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Show A Newspaper Devoted to the People of the Uintah Basin The Duchesne: Seat County Gateway To Uintah Basin Newspaper Covers ALL Volume 9 The Uintah Basin, Hundred Convene For Stake M. I. A'. Theme Festival And Barbecue Duchesne School Bands Entertain Throngs at Duchesne $3.0 DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940 FOR COLORADO City Park Tuesday Evening Reclamation Bureau Lays Out Diamond Drill Holes 62 Duchesne Music Barbecued Beef Proves Hit Students Attend National Meet Of Evening Sixty-tw- o Duchesne high school State veterinarians Drs. J. T. band from Aproximately 600 people accompanied by Curtis, Sherly Nebeker and J. D. their students, the various wards in the Duchesne band master, ElRoy Van are in who Winward, Duchesne at assembled the s. stake k p, Wagoner, principal, C. W. Barton Duchesne city park Tuesday eveni- for the annual M. I. A. Theme ng Festival and barbecue. The beef barbecued under the direction of Goodrich was declared by to be the best barbecued they had ever tasted. Community singing, lead toy J. Mlckelson and music by the Duchesne high school and elementary bands added greatly to the enjoyment of the patrons. The program was carried out as follows: song, Comrades in the Arthur many meat i A. toy i I. Frances Miss Hold the chorus; prayer, Peterson; song, As Our. Banners High", by chorus. Jte Program Given The theme was presented by Pearl Jeffery; trumpet solo, Rhoades; retold story, by Stanley Martha" by Elsie Nielsen; saxa-jhon- e duet by Duane Ross and Myrl Jennings; one-a- ct play The directed by Miss ark Bench" Catherine Tuddenham and enacted Foster, Vivian Bar-oby Marianne Harold Eldredge, Enid Good-ici- !, Kendall Oman and Paul Wil-:kepiano solo toy Hazel Walters; demonstration of folk dances Girls under the y the Beehive iirection of Miss Arline Allred. Violin solo by Mrs. Baum; re-o- ld The story, story Theme Lost Word" by Jane Lefevre; vo-Call by solo, Indian Love Iiss n, n; al Gerry; Jacqueline raging lead toy community J. M. Mickelson; prayer by Vem Moon. A loud speaker which made the program available to all listeners, ns furnished toy George Robbins. J. NEAL PRESIDE TP. E. O. MEET MRS. C. TO 1 Under the chairmanship of Mrs. J. Neal of Myton, state presi-en- t, Utah chapter af the the Sisterhood will convene May and Saturday at the Hotel M Lomond in Ogden for its an-state convention. Mrs. Howard E. Simpson of and North Dakota, Forks, and vice president of the chapter of P. E. O., will guest of honor at the convents and will speak at several of E. O. nl su-re- sessions. addition In 11 to Mrs. Neal, other members of the organization ho will participate in the conation include Mrs. W. A. Banks id Mrs, J. M. Francke, tooth of pmal, who will act as delegates tn Both chapter C at Vernal. "d serve on convention commit's, as will Mrs. Ted Johnson, E. A. diapman, l,rs' Manker and Miss Gladis also members of chap-- T C. Mrs. Neal was elected president state chapter at the conven-- n held last May in Salt Lake A charter member of napter c, she served on the state 'ard in various capacities before nng chosen president. n Thursday evening preceding 18 convention, Mrs. Neal will the representative from Preme state prochapter, mts and state past officers at a !ar at the Hotel Ben Lomond. ss fcdythe Neal, daughter of c state president and a 'member Chapter A in Salt Lake City, d en-'nta- ip county testing cattle for tuberculosis, are meeting with splended cooperation from stockmen, they said Tuesday. They have been working in the Tabiona and Hanna area during the past week and will work in the Duchesne district as soon as the work is complete there. Results of the tests have not' yet 'been obtained. All stockmen are and a number of parents left Duchesne at 6:30 a. m. Thursday in two school busses and three private automobiles on the 275 mile trek to Grand Junction, Colorado where they will participate in concert and parade work for the western states. Festivities will be held Friday and Saturday and the students will return home Sunday. Several other parents exto urged cooperate with the pect to motor to Grand Junction county agent and the veterinar- Saturday to view the parade. ians as another test will not be The band won eligibility to atmade for three years. tend the national meet at the district festival in Roosevelt ApCOMMISSIONERS ril 27 when they were awarded a highly superior rating on concert HOLD TWO and parade