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Show Universal Microfilming Corp. 227 Sixth Ave. PtO. Box 17 Salt Lake City, Utah Jan. !5 f Give This Weekend to Support Box Elder County!s Boy Scouts Valentine's Day Is Serious Business EIGHT PAGES BRIGHAM CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 11, 1955 VOLUME 48, NUMBER 6 Elder Beecher Begins LDS Mission in Ariz. Elder Brent E. Beecher, son of Mr. and Mrs,. Elbert R. Beecher, has arrived at Indian Wells, Arizona and begun his two year LDS mission in the Southwest Indian mission. Dennis and Debra Petersen Day lightly, as their expressions show, but are ous about picking a sweetheart. Theyll be exchanging hugs soon, though, the inseparable twins of Mr. and Mrs. Verl Petersen. . . , arent taking Valentines mighty serifor they are 14 B. E. County Towns and Cities Car Is Damaged Water Supplies Not Approved By Engine Blaze ' Brigham City's Supply Marked Down First Half of Year, Given Low Rating By State Water , supplies of 14 Box ElderCounty cities and towns were this week classified not approved by the Utah State Department of Health, four were provisionally approved and A car t 308 South was damaged by Stokes, to Vern Fourth West, an engine fire belonging LDS Missionary Elder Beecher has been asked to. learn the Navajo language and he and his missionary companion study the language and church doctrine as they i walk their 10 or 15 miles each day from one Navajo village to the next. Farewell testimonial services were held in his honor Sunday, January 9, in the Brigham City Fourth ward. The program was conducted as follows: Prelude, Mary Jo Harris; invocation. Dee Rassacramental mussen; song, choir; vocal trio number, Mary Jq Harris, Francell Brown and Marilyn Mann; speaker, Asa L. Beecher; remarks, Bishop George A. Nielsen and President Vernal Willie; song, Mrs. Nina R. Beecher; remarks, Elbert Beecher; presentation by the Seventies quorum with response by the missionary. The choir 'Brent E. Beecher sang the closing song with the . arrives at Indian Wells, benediction by Denton Beecher. Address for the new mission- Arizona, to begin mission. ary is: Elder Brent E. Beecher; NAAHTEE Trading Post, Indian Wells, Arizona. Thursday about 11:35 a. m. when it suddenly started blazing in front of the News and Journal on Main street. JLeland Johnson Is DSA Winner Vies For State Honor Low Bidder LaGrand Johnson, Logan, was offiijal low bidder on State none was approved. feuWlal-aiAfter "calling the fire departprojects Nos. one those rated of was water Brigham Citys supply Boyd Packer, Brigham City (15) and ment Stokes the extinguished calling for not approved, though Mayor C. LeGrande Horsley said the blaze with a News and Journal winner of the Junior Chamber 5.6 miles oniU. (16) S. 30-wester of Commerce state based their report on a 1950 survey, and that every- extinguisher. Distinguished ly from Trerrjonton. Service enterhas been Award, thing the state found wrong at that time had been correcAccording to William L. LitStokes said he had just put ed in state competition for that ' ted. of State . , Other county approved are Bear River City, Corinne, Deweyville, Fielding, Garland, Grouse Creek, Honeyville, Mantua, Perry, Plymouth, Portage and.Tre-monton- . communities-"no- Some Provisionally Approved Provisionally approved are Bothwell, Howell, Snowvtlle and South Wdllard. of Utah Only a hand-lul- l communities were awarded the approved rating, and a targe majority were not approved with less than a third of the provisionally approved. The ratings according to the departments, are for the calendar year, 1954. Mayor C. LeGrande Horsley of Brigham expressed City strong displeasure with the report for Brigham City. They base their ratings on reports five years old, after all have of their specifications been followed out to the letter, he said. A health department representative said Thursday though everything found not correct in the 1950 survey may have been put in shape, they had never been reported to the state, and the city is responsible for making that report to the health department. Missed By a Shade Reed S. Roberts, district sanb tarian from Logan, said Brigham City must have missed a 'higher rating by a shade, point in a gallon of alcohol, t ing out that Brigham City made last substantial improvement year. He said that through chloronation by city health officer, Ernest Hansen, excellent water tests had been for at consistently recorded least the last half of 1954. It was Roberts opinion that If in Brigham City were July for the last, six months of 1954 and the first six months of 1955, the water supply would be rated in one of the two approved classifications. 