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Show fi t li. : a" ? VOL. 46. NO. 37. An Independent New.papw BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, FEB. 18, 1938 OUeit Weekly In Salt Luke County 'PHONE 91 JUNIOR CHAMBER WILL SPONSOR SUMMER BANDS Group Will Apply For Air Base Near Town Football lettermen of Bingham high school, Coaches Bailey n, Warren Allsop and Principal T. H. McMullln will be invited to a banquet as guest of the Junior chamber of com-merce at the next meeting March 14, at the Italian-Frenc- h cafe, it was decided at a meeting of Jay Cees Monday evening. lAn entertainment committee including Eddie Grant, Delbert Barrett and S. J. Granquist are In charge. Thursday, February 24, a bowl-ing tournament between all Jun-ior chamber members will take place at the Gemmell club. A trophy will be given winners. In-experienced players have been given handicaps. All members are asked to participate. To Sponsor Hands Bands will be sponsored in Copperton and Bingham during the summer months to bo known as Junior chamber of commerce bands. They Will be supported in the same manner they were main-tained last summer. On tho com-mittee are C. C. Colyar, Harold Clough, John Neml, Dr. James Westwood and Dr. H. D. Ben-nlo- n. Koek Al iny Ilaw The local group plans to pe-tition the federal government to establish a proposed air base on the ground below the cemetery. It is understood that a strip of ground there belongs to tho government. Salt Lake City and Ogden have asked for the base. Hazardous flying conditions near Salt Lake City make the likeli-hood of a lease near the capital city doubtful. Earl James, M. C. Colyar, Howard Bellows are on this committee. BARTENDERS UNION ORGANIZED LOCALLY A local unit of the United Bartenders Union, member of the C. I. O., was organized recently Jor Bingham Canyon, Mldvale and Murray, an announcement made by Frank Bonaccl, field representative for Utah C. I. O. states. Ross Johnson is temporary pre-sident for this group, which has a membership of twenty. Champ Cuff is secretary. A petition for a charter has been filed with the C. I. O. headquarters at Washington D. C. TOWN ACQUIRES PARKING SPACE Take Under Advisement Recommendation of Firemen The town Wednesday night acquired a parking space, which wllpbe used as a supervised pub-lic parking lot, by authorizing the rental of a lot belonging to the Jerome Bourgard estate for one year. Rental charge until February 28, 1939, was set at $50. John T. Bird, county doe tax collector will again have charge of collection of dog taxes. $1.50 is asked for males and $2.50 for female dogs. The town board decided to interview the owner of ground near the R. R. Marriott black-smith shop for a aoftball dia-mond and playground. Al Ab-le- tt and Dale Johnston were com-missioned to see the owner. A committee of firemen includ-ing James Householder, Irvin Stillman, Ray Tatton and Bert Hocking met with the board to describe the type fire truck which they would approve for town purchase. The recommenda-tion was taken under advisement by the board. O REPUBLICANS HOLD MEETING WEDNESDAY Republicans of Salt Lake county held & mass meeting to elect delegates to the Republi-can county convention, which will be held February 26 at the Newhouse hotel. At the meetiag Wednesday at the town hall of Republicans la District 335, Jess Southwell and Dr. F. E. Straup were named delegates. George Knudsen, dis-trict chairman; Ruth Granquist was elected vice chairman; James Van Evera was named secretary. District committeemen include Dr. F. E. Straup, Sam Joffs and Herman Ritter. District 334 did not hold a meeting Wednesday. SPECIAL DOLLAR DAYS VALUES TO BE ADVERTISED Canyon-Wid- e Event Promises Local Shoppers Numbers of Fine Bargains Unusual values will feature Bingham Canyon's Dollar days next Friday and Saturday, Febru-ary 25 and 26. Groceries, cloth-ing and household items will be featured In bargains to be ad-vertised by nearly every store in Bingham and Copperfield. This sales event is offered twice each year. Shoppers have learned from past experience that local merchants plan months In advance for these events, making special purchases for Dollar Days. The special buys offered dur-ing Dollar Days make