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Show FageTwo THE Thursday, June from the hares on uphill grades, you could cut down on headon collisions. This relatively uncomplicated theory became practical with the inauguration of creeper lanes reservg traffic eliminating the ed for need for It was a traffic engineer who sought to protect drivers from running off highways at jiight by tracing the outer edge of the road with a reflective white line. It was a traffic engineer who jumped on the idea of using brilliant reflective signs, as important to your life at night as in the daytime, so you can see them 24 hours a SUN-ADVOCA- 19, 1958 llts Sun Advocate Issued Every Thursday hill-passin- g. CARBON COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY "ONE NEWSPAPER, ONE COST" ONE COVERAGE, Entered at the post office at Price, Utah, as second class matter under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rate $4.00 yearly in Utah; $5.00 yearly outside state. Hal G. MacKnight, Publisher Alex Bend, Jr., News Editor Ccrrbonville JOSEPHINE HOUGHTON AGNES S. JEFFS ILA JENSEN WANDA PETERSEN Castle Gate Sunnyside Spring Canyon . Wellington Spring Glen Dragerton Dragerton Route 1, Price .... Kenilworth SHIRLEY JUVAN ILA L. ANDERSON MRS. J. W. MAKI LAURA OLSON ELIZABETH HANSON NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASpcirjTN UTAH STATE Pftfs ASSOCIATION THE DRIVERS SEAT More than 200 men are currently roaming the hills and plains of western states in a concentrated drive to keep you who ocalive. cupy the drivers seat These are the professional traffic enginealers who study streets and highways most 900,000 miles of them in the 11 westto find out why you crack into ern states other cars, why you get lost, why you cant travel as smoothly as you would like. These are the men with the aspirin to cure the most horrendous headache of the age the highway horror. On their shoulders rests the responsibility of picking out localized traffic problems and devising solutions for, them. Some of these solutions seem to be right out of science fiction but many have proved to be effective in getting you to your destination in the one piece you were in when you left home. Their brain cells must figure how to keep construcy pace With expensive tion while keeping the coffers solvent for the maintenance and improvements of existing roads. You have no doubt complained about fighting the traffic. These are the men who do it for a living and with great success in spite of the fact they have minimum funds and maximum problems. Their ingenuity and imagination are finding new answers to highway problems. It was a traffic engineer who reasoned that if you separate the automotive tortoises x i super-highwa- It was a traffic engineer who found that trees and brush by intersection waysides, kept traffic fatalities up and that trimmirfg or cutting them down was one of the least! expensive ways of keeping motorists alive. It was a traffic engineer who worked with I'M ON m WAV - 4 TO BE, OH- SO SMPLB SUN0 SPOTS IT'S u florists to plant rose bushes in dividing lanes providing a crash barrier for .cars that spin off the road, and providing an element of roadside beauty to break travel monotony. And when the five billion dollar annual Untimely Fate Party Campaigner highway accident bill is finally reduced, it A Beverly Hills doctor sends us One prominent Congressman is will be the traffic engineers who can take this story which is currently kill- a brave man indeed. When he convulsing meets at parties women wearing oops, sorry a rightfully earned bow. ing tHfe new shapeless chemise dresses, the medical set. Seems a chap, recently demised, he compliments' them on their NO WASTE CIRCULATION arrived at the pearly gates and thrift and common sense. FOR ADVERTISER BUYING I wish youd talk to my wife, waited to be let in. St. Peter IN COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER glanced through his books, but he says. Ive been urging her for years to get some good out of her The advertiser buys no waste circulation failed to find his name. maternity clothes, but she in the community newspaper, Im afraid theres some mis- old Publisher wont listen to me. seem said, dont he "you Richard W. Davis of the Newton (Mass.) take, - SS be registered up here. Have you Graphic and four other weeklies said in an to Encore tried Hell? address at the Presidents luncheon at At the conclusion of a concert The fellow, abashed, went below Northeastern University. but was told his name wasnt on two ushers were applauding harder than anybody else. People seatSince it achieves positive penetration at their list either. nearby smiled