10 Samples Monthly 10 Roberts said that around water samples are sent in for from examination Brigham City each month. He also pointed out that several of the Box Elder communities are taking actions to raise the standards of their water Corinne, including supplies, Deweyville, Elwood, Honeyville, Mantua and Perry. The health departments definwas: not approved ition of "The supply lis not adequately protected against entrance of contamination, or that necessary treatment facilities are not provided, or that existing treatment facilities are inadequate or not operated in such a way as to "render the water supply safe at all times; as determined from sanitary engineering surand vey, bacteriological tests operation reports.' d Annual Boy Scout Fund Drive Planned in City Over Weekend A week-endrive to raise money to support Boy Scout Troops in the North and South Box Elder stakes will open Friday night at 7:30 p. m. with a .rally at Central school. Alf Freeman, chairman of the fund drive, said around 150 majors, captains and workers are expected to congregate, at the school to assemble kits in preparation for the drive. Tn assembling the kits, they will choose the names of people tfiey will contact for donations. A complete canvass of the city is planned, Chairman Freeman said, and every home will be contacted so set aside a donation for scouts. The workers will have three days to make their collections, Saturday, Sunday and Monday and will turn in the collections Monday evening. Part of the drive has already been conducted. successfully The Brigham City Rotarians contacted most of Brigham Citys businesses for their contributions. At Friday evening's meeting will be Scout executives from of the Ogden, representatives North and South Box Elder stakes, and many more. Scputing is one of the principal youth activities ill the Box Elder county area. Hundreds of the youngsters benefit from scout programs varied activities and in so doing grow in responsibility and as citizens. Civil Service Announces Engineering Positions The U. S. Civil Service has announced applications are being accepted for highway engineer. highway bridge engineer, and illustrator positions. which apparently failed to circulate, in the radiator. He was driving south on Main street when it exploded and he pulled over to the curb. Eagles Plan Valentines Day Dance Saturday The Fraternal Order of Eagles and its auxiliary will hold a Valentines Dance on Saturday night at 9:30 p. m. at the Eagles hall. Grant Allred, president, said today. Winner will be announced at the annual DSA state banquet, e February 30, noon, at the Hotel, Salt Lake City. Several members of the Brig ham City Jaycees and their wives have already made reservations to attend the state board meeting and DSA banquet, said Allred. Rocco C. Sicilian, Washington, D. C., assistant Secretary of La bor, will address the DSA gathering. honor, New-hous- the State of Utah Road commission, Mr. Johnsons bid was for $325,815.60 for the project which calls for a 3 inch plant mix mituminous surfaced road and one concrete bridge with a spaq of more than 20 tle feet. Principal items of work will include 25,600 tons of plant mix bituminous surfacing, 440,900 gallons of bituminous material and 192,500 cubic yards of unclassified roadway excavation. Engineers estimate of this project was $376,677.95. Pilot John WeirTakesTop FlyingSafety Honors A Brigham . City pilot who has had more hours behind the controls of a plane than most men have in crs, was singularly honored recently when he was awarded the Kiwanis Clubs Aviation Safety award. He is John C. Weir, manager of the Brigham City airport and president of the Seagull Aviation compand, who has racked accident-freup around 20,000 hours since he started flying as He flew out of Ogden until dets, sending them on flying 1941 when he came to Brigham careers. Many of them were City to manage the airport here from Brigham City airport where and give instruction. He was in he still givps instruction. Brigham City for about a year when he was called to instruct Aviation Cadets, which he continued doing for the remainder of the war. stuWeir has soloed over-180dents, including Aviation Ca I would rather win the safety award than any other, Weir said. "Safety' in aviation has become a fact in recent years through better methods and equipment and better trained pilots. e a in 1928. The award waS made during teen-age- r an Aviation Safety Clinic at the Salt Lake City airport, February 5, attended by over 100 Utah of pilots, and representatives the Utah and Civil Aernautics