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Show MicrofUming Corp. HI Pierpont Ave. sc, liLJivJ ilii L sizJ? it 81.(1 NAfidNAl fDITORIAl KANAB. UTAH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1960 VOLUME XXVIII NO. 52 -- PcIId Ci:!nr.:n Kanab High School Hans Holes i Peter Dirkmaat By Only mad dogs and English men go out in the noon day sun. along with Kanab football players. Saturday, under a blazing sun the Kanab Cowboys romped over the Page Sand Devils to the tune 0. Jeffery Johnson scored of 29 two touchdowns and two extra points, while James Glover plunged to another touchdown. Steve Heaton also galloped to a. touchdown and an extra point. Friday, the Cowboys are out to de vis; ate Milford in a similar fashion. The game will start at Overall view of the Ideal Cement Company plant at Devil's 2:30 on the new football field. facilities at left and Slide, Utah, showi new storage-loadin- g Everyone (THAT MEANS YOU, the existing storage far right. TOO!) had better be there. There will also be a student body assembly held Friday. Each class will contribute three numbers. (At least that is the theory anyway.) Try as they might to get out of it, the students are falling back into the old grind. This includes tests and homework along with figuring how to get out of tests Congressman H. Aldous Dixon and homework. Ho hum said totfay he has been advised by Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield that a new post of- Kanab Wife Visit High fice 'has been authorized for Kanab. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen of Holes This announcement, the PostSalt Lake City are in Kanab for a few days this, week visiting and master General advised, coincides with the optioning by Post Of- In Enrollment vacationing. Mr. Jensen, feature artist for fice Department regional officials Kanab High School opened for the Salt Lake Tribue, was chair- of a site meeting Department re1960-6- 1 man for the National Elbeetian quirements as to cost, area and the third week of the school year, with approximately Convention here last year, and location. was responsible for naming Kanab This new and modern facility, 40 more students that at the end as the site. He is also completing Congressman Dixon said, will be of the school year last spring, said a painting near Kanab that he constructed under the Post Of-- f principal Thomas Lawson. Run down on the various classes started while here last year. i c e Departments commercial a total enrollment of 240 with which utilizes the leasing program, resources 'Snf' Investment funds boys and girls shows the followof private enterprise to obtain ing. Gisn Canyon City needed postal buildings. There are 23 girls and 15 boys The site optioned is located ap- in the seventh grade, total 38. Kanab To Get Hew Post Office Building In Near Future, Location Just South Of Southern Utah News On Main Street Tribune Artist Itanab and School Increase Schools Open Late, flo Building Monday, September 12, was opening day for school in Glen Canyon City in eastern Kane County. Other schools opened August 29 in Kane County. Reported enrollment Wednesday by principal Philip G. Thomas was 45 students in the six grades. About 25 students are being bussed into Kanab for high school. Mr. Thomas besides acting as principal must teach the 3, 4, 5 and 6th grades. Mrs. Edith W. Bybee teaches the 1st and 2nd grades. According to Supt Owen M. Davis the school in Glen Canyon City will be run on a double shift basis. School will be held in one room of a trailer court washroom. Most of the youngsters at Glen Canyon City are sons and daughters of workers employed at the nearby Glen Canyon Dam Project They have beeil without a school since August 29 when it was discovered funds were not available to construct a permanent building. According to a release in the Salt Lake Tribune, Gordon Holt a Salt Lake City realtor, who owns a controlling interest in Glen Canyon City, has offered to construct two buildings which could serve as temporary quarters. These buildings would be rented by the school district Mr. Davis said. proximately 150 feet from the intersection of Main and Center Streets. Price of the optioned ground is $6,000. The new post office at