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Show A Newspaper Devoted to the People of the Uintah Basin 99 . The Duchesne: Seat County Gateway To Uintah Basin Newspaper president Heber J. Grant Ends 112tli L. D. S. Semiannual Conference SCHOOL LUNCH TO OPEN NEXT MONDAY Church Members Warned On Communism; Shop Is Tyrannical Says Conference Speaker Closed Un-Americ- Fish and Game Clubs Plan Delegation Oscar Kirkham Named On Seventy Council To State Capitol A delegation of members of t'ne speeches of Dr. of the council of Roosevelt and Moon Lake fish and the prin- game clubs was planning Thursday pelve apostles assailing ce of the "closed shop" as a new a trip to Salt Lake City where which denies Americans they planned to interview mem;;e 0f their basic liberties; of J. bers of the state department of fish and game Saturday at the I Wirthlin and A. E. Bowen, both state whom urged vigilant protection capitol. which they deemed The party, which will include of liberties Endorsing the Joseph F. Merrill of threatened by present-da- trends, y J. Grant, ent of the church brought to a confereelose the 112th semiannual nce Sunday afternoon, presid- Heber j. Reuben Clark Jr., first reminded elor te the president that he members church fellow y been warning against commu-nj- z and was still for 20 years couns- that warning, when he at the opening session Fit- sc unding spoke ly morning. Sues Warning toward commmost people realize," he said, and then continued with a warning that unless the dec ton is changed, freedom of $eech, press and religion and the nght to own property will disappWe are drifting unism. faster than ear in this country. from Dr. Merrill, after quoting declaration of independence delegates from Roosevelt, Duchesne and possibly the north country, plan to make a request for funds for fish hatcherie's, rearing ponds and other improvements in Dudhesne county and the Uintah Basin. Requests for funds have already been presented by George Harrison cf Roosevelt, member of the state fish and game commission, and the purpose of the delegation is to further stress to the commission the importance of improvements requested for the Uintah Basin BOND REFUNDING PROVIDES MONEY FOR WATERWORKS Assurance that the waterworks can continue to compleproject slid the constitution, expressed the tion was gained last week with the dew that this country has "never completion of a bond refunding faced a darker situation than it deal between the city council and to today. Lauren W. Gibbs, Salt Lake City "The very foundations upon broker. which this country has been (build-i- d The city has been troubled with to become great and mighty, finances for some time, when varsaid, "are gravely threatened ious changes in the waterworks sci her basic l of person-iprinciples ran the cost some $8,000 ever estiliberty are fast fading away. mates. When it came time to deSew Tyranny liver to R. F. C. the $32,500 in revd 'When we deny an enue bonds voted in March of this man the 'right to work we rob year, R. F. C. could not release am of his independence and the money without assurance that his happiness. It is this dethe city had sufficient funds to dal that faces myriads of willing complete the project, and with the wrkers in America today, increased costs, this could not be a new tyranny one never given. dreamed of by the founders has In the transaction with Mr. arsen, that of the closed shop, $7,500 additional was obGibbs, check-of. . deluding the f system. tax anticipation bonds, cn tained "It places paid moderately the same time $13,000 in at and workers at the mercy of highly bonds was refunded to pad agitators. Most of all, it outstanding so that the city the time, extend aps the independence of the workerevenues for the r, dampens his ambition and shuts could use current of the waterworks cost. to him the door of hope of a bet-t- o completion Chief item of additional cost future, him with in the flow 4e indolent, less competent and was the change of pipe line to tlhe city from the spring to ambitious associates. found Thus while the American labor-e- r pipe, after it was pipe originally has gained much from the that the flow specified would not carry the on Page 8 has proven which from the spring 52nd larger than was at first anticipat- u ne able-bodie- de-ftr- be-aa- se lock-steppi- Tank Battalion Fire Machine Gun ed. Men In the meantime, work on the tho project has continued steadily, de- FORT LEWIS (Special) Men the 752nd Tank Battalion, part 5 Uncle Sams blitz new v,Ps have completed range of the Thompson and have been rated as fir-t- f n, sub-machi- ne cur H. ex-fir- st second class gunners marksmen, Lieutenant Colon-0- . Anderson, in command, bounced today. The firing ended the 13th field rcise of the battalion. Others, Ending over a period 0f several Jtotths, included nine