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Show Oct. 19, 1978, Page 14 SUN CHRONICLE, rr3a?' v v' a1 3 Wb Grp By Janet Smalley Editor Wtih a bottle of champagne and a ribbon cutting ceremony, the new Custer dorm was dedicated at the Weber Basin Job Center. President of the dorm, Dennis Love, did the honors Monday afternoon, with the help of Darrell W. Webber, s assistant Regional director the Bureau with of Reclamation in Salt Lake City. Congressman Gunn McKay was scheduled to be present at the ceremonies, but due to the long session of sent his congress, Administrative Assistant David Lee. He assured the approximately 50 people Job Corp Center Director Ted Larsen, welcomes guests during Monday's dedication ceremonies for a new dorm built by the students. Local dignataries along with other federal agency employees were present at the dedication. Rangeland bill gets approval - WASHINGTON The House passed by voice vote, the conference report on the Public Rangelands bill Utah Congressman Gunn McKay called the most Improvement important a Act, rangeland legislation since 1934. Rep. McKay, who wrote the bill with Rep. Teno Roncalio said the legislation authorizes up to $360 million over the next 20 years to upgrade western ranges, pegs grazing fees to the cost of animal production, does away with e- nvironmental impact statements on range improvements and allows humane adoption or disposal of the Wests overpopulations of wild horses and burros. The conference comnon-impa- mittee brought back almost the same bill we sent off. The only change is tighter control over the adoption of wild horses and burros which I can live with. McKay said. The conference report next goes to the Senate for expected approval "tomorrow and then to the White House for President Carters signature. The bill authorizes a maximum $15 million a year through 1986 and $20 million a year thereafter until 1998 to construct and and manage ranges and watersheds. According to McKay, 83 per cent of the total land area of 11 western states is grazing land and almost half of that is federally controlled. Recent Interior and Agriculture studies reveal that over 75 per cent of it is in bad to fair condition. Our western rangelands are in sad shape. They desperately need attention or weU lose an invaluable national said McKay. resource, Our ranchers have needed this for a long time and Im pleased to help them. According to Rep. McKay, the BLM and Forest Service will native d vegetation to lands, and range users under over-graze- agreements cooperative with the agencies can install and maintain improvements ranging from fence construction to small dams and piplines. Such improvements would not non-impa- ct environmental impact statements, said require McKay. School and Home by Dr. Daryl J. McCarty Executive Secretary Utah Education Association One method schools have used to prevent students from picking up the habit of smoking is to shock the bejabbers out of them with evidence of the damage cigarettes can cause to the heart and lungs. Scientists are looking at other approaches. Richard Evans at the University of Houston is developing a program that teaches kids how to say no when offered cigarettes by classmates. Early tests show the technique to be effective, he says. The federal government is also taking a hand in the antismoking effort. Joseph A. Califano Jr., the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, sent a letter to all seventh grade teachers in the nation. He asked their help in steering kids away from the nicotine habit. Califanos letter asks the teachers to send him successful ideas on educating young adolescents about smoking. Hes especially interested in essays and posters by students. Some educators use short films to explain tricks used in cigarette advertisements devised to make smoking more appealing. Utah has a law which says the public schools must teach about smoking in three ways explain the harmful effects of cigarettes, lead youngsters away from smoking, and expose fraudulent and deceptive ads. All of the foregoing represents quite an effort to prevent youngsters from smoking. Really, though parents probably have the very best preventive tool if theyll only use it. This tool is their own attitude toward cigarettes. Studies have shown that if parents smoke, their children are more likely to pick up the habit than children of If a child sees Mom and Dad smoking, this tells them its an okay thing to do. Even if such a parent urges the young person not to take up the habit, that warning has a hollow ring if the parent is puffing away a few minutes later."1 So thats it, parents. You may be able to contribute more to the campaign than scientists, teachers or the U.S. Government. Just kick the habit or never take it up. After all, the schools cant do it alone. anti-smoki- present tor the ceremonies, that his boss was concerned about the youth of the state, and said that the Weber Basin Job Corps Center provided many unique opportunities and opens many doors to those who might not have these to learn skills. The benefits from this program for those participating are Lee said, with the students g, being able to contribute both the communities of the area as well as the nation. He challenged the young people at the center to take advantage of the program and saluted those workers and directors for aiding the to obtain corpsmen marketable skills for their future. Center Director Ted Larsen welcomed those present and said were very proud of the dorm and for the past while, theres been a feeling of excitement here. Giving favorable statistics about the center was Tony Hassel, chairperson of the Community Council Relations and Director of the Moweda Youth Home. He said that the national average for youth who complete the program is 59 per cent, while at the Weber Basin facility, they have figures of 67.7 per cent who finish and graduate with skills for a jub. Some 6,000 young men have received their General Equivalancy during that time. Diplomas This is an excellent educational opportunity, and is a pleasure to work with the Job Corp on behalf of the alternative Community Hassel said. Presentations Council, of a wooden with a leather inof the state of Utah, with