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Show I Universal iilcrorilmlns Corp. Ave. Sait Lake City, Utah Cgap. 84UQ HIPierpoint Volume 65, Number 32 Brigham City, Utah 84302, Thursday Morning, August 10, 1972 24 PAGES Absentee Abf Ballots Ready 0)0) CO Absentee ballots are now available in the office of Box Elder County Cleric K.B. Olsen for the Sept. 12 primary election. Voters who will be out of the area on election day are invited to drop by, fill out an application and cast their ballot. They may also be obtained by mail, Olsen explained. This years primary election locally should have a relatively high level of interest. There is just one runoff for a county post that for two-yecounty commissioner side between inon the Democratic cumbent William L. Packer and challenger William D. Burton. The only other Democratic contest will be for state auditor. In the Republican column, contests are set for U.S. representative, secretary of state, state auditor and state treasurer. n races will include those in four of Box Elder districts five representative school precincts and a three-ma- n quest for one seat on the state school board from District 4 (Box Elder, Weber, Cache, Morgan, and Rich counties). Citizens otherwise qualified to vote who have not registered, are reminded that the second of three registration days is Saturday, Aug 12. Mmursoim A Georgia operators proposal to lease Pioneer Memorial Nursing home in Brigham City and to construct a nursing home and hospital at Tremonton were still hanging fire after sessions Tuesday with the Box Elder County commission and Tremonton area citizens and officials. This picture was taken Tuesday at First and Main and shows new South afternoon erected stop sign by the Utah Highway department. NOW YOU SEE IT . . . Wednesday morning, however, the sign was gone as city and state aides agreed to talk more about the move. State wants to remove the traffic light. By Light Should Come Out iyiod!isO IM fefl The quickest stop signs in the West. This title could aptly be given makers placed on First South at Main street in Brigham City on Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, they were gone again. The episode relates to Utah Highway department desires to eliminate the traffic light at the downtown Brigham City intersection. A traffic study of more than a year ago led to this conclusion, stating in part: "The improvements of other streets have led to the decline of volume at this location. This traffic light is not warranted and should be removed. So, as a first step, the highway folks Tuesday changed the light to a flashing semaphore and installed stop signs for east-wetraffic. Water System Project Gains U.S. Loan, Grant Sops ora o!i(JIai raradl that if it doesnt work out, theyll be the first ones to say that the traffic light should go back in, Mayor Zundel stated. The First South light was installed when the east leg was the main highway to Logan. State traffic counts indicate a decline in traffic to a point where the volume meets warrants only between 4 and 6 p.m. Took Another Count Mayor Zundel said at city request, the state took another count earlier this year but apparently with the same results. He admitted the city has been tardy in CMra responding to the highway departments recommendations. They should wait for formal council action and yet, I agree with them wholeheartedly that its been too long coming, he declared. The mayor said there was agreement that people should be informed in advance of the intersection change so that it doesnt catch them by surprise. The state has the right to do what it wants. But its not the nature of Plant or Taylor to ignore city desires. Weve worked with these people and they want to cooperate, he added. The figure was $287,870 which was reported well over the engineer's estimate of $242,860. Gives Invitation Kimball invited them to visit his nursing homes in Georgia as a measure of his capabilities. He further told the county officials that Elder would not have to pay back funds used in Pioneer Memorial's construction, stating that he would operate the home through a corporation. Box Hill-Burt- non-prof- it The Georgia operator said taking over the Brigham City home is a necessary part of the package to accommodate volume buying and because he wouldnt want to compete with it. Commission Chairman Don Chase said a decision is needed soon because it's his intent to have a bonding proposal to finance a second county nursing home in Tremonton placed on this falls ballot Kimball said he has the finances to move with construction of the Tremonton facility. He explained that the Utah Division of Health has Informally okayed 'plan but wont furnish 'a formal letter until It receives word from the Box Elder commission. The Farmers Home administration has approved a $118,500 loan and $153,500 grant to the Riverside-Nort- h Garland Water company of Box Elder county, according to Rep. Gunn McKay (D-Utah- ). These funds will finance construction of a new water system, including a domestic well, distribution and supply lines and ample storage facilities, for the use of 115 rural families and businesses in the service area, Rep. McKay said. The loan is repayable in 40 years at 5 percent interest. Funds are provided under the rural community facilities program of the Farmers Home administration, a Department of Agriculture rural credit service. Benefits of this program are made available without regard to race, color, creed or national origin. Garland Water company, a President of the Riverside-Nort- h it organization, is J.U. Macfarlane of community Riverside. non-prof- Commissioner Chase Wednesday morning asked to have an opinion from County Attorney O. Dee Lund on tne legality of leasing Pioneer Memorial. However, Lund was reported to be out of town. Other Business In other business at Tuesday's weekly commission session, Mayor Art Danielson of Corinne asked to have the road running west from Corinne past Smoots and Normans improved as a collector road. The commissioners said they would take the request under consideration. The mayor was advised that if improved as a collector road, it would have to be widened and have a base laid in one season and surfacing the next year. Also, borrow pits on each side must be eliminated. Danielson said the city water line the parallels the road for a distance within outrelocated be would and it limits city y by the city. side the right-of-wa- The Brigham City LDS stake will hold a in the tabernacle it was announced this here Aug. week by President Lawrence C. Taylor. The confabs general session will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. and President Taylor issued an invitation for all stake members and other interested persons to attend. 