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Show t i t f I" Scheduled April 24-Ma- y r a o "V IJtah State Press Assn. Box 1 Salt City poised for Art Week 1327 Lafee City, Utah 84llO 'Adventures in Freedom' V Brighxm Citys annual Art Weak observance Adventures in Freedom will get underway Saturday and continue through May 1 with a host of activities on Up. This years week has a definite Bicentennial flavor with displays and workshop sessions at the museum-gallerstreet painting, music, art, flags and bells v lending to the theme. The kickoff event will come Saturday with a movie at the city library, Johnny Tremaine, a story of the revolution, ft y, Owen and Delone Glover. ' Art students from Box Elder High will begin at 2 p.m. Other movies are scheduled at the library during the week (see Book Chat in todays Journal). Baton Arte studios annual "Music in Motion revue will be presented at Box Elder High school Saturday evening beginning at 8:19 p.m. Sunday will see art displayed in all local churches, intended to recognise the role that art has played in the local heritage. Beginning Monday, the bell in the old city hall tower will ring each day at a.m. and S p.m., according to Chairmen Phyllis Volume and and blue setting for the displays. Each day at the museum-gallera special session of instruction in a different art form, will be presented. The hours will be 2 to 4 p.m. Senior and junior high art studenU will continue their activities by painting the Bicentennial logo at local schools during the week. The museum-galler- y plans to honor local elementary school teacher Barbara Armstrong as its Friend of the Month and on Wednesday will host students of Corey y, Junior High schools will engage in street , " painting on Forest street west of.Main entitled Freedom Avenue beginning nt 10 a.m. Monday. American flags will fly each day in downtown Brigham City and local residents are encouraged to fly their flags at home. Downtown merchants have been encour- aged to display works of local artists to their windows and to provide a red, white , , 1 Tuckness, BEHS drama teacher, in Variety in Pantomime for Very Important Persons. The time will be 7:90 p.m. A bell recently donated to the city and which will be located in a bell tower .planned at Brigham Young park, will be displayed at the community center during the week. The Cecilian Music society will present its annual spring concert Friday at 8 p.m. (see separate story in todays Journal). Mickey's Music City and the House of Sound have been asked to play patriotic Brigham City Utah 84332, Thursday Morning, April 22, 1976 69, Number 17 music during the week via their outside sound systems. And on Saturday, May 1, Art Weak activities will come to a climax with flowers to be presented at the corner at Forest and Mala and musicians and artists doing their thing in the downtown district during the afternoon. A dedication of the bell tower site at Brigham Young park is planned for 4: p.m. Saturday and at 8 p.m. the old city hall bell will toll the official closing of Adventures in Freedom, 34 PAGES 1 Tromonton council hoars i Hoaring sot May 26 4 yqpris1 You ' aete Coumrity s 1 w $3,447 Talk about a big light hill! Tremonton city officials Tuesday night were handed a back billing amounting to 83,477.60 by Utah Power and Light company. They were set back by the unexpected development. Don Peterson, district representative for UPAL, explained that through an apparent accounting error, Tremonton hadnt been billed for service to 82 street lights since June 1874. He said the billing apparently was snagged at a time when the power firm replaced an IncadssWt street light on Pfcmt Vest near thaw,flre station witha mercury vapor light. He stressed regrets at the development. City councilmen and Mayor Max Mason were at a loss to know how to pay the bill. The money simply isnt in the current budget. Peterson said the city could have all the time you have to have to pay It was agreed to have Peterson and City Recorder Jay Hirschi huddle on the matter 'and recommend at the next council meeting how to pay the bill. it. Other Business In other business at a regular city council session: Floyd Bailey, chairman of a Bicentennial project to plant trees in Bear River valley, said bishops in LDS wards would designate representatives to locate places for planting trees and indicate preferred types. s vV CD He noted also that a large number of will be planted around the cemetery in Tremonton. Paul Davis who heads arrangements for scheduled May the annual 1 at the county fairgrounds beginning at 18 a.m., reported at that time, a collection of early American history flags, including a community flag, will officially be presented to the city. City Councilman Harry Gephart will represent the city in accepting the flags which are a Bicentennial gift from Cub ' .. Scouts in the area. The council. took uader cbasldavatlnia a proposal to establish a youth center in the basement of the Sandwich Barn, a new eating place operated by Karl King and Grayling Garrett on Main street downtown. . Police Chief Ron Ogborn discouraged any attempt to start another youth center, based on negative experiences on the past when he attempted to oversee such a center at the old McKinley school. trees Scout-O-Ram- Wednesday following one of the largest marijuana hauls in Brigham City history. Kenneth Aday Bergman, 23, of Boze f iwm iiJ. I 1 ftjr f v v Jim t r I M f . Asking the council to consider the propo- sal was Mrs. Joyce Hawkes, a mother of teenagers who suggested the center be used on Friday and Saturday nights. It was she who approached the Sandwich Barn operators. Acting on a complaint that. downtown parking spaces are being occupied all day, to a great extent by store employes, the council ordered that the existing two-ho(Continued on Page Ihree) A KILO OF suspected marijuana is unwrapped by Brigham City police officers Jim Shelton, right, and Greg Kozak, center, with the help of Box Elder county sheriff's deputy Joe Archuleta. Some 73 kilos of the substance and other items were confiscated after the arrest of two Montana men Sunday morning. ur man, Mont., was released on bail after his arrest Sunday by Brigham City police officer Jim Shelton on a charge of