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Show I Aft ah Volume 70, Number 37 By S t&te Press Assn. 20 Pages Brigham City, Utah, Thursday Morning, September 15, 1977 TWENTY CENTS 1,105 to 52 margin Brigham City voters Tuesday endorsed a $650,000 water bond issue by a landslide. The final count was 1,105 voting for the issue and 52 casting ballots against it. The outcome represented a solid expression of support for a proposed $1,012,000 water system improvement project which will include construction of additional reservoir storage plus replacement and repair of distribution lines. Those favoring the issue represented 95.5 of the voters who cast ballots at two the city hall and polling places Tuesday community center. Roger Handy, director of administrative services, said 14.93 percent of the citys 7,750 registered voters took part in the special election. Im real happy that those who responded voted favorably for the water bond Parents called back to school because I feel its vital to the future of our community, a delighted Mayor Harold B. Felt said Wednesday morning. Im a little concerned that more people dont take an interest in these vital public affairs but 1 do express thanks to those who did take the time to express their the mayor opinion on this proposition, added. Attention will focus now on detailed planning of the project. City Engineer Keith Hansen is expected to discuss this with the city council when it meets in regular session this evening (Thursday). Handy said Wednesday that a formal offer of a $374,400 grant to help finance the project has been received from the Economic Development administration. Back-to-scho- Box night will be Elder High school this evening (Thursday) beginning at 7 p.m. Parents are scheduled to visit classrooms and will be briefed on programs and policies by teachers. This is not a parent-teache- r conference but is held to give parents an idea of what their students will be doing during the year, PTA President Rella Olson explained. The art department is holding a poster contest on PTA objectives. The entries were judged Wednesday and prizes will be awarded to winners as part of the night activities. PTA memberships will be on sale during the evening. A membership will be good for admission to one of the Box Elder football games, the exact one to be announced tonight. Parents are invited to gather in the auditorium at 7 p.m. for introduction of PTA and studentbo-d- y officers and new teachers. back-to-scho- Handy said he planned to discuss it with the citys bonding consultant firm, Burrows, Smith and Company, in Salt Lake City today. The city aide said there is no starting time specified for the water project as with d other federal undertakings. However, there is a requirement for the work to be completed by April 30 next year. Still not certain where financing is concerned is the fate of a $300,000 interest- - Availability of federal funds was made known in July. Key features of the project and an application were then put together and contacts with the federal agency brought the need to hold a referendum vote no fund-assiste- later than Sept. 15. City officials waged a last-minu- edu- cational campaign, including a public hearing Monday evening, newspaper advertising and letters mailed to local homes. Look to convention Demos meet, tap leaders The Democratic party in Brigham City reorganized in a special session .Tuesday night, electing new officers and expressing optimism about prospects for the upcoming municipal election. The meeting was conducted in the city council room, upstairs in the city hall, and attracted an estimated 35 persons. The new chairman is Mrs. Herbert (Alberta) Blue, 404 Crestview drive, a g Democrat who has been involved in the Brigham City League of Women Voters and other community activities. She succeeded Nick Topik who retired from the post. Other new officers are Rex Richards, vice president, and Vaughn Nielsen, secrlife-lon- observed at free loan application made last week with the Utah Board of Water Resources. If this request, or a portion of it, is approved, it would reduce the interest which Brigham City must pay on the bond issue. The water project proposal and resulting bond election came in rapid sequence. The council is expected to formally accept it this evening. Another aspect of financing, sale of the general obligation bonds, also must be pursued now with the federal agency having offered to buy them at five percent interest for up to 40 years. the call to this meeting and I visualize that the Democrats will have a ticket that is difficult to defeat, he declared. Thus far there have been no publicly announced candidates on the Democratic side for two seats on the city council and the office of mayor. All are four-yea- r terms. At the municipal level among third-clas- s cities and towns, candidates are nominated for office at partisan conventions held for this purpose. There is no primary election preceding the November balloting, the party nominating meetings serving that purpose. f,-- . Mrs. Blue and her Republican counterpart, Richard Van Dyke, indicated this week they are working to coordinate the date for their respective nominating conventions which normally are held on the same evening. They apparently will be held in early October with the filing deadline falling on Oct. 11 this year. In addition to party convention, candidates may be nominated and find a place on the November ballot by filing a petition signed by at least 25 registered voters, none of whom can have taken part in a party convention. scene at city hall Tuesday morning as voters turned out to cast ballots in Brigham City's $650,000 water bond election. Turnout was slim but endorsement of bonds was big. THIS WAS THE etary-treasurer. Formerly serving in the two positions were