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Show ewspaper Devoted to the People of the IJintali Basil. A a o o ;fwirj Covers ALL Volume 16 Ihe Uintah Basin DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946. ARMY LISTS WAR DEAD AND MISSING FIRST POSTWAR ROLL NAMES 308,978 LOCALS RECAPITULATION 3Y STATES AND TYPE OF CASUALTY Parade, Sports and Dance Feature Utahs Birthday The 99th aniversary of the entrance of the Utah Pioneers into Salt Lake valley was fitting- ly celebrated in Duchesne' Wednesday, under the direction of the local camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Rain threatened to spoil the event,' but was only sufficient to make the day more pleasant.. The festivities started with a juvenile parade, consisting of clever floats and other entries depicting various modes of travel. Sports were enjoyed in the City Park, including horse racing, bicycle and foot races. A lively ball game between teams of boys and girls was keenly contested, ending in a victory for the boys A community dinner and refreshments for the young folks, and a junior dance at night made the day one to be remembered. Music for the day was- - furnished by Elmer Rasmussen, Royd Mott and Bob Belt, aided by a loud speaker. Much credit is due the Daughters of Pioneers for staging such ,4 a successful event. We should have more such celebrations. The general committee in charge of the day were: Mrs. Helen Odekirk, Mrs. Albert J. Stephenson and Kenneth Acock. J Duchesne People In Collision In Salt Lake Mrs. Vern Rife and children, Robert and Jean, and Karyl Lee Bench, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Bench, made a trip to Provo I Monday where they picked up Mrs. Rifes two aunts: Mrs. Sa- j die Hickman and Mrs. Libby I Tolman, and cdntinued on to I Salt Lake. Between 9th and 10th j South on Main St., going into the business district, a Montana j car driven by C. P. Auble, travel-- I ing in the opposite direction, decided to turn and cross the street in front of the traffic, with the result that he collided with the car driven by Mrs. Rife. After investigation, the Salt Lake police absolved Mrs. Rife of all blame. Mrs. Tolman suffered a badly sprained wrist and Mrs. Hickman cuts and bruises; Mrs. Rife, minor bruises. Robert, Jean and Miss Bench were uninjured. The . occupants of the other car also escaped injury. The Rife car was considerably damaged. American Legion Installs New Officers were Installation ceremonies held at the Legion Chateau on Monday evening, July 22, for the newly ellected officers of the American Legion and the Auxiliary of Duchesne Post No. 22. James Department Commander Dalgleish, of Myton, installed the Legion officers and Mrs. Dalgleish, District President, conducted . the instalation of the Auxiliary. The newly . instated oficers were: Commander, Lorin Mitchell; Titus Jones, er Adjuntant, Kenneth Price; Finance officer, Tatton Bench; Service Brown; officer, Angus Chaplain, Wm. nt-at-arms, H. Case; Troy Bailey. Sergea- Delegates to the State Convenheld at Price on tion to be August 15, I 16 and 17, were se- lected as follows: Lorin Mitchell, chairman; Angus Brown, Stanley McDonald, Ernest Wilson and Titus Jones. Chosen as alter- nates were Troy Eailey, Tatton Bench, Elroy Larsen Grant Murdock, Weston Despain and Charlie Burdick. officers installed Auxiliary Were as follows: President, Ada Fouse;first Helen B. Mott; second Sarah treasurer, Rasmussen; Jones; sergeant at arms, Lily Brown; chaplain, Mae Belt; historian, Elizabeth Nellie H. Much needed rains have come to the Basin recently. A heavy flood occured at Red Creek Wednesday. No serions damage was reported. Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Fisher of Buhl, Idaho, arrived in Duchesne Wednesday of last week for a visit1 with their son Lotus Fisher and family, along with other relatives and friends. They left Monday for Salt Lake City for a visit before returning to their home in Idaho. Mr. and Mrs. Roy A. Schonian of Salt Lake City, spent Saturday evening and Sunday in Duchesne, visiting with the formers mother, Mrs. Ollea Schonian, also with friends. They also joined a group of friends Saturday night on a party held on the Lake Fork river in the vicinity of Mtn. Home. Attorney Abe W. Turner, of Provo, attended the session of Court held in Duchesne on Saturday. Mr. Turner' was formerly District Judge of the Fourth District. Mr. and Mrs. Troy Bailey spent Tuesday in Salt Lake City. Attorney Paul E. Reimann, of Salt Lake City, spent Saturday in Duchesne attending to court Following is a letter received by Syerl R. Dennis from his son, Gail R. Dennis F 2c U. S. Navy from Bikini Atoll July 10, 1946: Dear Dad I receved your letter some time ago but this has been about the ifrst chance Ive had to write since they dropped the bomb. They have had us cleaning the ship all up for the next test in Which I think this ship will go down in the deep blue. It sank ships last time but what I cant figure out is that some of them were about a mile away ours was only 600 yards away. As far as it killing everything within a certain distance t)-.- I dont think so because we have just aa many cockroaches now as we had before we left the ship, (ha ha) The bomb was quite pretty after it exploded. It looked like a big toad stool with a red light inside and it kept bubbling over. I was on the first ship to come back Into the lagoon and It stunk like heck. There were a few things floating around in the water, plus o lot of oil on ses-io- Mr. and Mrs. Harold Behunin, of Helper, were visiting and attending to business in Duchesne on Monday of this week. Mr. and Mrs. Behunin are former KIA Killed in Action; DOW Died of Wounds; DOI Died of Injuries; DNB Died residents of Myton. FOD Finding of death under Public Law 490, 77th Congress; M Bill Wimmer, of Manti, was a Missing. guest at the home of Mrs. Emma Wimmer this week. Rue and Dale Larsen, of Salt Lake City, spent several days PROMINENT MEN Mrs. Heber Goff Died in Duchesne last week visiting TOUR UINTAH In Salt Lake with friends. MOUNTAIN AREA Monday, July 22nd C. W. Erickson, of Talmage, attended the American Legion Mary Josephine Nielsen Goff, Wolf Creek Pass Installation meeting here on of Heber Goff of Duchesne, wife Road May Become Monday evening. pased away Monday, July 22nd, S. Y. I Taylor, of Salt Lake Through Highway in a Salt Lake hosptal after a Duin City spent several days An event of unusual interest lingering illness. chesne and vicinity this week. which happened last week and Mrs. Goff was born Aug. 30, S. District Attorney Georgs arrived too late for publication 1884, in Mayfield, Sanpete counBailiff, of Provo, spent Saturday in the July 19 issue, follows: a daughter of Jens C. and in Duchesne attending to court road improvements on ty, Seeking ' Marie Nielsen. She was an Anne matters. Utah Highway 35 from Kamas Attorney George B. Stanley, of to Vernal via the Wolf Creek active member of the L. D. S, Heber City, attended the District Pass, and the towns of Wood- church and had served in the Court in Duchesne last Saturday. land, Hanna, , Tabiona, Talmage, presidency of the Relief Society in the Dudhesne Ward. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Allred, of Altonah, Neola, LaPoint and She was married in 1893, to Altonah, were Duchesne visitors Maeser, members of the Utah R. Goff, in the Salt Lake Heber on Monday. Inof and Publicity Department Last Saturday night a group dustrial Development commission L. D. S. Temple. They moved to went to on 1907. Since 1936 of Duchesne people Tuesday and Wednesday, Duchesne in Mtn. Home where they joined a July 16 and 17, were guests of Mrs. Goff had been in Salt Lake number of friends there on a leading citizens of the communiCity much of the time, receiving medical care. chicken fry where they all spent ties above mentioned. a pleasant evening (on Lake Fork Survivors include her husband; Wolf the Transported by river. Those attending were Mr. Creek Orville, as guests of four sons: Lawrence, lines, stage and Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Mr. Beardon of Kamas Glen and Delwyn Goff, of Salt Fred Manager and Mrs. Ed Gee, Mr. and Mrs. and Salt Lake City, the party Lake City; two daughters, Mrs. Edward Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. of ten Salt Lake LaVern Pinkerton, Vallejo, Cal., including Grant Murdock, Mr. and Mrs. County Roscoe and Mrs. Ellen Leora Frazer, Commissioner Walter Cookson, Mr. and Mrs. Boden, chairman