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Show UNIVERSAL MICROFILMING CORF, 141 PIERPONT AVE. q SALT LAKE CITY, UIA;i HOME TOWN Uintah Basie U.S.A. Shop HERE for YOUR Own Sake ! And Community Progress VOLUME 25 - NUMBER HOME TOWN U.S.A. I: Shop HERE for YOUR Own Sake! And Community Progress DUCHESNE, DUCHESNE COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1955 24 $3.00 PER YEAR PER COPY Special Party To Observe 50th Dank Anniversary The Commercial Bank of Utah will celebrate its 50th anniversary June 18, with a special dinner party and program at Spanish Fork for all employees of the banks seven offices, according to Max Thomas, The dinner will be preceded by the annual meeting of bank officers and employees, a meeting of the Central Utah Insurance Co. and the regular directors meetnt ing. - R. D. Ricketts (seated), SOON MORE NATURAL GAS FOR THE WEST Constructors, Inc., Charles W. Lee (standprasidant of tha ing), vice president and general manager of U. S. Steel's Consolidated Western Steel Division, and Ben H. Decker (on the ladder), executive representative of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, mounted a locomotive this week to start the first shipment of expanded steel pipe from U. S. Steel's new Provo, Utah pipe plant on its way. One hundred cars carrying 1700 sections of the heavy steel gas line pipe left the Prove bound for Colorado and the right of way of the Pacific Northwest ine Corporation. Wt Ducbesne City Eases Restrictions On Water Fixod Lines Have' Plans Continue Added Additional Supply 0a Sumner 3 . y Culinary water restrictions in Duchesne have been eased by action of the city council, states Mayor Chester Lyman. Daily use of culinary water for sprinkling is allowed by the new schedule. Time for use of the water is restricted to two hours from 6 to 8 a.m. for resdaily idents of the west half of the city and from 6 to 8 p.m. for residents of the east half of the city. The street running north and south of the post office (Bridge Street) is the dividing line. Regulations governing use of culinary water in Duchesne, released in March, limited the use of this water for sprinkling lawns to two, periods a week. Mayor Lyman explained that increased water supply and pressure is responsible for the lesser re- strictions. He stated that the dry spring this year enabled city officials and employees to locate leaks in the main water line which possibly have existed for years that such leaks were not discovered earlier because the line at this point ran through a slough and has been covered with water until this dry year. Repairing the leaks in the water line affords increased water supply and lessens U;t chances of contamination. Mayor Lyman said the corroded pipe leaks were not at the joints only but in the length of the pipe. Location of the slough where line repairs were made is about a mile up the line from the city limits to the north. Expiration Onto For ACP Practices Nears 11 I According to Joseph Wilcken, chairman oif the Duchesne Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, Friday, June 24th is the deadline for reporting performance on completed Agricultural Conservation Program pratices approved prior to April 29, 1955. g The approval for federal will be cancelled on all practices not reported by the above date, in order that funds for practices not performed within the period may be reassigned for the next period. Mr. Wilcken also reminds all farmers of Duchesne County, that June 25th is the last day they can sign up for ACP practices to be approved started with prior to August 5, 1955. cost-sharin- cost-shar- Gilbert Horrocks Gets Service Pin Mr. Gilbert Horrocks received a pin and certificate from the Secretary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, for recognition of the completion of ten years of service in the Department of Agriculture. Mr. Horrocks has spent the time working through the Duchesne office for the Soil Conservation service. He is pleased to look forward to many more years with them. ENTERS MISSION HOME Glade Merrill enters the Mission Home on June 22, and will leave for New York ort July 3, where he will sail for France on the 7th. Sugar is the largest dry cargo in international trade. Doy Scout Camp Final arrangements are nearing completion for the largest and most outstanding scout camp ever staged in the Uintah Basin to be from June 27 to July 2 at Bennion Park in the High Uintas, according to Rowan C. Stutz, Camp Committee Chairman. Last Saturday afternoon a group of men which included representatives of the camp committee, U S Forest Service, State Health Dept., Soil Conservation and the press traveled to Bennion Park for a study of arrangements necessary to assure ample facilities at the beautiful campsite, which is just below timberline. Members of the camp committee at last Saturdays inspection of the campsite were: Rowan C. Stutz, James E. Bacon, Joseph Olpin, Jack F. Dexter, Gilbert Horrocks, Dr, John Smith and Rulon Dean Skinner. Others present were Forest Ranger Bill Worff and retired ranger George Walkup, Ariel Michie of the State Health Dept., John Swenson of the Soil Conservation and .Cliff Memmott of the Uintah Basin Record and Roosevelt Standard joined in the High Uinta planning for the Scout