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Show J Universal Microfilm! l'UPaerpolnt Ave. Sait 64110 Corn Lake City, Utah Coap. h ICare Fourth Victim Clings to Life at Hospital The state medical examiners office Wednesday said autopsies revealed that asphyxiation by carbon monoxide poisoning caused the deaths of three persons in Corinne Tuesday. A fourth victim continued in "very serious" condition at Cooley Volume 62, Number 15 Memorial hospital Wednesday. Brigham City, Utah, 84302, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1969 Victims of the tragic hap. pemng were: Air Force Sgt. Dennis Ward, 26, and his wife, Lelia, 24, and Mrs. Marilyn Ward, 26, of Corinne. Dean Ward, 29, husband of the second woman victim, and brother of the man, is under treatment at the Brigham City hospital. As Celebration Nears Report Parade Entries, A FAMILY FRIEND and nearby resident in Corinne, John H. Bott, discovered at about 2:45 the victims when he went to the p.m. home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Ward to visit. Bott said when he entered the house it was very hot. The thermostat had been turn, ed high and all windows in the frame home Victor VISITOR were closed. Bishop L. Brown will visit BrigHe first discovered Mr. and ham City stake conference Mrs. Dennis Ward, still cloth, ed in pajamas on the floor April of their bedroom. Next to them, fully clothed and lying face.down was Dean Ward. He had arisen earl-le- r apparently than the others and dressed preparatory to leaving for Utah State university where he is majoring in art. Bott said Dean usually left at about 6:30 a.m. Spike Committee Urges Are you or your group planning to participate in Brigham Citys Centennial.Beautiflca. tion parade on May 107 Then let the Chamber of Commerce know about It! This was the plea Tuesday of the citys GoldenSpike committee which is hi the final stages of planning for the Centennial celebration here. As a cooperative gesture, the Box Elder Journal in todays issue is printing an en. try form which may be mailed to the chamber office, 142 South Main. Or If it Is more convenient, those planning an entry for the parade may simply telephone in this information to 12-1- LDS Leader To Attend Conference 18 PAGES Entry Form Brigham City Centennial-Beautificatio- n Parade May 10, 1969 9:15 a.m. Type of entry (describe) 723-393- MARILYN, A stenographer at Thiokol Chemical corpora, tion, was found in her bed. Bishop Victor L. Brown, second counselor to the Pres. Iding Bishopric of the LDS church, will represent LDS General Authorities at the quarterly conference of the Brigham City stake of Saturday and Sunday, April 12.13. Stake President Lawrence C. Taylor will conduct the conference sessions. The general session of the conference will be held Sunday morning at 10 a.m. inthetaber. nacle. Visitors are welcome at this meeting, President Taylor said. Music for the general ses. sion will be furnished by the Brigham City Fourth and Thirteenth LDS wards. Saturday meetings will be. gin at 4:30 p.m. with aleader. ship meeting scheduled in the high council room at the stake offices in the Seventh. Etgh. teenth LDS ward. This meet-inwill be for the stake pres, idency, stake clerks, high council, ward bishoprics and ward clerks. A general leadership meeting is scheduled for Saturday evening at 7 p.m. in the Those expected to at. tend will include the follow, ing: stake presidency, high council and clerks; ward bis. hoprics and ward clerks; priesthood quorum presidencies, unit leaders, group leaders and secretaries; stake auxiliary superin. tendencies, presidencies and board members; ward auxl. liary superintendencies and presidencies; ward Aaronic general secre-tarie- s priesthood for youth and adult; all other members of ward councils. Theme ofthemeetlngwlllbe Wherefore, Now Let Every Man Learn His Duty... g BISHOP BROWN, a native of Cardston, Alberta, Canada, was an executive of United Air Lines at the time of his appointment to the Presiding Bishopric in 1961. He is ex. perlenced in youth, church, and business leadership. room across the hall. Still wearing her night clothes, she also was on the floor. A neighbor said it was Mrs. Wards practice to catch the Thiokol bus at about 7 a.m. was hardBott said Dean when he enter, ly breathing ed the house. The surviving victim was rushed to the in a Brigham City Box Elder Depot, Sheriff Stan May takes photo of place where asphyxiation victims Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Ward were found Tuesday afternoon. A brother, Dean Ward, was lying near by. WHERE VICTIMS FOUND At Friday Convention bration. Entries reportedly lined up to date Include floats from Brigham Apparel, the Cham-be- r of Commerce and Brig, ham City Merchants commitFraternal Order of tee, Eagles, Civic Improvement club, Brigham City Beautifica. tion committee and Brigham City corporation. hos-pit- friend said THE FAMILY he had visited with the two