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Show BOX ELDER JOURNAL, Brigham City, Utah Thursday, April 3, 1975 'Dancing on the green' 3 School children to join in local art week events Hundreds of area schoolchildren will participate in a dancing on the green festival portraying various eras of American history desk. Left to right are Commissioners Don Chase, J. Reed Nielsen and Ted Burt. System went into operation Monday. COMMISSION look over the new radio communications console in the county's law enforcement building as dispatcher Jim Wood mans the Base station for Park Valley, Grouse Creek? City munications system. The system, costing $35,000 (including installation and maintenance) went into operation Monday. Initially, it served the sheriffs office and was scheduled to embrace dispatching for the Utah Highway patrol in this area today. And in the near future, dispatching for Tremonton, Garland and possibly Willard will be handled by the center, located downstairs in the new county law enforcement building. Primary feature of the new system is its ability to give radio coverage of the entire county, thanks to a repeater installed east of Grouse Creek just Wednesday. There are frequencies also for fire and ambulance, emergency services, county government, hospital and search and rescue. Sheriff Redding said when the system hits full stride, it will essentially handle all dispatching in the county with the exception of that which Brigham City does for itself. And even then, the county plans to install a mechanism which will enable it to take on Brigham City communications with the flip of a switch. under a federal program is manning the communications center around the clock now. The dispatchers huddled with a Motorola representative Tuesday afternoon for training on finer details of the New Development Another new development in the county system was disclosed this week by County Commission Chairman Don Chase who said base stations are proposed for Grouse Creek and Park Valley to provide communications from those areas for medical and fire emergencies. The Robert Wood foundation which Lonely Job Sheriff Redding said the dispatcher will lonely job. Their room has no windows and the door will be locked for security and to eliminate unnecessary foot have a traffic and background noise makes grants available for medical Commenting communications, has asked Motorola to bid which installed the county system on the two base stations. If accepted, the foundation would pay the cost. Commissioner Chase said Yost also is being considered as the location for a base station. He was elated at the development, noting that the foundation already has contributed $5,000 to the county's new radio system. A five-perso- physically dispatching n handicapped communications for county government, Commissioner Chase said it will serve this purpose for the road radios department but only after are installed in the supervisors truck and other key units. This w ill come later, he added. Speaking to members of the League of Women Voters touring the law entwo-wa- y hired On Serious Side On the serious side all those tending performances in various areas reported there was no milling around or socializing afterwards. Everyone was in a dreadful hurry to ' get back to their homes. The greatest casulty happened in Pocatello Valley to the grainery and farm house owned by Mr. and Mrs. Lee Fuhriman of Tremonton. The granary holding 3,500 bushels of grain was split open. It was on a cement foundation and will have to be completely rebuilt. The ranch house nearby had the chimney knocked down, dishes and lamps were scattered all over the at- place and the refrigerator, beds and stove actually moved into the center of the rooms. The foundation was cracked. Other granaries and farm houses in Pocatello Valley also received severe damage. The Bothwell church had trophies which were on display knocked to Believe It orNot! Tremonton were definitely larger. Mrs. E. C. Mason in Fielding reported, A treasured glass lamp crashed and was broken in a million pieces." MAKIN6 Will Stress Arts Mrs. Somerville adds that the full week is planned to use and stress the fine arts music, art, drama, dancing, and creative writing. will The main attractions a band concert, include humanities program, musical and dramatic presentations, an art exhibit on Thursday, an evening meal in Indian style, and a "Main Street" day that will include puppets, working artists, wandering minstrals, clowns, town crier, and other attractions all day Friday. Friday night and all day Saturday will include a bazaar in the community center, while Saturday there will be an auction all day at Rees Pioneer park, a model airplane contest. all-da- y tires Radial and offer no advantage over regular tires when driving on ice, according to the National Safety Councils Committee on Winter Driving Hazards. bias-belte- d agreed to work as canvassers and the council okayed a prize of a $25 bond for the most successful one. John Hall was approved for employment on a temporary basis in the parks department. previously defined. In other business, the council approved a recommendation of Glen Casperson. savings bond chairman, for a U.S. savings bond drive, April Casperson said eight secretaries have County dates bond sale for new nursing home The Box Elder County commission Tuesday signed a notice of sale for $550,000 in bonds to finance construction of a nursing home at Tremonton. Bids will be opened on April 22 at 11 man Don Chase said. a.m., Commission Chair- There are two proposed repayment schedules. One would ex0 tend payments over the period and the second would amortize the bonds by 1985. 