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Show ' 1\iid\"ale, t.:tah, Friday, April 6, 193..1 VOLUME 1 ~~~~--~~==~--------~~=~~~=-~~~~-----~--------~ WORLD NEWS X-RAY JACKKNIFED THE ULCERS New York Mayor La Guardia's Fusion Administration carried its astounding investigation into at'it~p faiTs at Welfare Island a further last week. Charles John- son, veteran cook from the days of three-master, practiced surg"'ry on raw meat and when confined on Welfare Island was put in charge of the Home's "ulcer clinic". Ht-re, often un-assisted,. he opened his jackknife and went to w:~rk on all patients suffering from varicose, cutaneous, typhoid, syphilitic, cancerous ulcers. He ~omplained that his assistant, one Pete, was often "too busy drinking alky" ..o assist him. Surgeon Johnson said often attendants dropped in to watch but couldn't stand the sight and had to leave. ••• BIRTHDAY PRESENT $50,000. Maestro Arturo Toscanini whose slender baton draws celestial mus~ ic from the New York Philhar· monic orchestra, paused a moment last Sunday while millions paid tribute to his geruus and 67th birthday. More than $50.000 given him by music lovers he turned over to the S. 0. S. (Save Our Symphony) campaign to help meet its deficit. Asked to say a fe'v '\Vords, the master answered: "I talk with my baton." "" * * INTERNATIONALE GETS BY Soviet Russia's "Internationale". anthem. announced on Maestro Leopold Stokowski's program for the Philadelphia orchestra last week brought rabid critidsm from anti-Communists, but to :u.1 avnil -the orchestra played 1t. The conductol". perha.ps fearing the English translation wonld net get by. h'ld French words printed. His (Continued on page Eight) MILLING AROUND IN MIDVALE Roy Seadman. electric appliance salesman Deluxe, according to reports has topped all former salesmanship records . . . . it is rumored he has sold an electric re· frigerator to an iceman. . . . an electric range to the gas man and and an electric sweeper to a broom manufacturer. . . . we are wondering whether or not he is the man who sold us the electric gadget that turns our heater switches on two hours early every morning. ~ Ed O'Brien, the man who 'meats' the people for 0. P. Skaggs Company, and assists Les Rimington in making Midvale a better place in which to live. . . . is advocating Murucipal Ownership Qf the Police as a sure cure for our econonllc Uls. . . . knowing the success A1 ca.pone had as owner of tbe Chi· cago Police. . . . we think maybe he's right. --<>Harry Thomas, Midvale's' pre· mier Wafflist, with the advent of baseball weather. . . . calls batter up . . . . (that is if you order waffles), speaking of baseball Harry has always been one of the town's best boosters for that sport and on one list we saw that had been arranged by a local enthusiast his name was at the head of the list. . . . . having played a little sand lot at times we are ready to join Harry and the other Midvaleans in promoting a team for this. the best town in Jordan Valley. -<>-ON July 2 of thls year Midvale will be one·quarter of a century old. . . . why not a Century of Progress in Twenty·five Years celebration. . . . . for a fact Midva1eans should combine the occasion with Uncle Sam's birthday on the fourth and stage the outstanding jubilee of South Salt Lake County's history. -o-- LOClL"'t Street, according to its youthful habitues. is quite a stem, drag, lane or what have you ... beginning at the mortuary on Cen· (Continued on page Eight) Local Baseball Fans To Hold Meet Sunday Britain's Y cungest M. P. Local baseball leaders will meet at the Ute Sentinel ·office on Sunday mor,Ung, April 8, at eleven o'clock to discuss plans for the coming baseball season. All players and interested fans are urged to attend the meeting as many important matters concerning the team must be settled The purpose of the meeting is to make arrangements for entering a league and organizing a city team, as well as appointing a team manager. If Midvale is to have a baseball team in an organized league thir year, everyone must cooperate. One way to cooperate is by attending meetings when they are called, therefore let's turn out en masse Sunday morning and join in the discussion. Midvale Youth Run Down By Auto On State Street • . Junes o es es, In f Di R ult Wallace Hall, fourteen year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hall of Midvale, died Thursday morning at 9 o'clock in a Salt Lake hospital from injuries received tn an accident last Friday. Wallace was struck by an automobile near Union avenue on State street. The automobile was driven by :Miss Elizabeth Ellison of Layton, and was proceeding south when Wallace who was riding a bicycle in the same direction, swer:ved into the path of the machine. The boy was reported to have been carried 90 feet bv the impact. The youth suffered internal injuries, the brealting- of both legs and many cuts and bruises. Wallace attended the Midvale junior high school and was in the ninth, where his scholarship was highly commendable. The youth tooit. an active pru·t in athletics and other school activities and m.A.rie regular contrl.butions in the hlfidvale junior High Lite of this paper. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...;N_::Ul\..;..::::.IB::.=E.::.R:....::.l.;;_3.