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Show Universal Uicrof Units? 277 Sixth Aw. Salt lVr City, Ut.t Brigham City's Outstanding Young Man MKR 4 Mine Slick Highways, Streets Cause Series )f Accidents During ... PERC PETERSEN CHOSEN AS man Perc Petersen, local business man and farmer, was chosen outstanding young man of the year at the Junior Chamber of distinCommerce sponsored guished service awards banquet last Friday night. , (Presentation was made by Mayor C. LeGrande Horsley at the conclusion Of a banquet and at Maddox given program Ranch House, attended by Jaycee members and their partners plus invited guests. Selection was made by five judges who acted upon 21 nominations submitted during December. They were Ross C. Bowen, Dick Alston, Don Chase, Max Morgan and Glen Kriudson. Before announcing the winner, Mayor Horsley recounted the activities of the man to be honored. These were listed as follows: Box Elder county polio chair man for 1963, the most success ful campaign ever staged; Sun day school teacher; ward teach er; counselor in M.liA.; member of Second ward choir; made-ovea, hundred public appearances during 1953 serving as an en tertainer or master of ceremon ies without pay of any kind and without arty thought 'of perso nal gain; owns. and operates farm equipment business; Owns and operates a big dry farm; chairman in charge of Boy Scout drive in this area for 1953; helped with Red Cross drive; served on TMiss Box Elder committee; served on Peach Days parade committee; chair of the Jayeees Christmas home lighting contest; master of ceremonies of the Eagles state convention held in Brigstate chairman of ham City; the Utah Jayeees profit making committee; "Has a lovely wife and five boys; member of the Brigham City Jayeees and has served on the board of directors, a and state director; club, member of the local 20-3Fraternal Order of Eagles and American Legion; has also participated in many other activities. An ovation from the crowded room greeted Petersen when he was presented with his certificate, plaque- and pin by Mayor Horsley. He responded briefly, expressing thanks for the honor conferred upon him. President Armour Jensen presented the program which included a recording of a ficticious 1939 OSA banquet in which Walter G. Mann, Ezra Owen, Ed Ward, Harold B, Felt and Carroll B. Williams were roast- ed. ' - ' A toast to the ladies was presented by Perc Petersen and a response was made by Alma Allred. Vocal duet numbers were presented by Mr. and Mrs. Harold B. Felt. Prayer was offered by Vernon Drewes. Principal speaker for the evening was Tom Fyans, Salt Lake City, office equipment sales manager for ZQMI, a past DSA winner and past president of the Salt Lake City Jayeees, now serving as Jaycee chairman for contest and the Miss Utah nationally on the "Speak Up Jaycee committee. 0 - and Mrs. John Dobbins, South Fourth East, and daughter, Nancy, were hospitalized Saturday as a re suit of a traffic accident just north of Cold Springs, south of Willard, at 10:00 oclock In the morning. Still in the Dee hospital at Ogden, Nancys condition late Tuesday was described as sat Mrs. Dobbins, also isfactory. in- the hospital is at Ogden, improving, the report stated. She suffered a broken knee. 609 All of the victims were reported.--- - L The Dobbins car was demol ished and damages to the truck were estimated at about $200. Boyd D. Nelson, Ogden, driver of the truck was uninjured. Weber, Carbon At Both Banks ' Additional places have (been made available in Box Elder county for signing Weber and Carbon Junior college referen dum petitions, it was announced this week. Petitions, under the supervi sion of notary publics, have been placed in the Box Elder County Bank and the First Se curity Bank of Brigham City. In addition, O. G. Spencer, 74 North First East, is circulating petitions in the city. In Tremonton, voters wishing to sign will find petitions at the First Security Bank, Carey-Foragency, Winzeler Motor com pany, James Brough Real Estate agency or Bill Waldron. A total of 880 signatures on the petitions are necessary if Box Elder county qualifies as one of the 15 counties needed to place the referendums on the November general election bal lot. For Early Polio Vaccination Test Area y three brought to Cooley Memorial hospital and Mrs. Dobbins and Nancy were later transferred to Ogden. Mr. Dobbins, who suffered chest Injuries, was re leased Sunday. The accident occured when the Dobbins car struck the rear of a milk truck which (had made a left hand turn. Both vehicles were moving south, State Trooper William C. Sack Box Elder, Cache Counties Considered s Cache may be one of six Utah areas used for test sites for the 'new polio vaccine this spring, it was announced recently by Utah health officials. Funds now being raised will be used to help finance the project state Dr. George Spendlove, health commissioner, requested of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, use of 6ix sites. To qualify by national standards, a test area must be over 50,000 population but under 200,000. By combining Box Elder and Cache