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Show I I 7--p- . State Press ytah PO Box 1327 Balt Lake City, Utah 84ll0 'Save the green' Brigham City merchants are staging their annual Dollar Days sales promotion todav (Thursday) through Saturday. And theyre inviting shoppers to save the green with the opening of the bargain event falling on St. Patricks Day. To give a special and colorful reminder of the occasion, sales persons in participating stores are wearing green carnation boutonnieres. "This is our first big promotion of 1977 and we feel that everyone should join in and promote Brigham City 100 percent and DAZE people with dollar values, Chairman Keith Garoutte has admonished local merchants. Dollar Days is the communtys longest continuing values event, coming each year in March. Volume 70, Number 1 Victim of mishap Promoted by drouth Services held for Corinne boy, TWENTY CENTS 28 Pages Brigham City, Utah 84302, Thursday Morning, March 17, 1977 1 5 1 1 Funeral services for Von 0. Hokanson of West Corinne were held Tuesday at the Corinne chapel. died Saturday, March a farm accident when he apparently suffocated in a silo of grain. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Brigham City Community hospital about 3:10 p.m. after he was brought to the facility by Brigham City ambulance. Deputy Lynn Yeates of the Box Elder sheriffs office said grain was being taken from the silo and loaded into a truck by elevator. The boy was jumping into the grain to push it to an opening at the bottom of the silo, he said. Yeates said the boys father, Olof H. Hokanson, left for a short time and when he returned he could not find his son. The deputy said the father and another man began digging and after some time the boys feet appeared at the exit hole at the bottom of the concrete silo. Yeates said the youth suffered a cut over his right eye and it was not certain whether it was instrumental in his death. An autopsy was performed at the McKay Dee hospital to determine exact cause of death but results have not yet been released, he added. Von Olof Hokanson was born Aug. 27, 1965 at Logan, a son of Olof H. and Marie Burton Hokanson. He was a fifth grade student at Corinne school and a member of the Blazer B class in the Corinne Second ward. He had lived at Farr West before moving to Corinne two years ago. Surviving are his parents of Corinne; five brothers and two sisters, Lynn attending Ricks college at Rexburg, Idaho; Neil Hokanson, Lee Hokanson, Chris Hokanson, Wayne Hokanson and Gaye Hokanson, all of West Corinne; Jan Hokanson, attending Weber State college in Ogden; a grandmother, Mrs. Almira P. Burton of The 12, in state-funde- IT WAS A telephone. The melted remains of that instrument bear mute witness to Conrad Roper (left) who inspects the upstairs to his home that was heavily damaged by a fire Monday. Estimates are more that $33,000 damage was sustained. No one was hurt. Home nearly destroyed 1SS Afton, Wyo. 8s Db3(57 Y7 Funeral services were under direction of Olsen Funeral Home of Brigham City. (SoFoime 8gd A leaking propane tank ignited by a gas clothes drier is blamed for a $33,000 house fire in West Corinne Monday afternoon that left the Conrad Roper family homeless. Brigham City Fire Chief Rod Romer said four units responded to the fire just before 2 p.m. and arrived quickly on the scene. However, the intense heat and smoke severely damaged virtually all the contents and structure. . . . farm accident a large portion of the Romer said there were no fire hydrants area but the two pumper trucks carried more than enough water to quench the blaze. He said the fire didnt burst into flames as such but smoldered and gave off a tremendous amount of heat because the air supply was limited in the basement. Romer said Mrs. Roper and a son were in the house at the time and they heard a muffled explosion that probably was the propane igniting. It wasnt a real loud explosion, Mrs. Roper said, but when she heard it she knew in the Von O. Hokanson cloud seeding campaign is expected to in Box Elder and two neighboring counties right away, thanks to $75,000 made available by the state for this purpose. Prompted by the drouth which currently d has Utah in its grasp, the effort will continue until June 1. At that point, a previously approved district project with take over. It means that Box Elder, Cache and Rich counties will be the target for cloud seeding operations through next September, at least. County Commission Chairman Don Chase said all arrangements for the immediate operation are being handled by the state. Atmospherics, Inc., Fresno, Calif., is being contracted to do the job. This is the same firm that conducted Bear River districts (Box Elder, Cache, Rich) first weather modification program ever last summer. How much the cloud seeding effort can be expected to help is uncertain. In a report on last years project, the West Coast firm made this observation: A start 08 fq it was serious. She called to the son who was sleeping in a bedroom then went to get her little girls out of the house. Romer said the relatively new home was extensively damaged and his estimate of damage was conservative. He said virtually every item and every possession in the home were damaged or destroyed. The chief said the propane tank had just been filled and was brought into the basement and either the heat downstairs caused the gas to leak from the bypass valve or a connection was not tight. Romer said the basement was