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Show Universal Microfilming Corp 141 Salt VOLUME 60, NUMBER Pier port L&ke Ave. City, Utah BRIGIIAM CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 20 15, 1957 Jan. m 53 8 . Outstanding Boy, Girl Named by BEHS Pages t Junior Division , Top Students Receive Awards at Youths Start Assembly Program Held Tuesday Crime Wave In kEW BISHOPRIC Third warders sustained a hew bishopric Sunday, May 12, in Sunday evening services.. Malcolm C. Young, center front, is the new bishop with Lavon Hansen, first counselor, left, and K. B. Olsen, second counselor, right. Ward clerk is Kay Shuman, back left, with Ronald W. Ballingham as assistant ward clerk, right. j I Parents of Grads Get Choice Seats For Commencement In order to provide parents of the graduates with the best possible seats, admission to the Box Elder tabernacle will be by ticket only until 7:15 p. m., Friday night, after which time the doors will bo thrown open to the general public. According to the Box Elder High school announcement, each graduate will be provided with three tickets for the use ot parents and family members who Will be admitted prior to 7:15 p. m., upon presentation at the door. After that time, remaining seats will be available on a first-combasis to the general public. . The, commencement exercises will start at 7:30 p.m. i e South Stake Slates Dance FestivalSoon The South Box Elder stake MIA Dance Festival will be held Tuesday, May 21, at 8 p. m. in the BEHS gymnasium. Participating in the annual presentation will be MIA members from Willard, First, Second, Sixth and Seventh wards, according to Mr. and, Mrs. Clive F. Waters, South stake dance directors. The general public is invited to attend the festival and see the colorful performance presented by the young people of this area. There will be no charge for admission. New Pastor to Bible Church Reverend Ira Ransom is the new pastor of the Bible church of Brigham City, He has been a resident of Brigham City for several months, but only recently assumed the responsibilities as pastor. The Bible church meets at 123 East Fifth South. Reverend of James F. Cook is the church, and instructor of the Evangeical Protestant religious classes at Intermountain school. Ransom formerly pastered the Bethesda Bible church of Gun, nison, Colo. Storms Cover Area Leaving More Rain The vicinity of Brigham City has been visited with showers ranging from a trace of moisture to as high as .84 of an inch of rainfall every day for the past five days,, according to Charles Clifford, local weather man. Cool temperatures have , accompanied the storms which will likely continue for another few days, Clifford predicts. High and low readings for the past five days are listed below: Gospel Program Is Scheduled on Radio Reverend A local minister, James F. Cook, is beginning a station radio program over KBUH. The program Gospel Meditations, is broadcast Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:45. Reverend Cook is instructor of the Evangelical Protestant religious classes at Intermounof the tain School, and Bible Church, which meets at 123 East Fifth South. ? ' Honorary FFA Club Named Bishop of Elects Officers: At a meeting of the honorary Malcolm Young Third LDS Ward Malcolm C. Young, young sheep rancher and active LDS church man, was sustained by members of the Third ward as their new bishop in services conducted Sunday evening, May 12. Bishop Young is a former Western States missionary and has recently served as High Councilman for North Box Elder stake. He is married to the former Alice Higginson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean Higginson, Brigham City. They have five children, Kathleen, Susan, Charles, Kelly and John. His mother is Mrs. Sarah B. Young, Corinne. Working with Bishop Young will be C. LaVon Hansen, first counselor; K. B. Olsen, second counselor; Kay Shuman, ward clerk, and Ronald W. Balling-ham- , assistant ward clerk. The change of bishopric was under the direction of North Box Elder stake presidency, Vernal Willie, Elbert Beecher and Delos Thompson, with President Willie presiding. Retiring members of the bishopric include Eberhart Zundel, bishop; Glen Nelson, first counClark Hillam, second selor; counselor; and Hannah Hillam, Kay Olsen and Kay Shuman, ward clerks. Bishop Zundel completed six years as bishop for the ward during this term. During World War II he served for two years then before being as bishop he served in the stake presidency for five years. He has held almost every office in the church organization during his married life. He formerly served as member of the bishopric in the Plymouth and Brigham Second wards. A large crowd attended to express their gratitude for the retiring bishopric and give their support to the newly named ward officers. - V member club of Box Elder High of chapter, Future Farmers America, held Monday night, reelected George Facer was president of the group, Douglas and J. Quayle, vice president Leo Nelson, secretary-treasurer- . John Hardy, Grover Harper and Charles W. Claybaugh were elected directors of the group. The members discussed projects for the honorary member club which will include presentation of a beef heifer to an outstanding FFA member and other presentations in the coming year. Jury Reaches Verdict in Wixom Case A judgment of $1,500.90 was awarded to Eugene C. Wixom and Wilma Wixom by a First District Court jury, Saturday night, against two insurance companies for smoke ' damage done to the Wixom residence, at -225 South, EitsL.EasL-.