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Show 4 J Waiting Room Stands Silent MlV ' Cop, Passenger train service, once the strong arm of local transportation, is going the way of the covered wagon. The familiar Union Pacific depot on west Forest streeet continues in activity on the freight side. But its passenger waiting room, steam radiator in the center and polished benches along two sides, stands empty and silent most of the time. Standing there, one can almost envision the bustling days of yesteryear as mothers and dads and small children crowded into g the station to wait the next time. Now what passenger business there is in Brigham City and it is nil - will come to a close May 1 when the National Rail Passenger corporation (Railpax) goes into business. Union Pacific is expected to join the Railpax program and thus excuse itself from all passenger service after May 1. high-ceilin- SILENT WAITING ROOM This is the passenger waiting room at the Union Pacific depot on Brigham Citys west Forest street. It is seldom used now. In all proba Three Trains In reality, it will mean little change locally. Passenger rail service from Brigham City is confined to three trains weekly. Train No. 35 travels north through Pocatello to Butte, Mont., Thursday, passenger train service in this northern Utah community will cease when Railpax begins operations May bility, 1. Saturday and Monday, reaching here at 9:25 p.m. Southbound Train No. 36 runs Saturday, Monday and Wednesday, arriving at 5:05 a.m. It travels to Ogden and Salt Lake City. and times The late-nigarent exactly encouraging to travelers. Furthermore, the trains have not made regular stops in Brigham City since Nov. 16, 1965. Its necessary to flag them down when there is a passenger. Agent J.J. Goodsell said not more than one or two persons a month depart from the Brigham City station, quite a comedown for an area in which rail service has played such a significant role. early-mornin- g News Account For example, this account from the Sept. Eider News reflects the former importance of rail travel: Yesterdays celebration of Peach Day was without doubt the most satisfactory that we have had yet. "Nearly 200 passengers came in at 9:30 from the Malad Valley branch. These were principally from Malad, Garland and Tremont. They arrived quite a while before the other trains and before the band 20, 1906 Box , reached the depot. The train from Cache valley carried about 400 gathered from every town in the valley from Preston to Cache Junction. They came in on the regular train arriving here at 10 o'clock. "The train from the south got in at 10:20 and was composed of 15 coaches loaded to the guards with excusionists from Salt Lake City and intermediate points. The only drawback at the station was the torn-ucondition of the station building and yards caused by the elaborate preparations underway for the construction of our new depot building and the of the yards. Hundreds of teams were at the depot to receive visitors. p Thronged Depot And from the Deseret News: The crowds that thronged the Oregon Short Line depot this morning before 8 oclock gladdened the eyes of the passenger department. By 7:15 there was a line from the ticket window extending across the sidewalk into the street while each street car came down loaded to the steps with people all going to take a hand (Continued on Page Two) City Invites Cleanup In Annual Spring Push Brigham City has officially opened the on the annual spring cleanup campaign here. As a result, local residents are invited no, urged - to clean up their yards and pile the accumulated Takings, prunings, for collection by weeds, etc., at street-sidcity workmen. This was decided at Thursdays weekly city council session in response to a recommendation from Public Works Director O. Neil Smith. There was the usual reminder, however, about putting out rocks and commercial orchard trimmings. The city wont take em. Also, home owners are reminded to keep refuse clear of gutters and culverts. Smith said the tentative date to begin collection is April 19. starting gate -- scheduled at which time the city's slide presentation on community improvement be shown. I believe the public should see it. Its theirs. It belongs to them, he declared. A date will be set. Volume 74, Number 1 3 Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Sunday Morning, March 28, 1971 8 PAGES e Okays Streets In other action, the council approved streets proposed for maintenance and road funds this year. The total cost is expected to run $35,280. The following streets are included: Seal Holiday drive from Highland Blvd. to Third North; Shamrock drive, Medoland drive, Cherry drive, Seventh North from Fourth East to Holiday drive; Fourth East from Sixth to Seventh North; Eliason avenue, Ninth East from First North to Eliason drive; Fifth East from First North to Second South. Also, Sixth South from Main to Sixth East; 900 North, 875 North, 850 North, 825 North, 800 North, 750 North, Second West from Seventh North to Ninth North, and 250 West from 750 North to Ninth North. Cap Seventh East from Forest to First North, Beecher avenue from Sixth to Eighth East; Fifth East from Sixth to Seventh North; Fifth East from Second to Third South; First West from Third to Fourth South; Second South from Main to First West, and Forest from Main to First West. Rebuild Eighth West from Second South to