wark. Tabiona high DAY SESSION school also won eligibility with the D class bands, but decided not to Although most of the day of the make the trip because of the excommissioners pense. regular county meeting was devoted to real es- Made Possible By Townspeople tate sales and tax adjustments, a The trip was made possible only few other matters of interest through the generosity of parents came to their attention, among and townspeople, not only of 'Duwhich was discussion of the chesne, but of surrounding towns. plan to quiet title in court of Dances to raise funds were given county owned land. At a previous (Continued on Page Eight) meeting, the commissioners had signed an agreement authorizing Rulon J. Larsen to proceed with Hunpherys Reports the suits. Later, however, there developed some disagreement with Water Storage the Uintah Basin Bar Association over the matter. Water supply for the 1940 irriThe county clerk was authorized gation season will be 40 to 90 pertoy the commissioners to write to cent of normal for Utah communRay E. Dillman, president of the ities, according to reports comassociation to ask him for infor- piled this week toy State Engineer mation concerning legal proceed-ur- e T. H. Humpherys. and ask for an estimate on the Accumulated precipitation recosts of the action. ports from October 1, 1939 to May Medical aid amounting to$207.OO 1, 1940 show from 50 to 75 percent was granted to three persons. of normal for Iron, Garfield, Kane, The county attorney was order- San Juan, Duchesne and part of ed to pay to Mrs. Lottie Allen Beaver counties. West Beaver, $79.20 for easement across her Wayne and Emery counties have land for the county road. received only 25 to 50 percent f The Duchesne County Tax Pay- normal precipitation for the perers Assn. .which has been making iod. a check on grazing certificates, Carbon county in the Scofield reported that only one county out area bas received from 75 to 100 of several owing, has paid Du- percent of normal, while the cenchesne county for their grazing. tral part of the county received The association asked that a check only 25 to 50 percent. be made by the county officials Precipitation reports from 30 and the delinquent grazers toe U. S. weather bureau stations billed for their debt. show a near normal rainfall for Bonds for personal taxes have most of the state for April. The runoff of the Price river also come under the scrutiny of the taxpayers association and a for the season is expected to be request was made for the county 60 to 75 percent of normal, while attorney to check the law on this Cotonwood creek in Emery county and the Beaver river reports are matter. A delegation composed of Frank 80 to 90 percent of normal. The Scofield reservoir will have Defa, John H. Jones and Claude sufficient water in storage by the license Wagstaff requested that end of the month to take care of town due the are which fees plate to The commission the seasons needs, according of Tabiona. f maximum a and estimates, authoried the clerk to issue pay20,000 to 25,000 acre feet of water ment of $300.00. is expected to be reached at Moon Since it was impossible to com- Lake during May. Rocky Ford the plete ithe business Tuesday reservoir, supplying Beaver county meeting was continued to Wed- is only half full at present, but nesday. an addifion of five to eight thouscommissioners and acre feet is anticipated. the Tuesday made a tour of the county road Total storage of the 14 principroject. pal reservoirs of the state on May 1, was 1,515,300 acre feet, comDUCHESNE COUNTY pared with 1,852,600 for 1939 and 1,610,800 for 1938, which was RANCHES normal storage. STOCK Sub-Norm- al RAISE FINE Several ranchers in Duchesne county have stock worth seeing, said Carl Davis, county agricultural agent Tuesday. W. G. Gentry at Ioka has 35 head of two and three year old amg at a banquet Friday steers which he will take to marsrang, ket within the next 20 or 30 day3. approximately 100 Utah mem-;- s He is feeding them 14 lbs of com of the P. E. O. Sisterhood per head per day and all the good expected to attend alfalfa hay they can consume. Horace Allred and son Howard 5 Nng Duble A t 1 marriage license was is-April 20 to Dari Lance, 21 Mamie 11a Mott, 16, both ftuehesne. Nothing strange at, but Dari has a n Mother, Carl and Mamie a twin Mary, 'umu 'rmore, Daris fathers TiT tTd8 vron Lance and Ma-- : fathers name is My . Mott. Gearge H. Harrison, civic leader and mlayor of Roosevelt for the years, will