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Show rr trr rrm ttt y y Univrs-i- l Microfilming Corn. 141 Pioroont 've. Salt VFW Auxiliary Top Hopscotchers Services State President Sherry Jenson, right, . . . compares her trophy won last Saturday, May 21, at Murray Park in Salt Lake City with Donna Kay Jensen, left, last years winner. Sherry, a third grader at Central school, daughter of Mrs. Howard C. Jenson, took top honors for all third graders competing in the annual event. Miss Jensen, daughter of Mr. add Mrs. Wynn Jensen, won last ' year for the sixth grade contenders. Brigham Youth Sherry Jenson is Wins Top Air One of State Top Force Award Hopscotchers Planned Thursday Elder county farmers and ranchers who are interested in the range reseeding program are invited to attend a field day program at Benmore, Tooele county, on Thursday, May 26. The field day is undef the direction of Ernest C Biggs, Too ele county agent and will start at 10 a. m. Lunch will be serv f ed at noon by the Vemort society and the program re ; sumed. A tour of reseeded ranges areas west of the experimental pastures will start at 2 p. m. (Box Re-le- Merrells Offer Range as Prize Merrells, Inc., local Hotpoint in dealer, is participatihg national contest being conducted by the electrical appliance manufacturers, during which four $35,000 homes, 50 Hotpoint kitchens and laundries and 5,000 appliances will be. award' ed. Some local entrant in the don test will win an electric range being offered by Merrells, Inc., and entries will toe sent to compete in regional and national contests. Contest blanks are available at Merrells. Closing deadline for the contest is June 25. Legion Post Will Install Officers Installation of newly elected officers will be held Thursday night When American Legion Post No. 10 meets in regular session at 8 p. m. According to Commander Ories will Jeppsen, a good program be presented at the meeting and a snack lunch will be - served afterwards. t Elden K. Shaw, Brigham City, is 1955 winner of the Society of Mrs. Esther Hodges American Military Engineers . Eagles Auxiliary Head . . award, one of the highest ROTC to Air awards made Force students,. Col. Howard A. Moody, professor of air science at Utah State Agricultural college, , announced. Shaw, an electrical engineering student at USAC, is one of 20 junior class stu AFROTC dents in the United States to win the award, Colonel Moody for the said. Qualifications (Mrs, Esther L. Hodges, active award, he said, require the student to be rated outstanding civic worker of Brigham City, was named president , of . the in his engineering,class. 'Auxiliary of the Fraternal Order Recommended for the honor of Eagles for the State of Utah at regular joint by J. E. Cfiristiansen, dean of last week-enand convention held in Provo. the' school of engineering technology at USAC, Shaw was Mrs. Helen Lee was elected to rated as top man in his class in the state secretarial office. electrical engineering. He was Mrs. Hodges, during the past rated second in the entire year, has served as vice presischool of engineerihg junior dent of the state organization; class. she has been a member of the This award, a gold medal with state board of trustees; presikey replica, is given anually by dent of the local auxiliary; the Society' of American Mill membership chairman and pubtary Engineers to outstanding licity chairman. She also servunior and senior engineering ed as state general chairman of students enrolled in ROTC. Pre the , auxiliary convention held senlation of the medal was in Brigham City in 1953. made at cerempnies during Along with her Eagles Auxili ( Agathon week, iary affiliation sihe is also an Shaw, the son of William P. active member and officer of the Shaw, Brigham City, became in American Legion Auxiliary on terested in electrical engineer- city, district and state levels. ing after his older brother, AlAttending the convention May len, ohose it as a career. The 21 and 22 were members of the elder brother is now a senior at ritualistic and drill teams along Utah State. with many auxiliary and Aerie After graduation from USAC, members. his Shaw hopes to continue In the aerie elections Chris studies in the field of electro Larsen was named inside guard nics and plans to become a re and George Hodges, trustee. search technician. The entire convention was arActive in student organiza ranged by Roy Olsen, (Brigham tions on the campus, Shaw is City, president, and Mrs. Selma president of Sigma Tau an hon Harvey, Salt Lake , City, state fraternity, madam president. orary engineering and is a member of the student Attending the session were chapter of the institute of Ra- Mrs. Carol Bennet, Long