of a sixteen Clearfield; three brothers, Ayner Stanley McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. county central Utah project or- and Leonard Nielsen, Duchesne Vern Rife, all of Duchesne; Mr. were given break- and Arthur Nielsen, of Salt Lake ganization, and Mrs. Roy A. Schonian of fast at sun-u- p in the magnifi-cie- City; three sisters, Mrs. Laurena Salt Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. camp ground retreat on Powell and Mrs. Ruby Holfeltz, Geddes Lindsay, Mr. and Mrs. the summit of Wolf Creek Pass. Salt Lake City Mrs. Christine of Grand Junction, Floyd Farnsworth, Mr. and Mrs. Mayor Clarence White presided Erickson, Ron Farnsworth, all of Mtn. as cook and master of cere- Colorado, and twenty grand chilHome. hi Included monies. Mayor dren. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Hadden Whites Funeral services will be condelegation welcoming the engagement of were Frank Defa, Hanna sawmill ducted announce Friday at 36 East 7th their son, Rex, to Miss Jennie and dude ranch operator; Claude South, Salt Lake City, Burial will Flemons, daughter of Mr. and L. Wagstaff, Tabiona sawmill be in Sandy city cemetery. Mrs. J. B. Flemons of Pueblo, operator; Clair Black, Duchesne; Colorado. George Kunham, Woodand; Na- CARD OF THANKS Ed Carman, county supervisor than Jones Tabiona; John MadYour kind expressions of symof State roads, was taken Rl sen, state representative from considerably and assistance are gratehas but pathy Tuesday, Duchesne. and deeply recovered. acknowledged fully The State Department party at the Mrs. John P. Madsen has gone by appreciated was headed by Chairman Aaron the time of the deathfamily, of Mrs. to Salt Lake City to meet her W. Tracy, and included Commisdaughter, Emily, who is flying sioner Arthur L. Crawford; G. A. Birch. Miss C. D. G, A. Birch and Family. in from Washington, Mendell M. Bell, geologist, and Madsen has spent about two David H. Mann, publiety departenvaginb in reyears over-seaeon was prepared and served by ment director. creation work among the .boys, the Relief Society ladies. the location this Red From party the of direction under the Otis Burton of Neola acted as known of little a number toured Cross organization. introduced the vistoastmaster, retreats mountain beautiful but business a made Baum Norbert and urged improvemountains. guests in iting Uintah the higla trip to Salt Lake last Friday. ment of Highway 35 as a means at lunch had Arnold Later Mayor and they Evan Stephenson to develop the tourist business Robbins went to Salt Lake City Whites home in Tabiona after and industries of the area. U. on business Tuesday, returning which the scenic attractions of S. Highway 40, it was pointed the region were visited by the Wednesday. regroup traveling in the Wolf out, but poorly serves this new and a and shorter gion, Creek stages. Know Your Traffic Laws highway into Salt Lake via the On returning late In the evepresent Highway 35 providing it On Driving In Canyons and ning they found a delicious din- were Improved, graded and oiled Mountain Highways ner awaiting them at the home would shorten the distune beof Mr. and Mrs. White. The eve- tween Salt Lake City and VerThe driver of a motor vehicle was spent watching a film nal ning cansome 39 miles, and would by travelig through defiles or of the delightful fishing trips in route the tourist through some yons or on mountain highways the beautiful lakes and streams of the finest in the under shall hold such vehicle dairylands and state, not to mention the recontrol and as near the right-han- d of the great Uintahs, Shown described by Lee Kay markable sienic attractions on edge of the highway and, curve On the entire the route. party Wednesday any upon approaching the towns mentioned The visiting party returned to view is obstructed toured where the shall give audible warning with above and at noon were guests Salt Lake via Wolf Creek Pass of citizens of Neola where lunch- - Wednesday afternoon. the horn of such vehicle. ); nt s, Gail R. Dennis of Myton Present When Atomic Bomb Exploded 10 matters. Attorneys George Stewart and R. Earl Dillman, of Roosevelt, n attended the District Court here on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Burdick