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Show r - Universal Microfilming Corp. 141 Pierpont Ave. Salt Lake City, Utah Jan 61 V 414 m'?r t i , -- It 'ti ' , ;: - JS V ; , ,?r r- This photo shows a portion of the approximately 120 persons who PROTEST NEW VALUATIONS crowded into First District courtroom Friday to voice disapproval of the recent reclassification of lots and blocks in Brigham City, Tremonton and Gailand. The meeting provided some heated criticism of the state tax commission. Valuation 3s t Invited to Shrine Circus Target For Taxpayer Blasts Appioximately county residents, a county board meeting to blast Elder Eile Compton sympathized with i iday, crowded those present but said their hands 120 F Old Glory Takes Spotlight Hours Changed As U.S. Observes Flag Day At Park Plunge Box Old Glory," the proud emblem of a young nation, is being unfurled today, June 14, across the United States as Americans everywhere observe Flag Day. From Brigham City to St. Agatha, Maine, the Stars and Stripes" is hanging from home and business place, proclaiming the infant heritage which is this countrys. Flag Day this year finds an unusual situation with many citizens flying a flag with 48 stars, others having 49 while still others are disOld Glory. playing the new Flag Day was established as an annual national celebration in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson. Actually it is not an official nationql holiday but the president proclaim a public observance each year. d Rodeo Calls To Small Fry cow-gul- 1 high-wir- e 1 DURING the meeting, the commissioners assured their listeners there will be no increase in the countys mill levy this year. The meeting, slated to start at 1.30 p m , didn't actually get underway until shortly before 2 p. m. It broke up at 3:15 p. m. Another meeting of the board is set for this Friday, June 17, after which the commissioners will air their grievances with representatives of the state tax commission. Program For Shifting Students Consolidation of Box Elder county schools again diew the spotlight last week as school boaid members voted to have elementary students fiom Plymouth, West Fielding and Portage enioll at Fielding school in 1960-6- 1 The action altered slightly an initial plan tor consolidation. . As first announced, youngsters from West Fielding and Plymouth were to have attended Garland school next year Plans for an addition to F lelding di awing school are now on the boaid New facilities at the school aie expected to be completed in school year. time for the When the addition has been constructed, students from Collinston, Beaver Dam and Riverside also will he em oiled at the school. Taking the action at a legular meeting, boaid members also en-tto tamed a recommendation make the Yost school a school This would be accomplished 1 named the William introduced nickname in 1831, when he was given command of the brig "Charles of A group of citizens Doggett. was Salem, Mass , presented him with THE Stars and Stripes adopted as the national flag of the a U. S. flag, and he hailed it as U. S. on June 14, 1777, by a reso"Old Glory. lution of the Second Continental Driver traveled twice around the Congress. to world with the flag, according But why red, white and blue? World Book Encyclopedia. World Book encyclopedia says When he retired in 1837, he took the Founding Fathers may have been influenced by the flag of the the flag with him to Nashville, Old where the name British East India company, a Tenn Glory spread. for of merchants group organized During the Civil War, the flag exploration and trade. Their flag bore seven red and six white was sewed inside a bed quilt to hide it from Confederate troops. stripes. In 1782 the U. S. Department of When Union soldiers took NashState explained the colors this ville in 1862, Driver brought out way: red stands for hardiness and the flag and it was raised over the courage, white is a symbol of pur- state capitol. In 1922, "Old Glory retired to ity and innocense, and blue is the in Institution color of vigilance, perserverance the Smithsonian and justice. Washington, D. C. were tied. equalization and business proTHE STATE tax commission the recent Brigham City blocks in has authority to nullify any decifessional mert and the Javcees valuation of lots ( it v liemunlon and flai sion, we make We (the commisagain an joining hands in bidding Brigham sioners) didnt feel the valuation to attend the land local youngsters formula was just and we told the was loom There only standing Shrineis circus in Ogden, June 21 District courtroom as tax commission this but received in First no satisfaction, This marks the second year for Potter said. spokesmen vei bally jabbed away free tickets and transportation to at what was termed excessive A majority of persons who jamThe med the courtroom valuations were from the big event for children from and inequitable a