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Show Universal Microfilming Corp. r 141 liilcrnioiinloin School Schedules Salt Pierport L&ke Ave. City, Utah Graduation Exercises Next Week f v Baccalaureate Assembly to Be Held Sunday, Commencement Exercises Thursday Evening 4 Mm &d v x Chosen as the Queen QUEEN AND KING OF HEARTS and King of Hearts at the Valentine dance held Thursday evening for B.E.H.S. junior division students, were Rojean Reeves and Paul Morrell. Both are eighth grade students. of Dr. Willard W. Beatty White Plains, New York, who wa, chief of the Branch of Education, Bureau of IndiarT Affairs, at the inception of Intermountain school, will be the speaker at the baccalaureate assembly, which will be held in the Boys Gj mnasium. Commencement exercises will also be held in the Boys Gymnasium at 7:45 p. m. on Thursday, Feb. 28. Henry A. Wall, Director 'of Navajo Schools, Window Roeki Ariz., Will be the speaker. Other activities scheduled for commencement week are the Junior-Senio- r Prom on Saturday evening, Feb. 23, and the Senior Tea on Sunday afternoon, Feb. bac4, immediately following calaureate assembly. Early in March, members of the graduating class will be placed on jobs located over'sev-era- l western states as part of Stutheir training. dents who complete this training satisfactorily will be mailed their diplomas early in May. Having formal exercises in February instead of May will save the students the cost of inconvenience of returning for graduation exercises at the, end of the school year. Because of limited seating invitations facilities, special have been issued to community leaders, civic clubs, and friends of the students, it was said. b King and Queen of Hearts Selected At BEHS Junior Division Dance Friday Judy Ann Redelings A Valentine dance was held in the gymnasium for the Box Elder High school junior division students on Feb. 14. Music was furnished by the Dan Ross orchestra. The crowning of RoJean Reeves as Queen of Hearts and Paul Morrell as King of Hearts was the climax of the evenings entertainment. These contestants won in the final voting. Other finalists were Alice Snow, Rita Harris, Gayle Anne Cutler,. Chris Pella, Ricky Erb and Alvin Anderson. Joseph Tillotsen conducted the king and queen contest. Winners of special dance contests were Douglas Knudsen, Janet Beecher, John Morris, Rachel Palmer, Alan Thompson and Margaret Mason. Decorations for the dance were prepared under the direction of Mrs. Marie Jeppson, Floyd Jenson and Clair Bailey. Mrs. Hazel Todd, assisted by Diane Bennett, Rowna Johnson, Patty Bidlack, and JoAnn Hendrickson were in charge of refreshments. Austin Larsen took tickets. Mrs. Margaret Clough and Dale Rasmussen acted as chairmen of the dance with officers of the Boys Association as com mittee members. By Franclne Romer Much anticipation is in the air at the Box Elder High school for the coming Circus today and tomorrow, Feb. 20 and 21. Heinz Hubler will be the feature attraction. Most men have chins to grow whiskers on, but Heinz Hubler, of Beil, Switzerland, balances anything from chairs and tables on his chin to glasses of water on his nose, to earn his living. .He has saved his money and now is at the Brigham Young University as a student. Hubler, feature attraction at the B.E.H.S. Circus, is shown above as he juggles a huge knife on the tip of his nose. The circus will swing into action Wednesday and Thursday nights in the high Deciding three years ago that school gymnasium. his small juggling act was not good enough to win his way to News, Journal Win Honors in Press Contests America, he enlarged Now he can balance chairs on his chin at time, or keep a table by the same method. I use my nose for things, he explained, ances silverware on My chin is reserved the act. up to 10 the same in the air the small as he balhis nose. . for my Total 'contributions to the March of Dimes campaign in Box Elder county reached $5,805.64 this week, with two communities t till to report and with a number of pledges outstanding, it was announced by Nick. Topik, county fund chairman. We feel confident that when all reports are in that the total will exceed $6,000, the chairman said. , High on the list of contributions was Brigham City with $2,188.05 while Tremonton was second with $1,Q58 95. Bear River City contributed $647.38, Garland $354.51 and Little Valley, Box Elder countys newest community, $251.70 Donations in the Willard come munity amounted to $162.87, $131.46, Fielding $11266 and Honeyville $104.00. Other communities turning in- - larger acts. When he was 15 years old, Hubler started taking his show into Germany, France, Italy and Spain and to all parts of Switzerland. He was the youngest performer in Europe to balance a stick on his chin, then twirl a plate on top of the stick. Since arriving here he already has had tremendous success the thing he needs, he said, to continue his education at BYU. Also on the agenda for these two big nights will be a trampoline act from the USAC and five dances from the high school