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Show ' UoUi press Aen. l50Ufclty, Brigham City, Utah 843Q2, Thursday Morning, Novambar 18, 1976 Volume 69, Number 47 Still Doc. for 1 w MUO TWENTY CENTS 26 Pages Springs soction BC - Hot Mmdby peumii pi fcr 1- 6.5-mi- le noon. Project Engineer Don Johnston said the opening date will be met unless something develops to hold us back. Workmen on the project were assembling signs for placement Wednesday. Not only will the Utah segment open but a longer stretch, about IS miles, is schedule to open on the Idaho side the same day. The development will eliminate the need e for travel over a narrow road which currently is in use between the two states. The new highway is divided four lanes and is constructed of concrete. Johnston said this week no formal ceremony was planned. And, unless local officials want to cut a ribbon, the highway will open with no fanfare. LeGrand Johnson Construction company, Logan, has been the contractor. The firm handled the grade and draining ..pdftion of work under a $2,801,377 contract with the Utah Department of Transporta- two-lan- , Car stuck on tracks train kills Ogden man 't '$'? -1 The stretch of M5 which extends from a point just north of Plymouth to the Idaho state line apparently will open to traffic officially on Monday, Nov. 22, at 12 v v v f. i i. i"' collision at the Nerva lane A train-ca- r crossing in South Willard that took the life of an Ogden man Saturday will be accident. classified as a Sgt. Jack Pendleton of the Utah Highway Patrol said Wednesday that Leonard Begay, 35, Ogden was not inside a foreign model car when it was hit by a Union Pacific freight train Saturday about 5:15 p.m. Trooper Ken Mecham Wednesday morning had a face to face interview with David Johnson, on of the survivors of the accident, which indicated Begay was outside of the car when it was struck. Johnson, 27, and Daniel Roy, 33, both of Ogden, were with Begay when their automobile stalled at the crossing which had been under repair. Pendleton said beams at the crossing apparently shifted and dropped the car's rear wheels into a hole between the rails and beams. The sergeant said Johnson and Roy had left the car and were looking for a plank when the train struck. Begay was apparently standing to the side of the car, reaching into the back seat for a jack. He was not in the car at the time of the accident, said Pendleton. Begay had been driving as the three worked to free the car from the tracks. The trains engineer, Willis Eaton of North Salt Lake, told troopers Ken Mecham and James Lindsey, who investigated, that he saw someone leaning into the back seat just before impact. It had been believed more than one person was hurt in the accident but Johnson, who was missing when troopers arrived, was found in Ogden the next day. He apparently was suffering from shock. He doesn't remember much after he left the car to look for a plank, but he remembers Begay reaching into the back seat to find the jack, Pendleton said. Pendleton said the crossing had been under repair and crews apparently had placed the beams down without securing them before they quit work. Pendleton said the mishap will not be counted as a traffic accident but as a fatality. He said the men could not have been on the crossing much more than five minutes when the northbound train struck the car. He said the train was traveling about 55 miles an hour at time of impact. Pendleton said alcohol was involved in the accident. train-pedestri- train-pedestri- Special section will focus on family life A special section timed to coincide with will be National Family week, Nov. carried as a supplement to the Nov. 21 issue of the Box Elder News. It is being prepared through cooperation of the News and the four local LDS stakes and will focus on the importance of the family in today's life. Watch for it. tion, and the surfacing phase with a $3,148,395 pact. Johnston said if the highway does open Monday, it will be just four days before the contract time runs out on Nov. 26 Its completion still leaves a gap in between Elwood and Plymouth with this' portion possibly two years away from the start of construction. of the congestion now encountered on US 89 which has become one of the most heavily traveled stretches of highway in Utah. On still another interstate construction front in Box Elder county. Project Engineer Larry Durrant said resurfacing 'of between Hansel Valley junction and Snowville is about 50 percent done. The distance is 7.74 miles. The project has shut down for the winter after starting in early July, concrete It involves laying a nine-inc- h overlay 38 feet wide on the existing roadway surface. te It was just recently that a route across Bear River valley was selected for this stretch. It continues to appear that the segment between Hot Springs and Brigham City will open by Dec. 1 as previously indicated. Project Engineer Luke Mildon said Wednesday that, with the exception of some guard rail being installed this week, only signing remains to be done. Some difficulty is being encountered with one sign supplier but it looks favorable" for the Dec. 1 opening, Mildon said. Parson Asphalt Products is the contractor with the project bearing a $8,948,263 price tag. The highway opening will relieve some le A s d Durrant said the lanes are completed and will begin receiving traffic f in about one week. , During the construction period, all traffic has been routed over the west-boun-d lanes. east-houn- Work will resume when weather permits with plans to complete resurfacing of the d lanes next summer. . Durrant said there have been no problems on the project. The contractor is Parson Asphalt Products working under a $4,481,265 contract. west-boun- -- Swine flu vaccine given to1 7, 950 inEcounty V - jtj. As of Nov. 16, n. a ri some 17,950 