Bond Issue Tues¢ Urges Appro Council PTA L Needs Mayor Cites Recreation _— r TY Ogden property owners go to the polls Tuesday to vote on a $2.5 million bond issue that was strongly endorsed Saturday by the Ogden Secondary Council PTA. a In endorsing the bond issue, the PTA council stressed ‘“‘a great need” for swimming pools and a recreation center for the youth that are included in the proposed capital improvement 23. program. ay . The PTA commended city and school officials “for their co- ative approach to providing recreational facilities” and urged | voters to support propositions 4 and 5 which will provide the money to get these projects under way. _ Polls at each of the 24 voting places in the city will open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. Sixty-eighth per cent—or 22,952—of Ogden’s 33,652 registered voters have been certified to cast ballots in Tuesday’s $2.5 million bond election, according to County Clerk Wendell Hansen. : Any of the remaining 10,700 | voters who have not been cer- — FIVE PROJECTS tified and who claim to be taxVoters will cast ballots on payers may vote after the have signed an oath attesting five separate propositions. The first is for $600,000 fire to ee eligibility, Mr. Hansen department bonds to construct said. ~ Mayor Bart Wolthuis urg ed two new fire stations — at 20th that Ogden citizens “take an and Harrison and 37th and Haractive interest in the bond elec- rison — and provide the necesequipment. tion, because it involves the in- sary umber two calls for $115,000 terets of all the people.” — to erect a repair and storage _ Mayor Wolthuis said community interests range “from the building for city machinery and equipment. It is expected to Marshall White Center to better fire protection, better streets reduce the expense for upkeep of machines and to extend the and including the Golden Hour Center for senior citizens of ‘life of equipment. the community, to swimming | Third proposition asks for $340,000 for street improvepool facilities. Sy ments, especially those in the LACK POOLS business district. Also included “We, as a council,” feel that are the acquisition of certain Ogden City is woefully lacking rights of way, as far as swimming pool og ae i Oy Ui facili-traffic it ie flow may-/|street system. FRE and all to improve upgrade th . TWO POOLS ; inting out that the city has only one small pool, which | Number four is for $700,000, can be used only during Summer, the mayor said the to construct two swimming that pools near two city school joint use and operation by the bend issue the swimming pools city and Ogden City Schools. Both pools would be available both by the cit ich sehools Ly for year round use. _ The final propositio Mayor a ieee to $745,000 to finance the Co: and tion of octet proposition to-this Spond vote.” an affirmative i with the acceptance of the ‘senior citizens, will cost $275,000, while the Marshall White Center, for all ages, is expected to cost $470,000. ae |