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Show -T .- "n Utah State Press Assn. PO Box 1327 Salt Lake City, Utah 84110 KISW: Volume 79, Number 12 Brigham City, Utah 84302, Sunday Morning, March 21, 1976 JL W'b 16 PAGES JVf Hlli V4 DuDB f ' r sCco!jDgD 000 . . . . ? J Ktrtie Nutt smile cpmes easy She has zest for life Katie is named Easter Seal Child for Utah ft Si Youre at home reading the paper or painting a window sill and sudnoise breaks denly an explosion-lik- e the silence, startling you and causing the house to shudder. A sonic boom! p " : YoiFjhould a Become frightened, call members of the,;,famil$& and fuddle together in the basement. ' Cussthe airlines for creating the disturbance and go back to what you were doing. c. Call the mayor and demand a stop to all sonic booms. S) An Air Force spokesman this past weex indicated, to Mayor Harold B. Felt and newsmen that none Of the above are good answers. Lieutenant Col, Stewart Kirkpatrick, information officer, Hill Air Force base, visited Brigham City in an effort to allay fears and correct e misunderstandings about this phenomenon. we need to He opined that educate the people about this. Mayor Felt agreed. And he asked the Air Force spokesman if speakers could be furnished for local club meetings, as a means of promoting (Continued on Page Three) jet-ag- hasx Katie Nutt of Brigham City, a vivacious with a zest for life, been named Utahs 1976 Easter Seal Child. As holder of the honor, she is receiving some extra special treatment. She posed for a picture with Gov. Calvin L. Rampton and was a recipient of the chief executives autograph. Katie also trooped into the office of Lt. Gov. Clyde L. Miller for a chat and was presented with a Utah territorial seal dated 1850 and his signature. and is invited to a Shell be featured on a telethon March 28 over KSL-TVIP luncheon Tuesday in Salt Lake City. It represents quite a whirl for the Foothill Elementary school student who V was born with cerebral palsy and depends on- - braces and a walker t9 get . around. The smiling youngster, popular with her fellow students, was never expected to reach this point in life. Doctors at an early age concluded that she had only a short time to live. A daughter of Marvin and Susan Nutt, 1076 Elm avenue, Katie came to Brigham City from Oklahoma in 1968. (Her father is an electrician at Jetway Equipment in Ogden.) There have been so many people here willing to help out that she has really come along, said her grateful mother. Katie who has two brothers and three sisters, attended the Utah Easter Seals Summer camp this past year. Her favorite activities were swimming, fishing and camping. She loves the The camp counselors enjoyed her tremendously. Katie was especially fun! I enjoyed her very much and she helped me with the other campers, was the comment of one counselor. Katie was enthusiastic about everything. She was confident, cute and had a lot of fun, said another. Thats Katie. She has a zest for life. Alaska-boun- of Brigham City's new here are, from left, gardening City Councilman Wayne Jones, Mayor Harold B. Felt, CATCHING munity-wid- THE SPIRIT corn-progra- and Extension Agent Mark Bingham. sometimes unProject aims at converting vacant lots into plots. garden sightly Mrs. Frances Jones Officials urge participation cowboys d m e j t Local Elks extend , hospitality to pair If youve got four or five months to spare and nothing much to do, a horseback trip from El Paso, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska sounds like a pretty good idea. For most folks its only an idea, but for two Colorado men, its a reality a 4,000 mile stretch of reality. Tommy Davis and Bill Ecker were about a quarter of the way along on the journey when they arrived in Brigham City Wednesday afternoon to stay overnight as guests of the local Elks lodge. Elks lodges between El Paso and Fairbanks are helping the pair out Davis is an Elks member and Ecker says hell join, since hes impressed with the hospitality Elks members have Shown. horses, pack animals and camping out around the campfire. And this year a Bicentennial one, made the trip more Guests Here The pair bedded their horses and two pack mules and dog down at a corral west on Sixth North, then spent the evening as Joel Galguests of Exalted Ruler-elebraith and family and Leading Knight Dennis Petersen and family. But before the men left the saddle Wednesday, Brigham City Mayor Pro Tern Dale Baron presented them with Golden Spike commemorative coins as a reminder of their stopover in Brigham City. Dick Macfarlane, Greater Brigham City Area Chamber of Commerce director and Councilman Wayne Jones were also on hand to greet the men. ness of people in the Salt Lake valley. Local Elks lodges aid the pair in their travels by calling ahead to the next lodge on the journey and giving notice vyhen the cowboys will arrive. The two camp out along the way, except where local Elks put them up. The Elks also attend to their needs, contributing food, money and lodging. Davis and Ecker have vowed they wont forget the hospitality of local Elks, either. ct Galbraith said the men related many adventures along the way. The trip was the brainchild of Davis, who met Ecker in El Paso. Ecker, a blacksmith by trade, throught the idea was sound and signed on for the duration, late July or August. Seasoned Cowboys Both are seasoned cowboys, earning their livings around horses and livestock and it seemed natural a trip should include attractive. The pair travels light, carrying camp equipment, one change of clothes, a camera and tape recorder. They travel everyday, rain or shine, and make 25 to 40 miles each day, depending on how many times were stopped, weath- er conditions and roads. The pair was