Forest, Sixth West from Second to Third North ; Eighth West from Sixth to 675 South, and Second East from Seventh North to Foothill way. repair with Class C Improve Parking Strip Mayor Olof Zundel suggested that Smith work with Kleon Kerr who heads buildings and grounds for Box Elder School district, to determine how the parking strip can be improved on the west side of the parking lot at Box Elder High school. Lets show these kids were moving on their request, the mayor stated. Responding to a request from Anita Burt, city beautification chairman, Mayor Zundel suggested that a public meeting be to Honor Top Scholars, Hear Wasatch Division Aide BE 10 The top percent in academic achievement of the 1971 graduating class at Box Elder High school will be honored in a special assembly at the school morning, March 31, according to Leon Johnson, chairman of the scholarship and graduation committee. During the event, scheduled at 9 :45 a.m., the class valedictorian will be announced and students in the top three percent will be asked to respond. A special invitation is extended to the parents of these students, and a separate seating section will be reserved for them. Other interested citizens are also invited to attend. James E. Brown, manager of customer and public relations at Thiokol Chemical corporations Wasatch division, where he has been employed for the past 12 years, will be the guest speaker. In addition to his Thiokol responsibilities, Brown is a director of the Bear River State bank, chairman of the Box Elder Republican party, a member of Public Relations Society of America and the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI. He is listed in Whos Who In Public Relations, Whos Who in the West, and Whos Who In American Politics. Prior to joining Thiokol, Brown was a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his bureau career he was personally commended on three occasions by Director J. Edgar Hoover for his work on criminal cases. Brown attended the University of Maine Wed-nesda- y and the University of Maine Law school where he was graduated in 1954 with an LLB degree. He married Gloria Gayle Gay from Tremonton. They have five children and reside in Tremonton. semi-monthl- No Action James E. Brown will address assembly honoring top TO SPEAK High Wednesday. The building, containing two rooms and e a kitchen and located on a site, reportedly is wanted by the Utah Division of Fish and Game- two-acr- Board members took no action after hearing the reports, complying with a request from Supt. J.C. Haws that I hope you wont take action tonight. This needs to be studied and it would be premature if you do. Morgan Hawkes, administrator of curriculum, displayed graphs indicating enrollment at each school and the student numbers by grade projected for 1971-7the Willard excepted In each case pattern pointed to a dwindling enrollment. River City Consolidation of Corinne-Bea- r would eliminate some and Willard-Perr- y small classes and result in a reduction of two teachers. Its proposed to have attend one school the other. and Spokesman for the Bear River City PTA, Mrs. Jay Hardy, said 45 survey forms were returned of 75 sent home to parents. Of those responding, 20 were definitely against and eight indicated they would prefer not to consolidate but would not object if it were ordered. Seventeen said they favored it if the childrens best interest would be served. Mrs. Hardy said PTA officers had decided as an alternative to investigate team teaching and program, kindergarten-through-third-grad- fourth-through-six- Features Something for Everyone City Sets Plans in Motion For 71 Spike Celebration Brigham City is laying the groundwork for another Golden Spike celebration, May it was disclosed Thursday. A parade, free kiddies show, youth e dance, Utah State university football game, variety show, outdoor auto and sports show and concert by the Utah Symphony were among activities approved by the city council. Wayor Olof Zundel announced that as a special feature again this year, the original Golden Spike will be returned from Stanford museum for display at the Blue-Whit- citys museum-galler- Jim Berry, executive director of Golden Spike Empire, Inc., has made arrangements to go to California and bring the spike back. Chairman of the event is Frank Coppin who said the citys celebration committee has tried to include something for every-membof the family. The festivities, of course, are intended to complement the traditional of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit on May 10. On the heels of the councils approval, an invitation was sounded for all local clubs, schools and other organizations to enter the annual parade which this year will Spike and again have Golden beautification as its theme. Heading arrangements for the parade, scheduled Saturday, May 8, are Mrs. Anita Burt and Dallas Stiver. of the driving Intermountain Enters They said Intermountain school already has agreed to enter its marching band, pep club and a float. The Navys Junior ROTC at Box Elder High school and marching units, perhaps including the band, also will participate. Invitations are going out to other schools of the area, the vintage car club of Ogden, Scots Pipe band, Salt Lake City, as well as dn)l DuDlbnDi) The PTA leaders were briefed about seven weeks ago and the plan, actually a copy of one put forth last year, was left to