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Show Microfilm 141 Corp. 1 Pierpont Ave. NATIONAL O ( OITORIAl T socunca 9 s VOLUME XXVI NO. 4 Final Road Contracts From Kanab To Glen Canyon Dam Goes To VV, VV, Clyde and Salt Lake Contract Combine The Utah State Road Commission opened bids Wednesday on the final construction work on a new road linking Kanab with the line just north of the Glen Canyon Dam. The low bids on the two sections of highway not- under conUtah-Arizon- a - tract totajid $l,916,375-whicwill bring the total cost of the h 56.6 mile route to $4,704,161. Contracts will be awarded after the bids, based on unit costs, are computed by the commission staff. The commission opened bids Wednesday on projects elsewhere in the state costing about $700,000. One project on the Glen Canyon road is 5.4 miles long, from Cock's Comb to Paria River. W. W. Clyde Co., Springville, was apparently low of four bidders Governor George D. Clyde with a bid of $1,203,416. The will discuss the Gax Tax Refund estimated cost was $1,336,539. at the Farm Program DevelopOn the other section of the ment Conference. Sponsored by Glen Canyon Road, a combine the Utah Farmers Union, Sat. of R. M. Jensen, D. W. Brim-hal- l November 16th, in the Newhouse and Nelson Bros., all of Hotel in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, was the apparent low bidder of the seven competing firms. The bia was $712,959. The estimate was Bids For Cement St. George Firm Buys OK Rubber Here A. K. Hafen and Sons of St. George, are new owners this week of the OK Rubber Welders shop in Kanab. The Hafen's purchased the business from Mr. Clarence Prisbrey and son Kent and Theo McAllister all of Kanab The three had operated the business a little more than one year. Mr. Hafen and Sons who have spent 15 years , in the tire business also have shops in St. George, Henderson andLas Vegas Nevada. Mr. Joe Reedhead will manage the Kanab branch for the Hafens. Mr. Reedhead said that they plan to enlarge their stock of tires and equipment and possibly the building during the next few months. Divideif On Interstato Roads Two groups announced TuesThe section includes 12 miles day they will present informafrom Cock's Comb to Buckskin tive cases on the proposed interWash. state highway at a Utah State Road Commission hearing on For the fourth time since August, the U.S. Bureau of Rechas postponed bid lamation opening on three million barrels of cement to be used In construction of Glen Canyon Dam in the next six years. On order of L. N. McClellan, and By Danell Lewis assistant vmmissHvy'r chief engineer, bid opening on Congratulations to Mr. the cement contract was post"Fathers features, mothers poned until March 4, 1958. They fixtures, 6 lbs. 12 ozs. When were scheduled to be opened schothe at arrived teachers the Nov. 7. ol Wednesday morning, NovemThe Denver chief engineer ber 6, Babe Ruth candy bars Baid the government is investiwith the above writing were wait a more economical gating for each one. method of getting the cement ingThe halls of K.H.S. are filled shipped, to the damsite. with talk of Homecoming.' StuFirst delivery of cement will dents are busy working on floats not be required until April, and preparing to lead our team 1959, but the government wants to a victory over Parowan. The to have suppliers lined up schedule is as follows: Pep Assembly and crowning months in advance. Under current prices the contract will ex- of the queen at 11:00 a.m. Parade and prizes for the ceed $10 million when awarded. three best floats at 1:00 p.m. Glen Canyon dam will require Football with Pargame 5,192,000 cubic yards of concrete, owan to began' at 2:00 p. m. and exceeding Hoover dams bulk by Dance, Vince Haight some 800,000 cubic yards. his orchestra begins at 9:00 p.m. During the parade the football boys will sell balloons to the kids Mrs. Mardell Brinkerhoff for 25 cents each; They are In the shape of a football and have Kanab Cowboys written' on them in Red and White. We hope we have a lot of townspeople enter the parade and attend all of the activties We would like very much to make this 1957 Homecoming a tradition at K.H.S. Monday the students voted for the 6 finalists for Hamecoming. They are: LoLene McAllister, Tonie Hamblin, Danell Lewis Sue Brown, Judy Lewis, and Nanell Glazier. Tuesday November 5th class pictures were taken at the high school. Everyone is anxously the return of the re prints. The High School report cards are suppossed to be out Thursday of this week. We hope there will be some delay. Lets see everyone out to the game and support our Home coming. You Cowboys Beat those Rams. Vows Recite Kanab High School Hows Events Law-son- ! , Marriage Miss Juanita Prisbrey, daugh- MIA HALLOWEEN ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarance Prisbrey of Kanab, and Mr. Richard Mardell Brinkerhoff, son of Mrs. Louisa Brinkerhoff of Glendale will be joined in marriage Thursday, November 7 in Kanab at the home of her sister, Mrs. Theo McAllister. Bishop Claud M. Glazier will officiate at the home wedding. The bride will wear a dress of lace. The ceremony will be double ring. The bride is a graduate of Kanab High School The groom is a graduate of the Valley