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Show 2 BOX ELDER NEWS, Brigham City, Utah and give us your instructions neatly typed and double spaced, please." now Sunday, Jan'ary 26, 1969 . And might if no one responded, you hear the pilot again: "Oh come on now folks, there must be a highjacker or two or some one whod like to learn. Its really easy; you just hold out a gun or a dagger or even o rolled-u- p newspaper and identify Shift Students? It fell like a hammer when a Bear River Valley Chamber of Commerce official this past week suggested that students from Honeyville and Bear River City be sent to Bear River High school. Board of education members assumed that he also meant Bear River Junior High school. This alternative to easing Box Elder High schools enrollment growing pains has not previously escaped consideration by the board of education. But in the past, board members have scarcely dared think about it for fear of causing emotional upheaval in the two communities. NOW, however, the possibility is in the open and we suspect has created quite a stir. Perhaps this is best because not only the school board but the citizens of Box Elder district must come to grips with a problem that is not abating but which promises to become more accute that of providing adequate facilities for our students. WOULD it be practical to include Honeyville and Bear River City in the Bear River High school 8: c .attendance area? We think not for the following reasons: Residents of the two communities are certain to be against it. Students living in Bear River City until about nine years ago had the option of attending either Box Elder or Bear River High H; school; few of them chose the latter. l:: It would be contradictory to church ties. ' Both LDS wards are in North Box Elder stake which involves them with other wards of the Brigham City C area. importantly, it would not solve $ the problem. This year there are 173 students from the two communities attending Box Elder High The number next year likely will remain 'constant of perhaps be even smaller. Thus while giving some relief to the high y;. y Schools enrollment woes, it would be only a MOST . tern-porar- measure. Box Elder which was designed for, 1,800 in three grades, next year will have 1,943 enrolled in ;cfour grades, based on projections which do not in-- 0 elude population influx as a factor, f." Ensuing years will see the student numbers ! 'climb higher, reaching 2,113 by 1972-7AT THE SAME TIME, the shift of junior high students to Bear River would soon push that v school beyond its stated capacity. Bear River Junior High Principal herd Jeppson . told the board Wednesday that his school has teach-,in- g stations for 700 students and a current enroll- - . . . " . Within four years the pupil number is expected reach 685 which doesnt leave much room for the to j V 153 junior high students expected at that time from cur-reHoneyville and Bear River City, based on the projections. According to figures disclosed by Principal .tccomo-?- : , Kleon Kerr, Bear River High school could the with would come date a student increase such as ; shift of Honeyville and Bear River City by utilizing classrooms in the "old main. seven OUR FINAL picture within the next several years, then, would be this: Overcrowded conditions .at both Box Elder High school and Bear River Junior High while Bear River High school would be forced to use facilities which it abandoned years ago because they were considered undesirable. Is this really the answer we want? There are other alternatives which will be ex-- . eeks.. in these columns during the coming nt now-vaca- plored yourself as a highjacker. Anybody can do it . by Bruce Hey, did you hear the latest news? A jetliner flying from New York to Miami WASNT forced to understand many of fly to Cuba. the passengers are seeking refunds. I even a kid. Well provide the gun. Oh come on folks. Charlie on the next flight's already Last week in these columns we expressed reservation about trusting the federal government in its plan to classify 957,377 acres of public land in Box Elder county for retention and multiple use. We simply dont want this county and the state of Utah any more at the federal mercy than now is the The Interior department, it seems, is the least to be trusted, at least under the recently departcase. ed administration, FIRST, it was adoption of