all lvuaca, under simulated auditions, without lights, blue blackouts". slowly, because of the greatly creased number of W P A laborers available for the project. There is still more than half of the flow to line from the city to the spring John-stube laid, according to Jess supervisor of the project. LOCAL RANCHERS TO GET $7,500 FOR RANGE IMPROVEMENTS Duchesne county ranchers will for night receive approximately $7,500 field range building practices that have ac1941, except been completed during C. Grandy, discording to DeWitt Jh the battalion 26 men quall-a- s trict AAA range supervisor, repreexperts, four as first class payments to the ranchers ,,snners and to f three as second class sent from faers and five as marksmen. of the actual cost of the rang Ivin J. Baum of Duchesne qual- - building practices. In second class. Most popular practices completare: ed under the range program reartificial Jpe Acre Plot fencing, reservoirs, of elds $140 seeding and different typea control. rosion uash Crop 31 Ranchers have until October 1941 range their to complete than one acre of ground in wrk com- building practices Any county, near Neola yield-cro- p Dieted after that date will be put of squash which brought under the 1942 AAA, program, Z 7mer 5140, it was stated Mr. Grandy said. it week the range by Lionel Jensen, In the 1942 program Purchased the squash. Mr. and farm AAA program will be arrtved in Duchesne late it pos'iti.M combined. This will make to put hi tbe load, enroute to rancher Silt t the sible for or t City Where he expected allowance either on the cropOne range land, it was explained. t1 curoP was j purchased from D. practice has been and Clifford Olsen, Mr. should interest W 2 Program which ll saH &t one cent per pound. most . stockmen In that payment-wito at,temPt was here builctngcutUn made for a H be made ' picture of the load, with a and loading chutes. This corrals 4 tvUn ince It was after dark, will eliminate much unnecessary ki.h'f resuIt was not clear a newspaper cut. trailing of livestock. two-thir- ds one-hal- .J 1 School hot lunch centers will open in most cf the schools in the Duchesne district next Monday, October 13, it was announced this week. Supervisors of the various projects were in Roosevelt Thursday attending a school of instruction. School Board, Has Parents at Duchesne are urged to buy their coupon books from P. Session Easy T. A. Treasurer Porter Merreii beAt Regular Meet fore Monday, to avoid confusion on the opening day. Produce receipts With few problems to delay may be exchanged for coupons. them, the members of the Duchsne The coupon bocks are the same as county board of education brought those issued last year thirty-fiv- e their regular meeting to a close three-cecoupons in each book Tuesday, far ahead of the usual for $1.00 cash or the equivalent in time, whioh ordinarily extends in- produce receipts. to the night President Floyd E. Lamb and J. Edgar Holder, memMothers Club Honors ber, were both atasent because of nt illness. All teaching posts in the county are now filled, it was reported by Superintendent W. J. Bond, who has been busy ever since the opening of school on this problem of securing teachers. Superintendent Bond reported that the pump authorized some time ago for the well at Altamont had not been delivered by the factory. The teachers salaries, as now lined up, amount to approximately $83,000, Mr. Bond reported, considerably lower than the amount budgeted, because so many of the new teachers are beginners, at a lower salary than the teachers they replace. Forty New Teachers Forty new teachers are in the county this year, amounting to nearly half of the entire teaching staff, and the highest teacher turnover ever experienced in the county. This, however, is a situation similar to most of the school districts in the state this year, because of the unusual employment situation created by the defense program and allied activities. During the meeting the Duchesne county commissioners, Willard Day, Floyd Case and Lyle Young, with 'George Stewart, county attorney met with the board to discuss the contemplated change in school representative precincts. The commission intended making a change in the precincts, Mr. Day told the board, and wanted to get Continued on Page 8 Sleeping Sickness Reported In Duchesne County One case of encephalomeylitis (sleeking sickness) was reported from Duchesne county, the patient is a man 49 years of age, according to a report from the state board of health, for the week ending October 3. Also four cases of scarlet fever were reported from the county. Reports from health officers throughout the state disclosed a rather substantial increase in the total number of cases of communicable disease over the previous week. cases cf chickenpox Sixty-on- e were reported as against 37 for the