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Show The Movie Director's In' The Stctm l TZvcn Calls Pileeting In Fight to Keep Bear River Water V tY 'vAa - o ( k tA , -- ,'2?$ Vf ,v Editor's Note: In the follow ing open letter, one of the county's outstanding farmers, Ed Holmgren, Bear River City, points to the possible loss of water rights on the Bear River and nrges great participation at a November 6 meeting, called to fight for water. .; ' V s V - By Ed Holmgren About two weeks ago the members of the Water Users Association of the Bear River Valley metwlth the Governor's committee which consists of A V Smoot and J. L. Weidman to discuss the progress of the water users compact of the three states involved In the Bear River water shed. We have been working on this proposition for at least 11 years, and though some progress has been made toward a settlement of the rights of the water from this important river, we have never been able to consumate such a deal While time has marched on, the upper water rights have been developed in pumps wtyich many sprinkler have been installed and various water reservoirs and canals have been enlarged and improved and finally, at this time all the water above the Bear Lake has now been diverted, in the summer time by those in the upper higher regions of this mountainous area. In the old days before our contract between the Utah Pow "'"S . 5 ry f , k2& u .. . v j, "W I vms&Y' :& 4. W wjf' 9 s o Vx. y ? y-' . 4 ?vjjf & V y 1 v "v ",WS. - DIRECTOR GEORGE SIDNEY give Esther Williams last minute instructions for an underwater scene for her forthcoming color musical, Jupiter's Darling in with Howard Keel. Director and camera crew were equipped which Esther co-stfor work below the surface of the tank including John Nicholaus who mans the ars water-pro- camera. of How to Keep Farm Girls Happy Editor's Note: Following Is a story about Maurice Lar-son'- s, Corinne fanner, unique method of providing both boys and girls in the family with money of tkeir own, as it appears in the October issue of Farm Journal. A similar story was previously published in the Box Elder News. Its fairly easy to start a farm bojr out earning his own money at home usually theres thing he can grow. some- But wdth a girl, who helps Mother around the house, its a little harder. Doesnt seem logical not wise exactly to pay her for dusting the chair rungs, 'or for baking Pops pancakes in the morning. And so. much too often, farm girls, who like 'to fix up their rooms and themselves with money of their own, look around for a Job in town. Figures show, you know, that thats where more and more farm girls are ending up in town. There, it seems, they're marrying town boys. And farm boys are marrying town girls not all of whom know much about farm life and problems. 6 An Open Letter -- -- In Corinne The Maurice Larsons, Box Elder county, have a unique scheme for providing both the boys and girls in their family of nine with money of their own. This is how it works: Their oldest, Monty on his tenth birthduy, was allowed to choose a calf from their Holstein herd. Right away came the question of who was to pay for the feed Dad or Monty? Feed would be free, Dad said, if in three years Monty would give a calf to his next younger brother, Lynn, whod be ten. But what about Dawn, who was older, and Dixie, in between the two boys (For Mother Nature happened to alternate girls and boys In the Larson family clear down to the ninth and littlest, Sunny Gay, two ) The girls help with the housework and chores, of which there are plenty in a household of eleven They dont get paid directly. So they worked it out that each boy would divide the income from his calf or calves and share In sale of Increase (limit of two milk producing animals each) with his next older sister Each girl knows Economy Program Saves Box Elderites er and Light and the Utah Idaho Sugar company we depended on the natural flow of the river to supply our Irrigation water in the Bear River Valley If we depended on the natural flow of the river to supply us at this time for our valuable rich acres in this valley they would all be dry farm acres, as there would be no water to supply us for irrigation purposes There was a time when we felt that a "prior right" to the usage of the water was more definite and secure than a higher right of those coming later and appropriating unwarranted water for their own purThat proposition seems poses to have been sadly ignored As we rested on our apparent and insecure laurels we may have gradually lost much of the past usage right we once had in this valuable water shed The states of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah will someday finally come to an agreement that is equitable and fair and the Legislatures of those three states will finally approve such a compact, before we will know exactly just what water rights and privileges we have In this lower region of the Bear River water shed I am aware that it took the states of Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska 22 years to settle their difficulties for the water rights of the Platt river. I do hope that it will not take that long to finish a contract that should be made within the next year or so with our neighbor states The two members of the Governors committee have worked diligently in our behalf during the past years with little praise and some condemna tion for their efforts Your own committee consisting of Alma Theurer, Harry Drew, B A Bingham, Sam Mortensen and E. J. Holmgren and A V Smoot, has done what it could with what the little means that was collected ten years ago when we employed the "scale off to derive the few dollars that farmers contributed at that time Now the time has come when the fund is depleted and we must find a new source of means to pay a lawyer, perhaps, and even devise a way through the courts to fulfill the obligations that we have for the water users of this county There has been three ways suggested by which, that fund can be provided, and we are calling you to a meeting to get your opinion and approval of a scheme that will best fit our We have conditions Invited some of the best experts in the state to be present at this meeting, and answer your questions, and advise you in the troubles that have beset us I hope all you fellows who have been resting serenely in apparent smug security; careless of that birth- - right of water that you might lose, will be on hand and offer your advice and support to this serious, difficult matter. I am aware that the average fellow who thinks he is "getting by because Ren "will take care of it will' be satisfied to stay home and listen to the radio or television in the comfort of his warm fireside; yet there comes a time when