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Show A 1 ! Fewer Move in County r "tah BillO Co;, Grass Greener Here, Moving Data Shows Residents of Box Elder county apparently appreciate their community. They feel that the grass is greener right where they are. Their record shows that they do less moving about from house to house and from place to place than people in most parts of the country. The findings are based upon figures released by the Department of Commerce, drawn from data gathered during the last census. The purpose was to determine the extent of internal migration in the United States and to discover how often people pull up their stakes in one location to take up residence somewhere else. Nationally, the picture appears to be one of high mobility. In the period of the past year alone, more than 36 million Americans, nearly one out of ever five in the population, moved to different addresses. Elder Box Sometimes it is to go into smaller quarters, following a breakup in the family. A major part of the shifting occurs among persons between ages 20 and 24. That is when young people leave home to find jobs, get married and set up households of their own. Volume 65, Number 42 Brigham City, Utah 84302, Thursday Morning, October 19, 1972 ymifty Uir T Less Transient county residents are less transient than that. A large proportion of them were found to be living in the same houses that they were occupying five years before. The number of local people, over age five, who did move during the five-yeperiod totaled 8,619. Of these, 3,855 merely changed to other locations within the county. Another 4,764 came in from other areas to take up local residence. As to the number who may have left the county to live elsewhere, no figures are available. What it boils down to is that, in a period of five years, only 34 out of every 100 people in Box Elder county had changed their addresses and were living in different houses. This mobility rate was lower than that reported for the United States as a whole, 47 per 100. The rate in the Mountain States was 46 percent and, in Utah, 39 percent. Why Move? Why do people move? A number of social and economic reasons are given. In many cases it is due to the fact that the family has grown and needs more space. James V. Smith, right, national administrator of Farmers Home administration, offers congratulations to representatives of the Box Elder FFA chapter during the national FFA convention. On the receiving end were, from left, Robert Gappmeyer, Utah advisor; Monte Munns, chapter secretary, and Fred Barker, chapter president. Local chapter was one of 16 nationally to earn BOAC Gold emblem. WELL DONE " ' . x - or . r ' f ' 1 The upcoming Veterans Day holiday Monday, Oct. 22, makes It necessary to publish the Oct. 22 Issue of the Box Elder News early. This means that deadlines have been changed. Advertising copy must be received no later than S p.m. today (Thursday) and editorial material must be In by 10 a.m. CMooi)(dl The Box Elder Future Farmers of America chapter at Box Elder High school was recognized as a national BOAC (Building Our American Communities) Gold emblem chapter at the National FFA convention in Kansas City, Mo. It marked the local chapter as one of the nations top units. Only 16 of approximately 8,000 chapters earned the high award. On hand to receive the honor were Fred Barker, chapter president and son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Barker, Willard, and Monte Munns, secretary and son of Mr. and Mrs. Rohland Munns of Harper Ward. The 45th national confab was conducted Friday. The N-- J office will be closed Saturday and Monday. Government offices and some businesses will also observe the Monday holiday. Box Elder county schools are closing Monday but not for Veterans Day. Students and staff are observing their annual deer hunting time off with schools slated to dismiss early Friday afternoon. State Will Lay Markers to Rest Multiple highway designations in the Brigham City area have long been a source of confusion for tourists and -' f residents alike. The Utah Highway department announced this week that it will relieve the situation somewhat by eliminating some familiar highway numbers. Dean Prisbrey, traffic engineer for District I, said U.S. 30s is being eliminated as a highway designation. This is the route that leaves Brigham City north and extends through Corinne, Bear River City, Tremonton, Snowville and into Idaho. Prisbrey said henceforth it will be already following completed sections of the interstate highway in Box Elder county. At the present time, highways designated U.S. 91, 89, 30s and 191 channel into Brigham City from the south and branch out from here. known simply as . r .. Salt Lake City woman was struck and 1 killed by a car while crossing U.S. one mile south of Perry, Saturday night, making the fourth fatality in a week in Box Elder county. It was the third such death in the Perry area in one week. Mrs. Leo (Helen) Jorgensen, was hit by a car in front of Paul Sumidas fruit stand shortly before 8 p.m. It was dark and stormy at the time. Utah Highway Patrol Trooper Tom Burridge said Mr. and Mrs. Jorgensen had parked' their car on the west side of the highway and crossed to' the fruit stand. When they were returning to the car, Mrs. Jorgensen was hit by a southbound auto. The investigating officer said Jorgensen 4)1 towd Oct. 10-1- 3 auditorium. Box Elder county officials were pressed for an answer Tuesday by a South Willard woman who wants to have two mobile homes on her property. In addition, county commissioners heard plans to conduct a regional law enforcement workshop Nov. 2. The mobile home question has commissioners perplexed. County Planner Kent Elwell recommended against it. At the same time, Mrs. Diane Spangler said she and her husband have complied with requirements of the countys mobile home ordinance. The couple wants permission to lease their property for two mobile homes. Mrs. Spangler said water and septic tanks are in and the county surveyor and and district sanitarian have given it their approval. She told the commission Tuesday it Box Elder Highways Claim Fourth Fatality in Week feetf Homs Schodulos plly on Mbol lnlm: Ono of 16 Top Chapters Holiday Alters 22 PAGES in the Kansas City Municipal Outstanding Achievement The chapter received the award for its outstanding achievement in helping to develop their own community in the national BOAC competition. Representatives of 78 chapters were honor guests at a banquet sponsored by Lilly Endowment, Inc. of Indianapolis, Ind., Wednesday, Oct. 11 in the President Hotel ballroom in Kansas City. James V. Smith, national administrator of the Farmers Home