past two and seek the nomination for state senator in the 5th senatorial district representing Duchesne and Uintah on the Republication counties ticket. Mr. Harrison has made his home in the Uintah Basin the past 20 years residing first in Vernal where he published the Vernal Express for 8 years. In 1927, he moved to Roosevelt where he continued in newspaper work, publishing the Roosevelt 'Standard. Mr. Harrison was active in civic work in Vernal, serving as a director in the former Commercial club for a number of years and as a director in the Vernal Gun club. Since going to Roosevelt he has been active in various civic clubs and organizations. He has been prosident of the Roosevelt Commercial club six terms and director for 3 terms. He has been president of the Roosevelt Lions club, a member of the city council, a member of the Roosevelt hospital committee and active on many other civic committees. In 1937 Mr. Harrison was elected mayor of Roosevelt and was reelected to this office in 1939. He has also served as president of the Utah State Press Assn, and is now vice president of the Utah State Municipal League. lf Cleanup Programs Praised By County Chairman M. Merriman, geologist for the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, with headquarters in Denver, began this week to lay out a system of drill holes for diamond drill explorations at Echo Park dam site on the Green river. The proposed Echo Park project will toe used to store water and to generate power to .be nsed in connection with the Bear River and Great Basin projects. Work will begin there within two weeks on diamond drill explorations under direction of E. G. Nielsen, reclamation engineer in charge of Utah projects investigations, according to an announcement made Thurs-Da- y by State Engineer T. H. Humpherys. Upon the completion of the drill work at the Echo Park site, Mr. Merriman will go to the Rattlesnake site located where the Price river and the Green river join. Here he will make recon-niassan- ce studies and determine appropriate plans for foundation explorations. A crew of reclamation workers headed by Laurence Kreager, driller, will conduct the diamond drill operations. Preparations are under way for taking the drilling outfit to the Green river site. SCHOOL LUNCH TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE The Work Projects Administration, the Duchesne County Board of Education and the Duchesne Parent-TeachAssn. invite all persons interested, to attend open house at the school lunch kitchen in the Duchesne elementary school any day between the dates of May 13 and 17. The (week of May 20 to 25 has been designated This Work Pays Your Community Week when sponsors of all professional and service division projects will hold open house in order to acquaint the people of America with the accomplishments of these projects and to indicate needs and opportunity existing In every comer munity for carrying through more busiunfinished Improvement in the yards of res- of Americas idents in the business sections in ness. Because school closes here all the towns in the country since on May 17, the hot lunch project recent cleanup campaigns, is re- sponsors will receive visitors durmarkable and very gratifying, ing the last week of school. It is requested that visitors call said Mrs. Dorthella Dastrup of Mt. Emmons, chairman of the beauti- during the time when lunch is befication commitee of the Duchesne ing prepared from 9 to 11:30 a. m. and during the afternoon from 1 County Planning Board. 3 p. m. to Trees have been planted by the hundreds, she said, and plans are Improvement Shown In DuThe underway for the planting of chesne hot lunch project has shown a great immany more. The L. D. S. church committees are provement during the past year, beuatification state and county supervisors have working right along with the said. Because of better commodcounty planning committees to it has been posdistribution, ity state of the Utah particumake sible to serve larger and more larly along the highways, beauti- varied meals to the children. One ful for Utah centennial in 1947. of the biggest improvements noted Mrs. Dastrup, who was in Duis the addition of a dining room chesne Tuesday making arrange- for the elementary students. This ments for more trees for the has been made possible through returned campus, recently the of the civic clubs, who from Los Angeles where she had have help tables and the provided been with her mother, Mrs. Walter school which has provided the illa serious Doncumbe during room and chairs. The P.