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Show • R€€-ffiARHS * Gala Boxing Program Slated By West Jordan Athletic Club THE MIDVALE By The Editor • ?\ew improvements noted around .town: Opt:ning of l\tcndenhall's Auto llarts store al 86 N Majn, with au attnu.:tive stook of everything imaginablE" for tlw motorist and mechanic' . . . Lewis Dahl. busy as a bee. getting ready to open his new .appli;.Ulcc store in the Joe Wells building, (.'Omer of N t-.hlin and 1st Ave . . . George 'Vittich starting constntction of a fine new building at .\1idvalt• )uncti01\ to house his .elt>ctrical businl"SS. Every available busin(·ss room is now occupied, so w(:'n have to start building some more. • Angnst Pierson is glowing with pride aftf'r taking first prize for the brst Utah celery exhibited at the countv fair. \Ve ale some ol it the other~day. and it was rc:1lly delicious. • If conditions hlld been reversed, we wonder how much ''lcnd~lease'' -goods England wou ld have scot us if our plight had been as precarious as was England's in 1940? • Abe Lincoln did not become great because he wu.s born in a log cabin, but because be got out of it. • \\'ith t11e rckasc of gas rationing and the li.fl ing of the 35-mile speed limit. a small town on U S 40 'vas confrontt:>d with the problem of .slowing down highw;.ly traffic. One day the mayor gol\·e a speeding motorist a wHrning sign to slow down. which was not h eeded, so the mayor st'nt a tratfic poHceman to catch him. ''Why did you ignore the mayor's signal?'' demanded t11e cop, "Oh," rt.·plied the motorist, ~'I thought he was just anoth<:'r bitchhiker thumbing a r ide.' • Overheard on the ~fid\'ale bus: "I sure don't like her bathing suit; it is so old fashion lookin'. But outside of thal, she's all right." • !'\C'ws of Jap atrocities shock the ]mman mind. It makes our blood boiJ to think how easy those yellow d(·vils arc getting out of the mess thC"y started. Jlow can the guilty ont'S ev('T be ndeqoatdy punished for the 1u.~inous crimes they committed? If we weren't a Christian we would suggest that the Yanks round up e"cry ) ap war criminal, bunch them all together, and drop an atomic bomb right in their midst. • The One That Got Away Two fishennen rattled along the road \\'ith empty crt.'cls, in a :\1odel T Ford. Said Ed to Bill, as he cluflg on tight ''1 haven't had a d oggonf" bite, Not t•,·en a nibble, and t11at's no lie And I fished with spinner, bait and fly." Said Bill to Ed, 'This bamboo pole 1 whi pped in every r iffle and hole And as sure as I liw· 1 was going to stop \\'hen r turnt--d my back, and heard a flop, And whether a native or Cermil.D Brown, lie looked as long as from here to town; 'Twas thC' only one I saw todav, But the son-of-a~gun, he ~~t awavr· Leonllrd L Hath9.way, Local Ball Club Wins 2 Games In Morgan County Midvale Farm Bureau baseball club, winne rs of t he county champ ionsh ip, won a se ries of 2 ga m es against a pick ed team from the champions of M&rgan a n d S umm it coun tie s , last Thursd ay & F riday. T he ga m es we re p lay ed at Com o Sprjn gs as a fea tu re of th e M or ga n county iai r . The fi rst gam e was won by M idv ale , 6 to 5. The second tilt was taken by Mid vale in the last h a1f of th e 9th inning, afte r Danny Thurber crossed the plate to t ie th e sco r e. a nd D Zagarieh came h ome on a h it by Merle B r ow n to make t h e sCor e 16 to 15. J D u nn was cr edited with win n ing both gaP'les. Ele ven Midvale players m ade the trip . * HONOR ROLL * New Subscribers: ) OC' Mazuran, ~'l idva l e. ~frs Alice Nielsen, Sandy. Lloyd C Dimond, Sandy. Renewals: Mrs \Vm Davies, Midvale. F E Tripp, Midvale. Fossc..~n's Dry Cleaning, Midvale. Mrs llattie Lotts, West Jordan. Harrv Pender. ' Vest J ord...