grazing fee increase an oil arbitrary and unilateral basis. Second, this past week, Johnson followed in part an Interior department recommendation when he added 266,000 acres to Arches and Capitol Reef National monuments in Lkah, IN EACH case there were no hearings; no consultations with Utah and other western states leaders; no effort to involve the citizens most directly affected by the decisions. This is government of and by the people? Most insulting to the citizens was the apparent effort to keep the land withdrawals a secret until the final lameduck minutes. If we are to believe reports coming out of Washington, only by chance at the eleventh hour did congressional leadets find out about the plans and pressure Mr. Johnson to pull back proposed creation of 7.2 million acres of new monuments in Alaska and Arizona. WE DONT know what protocol or precedent dictates in this kind of situation and frankly, wc dont give a hoot. Congress should start earning the money it already receives by standing on its feet as the responsible and independent body the Founding Fathers intended it to be. Both of these arbitrary actions should be rescinded until hearings can be held and the merits of each either proved or disproved. then-Preside- highjacked nine times and hes beginning to rib me about it. The guys wont even play cards with me anymore." No kidding, there's a rumor that some of the airlines are going to build a reception center in Havana. As a special feature, theyre including a depository for pistols, bombs and knives which is kind of a courte- ous gesture. At the magazine bar there will be post cards with pictures of malwith the pilot, contents and the words: "I was high jacked to Cuba." And on the back, the sender can write the usual, you know. "Having a wonderful time. etc., etc." arm-in-ar- m Booklets such as "Enjoying Your High Jacking" will become part of literature. the regular seat-sid- e To be in style, passengers will be expected to dress for the occasion. The terrified tourists will look dapper in beach sandals and robes. can hear the pilot now as he reports to the passengers: "We are now at 60,000 feet and flying at o speed of 600 miles an hour. If there are any highjackers aboard, would you please come forward inevitable that highjacking become so commonplace as to lose its glamor. Itll be like visiting Knotts Berry farm or the San Diego It's will zoo. In Appreciation Editor: second A teacher and a class of 30 bright-eyed- , graders would like to use this media to express our thanks for a glorious afternoon spent in fantasy land courtesy or the high school and their Childrens Theater presentation of Peter Pan. We read the book for literature on the first three days of the week and then, went to the production on Thursday. The words in the book came to life right before our very eyes. We were amused, es, all at the frightened, tearful and same time. Our young eyes were dazzled by the scenery, lighting and beautiful costuming. Some of us even shook hands with members of the cast. We want to tell Mrs. Messervy, the students and everyone connected with the performance that it will be one of the highlights in the events of school this Bruhn will be guest speaker for the Brigham City DSA banquet WedJay-ce- nesday. SBA Official To Address year. Of course we could alter the script and shake the country up a bit. Can you imagine in the New York Times: Plane Highjacked . . . A Pot American airliner bound from to Salt Lake City today was highjacked and forced to land at Boise Yost." Boy, that would keep em guessing wouldnt it? People in Washington and New York City would be asking "Where's Yost?" Citizens in Chicago, Los We hope that Superintendent Haws will always be generous enough to allow us release time from reading, writing and arithmetic to experience this wonderful winter treat. Mrs. Margaret Lewis and her Second Grade Central School receiving the News & Journal very It keeps me up on the progress and development of Brigham City as well as brings a little of much. "West to North Carolina. probably start bidding like crazy for the post card concession. P.O. Box 86, Pembroke, N.C. 28372. Thank you, Elder D. Stan Call Irony of the Week: An American student this week burned the flag because he has freedom; a student in Czechoslovakia burned himself because he didn't. Thanks for Paper Report From Bruhn William G. Bill will be