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Show jyi J M ! 1.1- 1 . r .1: 1 -- .7- i- - orp. . 13h J J .j r -- IN I i I & Volume 66, Number 42 Counties Rap ! Public Invited Change Plan A dates" Box Elder Commissioner Chairman Grover Harper and Assessor Fred L. Petersen last week met with officials from other Wasatch front counties to state tax a oppose commission plan which would increase taxes on residences. in the Newliouse Meeting hotel, Salt Lake City, the seven-countgroup urged that no y This is the corridor at the Brigham City jail which only NICER recently was brightened with a brand new coat of paint. That straight line on the floor is not a design but rather is designed to test the equalibrium of dunk suspects LOOKS MUCH No TV, Pool changes be made assessment rates can be made. in present until a study Represented were officials from Salt Lake, Utah, Cache, Tooele, Davis, Weber and Box Elder counties. THE GROUP said the tax commissions proposal But Jail Has ) t Fresh Paint 'S' C. Being ' in the does not offer a guest i J f 1 1 i i I vise the depreciation schedule on homes would raise taxes from two to 10 mills for an annual hike of $100 or more on many homes. Initially, the tax commission intends to make the change only in the Wastach front counties. The group, representing 80 percent of Utahs population, unanimously approved a re. solution asking Gov. George D. Clyde and the tax commission to delay action until the counties can procure a comprehensive s. Naf V - RAIDING THE PANTRY? No, its only Brigham City P lice Officer Don Bryson secuting canned goods from the ci. jails store room. This room also gained a fresh coat of pain in recent project. the AND ITS A good thing, too. One officer said theyre hand, ling more prisoners than ever Rates Honor News-Journ- al before. As For Educational Coverage Box Elder News & The for the third con. Journal, secutlve year, Thursday was awarded the coveted Robert L. Campbell award for Its outstanding coverage of education. The presentation was made In Salt Lake City by the Utah chapter, National School Public Relations association and the Utah Education association. Frank Stevens, Box Elder of adult director district education and second vice pres, ldent of the Utah chapter, hand, led the presentation. association. An engraved plaque presented to the News & Journal cites For out. the local newspaper standing continuous coverage of week. Journal Places In Judging of calendar of late. Inmates have also helped to clear the police forces new pistol range, paint lines and red spaces, The front page of the Box assisted in general clean up chores and worked with the Elder Journal has been chosen as third place winner In the street department. Front Page of the Month Even If it does have a new competition for September. coat of paint, It hardly pays The monthly Judging is con. to get Into jail anymore. ducted by faculty members of the communications department at Brigham Young university. More than 50 weekly news, papers in Utah are analyzed each month. Is based on The Judging $1 effective use of headlines and text typography, placement and Veterans adminsltration ex- handling of and stories penditures in Box Elder county Illustrations, and reproduction. during the fiscal year which Winner in the months con. ended June 30 amounted to $1, test was the Vernal Express. to Sen. 072,000, according Frank E. Moss The expenditures include compensation payments, pen. STREP, FLU REPORTED slons, insurance, Indemnity payments, cost of vocational re. Five cases of strep Infection habilltation and education, as and three of Influenza were well as the cost of operating reported from Brigham City for the Veterans hospital and the the week ending Oct. 4, accord, regional office in Salt Lake lng to the State Health Depart, City. ment Local VA Costs Hits Million Tour men mclud.ng thiee employes of Th okol Chemical Cnrpoiation in Box Elder county were found dead at the site of a plane crash near mountainous Monte Cristo Monday aftei noon. The four, one of them a resident of Deweyville, had been missing since Saturday when they took off in a Cessna 172 to scout deer hunting country in not them Utah The dead weie identified as riementary school. The event is slated to start at 7 p.m. and the public is invited to attend and take part in the questioning. I Donald R, Snow, 35, Dewey, a plant operator at Thiokols Wasatcli division Edwin E. Penman, 30, of 2961 North 150 West, Ogden a senior engineering technician. Douglas Dean Black, 25, of 2681 Madison Avenue, Ogden, a plant operator. Jack Dunkley, Ogden. The downed plane was first spotted shortly after 12 noon by a member of the Morgan Jeep patrol who was searching the area in a plane. The Wpber County Sheriffs office said the in Hells canyon, Morgan county, near the summit of Monte Planes and Crosto. ground units including the Mor. gan and Weber Jeep patrols had been covering the area since Sunday. ville, The meeting is intended to acquaint local residents with the six candidates who are seeking three seats on the city council. Similar sessions have been held locally in past years and have met with success. v .i Donald R. Snow FROM 8 A.M. TO 9 P.M Todays Important: Voter Registration Qualified persons in Brigham Just two days in register for the upcoming municipal election and today, Oct. 15 is one of them. will agents Registration accept new names and transfers from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. today. Those who should act to place their names on the voting rolls are newly of age persons, newer residents of the com. munlty and citlaens who havent voted In any election for the past two years. City have which to TO MEET residency require, ments, a person must have lived wltlvn the state for one year, In the county four months and In his precinct for 60 days prior to election. In addition, voters moving from one district to another since the most recent election should act to have their names transferred. A MAP SHOWING boundary lines for Brigham Citys districts is printed 14 in todays News and here Is a list of registration agents and their addresses: No. West 68 South Jesse W. Owens, First South. 