mrs. Ruth Shumway topped the voting with 235 votes. Accompanying her to the council will be Roy Wood (138) and Thad Defeated Poulter (136). were: Eldon Griffin (129), Barry Labrum (115), Greg Dr. Reese Mason Devere ;. Mar Oyler County voters not only said "No" to two swimming pools and an auditorium in Tuesday's election, but they said it loudly. Better than fifty percent of the registered voters in the county which number about 15,009 trecked to the polls in Indian summer weather in what must be a record turnout for an off year election when the only other question son the ballots concerned the election of councilmen to city and town councils. When the smoke cleared it was evident Box Elder County voters don't want higher taxes at the present time. The bond went down to defeat 4,869 "against" and 3,023 "for' a 62-- percent split. One other thing which was clear is that the election didn't revert to the north line standoff versus south Mason-Dixthat had been feared. True, the smaller communities in the north end of the county wentoverwhelmingly against the whole package with places like Plymouth going 6 for and 66 against and Yost going 1 for and 25 against Clear Creek voters went 9 for and 7 against. Even Tremonton and Garland voters, who would have been benefited most perhaps, by the new pool at Bear River high turned thumbs down. But so did Brigham City voters. Out of Brigham's 20 voting districts only six had a majority voting infavor of the bond and three of those were by margins of three, one and 14 votes. The resentment in the north against inclusion of an auditorium in the bond 38 on i.STW L Thad Poulter fear Roy Wood Bon EUer This is the first in a series of article son ghost towns of Box Elder County. The material is provided by Phyllis Christensen, a retired educator. By Phyllis Christensen Lost strayed or stolen more than a hundred place names from the north western comer of Utah, presently known as Box Elder county. Improbable or even as Impossible as it may appear, the above statement is no tall tale. It is a fact Box Elder is the fourth largest county in the state with an area of 5,594 square miles and a population in 1970 of 28,129, making for a 'density of about five per il Ben Dansie tosf sons per square mile if they were evenly distributed which they certainly are not. Most of the citizens of the county are concentrated the eastern edge, leaving a vast western area which could harbor many lost things. In spite of the geographic possibility, it does seem rather incredible that In less than a hundred and twenty five years of history, so many ghosts should be residing in a 8 Ingle county. The ghosts, however numerous, are so well behaved and quiet that they are In danger of becoming completely burled and forgotten. It was only an accidental comparison of two maps, publfour years ished twenty apart, that brought to light Hess - Fots the fact that there was something amiss in the place de- partment of the county. Tepid interest was soon replaced with something much more animated as inquiry produced only enough scanty information to deepen the mystery. To date the quest has yielded enough Who? Why? What? Where? questions to supply material for a good sized library of stories if they could be answered. Queries put to people contemporary with the existence of some of the missing names produced amazing answers. The Informant might know little about the place referred to but a lot about various other once flourishing communities whlchhavealso package for Box Elder junior high and not for Bear River junior high did seem to have an affect. While northern districts went strongly against the bond, Brigham districts split on an average percentage basis of 53 percent for and 47 percent against. A total of 2, 192 voted against and 1, 903 infavor in Brigham City for overall difference of a mere 189 votes. That vote could be interpreted by the board as a mandate to let sleeping dogs lie for a while. Supt. J. C. Haws said he is disappointed but he assumes board members will view the vote as instructions for citizens to get out of debtsomething the district can accomplish in three years. The bond question would have authorized the sale of $2.5 million in bonds for construction of two swimming pools one at Box Elder high school and one at Bear River high school plus the auditorium at the Box Elder junior high. 51 LaDell 36 Thelma 24 - Gibbs 19 Gibbs 52 Ray Udy 33 Jim Woodward Greg Lamb well-kno- Ruth Shumway Thomas Morris Cook (95) and Veloy Bel-na- p (93). The