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Show I Junk Car Universal Salt "5 Crp- ive Lika As City Targets - citv Jtah Cosp. Zundel suggested Determination to rid Brig, Mayor streets and yards of as long as the fire depart, cars was voiced at ment is in this frame of mind, Brigham City why not investigate other sys. Thursdays council meeting. And it came terns? To which the coun. on two fronts. cil agreed. Local auto dealer Leon Packer, declaring the prob. lem will only get worse as more vehicles are put into use . and then disuse urged the formation of a committee to work out a program for the legal and orderly disposal of ham City abandoned ' Volume 71 , Number 1 1 Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Sunday Morning, March 17, 1968 10 PAGES junk cars. He declared that local car dealers would furnish towing service. Packer said the major stumbling block often is gain, ing a clear title to these ve. hides which have little value but are eyesores in the com. Ml lil munity. THERE IS A way to get title on these cars and wed be happy to work with you on it, he declared. In reply, Mayor Olof Zundel said the city beautification committee is cognizant of the problem and considers it a priority item. Councilman Wayne Jensen that weve just reported found an outlet that will pay $5 a ton for the cars and six car bodies equal about four tons. COMMENTING ON A sug. gestlon by Packer that the car bodies be taken to the land, fill and crushed, Jensen said he had already met with the Box Elder County commission on a previous promise to con. struct a concrete slab at the landfill for this purpose. He said the cost would be about $700. BEJHS Air Conditioning Rates Priority Mention '.I v FATAL WRECKAGE This is the car in which a killed was youth early Saturday morning. The vehicle slammed concrete abutment of a railroad underpass on U.S. 30s Brigham City into the head-o- n Local Youth Killed In Grinding Crash Although the projects were not listed in priority order, later action, the coun. ell said the county would be A old Brigham City ver was alone in the car and asked to furnish either the money or build the slab it. youth was killed instantly ear. it was not evident what caused self. ly Saturday morning when his the auto to leave the highway. Zundel assured 1957 model car slammed head, He said investigation was Mayor Packer that his recommenda. on into a concrete underpass In that air conditioning at Box Elder Junior High school is an im. mediate must. And Ike Ward, j y ' AFS Students Set DC Visit Thursday NILSANDERS Wlkstrom, a Swedish student attending Box Elder High school, will act as host for the visitors who are slated to visit social science and Spanish classes at the school Thursday morn. ing. Among the group will be youths from Peru, Greece and Spain, and their sponsor fam- ilies. ' Can Obtain Sr. Folks 19 Mrs. Clair Knudson pins AFS ribbon AES RIBBON Ribbons will be on sale at Box Kristi. on daughter, and 20. Available at the bookstore, the ribbons will be sold to raise funds for an American Abroad scholarship at BEHS. She urged participation by the students as a means of strengthening the AFS pro. gram locally. Boothe Steps Center Funds Down From C of C Post ' Front Page Wins Honor PLANS FOR action will be submitted to local city of. flclals at a future date, she explained. The Civic Improvement club conducted a survey and called a public meeting in NovemTHE HAPPENING" is ber last year to determine the scheduled from 4 to 5 p.m. level of interest in a recrea. in the high school cafeteria tion center for older resl. under auspices of the schools dents. Mrs. Eric Seashore, presi. dent of the AFS organization in Brigham City, announced that in conjunction with AFS Day, ribbons will be sold at the high school on March 18, RETIRE In Schools Staff A juggling of responsib. ilities and creation of a new position in the central office staff gained approval of the Box Elder Board of Education this past week. The reorganization will be. and is come effective July being occasioned by the pend, 1 retirement of Frank Stevens, director of second, ary curriculum. In the new administrative structure, C. Morgan Hawkes, director of pupil personnel and special services, will become administrator of curriculum and instruction, a new posi. tion. up to be. C. Mor-wipupil perbecome Kim D. be Richard sonnel will serving as administrator of curriculum ber, presently elementary school counselor. and instruction. As administrator of currl-culuand instruction, Hawkes will be second In authority only to Supt. J.C. Haws. STEPPING AND come director of ll m r. The AFS students will join to present two assemblies and then break for lunch at Box Elder Junior High school where they will present an. other program. AFS club. Scheduled to attend are vari. ous local dignitaries, includ. ing Mayor Olof Zundel. supervisor of maintenance and grounds, re. ported a definite need for new boilers and heating systems at McKinley Elementary school in Tremonton, and Lin. coin Elementary school in Brigham City. I believe these two schools AUTO VICTIM James have the two oldest boilers in Alan Dover, 16, died early the district, Ward testified. Also included on the list as Saturday morning in an an alternate for each school automobile accident was construction of a new addl. tion. The main sections of both buildings are multi-stoRETIRES Veran N. ied. Boothe has resigned from I THINK WE should give chamber of commerce post. serious consideration to the air conditioning and heating systems, stated board mem. ber Deloris Stokes. Board member Eberhart Zundel suggested the board members take a tour of the buildings