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Show .2 BOX ELDER NEWS, Brigham Sunday, April 22, 1973 City, Utah mission, the evaluators asked the students What is the best plan for this school other than a aides In session with BIA high. four-yea- r after some informal And discussion, Douglas spoke for the students and said a post high for all tribal groups." students wonder: Why close school? IS 11 - This was HEARING AT INTERMOUNTAIN SCHOOL the scene Friday morning as a task force from the Bureau of Indian Affairs listened to varied comments BIA (Continued From Page One) on the reservation. Hal Reeder, a faculty member, called it a sentimental notion, They cited the heavy dropout rate on the reservation, termed this the reason for having so many empty seats. Its the reservation schools that are in trouble; Intermountain school is not in trouble, Reeder said. Hopkins conceded that "we cant find any evaluation that takes serious exception to the quality of education at Intermountain. Pressed for Answers It was Bob Wothuis, representing Sen. Wallace F. Bennett, who pressed for answers on the questions of who made the decision and whether continued phase-ou- t operation of IS was even being considered by the task force. "The senator is current status and future of the Tommaney, a former superintendent Intermountain who recently returned here to spend his retirement. of concerned about getting alternative (continued operation of the school) into the mill; if not then well do it.fWbthuls declared. 'MayorZundel who has been a leader In the fight to keep Intermountain, refuted arguments about the high cost of school operation and the desire of Navajo people to withdraw their children. "Believe me if you let the doors down and ask parents if they want their children to come here, you might have to double the size of the school," he asserted. The mayor pointed to the close relationship of school and community and declared, "I doubt there is a city in the United States that could show interest and relationships to match the way weve gotten along over the past 24 years." Also addressing the task force was Tom ' Returned Here Describing himself as a product of the Indian education system, Tommaney said he returned here because "I felt in retirement I could find warmth, recognition and the opportunity to be a part of the community." "I returned here to be near old friends and to watch the continued healthy growth of Indian school. children at Intermountain Estimating the value of IS facilities at $50 to $75 million, he declared that "Indian people should be aware of the investment they have here. Bruce Perry, director of ths Utah Indian Affairs division and representative of Governor Calvin Rampton, said we have concern that these facilities are utilized to the maximum. Ive talked to students attending boarding schools. They like coming off the reservation and feel theyre getting a better education because of the environment. We feel the environment here is as good as any in the country. Superintendent Jaeger, who gave a position paper to the task force, said this is not a time to take an institution engaged in Indian education away from the people. We should be expanding, not drawing back. Is Need We have it, there is a need for it and so lets continue with it, he declared. Sheldon Vicertti, representing Rep. Gunn McKay, expressed disappointment that the task force was not considering the continuation of Intermounatin as it is. We hope its not wasted, he added. Members of the BIA task force expressed appreciation for comments voiced at the hearing. We have a much better idea of how to structure our thinking over the next six weeks than yesterday at this time, Dr. Paul Streiff said. The third and final member of the panel. Dr. Eugene Leitha, said "hopefully well come up with a feasibility finding that will benefit the Indian people. The report will be made to Marvin Franklin, special assistant to the secretary of interior for Indian affairs, and James E. Hawkins, director of education BIA. Both Dr. Streiff and Dr. Leitha are research and evaluation specialists. Dr. Hopkins said at the outset Friday morning that the assessment of Intermountain school is part of a total evaluation of boarding schools started last year. He said there are 21 in the nation. Boarding schools or 23 of these schools We target for criticism by social scientists and educators although the Indian people like them, he pointed out. 28). And that doesn't mean a big run on the stuff people eat with their hotdogs. Its that i weed that is gaining a prominent place on I the local landscape yellow mustart plant v called Dyers woad. ; The Brigham City Beautification ; ,5 C PROCLAMATION WHEREAS Brigham City constantly supports and encourages beautification programs and WHEREAS the prevalence of Mustard Weed on vacant lots, ditch banks, roadways and hillsides detracts from the beauty of Brigham City. NOW THEREFORE, I, Olof E. Zundel, Mayor, do L hereby proclaim April 23, 1973, to April 28, 1973, as Mustard Week and urge all citizens to join with the Beautification Committee in pulling, cutting, spraying and otherwise eradicating Mustard Weed wherever found. Olof E. Zundel Mayor, Brigham City Moss aides slate Box Elder meeting Aides of Sen. Frank E. Moss, will be in Brigham City, Thursday April 26 to meet with interested Box Elder county citizens. The announcement was made Friday by the county Democratic party. The senator's aides, Dolly Plumb and Margie Pat Peterson, will be in the conference room of the county courthouse from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. to meet with the public. Democratic party members will host the women at a luncheon at 12 noon the same day at the Red Baron restuarant. The aides were scheduled to meet with the