doses of swine flu vaccine have been "" v . s t I given to residents of Box Elder county, This represents approximately 44 percent of the population eligible to receive the vaccine (those 18 years or greater), according to Director John C. Bailey, MD, Bear River District Health department, said. The majority of vaccine has been administered through public clinics sponsored by the health department. Several hundred doses have also been given by private physicians. The local response to date exceeds that of the stte and the nation in general. Nonetheless, should an epidemic of swine flu occur, it is unlikely that present immunization levels would provide adequate community protection, Dr. Bailey said. For those who have not yet received their swine flu shot, vaccine is still available free of charge at the health department in Brigham City. by appointment, call The majority of those receiving the vaccine have experienced no side effects other than a sore arm for a day or two, the director noted. 723-56- 48 betsigns which are being posted on ween Plymouth and the Idaho state line are pictured here as they were prepared for placement Wednesday. SOME OF THE The stretch of interstate highway is expected to open for traffic on Monday, Nov. 22, at noon. A stretch of will open on the Idano side, too. Between Tremonton, Garland wodtaims The breach between Garland and Tremonton on their joint sewage disposal plant project appears to have grown wider Garland officials indicating they may seek to go it alone. Both cities currently rely on Tremon-ton- s waste treatment plant for sewage disposal. The plant must be upgraded to meet requirements of the federal Environmental Protection agency. And both communities had planned to share in the cost. He's Eldon R. wir pirjjsf oiro But, on Nov. 9, Tremonton councilmen received a letter in' which their counterparts in Garland expressed displeasure with progress of the undertaking. And Tuesday night, a copy of a letter sent to EPA by Garland was presented to the Tremonton officials. The letter stated that Garland no longer vonsiders itself active participants in the project, It indicated further that Garland would seek to pursue its own disposal program unless it can be shown that Tremontons proposed solution is the most economical. It voiced disatisfaction and a lack of confidence in the proposed method of correcting the sewer treatment expansion Garland officials say theyve lost patience with cost changes, alleged inaccuracies and variations that have accompanied the joint undertaking. problem. -- Griffin New mayor at Garland Garland has a new mayor. It occured Tuesday during a regular city council meeting in the Box Elder county community. He is Eldon R. Griffin, employe of Hill Air Force base, who was appointed to the post by the council. Hell fill the remaining term of George R. Hales who was forced to retire for health reasons. The four-yeterm will expire at the end of ar 1977. This is not the first time for such an experience where Griffin is con cerned. The new mayor was previously appointed to fill and unexpired council term when former Councilman Harold Abernathy resigned due-tthe press of his work. Griffin sought election on his own to the council last year but was narrowly defeated. He is married and has two married children plus a son who is on an LDS missioyi in Japan, a daughter at Utah State universty and two other children at home. In other business at Tuesdays council meeting, Garland officials agreed to sign a contract involving tbe new Bear River Valley hospital in Tremonton. Garland is one of the nine communities which bonded to help finance the medical facility. The pact approved Tuesday was with Intermountain Health Care, Inc., which operates the hospital. Meeting with them in the matter wq Mel Foxley, chairman of the hospital board. Reportedly, at a hearing held in November 1974 the cost to build an addition to the existing plant was estimated at $350,000. Repair of lines pushed the figure to $649,000. It was expected to increase the monthly sewer service fee in Garland by 98 cents. However, its now estimated the cost will be $1.1 million and the sewer charge an additional $2.92 monthly. Garland residents currently pay $2.50 per month. Officials in the neighboring city also contend theyve not been kept informed of the cost changes. Tremonton officials said they would handle the situation through Valley Engineers, Logan, which is engineering the project. They pondered on sources of additional funds to make up for the withdrawal of Garland. In other business at a regular Tremonton council meeting. Valley Engineers was authorized to submit applications for federal funds to finance a community water system rejuvenation expected to cost more than $1 million. It was decided to erect a street light at the corner of Sixth North and Tremont driving street to decrease a night-tim- e hazard there. They also agreed to install stop signs at a railroad crossing on a road which runs from Twentieth Century subdivision to Rocket road. A sewage problem in southwest Sandalwood Acres subdivision was again discussed but no solution presented itself. It was only recently discovered that a sewer main there terminates in a deadend. Sen. Miles (Cap) Ferry . . . minority leader GS? chiofl countys State Sen. Ferry Wednesday was named minority leader in Box Elder Miles (Cap) the Utah Senate. The veteran legislator wa named to the post during a caucus of all Republicans who will be serving the state senate during its coming session. Ferry served as the minority whip in the 1975-7- 6 sessions of the legislature. The West Corinne rancher and farmer has served in the senate for 12 years. Selected by the GOP caucus for minority whip was Sen. Fred W. Finlinson, Salt Lake City attorney. The legislature will go into session on Jan. 10. |