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Show r X 1ik 1 REGISTRATION SET FRIDAY Plans were announced this to initiate an expanded and much varied adult recreation program here in Brigham activities City with ranging from handball to horse shoe pitching. Registration for all activities will be held at Box Elder Junior High school (big gym) this Friday, June 28, from 7 to 9 p. m. Les Dunn, city recreation director, said interested persons also can contact him at (PA any week night after 7 week p. m. T C o p AV2. Model Auto Adults, it's Your Turn DC Recreation Plan i Sait La.9 City. Utah ti 1- Contest Set for Youth Also being offered are tenin nis lessons, competition horse shoe pitching and an adults crafts program. There will be a $1 registration fee for the tennis classes and also a $1 charge for those entering horse shoe competition, the money being earmarked for trophies. A model car contest was announced Monday to spice up the program ot events in Brigham Citys summer recreation program for local youth. A $10 award and trophy will be given for the car judged best of show and other prizes and cash awards await the winners in three divisions, accordto Les Dunn, city recreation THREE LIGHTED pits are ing now being constructed at Rees director. Prizes are being furnished by Pioneer park and Dunn said afMacks ter several weeks the Pharmacy in Brigham play, horse shoe hurlers will engage City. in a tournament. ANY MODEL car built t0 The adults summer crafts 25 scale may be entered but program will include work in must be built by the individual lapidary, leather, plastics and entering it. Entrants are limiThere will be no ted to two models in a division. ceramics. fee at the time of registration The junior division will inbut will be collected when the clude entries by youngsters classes start, Dunn said. age 10 or under. A senior diviThe summer recreation pro- sion will be divided into cusgram is open to all interested tom and stock competition. A adults in the Brigham City trophy for motorized models area . also will be awarded. for finished The deadline models is July 23 and judging will take place July Awards wil lbe made on July 27, Dunn said. Volume 66, Number 26 Brigham City, Utah, Tuesday Morning, June 25, 1963 Brigham CifyDoy, 7, Found in Uiirfas AtferTvo-Du- 1- PLANS NOW are to form lea- gues and stage tournaments in the various events will include handball, badminton, volleyball, basketball, swimming and ping pong. The activities will be conducted every Thursday evening at the junior high school from 7 to 9 p. m. There is a 50 cent registrtion fee. DE County Men Tour Land person can get mighty discouraged by the flood of figures and other pertinent data Which accompany an undertaking as large as the proposed Bear River project. Last week a group of about 40 Box Elder farmers, county commissioners and others took a three-hou- r tour of Box Elder lands to be affected by the project. They werent deluged by figures but they did see most of the 36,000 dry farm acres expected to be brought under irrigation. And they traced a route portion of the planned for the Oneida canal which will feed the thirsty Box Elder lands. A 104-mi- THE TOUR was arranged by Agent Ray Finch, Tre- - County Bids Gain OK In Brief Licet The Brigham City council Thursday accepted the low bids Submitted on a water line-fir- e and crash rescue building project as the major item at a brief regular weekly meeting. The city officials gave their okay to Tremonton firm C. R. Brough & Sons bid of $51,764.-1- 5 to lay a water line which will extend from northwest Brigham City to the municipal airport. Also approved was the $19,428 bid of Knowlton H. Brown, Brigham City, to build the airport fire, and crash rescue building. Both bids were recommended by City Public Works Director 0. Neil Smith and the proNeff. ject engineer, Elwood Work is expected to begin right away with 60 working days being allowed for completion. In the only other business, Smith reported that wire was available to extend the backstop at Rees Pioneer park baseball diamond. And he reported the inspection department was making a surhow many vey to determine hcadgates, installed in Special Improvement District 14, need to be replaced. J Starting near Cutler dam at a point overlooking Cache val- ley, the group moved back into Box Elder and into the Pty mouth area for a look north ward into Idaho. And then into the Thatcher area where an arm of the canal will finally terminate. HERE ARE some of the points brought out, facts of particular interest to Box Elder county: Waters of the Bear River will be stored in a reservoir on the Oneida narrows in southern Idaho. This water will be carried by the Oneida canal and through Oneida, Bannock Franklin counties of southern Idaho and into Utahs Cache county. It will pass through the Bear River narrows into Box Elder and feed into the From that Plymouth area. point, one branch will go north toward Idaho and a second arm will wind - around the North Bear iRiver valley hillsides and south to Thatcher. LINDSAY PARK (Boys) and 12, Mike Coveil. ru Mid-Rang- V j irrigation NO LAND In Box Elder will be irrigated from the proposed