12-1- Jaycees Annual Event Beckons Kids Saturday engineer, by telephone Tuesday. Parson Asphalt Products is the apparent low bidder to resurface and install curb and gutter on Tremontons Main street. They hinted a need to see proof of the Georgia firm's reliability. quarterly conference missioner, and Bert Taylor, district For Project Pioneer Memorial for 20 years with an initial lease payment of $12,000. ahead Brigham Stake Sets Confab Shoulf Be Alerted But Mayor Ole Zundel figured the public should have been alerted in advance, told Ross Plant, District One road com- Parson Is Low 50-b- BE st The two agreed, said they would put the traffic light back into operation once more but only until Aug. 17 when they plan to meet with the city council to air the state departments case, answer questions and ask for a three-wee- k trial for a flasher and stop signs. "We should cooperate with the state that way, give it a fair trial. They assured me Max M. Kimball said, as previously, the deal rests on action by the county to let his firm take over operation of the county-owne- d home in Brigham City. He stated further that the project at Tremonton appeared less favorable than at first, noting that the estimated cost to build the facility now is $1.5 million. His original estimate was $600,000. He proposed to build a d hospital and nursing home. Commission members seemed reluctant to yield on Kimballs request to lease o The annual Jaycee Carp Scramble is planned Saturday, Aug. 12, just east of the Brigham City LDS tabernacle. The announcement was Wednesday by Wayne chairman of the event. made Roper, The scramble will get underway at a.m. and is open to youngsters up to 12 years of age. There will be an assortment of prizes for the biggest and smallest fish, and also for the littlest kid with the biggest fish, said Roger. Local Jaycees expected to have 300 or more carp for the scramble and obtained the fish from the Bear 10 River Migratory Bird refuge last Saturday and Wednesday. The youthful participants are advised to wear sneakers and old clothes that will stand getting wet. The scramble area will be sectioned off according to age groups so the smallfry can compete with kids about their same size. A spokesman urged, And please, no help from parents. Let the kids do it themselves! Every youngster who takes part will receive a treat. Hot dogs and rootbeer will be on sale at a concession stand which will open at 9 30 a.m. Bids were open by the Utah Road commission in Salt Lake City Tuesday. Special music for the session will be provided by the Brigham City Eighth and Seventeenth wards combined choirs. Junior Sunday school will be held in each chapel beginning at 10 a.m. A leadership meeting is scheduled Saturday evening beginning at 7 p.m. Those expected to attend include the stake presidency, high council and clerk, bishoprics, executive secretaries and clerks. Also, Melchizedek priesthood leaders and group presidencies, secretaries, stake auxiliary presidencies and teacher development directors. Stake and ward auxiliary leaders, meeting house librarians, associate librarians and assistant, ward Aaronic priesthood general secretaries and all other members of ward councils. From Hawaii A Coconut Tree In Brigham City? The charming little tree you see pictured here used to be a coconut, and not very long ago too. It arrived at the home of Trudy Cook about a year and a half ago as a present from a missionary in Hawaii. There was still plenty of milk in it so my dad kept bugging me to plant it, Trudy expalned. So a month or two after it arrived she planted it under the direction of her father, Alton Cook. Cook had been stationed in Guam during the war and was familiar with the unusual planting procedure. Trudy planted the coconut, still in its husk, halfway under the soil at an angle with the stem end up. Cook explained that it had to be placed at an angle so that the eyes inside the husk were covered with the coconut milk. , crack in the husk. From then on its been growing in its little pot at the Cooks home, 05 North Seventh East. It doesnt grow much in the winter," Trudy said. But when the weather gets warm it grows about an inch a day. For nearly six months the plant lay dormant. Just a coconut sitting in a planting pot half covered with soil. I was just about ready to throw it out, Trudys mother, Donna Cook, commented. When I saw a little green shoot coming out of a The tree is now over three feet tall, with about half a dozen long flat leaves on it. As two new leaves sprout the bottom two die, so the plant is only leafy at the top. We keep it turned towards the sun in the same direction all the time, Mrs. i Cook commented. Because normally it would be used to the sun coming up in the same direction every day. It doesnt take much care. It spends the days outside and comes in at night so that it remains warm all the time. The Cooks water the little tree every other day keeping the soil moist all the time to similate its native rainy climate. It has never had any plant food or fertilizer and seems to be thriving on the loving care it gets from the Cook family. COCONUT TREE - Trudy Cook, 5 North Seventh East, waters tree that tree has been growing for about a year now. grew from a coconut. The |