previous week; 11 cases of pneumonia as compared with 5 for last week; 11 cases each of gonorrhea and syphilis, double the number reported for the previous week In each instance. Uintah county reported no diseases. One case of infantile paralysis, a boy three and a half years of age was reported from Salt Lake county. price reported 3 cases of acute rheumatic fever, and Utah county and the City of Provo each reported one case of this disease. The majority of these patients are un ler 9 years of age. Four cases of septic sore throat were reported from Garfield and 2 cases of this disease from Wayne county. According to the attending physicians, milk was the "probable source of the Infection. Other diseajes reported were as Influenza 4, measles 5. follows: German measles 5, mumps 30, scarlet fever 6, tuberculosis 1, tularemia 2, and whooping cough 11. Newspaper Week At Regular Meeting The Mothers Club paid honor to National Newspaper Week at its regular meeting last Thursday eve- ning at the home of Mrs. C. C. Mickelson. Roy A. Schonian, editor of the Uintah Basin Record, addressed the club, giving a short history of National Newspaper Week, and outlining the functions of a newspaper. and their imporNewspapers tance to the community are taken too much for granted by most people, Mr. Schonian stated, declaring that the newspaper and its publi-- i cation process is one of the most j interesting activities In any community, and that far too few people have any conception of what goes on in the newspaper plant. He described the mechanical process by which papers, both weekly and daily are printed, suggesting that a trip through any plant, from the small country shop to the big metropolitan daily, Is almost always welcomed by the publisher, and always instructive and interesting to the individual. The present world conflict has brought home more than ever the importance of the long cherishet right of freedom of the press, he said, comparing the freedom of publishers in democratic America with the dictated, censored newspapers of the dictatorships and occupied territories. Other speakers who addressed the members were Miss Faun clerk of the local selective service board, who gave an interesting discourse on the functioning of the selective service, and Miss Verl Ferree, county nurse, who explained her duties, and their relationship to the welfare of the county. Members present included the hostesses, Mrs. Mickelson and Mrs. W. J. Bond and Mrs. C. W. Barton, Mrs. Golden Berrett, Mrs. Ed Wilkins, Mrs. Arthur Goodrich, Mrs. Glenn Benson, Mrs. Carlos Marsing, Mrs. Ralph Halstead, Mrs. F. L. Maxwell, Mrs. Harold Eldredge, Mrs. .Leland Hair, Mrs. Jack Odekirk, Miss Anna Stark, Mrs. Donald Petersen, Mrs. Daryl Smith and Mrs. Rulon J. Larsen. n, Oil And Gravel Coat Laid This Week Along Main Street Two strips of oil and gravel chips were laid along Duchesne Main street Tuesday by the state road crew. The strips are about eleven feet wide, extending from the gutter half way to the oil in the middle of the street, and extend along the main business block. It is hoped that the oil can be laid all the way from the gutter to the oil in the center, and from the school comer to the Victory service station or past the Hatch tourist camp. The work was done under the supervision of Vern Gillman, who g on is in charge of the and between Duchesne 40 highway Myton. seal-coatin- Local Soldier Wins Post In Signal Corps Billy Odekirk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Odekirk of Duchesne was one of four Utah boys who successfully passed their examinaA. A. Anderson, chief executive tion for the signal corps in Salt last week. Billy of the National Parks Council Boy Lake City Scouts cf America was in the Ba- received a 90 per cent rating, acsin tills week visiting local scout cording to word receive! by his parents, lid left Tuesday for Newcommittees. port, New Jersey In a special Pullmet he In Duchesne Wednesdiy, will take four days with C. C. Mickelson, chairman, man. the trip cn the train. Billy will and nights and Porter Merrell, Maxwell L. F. wireless telegrachecking up on scout activities in study radio end phy, he stated. Duchesne. Scout Executive Makes Visit Commissioners Establish New Boundaries For Comity School Precincts Blue Bench Investigations To Be Reviewed An Agricultural Education Day will be observed Saturday, October 11, at Mt. Emmons when U. S. Department of Agricultural specialists will discuss with the farmers of Duchesne county, their problems, it was announced Wednesday by Marden Broadbent, county agent. The meeting will be held at the Mt. Emmons L D S church, a model of landscape and beauty, from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. Duchesne County Planning Board Chairman Willard Day will have charge of the program which Includes the