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Show 1 2 2 OX ELDER TH JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, February 2, 1967 SOMETHING TO TALK MST Improves Utah Service nalres and asked to evaluate Telephone spent over $18 million lmprov. personal telephone service from lng telephone service for Utah Installation, repair, business ofcustomers during 1966, and an. fice or general contacts with the nounced plans for additional company. By obtaining customer service Improvements In the comments, MST believes It can amount of $19,400,000 during better provide service which 1967. meets the customer's needs as Next years expenditures will he sees them. provide a microwave system THE TELEPHONE companys from Salt LaketoWendover, and a similar system between Provo statewide employment remained and Delta. Other projects will stable for the year. Total wages, be converting the Roosevelt of- however, rose one million domilfice to dial, making more re. llars, to nearly twenty-onductlons in parties per line in lion dollars paid In '66. some rural and urban ex. Taxes also rose. A tax bill changes, and extensive cable of eighteen million dollars was installation. collected and paid In Utah by the company, amounting to $3.35 THE TELEPHONE company per month per telephone. Of also experienced one of Its the eighteen mUlion In taxes, greatest annual increases In new three and a half million dol. telephones. At years end, MST lars was paid In local property provided service to over 460,000 taxes. telephones In Utah; an Increase of nearly 23,000 over last years Acres, Tonnage Down States Valuation of all Utah crops produced In 1966 Is reported up seven percent over 1965 and increased 19 percent over the five-yea- r 1960.64 average, It was revealed In the Utah annual crop summary released this week by the Office of the Agricultural Statlsltlclan, located In the Fed-erbuilding In Salt Lake City. was set at Valuation $84,215,000 for the year. OVERALL CROP PRODUCT-IoIn 1966 was above normal, despite early May frosts and summer rains caused heavy summer drought. Little rain on crops during harvest and negligible Insect damage to most crops helped offset the dry n e - Bob 'Showboat Hall will be STAR PERFORMER featured when the Harlem Globetrotters play at Box Elder High school on Feb. 25. Globetrotters Will Play In Brigham City Feb. 25 Untimely passing of Abe Sap. In March of 1065 lias upped Hobby Milton to head coach of the great unit of Har. lem Globetrotters corning here to exploit their basketball Wlz. ardry against the Washington Generals at Box Elder High school, Saturday night, Feb. 25 at 8 p. in. Sapersteln lead been grooming Milton as bis successor for years and tbe excellence of his judgment Is evident In tbe way tbe fabulous Trotters are continuing on as the wonders of the sport. ersteln was three percent below last years crop. The dry bean crop was ten percent greater than the 1965 crop. Alfalfa seed production was 19 percent above the poor 1965 crop, but only 75 percent of the 1960-6- 4 average. Hay production was eight per. cent below a year ago, due to dry summer weather conditions which lowered yields In most areas of the State. Crop Valuation Up, To Tune of $ 1 8 Million, 66 Mountain was due to a smaller acreage than In 1965. Potato production 1966 SUMMARY ABOUT summer. was water Irrigation available for nearly all crop but lack of summer rains caused heavy drawdown on most reservoirs, and heavy winter precipitation Is needed In most areas to replenish Irrigation water supplies. TOTAL GRAIN production, Including corn, wheat, oats, barley, and corn silage, amounted to 979,000 tons, an Increase of five percent over 1965 and 11 r percent over the average. Both acreage and yield of corn silage were up sharply from last year. Winter wheat acreage Increased slightly. Yield per acre of corn for grain and spring wheat showed moder. ate Increases. areas ESTIMATED AT 71,000 tons, vegetable crop production was 16 percent larger than last year but 18 percent smaller than average. pears, Apples, peaches, sweet and sour apricots, as de. cherries, categoried VEGETABLE CROPS, valued at $3,480,000 were up 25 per. cent from last year and sixper. cent above average. Fruit crops were valued at $2,692,000, up 28 percent from clduous fruits, have a combined 1965, but down 19 percent from production of 19,000 tons, an average. Increase of 19 percent over 1965 but only 66 percent of average. The early May frosts were There are 17 control states, to some fruit crops, sweet where all liquor wholesaling and mainly apricots and most package liquor retailTHE 1966 SUGAR BEET pro- cherries, In 1966. ing operations are state-owne- d duction was two percent lower COMBINED GRAIN CROPS and operated. than a year ago. The decrease five-yea- total. These added telephones con. trlbuted to a significant Increase In total calls. The year 1966 an Increase to 928 mil. saw or an average of lion calls under calls per per. 1,000 just son In the area served byMoun. tain States Telephone in Utah. The national average Is 620 calls per person. AMONG THE SERVICE lm. provements made In 66 were those Involving the reduction of subscribers per line. Such lm. provements were made In Le. La. van, Cedar Verkin, Syracuse, and the South Ogden. Unltah area. In each case, the Improvement was accomplished by the Installation of new cable and other facilities In that exchange. Another prominent area of service Improvement was the microwave program. A micro, wave network was established