2 men are Earl Madsen, Clair Hgglns, Blaine Olsen and Lynn Johnson. They will direct the activities of volunteers In Brigham City and the surround, ing communities of Willard, Perry, Mantua, Harper Ward, Horieyvllle, Bear River City and Corlnne. The Brigham City Jaycees with Ward Seer 1st as chair, man are handling collections in the business district. f9 r the Brigham City Jaycees and League of Women is Voters, scheduled for Oct. 24 at Bunderson I Hires Thiokol Employes 136 Mrs. Luclle B. Olsen, 81 North Fourth West. No. 4 Mrs. Elsie Christensen, 153 North First East. No, 5 Mrs. Lovlsa W. Nelson 403 South Fourth West. No. 6 Mrs. Louise Whitworth, 342 South Second East. No. 7 Mrs. Alton Olsen, 503 North Third West. No. 8 Mrs. Phyllis G. Glover 324 North First East. No. 9 Mrs. Noble Flshburn, 26 West Fourth South. No. 10 Mrs. Helen Bunnell, 712 South Third West. No. 11 Louise Thueson, 607 South Second East. 12 Mrs. Irene Lewis, No. 528 North Tourth East. No. 13 Mrs. John Richards, 113 North Ninth East. No. 14 Mrs. Rosalie Christ, ensen, 519 Hawthorne avenue. Applications for absentee ballots can be made at the city hall by persons who will be out of town on election day, No. 3 Nov. 5, and for those confined or physically unable to visit the polls. The second registration day prior to election is Oct. 29. Car Crashes Info Tavern City man sufa concuss. on nnd other mimr injuries Sunday morning when the car he was driving went out of control and crashed through the wall of a Corinne tavern. Treated at Cooley Memorial hospital in Brigham City and released Monday morning was Earl Brent Farley, 24, of 415 South First West. A Pendleton, Trooper Jack Utah Highway patrol, said the mishap occurred at 7:13 am. Farley reportedly was returning home from work as a Chemical guard at Thiokol corporation. The 1963 convertible he was driving was traveling east on State Route 83 near the junction Douglas Dean Black HOWEVER, snow and adverse weather which cut visibility had hampered search efforts. It was not immediately reported who first reached the crash scene. Nine units of the Box Elder Sheriffs Jeep patrol and five members of the shernfs office also were engaged In a search of west Box Elder county Sunday and Monday morning. Mrs. Black told the sheriffs office Sunday site had overheard her husband say they were going to look over the area from Grouse Creek to Monte Cristo to spot likely looking places to hunt deer. Brigham fered shock, with U S. 36s when it struck a metal road marker. The vehicle went out of control and slid sideways about 250 feet, slamming into the west side of Murphs inn, rear Edwin E. Penman SNOW, UNMARRIED and a son of Orion W. Snow Dewey ville reportedly was pilot of the private flying club plane which took off from Tremonton Saturday and picked up the other three men In Ogden at 11 a.m. The foursome was never heard from after taking off from the Ogden Municipal Storm Drops 1.15 In. Rain airport. A welcome rain storm invaded the local area Tnday night and Saturday and dropped 15 inches of moisture, folxa lowing several days of above The noimal temperatures. storm was preceded by thun- flight plan was filed. Snow had been with who Thiokol for nearly five years, was a native of Deweyville. Penman, an employe with the company since December 1961, was a father of five children. He was born In Ogden. Black had been in Utah with Thiokol for two and years. Survivors Included his wife and two children. He was a native of Mexla, Texas, No 1 der and bghtning . . . rather unusual foi this late in the season, according to Charles local weather observer. The storm brought cooler temperatures, however, there Clif-foi- Savings Bonds Sales Recorded first, Force of the impact knocked gap.ng hole in the buildings s de and sent cinder block and concrete spewing over much of the interor Trooper Pendleton estimated damage to the car at Initial estimates of damage to the building and interior furnishings totaled $3,000, Penaieton cued the driver lor excessive speed. a Residents of Box Elder county purchased $93,378 in Series E and H bonds during September according to T. Frank Coppin, South Box Elder county bonds chairman. Tills amount brings the years sales to $855,738, or 87.8 per cent of the countys 1963 goal, Coppin said. $1,-40- 0 Vending Units Hit By Thief Three vending machines were broken into and looted early Monday morning at a Perry The thief station. service escaped with an undetermined amount of money, according to Box Elder Sheriffs the department. The theft reportedly occurred is supported through Wayne Jeppesen, Curtis John, part, Fund in Ogden and at 4 p.m. at Billings service on son, Doyle Hansen, Don Baird, United It was discovered Gus Koplnitz, Earl Glenn, A1 direct contributions In tills area