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Show Agent Has Answers BOX ELDER W hat's Wrong Obituaries With My Lawn ? By Harold G. Lindsay USU Extension Agent What has gone wrong with my lawn? How come my neighbor has such a nice green looking lawn when mine looks so bad? These are just a few of the questions I get pertaining to lawn problems. I would like to offer a few suggestions to those who have lawns to maintain and want to keep them looking good. You need to start with a good Ida lawn where no grass is growing, weeds of some sort will fill in. Lawn grass needs to be fed frequently to stay healthy. Nitrogen is the key fertilizer element needed in Utah. Inorganic forms of nitrogen are highly soiuable and release nitrogen quickly. They should be applied when the grass is dry to avoid burning the grass on contact. After applying this fertilizer, water it into the root zone. Small Quantities WINS HONOR Lane Henderson placed mechanics at VICA conference. third in auto National Contest Student Wins Honor BE A representative of Box Elder High school placed third nationally in auto mechanics competition at the eighth annual leadership conference of the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) in Roanoke, Va. He is Lane Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.O. Henderson, 110 South Fourth East, Brigham City. Henderson was one of 45 students from Utah attending the annual confab, July Also attending from Box Elder were Howard Gittins, advisor; Gary Wetzel, local chapter president, and Terry Pritchard, state association president-elect- . David Nielsen represented Bear River High school as an observer. Gittins said Andersen's-For- d of Brigham City help to provide transportation for the local delegation. Held in Center Most conference activities were held in the Roanoke Civic center. VICA is a national organization for youth trade, development competition, to elect national officers and grant to new state VICA associations. An awards banquet July 12, climaxed conference activities. Outstanding students and adults were honored. Winners of national skill contests as well as competitive events such as public speaking and safety received awards. Leaders from labor, industry, education and government with youth participated delegates in conference activities. Members of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education held rap sessions with VICA youth and adults. Brigham Teenager Transferred Brigham City teenager was transferred from St. Benedicts hospital in Ogden to the University of Utah Medical centers rehabilitation center this week, for further treatment. ArtHaggen, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur E. Haggen, 717 East Fourth North, was injured A Causes Problems Most weed problems in lawns have been caused by improper management. If a blue grass lawn is constantly clipped too short, it will become weak and full of weeds. In order to maintain a healthy blue grass lawn, it is necessary to raise your mower cutter bar inches high. Lawns at least are quite different from the bent grass on putting greens which inch daily will tolerate mowing. " I you mow your lawn often enough so the clipping will all fall down into the grass turf, it is not necessary to catch them. Where clippings are removed, extra fertilizer will be required to replace the nutrients they contain. l-- technical, industrial and health education students. About 125,000 students from 43 states,' Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the District of Columbia are members. Delegates attended the Roanoke meeting to take part in national skill and leadership charters growing season. Many lawns need to be fed now. Organic forms of nitrogen will not be released as fast as the inorganic type. Some people prefer the organic type during hot weather. The cost per pound of nitrogen in the organic type fertilizer, however, is much greater than the inorganic form. It has been my privilege to accompany the judges while they have judged the "Yard of the Month" contest the past two years. There have been many well landscaped yards entered in the contest. I would like to comment on the lawns. Some looked beautiful while others didnt look so well. Some lawns had quite a few weeds in them and therefore were scored down. in a traffic accident June 15. His parents reported that he isnt doing so well." Insects Do Damage Insects do cause some lawn problems in Box Eider county. The small moths which fly around on the lawns are not the cause of most insect damage. The white grub, which is the larvae of a beetle, clips the roots of grass off below the surface of the ground. In some severe cases of infestation it is possible to roll the lawn turf back like a carpet, leaving the exposed grubs. These can be controlled by a soil treatment using chlordane or dieldrin. controlled by using some of the 4 D preparations on the market, these are most effective in the spring or fall. There is no magic formula that will eliminate undesirable grasses and leave the desirable species. We are still waiting for Haggen was a passenger in a that herbicide to be developed. Good lawn management will car which struck a horse just north of Ogden. The animal eliminate many of our weed landed on top of the car. problems