administration, Washington, D.C., was the speaker at the banquet. He told the FFA community builders that the BOAC program is a key segment of the national policy to provide opportunity for young people in rural areas. The great need, he said," is to develop rural leadership that understand the needs of rural America and that has the knowledge and skill to develop rural communities so there is opportunity for those who wish to live and work there. Lesson Pressure Given such opportunity, the pressure to migrate to congested urban areas will be in other words, balanced lessened growth that benefits all Americans. He urged the BOAC award winners to get on with the task and pointed out that the Rural Development Act of 1972 which recently became law is one of the new tools they will encounter soon. It will have a crucial impact on the balance", he development of a rural-urba- n stated. Highlights of the new rural development act include loans to rural youth for farm and business enterprises. This will enable students in vocational agriculture to obtain loans for the development of supervised experience programs. The BOAC program is a joint effort between the Farmers Home administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the FFA. 89-9- resource development participated last week in the first annual RC&D (Resource Conservation and Development) tour for the three-count- y area of Box Elder and Cache in Utah and Oneida in Idaho. Officials from Franklin county, Idaho also participated since that county has formally applied to join the group. The tour of projects was arranged by Jay Hall, Utah State University Extension stated. Want to Confer . However, the county officials, while conceding the need to render a decision, said they wanted to confer first with the county planning commission. County Surveyor Denton Beecher said Elwell had told him he was against giving permission for the mobile homes for two reasons: A request had been turned down for expansion by a mobile home park located across U.S. 89 from the Spangler property. It would not conform to the county master plan which is nearing completion. However, Mrs. Spangler said the first reason was not valid becaue it comWhile her pared request met ordinance requirements, the other did not. As for not complying with the master plan, the South Willard woman said she had contacted Elwells office, talked with a man there who said the plan had not progressed that tar yet. .. . To Reatrtet Units , and an employe of the fruit stand carried' " Commission Chairman Don ChOowho the purchase to the car and Mrs. said the plan Is due by Dec. 1, saluKhe interim mobile home ordinace was Jorgensen followed. Trooper Burridge said Mrs. Jorgensen adopted so that such units would be ran into the path of the auto driven by resticted to specific home parks and not scattered all over the area." Carey D. Nichols 19, 312 North Tfatfrd West, This is Elwells concern, too, it was Brigham City. noted. Troopers at the scene said the driver tried to avoid the pedestrian by swerving Chase said also that he had received the auto. The point of impact was the front complaints about the Spanglers plan to door on the drivers side. use their property for mobile homes. The car came to rest on the west side Mrs. Spangler said one neighbor had shoulder of the highway facing north. voiced no objections but another "doesnt Trooper Burridge said no citations were want anything on the property. issued. She said it had been her impression after Mrs. Jorgensen was taken to Cooley Memorial hospital by a Brigham City meeting previously with the commissioners that if she met provisions of the ambulance where she was pronounced dead on arrival. (Continued on Page Two) KC&O Tour A bus load of leaders from four counties of Utah and Idaho and others interested in would be an economical hardship after theyve made this investment to ask them to wait. I see no reason to continue to wait, she Covers Projects RC&D agent, and Kenneth Searle of the Soil Conservation service, Brigham City. Project sites visited included a recreation nark at Deweyville; drainage projects in the vicinity of Tremonton, Garland and Riverside; cullinary water development for the Riverside, Garland, Fielding area; irrigation water development in various areas of Box Elder, Cache and Oneida Counties, and a hospital and nursing home at Malad, Idaho. Mayor Jesse J. Earl of Deweyville, explained that the Deweyville Recreational park, utilizing an abandoned school house and grounds, includes picnic areas, tennis courts, childrens play space, softball diamond and bleachers and the building for use by scouts and other groups. Carl Rhodes, past president, Iowa String Drainage district, noted that sugar beets and corn are now growing with high yields (Continued on Page Three) IF Be Eliminated Also, U.S. which presently runs north from the Cross Roads east of Tremonton through Plymouth to the Idaho line, will be eliminated. Its being redesignated over the existing highway until such time as that segment of interstate highway is completed, Prisbrey explained. The highway aide said that U.S. 91 as a designation is being eliminated between Eleventh South in Brigham City and St. George in southern Utah. However, the designation U.S. 89 which angles through Brigham City and into Cache county via Box Elder and Sardine canyons will remain. 191 To Reduce Confusion We are doing this to reduce confusion to the tourists, to keep them on the fastest, This highway mark- CHANGE SET er on I south Main changed soon. street will be most direct route through the state, and also to help maintain highway records, Prisbrey explained. He noted that highway department personnel are removing U.S. 91 signs in the Ogden are this week and are working north. White House Asks BC Mayor to Signing of Bill Mayor Ole Zundel, chairman of the citizens committee for revenue sharing in Utah, has received an invitation from the White House to be on hand for signing of the funding measure Friday. A telegram received Tuesday said it this way: The President requests the pleasure of your company at the signing of the revenue sharing bill at Independnce Hall, Philadelphia, Pa., on Friday, Oct. 20, 1972 at 12 . D J? 5? noon. Mayor Zundel who led efforts in Utah to get the bill, expressed pleasure at receiving the invitation but said he was unsure if the press of business would permit him to go. - taking the first annual during stop to inspect the Deweyville Recreation park. Mayor Jesse J. Earl ON ANNUAL TOUR Those RC&D tour are pictured here . explained the project. It was one of numerous stops in a area. Other developments visited iny cluded drainage and water and a hospital three-count- , |