one simmer. Parents were consulted survey wassentout and the board heard conclusions of these findings during its y session in Brigham regular City Wednesday night. Board Delays Junction School Bidding The Box Elder Board of Education has cancelled bidding on the old Junction school for the time being. It had been planned to open bids April 14. ff A new consolidation proposal affecting Corinne, Bear River City, Perry and Willard schools has met with varied reaction from parents. However, the general concensus runs against the plan with PTA leaders from two schools Corinne and Perry flatly rejecting it. A minority of school patrons in Bear River City and Willard indicated favor for the proposal, the PTA spokesmen said in a report to the Box Elder Board of Education last week. senior scholars at Box Elder IPDcoIn) P(sDI7ft)ti only larger. The savings in teacher reduction would be used up in added transportation. Children would have to leave earlier in the morning and be alone on the school grounds and problems would be created with church scheduling, said Mrs. Welch. e We suggest you adopt a she stated. policy, The spokesman for Perry, Mrs. Jay wait-and-se- Anderson, read from a statement which said the PTA board had studied consolidation and found it "to be without any redeeming features." Dr, Arthur D. Jackson, director of the Edith Bowen Laboratory school (Utah State university) suggested to us that the consolidation of schools would likely be disruptive to the families and communities involved. He further suggested that other (Continued on Page Two) prepared Local Youths Discover Grassy Sleeping Bag Imagine carrying around more than $375 e worth of marijuana and not it. knowing A couple of Box Elder county youths had the experience this past week, The story began Thursday when Craig Barber, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wes Barber, Perry, and Scott Cutler, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Cutler, Tremonton, found two sleeping bags in the middle of U.S. just south of the Brigham City limits. The youths were traveling north in a car driven by Barber, at about 10:30 a.m. It contained 25 smaller plastic sacks of marijuana. I suddenly became nervous, Barber said, after thinking about having a load of pot in his car all day. It would have been very hard to explain if I was stopped, Barber said. The youths took the marijuana to the Box Elder County Sheriffs office Friday New Found Fortunes Happy about their new found fortune, they put the U.S. Army "mummy-typ- e sleeping bags in the trunk of the car. a value at about $15 a lid because presently it is hard to get. The law officer said the quality was high-grad- 89-9- morning. Sheriff Warren W. Hyde each small bag contained than a lid of marijuana. estimated that a little more Hard To Get Barber drove around all day with them in the trunk. Later in the afternoon when Barber was returning a jacket to Cutler at a Perry mink farm, an employee of the farm noticed the sleeping bags and offered to buy them. When Barber unrolled one of the bags, a large plastic sack fell out. He placed very good, because of the absence of stems and other bulk materials. The sleeping bags apparently fell from a moving vehicle, according to the sheriff. He said, "The load might have been being carried by transients or might have been a pickup for local sale. Anyone wanting to claim the sleeping bags can stop by the sheriffs office," Sheriff Hyde said smiling. d Dont Want Split Grades Parents are worried about split grades. El Kalah Shrine groups which have been so popular with spectators in past years. Those groups and organizations wishing enter the parade are invited to contact Mrs. Burt at Stiver or the Greater Brigham City Area Chamber of Comto merce, Coppin disclosed that local merchants the annual celebration by sporting western wear beginning May 6. A special Golden Spike show will be presented at the citys museum-gallerwill observe The auto, boat, camper and snowmobile show is scheduled at Forest and Main street all day long May 8 with a chuck-wagobreakfast planned for that morning. The parade is slated for 11 a.m. with the USU spring football game, presented here at Ferguson field last year, on tap in the (Continued on Page Two) n Not one was in favor of it; they are definitely against it, she explained. The Bear River City spokesman said, however, that "we wouldnt mind if the schools 10 kindergarten students are sent to Corinne next year. But she noted later that the transportation problem for these youngsters concerned parents. She explained further that patrons favor having one principal over two schools as a e administrator. This year at Bear River City, the principal has also been a e teacher. full-tim- full-tim- Corinne Against Speaking for Corinne, Mrs. George Welch said parents attending a PTA meeting on the subject unanimously agreed to "stay the way we are. It might create more problems than it would solve, she added, noting further that prospects for new home building may counter the decreasing enrollment trend. It would split families. I personally would have two children attending each school. There would still be uneven class loads, BIG SURPRISE Craig Barber, left, and Scott Cutler got a big surprise when a they opened sleeping bag and found 25 small sacks of marijuana. Here Sheriff Warren W. Hyde and Deputy Robert Limb inspect the contents. |