where new construe, tion is proposed. And Super, Funds are available to help intendent Haws replied that in the establishment of a sen. such a tour is being planned ior citizens activities center for April. It appeared this will pre. in Brigham City, it was dls. closed this week. cede any further action or de. The Brigham City Chamber Mrs. R.M. Kaiser, chair, cisions on the projected needs. of Commerce announced this man of the community Im. past week that Veran N. Boothe BOARD CLERK David Mor. had resigned from the post clubs commit. provement tee on this matter, said the rell produced a schedule of of secretary. manager. was dis. bond debt repayments show. funds availability The resignation was closed in a meeting with a ing that with this year's pay. with regret and an state aide on aging Wednes. ment, the district will have expression of appreciation for bonded indebtedness totaling his service by the chambers day. Robert F. Speyer, grants board of directors Monday. (Continued on Page Two) Boothe said his decision to manager for the Utah Division on Aging, reportedly said mon. step down was made for health ey can be obtained for a di. reasons. rector, labor and remodeling in the local area. CHAMBER President Cliff Graham .said a five.man com. HE IS SCHEDULED to meet been named to mittee has screen applicants for the job. again with the local senior citizens committee on April The front page of the Box On the panel are himself, 11, said Mrs. Kaiser. Serv. William L. Elder News, Feb. 11, 1ms been President. Elect ing with her on the panel chosen as Front Page of the Packer, treasurer Bob Call are J.W. Pett, chairman; Mrs. Month among weekly Utah and directors Val Ferrin and Mabel Yourt, secretary and newspapers. Gene Henderson. Mrs. Vanez Wilson. We expect to fill the job The selection was made by The panel plans also to the communications depart, as soon as possible, Graham visit the Golden Hours cen. ment faculty at Brigham said Thursday. ter In Ogdens Lester park in Young university and is based In the meantime, the cham. the near future. on use of headlines, make, ber office, 142 South Main Establishment of this cen- up, illustrations, and type, street, will remain open dur. ter in 1958 was a new ap. according to modern typo, ing regular hours with a sec. proach to an old problem. graphical standards. retary on duty, the president The problem was a situation noted. A reproduction of the win. in which the senior citizens nlng front page will be pub. in the area just didnt get the BOOTHE WAS secretary, lished in the next issue of equal break when it came to the Utah Publisher and Print, manager for two years and recreational facilities. ..such er, monthly magazine of the prior to that, served as pres. as it is in Brigham City, Utah State Press association. (Cor.rinued on Page Two) Mrs. Kaiser said. WILL Changes Approved ing board members agreed tlons will be forwarded to abutment. JAMES ALAN Dover was comThe grinding crash claimed the city beautification born 5, 1951 in Ogden, of life Alan the James mittee and likely he would be Dover, a son April of O. and Betty Clyde called on in the near future son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde! M. Jensen Dover. O. 196 990 West South, Dover, for assistance. He was a junior at Box It occured at about 1:15 a.m. IN OTHER BUSINESS at a on U.S. 30s just west of the Elder High school and was also enrolled in the LDS Semi, regular council meeting, the city golf course. The under, nary program. He was a priest city officials unanimously ap. pass is one over which Union in the Brigham City Sixteenth of Pacific trains pass. appointment proved LDS ward. He had earned to the DeLonne Anderson city TROOPER JACKPendelton, his Eagles Scout award. He board of adjustments. He will had attended Ogden city fill a vacancy left by Reed Utah Highway patrol, said the onto off vehicle the schools before moving to Brig, Hadfield, recently named city angled ham City. right shoulder for approxi-matelattorney. 200 feet before smash, Andersons term on the SURVIVING are his parents, board will be for five years. ing into the cement structure. two brothers and one sister, There was virtually no dam. A new radio alterting sys. Bruce Dover, Karen Dover and tern was demonstrated for the age to the abutment. Brian Dover, all of Brigham The wreckage was discovercouncil after Chief Kenneth City; his grandparents, Otto Dickamore asked the council ed by a passing motorist who Hl Dover Ogden; Mr. and Mrs. to consider such a system for notified Brigham City police E.L. Jensen, Far West, Weber 1:20 at a.m. the local fire department. county. Do Pendleton said Trooper e BOB RAMPTON, represent-ativFuneral services will be for L.N. Curtis and conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m. Sons, Salt Lake City, distri-butor- s the Sixteenth. Fifth LDS in of the system, said in. COIN BOX LOOTED ward chapel with Bishop Jaye dividual receiving units for E. Poelman officiating. each of 30 firemen and a trans. Dale Bess at Bess Service, Friends may call at the Blaine mitter would cost a total of 249 North Main, reported to Olsen Funeral chapel Monday $5,500. Brigham City police Saturday .from 7 to 9 p.m. and Tues. with The units operate flash, that some one had broken day prior to services, ing light and audible signal Into the coin box at the sta. Burial will be in Brigham to alert the firemen and act tions car wash. City cemetery. over sets also as receiving J which a dispatcher can relay information about fires. About the size of a laige portable radio, the units are portable and could be kept by the firemen at home and in their cars. Asked if the system