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Show Lets Contracts For Blew Central oard Seat It Took er Lot Of Wheel barrowfulls Of Concrete A UE lOLEl) box elder VOLUME 54, NUMBER 41 H uewd-sfou- ma Ground Broken For New Fourth Ward Chapel Work Starts On Fourth Wards Deductions And Negotiations Effect Saving Of Nearly $100,000 Under Low Base Bids Work started Saturday morning on the Brigham City Fourth wards new $100,000 chapel, lo cated at about 33 north Third east street, in Brigham City. Continuous-Pou- r Bins took wheelbarrows filled with concrete - - raised from the mixer on the ground by a cable winch powered by a gas engine, and a spar - - and poured the reinforced concrete walls. The form was raised by means of special jacks which .hooked onto rods running continuously up through the walls from the foundation, forking continuously, night and day, it was necessary to halt the work only once, during a heavy rain, from the time the walls were started until they were finished. Wayne Jensen, local contractor, had the contract for the job. workmen six-in- That Climbs Itself The Building ch Intramural Awards Are Garnered By Local Students The new Central school building will be built according to the plans of Karl L. Krusmark, school board architect, with certain modifications and changes in the interest of economy. The Box Elder board ofeducation at their regular meeting Monday evening voted unanimously to approve contracts for the new building negotiated with the low bidders in the three divisions of the construction, and the signed contracts were delivered to the architect yesterday. Successful bidders for the Will general contract were M. Mor-ri15 and Son, Inc.,' of Ogden; for the electrical contract, Cache F Valley Electric company of LoIn gan, and for the plumbing, heatcontract ing and ventilating Bachman Plumbing and Heating Contractors of Ogden. On the base bid for the There are many girls in Box plumbing contract, a Logan be- bidder was low, but with bids to Elder county eligible come a contestant for queen to on deductive alternates considreign over Salt 'Lake Citys ered the Ogden contractors' ibid Ground-breakinceremonies were conducted Friday evening, with John P. Lillywhite, North Box Elder stake president. Bishop George Nielson and others The dedicatory taking part. prayer was offered by President UBlywhite, who then turned the of earth. Others first spade-ful- l then taking turns at moving ground were the wards bishop, the former George Nielsen; the bishop, Wilford Freeman; chairman of the building Girls Queen Contest com- mittee, Hervin 'Bunderson, and of the finance the chairman committee, Clyde tB. Stratford. Work on the new building is Dale Rasmussen, student at going forward under the superU. S. A. C., received the highvision of James Romer, buildest award given at the annual ing superintendent, and Bishop intramural banquet at the Nielson, who is serving in the role of contractor. The award, an officollege. cial intramural Jacket, was By last night, all of the presented to Rasmussen by trenches for footings were comDale Nelson, supervisor of the pleted, and the basement was intramural sports. dug. Half of the cost of the buildLee Hansen received a sweater lor outstanding sering will be met by the general vice in intramurals. board of the (L. D. S. church. Of Featured on the program the wards fifty percent, more was Earl Ferguson, director of than $31,000 in cash already has been raised, and the finance athletics and physical education at Box Elder high schooL committee expects to be able to Ferguson spoke on the "place raise the rest of the amount by of the intramural program in the time the building is completed. Some of the contributoday's school activities." tions will be in the form of vol, unteer labor. -Members of the Fourth ward VFW Aux" bishopric are George Nielson, Richard Davis and Don Jeppson. The building committee, beside Bunderson, is composed of Royes J. Peterson and Mrs. Ella Johnoyle Packer, commander and son. On the finance committee Mrs. Charles J. Kimber, presi- with Stratford are Scott Horsdent, of the George Gidney V. ley, Milton D. Peters, C. V. Fors-gren- , John W. Phillips and Ru-loF. W. Post 1695 and Its auxilBaron. iary, expressed their appreciaand tion to Poppy chairman chairlady, Mr. and Mrs. Borman Smith and many othens who helped to make this Poppy day one of the most successful held. A special thanks was given to all volunteer workers who so generously gave of their time, Members of the Soroptimist for publil to the club elected LaPreal Wight to to and and the CapiRoxy city serve their club as president for tol theatres for prizes and to at their electhe the ladies of the auxiliary who tion coming yearheld meeting, Thursday contributed food which was 19 at the home of evening, May served later in the day to the Miss Wight. volunteer workers, and all others who assisted in any way. Other officers elected to serve with Miss Wight are: Elnora S. Rilla Bowcutt, vice president; Jensen, recording secretary; Notice C. Knudson, corresponding lAnnie R. Tingey, secretary; The irrigating season is treasurer and Norma Jensen as director. again here and the residents hold-ove- r of Brigham City are requestBlanche Hyde, Annie R. Tined to cooperate with the local gey and Lenora Romer reported officers