Show Car Licenses Car licenses are to be availat Garland on the follow days: Each Monday in February the 6th 13th 20 th and 27th at the city room in the Ar- able fag mory - ESTABLISHED 28th AUGUST Year MEMBER 1928 GARLAND UTAH FRIDAY WITH THE ' EDITOR E SMITH THE BEAR RIVER valley may never have another one citizen who will play such an outstanding role in its religious civic and cultural life as has Clarence E Smith The long years of his service and the great number of lives he touched for good id his years as teacher principal and church leader combine to make such another record most unlikely lie was a man of great industry a constant worker a willing and cheerful servant of the At school he attended to people administraevery detail of his tion day and night and in the church his hand was always ready wherever he was called He was so successful in his home garden that he almost provided a family living from it in addition to all his other duties At home be leaves a cellar filled with the his own produce of industry raised during his last summer when he was even then fair from well and a pile of wood chopped during his spare hours that ' may not beburnef for along time to come And in this broad valley of over 20 communities shattered over 2000 square miles and in communities all over the nation and abroad where youth have followed their work he nas left many hundreds of people richer in character soul and purpose for having known him a legacy that wiU be remembered long and that will bear iruii in the lives —of generations that never knew him To those dose to him he was a perfect neighbor and his capacity for service was so great that he was literally a neighbor to thousands By telephone calls and comment person after person pays tribute to him until one becomes convinced that in the area where he everyone served joins his family in deeply his passing We join mourning them in feeling a sincere sense of loss" Highway Patrol Lists County Accident Toll State highway patrolmen in Box Elder County in January in14 accidents 10 provestigated perty damage- three personal injury and one involving fatalities Patrolman reports - supervising Pitcher in Three persons were-killthe fatal accident eight were injured in tliree injury accidents and damage to vehicles in the 0 14 accidents was estimated at There were 28 law violations noted in the 14 accidents resulting in nine persons being charged in court The record for accidents was much better than in December in the county when there were 28 accidents with property damage of over $16000 During January the Patrol issued 124 citations in the county 72 of which were for moving violations of a type which often result in accidents Warning tickets giveij numbered 206 he paFull cooperation with eftrolmen in lar? observance in less forts will certainly result accidents says Patrolman Pitcher who particularly cautions against which increases accispeeding dents andmakes them worse and Obey ' the Traffic Know Laws is the February theme of and the National Safety Council all drivers are urged to keep it Ln mind PRESS FEBRUARY 10 AND NATIONAL EDITORIAL 1956 ASSOCIATION N- - 28 sj Clarence E Smith Former Stake President and School Principal Called by Death Down The Side C STATE UTAH Death early Tuesday dosed the earthly career of one who has lor years so held the esteem of tne people of the Bear River valley as to be generally accepted ar their first citizen Clarence E Smith former president of the Bear River Stake and former principal of the Bear River High School He succumbed to a heart attack after a several months illness which became worse when he suffered a stroke last October I 29 During practically the entire time of his illness he was constantly attended by fMrs Smith Funeral services will be held this Friday at 1 pm in the Bear River Slake tabernacle at Gar land Friends may call at the even Rogers Mortuary Thursday ling from 7 to 9 o’clock and Fri from 10 until time ‘for the services 4 fall of 1920 with Mr Smith as He held this position principal until June 1944 when he was named to head the adult education program which had been established in the county continuing at the work until his retire- ment the Riverside ward he was in priesthood work and and was early sustained as superintendent of the Bear River Stake YMMIA He had already been a member of the Jordan Stake YMMIA superintendency and it' was while working in that capacity that he became acquainted with his future wife who was on the stake YLMIA board He had also been a Sunday School in the Draper superintendent Ward where he had been bom and raised In active MIA 10 NOVEMBER 1917 he was chosen as a counselor to P M Hansen of the Bear president PRESIDENT SMITH CAME to River Stake Following the death the Bear River valley immediateoil President Hansen he was a ly after his marriage to Clara counselor to President Milton IL Pearson In the Salt Lake Temple and in November of 1929 to become Welling on Sept 14 1910 he became president of the stake principal of the Riverside School holding this position until FebIn 1916 he was transferred to the 1948 a period of over 23 school as ruary in Garland elementary years the presidency principal and given the responPresident Smith’s zeal sibility of instituting classes of church service continued right ®T high school grade looking