couples in the Ward home Monday evening and every, thing was just fine. Sergeant Ward and his wife had arrived at his brothers home in Corinne late Monday morning. They were en route from Biloxi, Miss., to a new McCord Air assignment at Force base, Wash. A veteran of nearly five years Air Force service, he and Mrs. Ward planned to stay for a couple of days. The four then planned to visit their parents in Idaho. GOP Will Hear County Official Davis county official will be keynote speaker for the Box Elder county Republi-caorganization convention in Brigham City Friday night. He is Stanley Smoot, chair, man of the Davis County com. mission and president of the Utah Association of County LELIA AND' Marilyn were Officials. The county confab will be. sisters. Their maiden name was Hanson and their parents gin at 8 p.m. in the Box reside at Lorenzo, Idaho. Par. Elder High school auditorium ents of the two brothers live under the direction of Chairman James E. Brown. near Rexburg. DELEGATES FACE the of electing counhad of the couples Neither children. Dean and Marilyn, ty officers for the next two married for two years, were years and a slate of delegates to the upcoming state GOP buying the white frame home located in the center of Co- convention. Those charged with attend, Each had served an rinne. LDS mission and he was In ing the session are delegates to the 1968 primary conven. the Army for two years tion. completing the church Other matters of party con. spending most of the time in Korea. Both were active in the SP Corinne ward. A Men of Song DENNIS AND Lelia would have been married one year on April 28. He .lived with Mr. and Mrs. Bott for 14 months prior to entering mill, tary service. Dean also lived with the Botts for a shorter period of time before his mission call. (Continued on Page Three) cern will be considered during the evening, said the chair-ma- n. The Southern Pacific Men of Song of Ogden will present an Easter Season sacrament sermon of music, song and the spoken word at the LDS W ward chapel Sunday, April 13, at 7 p.m. Theme of the program will be the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Currently serving in the party organization with Brown are Mrs. Della Armstrong, vice chairman; Margaret R. Evans, secre. and Paul Holmgren, tary, county treasurer. During Monday Blackout A power outage 'Which plunged Brigham City Into darkness for more than an hour Monday night resulted In no major problems in bus. iness or residential districts but It set the stage for a 30.minute disturbance at In. termountain school. School staff, students, and Bureau of Indian Affairs staff have begun Inquiries into the spontaneous student distur. bance which resulted in injury to several students and minor property damage. The disturbance began as the power failure at 9:10 p.m. darkened the campus its sur. rounding area Just as students Spihe Will 'Come Home' from California's, state gov. eminent. The spike will be returned to Utah by rail to play an honored role In the Centennial observance of the completion of the transcontinental rail, road on May 10 . proclaimed by Utah Gov. Calvin L. Ramp, ton as an official Utah hull, day. of State, Hugh C. Miller; director of the Brlnghurst, Utah State Division of Exposl. ttons: Nathan H. Mazer, Ogdirector of the den, field National Golden Spike Cen. com. Celebration tennial 10. mission, and other comm Is. Accepting the spike from sion members. California officials will be THE TRANSFER WILL ell. max a week ot celebration In Sacramento, where the spike will be displayed, under aus. pices of the Sacramento Gold, en Spike Centennial commit-teEdward A. Combata. lade, chairman. THE SPIKE IS scheduled to go on public display In the Gold Room of the Utah State capltol before and after being displayed in connection with the centennial reenactment of the Joining of the rails at Summit on May Promontory Utahs Secretary Clyde L. leaving a basketball HORSEPLAY FOLLOWING were game. the game was spurred by the darkness and boys began to mill noisely about the campus. While most of the damage was confined to broken win. dows and dented automobiles, a small band of boys broke into two girls dormitories, property causing damage. Three girls were hospitalized, two for treatment of alleged rape and one for treatment of a horheu arm suffered when she Jumped from a window. Dormitory counselors and other faculty members restor. ed order within30 minutes and had all students confined to their dormitiorles, a spokes, man said. Power was restored a half hour later. MISS WILMA VICTOR, sup. erlntendent of the school, es. estimated the total damage to buildings and vehicles at approximately $600. We areusing all resources to discover those responsible for this incident, Miss Vic. tor said. She has also stated that law enforcement agencies are con. ducting investigations and the have themselves students come forward with much val. uable information and have