dance classes and Physical Education department. The also clowns will make their appearance throughout the night. Good hamburgers, hot dogs, ice cream, pop, and pop corn will be sold again this year. There will also be games and concessions offered the two nights. The concessions ' will start at 6:30 p. m. with the main act coming at 8 p. m. The public is invited ' ever-lovin- g The Box Elder News and Jour- nal made a very creditable showing in the better newspaper contests held by the Utah State Press association, when receiving awards in four classifications. was Speaking, Personally rated first place in the largest circulation bracket for the best editors column and the Brigham City newspapers were given top honors for the best use of illustrative materials. The society section of the paper won a third place citation. Another third place award was won in the best news story contest. The local papers were also honorable mengiven several tions in other contests. The better newspaper contest winners were announced Sunday afternoon at the conclusion of the 59th annual convention of the press association. . Attending the three day session in Salt Lake City were Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Claybaugh, Mr. and Mrs. Verl OBrien and Mr. and Mrs. Winston P. Nelson, all of the Box Elder News and Journal staff. Due to the holiday scheduled for Friday, Feb. 22, to ob serve George Washingtons the nabirthday throughout tion, the regular Friday issue of the Box Elder Journal will go to press 'ate Wednesday night and will be mailed on Thursday morning, instead of Friday. Any news items or stories intended for the Friday issue should be received at the l office by 4 p. m. on Wednesday. This change is necessary, due to the fact that the post office will bp closed Friday and mail will not be delivered News-Journa- on that day. County Residents Buy $21,705 Bonds TRAGEDY STRIKES Shown above are the remains of a Saturpickup truck which collided with the day morning at 9:50 a.nl., claiming the lives of three Bear River City residents. Victims of the crash were Ursel son, Lynn J. Hansen, and Lynns Hansen, his Paul Roy Bradley. The accident oc- playmate, T. Frank Coppin, chairman of the Box Elder county savings bonds committee, has been notified that purchases of series E and H. savings bonds reported for Box Elder county during January amounted to $21,705. This sum amounts to 7.5 percent of the quota asigned this county for the current year, Coppin reported. Two Persons Injured in Two-CCrash ar contributions and the amounts were listed as follows: Beaver dam $25.15, Bothwell $62.36, $15.09, Deweyville $58.62, Elwood $72.22, East Garland $21.00, Howell $71.76, Harper n $64.00. Mantua $51.65. Perry $90.75, Plymouth $58.46, Portage $48.71, Riverside $27.45, Promontory and $48.70, Snowville $18.32 Thatcher-Penros- e $58.83. and Still to report Grouse Creek, Topik announced Special thanks was extended this week to community workers and organizations which aided the successful March of pimes campaign by Chairman Topik. In South Box Elder county, these Mrs. included Verl Petersen, Jean Barnard, J. Leo Nelson, Mrs. Morris S. Fleischmann and Mrs. Jack Norris, Brigham City; Mrs. Helen Beeton, Little Valley; Mrs. Clayton Morrill, Mrs . LaVela Mateson, Bear River City; Mrs. Maxine Toombs, Promontory; Mrs. Ralph Tolman, Honeyville; Oleen Hailing. Mantua; Art Hastings, Willard; Mrs. G. M. Holmes, Harper; and Mrs. Horace Lish Jr., Deweyville. Organizations coming in for special recognition included the Civic Improvement Jaycettes, club, the Eagles lodge and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Topik are-Yost e; sid. A Mantua motorist was cited for reckless driving Thursdoy night after apparently dozing at the wheel of the car which he into was driving and bumping the rear end of a late model station wagon driven by Don Nelson of 146 South Fourth East, Brigham City, according to Trooper TeWayne Woodland of the State Highway Patrol. Grant Nelson of Mantua was traveling north shortly after on U. S. midnight Thursday Highway 91 near Perry, when his car suddenly overtook the station wagon, which carried the driver and seven passengers. He told Trooper Woodland that he rftufit 'have dozed' ' momentarily and did not see the station wagon ahead o'f him. The driver and one passenger of the station wagon were taken to the Cooley hospital by the Brigham City ambulance. Don Nelson was treated for a shoulder and back injury and released to return to his home. Mrs, Doyle Packer was found unconscious following the accident, and was treated at the hospital, where she remained over night, being released the next morning to return to her home, Woodland reported. Other passengers in the station wagon included Mrs. Nelson, Doyle Packer, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Clements and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Landon. Woodland estimated $400 damages to the station wagon and $40 to the 1953 model car driven Only Seven Days Left to Purchase "57 License Plates