<tn. E J 'Orgi ll, West j ordan. ' V H CarJncr, 'Vest ordan. VVillard Hichardson , "Vest Jordan. Carol Healey, Mid va le. Mrs Adolph Benson , Sandy. E arl Dowding, Sandy. Ud ell Erickson, Sandy. Marga ret Vincent, Salt Lake City. AN IND EPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published at MIDVALE, UTAH Volume 12-Number 36 Light System Installed at Jordan Field Lights for the Jordan high school athletic field will be in readiness for the opening football game of the current senson, il was announced today by Supt Arthur E Peterson of t.he Jordan school di~tric:t. The opl."'ning gnmc is scheduled for Sept 21, when the Beetdiggers will ffi('et Grand J unction, Colo, her(.., Princ:ip.1l 0 D Ballntd said. The field will have 5 poles on each side, with 6 reflectors to each pole, and tlu• kltal light production will be 90,000 watts. In addition there will be iighting facilities for parking !.-pace, ticket office~. and booths. Installation of thi'! lights was reJordan cently authorized by the school district board of education, ut a cost of $~.000, to be paid for by jordan high school, when the project is fully completed by the Wasatch E lectric Co, Salt Lake City, contractors. The money will be prodd~d from sa .. ings acc:rued in the high school athletic fund, Princjyal Ballard S<lid. Aecording to Clarence n. Nelson, superYist.-d geneml engineer, who U1c work, the field will be illuminated according to the highest specifications for such fields in the United States, and will make jordan field one of t.hc best in the ~tate..~ for afterdark athletic cont<>sts. Kiwanis To Hear Aviation Talk lo observanc.:t' of National Aviation \Veek, tlw I\.lidvale Kiwanis club has scheduJcd a talk ~ l onday night hy W II Sableman, Salt Lake City, tnUfic manager of United Air Lines, ,..·ho will discuss ''The Futurt> of Commercial A dation.'' The meeting is slated for 6A5 p m in the city building. A director's mC'eting will be held St·pt 13, at the home of Secretan P ,\r1 .\lickcl'ien, 170 Lincoln St," to which all Kiwanis officers and directors a.re Ul·ged to attend. Thursd~~. Sylvan Dunn Dies Following Illness Svlvan john Dunn, 50, 227 2nd ave~uc, Midvale, died Monday at 6:30 a m in a Salt Lake hospital following a lingering illne.!:s. A son of j ohn and Emma Bennett Dunn, he was born March 28, 1895, in Salt Lake City. ~ l r Dunn had been a ~hdvale resident 45 ye~s and was a carpenter. Ilt! was an LDS church member. He married Vera ll obbs Nov 2.5, 191:3, in Salt Lake City. Besides hi_s widow, he is Sllrvived by five sons, 'William Dunn, Murray; Ray, H.oy, .Ralph and Glen Dunn, all ol Midvole: three daughters, Mrs '\o'/illiam Douglas Rogerson, Murray; !\Irs Bloomquist, Salt Lake C ity; Mrs Hobert Halpin, Midwle; th ree brothe rs~ Arthur D unn, Kenneth D unn, bot,h of Midvale; Earl D unn, San Francisco; his parents, Midvale, 9 grandch ildren. Funeral services were conducted Th ursday at 2 p m in the Midvale lst ward chapel, Bishop Reed Beck~tead officiating. l ntem1ent was in the Mid vale cemetery. - - - - -- - S mall dam age was done a t the Nelson hom e. 152 Pioneer St. Wed nesd ay m orni ng, caused by ex plodJng clea ni ng fl u id. * * * * Friday, Septeember 7, 1945 NEWS OF OUR SERVICE-MEN C pl F loyd E R hodes of 306 Sugar street, Midvale, rectmtly rejoined tlw 106th "Lion" Division aftE-r spending a Wt'\1-eamed p<lSS in hospitable Bdgium. He received 3 full days in Belgium, plus travel time, and passed through Lux-emburg on route to his deslinHtion. Living at an army recreation cen~ ter, Cpl RhodPs took part in a sightseeing tour tluough much of Belgium. The rest camp offeted all sorts of fadliti<'S for the entertainm('nte of the infantrymen on vacation-sports of all sorts, stage shows and mO\ ies, a.nd luxurious Jiving free from military surroundings. The 106th Division won fame as tlte unit that met the first smashing impact of Von Rtu1dstedt's panzer drive into the Bt1lgc. The division fought a grim delayin~ action, and was Stlccessful in stemming the tide long enough to distrnpt Nazi timetables and pem1it dc·ployment of other divisions in new defensive lines. The 106th participated with distinction in the Ardenn('s, Rhineland, Northern France and Central Europe campai~s and is now occupying the Karlsmhe area of the southern Hhincland. .... Aboard tlw USS Escx in the Pacifice-\Villirun J Pugmire, 21, Sl/e, USN, scm of .