shown a willingness to do as much restitution as is possl. ble for the damage done. THE OUTAGE occurred when an Insulator failure a. bout four miles north of the city allowed a line to drop to a lower conductor. This tripped the main line breakers on the Honeyvllle to Brigham City The California observance line of Utah Power and Light. will Include a parade and The resulting overload cau. ground breaking ceremonies sed the El Monte to Brigham for the Big Four Building, City substation to fail, black, named after the four wealthy ing out not only Brigham City (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) e, The Original Golden Spike SPEAKER Stanley Smo ot will address the Box El der county Republican con vention here Friday. Disturbance Erupts at IS On Loan From Stanford University The Golden Spike that symbolically linked the eastern and western halves of the United States h mil at Prom, ontory Summit 100 years will a. home soon be coming gain. On April 25 Utah officials will make a ceremonial visit to Sacramento, Calif, to of. f totally accept the golden spike PARTICIPANTS are said to include the Scots Pipe band of Salt Lake City, bands from Box Flder, Intermountain and Bear River High Schools, the Job Corps Drill team from Weber county, Sponsor Chairman Telephone (Please submit this entry to the Brigham City Chamber of Commerce office, 142 South Main street, no later than April 15.) Site Sign Damage Prompts Warning OTHER n af-t- AN INVITATION has been extended to all local clubs, schools, churches and other organizations and Individuals to take part. The parade will march down Main street from First South to Third North beginning at 9:15 a.m. on May 10 to locally launch the centennial day cele. Bushwackers square dance club, horses and the Nation. Guard which will provide the color guard and display several pieces of equipment in addition to marching as a unit. Children, neighborhood groups and families also have an invitation to take part. However, the chamber must be informed of each entry in or. der to plan the parade. WE MUST HAVE every entry listed with this office in order to assign it a place in the parade. We urgently ask the local residents and organizations help us, joint, ly stated Frank Coppin, com mittee chairman, and Dallas Stiver, parade chairman for the spike panel. Fern Brown is beautifica. tion chairman for the parade with City Councilman Claud ius Olsen acting as the gener. al chairman. TOOLS TAKEN notices violation (which amounts to a citation), 75 written warnings and nu verbal warnings since last fall. A majority are from ing to preserve and restore but quite a few reside landmarks of the GoldenSpike era, are encountering prob. in Brigham City, noted the lems, too. ranger. In recent days, Ranger EVEN THE entrance sign, of Golden constructed of railroad Arnold Simmons ties, Spike National Historic site has been blasted by the trig, been busied replacing has as have vandals, warning signs around the s Remetal survey boundary signs. and ripped down signs shot-uIt is a matter not only of by vandals, hunters, visitors enforcing a federal restriction to the area, whatever they against firearms but protect, might be called. ing life, resources and pro. When a farm, perty. THE SMALL CLOTH mark, cow is found shot or ers ers contain the words: U.S. bullets are heard whizzing of Interior... around personnel working at Department WARNING. ...U.S. Government the site or a slug whistles or Property. ..No Hunting through an outdoor restroom, Allowed. Trapping it becomes more than a minor The letters are red against threat. a white background. They are In addition to ttiis, hundreds easily spotted on fence and of visitors to the each corner posts indicating boun. week are loads of lit. leaving deries of the more than 2,. ter behind, creating a bother, site. some housekeeping chore for They have been mutilated by park personnel. and .22 calibre high shotgun, They asked this week for velocity rifle fire. And the cooperation from the public understand, park personnel in eliminating these problems. ably are quick losing patience with those responsible. DISEASES REPORTED A century ago, builders of the nations first transcontinental railroad were beset by many difficulties. Today the U.S. Park service, attempt, federal Og-de- n -- ger-happ- p Dennis Richards, 324 Last Second North, told Brigham SIMMONS SAID they would One case of rubella and nine City police Monday that dur. begin astringent crackdownon ing the preceding weekend, persons found hunting or car. strep infections were report, tools valued at about $300 rylng a loaded firearm within ed from Box Elder county dur. were taken from his truck. the site boundaries. ing the week ending April 4. He already has Issued five 9W fQar? t o li.Vido ! t'lNtj A Orf "A 1 o SIGN VANDALISM Ranger Arnold Sininions displays two of the signs ruined by gun fire at Golden Spike National Historic site in recent days. |