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Show t'.i i verbal l' zc llains? Carp. !:ox 9 3 Open to all citizens -- Utah X 1110 F 5 Nominating conventions set in BE Political aspirations go on the line in several Box Elder county communities this coming week with party nominating conventions to select candidates for municipal office. The sessions are planned Tuesday, Oct. 9, in Brigham City and Tremonton and Oct, 11 and 12 in Perry and Willard. Each is a third class city and convention-goer- s face the task of nominating candidates for mayor and two seats on the city council. Mantua has scheduled its conventions for Saturday, Oct, 13, at 7 p.m. with the People's party to gather in the old schoolhouse and the Citizen's party in the LDS church building. To be nominated by each is a candidate for town board president and two hopefuls for town board. In Brigham City, the Democratic party will meet in the community center and Republicans at Central Elementary school. The starting time for each is 8 p.m. The Tremonton confabs will see the People's party meet in the civic center and Citizens party at the community center (former McKinley school), both at 7 p.m. Proceedings at Willard will open with a general town meeting in the school at 7 p.m. after which a separation into two parties is scheduled. The Citizen's party at Perry has scheduled Its convention Thursday, Oct. 11, at 8 p.m. and the People's party will Volume 76, Number Because UP FOR BID June Christensen, DeEsta Young and Nathan Wheeler play painting that will be among those going to the highest bidders project at Perry. dis- in a unanimously at Thursdays They did so after Mayor Wayne how, for the moment, an mightier than a hammer and saw. The paintings will be sold to the highest bidders and the resulting money earmarked for the new And this- - is chapel. Anybody Can Bid Furthermore, a spokesman said this week that anybody can bid who wishes, although, admittedly the paintings have more value to members of the community. Theyll be on display in the existing church foyer until Oct. 16 when bids will be opened, highlighting a fund raising dinner at 6 p.m. There are 29 paintings in all. Bid forms will be available at the church and from Mayor Jay Matthews and may be dropped in a bid box at the church. Interested persons can bid on one or more of the art pieces, each of which will go to the highest bidder. Poetic Description Mrs. DeEsta Young whose talents are responsible for a number of the paintings, said each is being enhanced by a poetic description authorized by teenagers of the community. Others responsible for the paintings include Teresa Young, Nadene Valencia, Roseann Young, Tammy Beil, and Kathy Dieter. "The mayor and city council deserve recognition for giving the paintings to the wards. It was a fine gesture," Mrs. Young said. Copies of the proposed ordinances are available for public inspection at the county clerks office and also In the city libraries at Brigham City, Garland and Tremonton and with the county book- mobiles. "The public is encouraged to attend this hearing, a legal notice states. Original hearings on the two proposed measures were held last May. At the time, they ran Into opposition and since have been the subject for discussion at various meetings in the county. Not Required The Nov. 7 session is not required by law as were the original hearings. However, Commissioner John Holmgren Indicated recently that it's the com the county commissioners it was necessary to know how the bond issue would be financed, "to determine what we could afford, Then we could Intelligently handle it," "What would be the condition if it were put on the ballot? What if we found we couldnt do it?" Councilman Claudius Olsen asked. Pressed for Decision Dale Baron, appointed to the council only on Sept. 6, who pressed for a decision on the matter. "You have an obligation to the citizens," he told his fellow councilmen. Baron referred to the minutes of July 26 It was Reportedly, construction will begin on the new church building as soon as sufficient funds are raised. It will be located across the street north from the city park, Corinne has circled Oct. 17 for its conventions with the Peoples party to meet in the school and Citizens party at the city hall. Starting time for each is 8 p.m. The conventions October 84302, Sunday Morning not when the council hired Burrows Smith and Company, Salt Lake City, to act as fiscal agent on the bond issue. And he asked, if the bond issue wasnt going to be pursued, why this agreement was made? In moving to delay the bond issue, withholding it' from the Nov. 6 ballot. Councilman Kaiser suggested that when 7, 1973 of each ordinance have been printed. In addition to those placed in the various libraries, others will be distributed to virtually every community in the county within the coming week. "Our intent is to make them available to everyone who may want to study the ordinances between now and the hearing," he explained, "We dont want anyone to think we are trying to shove anything down anybody's throat or rushing this thing," he added. A formal hearing (the first) on the county's proposed master plan is scheduled In the commission chambers on Oct. 24 at 8 p.m. annual Brigham City's Harvest Days promotion will be and this year is staged Oct, "for the birds", Announcement of the traditional sales event came from Chairman Mary Kay Hess who said that 10 turkeys will be the will Participating business hand out tickets to shoppers all day Friday, Oct, 12, and will remain open until 10 p,m, when a drawing will see turkeys given away to 10 PAGES made funds are found that a special bond election be held at that time. The motion passed 0 with Councilman A1 Cazier absent from the meeting. 