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Show UTAH STATE EnEX League Names Mother Of Year Mother Of Four Children Honored A mother of four has been named Mother of the Year by the Tremonton Women's Civic League. The League annually bestows the honor to a woman to recognize her outstanding contribution in the role of mother. Mrs. Veda B. Mason of Tremonton was honored by the league and presented with an engraved silver tray and corsage recently by Bernice Andersen and Colleen Woodbury, committ-eewoman. Mrs. Mason was born July 17, 1898, in Willard, Utah. She attended school in Willard and Box Elder high school in Brigham City. She married her high school sweetheart, Mirl Mason, in July 1917, and not long afterward they homesteaded in Howell in western Box Elder County. Their new home brought many experiences with the growth of the area, from having to haul all their water 8 miles in a wagon to a modern present-da- y home. She even helped her husband clear their ground in order to till it. She is the mother of four children,-o- ne son and three daughters, -- Reese, who served a mission for the LDS Church in Hawaii, has been a bishop and member of a stake presidency. He graduated from Box Elder High School. He holds a B.S. degree in Pharmacy from the Idaho State University and graduated from the school of Dentistry at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, graduating from both schools with honors. He now practices dentistry in Tremonton. He has served as president of the Utah Dental Association, charter member and president of the Beehive Dental Academy, and member of the American Academy of Dental Practice Management. He is now president of the Tremonton Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Tremonton City Council. -- Glade (Mrs. Hal L. Nielsen of Downey, Idaho) graduated from Bear River High school and the LDS Business College, receiving their outstanding student award, and was a legal secretary. She also has been active in church activities, having served as president of the MIA, Ward Relief Society president, and now serves in a stake Relief Society presidency. Naone (Mrs. Kenneth Godfrey of Brigham City) graduated from Bear River High School, attended Western State College at Gunnison, Colorado, and Brigham Young University. She studied music at the Conservatory of Music in Nancy, France. She served an LDS mission to France. She is active in music circles in Brigham City, being a charter member of the Box Elder Symphonic Choir, member of the Community Concerts Board, president of the Cedilian Music Society. She also teaches piano. She is member of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and the Ladies Farm Bureau. She and her husband belonged to the Knife and Fork Club and enjoyed square dancing for many years. In 1962, when her husband passed away she moved to Tremonton. She is very adept at all kinds of handwork, having received many blue ribbons for her beautiful quilts and other handwork. She has pieced and quilted hundreds of quilts and still enjoys spending hours piecing quilts and doing other fancy work. active in church, having served as Primary president, on the stake Relief Society Board, ward music positions, and a Sunday School teacher. Marlene (Mrs. Sharon Archibald of Tremonton) graduated from Bear River High School, is active in church activities, having been a member of a Gleaner chorus, MIA teacher and in the MIA presidency, Primary presidency, Relief Society, Junior Sunday School Coordinator. Mrs. Mason saw that all her children had an opportunity for music lessons. Every Saturday they were brought to Tremonton for lessons, traveling a distance of 50 miles each week. Mrs. Mason has held every position in the Relief Society except chorister and still serves as a visiting teacher. She served for a time as a worker in the Logan Temple. She was a Primary teacher and served as organist of the Primary and Sunday School. She is a She has traveled extensively and is active in the Senior Citizens group. She enjoys the association of many friends and is loved and admired by all who know her as a beautiful little lady. Her family and their achievements are the source of much joy to her. She has 19 grandchildren and 20 great Mrs. Veda Mason ...mother of year Judge Sngini iEJ CmD into VOLUME A formal written decree was signed this past week in the civil case of the Water Action Committee versus Utah-Idah- o Sugar Company and the Bear River Canal Company, Inc. The decree signed by Judge Calvin 3ould essentially formalizes the verb-i- l ruling he made almost four months igo infavor of the Water Action Committee represented in the class iction suit by Bear River Valley welve water users. It also makes it possible for canal :ompany officials to begin an appeals wocedure to a higher court in hopes of jetting the ruling reversed. The ruling basically: -- rules that the 1,600 water users are 'owners of a perpetual right to receive rom' the canals ."water" for' irrigat- on..." transfer of the canal system to i subsidiary by the sugar company 'did not release the defendant sugar ompany of its obligations under the leeds and contracts..." .' -- the canal company can not legally assess the plaintiffs, nor the members of the class they represent, in any amount other than the amount specified in the respective contracts..." -- that the canal company is liable for assessments collected in excess of the contract amounts.. .and that they should be repaid with interest at a rate of eight per cent per annum. -- the water users do not have a duty to "provide for or contribute" to the operation of the canal in the nonirriga-tion season. -- the canal company is obligated to utilize the moneys collected from the assessment of the water users only for the purpose of operating and maint-in- g the canals during the irrigation season..."and for no other purpose." If the ruling holds up under appeal, the canal company is obligated to return to water users an estimated $600,000 in over charges at interest. The operation situation of the canal seems to be in limbo with farmers waiting for the opening of the irrigation season to see how well the system will operate. Canal officials have said