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Show 4 ONE WITH A BFO KICK mployes Hear New BLM Roles The Brigham City Bureau of Land Management office Morn day received tentative assign ment of Its personnel In the proposed consolidation move that would see the local dise trict office reduced to . sub-offic- status. According to Information received from the state BLM office, seven Brigham City em. ployes would be transferred to Three others would Tooele. remain here to staff the subdistrict office. TCC Wins contract valued at over $800,000 has been awarded to Thlokol Chemical corporation's Wasatch division by the Air Force Ballistic Systems dlvls. Ion to design, fabricate, and deliver rocket motors contain solid tag propellant with high energy beryllium ad. dltlvles, according to Charles E. Hunter, vice president and general manager. A 14 New Eloclie? Pect to gather ballistic data, nozzle pyrolytic graphite, and tungsten erosion Information, and other nozzle throat materials will be motor performance results. evaluated during the test fir. tags. These motors will be the largThe berylllumlzed propellant est berylllumlzed solid motors tested In the will be processed In the Wasatch division's new company, United States to date. funded propellant plant specific, ally designed to manufacture e The program will also the Wasatch division with high energy materials. extensive processing exper. The motors will be shipped to lence In new high energy solid Edwards Air Force base, Calif, propellants. for static test firing. The Thlokol test motors are The Air Force Rocket Pro. approximately 55 Inches In dia- pulsion laboratory at Edwards meter and 60 Inches In overall AFB is providing technical sur length. High density graphite, velllance for the program. . pro-pella- pro-vid- Each of the rocket motors will be loaded with approxl. mately 4,000 pounds of high en. ergy berylllumlzed solid fuel. The program Is being conducted Thlokol Given $3.4 Million 1'lerpol Co tftaji Coa- - Genie Order Dont Put Prisoners to Work, The Air Force Friday placed an order with Thlokol Chemical corporation for procurement of $3,449,-40- 0 worth of Genie rocket motors, according to Senator Wallace F. Bennett (R. Council Asks in Split Voting Utah). The order was termed as fixed price on an existing Air Force contract, Air Force officials told Senator Bennett Thlokol plans to do the work on the Genie, which Is an air to air, nuclear-tippe- d missile, at Its Wasatch division near Brigham City. (Tuesday) and so was unavailable for comment. Brigham City councilman In Councllmen Bill Davis andVerl split Thursday evening vot-e- Petersen voting no." to recommend that City Judge The action came after a discussion over the VeNoy Chrlstoffersen not place lengthy prisoners on work details until city's liability In event a prls. a liability question Is resolved. oner should suffer serious InCouncilman Robert Keating jury while on a cltj work promade the motion and gained sup. ject. has Chrlstoffersen port from Councllmen Rudolph Judge Kaiser and William Packer with been out of town until today a 3.2 d IN A PREVIOUS MEETING, the council was Informed that prisoners, working In lieu of a fine or jail term, could be Included on the city's semi-annu- payroll report. As such, they would be covered by the state Insurance fund. City recorder said A. A. Wald, LOCAL CIVIC GROUPS, city and county officials have opposed the move which would alter the boundaries of Brigham City and Murray districts In a ron, state Insurance fund under, writer, had given verbal approval to this approach. at Thursdays However, meeting, Councilman Davis said a letter had been received from Waldron In which he stated ... consolidation at Tooele. The Utah Wool Growers as. soclatlon also has opposed It. n The grower group's prime Is In the additional travel Involved If the district office Is located at Tooele. THE SUB.DISTRICT office here would provide some services but the majority of records would be at Tooele. When the state BLM office the Information I gave you over the phone was In error. con-cer- Volume 68, Number 9 IT HAS BEEN determined that where prisoners are required to work out their fines, there Is not a true employee, 8 PAGES Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Tuesday Morning March 2, 1965 employer relationship due to the fact that these prisoners are more or less compelled to do this work. Therefore the ruling Is that we cannot cover the above mentioned prisoners." Councilman Davis took exception to the assumption that prisoners are compelled to work. He said they are given a choice as to accepting work In lieu of other punishment. . first announced the district changes In early February, It was Indicated the Brigham City office would be closed altogeth. er. However, Sen. Frank E. two weeks ago Moss said he had conferred with BLM aides In Washington and was told Brigham City would continue to have a office. sub-dlstrl- LOCAL GROUPS have oppos. ed the closure because of the adverse effect It would have on an already slumping economy. It was pointed out also that the land use review commission Is now making a study and any move should await this group's findings. Information .emlnatlng from Washington was received at the local office Monday which In. dlcated that although some resistance to the BLM consolidation program has been voiced, generally there Is no mounted opposition. The government Is under, taking the district changes as an efficiency and economy move. Fluoridation Campgound Opposed, City Stays Decision Opposed at City Meeting The The city council Thursday put off for one week Its decision on a proposed zoning change In northwest Brigham City that would permit a tourist camp, ground to be established there. City officials agreed