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Show Universal yicroflllns Corp. Ava. Lake City, Utah lllFierpoint Salt 841 Volume Brigham City, Utah 84302, Thursday Morning, August 65, Number 33 1 7, LQ 1 Comp 972 2 2 PAGES Tremonton Facility Proposed These junior students at Box Elder High were among those registering and taking tests this week as the Aug. 28 opening of school ap- AS SCHOOL NEARS Victim Dies After Fall From Kite A Weber county man was killed when he plunged 100 feet to the ground after a rope broke on a "parakite he was riding south of Promontory. Dead on arrival at Cooley Memorial hospital shortly before 5 p.m. was James M. (Jim) Brunker, 23, 940 Filmore, Ogden, according to Box Elder county Sheriff Warren W. Hyde. Brunker was holding on to a gliding parachute which was attached by rope to a car driven by Debbie Layton of Huntsville, according to the sheriff. The rope broke and Brunker apparently let go of the kite. He fell and landed on his chest, according to deputies. Breaks Once Before The rope broke before the accident but Brunker only feel about 10 feet. The victim was brought to the local hospital in the car by Mrs. Layton and her husband Val, and Mary Ann Olafson of Ogden. The sheriff was notified at about 4:50 p.m. The mishap occurred about 25 miles south on the road which runs along the east side of the Promontory range, the sheriff said. It happened about 10 miles north of Promontory Point where the road is gravel. Health District Director Resigns Bear River Health districts first director, appointed Aug. 1, has resigned. Box Elder County Commissioner William L. Packer said the director, Dr. Stephen R. Rudmond, submitted his resignation after complications arose in New York City where he has been doing clinical work. The director was to have ' received $24,000 annual salary. Box Elder county can't legally lease Pioneer Memorial Nursing home to a private operator. This opinion came Tuesday from Deputy County Attorney Jack Molgard and apparently resolves a thorny issue facing the county commission. Molgard. acting in the absence of County Attorney O. Dee Lund who was out of town, delivered the opinion at the request of Commission Chairman Don Chase. It clears the air so we know how we can procede now, Chase stated. The commission had been urged by a Georgia nursing home operator, Max M. Kimball, to place the home in his hands as part of a proposal to build a new hospital and nursing home in Tremonton. activities really hit full swing next week. Reminder about times for Box Elder Junior High registration can be found on Page 3. proaches. Pre-scho- ol Sets Mass Meetings , Consider Board Pact BEEA To The Box Elder Education association will hold an annual mass meeting Aug. 24 at 8 a.m. in the Box Elder High school auditorium, it was announced this week. The session will involve only members in the Box Elder High attendance area, according t6 a spokesman. A second meeting for BEEA members in the Bear River High school attendance area is set Aug. 25 at 8 a.m. in the BRHS Opinion In Part Molgards opinion stated in part: y ! auditorium. Proposed ratification of an agreement with the Box Elder Board of Education reportedly will be one item handled at the sessions. The agreement is a broad statement accepted by the school board several weeks ago and represents the results of negotiations for the 1972-7- 3 school year. activities The mass meetings are timed with other for Box Elder district personnel as the Aug. 28 opening of schools approaches. pre-scho- ol Migrant Record System Saves Critically III Child old Problem. How do you find an migrant child who is critically ill with TB? You know she will die if she doesnt receive treatment soon. But she and her parents have moved on to another harvest and there is no trace of where they went. ar This was a situation faced recently by Verl Allred, supervisor of the migrant summer school program at Corinne Elementary school when the results from TB were returned. a school-wid- e The routine skin test taken just a couple of days before revealed that one child, daughter of a migrant family, had TB in its advanced stages. She Was Gene Allred went immediately to the girls classroom but she was not there. Her teacher said she had been absent for two days. Further checking revealed the girl and her family had left the area. But to where? No one at the migrant camp could even say which direction they had gone. Allred telephoned Mrs. Shannon Rider, a terminal operator at the Utah State Board of Educations Migrant Education office in Salt Lake City. From there a message was immediately put out over the Migrant Student Record Transfer system, a computerized network which keeps tabs on the school and health records of all migrant children in the U.S. For the sake of the little girl, Allred hoped that she would have registered for school at the next migrant camp. At 12:59 p.m. on the same day the result of the TB tests were known, an emergency message to locate the girl was transmitted over the computer network. Within 16 minutes the message had been relayed to 137 computer terminals in the United States. The search was on. If the girls parents had registered her in any public school program, the Migrant (Continued on Page Three) ...the county derives its power to hold and acquire land necessary and proper for county purposes. ..