operation of the canal efficiently will be difficult at best with the restricted operating money which will be available as a result of the court ruling. Hear , Slatecl Tonight George P. Bloxham, president of the Federal Landbank of Sacramento will be guest speaker at tonight's annual stockholder's meeting at 7 p.m. in the Garland Stake Center. Manager Keith Anderson has issued to all stockan invitation holders to attend. lliPf Banauet Tuesday. March 15. .at 7:30 p.m., at Brigham City Community Center. "Senator Hatch has already been recognized as one of the nation's leading conservatives," according to Republican County Chairman Douglas Parsons. . Parsons quoted U. S. News and World Report as calling Hatch the possible successor to Barry Gold-watand Ronald Reagan as leader of the conservative movement. "Everyone who is concerned about our government whether they are Republican or not will enjoy this program" he concluded. Tickets are available at a cost of $5 each from all Republican precinct chairmen or from Glen Curtis, Republican county treas- exploratory meeting designed to pet lcdt'i al and state officials in on the ground floor of a possible irrigation (kvclopnient was conducted by the Bonneville Bench Irrigation Development Committee Tuesday. Koss Kudd, chairman of the project which hopes to bring irrigation water to the urea north of Fielding to the Idaho border, took officials on a tour of the area. Officials of Utah Power & Light, U & I Inc., the state department of Agriculture, Four Corners Regional Commission, State Engineer, Utah Department of Transportation, Bear River Bird Refuge, county commissioners, Soil Conservation Service, Bear River h ix . 3 1 f w""1 fir1 f er - - urer. BIG SISTER Vicky Litchford (center seated) gets to meet her little while counselor coach, Glenn Taylor, and Mrs. J. F. Dillree watch. sister, Cindy Dillree (seated) for the first time Pal Project 'Sisters' Help Each Other Deal With Life "I'd like her to kind of help me grow up. Being 16 is harder than I thought it would be...I'm always restless. With her I hope I can go out and have good clean fun." TreThat's how a monton girl, Cindy Dillree, sums up her expectations about a unique program sponsored by the Human Services Council of the Bear River Association of Governments called the "Pal Proj- View Bench Plan ' Senator Qi&Jiateh will be the guest speaker at the annual ' Londbank Meet TV ML Senator George Bloxham l I GOP Will Officials An MARCH 10, 1977 TREMONTON, UTAH 84337 57, NUMBER 23 "one-on-on- ect." . .FLOVD BAILEY, Soil Conservation Service, discusses the number of acres which could be put under irrigation if farmers in the area are successful in their development efforts. The system could cover some 12,000 acres of top grade land. Fielding-Plymout- h RC & D, Bear River Canal Company and Division of Wildlife Resources were on hand. Rudd told officials he feels .the development has "the strength of the landowners on our side." The development committee is looking at a variety of alternatives such as pumping out of Cutler Dam, creating a dam below Plymouth and even using a trade off which would require a Honeyville dam site. The alternative was lightly touched on by a Bear River Canal Company official.' Water would be furnished from the cont. on page 2 Cindy, daughter of Mrs. J. F. Dillree, is the first such "little sister" as they're called in Tremonton and one of only 15 in the area served by BRAG. Business Pays 44.7 Owners of business property paid percent of the total property tax bill in Box Elder County last year. Throughout the state, about 48 percent of all property taxes charged during 1976 were collected from owners of commercial property. These were some of the facts reported by Utah Foundation, the private tax research oreganization in its latest analysis of the property tax burden in Utah. 44.7 Of According to the study, property taxes charged by all units of government in Box Elder County last year amounted to $6,185,630. Of this sum, the various classes of commercial and industrial property accounted for $2,763,441, or 44.7 percent of.the total. Other property categories include residential property $1,832,843 (29.6 percent), motor vehicles - $394,806 (6.4 percent), agricultural property (18.4 percent), and miscell $1,139,098 enses are going up faster in Box Elder County" than elsewhere. "Somebody's got to get involved somehow," Vicky added. "It not only helps her but it helps me too." Taylor quickly added that "it's a mutual relationship. If it's it doesn't work." The two "sisters" met for the first time on a Wednesday night and hit it off immediately. Saturday they planned to go bowling together. "I was nervous,...I really was," Vicky admitted. Cindy says her reaction to the cont. on page three Under the program, young girls like Cindy are "matched" with "big sisters" who volunteer their time in hopes of developing a e relationship in homes," according to counselor coach, Glenn Taylor. Cindy's big sister will be Vicky Litchford of Deweyville. "Not enough people around here get involved in things," see said. Vicky "They things.. .turn their back and don't want to get involved." Taylor said he hears the same comments from the juvenile court system in Box Elder County, claiming that's why "statute off one-pare- nt BE one-side- Property Tax aneous $55,442 (0.9 percent). Part of the property taxes collected on motor vehicles represents taxes on business and industry and part on individuals. Throughout the state, property taxes charged during 1976 totaled $240,134,-71The report points out that this amount represents an increase of $32 million or 15.4 percent over the 1975 total. Most of this gain can be accounted for by new properties being added to the tax rolls and by increases in 1. existing valuations resulting from the statewide reappraisal program. Last year the revaluation was completed in Iron, Juab, Piute, and Utah Counties. Taxes charged in these four counties rose by $7 million or 33 percent in 1976. The average mill rate throughout the state declined during 1976 for the fifth consecutive year. Foundation analysts hasten to point out, however, that this decline does not necessarily cont. on page three |