Kanab will contain about 3,688 square feet of floor space, plus a loading platform. The site, comprising about 27,720 square feet will provide adequate parking and truck maneuvering areas. Bid Advertisement As soon as drawings and specifications are prepared, competitive bids to provide the new building will be advertised for. . Thus an equitable construction value will be established. Interested bidders may contact Real Estate Officer David L. Warner, Post Office Department, P. O. Box 863, Salt Lake City 1, Utah, telephone EMpire extension 382. The site option, Postmaster Claud M. Glazier noted, will be transferred to the successful bidder, who will purchase the land, and then will construct the building to Post Office Department specifications and lease it to the Department The basic lease term will be for a period of 10 years renewal options. with two Nationally," Congressman Dixon said, more than 4,500 new post offices have been built since 1953 under the Post Office Departments unique commercial leasing program. Because these postal buildings- - remain under private ownership while leased to the Federal Government, the lessor pays local real estate taxes. Private Investment Edward T. Lamb Furthurmore," he added, because the buddings ara constructHonored On ed with private investment funds, capital outlays by the Federal Birthday Eigthieth Government are limited substan Open House was held September tially to those for post office fur8 at the Edward T. Lamb home in niture and equipment Mt Carmel. Utah to honor Mr. Congressman Dixon also pointed Lamb on his 80th birthday. Fifty out that Postmaster General Sumfriends and relatives were present merfield indicated the need for t Most of the evening was spent replacement of 12,000 more of the In visiting. Mrs. Anne C. Esplin nations post ' offices - because of lack of space and obsolescence retd a tribute she had written Congressional approval has been Ed and Ednas family given the postal modernization were: members present Family with 1602 new' post of program and Lamb E. Mr. and Mrs. Verdell sons Tommy and Johnny of North fices scheduled to be built in every the nation during 1960. Sacramento, Calif, Mrs. Jim (Car- part of this announcement Making ol) Warner and daughter Kathy me and Mr. Congressman greatly, pleases Calif., Citrus Grove, Sue of Mr. (Iola) Leany, Hurricane, Mr. Dixon concluded. Your new post and Mrs. Perry Lamb and daughter office will provide the citizens of Linda, Ordervillc. Mr and Mrs. Kanab with the latest in modern Wilbur (Vauna) Covington and postal improvements, assuring patson Kirk, Mt. Carmel and Mr. and rons more convenient mail service Button and daughter as weft as providing a much better Mrs. Man-iKanab. place to work for our dedicated Terry P., ut . n postal-employee- In the eighth grade there are for the largest class in school totaling 55 students. The ninth grades has 41 students with 22 girls and 19 boys. In the tenth grade there is with 17 boys and 17 girls. The eleventh grade has 41 students with 15 girls and 26 boys. In the twelfth grads, 36 in all, 13 are girls and 23 boys. Student-bodofficers for the school year are Bryson Jones, president; James Glover, vice president; Peter Dirkmaat, secretary ,and treasurer; Lorraine Ogden, advertising manager; Alicia Swapp, historian and Charlotte Young, cheer leader. Class officers are: Seventh grade Carlene Lawson, president; 33 boys and 22 girls even-steve- n y Marie Adele Crosby vice presi- dent; Linda Jean Crosby sec. & treas.; Brian Honey, advertising mgr. and Michelle Supernaw reporter; Eighth grade officers are, Errol G. Brown, Patric Lewis, Cleo Haacke, Marilyn Johnson and Charmon Swapp. Ninth grade are, Robert Hamblin, Dennis Jones, Jeannene Curtis, Sue Lee Young and Kathleen Smirk Tenth grade, Ronnie Glover, Ronnie Hamblin, Merrilyn Brown, Pamela Bonham and Diane Lewis. Srs Lc::i Chapter Gives The Kane County Chapter of The National Foundation is forwarding $550.00 in uncommitted Vard A. Heaton Wins Republican Nomination For State Representative funds for redistribution to chapters where finincal needs are critical. The decision was made public today by Charles C. Cram, chapter chairman. He said polio epidemics had exhausted March