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Show vp'tah State Press Assn. 0 Box 1327 Salt Lake City, Utah 8110 s O Volume 80, Number 8 - - Brigham City, Utah, Sunday Morning, February 20, 1977 : . , . - V 1 Job office to move this year In to locate line City. on-sit- st water system City hopes for grant Bids are being solicited by the Utah Building board to construct a new office building for the Job Service, Utah Department of Employment Security, in Brigham Kenneth Godfrey, local office manager, said the lease on the building now occupied by the local Job Service office, runs out next August. The new building must be ready for occupancy Sept 1. The move is made necessary by the need for additional space to accommodate an increasing number of programs, he explained. Among those programs are vocational testing and counseling, interviews by employment, employers, federally-funde- d youth and older worker employment, veterans employment and related activities. Some 5,000 square feet is requested in the new building. The present location, 144 South Main, has about 3,000 square feet. The job office currently has a staff of about 12 persons. Godfrey said the first preference for a new location is in downtown Brigham City. It must be within the city limits with e parking for 20 cars. Those interested in bidding are expected to submit a written statement-of-intereby March 4. Bids must be received by March 25. The move has been contemplated for at least the past ten years, Godfrey said. Brigham City is reaching out for help in its quest to solve the mystery of water disappearing in the local culinary dis- tribution system. City councilmen Thursday gave engineer Keith Hansen approval to prepare an application for grant funds from the Region commission. And Bruce Armstrong, representative, said the fate of that request should be known on March when the commission next meets. Hansen said two firms that have the capacity to make a leak study have been contacted. One estimated the cost at about $20,000, the other between $17,500 and Four-Corn- Four-Corne- 2 $18,000. Each has sophisticated techniques which permit the detection of leaks in the citys water distribution system. He said one firm did such a project for Provo, discovering losses amounting to 2.2 million gallons daily. Right now Brigham City can better that. The data we have indicates that three million gallons a day are going down the tube that we cant account for, Hansen told the council. The leak detection would take from three to four months to complete. Hansen said the water loss has taken on primary importance to the city in this dry year. He told the council that if two dry years are experienced we may not have any water at all from the springs (those in Mantua which constitute the citys major source of culinary water). In this event, the city would have to rely on wells, including two large wells in Mantua. He suggested that latter not be pumped now but be held in reserve. Hansen said the current spring flow is comparable to that of a year ago. But if the springs drop, and indications are that they will, then we must tell the people to cut back, he stated. Hansen said he has been keeping a constant check on flow meters at the citys chorination house at the head of Box Elder canyon and at an overflow near the small power house and the fluoridation building. Armstrong said he could promise nothing but conceded that repair of water systems in this dry year should rate priority. However, Councilman Tolrnan Burke back-to-bac- k Public comment sought on new superintendent V Box Elder county citizens have a special assignment over the next two weeks: Help in the selection of the new superintendent of schools. wwwmwy ttft tx a;y ONE technique employed Friday as the central staff of Box Elder School district began moving from the top floor of the county courthouse to new offices at 298 West Second South. Superintendent J. C. Haws said he ex- THIS WAS pected the move to be completed Saturday. L. Burke Larsen, president of the Box Elder Board of Education, said Friday that two meetings have been scheduled to solicit public input. The first will be held Thursday, Feb. 24, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the choral room at Box Elder High school. Larsen said if the attendance proves too large, it will shift to the cafeteria. The second meeting is scheduled Thursday, March 3, in the auditorium at Bear River High school, also at 7:30 p.m. Larsen said the intent is to have citizens express themselves about what they consider are needed qualifications, characteristics and experience of a new super- - TWENTY CENTS 14 Pages intendent. Dr. J.C. Haws has submitted his resignation from the schools chief post after 14 years. Hell step down on June 30. Were doing this to make sure that those interested will have input to their elected officials who will make the decision on employing a superintendent, the board president explained. The comments will influence the makeup of a brochure soliciting applicants. Were going to employ the services of Darrell Long, executive director of the Utah School Boards association, and ask for interested applicants to file to him. When he receives them, the five board members will screen all of the applicants and we will select the number we want to interview. We will conduct the interviews and reach our final decision, Larsen ex- - plained. He said the process will begin about the middle of March with applications to be received about May 1. Wed like to get the new superintendent on board July 1, he added. Board members plan also to seek input from the Box Elder Education association in a meeting with that group Feb. 23. The session will begin at 7 p.m. in the new board office on west Second South. They'll do the same in a meeting with principals at the Box Elder High faculty room on March 2, a session slated to begin at 7 p.m. The president said our concern as school board members is to do the job right so our intent is to go slow and be said if a grant is not received he was concerned about committing the city to spending $20,000 which we dont have. In other buiness, Councilman Dale Baron and Burke were named to study a proposal from Utah Recycling and Disposal company, Ogden, to take over the citys garbage collection. The firm proposes to charge $1.25 monthly for the service and asked for a three-yea- r contract with exclusive rights. Kent Doman, company