Camp which will attract over three hundred boys. Ranger Walkup told the group that Bennion Park is withia walking distance of 13 lakes of the High Uintas. Explorers selected to the camps junior staff will join with the staff Saturday, June 25, to open camp and prepare for the arrival of troops and posts which will get underway at 9 a.m. Monday, June 27. Bring Bedding Because the camp is in the High Uintas, Scouts and leaders are reminded by Mr. Bacon, chairman of the Health and Safety commit tee, to bring plenty of bedding. Although it is past registration (Continued on Back Pag) Catholic Nuns To Do Honored At Reception Today The Franciscan Nuns of Atonement will be complimented at a miscellaneous shower and reception at ' the Catholic Rectory in Roosevelt this evening between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30 St. Helens Altar Society, which is sponsoring the event, cordially invites the public to attend the welcoming social for the Nuns. General chairman is Mrs. Gordon Harmston. During the afternoon, bank employees and their families will at tend a swimming out at the Arrowhead Resort at Benjamin. Feature of the evening activity will be a speech by H. Ward McCarthy, Salt Lake City, public relations counsel. The initial bank of the Commercial Bank system was chartered April 3, 1905, as the Commercial Bank of Spanish Fork. In 1938, the Commercial Banks of Spanish Fork, Heber, Nephi, Pay-so- n and Delta were consolidated into the present corporation. In 1951, the Roosevelt State Bank was merged with the Commercial Bank of Utah and a branch of this bank was opened in Duchesne the same year. The Commercial Bank, whose major business has been in live stock and agriculture, has grown considerably in resources over the past years. Since 1915, when Pratt P. Thomas, president, became associated with the bank, its resources have grown from $15,000 to a total of over twenty million dollars today. Joseph Hanson, Spanish Fork, is the only surviving organizer of the bank. He has been a member of the board of directors since March 17, 1914 and at present is still active as senior and a member of the executive committee. vice-preside-nt One Called, Seven Made Of Echo Park May Be Means Of Later Approval Released From Military Service Howard Burdick, of Duchesne, inducted into the Army on May 31, was the first inductee from Duchesne County since January, reports Mrs. Helen Odekirk, clerk of the local Selective Service board. Two young men reported for examinaphysical tions on this date, also. They are Geno Defa, Hanna, and Billy Lyle Richards, Mt. Home. Separations from the armed forces for Duchesne County men during May are listed as: Cleston Glade Merrell, Jay Clifton Mickel-soboth of Duchesne; Rawlin Dee Spencer, Neola; Zane Kay Wall, Mt. Emmons; Floyd Verlen Weeks, Altonah; Bert C. Young, Fruitland and Duchesne; Melvin J. Larsen, Roosevelt. All but Mr. Larsen, who was in the Navy, were Army separations. May enlistments credited to the local board are Ronald Gilbert Dye, Roosevelt, Air Force; Gary Dean Oberhansly, Neola; Garth William Partridge, Duchesne, Air Force. Registrants for May with the local Selective Service board are: Duchesne; Clyde A. Bancroft, Thomas M. Giles, Hanna; Willard Alvin C. A. Bowden, Altonah; A. Richard Lamb, Bridgeland; L. Terrance Weiss, Roosevelt; Calvert, Myton; Clem Oberhansly, Neola. n, te.Cfcangss IMo In Smeller Wards Got Break From New, nulcs Several important changes were made in the future MIA basketball program at the sports committee meeting of June conference in Salt Lake City. Hie meetings, held in conjunction with the annual MIA conference, also heard plans for construction of a new softball park, and accepted tournament dates in softball and basketball. The sports committee, under the direction of Chairman Marv Ashton, announced that the annual senior basketball tournament will be held Feb. 28 - March 3 in the field house of Brigham Young University in Provo. The action abandons last seasons innovation of conducting the The comaffair in mittee decided that the 'tremendous set-u-p required in division play by the early date, as well as heavy storms, worked too much of a hardship on the program. Changes in eligibility, aimed at affects competition, equalizing wards In college areas Provo, Salt Lake City and Logan. The new residence rule requires that a team must have at least three permanent residents of the ward on the playing floor at all times. A permanent resident is defined as one who has lived in boundaries of the ward for at least two full years prior to October 1 of the playing year. (Continued On Back Page) Doaclicrd G Glcrli Ida Did On Strcst Project Bouchard and Stark, of Ogden, received the contract this week to build new curbs and gutters in Roosevelt, according to Irene K. Ruppel, city recorder. The Ogden company won the bid and was accepted at the Roosevelt city council meeting Monday night. Work will begin on the project next week and will probably take 200 working days to complete. Bouchard and Stark offered the lowest bid of any of the contractors in competition for the job, 0. by arriving at an amount of Gutters and curbs on Main Street and Second North will be completed first $174,-000.0- VVccd Spraying Aid Is Available According to