public on March 22 but due to a serious snow storm, the session was conceited. Another boy said, I know we can guarantee, 1,200 students from the reservation. If the enrollemnt goes down we can invite other tribes in. is Tuesday, April 17, was a ruly memorable day in igham City. Ballet West came to town, veryone I met all day was Iking about it. Be sure to ge there early, ey were saying. Over a 1,000 :w memberships were sold to e local Community concert ries, and most of them on the omise of seeing the young, vital, illet West. Earl Madsen introduced the impanyj artistic director, to a illiam F. Christensen pacity crowd on Box Elder igh schools stage and gave us delightfully nostalgic speech i his early life in Brigham and here he has been the past 50 :ars. He is a great man, filled with ive to bring the beauty of diet to Utah, large cities and nail. After the show many of s friends gathered about to :change "I knew him when dings. This was a rare ivilege. Curtain Opens The curtain opened on Concerto Barocco, set to the usic of J.S. Bach. Vickie organ, John Nelson, and erribeth Habegger danced the ad parts with eight corps embers finishing the scene. Costumed in simple white nics, they moved through the gular measures of Bachs :ore. Beautifully together, ey kept a pleasant expression faces but no smiles i their sre. Much of the piece hinted to e modern trend in ballet while ending in the classical. I liked e compactness, unity and igaging way the eight dancers ere staged against the two ad dancers, sometimes three one. Both Miss Habegger and Miss organ had ample opportunity display their lovely high Mrtct ovritinc? WEDNESDAY STARTS MOttNfl HAMBURGmS 00 1 for ! V- Ki - Monday and Tuesday The cutting audl 808 SOUTH MAIN STREFT Open 1 1 a.m. to 11 p.m. witness. by Rozell Henrie aneinno An Adventure for the Whole Family! pi u Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. Utah State Press Association, National and United Association Newspaper Press International. Advertising Representative: Utah State Press Association, Salt Lake City, Utah. costs. Student President Douglas then had this to say: I dont get this about cost he said. "We effectiveness. were dropping all those bombs in Viet Nam. Now that the war is over what are we going to do with all that money? of the Hopkins said. JOURNEY Subscription rate $4.00 per year payin advance: in connection with Box the Elder Journal (published Thursdays) $7.00 per year: $3.50 for 6 months: single copy, 10 cents. enrollment was administration nra able down and it was an expensive type of education per student. We must consider cost e- ffectiveness, he said begins. Charles W. Claybaugh Publisher Emeritus Charles "Tuff" Claybaugh Publisher General Manager Editor Bruce T. Keyes. Managing Pete Zimowsxy, Sports Editor Sarah Yates, Society Editor Manager Mary Miles, Advertising Shirley Richardson, Classifieds Betty Claybaugh, Circulation Arland Tingey, Newspaper Supr. Photo-Pres- s Van Claybaugh, Supr. H. E. Anderson, Commercial Printing Supr. Enrollent Down On another subject, one of the BIA aides brought up a subject that sparked another round of discussion from the student council when he explained that Intermountain ended... l, Elder First West, Brigham City, Utah, 84302. Second Class postage paid at the 16 South First West, post office, Brigham City, Utah, 84302. Ballet West dancers thrill BE audience , WILLARD Box provides a better environment for learning than do boarding schools on the reservation. As one put it they are in the middle of nowhere without even a movie house. Then Streiff asked the What kinds of students point to cleanup campaign last fall and can be seen now as a green rosette. It will continue to grow and send up a yellow blossom which will soon develop into a seed head, Lindsay explained. Youve seen them, blanketing the mountainside east of Brigham City and springing up on local lots and streets. Beautification Chairman Anita Burt announced that the battle against mustard weed is just one facet of the citys 1973 improvement campaign. She said approximately 80 municipal litter cans will be painted at Box Elder High school Saturday, April 28. The recepticles will gain a new coat of dark green with high school students performing the labor. A white ecology sticker will be afixed to two sides of each container. Also on April 28, other students from Box Elder will fan out over the community in their annual cleanup drive. Another special project this year will involve the Brigham City National Guard unit. Some 80 men of Battery A have agreed on May 5 to paint the homes of local widows. One crew will go ahead to scrape and prepare the dwellings with other Guardsmen following behind to paint them. Mrs. Burt said the home owners will be responsible to furnish paint, but quickly added a plea to local stores, clubs and other organizations to provide paint. We think many of the widows just won't be able to afford it, she explained. And she urged that widows wanting to become involved in the project contact her to make arrangements. Mrs. Burt can be reached at Extension 29. Boy Scout units are invited to join with the National Guard in a sort of twopronged beautification effort. While the citizen soldiers are scraping and painting, the Scouts can dig weeds, rake grass and performed other yard cleanup chores, the chairman said. Scout leaders are urged to contact Mrs. Burt should they desire to take part with their boys. students felt Intermountain are just drones administration, Its Mustard Week... kids committee has fixed the weed and its eradication locally as the seasons No. 1 target. And the coming week is intended to ,put a special focus on that goal. Harold G. Lindsay, Utah State university extension agent, said the only way to stop its spread is to