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Show CfWRlL flCELLFICF IThwas LEADER a aa i 1MRM IMW-UIU- sa VOLUME OCUiEKf I fwmiwt ) VuiMirM TmmJ sra M TREMONTON, UTAH 84337 57 NUMBER 26 ,4 ' MARCH 31f UKii 1977 Of SnoivvifJe Family -- lilt ':.:. I Wind jS I 'f Mother nature is apparently intent on adding insult to injury in northern Box Elder County. Sunday, when "v . WINDS HANGING as high as 80 miles an hour destroyed a mobile home in Snowville owned by Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Prien. Luckily for the Priens, Like E)sirv neither they nor their children were home Sunday evening when the ; windstorm did the damage. Easier Egg Bhifflbik Hunt Slaied wheathermen were predicting snow to help ease the drought, Mother Nature .showed up locally with strong winds but little moisture. Winds ranging up to 80 miles per hour swept northern Utah doing perhaps most damage locally to the LeRoy Prien mobile home located two miles north of the intersection in Snowville. The Curlew valley funneled the winds to the south, catching hold of the 28'x50' double-wid- e trailer and demolishing it. The winds collapsed an entrance way, stripped the roof completely off the west side of the home and sent a wall crashing inward, coming to rest on the kitchen table. A front porch awning was lifted away. The trailer was a total loss with damage running somewhere between Easter Bunny annou-eetoday that the annual JayCee Easter Egg Hunt will at Shuman (Library) Park The Bookmobile 'Usage' in Box """Elder County has more than tripled in the fifteen years since it was first introduced figures released by the Utah State Library Commission show. In 1961 when the now familiar library on wheels first made the local scene, a total of 55,325 books were circulated to readers of all ages. Usage generally increased steadily through 1976 when a total of 174,846 books were circulated. Paul Buttars, extention librarian for the Utah State Library Board, reported those figures to Box Elder County commissioners Tuesday while making a request for a slight increase in funding from the county for the bookmobile program. Buttars asked the county to up its funding share from the present $30,943 a year to $33,746 for calendar year 1978. ''"We're not asking for an increase in the bookmobile," Buttars stressed. The increased money will finance increased services. For one thing, ' Buttars saiu the bookmobile will pick up "more of the outlying areas in Brigham City." The extention of services, he added, has been "requested" by some elementary school principals in the area. The state and county operate 1.6 bookmobiles in Box Elder county with one vehicle spending fourty percent of its time, approximately, in Cache county as well. Commission Chairman Don Chase indicated the commission will probably look favorably towards the request when formulating its 1978 budget. The bookmobile has been a "very very popular program in our opinion... Our people really appreciate it," ; Complaint Thrown Out "Circulation has really gone down," she said. In 1973, the year before the bookmobile started stopping at Tremonton grade schools, Schuman library circulated 21,307. That was an increase over the 19,484 books circulated in 1972. But starting in 1974 circulation dropped to 20,161, went up slightly in 1975 to 20,866 and dropped lower in 1976 to ' 19,222. "It has made a definite change..." Mrs. VanSweden noted. State library officials told her circulation might go down at first for a year but would "steadily increase." "I have not yet seen it build up again," Mrs. VanSweden said. Mrs. Fern Huish, Garland city librarian, voices similar sentiments to those of Mrs. VanSweden. "It definitely has made a difference cont. on page six on April 9, 1977. Over 1200 eggs will be scattered all over the park with candy bars and various prizes in store for lucky children. Special roped off areas will separate children by age group with 10 the maxium age allowed. Dan Bertsch and Dean Anderson announced the rules for this year... no baskets or parents will be allowed in the area. However children may bring eggs back to the border and return for more. $12 - $18,000. Mr. and Mrs. Prien were on their way home from Burley, Idaho, when Hhe wind damage occurred, sometime around 5 p.m. Luckily, their children were with Mrs. Preen's sister in Snowville. "Boy, was I glad I didn't have them home alone,'.' Mrs. Prien said on Monday. A neighbor, Carl Steed, who lives about a quarter of a mile away, spotted the wind lifting the roof from the home. Steed alerted Mr. Prien's brother-in-laand within a tew moments Snowville residents had loaded up the furniture and belongings inside the home and hauled them to safety. Mr. and Mrs. Prien and children are living with relatives in Snowville until the insurance on the home can provide w Emergency Feed Program Is Okayed An emergency feed program for a portion of Box Elder County has received federal approval. County and state officials recently requested that portions of the county be declared a drought disaster area making farmers eligible for the emergency feed program. The portion of the county included in the program is north and west Box Don d Elder, or basically, that portion not served by a canal system. According to Mark