\[r & f\frs Clyde Pugmire, 35 Soulh Holden, Midvale, serves aboard this carrier which steamed dose to the shores of Tokvo wilh Task Force 38 to launch i,er planes against the remaining strength of thE- enemy in l.he final day.s of the war. All hands answered rt'veille several hours before sunrise Lhat morning. They had haU their breakfast and were waiting at their stations for the first light of dawn when the deafening roar of flight of fighters took off one by one, followed by the bombers and torpedo pbnt:-s. HundrC'ds of Jap planes were destroyed on the grotmd, but few were sent up to challenge the attacks. The few thilt dared to Oy out to the Task Force never retumcd. * Lt Ernest Harper is seen around Midval~ • this week visiting with his parents, Mr & Mrs \V C lLtrper, 3:3 LePage St. lie is home on leave following Se\'eraJ months service in the- European war .-heatre with the famed Eighth army air force. Service Plaque Unveiled at Union First Ward Rites A memor ial se r vice was held Sund ay n ig h t in honor o f a ll ser vice men of Union 1st ward, when an honor roll plaque w a s unveiled. The colors were posted by the A1)1erican Legion post oi Union, and patriotic numbers were fw·~ nished by the gids' chorus, with Verda Despain at the xylophone. Eight boys, home on furloughs. each made a few remarks. They were Carl Christensen, Reed At~ kinson, Von Tischner, of the navy; Ralph Marchant, Richa rd Wilcox, Dell Brady, George Brady, and Ronald Beckstrom1 of the army. A tribute was paid to Ralph Brady, who gave his life with the Marines on Iwo J ima. The program was u n der the direction of Alice Gould, and the corrunittee in eha1·ge inclu ded M rs George Gould, M rs Dell Nickle, and B ish op Golden B errett. T he hon or roll plaq ue bears the n <'l m es of 125 servke m en . Timely Talks Heard at Teacher Meet Dr E Allen Bateman, stale superintendent of publi<.: inslnJction, gave a briUiant talk on "The Practic..d Philosophy of Educalion," at the Jordan teachers opening institute', Tuesday, at jordan high school auditorium, with Supt Arthur E Peterson in charge. Dr Bateman stress(.>d the fact that the greatest challenge of today is to face the problt'JllS of a changin world and to face fads. ~ Blaine \\'inters. stale director of tracher C('rtific~ttion, spoke on ''A Profession Upheld.'' and strcss. .'d the point that teachers have a grt'at n·sponsibility in the molding: of children into the right type oi citizens. The address of \.velcomc was by II T Godfrey, president ot tlu:: district board of educ;;ltion. A silent tribute for those who il.l\'8 •'~'one on, was under the direction of Carter E Grant, principal of the Jordan Senlinary, and SupervisOr C R Nelson, witll vocal trio numbers hv Doreen Stnplcy, Ramona Olson a;.d Maxine SandC'rson, with Miss John Pierson at the piano. Other nwnbers included a violin solo by Artmas P<-•tersou and a male quartet selection by Joel jensen, C:1nnon Thomson, Clyde..~ :Miller and George B<.1rton, ;:u.:eornpanied by LuVcrn Dickson. Connnunity' singing was under th<.• direction of Emery G Epperson, music SUJWrYisor of Jordom school district, with ~!iss Freda jensen at the piolno. A meeting o( the Jordan Teach~·rs association wus held following the institutl:", with Alma F Smith of Draper, new president, in charge. The annual financial report was given by secretary C N Crawford of Midvale. A report on the rc>cent educationaJ labor conference was given by Theodore Sjoblom of Sandy, first vice-president of tbe local association. Othf"r officers of the association are as follows: C Reed Sandt.•rson_, who ser,·txl as prc..sident of the as~ociation, second vice-president; and Marie Lang, Snndy; [ris Thorpe, Midvalf", and S R Andc..