finished throughout and was totally destroyed. Most of the fire itself was contained there but the upstairs was heavily hit with smoke and heat. No firemen were injured and the second pumper truck was not necessary. The and salvage truck also responded, he said. It was reported that the Ropers are staying at the Kenneth Harper residence. Harper turned his home over to the family until they can make other arrangements. mini-pump- While it is not possible to precisely determine the effect of the program after only one year of operation, there are strong indications the program did produce a beneficial result. Based on radar data, including the information from more than 160 acetate overlays of precipitation echoes, the seeded cumulus cells on any operational day lasted for a longer time period and produced rainfall over a significantly d cumulus cells larger area than in adjacent areas. In other words, the contractor is claiming cloud seeding did help. And among recommendations, the firm advises that the program be expanded to include year-roun- d operations until such time as drought conditions are reduced below critical levels. Other recommendations urge gathering or more detailed data for more efficient evaluation not only of precipitation effects but hail suppression. County commissioners indicated earlier that they felt the initial try at weather modification had produced desired results. non-seedi- non-seede- At least last year brought abundant moisture. Two airplanes and five ground generators were used in the operation which saw clouds seeded with 10,602 grams or 23.4 pounds of silver iodide. The aircraft engaged in 47 seeding flights, logging 91.6 hours. Additionally, there were 43 flights for cloud observations, maintenance, administration and aircraft ferry. Commissioner Reed Nielsen said that Oneida and part of Cassia county in southern Idaho have asked to be included in this years program beginning June 1. Box Elder has budgeted the same amount as last year, $17,000, with other participating counties expected to pay their proportionate shares and the state of Utah also joining as a partner. Last year the project finally totalled $113,700 after originally being proposed at $58,000 for precipitation only. At the last minute, the state upped its original share of $17,647 by another $55,700 to cover the cost of hail suppression. The initiative for cloud seeding in Bear River district came from the Resource Conservation and Development . . District Principal wins open house top UEA honor Box Elder County School district will hold a open house at its new office facility at 230 West Second South in Brigham City on Wednes- day, March 23. According to Dr. J.C. Haws, superintendent, open house, activities will begin at 8 a.m. and continue until 7:45 p.m. Members of Alpha Delta Kappa sorority will assist as hostesses. It is planned that special student tours will be scheduled during school hours through school principals. Tours of the building are being conducted even though the building is not completely renovated During the past several weeks ad- ministrative staff members and others have been spending evenings cleaning, painting and paneling the newly acquired facility. The new building houses all curriculum and business offices with the west wing being devoted to community education. The general public is invited to drop in. Ford Jeppson, long-tim- e principal at Bear River Junior High school in Garland, has been named by the Utah Education association as Administrator of the Year. The announcement came Tuesday. Jeppson, 64, began his career in education in 1938 and has been in his present position for the past 172 years. He will receive the award on Tuesday, April 19, at Maddox Ranch House. The selection is made yearly by the UEA Department of Classroom Teachers Executive council. He is very well qualified and has an outstanding record of accomplishments. We felt very good about choosing him as the winner, said Maxine Evans, president of the Department of Classroom Teachers. Jeppson was born in Brigham City Dec. 18, 1912, and his family moved the following spring to Buist, Idaho, where he grew up. His education consisted of four years of county school elementary at the in Buist, Idaho. The remaining years of elementary school and high school was spent in Brigham City and he graduated from Box Elder High school in May, 1932. Jeppson then attended Utah State uni- one-roo- versity where he was president of the Box club, president of the History club and assisted Dr. Joel Ricks in researching the centennial history of the university. He graduated from Utah State with a BS degree in the spring of 1938, also graduating from the LDS Institute that same year. That fall the veteran educator teaching at Grouse Creek where he was principal and taught grades seven through ten. The following summer he attended the Univesity of Minnesota. On returning he was transferred from Grouse Creek to McKinley school at Tremonton. After three years at McKinley, he was transferred to Bear River High school where he took over the biology department. That year he also managed the Mexican labor camp. The following year he quit teaching and took over the managership of what was the Farmers Cash Union, now Anderson Lumber Company in Tremonton. After a tour of military service from April 1945 to September 1946, he returned to take a teaching position at McKinley school, and after two years became Elder Students (Continued on Page 3) |
