The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 15

veots Center Section OGDEN UTAH TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 25 1973 IB Wants Exclusive Decision in Direct Dispute Of Utah Board of Education The Utah Board of Higher Education wants exclusive control over all state financed post-high school education including vocational and technical training This position expressed here Monday puts the higher board on another collision course with the Utah Board of Education which contends it has constitutional control over the entire education system Meeting as a committee of the whole Monday at Weber State College the higher board voted unanimously to ask the Utah Legislature to draw the line of authority between the two boards at the post-secondary level This position was endorsed by officials of all postsecondary institutions except the two technicrl colleges Presidents of the technical colleges in Provo and Salt Lake City said they would prefer to be governed by the Utah Board of Education These two presidents also Chairman Appointed Initial Meeting Scheduled Thursday A 16-member Weber State College Special Events Center promotion committee will hold its first meeting Thursday Chairman Don Spainhower said the committee will meet at 7:30 pm in room 352 of the WSC Union Building Mr Spainhower said the committee is comprised of media and advertising professionals who will assist in developing programs for promoting the campaign to raise additional funds for construction of the college facility Appointment of the committee and Mr Spainhower director of college relations as its chairman was announced today by Dean Hurst and Dale Gardner co-chairmen of the general campaign This is the second of five committees that are being created to help raise the additional funds necessary to build a 12000-seat special events center for college and community use WILL ASSIST A 20-member advisory committee has been appointed previously to assist the general committee and each of the working committees Two Weber State alumni Mr and Mrs Donnell Stewart have agreed to match funds contributed by the community to obtain the approximately $1 million needed to construct the larger facility A goal of at least $650000 has been set by the committee All five committees will be ROBERT WOLTHUIS US Appointment County Man Given Key ii uve euiiixiuiiccs wail uci AS THE NEWEST member of the Utah Board of Higher Education Ogden business executive Omer Buttars (center) gets a briefing from Vice President George Hatch (left) and Chairman Donald Holbrook as board meets on Weber State College campus CLARK PUFFER Outlines Goals Councilman Will Seek Mayor Post ROY An eight-year veteran of the City Council has announced he will run for mayor on a platform of open ear to citizens open meetings and a closed door to tax He is Clark Puffer of 2077 4600 an educator who is Weber Education Associations vocational program we have at Weber State in addition to the four-year liberal arts program Dividing the line of authority of the two boards at the point advocated by the two technical college presidents Dr Bishop said would leave Weber State under the jurisdiction of two different boards post-secondary education should belong to higher education and then we could work out any Dr Bishop said recommended all junior colleges and area vocational centers be placed under the Utah Board of Education which would leave the higher board with only the seven four-year colleges and two universities The higher board was scheduled to hold its regular monthly business meeting at Weber State today at 2 pm In asking for control over all post-high school education the higher board pledged to support development of the three existing junior colleges as Rainfall that apparently has community broken all previous records for wijhm the Utah System the month of September is ex- pected to continue late today a and possibly on Wednesday the National Weather Service said of Higher Education The board indicated this support will include giving the junior colleges at Ephraim Registered Voters To Decide Greenbelt Defense Job Price and St George expanded cepted this position but urged University oi Utah President David Piepont Gardner ac- NOT OVERSHADOW No special registration will be perhaps as much as a -a a a I milA appointed and functioning short-i required for Ogden residents to I So far this month 375 inches ly to prepare for the Nov 1 vote for a proposed $2 million1 CUT COSTS have been measured at Pioneer roles in vocation and continuing that the board take steps to candidate to officially announce kickoff of the campaign said general obligation bond issue This would cut labor costs and 1 Station three-tenths of an inch education programs to enhance sure the academic over-' he will seek the seat being Mr Gardner which the City Council has would take a large bite out of I more than in 1940 which up to their enrollment and status as I shadow the