High he served an LDS mission in the Louisiana-Texamission and spent two years in the armed services. The young couple will be feted that same evening at a reception at the home of Mr. and Mrs. TJjeo McAllister. Following a short honymoon the couple plan on making their home in Glendale. s Party Big Success The annual Halloween party of the MIA was held in the Kanab Ward Hall, Wednesday, October 30. The two wards, Kanab North and Kanab South joined together for this occasion. Many inter esting costumes were displayed, with first prize going to a group of girls from both wards dressed as many nations. The group included: Sandy Dennis Flora Jean Heaton, Lilly Zirker, Susan Chamberlain, Dianne Hai ght, Kathy Fordham, Sue Brown Bernice Lawrence and Mariliyn French. Second prize went to Merrilyr MacDonald dressed as Robin Ho od. Third prize went to Layli Lewis dressed as a negro mammy Most comical prizes went to Marilyn Brown, Kathy Meeks and Jacquita Watson. Nov. 12. Representatives from six cen- tral Utah counties met Monday night in Provo and selected a seven- man body to present an effective case for an Interstate highway from Denver to Spanish Fork." Southern Utah interests will meet Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the A. J. Ashman Elementary School in Richfield to formulate arguments for a federal highway from Denver to Cove Fort for presentation at the Nov. 12 session. Since a recent announcement of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads that they planned the route to extend from Denver to Cove Fort, numerous protests have come from various groups in northern and central Utah. Members of. the new central Utah protestant group organized Monday include Sterling Jones, Chairman of the Utah County Road Committee; Robert Halliday, manager of Provo Chamber of Commerce; Royal Henderson, representing Uintah and Duchesne counties; Herb Vance, former chairman of Utah State Road Commission. Also, Ed Winn, representing Juab County; L. R. Burr, mayor of Ephraim and representative for Sanpete County, and Gomer Peacock, representative Carbon County. said Committee members Tuesday they will incorporate in their presentation Information to show that the Spanish Fork route will serve the greatest portion of the states population. t They will also argue that traffic would have more rapid movement with less congestion, and that the trade centers of Utah would be served best by the Spanish Fork route. The Wednesday night meeting was called by the Roads Committee of the Richfield Chamber of Commerce. Mayor J. N. Stacey, member of the committee and chairman for the session, said that the meeting will be open to the public and that anyone In southern Utah interested in the road program is invited to attend. - - east-wes- Sail Lake Awakens To Glen Irr.porlar.ee We intend to compete with Arizona business Interests for the Glen Canyon Dam trade,, and if we can get all of it we will be delighted. Gus ft-- Backman, executive secretary of the Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce, made this comment Monday in reply to an article in the Oct 23 edition of the Phoenix Arizona newspaper. The story accuses Utah of attempting to grab all the developed through the construction of the dam and the ities In which the workers will live. To curb this grab the Arizonians have taken up the Re-oubl- bus-nes- s - -- Redesigning Facilities Elections In Most Southern Utah Cities Gaining For The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Monday cancelled bidadministration ding on the building, police station, fire station and dormitory at Page, Another $2,250,000 in state Arlz., townsite for Glen Canyon funds is ready for transfer to Dam. In an order issued by L. N. Mc the State Building Board to be assistant commissioner CUellan, on the million state $8.7 applied building program authorized by and chief engineer for the USBR bidding was cancelled because the 1957 Legislature. David K. Moffat, finance com- the community facilities are beThe dormitory . redesigned. mission chairman, reported ing is to be eliminated from specificaof the on money availability Wednesday. Actual transfer of tions. the money will have to be approved by the board of examiners. "This will bring the total money transferred to the building program to more than $3 Be million since July 1, Mr. Moffat Building Board Kane Lands Vill Wins Mayor Race If tax revenue continues at the present pace, we will have the entire building program paid for before the end of the calendar year," he sld. The tentative allocation of the new money was announced by Glen R. Swenson, State Building Board director, as follows: Weber College; $200,000, of which $150,950 will go for a physical education building and the remainder is unallocated. , State Hospital, Provo; including $150,000 fir repairs and alterations and $50,000 towards the receiving and treatment center. State Prison; $200,000, including $150,000 undesignated, and $50,000 for a dormitory. St. George Dixie College; $100,000 for a combined auditorium and multipurpose building. Utah State University, Logan; $300,000, including $150,000 for a foresty building apd $150,000 for an engineering and physical science