chop, cultivate or spray the plant before seeds form. The yellow mustard started to grow And when Dr. Hopkins ask what there was to do here, he got this answer. Here there are a lot of things to do like going up town shopping or work on a part-tim- e job. This is why we stay in school here; there are things to do. Do a lot of you have part-tim- e jobs he asked and most of in the students nodded agreement. The discussion stayed on this subject for quite some time and it became apparent that the Are Drones are traditionally a National Guard to paint widows homes Just in case you were wondering, this is Mustard Week in Brigham City (April 23-- : after hours. that the main reason the Thursday and Friday being hosted at lunch Thursday by the Brigham City Industrial commission and is charged with making a report by June 1. programs, is no one to help you. Another girl stood up and said the reason kids at the reservation schools drop out is because there is nothing to do decision was made was in his words we are finding that we have enough schools on the reservation to handle the education needs of the Navajo. Intermountain is just one of 22 schools in the same situation he said. To this statement Douglas countered, "We can learn more in one day at Intermountain than you can learn in a year on the reservation. We can learn things here you cant learn on the reservation. The students want to get out of the reservation; now Washington wants to put us back. He continued, "My personal feelings about the talk about phasing out this school is the people on the reservation', will regret it because there is no school on the reservation as good as this one. I have three brothers and two sisters who want to come here. The two fact finders explained that they were the research and evaluation types who provide information for decisions. To Make Report The task force was in Brigham City be go to ENDS TUESDAY school off of the reservation? We need hard facts. We have to have hard data. Who should we ask. Were Stopped One of the girls on the council Then one of the girls on the stood up and told the men that told the men that she the reason they have so many council two friends "who had their had drop outs on the reservation is packed to come to Inbecause the schools arent as bags termountain and a lady stopped good. at the bus and said they Dr. Hopkins then asked the them couldnt go. students Do you think the life Another boy said he knew of on the reservation is such as to students who were stopped from encourgae students not to go to to Intermountain coming school. hadnt filled out because they And to that he got a straight the right form. forward answer from one boy Before the discussion on this who said. Yes. I do. was concluded, the matter Then an unidientified girl told had put the point the men I am the only one students more students across that from my femily who has would be Inattending graduated from school. if people knew termountain Get More Help how to apply. She went on to say "Students Getting back to their original have more help with personal problems here than on the BOX ELDER NEWS , reservation. .On the reservation in A wtckly drinking is a problem and when newspaper established 1894, published every Sunday by the a student gets depressed there 55 South What Is Reason? "What is the reason for phasing out this school? Studentbody President Henry Douglas opened up. Why werent we involved in this decision? We students at Intermountain have the right to know who is closing this school up. We hear it comes from Washington Douglas went on but we should have the right to know why. Dr. Hopkins then explained to the student group task force hears views dont even have homes this and opinions on the BIA school. questions should he asking?" Do kids prefer to Two Bureau of Indian Affairs officials of an evaluation task force at Intermountain school received a tart reception from members of the Intermountain Student council Thursday leaving little doubt that the students did not want to see the school closed. The Bureau of Indian Affairs people, Dr. Thomas R. Hopkins and Dr. Paul Streiff met with the students in an hour-lon- g afternoon session in the school library. The men told the students that what they wanted from them were questions they could ask people which would help them further their task. But the student council was not intersted in giving the men questions, they were interested in getting some answers and wasted little time in getting to the point. CAPITOL tn . Much to my personal joy, the second piece was The Eternal Idol, with Cathy Scott and John Hiatt taking the parts of the statue by Rodin. Subdued in pale lights they danced through the wondrous human emotions of pleasure, pain, trial and love. Mr. Hiatts part was not the traditional male roll of stand for the ballerina. He had an equal dancing part which is a welcome change. Much of this work shows us how the ballet is moving away from tradition and into more freedom of movement. Michael Smuin uses many unusual lifts and floor pictures of pure beauty. breathtaking Quite and emotional Large Cast Little did I think Ballet West would bring a large cast up to Brigham, but in "Pulcinella Variations we saw 24 company dancers; a breath taking sight. Your imagination was stretched and strung. From time to time dancers would give you a little surprise like climbing on each others shoulders, cartwheeling or doing a whole section with one girl manipulated in the air by six gentlemen. far OPENS WED., MAY 2 THRU SUN. MAY SALT PALACE Patricia Coldwell velous Rozow and Bruce showed off a mar- tarantella, and Jay Merribeth Habegger with Jolley had as much of a story line as the piece allowed with their hands off" flirtation. 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