you should be prompted to do your duty, and offer the support that you can give to those you have selected to safeguard your interests Now, they have asked you to come out in mass to this meeting, we believe at a time and a place that is convenient for this affair. We have call ed several meetings at times when we thought your attention should be directed to matters and to get your support and aid under troubled condi tions I cite to you the occasion when the East Canal washed out, three or four years ago when In the .howl and cry was sent up from every water user on the east side of the river We called a meeting about the time the water was back in the canal and at that meeting only seven water users showed up and four of them were board members We have worked for ten years off and on at least, without a dimes compensation for travel mid-summ- farmer And each girl teams with her brother in getting animals reaProfits indy for 4 H shows crease naturally, as the children get older and their investment returns more Monty and Lynn own four of the twenty milk cows on the place by now; Lynn passed a calf on to this next younger brother, and on down the line. This scheme makes all the We children self supporting dont have to dig up a cent for them, says Dad Larson "They pay their school expenses, dentist bills, buy their clothes and entertainment, including vaca tions. Mother Larson says: "I think this money sharing plan has brought a love and closeness among our children And. "When its your own money, you look for real values, Dawn and Dixie point out earnestly The Larsons have six years of proof that it pays to have a plan family money-o- f your-owfor both boys and girls. n Old War Crime Unearthed At Fort LAKE GEORGE, N. Y. (UP) About $1,697,124 During Past Year The federal economy drive of the present administration has reduced government spending to the tune of $86 saving for every man, woman and child In Bdx Elder county, or a total of $1,697,124. Washingtons expenditures for the current fiscal year, ending Jtine, 1955, will be aflout 000 less than the fiscal 1964 level of national .spending projected by the previous ad ministration, according to an analysis of the federal budget released today by the National Association of Manufacturers 0 he outgoing Truman admin isiyation estimated fiscal 1954 expenditures at $78,000,000,000, aryl the fiscal J955 estimates of President Eisenhower, as revised last September 14, art; according to the NAM This represents a reduction in federal spending of approxi $Q3,968,-000,00- mately $14 000.000,000 "Assuming that Box Elder county Is in line with the national pattern of tax and debt of obligation, the population are 19,734 people of that area being saved about $1,697,124, the NAM states Savings in the revised 1955 budget are being made principally in the military category ($10 000,000,000). and the area of foreign assistance programs ($3 200,000,000), according to the NAM analysis. Jaycee Business Meet Scheduled Thursday Regular business meeting of the Brigham City Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held Thursday at 7 30 p. m. in the Chamber of Commerce rooms, according to Jack L Balch, secretary r fa WASHINGTON CAPTAIN ROMRT J IOVE FIRST IN KOREA AND SIXTH mtCS IN TEN MINUTES r stood GREAT GUARDSMAN GENERAL SMITH, SOLDIER AND STATESMAN, NO assistant secretary of STATE C GOT ALLH5 TRAINING IN THE NATIONAL GUARD CAREER IN THE AIR A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE WHO ENLISTS IN THE AIR NATIONAL GUARD CAN EARN Hi 5 WIN6SAN0 LIEUTENANTS COMMISSION IN ABOUT A YEAR. J22 1 t V ... when your money's (UP) A sci- GUARD HISTORY YOUR NATIONAL GU ARP TRACES ITS UNBROKEN HISTORY BACK TO 1636 IS 24 YEARS OVPER THAN THE FAMOUS UFE GUARDS REGIMENT THAT TRAPITION ALLY PROTECT THE SOVEREIGNS OF . ENGLAND & i - g Sav- meaning of the words. Registered in your name, they can always be replaced. CLOUDY U.S. Savings Bonds help you save automatically for the times when the wind blows cloudy. 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Series H current income savings bonds Series H offers an ideal savings plan for the person who wants interest paid by check every 6 months, instead of letting it accumulate. Interest is paid at an ascending rate, with an overall yield of 3 compounded for 9 years 8 months. thanks, for (heir patriotic donations. Hi. Advertising Council and NEWS and JOURNAL m 4'A.a- NEWS Brigham City, Utah 1954 Wednesday, November 3, for our untiring efforts and this was a sorry thanks the water users committee received for s their efforts I am aware are busy, tired and underpaid but the very fact that we class is t are in a because we have failed to take care of our own business interests Now I dont want this to happen while I have any part of this matter in charge I dont want to see this valley become an arid dry farm area. Our children will haunt us and scold us as long as they can remember our neglect, if we fail them in attending to the duties that we have assumed. I was assigned the job to stir you fellows up and if I have been too outspoken and frank in my accusations you can corner me and catch me if you can, but I am going to say while I can that our serene attitude of indifference is a disgrace to those who sit on their supine haunches and let those up the rier who are anxious for water steal our birthright. Let me say once more we are calling this meeting Saturday, November 6 at 7:30 p. m at the We are placing High school this notice in all three papers of the county and only those who are unable to read such a notice have any excuse for not being present Well never miss the water till the well runs dry. that when she marries she will receive two cows or the equivalent, if she doesn't marry a Archaelogists have found proof of a war crime 200 years old In the remains of Fort William Henry near here. The scientists who have been digging into the fort to restore it for the public, have come across the charred bones of two British soldiers In the barracks cellar According do the archaelogists, the French and Indians massacred the soldiers in 1757, then piled them in one of the barracks and set fire to the building. The bodies are two of the historic finds In the reconstruction Workers also have dug pi elect upaxes, trench shovels, shell fragments, cannon balls, a Ratchet used by Rogers Rangers, and a musket bayonet in perfect condition They found a cuff link just a few inches under the British officers' quarters On it was engraved a ship in full sail and the words God Bless the British Fleet Part of Fort Henry is already Cannons open to the public have been mounted just where they were in 1755, when the fort was built, two years before the ' massacre. Box Elder far-mei- down-and-ou- ' |