of Dimes funds in numerous chapters in the nation. "Fortunately, our own commune polio outity escaped breaks that can quickly drain reserve funds, he said. We are happy to be able to aid chapters less fortunate than ours. Mr. Cram explained that polio incidence had been on the rise during the previous two years. States hardest hit in the recent past include Massachusetts, Mich- WILLIAM A. (Bill) BARLOCKER igan, Texas and California In 1959 Will make Utah a fine Gov rnor there were 5,700 cases of paralytic polio. Tha figure is 50 per cent higher than 1958 and doubled the record 1957 low in paralytic cas- Elementary Schsol es, he said. Rhode Island is experiencing the first major epidem Shows Student Gain large-scal- ic of 1960. Eighteen more students are atThe proportion of polio cases with paralysis now appears to be tending the Kanab Elementary higher than in former years. Para- School at the beginning of the year than were attending lysis strikes often in congested 1960-6localities among those families at the close of the school last least prepared to 'withstand the spring, said Ernest G. Kirby, financial disasters polio brings, Principal ' Break down of he various the chairman said. 40 students in Mrs show grades He explained that nearly 100 per cent of patient aid funds has Lisvla Hamblins kindergarten continued to go to pay expenses with classes in the morning and for old and new polio cases. At the afternoon dividing the class. In the first grade Mrs. Katherine same time, recent March of Dimes to reach Thomas has 26 students and Mrs. campaigns have thJ goals set o meet the needs of Ethaleen Burnham has 27 for a polio as well as the expanded pro- total of 53 students. Mrs. Faun I. Robinson teaches gram designed to prevent two other crippling diseases, birth de- 29, 2nd grade students with 15 from the 2nd and 11 from the 3rd fects and arthritis. combined in a grade taught The chapters action in making grades Renee Sheffield. Miss by its uncommitted funds available Mrs. Lois W. Swapp has 40 stufor emergency operations elsein her third grade. where is in response to a request dents Mrs. Reda Baxter, former teachmade by Basil OConnor, president distof The National Foundation. It er of the Granite and Unita 37 in her fourth grade. ricts. has reads in part: 27 are boys and only 10 girls. I ask you to join me in an exMrs. Ethel vonllake has 39 in pression of firm resolve that neith- her fifth grade. er valid research projects nor the Thirty-twstudents are enrolled operation of any chapter shall be in the 6th grade, taught in the sacrificed while there exists by principal Kirby and throughout tha nation considerable morning resources in the form of uncommit- in the afternoon by Mrs. Joyce J. ted chapter funds at the moment McAllister. Complete figures for the six are not being used. show 296 students enrolled. I believe you will agree that grades Last final figures at the year the loss of monentum resulting from the disuse of such funds close of school showed 268 stuwould constitute a serious act of dents. Miss Karen Jameson, daughter neglect of an obvious duty to the of Mr. and Mrs. Karl Jameson and American people. The difficult financial position a senior student at Brigham Youngof The Natonal Foundation today University, has been doing stuis nothing to be ashamed of. It is dent teaching training in the schothe result of our strict adherence ol and at times has substituted in the various to purpose to our determina- for other teachers tion that we would find through grades. Melvin Rider is custodian of scientific research a control of the building and grounds. and victno that paralytic polio im of the disease would be denied Princioal Kirby said that he the best available treatment for would like to inform parents that lack of funds. if they might be planning to take their children for trips or vacations, that the week end of SepDeparting Residents tember 28, 29 and 30th would be 1 ied o Le-ilia- ry Fredonia News and Current Events out-side- at pot-hol- es f Governor Merle V. Adams Gains Important Fends Four Year County Commission Office Eleventh grade, Guy Frost, Siri Chamberlain, Audry Parkes, Carolyn Black and Mike Duffy. Twelfth Honored At Farewell grade, Steve