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Show Universil Micro filling Corp. 141:irpoint Ave. Salt Laii City, Utah Reach Less Than Half Coop. Some 48 percent of the three, THIS SPECIAL STRESS FOR to. five year old visual screening during the children In Box Elder county three-to-flvperiod Is duetothe were screened last year for fact that retinal reflexes are known as established at three years of age commonly lazy.eye blindness, It was re- and sharp central vision ma. ported this week by J. Fred tures rapidly during this period. Whitney, coordinator for the personnel are from services for prevention of blindness with the Utah Department of Public Inhandicapped and the Utah struction. Society for the Prevention of This actually represents one Blindness to Instruct groups of of the higher percentages local volunteers who request Utah school districts, It this service. was pointed out, with six reporting no efforts to the arrested visual develop, ment. There Is a great unrecognized need for small groups of local lady volunteers from all parts of the state to join forces and combat amblyopia among pre. school children In their communities, stated Whitney. pre-scho- e Well-traine- d ! vis-uall- y Volume 59, Number 43 Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Thursday Morning, October 27, 1966 20 PAGES dls-trlc- de-te- LDJ. VISITOR - Mrd P. Brockbank Elder Her- - will repre- sent LDS General Authorities at Brigham City stake conference. Brigham BE Refutes Hazard, Okays Unit Purchase LDS THIS PRE- - STATEWIDE school program Is reaching 19 percent of the 76,309 youngsters who should be checked for amblyopia at least once each year until they enter the school visual testing program. In Box Elder, local Here PTA units have taken the testas one of their Elder Bernard P. Brockbank, ing program with a number an Assistant to the Council of responsibilities of clinics already conducted In Twelve Apostles, The Church of local schools this year. of Latter-daJesus Stake Calls Conference Christ y Saints will represent LDS Gen. eral Authorities at the Brigham City stake quarterly conference on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. In Brigham City. Other visitors will be Elder Ralph J. Hill of the priesthood committee, and missionary Mrs. Margaret P. Ottosen of the Assn., both of Salt Primary 29-3- Lake City. Stake In 0 be-ln- g d pre-scho- GENERAL SESSION WILL BE held Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p.m. Box Elder county officials Monday Indicated they want to purchase a piece of road e. qulpment currently being rented from a private firm and also refuted an alleged railroad crossing hazard In South Willard. The action came during a reg. ular weekly meeting of the county commission In Brigham City. County Road Supervisor Ed Silvester reported the county Is STATE VITAL STATISTICS renting a chlppper and roller from Germer, Abbott and Wal. Indicated that Box Elder has dron of Tremonton and the bill three- - through- - five- - year-oldLocal volunteers reported has accumulated to about $2,000. screening 1,125 last year. HE SAID THE CONSTRUC. Among this group, 49 young, sters were referred because tlon firm would apply that they were unable to read their amount on the $8,000 price asked for the unit. line on the Snellen critical The commissioners termed eye chart which Is the stand-arand asked a good buy and this test for school children throughout the Silvester also to consider the purchase of a water pump from state. the company, the two as apack-agdeal. HOPEFULLY WE WILL BE able to screen l,175pre-school-erA LETTER FROM UNION Pa. In Box Elder county this year If local lady volunteers clflc Railroad company Inquired are willing to supply the sreen-in- about county plans to have a re. lady power, Whitney stat-ed- . ported railroad crossing hazard corrected on the Warren road In South Willard. A child does not realize how The matter was previously well he should see at this lm considered In the wake of a widportant visual developmental ening project on the road and period. It is up to Interested was referred to the Utah Public parents to recognize this fact Service commission. and take action before It Is too However, the commissioners late at age six and seven Monday declared that the hazard had been "greatly when visual development Is and asked Clerk usually completed and the most exaggerated effective time to treat amblyopK.B, Olsen to notify U.P. tothls ia has past, he emphasized. effect. e the stake tabernacle with President Lawrence C. conducting. Special Taylor meetings are scheduled on Sat. urday afternoon and evening. Elder Brockbank has served as president of three missions of the church in the British Isles. He Is a prominent Utah building contractor and realtor, and a former school board pres, ldent. He was also managing dl. rector of the Mormon Pavilion at the New York Worlds Fair. e s g sup-pose- d ELDER HILL as a ward bishop and Washington, dent of the Texas HAS SERVED In Utah, Idaho and as presimission. He Is an Insurance exec, currently utlve. Mrs. Ottosen Is a former high school teacher. She attended Young university, Brigham where she majored in home conomlcs. She has since special education at the University of Utah and Utah State university for the care of the mentally retarded. AFTERNOON will be held In the SATURDAY meetings Brigham City LDS ward chapel. They will in. elude a priesthood missionary meeting and a Primary meeting at 2 p.m. for stake execu. tlves. At 2:30 p.m. the stake mission presidency and presl-dent- s of Seventies quorums will Join stake executives In a missionary seminar. At 2:45 p.m. the Primary stake board will meet with stake officials. A Joint missionary and youth missionary committee seminar