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Show Ur. v 3 rs 3 1 Zizczillzlr.z Cor;. P. 0. coxlitld wa : Lai:s City, Jtjh Plll'j VI Volume 68, Number 23 JJ P o- -5 24 PAGES Brigham City, Utah 84302, Thursday Morning, June 5, 1975 Democrats to meet Saturday Hearing slated on plan for aging Brigham Citys community center will be the location for one of four public hearings 'Cheduled in June by the Utah Division of Aging. The is local meeting scheduled at p.m. on Tuesday, June 10. Its purpose is to review the proposed 1976 state plan of the division of aging. Other hearings are slated at Richfield High school, June 12; College of Eastern Utah, Price, June 13, and state capitol building, June 17. The time in each case is p.m. except for the capitol hearing which is scheduled at 9 30 a.m. Copies of the draft plan will be mailed to all project directors. Additional copies will be available for review at the state division of aging, a spokesman said. For further information, interested persons are invited to contact Robert K. Ward at the state division of aging office. 1 The Democratic party of Box Elder county will organize Saturday, June 7, in a convention called tor 10 a.m. in the Brigham City Community center, 20 North Third West. Delegate registration is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Utah Congressman Gunn McKay is keynote speaker for the event with all delegates chosen for the partys primary convention last year expected to attend. Purpose of the convention is to elect officers, including chairman, vice chairman, secretary and treasurer. Also on the agenda is formulation of plans for Democratic party action. Current officers are Jack B. Phelps, chairman; Mrs. John (Alma M.) Alex, vice chairman; Douglas Wight, secretary, and Bert Christensen, treasurer. All are from Brigham City. Phelps indicated this week that hell be a with Mrs. Alex candidate for 1 also reported to be seeking the top post. The chairman said Christensen is eyeing another term but Wight has declined to run again. Running for vice chairman will be Louis Douglas, Howell; Don Woodward, West Corinne; Sally Munns, Garland, and Lavone Woodward, West Corinne. State law requires that the vice chairman must be of the opposite sex from the chairman. So, the outcome of the chairmanship race will determine the candidates for vice chairman. Running for secretary will be Mildred Metz of Tremonton, and Chris Wight, Brigham City. Another candidate for treasurer is Orville Gray, Willard. Other matters on the convention agenda include a discussion of changes in Utah state election laws approved by the 1975 (Continued on Page 7) 0 building value leaps to $2. 1 million in Hay Brigham City experienced one of the most explosive building months in its history during May. The inspection department issued 38 building permits with value totaling C $2,134,981. Included in the surge was Hospital Corporation of Americas new hospital in southwest Brigham City, $1 ,500,000 Also joining the construction parade were permits for 15 new' houses and a $150,000 Following is information from a monthly the inspection summary for May issued 1 department; Earl Dickamore, 167 South Sixth East, single family dwelling, $33,000. Utah Homes, 829 Douglas, single family dwelling, $30,000. Utah Homes, 819 Douglas, single family dwelling, $32,000. Utah Homes, 801 Douglas, single family dwelling, $30,000. Utah Homes, 828 Douglas, single family dwelling. $30,000. Utah Homes, 818 Douglas, single family dwelling, $30,000. Utah Homes, 810 Douglas, single family dwelling, $32,000. Utah Homes. 802 Douglas, single family dwelling, $30,000. Norman John, 635 East Second South, single family dwelling, $25,000. Robert K. Palmer, 811 Douglas, single family dwelling, $32,000. house on north Main which is a project of Brigham City apartment street businessmen Vern Petersen. James Powers and Bud Powers. It was the second straight month in which the million-dolla- r mark has been broken, Aprils activity totaling $1,168,350. Most Since October And it was the greatest single month in terms of project value since last October when American Greetings corporations new plant start boosted the monthly figure to $4,319,400. (and it was a mixture of both Tuesday), Carol Jean Payne was determined to get the job done. She was, of course, decking out one of COME RAIN OR SHINE Summer school Brigham City's fire hydrants in a new suit of painted clothes and a face. It s a local project associated with national effort. a Hot Springs to BC starts Monday bids on Elder district's summer school for elemenatry and junior high age students will begin next Monday, June 9. Box Classes will be held at two schools Elder Junior High and Bear River Junior High beginning at 9 a.m. Principal at Box Elder Junior High school is Robert Morgan, with Clair Bailey as coordinator. Ford Jeppson is principal at Bear River Junior High and Don Potter is coordinator. Bus transportation will be provided for all those needing a ride. Pick-upoints for students will be at the various elementary schools in the Brigham City area, and the regularly established points in the Tremonton area. p Students should be at their bus stops by 40 a.m. for 9 a.m. classes. Buses will return at 12 noon. "Parents are encouraged to register their youngsters for a wide variety of offerings special classes in remedial and enrichment such as reading and math, art, band, ceramics, cooking, crafts, dance, drama, German, guitar, liquid embroidery, orchestra, science, sewing, swimming, trampoline, typing, ukulele, vocal music and wood crafts," Director Les Dunn said. Cost of the program is $5 per class. This costs covers transportation and fees for most classes. 8 : e in 1975. 