-A. ness. ha3 purchased from hot lunch nt T. Duchesne Lions Club Postpones Meeting state Number 42 Construction of Rearing Ponds and Expansion Of Fish Planting Program Are Ordered As Result of Visit To Streams DUCHESNE TRACK Newell B. Cook Calls BOYS ATTEND Local Area REGIONAL MEET Fishing: Paradise The Utah Region 5 track and field championship came hack to Carbon Friday after a years absence, as the Dinosaur atheletes compiled 44 points on Kiwanis field to edge out a strong squad from South Emery. Ferron collected, 39 points for second place; Uintah, 26 points for third; Central, 25; Greenriver, 24; North Emery, 22; Duchesne 16; Alterra and Roosevelt, 13 each. Events in which ;Duchesne placed were: high jump: Kent 3rd place; pole vault; Casper, 4th; mile; Olsen, 3rd; 440: Fenster-make- r, 2nd; discus: Kent, 4th; broad jump; Casper, 3rd. Orders for immediate construction of tliree groups of rearing ponds and enthusiastic acclamation of the Uintah Mountain streams as a "fishermans paradise were the reaction of State Game Commissioner Newell B. Cook, after spending two days this week visiting streams in the northern part of Duchesne county. Rock creek is the finest fishing stream in the state of Utah, Mr. Cook told members of the Duchesne Fish and Game club and their guests at a banquet held in the Plaza hotel in his honor Monday evening. Mr. Cook said that he had been hearing John Madsen and others cite the wonders of FRANK HALE DIES Rock creek for 12 years, only half believing what he heard, but that SUDDENLY OF his visit to the stream Monday HEART ATTACK afternoon had convinced lu.n List .I it is all that had been claimed for Frank Boyington Hale, 63, it. An immediate increase in fish for the past five years was by the fine and deputy county sheriff for a plantingof the justified water and the large quality number of years died suddenly at area covered by the stream he his home' Monday at 1:40 a. m. said, and would be carried out His death was caused by a heart forthwith. attack, brought on by acute dila- DMtingulshed Vititors tation of the stomach, according Gver fifty local sportsmen and to Dr. David McDonald. their partners were present at the While Mr. Hale .had complained banquet Monday evening, sponsome of discomfort at times, it sored the local fish and game was thought that he was in good club. by Game warden John P. Madhealth, and he had worked until sen, acting as toastmaster, Introapproximately 9 p. m. the evening duced Mr, Cook and Lee Kay and before his deatn, which came as a Tom Argyle, also with the state complete shock to family and fish and game department, who Mrs. Hale was working friends. him accompanied trip. at the time in the kitchen at the Others who were on the some introduced, and corrals, Antelope shearing of them to address the gathering, was not at home when Mr. Hale included C. C. Wright, superindied tendent of the Uintah and Ouray Funeral Service Wednesday Indian agency; Earl F. Jensen, Funeral services were held Wedof the Duchesne Fish president nesday afternoon, in the Duchesne and Game club; F, L. Maxwell, L. D. S. ward hall, with the Roy (Continued on Pag Eight) A Schonian Mortuary directing. conductAnderton Levi J. Bishop ROCK CAVE-I- N ed the service. R. Clay-buincluded J. COSTS LIFE Speakers of Midview, Golden Berrett OF BASIN YOUTH and Leland Hair of Duchesne. Clarence Ivie offered invocation William Rae Wardel, 20, forand Wm. Oman pronounced the benediction. Music was furnished merly of Lapoint, died last Friday by Porter Merrell, Merle Sexton at 4:30 p. m, of injuries sustained hour before In a rock and Twila Meldmm. The grave, one-hain the Duchesne cemetery, was cave-i- n in the Martin Coal mine dedicated by Mrs. Hales father, near Helper. w Mr. Robinson of Salt Lake City. Nick Stoforos of Helper, a worker, said Wardel had just A profusion of flowers surround ing the casket before and during begun work at the mine on the the services gave evidence of the day that the tragedy occurred. He esteem in which Mr. Hale was said he noticed the danger and held, and the group of over 50 re- ldelac oaWtee ubhttr ohdt tlt?a latives occupying the mourners called to Wardel but that the latsection, Indicated the stock from ter was struck before he was able to move. which Mr. Hale came. Wardels abdomen was crushed Basin Settler Early Born March 27, 1877 at Grants-vill- and he died of Internal hemorUtah, Mr. Hale