will take place at 4:30 p.m. At the same hour the ward Primary presidencies will meet with the stake board. Third-Fifteent- h SATURDAY EVENING IN the tabernacle, a priesthood lead, ershlp meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Expected to attend will be the visitors from Salt Lake stake presidency and City, clerks, Melchlzedek priesthood quorum presidencies and group leaders; presidents of Seventies quorums, all Seventies, stake mission presidency and all stake missionaries, stake Signs to Be Easier to See Thiokol Given 1 Million Rocket Pact Frank E. Moss and Rep. Laurence J. Burton announced through their offices this Washington week that the Air Force has awarded a $1,075,507 contract to Thiokol Chemical corporation at Brig-haCity. The contract is for design, fabrication and test of a thrust vector control h system for the solid rocket motor. The initial test rocket will 1,000,000 develop pounds of thrust for 120 Senator 158-Inc- seconds. All work will be done at Thiokols Wasatch division in Box Elder county. N IN OTHER BUSINESS, OF YARDS 1,747 gravel had been hauled by the county and placed on the roads. SOME The commissioners said the county would accept the cost on 1,000 yards of the amount and bill Perry only for the remain PM im. Wy .jSS A'Vy A pipeline easement along and across a county road was approved for Plymouth Cemetery Maintenance district. SAM GORDON WAS AUTHOR, lzed to be In charge of the countys exhibit at next years state fair. Gordon said he wanted to get busy collecting materials, particularly pictures, for the t. after The commissioners, hearing a report from the road supervisor, turned down a re. quest from Delbert Cook, South Willard, that he be allowed to put in a culvert along a county road BIGGEST PILE YET This is the mountain of sugar beets that has grown up at the Corlnne station since Garland districts harvest got underway Oct. 10. This years MOST EVER IN STORAGE SILVESTER sur-facin- . The 1966 sugar beet harvest In Box Elder county la approach, ing Its climax as possibly the sweetest In history. Ford T. Scalley, manager of Utah . Idaho Sugar companys Garland district, Wednesday said this years yield la setting records In Just about every phase of harvest operation. PILES I A South Box Elder PTA coua. ell meeting Is scheduled In Brig' ham City on Wednesday, Nov. I, with all council officers sal chairmen plus officers and chairmen from local PTA unit expeetd to attend. The event will take place at Lincoln Elementary school 8 p.m. with subject at starting to be covered Including pre. school, historian, legislative ,and hospitality areas. TRUCK FIRE Elected es officer to head th Intermountaln High NEW STUDENT OFFICERS school student council this year were, from left, Glenn Young, vice president; Richard Phoenix, president, and Annie Yellowman, secretary. which was classified as normal crop. Obvious to passers-b- y a good, are the mountains of beets piled In stor-ag- e at three dumps, located west of Corlnne, west of Bear River City and at the I factory In Garland. U-- WE WILL HAVE more beets In storage piles this year piled New highs have been set In than at any time since the fac. total loads received, number of tory was built, the district loads per day and total tons manager said. received per day. The three plies represent apBut perhaps most importantly proximately 140,000 tons of sugcertainly to the growers, this ar beets. years yield per ton will be sub. stantlally higher than usual. THE R E CORD-- ETT ING har. S yield vest came almost unexpectedly will average is not yet known with the past summer having since some scattered acreage been an unusually dry one and is still out but It will be up growers irrigating two or three than normal. substantially from last year times more In addition, approximately 20 percent of the districts crop was frozen last spring and had to be replanted. Even on these acres, the yield has been "out. standing, reported Scalley. He credited the exceptional harvest to the ability of local growers who were described as darn good farmers. "You Just have to give them A Arlz. boy has Cameron, been elected president of the the credit, Scalley stated. high school student council at In. This year's harvest on the termountaln school for 1966-6- 7 9,800 acres began on districts It was announced this week. Oct. 10, more than a week later He Is Richard Phoenix who than and should wind up usual, took office Immediately. by the middle of next week. Other leaders named In the an. nual balloting Included Glenn Tonalea, Arlz., vice Young, president; and Annie Yellow, man, Chlnle, Arlz., secretary. to the post of Appointed treasurer was Jane Beletso, Shlprock, N.M. The officers will serve un. It may be a long day and der a recently revised consti- night at the polls on Nov. 8 If tution with Edgar Richardson ap. local voters dont make some pointed as faculty sponsor for advance decisions on the politare John ical races and questions to be the group. Marshall and Reese Whitaker. answered on election day. Also named this week were This conclusion was voiced high school guidance student this week by Box Elder County representatives who Include: Clerk K.B. Olsen as election day Virginia Chee, Shirley Tso, looms Just around the corner. Barbara Tsosie, Julia A. Big, Bessie Yellowhair, Eleanor WilThere are simply so many son, Wllford Trujillo, Clprlano marks to make and somanybal. Curley, Raymond Kahn, Harry lots that time wont allow citMariano, Peter Lind Hayes, izens to mull over all of the Jimmie Judy, Donald Seaton, various contests and proposl. Alfred Dehlya, and Lester Jim. tlons In the polling boothe, High school academic class for this year representatives REPORTEDLY, ONE BOX El. are Robert Dodson, Bessie