(which is limited to things which are public purposes and...-woul- d prevent the county from leasing a county-owne- d facility to a private cor-'- I poration which will use the facility soley ipt the purposes of its private gain... Kimball has said acquisition of Pioneer Memorial was necessary to his total plans in Box Elder county. Commissioner Chase said the county now will proceed with plans to put a bonding question on the Nov. 7 general election ballot. Specifically, he said the proposal will be to build a nursing home at Tremonton and to construct a addition to Pioneer Memorial in Brigham City. The commission chairman said hed always had in mind 30 to 35 beds for a new county home in Tremonton. He said a cost figure has not been estimated for such a facility but federal 16-b- Aug. 24-2- 6 sources place the expense of nursing home construction at $27,000 per bed. No architect has officially been engaged on the proposed home but Chase said he does have an appointment with Burrows Smith company to pursue the bonding proposal. Hes not certain at this time how much will be sought through bonding. Cost to build a four-rooaddition, each containing four beds, at Pioneer Memorial has been estimated at $75,000 unfurnished. At present, the home has 63 beds and Commissioner Chase said if the proposed addition is constructed, an activity room which has been converted to a five-be- d ward, will be used again for its originally intended purpose. This would mean a net gain through the addition of 11 beds. The county has "been assured that service facilities at the home, kitchen, laundry, etc., are sufficient to accommodate the new addition. rf TCC Cites Success In SRAM Program Thiokol Chemical Corporation's Wasatch division this past week passed a major milestone in its program to qualify as a second productic source for the propulsion motor of thi Short Range Attack Missile (SRAM). James M. Stone, Tliiokol vice president and Wasatch division general manager, announced the successful static test firing of the first SRAM motor fabricated under the divisions contract with the Boeing company. The test was conducted one month ahead of contract schedule and represents a major milestone in Thiokol's bid for production of the SRAM propulsion motor, Stone said. more motors will be Twenty-tw- o fabricated and static tested during the next year, Stone noted. Each will be ex posed to environmental variations prior to . firing. t In Tuesdays successful firing, the motor was programmed for maximum, delay between the two pulses. Condition of all components was described ws excellent 1 following the test. The firing was witnessed by representatives of both Boeing and the U.S. Air Force, Stone said. v Thiokol began work under the second qualification contract in November of last year. Now in production, SRAM propellant is a solid missile developed by the Boeing company for the Air Force's Aeronautical division, for use with the and H. FB-11- 1 Systems and G at Tremonton (mC7 feip: iong) The Box Elder County fair, slated for 6 in Tremonton, promises to Aug. bring more exhibits, more livestock and larger crowds than ever before," reports Clifton G.M. Kerr, fair president. p conThe rodeo grounds are in dition and plans are going forward to make it a record year. 24-2- tip-to- The Golden Spike rodeo, held in conjunction with the Box Elder County fair, is approved by the Rodeo Cowboys , association. Producer is Cotton Rosser of Marysville, Calif. Performances are at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, under lights at the Golden Spike Rodeo arena. and Carla Hunsaker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Carlos Hunsaker of Tremonton as attendants. An added attraction will be the ap- -' pearance of Geri Dawn Gibson, Miss Rodeo Utah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Gibson of Tremonton. The City of Fun Carnival with rides and shows is appearing for the third consecutive year in Tremonton and will be in operation at the fairgrounds Wednesday through Saturday. Exhibits will