Heaton, Dennis Judd, Karen Pugh,- Lynn Cunningham Last Thursday evening, Septemand Jay Findlay. ber 8th, the Kanab American met to serve a buffet ham dinner and to honor Marge and Max Bruce who are moving to Price, Utah where Mr. Bruce has accepted a promotion with the Bureau of Land Management Both Marge and Max have bieen time members of .the Legion long Z. Ray Judd was appointed actand Auxiliary, and are ardent Chairman Council of Town the ing at the regular monthly meeting in workers in the two organizations, the absence of Mayor Arland as well as civic organizations. Following the dinner held Brooksby, who is still hospitalizthe Legion Pavilion, master ed after a heart attack on August Thomas Lawson 22, and presided at the meeting. of ceremonies, Mr. Judd announced that more said a few words of farewell on work is expected to be done be- be half of all the members and fore cold weather comes on the Commander Lee Sprang and Auxsidewalks that have been started iliary President Claudine Sprang along Main Street on both ends of presented the couple with a lovely towfe and that the work on the pair of matching table lamps, as streets will continue as finances a momento of the organizations permit Several streets are being esteem. when That same evening new memprepared for funds are available, and many of bers were welcomed. Those jointhe low spots and have ing the Legion were Lloyd Vance been eliminated. Other routine and Frank Bybee, with Mrs. Vance matters were taken care of and and Mrs. Bybee joining the Auxthe meeting was adjourned, iliary ; also joining the Auxiliary were Mrs. Edna Shields, Mr?. (Continued on Page Two) seal-coatin- g $3.50 Yearly, 10c Single Copy A Landslide jtY'Barlocker By c56N gpg St. George Mayor, William A. Barlocker, who is seeking election as Governor of Utah, showed ex- Elbeetian Members ceptional strength over the entire Return For A Visit state to win the Democratic nom-- ' nation over Ogden Attorney Ira Mr. and Mrs. Franklin S. Miller V. Huggins, 73.537 to 30,542 of Denver, Colorado and Mr. and His opponent for th i governor- Mrs. William G. Battenfeld from ship in the November elections New Jersey, were Kanab visitors will be incumbent Gov. George D. this week. Mr. and Mrs. Miller were in lyde. Gov. Clyde won over B. Gunderson of Salt Lake Kanab last August with the Elbeetian Legion at their convenVity, 50,186 to 36.743. La-no- tion here and they invited the In probably the most interest- Battenfelds to come to this area ing contest on the ballot for Kane to view the many scenic wonders County voters was the contest be- that we have here. tween incumbent Clark F. Swapp md Merle V. Adams for the county commission office. Mr. Who Ydams downed Swapp 396 to 272. Whos Hie only other county contest found Vard A. Heaton, Alton stockman, winning over A. D. Findlay, Kanab stockman, 389 to 270, for State Representative William G. Bruhn, Panguitch Democrat, showed a lot of strength in his race against M. Blaine Peterson of Ogden. When the votes were counted in 527 out of 543 districts, Peterson was leading him 21,344 to 17,649. Sherman P. Lloyd Republican, Contest Winner Is Kanab Resident Mrs. Helen H. Burgoyne, respected teacher in Kanab High School and Kanab homemaker, was the personality of the week in the Whos Who contest in last weeks Southern Utah News. Again, a fine response was noted in entries for the contest More than a hundred persons guessed won the nomination over Harlon the personality x were W. Bemcnt to contest incumbent twenty-sithe personality U. S. Congressman David S King, of dues. .. 4 Democrat,- - in the November ' election. correctly, but, correct in both and the number . Thirteen was the correct number of clues. Those reporting the Laur.l J Brown with 68,608 correct number of clues were: votes on the Democratic side will Mrs. L. Covington and Mrs. Anna -- oppose incumbent Lamont F. Toronto, Republican, for the Secretary of State office. Mr. Brown gamed some 13,500 more votes than did Mr. Toronto in the primary election and appears almost certain of election in the coming November election. Dmorerats out voted the Republicans by some 17,000 votes in the Primary Tuesday. If this trend continues in the November elections, and