expected to be in Pocatello, Idaho Saturday, and frori) there pushing on to Yellowstone park and then through either Montana and Idaho to the Canadian border. The pair commented on the gracious- School board to launches Hois for gardens plan . ' . Brigham City Mayor Harold B. Felt digs gardening . . . literally. The local official this past week joined with other city and Utah State University Extension service representatives The current conflict of interest issue and nepotism questions are among items slated for discussion when the Box Elder Board of Education holds its next regular session on Wednesday, March 24. The meeting is scheduled at 8 p.m. in the board room, upstairs in the county courthouse in Brigham City. A reproduction of the agenda can be found on Page 2. taking. to launch a new community gardening program. f, BackersDope the undertaking will see a great number of vacant lots here transformed into attractive, productive gardens this spring and summer. Do you own a vacant lot? Would you allow someone to garden on it? Are you looking for a place to garden? These are some of the questions being asked by the city beautification committee, backe) by the mayor and city council, and in cooperation with the USU Extension office here. clubs are in it, too. Brigham City The hope is to gain the cooperation of lot owners to let their property become gardening plots for interested individuals and groups. If you have such a lot or would like to raise a garden, or you would like to assist others in such a project, youre invited to call the extension office, Mayor the Greater BrigFelts office, ham City Area Chamber of Commerce, or the Box Elder News and Journal, "It would be a great service project for a 4-- meet Wednesday church group or a club, Mayor Felt declared. It could even become a family under- 723-852- 723-347- we Several contests will be developed as get into the project, Extension Agent Mark Bingham explained. A recent Gallup poll revealed that .0 percent of all American families are now gardening and enjoying it extensively. Some families living in large cities are driving as far as 60 miles to be able to garden and many of them even rent the ground, Ringham said. In Texas a recent study showed that on feet, produce hargarden plot vested was valued at $299.44. Gardening is also an excellent form of productive recreation, diversion and physical exercise, he noted further. Joining with him and Mayor Felt in urging broad community support for the 1976 program were Mrs. Frances Jones, beautification chairman, and City Councilman Wayne Jones who heads this area of concern. Bingham even had some tips for the home gardener: Use only good varieties of seed. Plant only what your family likes. Keep space occupied. Control weeds early. Control insects when they first appear. Aim for Art VJeelt dedication 8057 A bell tower will be erected at Brigham Young park, hopefully in time to be a crowning feature for 1976 Art Week. Brigham City officials gave their endorsement to a proposed design and authorized the museum-gallercommittee to procede on the project after inspecting a scale model Thursday. The tower, as proposed, will be 20 feet h I beams to be used in its high with construction. The design is patterned after a bell tower on the Brigham Young university campus. Museum-galler- y spokesmen Rick Huchel and Richard Felt said the structure will be located a short distance behind the Brigham Young monument to retain the symetrical balance of the park. It will display a historic y six-inc- i3 Tommy Davis, left, and Bill Ecker, with pack mules in toward ride Brigham City Wednesday afternoon on their 4,000 mile jourtow, El Paso, Texas to Fairbanks, Alaska. Local Elks lodge hosted the from ney pair overnight. JUST TRAVELIN' ON i4 fetters 600-pou- Mx DdDQ church bell from southern Utah which recently was donated to the city by LeRoy Bott, a former local resident now living in California. It was Bott who designed and installed the Brigham Young monument. The discussion with members of the city council touched on lighting in the area and the possibility of ringing the bell electronically. The project will be financed by a grant from the Utah Division of Fine Arts and National Endowment for the Arts. Art Week is scheduled April 0 and has as its theme this year, Adventures in 26-3- Freedom. Im Other Business other business at a weekly council 0rji? fengm meeting Thursday: The council tabled a request from Police Chief Steve Studdert to charge $5 for private criminal history reviews. Officials declined to act until learning more about the frequency of requests for such service and the time involved. A new time schedule for appointments to the city planning commission was approved, the intent being to appoint two new members annually instead of four every two years as at present. Purpose of the change is to give better continuity as make-u- p of the board changes. Councilman Doug Wight said agreement is near with Utah Power and Light company on city plans to construct a tap station on the UP&L line. nine-memb- er The council took under consideration a request from the Civil Air Patrol, Golden Spike squadron, for use of the fire, crash and rescue building at the city airport for CAP meetings, training and operations activities. The council formally approved a grant application to the Environmental Protection agency for about $41,000 to finance field work and improvements to the local sewage system. A public hearing was scheduled April 22 on the councils intent to rezone hillside property from Rl-1- 2 to Rl-1- 0 (both residential). The 78 acres are owned by Ivory and Company, Salt Lake City, and are located east of Poplar drive between Third North and east Forest. V H J t ' |