spent several days in Salt Lake City last week. . $2.50 You could see he surface. ships that had been mangled but hadn't sunk. It didnt hurt anything on the islands and they were only about 3 miles away, Tell Norman I will write to him when I can find more time. I stand a watch every 8 hours in the engine room and work in the office the rest of the time, x get up every morning at 4 a. m. and it la usually about 10 p. m, before I hit the sack, I saw Dee Drellinger from Iolta the other day. He joined about 15 days before I did and today Ive been in the Navy for a half year and only 18 months to go. It doesnt hardly seem that long ago, Well I guess I better close for this time, I hope this finds everyone at home well. Your Bon, Gail. Thora Hanson Birch Funeral Services Held Monday, July 15 Per Year la Advance Number 2 Spotlighting UTAH Uintah Oil Prospects Tested While oil men are keeping findings entirely secret, they are carefully probing every section of the Uintah Basin for oil. With the Rangely, Colorado, oil field just over the line and producing leavily, intense interest is focused on the Utah side of the field. scientific ap Utilizing paratus in the form of portable units on trucks, Selzmograph najor oil concerns are carefully lapping the underground structures of the Uintah Basin. Headed by rapid working wel frilling units, putting down 100-oholes six Inches in diameter, he Seizmograph crews follow losely. Two trucks with special milt-i- n electric equipment make unit. Ont up a Seizmograph truck locates at the drilled hole, nd the other one sets up a halt nile distant. A charge cf dyna-nitis fired in the hole and .he minature earthquake shocks set up by the explosion are recorded by the distant trucks electrical equipment. The result mg record indicates to the op erators the underground eartl structures in the locality whlci in turn, hints to the geologis a possible oil field, A3 can be readily understood, tlheir findings are a deep secret, and only the suture will reveal whether or not Uintah County has an oil field similar to Rangely, Colorado. ot -- Iron County Buildings Gets Exhibition After long and strenuous efforts on the part of Iron county offiicals and Parawan City, they have secured Parawan CCC buoldmgs from the Grazing Serwill vice which be used for county fair purposes and exhibition buildings. Utah Plants Stir Sneezes Salt bushes, common In Utah, with native grasses, sagealong Monday, July 15, funeral vices were held for Thora Han- brush, Russian thistle, sunflower inson Birch, 69, in the Mt. Em- and rabbitbrush are entering While mons ward chapel under the di- to a pollination period. rection of Loren Stevenson, as few hayfever sufferers realize it, the above plants are alj, guilt follows: of making life miserable for the Prelude Lois Bleazard. sufferer. hayfever That Know I My Quartet Redeemer Lives," Anona Miles, Work Starting On Monument Leora Farnsworth, Llllus WilThe first stone in the schekins, Dollle Lyons. In The Place "This duled Invocation Cliff Stevenson. Solo "That Wonderful Moth- monument will be laid July 24th at the mouth of Emigration er of Mine, Reed Lyons. v canyon. Speaker Leon Burton. Actual quarrying of granite Duet Hope, "Whispering for the monument is now going Georgia Lyons, Lois Bleazard. on at the quarry, three miles Willard Day. Speaker east of the old Wasatch Resort Remarks Loren Stevenson. in Little Cottonwood canyon. Quartet "Oh, My Father! Benediction Sidney Rust, Continued on Page 8 Burial took place In the Wellington cemetery under the direcDillman Funeral Mrs. Gibboney Reaches tion of the Short services preceded Age of 99 Years, home. the interment as follows: Pioneer Day, July 21 Song "Sister, Thou Art Mild and Lovely, and "If I Knew," Mrs. Sarah Ann Gibboney, Wellington Singing Mothers. of Duchesne, reached the age of Dedication of grave Eugene 99 years on July 24th. In spite Branch. of her advanced years she is The pall bearers were Fred, active and mentally alert. Harold and Edwin Birch, Lee She was born at Athens, Ohio, and July 24, the day the Utah PionClendon Hansen Hansen, Tom Wood. eers entered the Salt Lake Mrs. Birch died Friday, July valley, and she came to Utah in 12, at the family residence in February, 1900 moving to Myton Mth. Home of ailments incident May 1. 