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Show THE DUCHESNE EAGL THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1966 - VOL. 1 -- NO. 17 DUCHESNE, UTAH - COPY 10¢ TELEPHONE SERVICE ~CUTOVER SATURDAY DUCHESNE -- The saying in Duchesne this weekend is "Dial 7 for Service. "' It was early Saturday morning that all « been Mr, This new system provides Duchesne with the latest in dialing equipment and service. The Duchesne prefix is 738, _ The Duchesne exchange The : Now with the new system in effect, Duchesne has 268 telephone subscribers, Mr, Lines are avail- area, prefix is 848 and | be installed. will Until the Roose- . velt area is converted to the direct dial system, the long distance calls from Duchesne and Roosevelt exchanges will tors at the Roosevelt telephone Post 22 and the Duchesne Unit No, 22 of The American Legion and Auxiliary will host the spring convention of District Nine, The American Legion, Saturday. Orson O. Mott, Duchesne Post | No, 22, Commander, and Mrs. Phyllis W. Day, Duchesne Unit No, 22 Auxiliary president, are in charge of arrangements for the convention. 3 Registration begins at 5 p.m. in the Legion Hall and continues The joint at the court room in the courthouse. The registration fee is 50 cents Light refreshments be served, introduce the Department offi- time the new officers will introduce the newly-elected commanders, Mrs. Barbara Horton, the district president of the Auxi- liary, will introduce the Department president, Mrs. Lester This meeting will be called | hold separate meetings to start at8 p.m. The Legionnaires will hold their meeting at the Orson O. Mott, No. 22; Paul Christensen and Mrs. Delaine Tidwell, Altonah Post and Unit No, 53; Comman- Post No, Phyllis Ww. Day, are in charge 22, and president Southam. post home, _ of arrangements at Duchesne Saturday. Other Legion district offi- cers are Harry Stewart, second vice commander, Roosevelt; Reynold Beaman, Jensen; Roy Hall, arms, 1]; Orson _ O. Mott and Mrs, Phyllis W. Day, Duchesne Post and Unit for the District Nine convention | a salute to the colors. The Opening prayer: will be said by the district chaplain, Lavar members Post and Unit No, : Vir- ginia Monks, Myton Post and Unit No. 5; Ralph‘Sharp and Mrs. Shirley Wilkins, Vernal A social hour will be held The American Legion Auxiliary, cessed and the Legionnaires and will chaplain, of the Duchesne Unit No, 22, The assembly will be re- be lead by Thomas L, Handy, the vice commander of the district. Orson Mott, the host post commander, will give the Antone Uresk and Mrs, Mrs, Hor- the Auxiliary members will _ Post and unit officers are officers and hold the closing der Duchesne Department awards for the Legion Posts will be presented by a department officer who ton. will lead the assembly in | at the Legion Hall after the Close of the business sessions, (Norma) Bryan, Ogden, the district officers, and the unit presidents, , will be presented by Mrs. Clayton, Vernal, secretarytreasurer; Mrs. Myrtle Dearbom, Vernal, historian. ceremonies of the convention, _ The closing prayer will be given by the district Auxiliary The district Auxiliary awards will | The preamble At 10 p.m.,. a joint meeting will reconvene at which cers, Commander Donald V. Tibbs of Manti, the district Legion officers, and the post switchboard GION CONFERENCE LE welcome address, Commander Lenartz will will be in attendance. to order by James E, Lenartz, the District Nine commander, who Circuit breakers being pulled from new office. DUCHESNE TO HOST each. eta be handled through the opera- able to handle the needed service which will be required when the Bonneville Unit of meeting starts at 7 p.m. Roosevelt, adjutant, James Milligan and Mrs, Leona Riding, Roosevelt Post and Unit No, 64; Reynold Beaman and Mrs. Vicki Southam, Jensen, and Unit No. 124; Gene Daniels and Mrs. Ada LeBeau, Ft. Duchesne — Post and Unit No, 126. See pictures on another page sergeant-at- Other Auxiliary district and the Auxiliary officers are Mrs, Chen, Duchesne, will remain at the courthouse. Both groups will elect new district officers for 1966-67, . president, Goldie Wilfirst vice Mrs, Virginia Monks, Myton, second vice president; Mrs, Virginia This copy of letter to Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy, Building, Washington, Interior D.C., was sent to Mrs. Dona B. Hansen, Duchesne, secretary for _ . the Duchesne County Republican Party, by Rep. Laurence J. Burton, It is dated April 14, 1966. ) Dear Floyd: I am still trying to find the answer to what happened to the Utahns Urge Big