Beach, dio Engineers at USAC. California, National Auxiliary He is also a member of the president and Lawrence Leahy, Pershing Rifles, an honorary Grand Aerie Trustee from WenROTC organization. . atchee, Washington. Mr. Leahy was main speaker at the joint banquet held Sunday immediately following in- Esther Hodges Named to Top Auxiliary Office . , d Poochie's Lost, Another Small Dog Is Wanted Willard Man Killed When Hit by Car e Reseeding Tour Is J'n; 56 BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, MORNING, MAY 25, 1955 VOLUME 58, NUMBER 21 Impressive Memorial Day vices are being planned for Brigham City next Monday, sponsored by a joint committee of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Auxiliary units of the two organizations. Tentative plans call for a pamen which rade of will form at the War Memorial Home on. East Forest at 9:30 a. m. Headed by massed colors and a color guard, the Golden Spike Cadets, drum and bugle corps of the VFW and marchers, the parade will move down Main street to the Brigham City cemetery. An appropriate program is being arranged for the services at the cemetery which will start promptly at 10:00 a. m., the ;oint committee announced Alj offices and retail stores in the city wlil be closed for the Memorial Day observance. e , Ut?.h Legion, VFW Plan Memorial Day. of Sherry Jenson, daughter Mrs. Howard C. Jenson, hopped of with state honors in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary state hopscotch contest held Saturday, May 28, at Murray park. Representatives from the entire state were on hand for the state competition with winners in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade youngsters entering. Sherry, a Central school student, won for the third graders in the state-widcompetition. She was presented with a beautiful trophy. Last year, Donna Ray Jensen, Mrs.Wynn daughter of Jensen, a sixth grader of Brigham City, also took honors. ' Others from this locality in the contest were in the final competition following the preliminary games. Traveling to the contest Saturday were: Alaine Hailing and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn , Hailing, Mantua; Kaye Tingey and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Tingey; Marlene Bosley . and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art Bosley and Sherry Jenson, her sdster, Linda, and Mrs. Eva Yearsley, president of the VFW Auxiliary of Brigham City. City Willard man was killed instantly about 10:45 Thursday night when struck by a car on Highway 91, about two and a half miles north of Ogden. Dead is Verl Lenard Edwards, employee of the Goocher Trucking company and who formerly worked in the Union Pacific shops in Ogden. Trooper Gene Smith of the Utah Highway Patrol said, the man was crossing the highway from west to east when he was struck by an auto driven by Gordon Brown, ,20, Layton. Trooper Smith said the victim was wearing dark clothing and apparently began to run as he crossed the highway. He ran directly in front of the Brown car. The impact threw' Edwards against the windshield, then he apparently rolled off the side of the car, Trooper Smith said. Brown was northbound at the time of the accident. The car was badly damaged. Trooper Smith, taking measurements, said the pedestrian was struck on the exact spot where an Ogden man was hit and killed on the night of February 25. The highway patrolman had investigated both accidents. Verl Lenard Edwards was born April 24, 1912, in Willard, a son of William Thomas and Mary Engstrom Edwards. In 1935 he married Flora Chugg. She died in 1943. Surviving are two sons: Ralph and Lynn Edwards, Harrisville; his mother, Willard; the following brothers and sisters: Wil liam Edwards, Spokane, Wash.; Charles Edwards, Mrs. Pearl Nay and Mrs. Myrtle Beeton, Willard; Mrs. June McLean, Washington, D. C. Funeral services were conducted Monday at 2 p. m. in the Willard ward chapel with Bishop William Kunzler officia ting, Burial was made jrr the Willard cemetery under direc tion of the Harold B. Felt Fu neral Home. A Kindergarten to Begin June 1 in stallation. New Industries the state were represented. Mrs. Hodges is planning now All auxiliaries For Box Elder Organization meeting of the newly named industrial committee of the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce was held Monday evening at 6:30 oclock at the chamber quarters, it was an nounced this week Iby Douglas Miller, committee chairman. A joint meeting with the new ly organized Bear River Cham ber of Commerce was proposed, to be held on Monday, June 6 at 2 p. m. in the chamber office, to plan for the promotion of in dustriai development in Box El der county, Miller said. Attending the June meeting, to help with plans, will be rep rescntatives from the Industrial Development and Employment committee appointed by Gov. Bracken Lee to aid communi ties in promoting industries. Serving with Miller on the in dustriai committee are Douglas J. Fife, director member, O. Dee Lund, Charles Ciaybaugh, Orion Eskelsen, Wade Bbeling and Wayne Jensen. 