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Show Y1T 4c7 -- u- . 3-- D fO. U1 I ui1 i 20 Magna, Utah USPS Juno 24, 1982 Vol. 69, No. 325-58- 0 .?, 60 years together, celebrated by the couple An Open House to honor the 60th wedding anniversary of Clements and Elmina Steffensen Toone was held Sunday. June 20. 1982 at their home in Richfield. 1 1 1 W . 6 th North. They were married June 21, 1922 in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of seven children, five of whom are living. Larene T. Burton of Downey. California married to Dr. Lindsay Burton. Reed, married to Jane Howard and living in Richfield. Ross (deceased) Stan C. Toone, Orem, David W. Toone married to Karen Thomson of Ogden. Harley E. Toone married Kay Foulger and living in Richfield and Christ ien C. (deceased). They have 26 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren. They have lived most their lives in the Salt Lake Valley, in South Cottonwood. Magna and Mun-av- . f Utah Arts Festival offers wide variety ofactivities to participate in The sixth annual Utah Arts Festival June 23 through June 27. The Festival is held outdoors in the Biccentennial Arts Complex on West Temple Street in downtown Salt Lake City. It began as the Salt Lake Festival of the Arts and has since expanded to include works and performances by artists from all over Utah and the Intermountain West, making it a major cultural event. The Festival includes performance groups, visual artists, demonstrating craftsmen. poets, artist projects, a wide variety of ethnic foods and the popular Childrens Art Yard in an ongoing display of the arts from 1 1 a.m. until 11 p.m. daily. This year the Festival is embarking on its first theatre project with the western premier of Diamond Studs. Diamond Studs is a light, humorous, foot stomping, bluegrass musical based on the life of Jesse James. The musical will be staged in a large yellow and white tent theatre located between the Salt Palace and the Salt lake Art Center. Starring in the play as the notorious Jesse James will be Jim Stoddard with Marsha Miller playing the role of his cohort. Belle Starr. The play will be directed by Frances Royster, with Evelyn Bartholmew as musical director and Linda C. Smith as choreographer. It will open Tuesday, June 22 at 8 p.m. and run W ednesday, through Saturday with two performances daily at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. A concluding matinee performance will be held Sunday. June 27 at 2 p.m. During the Festival, tickets for all performances may be obtained free of charge from the information booth located at the north end of the Festival grounds. Prior to the Festival, June 1 5 through June 22. tickets will be available at the front desk on the Salt Lake Art Center. 20 South West Temple. The Art Centers hours arelO a.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The Center is closed Sunday and Monday. Two outdoor stages, the Main and Bistro Stages, will be located at the north and south ends of the Festival grounds. On them, the Festival will offer performances daily. Highlights will include performances by the Utah Symphony (Wednesday. June 23 at 8:15 p.m.). The Repertory Dance Theatre (Friday. June 25 at 8 p.m ). Ballet West (Saturday. June 26 at 8 p.m.). the Utah Opera Company (W ednesday. June 23 at 6 :45 p.m. ) and Dance Company the (Thursday. June 24 at 8 p.m.). Other performances will include ethnic dances, chamber music, jazz enand sembles. groups bluegrass recitals by contestants in the Gina Piano International Bachauer Competition. Wednesday through Saturday at 6 p.m. on the Main Stage. Seventy artists and craftsmen will exhibit and sell their work during the Festival. Arts and crafts will represent the entire spectrum of visual arts including ceramics, wood working, jewelry, fiber, printmaking, stained glass and photography. will be held Governor to sign on with new cable service Utah Governor Scott M. Matheson briefly assumed the duties of a television producer on Monday. June 21 , from KUTVs production facilities for Intermount Satellite News. The Governor gave the on-apall at exactly 9:48 a.m. when Intermountain Satellite News aired its first newscast as part of the noteworthy cable service, Satellite News Channel. KUTV. Inc. President George Hatch formally announced the new cable service at a 9 a.m. press conference preceeding the newscast, and also commented on this unprecedented development of KUTV NewsWatch 2 as innovators in news dissemination and communications technology. KUTV NewsWatch 2 serves the pivotal role as the intermountain base e cable service. At :48 24 hour, of operations for this first News will cablecast Intermountain Satellite minutes after the hour. regional reports to Satellite News Channel subscribers in Utah, Colorado. Wyoming, and Montana, and parts of Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, North Dakota and Nebraska. Cable subscribers can tune in any time, day minute coverage of news as it happens. or night, for all-ne- ir all-liv- s, up-to-t- Years ofgrowth reflectedby fuel company SALT LAKE CITY Mountain Fuel Supply Company officials announced the Companys 150th consecutive dividend to stockholders this week, reflecting 47 years of growth during which the Company has evolved from a small group of companies to a diversified interstate energy corporation. to 61 This dividend-amountin- g in the landmark is a cents a share R.D. said of the company, history Cash, president and chief executive officers. It represents a tribute not only to our investors but also to the g Mountain Fuel employees who have enabled us to grow and develop even during difficult economic times. We are proud that large and small investors have