spokesman, said he would seek to handle waste collection in the commercial as well as residential area. Baron and Burke were asked to make a recommendation in the matter in two weeks. Attorney Arden Coombs reported that Brigham City Cable Television Ltd. has completed layout maps and tenatively located a tower site just off Eleventh South in Perry. He indicated that Brigham City will receive initial cable television within two to three months. The council authorized spending of $200 which, combined with $300 from the senior citizens Spike club, will be used to purchase a used station wagon costing $500 from Hansen Chevrolet. Councilman Burke said the car will vehicle now in use replace an to haul equipment, food and other items in the senior program. Approval was given for the use of city trucks to haul away large debris from a home demolition site at Third South and Third West. City Building Inspector Max Muir said It just means cleaning up a month earlier than the normal spring cleanup. Councilman Barort was authorized jo ascertain the cost to get an abstract on property acquired at the municipal airport by Brigham City. He indicated this has clouded efforts to acquire an $18,000 federal grant for an airport area master plan. Some $4,347 in escrow funds to guarantee sewer and water improvements at Cottonwood II subdivision in east Brigham City were approved for release. Plat approved Brigham City councilmen stamped their approval on a plat for additional housing development in Lindsay Park subdivision Thursday night. The approved plat contains 31 lots located along the east side of Fifth West between Seventh and Eleventh South. Saif Lake Their journey to Promontory will be longest man dies Firm turns back history pages for replicas after bay Sometime late next year, carried by trucks, two shiny new railroad locomotives will make the longest journey theyll ever make when they head from a Los Angeles suburb to the rolling sagebrush hills known as Promontory Summit, Utah. The locomotives will be exact replicas of the two that met in 1869 when the Golden Spike was driven to symbolize completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the world. The original units, known as the Jupiter and the 119, were scrapped in locomotive gravesome yard around the turn of the century. The replicas are destined for Golden Spike National Historic site, where the National Park service expects they will help visitors to enter the real-lif- e atmosphere of those 19th century times when the advancing path of the railroads spelled expansion for a growing nation. The locomotives also will be used each day during the summer and in annual reenactments of the Golden Spike ceremony May 10. The modern versions of the Central Pacifics Jupiter and the Union Pacifics 119 are being fabricated by OConnor Engineering Laboratories, Inc., of Costa Mesa, Calif., under a $1.5 million contract with the National Park service. They are to be delivered to the site in northern Utah next year, hopefully by late August. Since 1970, Golden Spike National Historic site has displayed two 19th century locomotives borrowed from the state of Nevada. Neither was a faithful reproduction of the Jupiter and the 119, and both surrogate locomotives will be flat-be- d n and some others on hand for the historic driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit May 10, 1869, pose in front of the Central Pacific's Jupiter. This engine and its MEMBERS OF THE BAND Union Pacific counterpart, the 19, have long since been scrapped but new "mirror-imagereplicas are now being fabricated in California. 1 " returned to the state of Nevada. Terms of th 2 contract for their use call for the two locomotives to be returned to Nevada this March 1. However, Supt. George Church said Thursday he had just talked to officials of the Silver state and was assured the vintage engines could remain at Promontory for at least another year. It seems structures planned for their storage in Nevada have yet to be completed. The replicas now under construction of the promise to be mirror-image- s originals, down to bright red paint, copper trim and the tone quality of their bells. "Two things are responsible for the sound of a bell its shape and the materials used in its casting, explains Chadwell O'Connor, inventor, engineer and president of the California firm that is fabricating the engines. The shape of the bells was easy. We could determine that from old photographs. To determine the metals formula, we went back into the archives and found exactly what metals, in what proportions, they used to cast locomotive bells at that time in history. The sound should be just right. Every other element of the two locomotives (and their tenders) should be authentic, too. Faced with the challenge of recreating two pieces of equipment weighing 40 tons, each built more than a century ago, and lacking any blueprints or drawings of the originals, the contractor literally went back to the drawing board. More than 600 separate drawings were prepared, down to the last stave of (Continued on Page Three) accident It appears shock, and not drowning, caused the death of a Salt Lake City man who fell through the ice at Willard bays North Marina Thursday afternoon. Deputy Tim Francis of the Box Elder county sheriffs office said David William Selander died about 45 minutes after he arrived at Brigham City Community hospital. Francis related the facts around the mishap like this: Selander and a friend were fishing on the ice at Willard bay when the victim apparently stepped in a hole with a light covering of ice and one leg went in the water to his thigh. He pulled himself out and was kneeling on the ice near his companion when he suddenly keeled over onto the ice. The friend called for help and another man responded. When the third man arrived, the ice holding them collapsed and all three went into the bay. They were able to work the victim halfway onto the ice when others arrived to help and the ice gave way again, dropping two or three more persons into the icy water. An unidentified Ogden man grabbed the victim and a bystander on a dock about 20 feet away threw them a cable and they were hauled to safety. In the meantime, a witness to the incident ran to his vehicle and called for help on his CB radio and in a very short time an ambulance and sheriffs deputy were on their way. A Brigham City ambulance returning (Continued on Page Three) |