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Show Univ-rn- l Viorofil-ci- J. FOOTBALL TO SQUARE DANCING '41 K 1 1 1 J oin -- Ava. .. ic.a City, Utah orp u Events Slate Aired For '68 Peach Days Football to square dancing, agenda of activities lined up for this years 64th annual Peach Days cele. bration, according to T. Frank executive secre. Coppln, tary for the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce. thats the Traditional features t yt plus new attractions are s cheduled for the two.day har. vest celebration, oldest of its kind in the state. Peach Days are Although Sept. 6.7, the Peach Queen talent show will serve as a preliminary event on the even-Inof Sept. 5 at Box Elder High school. several Volume 71, Number 34 Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Sunday Morning, August 25, 1968 g BE Students Must Register Students who havent yet registered at Box Elder High school are advised to Monday morning, Aug. 26, at 8 a.m. Vice Principal Roland said although Gourley have studetns most signed up, those who havent must do so at this time. Monday represents the opening day of the 1968-6year in Box Elder School district. 9 COPPIN SAID AN apparent conflict between the Sept. 6 beauty pageant and a football game matching Box Elder and Weber High schools has been resolved through mutual cooperation. The grid contest, scheduled at Ferguson field, will be play, ed one hour earlier than plan, ned at 7 p.m and the pageant will begin at 9 p m., an hour later than originally sched. uled. REDUCED.RATE carnival been assured have rides through financial cooperation of the city, and there will be the traditional flower show, window and hobby displays and art The final voter registration day prior to the Sept. 10 primary election in Box I Icier county is Tuesday, Aug. show. The fruit and vegetable stand will again be arranged in front of the county courthouse. The junior parade is slated at 5 pm. on Sept. 6 with the big parade, one of Utahs finest, set for 11 a.m. Sept. 7. Art Exhibit Slated for activities Other second-dawill include a band concert at Rees Pioneer park at 2 p m. and a square dance fes. tival, attracting dancers from all over northern Utah, on Brigham Citys Peach the Packer Motor company lot Days Art exhibit will be held at 8 p.m Sept. 6, 7, and 8 in the Wight building, opposite Merrells at. PERHAPS THE Lumber on Main street, ac. traction of this premiercele. years cording to Frank Coppin, bration will be the production of the Brig, " Till Kingdom Come in ham City Chamber of Com. the school auditorium at merce and general chairman 8 high p.m 1968 of the Peach Days cele. bration. This is the musical, writ, The exhibit will be open to ten and produced locally, the public from 12 noon to which met with such success 10 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 6; in its initial presentation earl, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on ier this summer. Sept. 7, and from 12 noon to And after the stage pro. 5 p.m. on the final day. On Thursday, Sept. 5, judges duction, a 1968 Mustang sports will award $25 cash prizes to car will be given away to some the outstanding professional lucky ticket holder. and amateur work as well as a $25 "Best of Show award. will include The judges Weldon Hyer, art supervisor of Salt Lake City schools, and Everett Thorpe of Utah State university. 27, and persons not presently registered should take heed, according to Count) Clerk K.B. Olsen. Agents in 51 districts will accept new names from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Olsen announced also that absentee ballots are now a. vailable in his office. Persons BE who will be out of town on election day may cast their votes in the clerks office be. tween now and the election. Candidate Wight Bldg. THE event, Coppln named George. Ulbel, Manager of the publl. IN ANNOUNCING cations department at Thlokol as Chemical corporation, chairman of the art exhibit. The show will consist of two separate divisions for pro. fessional and amateur artists. A total of three works may be entered in one of the two divisions. Artists Interested in exhibiting should contact the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce for contest rules and registration blanks. should bring "Exhibitors their work to the exhibition building from 6 to 10 p.m. on Uibel said. Sept. 3 and 4, oils and "Watercolors, drawings must be approprlat. ely matted, framed and wir. ed, he added. Withdraws This is the residence of Oleen WINS YARD PRIZE L. Watt, 715 East Medoland drive, which is the August The winner in the "Yard of the Month contest. Spike Coins On Sale at New Places Spike commemora. now on sale several Brigham City lo. Golden tive medals are at cations and also in the na. tional centennial office in Ogden, it was announced this week. Available at Brigham City banks and the chamber of commerce office are bronze medals selling for $2.50 each. are one.and.five-six- . They