following discussions: Water, Land And weeds extenDirector Wm. Peterson, and sion service Water, land weeds. Lyman H. Rich, extension dairyman Dairying, feeding, housing and national defense. extension Call Frlschkneoht, poultryman Turkeys and poultry: feeding, management and national defense. C. C. Wright, superintendent Indian affaiis Relationship of our water, farm and range lands. Seth T. Shaw, state commissioner of agriculture The milk and cream grading program. Blue Bench Investigations Chas. Piescott, bureau of reclamation Blue Benoh investigations up to date. A L. Taylor, former Ashley forest supervisor Building materials and their availability. "Everybody come, and bring your lunch, said Mr. Broadbent. "A large crowd will make the efThe future of fort worthwhile. this country depends on how you and yours plan, provide and profit. Our problems are many and cooperation is needed for their solution," he added. Grand Lodge Officers Make Visit To Masonic Lodge Basin Lodge No. 20, F. & A. M. entertained Harold A. Linke of Garfield, grand master of Utah Masons, on 'his official visit to the lodge at Myton, last Saturday night. With Mr. Linke were several other grand lodge officers and visitors from other lodges. Stuart P. Dobbs, Ogden, deputy grand master; Eric A. Bjorklund, Salt Lake City, senior grand warden; John F. Rowe, Eureka, junior grand warden; Sam Henry Goodwin, Salt Lake City, P. G M., grand secretary; Richard J. Vaughan, Helper, grand pursuivant: George F. Meissner, Ogden, junior gi3nd deacon and Roy A. Schonian, senior grand steward, were grand lodge officers attending the visitation. Several past masters of the Myton lodge were substituted for other grand lodge officers, Hon F. C. Loofbourow of Salt Lake City, the principal speaker at the meeting, paid tribute to National Newspaper Week, and g'aVe a very interesting address cn the Invention of printing, tracing its growth from the first printing of the Gutenberg bible in 1455 end showing how all of the progress and most cf the knowledge we have today can be credited to printing. A report of the lodge activities and condition was made by Dr. R. Q. Wamock of R'osevelt, worshipful master of the Myton lodge. Preceding the meeting the Masons enjoyed a buffet supper In the y odge room, served by ladies cf S. 17. O. No. E. chapter Most of the visiting Masons spent the night In Dudhesne, returning to their hrnnes Sunday m ming. Tabiona Man Released From Army FORT LEWIS- - : Private Bur-de- tt M. Turnbow, of Tabiona, Utah, was released fr m the Service under provisions in the armys new program of releasing men ever 28 years of age. Turnbow was inducted November 18, 1940 in Salt Lake City. He was attached to the Quartermasters office of Fort Lewis, Station Compliment. -- Two Voting Districts Are Created In Both Roosevelt And Duchesne By Ordinance Accompanying Change In School Precincts New Instructors Begin Work In County Schools New Boundaries Set To Equalize Voting Strength Superintendent W. J. Bond tills week announced the filling of all Instructor positions in the ocunty schools with the placement of several new teachers as follows: Duchesne; Woodrow Call of Ogden, biological science and physical education; Mrs. Beth Call, 1st and 2nd grades; Miss Emily Black typewriting, sortihand and social science; Howard C. Stutz, shop and physical education. Roosevelt high school: J. Keith Allbredht, vocational agriculture. Mr, AUbrecht takes the place oi Mr. Stokes who accepted the assistant county agent position In Salt Lake City created when Marden Broadbent became county in Duchesne oounty. Altamont: Farrel Dee Gay, science and physical education. , ni&th-matic- s, nt LIONS CLUB HEARS PLANS FOR NURSERY SCHOOL Verne B. Thorpe, district supervisor of recreation for the W P lold the Duchesne Lions club oi plans for the establishment of i play school for Duchesne, at the regular meeting of the club at the Mission cafe Wednesday evening. It is planned to hold the play school in the American Legion hall, the members were told, for children 5 years of age. The school will serve as a substitute for a regular kindergarten, preparing the children for entry into regular elementary classes a year later. While the children will be under the direct charge of a W P A teacher, the school will be under supervision of the school district primary supervisor, and a supervisor from the W P A recreational program. With Mr. Thorpe in Duchesne Wednesday, arranging for the project were Clifford L. Frye, state supervisor of educational and recreational projects, and Ireta B. Mason, district supervisor of disNo. 