vent for tax- Tremonton where a committee had City and surrounding meeting proved Brigham payers indignation but produced formed to oppose the higher tax communities assessments. Spokesman for the no promise of relief Chairman Vernon Hansen said was David Bill Waldron County Commissioners Robert J group this week that permits for parents Potter, Emery E Wight and J. who decried the apparent lack of uniformity in valuating residential to sign may be obtained at Hanand commercial property. sons Music City or the City FiHE SAID that while there has nance office on Main street These been a 10 to 20 percent hike for permits must be signed and reresidential lots, business sites have turned in order for youngsters to skyrocketed to as much as 1500 be eligible to go, he explained. percent increase. However, most of the increases were considerably HANSON urged children planlower than this figure. beon or to to attend up sign ning Maximum values per front foot week this out A call is 18 going Permits fore Saturday, June now are $3 80 (residential), and s and for all cowboys youthful are being distnbuted also by kinTremonton. who would like to ride and S60 (commercial) in dergarten teachers rope in the woilds original min- These figures vary according to Tickets for the annual circus iature rodeo on July 2 in Btigham location and improvements such as curb and gutter and surfaced have been purchased by local bus- City streets men and iness and professional The event is being planned by A Tremonton businessman spoke are available in Brigham City the LDS Noith Box Flder stake stores. Fifth quorum of seventy to raise up to say that one Main street lot The Jaycees are arranging ta- funds for a new stake center and he knew of had born a valuation bus and car transportation All small fiv wranglers of $S0 and was now $980. chapel Parents are being asked to help m Box Ider county aie invited WF. DONT think the people can in the piogiam by going along as to enlei stand these tax hikes much longer. The maximum age limit is 14 Its about reached the point where supervise! s. and participants can weigh we cant pay, Waldron exclaimed. yeais WE WOULD like to have one no moie than 120 pounds He proposed a tax study comHanadult for every 10 children, Sheriff Warren Hyde and depu- mittee of Tremonton and Brigham son said ties legislation on City people to consider tax raises There is the chance that some two aie handling this week in both Brig- of all government units. children may be left behind if too ham days and Tremonton They City few adults respond, he added Speakers also hit at the varying will be at the sherifs office and of valuation acording to lodegree for John the Tremonton The show, scheduled from lawn libiary An example was cited of Affleck park, piomises to be big- 2 to 4 p m on Wednesday and cation Brigham this Citys Mam street where than ever and better 18 year Saturday, June 15 and ger business property is valued at $20 aniwith the traditional clowns, that out was It applipointed per front foot at the extreme north acts mals and cation torms must he signed by end and $160 jn the heart of the The local entourage will leave parents. downtown business district. Central schol at 30 p m , Javcee The rodeo will he held at Rees director is Ward Secrist ASSESSOR Fred L. Petersen Pioneei paik with ribbons going Last year, some 1,200 Brigham to the top pel foi mers in each and Ernest Freeman of Brigham City youngsters saw the cucus event. City who helped in the valuation from a specially reserved section program, explained that the valuation formula was arrived at through studies of mortgage values and real estate sales over the past three years Population is not considered. , Brigham City residential lots have been valued from $1 to $4 per front foot. The commissioners denied that they had requested the valuation asserted in a Salt Lake City newspaper last week. However, it was generally conceded that the program was due since 15 years had elapsed since the previous valuation of sea Driver 1960-6- 1 Beginning today, Tuesday, the municipal swimming pool at Rees Pioneer park will open each week day at 1 p.m., according to Supervisor Baty Morrison. The later opening is meant to accommodate free swimming instructions tor local youngsters during the mornings. Morrison said 500 youths signed up Monday for the classes which are scheduled also at the Box rider high school pool. Opening hour for the park pool on Saturdays remains 11 a.m. with a closing time of 10 p.m. On Sundays, the hours are to 6 p.m. ACCORDING to legend, however, gave us a George Washington more dramatic explanation when he reportedly said: We take the stars and blue the red union from Heaven, from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thhus showing we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing liberty. The original "Old Glory was a world traveler, a refugee from