counties Into a test area it can qualify. If these areas are accepted as vaccine test areas, the vaccine will be given to seond grade pupils. There are 13,000 children in the 7 year old age group in the six state areas involved, Dr. Spendlove reported. The number of children who will actually receive the new vaccine in the chosen test areas has not yet been decided because only children whose parents give written permission will participate. It Is expected however, that polio foundation officials will announce choice of test areas within a week or two. The foundation has said that tests would be run in 200 coun ties throughout the United States. First trials are to begin in the southern gulf states the week of February 8. H Utah areas are included In the field tests, it is believed the trials will begin here about the last of March or the first of April. The material to be tested was prepared by Dr. Jonas E. Salk, University of Pittsburgh scien tist who claims the vaccine will production stimplate anti-bodto protect bumans against all three known types of polio vl rus. His discovery has received k Mr. ett Hard on the heels of the hea- vy snow storm that swept northern Utah over the week-end- , came a series of traffic accidents causing considerable property damage but resulting In no serious Injuries. First to be reported was late Dale night when Saturday Stockham, Salt Lake City, failed to negotiate a sharp turn at Sixth North and Watery Lane, causing his car to overturn in the creek. One minute after midnight, Saturday night, a car driven by Julian Velasquez, 19, Third North and Eighth East, struck parked car owned by Cedi Neal, 204 North First West. Damages were estimated at $125 and Valaaquez was cited i for negligent driving. Four minutes later a car driven by Blaine Nelson, 432 North Second West, collided with ope driven by Jack W. Hadfield, 129 North First East at the intersection of First North and First West street. Damages were estimated at $215 and Nelson was cited for drunk driving. 1:45 Sunday afternoon at Ronald Wilkenson, oclock, Franklin, Idaho, drove Into the rear of a car owned by Bulo Suttlemyre, Ogden. The Suttle-myr- e car had stopped for a red light at the Third South and Wilkinson Main intersection. was cited for driving too fast under existing conditions. Damages were small. Wayne E. McDonald, Boise, Idaho, skidded into the rail road crossing sign near the In- i Car-Truc- Accident, Sat. FOR Box Elder and as Three Injured 1953 OUTSTANDING YOUNG MAN In Mayor C. LeGrande Horsley Presented Award At Banquet Horsley coun-b-tie- wide publicity and acclaim. Other Utah areas being considered , are Salt (Lake City--; Salt Lake county outside the city; Weber and Davis counties; Utah and Wasatch counties; and Carbon and Summit counties. Box Elder school district board of education was contacted several weeks ago concerning the use of school facilities for use in making the tests, should this county be chosen as one of the test areas. Permission was granted by the board. Week-En- d Storm 5.00 school at termountain oclock Sunday afternoon. Damages were estimated at $300. lAt 6 p. m. Sunday, Frank S. Fullmer, Logan, drove his car into the rear of a snowplow at Mantua, damaging the car to the extent of $150. At oclock Sunday evening, while four officers watched, a Swift and company truck from Ogden swerved to miss a passenger car stopped on the street and plowed off four park ing meters just south of the First Security Bank on West Forest. Algernon Andersen, 403 North First West was cited for stopping on the highway without signaling. Driver of the truck was Julian Frost, Ogden. Final mishap to be reported over the week-enand the most destructive, was a crash at Deweyville at 8:15 Sunday night Where a Cudahy company trail er truck driven by Nels A. Nelson, Salt Lake City, skidded off the wad and overturned, leaving the tractor suspended five feet in the air. About 15 minutes later a Lo gan man, Marden Turner, lost control of his car and plowed under the truck cab, shearing off the top of his auto which was demolished. Turner was only bruised, State Trooper T. Wayne Woodland reported. Brigham City officers invest! gating the series of local traf fic accidents included Jack Jor gensen, J. L. Fbote, R. K. Pearse, H. C. Hampton and Scott Lee. Inches of Snow Brings 'Jew Moisture 6 PAGES PORCHLIGHT WILL BE SIGNAL FOR MOTHERS TO CALL, THURS. Women Will Aid in Mother's March For -City Polio Funds 150 Leaves On Mission Prepared to march, on Brig City, assignments were made Monday night to 150 mothers who will participate in the Thursday evening campaign to raise funds in the current March of Dimes campaign, it was announced this week by Mrs. Elmer Klitgaard, local chairman. Your porch light burning af-tham er oclock Thursday ning will be an Invitation 7:00 0. E. Linderman Guilty of Wheat Theft Services Held Funeral services for Otto Emil Linderman who died January 19, were conducted Saturday, Janu 23 st noon at the Sixth Ward Upon arraignment in district ary chapel by Bishop Richard court Tuesday morning, James Hansen. Tremonton; MCFarland, Virgil