possible the offering of fine quality mer-chandise at lowest possible pric-es. Read next week's Bulletin carefully for full information on the stores participating in the Dollar Days next week. It will pay you to study the bargains being offered. O UTAH COPPER CO. ; ANNUAL REPORT MADE TO STATE I Net Proceeds For Year I Shows Earnings I Increase Utah Copper company's net jbroceds during the past year totaled $30,626,225.02 as com-pared to 14,903,845 In the pre-vious' 12 months, the company Reported Friday In Its annual Statement to the state tax com- - for taxation purposes. I tax base offered is twice the amount of proceeds. In 1937 the $44,711,535 or three rpiis3lcnthe net proceeds, but the reduced the compensate for the of a new occupational 1 per cent of the gross proceeds. The occupational levy jras estimated at $390,035. i Total valuation of the com-any- 'i properties was set at $12,-181,42- 4, segregated as follows: gingham mine $3,250,792 jLrthar 3,485,440 Magna 3,658,260 parfifld area 340,798 Property purchased from I Bingham and Garfield railway 1489,675 Transmission linen .... 256.456 ; Th property as segregated hows, $8,380,822 In the Graniti district; $3,255,455 in the Jor-dan district and $845,147 in the Bingham town. The company listed the follow- - W 1937 production: I Copper, $47,998,783, of which 64.924,508 .pounds were sold or $34,382,665 and 137,536,547 wunds, valued at $13,616,118, -- rere unsold as of December 31. ip' Gold, $6,868; sold. 140,193 Ounces for $4,752,242; unsold, 2,14t ounces valued at' $2,106,-Jb- 5. J Silver, $1,325,009; sold, ounces for $929,674; &sold, 513,422 ounces valued m ;i95,335. Molybdenum, $2,968,244; sold, !sj 409,697 pounds for $2,613,721; Ijnsold. 977,918 pounds valued i p $354,523. Crude ore royalties, $32,453. Royalties on precipitates, jj Platinum and palladium, $9,- - 86. Cash discounts, $39,129. ' Operating costs totaling were classified as fol-lows: f Seining expenses .... $2,889,407.49 Stripping ex 4,285,262.36 1 ?axes-irtat- e, coun. .. 1,387,122.44 Jililinrf expense .... 5,844,304.31 melting, etc 9,036,008.82 transportation .... 1,548,183.57 Construction costs 3,619,740.94 MINES STATION BILL APPROVED Means Mines In Area Will Receive More Bureau Aid When the president signs the bill which was passed Tuesday by the house of representatives, Salt Lake City will be in line for a TJ. S. bureau of mines sta-tion. The act had previously been passed by the senate. George L. Oldwrlght, supervising engineer at the present station at the University of Utah, said a new station would be "designed to meet our purposes, rather than a part classroom." The bureau of mines research station had been sought for Salt Lake City for more than 10 years. A $300,000 station, would un-der plans, make investigations into the mining, preparation, treatment and utilization of ores; the Improving of conditions in the mining, quarrying, metallur-gical and other mineral indus-tries. Mr. Oldright hopes for an in-crease in the present staff of five at the bureau. Four in the laboratory and one in the field staff the bureau at this time. O BINGHAM TRIPS CATHEDRAL IN LEAGUE FINALS Tournament Play Is Slated Feb. 20., 21, 22 Bingham's C. Y. O. team en-ters the annual state tourney February 20, 21 and 22 In Judge Memorial gymnasium as heavy favorites after their conclusive defeat of the ordinarily effective Cathedral machine, 52-4- 6, Sun-day at Judge gymnasium. Henry McGean, dlrecctor of tho f Y. f) will hn in rhnree. Art Connole, Karl Axelson and Wally Morse will be scorers and C. Oren Wilson, former secre-tary of the Utah State High School Athletic association, will Appoint officials for all games. Teams are to bo divided into upper and lower brackets in the eenior competition. In the up-per bracket are Bingham, St. Patrick's, Price and Lourdes. In the lower brackets are Cathedral, Magna, Park City and Divine Saviour. This tenth annual C. Y. O. tourney will bo a singly elimina-tion affair. Teams defeated in opening games Sunday drop out of play, but those winning the first day and losing the sec-ond will remain in the running for third and fourth places. In the Cathedral-BLnglVu- m game Sunday the local team placed shots from all angles of the