building. College of Southern Utah, Cedar City; $100,000 for a classroom and administration building. Industrial School Ogden; $260,000 for a security building. University of Utah; $900,000 distribution undetermined. $200,-000- Juveniles Need Older Partners To t I f The proposed withdrawal of acres of public in connection with the investigations of the potential Marble Canyon Project was announced today by Val B. Richman, State Supervisor for Utah, Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, Utah. The application for withdrawal, which was filed by the Acting Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, was recorded on the public land records in the Land Office at Salt Lake City on September 11, 1957. The filing of the application for withdrawal temporarily segregates the land from settlement, location, sale, selection, entry, lease, and other forms of disposal under public land laws, including the mining and mineral leasing laws. A thirty day waiting period is provided during which comments or objections may be by the general public. Objections to the proposed withdrawal must be filed with the State Supervisor, Bureau of Land Management, P. O. Box 777, Salt Lake City, Utah. 'The lands requested for withdrawal are for a potential sediment retention dam and reservoir on the Buckskin Gulch, and for material sites and access road locations. A detailed description of the public lands involved in the proposed withdrawal will appear shortly in the Federal Register and will be posted in the Land Office, Salt Lake City, 11,711.95 sub-mite- The Marble Canyon Project under the supervision of the Regional Director, Region 3, Resident juveniles 14 years Bureau, of Reclamation, Boulder old and under the age of 16 years City, Nevada. upon paying the sum of $2, may receive a license to hunt game birds. Such Juveniles must be Photo Bosinsss To accompanied by a person 21 years 1 old, or older, while hunting. This legislative law was quo- Open In Kanab Soon ted today by the department of fish and game in answer to many A new business for Kanab will a when juvregarding questions open in the near future when the enile may hunt game birds in Kanab Photo and Supply opens Utah. its doors in the business building This law sponsored by the sta- owned by Doyle Smith at 240 te's organized sportsmen and South and 1st. East. The business is a branch of accepted by the legislature in Industrial Film Productions, Inc. 1953, was intended to allow 14 and 15 years of age to and was formed by a group of learn good hunting habits and Salt Lake City and Kanab busbehavior afield while under the iness men to serve this growing direct guidance of an adult dur- area, and Glen Canyon. Industrial Film Productions, Inc. was ing these years. inThe department again remind- formed to handle high grade commercial photoged that it is illegal for such dustrial and in the Glen Canyon Dam Juveniles to hunt game birds un- raphy contractors and others less accompanied by someone area for work. The Kanab Photo in their 21 years old or older; that parhandle portraits, ents or guardians are subject to Supply will commercial and tourarrest should they knowingly weddings, as Well as supist photography allow a 14 or 15 year old afield plies. even without adult guidance The Company has Installed though the juvenile is properly equipment and remodeled the licensed. building that they are occupying and plan on opening about Nov. 15th. The plan on en matter with the Bureau of Rec- couraging aCompany camera club for the lamation and the Civil Aeronauyoung folks in Kanab and will tics Commission. start a training program in the Senators Barry M. Goldwater work, for future technicians. The Company plans on a large ) and Carl Hayden out lay of capitol in their venture even mentioned gohave and have done a great deal of necesHouse White if to the ing planning and surveying in the sary, the article said. area for their operations. The Mr. Backman said that Utahs cite many reasons for establish and senators representatives ing their headquarters here and have been alerted to offset the will establish a fine industry foi political pressure being created Kanab, besides offering service to the thousands of tourists and by the Arizona factions. others throughout the entire Since the costs of the upper area. basin projects are being borne by the upper basin states and not by Arizona, there is no reaNov. 24, 1944 - Superfortress son why Arizona should try to bombers of U. S. Air Forces cut itself in on the profits, Mr. made first raids on Tokyo, from Backman said. Saipan. Birds is juv-enille- s .) i For Canyon Project Utah. Utah Gama . . . 