was a son of rhage, according to the attending Aroet L. and Louisa Cook Hale. physician. Mr. Wardel was bom September He married Grace Robinson at Grantsville April 23, 1901. They 14, 1919, at Lapoint, a son cf Jvbn came to the Uintah Basin 34 Hannon and Martha Levina Tryon years ago, first living at Jensen Wardel. He had been living with an aunt, Mrs. Hazel M. Black at (Continued on Page Eight) Salt Lake City for the past few months. He was unmarried. SPECIAL PROGRAM Survivors include a brother, WILL MARK John Wardel of Lapoint; a Joseph Jackson of FerMOTHERS DAY ron; 2 sisters, Mrs. Harold Gee A sperial program will be held and Miss Viola Wardel of Duhalf-siste- r, Mrs. Sunday morning In the L. D, S. chesne and a of Devar Ross of Lapoint. Sunday school in observance Mothers Day. Following the usual opening exercises, the program Cook Visit Brings will be conducted as follows: Speedy Results Brahms Lillaby" by the prichorus. mary Almost before State Game Two brief talks What a Mother Commissioner Newell B. Cooks Means to a Cirl and What a dust had settled, after he had Mother Means to a Boy", will be local sportsmen he given by Kathryn Larsen and promised would step up the fish plantJohn Lynn Barton. program in Duchesne counPal of My Cradle Days" by ing ty, and then driven out of the gitls chorus; a reading, town on his way home, the fish Mothers Day" by Carolyn Berstarted coming. rett; vocal solo by Merle Sexton: The prettiest load of fish retold story, Second Mother by ever seen in the Basin, in the Florence vocal solo, Poulson; words of Game Warden J. P. Little Mother of Mine" by John Madsen went through Duchesne A Parent's Peterson: reading, headed Wednesday afternoon, Prayer" by Fern Merrell; poem. for Moon Lake, It contained by kindergarten 3.000 fish, ranging from 7 to group; reading, White Lilacs by 15 inches In length, a mixture Marianne Foster; vocal solo "The of yearling and Old Refrain" by Frances Peterson; Rainbows from the Mid wav reading, A Parable For Mother" hatchery. These were followed by Harold Eldredge; vocal solo In short order Thursday and 'Dear Mother of Mine" by Porter Friday with two more smaller Merrell. loads, a total of approximately 6.000 fish for the lake, Following the program gifts will be given to all the mothers, -- funds, colorful oil cloth coverings for the tables and new dishes for serving. The kitchen has much new equipment and is being manBecause so many of the mem aged very efficiently. These things are of interest to bers were busy getting their chilevery parent who has a child pardren ready for the band trip and in the hot lunch and to ticipating L. F. President other matters, interested In child every person Maxwell of the Duchesne Lions welfare and service to the comclub announced that the regular munity. been meeting which should have May 30 is the deadline for of motor veInspection hicles, said state road patrolman Jack Young this week, adding a warning to motorists to get their cars Inspected ahead of the dead- held Wednesday evening would be line to avoid disappointment at postponed until next Wednesday. School Board Meet last. Committtee nominations for of- Is Postponed Howard the have some fine stock. are for the coming year will ficers Highway patrol instructions club calf project and has a be announced at this meeting. the inspection The regular meeting of the Durigid regarding very Is grooming his stock for the Ver Mr. Young said, and ail vechesne law, county board of education nal livestock show. not bearing inspection TIIE WEATHER was postponed Em- hicles early Tuesday Mt. of Hartman Eugene President morning Floyd E. by of some fine mons has specimens members of the Several Lamb. which short horn and Hereford board could not be present, it was will He show. for is he finishing stated. exhibit at the junior fat livestock Definite date for the meeting show In North Salt Lake and also has not been announced, but It at Vernal. has been tentatively set for MonBert Lusty at Arcadia Is finishday or Tuesday of next week. hulls beef Hereford fine some ing are hulls for the shows. These D. D, Nicholson of Roosevelt being used extensively for breedwas a Duchesne business visitor and neighboring ing in Duchesne Tuesday. counties. H Life Car Inspection Deadline Draws Near ROOSEVELT MAYOR ENTERS RACE FOR STATE SENATE one-ba- Per Year In Advance Fish And Game Club Honors Commissioner At Banquet And Meet Sees Senate Post Six Of Visitors 59 m lf fel-la- e, half-broth- |