1 and- - aeries of for committee assignments for the coming year and talso mak ing arrangements for state visi tations. Poochie, the young fox terrier pup presented recently to Charles Wolthers, Willard boy who is victim of muscular distrophy, has disappeared curd left his young master heart broken. A perfect companion for the Poochie invalid. youthful would sit on the boy's lap for hours while he was watching television, or romp and play when they were out in the yard in the wheel chair given Charles by the Brigham City Rotary club. Needed is a replacement for the lost pet Anyone having a small, young puppy they are willing to give to the lad is asked to contact the News and Journal. A special committee from the Rotary club will deliver the dog to young Charles. Council Box Elder Co. In Kindergarten will begin Box Elder County School district on FViday, June 1, and will continue up to and Including July 15. Following is a list of the schools, number of students planning to attend and the teacher in charge: Bear River City 18 and 6 taught by Elvira Christensen at Bear River City, Central 117, Mantua 4 and Perry 8 taught by Jane Linford, Nell Barlow, Vera Mills and Ruth Armstrong at Central. Corinne 29 taught by Kathleen Wintle. Fielding 15, Plymouth 8, and Portage 5, taught by Maber Hansen at Fielding. Garland 42, taught by Dorris Peterson. Honeyville 14, Deweyville 4, and Collinston 4, taught by Virginia Blackham at Honeyville. Lincoln 61, taught by Ella Long and Mary Nichols. Thatcher 12 and Bothwell 9, taught by Ellenor Peterson at Thatcher. Tremonton 66 taught by Phyllis Christensen and Anna Romer. Willard 27 taught by Marie Ward. d ibe inaugurated by Bishop Thorpe B. Isaacson, chairman of the college board of trustees. Richard Li Evans, an apostle In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will give the baccalaureate sermon. In the graduate school, re , Herbert A. Adamson sophomore at Utah State Agricultural college, has received appointment to the new Air Force Academy. Brigham Youth Is Air Force Report on Thesis Among the five graduate stu dents who reviewed their thesis at a recent meeting of the Utah State Agricultural college psy chology club was Reed Channell of Brigham City. Channell reported that in malademotional evaluating justments of adolescents, more valid appraisals could be made through the combined use of personality Inventories, teacher rating skills and the interview than by any one of these proce dures alone. Reed, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Channell, has accepted a position as counselor of stu dents at Cyprus High school. He will receive both his bachelor and master degrees during grad uation this spring at USAC. Academy Cadet Dinner Planned First ward dinner benefit will be held Friday, May 27, at 7 p. m. at the ward hall in an effort to go over the top with funds for the new addition. The affair Is to be held with all members of all organiza- Installs New Dry Cleaning Process Here . It's A Total Wreck t h President Francis A. Child of the Missionary home at Salt Lake City, will be present to speak at the Priesthood leadership and missionary meetings. President and Mrs. Sidney J. Ottley who have Just recently returned from the New Zealand mission where President Ottley presided over the mission, will speak on Sunday. Music for the general sessions of conference will be furnished by a combined Honeyville-Har-pe- r ward choir, and the Brigham City Fourth ward choir. The stake presidency mentioned that everyone is invited to attend the meetings on Sunday. Local Cafe Is Burglarized Sunday Night Burglars, who entered Berts Turn Inn sometime between 6 p. m. Sunday evening and 2 a. ip- Monday morning, inflicted approximately $250 damage to coin operated devices, escaped with an undetermined amount of cash, a few cartons of cigarettes and possibly other merchandise, oity police announced this week.The burglary was discovered by Leroy Olsen, proprietor, who notified the local police. Officers Scott Lee and R. K. Pearse investigated. Entrance was gained through a rear window after the screen had been cut' away. The prowlers tore mudic selector boxes off the wall, pried them open and emptied the coin boxes. The same procedure was used on a coin operated electric - target dpvice. The cash register