the Confederacy, and a souvenir of the Smithsonian Institution. A YOUNG School Board Votes For Swimming , - ' Local Children 8 PAGES Brigham City, Utah, Tuesday Morning, June 14, 1960 Volume 63, Number 25 . captain 1961-6- Red Cross Assists one-roo- Fire Victims by transporting ninth-grad- e dents to one ol the districts schools , The ten families who were left homeless when the Marie Apartments atop the Central Chevrolet building burned June 5, have received aid and assistance totaling more than $1,060 from the local chapter of the American Red Cross This report was made Monday by Mrs. John Higginson, local Red Cross chairman stusecon-dai- y Walter D. SUPERINTENDENT Talbot was asked to confer with s anent i parents of Yost the suggested plan Also .n connection with consolidation, it was decided to ofter uban- J. Erie Compton has dotted school buildings foi rent to FILES for four-yecounty commisthe communities in winch they filed stand These retired school houses sioner. He is a Democrat. will be available next year in Plymouth, Portage and Mantua THE Red Cross workers from The board authorized Superintenthis area were at the scene of the dent Talbot to negotiate for rental fire before it had finished burning contracts and assisted the evacuees in findIn other action, the board stamp4-Year food, ed its approval on a plot plan and ing shelter and provided housesketch for a kitchen at McKinley clothing and miscellaneous hold items to help them establish school in Tremonton The Ogden new dwelling places. architecture firm of Hodgson and The Red Cross anticipates spend- Holbrook was authorized to precede of how arts and understanding that much more to assist these with plans and specifications for crafts activities can enrich dormi- ing the addition Incumbent J. Erie Compton of families, Mrs. Higginson said in of Indian children tory living A sketch for toilet facilities at Tremonton, Monday, became the In May, Box Elder county resiBureau schools: and second, to dents donated a total of $3,915 20 the school also was reviewed by the first candidate in this years politidevelop each participants skill in the annual Red Cross drive board which asked for further ar- cal campaign to file for the Box during some craft specialty. This amount was 76 percent of the chitectural study. Elder county commission. Instructors of the conference are The town of Deweyville was the Compton, a Democrat ending two set for the drive, Mrs Higgin-sogoal Indian Service specially selected reported She expressed appre- successful bidder for two acres of years on the county board, i seekpersonnel. The instructors, their ciation to all who r term in his second participated in land in the Deweyville area. The ing a locations and specialties, include on the bid for election He becomes the bid was bid other $25 of the timeliness that Only drivenoting Miss Elsie Bonser, Rosebud Agento the lo- tract was withdrawn on request of first announced commission Candi-dae- t. the cy, S. D., ceramics; Dooley Shor- cal campaign, just prior the bidder disaster. metal-craftIntermountain staff, ty, Board members voted to employ She also expressed However, indication were that appreciation Alan Houser, Intermountain to all other agencies and people two teenage bovs to do mainten- Commissioner Emery E. Wight staff, art; Fredrick Forbusch, Ste- who have generously furnished as- ance work at Box Elder high school would file soon for the two-yewart Indian school, Nev., woodthis summer Hmng the youths post Wight currently is nearing Miss Lottie Stamper, sistance to the tire victims during carving; will make it unnecessary to employ the end of four years as a member Cherokee Agency, N. C., basketry; the past week Mrs. Higginson urged local resi- the regular cleaning of the commission. Cherokee Miss Ethel Garnett, as in past years Mrs. dents to participate in the Red group Agency, N. C., weaving; COMPTONS move and Wights Facli boy will be paid $1 per Cross blood drawing at Lincoln Josephine Wapp, Chilocco Indian action inject some life anticipated 23 hour. June school, Okla., beadwork and cos- school, Thursday, into what has become an inert tume design; Martin Tsisodia, situation. The filing deadWingate Vocational school, N. M., line is July 11. leathercraft; Joseph Webster, of In announcing his candidacy, Crownpoint, N. M , creative arts Compton aid his main reason for for primary children; Mrs. Esther was to follow wanting B. Horne, Wahpeton Indian school, One of the heaviest hail storms the ground like a carpet Apricots through on ome programs which N. D., special work conference seen in the Brigham City area in also felt the storm's sting he teels are essential. Among consultant. were these he lited establishment of an One grower said peaches many years peppered the countryOVERALL leadership of the con- side last Thursday causing consid- not large enough to suffer bruises old folks home