toward UDtl1 lllneSS last fall He MrrKUP o a the establishment an acccpted assign IIis classes school in the area as a ward teacher following t er of became the for President E Smith Clarence Weber Basin Project Explained To Lions Partners Many interesting details of the big $70 million Weber Basin reclamation project were explained to the Garland Lions at their by Wednesday evening meeting Francis M Warnick of the US Bureau of Reclamation The meeting was the club’s annual Valentine dinner and wives of the members were guests Mr Warnick stated that the completed project will bring water to an additional 50000 acres of land in Weber south Box Elder and Davis counties and will only take about 2000 acres out of production for its dams In addition it will provide largg amounts of water for industrial uses in the Ogden area where expanded industry is expected to double the population in the next ten years One of the reservoirs to be constructed will be close to the present lake shore west of Willard In Box Elder County Waters of the Weber and Ogden rivers which would ordinarily flow on into the lake will be channeled Into this reservoir by a gravity canal from west of Ogden The 'reservoir would also catch all other waste water from along the Wasatch drainage This would then be pumped up to higher elevations for irrigation on valuable bench lands The project would provide complete flood control on the rivers anu furnish and Ogden considerable fishing and recreation facilities in the area as well as providing needed water in a lack of water Is localify—where Mr row limiting development Warnick explained The meeting was in charge of President J Earle Arnold Gifts were presented to the ladies Garland Wards Date Sweethearts Ball For Valentins Day The their Garland wards are holding annual Sweethearts’ Ball this next Tuesday evening at the it is announced this ward hall week and will not conduct the usual MIA class activities All members of the two wards ere invited to join in the even-ir- g of dancing beginning Please the presidency Bear River High School which flE(j scrvcd continuously as a opened its doors in its first buildeacher or supervisor He also ing on the present campus in the directed class activities for tho high priests in the Garland SeBALL SWEETHEART cond Ward and in the Bear River Stake until his last iUness and BY WARD ANNOUNCED served on the stake Sunday Riverside Ward MIA officers School board and as teacher in the ward Sunday School announce that the annual Sweethearts’ Ball for the ward will be FOR OVER A quarter of a held next Tuesday evening Febhe has been the most century ruary 14 A good time is assured in the valsought after speaker all who attendley at mass groups religious and civic gatherings and at funerals Only a careful study of his diary would provide a key to the many lunerais at which he has spoken As a class leader he was always popular tor his vigorous style and bis ability to stimulate class dischorus cussion As a speaker he drew THE STAKE RELIEF Society heavily upon the world’s finest to illustrate his themes literature scheduled hold their will not preand interest his hearers paration meeting as indicated on For ' years he was a memmany announces the stake calendar So- ber of the G&rland Lions Club Mrs M L Nielson Relief and served as tneir delegate to ciety president a number of international conThe MIA will again be in ventions charge of the evening meeting Emanuel Clarence Smith was inand tabernacle stake in the born August 19 1882 at Draper vites everyone to be present a son of Lauritz and Johanne Jensen Smitn who came to Utah from Denmark Lauritz Smith h set himself up as the first in Draper and reared his family there Clarence attended sctooi at Draper and later graduated from the University of Utah prior to taking up his teaching career lie also filled an LDS mission laboring two years 1905 and 1906 in the state of Iowa He is survived by his widow and two sons Clinton P Smith both of and Richard P Smith Salt Lake City three grandchildren one brother David J Smith four sisters Mrs Wra Draper BWhite Salt Lake City Mrs' and Mrs Riverton Ray Petersen E W Ward and Mrs J 0 of Riverside Stake Quarterly Conference This Saturday and Sunday A special meeting with an emphasis on an enriched and satislife and specially fying home will called for men and wives the regular quarpublicly open in the Bear RiSaturday evening meeting for stake leaders committee priesthood bishoprics and clearks at 6:30 will this session precede terly conference ver Stake this at 8 o’clock A APPOINTED TO ATTEND the conference as a representative of the General Church authorities Is Antoine R Ivins of the First He will be Council of Seventy of making some in charge changes in the presidency of the 187th Quorum of Seventy In the stake which are being made no cessary by the removal of Fred Mr GroGrover from the stake ver recently disposed of his farm at East Garland and is moving to Alaska Sessions will be held at the The full hours Sunday membership of the stake is expected to be in attendance at these emphasises Robert J PotMusic will ter stake president be presented by the Garland Sechoir cond Ward under the diand the rection of F L Nye South Bear River Stake male usual A R Antoine R Ivins Hodge is at St Benedict’s in Ogden receiving med- Hospital ical care |