reservoir near Honeyville. This storage area will contain about 120,000 acre feet of water, backing up the existing stream channel 11 miles to Cutler dam. Water from Honeyville reservoir will be sold to help pay off the project. The Bear River Migratory Bird refuge would pay to receive a controlled water supply and about 22,000 acre feet annually would be sold to the Weber Basin Conservancy district for storage at (Continued on Page Five) The theft of a tricycle PHONE SERVICE INTERRUPTER Through F.'IST&TToIl Cable Long distance telephone service was temporarily interruptwhen ed here last Thursday loose two huge rocks, blasted trom the mountain east of Willard, ripped through an underground toll cable in two places. The explosion which sent a shower of rock bouncing down the hillside came at 4:45 p. m. According to local office manager Thad Carlson, service was restored at 7:52 p. m., hours ahead of the original estimate. Crews and material were dispatched to the scene from Brigham City and Ogden as Vern Poulter, local service foreman, set the wheels in motion to restore service. Damage was estimated at 11 $1,500. period During the three-hou- r until service was restored, all calls emergency were handled the through switchboard at Thiokol Chemical corporations plant west of South Third West, was reported to Brigham City police Sunday. The vehicle valued at $13, was taken from the front yard of the residence. e Critter Causes In Chase Through Brigham Hi-steer-- rnxv were some folks in one morning last week when a young here-for- d led everyone a merry chase through the streets and backyards ot Brigham City. The white face steer a growing youngster at 700 pounds was finally corralled in a backyard on First West. But only after four hours of freedom and the experience of knocking two persons down, or so it was reported. Purchased only two days before as an FFA project, the wayward critter, owned by Max Reeder, son of Mr. ard Mrs. Joseph Reeder, 238 West Sev enth North, was d iscovered missing shortly before 6 a. m., Thursday morning. There i. ,y 4 S - , it h TK - 9 'x S' a T. J"4 . r $ f 'J f. j v ics near A " u " w 71 w V4 4 ' t 1 jfc. I f f j 5 - ! - ROUNDUP TIME Joseph Andersen, 53 South Second East, who used to work with cattle d the other morning was the hero of the day when he lasoed this lariat out his brought steer after the critter was cornered near Andersen's hnek yard. The young berefnrd seemed til He coueerued over Andersen's effort, bull-hea- PTA Council Blast Sends Rock Ripping belong- 323 t&r.A.'.M places, interrupting long distance phone service for several hours. Trike Missing ing to Burton John "j 4,. ROTSA ROCK manager of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co., lower right, is dwarfed by this huge rock, blasted loose from the mountain face east of boulder and another tore the MST&T toll cable in two Willard Thursday. This house-siz- e Thad Carlson, local Rees park (Boys) 13 and Mark Herbert; 11 and 12, Dan Hemsley; 9 and 10, Kay Godfrey; 8 and under, Keith Gorfrey. Bunderson (Boys) 13 and up, Larry Chambers; 9 and 10, 8 and under, A. Dale Larson; Michael Wyatt. (Girls) 9 and 10, Debra Jenkins. East Forest park (Boys) and 10, Kevin Christensen, first; Dennis Peart, second. Lincoln (Boys) 11 and 12, Jeff Frawley. (Girls) 9 and 10, Kristina Jones. dry-farme- d, Study Nears com-Ipleti- up, Olsen said the soils found in Bear River valley are good, some of the best lands in the Bear River project. Now this ground will increase tremendously in value 150 An estimated persons were engaged in the search Monday, many of them members of the Box Elder Jeep patrol, the Brigham City Jaycees and other local residents who left during the night Sunday and early Monday morning. The boy had disappeared about 10 a.m. Sunday morning from a camp near Pyramid lake. He was in the area with an aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Elden The Air Force ds nearing E. Liechty of Ogden, and their of Its review of the Mofamily. Liechty is an assistant e bile Ballistic Phase professor of economics at WeI plans and should turn the prober State college. APPARENTLY young Ferrin ject over to Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara with- lost his way after walking from in a week or 10 days for a deci- the camp site to go to the bathWhen he failed to resion, Sen. Wallace F. Bennett room. said last week. turn after several minutes, a search was quickly started. Thiokol Chemlical Corp. ds in The boys grandfather, Virgil the running for an MMRBM L. Logan, who went to n dollar propulsion the Ferrin, mountainous area Monday research and development conmorning with Val Ferrin, said tract which might last several in a telephone conversation Monif the MMRBM gains apyears afternoon (before the youngday proval and if Thiokol is selec- ster was found) that the search ted, Senator Bennett said. was very well organized. Thiokol completed fits first Theyre doling everything who phase development of the pro- possible, he told his wife posed MMRBM and pending ac- with the missing boys mother, tion by the Defense department had stayed in Brigham City with is prepared to negotiate on a re- the other