Mrs. Mabel Miller and Jeff Packer. The latter resigned recently but was on hand to help with Tuesdays reorganization session. The event culminated a series of several meetings by a reorganization committee and discussions with persons throughout the community on party leadership needs, it was explained. Mrs. Blue said district chairmen and vice chairmen had been asked to attend Tuesdays gathering. The new chairman said three commitnomintees will be named immediately ating, finance and candidates support. We do intend to nominate and elect Democratic candidates to office, said an enthusiastic Mrs. Blue. She said her optimism was based on the interest expressed at Tuesdays session. Mayor Harold B. Felt, a Democrat who is not seeking reelection, was equally optimistic. Im really happy with the response to In local area Skunk rabid A skunk killed recently on a Brigham City area ranch proved to be rabid and, as a result, people in this vicinity are advised to be especially cautious where the striped creatures are concerned. The skunk was discovered on the ranch of Tom Davis, located about seven miles northwest of Brigham be cautious , aide warns City. Davis said he was alerted one night two weeks ago by a goat which was crying out in distress. He captured. If it has to be killed, then it should be done without damaging the brain so that an examination can be performed to determine if the animal is rabid or not. If we cant examine the animal, then we must assume it was rabid and begin the series of shots for rabies, Nichols said. There has always been a problem in Utah with rabid bats. These along with skunks, raccoons and foxes are (Continued on Page 8) As a result, Craig Nichols, epidemiologist with the Utah Bureau of Disease Prevention, this week said we can assume that rabies probably is in the skunk population in that area. The main thing is to avoid any contact with skunks. Be cautious. If any animals or humans are bitten by skunks, it should be reported to the district health office in Brigham City or Logan, Nichols said. In such a case the skunk should be thought perhaps the animal had become tangled up. But reaching the scene he saw that a skunk was biting one of the goats legs and wouldnt let go. The rancher used a shovel to kill the skunk, hitting it in the back. Wondering about the skunks unusual behavior, he cut off the head and sent it to Utah State university for examination by Dr. R.A. Smart. The test came back positive. The animal had rabies. home sfreJcCn Birighom on eleciiric system project Sira Brigham City is heading down the home stretch of the $1.4 million electrical system project which voters approved in a May 6, bond election. Structural steel is rising on the citys each side, growing up around a large circuit breaker and transformer which are anchored to concrete pads. 1975, This budding installation is a switching-tastation key element in the project. It will draw power from Utah Power and main line and Light companys 138,000-vol- t reduce it to 46,000 volts for use in the local completed by Nov. 30. This is going to be a real good station. Were putting in equipment to keep maintenance as low as possible, he said. The consulting engineer whose home is in St. George and who boasts 40 years experience in the electrical engineering field, said the system improvements will pay for themselves in savings. p system. Immediately nearby, workmen are putting in the foundation for an electrical substation, another vital link in the endeavor to provide the city with a more efficient system with greater capacity. Still on the drawing board but to be let for bid soon is a 46,000-votransmission line to loop the citys north side, connecting the east installation with the citys .west substation. Dwight Hoopes, consulting engineer, is e to personally oversee construction of the facility which he designed. He said Tuesday the total project will be lt RISE from a sun flower patch is the strucnow steel tural being installed on Brigham Citys station on the east side of town. This is the SEEMING TO swit-chingta- p key element of the city's $1.4 million electrical system improvement project. Completion is targeted for Nov. 30. on-sit- It isnt going to cost Brigham City citizens a thing, he asserted. Brigham City will continue to receive Bureau of Reclamation power brought here over UP&L lines. But eliminated will be about $50,000 in annual transforming and wheeling charges, Hoopes explained. Further savings will be realized by in- creasing the basic distribution voltage throughout the city from 4,000 volts to 12,000 volts, making line losses and voltage fluctuations minimal. Wasatch Electric of Salt Lake City is constructing the tap station under a $95,326 contract. Hoopes said the station is designed to be. low profile so that it will not be. conspicuous. The structure and relate;) substation site is located at about Fourth South and Seventh East. A residential subdivision is nearby. In addition to keeping a low silhouette, the station and a new quadruple circuit line will also make it possible to remove several existing pole lines from the area. g A metal building nearby houses a control panel which, Hoopes said will be operated via microwave by the UP&L dispatcher in Salt Lake City. He said a microwave circuit is being leased from Mountain Bell for about $230 a s month in lieu of an $80, microwave installation which UP&L first requested. 000-plu- Other major facets of the project already completed include upgrading the west substation to 12,000 volts and laying an underground transmission line from that installation to Brigham City Community hospital in southwest Brigham City. A new line also has been extended to American Greetings corporations plant here and the city soon will open bids to rewind generators at the main city hydro electric plant. |