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Show UnivBrfl'J 227 Salt Sixth Ave. Lake ' rp. I'.O. Bcr H7 Microfl':-!!-- City, .; Utah Retail Stores To Close Monday For Memorial Observance Brigham City retail stores will be closed all day Monday, in observance of Memoit was announced rial Day, this week by the merchants' committee of the Chamber of Jan. 55 North Stake Quarterly Conference Will Start Saturday At 6:30 P.M. 4 General Sessions To Be Held Sunday At 10 A.M. and 7:30 Conference Speaker Commerce. The Monday holiday is one VOLUME 17, BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 28, 1954 NUMBER 22 Service Star Legion Presents 12 Mission To Open Summer Season Graduate Doors To Open On June 2, Heber J. Session Announces At USAC Friday Remaining .Members of the Service Star legion this week presented a beautiful nylon American flag to be used on special occasions at the Brigram City cemetery. The flag will fly for the first time on Sunday, Memorial Day. Representing the American Legion as past commander is (left to right) Dr. C R. Jones, Service Star Legion members include: Mrs. John Burt, Mrs. Ierc Knudson and Mrs. Ruel M. Eskelsen. Mrs. C. R. Jones serves on the Memorial committee for the American Legion Auxiliary. Mrs. Wm. S. Fife and Ories Jeppson, both instrumental in the project, were unable to be present at the time the above photo was taken. . . . Corinne Plans New Flag Will Memorial Day Rites Sunday Sunday, May 30, at 10 a. m Memorial Day services will be conducted at the Corinne tery under the direction of the Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; the VKW Auxiliary and the M. E. club of the Methodist church. Commander of the Corinne VFW is Kusheo Sato, who will lead the VFW in the flag ceremony and rituals honoring the war dead. Assisting the VFW will be the Auxiliary under the direction of Mrs, Merlin Hansen, president. The M. E. club will take charge of the program with Mrs. Maxwell Pohl from Brigham City conducting. They will also direct the placing of a wieath. flag and flower bouquet on the graves of the men who died in devotion to their country. Harry Zener, who 'just recently celebrated his 94th birthday, will deliver his annual ceme- Miller-Monso- Reverend B. E. Lepper of the Methodist church of Tremonton and Corinne. will be the featured speaker. Interstake Dance Festival Planned For Next Week The annual interstake dance festival for North and South Box Elder stakes will be held and Wednesday, on Tuesday June 1 and 2 at Box Elder High school gymnasium beginning at 8:15 p. m. both evenings. Theme for the affair will be Family Night in Hawaii with Ralph and Lillian Westover. and South stake, and Rodney Norma Hansen, North stake directors in charge. Directors announced today that 150 dancers of the Mutual Improvement Associations will perform. Mr. and Mrs. Perc Peterson will do a reading at the festival and sing the opening and closing numbers. Boys With Matches Start Brush Fire; Scout Puts It Out Two eight-year-ol- d boys, playing with matches on top of reservoir hill, touched off what could have been a serious brush fire Wednesday afternoon at 2:55 o'clock, if Eagle Scout Larry Jensen hadnt happened along. Jensen put his scout training to good use, rushing to turn in the fire alarm when he saw smoke curling up from the top of the hill, hurried up there and broke off sage brush to beat the flames, assisted by two very frightened boys. Fly At Cemetery Memorial Day e Tin-gey- Bear River To Give Services Memorial Day Bear River City Decoration Day services, honoring veterans who Through the sponsorship of have served their country, will the American Legion and Aux- be held at the Bear River City iliary, Brigham City corporation cemetery orfMonday, May 31, has elected a flag pole on the at 11 a. m. Soldiers Memorial plot at the Principal speaker at the cereBrigham City cemetery. of mony is scheduled to be Leon An American flag made Tremonton attorney. nylon and measuring 6 feet by Halgren, the 10 feet was purchased recently The American Legion and are of Foreign Wars for the pole, from the Memorial Veterans to have charge of the program. funds raised through the efforts A flag ceremony will be a of the Service Star Legion, under the direction of the late Mrs. feature of the program, the color bearers 'to be composed of Lula B. Call. members of the veterans organImpressive flag raising cerethe monies are to be conducted at izations. Musical numbers at will include an accorIhe cemetery at sunrise on Sun- services dion solo by Joan Brockman. day, May 30, and Monday, May Lunch will be sold after the of the 31. under the direction for those attending the American Legion Vice Comman- program observances, by the Bear River der Ories Jeppson. camp of the Daughters of Utah Boy Pioneers Monday morning the at the cemetery Scouts will place the flags by grounds. In case of Inclement of all the graves departed weather, lunch