appreciatively the local buying level, the community newsI suggest you try Heaven ed at the two music lovers until paper registers greater impact at far lower again, said Satan. Probably just one of them stopped applauding cost than media with widely dispersed cir- an oversight on their part. So back he went to Heaven, and the other one was heard to culation that is neither required nor benewhere St. Peter carefully checked say, Keep clapping, you dope. ficial, Davis said. lie One more encore and were on every He told his audience that the metropoli- came nameit again. Suddenly overtiirie. at the down way tan paper today is not nearly as close to its bottomupon of the page. potential readers as is the community newsMy goodness, there's been a paper and consequently does not have the terrible error, somewhere along devoted readership. the line. Your names here all Because the community newspaper has a right, but according to our recloyalty of readership almost unique in the ords youre not due to arrive for media field, it likewise offers a powerful six years. WhosSS-your doctor? and effective advertising voice for merchDisqualified ants. It is the one vehicle that guarantees a A man who was working for an home delivery that is tailored to the comexterminating company in Los munity or shopping area it serves. g chap,, Angeles was an According to Davis, daily papers simply but he was given a bad shock one havent the space to begin to adequately Monday morning. The boss called cover the urban and suburban areas, and him into his office and fired him. void for the com- As he was cleaning out his locker , there is an another worker said: to fill. munity newspaper Whats the matter? Youre not The community newspaper today, conare you? leaving, as it does on local government, centrating nodded the fired emYeah, school, social problems and civic needs, be"The boss just told me ployee. comes more than ever a necessary part of that I was a good enough extermhe inator, but I lacked the killer community life and communications, fast-movi- ng 1 With improvement . ravel used - day. CORRESPONDENTS EVA OVIATT DAYS- TURN SOUTH AT THE GENERAL STORE, GO SIX WILES TO THE OLD WILL, TURN LEFT AND r TAKE THE OLD OX ROAD ALU TH5 WAV THOSE WERE THE slow-movin- By The f MORE CONFUSING" THAN EVER Tummy Trouble Have you heard about the fellow who underwent major stomach surgery? When his midriff was opened up, out flew a flock of butterflies. Well," exclaimed his doc, stepping back, "Ill be the guy was right. hanged SS ' Acknowledgment Candidate Joe Schieffert, unsuccessful in his bid for reelection to the Sleepy Eye, Minn., city council, inserted this paid advertisement in the local paper: I wish to thank all those who votfd for me in the city election Tuesday. My wife wishes Jo thank all those who didnt. Extenuating SS They tell of one cute little extra who bubbled to her girl friend: It seems that three men and a "I ljnow hes a cad, but sos his dbg were engaged in a poker sesconvertible." sion one day when one of the SS kibitzers remarked that this was Candid Comment a pretty smart dog . ; . able to We do not live by bread alone play poker and all that. Not so smart, drawled one but dough plays a very import-ant part. of the players. Every time he SS gets a good hand he wags his Cold Welcome taiL 6 SS Wife (looking, out of bedroom crooked built fortune in He a : is time of a nice window) This dough. night to come home. Railman: IVe been at the lodge "Counterfeiter? No, pretzel manufacturer. debating the strike. SS Wife: Well, you can now stay where you are and debate the Have you ever heard of: The t. Miss Ouri, Mary Sister States" SS Land, Allie Bama, Ida Ho, Callie Posers Forma, Della Ware, Louisa Ana, The way they write songs to- Minnie Sota, Flora Da? SS-- day, according to Humorist Ollie Is to take something , The James, Army classification composed by the old masters and baldness, bridgework, bifocals, bay then decompose it. window and bunions. . , lock-ou- 5--B - . easy-goin- ever-wideni- stated. The true old-styl- e Kentucky bourbon mmm TWENTY YEARS AGO Frsm tbs FUn tf Tbs Sum sm4 Tbs Nsan-AJvst- sts Chief of Police Erin Leonard Applications to the P. W. A. for assistance in a $42,000 build- said this week that one hour ing program was approved by parking is being strictly enforced the school board of Carbon dis- in Price as steps are taken to Imtrict at its regular monthly ses-cio- n prove traffic conditions in the here Saturday afternoon. community. Main items in the program are construction of a shop building in Helper at an estimated cost Thirty-Yea- rs of $12,000; equipment for the gymHerbert C. Hoover of Californasium