possession of 73 kilos of suspected marijuana. A companion, Dwight Earl Richard, 26, also of Bozeman, was arrested on the same charge but was being held in lieu of bail. He was scheduled for a hearing Wednesday afternoon. Shelton reported that he stopped the vehicle owned by Richard but driven by Bergman about 6:20 Sunday morning after he noticed it was not carrying Box Elder county commissioners Tuesday took action on three recommendations front the county plana minor subning commission division at Thatcher, ; a setting change at Hoi typings and adoption acres) to RR-- 1 (residential one acre) land referred to as an island. It is located between highways which divide, diverting traffic to Ogden on ope hand and tendiag to on thf other. They stamped an okay on thb housing project at Thatcher which is proposed by Reed Summers. Located about a half mile north of the LDS church, the project will involve development of five building lots. Since it was a minor subdivision, the commissioners said no formal public hearing is needed, only their approval. will not However, the recommendation to amend zoning at Hot Springs does require a hearing. It tentatively was set for May 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the commission chambers, downstairs in the county courthouse at Brigham City. Specifically, its proposed to change from RR-- 5 (residential five plates. The unit was stopped at Second North and Main and when Shelton was obtaining drivers licenses and identification, noticed beer cans in the suspects car. When given permission to look further into the car he discovered a marijuana cigarette and roach holder, he said, and placed the two men under arrest for possession of marijuana. f The suspect vehicle was impounded as a part of the arrest and taken to Dicks Texaco where an inventory of contents was made. In the trunk was found 73 kilos (a kilo is 2.2 pounds) of suspected marijuana with a street value of $26,000, Shelton reported. Also found were a quantity of turquoise jewelry that had apparently been purchased in Arizona. An Involvement 76 dinner and rally is scheduled by the Box Elder County Republican party organization in Brigham City on Wednesday, April 28, it was announced this week by Party Chairman R. Douglas Parsons. The event will be staged at the community center beginning at 7 p.m. Scheduled as the featured speaker is lt Lake State Sen. Douglas Bishoff City). Senator Bishoff is well known for his humor and quick wit, the chairman pointed out. Door prizes will be given away and tickets, priced at $4 per plate, may be obtained from district chairman or county officials. Included among the latter are Parsons (R-Sa- Brigham City Chief of Police Steve Studdert will be the guest speaker Thursday, April 29, when the Greater Brigham City Area Chamber of Commerce holds its next booster breakfast. The event will be held at Earls Cafe, 912 North Main, beginning at 7 a.m. All interested persons are invited to attend. The cost will be $2 per plate and reservations should be made at the chamber office, association president and his wife heads the association confab is expected to attract 125 auxiliary. The two-daarsons from various parts of the state with sessions to e held in the community center. y - change. i : Clerk K, B. OlsOn noted that Stanley E. Hampton asked to have a one-acr- e lot rezoned to permit him to build a house there. However, the planning commission decided, since it is a limited area, all of the noncommercial property in the island should be rezoned. A new subdivision ordinance which contains minor adjustments to comply with court decisions will also require a hearing. And it is scheduled at 8:30 p.m., also on May 26. Commission Chairman Don Chase said the differences when compared with the existing code are minor. t County GOP plans dinner and rally at booster breakfast 723-393- t, f license Police chief to speak Wait convention r!f be affected by the proposed April 28 in Brighom City From Mexico Shelton said some liquor apparently brought illegally from Mexico was found along with plastic bags and a number of other items. Shelton was assisted in the arrest and inventory by Officer Greg Kozak and Deputy Joe Archuleta of the Box Elder county sheriffs office. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Hendrix and Arthur Bott, right, local president, discuss activities planned for the Utah State Letter Carriers association biennial convention in Brigham City Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Hendrix is (f (!, Montana men charged with possession of marijuana One Montana man was free on $5,000 bail while another was being held in the Box Elder county jail in lieu of $10,000 bail 01)0 01) eC? a, , 2 1. Chief Studdert will talk about crime and law enforcement as it relates to the business community. Wed certainly like to encourage anyone interested to attend, Chamber Executive Vice President Richard MacFarlane said. and Vice Chairman Kay Peterson in Brigham City or Beth Foxley, county secretary, and Glen Curtis, treasurer, in Tremonton. Involvement 76 is a program designed to allow each and every citizen of Box Elder county the opportunity to become involved in the election process of our public officials in this Bicentennial year, the chairman said. "The time is long past when we could afford to sit back and expect the other guy y to make our system work. We must all catch a little of that Sprit of 76 that our fore fathers had when they fought for our independence 200 years ago, Parsons said. He noted that many of the GOPs local and state office hopefuls will attend the event to meet county residents. two-part- Board BEEA to resume talks Tuesday The next meeting between negotiations spokesman for the Box Elder Board of Education and Box Elder Education association is scheduled Tuesday, April 27, at Bear River Junior High school. The session is slated to begin at 5 a.m. It will be the third round of talks between the two sides which are attempting to reach agreement on salary and other terms for the 1976-7- 7 school year. There was no indication as to the state of progress in negotiations thus far with a request having been made by the Box Elder News and Journal for a press release from the April 27 meeting. v |