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Show KiGKGFiLiING CDRr. 141 pIEXf'Jll.T A'.E. '"h SAL1 LA-- . E CITi 1 - UNIVERSAL LEGIQN ESSAY WINNER 0 in Davis iiauisig, worth Editor's Note: Miss Simmons was first place Daws H'gh school winner of the American Legion's annua! oratorical contest, and third place district dinner. Here is h speech : By Julia Simmons On a bright, Sunday afternoon, May 13th, 1TS7, George Washington arrived in Philadelphia as a Virginia delegate to the Federal Convention which vas due to open the rest day. For the next four months, he, along with a handful of me entered Independence Hall VOL. daily, where Washington presided over the most important conference in our history the Constitutional Convention. And in the early fall of that same year they gave birth to one UK IKJf problems. The quota they couldn't tax the states or people. Each state maintained its own army, some had navies, they all printed their own money. If a man made a business deal with a party who lived in another state the chances were that the court would rule against him. Almost any thinking man in those days knew that there had to be a change, or the Confederation would fall apart and ad would be lost; but there was no unity of opinion as to what the answer should be. It wasn't easy to decide on the future of a ration a nation ready to fall apart into 13 fall little quarrU ng nations into the hands of an eager foreign power, or fall into bloody Civil War. And the tenseness that went into the debates over every article of our great Constitution was sparked by the bitterness that men develop who become so engrossed in a part of a subject that they LAYTON. UTAH, TLESIUY !0c 14 w, eometimes overlook the whole. And yet, instilled within each man was a hope, a wish, a dream of liberty. Liberty! Its a strong word and as Steven Vincent Benet says, "It gets into a man's blood. It's only a puff of wind at first, and then a rising gale. It blew through the crowded streets of Boston and the rolling hills of Virginia. It drifted in and out of the frontier cabins and it was tapped out on a drum where men marched in secret. It murmured "give me liberty or give me death as it tumbled over the Appalachian Mountains and into the Western Valleys. It wap a tide rising, a wind blowing into the streets of Philadelphia and into that great Independence Hall where our Constitution was being written. And out of that hall these in men came forth, at a document agreement written under God, which provided for a strong Central government, a strong legisla- with last ... --Bc ; INCHES of enow almost completely covers guard station at Farmington Flats in Farmington Canyon. This is summer field headquarters for Wasatch National Forest where the Forest guard i3 located. It also senes as a communications cenlevel of the mounter. The cabin is at the 7G00-fotain Forest and Kange Experiment Station in Service men who go up the canyon on the snow surveys tell us they have semi the snow as high as the eaes of the building in the past three years. Photo by Dale Pfankuch, Layton, research forester at the Wasatch Research Center of the Intermoun-taJ- n Forest and Kange Experiment Station in FIFTY-SI- be as thick Kt H 17. 1959 Comi- Ogden. Citizenship came for them a? ter a residency of at least fr- years in the U. S. and after each had passed tests on American history, F nglLh and more New citizens are Eiko Ogawa West GentPe, Lay Hicks, ton; Shirley Ann Whiteman, RED Box 152, rami'.pgton; Fernando 4677h Gonzalez, RES., Hill Air Force Base; Gertrud Marie Bemaldt Roberts, 1561 North 300 West, Bountifu'; Doris lloechsmann Smith, 2S2 Gordon Ave., Layton; and Frieda Mama Batt, 607 South 1000 Fast, Clearfield. "We believe tbst Dta rght of man comes ahead of all othe? rights, said Ken Anderson, representative of Sertoma Club for the terms of the ar- and one of the speakers at th mistice to be fulfilled, and wait- ceremony. "We believe that we in thli and waited. Farmington Prospects are bright for a normal spring for the farmer and gar- ed, country, by precept and examTh" lord held of Blarney dener in Davis County, the county agents at the courthouse tell us, adding, however, ple have established the best him off with promises and flatthat anything can happen. government and system of sountil the commander beao far devised by man. Farmers who have been lidding up tomato planting for word on the inject tery, came the laughingstock of the ciety kind. problem which wiped out their crops last summer will be happy to know that of f i court of rnglamh The Sertoma Club presented cials are predicting a light year for the White Fly or Leaf Hopper. There is And the name each new citizen with a copy Blarney loss than one percent of the took its place in the of the Declaration of Independ numbers of a jear ago in the ironically T.nglish language, as a syn- ence. Caliof areas southern breeding sweet for talk. onym fornia, Nevada and Arizona. While the movement of thes pests will depend on the weather i. the next two months, a Hill AFE, Utah Traditional Easter sen ices at Hill AFB such g lit j ear of were announced today by Chaplain (Capt.) II. B. Ansled, ba-.