4. trict ' At the meeting the Lions gave their approval to the project, and sijid they would be glad to give any assistance they could if called on to help put it across. A committee was instructed to wait on the county commissioners en effort to gain the countys help in the state program for help to the blind. There are about 10 blind people in the county who should be entitled to assistance by the traveling teacher for the blind, it was learned from the state comIn mittee. Discussion cf roads, and club activities took up the balance of the meeting. PWR ENGINEERS TO HELP PLAN WORK PROJECTS In an attempt to equalize as near as possible, the vot ing strength of each of the five representative school precincts in the Duchesne county school district, the boundaries of the precincts were reestal lished Tuesday by the board of ocunty commissioners at its regular meeting is the county court house. Numbering of the new precincts and some of the other details of the change have not yet been made, but are being worked out by County Attorney George Stewart, it was stated Wednesday by G. A. Goodrich county clerk. Establishing the lines of the school precincts by the county commission Is mandatory by law every five years, it was stated by the county attorney, who quoted the statute, designating that they be set in October, 193(5, and every five years thereafter. In 1936, no ohange was made in the precincts, which had been set up a good many years ago. With the boundaries as they stood, however, it was pointed out that only approximately 48 or 49 per cent of the registered voters in the county ace within the boundaries of three precincts along the east side of the county, while the majority of the voters live in the olher tvo precincts, creating an unbalanced distribution of voting power in school matters. To Equalize Vote The new boundaries were set by the commissioners, to establish as g closely as possible, without geographical lines aid common Interests, an equal number of registered voters in eaci) of the precincts. To accomplish this, it was necessary to create two voting districts in both Roosevelt and Duchesne, a necessity w hleh has been felt for some time, according to Mr. Goodrich, in the handling of g In the general elections. of the school precincts, both Duchesne and Roosevelt were split to share in two districts A lineup of the five districts, as they were established Tuesday, and as they had been previously for several years follows. While numbers of the new precincts have not yet been established, it la assumed that they will as closely a3 possible, follow the numbers dksie-gardin- redis-trlctin- cf the old precincts: New Precincts Old No. Precincts 1 Neola Neola Montwel Montwel North Roosevelt Continued on Page 8 Schools Close For 46th Annual U. E. A. Sessions Administrators and teachers of the Duchesne county district left Thursday afternoon, following an early closing of schools, to attend the sessions of the 46th annual h U-ta- A program of public work planning which, will reach into every community and county in the state was launched this week with the opening of public work reserve offices for Utah in the Utah Oil building In Salt Lake City Heading the pioject is T. H The public work reHumpherys. serve will develop a stare of potential work projects which may be undertaken by local, state and federal agencies when the defense activities are reduced. PWR engineers have been selected, and will all local, county and state offdals in listing projects, planing surveys and preparation of forms and reports for filing with the federal government. This nationwide project Is expected to help in the process of returning defense workers to peace time employment, and will help to maintain economic stability thr. ugh creating a demand for labor and materials which are being consumed for defense purposes, Mr. Humpherys stated. All desirable projects will be listed and classified according to need, desirability and ability to finance under current budgets, acThe program cording to plans. Is n t expected to stimulate on page 8 Educational association meeting, which opened In Salt Lake City Thursday. There will be no school today, as all of the teachers are scheduled to attend the sessions which will close Saturday. The first meeting was scheduled for the L D S tabernacle at 6:30 p. m. Thursday, with Dr. Paul A. Witty, professor of education at Northwestern university and J. Easton Parratt of the state office, president of the association as principal speakers. Other general meetings will held Friday at 2 p. m. and 7 p. and Saturday at 11:45 a, m. be m. Wayne Mitchell Leaves For Wake Island Wayne Mitchell left Duchesne for San Francisco Wednesday where he will embark for Wake Island In the middle of the Pacific. The ocean trip will take approximately a month, he said. Wayne will join his brother Howard on a national defense construction project, ss an oiler. The wages are g od and theres nothing for which to spend it on the island, and its a pond way to save some money, Wayne said. |