in Price; remodeling of the old fair building for use as nia, war time food administrator a music room in conjunction with and for the past seven years of commerce under PresiCarbon Junior College. dents Harding and Ooolidge, was The city council Moonday ev- nominated for the presidency on ening approved granting of the a first ballot landslide by the Reconvention. national northeast corner of Third East publican and First South streets to the Senator Charles Curtis of KanSeventh-da- y Adventist church sas was chosen as his running for the purpose of erecting a mate. church building. Construction is Concrete work on the lower expected to start in the near end of the outlet tunnel at the Scofield dam was noticed to be Vernon Davis, Price, was elected breaking away Saturday. DisAmerican' Legion commander of trict Engineer Wright, who has district No. 5 Saturday evening been in charge of reconstruction as representatives from the Uin- work at the dam, reported that tah Basin, Carbon, Emery, Grand stretches of the tunnel variously and San Juan counties met in the estimated at twenty to seventy-fiv- e feet, had given away. The Helper auditorium for their reconcrete sustained the earth presconvention. v gular semi-annusure and work was immediately Along with the aerial survey started in strengthening the weak of the Price River Watershed parts in the outlet tunnel. These Soil Conservation district which are near the top of the dam and is tq get under way in the very the upstream face of the strucnear future, will be made studies ture is intact. Right now the dam to determine feasibility of estab- is practically tight, no water of lishing an irrigation line from moment passing through either Scofield reservoir to Clarkc Val- the tunnel of the spillway. The ley, it was reported this week by level of the water in the reserDr. C. R. Fahring, chairman of voir has been lowered five or six feet since the scare of May the Carbon county 21st, when part of the dam gave way. Inflow of water at the preOne of the most successful sent time is not very heavy. Sportsmens Riots even staged Work started Monday on the under the auspices of the Carbon-Emer- y Fish a and Game Protec- new manual arts building to be Ago esc-reta- ry al in constructed at the Carbon county high school. The building will be 60x100 feet. The new building will be ready for the opening FOR ATHLETES FOOT of school this falL Use for 3 to 5 days. Watch the old tainted skin slough off Preparations are well under (leaving healthy, hardy skin. If not way for a big celebration in pleased with powerful, instant dry- Price on July 4th. Arrangements your 48c back at any are being made to have a large ing drug store. Today at showing of floats on that day. Kallay's Prlca Drug Co. Prizes will be offered to the most elaborate floats in line. IN JUST 15 MINUTES IF YOU HAVE TO Fred Larcher has been namSCRATCH YOUR ITCH ed president of the new Price Your 48c back at any drug dance hall being erected north store. Apply OT. It of the Park. Other officers deadens your itch and burning in are W. City W. Lewis, vice president; minutes; kills germs, fungi on Ray Walters, secretary; George contact Wonderful for eczema, foot itch, ringworm, insect bites, Homer, treasureer; E. N. and Charles Bonomo, surface rashes. Today at Kelleys Price Drug Co. tive 'Association was held Price Saturday and Sunday. T-4- -L Always smoother because its 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at Castle Gate YOU ARE INVITED TO SEE OUR $26 MILLION CARBON PLANT COAL-ELECTR- IC in full operation Youll be interested in seeing this $26 million plant which is literally built atop a chunk of coal. Operating at. full capacity it burns 1720 tons of coal a day. Thats 630,000 tons a year enough coal to keep 300 miners employed In addition the plant is staffed by 50 full time employees. a full year. The 1 60,000 KW of electricity it produces at full capacity is enough to supply the electric needs of a city of 300,000 people. Yfe hope youll be able to visit this plant, which makes us Carbon Countys largest taxpayer. Light refreshments will be served. L, slow-distille- d There are less costly ways to make bourbon whiskies but theyll never give you the smoothness you get in Early Times. The extra care and attention of slow dia , tilling.. .the patient willingness to take twice as long., this is the way, the smoothing way to male whisky. Next time, ask for Early Times. old-sty- le KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY. EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY . LOUISVILLE Friday and Saturday MO0P V KENTUCKY ITCH-ME-- Sincerely, N Rad-cllf- fe UTAH POWER and LIGHT CO. |