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Show Volume Sixty Nine Number Twenty Tooele, Utah, Friday, October 25, 1963 House Will Consider Local Dam Money Local Study Of Housing To he Made Housing problems that may arise out of the closing of TAD Park and Edgemount housing areas will be investigated by a Tooeie County Chamber of Commerce committee chairmaned by ... A powmhovel FILL DEEP DRAWS loads a truck la one of the many loads of rock taken from aa old mine dump NEW EXECUTIVE SECRETARY . . . DeIVcnna Warburton, new executive sec retary of the Tooele County Chamber of Commerce, is being presented a letter of used to fill several deep draws along the route of the oew Settlement Canyon road. introduction by Elmer Tate, Chamber of Commerce President as retiring Executive Secretary Nona Shlbley looks on. Myrtle Alsop. Colonel Brian 0. Montgomery. Tooeie Army Depot commander, asked that the community aid Tooele Army Depot in coordinating the steps necessary to close TAD Park which now houses 90 families so that an orderly closure of the housing can be done by June 3, 1965. IT WAS decided at Wednesday Tooele County Chamber of Commerce meeting to also include Edgemount housing which la scheduled to be closed in 1964 in the study Tribute was paid to Nona Shlbley for her aervice to the Tooele 2 Accidents Duchesne men. Wednesday. THE BULLS horn or hoof poked through the windshield of a car driven by Donald Malcom McCloud. 48, Aitavaina. California. crushing severely the thumb of his right hand, reports Trooper Neil Bishop, who investigat- MR. SPRY ed Former Tooclcan REPLACE FIRE HYDRANTS . . . Tooele crews replace City Water Department the first of several fire hydrants In the Tooele business district This one In front of the Tooele Transcript office was worn out and leaking. JAMES LEATHAM pronounc- ed the benediction and interment took place in the Grants-vill- e cemetery, where the grave was dedicated by Clarence n. Pall bearers were Don Sutton, William Haight, Wayne and Gary Wells, Elmer Morris and Elon Ratcliffe. Rain Brings Almost Quarter-IncOf Water vsM Jones, bongos; Lee Smith, bass; Gene Stevens, guitar; Jim NicoUemus, banjo and guitar, and Jack Peterson, lead h low 49; Monday, high 66 and low Tuesday, high 70 and low Wednesday, high 65 and low 46; 45; 47. May Oct 25 lagjles Halloween Costume Funeral services were held on Monday, October 21, at Grand Junction and burial was in the Mesa Orchard Cemetery. Surplus Water Holders Asked To Meet Sat . All persons holding surplus water in the Settlement Canyon Irrigation Company, are asked to meet at the Tooele City Hall, Saturday evening of this week, at 7:30 p.m. The purpose of the meeting Is to form a company or organization, for the purposing of leasing shares of water, owned by individuals, which will be in excess of their actual irrigation needs. Such a company will be in a position to pool their shares and lease them to those who may be short of sufficient irrigation water or permit people who have no water at all to lease the shares which they need lo enjoy the benefits coming from the new dam and pressure ir- rigation system. Tooele received of an inch of moisture and Grantsville of an inch in Wednesdays storm. for the past Temperatures week were: last Thursday, high 73 and low 47; Friday, high 75 and low 52; Saturday, high 66 and low 50; Sunday, high 64 and BELLSHANNY MEN TO BE IN TOOELE Appearing Saturday at the Tooele Armory in a benefit performance for the Catholic Church are left to right - Wins California. Retail Merchants Meeting Set For Next Tuesday Tooele Retail Merchants will hold a meeting Tuesday, October 29, at 7:30 a.m. in the Kirk Hotel to discuss two special topics - the Christmas promotion and the problem of shop lifting in Tooele stores. Chief Raymond A. Hulett. of the Tooele City Police Department will discuss the shoplifting problem. McCloud and his daughier Rebecca were returning to California from a vacation in the mid-wes- t when House approval Is expected next month on a public works appropriation bill carrying for the Settlement Canyon Project nesr Tooele, reports Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd . THE MONEY was Included In the budget request for fiscal 1964 to supplement $275,000 advanced for the project earlier this year, Mr. Lloyd said. A contract between the Bureau of Reclamation and the sponsor of the project. Settlement Canyon