connecting Salt Lake City and Bingham Canyon, another from Cedar City to St. George, and a third between Provo and Rich-fielEnough new channels were Installed to Increase Utahs microwave to 70 percent of the total long distance circuits In the Fort-Fairflel- ton said. "First, there was our private audience with Pope Plus XII. Im not Catholic but when the Pope shook hands with us the feeling I had within me was that Id never met a man quite like this. I could almost feel something radiating from him. "Then that same year we played before the largest crowd In the history of basketball 75,000 people came out to the Olympic stadium In Berlin. That was the year Jesse Owens was touring with us as an added attraction and his first return Adult Skis wood laminated to Berlin since his four-golthe 1936 state. medal triumphs In IN HIS 18TII SEASON with the Olympics. The ovation we re. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION organization and not yet 39, the celved will forever live In my during the year Included a new dapper, handsome Milton looks memory." dial office In Roosevelt, and new as If he can come off the bench and still turn In a playing per. SHOWBOAT HALL IS THE Information Intercept quarters formnnee of great skill. In fact, clown of the team and a great In Salt Lake City. Building additions In Richfield and Provo, he does do that every once In one. and extensive remodeling on a wlitle. He keeps hi top shape R. vaudeville acts Five plus and anytime Injuries leave Ills LeRoy Satchel Paige of base, many other company buildings lie himself ball round out the program. rounded out the years program. squad Touch.Tone pushbutton "dial-lng- " Into action. Students will be admitted lor goes was offered In two more Through the years Bobby has $1 and adults for $2. Commit, been known as one of the fin. teemen of the Northern Utah exchanges during the year, est long shots In the game, Shrine Club which Is sponsor, bringing to eight the number now as well as a leader and vers-atll- e lng the game, urge fans to get offering this service. Kearns and Holladay exchanges were eager. Had It not been tliat their tickets early. equipped with new switching fa. Sapersteln wanted to groom him cllltles to provide Touch.Tone for coaching, It Is very to their customers. that Milton today would be one of the best players In the ANOTHER TELEPHONE In. business. novation was the new dlal-ln- . Trlmllne phone. new head THE TROTTERS short-hande- were valued at $24,822,000 up to five percent from 1965 and up 18 percent from the five, year average. Combined crops of sugar beets, dry beans, potatoes and alfalfa seed were valued at $14,451,000, five percent above 1965 and 19 percent above aver, age. A fair alfalfa seed crop and sharply higher potato prices contributed to the Increase for this group. Combined hay crops valued at $38,770,000 were six percent higher than In 1965 and 25 percent above average. d 50 d list price Re9- Now Miller Mark IV $34.50 Stowe $2750 - $17.50 $14.50 $13.75 Hawk $27.50 Miller Jr. Deluxe $24.95 $15.00 evl-de- CHILDRENS Ford Salesman Attends School coach starred In high school Ind., the hot SKI PANTS Trimline made Its Utah debut In late November, and was made Fort Wayne, to all exchanges Phillip D. Fallows, salesman available bed of professional basketball, then through bis junior year at for Andersens Ford, Inc,, a throughout the state. MSTs cusDuring 1966, Anderson College In the same Ford dealership In Brigham state. He felt he'd liad enough City, was recently graduated tomers were asked to express basketball and from a truck selling course con. their views on the companys of college a Trotters ducted by the San Francisco service. Through the Service and received sought In Attitude Measurement plan, tryout, winning a berth and star, Ford Marketing Institute were mailed question. Burlingame, Calif. do m easily. During the past 17 years he William J. Baskovlsh, instt. has visited 79 different coun. tries with the cage ambassa- tue director, said the three.day dors and on many a tour was course Is designed to famll. hi charge of the squad. He lias iarlze truck salesmen with the of presentation and many memories but the twothat teclmlques truck selection of fit customer made the most Indelible ImIncluded are special pressions go back to the same needs. equipment and options, weight year. distribution principles and "THAT WAS IN 1951", MU. power train components. In cus-tome- USU Offers Two Course In Mexico ODD LOT famous Koflack Brand SKI PANTS Double Boot Jr. Size $22.50 NOW Reg. Values to $29.95 NOW Mens and Womens $0050 $34.50 nOW LL Gordon E. Porter, assistant of languages at Utah State university, Is In charge of two programs for the study of Spanish in Mexico under auspices of USU. He will be resident coordlna. tor of USUs annual spring quarter In Mexico program at the University of the Americas In Mexico City. HE ALSO WILL direct a sum-m- will be teachers selected to participate and will receive living allowance stipends. Applications must be submitted to Prof. Porter by March 20 at Utah State unlver. Forty THE USU SPRING quarter In Mexico program Is open to stu. dents at USU, Its Snow College branch and other students who will enroll at USU for the pro. gram. Courses Spanish, fine arts, science, ansociology, thropology, relations and other lan. guage and area studies will be The quarter extends offered. from March 22 through June 7. Inter-nation- PRICES: Students $1; Adults $2. 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