it appears entirely possibles most Democratic condi-date- s for state offices will go into end the Republican Administration that has dominated the state for the past ten years. Other state offices to ba contested in November finds William H. Henderson, (D); opposing Walter L. Budge, (R) for Attorney General, Louis E Holley, (D); runs Sherman J. Preece, (R). Sharp M. Larsen, (D) opposes Sid Lambourne, (R) for State Treasur- er Two County offices will be on the November ballot. Dr. George R. Aiken, democrat, will oppose Vard A. Heaton, republican, for the State Representative office, Dr. Aiken now holds that office. a good time as school will be closHans Chamberlain, Incumbent ed those three days for. Teachers 8 publican county commissioner Institute in Salt Lake City. will have Byron Fisher, democrat, running against him for the 2 On Tour . . . year office. Both men are from Valley. Miss Lyall McDonald and two Ken Chamberlain, incumbent friends sailed SaturSixth District Attorney is unop2 from New the day, September York Harbor aboard the luxurious posed for that office in the genRotter- eral election. liner, the new flagship dam. Sterling R. Bossard, Richfield, In a letter to home folks in Ka- and Feminand Erickson, Monroe, balnab Miss McDonald reported a will run on the smooth voyage and said that she lot for Sixth District Judge. enjoyed the beautful weather. Douglas Q. Cannon, republican, While on board she said that will be opposed Veron L. Holman swimming, suffle board and table tennis kept them busy, along with for th? 10th Senatorial District, Garfield, Wayne, Kane, Piute. wonderful shows and dancing. The group landed at Southhampton Friday, September 9, from there they will tour London and Poor Relations . . . then Europe. What would you think of a relative who had an income of $7,000 San-nella Grace Rade and Mrs. Edith has been newly appointed a year, bqt had run. up a debt of historian, replacing Mrs. Donna $29,000 of which $5,000 was payAiken. able on demand and $7,500 more Following the delicious dinner within a year? and nfeetingi everyone enjoyed Well, dont disown him too soon. dancing to the accordian and guitar music of Sherm t?wart and Add seven zeros to those figures Norm Swapp. and youve got your Uncle Saw.. European Lou Reese of Mt. Carmel. Beverly Ann Brown, Muriel Swapp, Val and Dauna Tait, Bob, Hilma and Donald Dennis, Mrs. Lida Seiber, Mrs. Ramon Bunting, Elise Swapp and Sharlene Polvadore of Kanab. Also Ralph. Loreeta, Ronnie and LoRal Linton; Evelyn Ann and Ronald Parker of Kanab. From Fredonia, Evan, Nathalia, Carolyn, Dick Jeffiy and Pamela Lewis; Erwin and Sandra Judd and Mrs. Ellsworth Swapp were in on the final drawing for the $15. Mrs. Loreeta Linton of Kanab was the winner in the final drawing. You may pick up your check for $15 at LaVees Shop Mrs. Linton. As you can see the Whos Who contest is lots of fun for the family. Several families went all out in last weeks contest by depositing their names in several of the four boxes in the sponsoring stores. There were several other families who played the game but failed to name the correct number of clues. This weeks contest should prove very interesting. The personality of the week is a life-lon- g resident. He or She may be hard to name. The clues hard to find. Get in play the game. Patronize the sponsors on page three and be sure to read the rules. Parry Lodge Coconino - Merc., Modern Cash Store and Glendale Merc., are the four business where you may drop your entries this week. for-Euro- pe n Leigh Furniture Co. Will Open New Store Here This Week for Leigh Companys new store in Kanab will be held Friday and Saturday in their new quarters just west of Aikens Lodge on west center street Mr. Marell Bayless, manager of the Kanab store, has moved here with his wife and family of five children, from Cedar City. Mr. Bayless has been associated with Leighs in Cedar City for a Humber of years and is well acquainted with the retail furniture business. Found elsewhere in this issue of the Sounthern Utah News is an advertisement announcing the opening of the new store with a special invitation to all residents of the entire area to visit them and ther fine new store. The Open House Furniture |