~ Jordan Tennis Players To U.S. To t'mance Home Enter School Competition Remo:!ei.ng, and Repairs On Personal Notes Jordan tennis players will par competition ticipate in high school again this spring as a result of the formation of a new high s('hovl tennis league in this district. Teams from Granite, Bingham, Murray, Davis, Cyprus and Jordan round out a six team ch·cuit that will compete in a 12-game schedule. Jordan's prospects for a strong team are very promising. Two of last year's lettermen, Mazu.ran and Carlson, will be playing again and a number of new~comers are bidding fair to produce a strong Members of the squad line-up. besides Mazur an and Carlson are: Soffe, Larsen, Orton, Madsen, Steadman, Johnson, Peterson, Perry, Thomas, Hobbs and Nielsen. · Peaee Officers In SemiMiss Jf'nnic Lee. the •·buhy" mem. Andual Meet Urge ·cities, ber of' the British pnrliament. oow \'isltlng In thP United Stales. Counties, State Cooperate ~_ Utah state peace officers held semi-annual convention in JORDAN BROADCASTER their Thursday, with repreLake Salt WJNS HIGH HONORS sentatives from the entire state attending the meet. Speakers at the conv-.!nticm urgIDgh School Journallsts Meet In ed cooperation among the city, Annu.aJ Convention. county and state officials in the honor prevention of crime and highway All-Intermountain An fatalities. Jordan the awarded was rating Midvale's official representative, Broadcaster in the newspaper con· test held in connection with the Kenneth. Dunn, was unable t.o atfirst annual conference of high tend the meeting due to pressing school journalists at the Brigha~ business. Howe vet·, a substl t 1 :ion Young University of Provo last was made and the city had its Friday, March 30. The same rat- usual representative present. ing was also awarded to the "Spotlight," Gunnison county, Colorado high school newspaper. Twenty-five high schools from the Intermountain west were repmore than 100 editors, 1 resented, business managers. and advisers Easter services were held in the being in att"!ndance. Ramona Leak, Midvale Community Church on Drews Ri!':'kn. and Harold Smith Easter morning. Baptism was ad· represented Jordan. A ministered to eight persons. At 9:30 in the morning the con- sermon and mus'ic appropriate to vention opened with a welcoming the day completed the program. assembly at which F. Howard Forsyth, president of the B. Y. U. journalism class presided. At 10 o'clock instruction sections were held. Professor Harrison R. Merrill presiding. Talks were given by William C. Carr, editor of the For the past week applicants "Y" News, on "Troubles of a Col- for automobile driver's licenses Ml~vale city will conduct its annual spring clean-up campaign lege Editor"; Miss Parton, editor have been required to take tests high in order to obtain driving permits. beginning Monday, April 9, and of the ''Rocket". Fillmore Mimica "Publishingon school, to April 1, applicants were ending Friday April 14, dates in· Elden Petersen, ed- Prior Paper''; graph are owners permits by merely paying issued property AU elusive. itor of the Preston high school pa- the license fee and answering a set urged to cooperate in this move· per, on "Organizing and Directing of personal questions. At present ment to beautify the city by re- a Staff''; Fred Markham, Supermoving all debris from their prem- visor of the "Granitian", on "The and in the future, all applicants ises and to improve g-eneral ap- Three Fold Organization at Gran- must undergo rigid physical and mental tests before acquiring the pearances during this time. ite"; Clifton Culmsee, instructor of Vacant lot owners will be noti- journalism at the local Wliversity, driving permits. Appropriate officers throughout fied to clear their property of all on "News Paper Make-Up"; and state have been given pennisthe unslgbtly growth and rubbish. Howard Graham, local printer, on to conduct these examinations sion to Failure on the owners part "Problems of a Printer in Connec- which include tests in actual drivcomply with this request, will re- tion with a School Paper''. blindness, eyesight, and color ing, sult in the city assuming the duIn the afternoon general assemties and assessing said property bly John E. Jones, Manager of the knowledge of state highway laws. These tests are given in order holders with the cost. Western Newspaper Union at Salt There will be a daily garbage Lake, spoke on "Making a News- to promote safety on the highways collection in every part of the city, paper". Following this, the win- of Utah. enabling residents to remove all ners of the newspaper contest were trash without congestion. announced by Ray McGuire, editor elect of the "Y" News and chairman of the afternoon meeting. Judges of the contest were Ji.Liss Margaret Selby, N. C. Hicks, and Ernest Rasmus sen. Easter Observance Held In Community Church Catholics To Form Baseball Circuit Catbo1ic baseball director.s will meet at the Cathedral church in Salt Lake this afternoon to form a league schedule for the coming baseball season. Directors from Salt Lake, Tooele, Magna, Ogden, Bingham, and ~Iidvale will be present at the confab and are expected to enter teams in the loop. It is anticipated that two leagues will be formed -a senior loop for players over 17 years of age, and a junior circuit for boys 17 and under. License Requisites For Drivers Become Rigid Many Stud~nts To Be Semmary Graduates Clean-up Campaign To Strart Monday Spring Beetdigger Pigskin Squad Promises Formidable Competition State Federation Women's Clubs Convene April 24th The annual convention of the Utah Federation