Fund _ For Project By Frank Hewlett Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The four members of Utah’s. congressional delegation made a united. appeal Monday for a 10-million-dollar appropriation for construction work this year on the key Bonneville unit of the They appeared before the House Public Works Appropriation Subcommittee whose mem- missing $3.5 million which was appropriated by the Congress to start construction on understand why it was necessary | to reject all of these very favor- the Central Utah Project. I was very distrubed this notified the bidders that it is amazement anticipated that the construction camp might be re-bid later this year. The net effect of money they provided last year for the Bonneville Project. able bids. afternoon to find that the Bu- reau of Reclamation office in Denver had notified the bidders on the construction camp at is DAVID SAM, files on Republican Ticket for Duchesne County Attorney : Central Utah Reclamation ProjCee. =: , WHAT HAPPENED TO THE $$$? Bureau of Reclamation, Colo. who has accepted extends into the Tabiona-Hanna also. Sam, the co-chairmanship of the 1966 Duchesne County Fair, has stated he and his family will return to Duchesne in June to build a home, and has new dialing equipment 250 subscribers, through 6:45 p.m. assignment at Boulder, The telephone company has announced plans for the expansion program to extend to the Roosevelt area, where > tise,..while the present equip“ment could handle approxi- The Duchesne munity for nearly two years prior to his taking a church in use since the 1930's, all seven digits, be capable of handling up to 800 lines, should the need Perkins said. the State of Utah, 3 He and his wife, Betty, and children, resided in the com- may be called directly from the Duchesne area by dialing overthe com- The new equipment will mately in Duchesne, The pro- chesne was one of the first in exchange Church of in 1964-65, Also he served as Duchesne City attorney while groundbreaking ceremony Nov, 9, 1965, near the courthouse in Duchesne City . The dial system in Du~ was necessitated when the _» pany official said. Duchesne Seminary, Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was contractor for change equipment. building, the installation of all new step-by~step dialing equipment, as well as the replacement of cable throughout the community, amounted to an expenditure by the com~ pany of $220, 000. | : The expansion program existing plant became Kellar Construction Co. , Tooele, ject was started with the Roosevelt. He states the new facilities, which included the County attor- private law practice in Duchesne, was principal at the Mc- the new 26 by 38 feet masonry manager for the Mountain States Telephone Company, taxed and outdated, Company. building which houses the ex- announces district construction of a new ney post. He has filed declaration of candidacy for the four- year job. He is a Republican candidate, The incumbent county attorney is R. Earl Dillman, Roosevelt, a Republican. _ Mr. Sam, who engaged in a Telephone telephones in the area had a four-digit number. The cut-over was made at 6 a.m. Saturday, Theo W. Perkins, water conservation gets under~ Western Electric Co. did the installation of the equipment for the Mountain States is another step by the MounFor many years, for the Duchesne Reservoir. tain States Telephone Company to provide direct long distance dialing. David Sam has made his bid the Central Utah Project for way here, possibly this year, with the start of construction of the Starvation Dam and the new seven-digit dial telephone service went into effect in the Duchesne area, which & DAVID SAM FILES FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY Duchesne that bids were being rejected because of "insufficient funds. '' The notice was received by them over the signature of B,E. Bellport, Chief ) Engineer, Denver. I can't Mr. starts at least one and perhaps two years longer than necessary. The Bureau of Reclamation engineer's estimate of the cost Continued on page 2 sympa- thy for the reclamation needs of the Beehive State, but also Bellport has this is to delay construction , bers not only expressed FRED POPE FILES J.P. CANDIDACY Fred Pope, Duchesne Pre~ cinct Justice of the Peace, has filed Declaration of Candidacy for another four-year term in this office. He filed the Declaration as a Republican. ae that the Department had used Interior all the Ask For Boost The Utahns asked that the. $2,700,000 recommended by the Johnson Administration Continued for the on back page } = ~ es | |