floor. Viable, Markovich, Pa-eel- l, Bolic and Bianrhi played the entire game. Steve Vlasic rolled up 16 counters for his mates, while Markovich and Pa-ze- ll were counting up 11 each. The second half saw the Bing-ham team display some specta-cular shooting. LEGION AUXILIARY PLANS PATRIOTIC PUBLIC PROGRAM Dr. Richards, Principal Bell Will Act As Chairmen Two patriotic programs are be-ing sponsored next week by the American Legion auxiliary, ac-cording to announcement made by Mrs. Francis Quinn, auxili-ary president. February is set aside by the Legion as Amerl- - I canism and national defense i month and the presentation of . programs by the Legion auxill- - ary during this month is an an-nual project of the group. Tuesday, February 22, Princi-pal R. R. Bell will act as chair-- i man of a program to be present-ed at 2:30 p. m. at the Bingham Central school. Wednesday, February 23, at 7:30 p. m., Dr. Paul S. Rich-ards will act as program chair-man of a meeting at the Cop-perfield grade school auditorium. The public is cordially invt-e- d to attend the programs. O BASKETBALL GAMES SCHEDULED AT CLUB Games scheduled for Gemmell club include: Monday, February 21, Mullett Kelly vs. Gemmell club at 8:00 p. m.; Thursday, February 24, All American Red Heads play Gem-mell club at 7:00 p. m. sharp. o GEMMELL CANDY DANCE SET AHEAD Due to conflicting dates the Candy dance scheduled for Feb. 2 at the Gemmell club has been set ahead to Saturday, Feb. 26. Music will be furnished by Orson Hyde's orchestra. The 49'er ball held at the club last Friday evening was well at-tended. Prizes for best beards and costumes were awarded to the following: Glen Radmull, longest beard; E. Ha lam us most novel beard; E. It. Draper, grizz-liest beard; Ray Error, (alias "Butch Cassidy") best and most appropriate make-u- p and Mrs. R. Goff most appropriate make-up for women. A club picture show will be given Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 22 - 23. Tuesday's shows will start at 3:30, 6, 8 and 10 p.m. These shows are for people from Markham up Maint St., Carr Fork, Copperfield and Highland Boy. Wednesdays shows start at 12:30, 5, 7 and 9 p.m. IBINGHAM PLAYS TOOELE FRIDAY Bingham high school basket-ball team is scheduled to play Tooele Friday on Tooele's floor. The B. H. S. student body, which traveled to Jordan last Friday will go by bus to Tooele this Friday. Local basketball fans who fol-lowed the high school team to Jordan Friday witnessed a fast-acti- on sparkling game, which finished with Jordan on the long end of the 30-2- 6 score. The first period ended in a 7 tie, the tilt progressed to see the local boys leading 16-1- 3 at the end of the half and 21-1- 9 at the third period. Atkinson, Jordan center, did some sensational shooting in the final period to lead his squad to a win. The victory was made from the foul line. Pollick with 11 and Callen with 8 points were Bingham's highest individual scorers. FIREMEN'S ANNUAL DANCE TO BE HELD The Thirty-firs- t annual Fire-men's Washington's birthday dance wil be held Tuesday eve-ning, February 22 at the Legion Civic Center. This dance prom-ises to be one of the best held In Bingham this year if the ad-vance ticket, sale is any indi-cation. The committee in charge is as follows: Irvin Stillman, chair-man; Ray Tatton, James House-holder, Loren Stokes, John Hut-chin-gs and Sam Sturm. Admission price will be one-doll- ar per couple. History Of Fire Companies Organization Given In the earliest days of Bing-ham everyone belonged to the "fire company." When a fire broke out, church bells were rung as an alarm and everyone near at hand grabbed the first container, within reach and scur-ried to the scene of the fire. The first man to arrive at the fire took charge and shouted or-ders. Two lines were formed from the fire to the creek which ran down the main canyon. Men at the bank filled buckets which were passed along one line, their contents were thrown on the blaze and empty buckets passed from hand to hand along the second line until they reached the creek. All worked energetically not only because they wished to co-operate, but because all realized that a rapid spread of the fire would menace every dwelling. If fires were more than a small blaze it was Impossible