best horse race of the election was between Dansie and Treseder. Votes cast in the fourth district had to to be counted a number of times to verify the winner. Each ran strong in his home distirct, but Dansie pulled more votes in his ophome ponent's stomping grounds than Treseder, a less candidate, could pull in his opponent's stronghold. Parkinson Barry 30 - 22 Fielding D Thayne Forrest Bond Jones 65 - 53 Munson issue for $15,000 for fire No 35 61 Uoyd H. Wood Tess H. 38 Hess - 36. had: how-tow-n Yes Howel 42 Carlos Christensen - Barry Sorenson 31 - Mike Fonnesbeck Paul Green - 29 26 - DeweyviBe - Marble Steven 46 Walter Whiteford Although bond elections are rare in the county for school purposes, the defeatmarks nt the first time in the memory of the that one has been defeated. Haws said the defeat has to be viewed as the county wide defeat and that no one part of the county can be blamed. He expressed surprise at the size of the More than 40 turn out and the defeat the county to held throughout meetings explain the bond question attracted little attention with crowds as small as three people in attendance. - 36 Bruce White 72 Mike Perry 30 - Bear River City super-intenda- Nyman Holmgren Rawlin Anderson 92 Collin Hansen 75 Mark) Checketts Daley - 28 Branch - 27 - 71 - ,26 Snowvile Gary Frandsen 42 Eldon Hurd 28 Will Wallace cont on page twelve lost, Sfraed Or Stolen? 000 ceased to exist. Information about the new "lost scenes" was extended and verifiedby further study of old maps, of county and state guides and other printed sources, and in Interviews with old timers. The list grew like a snowball. In trying to determine the cause for the disapi-aranof the place names, there were various possibilities to consider. Were those sites mining or industrial "boom and bust" towns? Were they absorbed Into near-b- y metropolitan areas? Did fire, flood, or earthquake create such havoc that survivors became discouraged and left never to return? Was the exit one of spectacular and newswor ce thy moment or was it slow and quiet? Did the major part of the disappearing act occur at approximately the same time? Will other towns vanish from Box Elder county or has the area stab-aliz- ed to the point where this phenomenon! is not likely to occur again? Answers to the last two Questions came first. The vanishing process seems to have been spread over the entire history of the county with the most recent one well within the memory of the present adult generation. Employment shifting for one reason or another, can create or disintegrate communities in a surprisingly short time. In the 1950's Little Valley was completed the town melted away almost overnight. Even the wooden and metal buildings, which might have been considered permanent were taken apart and carried away. The west is generously sprinkled with ghost towns which died as mining ventures collapsed. The possibility of communities In Box Elder county deceased for this reason was the next to be explored. Research did turn up such names as Bakers, Mineral Ridge, Sierra Madre, Ashbrook, Crater Island, Rosebud Creek, etc. as names of mining districts but not any of them were much more thanexplo-ritor- y ventures, wlthone exception Vlpont Mine in the came into existence on the lake-en- d tip of Promontory Range. It was a busy, active town with a population of several hundred. It boasted a modern supermarket buse, a school, a iness offices, even a weekly iiews paper all serving the many families living there. Its wide, well laid out stre-we- re ets given such names as Spruce, Oak, Pine, Maple, etc. Though not a single tree was In evidence to produce much desired shade. Residential housing was entirely trailer houses. The good sized population of Little Valley was there to aspost-offic- sist In building a new road- bed across The Great Salt Lake to better accomodate the railroad. When the fill , V Ashbrook district of the Goose Creek Mts. In 1920 a mill was completed near the properties and for several years the mine was the fifth ranking silverproducer in Utah, employing 300 men in mine and concentrator. But by 1957 the mine was worked out and abandoned. It Is still possible to visit the site If you have a guide along who knows the way. To make the trip It is necessary to go Into Idaho and from Moulton (which is also only a ghost of the past) take off through the very scemountains back Into nic Utah. There is not a sign or even a ranch along the way which might give assistance in finding the mine and cont. on page eleven |