Jensen, Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service officer, the emergency feed program is available to farmers and ranchers who can show a loss of pasture and other feeds due to drought.. Under the program, a farmer will four-memb- Commissioner Don Chase was called that Brothers had been letter that he did not have permission to land on the roadway. to testify notified by ' . One Act Farmers who have sufficient feed stocks on hand or who are financially able to buy feed are not eligible, even if they can show a loss due to drought. The ASCS office can pay up to two cents a pound (not to exceed 50 percent of the cost) in assistance. Plays On Bill Tonight i Prosecuting attorney John Bunder-so- n disputed the interpretation of the ruling for some time, but to no avail. At one point the judge asked Bunder-so- n if a tractor pulling a wide farm implement would be in violation. The complaint charged that on or about Sept. 5, 1976, Brothers had landed his aircraft at Grouse Creek on a county road and contended that the procedure would endanger, obstruct or impede traffic. In dismissing the complaint, Judge Daines said the road is a public road and that no statute prohibits a person from using it temporarily. The judge accepted the attorney's view that since the airplane did not "remain" on the road, it did not obstruct traffic. Prior to the ruling, Bunderson had called sheriff's deputies, Robert Limb and Roger Olscn to testify that they had witnessed the plane land on the road. . get some financial assistance to help them purchase feeds. CooditJ TTestf The question of whether a western Box Elder County telephone Company owner can legally land on county roads was decided in Brigham City court Tuesday. He can. A complaint charging A. W. Brothers, owner and operator of Silver Beehive Telephone Company, with "obstructing traffie by landing an airplane on the highway" was dismissed, along with a jury after four hours of testimony had been heard. About 4 p.m. Tuesday, Brothers' female attorney, Kathcrine Collard, asked that the jury be sent from the. room. She then, essentially, argued thai no violation under the statute had occurred. The attorney told Judge Robert Daines that the State statute says no vehicle, building material or other obstruction shall be permitted to "remain" on a highway which would endanger, obstruct or impede traffic. She admitted that Brothers routinely lands his airplane on county highways but said at no time was the plane ever left on the road. old-tim- ,. - them with a new place to live. Originally from West Point, Nebraska, the Priens moved to Snowville to farm with their relatives. The purchased the trailer from Mrs. Wayne Jones of Snowville and moved in January 11. at the Stone, Prien said an Idaho store described the wind storm as the worst he had evern seen in the Curlew valley. Driving back from Burley via Malta, Preen said he was forced to pull off the road a couple of times because of blowing dust. Strangely enough, the wind did surprisingly little damage to other mobile homes located Within a few miles of the Prien home! A number of tall television antennas were bent by the force of the gail. The" windstorm did a variety of damage throughout the valley. At the Dennis Barfuss farm in south, Tremonton, the. wind scattered an old barn, leaving nothing standing. Luckily, about 50 head of animals in the area were unhurt. In Thatcher, the wind damaged a wheel-mov- e sprinkling system on the Clair Zollinger farm. Zollinger said the wind moved por- section of pipe tions of a half-mil- e about a quarter of a mile, twisting off three sections along the way. But, Zollinger said, "It could have been worse." In Garland an awning was blown off the mobile home of Kim Petersen. High winds hampered motorists for a while as well. Dust forced closure of the road between Tremonton and Thiokol temporarily during the storm. And the Box Elder County Sheriff's office advised motorists against traveling through Sardine Canyon, cont. on page two v s civ' An evening of four one-aplays is slated tonight at Bear River High School in the auditorium. Curtain time is 7:30 p.m. and admission is free. Actor's Guild advisor, Mrs. Betty Bone, said the public is invited to help decide which of the four one-aplays is the best. The top play will enter state competition. The plays will include, "I'm Going to Lock You in My Cellar," an original play by Becky Hathaway; "No Greater Love," "Pluck Peacocks" and "Wheat Fire." Mrs. Bone said audience members will be entertained between plays by a variety of pantomime performances. "Cast members for each production ct N 14 Mi T3 ( i 'Wtf i TV - (i BECKY HATHAWAY, Taml Goodey and Kelly Summers (I to r) study the reaction of Jeanette Schlickeiser created by a telephone call she receives In "I'm Going to Lock You in My Cellar," one of four one-aplays which will be presented tonight at Bear River High School. Curtain time Is 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. are: "I'm Going to Lock You in My Cellar": Kelly Summers, Becky Hathaway, Jeanette Schlickeiser, Tami Goodey. "No Greater Love": Jill Frbnk, Christine Deakin, Pam Anderson, Danny Fisher, Mark Butler. "Pluck Peacocks": Alan Jones, Kim Hales, Chris Webb. "Wheat Fire": Alan Manning, Lori Napoli, Lorraine Anderson and Joe Goss. -- |