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Show UTAH "TAT? THECC ACC P.O. Box 1327 Salt Lake City, Utah 'Uncle By Vernald W. Johns tion Vittles", which kept West Berliners alive in spite of the Russian blockade of the city, for practically twelve months. Halvorsen had grown up in Garland and always listed Garland as his home town. Incidentally, he now resides in Provo since his retirement from the Air Force, where he is a Bishop of one of the wards.. He had discovered on one of his stops in Berlin that, the children who watched the supply planes come in knew almost nothing about such things as candy and gum, and so he promised to drop them some on his way in. His signal would be a dip of his wings. His favor grew into a project. Former Publisher, Editor THE GARLAND TIMES The current issue of the 'Reader's Digest" contains in its book section a thrilling condensation of a book on the Berlin Airlift of 1948 that holds a unique interest for residents of Garland and. of all Utah, since a prominent part of the story features the exploits of one of the pilots, Lt. Gail Seymour Halvorses, of Garland. Halvorsen will be remembered by many as the widely publicised "Uncle Wiggley-Wingsthe originator of "Little Vittles", as distinguished from the big project of which he was a part, "Opera ", Was From Garland Wiggley-Wing- s' Achieved Fame During Berlin Airlift Operation winning the hearts of the children and the attention of all the world. People here and there all over the United States were soon shipping him candy and bits of cloth apd hankershiefs to make into tiny parachutes to drop it in. Garland got its first publicity about Lt. Halvorsen on October 1, 1948, when a Provo woman clipped a news item about him, from her hometown paper, The Holy-ok- e Daily Transcript (Massachusetts) and sent it to the Garland Times, thinking that, it might interest some of his friends here. He had appeared on a radio broadcast at the airfield new Holyoke telling about the airlift. The newspapers there told how his entire squadron were supplying him with handkerchief parachutes and with candy to drop for the Berlin children. The story had, resulted in an avalanche of candy and cloth descending on the Massachusetts paper, to be shipped to him. The Air Force finally asked that such gifts be shipped directly to him. The Garland unit of the American Legion, under the direction of LeRoy W. Manning, launched. a "candy shower" in the Jown to gather goodies for Halvorsen's Stores, pool halls and offices set out receptacles to receive the candy, while. alL the church organizations and the Ladies Self Culture Club joined in the collection and made tiny parachutes by the hundreds. Successive issues of The Garland Times reproduced stories sent in by readers of papers in cont. on page four air-dro- ir W hi .. f l"s m v 1 , I ' 1 TREMONTON. UTAH r November 17, 1977 January 15 Turkey 0y(o Give-awa- y "A jr. 04337 Will Continue Until Nt l sit.,' Volume 58 Number 3 M (S)dlOlnlgJ Saturday y3 , Seventy-tw- o turkey coupons each a $7 value, will be given away Saturday, Nov. 19, at 2 p.m. . .PROMOTION CHAIRMAN Harry Gephart holds two turkeys to remind shoppers that Tremonton merchants will be giving away $7 certificates good for an equivilent amount of turkey at either Tremonton grovery stores. To enter see adjacent story. A drawing for the turkeys will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. Cntfy CooninidD Up Expense Chedi Tremonton city council members gave approval Tuesday evening to a motion raising the monthly expense checks effective January 1978 when 3-- 1 two new councilmen will join the board. Under the new pay arrangement, monthly salaries would remain as they are now: $40 a month for councilmen and $25 a month for mayor. But expense checks would go from $20 a month to $60 a month for councilmen and from $50 a month to $225 a month for mayor. Voting infavor of the increase were councilmen Ben Dansie, Dr. Reese Mason and Councilwoman Marjorie Wo'ro Blushing If newspapers could blush, we'd be doing it now. If we were a broadcast medium, we'd call it a slip of the tongue, but being a print medium, we'll have to call it a slip of the typewriter. In last week's edition we reported that Gerald Baer received 305 votes in his quest for a Tremonton City Council seat. There is no Gerald Baer. Reuben Baer actually received the votes. There is a Gerald Bair. Our apologies to both men and to Gerald Baer If there should be one. The mistake occurred during a 1 a.m. typing session when typing fingers have a tendency to outrace thought. Our'apologies also to Josh Hawks of Portage. A story last week showed him getting no votes for town board member. It's true he didn't receive any. The reason is that he wasn't on the ticket. Mr. Hawks had been nominated but withdrew before ballots were printed. Jorgensen. Councilman Harry Gephart, who leaves the council at the first of the year, voted "no." Mayor Max Mason does not vote except in the case of a tie and councilman Russ Webb was not present at the council meeting. "I don't say the money isn't justified," Gephart said. "I feel there are other places it could go." City employees, he noted as an example, "work pretty reasonably." Mayor Max Mason said he hadn't experienced much reation from the public pro or con noting a couple of people had said they felt the increase would be justified. Councilman Dr. Reese Mason pointed out that the city can't afford to pay councilman for the time they actually put in "but it does seem to me that it ought to be respectible..." He also pointed out that the money necessary to implement the raise is in the budget. And he added, such an action would be "much better handled" by the present council than a newly constituted council after the first of the year. The present council, he said, would have no personal motives in the matter. ' Councilman Ben Dansie said he felt an increased salary might make service on the council more accessible to younger people who aren't in a position to spend hours each week away from their work. 