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Show I Raven adopts boys, finds true friends Boys can be found sharing a lot of things when they are young, ranging from baseball mits to bikes, but Doug Mellen and Jimmy Broersma have a partnership in a pet, not a field mouse or water snake, but Jack, the raven. Doug and Jimmy have adopted, or have been adopted, by a three month old raven. They found him in a hay shelter near their homes in south Brigham. The boys observed Jack from hatching on and one day when they went for a brief look found the bird on the ground. He was taken home where he now dines birds, hamburger, an oc- - BOX ELDER NEWS, Brigham City, Utah Sunday, July 7, 1974 casional snake and moms strawberries. Jack has now mastered the art of flying and frequents neighborhood barbaque parties. He is not kept in a cage and finds that having the run of the yard is the best policy. The boys have had Jack for about a month and they expect to have a good friend and pet for awhile. Doug is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Mellen, 280 Lindaway. Jims parents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Broersma, 1042 Grandview. Library Echoes CONGRESSMAN WAYNE OWENS sits among a small group of spectators at a town meeting in Brigham City Friday evening. Owens touched on a number of topics Owens including Watergate, inflation, Congressional reform and budget cuts. The meeting was part of Owens' walking campaign from Logan to Ogden. town sat price setting but you cant do it with the oil industry, he said. Oil is controllable if the Congress has the will. he said, but the oil industry is the most powerful lobby in the country and contributed millions to many campaigns last election. BC in meeting Suffered suffered school has in Washington because of reputation-wis- e stories circulating that Indian students however unwere being mistreated, founded, and other congressmen were not the said killing the powerful seniority system which has helped promote special rallying to help it out. He said he had very little to do in fighting for the latest Bureau of Indian Affairs concession in opening multitribal enrollment to 300 students, although he has in supported Rep. Gunn McKay, his struggle to keep the $50 million facility open in Brigham City. He said he has followed McKays direction and recently signed a letter with McKay calling for a General Accounting Office investigation of the economics of the school. He said the apparent clammer by the BIA to close the facility has come from a philosophy by some educators that Indian children should be educated closer to their parents, rather than transport them hundreds of miles away to boarding facilities. Owens said Congress has not stopped all lawmaking activities despite the preoccupation with Watergate, but the media has chosen to report mainly Watergate activities. Cut Spending He said he advocates cutting government spending in foreign aid and defense budgets, and oil prices, if Congress had the fortitude, should be controlled. I voted to take government out of other Unwillingness of Congress to assume its responsibilities in running the government, along with President Nixons preoccupation with his Watergate defense are reasons for runaway inflation grasping the country today. Those were the comments of Rep. at a town meeting Wayne Owens, in Brigham City Friday night. Owens, who spent the Fourth of July weekend campaigning for the U.S. Senate by walking from Logan to Ogden, told a small crowd in city council chambers that the only government policy trying to regulate inflation is high interest rates, which is no policy, he said. Owens spoke at length of impeachment proceedings in which he sits as a member of the House Judiciary Committee evaluating Watergate evidence, spoke of a need for antitrust action against oil companies and touched briefly on Intermountain Schools problems. He Rather than election reform, said voters should push their representatives for Congressional reform, Owens, Vehicles Among new books at the Brigham City library are the following: The Spirit of 76, edited by Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris is the story of the American Revolution as told by participants. Across the Wide Missouri, by Bernard DeVoto. Here is the dramatic story of the decisive actions by which the United States won the empire of the West. Charles M. Russell, a descriptive by catalogue Fredric G. Renner includes paintings, (Continued From Page One) number of vehicles operating in the state, substantial sums have been expanded for highway and street improvements. Accoridng to the foundation, Utah spent $728 million for state highway construction period ending in 1973. during the ten-y- ear This total does not include amounts expended by