Irrigation Co., provides for repayment at 3 and seven-eight- s per cent Interest over 50 years. Total principal amount to be repaid is $1,009,500. The Federal government, Mr. Lloyd said, will put up another $S17,-0C- 'O. Y A collision with a large bull four miles west of Grantsville, injured a California man and a collision of a truck and automobile at Lakepomt injured three r Last rites were held Wednesday at noon in the First- - Sixth Ward chapel for Mrs. Nancy L. Weils, who died Oct. 19 from the following complications birth of a son. Bishop Albert Steadman of the Tooele Sixth Ward conducted the funeral. MASON WALKER gave the prayer at the Mortuary and Mrs. Dorothy Maher played prelude and postlude music at the chapel and also a selection in the funeral program. Rex Sutton gave the invocation and the Singing Mothers of the Sixth Ward sang as an opening number Abide With Me, and in closing Peace I Leave With Thee." Speakers were Bishop Steadman, LeRoy Skidmore, George Harrison and Jack Cox. Y Injure Four Chamber of Commerce and the community as executive secreMeet Death In tary of the C. of C. during the terms of three presidents: Peter Plane Cradi VanOtten, John Maher and ElbeMr. and Mrs. Joseph Spry, of mer Tale. She is resigning 93 pmchurst, were called to cause of health problems. Mrs. Dclvonna Warburton was Grand Junction, Colorado, last introduced to Chamber of Com- weekend by the death of their merce members. She will be the son Joseph A. Spry, on October IS. new executive secretary. Mr. Spry, age 34. was killed Absentee balloting, by mail, for new Tooele County Chamber of in a plane crash at Toledo, Ohio. Commerce officers for the comIIE WAS radio operator for ing year was approved in addiFFA and a civilian pilot. He tion to the usual custom of vothad made a flight from Grand ing at the election meeting MEMBERS WERE urged to Junction to Toledo. Ohio, with get reservations for the final the body of a man who had sufevent of the Utah Mining Cen- fered a heart attack, and his tennial Celebration which will be plane crashed just after take off held October 25 at 6: .30 pm. in on his return trip. He was born October 11, 1929 the Terrace Ballroom in Sait at Evansville, Indiana, and had Lake City. James Dugdale, Tooele County attended Tooele High School Civil Defense Director, spoke to from 1943 to 1946. He spent three years in the the luncheon on Civil Defense and reported that public apathy military service. He had workAnchorage, Spokane, to the program is amazing. He ed at reported on efforts to get ware- Alaska and Grand Junction. He houses for equipment for two was affiliated with the dist Church. be stor emergency hospitals ON OCTOBER 16, 1958 he was ed in Tooele County. A film on Civil Defense needs married to Arlene Matzke who survives along with two chilwas shown the group. dren. Merry Jo and Andrew J of Grand Junction. Also surviving in addition to his parents are two sisters, Mrs. F. V. (Gloria) Broce, of Bossier City, Louisiaia, and Mrs. Bud (Barbara) Fraser, of Gustine, Last Rites Held Wednesday For Young Mother I he struck the bull and the large range bull was thrown over the hood and onto the top of the 1961 Ford, and its hoof or horns went through the windshield. Both McCloud and his daughter were taken to Tooele Valley Hospital by Gillette Ambulance where Rebecca was treated for a bruised fore head. MR McCLOUD was to undergo surgery for his crushed and mangled thumb. Loss of the bull was estimated at from $400 $590 and damage to the car was estimated at . The cars speed from was estimated at 50 miles an hour at the time of the accident. An accident involving a truck and car injured three men from Duchesne who are attending trade school in Salt Lake City. THEIR CAR collided with the d rear of a truck making a turn Into the Pride gas station at Lakepoint, about 6 p.m. Gilbert Gardner, 21. Bernard Jim 21 and Richard Mountain, 20, were treated at Tooele Valley Hospital and released. Gardner suffered severe face lacerations when the 1955 Ford hit the rear of the truck and the left rear point of the truck bed came through the windshield into his face. Trooper Neil Bishop of the Utah Highway Patrol who investigated, said. GARDNER was release from the hospital at his own request. All three men were brought to Tooele by Gillette ambulance. The impact cause the car to wrap itself around the dual tires of the truck. DRIVER OF the truck was. Nile Zan Peterson of Magna. Investigation into the accident left-han- is continuing. Wire Being Put In Place On Vernon Line h A c Mr. Christensen Funeral Sat. At 1 PM For Mrs. Christenson Mrs. Emily Joyce Howell Christensen, 68. died Wednesday morning at 4:15 am. at the home of a daughter Mrs. Joseph L. Judd. SHE WAS born July 5. 