Robert Murdock, county agricultural agent this year a joint weed program has been undertaken between the ASC office, Duchesne County Weed committee, and the county com missioners. You can now receive assistance for weed control eradication work by spraying or clean cultivation. However, you must sign up with the ASC program before your weed eradication Is started. Fort Duchesno Relocates . Senator B. IS HOPEFUL H. Stringham sees good chance for Echo Park to become reality if impartial study is made, a proposal being considered by house committee. Urges relentless fight to get bill passed. Don Tests Mill Help Dcstors Daterrafce lljnpss Since April 1, a number of new services that enable the doctors to better diagnose their patients have been inaugurated at the Latter-day Saints Hospital in Roosevelt. According to Ray Summers, assistant manager of the hospital, two of these services a hematology and urology test will be given every patient who enters the hospital. Other special services include a glucose tolerance test, a blood chemistry report, a throat smears test and veneral disease teats. New y equipment and facilities have been added to the hospital, and also complete transfusion work will now be carried on. A hematology test consists of tests on the patient's several blood, among which is. included total red and white cell count. Several tests to examine the urine of a patient, such as testing for amount of sugar and albumin, and whether it is acid, alkaline or neutral, make up the urinalysis report. All children will be subjected to the throat smears test, which will better enable the physician to detect the type of illness. Prior to the beginning of the new system at die hospital, all veneral disease, Blood Chemistry and Glucose Tolerance tests were made in Salt Lake City. With new equipment installed and the new system functioning, these tests can now be made in the local hospital. The blood chemistry test is another examination given a patient to ihore firmly determine the disease or cause of affliction In the glucose tolerance test, the patients blood and urine are examined to determine the amount of sugar content. Auxiliary Cells 540.73 In Annual Peppy Gale The Duchesne Unit, American Legion Auxiliary, collected $40.73 from sale of poppies in Duchesne during their annual sale on May 28, reports Mrs. Nellie H. Jones, unit treasurer. The 800 poppies purchased by the unit for sale cost $21.00. Sixty per cent of the $19.73 profit from the local sales will be retained in the unit treasury and the other 40 per cent will be submitted to the State Department of the American Legion Auxiliary. For several years, poppy sales in Duchesne have averaged between $50 and $60, Ground Breaking For Convont ' Duo Next Monday COUNTY FAIR BOARD MEETING ON FRIDAY The next monthly meeting of the Duchesne County Fair Board will be held at the county courthouse in Duchesne, Friday night, All members June 17, at 8 of the board and committees are urged by W. E. Foy and Var Rosto be presenbaum, ent. p-- MAXINE HARRIS, left, and MARGARET HUBER, are among the states delegates attending Girls State at Logan this week. The Utah State Agriculture College is host to the annual Duchesne-Oura- y American Legion training conference. The Fort two the is girls. sponsoring Auxiliary The House Interior approved by a vote of 18 to 6 Tuesday, a bill to authorize a 760 million dollar version of the Upper Colorado Reclamation project. Senator B. H. Stringham said Tuesday in an interview at the Standard office he had been informed the fight for Echo Park There was still hope for thou- dam is continuing in Washington and will continue, even though sands of people in the Uintah Basin who still desire to see ful- the Echo Park, project was left fillment of plans to build the con- out of the bill that passed the Senator Stringham troversial Echo Park Dam, accordstill believed the eventual hope of ing to George D. Clyde, director building the dam were brightened of the Utah Power Board. the passage of the recent bill. Although the House Irrigation byThe measure probably will go and Reclamation Subcommittee has deferred action on the Echo before the full committee next chairman, Park problem, the issue has not Tuesday. C. Colorado Aspinall, been eliminated from the Colorado Wayne Democrat, said he expected it to River Storage Project. Mr. Clyde, Senator Arthur V. be approved there, and said it had a fairly good chance of passing Watkins and Paul Jones, new chairman of the Navajo Tribal the House. As approved, the bill does not contain authority for Council, all gave their ideas and reasons for supporting the build- controversial Echo Park In the Dinosaur National Monument. ing of the Echo Park Dam. Other It would have a presidential officials, principally government from eastern states and California commission study Echo Park and alternate sites. Before approving also gave opposing views. turned Said Mr. Clyde, We have faith the bill, the that any thorough study Of the down a substitute to authorize Echo Park problem will reveal construction only, of Glen Canyon the absolute necessity of this unit Dam on the Colorado River. Sponof the project. Clyde also said sored by Rep. John P. Saylor, that water from the proposed dam Penn. Republican, the