the keynote speaker for the Brigham City Jaycees Distinguished Service award banquet which Is slated Jan. 29 at 8 p.m. in the War Memorial home. Bruhn is a well known fig. ure in th state of Utah, pre. sently serving as regional di. rector of the Small Business administration, and previous to this deputy secretary of Editor: I enjoy that I can continue to receive the News & Journal I am letting you know my new address, because I have recently moved. My new address is: I DSA Banquet Enjoys Hometown News and Dallas would wonder aloud "Wheres Yost?" And the people in Yost, they'd Angeles So state. Bruhn is a native of Pan. guitch, Utah where he engag. ed in business for 17 years. He served as mayor of Pan. guitch, chairman of the Gar. field County commission, and president of the Utah Munich pal league. HE IS THE holder of three Distinguished Service awards by the Jaycees. Two of the awards were pre. sented by the Panguitch Jay. cees during the year he serv- Editor I want to thank you for sending the News & Journal to me while I am laboring in the mission field. It really brings home close. I have now been transferred to a different area. Thanks Again. Elder James R. Westover presented ed as the nations youngest Mayor. One award was presented by the Utah Jaycees for be. ing selected as one of the outstanding young Men In the California North Mission Washington By Rep state. Laurence J. Burton The release of the Pueblo crew a few weeks ago ended a year-lon- g debate between the United States and North Korea over the alleged intru-sloInto North Korean territorial waters by an American spy ship. Although the ship will pro. bably never by returned to the United States, others will take its place on the high seas to do the same job: keep one step ahead of potential enemies by surveillance methods, from the ocean, by land and in the air. Here in Washington, there are 30,000 people working 'round the clock at the Penta. gon, circulating orders, filing reports, keeping our armed forces at the ready. In the Pentagon's war room," or as its officially known, Army Operations center, decisions are made concerning world, wide intelligence missions. n WHERE ONCE England was the world power, it is now the United States and Russia. We are kept up todateonRussias movements (and they on ours) through various spying me. thods: planes, ship, satellites, etc. Even if Russia is not as candid about their spying de. vices as we are, we know quite a lot about them.. Russias fishing vessels -- seen off the California coast regularly-usual- ly have more electronic gear aboard than fishing nets. At one time, there were 82 such fishing vessels off Kodiak Harbor, Alaska, and another JA fish, ing vessels off Cape Cou, near Boston. Several Russian trawlers shadow American ships at as in the Sea of Japan in 1961, they are so close they collide. (Its an unwritten law between the two nations to live and let live in the the spy North Koreans didnt ob. game-someth- ing serve.) SINCE NATIONAL is observed through security secrecy, the National Security agency will not give specific details on how many spy ships .. or intelligence vessels, as of. ficlal sources want to call them. .are doing their spying around the globe. One source estimated there are three ships similar to the Pueblo-a- ll equipped with $100 million worth of elec, tronlc gear, The Navy has also converted five larger ships into spy vessels, one of which is the Liberty, the ship that was strafed in Israeli fighter planes during the Mid. die East war two years ago. subs. d , Poseidon submarine, with particular stages being built in Utah plants, is sched uled for 1970 and will have even more sophisticated 11s. tening devices and will be able to travel farther than the The Polaris. The Central Intelligence ag. ency is still sending its 2 and planes abroad from bases in Florida and Vietnam, in numThere was a ber of U-- missions following the Gary Powers incident in 1960 when Powers and his 2 were shot down over the Soviet Union, but today the and have increased their over the troubled activity areas of the world. THE STRATEGIC Air operates its long.range, bombers to gather information from where they are based all over the world. are other recon. There naissance planes used by the U.S., but most data is class, ified. The real spying done today, the however, is by alr-w- ith use of satellites. The American