to fight it successfully. In 1895 a fire which had its beginning In a large rooming house razed forty-fiv- e buildings, involving a loss of$200.000. In 1924 Bingham was threat-ened with destruction when six families lost their homes and 12 an old abandoned theatre, was the worst fire catastrophe In Bingham's history. Damage was estimated between $300,000 and $400,000. One hundred homes were destroyed besides the school house and several boarding hou-ses. 300 were homeless and for one-thir- d mile on both sides of the canyon all property was des-troyed. In April, 1905, the town 'instal-led a fire alarm system. Fire hose on wooden spools were pur-chased. In 1907 business people sub-scribed towards erecting a place for firemen to hold meetings and house equipment. In October, 1907, the town board approved official organi-zation of a fire department. Records of firemen show, that among those subscribing gener-ously to this cause were the Old Crow Bar, The Bingham Merc, Zion and Dunsmore, Jam-es Lerwell. Charles H. Roberts. Dr. F. E. Straup. J. Bourgard, Francis Miller, P. Murano, Mrs. Klopenstein, F. W. Quinn. S. J. Hays and George Chandler. Two companies were formed. Number 1 and Number 2. Each was to have 50 active volunteer members. A chief wjas to be elect; ed to supervise both companies. Number 1 was to control all ter-ritory south of the central school house and Number 2 all north of that line. The fire department was to have the highway right of way and theehlef was given authority of a police officer until an officer-arrived- . In May, 1910, the board creat-ed fire inspection districts and the office of fire inspector. A year later two automatic, s, fire alarm systems were purchased for $975.00. . Construction began on No. 2 Fire hall for lower Bingham. Funds were' obtained in a bond election. Equipment was added .regularly. August 4, 1915 a fire truck costing $1138.35 was purchased. June 1. 1925, a fire engine costing $13,000 was purchased. A chemical truck was bought for $3,050.00. In 1929 a hose and ladder truck was purchased. Beginning from scratch the local fire department has devel-oped Into one of the most mod-ern and efficient in the state. Regularly in the State Firemen's convention Bingham wins honors. Local firemen pioneered In first aid work. George Knudsen and Dr. M. Smernoff train groups each year. Earl James is second vice president of the state organ-ization and John Creedon, Sec'y. Clinton Robison is at present president of the Fire companies. Chiefs are Ray Tatton and Art Sorenson. In the town budget for this year $2,245.51 was set aside for new fire fighting Note: 'Facts used in this arti-cle on Tho Bingham Fire De-partment at taken from a His-tory of Bingham Canyon, writ-te- n by Beatrice Spendlove. places of business were destroy-ed by fire. Damage was estima-ted at $100,000, two firemen lost heir lives and one was seri-ously Injured. The fire broke out in the basement of the Bourgard butcher shop. The Highland Boy fire of Sep-tember 8, 1932, which started In SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE THIS WEEK J. D. DeCaro and Tony An-sel-were arrested last Sun-day by officers Alvin Peterson for carrying concealed weapons. They were fined by Justice of the Peace Harry Parker $10.00 each and given ten day suspend-ed sentences when they plead guilty at the hearing Monday. Flora Clawson plead guilty to a drunkenness charge and was given a ten day sentence which was suspended providing she left town immediately. Clarica Guer-rero was arrested Monday for violation of a thirty day sent-ence suspended during good be-havior. She was released on pro-mise of working to earn money to leave tdwn. Arresting officers were Chief of Police A 1 Pautsch and Alvin Peterson. Charles Harriman was arrest-ed and charged with drunken-ness Tuesday. He was sentenced to ten days or fined $10. R. D. Contratto and Alvin Peterson were arresting officers. COUNTY UNEMPLOYED WILL RECEIVE WORK The county commission, in special session Friday afternoon, approved expenditures of county funds amounting to $19,060 for materials, which will release fe-deral WPA funds of $227,700 for labor, mostly to be used on county roads and bridge pro-jects, J. R. Rawlins, chairman of the