substitute would provide water tor the Uin- would have had the government tah Basin in exchange for water Ray the entire cost of the dam. Its revenues would have been transported to Bonneville Basin as divided among the upper Colorado part of the Central Utah project. Basin states, He added that We will fight to They Just didnt want a gift, the end to secure the Echo Park said. Saylor unit for this purpose. He has been a main opponent Senator Watkins emphasized the importance of a dam on the of the project which won subGreen River to national defense. committee approval. Aspinall said Watkins stated the water from the vote was heavily against the the dam would be in a strategic Saylor substitute. The bill contains authority for since it position geographically, would be near rich ore deposits of immediate, construction of three Glen , Canyon, Navajo, lead, zinc, copper and perhaps dams, most important than all, uranium. Flaming Gorge, aiid of 11 partiMr. Jones also gave his views cipating water supply projects. Studies would be made of in support of the damsite. Said Cross Mountain, and Mr. Jones, the controversy con- Curecantl, cerns whether hundreds and even Echo Park Dam. thousands of people go without in adequate supply of water, or the conservation of a desolate, sage brush and rock canyon visited only by a small number of people I believe, said Mr. annually. Jones, there are more members of my tribe who know hunger evAn Orthopedic Childrens Clinic, en today than will visit the Echo sponsored by the LDS Primary Park damsite the next five years. Hospital, will be held Monday, The real hope of my tribe in the June 20, at 1:00 p.m. at the Roosfuture depends on two things evelt LDS Hospital, announced Clara Gafdner, Roosevelt stake water and education. Groups from many states are Primary president. Dr. J. L. Beck from the Primary attacking the Echo Park Dam from many angles: The three most Hospital staff, will be here to eximportant opposition parties are amine children up to thirteen Southern California, those oppos- years old. ing on economic grounds, and those who do not wish to see the Mr. and Mrs, Robert Moon, of destruction of Dinosaur National Craig, Colo., visited at the Elmer Moon home on Thursday. Monument. Clyde Says Hope Is Still High For Echo Park Dam X-ra- p-- INTERVIEWED FOR STORY OF HIS LIFE George H. Wilcken was interviewed at his home Tuesday, by Lee Kay, editor of the Utah Fish and Game Bulletin. Mr. Wilcken Old will be featured in the Timer" column, which is highlighted monthly In this Proposal To Have Special Study Work will begin on the new Catholic convent in Roosevelt next Monday, according to city superintendent, Burt Burgess. Ashton Brothers of Vernal have acquired the contract for building the structure and plan to begin work next week. The convent will be located on the same property as the St. Helens Catholic Church between Fourth and Fifth streets East on Highway' 40. Approximate cost of the building, which will house Franciscan Sisters of the Atonement, is expected to be $30,000.00 . Orthcpodlc Clinic At Rcccpycli Uccpltel Mcr.day Referendum For VJbsaf Vote Sel Fez June 25fi!i Dncbcna County Glerho 0in:3 Safe TricI Dates A list of pending trials was furnished the Standard last week by the Duchesne County clerks office in Duchesne. The following is the calendar of trials set for the near future in the Duchesne County Courthouse: Carl Lyman Bennett, plaintiff, vs, George F. Funk, defendant. Trial date: June 28, 10:00 ajn. Neldon Nyberg, plaintiff, vs. Eugene and Howard Harmston, defendants.- - Trial date: Tufesday, June 21, 2:00 p.m. Lulu H. Munz, plaintiff, vs. Duchesne County, defendant. Trial date: Tuesday, July 7, 10:00 a.m. Turner Building Supply, plaintiff, vs. American Surety to., defendant. Trial date: Monday, July 11, 10:00 a.m. Probate No.1 788. In the matter of the estate of Warren Wade Strong, deceased. Trial date: Monday, July 11. Uintah Basin Irrigation Company, plaintiff, vs. W. H. Coltharp, Jr., defendant. Trial date: Monday, August 8, 10:00 a.m. Coleman H. Mulcahy, plaintiff, vs. Adelbert B. Cline, defendant. Trial date: Wednesday, AUgust 10, 10:00 am. Local Chairman Of AGC Urges Vote Of Peeplo , ' i The referendum to determine whether or not the marketing quota program will be in operation for the 1956 wheat crop will be held June 25. Joseph Wilcken, chairman of the Duchesne Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Committee,' advises that arrangements for holding the referendum are now being made. Polling places will be established in convenient locations in the county, and wheat growers will be notified where they may vote. Each grower, in advance of the referendum, has been advised of his farms 1956 wheat acreage allotment and has received a leaflet explaining program operations. Farm allotments will be based on a national wheat acreage allotment of 55 million acres, the same as this year. Chairman Wilcken explains that if the vote is favorable, the program will be in operation for the 1956 wheat crop, and price support for the crop in the commercial wheat area depending on the supply situation will probably be between 75 and 82 per cent of parity. The support level will be announced by die Secre-tai- y of Agriculture before the on Back Pago) |