commission of Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, Calif. Records Were Checked Civil Aernautics commission records in Salt Lake City were checked to select a safety winner. Weirs records would show a perfect safety Tecord at the local airport in 1954 and every one of the other 11 years he has served in Brigham City. There has never been a major accident at the local airport while Weir was managing it. Weir has never "so much as scratched a plane in his thousands of hours of flying, making his own record as impressive as that of the airport he manages. He is licensed to- - fly single and double engine planes Com mercially and is Civil Aernautics Administration examiner for instrument ratings and com mercial and private pilot licenses. He is the only CAA in strument examiner in Utah and Nevada. Licensed Mechanic Too, he is a licensed aircraft and engine mechanic. Weir first flew while at high school in 1928. He flew off and on until 1938 for pleasure and then started flying commer cialiy, giving flight instruction. 20,000 Hours of Safe Flying Several Groups Back Plan For Sewage Plant As the February 15 $500,000 bond election neared this week, new interest in the proposed sewage disposal plant and expanded facilities increased with several organizations and many individuals publicly . throwing their support to it. The bond election will be held next Tuesday, with the polls open at four places in the city from 7 a. m. in the morning to 8 p. m. in the evening. The new sewage plant, which would cost the average home owner $20 to $25 a year in taxes and service costs, has gained the public acclaim of the Box Elder Chamber of Commerce, a large group of business men and Brigham City doctors who hava made statements backing the bond in the Box Elder News and Journal. William Clem Horsley Dies In Ogden Hospital Thursday Lifetime of Service To Community, Church Ends for Local Leader Was 87 A of community and church service ended yesterday, February 10, when William Clem Horsley, 87, 106 East Sixth South, died in an Ogden hos" , pital. He died after three weeks illness, ending an outstanding career as a church Reader, businessman, politician and devoted father. life-tim- e Mr. Horsley was born January a son of William and Elizabeth Welch Horsley, at Perry, Utah. He moved to Brigham City with his family in 16, 1868, 1878 ed when his father was the mercantile business for the cooperative business operated New Lines Planned by the church. He clerked In Besides the disposal plant, the store after school while he William Clem Horsley over 200 homes north of Box was a youngster. . . dies . . , , Thursday Elder creek which bisects Brigham City, would receive sewOrganized Store He and his brothers later orage service through new lines that would be installed. That ganized the William Horsley and Sons store In Brigham City, Includes the northeast section which has operated since, and of town where new construction is one of the oldest firms in has been heavy in recent years and the area in which the new Brigham City. proposed elementary school will Mr. Horsley served two LDS be constructed. one to England in missions, beProperty owners, not now 1885 and another to California ing served, who would hook on in 1895. He was one of the first to the .newly constructed sys 14 LDS elders to serve in the tern would be assessed $150 con With some collecting still to LDS California mission field. nection fee, payable during the be done, Troy Miller, Brigham He returned home In 1897. first year. City chairman for the Polio But for all of Brigham City, Drive, today announced that He served on the first school of more than $2,200 had been col- board organized in Brigham it would mean elimination two ceptic tanks, which Engi lected to fight the dreaded di- City, as chairman of it part of neer A1 Sorensen, of Caldwell, sease. the time, for 12 years. Richards and Sorensen firm This includes money received He had served as a counselor says bardly slows the waste from the canisters, schools, down now. In their place would Mothers March, auction, dance, in the Sunday school superinbe installed a modern plant Intermountain school and Jun- tendency of the Second ward. He also had been in the preswhich separates the waste and ior Chamber of Commerce. of the Box Elder stake water as the it Miller passes purifies expressed the thanks idency 1905 to 1917 after which from it. to all who participated in the through a member of the stake Would Start Soon annual drive for polio funds. he was high council until 1922. He was Work on the plant and sys Along with Mrs. Elmer a member of the stake presitern would