will be sold at heroes. The American Legion the Bear River amusement and Auxiliary will put poppies home. on the crosses. A large wreath will be laid Heading the Memorial com- at the cemetery along with mittee for the American Legion flowers on individual graves. is Mrs. Wm. S. Fife. Mrs. Fife, also a member of the Service Start Search For in Star Legion, participated raising the funds that have now Missing Junior purchased the flag. She has Baseball Uniforms been in charge of placing of the poppies and making poppy boudirector of quets for the past several years. theBaty Morrison, in the junior baseball The money used for the flag was raised during 1919 to 1928 summer recreation program, is scouring the country lookand has been accumulating ing for baseball uniforms for during the years. Last year a his civic club league. Memorial plaque was placed on It seems the Lions, Rotary, the Memorial stone, which was Kiwanis each provipreviously purchased by the ded and a team with uniforms a Service Star Legion group. The ladies, who at that time couple of years ago and some of them were never turned in belonged to the organization, at the close of the season. to in the other funds plan spend Completely missing are all worthwhile projects in the future, similar to the stone, plaque of the Rotary club uniforms and some of the club and flag. outfits. Anyone having a stray baseball uniform, is asked to turn it in to the News & Journal office or if reanyone has information garding them, they are asked to call the newspaper office. All members, friends their partners are cordially and in- vited. The local auxiliary has also been busy with plans for the ladies. The auxiliary, recently organized, is headed by Mrs. Orson Korth, president; Mrs. vice president Asel Robinette, and Mrs. Kenton Jensen, secretary-treasurer. Registration For Clerks Registration headquarters will be at the Chamber of Commerce rooms for the clerks. Business meeting will begin at 2 p. m. on Saturday when officer and committee reports will be heard. Tour Planned a tour Points of Interest, has been arranged for all, at the Intermountain school. Cars will leave for the post office at 4:00 Prospect Here fire Thursday evening. May at 8:30 oclock at the Glen Fife home, 229 North First West, was answered by the Brigham City fire department truck along with about 400 cars of according to a member of the local fire crew. The fire Thorpe IJ. Isaacson caused the firemen much less . . . of presiding bishopric will trouble than the crowd of specbe one of the outstanding tators. Stake conference speakNorth countAbout $20 damages, not ing the smoke damage, resulted ers. from a fire place fire which got through into the wall in back of the fireplace at the Fife home. The siding had to be ripped off to get the fire out. At 9:30 p.m. the same evening the fire department was called to a false alarm at the Japanese s church in Corinne. The had a long ride it is t reported. Gary Burton Mortensen, 21, Called To Mexico an Elwood, Box Elder county, missionary who returned home three months ago when he became ill, died Tuesday at the Dee hospital in Ogden. Elder Mortensen was filling an LDS mission to West Germany when he was stricken. The nature of his illness was not disclosed. A 27, Music for conference sessions will be furnished by the Bear River ward choir and the stake Singing Mothers chorus. Gary Mortensen Rites Are Set "fire-chaser- Give Final For Saturday To Children ' The third and final polio vaccine shot will be given to Box Elder school youngsters next week, with Brigham City pupils meeting In their class rooms at 9:00 oclock on Tuesday at Central and the same hour on WedHe had been active in the nesday at Lincoln. church since his youth, serving as president of the Deacons Buses to bring students, teachand Teachers quorums in the ers and volunteer workers from Brigham Fifth ward and as sec- schools outside the city will make regular pickup runs, startretary of the Priests quorum. He later taught Sunday school ing at 10:00 oclock, and bring and was a ward teacher in the them here for their shots. Elwood ward where he also was Similar programs will be cara leader in Scouting. ried out on Thursday at TreBorn March 19, 19.33, in Brig- monton and Friday at Garland. ham City, he was the son of "Polio Pioneer badges and Josephine Johnson ilyrum and Ua. Burton Morten-- , , . . . will leave for the missen. He grew up and was edu- cards will be presented children after their shots. sion home in Salt Lake City cated there, graduating from Central school children who June 16 in preparation for Box Elder High where he was a letterman in basketball, footare also Included In the blood a call to the Mexican misball and track. test will report back at 9:00 a. sion. m. on Tuesday, June 15. Other In junior high school he blood checks will be made at served as student president. After high school, Elder Mor- Garland on Tuesday, June 22 at tensen attended Brigham Young 2:30 p. m. University for two years and a member of the Saxons, a Mission was social organization. 