1895 in St John, Utah, a daughter of Edwin P. and Martha Johnston Howell, and was married to Charles M. Christensen. Nov. 13. 1916 at Ogden. Mr. Christensen died in 1953. Mrs Christensen has been a resident of Tooele since 1937. She was a member of the LOS Church. Surviving are her daughter, Alice Judd, her mother, Mrs. Martha Howell, both of Tooele, and the following brothers and sisters. Melvin Howell and Mrs. Merl (Marion) Cameron, of Salt Lake City; Mrs. John C. (Josie) Schneiler, Mrs. Lee (Thelma) Martin and Mrs. Bud (Dorothy) Stone, all of Tooele. FUNERAL SERVICES will be held Saturday at I p.m. in the First-SixtWar dchapel. Friends may call at the Tate Mortuary Friday 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday prior to services. Burial will be in the Tooele City Cemetery. h Drain Installed On First North Intersection ss a non- - relmburseable grant as partial payment for fish and wildlife benefits from the project. Sponsor participation is set at $31,000. Repayment will start when the work is comare pleted and the benefits $94,500 available. BUREAJ OF Reclamation officials told Mr. Lloyd that It is expected that 26 per cent of the water supply made available from the dam and distribution systems will be used the first $vear for residential irrigation, per cent for agriculture. The percentages may shift as the nature of the community changes. 74 Mr. Lloyd noted. The measure appropriation will require Senate action when the House completes its work, probably in middle or late No- vember. Bureau of Reclamation officials told Mr. Lloyd that of the $275,000 advanced in March of this year, the sponsors have spent $41,000. Legally, they said, there is no objection to contracting for the project before the additional $817,000 becomes avail able. Dump Truck Over Turns Near Lofgreen A Utah State Road Commis- sion truck rolled over Wednes- day afternoon about 1:45 p.m. at Replacement of a culvert that has plugged up frequently and the railroad crossing near Lofin the winter caused water to green. freeze at a busy intersection at T. R. Wrathall, 189 South 1st. 1st East and 1st North, is bea passenger in the truck was ing replaced with a different slightly injured Driver of the truck, Tom Childs, also of Tooele type of drainage. For the past week Tooele City escaped injury. The truck which was enroute crews have been installing a depressed section of the road so from the Tooele state sheds on 6 to Lofgreen, drain water can flow unobstruchit a soft ted over the road instead of shoulder and rolled over severely damaging the cab, reports creating culvert problems. The old culvert both curved Deputy Sheriff James Park who and drained up hill. investigated the accident. Construction is expected to be The dump truck was empty at the time. completed this week. U-3- Telephone construction crews have started to string wire for the new telephone service line that will give telephone service between Vernon and Grantsville, reports John D. Maher, Tooele District Manager of the Mountain States Telephone Company. Man Bound Over to Higher Court Matt C. Alford, Grantsville, was bound over to District Court by Judge M. Earl Marshall, on a charge of automobile homicide in a preliminary hearing in City Court, Wednesday. The charge grew out of a fatal accident that killed three people near Timpie, September Tooele 22. Alford is specifically charged with the death of Doris Torres, in the accident Tooele High Field 2:30 P. M. Adm. $1. Visitor Stud. 50c wiih card) Children 25c (with Parents) 50c Alone Members Only Unmasking 10 PM Prizes Snacks, Dancing $2.50 Cpl looele's first Hootenany Starring IslisEianny Men 0 1 Tooele County CHANGE ADDRESSING SYSTEM . . Assessor Wendell Anderson and Myraa Bush look at the new addressograph machine operated by Mrs. June Garrard, which is being used to make 8,000 metal addressing plates for use of the Assessors Office and the Treasurers Office. It is one of two machines being used. Sat., Oct. 26 - Tooele Armory - 8 PM Sponsored By St. Marguerites Teen Age Club Admission $1.00 |