be let out for bid, city chairman of the if the bond issue 'is approved, march, and the dozens of ladies dency again from 1922 to 1940. as soon as possible after the who assisted, her special thanks Was County Treasurer election. also goes to Mrs. Vern Jensen he served as counPolitically, The state health department at Intermountain school and to treasurer from 1899 to 1900 and , sanitary engineers have Mrs. Bertha Bird,, Mary Young, ty and was a member of the state virtually condemned the pies-en- t Juana Carr, Mrs. Dean Stephens senate and house for 10 yeaTS. in tanks as and Nina who marched ceptic totally Jeffery In 1911 he was a member of the adequate and dangerous from at Intermountain. reception committee that greetnew a health standpoint. The Wins Steer ed President Taft at Ogden $nd At the auction held Saturdisposal plant would be ade accompanied him to Brigham quate for a Brigham City popu- day evening at the Box Elder City. lation of 10,000 to 12,000 people High school gymnasium, Glen and could be expanded at From 1915 until recently he Hollingsworth, 117 East Fifth minimum cost if the population South, held the lucky ticket for served as chairman of the Counthe steer. goes beyond that. ty Red Cross. The entire job is expected to Other prizes Saturday went to Mr Horsley received his earcost not more than $575,000 and La Rue Nelson, Joseph Carr, education in Brigham City Tso-sinow less. The council ly Darrell Donald Anderson, probably grade schools and in 1888 and has $75,000 to apply on it and and Clarence Goldsberry. he attended 1889, the ; other $500,000 would come Brigham Young University at Provo. from the bond issue, which Bill Is Named March would be let out for a maximum He married Lilly Stewart, of 30 years. Prom January 22, 1890. She died Oct. Publicity Head Taxes Would Go Up Bill March of Willard has been 16, 1902. On February 21, 1917, To pay off the bond, the city tax rate will be raised three appointed publicity chairman he married Della Burt. and a half mills, raising it to of the annual Junior Prom at Survivors Listed a total of 17.5 mills, a figure Utah State Agricultural college, Survivors include his wife of which the city council points Logan. and six sons and The prom will be held Friday, Brigham CityA. Burt out is still far less than most Horsley, daughters: cities of comparable size in February 25 in the Union ball- Germany; Raymon B. Horsley, 9 p. m. until 1 a. m. room from C. Le to Utah, according Mayor Bountiful; S. Clements Horsley, Grande Horsley. The additional California; G. Stewart Horsley, levy would mean a payment of goes through them is hardly Salt Lake City; Scott P. Horsley, $7.00 on the average home as treated. The waste dumps into Brigham City, and Mrs. Lilly sessed at $2,000 in Brigham open streams that spread out Davies, Phoenix, Arizona. over large areas west of Brig City. Also, 17 grandchildren and 17 In addition, the monthly ham City. and two service charge will be $1.50 for Mayor Horsley urged all Brig all city home owners, compar ham City people to express sisters: Louise Horsley, Brigham ed to 50 cents now. In a year their altitudes on the bond is City, and Lilly H. Peterson of Salt Lake City. , sue next Tuesday by voting. this would amount. to $18. That would make the whole Voting Places Listed Funeral services will be held cost for the average home-owVoting places are as follows at 1 p. m. in the BrigMonday er about $25 each year for the Districts One and Six, Sixth Sixth LDS ward with ham City Weird chapel. Fifth South and plant and new system. J. Edwin Baird conductSecond East; Districts Two and Bishop Units Now Inadequate ' During recent public meet Five, Second ward chapel, Sec- ing. West. members and Third ond South ings. Mayor Horsley, Friends may call at the Harof the council and engineers, Districts Three and Seven, old B. Felt Funeral Home Sunsaid the present disposal units Third ward chapel, Second North day from- 7 to 9rp. m. and MonDistricts day morning prior to services. are overworked and inadequate, and Second West; Durtng summer months they Four and Eight, Eighth ward Interment will be in the Brigcan be smelled for a long dis- chapel. Third North and First ham City cemetery. tance away and the waste that East. S. Ltl -- j Local Polio Drive Collects $2,200 To Fight Disease ' Kilt-gaar- e John Weir and Aviation Safety Trophy for his own and his airport scratched a management safety record. He has never plane and there has not been a major accident at the Brigham City airport in the 11 years he has managed it. ... he was awarded recently call- by President Lorenzo Snow of the LDS church to conduct - i |