was rifled but contained 'nothing Jut a few 'pennies which were not disturbed and some papers which were scattered about the cafe. Ogden Man Is Hurt as Car Misses Curve Finding a nearly nude man, sprawled In the middle of the road at 6:30 In the morning was the experience of Charles Whitaker, 18 North Second West, last Friday when he came upon the scene of a. car accident, three quarters of a mile west of Stinking Springs near Little Mountain. , Injured In the accident was the driver of the car John W. Purcell, 1644 Liberty avenue, Ogden. at USAC rie T. Johnson, Karl K. Reeder, Colen Waddoups, Helen T. Wes tenskow, Maurice C. Whitaker and Amelia Madsen Beecher, Mary Marie Hood, Brigham City; David Lavere Carter, Park Valley; Alice Brough Hall and June Rohde, Tremonton; Jean ine Showell Hansen and Argyle Henrie, Snowville; Wallace An drew Nielsen, Deweyville; Millie Welling, Fielding; and Dennis E Simmons, Collinston. Two girls will graduate from the school of engineering and technology. They are Emma Louise Carter, Park Valley; and Donna Rigby Jordon, Ramona Loraline J. Christensen, Brigham Madsen and Beverly i Nelson, City. The school of humanities and Brigham City; and DeWayne White Simmons, Collinston. sciences will confer degrees on School of education graduates Sidney Walker Bingham, Tre are John Edwtin Baird, Ralph monton; Byron Ezra Burt, Mary Reed Channell, Nora Walker Frances Hyer and Albert Gunderson, Rula Jeppsen, Ma Thorson Jr., Brigham City. u p. m. Over the Top tions assuming responsibilities. Invitations are being delivered by Trailbuilders with the ReHerbert Arnold Adamson, 19, lief Society, and MIA in charge son of Mr. and Mrs. Herb Adam- of food. The Sunday school and son, 54 South Second East, will High Priests head the finance be a cadet at the new Air Force committee with Elders and Sevacademy in Colorado, it was an- enties arranging for tables and nounced last week by Rep. Hen- clean-up- . ry Aldous Dixon. The program, table decorations and publicity are being is a Adamson graduate Young of Box Elder High school with handled by the Primary. , charge of $10 for adults and the class of 1953 and now is a Afor children will be made. sophomore at Utah State Agr- $5 icultural college where he Is Invitations are extended to all course. He members and former members. taking a is a member of Sigma Chi social fraternity. He was third high in the state in the competitive examinations taken by 40 candidates for the post but Utah. Is entitled to only two appointments. However,. Dennis B. Farrar, Salt Lake City, iwho was one of the pair named, declined the A new process of dry cleanappointment in favor of acceptafter seven years completed ing scholarfour medical a year ing of laboratory testing and pracat Stanford university, tical ship was installed application opening the way for Adamsons last week, it was revealed by appointment. Reeves, owner of Reeves He will report to the Air Royle Reliable Cleaners. Force at Lowry field, Denver, This new process that is beon July 11 for 'a three months talked about much in the ing 'indoctrination course before the industry is the Super first classes open. Temporarily, cleaning Solution Charged the academy will be conducted Detergent controlled System, electronically multinew iq Denver while' the and tested solvent with automillion dollar school is under matic introduction of just the construction at Colorado Springs. amount of detergents for The first class will contain right each load of clothes without 301 members Chosen from 5,547 work. candidates who took the final guess In essence, the super change examinations. system is a dry cleaning techAfter completing the four year nique based on cleaning all garcourse at. the West Point of the ments in specially tested solAir, graduates will qualify for vents so that more spots, stains, wings and permanent flying grime and soil are removed, rerating of an aircraft observer storing the original sheen and and the air force specialty desig- lustre to the garments followed nation of navaga tor. Pilot flight by high pressure rinsing in pure training will be given following distmed solvent, Reeves said, at the same time the process ingraduation. Word concerning the appoint- sures prevention of soil re dispoment was conveyed to Mr. and sition. Mrs. Adamson In a personal telAccording to Reeves, the reephone call from Representative sult is .that clothes cleaned by Dixon from Washington last this new method are both cleanFriday noon, in which he ex er and brighter in color. White to the garments in particular, benefit tended congratulations Brigham City couple and their from this changed solution son. j ll h Quarterly conference of the