to the wait after public hearing at which adjacent property own. ers voiced opposition. John Leggett, 404 West Sixth North, told the council that he represented all property own. ers bordering the sites south side and all were opposed to the campground. first opposition to the club's Brigham was fluoridation proposal sounded Thursday evening dur-ta- g a regular city council meet-taCity Kiwanls Dennis Vail, 434 Greenwood drive, said he had checked Into fluoridation quite a bit" and understood It was extremely dangerous" when slight overdoses were administered. He said Its quite possible that unexplained deaths of many Infants are caused by fluoride administered In vitamin pills. for development Proposed is a five acre parcel adjacent to US 30s with an entrance from Fifth West. VAIL WAS ASKED BY mem-ber- s of the council to make any written or other evidence In to fluoridation available to the city health depart- THE MAIN ARGUMENT A resolution asking Immediate steps to fluoridate the city's water was presented to the coun-e- ll by a Kiwanls club spokesman. at the. previous council meeting. The council Indicated at the time it would like to take All local PTA officers and the proposal' under study for chairmen from throughout south about a month before making any Box Elder county are expected decision. to be on hand for a PTA coun. IN OTHER BUSINESS Thurs-daell meeting In Brigham City the question arose again this evening (Tuesday). According to Mrs. Jean Mad- as to the supervisors In youth sen, council president, the ses. recreation programs. slon will be held at Mountain Recreation Director Henry View Elementary school start- Whitten said some programs, such as boys baseball, do have ing at 7:30 p.m. Features of the evening will Insurance coverage. Councilman Robert Keating Include the showing of a film on fluoridation and a report raised the question, what conon school finances by Supt. stitutes a proJ.C. Haws of Box Elder School gram? PTA Council area." Leggett read a letter from an other property owner, Earl J. Knudson, which declared that Plans Meet Latest Fashions? New Lights y, At City Parks There seemingly Is a wide gap between women's fashions and city park lights but not for the Ladles Community club of Brigham City. of the city. The Brigham City Council Thursday approved, subject to approval of the public works director, that a portion of 250 West street In Cherrywood be tern subdivision porarlly closed. It was noted there are no homes In the area to be closed and It could be used as a play area by children In the neighborhood. He said the survey would be done at no expense to Brigham City. PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR O. Nell Smith was authorized to grade and clear off the vac. ant property located south of the city cemetery. At the same SPRING IS NEAR When the sun comes out so do boys and girls as evidenced by this slippery slide scene on the grounds at Lincoln Elementary school. Temperatures are inching upward with the coming of spring. March Comes in Like Cold! March came in all right but whether It was like a Jion or like a lamb . . .it was a cold one either way, according to Charles Clifford, who reports that the mercury registered a cool 20 degrees minimum early Monday morning. time the city parks committee will take a look at the site for possible future development. Smith recommended the.slte (Continued on Page Two) ESTIMATED COST GOES UP a campground would be unadvls-abl- e A PRISONER IS NOT com. pelled anymore than I am to go to work each morning as an In- near a school site, (The Box Elder Board of has a future school site West Just north of on Fifth Seventh North.) Brigham City has a fine reputation as a very desirable place to live. Don't destroy Its Beautiful' areas by unwise so dividual," Farmer Seeks Injunction declared. Councilman Keating suggestthat prisoners may be given alternatives but really has no choice as to the sentence. He must pay for his violation in zoning. . A TRAILER Davis ed some way. CAMP In that area could discourage and prob. ably would prevent any further planning for the subdividing of land In that part of the city," Knudsons letter stated-Leggtold the council-methe letter echoed his feel, tags. He Indicated that property in the area was most valuable now for purposes development other than farming. The way things are to Brigham City with high taxe and no market, were through tsfar as farm land In concerned." he stated. n It was agreed to have City Attorney Robert Dalnes delve Into the legal points In the issue and make his recommendations to the council, THE ATTORNEY responded by saying It would take him two weeks to complete the study. The question then arose as to what the policy should be in the Interim. Councilman Keating said he felt during the Intervening per. lod, the court should suspend placing on violators per-son- camp-groun- City and County Report Diseases Brigham City reported a total of 17 communicable dls. eases for the week ending Feb. 19. Included were one case of chicken pox, two measles, three German measles, three mumps and eight strep Infections. Box Elder reported county for the same week, lnclud. tag 12 measles, one mumps 15 Influenza and one cancer. 