be received and judged prior to the fair opening Thursday. The Farm Bureau will hold its annual talent show at the fairgrounds Wednesday at 8 p.m. Winners in this contest are then eligible to compete for state honors. The Box Elder Sheriffs posse with Rex Adams as chairman will sponsor a chuck-wago- n breakfast on Main street Thursday through Saturday beginning at 6 a.m. It will continue throughout the morning. Horseshow Pitching A horseshoe pitching contest with Wendell Welling as supervisor is slated for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. At 5 p.m. Thursday a parade with colorful floats from all surrounding communities will add to the days festivities. The parade will start on First East and Sixth North and proceed south on Tremonton street to Main street and then west to the fairgrounds where the exhibits will then be open to the public. A horse show with Bob Bennett as chairman will be held Thursday and will feature a nationally approved quarter horse show. open Friday will feature an horse show limited to Box Elder county residents. There will be a two-rin-g youth show. Horse racing is scheduled for Friday and Saturday at 1:30 p.m. under the direction of Marcus McIntyre, held at the rodeo Reign as Queen Janet Burton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Burton of Providence will reign as rodeo queen with Karen Allred, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Allred of Bountiful County Aide Likes Situation all-bre- Firm Says An official for Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemicals corporation has said opening up the Southern Pacific causeway to permit free flow of water in Great Salt lake could spell disaster for his firm. Harold J. Andrews, company president, stated his views in a letter to Gov. Calvin L. Rampton. At the same time, a Box Elder county official sees the present situation as a plus for this area and would be content to see it continue. The minerals firm has a plant at Little Mountain In Weber county with part of its sprawling solar evaporation pond complex lapping over into neighboring Box Elder county. The water it draws from the lake comes that concentrated from the north arm Dont Opera Causeway portion lying north of the SP causeway, located entirely in Box Elder county. It's channeled into the ponding complex via pumping and flume system. Sounded Alarm Minerals companies on the south end of the lake have sounded alarm at the the lakes south portion becoming increasingly more diluted. They say It threatens their commercial situation, existence. Meanwhile, the mineral content on the north continues to become more concentrated. Governor Rampton has asked Southern Pacific to undertake a project to open up 1,500 feet of the causeway at a cost estimated at between $7 to $12 million. The railroad has resisted. The chief executive hinted that he would ask legislative authority to take the issue into court. Andrews proposed that GSLM share its production of magnesium chloride and high grade common salt with south end nrms. Opening the causeway is the most costly solution to everyone involved for solving the problems of the south arm industry, he stated. Major Asset character of the north arm, Andrews called it a major asset for the state since it preserves the conAs for the briney centration of lake minerals. ...as the concentration improves, the arena. opportunity for new industry, such lithium production, also improves, stated. If the causeway is opened (it presently has two culverts) and creates the desired mixing, the company will go out of business with a total loss of its $40 million investment and 200 jobs, the company president warned. County Commission Chairman Don Chase said Tuesday, Were not so naive to think we can control the lake for our benefit. But we want to take advantage of any benefits that may accrue from the situation." As the concentration increases, Commissioner Chase said so does the potential for further industrial development. Fat Cattle Sale of the entire One of the celebration will be the sale of fat cattle shown by groups and the Future Farmers of America. Irvin Maddox, director of livestock, promises this years auction will be an exciting event as approximately 200 animals are to be sold starting at 10 a.m. and continuing until the last animal le sold for a premium price. ' The animals will be told in groups for the fourth consecutive year. feature this year A special first-tim- e during the rodeo each evening will be a junior steer riding contest for cowboys and cowgirls, 12 to 15 years of age. Finalists (Continued on Page Two) 4-- Scenes like this Elder counGolden annual Spike rodeo. ty's RODEO ACTION will be repeated at Box |