the Job Corps was made by Dorm President Love to Jim Banks,- - Deputy Directqr .of; Job, Corps,. Department t of. the Interior Congressman McKay; and Joe Hipps, Chief Division of Youth Programs, Washington, D.C. plaque signia along patch, DRIVING of the Golden Spike at Promotory, May 10, 1869, introduced transportation to Utah. The first Union Depot was opened in Ogden in November 1869. A larger depot, shown here, was constructed in 1887-8- 9 at the foot of 25th St. near Wall Avenue. It was partially destroyed by fire in February 1923 and replaced by November of that year with the city's third Union Depot. THE Events scheduled to open Ogden Depot By Glen Perrins and Charles B. Lockwood, Sun Chronicle Reporters After more than a century since the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory, May 10, 1869, Ogden is bringing to life the old railroad days, Oct. with the Golden Spike Empire Days, says Richard Myers, chairman. The six-da- y event, an expanded version of Greater Ogden Days, will combine drama, music and a host of activities with the exciting grand opening of the Union Station railroad Museum, 16-2- Browning Museum, Theater and Browning renovated depot. The opening includes the following dedications: Oct. 19: Dedication of the John M. Browning Museum under the direction of Thomas Moore. Oct. 20: Dedication of the Old Timers Hall, and related activities honoring veteran railroaders in the area, with Harold George in charge. The YWCA Food Fair will be set u p in the Old Timers Hall. Oct. 21: At 2 p.m. the grand dedication of the Union Station Complex will take place with the driving of an zirconium spike of age metal.. space Passing of a Depot Many at the exciting grand opening of the Union Station Automatic Transfer Service The account that lets you put ALL your money in savings and still use it for checking ! railroad Museum will recall the passing of depot, as does Charles B. Lockwood who says that when the Union Pacific narrow Gauge first came through Ogden in 1869, the train didnt hurry through the city. The train didnt tarry long in Ogden. Quite on the contrary, it kept right on going until it reached Promontory. The Golden Spike had been driven and Promontory was a division point on the railroad. The Union Pacific ran to Promontory and the Central Pacific then took over and ran west out of Promontory. Being a division point on the was line, Promontory honored by having a railroad foundry and a roundhouse. In fact, it had all of the necessary equipment to repair trains and engines. The Union Pacific had a practice of building fine depots wherever they were required, and of course one was built at Promontory. Things went along this way for several years until 1906 to be exact when the Lucin Cut-of- f was built over the Great Salt Lake and it seemed that almost overnight Promontory was dead (almost) and all attention was focused on Ogden. Ogden becomes division point Ogden then became the Division Point for the Union Pacific and the Central Position open for nurse group The Utah Nurses Association is seeking an executive director to direct and coordinate its activities, perferably a registered nurse. 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Utah Common Cause is a political lobby group whose main Interest is non-partis- making the government more open and accountable. Common Cause has 240,000 members nationally and 785 in Utah. Pacific. This brought a lot of business to Ogden and it grew, and the railroad decided Ogden should have a representative depot, and construction was started at once. When the depot was finished in November, 1869, it was a beautiful edifice, when it opened in Ogden and brought the transportation industry here in a big way. It stretched for more than a block and had several departments south of the main building. Among them were a commissary division, a laundry department and other coincident workings. The main depot building was beautiful, built of red brick, and was an imposing structure with spirals on the roof. Inside was housed a fine cafe where many of the elite of Ogden staged happy parties. These usually took place in the dining room, but the cafe had a horseshoe counter, and while the society celebrated in the dining room,. the .xaikoad fraternity and other?, to their meal at the counter, i The counter was popular with many Ogdenites who will remember it. Most Ogdenites were proud of their depot and they told the world about it. One hundred or more trains were passing through Ogden regularaly. The narrow gauge tracks had been abandoned and the regular gauge tracks were now being used. The Denver and Rio Grande railroad also found its terminus in Ogden and brought much business to Ogden. The Union Pacific built the Oregon Short Line to Portland, and now there was a vast network of tracks west of the depot, so it was necessary to build an overhead viaduct over them. Fire Strikes depot Then one night in February, 1923, a red glow spread over the depot area. Ogdens famous new depot was ablaze. Word spread fast and soon most residents of the city headed toward the fire. At the time we drove our automobile on the viaduct where we knew we would have a first class look at the blaze. The viaduct was already crowded, but we got about a block on it and then were hopelessly socked in. We dicin t mind that and we got a very good view of the fire, but then the police officers came on the scene and shouted that everyone would have to get off the viaduct, that the structure was old and it might crash with the weight. But we decided to sticm with the ship, come what may. Those who had walked up on the viaduct started leaving, and this was cheeful for us who stayed in our cars for it would lower the weight on the structure. So we stayed on the viaduct and watched our beautiful depot pass on. We were all sad to lose it, but it probably was one of those necessary changes in life because the present depot which is now being restored as the Union Station railroad museum is like a phoenix rising on the site where the old depot stood, and it probably will be around for a long, long time! "Yes, itll last forever, agrees Murray M. Mder, board chairman of the Union Station Development Cor-- . poration. i |