and result in a much The local teen was the only more beautiful and enjoyable lawn. person injured in the wreck. School Offices Close for Time Offices at Box Elder School districts secondary schools are closing for a time this summer as secretaries take time off In budget-savin- g move. a recently-approve- d Box Elder High its office closed since July 17, will resume on July 28. Here is the schedule for other schools; Box Elder Junior High Will be closed the final week in July and the first two 11. weeks in August, July Bear River High Will be closed for the 11. same period, July Will be closed Bear River Junior High the first two weeks in August, July g. g. 11. g. Police Issue Stolen Vehicle Dullotin An all points bulletin was issued by the Brigham City police department Friday for a car reported stolen from a local supermarket ternoon. Thursday Robert Baron, 76 af- North Fourth West, complained to officers that his 1970 green Volkswagen sedan had been taken while it was parked at Smiths Food King market at 670 South Main. The vehicle was taken sometime between 1 : 30 and 5 : 30 p.m., he said. The license plate number is HA 4482. Pancake Supper Planned All M Men and Gleaners are Invited to attend a pancake supper to be held In Bex Elder canyon Wednesday, July 21. Dress casually and meet at the Box Elder North stake center at l:M p.m. The party Is sponsored by the Box Elder North stake. For further Information contact Karen Turnblom or Junior Burt. Kentucky was the 1 5th state to be admitted to the Union. Mrs. Ida K. Walters Bair, 86, died Friday, July 21 at her home in Logan following a lengthy illness. She was born in Wellsville, Utah on July 5, 1886, a daughter of William Leigh and Mary A. Kerr B. Walters. She received her education in the Cache county schools and graduated from Brigham Young college and taught school in Cove, Cache county, prior to her marriage. She was active in the LDS church and served as president of the YMMIA and a counselor in the primary and a teacher in the primary and the Relief society. During World War II she worked at the Clearfield Naval Supply depot. On Oct. 10, 1906 she married Julian A. Bair in the Logan LDS temple. He died Aug. 13, 1951. She is survived by a son and eight daughters. Dallas A. Bair and Mrs. Maurice (Bertha) Stoker, Brigham City. Mrs. Lester (Lucille) Smith, Ogden; Mrs. Lowell (Ann) Anderson, Hyrum; Mrs. Leonard (Ioane) Parker, Mrs. Lionel (Sherma) Alsop, both of Logan; Mrs. Ralph (Eva) Jeppsen, Mantua; Mrs. Evan (Clara) Baugh, Orem; and Mrs. Ervan (Larane) Seamons, Whittier, Calif. She was preceded in death by a son Leigh and a daughter, Members of the Box Elder Sheriffs Scuba team are pictured here. Mike from Burbank, vice president; Donrey Secrist, president; Dee Anderleft, Front, sen, treasurer, and Robert Christensen, secretary. Second row, Bob Gates, Bill Merrill, Grant Wright, Sheriff Warren W. Hyde, Disk Jensen, and Dick Yeakey. Third row. Ted Burrell, Keith Fridal, Jack Bean, Lynn Hayes, Art Redding, Meldon McIntosh, and Dole Anderson. Absent when the photo was taken were Rees Beeton, equipment supervisor; Tim Parker, Wain Davis, Reese Whitaker, Karl DeRyke, Craig Jorgensen, James Ron Hartwick (reserve) and Floyd Kling (reserve). SCUBA TEAM d, Man Takes Post With Computer Firm Scuba Team BC From Page One) will bring them together more (Continued often. From September through May, they have weekly sessions each Wednesday and beginning in January, conduct scuba diving classes in the Intermountain school pool. Its a demanding schedule which probably is one reason why Sheriff Hyde considers the team the states best organized. Certainly theres no question about its value to the people of Box Elder county. Country music bash TULSA, Okla. (UPI) Plans are being completed for syndication of a Jamboree U.S.A." country music show nationwide. A spokesman for the project said it would be aired on at least 100 television stations in the United States. The shows will be filmed before live audiences at the Capital Music Hall, Wheeling, W. Va. The board of directors of Evans and Sutherland Com- puter corporation has an- nounced the election of V.H. Bryce Wilhite, Brigham City to the position of executive vice d president of the Salt Lake corporation. Evans & Sutherland is an City-base- of five key employees of Thiokoi Chemical corporation who moved to Utah to build and manage the Wasatch division at Brigham City. He later served as technical director in Thiokols corporate office in Ogden. June. known internationally and manufacturer of Also surviving are 38 grandchildren 59 and one Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 12 noon at the Logan Fifteenth ward chapel under the direction of a Bishop Lionel Alsop. Friends may call at the developer computer graphic equipment for scientific, aviation, medical, publishing, mining and military applications. Wilhite has served as general manager and, later as vice president of operations, during the past year of employment with the corporation. Immediately prior to joining Evans & Sutherland, Wilhite as a was management and engineering consultant to firms in Europe, Africa, Canada and the United States. In 1956 he was one of the team son-in-la- Nelson Memorial chapel in Logan, evening Tuesday Burial plot in