county commission, explain-ie- d that the county was malting every effort to provide work for every unemployed man, through previously approved WPA pro-jects located in all sections of the county. The expenditures approved Fri-day are for "the 75-d- period from February 15 to April 1, inclusive. and will provide for 3795 WPA man-month- s, accord-ing to figures released by Coun-ty Surveyor George M. Haley. The plans approved by the county commission for the two nd one-ha- lf month period are part of the plans for the ex-penditure of nearly $1,000,000 in the county and federal funds this year in relieving the un-employment strain for Salt Lake county. These plans recently were given presidential approval in Washington D. C. O ATTEND SALESMEN'S MEETING IN SALT LAKE W. L. Faddis, Delbert Barrett and Runar Martinson, sales re-presentatives of the Utah Power and Light company spent Mon-day and Tuesday in Salt Lake City attending the Utah Power and LlgTit sales convention be-ing held at the Newhouse hotel. Mr. Faddis attended meetings every day during this week. UETAL MINES YIELD INCREASING AMOUNTS Gold and silver mines In the jfnited States and its territories Jtrnei out $220,964,529 of the Sonetary metals during 1937. I Preliminary figures announced ' 5? the bureau of mines showed I gold production of '4,752,801 be ounces, valued at $166,348,-3- 5, and a silver production of '0,833,514 fine ounces, valued at 154,616,494. Both the volume mi value of gold output was I per l cent higher than in 1936. fhe increase In quantity in 1937 jjyer. 933, when government de-fre- es and legislation raised the Wee of gold from $20.67 to $35 Jer fine ounce, was 85 per cent. Silver production last year, was f per cent higher than in 1936 ted 26 per cent above that of (935. j The, report listed gold pro-duction figures for states and ioniparison with 1936 produc-3o- n showing Utah as fourth in jroduction of gold with only Arizona,' Colorado and South Da-kota surpassing her. Only Idaho surpassed Utah In production of silver. OPERETTA PLANNED BY JR. HIGH SCHOOL The Junior high of the Bing-ham high school is going to pre-sent an Operetta called, "The Ghost of Alcatraz". It Is to be given March the eleventh In the (Bingham Central School auditor-ium. The purpose of the Operetta is to show the parents and friends of the students that the Junior high school has much talent. The cast of the play are work-ing very hard to make the pro-duction a success. There will be piany beautifully designed cos-tumes; and clever dances, and choruses that will thrill every-one. We are sure that If you make arrangements to come it will be well worth your while. ' Catherine Dimas UK. v Snow Fall Heavy Nine and a half inches of snow fell during the week in Bing-ham, according to J. A. Spend-love of the Utah Power arid Light substation. A year ago Thursday there were nine inches of snow on the ground in Bing-ham Canyon. It was clear and calm with the temperature dur-ing tho day reaching a maximum of 39 degrees above and lowering to 16 degrees. Thursday of this week there were six inches of snow and temperatures ranged from 16 de-grees below to 36 degrees above. r JUNIOR C. Y. O. NAMES OFFICERS FOR YEAR Election of officers for a Jun-o- r Catholic Youth Organization (n Bingham parish was accom-plished Wednesday evening at the Rectory. Chosen to lead the group were Beverly Seussel, pre-sident; Steve Strelich. vice pre-sident; Elma Strelich, secretary; and Ilene Peria, treasurer. Meetings will be held twice monthly, with the first being held next Sunday at 11 a. m. at the Holy Rosary church. Plans will be made at this time for future activity of the organl-- iatlon- - 1 L.D.S. SUNDAY PROGRAM PLANNED BY M. I. A. A special musical program will supply music on the L.D.S. Sunday evening program, which Is being arranged by the M. I. A. An outside speaker is to be en-gaged. --v Albert Hatfield. Bingham high school graduate and resident of Bingham, left Wednesday for Salt Lake City where he has accept-ed a position with the Hearst Publishing company. v , Mr. , and Mrs. Elwood Johnson nd Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clough fere guests Tuesday evening of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Nelson. |