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Show Universal aicrofilnins Corp. P. 0. Box26B Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 9100 ? 5-- 75 Brigham City, Utah 84302, Sunday Morning, Volume 78, Number 16 April 20, 1 975 12 PAGES 'Portraits of Liberty' City spotlights Community Art Week i Community Art Week festivities in Brigham City will begin with a "bong on g Monday, April 21, as a grand opening ceremony is held at 11 a.m. in the municipal plaza. Honorary Chairman Lewis Wight, chairman of the museum-galler- y board, will do the honors by pulling the rope on a bell to begin a week of art activities that will involve more than 1,000 participants and & community of spectators of all ages. Master of ceremonies for the grand opening will be Boyd Newman, who will bell-ringin- d introduce Mayor Harold Felt and Art Week Chairman Thelma Somerville as part of the grand opening. Immediately following the ceremony, youthful painters from Box Elder High school will begin painting Forest street and will continue until 5 p.m. in producing patriotic designs extending to Second West, leading the way to the museum-galler- y which is sponsoring the weeklong arts. "Portraits of Liberty festival of is the theme for the week, which also ushers in the nations Bicentennial celebration. joint promotional grant from the Utah of Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts has helped to fund the week, but the planning and work are being coordinated entirely by local volunteers. A Institute Musical Program Music students from Box Elder High school will present a program of patriotic music entitled Spirit of 76 Prelude from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday evening in the municipal plaza. Chairman Don Chadwick announces that concessions will also be available, courtesy of the Lions club. Tuesday night belongs to the youngsters with fifth and sixth graders from area schools to present Dancing on the Green, beginning at 7 p.m. at Ferguson field behind Box Elder High school. Presentation of the colors by the schools Naval JROTC will be followed by the national anthem to lead into a program of dancing, song and narration that will take the audience through 200 years of the nations history. Les Dunn, coordinator for the school program, announces that each school has prepared its own narrative account and dance for the event. Mountain View school will portray the Lake View school period from will portray Bear River City will 6 perform dances from the period; Perrv School will add the Charleston with the period from 1876 to 1936; Central school will jitterbug its way through 1936-5and Foothill school will celebrate the statehood of Hawaii and Alaska to bring the program to the present. During the grand finale, all the children will join in "God Bless America and a 1776-181- 1816-184- 1846-187- saluteto the flag. A humanities series program entitled Leaders and Followers is also scheduled for 8 p.m. on Tuesday in the community center. Its part of the popular series brought to the community by the Western Center for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Drama Takes Spot Taking the spotlight on Wednesday Town Meeting evening will be a program at the historic LDS tabernacle, (Continued on Page 8) Have no choice' City to adopt sales tax, sets substation bid date Brigham City officials Thursday announced plans to adopt Utahs new local option sales tax increase and set a bidding date for major items in a new electrical substation. City councilmen took the action in a regular weekly session. Their move on the sales tax measure came as no surprise. That state legislature recently increased the local option tax from one-hato percent. Communities now receiving financial benefits of the levy must either adopt the higher tax or lose it altogher. ' Councilmen asked Mayor Harold B. Felt with the city attorney to prepare the necessary ordinance and agreement for next Thursdays meeting. They did not indicate how the additional revenue will be used. The half-cesales tax this year is expected to bring in about three-quarte- lf $179,000. Bid Opening Date May 1 was set as the bid opening date for steel structural material and three circuit reclosures for a new electrical substation on the citys west side. A transformer for the station, to be located next to an existing substation on Fifth West, was ordered some months ago. The total package will cost an estimated $141,698 with officials hoping to see the installation completed by next fall. Councilman Byron Armstrong said originally plans called for the expansion in 1976; however, industrial development in the area, particularly that of American Greetings corporation, has forced a speedup. Armstrong said construction of the substation is absoluately necessary to handle increased demands for power in the area. 12,000-vo- lt Councilman Doug Wight agreed, Its not an improvement in which we have a choice. The substation included among im More tests ahead for steam well provements proposed under a $1.4 million bond issue for which a special election will be held May 6. Council Armstrong said if the bond issue doesnt pass, well just have to finance it some other way. In other business; The mayor and council agreed to a request from the local Elks lodge that, in conjunction with Elks National Youth local young people serve in Week, May various city offices for a day (May 1). The council approved hiring of Dan Jones, Jr., 23, as a police officer. Jones, from Woods Cross, is a graduate of Weber State college in police science, has worked in the Salt Lake County Sheriffs office, and will join the local force effective April 7, 21, succeeding Robert Willis who resigned for reasons of salary April 15 Jones will receive a starting monthly salary of $685. Councilman Armstrong said Utah Highway department representatives plan to be here on about April 28 in conjunction with a city request to upgrade railroad crossings on Forest street, Sixth North and Fourth South. He said the crossings have the highest priority in Box Elder county for funding under a federal program. , Councilman Wight said a tentative budget for the coming fiscal year will be prepared by May 1 but may have to be changed after the May 6 