vocational-technical vacated Charles Hull In urging attendance of all mimirinaiithe overall cost of the now had been listed as the wet-(Community schools nmffmmc CITES NEEDS promotion committee members 6 municipal development I test September since 1870 Omer Buttars Ogden business training programs election ballot I The Kiwanis Club has in-1 Among other things the con- executive who joined the board By unanimous vote the The official register of voters i a an interest in'tinuing rain may delay for a last month endorsed this higher board authorized its City Mr Puffer in- last made or revised will developing some of the land on few days opening of Riverdale position stating need for chairman to tell an Oct 2 dicated he will run on the same A Weber County man has been at meeting Mr named deputy assistant secre- Spainhower said the new facil-tary of defense for legislative Un will serve the entire com- ticket with Mrs Charles Pen- and com-is going to be meeting of the Legislative munity and be a landmark for constitute the register for the the north banks the manager i Road from Interstate 15 to the I two-year colle Northern Utah election including new said U34 intersection in Roy munity schools colleges registrants-'age 18 and over ninvton and Robert Stewart number one priority will be to provide an open ear to affairs Robert Wolthuis will make $36000 a year in the job Mr Wolthuis 38 was an ad- Others who want to help in-j The new four-lane bridge even greater in the future than Council that it needs such will be used to pay elude the Weber County Com-across the old Bamberger Rail- it is control to achieve coordination share of an $87 bined Veterans Organization road right-of-way and street im-1 Ira A Huggins other and articulation of Mr Puffer said greenbelt park Weber State College the provements west of the span to 'representative on the board secondary education programs! bigger Roy gets the in the state more difficult it becomes to jn a meeting in Ogden last communicate needs to the city gieeuueii ymA weoer oiaie Coaege me provemenis west oi tne span to vu along the banks of Federated Clubs Utah I Death Curve were supposed to agreed but urged River from its Asso i a i be open Friday of this week i eliminate academic with the Weber to League of Ogden Canyon 1 Junior Reserve So far this week Ogden has in assigning strong vocational Friday the Utah Board of picked up 123 inches of rain training roles to schools Education reiterated its including an inch on Sunday and Ho er Board Vice position that the Utah Con- of Women Voters League of Ogden Officers Auxiliary ADEQUATE SITE addition to providing a the more adequate site for Weber million mimstrative assistant to Sen state basketball games the cen- Wallace Bennett R-Utah uniter will be a showplace for a til he left to run for the Utah I variety of Mr Spain-First Congressional District seat hower said in 1972 He was defeated by Rep I Thes lnclud certs display shows convocations and other attractions expected to draw audiences up to 12000 center will provide the community and the college with tive assistant six years before the facilities for almost any type being promoted to adminis- 0f large gathering The bonds 1 1 1 development the Ogden confluence the mouth BEAR City will bear i yy Ar annum and payable in Estimated Mr Spain- Plus INTEREST Golden Spike Gem and Mineral '23 of an inch Monday Chairman George Hatch stitution gives it control over all offraals said tends Club niyHpn Whii mi 1 interest at the rate of Envir ment center Ogden While rain fell at lower ele- cautioned that expanded status education from kindergarten Ogden vatinns the snowpack continued 'for the schools would emerge through university graduate vmiivwi vuvu vauwiio uic onuwdLA LUlilillUcU WJV uuuugii Vri 7 rtoT Afinf nar will be due and Association and Ogden to build on mounain peaks only if they are coordinated programs will be due and 1 Figure Skating Association along the Wasatch Front with programs at the two technical colleges the area vocational centers operated by the state at Richfield and Roosevelt and the vocational center operated in Moab by the trol Grand School District but action SEEK ACTION The Utah Board of Education indicated it will seek legislation giving it con-over all state education maintaining the higher 20 years cost of the project engineering is $8727500 The proposed federal involvement from various sources would be $45 million with the state supplying an estimated $2227500 City Manager Richard Larsen explained that the New Members to Join Panel at St Benedict's trative assistant He is a graduate of the University of Utah and has a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies hower said Members of the promotion committee include Mr Hurst Ensign Ritchie Thomas Oakes Van Summerill Mrs (Edith) Herschel Hester John Peterson New members appointed to Hospital Advisory Board will be the St Advisory Board board for routine operation of the institutions of