- e as that of 1943 is expected. Piotestant chaplain. Farmers have found weather American legion lajlon Protestant observance on March 29 will begin at 6 a.m. at ronditious ideal for early work Post 87 will celebrate the 40th the base chapel with a sunrise service. Churches in ( learficld, in the fields and they are now Layton Junior Chamber of anniversary of the founding of Commerce presidential candiin the Roy and Sunset will participate. process of planting the Legion with a dinner predates Robert Eden, William Dr. William E. Green, Pasgrains and onions, also some pared by the Auxiliary at the Vincent, and Kent Christensen sugar beets. tor, First Southern Baptist eveLegion home this Saturday will be featured speakers at a in Church in Clearfield, will be the trees the county Jruit ning at 8 p.m. State and disof the organization orchards and back yards show trict officers will be in attend- - meeting featured speaker. March 30 at the city building in w inter injury, no to furnishbe will music according Special Verdeland Tark. The Jaycette L Darrell Stokes, county agent. ed by the Davis High School will also be Invited fo the meetBuds are now on the trees, a Choir, and a teen-ag- e quartet ing as special guests, according bit the early, considering from Sunset. Instrument bolus to Scoffield, president. could weather still frost bring will be played by Capt. Everett The Jaycee club members hav and trouble if it stays warm Seath, trumpet, and Eariy Basketball and sold 378 new subscriptions Kaysville and the trees continue to develthe Weekly Reflex and Davi be will Isaac, violin, both of Ilill AID. volleyball played by the op. News Journal in Layton durfree After the service, a 7 Bt at Jaycecs p.m. If precipitation remains nor- the DavisThursday their combination drive for ing breakfast for all attending will High School gymmal for tho rest of the Bpring city directory information and nasium. be held at Hill AFB, sponsored the Following games and summer, the area should subscriptions. Sunday by base have from 89 to 85 per cent of the group will meet at the Mahome of President Robert School will follow at 9.45 bju. normal moisture. With the and worship at 11 a.m. storage facilities that are now jor. Besides Chaplain Anstcd, parNominations for officers of available, this should give us a ticipating ministers will be Rev. fairly good summer for water. the organization for next year Harry Foe, Clearfield CommuA word of warning to the will be made at the meeting. farmeis from County Agent Lee Eloctions will be held on April nity Church; Rev. H. Luther S. Rogers: The alfalfa is exSwanson, Our Saviours Luth-er- a TH Ikth gride list! ef Floyd Church, Roy; Rev. Stanley ceeding the half inch mark in feterson at Hilltop Elementary Swanson, Pentecostal Church of growth, and that means time to achoot will present, the school spray for weevil. Principal God, Sunset; Donald L. Craig, assembly today (Tuesday) at sprays are Dieldren and Aldrin. 10:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m, Th Assembly cf God Church, Lay-toe. If Dieldren is to be used, it and Rev. James McFa-tridgprogram will be Irish songs must be right away because of Southern Baptist and dances in honor of St. Pathe Federal Food and Drug retricks Day. Parents of th Church, Roy. Kaysville Roland E. Long, class are invited to strictions on higher growth. obattend tha Catholic personnel will Spraying for weevil control, to president of the Davis County assembly. serve Easter with a midnight be effective, must be while the Principals Association, has anmass, and two masses on Sunto nounced that plans for the anyoung plants ara one-hanual spring banquet are now two inches tall. day at 8:45 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. F. being formulated. Chaplain (1st Lt) Arnold The association met Tuesday Reuter, base Catholic chaplain, Glen Garrett, Kaysville will preside. fo at the Kaysville school at 4 manager of Weber , Central Catholics also will hold questionp.m. A supervision Dairy, will be guest speaker naire as well as the banquet at, Rotary Wednesday evening. services including Palm was discussed. The group will meet at 7 pm. Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good and will be answers March Questions and Saturday. 17, Holy flying Wednesday, Friday, The public is invited to all at the monthly meeting of the Kaysville Branch of the American Kenneth Gardner, and Representative and Mrs. Finley WilkinAssociation of University AYomen as Davis County legislators son will be guests of the AAUW group under the Catholic and Protestant sponsorship meet with the group to discuss pertinent aspects of the rece.it of the legislative committee. A question and answer technique will be followed according to legislative session Senator and Mrs. Haven J. Barlow-- , Representative and Mrs. Mrs. G. Gibbs Smith, chairman of the committee which includes Mrs. Casper Carroll, Mrs. Eldon Frost, Mrs. Thomley Swan, and Mrs. Marjorie Thatcher. In Setting for the meeting will be 7:30 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brigham Harvey at the south end of Fruit Heights. The habit of saving is a patient and gradual process, HarCounty Bond Chairman Ritz here said today Steed old C. of the sales when reporting Treasurys E and II savings sales during bonds. State-wid- e Layton In an effort to im- unauthorized persons. February of $1,437,993 bring the The boarding up of 11 enprove and make safer the old 1959 total to $3,356,104, which on main theatre trances to the building or oththe eyesore Layton states goal, of the is 16.8 the city council has di- er security measures to prevent h street, a for expected average rected Attorney K. Roger Bean unauthorized persons from enperiod, according to the to write the following letter tering it. chairman. to the owner, Claude Hawk Once these measures are takFebsales for Davis county Salt Lake City: Corporation, en, it is your responsibility a ruary were $156,858, totalling Gentlemen, owner of the building to main$375,890 for the two months, Fred Bradshaw, building in- tain it in sufficiently clean sales 1959 goal, Uo of the or 19.5 spector for Iyton City, re- condition that it does not conChairman Steed said, indicatcently made an inspection of stitute a health hazard, and to individuals neither ing that the theatre building owned by see that its entrances are kept nor businesses can operate you, located on North Main boarded up or are other is soundly without reserves; and inHis in Street Layton City. maintained ao that the buildthese reserves can only be built spection disclosed that by rea- ing cannot be entered without through the regular retting son of the damage to the buildyour permission. aside of a portion of income or ing and its interior fixtures in grada is This letter will constitute th patient, profits. It a fire some years ago, it is now notice to you required under ual process a habit that mut a definite hazard to life and the ordinance to commence th be built over a period of time." health and is unfit for further within improvement required occupancy in its present and the metals. If we have to ten days and to complete them build over 590,000 planes a year within 90 days. It will be apin its defense, we shall do so. Under the provision of Sec- preciated if you will notify th tion 293 of Lajton City BuildIf we have to invent more apcity building inspector when destrucof instruments palling ing Code (Uniform Building the improvements are complettion than the world has ye Code, 1958 F.dition), any build- ed. seen, well do it. For this is w hat ing or structure which constiThe Ritz Theatre was dewere after. This is what our tutes a hazard to safety or in a roaring fire Destroyed Constitution means. It limans health by reason of inadequate THIS WEEKS OLD FHUlO was given to us by cember 9. 1954, and has been freedom and it means hope or maintenance, dilapidation, Glenn Curtia, of Bakersfield, California. Ho is the It means a good neighbor, not abandonment as specified in vacant since that time. Layton on fellow the and Clearfield NSD fire dewith childhood hn friend left, pictured men maka marier, It the ordinance or in any other Ole Lajton. Mr. Curtis left Kaysville in 1924 to partments attempted to stop and destinies own their consideffective is ordinance, ing the spread of the blaze after Loa in the work is now in own lie the ered an unsafe building, and government Angela area, choosing their it was discovered at 11 a pi. rales division of the Granny Goose Potato Chip It means