and improvement of the Bear River bird refuge road ference is under the direction of erable damage to fruit and garden Tomato plants, melons and other Dr. Boyce and James Vance and crops. running west from Brigham City. some garden crops also sustained James Freelon, education specialCompton said he feels his experThe storm, by accompanied according to Charles Clifand on the commission ists from the central office of the drenching rain, dropped hail stones damage, ience local weather observer. ford, of county needs qualiBureau of Indian Affairs, Washknowledge one inch as as in large measuring High and low temperature read- fies him as a candidate. ington, D C. diameter It cut a path over Perry, for the past five days' ings Joe include The newly announced hopeful i Other assisting e Brigham City and Mantua Honey-villK. heads Cleo a native of Thatcher and ha been and Sumter, Weight and Willard reported only of boys and girls guidance, reengaged in farming and business in light rain. Box Elder county. spectively, at Intermountain school, Fruit growers in the Perry area who are in charge of housing and He is active in the LDS church to sweet heaviest damage and i the father of two children. recreation; Clayton Barker, head reported which sour "covered cherries of vocational department at Inter- and mountain and Cecil S. King, prinphysical cipal at Intermountain, arrangements; Dorothy Ellis, field of fiin charge knees and a passenger, Wes-a- s technical unit, nance. Anderson, 330 West First South, According to Vance, it is antici- was treated at Cooley Memorial that most of the conference pated hospital for a sprained hand will be visited by Hildegard Thomp-- I Brigham City police officer, Jay son, chief of the branch of educaChristensen, who investigated, es- tion; Mrs Almira Franchville, astimated damage to the car to be sistant chief ot the branch of eduat least $1,000. cation; and J. Edward Davis, chief The officer said the sedan was of the arts and crafts board, all of traveling west on Highway 89 when whom are from the Washington, D. a truck in the oncoming lane of C. office. in traffic suddently pulled a Dr. Boyce, Davis and Miss Ellis front of the car. Gibbs said he had will act as an evaluation commitno chance to avoid collision tee during the conference and prizDriver of the flat-betruck was es will be awarded for top projects Gordon Eugene Bingham of Gar- created by the participants in each land. He was not injured. There category. These projects will be was an estimated $65 damage to the put into a permanent display in truck. the Arts and Crafts display office The officer cited Bingham for m the Department of Interior making an improper turn. building in Washington, D C. ninth-gradc- Compton Files Arts and Crafts Conference For " m Is Staged at Intermountain Commissioner n four-yea- pre-scho- Hail Storm Damages Crops -, TV. : ' j d JUST IN TIME FOR BREAKFAST Jeep Patrol Conducts Mock Rescue Sunday The jeep patrol of rescued four men from the rugged terrain south of Mantua Sunday and were rewarded with breakfast prepared bv the supposedly lost quartet. It was a planned rescue mission aimed at sharpening the organizations efficiency. The foursome who played the role of wanderers in the wilderness actually were members of the jeep patrol. Bill The four Sackett, Ron Packer, Ken Dickamore and John Singer left Saturday night to lose Box Eldei county TROPHIES Miles Ferry, left, and Vernon Hanson, Brigham City Jaycees, show off trophies gnen to the local club and to Hanson as chairman for marshalling the largest crowd of youngsters at last years Shriner's circus at Ogden. The Jaycees again are arranging transportation. SHRINER r themselves in the Chadfield dam They left information only of the general vicinity into which they were headed. At 5 a m. Sunday morning. Dale contacted Baron, commander, other members of the patrol and a search was launched. A fleet of drive vehicles roared into the rugged mountain country. into groups to survey the hurriedly for breakfast fixed ala-are- outdoors Baron reported the operation as just one of a series planned this summer to make patrol members more familiar with the county. In addition, Sackett who is a sergeant in the Utah Highway patrol, has for begun instructions in first-aid all members, Baron said the activities are ,ng earned out so that we as a area. trol, if called upon, can be of con- Just one hour later, at 6 a.m., the structive service and be better men were sighted and mem-- ' pared to help people of Box Elder bers of the jeep jatrol converged Uounty. four-whe- pre-,'lo- st Some of the biggest hail stones to pellet this area for years fell last ALL HAIL . . . AND IT DID Thursday in company with a drenching rain. This photo taken from the doorway of the News and Journal office, shows the storm at its height with hail in the foreground and torrents of water rushing past the building. |