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Show Ben Lomond Beacon tU'lli MIKE KEMPKE Lynn Krzton. manages to dislodge Mike Newman from the log with a quick tug of the rope. Photo by Nancy who helped run the tobacco spitting holds licorice that took the place of the the contest, tobacco during North Ogden Junior High's trapper rendezvous reenactment. Dressing as a mountain man helped Blake get into the spirit of the occasion. Photo BLAKE CEVERING, by Nancy Lynn Krzton. m ftkMUJh 80 08 a brief moment in two hunlred and seventh graders at Ogden Junior High stepped into the moccasins of Utahs famed mountain men to gain a taste of what life was like at a trappers rendezvous more ago. They nibbled on such delicacies as beer meat, elk, smoked salmon, deer, moose and rabbit, trading beaver pelts for food and other rendezvous activities. I burned the rattlesnake last night, so we couldnt have it, admitted history teacher Chip Hayes, the moving force behind the rendezvous reenaction. Everything were eating here, the kids brought in, Ogjdere Mr. Hayes said. The bear meat was supplied by Weber High School teacher Earl Hemnger, who hunts bears Utah History class. Brett Chatelain, who had just purchased two Indian squaws in a simulated percent of the students each year get black powder guns, make their own buckskins, and get involved after ex- annually. Mr. Hayes squaw auction, jokingly periencing this, said Mr. Hayes, a devotee of pioneer lore himself. began the rendezvous event seven years ago when he arrived at North Ogden Junior High, and its been happening ever since. Its just .to grumbled that his cousin had forced him to make the purchase while acting as the auctioneer. What am I going to do with them? he asked history teacher Don Hall give them a ? little hands-o- n flavor of what'TTaintlvey r Upon being questioned, he the rendezvous was like, he he was enjoying admitted the that that said, noting actual rendezvous, which himself, however. Its really fun, Brett took place twice a year in such places as Cache Valley, said. Ive had a lot to eat. I Bear. Lake, and the West liked the bear." Weber River, were quite a Weber High School junior bit wilder. Mike Chatelain, a former Since the trappers barNorth Ogden Junior High tered for goods and services student, was back in his with beaver pelts instead of handmade buckskins to money, the students were demonstrate mountain lore supplied with paper beaver to the seventh graders. About ten to fifteen pelts they had earned in With such teacher enthusiasm and devotion to detail as Mr. Hayes and his colleagues displayed, its no wonder their students ' hooked on learning the get old skills and traditions. That bear meat can be addicting. Outside, students wagered beaver pelts to compete in log walking, twig tossing, and tobacco spitting contests (using licorice instead of tobacco, of course). They get the flavor of what it was all about in more ways then one, Mr. Hall remarked, enjoying the spectacle. Area population prediction reported Weber County population will reach 238,000 by the year representing an crease of 84,000 or percent from estimated 2000, Junior high student couldn't decide whether or not she liked the trapper fare, but gamely gave it a try. Photo by Nancy Lynn Krzton. THIS NORTH OGDEN BO sel air liS :h. f- - no n. irrt 30 33 ell,' on U-of 80 8- - V- - . mz ny 38 VV 30 18 in- 54.5 1980 totals. This prediction was contained in a research report prepared by Utah the private Foundation, Ben Franklin's writing examined Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Mass., on January 17, 1706. He was the 15th child and and youngest son in a family of 17 children. His parents Josiah and Abiah people. Josiah Franklin, were hard working, Franklin made soap and candles in his shop and supported his family well. Franklin believed the doors of wisdom are never shut and with very little formal school training, he read every book he could f;nd, and he was interested in many subjects. He worked on his own writing style, using a volume of the British journal, The Spectator, as a model. A man, he placed himself on a rigid program. He learned the basic principles of alegbra, geometry, navigation, grammar, and logic and the natural and physical sciences. He studied and Spanish Italian, German, mastered French, partially men Latin, steadily progressing into one of the best educated of his time. and mastered many. He This man was was the only man who signed all four of the key documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the Treaty of Alliance, the Treaty of Peace with Great Britian, and the Constitution of the United States.' reading, it was necessary that he was able to see well. A stove was invented that gave more heat and used less fuel ' 1 God-learni- sry 30 ni- - .'fc ke i,NC 30 V. ks or 'u i 3. cv 30 3 ce 'fl Be ne 3- - il 30 jr ; in r Not being too fond of soap and candle business, like his father, Ben found printing more to his liking, and apprenticed with his older brother, to become a skilled printer. He wrote several newspaper articles. From 1723 to 1730, he worked for various printers in Philadelphia and in London, England, where he was sent to buy printing presses. In 1730 he became the owner of his own print shop and began publishing The Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin married Deborah Read, and fathered four children, two sons and two daughters. Being a hard worker, he became a successful business man, and was also interested in public affairs. In 1753 Franklin became deputy and set postmaster general and improved the postal system Dead-Mathe first and mail the system first city delivery up Office. He helped Canada establish its first regular postal service. Mentally active, he experimented with electricity. He was a scientist, and one of his many inventions was bifocal eyeglasses. His eyes were bad, and because he enjoyed , f. represent rather conservative forecasts since they reflect only current trends and the existing economic structure. Several potential developments such as the SFrviN MX 1 deployment system, the Intermountain Power Project, synthetic fuel processing, etc., could raise these state totals by another Vk percent. While both the Foundation and the Planning Office reports indicate that Utahs population will exceed 214 million by the year 2000, the Planning Office projections forecast a rapid growth in the earlier years and a gradual slowing down toward the turn of the cenThe Foundation tury. projections, on the other hand, show a rather steady growth over the 20-ye- period. The report indicates that there will be an increase of more than a half million persons ih Utahs normal working-ag- e brackets (20-64- ) between 1980 and the year Approximately 445,000 new jobs must be created during this period in order to accomodate this expected population increase. During 2000. the past ten years, nonagricultural employment in Utah rose by nearly 210,000 jobs, with the private sector accounting for 87 percent of the increase. Government made up 28 percent ot Utah nonagricultural employment in 1970 1980. and 22.5 percent in Population growth throughout the United States has tapered off during recent years, but Utah is ex- periencing the greatest growth in its history. Between 1970 and 1979, Utahs resident population rose by 308,000, or 29 percent. 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