~rson, Rh·erton, members of the exet:utive board. The teachers and supervisors wNe guests of the Board of Education at a luncheon nt the 'i<:hool cafeteria. The teachers met in their r(:'specti\'e buildings fo llowing the lunch~ eon in preparation for the opening of school on \Vednesday morning. S. L. County Library To Present Speaker Dr Dilworth \Valker, uf the - Unh·ersity of Utah, will lecture on "Can Capitalisn1, Communism, Facism, Socialism and the Ne'v Ordt"r be 1\econciled?" The lecture will be presented Friday, at 8:30 p m, at the Plymouth school Library, Redwood Road and 48th South, undN the auspices of the Salt Lake eounty Libra£)' board. Admission is free and the public is invited. Have you pa1d your suosci-ipt10n? MAX HORRAC K S . .. . will meet W est Jor d an favor ite. Floyd Rich~ ardson in headline event. Legion Groups Install New Officers for '46 Inducted into offk:e for Lh<-· ensuing tem1 were officers of Jordan Pvst Ko 35, American Legion, and Au,iliary, at a. joint meeting and party held 'Vedncsday l"\t:'ning at J\.tidvale cit)· building, with Elm<1n D ~fickelsen of Draper, as installing official for the legion, and ;\.1rs Melba Bills of Midvale officiating for the auxiliary. Out-oE~town guests al the <1.'ffnir included Arthur S Horsley, Salt Lake Cit~', department adjutant; Arthur Pt•ters ~1urrav, district comm<mder; Deb Townsend, ~1urray, district adjutant; Lyman Sherwood, commandt.•r Sugarhouse post; CHfford Husbands, Sugarhouse, past district commander, and others. Installed as post officers were E Glen Beckstead, ~ommander; Albert Dimond, first vice-commander; Lt>o Anderson, second vice-commander; R L Thomas, adjutant; G L Larson, finance officer; Envin Miller, ser.g_eant-at-arms; 'Villiam Erdman, historian; L ~ I Howard, J M \\'amer. Ernest Ottley, J R \Vilcox and Bryan Bird, ex£'CUti\'C committeemen. Auxiliary officers installed were: Mrs Nita jensen, president, Mrs Eva \ Vilcox, first vice-president; Mrs Jane Nelson. second ':ice-president; l\Jrs Lyle I\iiJler, secretary; ~Jrs Daisy Hobbs, treasurer; Mrs Nom Briggs, chaplain; Mrs Ilaz~l Aylett, historiani; Mrs Ellen Jenkins and ~1rs Lillie Beckstead. sergeant-atamls; :\Irs Thelma Nelson, Mrs Gayle Gardner and Mr~ Nora ~lick~ elsen, executive committee. L l\·1 Howard, commander and Mrs Thelma Nelson, president, conducted the meeting, and fo ll owing the inst11llation ceremonies, the evening was spent dancing, nnd refrrshments were served. Subscribe fo1· The Sentinel and read all the local news. The best boxing prognun to he hdd here in years, is promised by Lhe \V~,·st Jurdun Athletic club, Saturday, Sept 15, when local ~lilrS wilL meet contenders from llill Field and Hoosevelt, Utah, jo a 17·bout exJ1ibition at tl1e 'Vest Jordau school gym • 1\[arv Jensen, local sports promoter, is directjng the bout. llcadiining the show will be a bout featuring Floyd Richardson of \Vest Jordan, and 1\lax llorra.cks, of Hoosev~ It, and other top Oight E.'\.'l'tlls will include \Villard Chipman, \Vl·st Jordan \·ersus Charlt's Bry~mt, llill Fidd, and K~,·n Bennion, \\'c:st jorcb.n, versus Lawreue:e Skip of Hill Field. The rest of tl1e program includes tl1e following bouts: Max \Vood, \Vest jord~tn, versus Re:mll Shaw, Hill FieJd; Dean Lchmitz, \>Vest Jordan, versus Charles Towles, Hill Field;. Bob Hobbs, West Jordan, vers?-5 Jack Josie, Roosevelt; Art Lepore, \Vest jordan, versus Dick Hatch. Hoo.sevelt; Ray Bateman, \Vest ordan. versus Ruthcrd Grout, Hill Field; Earl Adams, \Vest jordan, versu.'! "'illiam Burton, Salt Lake Cih.. . ' Vincent Valdrev,. Hill Field., versus Dick Lasenby, \Vest Jordan; Henry Ju, \Vest Jordan. versus \\'illiam Pettaway, Hill Fieldi Tonley Ju, ~~est jordan, versus Lorin Lloyd, Hoosevelt; Bill Price, Snlt Lake, versus Darrel Josie, Roosevelt; Clade Justeson, West Jordan, versus Ray Johnson, Roosevelt; Don Edrington, Roosevelt, ver&us Dores Strong, Hill Field; Burton \Vood, \Vest Jordan, ver,sus \Vilford Taylor, Salt Lake, and Van Lepore, \''est Jordan, versus Don Rudy, Roosevelt. All contenders from Hill Field are colored boys, reports Marv Jensen "The show will be the best ever staged here.'' he addt•d. Utah Central District Wom en's Clubs Map Bingham Meet The Centr.:tl District of the Utah FPdcmtion of \\'omen's clubs will hold its amlual convention Sept 22 at Bingh;,tm Canyonj it was o.unounc:ed today by !