would eliminate the need for the citys siren alarm, Dickamore said possibly at night. However Councilman Blaine Olsen opined that the City is gearing for American Field Services day. sirens should continue in use a Brigham invasion this week. Approximately 20 foreign foreign as a warning to motorists The date will be Thursday, exchange students, attending and others. March 21, and the occasion, Utah schools this year, will visit here, present assembly programs and then take part as a cli. in a happening max to the days activities. Elder High school this week. Box Elder School district officials Wednesday took a look at projected school construction needs totaling as much as $4,132,000 and then pondered at length how to pay for them. Superintendent J. C Haws listed a dozen projects including a new Junior high school and new elementary school in Brigham City. Board of education members discussed possibilities of bonding, bond refunding and increasing the mill levy but arrived at no conclusion, except to agree that any course will be financially demanding. STEVENS The need was determined to be evident. We want to start the community on the way toward making a better life for older persons so that life may be more meaningful for them, commented Mrs. Kaiser. HEATERS STOLEN Fife Construction company reported the theft of three gas heaters from a bridge construction site near the mouth of Box Elder canyon Wednesday, according to Brig, ham City police. IN OTHER CHANGES, Lynn Hailing who has handled sup. plies in the district, will be placed in charge also of trans. portation. And Dr. Malcolm Allred, Utah State university, ele-- I will serve as a part-timmentary education consultant. Superintendent Haws said Stevens would not be replaced but his responsibilities shared by others on the staff with most of them to be handled by Hawkes. e IN ONE OTHER change, Sam Gordon, coordinator of Frank vocational education, will have TO RETIRE a new title director of Stevens will retire from vocational education, Neigh, school district post this year. borhood Youth corps and adult education. He presently has these responsibilities. Hawkes said it was his hope in the new central office or. ganization to improve the tot. al curriculum in Box Elder district through closer co. ordination. WHEN HE RETIRES this year, Stevens will climax 43 years experience in the school district as a teacher, principal and member of the central office staff. He served for more than 15 years as principal at Bear River High school andfornine years has been director of re. search and public relations and then secondary education. RichTO TAKE POST HAWKES, A BRIGHAM City ard D. Kimber will become, native and graduate of Box Eld- director of pupil personnel. er High school, began as an elementary school teacher in 1951, teaching for three years REPORTS DAMAGE at Garland and later serving an additional three years as John Legget, 404 West Sixth principal at Fielding school, North, told Brigham City po. He then joined the faculty lice Friday that some one shot a window in his car. (Continued on Page Two) City Views Design For Northeast Park officials City Brigham Thursday night gave initial Inspection to a park design in the horse barns area, heard it described as a place for informal play, family pic. nics, beauty and quiet walks and then sent it along to the city recreation committee for study. Planner R. Clay Allred pre. sented the preliminary sketch of the proposed 16.acre north, east city park which included extensive groves of trees, large open areas for play, three overlook terraces or patios, a bowery larger than that at Rees Pioneer park, an enclosed playground area for children, three restrooms and parking. with the design but through their questioning, indicated that some changes will be made. For example, the absence of flowers was questioned and Councilman Blaine Olsen sug. gested that instead of such a large single bowery (70.by. 120 feet), perhaps several smaller ones should be built. The need for a bicycle path and tennis courts also were raised. MAYOR OLOF Zundel said he would call a special meet, ing of the recreation panel for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. to consider the design. The rushfor committee con. sideration was prompted by a need to make application CITY COUNCIL members soon for federal beautifica. generally seemed Impressed tion funds on the park, Mayor Zundel said he was informed by the Department of Housing and Urban Develop, ment that the application must be submitted no later than May 1 to gain consideration for next fiscal year. THERE WAS SOME discus, slon earlier in the meeting as to whether or not the city should seek federal help. I think we should get along without it if we can, stated Councilman Blaine Olsen. In the past weve felt that as long as the program ex. ists, we might as well take advantage of it, replied Mayor Zundel, As citizens, were going to pay taxes anyway whether we take the money or not, added Councilman Byron Arm. strong. Councilman Wayne Jensens to make application for beautification funds gained unanimous council approval. motion IT WILL BE THE second consecutive year in which the city will have sought this type of federal aid. In fact, during Thursdays meeting, the coun. cil authorized Mayor Zundel to sign a contract on a grant of $5,900 from last years application. This money will be used for improvements at several existing city parks. Also, Mayor Zundel read a letter from HUD which veri. fled what the city officials already had assumed . that the citys application for $26,000 under the govern, ment's open space program (Continued on Page Two) |