bond election. Approval was given to fly the citys (Continued on Page Three) Box Elder county people named to court jury list Box Elder county residents Thirty-fiv- e have been named to the April (second) term jury list for First District court. On the list are the following; Robert J. Michaels, 178 North Eighth East; Gary R. Hall, 308 North 950 East; Lucile B. Olsen, 81 North Fourth West; Rod Romer, 685 North Third West; Joy M. Shurtleff, 425 South Sixth West; George A. King, 580 North Main; Alice K. Warren, 577 South Second West. Ralph L. Ruddell, 1061 Grandview; Dora Midget, 178 North Third East; Barbara Yamasaki, 86 North Fourth West; Geof-fer- y C. Zimbelman, 574 North Fourth West; Joel L. Taniguchi, 324 South Main; Mitchell L. Cochran, 330 North First West. Margaret A. Tracy, 325 West Sixth UP&L South; Kathryn L. Fife, 432 East Second South; William C. Robinson, 305 East Forest; G. T. Anderton, 1094 Oak; Lois Peterson, 235 North Third East; Blaine Hunsaker, 1013 Fishburn drive; Cherrie P. Burrell, 26 West Sixth South, and Dorothy Gee, 507 South Second East, all of Brigham City. Duane Campbell, Clear Creek; Ron Dell Robbins, LaMont S. Rose, Bessie S. Calderwood, and Donald W. Kerr, all Tremonton; Everett Andersen, Corinne, Walter R. Chamberlain, Honeyville. Daneec I. Ford, Willard; James O. Stine and Burt Jones, Howell; Daryl O. Garland; Moyle L. Knudsen, Portage; John A. Bourne and Verl T. Udy, Fielding. His statement comes on the heels of recent lease cancellations in the area by Geothermal Kinetics Systems corporation, a partner with UP&L in the exploration venture. Ward Austin, a vice president for the Phoenix-basegeothermal firm, said we have dropped some leases but have paid delay rentals on a certain amount of leases in relation to what weve found. d Tests Conducted Dr. Finlayson said a number of tests have been conducted at the well, including temperature, potential flow and water samples. But they're still looking for answers to three major questions: How much flow will the well really produce? Will the temperature increase as the well is pumped? If there is a commercial geothermal reservoir, what is the real chemical content of the water down there? Were pretty sure' weve had some drilling (ground) water mixed with the reservoir water. We must determine what the real content of the reservoir is, Dr, Finlayson 6 BEHS City aide reports status The geothermal test well drilled last year north of Brigham City has not been forgotten, a Utah Power and Light official assured Friday. Dr. Val Finlayson, director of research for UP&L, said "we anticipate doing further work at the well this spring. OFFICERS for 1975-7at Box Elder High school are pictured here after election results were announced Friday night. Left to right are Linda Bingham, daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Bingham, secretary; STUDENTBODY said. The UP&L spokesman said a pump with the capacity to withstand high temeperatures of deep testing can now be made available. This has not been the case in the past. Another Reason Another reason for delay concerns the federal Energy Research and Development administration which was formed last fall. "Theyve indicated a desire to be involved in the project and weve been waiting word to see if theyre still interested," he explained. Tie pioneering aspect of geothermal exploration was cited by Dr. Finlayson who said, because it is relatively new, going back only about 12 years in this country, there is very little knowledge associated with "This is definitely a research type program," he added. Asked, based on current data, what the outlook is for the local well which extends 11,000 feet into the earth, he said it might become a production well. But it is extremely deep and if shallower wells can be drilled in close proximity, it would serve nicely as a reinjection well (to send water back into the earth that has been used from other wells). As explained by Dr. Finlayson, the existing well has tapped the west edge of the underground geothermal reservoir. it. funds Brigham City is in the process of preparing an application to the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation for funds to finance local parks and recreation improvements. City Councilman Doug Wight made this disclosure during Thursdays weekly council meeting. He did so in response to a forceful by presentation members of the city recreation commission at the previous a session at council meeting which he was not present. citys to the Housing and Urban Development had been rejected, it was decided to look to the BOR to help fund tennis courts at John Adams park. Other items also will be included in the BOR request but none was specified. of 10 percent is valedictorian BOR recent Department names top Brigham student eyes Wight said since the Steve Weight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen A. Weight, president; Tammy Hadfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Hadfield, second vice president, and Wade Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hall, first vice president. A Brigham City girl has been named valedictorian for the 1974-7- 5 school year at Box Elder High school. She is Debra Davis, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leland E. Davis, 528 Highland. Announcement of the honor was made in Fridays edition of the school newspaper The Bee. Those students ranking scholastically in the top 10 percent of this years senior class also were named and those in the highest three percent were given special mention. who achieve The latter students cumulative grade point averages of between 3.8 and 3.9 included the following: Tom Garrison, Shirleen Hill, Jeff Taniguchi, Marie Raisor, Patty Hall, Lisa Hunsaker, Suzanne Hammon, Cory Sackett, Liz Mason, Lorna Fish, Nancy Davis, Sonja Goodwin, and Lorna Skidmore. Others in Top Ten Others in the top 10 percent are Daniel Anderton, Dean Bigler, Debra Bingham, Sharon Bowen, Diana Bradbury, Douglas Brinton, Jan Gardner, Greg Gilbert, Janet Glauser, Ronald Glenn, Lou Ann Hansen, Alice Harper, Glenda Hemsely, Corey Heumier, Michael Jones. Also, Bryce Lemon, Sue Ann Larson, Bonnie McIntosh, Sandra Nelson, Darrel (Continued on Page Three) Debra Davis top student . . . |