EXECUTIVE Scheduled Aug. 9 Wilhite is Bryce Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, New York, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin and Manitoba in Canada. Some 670 teachers since 1959 have attended at least one NSF institute at SU with ap- receiving Looking back PITTSBURGH (LPIl -- The first regularly scheduled broadcasting of phonograph records was done here by Frank Conrad on Oct. 17, 1919. Conrad received & Seventeen persons from the Elder High school are among the 1,815 students named to the spring quarter honor roll at the University of Utah. To be named to the honor list a student must maintain an average of 3.5 or better in all academic subjects where 4.0 is the equivalent of an "A. They include: Cynthia A. Dolan, senior; a broadcasting license in July, 1916, but it was revoked during World War I. Grant Clark Jensen, ' FUNERAL Funeral ser- vices for Ebenezer Richardson will be Wednesday. Ebenezer Richardson Ebenezer (Ebb) Richardson, North Second West, died Friday evening, in a Provo convalescent home of natural causes. He was born Sept. 8, 1885, in Malad, Idaho to Josiah and Sarah Ann Knight Richardson. He married Sally Arletha Hallmark on Oct. 1, 1908, in the LeGrande, Ore. Their marriage was later solemnized Oct. 8, 1908, in the Salt Lake LDS temple. Richardson retired in 1950 from the Utah Idaho Sugar company where he had worked as a master mechanic for 38 years in factories located in Utah, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and Brigham City. Richardson worked in the sugar factory in Brigham City from 1916 to 1936. He later worked as a ground and building maintenance man for the LDS Institute of Religion at Tempe, Ariz. At the time of his death he was a high priest in the Fifteenth LDS ward, having been active in the YMMIA Sunday school and scouting. He had filled a stake mission in Tempe and had served ae. guide at the Box Elder LDS tabernacle for three years. Survivors include his widow of Brigham City and three sons, Ebbie L.V. Richardson, Orem; James O. Richardson, Portland, Ore., and LaVar H. Richardson, Seattle, Wash.; 15 12 grandchildren; greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 1:30 h LDS p.m. in the ward chapel. Friends may call at the Blaine Olsen Funeral chapel, Tuesday from 8 to 9 p.m. and Wednesday prior to services. Burial will be in the Brigham City cemetery. 86, 218 Third-Fifteent- Julie M. Mark, sophomore, College of Fine Arts. Box Teacher Attends Institute proximately 115 masters degrees. V. H. University off Utah Releases Honor Roil department. teachers. The eight-wee- k institute, ending Aug. 11, was made possible through an NSF grant of 569,947 and is being directed by Rev. James J. Cowgill, S.J., SU graduate school dean and physics professor. Other teachers come from Washington, Idaho, Montana, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, - away. I miss you so, as time goes by, Much more than words can say. I hope that all the love you gave, to everyone you knew. Will help me mother find my way to be as good as you. Yvonne and Wendy Hales executive vice president with Evans Sutherland Computer The annual baton review, a climax to Brigham Citys summer twirling classes, is scheduled Aug. 9 in the Intermountain school auditorium. The event, to begin at 7 p.m., is free to the public. It will be under the direction of instructors Diane Marshall and Pam Gray. Titled On Stage Twirling, the show will feature approximately 120 kids in costume. Each class will present a number and appear in the finale. It is an annual offering of the city recreation and chemistry, physics mathematics for secondary 9 10:30-11:3- IN MEMORIAM ; Louisiana, Monday p.m. and 0 a.m. will be in the family the Wellsville city from from cemetery. City Baton Review Gary W. Dixon, 378 North Fifth East, a chemistry teacher at Box Elder High school, is among 57 high school teachers attending Seattle universitys 14th annual National Science Foundation Summer Institute in Funeral In memory of Edna B. Hunsaker how bitterly I cried that night, when God took you Weed control in lawns concern many people in the area. Broad leaf weeds usually can be Walters K. Bair stand of a desirable grass. In this area I dont think we can find a better type than one of the blue grasses. If there are areas in your Excess nitrogen in this form is readily leached into the deeper soil area by excessive irrigation. Therefore, small quantities should be applied several times during the In NEWS, Erighar.i City, Utah Sunday, July 23, 1972 DOUBLE CHEESEBURGERS 0)0 and Lawrence Ray McGee, both graduates; and Patricia Sato, sophomore, all College of Science. Michael Gary Gomez, sophomore; Donald Goodliffe, senior; and Scott Brownin Johnson, sophomore, all College of Engineering. Linda Carl Gurrister, Mari Parsons and Brent G. ThompAlan Jay son, all juniors; Griffin, and Stephen Lee Hust, both sophomores, all College of Humanities. MONDAY and TUESDAY ONLY FROWNY GLASS 25c today. Get yours a drink - Keep the glass start a collection Buy Michael G. Nelson, Rex Turner, both juniors; and Deborah Vandeusen, all College of Behavioral Science. Valerie Jo graduate, College Robinson, Nursing. of 808 SOUTH MAIN STREET Opn 1 1 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. |