U.S. at the station an attendant and by Dean mid Caziet Morgan. Cheney. All money received by the which is open 24 hours a day. Hansen said to help meet this Using various tools, the thief ypars drive goal, residents council Is spent in the aoperation forced open two soda water are being asked to give a half-day- s of the council. Only charter registration fee is sent to the machines and a coffee machine, pay when a volunteer worker comes knocking on their national council, Hansen said. It was reported, In scouting, a boy pays for door. The drive chairman said he his uniform, books, and per. wanted to make these points sonal needs. The unit pays for JOBS INCREASE clear as the drive gets unit flag and equipment. The local Job picture bright, The council pays for office underway: ened and during the week ending camps program service, SCOUTING Is supported com. facilities and the salary of a Oct. 5 with the Brigham City Employment Security office pletely through volunteer gifts small group of professionals and is not supplemented at all who work with volunteers to listing 66 openings compared with 51 In the previous week. by either state or federal aid. bring training programs and Lake Bonneville council, of services to the Institutions who There were 83 Jobs listed durwhich Birdhaven district Is a sponsor scouting, he explained. ing the same week a year ago. i District Launches Scout Fund Drive VARIOUS division chairmen (divisions corresponding to LDS The theme for this years ward boundaries) include Ken. drive is Character Counts noth Hailing, Glade Harrison, make a Reed Hadfield, A1 Freeman, Can Scouting Difference. Bob Beard, Boyce Carlson, Aiding Hansen as tone chair Michael Carter, Lynn Busby, this to paint, that one project on city Candi- by No. 1 Eva Peart, Second East. Weekly Papers s, Blrdliaven districts annual Boy Scout fund drive Is under, way this week with campaign leaders setting their sights on a goal of $7,000 to help finance local scouting in the coming year. An estimated 600 volunteer fund workers were slated to for kickoff activities gather Monday night. Drive chairman K.V. Hansen expressed the hope that all collection activity can be wrap, ped up only labor plan. par-kin- PRINCIPAL speaker at the annual Robert L. Campbell awards dinner held In the Elks was Dr. 0. Preston club, publisher of the Robinson, Deseret News. He told the audience of educators and guests that effecis tive public relations dependent on a good product, a message, communications and confidence. He said Utah has a top product In Its educational attain, ment, adding that the state Is a national leader In the number of youth who go on to higher education. The newspaper executive ad. vised his Usterners to become with the media acquainted In their problems. We must work together In mutual trust and confidence. We frown on closed meet-lngattempts to fool the news and statements like this Is off the record, Dr. Robinson added. THE AWARD was one of eight to various communl. cations media In Utah. Others cited Included two weekly news, papers, the Murray Eagle and Uintah Basin Standard, television stations KSL TV, KCPX and KUT V, radio station KALL and In Lake Salt City, the Outdoor Advertising Of rdlioven was In a community education weekly newspaper. presented far as soliciting the vol. untoer commissions meet Your meeting, Off to re- Brigham City jail television in every room or a swimming pool. But the Inside of the local hoosgow has been spruced up with a fresh coat of paint. It still remains far from the study of relative assessments most pleasant accomodations of the counties. In town. Yet its much brighter The tax commissions plan and more cheerful now (if you is slated to become effective can say that much for a jail) In November 1964. with white having replaced the AH Utah counties are being drab blue of yesteryear. invited to join In the study. The only cost involved was Each participating county will for the paint. share in expenses of the study A professional painter who on the basis of relative assessed happened to be In residency at valuations. the local clink donated his time along with other Inmates to applying said paint. THE TAX Commissions plan is an attempt to bitdge wtiat THEY EVEN brushed in a has been called an increasing straight line on the corridor gap for several years between floor for those Individuals sus. the amount of taxes paid by pect of excessive drinking. four classes of property own-erThe entire Inside received a fresh coat including the three Property owners must be tax. the ed cells and the bullpen, equally at 30 percent of latter being a larger cell with cash value, according to the cooking and shower facllties. state constitution. Officials say the new pro. Admittedly the jail still falls short of being an ideal place gram would more nearly equalfor confinement of prlsioners. ize taxes paid by owners of But Chief Dell Fife feels Its older buildings, newer build, lngs and other classes of pro. much cleaner and presentable perty. now. The greatest tax inci eases health officer, Mrs. City would fall on older homes under Anita Burt, agrees, ,j ' Candidates City 10 PAGES Plerae Crash Claims liv Meet Your To Utah Tax i Brigham City, Utah, Tuesday Morning, October 15, 1963 $ L t i ' !r . 91-8- Mr DRIVES .RIGHT IN Trooper Jack Pendleton and Bert L. Murphs Inn at Corinne, looked at damage caused when a crashed into the taverns west side. Shipley, 1963 model operator of conveitible i |