higher learning The Utah Board of Education educational programs Dr ancj Moab are placed under the wants the higher board 1i: Mr i delegated to a relationship similar to that between it and the local boards of education BE DESIRED In demurring to the request for control of all postsecondary education Jay TOUR OF RANCH $2 million in bonds would be necessary in order to secure state and federal financing each individual project welcomed at a meeting Wed- within the proposed develop- jnesday evening called to discuss Mr Wolthuis will be respon- PaNcL sible for liaison between the De- TT fense Department and the Sen-i Wayne Moss Robert Hansen ate in his new job Robert Monson Robert Hunter Mr Wolthuis and his wife the'oberf Barney Mrs Frank El-former Carolyn Heiner of Bon Brienholt den and their five children live 'Critchlow Mike Michelson and government and I intend to fight he continued I have to install the biggest suggestion box in the state on the city hall door do Declaring that people have a right to know what happens in workshop as well as council meetings Mr Puffer stressed that all meetings except special executive sessions be open to the And he explained that executive sessions should only be held when the city must deal with personnel problems property purchases or legal litigation WILL COOPERATE He also said he views the role of mayor as being that of working for cooperation and continuity on the City Council in getting die work done with ease and efficiency Mr Puffer indicated that a city the size of Roy should have a public library and added that he feels one can be built with the assistance of Weber without any local tax increases my eight years on the City Council we have not had a mill increase and I see no need for one in the next four he said Active in church Scouting and civic affairs Mr Puffer is a past president of the Utah Jaycees the Roy Jaycees the Roy Chamber of Commerce and the Northern Utah Municipal League Also a past chairman of the Weber County Planning Commission he was nemed the Outstanding Young Man of 1967 by the Utah Jaycees ment a dollar amount should be delivery of health care and established and several projects i progress toward the to community struction of the new St he said Hospital nicr kir a nr im amount would be! Announcement was made byWdl WKArb Ur reduced from the amount of Frank McKain advisory bonds issued by the city board president who said the thereby reducing the mill levy! board is a group of civic lay required to fund the leaders activated last year to REGISTRATION Weber State College was Bruce Holland The 12000 seat special events center will be erected on a 40-acre site east of Harrison between 4600 South and Country Hills Drive some two blocks south of the present campus Start of construction is anticipated by next August with the facility ready for the start of the 1976-77 basketball season COST OF FACILITY Cost of the facility is estimated at slightly more than $7 million The college has $58 million available from two other sources to finance the center in Arlington Va He is a former bishop of the Arlington Ward of the LDS Church The new deputy assistant secretary of defense was a graduate of Weber High School and Weber State College before entering the university Accepts Low Offer The City Council has accepted a low bid of $1100 from the Curtis and Sons firm to provide air-pack units for the Roy City Fire SCHEDULED BY LAWMAKERS Ogden area state legislators will join a tour of the Deseret Land Livestock Co ranch in Northern Utah Thursday The tour was arranged by Sen Haven Barlow R-Layton chairman of a special legislative committee appointed to consider feasibility of the state purchasing the 215000-acre ranch for recreational and park use Sen Barlow said all state legislators have been invited on the tour which will leave the state capitol Thursday at 8 am the manager explained As examples of community envolvement the administrator cited the $5000 already spent by Ogden Rotary which has submitted a budget request for a like sum Defense Depot Ogden has offered to use its heavy machinery and manpower on various projects along the Nelson president of the Utah Technical College at Salt Lake City agreed the present split-jurisdiction between the two board something to be He said however that placing the technical colleges and junior colleges unier the Utah Board of Education would bring greater coordination between vocational training in the public schools and the technical colleges He was supported by William Sorensen president of the Utah Technical College at Provo who said the technical schools and when they were under control of the Utah Board of Education some years ago Weber State College President Joseph Bishop called attention to the two-year finishing its regularly scheduled day class registration for autumn quarter today Instruction begins Wednesday for both day and evening classes No registration will be held this evening Late registration