\frs J 0 Jones, l\Hdvale, district president. The Bingham Civic club members will Pe hostesses to the district. v.:ith ~Irs J Lynn Booth, local president, in charge of the arrcu1gements. Several prominent speakers have been secured for a forum discussion to be held during the convention, including Mayor Earl J Glade, Salt Lake City; Supt Arthur E Peterson of the jordan school district, and ~1iss Alta Miller, supen,isor of intermediate grades of Jordan school district. Mrs Sterling Ercanbmck. pres~ ident of the Utah Federation of \Vomen's Clubs, and other state officers will be guests at the conven~ tion. District bo.ard meeting wlll be held at 9 a m, id the Gemmell club library, and general sessions will be held at 10 a m and 2 p m in the Gemmell club ballroom. Luncheon will be held in the Masonic hall at 12 noon, reser"ations for which may be made by writing to Mrs HL'lrley English, Bingham Canyon, Utah. All members of the Utah Federation of '.Yemen's Clubs are invited to attend the convention, Mrs Jones s:tid. Mr & Mrs David J Mat·chant, and Mr & Mrs Sherman Smith and families returned Sunday from Fish Lake, where they enjoyed a week's vacation spent in motorboating, horseback riding, and fishing. According to th.e Marchants, however, the fishing was not very good. Utah Smelter Closes Copper Unit City Election Approaches By H. C . Barrows Midvale's biennial election to choose city officials is in the offing, hut to dale little or no interest has been manifested in this forthcoming event. As far as WC' have been able to learn--or guess-the primaly election will he Tuesday. Oct 23, anJ the general f'lection should be Ol'l T uesday, Nov 6. This means that candidates must file their petitions of candidacy 011 or before Saturday. Oct 13, the local ordinance stating that such petitions must be signed by at IC'ast 50 voters and filed wit hin 10 days prio r to th o prim<rry election. Petition forms may be secured at the office of Lawrence Mineer, re- cordN, \.Vho stated today that only 1 petition has been requested to date, by one whose nan1e he did not rev(· a I. This is our prediction. which is not based on rumor, but simply dra'"'Tl from the thin air: All the incumbent officers will probably seck re-ekctim1, except the 4-year councilman whose tl!nn is expiring; and that there will be anothC"r ticket formed by labor. It is doubtfnl wllt'ther there will he any independrnt candidates this trip. HowcYer, we may be "all wet'' in this prognostication; we have been wrong before. Anyhoo, the election should be exciting-they always a rei Lack of s ufficient ore costs om in ous sha dow over ma jor Utah ind ustry. Closing of the coppf'r plant or the fnternattonal Smelting & Re· fining Company at Tooele, Utah, casts an ominous shadow QVel' the welfare or Utah and one of its baste industries. The plant ceaS'ed ope1·at1ons on indefinite tJericxl. Insufficient ore and the lack oC manpower are given as the reasons for closjntt. ft is a million dollar plant. and burs ores not only from underground n1ines in Ulab blit al! over the west. There ls only one conclusion to be drawn from this piece of news and that i3 that conditions in the mining InduStry are not h ea lthy. June 30 for an Of course. we do not notice it so much today. as t.be other great war industries will kee-p men employed and industry generally nwvtng for the duration. But what ot the fu. ture. the postwar period tor an ill· duslr:y that normally employs di~ recUy and indirectly 47 per cent of the state's population. Closing of the plJ.nt c,Hlnot be brushed off as war casnalty. The reasons go far beyond U1e war. They are a culmination of events over a period of years, which lun·e tended to restrict thP. industry. Utah and t.he west are not runn ing QUt of ore, but if that ore jg to be fou n d and brought forth and the industry fl ourish and prosper in the postwar period an alma. sphere or encouragement in whtcb it can work must be provided. U venture capital is to flow into underg-round deYelopment a~a.in, then rules of the securi•ies and ex· cho.nge commission must. be revise•l aud the ever~present th1·eat of conflscitory taxes must be removed. And prudence must be used in any taritt adjusr.meots that would lt't down tht bars and Coree do.me$1t1C mines to compete in an opeu mar· ket with cheaptly Produ~~d to1·eign metal. Closing of the Tooele plant is a cha llenge !or action among Utahns who wish to take a hand in mould· in g the state's fu ture. |