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Show -- j. 1 il i pi'JpOTt Avs. rv'tJ'VtT '"is v 8k; a-i- -w X ' s ' f- - i Volume 56, Number 6 Brigham City, Utah, Thursday Morning, February 14, r f 20 Pages 1963 Job Office Says t,-- 62 Record Business Year f . , V In summarizing the Work load of the Brigham City employment security otfice for1 1962, labor market statistics revealed the phenomenal increlase in economic activities of this area, reported Douglas Miller, manager of the local office. Calendar year 1962 saw all industries in the area on the i , ,vT- - move and a final summary will no doubt give us the best business year in our history. For instance, in 1961, Box emElder county . non-farployers filed 2,425 job vacancies with our office, Miller pointed out, but last year they asked help iri filling 4,040 job openings. We filled 3,831 of these jobs during the year wherieas in 1961, we filled approximately 2,400. $V vv.V I V A . 'W v , Protection Body Picks Committee IN THE field of determining broad categories of possible job aptitudes, the Brigham City employment security administered 8t)6 general aptitude tests in 1962i Proficiency tests to determine the exact degrees of ability in selected occupations were given to 1,381 job applicants compared to 2,156 in 1961. Miller said the sharp drop between the two years was due to a Slowdown ini new hire rates in the aero-spac- e industries. Airbed mainly at assisting young folks in selecting suitable fields of work were 367 counseling interviews. The total in 1961 was 228. DIVERSION STRUCTURE This Is the diversion structure located near the first pumping station at Hot Surlngs. Water flowing through the long canal into the reservoir will tumble through this structure. Work is said to be more than 90 percent complete. , Mrs. Richard Parsons, this years Beta Sigma Phi sweetheart, gets a loving peck from hubby just to show that shes always been his sweetheart. The Parsons who live at 156 South Fourth East, are parents of six children. They were happy to oblige the N-- J photographer with this Valentines pose. HIS SWEETHEART, TOO Deadline Nears To Secure 1963 Vehicle Plates Trees Expert To Tour BC, Show Slides Mishap Rate Nose Dives familiar nemisis for the procrastinating car owner-liceA During Month nse Brigham City, a community widely-know- n because of its trees, is expected to profit even further Saturday, Feb. 16, from a visit of one of the Wests top authorities on shade trees. Prof. Ernest Remschussel of Brigham Young university will be here to confer with the Brigham City Shade Tree committee and also to give local residents an idea of what to expect in new shade tree plantings. Hell be in the county courthouse for two hours, from 2 to 4 p.m. to show slides of old favorites and new varieties of shade trees. All interested persons are invited to attend. ANDYS nursery at Perry is contributing a mimosa rose tree, and Parry Jensen nursery, Brigham City, will provide a weeping fruitless mulberry tree, as door prizes. Most of the day will be spent touring the town in company committee with shade tree Professor members. has been asked to make recommendations on new tree plantings here. The days activities will be climaxed at 6 p m. with a dinner at Maddox Ranch House. Reitn-schuss- el is plates deadline just ten days away (counting today) and business at the county assessors office is reported still to be lagging. The stage then is set for the annual rush complete with long lines and side orders of frustration. Assessor Fred L. Petersen suggests that motorists who have neglected to pick up their 1963 auto tags do so right away. Chances are that today, Thursday, and Friday will be far less busy than a week from now. The deadline is midnight Feb. 28. Brigham Citys traffic accident rate took a nose dive during the month of January with police ivestigating only ten reportable mishaps, according to a department summary. This figure compares with 30 accidents reported for the same month a year ago. Estimated property damage amounted to $4,900 compared with $10,294.50 a year ago. Officers also investigated 23 accidents during the month with total damage estimated at $747. There were four personal injuries reported during the month and in two instances, the injuries were described as severe. Six persons were injured, five of them severely, in last-minu- te Vandals Hit Marsh Cabins January The Box Elder County Sheriffs office reported Wednesday that vandals had broken out a number windows in hunting cabins at the Salt Creek marsh, located on the north end of Little Mountain. The vandals also took a pair of hunting pants and two hunting coats from one of the cabins. r, Odell Blaine, a reported the damage. part-owne- Auto Homicide Conviction Brings 1-- 10 Year Sentence Logan man, convicted 24 of automobile homicide, Wednesday was sentenced to serve from one to ten years in the state penitentiary when he First District in appeared court. Sentenced was Harvey Weldon Peterson, 49, Logan. He had been charged in the highway death of Mrs. Beth Paxton Wilson of Ogden last July 1. Mrs. Wilson was the driver and lone occupant of a car which collided with an auto driven by Peterson one mile north of Mantua. District Judge Lewis Jones granted a stay of execution to Feb. 18. A Jan. on 9, all of Ogden. EACH IS charged in connec- tion with the theft of grain from a