Some 55 teachers, new to teenths inches in size. Box Elder School district this In addition, orders are be. year, and their partners were hosted by the Brigham City ing taken for future issue of Chamber of Commerce this a silver medal priced at $25, inches in size. past week in what has become a traditional "get.acquainted A limited quantity will be mint-ed- . event. Chamber Hosts New Teachers, Get Acquainted Meeting Wednesday in pre. school orientation sessions at Box Elder High school, the freshmen educators saw afilm slide presentation of the lo. cal chamber and then took an hour-lonbus tour of the city. Arriving back at the school, they were treated to a dinner in the school cafeteria which was attended also by city of. ficials and other local digni. taries. NO WORK, NO MONEY INTERESTED persons al. so may order a bronze medal of the same size which will cost $7.50. The words "Sacramento Omaha will Promontory appear on the two. inch medals. The commemorative coins are being issued by the United States mint at Philadelphia, Pa. f, ... ASK WELFARE HELP Wet Weather Hurts Migrants Unseasonable August storms which soaked Box county during the past two weeks have represented more than a nuisance or In. convenience to migrant farm workers. Theyve been hurting economically. El-d- in the fields Ordinarily harvesting tomatoes, beans and corn at this point in the summer, theyve been idled by the rain and cold. Their plight became evident this past week when migrant families, virtually all of them Winner residence of a Brig-hastore manager City Thursday was selected as "Yard of the Month for Au. guest in judging sponsored by the Kiwanis club. Winner was the yard of Mr and Mrs. Oleen L. Watt, 715 East Medoland drive, located in the northeast section of the city. Watt who manages the Smith Food King market at Fifth North and Main street, Friday was presented a traveling tro-ph- y by project chairman Brad Mclntire. The IN ADDITION, a sign desig. natlng the winning yard was placed on Watts front lawn. The award recipient credited his wife with doing a ma. jor share of the yard work. Mrs. Watt said she enjoys the activity but conceeded that it requires a lot of time. Runners-uin the August judging were the yards of Ken Somerville, 161 Fishburn drive, and Wesley Boman, 265 p Thisko! Earnings Dip From Contest A Riverside man has withdrawn from the contest to seek his partys nomination for two-ye- county commissioner. Ronald E. Hales, a Democrat, has stepped out of the political arena for health reasons, according to County Clerk K. B. Olsen. Hales would have opCity Brigham posed retired fruitman and A. educator George Nielson in the Sept. 10 primary election. His withdrawal means that Nielson is unop- posed and will not be involved in the primary balloting. Faces Charge Arraignment has been con. tlnued in Brigham City court for Luckie John Howell, 20, of 83 South Sixth East, who is charged with receiving sto. len property. Judge VeNoy Christoffersen ordered Howell to appear on Aug. 26. Bail was set at $1,000. North Ninth East. JUDGES FOR the competition were Dr Arvel Stark, extension horticulturist for Utah State university, and Mrs. A.L. Stenburg, Salt Lake City, past president of the Utah Associated Garden clubs. They were Judges for prev. ious monthly winners In the Brigham City contest. Mclntire said the contest will continue through Septem. her with one more winner to be chosen during the 1968 summer season. from Texas, filed into the county welfare office to seek aid was THE BIGGEST day Thursday when 30 families were processed for food cou. pons or stamps. A few others were turned away because they could not qualify for the Ag. ricultural department pro. gram Welfare Director LeGrande Tea said those who did not qualify for food stamps were offered help through the public assistance plan. Albert S. Martinez, migrant program director for Box El. der, Cache and Rich counties, said some families had pulled out for other places. THOSE VOTING A Republl. can ticket will have eight con. tests to decide, including one for U.S. Senate, five state tests and two for county commission. Democrats will have a less complex task with only three races on the ballot, U.S, Sen. ate, state attorney general and four-yea- r county comis. s loners. Persons who should be con. Kiwanis club. saker, 518 South Third East, Previous winners were the and D.L. Holland, 525 East cerned about registration are those who recently turned of of Wayne Hun. residences First South. age (21) or who will do so by election day; also, new residents who have lived within the state for one year, in the county four months and the precinct for 60 days at the time Thiokol Chemical corpora, were down 24 percent from of election. tion reported earnings of $.56 the first six months of 1967 VOTERS WHO havent cast per share for the first six it was noted that they have months of 1968. Sales for the remained relatively level dur-in- g a ballot within the