in seeing that the on their recent convention trip following matters connected to Sun Valley, Idaho, and Mrs. with irrigation and general Rilla H. Poulton, a recent bride, beautification of our city are was presented with a lovely gift. corrected. Express Poppy Sale Thanks n Lepreal Wight To Head Soroptimists News-Journa- Grain Storage Bins at f he Big J Milling and Elevator company in Brigham will be completed this week. By a new method of conduction, the two bins, an outside wall connecting them, aila short walls connecting with two similar bins already 'sanding, all were poured continuously with a single form ;0Ur feet high that climbed the walls at the rate of 10 ttches per hour as the pouring proceeded. The new bins ch are 20 feet in diameter and 40 feet high, with a capacity of 26,000 bushels. Adjoining walls, however, form an a(Mitional d bin and a triangular bin that the total additional storage to 70,000 bushels VM a years milling supply for the mill. 40-Fo- ot m-ea- se star-shape- Commissioner To Speak pan Public Meeting June 3 J $r; John Nichols To 'ell Of Plane Fnr School br. I John Ston, l ,, Bushne At R- Nichols of d Wash-C.- , recently tinted I - vommisioner of Indian lairs in the department of the be the principal er at a iy3 Public meeting Fri-rj- . eninK, June 3, in Brigham T ' Th ?leting has been arthp Box E,dcr Cham-I- , r ommeree and the Bush- - r'of - Dri5Jnmi,tee. Nichols, rmer President of the livprci,u of Idaho and th of New Mexico, wi c ci r - 10 l Utafl fafn cRege, s,ate 'bureaus City to discuss his Indian Navajo the for plans sch01 at Bushnell at a p meeting here. Dr. George A. Boyce, whose apof pointment as superintendent school Indian the new Navajo at Bushnell has been announcon the proed, also will speak 3 meeting if June the at gram J. D. he is here at the time. the of Gunderson, chairman announced committee, Bushnell Dr. Boyce previously announced City plans to come to Brigham to the latter part of this week, in connection begin his duties here with the Indian school tne for was appointed Until he was Dr. Boyce position here, schools head of Navajo Indian Rock, Window at resided and ... President John P. Lillywhite Turns Earth as Bishop George Nielson, left, and Hervin Bunderson, right, look on at ground-breakin- g k Other supervisory will the of the Bushnell Indianto speak and follow- - also will be invited uldress at la public rneeiing briefly Red to come to Brigham June 3. Logan. in (He I for new Brigham City' Fourth ward chapel Friday evening. About 200 ward members and interested persons were on hand for the event. Work on the new chapel began early Saturday morning. ac"Days of 47 celebration, to Oneta J. Thorne, cording president of the Box Elder county chapter. Each company in the county is asked to send in as many entrants as they wish; however, if a girl is eligible but is not asked by the camp captain to be come a contestant, she is urged to drop a post card to Mrs. Thorne at 222 east Second south, or call her at 614 any day except Tuesdays and Wednesdays and give the names of her descendants, Mrs. Thorne further stated. The following NORTHWETONFEINCETO' BE SATURDAY EVENING, SUNDAY . Welfare Session Is Scheduled Saturday Evening At 6:30 North Box Elder stakes quarterly conference will be held Saturday evening and Sunday, John P. Lillywhite, stake president, announced yesterday. General welfare meeting will be held Saturday evening at 6:30 oclock in the tabernacle, for all welfare workers in the stake, he said. eveAt 8 oclock Saturday ning, also in the tabernacle, a stake priesthood officers meeting will be held. All officers of the stake are requested to be present, according: to President Lillywhite. Sunday morning at 10 oclock and Sunday afternoon at 2 oclock the two general sessions of conference will be held. William P. Lawrence of the general welfare committee will be here Saturday, evening for the welfare meeting, President Lillywhite announed. Sunday evening the North Stake Mutual Improvement association will present a joint Legion Aux. Extend Poppy Day Thanks Two Outstanding Women's Vocal Groups Will Present Concert Here Sunday Evening J. Bott, Mvrs- - nates and negotiating other alternates, the school board succeeded in reducing the contract price of the building nearly $100,000 under the low base bids. Not all of the deductive alternates listed in the original bids were taken. IWhen the general contract was negotiated Monday, a representative of Morrin and Son said Well be on the job MonHowever, as day morning. Monday is a holiday it was seen . was $448,275. Deductive alternates provided in the original 0 bid reduced this figure by bringing the figure down to $418,943.50. Negotiated changes further reduced the contract by $45,069, to $373,874. comCache Valley Electric ' $29,-331.5- panys original base bid $23,885, with nates reducing . dequetive was alter- this figure $3,000, to $20,885. Negotiated by alfixan- ternates principally light tures reduced the contract, other $10,000, to a final total of $10,860. Plumbing Down $124)00 The original base bid for the plumbing, heating and ventilating of the building from Bach- man Plumbing and Heating Contractors was $65,540, with deductive alternates reducing the figure $4,660 to $60,880. Fur- ther negotiated changes and reductions resulted in another $7,097 saving, leaving a total contract of $53,783. Recapitulating, the three contracts now are $373,874.50 on the general contract, $10,860 on the electrical contract and $53, 783 on the plumbing, heating and ventilating contract, for a total contract price of the building of $438,517.50. This price also covers removal of the old building and preparation of the grounds for the building. Moat Of Floor Space Prom the low base bids, the school boards selection of de- ductive alternates, negotiations with contractors and changes in specifications resulted in a saving of $99,021.50. The building as now contracted includes 91.52 percent of the floor space of the original glans, and. aside from the elimination of the kindergarten, the extreme east end of the east-wes- t wing, it is virtually unchanged in appearance. Principal savings were effected by eliminating the kindergarten, the dining room, the teachere room and the radiant heating in the floors. Another major saving was effected in tongue substituting a two-inc- h and groove plank roof deck for a more expensive roof. the future will be prose- IxMcnzo was considerably lower. ' Saved $1004)00 iBy exercising deductive alter- requirements as a possibility that work in demolition of the building and preparation of the ground for the new building might' not be started until next Tuesday. Morrin and Sons original base bid for the general contract only have been set up by the Central company; . , must be a descendant of a pioneer who emigrated to, or was bom in Utah prior to May 10, 1869. 2. She must be between the ages of 18 and 25 inclusive. 3. She must be unmarried and concert by the Orpheus and not married. Harmonettes choruses, with 4. previously She must abstain from the Wayne N. Devereaux, organist, use of liquor and tobacco. as a special guest artist. 5. She must be of good moral Music for the two general character. 6. She must be willing to ansessions of conference will be pertaining to furnished by the North stake swer questions choir. The boys chorus from her habits and hobbies. iFifteen girls will be selected Harper ward will sing at the from the group of entrants at a afternoon session. dance to be held at Crystal Springs on Saturday, June 11. The selection date had previous, ly been set for June 18 but moved up to the earlier date because of the M. I. A. conference which falls on June 18. The fifteen girls will represent The American Legion and the 15 camps from Box Elder Auxiliary today extended their county. appreciation and thanks to the Mayor for the proclamation an- CAP Meets Tonight nouncing Poppy Day; to the merchants who displayed pos- At The Airport ters in their window-s- , and to The CAP. cadets are rethe many boys and girls who contributed their time and ef- minded of the meeting which fort to make a success of Poppy will be held at 8 oclock tonight Charles Ewer at the airport. Day. Betty Reese and Joyce Love- will be in charge. attended Some 50 members land, reported that there were 3,000 poppies sold in the meeting last week and the Brigham City and surrounding local organization has received towns and all proceeds .went to 20 identification cards which will be given out. Utah veterans. ( cuted. It is also requested that those desiring to install bridges and culverts along the irrigation ditches, do so under the supervision of the water master. Otherwise, it is quite often the case that bridges and culverts of insufficient to carry the personnel sizes or shapes school water are installed. Ariz. Agricul-ea- Ver-abe- The practice of placing garbage and refuse in the irrigation ditches must be discontinued immediately. Likewise, the piling of such materials on the city streets and sidewalks is illegal. The practice by some of using irrigation water outside of their turns must be discontinued immediately... Such acts are criminal in nature and amount to no more than a theft of water from their neighbor. The cooperation of everyone is requested to avert the continuation of the above practices and the public is advised that violations of the same n DI . Two New WORK TO START NEXT WEEK ON DEMOLITION OF OLD BUILDING Church Building On Top Of The Form For The 8 PAGES BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 25 1949 The Harmonettes Of Garland And The Orpheus Chorus Of Brigham City Join Forces Again Spring Music Festival, including concerts at Garland and Brigham City. Their Garland presented Sunday evening, May 1, in the Bear River stake tabernacle, when the above picture of the two groups was taken. Director of the Harmonettes is Fred L. Nye, and Norman V. Watkins is director of the Orpheus chorus. Inez Peters is Orpheus chorus president, and Marguerite Rich is Harmonettes Their concert here will be presented in the Box Elder stake tabernacle Sunday evening, beginning at 7 president. :30 oclock, sponsored by the North Box Elder Improvement association Guest artist will Ik1 Wayne N. Devereaux, organist, of Ogden. ... for their fifth annual concert was stake-Mutua- l Temple Excursion B. C. Call, president of the of the High Priests quorum North Box Elder stake, again reminds all quorum members of the special High Priests excursion to the Logan temple tomorrow (Thursday). All High Priests are urged to attend one or more temple sessions during the day, and to bring their wives. |