Blue Creek farm on about Dec. 3. Hogge and Cardon each pleaded guilty and will be sentenced on Feb. 26. Council for deHughes asked ferment to enter a pica. Judge Jones granted Larry Rott, 40, Garland, a continued stay of execution and remanded him to custody of Sheriff Warren Hyde. Bott previously was sentenced to serve from one to ten years on a fraudulent check count. Both Monte D. Smith, 28, of Brigham City, and Howard Berry, 18, Bear River City, asked the court to appoint counsel. Smith is being held in connection with violation of probation and Berry is charged with JUDGE JONES also ordered a stay of execution vacated for Andrew Martinez, 29, Salt Lake City. Martinez previously was sentenced to serve a term not to exceed five years in the state prison on a bad check charge. In other court action Wednesday, two men charged with grand larceny. CITATIONS ALSO AT the meeting, perwere adopted manent and forms accepted on which any citizen can file a complaint against materials he deems to be obscene. These forms are now available at the city office. It was pointed out that upon receipt of a complaint, the vendor will be notified. Further action includes review of the material by committee members, further contacts with the vendor and possible court action if necessary. The distribution of objectionable materials here is not , considered serious at the present time. However, the city council recently agreed that the committee should be organized as a precoutionary measure to prevent common, distribution here of pornographic matter. The executive committee plans to meet once each month. by-la- PROJECT DUE FOR 1964 COMPLETION Willard Bay Wor k Pushes Ahead A, GENERALLY good Crop It may not be the season for lated works, Tuesday estimated year helped our. office to make it, but construction is pushing that 35 percent of the work had in 3,096 farm job placements ahead if not at full speed on been completed. This puts the 1962, compared to 1,359 in the the giant Willard reservoir Springville firm far ahead of Miller draught year of 1961, schedule (only 17 percent of project. pointed out. the allotted time has elapsed) alFavorable weather has Only 1,547 individuals filed with Sept. 10, 1964 as the target lowed contractors to pursue initial claims for ' unemploy- Author Sets Visit to Junior High from resulting traffic mishaps also were down in number with officers handing out nine tickets compared with 25 a years ago. Wilson Rawls, author of note, However, the number of all has scheduled a visit to the Box citations was higher, 129 to Elder Junior High school on 108. citations Thursday, April 18, in connecSpeeding with 66 National Library was again the leading violation. tion with Week, according to Mrs. Mary Here are other ticket tallies: Hyer, librarian at the junior IMPROPER parking 15, thru high. stop sign 9, through red light 6, Rawls will speak before the no drivers license 5, reckless student body of the school in driving 3, faulty equipment 3, three sessions, held according parking in restricted zone 3, to grades, during the day. drunk driving 2, following too close 2, expired drivers license THAT evening, he will be 2, expired license plates 2, neg- guest speaker at the Junior ligent driving, failure to yield High school PTA meeting to be improper passing, held at 8 p. m. in the school improper registration, driving auditorium. on revocation, failure to set Where the Red Fern Grows," brakesl; and all other improp- a delightful book for young er driving, 3. and adults, written by Rawls, will be on sale throughout the day at the school and an autograph party will be held during the lunch hours when he will autograph any copies of In the book sold to the students. The same courtesy will be exNo change is expected in the tended that evening following weather during the next few the PTA meeting. days, according to Charles ClifWILSON RAWLS was born ford, local weather observer, who reports that the barame-te- r on a small farm in the Ozarks. is high and that means He spent his youth in the heart skies should remain clear and of the Cherokee nation, prowling the hills and river bottoms Sunny. The high winds which left with hus old blue tick hound . . trail oi destruction in parts of his only companion. His first writing was done this area Sunday and Monday, finally blew itself out Tuesday with his fingers in the dust of and the atmosphere ' settled the country roads and the sands back to clear skies and cool along the river. He told his first stories to his dog, and it temperatures, Clifford said. High and low mercury read was not until his family moved ings for the past two days are to Muskogee, Okla., and he could attend high school that listed below; he had access to real books. Low llogh . 