cities, counties, and federal agencies within the state for other road improvements and construction. Despite the substantial gains made in the number of .individual vehicle registrations over the past ten years, there has been a marked decline in bus registrations. The number of commercial busses operating in the state, for example, dropped by 42 percent and exempt bus registrations (government-owned- ) declined by 10 percent between 1963 and 1973. These figures reflect the shift from mass to individual forms of transportation that took place in the period. transit drawings and sculpture in the Amon G. Carter collection. Just a Country Lawyer, a biography of Sen. Sam Ervin by Paul R. Clancy. The Man Who Dared The Lightening, by Thomas Fleming, tells about Benjamin Franklin. "Surely the Night, a novel JACK THE RAVEN is the center of attraction of master's Jim and by Claire Noall , tells about Doug. A playful soul, Utah in the late 1800s and the Jack not only talks and visits with neighbors but rules the roost as well. moods and thoughts of a Mormon girl growing to womanhood, trying to find happiness and satisfaction in her life. Bill Bailey Come Home, by William Bailey, edited by Austin artd Alta Fife. Bill Bailey as a farm boy, a stowaway at age 9, trapper at age 15, hobo at age 16. There are many more new books available in the library including a wide selection in the junior department. Come in between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. 933 Land bank loans Stock growers gv promised help Ross Rudd, president of the Bank association of Tremonton, reassured land bank livestock borrowers that the bank recognizes the deepening financial crisis faced by cattlemen and has taken a stand to assist them to the Federal Land greatest extent possible during the coming months. Rudd said, "The Tremonton association will continue its policy of providing dependable credit to its borrower-memberwhere warranted, during this period of adversity. The severe price squeeze on the cattle producer and cattle feeder will have an adverse effect on all of agriculture, as well as the consumer. Our commitment is to assist cattlemen in our area to pull through this financial emergency. s, Shortages, feed costs, and. other inflationary price rises have wiped out economic gains made by cattlemen last year; and if wholesale cattle prices continue to be depresssd as severely as they are, many cattlemen will be forced out of business and consumers may face a real shortage of beef with skyrocketing meat prices. The Tremonton Federal Land Bank association makes long term agricultural loans to its in Box borrower-member- s Elder county. The association is part of the nationwide, cooperatively owned, and privately financed Farm Credit system. The Federal Land Bank association of Tremonton is located at 145 West Main, Tremonton. In Box Elder Bond sales total $106,903 in May of Savings in May for Box Elder county came to $106,903, total to bringing the $420,226, it was announced by South Box Elder Savings Bonds Chairman T. Frank Coppin of Brigham City. State totals in May amounted to $2,164,909 and for the January-Ma- y period came to $11,855,703 or 41.3 percent of the 1974 goal of $28,700,000. This is one percent less for the same Sales figures Bonds period last year. Nationally, E and H Savings Bonds sales for May amounted e to $582 million and was $3,046 million which is three percent above the same period for 1973. Americans now hold $62.1 billion worth of E and H Savings Bonds including Freedom Shares. Chairman Coppin again reminded county Bond buyers and holders that the new and revised information folders on E and H Bonds are available for the asking at their banks. All total-to-dat- EESZ John J. Burridge, left, and his brother James, right, hand checks worth nearly $380 to Brigham City police detective Harold Howard. The brother found the endorsed checks near Second North and Main Street Friday and turned them into police. "They were as good as cash," police said. The boys are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Burridge of 467 North Fifth West. w tt HONEST KIDS axz to uLeuj coidialty LnuLtsd. to oux L otjljy an outitanding ait ex flillt ty tlz ill, &XR0SIIJB3SIIIBES recent changes in Savings Bonds are brochures. noted in the Navy fireman crew member Navy Fireman John K. Plowman, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Plowman of 120 West Seventh North Brigham City, was a member of the commissioning crew of the newest ocean escort USS Truett at the Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va. He and his shipmates the contribute to complishment of the Id Wasatdi xancEi 23adz(jiiin, fzatuiing aztLt 2$onna ann, doEEn HBxadfozd, Idxzda S axlzi and Jodz cSutton. 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