William G. Stoker and Spencer Mr. Linderman was born Nov R. Nielsen, both of Ogden, enember 14, 1890. tered pleas of guilty to grand Family prayer was offered by larceny theft of a truck load of Wheat, taken from the Howard Gilbert C. Onme with prelude and Glenn ranch at Blue Creek on postlude being played by Roma Thorson. December 20. Heber J. Sessions offered the According to evidence, the wheat was sold for $518. The invocation followed by a vocal value plus damages resulting duet by John and Martin Ras to $641 and on promise of resti- mussen. Charles J. Wood spoke followed tution and agreement to adult probation, Judge Leiwis Jones by a violin solo by Harold Felt. Next speaker was C. E. Smith suspended the penitentiary sentence of an indetermined term with closing remarks by Bishop of not less than one year noT Hansen. A vocal duet was sung by Lilmore than ten years for each and ordered them confined in lian and Harold Felt with Basil the county jail for an indefinite Fife offering the benediction. Concluding services were held period with a stay of execution in the Salt Lake City cemetery. until Monday noon. eve- to Mrs. KMtgaard announced, adding the hope that every porch light In town will be turned on at that hour." Goal for the Mothers March will be $1.00 per family members. With such a contribution to the March of Dimes campaign, tickets will be presented giving each person a chance to win a steer calf donated by J. Y. Ferry, adlmission to the pan- cali, Shonka Hearing Continued to Calvin W. Jeppson who just returned in De- cake supper and dance Satur13 at the high school cember from two years in the day will leave in February cafeteria and gymnasium, navy At the Monday training sesDefense attorney Omer J. Call, for the Swedish mission field. sion, held In the Flrsit ward cha appearing Tuesday morning in pel, conducted by Mrs. KlitFirst District court on behalf of Miss C. Jean Shonka, convicted gaard, the meeting was opened with prayer by Mrs. Maurice of grand larceny on a case of Burtcher. Two vocal solos were missing funds at Box Elder high presented by Mrs. Del Madsen, sohool, asked for the statutory accompanied by Douglas Mansi. stay of 30 days in which to produce affidavits supporting the Appreciation to the' women defense motion for a new trial, participating in the drive was extended by Maurice Burtcher, filed with the court on January Sat., Feb. . 1 Calvin Jeppson Leaves Soon on 13. The defense moved also for a stay of pronouncing sentence until that time. Both motions were granted and Judge Lewis Jones set Saturday, February 13 at 10 a. m. as the diay and hour for the new hearing on the motion for new trial. Harold B. Felt Named Chamber Vice President A reorganization of meeting the Chamber of Commerce board of directors for the new year was held Monday night, during which Harold B. Felt was named vice president of the organization, President Ruel skelson announced Tuesday. Committee chairmen were apand pointed at the meeting members will be given an opportunity to select the committee assignment on which they would prefer to serve. The tentative dates of Sept. 10 and 11 for Peach Days were approved by the board for the 1954 observance. Reigns As Sixteenth Snow Queen Church Mission chairman. Mrs. Ezra director of womens activities for Infantile paralysis In Box Elder county, spoke briefly and introduced out of town guests, including Mrs. Bruce Hanks, Salt Lake City, national director for Utah and Nevada and Mrs. Ore Evans, Salt Lake City, Utah director off womens activities. Both spoke during the evening, as diid Mrs. Emily Smith Stetwart, also of Salt lake county Farewell testimonial for Calvin W. Jeppson, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Jeppson, 339 East Seventh North, will be held in the Eighth ward chapel, Sun day evening, January 31, at 7:30 o'clock. Calvin will enter the mission home on February. 3 and will sail from New York for the Swedish mission where he will labor on February 16. A graduate of Box Elder high school with the class of 1951, Calvin served two years In the Navy,' getting his release on December 1, 1953. In high school he iwas Junior class secretary and president of the senior class, active in ath letics and a Tnember of . the F. F. A. He was chosen as a yearbook personality during his final year. Most of his time In the Navy was spent at Corpus Christ!, Texas, .where he served on the staff of Rear Admiral Cato D. Glover, chief of Naval Air Ad vanced training. While there he served as LDS servicemen coordinator for the Corpus Christi area. Owens, City. - - - - v - Films showing medical treatment of polio victims and prog- ress in research were presented. Jay Swenson acting as projectionist. IPerc Petersen, 1953 March of Dimes Chairman, spoke briefly on the opportunity offered in serving in the fight on this dreaded disease. i Wade Elbeling, city March of Dimes chairman, told the group about plans for the pancake supper and dance, sponsored by the American Legion, to I be staged Saturday, January 30, as the concluding activity of the I month. Menu for the supper will