past four the first half of this year. years also face the need to period totaled $104 million. This compares with earn, register. IN JUNE, the report stated, Registered voters who have ings of 69 cents per share and sales of $124 million for the AFA corporation, a wholly moved from one district to the like period of 1967. It owned subsidiary of Thiokol, another within the county must was stated that five cents per acquired the assets and bus. transfer their registration. share of the decline in earn, iness of Owens Plastic Pro. This can be done any time up ings was attributable to the in. ducts corporation of Palatine, to the Saturday prior to elec, tion day. creased provision for federal 111. The clerks office also can "The closures. .principally Income taxes required by the surcharge retroactive to Jan. bottlecaps.. produced by Ow. register voters but only until ens are expected to comple-men- t 10 days before the election. 1, 1968. Thiokol reported that the the AFA line of sprayers FOLLOWING sales trend in its chemical and provide a mldwestern ARE THE and industrial products contln. manufacturing and distrlbu. names of agents and their ad. ued upward. While aerospace tion point for better service dresses in all of Box Elder and other government billings to customers. (Continued on Page Six) monthly judging is sponsored by the Brigham City Kiwanis club in cooperation with the city beautification committee. THE "YARD OF the Month award was established this year as a means of creating greater local Interest in beaut, ificatlon and is a cooperative project Involving the city and Joseph Welcomed With Football Cookies Joseph Toya is what can be described as a normal boy. He loves to play football with the neighborhood gangandwlll woof down a cookie and glass of milk quicker tiian you can say Mickey Mantle. Hes entering the seventh grade at Box Elder Junior High school this week like several hundred other youths his age. However, in some re. spects Joseph will be different than his classmates. The popular youngster is an Apache Indian and his resl. dence here is only during the school year. In the summer, Joseph hangs his hat at home until they graduate from high district, Northern Utah a. placed for the first time. school, explained Roger gency. Josephs sister, Ramona, Trlmnal of Brigham City, a OF COURSE THERE are 8, is one of these. Her new case worker for the county other students who are being (Continued on Page Two) in Dulce, N.M. Ice, Bottle, Cap, Boom! Dry ice can explode If you place it in a bottle and put on the cap. Three Brigham City young, sters discovered this fact the hard way recently. AND AN AIDE IN the lo. Mrs. Dorothy Bess, 466 cal migrant office, Mrs. Au. North Fifth East, explained rora R. McCubbln, said oth. that her nine. year. old son and ers would leave, too, if they two friends, ages 10 and 11, had the means but "they have suffered cuts when the bottle no work, no way of getting one of them was holding burst. the means. "It blew the bottle into bits Martinez said he was ad. and pieces flew everywhere, vised in a conversation with she said. Commissioner Wil. County The two older boys suffered 11am D. Burton to keep the multiple cuts and Mrs. Besss workers here to harvest the son had a single cut on his crops when the weather turns stomach. All required stlt. good. ches. A lack of food has not been "It was a miracle that their the migrants only problem, eyes werent injured. We Just according to Martinez. Their thought other parents should living quarters are not ade. by made aware of the danger, quate for this cold, wet weath. the mother said. er in many Instances. The youngsters said the dry ISSUES STAMPS Mrs. Leo Jensen is pictured in the "Although some of the ac. ice was in the bottle for "less rocess of issuing food stamps to a migrant worker in commodatlons are fair, others than two minutes when it er county courthouse office. Continued on Page Two) exploded. HES ONE OF 76 youths from age eight to 18, adopted by Box Elder county families this past week through the LDS Indian Student Placement pro. gram. But for Joseph, like many others, this isnt a new ex. perience. It marks the begin, nlng of his fifth year in the care of Mr. and Mrs. W.d. Craner, 162 South Fifth West, Brigham City. Joseph isnt a visitor, hes one of the family. SEEMS good to declared have him back, Mrs. Craner as she watched Joseph in a game of football on the back lawn. "His friends were glad, too. As soon as he arrived, the bicycles were gathered here and his friends to greet him, e she added. The same story has unfold, ed In many Box Elder homes with youngsters returning to families with whom they have lived previously. "Its our desire when they go with a family that they should remain with that family j' Indian student Joseph Toya s..n!es broadly at his Brigham City "mother, Mrs. V!'. D. Craner after returning here to spend his fifth school year living at the Craner residence. THANKS, MOM f |