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Show Volume 68, Number 9 Brigham City, Utah 84302, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1975 22 PAGES Brief citizens, former aides It will cost an estimated $1,214,000 to increase the capacity and efficiency of Brigham Citys electrical distribution, transforming and generating system. Furthermore, the improvement can be accomplished without requiring a tax or rate increase, say city officials who are proposing a bond issue to finance the undertaking. The project was detailed Monday evening in a briefing of about 25 selected citizens. It was the audition'of a production which the city fathers hope will become a successful hit on the local circuit pardon the pun. In an earlier session Monday, the mayor and council met with former city officials to explorethe plans with them. THIS IS THE main transmission line on Brigham City's Fifth West street which A simular high voltage line is proposed to loop around the city's north side as part of a $1.2 million electrical distribution system improvement project. terminates at the west substation. Willard sIS nine-memb- allegation, that correct accounting procedures were not used by Dr. Woodbury and that judgment decisions on use of certain school funds were unprofessional. No further action will be taken. The commission advocates a warning as to future conduct, a spokesman in the office commission of Dr. Vere McHenry, executive secretary, said. Has Recommendation the recommendation of the commission that because of a deep feeling existing among administration, board of education, teachers, parents and students at Bear River High school, that the Box Elder Board of Education do those things necessary to bring these factions together for an atmosphere conducive to good education, a commission statement read. The charges against Dr. Woodbury were brought by the Box Elder Education association in early January. This followed earlier action of the Box Elder Board of Education which set aside a letter of resignation from the principal and asked him to stay on for at least the remainder of the current school year after he became embroiled in controversy. The state commission, an arm of the Utah State Board of Education, has authority to warn or reprimand a school official or recommend revocation or suspension of a teaching certificate, Six teachers and three administrators made up the commission for Tuesdays hearing, described by Dr. J. C. Haws, Box Elder district superintendent, as the hearing. panels first On hand were two attorneys for the Utah Education association, one for Dr. of the Woodbury and a representative state attorney generals office. It is full-fledg- Offered Testimony Among those offering testimony were Mrs. Donna Gordon, past president of the Box Elder School board, and Ken Porritt, the current president, plus Dr. Haws and another board member, Deloris Stokes. BEEA President David Grimley and Ted Hougaard and Ray President-elec- t of Northern Utah director executive Hall, UniServ also attended. lt lt Contacted for his reaction Wednesday, Dr. Woodbury said he was just real pleased. I think the outcome was not surprising and certainly it was something which I desired. Its been a long seven months since this thing first surfaced. There has been a tremendous ground-sweof support from the people of Bear River valley which I have appreciated very much and certainly the people are to be commended for their patience through all of this, he added. ll Dr. Woodbury expressed hope that now all concerned will resolved the differences that may have existed and devote full attention to education of the young people. Grimley could not be reached for comment Wednesday afternoon and Hall (Continued on Page 10) An appeal has been made to obtain household goods for an elderly couple whose rented home in north Willard burned to the ground last Sunday. That fire caused some $14,000 damage to dwelling and contents. It apparently started in the kitchen area, Brigham City Fire Chief Ward Secrist said. Left homeless were Mr. and Mrs. John Mounts, who had been renting the house from the W.R. White company. Mounts was alone in the house at the time, but escaped unharmed. Neighbors, civic, and church leaders are asking for donations to aid the Mounts who lost virtually everything in the fire. A drive is under way to collect household items. Those who wish to contribute can contact Mrs. Germaine C. Page at Dot Audriene Braegger at (Continued on Page 10) Councilman Douglas Wight told the citizens that Brigham City will reach the and present systems capacity in 1975-7that growth in power consumption here over the next 10 years is expected to be 6 substantial. Also Envisioned envisioned are a transformingswitching station east of the cemetery, construction of a high power line around the north side of Brigham City, installation of a hydro electric generator in the existing culinary generating building and generator rewinding in the citys main power plant to boost its capacity. City leaders have for several years been aware that improvement of the distribution system would be necessary. Also Councilman Byron Armstrong explained the local community has no shortage of power but is limited in its ability to distribute power. Last summer the southwest area experienced a brown-out- " simply because at one point the demand was greater than the delivery system could handle. Im thoroughly convinced that now is the time weve got to do something. And if we dont do it now, were going to be in Councilman Dale Baron trouble, declared. Being proposed is a $1,200,000 issue of general obligation electric system bonds. Payments would begin in 1976 with the total debt scheduled for retirement in 1998. Dick Christensen, Burrows Smith and company, Salt Lake City, who