4-- Voted July 5 The council voted on July 5 to place the bond issue on the city election ballot. Proposed at that time were expansion of the city library, police station, airport, golf course and fire station, park improvements and development, two or three bridges on Box Elder creek and construction of an additional public works building to serve the electrical department. City Recorder Tolman Burke said the cost to hold a special bond election would run between $3,006 and $4,000. Although no firm figure had been attached to the bond package, officials previously had mentioned $750,000 as the amount needed for all of the improvements. Payments to retire an issue of this amount would have averaged about $63,000 over a period, the council was advised. Other Business In other business, the council approved a resolution to borrow $35,000 from the special improvement guarantee fund to make payment on general obligation water bonds. This action is expected to ease the citys current cash flow problem. Councilmen Kaiser, Olsen and Armstrong were named as a committee to select judges of election. Mayor Jensen said architect Ralph Edwards will meet with the council Thursday at 4:30 p.m. to discuss furnishings for the new city hall. They were to have huddled this past week but Mayor Jensen said the architect was unable to make it. 20-ye- ar Interior Secretary Rogers C.B. Morton has assured Sen. F. Bennett that the future of Intermountain school and the National Indian Training center at Brigham City will be given top priority by the new federal commissioner of Indian Affairs. The Utah senator met with the secretary for an hour this week to discuss the Indian school and other Utah problems. Senator Bennett asked Morton to take a personal interest in the problems surrounding both the school, which is scheduled to be phased out as a secondary school for Navajo students, and the training center. The future of both institutions has been clouded since earlier this year when a decision to phase out the Navajo students was revealed. The secretary told me he would ask the Indian commissioner, when one is appointed, to give this matter a top priortiy, Senator Bennett said. Bennett has urged that the staff and the facility represent a national asset and should be retained in the federal governments Indian education program. Wallace (R-Uta- h) Board sets next meeting Oct. 10 The Box Elder Board of Education will hold its next regular meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 10, in the board room, upstairs in the county courthouse. Starting time will be 8 p.m. A reproduction of the full agenda can be found on Page 2. confusion over cify momiey picture cornin given away to highlight promotion. the ballot, there is another means, too. This is by petition which, if signed by 25 registered voters (and notoarized) and presented to the city recorder by Oct. 19, is a valid nomination. However, the petition may not be signed by anyone who has participated in a party convention. This years election day is Nov. 6 and cities will have two voter registration days Oct. 16 and Oct. 30 in the various voting districts of each community. Official! cifles Days missions intent to fully air the ordinances and give everyone an opportunity to understand and suggest changes to them, Both measures have been revised since the May hearings, particularly the mobile home ordinance. Commission Chairman Don Chase said the revisions reflect opinions and comments gleaned from a number of meetings, many held at the community ' level. And he pointed out that 225 copies Councilman Harvest County sets hearing on two ordinances p.m. Not Ready not ready to turn the bond issue down but I'm also not ready to go when I dont know about the money, We could hold a special election later," Councilman Byron Armstrong stated, . . that the bonding He contended proposition was advanced with the understanding that it would be financed with sales tax revenue. And because the taxing authority has not come, the various projects were not brought to the table for final scrutiny, "to see what should go and what shouldn't." Mayor Wayne Jensen said he had told are open to all citizens their respective communities. However, a person may not in the nomination process of participate both parties. Although the convention system is the usual procedure for placing candidates on in "Im Mobile home, subdivision Box Elder county commissioners