- wWixoms fisKM"$830 loss and damage to the home and $2,466. 84 loss and damage to personal property as the result of smoke entering their home on Jan. 27, 1956, due to furnace difficulties. Judgment passed dbwn by the jury provided $405 damage to the home and $1,095.90 damage to personal - property, due to wind causing abnormal operation of the furnace and chimneys on the said date. First District Court records Northwestindicated that nhe ern Mutual Fire association must pay $815.96, and the General Insurance Company of America must pay $684.94 and that both companies must share court costs amounting to $85.20. The hearing was conducted on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week. Winners Announced in Sixth Aerial Photo Contest; New Photos Appear Winners were announced this week in the sixth weekly aerial photo contest sponsored by local merchants. Mrs. Joyce S. Nelson of Corinne won the $5 cash award offered by Simonsens Jewelry; LaRue Nelson of 20 North Fifth East won a similar award from Clairs Chevron Service; and Joe Sebek of Perry won the Mountain States Electric prize. Winning free tickets to the Roxy theatre were Marie Korth, Kenneth J. Hailing, Irene Porter, Mrs. L. P. Knight and Robert Richards, all of Brigham City. Capitol theatre tickets went to Jesse Jepperson, William G. Maurine McMurtrey Lowery, and Helen Jorgensen of Brigham City, and Earl B. Nelson of Corinne. Other winners in the contest, whose names will be included in the drawing for the big cash prizes at the conclusion of the contest series include Viola Lowery, Elaine Shuman, Wayne Porter, J. F. Anderson, Dick Nelson, Kay Shuman, Lee R. Andersen, Jerry Nelson, Jay McMurtrey, Glenn ' Richards, Bob Nelson and Kelly Korth of Brigham City, and LaVern Nelson and Don Nelson of Corinne. The 27 winners were named from the 33 contestants participating in the sixth contest. The picture at Clairs Chevron Service was correctely identified as Leon Gardners residence at Honeyville; at Mountain States Electric was a photo of the Mountain ' View Fruit Farm, the property of Caroline K. Perry at Willard; while Simonsens Jewelry featured a photo of the Mountain View Trout Farm belonging to C. A. Hall at North Brigham. Sponsors for this weeks contest are Brigham Tire Shop, Modern Cleaners and Tyson's Seed and Feed. Contestants are required to correctly identify all three pictures and place their entries in the boxes provided at the three business places mentioned. Deadline for entry is set for 6 p. m. Saturday evening. Recognition Given for Scholarship, Art, Music, Athletics and Other Activities Box Elder An Ogden youth and an escapee from the Industrial school ran the gamut here this week to establish some kind of a crime record involving a stolen motorcycle, two stolen cars, a burglary, resisting arrest and attempted jail break. The pair were picked up Saturday night at Boise, Ida., driving a 1953 Lincoln car stolen at Tremonton Friday night, belonging to Ernie Conger. They were turned over to the Box Elder county sheriff. Upon questioning, they said they were runaways from San Jose, Calif., a story which later proved false. Pair Confess Crimes According to Sheriff Warren W. Hyde, the pair confessed to stealing a motorcycle at Ogden, Thursday night and driving it to Brigham City where they aroused the curosity of police officers who staked out the vehicle, parked behind the News and Journal office. When one of the youths went back to the motorcycle, he was nabbed by Officer Shirl Williams but he jerked away and ran, ducking down the narrow passage way north of the newspaper office. . Although Officer Williams fired a warning shot, the youth escaped and the pair eluded the police search which followed, by hiding out at Rees Pioneer park. The two boys told Sheriff Hyde they later stole a car belonging to David R. Summers, driving to Garland where they admitted burglarizing the IGA grocery, entering through a skylight and leaving by the back door with about $30 worth of food. Hide Out in Hills According to the statement made to the sheriff, the. youths hid out 'and slept in the hills west of Garland all day Friday, then drove into Tremonton where they abandoned the Summers vehicle and stole the Conger car, going on to Boise where and they were apprehended turned over to the Box Elder county sheriffs officers. They were being held in the juvenile detention quarters in the jail basement. About 11 p. m., Monday night, one of the prisoners in the upstairs jail, woke Sheriff Hyde by yelling to him that there was something wrong down stairs. Attempt Jail Break Sheriff Hyde went over to In vestigate and found the basement in darkness. He checked one cell and was jumped by the occupant who was subdued after a brief fist fight, as was the other youth. They were transferred to a maximum security cell upstairs. A shakedown of the juvenile quarters produced a hacksaw and six blades, screwdriver and which the monkey wrenqh youths said were passed in to them by two local juveniles on the outside. Two Brigham City youths were picked up Tuesday afternoon for questioning. According to Sheriff Hyde, a bar on one cell window had been sawed away and the occu pant was within 20 minutes of escaping. The other youth also had sawed through one bar on his window. 