is acting as fiscal advisor, said the city currently Is regarded as being in excellent financial condition. current outstanding debt is while the city has a bonding He said the $800,000 capacity of $8.3 million. City officials propose to pay off the bonds with money saved by building the transforming-switchin- g station and reducing line losses by making the system (Continued on Page 10) 'School will stay open' clears BC officer of arrest 'brutality' couple loses all in blaze ODD The Utah Professional Practices Advisory commission has found no cause of action in two allegations and advocated a warning on a third charge brought against Bear River High School Principal Darwin Woodbury. The panels findings were reached after a marathon hearing in Salt Lake City Tuesday. After hearing testimony throughout the day, the commission spent another two hours to reach its decision. It found no cause of action on an allegation of indiscretions in his personal life and a charge that Dr. Woodbury had fostered a negative relationship with ' faculty and staff at Bear River High. The commission found under another Among chief feature of the total package subare construction of two 12,000-voone east of the city cemetery stations and the second by an existing 4,000-vosubstation on Fifth West. FBI The Federal Bureau of Investigation has cleared a Brigham City police officer of charges that he used excessive force in arresting an Intermountain School student. The FBI reported to Chief of Police Steven M. Studdert Wednesday that its findings do not support police brutality charges against Patrolman Thomas Sneddon. Studdert said U.S. Justice Department officials in Washington, after final review of evidence gathered by a local FBI investigation, felt there was no reason to continue the investigation. Officer Sneddon was charged with using excessive force by some students and parents while arresting a juvenile Feb. 17 during disturbances at the school. Sneddon was kicked in the stomach, ribs and back by two students. He suffered internal bleeding from one kick, police reported. The 40 members at the meeting also adopted a resolution calling for highest priority of the board to remove funding of the school from the Navajo Area office to a more efficient location, probably the campus itself. There are a number of people under Thompson who would like to see the school buried. We cant figure out their motives, the spokesman said. The school has been clutched with on Page 10) Case Closed 'Quake' planned Don't get 'shook up' but ... Earthquakes normally aren't planned. But Box Elder county has just such a show of nature scheduled for March 15. There wont be any trembling or movement of the ground. This will be a pretend quake intended to test local readiness in event that such a situation did develop. The scenario for this exercise is fictional. However, it is based on problems that may occur and situations that may arise in Box Elder county, Emergency Services Director Wilbert Cross explained. The purpose of the exercise is to make the people of Box Elder county aware that they are in a Zone 3 quake area and need to be prepared. The Utah National Guard has been called to duty by Governer Ramp-ton- . It is hoped that Hill Air Force base will assist in transporting patients, the county director noted further. The fictional quake will occur along the Wasatch fault, measure 6.9 on the Richter scale and last for about two to four minutes, aftershocks coming spasmodically. The epicenter will be approximately five miles southeast of Brigham City with damage occuring in Box Elder, Weber and Cache counties. It will knock down power lines and black out telephones in all areas. There will be injured and dead. Fire, police, emergency services and medical personnel and facilities will be activated to help meet the situation and the county emergency communication radio team will assist in maintaining communications in the county, Cross said. Studdert said the investigation, which he requested, closes the case as far as were concerned. However, brutality charges against two unnamed Intermountain staff members brought by students are still under investigation by local police, the chief said. In other school-relatematters Wedsaid nesday, Rep. Gunn McKay of Intermountain BIA mismanagement school and failure by the organization to make a definite decision on the facilitys d fate were prime causes of latest disturbances. A spokesman for McKay said the congressman has rallied support of the House Interior Appropriations sub- committee, that provides funding for the BIA, to make sure the school stays in operation. Grilled Commissioner The spokesman said McKay grilled BIA Commissioner Morris Thompson at length in a meeting Tuesday, but the "commissioner wasnt too enlightening. The BIA would commit itself only that it would announce within two weeks what it plans to do with the school. Whether or not the BIA supports the school, the (appropriations) committee agrees with McKay that the school should remain open, he said. It probably would be funded as a direct line item rather than with funds appropriated through the navajo Area office in Window Rock, Ariz., said the spokesman. The BIA would probably still administer the funds, however, he added. He said an intertribal board that has begun to form could well take upon a interpolicy making role at the tribal facility. The inter-tribschool board concept was formed during a meeting last weekend with tribal representatives. Charles Helseth, United Southeastern tribes, of Sarasota, Fla., was named to supervise organization of the board. ENJOYING THE MODERATING daytime temperatures this week were Suzanne Burr, 13, 405 Hawthorne, and Geri Grunig, 13, of 342 North Sixth East. Perhaps the photo should be titled, "Swinging into Spring". |