peaceful mpn who as surh is a nuisance. More than two hours wern can fjght with God v hen their From the above mentioned Company. He and his wife, Ella Wilcox, live at by the firemen in battlspent means 1837 Chevy Drive in Bakersfield. They have one country is astatlcd, It inspection, it is apparent that ing the fire. The roof fell in a ration, and a people who to the done be must following son, John Wilcox, who is a lieutenant in the Air the afternoon, and a!! future in man snd bnng the building within the during stationed at Mission, Texas. Mr. Lavlon Force, hat remained was a she!! of -men free 'd that gnej auirem-nts the of Layton died September 5, 1943, aOer teaching school for wa'ls and a heavy cement floor remernker epn CUv ordinances: in U"der the proiect booth. The Davis and at WyoCounty Alton, thirty id1 drea jears ro that liter tv is Femo'a! of a'l tush ami $50,0ti0 building vas a total ming. Mrs. Layton (Virginia) lues at 95 South It is hgVy per. Liable TV 6 debts "hieh has loss frem the fire and has reTirst Eart, Kaysville, She has three children, thrive by if, on the floor of the fcuildmg as cherish it, w Jean and Roy, of Kaysville, and Tom, Foiling Hills, the result of the fir and as a. mained in an abandoned eondh-tio- n liv ard by it V' gar-r'so- - jFf' ,7, M Six Davis Noreth in Chances are the blarney will as the shsmrocls today, March 17, as the Iri-- h honor Kt. Patrick. But tlie original blarney was an Irish chieftain who provNO. IS ed that you ran st'll win even if you lo c. Wlimi the cattle of Blarney was besieged by the English, the led of the manor concluded an armistice with the I nglish commander. According to the research department of The World Book Encyclopedia, he promised to surrender the old u homestead to an English in Cork on a certain date. The Englishman vaitad y Ujuj 4 X ot Farmington. 1 1 Ogden ty residents became citizens of the Fnited States last Wednesday in brief rites before Judge Parley Swcot talk word "Ameri- men and Rhode Island men. And the way of the rich Virginia tobacco planter was rot the way of the New England farmer of of the pioneer in the wilderness cabin. The Confederation which they had formed was not much more than a league of States, in which every state maintained its sovereignity and Congress was sort of a General Assembly there was no President, no Executive, Court. no Federal Supreme The only way Congress could raise money was by asking its each state to contribute 1$ Synonym for of the most potent written instruments in all the world the Constitution of the Unit ed States. Today it is quite natural that we should take this great document for granted because we have been enjoying Us benefits now for nearly 1T5 years. But it was different then. They had can had long been in use, but it didn't mean wbat it does now. They were not all pact of one big nation, they were Massachusetts men, Connecticut Become Citizens Jaycee, Jaycette dubs are the on Layton Dinner and dancing agenda when the Layton Jaycees and Jaycettes host a Wasatch front party on Friday evening, March 20, at 8 p.m. at the Verdeland Bark Administration Building. The pariy will be similar to the Jaycee Junior Travel Trophies wherein the clubs attending receive points for the most man miles traveled, said Jaycette Mrs. Lois Vincent, Utah clubs represented in the Wasatch front are Bountiful, Centerville, Kaysville, Layton, Roy, Sunset, Clearfield, AVashington Terrace, South Ogden, Morgan, and North Summit. in charge of the dinner-danc- e are Mrs. Lois Vincent and Mrs. Jackie Snow. They are being assisted by Mrs. Peggy Eden, Mrs. Marge Palmer, Mrs. Barbara Varney, Mrs. Darleen Talbot and Mrs. Darlene Hurley. leet AFB announces services For Easter Sunday at Base Laylon Jaycees Post to observe infe'-tatio- Sell 378 Legion founding Subscriptions Jaycee meet teen-ager- Irish program At Hilltop Principals plan n, Spring banquet If you could place in a pile all of the grief that survivors of traffic fatalities suffer each hour, each day, each year in our country if you could stack up the broken, bloody, lifeless bodies that this grief represents . . . if you could gather all of the tears of young wives, wee sons and daughters, mothers and fathers into a big if you could tour the nation from city to city tank with your hideous exhibit . . . then perhaps, just perhaps, some of us Avould realize that death or injury IS possible every time we use our cars. Almost every family is sooner or later touched by this type of tragedy, and yet, all of us, by merely following the laws that. have been