4 Withdrawn said. North and South $837,309. Are Postponed Again Bureau of Reclamation Voters Show Added Interest In Municipal State Funds Are HARMAN C. STEED Cedar To Vofa On Hotel Purchase CEDAR CITY - The fate of Cedar Citys largest hotel will be decided by voters in Tuesday's election. When citizens go to the polls theyll find on their ballots, for approval or rejection, a proposal that the city purchase Hotel from Union Pacific Railroad at a cost of $110,-000- . The interesting election issue has been brewing for some time since the railroad decided it did not want ownership of the ' 86 room structure. Many citizens began beating the drums for city purchase so that the uniqueness of the hotel and Its function as a community center could be maintained. Presently, all Cedar City civic groups hold their weekly meetings in the hotel. Iri addition, it well-know- THEY VOTED YES the site for community meetings and social gatherings. There are three smaller hotels In the city, none of which has ballroom or dining facilities equal to the El Escalante. This summer, the city took an option on the hotel property and then called a public meeting. Approval to place the issue on the ballot was given at the meeting. The option has been renewed once. If voters approve purchase by the city, the city government would not operate the hotel, but would lease the facilities. Stipulations In the lease would be made so that the building would continue as a hotel. Is More than 500 of the approximately 600 registered voters turned out in the municipal election here Tuesday to elect two on the Democrats ticket and one on the Republican. Harman Steed running on the Republican slate was elected by two votes over Incumbent mayor George R. Aiken. Steed with 254 and Aikens 252 registers the closest election to ever be held In the city offices. Ernest G. Kirby and Neil Crosby, running on the Democratic ticket won out over L. Elmer Jackson and Scott Brandon. Kirby garnered the highest vote of any candidate with a total of 319 votes. Crosby had 245; Brandon 240 and Jackson 202. ST. GEORGE .William A. Barlocker, banker, turkey grower and Democratic candidate for Secretary of State In 1956, was elected mayor of St. George by a landslide Tuesday. Mr. Barlocker with Ellis Everett and Neal Lundberg on the Democratic ticket won out over their opposition by a large majority. Barlocker had 1.258 to Lee J. Esplins 385 for mayor. Everett with 900 and N. Lundberg with 957 downed H. C. Thomas with 882, and J. Lundberg with 541. The election was the heaviest vote ever cast In St. George for purely a municipal election, officials said. Kane County ORDERVILLE, Unofficial returns in Tuesday's municipal election show the following results; For- town board president: Betty- Sorensen; 38; Le Grand G Heaton, 80. For town board (two elected) Lola Burrows, 60; Marvin Hoyt, 43; LaMar Chamberlain, 76; Chamberlain 58. A-r- el Kane County GLENDALE, Unofficial returns In Tuesdays municipal election show the following results: For mayor, Howard B. Spencer (R) 55; James L. Maxwell (Citizen ) 23. For city council, C. .W. Brinkerhoff R 50; L. Dean Anderson (R) 48; Marelda Black (Citizens) 29; T. H. Iverson (Citizens) 29. School board member, District 5, Alton Pugh 59; Gail Heaton 20. Kane ALTON, County Unofficial returns in Tuesdays municipal election show the following results: For Mayor, Ross Heaton 40; (unopposed). For city council, Frank Baldwin 40; Lorena Roundy, 40, (two elected). Kane County School District No. 5: board member: Gail purchase Heaton 40; Alton Pugh, 0 Opposition against cenby private Interests has tered arm nd the probability Garfield County that the building would be tom D. PANGUITCH, A. Tebbs (R) with 227 votes down for construction of a shopdefeated Robert A. Middelton (D) ping center, parking lot or other with 128 votes, for mayor Tuesfacilities. day. Elected to the city council were Republicans William L Mason Jr., 261, and Nello P. Ipson, 253. Defeated were Democrats Loris Chidester, 128, and Emil Nor- Ordcrville News By Nan E. Johnson ton, 77. Lydia Jane A. Hardy celebrated her 85th. birthday, November 5th. with friends and neighbors LA VERKIN, .Washington Incumbent Jack R. calling to wish her happiness. Eves defeated Wayne Wilson The Relief Society President and for town president in Tuesdays Bishop railed in to see her. She La Verkin municipal election. lives at the home of her daughUnofficial returns gave Mr. ter Mrs. Charles T. Hepworth. Eves 56 votes to Mr. Wilsons 55. She enjoys having people drop Reed Wilson with 66 votes and in to visit her, so if you have a Lester Cox with 63 votes were spare minute why not drop in winners of the two town board and say hello. Mr. and Mrs. Gyle posts. Defeated candidates were Hardy of Kanab stopped by William E. Nielson and Roland Sunday to wish her a happy birth- T. Webb, with 46 and 48 votes, day as they wouldnt be able to respectively. She Is the come over Tuesday. grandmother of Gyle. HURRICANE, Washington Mr. and Mrs. LeGrande Rulon Langston with and daughter of Barstow, County. California visited at the Charles 218 unofficial votes Tuesday defeated J. Waldo Hirschi in HurT. Hepworth home last week. Saturday there were 8 boys ricanes mayor race. Mr. Hirschi totaled 186 votes. and girls babtized, these were Elected to the city council the first babtisms in the new were Jack Scholzen and Clark " Chapel. Mr. Scholzen re Today it was our privilege tc Campbell. vote for those people we want to ceived 241 votes and Mr. Campserve our communities, I surely bell 221. Lloyd W. Roundy, with 156 hope we all took advantage of it. If not lets not criticize those votes, and Winston Stratton, with in the city 178, were defeated who were elected. council race. (Continued on page four) Hep-wort- h County . |