'In other action, council members canvassed last Tuesday muncipal election returns certifying the results. Wo'fl Co Early I The Leader-Garlan- d Times will be published on Wednesday, Nov. 23, since Thanksgiving is Thursday. We'll feature lots of Christmas bargains as Tremonton opens Christmas season. on Tremont Street north of the stop light, according to Harry Gephart, chairman of the Retail Merchants Committee November promotion. In case of severe weather, the drawing will be held in the Community Center (old McKinley School). Coupons may be deposited through Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at any of the 38 participating merchants listed in the combined Carl's and Don's and Safeway ad on page two. No purchase is necessary to enter. All persons 18 years of age or older or married may enter in as many businesses as they'd like but they must be present on Saturday to win. . Coupons may be redeemed at either Safeway's or Carl's and Don's. yuse ' Man resumed his efforts Tuesday to science in an effort to induce Mother Nature to drape Box Elder County with a blanket of snow this , winter. Winter cloud seeding operations were scheduled to get under way Tuesday, thanks to $40,000 from the Utah Water Resources Board to the Box Elder, Cache and Rich areas. Atmospherics, Inc., which conducts g a operation for the three counties in the summer time, will also conduct the winter operation. Unlike the summer operation which utilizes mostly airplanes, the winter operation relies heavily on ground generators. Generators are scattered throughout Box Elder County since most storms travel across the county then carry into Cache and Rich counties. Paul Summers, Division of Water Resources, said the Board of Water Resources agreed to operate the project from Nov. 15 to Jan. 15. At that ty cloud-seedin- began last summer. time it will be shut down until March which; 15. Oneida County recently passed a mill levy increase for the purpose of joining the three counties in the summer cloud seeding program. Some private interests have also provided funding. The summer program runs until Oct. 31. According to Box Elder County Commissioner, Reed Nielsen, plans originally called for beginning seeding operations on Nov. 1. But local officials requested a delay just in case farmers were late getting sugar beets out of the ground. Local county officials admit there is no easy way to tell whether cloud seeding programs are working. "This is what we're trying to determine," Commissioner Don Chase told one group of citizens. "What would have happened if we hadn't done it?" The reason for the shutdown is because the Division has contracted with Utah State University to conduct a study during Jan. 15 to March 15 to explore more effective methods of cloud seeding. Summers said some county officials felt the experiment would be cutting out one of the prime periods for seeding. But Summers said that isn't so. 15-d- Storms during the period are usually "too cold" and normally wouldn't be seeded anyway, he said. What will happen after March 15 isn't known yet, Summers said. There apparently is some discussion within the Division about continuing the program until June 15. June 15 is the date when the three counties begin a summer cloud seeding program in which they participate in funding. The Utah-Idah- o Weather Modification Corp. was formed to administer the cloud seeding operation two-mon- th One Yost farmer, where summer rains saved crops, noted, "I don't think you're going to find anybody opposed to it if it'll help a little...." At Bear River High School Computers Free Time Of Counselors The tronic High more computer - that - love-hat- e elec- wonder has given Bear River School counselors about four additional weeks a year to do their first love counseling. Probably the number one complaint among high school counselors across the state in the past, has been the number of hours they have had to spend trying to come up with class scheduling for each succeeding year. The computer "eliminated about four weeks of paper shuffling," Checkers said. "We're probably closer to what we'd like to do this year," admitted counselor Checketts. Checketts and counselor, Willa Hurd, by state law, are supposed to meet with each student and their parents once a year and develop a counseling plan to be reviewed every truancy and disruptive behavior prob- lems. "We're very fortunate in that Dr. Woodbury is very good to let us run our programs," Checketts said. One major thing the counselors have Theoretically, Checketts explained, grade school kids get introduced to careers through the World of Work program where they survey different occupations. Junior high years should provide further exploration of careers. And, by high school days, students should have a career field in mind which interests them. "The problem is, we're flat," Checketts said. The two counselors a year ago introduced a Career Fair for sophomores to get them thinking in that - direction. "I think if we can get a student to deal with 'Do I need this class to deal with an intended career?" said Checketts, the battle is half won. Mrs. Hurd points out that only nine of the 21 possible hours taken by high school students are dictated by the year. Doing that with just two counselors, both admit, is next to impossible, at best. "It isn't unusual for a student to go all the way through high school and never have contact with a counselor," Mrs. Hurd admitted. "We usually work with extremes," Checketts interjected, the top and the bottom students. Added Mrs. Hurd, "This group in the middle that can take care of themselves, get neglected. The two counselors also give credit to Principal Darwin Woodbury and Vice Principal Dee Leak for taking disciplinary problems out of the counseling office and into their own. Counselors no longer have to handle been trying to encourage is a more career oriented studentbody. state. bi Mm "Some students do a beautiful job of planning.. .then there are some who don't. They look for the easiest classes ..." she said. "Essentially, the kids in this school are terrific," Mrs. Hurd said. "We don't have the problems other schools have." Scholastically, both counselors agree that there is a "need to gear up on some of our basic skills," as Checketts put it. Students at the school - as a whole -do score a little bit below the national average on the ACT testing system. But, Checketts points out that when cont. on page two -- BEAR RIVER High School Counselor Preston Checketts counsels student Janice Wehner of Garland about possible college choices available to her-j- ust one of his jobs. |