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Show Utah More Press Assec. LEADER MSI; TREMONTON, UTAH 84337 VOLUME 56 NUMBER 10 9, 1976 DECEMBER Free Movie Saturday Moonlight Sale Friday With just two weeks left till Christmas, Tremonton mer- chants and service clubs have a full slate of activities scheduled for this weekend. Many stores are offering signreductions ificant today through Saturday with special bargains and prizes planned as part of Friday night's moonlight sale. Most local merchants will stay open until 10 p.m. for the benefit of those who have just realized there are only 13 shopping days left. A free movie at Garland's Main Theatre Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. and again at 2:30 p.m. will give parents an opportunity to drop off the kids for some personal shopping. The movie, "The Wacky World of Mother Goose," is sponsored by the Tremonton Kiwanis Club, Civic Club and Garland City. Bear River High's Spanish Club will add tq the festive spirit as'. ftl 7 they sing Spanish carols and distribute candy in Tremonton's shopping district on Saturday from II a.m. to 3 p.m. The Spanish club functions under Connie Cervantez as president and Mr. Don Shakespeare. Their caroling is cosponsored by the Jay Cees. With so few days remaining, Christmas Chairman DeWayne Falk of the merchant committee has announced that the local emphasis for next week will be the last minute gift ideas. ' Stores will be preparing suggestions for that hard to please person or everyone else remaining on shopping lists. Santa Claus himself is returning to Tremonton on Dec. 18 courtesy of the Lions Club. Color pictures of kids on Santa's lap will be available for only 25 cents with the price being underwritten by County commissioners Tuesday announced they'll hold a public hearing to consider the 1977 budget on Dec. 15, at 1 p.m. in the commission chambers in the county courthouse. The date is the last day commissioners can legally hold the hearing, according to law. A copy of the budget should be available for inspection five days prior.' "We tried to get it ahead of the 15th," Commission Chairman Don Chase noted, "but KB. (K.B. Olsen, county clerk) said he must have the time" to prepare it. Olsen and two of his employees are spending three days this week in Salt Lake attending a school sponsored by the State Auditor on a new fiscal procedures policy to be adopted by all counties. The new procedure is one reason the Commissioners in setting the afternoon budget hearing, denied a request by the Box Elder Chapter of Utah Public clerk's effice.tsiiewg.bKd prose&to & Association themselves, aren t concerned about a get the budget compiled in time for the hearing. i Employees (UPEA) that the hearing be held at night. The association said a night meeting would allow more employees to attend. "All the night meetings we've ever held, nobody ever shows up," Commissioner Ted Burt said. "Everybody talks us into holding this and that, but nobody ever comes." Burt admitted that attendance at daytime hearings "isn't any better" than those that have been held at night. Commissioner Chase agreed with Burt and added, that the only request to hold night meetings has come only from the UPEA representative, Chad Anderson. t;b9tr-bn''page- - three ! ' A.' " &' W llillllirilllllllllllllllllll Winter Ski Bus COUNTY ASSESSOR Clifton Kerr of Tremonton said there's no limit to what he'll do to help out a taxpayer when we caught him in this pose Tuesday morning. Kerr was securing some pine cones for an. unidentified woman, who probably intended to make use of them as Christmas decorations. There was no charge for the service. New Presidency Slated Apostle Will Attend Stake Conference Will Run Tremonton City will operate a ski bus again this year, according to Jay Hirschi, city recorder. . Arrangements have been made with Cook Transportation to shuttle skiers to Beaver Mountain in Logan Canyon on eight consecutive Saturdays. Cost of a season pass is 25. Passes are transferrable from one holder to another. Ski passes will go on sale Monday, Dec. 13, at the Tremonton City Office, 102 South Tremont Street. .Hirschi said the buses Elder Marvin J. Ashton of the Council of Twelve Apostles and Elder Valdo Benson, Regional Representatives of the Twelve, will speak at the Garland Stake Conference Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 11 and 12 in the Garland tabernacle. "Making the scriptures important in bur lives and in our church assign-- ' ments" is the theme of a 7 p.m. conference session on Saturday. Those who will attend include the stake presidency, high council, executive secretary and stake clerks. Also attending will be Melchizedek Priesthood quorum presidencies, group leaders and secretaries; bishoprics, executive secretary and ward clerks from each ward; Aaronic Priesthood quorum presidencies and assistants to the Priests' quorum president; ward Aaronic Priesthood director and quorum advisors. All adult male and female members are also urged to attend. Proceedings of all general meetings will be televised via closed circuit television to the chapel area to accommodate overflow crowds. The general session will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. Junior Sunday School will be held under the direction of the Belmont Ward. President James J. White will conduct this session of the conference. A new stake presidency will be sustained at the session, along with other necess ary changes in the stake. Elder Ashton was ordained an Apostle on Dec. 2, 1971. Prior to his call he served as an Assistant to the Twelve cont. on page three Y will begin running approximately the first part of January. They will leave from the City building at 8 a.m. and return at approximately 5 p.m. From Employer To Employee i. f Mm ' MiniMiaif'TniiT . J P"-"- 1 1 .' ci Jfc.. s Jit-- . .... I i 7' (LmLhmJ , MR. AND MRS. Virgil D. Bowcutt (at right) will switch places with Mr. and Mrs. Roger Callister, all of Tremonton. for the past five years. But The Bowcutt's recently sold their floral business to the Callisters, who have been employees the Bowcutt's plan to stay on as employees themselves for a while to help out. i Florists Turn Table On Themselves A . Tremonton business couple have turned the table on themselves, so to speak, from employer to employee. Virgil D. Bowcutt and his wife, Joy, this week announced that they will host a special Christmas season open house Friday and Saturday to Introduce their new employers. The Bowcutts recently completed arrangements to sell their flower business to a young couple who have been tutored in flower art for the past five years. Mr. and Mrs. Roger and Lonnie Callister are the new owners. long-tim- e "We're going to keep operating the reception center," said Mr. Bowcutt, "and we're going to be working for these kids as long as we can give them that good extra touch." "We'll be working for them instead of them working for us," Mrs. Bowcutt added. The Christmas season open house for the new owners will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. In addition to meeting the new owners, visitors will be able to look over a variety of Christmas decorations and order Christmas The new owners are both Bear River Valley products. Roger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Grant Callister of, Tremonton and Lonnie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Allen of East Garland. Both are no strangers to their new store. "Lonnie worked here for five years here off and on as a delivery boy," Mr. Bowcutt said. Roger, 22, is finishing up his senior year at Utah State University where he is majoring in business administration. He'll cut down on the class load and and Roger worked extend his final year so he can take on the new duties as a florist. The couple currently live in Logan, but plan to move to Tremonton in the near future. They are expecting their first child, also in the near future. Lonnie is a graduate of Utah State University where she majored in Public Health Education. Neither partner in the new venture has any grandiose reasons for their leap into the business world. "Bowcutt said bring your checkbook, and I did," Roger laughed. "We must have been out of our minds," his wife said, also laughing. "We're just interested in this type of work," she added. "I think Lonnie is just a born florist," Mrs. Bowcutt pointed out. The shop will still be known as Bowcutt's Flowers and Gifts, according to the new owners. For Roger, who has less actual experience than his wife, the first few months will be a learning experience. "Virgil's training him as a designer," said Mrs. Bowcutt. The Bowcutts have been fixtures in the Tremonton business scene for 27 shop years. They opened up their first cont. on page three ' , |