for evening school will be held Wednesday beginning at 5:30 pm in the Union Building Late registration for day classes begins Wednesday at 8:30 am and continues until noon in the Union Building help the Executive Vice President Sister Mary Patrick Murray seek out and fill unmet health care needs in the community NEW MEMBERS The new members include businessmen ministers and civic leaders They include Daryl Ander DeWayne Brockman Lynwood Islaub Dwight Burrill Keith Hunt Dr Habeeb Ghatala Donald Cope Mrs Harold Eason Rev Earl Harvey and Mrs Robert Brodstein Frank McIntyre Harry Shamhart Francis Young Kerins Ernest Dur-bano Joseph Neary Nathaniel Johnson John Dykes and Peter Behrens Mr McKain said reports will be given by Sister Mary Patrick regarding hospital census financial status and progress City School Board Will Encourage Private Purchasers for TV Outlet MOOING MANNA Dr William Gamer said the facilities have been cleaned and opened to one such prospect already and he will With prospects for a state representing private persons or takeover fading the Ogden groups have made inquiries Board of Education Monday about the station but the dis-evening decided prospective pri- trict has been reluctant to give vate purchasers for its educa- them encouragement because of No onanza tional television channel should be encouraged The action came after Dr Gerald Raat assistant su- the possible state takeover still being decided The state board he said plans to take up the matter at a invite others interested The station has not been in operation for the current school year because of financing prob- being made in new programs lems It has been operated in which have been initiated at St perintendent reported that he meeting in middle or late Octo-has heard indirectly the Ogden ber and believe we can af- recent years in cooperation with PLAIN CITY In this era of sky-high meat prices finding 69 head of beef cattle on your front lawn might seem like from But Elmer Hipwell of 2575 4200 see it that way especially since all 69 head were inside a rolled-over cattle trailer about 20 feet from his front door failed to negotiate the sharp turn in front of his home However the vehicle had managed to negotiate a smooth crash landing on the Hipwell lawn only missed my car by six Mr Hipwell related saw that it was a cattle truck tipped over on its side and all the cattle were ford to wait that The Ogden board authorized Dr Raat to write at once to the a 1 Communications Commission asking an extension for another 90-day period of its authority to remain off the air and still keep its license Board Vice President Glen tricating the bawling bovines from the trailer and herding them into his corral for the nigjit Led by Milo Ross and Dean Baker the Plain City residents made a fence of cars on either side of the cattle to insure none could escape into the town three got Mr Hipwell noted caught two of those last night and the third showed up this morning at the neighbors he added The driver of the tractor-trailer unit was unharmed and thanks to quick action by the local citizenry neither were the cattle A sister truck from the A Miller Packing Co of Hyrum picked up the cattle today and carried them on their way to their original destination in Greeley Colo Which still leaves Mr Hipwell with a small problem: got a little mess out in front of the house but maybe I can get the fire department to wash it off my lawn and he mused the Weber School District Sketches of the new hospital which also owns Channel 18 and to be built at 5300 500 will has discontinued its use be presented by architect John Studio facilities are on Gib- Piers son Street in northwest Ogden The following committee and the transmitter is on Little chairmen will give progress Mountain in western Weber reports: County Jack Roche community The FCC in a previous in- 1 a i Dr Frank Holley said with the state situ- stance refused to authorize the Douglas health care Scott ation dubious he favored giving transfer of rights to Channel 9 Dye patient services Lynn more encouragement to interest-to a prospective private pur-1 Foley development programs ed private purchasers and other chaser who would have moved Marion Cummins board members agreed the station to Salt Lake City I financial management Dr board no reason to be optimistic about chances of the state taking Channel 9 facilities which the Ogden district has been using for educational television broadcasts ITT Raat said a state committee is working still on the matter of preparing a recommendation to the state board of public instruction and is planning at least one more meeting before it decides on a stand He said a couple of agents At about 9:30 Monday night trying to stand up he Mr Hipwell heard what he said was thunder and and looked out the window to find that a large double-decked trailer had Never one to stand around and beef when work to be done Mr Hipwell joined some 30 townspeople in ex I ur a i'Y 1 i7i i.