29 Against BC in Water Issue A hearing In which a dairy ham City and who Is a member farmer Is seeking a temporary of the Box Elder County com. restraining order and tajunc. mission, Is seeking the order. tlon against Brigham City to Reeder claims that a drain- - the past spring, this drainage water, added to normal flood and run . off waters, causing his Irrigation ditches to overflow, The result was to water.log and sour the flooded ground, causing crop damage amounting to $1,275. The plaintiff alleges that a similar condition existed In 1963 but he did not appraise made with a state road engineer the damage because he believed to provide facts and figures for the city would correct the the present strengthening In his petition, Reeder says bridge so that it could support that unless restrained, It school bus traffic. the city will continue to LEE C. JOHNSON, Bear Rlv. let Its drainage water flow Into er City town president, was at the farming area. the regular commission meet, HE IS SEEKING THE tag and said the town board was behind county efforts to get restraining order and a new bridge. Injunction to precede a per man. Johnson said he wanted to ent order when the matter Is clear the air on a rumor that heard on Its merits also a plans were being dropped be. Judgement In the sum of $1,275. cause the commission believed The city contends that drain, Bear River City officials did. water which flows In an open n't want the proposed bridge. age ditch down Ninth North to Mata street and then north has not The town president said he Increased the substantially hoped the bridge project would-n'on (Continued Page 2) be dropped. County Disappionfed On Bridge Project Box Elder county has received a lesson In not crossing Its bridges before theyre built. This was disclosed last week when the county commission said It appeared there would now be a lengthy delay In con. struettag a new bridge across Bear river east of Bear River City, They had planned to get started on the span this year, , In addition, the county of. fleals said they had been tafor. med by the Utah Highway de. partment that Instead of costing about $140,000 as originally estimated, the bridge would mean an expenditure of between $32,000 end $380,000. some $3,500 for preliminary engineering on the bridge project. The commissioners didn't at. tempt to hide their feelings a. bout the surprising higher esti. mated cost. They questioned, that it was reasonable, noting that it was much higher than the expense to build any other bridge on the river. ler vehicle traffic, Including department school buses. The commissioners said they had understood the bridge could be constructed right away using federal and matching county money. However, they were in. formed recently that the county could have only one priority project and top billing had gone to a surfacing job on between Rosebud Wash and Mud. dy creek. 0 FURTHER, COMMISSION Chairman Grover Harper said the state Informed him that everything was programmed un. til 1969 which would be as soon as they could get to the bridge. THE EXISTING BRIDGE has' County Clerk K.B. Olsen said been declared unsafe for heav. the county has paid the state COUNTY HAS MONEY not at that extremely high cost, It was brought out. THE set aside as Its share but However, the officials agreed not to drop the project but to work toward a lower, more reasonable " figure, They said contracts have been work details. However, Councilman Davis out that to dut off the pointed ANOTHER NEARBY proper Immediately would procedure ty owner, Harold Reeder, said be unwise because some s No one Is going to build an have been placed already expensive house next to a on worv details. Weve been careful when selling property, about The motion which passed did what went into the area because not restrict arrangements for were kind of proud of It." existing work details but It was In reply, Robert Olds of Brig suggested these persons not be ham City who has proposed to placed on hazardous assign, develop the campground, said ments. he felt rather than deteriorate property values, the facility would enhance them. . The first step In development would be to extend water and power utilities Into the area- - Representatives of the organization last week presented Mayor Willis Hansen with check for $390 to pay for lights HE SAID THE campground at Rees Pioneer park and Snow would be landscaped as requirpark. was raised ed by city ordinance and would, The money through the club's annual spring nt pose any unsightliness. Olds fashion show. explained the camp , would operate only In the sum Mayor Hansen said It would mer and so would not be open be enough to pay for three during the school year and the lights which already have been site Is Ideally located on a high, Installed at the two city parks. way leading from Interstate 15, Making the check presentation were Mrs. Leon Smith, vice And It wouldn't be taking out president, and Mrs. Don Nel- a chunk In the middle of a resson, chairman of the special idential area, he added. projects committee. district. CITY ATTORNEY ROBERT Mrs. Madsen said local chair-me- n will be expected to make Dalnes was requested to make reports on the years actlvlt-le- s this determination and then In their various depart, he and Whitten were asked to see ments which will Include the what type of Insurance would be available. following: Dalnes said that in Instances Civil defense, exceptional child, mental health and health, where negligent carelessness Is historians, hospitality and room evident, the supervisor Is liable representatives, membership, whether paid or not. PTA magazine, Police Chief Dell Fife said legislature, parent and family life, pre. a state highway engineer would school, program, publicity, be In Brigham City early this reading and library services, week to check out" regulatory safety education and scholar, signs and traffic problems pre. ship. paratory to a traffic survey vole-e- d against rezontag was that It would affect adversley the val. ue of all property In the lmmed-lat- e ment. TO CLOSE STREET V TEM-porar- SEE THE LIGHT Mayor Willis Hansen and LadNf iGfrnjynity club representatives Mrs. Leon Smith and Mrs. Don Nelson, look at JtXa. tillor to those installed at Rees and Snow parks, thanks to a donation Of $390 CrOnt che club. f a I I " |