are going to try again on the much discussed mobile home and subdivision ordinances, this week calling a public hearing for both on Nov. 7. The session is scheduled in the commission chambers, downstairs in the courthouse at Brigham City, beginning at 7 Jensen Oct. 5. The councilmen said they were not ready to prepare and approve such- a resolution, declaring that nothing had been done in formalizing the several projects proposal because the Box Elder County commision had not acted on the citys half-ce- nt sales tax request. "I havent given it any study because I didn't know where the money was coming from," Councilman Rudolph Kaiser declared. Brush mightier than hammer? artist's brush becomes session. said a necessary resolution of intent would have to be adopted no later than Friday, Will help build new chapel house. weekly Terms are ending for Mavor Art Danielson and City Councilmen Calvin Smith and Sam Nagata. Neither Bear River City nor Honeyville has scheduled its conventions yet. meet Friday, Oct. 12, as the same time. Both sessions are planned in the LDS church cultural hall. The two Perry city councilmen whose terms expire this year are John Valcarce and Dale Johnston and the mayor is Jay Matthews. Brigham City, Utah 74 commumihes sales tax decision There will be no bonding proposal on Brigham City's Nov. 6 election ballot. decided this City councilmen fund-raisin- g One doesnt normally think of building a new churchouse with an artists brush. But thats whats going to happen in Perry at least in part. Perry City recently asked six artists to paint scenes representing their community, using them as a display at the annual Box Elder Coutny fair. The oil paintings then were exhibited during Brigham Citys Peach Days. Now the city has given them to Perry's two LDS wards which are presently engaged in fund raising for a new meeting 40 8-- 10 lucky persons, Mrs. Hess said stores participating In the Harvest Days event will be identified by window signs, Not only 'will the promotion offer harvest time values to stretch the budget but will kick off a late Friday opening that will continue downtown until Christmas. A Brigham City official has spoken out to clear up what he termed "a great deal of confusion in town about the citys financial situation. Councilman Byron Armstrong said the city is experiencing a tight cash flow problem but that "we still have the best credit rating of any city in Utah and plenty of bonding capacity." He said the cash flow where we may have to increase to meet the cash flow problem, he explained further. The official pointed out that by holding the line on city charges and cutting taxes, local citizens have been saved a great deal of money. The city used to have one garbage truck and now it has three and still no garbage collection fee. That represents a savings of residents over the past six years. To increase electrical power rates when others did would have cost local utility users allowed for emergencies." another $906,000 over the past In looking back, the couneight years, Councilman Armcilman said he wouldnt vote strong contended. differently on the This coupled with tax cuts items, all of which have been have saved citizens ove,r $1 situation has developed, at least in part, because in past years "weve made some exthat werent penditures budgeted and have never handled without any fee or rate increase. At the same time the mill levy has been lowered. May Have to Increase "Now weve reached the point $36,000 to local million, he added. Other Business In other business at Thursdays weekly council meeting, the city officials went on record as supporting a housing propriations bill that will ap- be put the Utah legislature in its before upcoming special session. Councilman Rudolph Kaiser would mean $80,000 to Box Elder county of which Brigham Citys share would be said it $45,000. The council officially named Western Landscaping, Ogden, to perform installation of a new sprinkling system for two little league baseball diamonds and a football field at Rees Pioneer park. The Ogden firm orginally was second low in the bidding. However, its price of $6,510 (including a $1,000 reduction from the initial bid) was accepted after the low bidder, Rasmussen Sprinkling Company, Ogden, declined to perform. The Rasmussen bid was $700 lower. Mayor Wayne Jensen said. The mayor said materials are in the process of delivery and the contractor will have 60 days in which to perform installation. already Approve Letter Acting on a recommendation from Jack Hamilton, streets department superintendent, the council approved a form letter that will be sent to residents who violate the citys cleanup ordinances. It pertains to those who pile refuse on streets or sidewalks at times other than designated cleanup periods in fall and spring. Kirk Nelsen who previously sought council clearance to build a home in southwest Brigham City, said if it develops that he cant build the home without incurring prohibitive" expenses for subdivision improvements, then he plans to fence the property. The lot is (Continued on Page Three) |