and the Rus. Samos sians' counterpart are whirl, ing above the earth, snapping pictures with such clarity that U-- A-- ll means, of course. Our fleet of nuclear. powered Polaris submarines now total over 40, carrying 656 deadly nuclear missiles, and each sub has an underwater listening de. David C. JOINS STAFF Rees has joined the staff of the Brigham City Employment Security office. EooKing slow-dow- 2 U-- U-- 2 A-- ll Com-man- d official said could be read through the cameras eye from orbital altitudes. Ultra mod. one military a newspaper ern radar penetrates could cover and forest vegetation to reveal hidden installations. The satellites snap pictures of troop movements, military installations, citles..and this is procedure. Infrared sensors in satellites can un. cover hot objects, such as a missile launching or even an automobile's motor running. THERE ARE MORE than 200 classified satellites in the air, penetrating the skies over Russia and anywhere else in the world. Officials report that the life of a spy satel. lite is 25 days and there is always another satellite on the launching pad at Vandenberg Air Force base, Calif., for Immediate firing into space. The cost of our spy pro. gram is huge, but in my opin. ion, worth it. We must know what our neighbors are do. ing in order to be able to deter any aggression which might come forth. The United States and Rus. sia havent been able to work out a nutural disarmament program because of the prob. lems of land inspection teams. But once our satellites are highly THE UNITEDSTATES gains information by several other Editor: I have enjoyed very much your consideration in sending me the local paper. Its great to hear from back home. ,1 have been transferred to Las. Vegas and have a new address. Elder Neal Byington Till Desert Lane Las, Vegas Nevada 89106 vice. These devices can pin. point activity from other sub., marines, specifically aimed at' seeking out the Russian's 15 nuclear-powere- sophlsticated-andw- e. re reaching that He is married to the form-e- r Mary Lund of St. George. The Bruhns have three child, ren and reside in Bountiful. Transferred high-flyin- Actions Arbitrary been . . Letters to the Editor... joyful-sometim- y.- - ment or 607., . . point rapidly ..perhaps the satellites will be able to do the Inspecting for both nations. Once this is accomplished, our spy games will turn from a cloak.and. dagger mission to a surveil. lance for peace. Employment Friday, Jan. M 50 Years Ago 10, 1919 City council met Thursday evening at 8 oclock, those present being Mayor J. W. Peters, Councilmen Phillips, Fredericsen and Holst. Resolved that a curb and gutter district be established from Second North street to Fifth South on Main; from Main to First West on Forest. Carried. Resolved that a steel pole lighting district be created on Main from 1st North to Second South and on Forest from Main to First West; also that the Pendant type of street lighting be established from 1st North to Second North on Main and fiom A local man has joined the staff of the Brigham City EmSecond South street to 5th South on Main and that the ployment Security office as an poles be removed from the center of the street in the interviewer, according to Man- proposed new lighting area. Carried. ager Kenneth Godfrey. Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1919 Mrs. William Flack and He is David C. Rees, a her daughter, Miss Ida Flack, entertained at a parcel Box Elder High school grad, uate who declared this past shower on Thursday evening in honor of Mrs. Woodruff week that he was happy to be Nelson, Mrs. Flacks daughter, a recent bride. Music, here and enthused about this games and social conversation made up the pleasure of the evening, with the unwrapping of the mysterious parnew, responsibility. Godfrey said Rees will be cels and the serving of a tempting tray lunch as the Involved in interviewing, em. concluding features. Those present besides the hostesses coun. were Mr. ployer relationships, and Mrs. Woodruff Nelson, Mrs. Lars P. sellftg, testing, and youth and Nelson, Misses Cleo Stokes, Leona Stokes, Laura Shelby, minority programs. Flack Messrs. Glenn Leo Thompson Mary Fishburn, His addition brings to seven the number of persons on the and Vernon Watkins. 