made for us, can make it almost impossible for a young wife and mother of three children to pick up the telephone at 3 a. m. to learn that her husband has been pried from the tangled wreckage Davis residents of the family automobile, and is laying in a nearby hospital awaiting surgery that probably wont be able to Buy $156,858 put him back together again ; or to go to the front door Savings Bonds at the same early hour and know even before the police officer speaks, that it can happen to you, that from now on you are alone, a widow. If that speed limit sign says 40 and you are going 60, the chance is great, not small, that your brain and your mechanical machine, will not be able to meet the necessary requirements to stay a normal working part of this world. If tonight you are going to drink, even just a little, the chances are very great that you will not be able to react soon enough when one of those nearly had an accident emergencies arise, that do arise so often when two vehicles, weighing thousands of pounds, speed towards each other at a combined Epeed of much more than a hundred miles per hour with nothing but AIK between them, and not much of that. Ever notice how tight your stomach feels when you speed along the highway. Your body knows you are doing wrong, why dont you? ... ... ture, and a strong Federal Court system. Each independent of the other all wholly superior to the states which they would govern. Worth having? Worth defending? Where else in the world will you find a law so uniformly fair and just to the The first great test of the AVhen election day arrives, we Constitution came about 75 dont go to the polls with fear years after it was adopted when in our hearts. There are no in order to enforce Article I, secret police with guns at their section 10, which says that no sides to influence how we mark state shall enter into any com- our ballot. AVe are only required pact or agreement with anoth- to vote, and every man, even er state, and no state shall keep the Fresident is obligated to troops of war in time of peace, vote for the party and the perthe U.S. was formed to declare son of his choice. It will only war on the confederate states. he through failure on our part And for nearly five years we to exercise this great right that engaged in the bloodiest war we might lose it sonWay. For in our history, which often under a democracy we always pitted brother against brother fare the danger that through, on cur part, and father against son in this indifference desperate effort to defend the through lazincs, a small minConstitution and to preserve ority of people who are anxithe union. Then as now it was ous to strip us of our the duty of every citizen in powers might always this great democracy to defend take over. it with his life if necessary. Is the Coirt',utico wort' A democracy isnt eay. hawrg, worth defending ? Let There arent enough profession- me take on to a land near U3 j al soldiers to defend our Con- which also used to he a repub-I- c stitution if the going gets shout tari szo. rough. sry citizsu hss his t h6n a dctfor took cTr of duty, his otLgaticn to fight socn str'rrel for, yes, even to die for his all their rghts. Mors recent- . lf Rofary Speaker AAUW discuss legislative pre-East- er Session with legislators Old Photo of the Week Layton Theatre building owner Asked to do something about eyesor two-mont- you to Cuba, where just four weeks ago, a bus was seen leaving Havana loaded with people. Not enemy aliens, but native Cubans college professors, policemen, lawyers, storekeepers C7 of them who had been awakened in the middle of the night by officers. No search warrant necessary here hauled away without explanation no writ of habrus corpus, no jury trials. A hen the bus stepped the men were dragged out in groups of eix. Some were crying, laughing nervously and talking in low tones, but all knew that they bad ldMe time left in thi3 world. Thy were lined up in front of an cppn p't. Six shots rang out and the men pitched over into their graves to be followed by six more. On ard on into danm, until more others n00 Tv' eve innocent ro doubt, but si! no Constitution to defend them We ha'e the mschir.es srd Country, his Constitution. ly he mas expelled, efer s Another duty which every hr.ef hut bloody revolution, and the men, the brains and the itizen living under this great a little man became an even skill end the strength. We La"e Constitution has is to vcte. blood.er dictator. Let m.s take th food and the steel, th cJ. me.-an- s mult of Hm f. to for four and & bilf yssrsR |