4 DeAnna Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.' Joseph Yates of Harper, and Paul Morrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Morrell, were named the outstanding girl and boy at Box Elder High school junior division at the annual award assembly held Tuesday morning when top students in the various departments of the school received special awards. The two outstanding students of the eighth grade class and earned the honor of stubeing named outstanding dents by scholastic record and participation in school activities. The cash award presented to Miss Yates comes from the Business and Professional Womens club and was presented by Mrs. Dorothy Olsen, president of the organization. The Lions club, represented by Charles Keller, president, presented a cash award to the Morrell youth. He has served as president of the student body of the junior division during the current school year. Vosco P. Call served as chairman of the awards committee this year and presided at the assembly program. The program had an appropriate beginning, with the advancing of the colors by Robert Owen, Dennis Whitaker, Barry Vincent and Michael Burbank, under the direction of Grant Prisbrey. Darrell Nutall was bugler. The student body sang America, directed by Marie Jeppson and accompanied by Mrs. Margaret Johnsen. The invocation was offered by Floyd Jenson. A piano duet was played by Daniel and Patty Harrison, son and daughter of Dr. and Mrs. E. B. Harrison. A. E. Seely presented awards to the student body officers: Paul Morrell, president; , Janet Owen, , vice president; and Alice Snow, sec retary; and to the officers ot the Boys and Girls Associaas follows: tions, respectively, Alan Jensen, president; Jimmie Felt, vice president; and Brent Andersen, secretary; Ruth YamJulie- - Hara-motasaki, president; vice president; and Gayle Ann Cutler, secretary. Perfect Attendance Awards Perfect attendance and punctuality awards were presented by Miss Mabel Christensen. The following seventh grade stur certifi- dents received (Continued on Page Two) are members OUTSTANDING BOY AND GIRL Named as outstanding boy and girl of the Box Elder High school junior division during the annual award assembly Tuesday, were Paul Morrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Morrell, and DeAnna Yates, daughter of Mr. dnd Mrs. Joseph Yates of Harper Ward. Morrell received a cash award from the Lions Club and Miss Yates received a cash award from the Business and Professional Womens Club, . ; ; ; Indian Service Workshop Brings Administrators Local Students Approximately 80 administrative heads of the Indian service are expected to enroll in the two weeks workshop program to be held at Intermountain school from June 3 to 14, It was announced this week by Supt. Thomas Tom maney. The administrators workshop is expected to draw top Indian of members schools of the United States and Alaska, as well as area directors and personnel from the branch of Indian education in Washington, D. C. . Most of those attending will be accompanied by members of their family, it is expected. staff Brigham Native Heads' Gl Branch At U of Alaska Local Girls Earn Fraternity Bid Three girls from this Institute USU Graduation exercises will be conducted for 134 students at the LDS Institute of Religion at Utah State University in Logan Sunday. Listed, among the graduates are the following from this area: Ellen Andersen, Merlyn Hansen, Anita Helen Jeppson and Garth Ray Nelson of Brigham jCity ; Lillis M. Jeppesen of Jdntua; Margretta Stander of Bear River City; Norwood J. Fridal, Marian Larsen and Marilyn Newman of Tremonton- area were recently honored by being awarded membership into Alpha Lambda Delta, honorary scholastic fraternity for freshmen women at Utah State Univer- - . The exercises will commence at 10 a.m. and will be held in . , the Institute. Intermountain School Head to Deliver Talk -- . Harold R. Black recently acappointcepted the permanent ment of director of military branches for the University of Alaska, effective July 1. Professor Black was animal husbandman at the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Station at the college and assistant professor of agriculture at the university prior to his appointment. The military branches office accredited offers university courses at the military bases throughout the territory. The program also is open to civito lians in the areas adjacent the bases. Approximately 1,000 persons enroll in the program during the academic year. Professor Black received his B. S. degree from Utah State Agricultural college in 1942, and his M. S. degree from Washington State college in 1955. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Grant A. Black, of 343 North Second West, Brigham City. USU Graduate From , . . , Supt. Thomas Tommaney of Intermountain school will make the commencement address to the graduating class of Chilocco Indian school, Chilocco, Okla., on May 27.. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tommaney are graduates of Chilocco Indian school and will attend the commencement exercises at which approximately 125 students will receive diplomas. Teen Road-e-- 0 'American Legion Marks Veteran's Cemetery Graves Veterans graves at Brigham City cemetery will have newly painted crosses as markers when Memorial Day comes around this year, the work of Mr. and Mrs. Ories Jeppsen, 171 North Third East, with the cooperation of the American Legion. Already 135 markers have been repaired and repainted and placed on the graves. "We know there are several unmarked graves in the cemetery but need to know the location, Jeppsen said this week. Anyone having information on unmarked graves is requested to contact me ' at once and give me the lot de, scription. t Seventies Quorum , Plans Party Tonite The Fifth quarum of Seventies of North Box Elder stake will hold a supper and social this evening, Wednesday, beginning at 7:30 p. m. in the .Eighth ward recreation hall. , All members of thq, quorum and their' partners are invited to attend and to bring their own eating utensils, according to the committee in charge. Herman Hotter is chairman of the supper committee and 'W. Dee Hollist' Is in charge, of the program. o, one-yea- Postponed Because of Rain, Will Be Held Saturday, May 18 Rain over the weekend caused postponement of the sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Tenage Road-e-Commerce and a new date has been set for Saturday, May 18. Teenage drivers who want to compete and have not taken their written tests may do so Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Central school. Immediately afterward, at 10 a.m., the driving skills tests will be conducted on the paved area to the west of the school building. Trophies for first, second and third place will be donated by the H. Dee Johnson Insurance Agency. In addition, a major tuneup job will be offered to the first prize winner by Sam's Auto Service, while $5 merchandise awards will be made to the second and third place winners by Arts Union 76 Seryice and Als Conoco Service. All three of the top winners will be eligible to compete in the state finals to be held at Hill Air Force Base on June 1. Bunderson Pupils Practice Program Final practice for "Spring Fantasy," special entertainment arranged by Bunderson school students, has been held and the presentation will be given on Thursday, May 16, beginning at 8 p. m. in the school auditorium. The entire enrollment of students at the school, 213. will participate in songs and dances of spring time. Five acts have been planned with a finale climaxing the presentation. Chil-dre- n will sing Lady Spring, and Your Land and My Land for the final numbers; No charge will be made for admissiqn, Principal Victor J. Bott said today. First grade tots are being directed by Mrs. Eva Moore and Miss Beverly Ross. Mrs. Verla Green is in charge of the second graders. Third grade children have been taught by Mrs. Maya Thomas with Leon Johnson directing fourth grade students. Fifth and sixth graders will dance and sing with Mrs. Isabel Merrell, Mrs. Kallona Freeman and Principal Bott directing. sity. Mary Jo Harris, daughter of and Mrs. Vernal Harris and Afton Jean Stokes, daughter of Mr and Mrs. Asa Stokes, both of Brigham City, .and Miss Janet Craner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Craner of Corinne, were among the 50 freshmen women honored during the awards convocation held in the main auditorium at the cellege last week. Eligibility for membership in the national fraternity is based on attaining a 3.5 or A minus average during the first two quarters of college studies. Mr. Bees Travel to Olympus High for Wednesday Game Weather permitting, the state l baseball game between the Box Elder Bees and Olympus High will be played at Salt Lake City Wednesday afternoon, it was announced Harris. Coach Vernal by Originally set for Monday, to rain caused postponement Tuesday. Continued unsettled weather caused a second delay to the Wednesday date. Should the Bees win, the state semi-finalwill be played at Brigham City. quarter-fina- CONTEST WINNERS Joyce Nelson of Corinne, left, and LaRue Nelson of Brigham City, winners in the sixth aerial photo contest, are shown above as they attempt to identify a photo being used in this weeks contest. They were two of the three lucky persons to win $5 cash awards for correctly identifying the photos featured last week. s Representing Bunderson school students who will present a special entertainment Thursday evening, May 16, are, front row left to right, Scott Pella, Sherlene Simper, Janice Peters and Jill Jorgensen with back row including, left to right, Kent Dummer, Linda Munson, Jan Woodward and Larry Gordon. TO SING AND DANCE |