'Disillusioned,' says State opens Box The building value this year now stands at $4,047,174 with the city having issued 104 permits. Should the trend continue, Brigham City could establish a new high figure 1-- 15 project An apparent low bid of $8,948,263 was received Tuesday to complete construction of Interstate 15 between Hot Springs and Brigham City. Parson Asphalt company, Ogden, submitted the low figure which was less than the official engineers estimate of $9,592,003. The project was one of four in Utah for which the state road commission opened bids in Salt Lake City Tuesday. It will involve concrete surfacing of the interstate section, filling in a gap which now exists between Hot Springs and Eleventh South in Brigham City. The contract includes paving of approaches and a parking area for the proposed Utah Highway Patrol station southwest of Perry. Also included will be construction and landscaping of a rest area west 10.4-mil- e Perry and construction of a bridge spanning Hot Springs lane and a Union Pacific Railroad spur. Still another facet of the project will be final surfacing of two remaining lanes of Eleventh South, and The first connecting two lanes of this four-lanaccess road were surfaced under a previous contract and have been in use for several years. The contractor has 300 working days in which to complete the project which would place completion sometime in the spring of 1977, according to a road commission statement. This section of has undergone construction since of e state-bv-stag- e 1972. Other projects for w hich bids were opened Tuesday included jobs in Grand and Utah counties. BEEA Wayne Hoopes, 413 North First East, single family dwelling, $20,000. Keller Brothers Construction, 748 South Main, demolition of house, $5,000. DeVerl H. Anderson, 570 North Fourth East, home addition and garage, $9,000. David Rasmussen, 660 South Fifth East, single family dwelling, $16,500. Epcon company, Main street and Forest, signs (First Security bank), $2,300. Glenn A. Knudsen, 634 East First North, storage shed, $1,000. Joe M. Rodgers, 950 South Fifth West, hospital, $1,500,000. Aluminum Builders, 104 South Fourth West, aluminum siding, $1,200. Aluminum Builders, 106 East Sixth South, aluminum siding, $2,400. Baty W. Morrison, 775 North First East, swim school and club, $22,000. Farrell C. Leishman, 329 Westland drive, home addition and carport, $2,690. (Continued on Page 7) aide Talks break off, board team ready to resume' Negotiations have officially broken off between the Box Elder Board of Education and Box Elder Education association. Chairman of the board's negotiations team, C. Morgan Hawkes, said this week his group is prepared to resume talks this summer. However, the BEEA has said it will not to the bargaining table until Aug. 25, taking this position when agreement was not reached by June 1. Willa Hurd, a spokesman for the BEEA, said the association regrets failure to conclude negotiations by the June deadline "established by the master return 1 agreement. Hawkes pointed out that the master agreement provides that negotiations may continue past June 1 by mutual consent... in order to arrive at agreement". BEEA spokesman have said summer employment and other commitments preclude further negotiations during the summer on their part. Not Early Enough Its the teachers contention that the board team was guilty of not negotiating seriously early enough to successfully conclude talks by June 1. Hawkes and other members of the board team David Morrell, board clerk, and Richard Kimber, director of pupil personnel respond that it was teacher procedural demands,' not their reluctance, which caused the delay. Mrs. Hurd, a member of the BEEA team, said the association "stood willing to negotiate seriously from April on, but the process got underway far too late to realistically expect a settlement before teachers are unavailable because of summer employment, summer school and other commitments". She cited Hawkes attendance at the National School Boards Association e , ' delaying factor. Another was time spent by the board team "tramii.n with the state industrial 1 vom no.-.- . . "It was not until May 8 that the board team suggested a meeting for the next day. The association team was unable to schedule on such short notice. But when they did meet on May 13, one of the initial procedural items which they felt was imperative was one which required advance scheduling of blocks of time wherein serious negotiations could take place. Held Up Negotiations "This item plus one which called for the signing of tentative agreements continued to hold up actual negotiating until May 20. We could not understand their reluctance to follow the very format which helped to Mrs. expedite last years negotiation, Hurd stated. that Hawkes, however, disclaimed training with the state industrical mission was cause for delay. The board team has had three hour-lon- comg meetings with a consulting firm, he said. Furthermore, he said this was not the format used in negotiations last year. List list The BEEA team submitted a for negotiating. But instead of explaining all items, theyve chosen to handle one at a time, not moving on to the next item until reaching agreement on the preceding one, Hawkes explained. He said it was a slow and tedious process, noting that only six items had been covered when talks broke off. The pivotal question of salary increase was never reached. On the other side, Mrs. Hurd, noting this is her first time at the bargaining table, said, "I must admit that I am really disillusioned. I find it difficult to understand the uncompromising attitude of the board team even on proposals of relatively minor import. We get the impression that the board team is either unwilling to negotiate or they are not really authorized to do so. Mrs. Hurd, a teacher at Bear River High school, is serving on the BEEA team with Ted Hougaard, a Box Elder Junior High school teacher and BEEA president-elect- , and Brent Hollingsworth, a teacher at Mountain View Elementary school. Ray Hall, executive director for Northern Utah Ur.iServ, is spokesman for the panel. |