North Box Elder stake will be held at the tabernacle, Saturday evening and Sunday, according to the stake presidency. The first meeting on Saturday evening will be the Priesthood leadership meeting at 7 oclock to be followed by the missionary meeting at 8 oclock. General sessions of the conference will be 'held on Sunday at 10 a. m. and at 2 p. m. The Sunday evening session under the direction of stake Primary association will be (held at 7 By First Ward f Members of the City 36 Box Elder Students Will Get Degrees ceiving the degree of master of Degrees will be conferred on education will be Mary Cather36 students from Box Elder ine Joyce, Brigham City. Recounty during commencement ceiving master of science derites at Utah State Agricultural grees will be, Elbert James Ancollege on June 4 at 10 a. m. In derson, Yost, and Ralph Reed the college fieldhouse. Channell, Brigham City. Dr. Howard S. McDonald, presReceiving bachelor of science ident .of Los Angeles City and degrees from the school of agriState college, will deliver the culture will be Lloyd Ivan Holmes, Brigham City; Delano graduation address. . Friday evening, June 3, there Iverson, Tremonton; and Melwill be a combination inaugur- vin Reed Munk, Howell. School of 'business and social al and baccalaureate service, at which time Dr. Daryl Chase will sciences graduates include Van formerly take office as tenth Francis Dunn Jr., Corinne; ColHoneyville; president of the college, He will lin I. Hunsaker, Brigham City residents had better watch their step today and Thursday when the city plays host to peace officers from all over Northern Utah who will be here attending the Federal Bureau of Investigation school. Included in the program will be county and city peace officers and highway patrol officers from Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties. Were Reed Channell Gives General Sessions Will Be Held Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. From North Utah Meeting Thurs. council presented with a request On behalf of the Phillips Petro leum company to permit con struction of new driveways and remove trees at their property at Fourth South and Main, dur ing the regular meeting last Thursday. The matter was referred to a special committee composed of Councilman Glenn Burt, Doyle Packer and Richard Hansen. After investigating, the committee rejected the proposal. ; Likewise, a request made by the Kindergarten Club for test and rooms, garbage containers tables at the Lorenzo Snow Memorial park on North Main and the East Forest playground were turned down when it was found that funds were not available. Another request for additional playgrounds supervision Wlb rejected although the Kin dergarten club offered $150 to help with the project. of Commerce The Chamber suggested that the city consider a better parking arangement at the post office so that patrons mail could use the drive-ibox now located at the curb. The council deferred until the next meeting, the matter of appointing a new library board, The group asked Walter G. Mann, city attorney, to confer with the citys consulting engi neers on a settlement of Curb and Gutter District 9, which has been pending for several months. In other actions, they con sidered B and C road matters, allowed claims and transacted a number of minor business matters. North Box Elder Stake Will Hold FBI School Will Draw Officers ;Holds Regular j V Quarterly Conference Sat, Sun. . n ; Chamber Seeks Wins Appointment 6 PAGES John W. .Purcell, Ogden is lucky to be alive after wrecking this car at ... when he failed to Mountain last Little negotiate Friday morning' a curve. Purcell, nearly nude, was found stretched out on the highway an hour after the accident happened. Whitaker was en route to Penrose where he Is working on a construction job when he found the injured man who was wearing only a shirt and possibly underclothes. Loading him Into his car, he returned to Corinne where he found Te Wayne Woodland, state highway trooper, stopped at a filling station. He turned the accident victim over to Woodland who brought him to the Cooley Memorial suffering hospital, from shock and abrasions, where he was kept during the day for observance. Returning to the scene of the Woodland accident, Trooper found where the car failed to a curve, ran off the highway and rolled over two or three times. The car, a 1951 Hudson, was completely demolished. It was determined the accident happened about 5:30 a.ro., the time shown on a broken watch found at the scene. Purcell, who said he had been bathing at the springs, was cited for driving too fast for existing conditions and posted bail in Judge R. M. Zundels court: in Willard. II - & |