692 During the summer months for Josephine Johnson, of South Third West, has received years he was employed by the Abatement a call to the Mexican mission County Mosquito and will enter the mission home dislriet. 1G. in Sait Lake City on June Surviving are his mother and will Miss Johnson leave for his stepfather, Sam Mortensen, 23. Mexico on June a brother, Ronald MorElwood; A farewell testimonial will be tensen, Elwood; a stepbrother, The National Council of the held in her honor on Sunday, Foy Mortensen, Brigham, and a Boy Scouts of America granted breakfollow the will 7:30 m. in the at 30, p. meetings May Mrs. Agnes A. a charter to the Primary Assofast. Fifth ward chapel. The public grandmother, Burton, Logan. ciation of the North Box Elder Ladies' Registration is cordially invited to attend. Funeral services will be held stake to sponsor the Cub Scout Miss Johnson graduated from Auxiliary members will regisafternoon. May 29, at program, Scout officials anter at the Howard Hotel lobby the Box Elder High school sem- Saturday 1 oclock in the Elwood LDS nounced this week. with committee meetings be- inary in 1950 and from the high ward Friends may call chapel. 2 p. m. there Satur- school in 1951. She was LDS at the ginning at The first such charter ever home Friday befamily secday. girls program attendance tween 7 and 9 p. m. and Satur- granted to an LDS institution In They will join the men for retary, a junior Gleaner activBox Elder county, It authorizes until the funeral. the school tour, banquet and ity leader and ward Era director. day the Primary to carry on the Cub the Sunday morning breakfast, She has worked for the teleBurial will be in the Brigham Scout program for charter dewhich will close the convention phone company for the past two City cemetery conducted by Rogvelopment, citizenship, training, ers Mortuary of Tremonton. and a half years. program. and physical fitness through Cub Scout Pack 941 of the Lake Chosen As Pioneer Queen Contestant Bonneville Scout Council. Charter presentation and Installation of Pack officers and charter members by Glen Knud-sen- , vice chairman of the Golden Spike district, and Lake Bonneville Council officials, will be made Friday evening at 8 p. m. in the Eighth ward, during the monthly meeting of Pack 941, officials stated. To be installed as registered leaders of the Pack are Cliff Samsel, cubmaster; Zula H. Kelly. den mother; A. Loren Hunsaker, institutional representative; and Wallace Reeder, Delbert Lee, and V. W. Bott, pack committeemen. Charter members will be Terry Lee, Ryan Lee, Rex Reeder, Wayne Samsel, Mike Bott, and Josephine Johnson Leaves on Scout Charter - Bryce Kelly. The Pack was organized p. m. Banquet in the evening will be served at the War Memorial home at 8 p. m. A variety of entertainment is planned. Breakfast Sunday Breakfast will be served June 6 at 8:30 a. m. at the War Memorial home. Guest speakers will be Mrs. left side. Damage to the Stolz Lester V. Galbraith, national ' car wasgstimated at $200. president of the auxiliary; Mrs. Police issued a ticket to Jose-t- Rosemell Coon, national of the auxiliary and phine Antonio for not having a drivers license. There were no John F. OConnor, national vice pVesident of the clerks. Business injuries to either party. o The stake presidency, high council and ward bishoprics will meet Sunday morning at 8:45 for a special meeting. Followsesing the morning general sion, prospective students Interested in attending Brigham Young university and their parents will meet. To North Stake ary-treasurer. Bolsters Crop Thursday Fire Call Office Clerks To Meet Here Hosts for the silver anniversary will be Local 699, with outmembers preparing an standing convention under the direction of R. W. Forrest, president; Asel Robinette, vice president, and Kenton Jensen, secret- General Rains 'Firechasers' Answer To Be Granted The twenty-fiftannual convention of the Utah State Federation of Post Office Clerks will be held in Brigham City on June 5 and 6. 20-3- 0 General conference sessions will be held at 10:00 o'clock on Sunday morning and at 7:30 oclock in the evening. Speakers will be Bishop Thorpe B. Isaacson of the presiding bishopric; Dr. Henry Isaksen of Brigham Young and university, Selvoy J. Boyer, former president of the British mission. Utah State Federation Of Post Two Full Days Planned By Local 699 For Clerks And Auxiliary 20-3- 0 A total of 1.30 inches of rain received last week should prove a big boon to area farmers. Charles Clifford, official weather recorder announced this week. The fall on May 21 measured .GO of an Clifford inch, said, with 70 added the following day. This leaves the Brigham City area 2 81 inches under normal for the period since October 1953 1, eight During this month period. 