contributed to the development of the company and enjoyed an unbroken record of financial return as they participate with us in this successful, exciting business. Mr. Cash said. Mountain Fuel employees who have enabled us to grow and develop even during difficult economic times. We are proud that large and small investors have contributed to the development of the company and enjoyed an unbroken record of' financial return as they participate with us in this successful, exciting business. Mr. Cash said. Mountain Fuel declared its first dividend of 10 cents per share on Oct. 15, 1935. five months after the Company organized following the merger and consolidation of several Utah and companies. Utah Gas & Coke Company. Ogden Gas Company and Wasatch Gas Company were consolidated into a new Utan company and The Western Public Service Corporation. Mountain Fuel Supply Company (Delaware), Uinta Pipe Line Company and the Aspen Mountain Gas Company were merged with the new company. T.B. Gregory was chairman of the Board of the new company, which had offices at 36 S. Stale St. in Salt Lake hard-workin- City, as well as in Pittsburgh, Pa. and Findlay. Ohio. The Companys board of directors authorized the issuance of 2 million shares of stock at $10 per share. In its first annual report, the Company reported sales of 9,586,503 cubic feet of gas to 22.522 customers, with oper at ing revenues of $2 ,1 03 ,704 . By 1945. the Companys customers 45.385 and (in Utah totalled Wyoming), and that figure jumped to 82.204 in 1950.173.524 in 1960,220,795 in 1965. and 395.586 in 1980. According to the Companys 1981 annual report, it had 406,127 customers at the end of the year, with total revenues of $484,950,822 and consolidated earnings of $18,771,350. There were 7.720.624 outstanding shares of common stock held by 1 1 ,845 stockholders and 534.289 shares of preferred stock owned by 276 stockholders. in the Increases number of stockholders since the first declared divident symbolize the stable growth and reputation of the Company, said Mr. Cash. "The Company has grown from a small natural gas utility to a diversified interstate energy company with operating subsidiaries that store, produce, transport and distribute natural gas. explore for hydrocarbons, conduct operations for unconventional and alternate fuels, engage in research, manufacture bricks and ceramic tile, and manage land and properties.he said. B.Z Kastler. chairman of the board, said he is optimistic about the prospects for all segments of the Company and expects to see continued growth and prosperity. We celebrate this 150th consecutive dividend and are most appreciative of our loyal shareholders w ho have stood by us over the years, he said. W e remain deeply committed to providing energy to our customers in an effient manner even as we diversify our Company to meet the challenges which will confront us and the nation as we approach the 21st Century. Ririe-Woodbu- projects will Four large scale artists be set up throughout the Festival. These projectsare designed to involve the Festival goer with the artist. Artist Gyll Huff will film video portraits of Festival guests and show the tapes daily on a large screen at the Festival. Artist Chad Buck has e created figures of a man that guests will discover, search for, and rediscover as they walk through the Festival. Festival goers will watch as a work of art. created in the Site as life-siz- Studio project by Ed Dolinger, evolves during the Festival. Artist Stephen Tafts neon forms, hung on the Symphony Hall and Art Center walls, will create an electrifying atmosphere and will challenge guests to figure out their underlying meaning. The Childrens Art Yard ieatures participatory activities for children and their parents. Children will learn how to paint, weave, build and work with day. This year, the Art Yards theme is the Ice Age. Children will d create and decorate woolly tigers and a giant papier-mach- e mammoth, complete with its long tusks and wooly body. They can sit or stand in a large fabricated cave whose interior has been decorated with and petroglvphs pictographs reminiscent of the ice age. Children will be provided with opportunities to build an architectural structure on the Art Yard grounds, decorate a totem pole and see performances by the Childrens Dance Theatre, the Utah Opera Company, the Childrens Theatre Company and more. There will also be a special preschool area with projects designed to amuse and entertain children between the ages of three and five. This year demonstrating artists will demonstrate the art of making both traditional and ethnic crafts in 1 hour and 3 hour sessions. A special event will be demonstration of Raku, the ancient Japanese art of making and firing pottery. Other demonstrations will include violin construction, quilt making, ice sculpture, willow furniture making and Tongan Tapa cloth and mat making. Demonstrations begin daily at 12:30 p.m. and continue until 8 p.m. on the Demonstrating Artists stage north of the Bistro. Sidewalk cafes, colorful booths and carts will serve a variety of traditional and ethnic foods to hungry Festival guests. Navajo tacos, crepes, quiche, traditional South American food, oysters and clams on the half shell and Chinese food will tempt any appetite at the Festival. word is a The performing celebration of prose, poetry and plays with daily readings by Black, Native American. Japenese and Utah authors. Included in the readings are works by Dorothy Solomon, a prose writer who will read from her award about autobiography winning polygamy. Also included will be award winning poet Lorraine Ferra who will read from her works and Susan Bagiev and students of theatre who will do a dramatization of Ntozake Shanges For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf Readings will be held in the Creer A uditorium of the Salt Lake A rt Center. This years film event will be presented by the Utah Media Center. The event will feature Western films dating from 1939 until 1978. They will be shown at 12 p.m.. 