Ferrin children, both search and development con- girls ages nine and two. The search party Included tract. units of the Duchesne and SumNO ACTUAL model of the mis- mit counties jeep patrols plus sile has jbecn built, but if TUio-k- some Boy Scout units. ' receives a Phase II contract, Larry Colton of Kamas, forit will be authorized to prove the est ranger for the district, said missile is practicable, A Phase Pyramid lake is in a basin at $$ contract would call for ac-- I about 9,000 feet elevation and is tual production, Senator Bennett about four miles south of Mirror 9aid. lake. The area was described as Under the present schedule, being rugged. While the elevathe decision on Phase II probtion is high, the temperature will be made in late Aug-js- t ably was reported above freezing or early September. ing Sunday night. The possibilities for the MMRBM have taken on added impetus in the light of Defense department backing for use of a weapon of this type on surface ships, Senator Bennett said. Completion soft-bal- tion in Logan. A v d lodge. chants windows. On other fronts in the youth program, Dunn said that registration is still open at the varl. ious playgrounds for girls Play is scheduled in hree leagues for girls age 8 and up. Also this week, the winners were named in tetherball tournaments held at each park. The winners were: 13 and Snow park (Boys) Joe up, Larry Geisler, first: 11 and 12, Meyers, second; first; Steven Ralph Jordan, Yates, second; 9 and 10, Mark Sackett, first; Tim Brockish, second. 13 and up, Mary (Girls) Rusk, first; Molly Fishe, second; 11 and 12, Lorna Nelson, first; Marsha Mullins, second; 9 and 10, Debbie Hardy, first; Carol Jordan, second. South Main park (Boys) 11 and 12, Terry Grimley; 7 and 8, Randy Dunn. (Girls) 11 and 12, Pam Sedtrholm; 9 and 10 Carol Stark; 7 and 8, Marian Ransom. The tour spokesman was Lynn J. Olsen, agriculturalist with the Bureau of Reclama . V V Search y A Brigham City boy, lost in the high Uinta mountains since wandering away from a camp site Sunday ing, was located late Monday afternoon by two horsemen. The Utah Highway patrol received a radio report which said young Bruce Ferrin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Val Ferrin, 284 Poplar drive, was in good condition. He was taken to the Mirror lake seven-year-ol- t MODELS ARE to be turned in to the recreation, director and will be displayed in local mer- monton, and Commissioner Grover Harper and Gale Welling, Fielding, both members of the project central committee. with availability of water. v. 25-2- To Benefit From OR Project 8 Pages Workshop Set South Teacher here. Carlson expressed appreFrances ciation to operators Hunsakcr and Edna Ransom who handled the emergency calls "in the true spirit of service and as a courtesy to local telephone users. Blasting on the east Willard mountains is being done by W. W. Clyde Construction company of Springville, prime contractor on the Willard reservoir project. Rock is being hauled to the dike and dumped to prevent wave erosion. Each of the rocks which tore through the toll cable were estimated to weigh in the neighborhood of 1,800 tons, Carlson said. They bounced down the hillside for several hundred yards from the blast site. Wind, Hail Do Elder Box council Parent is planning a tull-da- y training workshopvon July 13 for all local and council officers and various department chairmen, it was announced this week by President Mrs. Dale Madsen. The event will draw about 10 state PTA representatives and will be staged at Box Elder High school. Definitely scheduled to attend are Mrs. Cecil Baker, Logan, national program and founders day chairman; Mrs. Bernard Cragun, Pleasant View, state fourth vice president in charge of councils; Mrs. Ruth Vine Tyler, Salt Lake City, state program chairman; Mrs. Leah Holmsted, Logan, hospitality and room representative chairman, and Supt. Walter D. Talbot, state second vice president. Mishaps Hurts Bike Rider Earlier this year, Secretary McNamara told the House ArmA Brigham City ed Services committee: The suffered a deep head Laboy MMRBM is being developed for ceration Thursday when the bipossible application in Europe he was riding crashed incycle or elsewhere in the world within to the side of a car at the interreach of Communist block tarsection of Second East and Fifth gets. MRS. SAID the names of other visitors will be announced later this week. Theme for the workshop, first to be held here in several years, is Education Is The Key. High winds and hail have All local PTA officers and damaged the Brigham City area during the past three days, department heads in South Box according to Charles Clifford, Elder council are expected to attend. Included are all Briglocal weather observer. ham City schools and Willard, Extensive damage was done Perry, Corinne, Honeyville, and Saturday night at 11:10 p. m. Bear River City. when a twister completely deThe workshop is slated to at garage stroyed a frame residence, start with registration at 9:30 Clarence Richards 545 North Second East. Accord- a. m. with the first session on ing to reports from Mrs. Rich- tap at 10 a. m. ards, the wind lefted the garthe During the