10 82 inches have been received, Clifford reported. Minimum temperature for the week was registered Wednesday night when the mercury dipped a chilly 37 degrees. Last week's rains were gen- eral over the entire area. students from The Box Elder stake tabernaBox Elder county will be among mission will open on Wedcle bachewho the C(0 will receive nesday, June, 2, for the summer lor of science degrees from Utah State Agricultural college at the season. Heber J. Sessions, president Saturday, May 29, commence- of the mission, working under ment exercises, starting at 10:00 of both North and direction the a. m. South Box Elder stake presi, Rauben-heimerDr. Albert Sydney dents, Vernal Willie and Glen educational vice presi- M. Bennion, announces that all dent of the University of South- literature has beep received and ern California, will deliver the missionaries have been called. Gist annual commencement t adMissionaries will serve one dress to the graduates, their shift each week. Schedules have families and friends, and facul- been arranged. ty in the fieldhouse at 10 a. m. President Sessions reported following the academic proces- today that 43 missionaries have sion from the main building. been called, along with 17 orElder S. Dilworth Young, ganists. who will perform daily member of the First Council of between the hours of 7 and 8 Seventy, Church of Jesus Christ p. m. Missionaries include: William of Latter-daSaints, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon on H. Staynor, D. Carter Cornia. B. Nicholas, Claude R. Friday evening, May 28, at 7:30 Hannah and Iva Barker, Sephus Anderm. in the fieldhouse. p. Martha son, Melissa Petersen, Students who will receive E. White, Merle Malmrose, Wenbachelor of science degrees in- dell and Iva Lou Nebeker, Rilia clude: Jensen, Beatrice Hansen, Ellis School of agriculture L. Clair Tolman, Ira and Emma Packer, Christensen, Tremonton; Lamont Maude White, Lamb, Plymouth; Miles Y. FerRose Young, John Adams, , ry, Don C. Hunsaker, Paul Martin and Romina Rasmussen, Brigham City. Lawrence Kimber, Marie R. Stimpson, Lovina Hansen, A. B School of Arts and sciences Jon Reed Boothe, Honey ville; Taylor, Marlin L. and Ella V Donald Dunn, Whitney L. John- Reeder. Henry R. and Oliva A H Norman A. Kimble and Bott, Henry Thorne, Robert son, P. Stewart, Adolph 01 Lamont Thompson, Brigham and May Charles Col City; Elmer Isaith Haglock and sen, Ellis DeMars, R. Reeder, Grant A. lett, Joseph Roscoe L. Mason, Tremonton; Black and John Isaacson. Ray OBrien Jeppsen, Mantua; The above list will serve as Barbara Mae Jones, Garland. regular missionaries with the Alice School of commerce Darrell following as alternates: Deem, Glendon Richard Mantlo R. Rich, Ada Henderson, Worth and Burton R. Pett, Brigham Jensen, Charles Brown and JoCity, and Kenneth H. Brown and seph Watkins. Don P. Korth, both of Garland. The following have been called to serve as organists and will School of education Ivy M. be, scheduled for pne Anderson, Bear River City; Ante period during the day .practice and In lia C. Cannon, Bonita Rae Kerr, the will alternate evening they Francis F. McNeeley and Ruby every other week for a recital: W. Tremonton; C. Henry Nielsen, Ethel H. Poul-ter- , Thompson, Charles Boyce Last, Garland; Louise Davis, Renie Little-wood- , June G. Baird, Fielding. Ruth Reeves, Nellie Wight, School of engineering and Hannah B. Nicholas, Charlotte Helen George Jorgensen, Johnson, Wanda Johnson, technology D. Buland, Brigham City; Wilford W. Snow, Bunnell, Isabel Ellis Tolman, Nina Beecher, , Deweyville. Cliss Davis, Margaret Johnson, School of home economics Burma Orme and Romina RasBarbara Ward, Riverside. mussen. Twenty-nin- year. Box Elder Stake LDS Tabernacle Area Students Will PAGES Quarterly conference of .the North Box Elder stake will open Saturday evening at 6:30 oclock with a missionary training session to be followed at 8:00 by meeta priesthood leadership ing, President Vernal Willie announced this week. of eight designated by the merchants for observance this Home-centere- Miss Carmen Ileeder Box Elder High school graduate of the class of 1954, was the choice of the senior class to represent the school in the Ogden Pioneer Day rodeo queen contest. Selection was made on the basis of scholarship, personality and horsemanship. She is mounted on Blaze who belongs to her parents, Mr. and Mrs R. V. Reeder. . . . and the leaders trained under the direction of Field Scout Executive L. B. Hunsaker. Cub Scouting, the younger boy program of the Boy Scouts of America, is especially designed for 8. 9, boys. and year round, it provides them with a program of action, achievement, health, and helpfulness. It was officially approved for use in the LDS church program in April, 1953, by the General Primary Association; Packs are to be organized as the need arises. At present there are over a million Cub Scouts in America and nearly 50,000 Cub Scout Packs. |