20 40 Rawls and his wife now live Feb. 12 17 44 in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I cb. 13 No Change Weather completion date. work on the long dam, two pumping stations and a section of the canal which stretches into Weber county. It appears that the reservoir will begin receiving its first water sometime next year. A spokesman for W. W. Clyde Construction .company,, prime contractor for the third and of the dam and re ment insurance benefits during Miller said. Many of 1962, thes folks received no benefits because of early return to their ' jobs, but those individuals who were found eligible were paid in approximately $249,100 ment compensation. These payments quickly found their way back into local chancy of jtrade, he pointed out. face of Willard mountain. Some 570,000 tons of rock and 410,000 tons of bedding material will be needed in all. Eight trucks are hauling about 1,400 tons of rip rap a day now but the project manaproject ger said four additional trucks S. HARRY Clyde, manager, said activity resumed last week after a three-wee- k layoff, due to cold, wet weather. Efforts now are concentrated on piling up rip rap (large rock) on the dam to prevent erosion from wave action. All of this material is being scooped and blasted from the ' fin- al-stage e Waterfowl Area Project Planned West of Willard County Acts On Tax Items An Tax matters and a confessed need to call a meeting of the county water association board occupied members of the Box Elder County commission Monday. Meeting in regular weekly the commissioners session, authorized delinquent taxes be removed from the county tax records on three items of property. e Included was a parcel formerly owned by J. Wel-to- n Ward but taken over by the federal government for use in the Willard bay project; a parcel acquired by the state in the construction of the interstate highway through Blue Creek, and a pea vinery formerly located on . property owned by Mack Hansen in the Elwood two-acr- right-of-wa- grand larceny pleaded guilty and a third asked to defer his plea for two weeks. They were Edward Hogge, 46; Blaine Car-do42, and Robert R. Hughes-2- two-wee- 1962. Members of the Brigham City Youth Protection committee, organized to investigate any reports of obscene literature with local distribution, last week named seven persons to its executive committee. Joe Weight, boys guidance department head at Intermountain school, was selected chairman of the group. Other members are Reed Walker, Mickey Rev. Donald Ran-stroHanson, Mack Young, Rosemary Paul and Les Dunn. Chief of Police John I. Johnson and City Attorney Robert Daines are permanent mem bers of the executive committee, and Ann Anglesey is serving as secretary. V waterfowl 1,800-acr- e area, open to free public would join the activity within ten days, pushing the daily amount to 2,500 tons. Clyde said present plans are e to hit construction in weather April, again permitting. THE UTAH contracting firm, working under a $14,712,700 contract, went on the job in August. In addition to raising much of the dam from 13 to 15 feet higher, the company will complete an intake channel, a boating marina and outlet works. Another segment of the Willard bay project, a vital link in the Weber Basin project chain, is construction of two pumping stations and a long canal extending to Slaterville diversion point in Weber county. A good share of this work is in the wind-ustage. , management hunting- will be develop- ed adjacent to Willard reservoir on the Bureau of Reclamation's Weber Basin project- it was announced this week by Sen. Frank E. Moss, - - State of Utah officials expect some 4,000 hunters will take 8,800 birds a year from the new area.' In addition, the development is expected to provide nesting grounds for ducks and Canada geese, Moss said. The sum of $139,000 has been advanced the bureau to the Utah State Fish and Game by department for development of the waterfowl management area. This amount will compensate for the waterfowl losses sustained by formation of Willard reservoir. Water for the area will be delivered through the projects South Willard drain. area. THE DELINQUENT taxes were for the year 1958. The commissioners settled for $455.42, the amount of general taxes, costs and redemption certificate fee, delinquent taxes for 1961 and 1962 on property owned by Vern Crozier, le p GIBBONS and Reed Construction company of Ogden is the prime contractor to build the two pump stations and rcldted structures and 5,000 feet of the canal. The firm has been working under a $3.1 million con tract since July 27, 1961, and Tuesday, Chuck Miller, project engineer, estimated that more than 90 percent of the work was completed. Miller said they hoped to wind things up in late May (Continued on Page Two) fv v n. Tom Jensen, representing the Utah Water Users, associatidn, suggested that since the county water users group hadnt met for two years, there should be a session called to select a new chairman or to sustain the present chairman. The commissioners said they would contact County Agent A. Fullmer Allred, secretary of the association, to call a meeting, Also, . Commissioner Grover Harper recommended the payment of $750 on the countys assessment to the state association. . , Farm Meeting v V Slated Tuesday An educational meeting for the purpose of acquainting farmers with the new farm programs available to them through Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service is scheduled for Feb. 19. It will be held In the Odd Fellows Lodge at Tremonton at 1 p.m. Program specialists will be In attendance to give assistance to farmers on these new programs. Also the pros and cons of the 1964 wheat allotment referenduic will be discussed, H n v This is the other side of the diversion unit. Wafer flowing north into PURPOSE the reservoir will be turned through the spillway on the left. When pumped out of the reservoir, it will emerge through those three pipes on the right. TWO-WA- Y 66-ln- I 4 |