of Women's clubs will be held at Salt Lake in the Newhouse hotel, April 24,25,26. Many important issues will be presented to the convention fur consideration and the chairman of revisions will show several changes in the constitution and By·laws. Among the speakers will be Mrs. Roberts Campbell Lawson of Tulsa, Oklahoma. and Mrs. Weston Vernon of Salt Lake. r.C"~·c !Ior1c CwnC'!"S Loan Corporation. a Federal Government ag· ency, under supervision of C. C1ar!'nce Ne:;land, with offices in the Boston Building, Salt Lake City, has announced a new plan now available to Utah home owners, for financing construction improve ments on homesteads, without incumbering the property. Money is now accessible for home owners, who wish to avail themselves of the opportunity, for remodeling, repairing or renoVizing their homes, without the necessity of plastering the remodeled or repaired property with mortgages or leins. Home owner.3 can secure money for the above specified purposes on short notice and on their personal notes through the 'Home Owners Loan Corporation, if application is made in the correct form. The gratifying feature of the new plan is that it is not necessary that the home be free from incumbrance at the time the finances for remodeling or repairing are furnished. Midvaleans who are interested in availing themselves of this new plan for home improvement can secure any needed information fro:rp headquarters in Salt Lake or through the local branch of Morrison-Merrill Company. State Road Commission Taboos D. & R. G. W. Center St Crossing Light At the city council meeting Tuesday night, Mr. Harry Wright, Midvale city representative to the state road commission, reported the state as being opposed to the installation of a signal ligbt n.t the D. & R. G. W. railroad cros:.ing on Center street. It was the original intention of the city to have a signa] light at the crossing in conjunction with the present watchman. Although Jordan high tracksters will en- the state commission refused the gage in their first meet of the light, it is in favor of a bell sysseason this afternoon a.t 3:30 on tem at the crossing. the high school athletic field. The meet is an inter·class affair with entries from junior and senior classes competing with sophomore students in junior high schools. Among last year's lettermen who The Sarah Egbert Despain famwill compete in the meet are: ily re-union will be held at the Frank Canning, Alfred Canrung, home of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy BoGus Black. Mac Dow, ""ayne Sofie, berg Sunday afternoon, Aptil 8. Chad Beckstead, Ray Fitzgerald, The meeting will consist of a proand Dean Bishop. gram and short business meeting. Season's ~u:st Track Meet To Be Held Today Despain Family Re-union Is Set For April 8th After two weeks of rigid trainJordan's ing in spring football, outlook for a strong team in next fall's campaign is very pronlising. Sixty-seven candidates, including twelve lettermen, responded to the first call issued by coach Eddie Kimball a fortnight ago and are rapidly rounding into condition. Although a great portion of these sessions have been devoted to the absorbing of fundamt:.nt3ls, scrimmage and practice grunes will be held in the near future. The training period will continue for three more weeks, and will end with an inter-school game. Quake Damage Gradually Becoming Apparent Damage done by the recent earthquakes are just becoming ap· parent at the Draper school. Walls of the auditorium shGw a number of cracks which are slowly growing wider. A number· of cracks show in the domestic science room and the steps from the boys lavatory to the auditorium have slipped out of place onto one and onehalf inches. Principal Grant announces that the graduation class this year will be a huge one-possibly 1n·! hundred twelve pupils. Only once before (192'), when there were 113 graduates) has there been a larger number of graduates. As yet the exact dR-te for the exercises has not been chosen. Mr. Grant states that his worry is not <~How can I find spP,akers ?". but rather 41 Wbich ones sh 1U I choose?'' During- the past few weeks the Jordan Seminary teachers and pupils have received many words of praise regarding the seventeen programs which they have recently given in the various wards of the East and West Jordan stakes. In most every case the ward officers have expressed thern.3elves as belie"ing that the programs this year were given with greater dispatch and interest than .... ver before. At the recent election of cfficers at the Seminary, James MadseR won the presidency; Emeline (Jra.nt W :Ill a became vice-president; Stokes, chorister; and Leah Rasmussen, organist. It is rumorea that already Madsen is at worh: on his f<Address of Welcon1e., th.llt will be delivered at the exercises; and that the other officers are <.hligently learning their rluties. Friday Will be Girls' Day At Granite High Friday, April 6, is to he Annual Girls' Day at Granite. At the regnlPr Misen1Ny, all citv high schools including Murray high, wi U furnish a number. Jordan girls have been e.skeU for a number n.nd are taking a girls' trio, consisting- of W1l1a. Stokes, Alice Todd, and Lenora Beth Thompson will he Aylett. the accompanist. La Von Morgan, Vice~Presidcnt of the Student Body, is to be the representative from .Jordan. She will introduce the numl>er from Jordan and w!ll give a short address to the Granite High Student Body. |