Rev-eran- Father and Son Died of Injuries After Accident; Playmate Was Killed Instantly Two Bear River City residents were killed Saturday and a third died Sunday after their pickup trhek was smashed train on a little-use- d by the Union Pacific Malad-Speci- available of trucks weekdays with the of Washingtons exception birthday on Friday, when the county offices will be closed. of Mrs. Ruth Bradley of Bear River City. Reports stated that Hansen and the two boys had been delivering feed to a herd of Hansens sheep and were returning to a central range camp when the accident occurred at 8:50 a. m. Heart Workers Are Announced house-to-hous- o Week al crossing one mile southwest of Bear River City. Killed inPaul Roy Bradley, a passenger in stantly was the truck. Ursel Hansen, 38, died at 12:40 p.m. in the Cooley Memorial Hospital, and his son, Lynn J. Hansen, died Sunday at 4 p.m. of injuries sustained in the accident. . The Bradley youth was a son ' Bear River City ladies are organized for their Heart Fund Drive, Mrs. R. M. Kaiser, Box Elder county director, announced today. Chairman, and doing a fine e job of arranging for the canvass, is Mrs. Frel-dAndersen. Bear River City proper residents will be contacted by Mrs. Ray Thorson, Mrs. Merle Jensen,' Mrs. Parley Holmgren, Mrs. Harlan Andersen and Mrs. Doyle Archibald. Those living in the north secon the east side of the rivtion by Grant Nelson. er will be visited by Mrs. Clifford Thorson and Mrs. Clinton Burt. Mrs, Ursol Whitaker and Mrs. Thomas Waddoups have consented to take care of the south section on the east side of the river. Last Those on the west side of Bear River City will be contacted by addressthe Reverend Ottipoby Mrs. Ellis Arbon and Mrs. Bured a group of more than 100 ton Anderson. The canvass will probably be older students who are being church training conducted during Saturday and enrolled in classes which will further pre- Sunday due to the large amount pare them for church member- of territory necessary to be covered to contact each home. ship and participation. Students at Intermountain The key speaker for last weeks religious emphasis activities at ProtesIntermountain school, d tant religious work, was the James A. Ottipoby of Laguna, N. Mex. Nearly a thousand students attended the Sunday auditorium .services, and the weekday religious classes were combined each day to hear tjie Rev. Ottopoby at the chapel. The theme for this year was Christ, our Need. Preceding the inspirational services, a banquet for Protestant seniors was held at the Coffee Shop in which talks were made by various seniors and alumni showing what Christ had meant to prominent men and women in many professions. The Reverend Ottipoby, an outstanding Indian leader among todays Protestants, stressed the y living importance of for Christ. Your daily witnessing shows what you are inside, he said. When you are changed because of Christ, it has to show in what you say and do. Ottipoby, of the Oklahoma Comanche tribe, upon graduation from Western Theological Seminary, served as missionary among the Winnebago Sioux and Miscalero Apaches. During World War II he enlisted and was commissioned as Chaplain in the Army Air Force, Pacific operations. Upon his return, he served as coordinator and mis sionary among Indians relocaN. Mex. ting in Albuquerque, He is now serving the oldest Presbyterian Indian church in the southwest, and was recently honored as Moderator of the New Mexico Synod, Presbyterian church. U.S.A. Concluding his sessions at Intermountain school on Sunday, River Man and Two Boys Saturday; License plates are for cars and all sizes and will be on sale at the court house, Religious Leader Visited Protestant Trooper William C. Sackett of the Utah Highway Patrol was investigating officer and reported that the cab of the truck was severed from its bed and thrown 37 feet The truck bed was catapulted another 35 feet. The Bradley boy was pinned under the cab. Hansen remained in the cab and his son was pinned under a truck wheel. M. S. Freebairn, fireman on the northbound train, said he saw the truck just before the impact and shouted to Alvin Wardle, the engineer, but they were unable to avoid the accident. Union Pacific officials said the train had left Brigham City at 9:30 a. m. The crossing, known as the was "old Waukegan Crossing, little used by automobiles. It is located on a small farm road . off U. S. Highway Rushed to Hospital Hansen and his son were rushed to the Cooley Memorial hospital by the Brigham City ambulance, where 'Hansen died three hours later, and the boy was treated for a skull 'fracture, compound fractures of the right leg, internal injuries, and cuts and bruises . In an effort to save the Han sen youths life, blood was rushed from Salt Lake City by the (Continued on Page Two) 30-S- Nominate Brigham's Mother of Year Olive Miller Petersen, Brigham City mother, civic worker and ardent LDS church member this past week has been nominated by Civic Improvement club and Kindergarten club as their candidate for Northern District Federated Womens clubs Mother of the Year. Mrs. Petersen was bom Nov. 4, 1900 at Penrose the daughter of William M. and Olive Pierson Miller. She was the ninth child of a family nf 12. ''The family operated a fruit and irrigated farm and along with the regular cooking, canning, quilting and sewing chores she learned to help with some of the picking of fruit. , From Musical Family The Miller family was a musical family and their evenings were spent in playing .guitars, mandolins, mouth organs or organs and singing as well as listening to their father read aloud. Just this past Monday, Feb. 18, she and her husband, Fred L. Petersen, who she married in 1920, celebrated their 37th wedding anniversary. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple. Has Four Children Paul W. They have four children; Mrs. Seeley (Elvera) wife of a Tooele mortician, mother of three children and graduate nurse, at the Tooele Clime; now employed part-timVerl L. Petersen, Brigham City mortician father of five children, husband of LaRaine Wold, daugher of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wold, Brigham City, and active young civic and church leader; Mrs. Rex Baron fLeOra) whose husband is associated with Baron Woolen Mills; mother of three sons now busy in Junior Sunday school, PTA and Cub Scout work; and Fred Lowell Petersen, Bountiful, employee at Kennecott Copper corporation as a conference leader in the training (Continued on page four) e HONORED Mrs. Fred L. Petersen has been nominated by the Civic Improvement ajid Kindergarten clubs as a candidate for mother of the year from the Northern trict Federated Womens clubs. Dis- . Crash Fatal to Bear Train-Truc- k " Only seven days, Including today, remain for car owners to purchase their 1957 license plates, warns Fred L. Petersen, county assessor. New license plates must be displayed on cars by March 1 or drivers will be penalized for driving with improper plates, Petersen said. day-by-da- NEED WALL SPACEFublisher Charles W. Claybaugh is trying to find additional wall space at the News and Journal office for four certificates of merit and two plaques won in the Utah State Press association's 1956 better newspaper contests. curred on a seldom-use- d railroad crossing one mile southwest of Bear River City when the trio were returning from delivering feed to Hansens sheep, located near the scene of the accident. The train can be seen at the far left side of the picture. Young Bradley died instantly, Hansen three hours later, and Lynn passed away Sunday, Malad-Speci- al County Expected to Reach $6,000 Total At High School Circus on Feb. 20, 21 Heinz Pages Friday Issue of Journal Will Be 'Mailed Thursday March of Dimes Campaign in Box Elder Swiss Juggler Will Be Main Attraction SWISS JUGGLER Wednesday Morning, February 20, 1957 their future lives. x-59-5 By urm 00, Number 8, Brigham City, Utah, Preparations are being completed for graduation exercises for senior students at Intermountain school, which will start with baccalaureate assembly scheduled for Sunday afternoon at 2 p.m. and commencement exercises on .Thursday evening. Distinguished speakers will address the graduates, leaving with them words of councel regarding Stores, Schools , Offices Declare Holiday on Friday T ,, i George Washingtons birth day will he observed as a holW day by practically everyone in Brigham City on Friday - of this week. : , All business bouses will be closed, according to the Merchants committee; as will aU city, county and federal offices as well as banking institu' ' tions here. Supt. K. E. Weight announced that all schools throughout the county will also be closed on Friday to allow a holiday for : students and teachers . alike. Cattle Growers Plan Banquet Saturday Eve The Box Elder County Cattle Growers Assn, will hold a banquet and meeting Saturday evening at 7:30 p. m. in the cafeteria at Bear River High school, it was announced this week by Merrell Glenn, president. Principal speaker will be State Senator Alonzo F. Hopkins. Senator. Kleon Kerr will1 also address the group. An entertaining program has also been outlined for the evening, Glenn said. All association members and their wives are invited to attend. Also, anyone interested is in joining the organization invited to attend the event, Glenn stated. Jaycees to Honor Bosses at Dinner Tonight, Wednesday, will be Night for members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, when they will honor their employers at a dinner at the Tropical Restaurant beginning at 8 p.m. Members who are are invited to bring a business associate or an employee whom they would like to express appreciation to. An outstanding program has been arranged for the evening. Bosses Local Dairymen Purchase Animals Word comes from the main office of the American Aberdeen Angus Breeders association, located at St. Joseph, Mo., that a Brigham City dairyman has recently purchased four purebred Aberdeen-Angu- s cows. Lloyd N. Davis of 69 South First West, purchased the animals from Melvin Hill of Lay-tothe information stated." n, I n.wa |