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. daily at the Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium. A few of the films featured this year are: Stagecoach with John Wayne. Claire Trevor and John Carradine; Bad Day at Black Rock with Spencer Tracv and Lee Marvin; Little Big Man with Dustin Hoffman and Fayne Dunaway: and Rancho Deluxe with Sam Waterston and Jeff Bridges. Each film will be preceded by vintage western action shorts starring great cowboys of the past like Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry. Tex Ritter and Tom Mix. Guests should use the lower southwest doors of the Art Center to enter the building. r-- HJ saber-toothe- Selfportraits class opens foryoungsters Elmina Toone No jobs on the well known Alaska gas pipeline National publirity concerning the gas pipeline waiver package recently Join the gala celebration Have a 'bang of a 4 th. Join the gala celebration at the Adventure and Learning Park in American Fork, from 4: 30 p.m. to 9 p.m. on July 2. Listen to live Blue Grass entertainment while enjoying your own barbecue picnic. There will be fireworks after dark. Admission is $2 per car. Remember. July 2 at 4:30 p.m.. Adventure and Learning Park in American Fork. 1943-463- 6 passed by Congress has generated a marked increase in persons going to Alaska to find work. Construction of the Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline has not begun in Alaska. Alaskas Commissioner of Labor has stated that there are very few jobs available there and job seekers should be wary of bogus advertisements offering high paying jobs or Alaska job information for sale. The cost of living is very high in Alaska and someone contemplating going there should have some tvpe of firm commitment. For additional information contact: Commissioner of Labor. State of Alaska. P.O. Box 112 1149, Juneau, Alaska 99811. Convention barbeque scheduled for Friday Republican State Chairman Charles W. Akerlow announced today that Republicans from across the state are encouraged to make the state convention barbeque dinner one of the biggest gatherings of the 1982 election year. According to Chairman Akerlow, The barbeque is intended to provide and their all Utah Republicans families with an opportunity to join together in a friendly, fun, and casual setting. The barbeque wiD baked beans, and ribs, feature spare country music beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Salt Palace Arena. The cost will be $ 1 0 for adults. $5 for children Chairman Akerlow says that, ae cording to the latest from the Secret a special guest froir Service, Washington. D C. will appear around 8 p.m. at the convention barbeque. The chairman also stated that Republicans who have not arranged tc . attend this event with their families may do so by calling Republican Headquarters at 533-977- Registration for tennis Fun. Great Instruction Great Registration for the second session of tennis with the Salt Lake Countv Recreation Division will be held Saturday. June 26. from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the following courts : Hunter Park. 3600 South 6000 West; Southridge. 4015 West 5051 South; Magna Park. 8900 West 2600 South. Cost for lessons is $10 per person per session. For further information contact the Salt Lake County Recreation Division 535-565- Volunteers for Wilson hit the street for support Volunteers for Salt Lake City ducted in Salt Lake City. Sandy, Mayor Ted Wilsons Senate campaign Murray and Kearns. Generally the plan to take to the streets next most important issues are unemSaturday. June 19. to interview ployment. high interest rates and federal spending. W ilson said, adding Magan and West Valley residents. Wilson expects that over 75 that the response varies in each area. volunteers will walk Volunteers for the Magna and West contacting over 5000 families in the Valley City project will meet at 10 a.m. Magna and W est Valley areas to take a on Saturday. June 19 at the Whittier brief Utah issue survey. Elementary School at 5975 West 3500 Wilson asked that anyone inSouth. The project will conclude by terested in helping with the project 1:30 pm. contact his campaign headquarters, Wilson, noting that funds for his or Jeanine Rokich, Wilsons race are limited, said. What we lack in money we make up in enthusiasm Magna coordinator, at Finding out what the public is We might not have a million dollar thinking is an important assignment campaign chest to buv expensive television ads. but we do have a million for our campaign. Wilson said, explaining that Wilson volunteers do dollars worth of enthusiasm from our this on a regular basis in order to volunteers. To me. personal contact maintain an ongoing barometer of with the voters through events such as this will be the significant difUtah thought. ference in this campaign. Similar surveys have been con door-to-do- 533-870- College self portraits will be made at a childrens art workshop at the Granger Brandi Library. 2880 West 3650 South, on Thursday, July 1 at 2 p.m. children are invited to join artist Carol Norby Elementary school-ag- e for this free workshop. Participants will cut pictures from magazines and paste them inside paper silhouettes of their heads. Because the workshop is required. size must be limited, For further information on this free program, call the Salt Lake County ). Library System. 943-INF- ;i 250-530- |