1976-199- The county has applied for federal Hill Burton funds to help finance the project, seeking more than $400,000 in its application. Commissioner Chase said Tuesday the county should know the fate of its application this week. bank names manager Utah. Before entering the banking field, he was employed as an area for representative Pharmaseal Laboratories to arrangements 14 years and for 12 of those years, its been obvious to me that something would have to be done to the system. . Gerald B. Felix . bank manager Red Cross. The Good Neighbor. SPHOI3L Grain Fed! Prices Going Up! . . . 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BEAM THE JAMES B BEAM DISTILLING i AND BOTTLED KENTUCKY BY 704 South Main . . . SALE STANDARD WORKS PRICED All Brigham City Many more Titles on sale to choose from Use our convenient rear entrance & parking ri m id n go 128 SOUTH MAIN "YOUR HOME 4 to in Glendale Calif. He is originally from Logan, graduated from Logan High school and attended Utah State university. He is married. He and his wife, Karen, are parents of three children and are living in Ogden until they can make for 1795 TO TODAY FOR ISO YEARS OF THE BEAM FAMILY HAVE BEEN f And move Brigham City. transformers to increase that capacity. Hooper said he has lived in Brigham City SIX GENERATIONS THE WORLD'S says A new manager has been named for the Bank of Brigham City, it was announced this week. He is Gerald B. Felix who takes over the post after serving with the Bank of Utah in Salt Lake City for the past two years. Felix succeeds Paul Petersen who was transferred. The new manager has been installment loan manager for about a year with the Bank of Good Thursday, Friday, Saturday Only FROM just Monday! Thelma Somerville, BC Power project -- And that is Report cards were handed out today (Thursday) at Box Elder High school for the third quarter, a school spokesman said. the floor and broken. Cracks appeared in the walls in a new addition to the church. Two cracks in the stake center in (Continued From Page One) Councilman Wight said the project probably would increase the local systems capacity to 25,000 population. And former public works director O. Neil Smith said the city need only add office. y art activities." a kite contest, an intertribal powwow, and an evening of square dancing in the streets. These are the main attractions, says Mrs. Somerville, but they are by no means exclusive the full and program. The art week has been given promotional funds by a joint grant from the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and hundreds of volunand teers community organizations are lending their support to provide the awards contract on new bridge Earthquake brought varied reactions (Continued From Page One) wall fell, only the frame and cardboard back remained on the wall. Museum-Galler- y Report cards out forcement building, the commissioner said the new radio system is not a duplication of anything now in existence and has become an absolute need. staff persons on to the as high school students paint the town by adding their original designs to the median strip on Forest to Second West from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday under the direction of Lynn Hone and Margo Flint. Also included in Monday's activities will be a watercolor workship conducted from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. both Monday and Tuesday in the museum-gallery- , and taught by USU Professor Harrison Groutage. Advance registration for this limited size class is required, and may be made through the museum-galler- general chairman of the entire Community Art week. Each day of the week to follow will be filled to capacity with leading brightened City Engineer Keith A. Hansen recommended the acceptance of the precast deck and Browns low bid. Councilman A1 Cazier reported on a meeting with property owners in the area concerning the removal of trees for the project. Rather than to destroy nine large trees, as was complained by a neighbor, it was agreed that only four would be removed, he said. Curb and gutter corners will remain the same but the council asked the city engineer to determine the property lines on both sides of Sixth East between Forest and First North which have not been system. y be Even Brigham City contractor Knowlton H. Brown has been awarded the contract to build a new bridge over Box Elder creek at First North and Sixth East street. The approval of Browns $29,652 low bid for the work came during a special city council meeting. deck The bridge will have a pre-cawith bids having been asked for both this type and rigid frame construction. Only figures for the latter were read at the recent bid opening. Second low with a figure of $33,670.57 was Associated Brigham Contractors. Calling all cars. ..county com system in operation Box Elder county is taking its first steps this week with a new radio com- Will Brighten Streets the streets will in narration and dance as part of the Brigham City Museum-Galler- y Community Art week slated for April With the theme, Portraits of Liberty", set for entire week of art activities, the fifth and sixth graders of elementary schools in South Box Elder county have planned their program of patriotic and cultural numbers under the direction of teachers and coordinator Les Dunn. The dance festival is slated for Monday. April 20, at 7 p.m. on the lawn of Ferguson field, Box Elder High school. Monday will be the opening day for the week of activities and Boyd Newman will conduct a grand opening ceremony at 11 a.m. on the municipal plaza, to be with the bell ringing performed by Lewis Wight, 20-2- MEMBERS OF THE COUNTY honorary chairman of the week and chairman of the museum-gallerboard. OFFICE STORE' WLNP -- tr |