25 Years Ago Brigham City office staff. Rees whose parents are Mr. Connie M. Peters, Tuesday evening, Jan. 4, 1944 and Mrs. E. Leon Rees, re. city treasurer, and Elva J. Gibbs, city recorder, took their ceived a diploma from Box oaths of office and returned to the job Monday, begin-ninElder High in 1960 and then new terms in the offices in which they succeed attended Brigham Young themselves. from Utah graduating Friday, Jan. 7, 1944 - Dale Baron, seaman first class, State university this past June U.S. Navy, former Box Elderite, reported his in business education. navy exHe is a certified teacher periences Monday morning at 9 a.m. in L. A. Richardand took student-teache- r train, sons physics class at BEHS. Dale came home on furing at the local high school. lough from California. While on duty he worked in an He is married to the former office that handled letters and packages for the sailor Janeen Lewis of Ogden. They boys. Dale said that when a sailor received demerits in presently reside at 17 West Boot Camp for failing to obey rules, he would be ordered First North. to march around the "grinder parade grounds. Dale thinks that he was lucky because he received very little "grinder" marching."I think that Boot Camp training is designed to teach discipline to new sailors, said Dale, "but, I dont recommend it. (Continued from Page One) committee, comprised of bust, ness representatives from share of district cost could BOX ELDER NEWS six blocks in. be written. each of the volved, has scheduled a meet, The mayor said he would Sox puDiiinta tvtry aunaav b (or, Eldar 55 ing for Feb. 3. this bring possibility to Firit Wast, Brigham City, Utah, He said the city planning Sacond Clan pottaga paid a the committee's attention, offica, It cSauth Firit commission has been request, New volunteer fire depart, post Brigham City, Utah, 64302. ed to sit in on the session ment officers gained approval. Chai. W. Claybaugh, Publlil Chai. "Tutf" Claybaugh, Ault which will serve to further And the council voted to re. T. Kayai, Bruca Managing Ed orient the committee on facts tain the same season ticket Subicrlptlon rata $4.00 par yaar and figures of the plan. and green fee charges as last abla In advance In connactior Journal (pub It seems to me there are at the municipal golf tha Box Eldar year Thundayi) $7.00 par yaar: $3.! still some questions on de. course. $ montni: ilngla copy, 10 can sign and a big question on Season ticket prices are Mambar Audit Buraau of Circul: Utah Stata Fran Anoclatlon, Na Mayor Zundel $17.50 for juniors financing, $42.. Nawipapar Anoclatlon and I stated. Fran Intarnatlonal Advartlilng 50 for adults, $65 for a couple Utah Stata Fran Ai COUNCILMEN Byron Arm. and $90 for a family with tick-et- s antativa: Laka City, Utah. Salt 'tlon, 1 to from strong and Blaine Jensen sug. good April April newspa gested that a form letter be 1. Green fees are $1 for week, prepared with blanks in which each property owners assess, days and $1.25 on weekends and '5U5TAINING-MIMed valuation, percentage and holidays, Office Taps BC Man HIGHLIGHT of the annual Brigham City banquet will be the presentation - of the DSA award to the young man se. lected by a panel of judges, who in their estimation was the most outstanding during the year 1968. Lyle Clement is project chairman for the coming event. Past winners of this coveted award are Elmer Jepp. sen (Deceased) Harold B. Felt, Wayne Woodland, Walter G. Mann, J. Edwin Baird, Mari, ner Morrison (Deceased), Ed. ward D. Ward, William M. Long (Deceased), Glenn L. Andersen, Willis Hansen, O. Dee Lund, Don H. Rasmus, sen, Richard G. Hansen (De. ceased), Murray Mason, Dee Glenn Smith, Verl L. Peter, son, Perc Petersen, Boyd K. Packer, George Bill Da. vis, Ross Burke Jensen, Miles Cap Ferry, J. Earl Johns, Al ton, Stephen Cazier, Douglas S. Mann, D. Wayne Hunsaker, Reid L. Thompson, Fred Baugh. Joseph Conrad Riley, L. Kaye West, Reese M. Bee. ton, Clifford Graham. BRIGHAM CITY GAINS Brigham City Recorder Tol. man Burke reports that the city showed a net gain of 139 electrical hookups during the past year. This is a mea. sure used to indicate population trends in the city. - VALENTINE g PORTRAITS A special Gift COMPTONS STUDIO 102 S. Main 723-295- 8 CAPITOL Open: 1 5 p.m. School Days p.m. Sat., Sun. and Holidays Council STARTS WED. -rrrtEjx l, pu-- Speebmomm' THE (10-21- I National 15c0ti BH Watch ciptrti bag fik.lMi IntbM 1h CUN, (US I I0W IM IhH Ibm WsifW Sufi CBtlwnWIlBMIlB PMibmU OmU tlwwt IH( TibM IttyiHi, llttaM Tint, m |