Ign der couple with five absentee acloj Maggie Chee, John Char, ballots to mark, took some 20 lie, Jr., Ruthle Annie Begay, minutes to do so In the clerks Bennie Hanley and Irene Vic. office earlier this week. ter. For many Box Elder res. ldents, there will be five bal. lots with which to contend, In. which W INDOW SHOT eluding the general ballot will have 12 or more political Mrs. Lee Helman, 354 South races' a Judicial ballot for First court Fifth West, told Brigham City district and state supreme board school state police this week that some one Judgeships, had shot a hole through one of ballot and for many, local school the windows In her home, ap. board races and cemetery dls. trict ballots. porently using a BB gun. JUST WHAT the per-to- n Picks New Student Leaders . Utah-Idah- 12 Intermountain High School . all-tim- SAID THERE IS feet between the road oil and fence line and the concluded that if a ditch were dug and tile lnstal. led, it might crack the road just They suggested that land own. ers In the area join to build a canal for use by everyone In. stead of putting ditches along Road.slde signs will be easier county roads. to see in Box Elder county MRS. LENA WHITE ASKED from now on, this conclusion based on action taken by the about getting some road repair work done near her home in county commlslon Monday. east Tremonton. The commls. Meeting with the county board sloners said they would look In Its regular weekly session, it over. Road Supervisor Ed Silvester A letter from William E. Kruthat weeds have eger, superintendent of Golden reported grown up around road signs in Spike National Historic site, In. the county. eluded a description of land pur. Its Impossible to mow close chased for the site from Ray and enough to the signs to get them Rex Adams, asking that It be all and Silvester wanted to know removed from the tax rolls and a what to do about It. certificate sent to him. The approved it. County Weed Supervisor Ed Andersen was called In and he recommended using soli sterll ant around the sign posts for 10 to 15 feet, and also on corners The commissioners approved the suggestion and ordered spraying also around mall box. es and "every post that Is along the side of the roads. rs e the highest and storage piles of o beets at three stations the largest in the history of Sugar company's Garland factory. yield Is among right-of-wa- PTA Council Brigham City volunteer fir, men rushed to the seen of a truck fire Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 p.m. only to find that the flames had been extinguish d by th time they arrived. Apparently a backfire caused a fir to erupt In the engine area of a vehicle owned by Steve An. derson, 208 North Sixth East. A'Ac. der. Primary presidency and all stake mis. sionarles; stake Prlmarypres. ldency and stake board; ward Primary presidencies; stake and ward MIA executives. All members of the stake are urged to attend the general ses. slons on Sunday, President Tay. lor said. THE after a per. commissioners, sonal Inspection, tagged seven branches which may be cut from a pine tree on the courthouse grounds. The gardener had pre. viously requested that some of the lower limbs be removed to permit sunlight to reach the grass and flowers below. The county officials agreed to share the cost for road graveling In Perry after Earl Young, representing the town, noted that some of the roads serve the county more than Perry town. Chamber Tourist Booth Reports Busier Season Business was up by 31.6 percent at the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce tourist information center this past summer. fact was revealed 'by Veran Boothe, who disclosed secretary-managethat visitors from all 50 states and 24 countries stopped to obtain information at the Second South and Main booth. In all, some 4,324 cars were counted, compared with 3,286 a year ago, the chamber aide reported. He attributed much of the increase to Utah's stepped-utourist advertising campaign. "We think the tourist information center pays off and certainly we'll continue it," Boothe declared. Staffed by three college students, it operated from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily and was open during June, July and August with both Brigham City and Box Elder county helping to finance it. This chamber r, p Decide Votes Early, Urges ADDITION, THE GEN. d It tonal minutes making up ones contains eight mind In the polling boothe. Including a constitutAs an aid to voters, sample ional convention call and seven IN eral ballot ballots are available at the proposed amendments. Thats a lot of ballots to keep clerks office and alsowlllbeon strlaght, Xs to make and time to hand at the polling place In each spend even without taking ad. district. Also, as required by law, they will be published in the Box Elder News on Sunday, Oct. Weather Stays 30. Warm and Clear are at OLSEN SAID WIVES WHO home during the day should plan to vote early In. stead of waiting until their hue. Local residents are enjoy- bands come home In the evening ing beautiful autumn weather to go together. This will relieve and I do mean enjoying it. some of the pressure and shor Clear balmy days and cool ten the lines for those who cant nights have .prevailed during make It to the polls at any other ithe past week and will con- time than In the evening. tinue, according to Charles Clifford, local weather ob- The polls cU.se at 8 p.m. and judges have the right to shut the High and low mercury read- door at that hour, thua posing ings for the past week are the possibility that some voters listed as follows: will be left outside and with, out a vote. server. The clerk reporttd that re quests for absentee ballots have been heavy with 105 Issued a of Wednesday afternoon. .! |