afternoon, age, cement foundation and all. state representatives will direct and moved it six. feet before it the various department chair- collapsed. The remodeled gar- men in their responsibilities age contained a garden trac- for the coming year. tor, garden implements and biestimate cycles. No damage will be available until insurance investigation has been completed. MADSEN Damage in BC North. I Injured was Ronald A. Grumes, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. RobI Injured Man Termed Critical Robert Smith, 34, was reported to be in critical condition in an Ogden hospital Monday afternoon, according to family He reportedly took members. a sudden change for the worse Saturday. Smith is suffering complica tions from a severe injury to his right shoulder and arm which he received in a tractor mishap at the Smith farm some two miles north of Brigham City on June 14. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Smith, 549 North Main ert E. Grames, 666 Sunset drive. He was treated at Cooley Memorial hospital after the mishap and released to his home. According to the investigating officer, Patrolman Bill Walker, the accident occurred at 8:15 a.m. ae the youngster raced west on Fifth North with a companion. He told the officer he saw the stop sign (but couldnt stop and he didnt see the car until too late. The bike slammed into the right side of the car, driven by Marguerice Buckley, 536 South First West. The car was traveling north on Second East. cited Mrs. The patrolman Buckley for failure to have a drivers license. City to Welcome APS Students ' Early Monday morning, hail hit the Brigham City area, damaging alfalfa and other of crop crops. No estimate damage was available at press time but Clifford says there ANIMAL CONTROL officer was definitely some damage Gino Como was called to the done. fore. He unsuccessfully purHigh and low mercury readsued the young steer for nearly four hours up streets, down, ings and moisture count are streets, through alleys and listed for the past five days as yards, around Mountain View follows : school and even through a motel, where one lady tenant was unceremoniously dumped when she got in the way. The roundup came at the rear of 64 South First West With neighbors shouting words of caution, and encouragement a nearby resident, Joseph An Watch, Glasses Missing dersen, 53 South Second West, Seim Fohb, Bushnelf motel, finally managed to lasso the Saturday told Brigham City pomauerick and tie him to a tree. lice that he had either lost or The youthful owner was noti- had stolen in a local tavern a fied and minutes later, the wrist watch and two pair of eye yearling steer was enroute back glasses. The value was placed to the corral. at $112, multi-millio- Brigham City residents will roll out the red carpet Wednesday afternoon to welcome the 72 American Field Service students who will be stopping over here for a brief rest on their tour across the United States. Some 30 local families have volunteered to invite the students into their homes for their two-mgstay. All students had been assigned to families by Monday afternoon, according to Grant Allred, housing chairman. THE STUDENTS will arrive Wednesday at 5 p.m. aboard two Greyhound buses, which will stop east of the court house, where host families may meet their students and pick them up at that time, according to Mrs. J. Howard Rasmussen, local AFS chairman. In the event that the buses should arrive an an earlier hour, the host families are asked to call the City Hail or Mrs. Ras mussen early, in the afternoon 1 t to learn the exact time the buses will arrive. After their arrival, the time will be free for (he families to entertain the studerits as they wish, with an 11 p.m. curfew hour to be observed, Mrs. Rasmussen said. clude barbershop quartet numbers presented by Reed Beecher, Merle Linton, Lee Wohlgemuth and Kent Linton, and a pantomine by Margaret Owen and Lorene Todd. Host families and the public are invited to attend the program, Mrs. Rasmus- sen said. MAYOR WILLIS HANSEN VARIOUS TYPES of enterand members of the City Council will be hosts to the students tainment are being planned by Thursday afternoon and evening the host families for Wednesday at Rees Pioneer park, located night and Thursday morning, inon West Forest street. Planned cluding barbeque suppers, patio recreation consisting of games, parties, tours of nearby scenic boating and free swimming will attractions, canyon parties and be on the agenda, under the di- Other activities. However, it rection of City Recreation D- was noted, some of the students irector Les Dunn. At 6 p.m. a will prefer to just relax and rebuffet supper will be served to main at their host homes. the students in the Bowery at the The students will board the ' park. A program will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Bowery, with local talent and the AFS students participating, Mrs. Rasmussen said. Mayor Hansen will be master of ceremonies. Local talent will in buses Friday morning 'to continue their journey across the States and to participate In special activities planned for them on prior to their departure planes and ships for their native lands. |