be Plllstoury pancakes served with' butter from the Rocky Mountain Dairy and Nalleys Lumberjack syrup; eggs furnished by the Brigham Oity retail grocers; Folgers coffee with Sego milk or Rocky (Mountain cream; Libbys pineapple Juice or Rocky Mountain milk. A ticket to the supper and dance will be delivered for evto the ery dollar contributed Mothers March campaign, ElbeFour men from Box Elder ling pointed out. This ticket will also give the holder a chance of county were sworn into the U.S. the steer calf donated winning left and 21, the Army, January same day for Ft. Ord, Calif., by Ferry. where they wi(ll take their basic , Four Brigham City Boys in January Call d training. They were Jerold Arthur Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Nelson; Gareth Mau-gha- n Baird, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Edwin (Baird; Gary Lee Nuttall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Nuttall; and Myles Glade Jeppsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil D. Jeppsen-The next call will be Febru ary 17, when three men will be called. Phone your news to 1000. Phone your news to QUEEN AT SATURDAY CARNIVAL 1000. Fined $115 On Two Counts in City Court Blain Nelson, 432 North Second was found guilty of drunken driving and driving without a license when he appeared before Judge B. C. Call in city court, Tuesday morning. Nelson was fined $115 on the two counts and sentenced to 60 days in the city Jail, the jail sentence being suspended upon payment of the fine. West PROCLAMATION ' Amid pine trees and snow flakes, lovely Miss Bonnie Nay, Mrs. daughter of Mr. and Thomas K. Nay, stepped to the snow covered throne and reigned as Snow Queen of 1954 in festivities held on Saturday, January 23, at the Box Elder high school gym. The tall statuesque blond held number one as Mayor C. LeGrande Horsley selected the enchanted balloon. girls, Dainty little flower Ro brunette Olsen, Layne daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Earl Olsen, and blond Susan Larsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde P. Larsen, were gowned in miniature blue and white formals of frosted organdy. The little Misses carried tiny nosegays. Assisting as 54, d Three Plead bearer was young Blaine Jordan, son of Mr. and Mrs. do vis Jordan. Following the crowning of Miss Nay by the mayor, Dixie Gordon Richardson stepped to the throne to make the white woolen blanket presentation. Miss Nays name (will be added to those fifteen lovely girls who have proceeded her as Snow Queens in the past. She was the lucky member of the court of thirty beautiful queens. Emcee for the everting was Clyde P. Larsen, who named the queens and their parents as they were presented to the large group of well wishers who attended the annual affair. Special thanks went out today from Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Bott, general chairman, to all who assisted in making the Snow Carnival and Dance for 1954 successful. Jn The heaviest snow of the year blanketed Northern Utah over the fall in Brig the week-end- , ham City being recorded at nine Inches with a moisture "content of 1.83 inches, it was reported this week by Charles Clifford, official weather observer. A light rain Saturday afternoon, accompanied by a strong wind with gusts estimated up to 50 miles per hour, turned into snow which fell intermittantly until early Monday morning. Another trace fell early Tuesday morning accompaning the of the year, a low tempera-lurcold- 5 degrees. High last Saturday was a mild 50 degrees. BONNIE NAY SELECTED SNOW Miss Nay Held Lucky Number One Balloon In Parade of Queens , BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1954 BLAME THE WEATHER Perc Petersen, center is presented his Distinguished Service Award by Mayor C. LeGrande Jaycee President Armour Jensen awaits his turn to offer congratulations. p TT7 Ml VOLUME 57, NUMBER ! Co crown : WHEREAS, the month of January is National March of Dimes month and WHEREAS, there is a greater need for funds in than ever before because of the additional cost of financing the trial gamma globulin polio vaccination 1954 prevention program, estimated to cost $25,000,000 and WHEREAS, Brigham City volunteer workers are planning a concentrated drive during this last week to raise their quota through the Thursday night porch-ligMother's March and the big Saturday program consisting of a pancake supper, dance and prize award to climax the weeks activities, NOW THEREFORE, I, C. LeGrande Horsley, Mayor of Brigham City, do hereby proclaim this March of Dimes Week in this city and urge every citizen to financially help in the great humanitarian cause to stamp out this dreaded disease. ht Miss Bonnie Nay x daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas K. Nay, Willard, assumed duties as Snow Queen of 1954 at annual festivities held Saturday. January 23, at the BEHS gymnasium. Dainty misses, Susan Larsen, left, and Ro Layne Olsen, right, performed flower girl duties as Blaine Jordan served as crown bearer. young blond, brown-eye- d . . . C. LeGrande Horsley, Mayor Brigham City, Utah I |