1906 and has been a to age. She had been a resident resident of the Uintah Basin of the Uintah Basin for 38 since that time. years. The aged lady came to live in Mrs. Birch was born May 7, Duchesne a year and a half ago. 1880 in Bear River City, Utah, At she is living with present a daughter of Fred and Mary Mrs. Bessie Barton, who made C. Gunderson Hanson. After her a Cake for her birthday birthday marriage to George Albert Birch and in the afternoon took Mrs. at Wellington, they lived at to the city park to Castle Dale, moving to the Gibboney activities held there. the t'njoy Uintah Basin soon after the the day Mrs. Emma During She opening of the reservation. was an active worker In the Stevens, another Duchesne lady 87 years of age, accompanied by L D S Church Relief Society. her daughter. Mrs. Ivy Murdock, to her addition in Surviving, called and presented Mrs. Gibsons husband, are the following boney with a gift. Fred, and Mary, daughters: Mtn. Harold and Edwin Birch, Home; Mrs. Helen Wood, Salt Two Duchesne Boys Bake City; also two brothers In U. S. Army and four sisters, Mrs, Orson Enlist Sarah Mrs. Lavar Thompson and Carl Turner, Sunnyside; Moroni Hanson, Wilson left Duchesne July 25 Simmons and Wellington; Mrs. Violet Branch, to serve enlistments in the U. S. Both boys enlisted for Pi Ice; Mrs. Mary Spellman, Lit- Army. tle Rock, Calif; Carl Hanson, San 18 months with the New Peacetime Regular Army. Francisco, Calif. According to Sergeant Roy L The happiest, sweetest, tender-es- t Kennedy, of the Army Recruithomes are not those where ing Service, with headquarters there has been no sorrow, but at Provo, the New Peacetime I hose which have been over- Army is much different from the shadowed with grief, and where old regular and offers army Christ's comfort was accepted, many advantages that did not ef.ist previously. J, R. Miller. ser- Killed On Highway East of Duchesne While Walking Home Charles Burdick, 51, of Duchesne was killed Wednesday, July 24th about 12:39 a. m. on the highway three miles east of Duchesne, while walking to hts home several miles down , the river by a California car license No. 81D945, and owned by JJ. R. Patterson, 1600 Louisiana street, Vale jo, Calif. Other occupants of the car were Mrs. Patterson and their son; and two hitchhikers, Sigmund R. Smolensk!, San Francisco, Calif., and James A. Nolan, address unknown, who was driving the car at the time of the accident. To all appearances Mr. Burdick was walking on t'he proper side of the road when struck. He was killed instantly After striking Mr. Burdick the occupants of the car claimed .hoy stopped and investigated, and in the darkness did not locate What they had struck and drove on westward. Beyond Duchesne they decided to turn back and returned to the scene of the accident where they met Sheriff Dewey Meriwether, who had sent out word in both directions for officers to be on the lookout for a car with & broken headlight. The car received a broken headlight, shattered windshield, and front window, and the door handle was torn off, all on t'he ' right side of the vehicle. A coroners jury under the suof Precinct Justice pervision George H. Wilcken, absolved the occupants of the car of blame. The jury consisted of Roy Elia-so- n, Ed Wilkins and Fred Waid-lcCounty Attorney Ray E, Dillman conducted the inquest During the process of, the inquest the scene of the accident was visited, the body viewed at Roosevelt and , finally back to Duchesne. Mr. Burdick was born in Spring City, Utah, June 7, 1895, a son of Lutellus and Esther Zabriskie Burdick. Mr. Burdick is survived by his wife, Mrs. Maxine Wimmer Burdick; three sons, Howard, John and Jerry Burdick; three daughters, Barbara, Caroline and Shirley Burdick, all of Duchsene; his mother, Mrs. Esther Burdick, of one brother, Lyman Bluebell; Burdick, Bluebell and three sisters, Mrs, Annie Bailey, Ferron, Utah; Mrs Dee Nielson, McFee, Colorado and Mrs. Helen B. Mott, of Duchesne. Funeral services will be held Friday, July 26, at 2:00 p. m. in the L D S chapel tn Duchesne, Friends may call at tine Wimmer home from H a. m. until 1:30 p, m. Friday. y. MINK MANAGER VISITED IN DUCHESNE SATURDAY W. F. Bair, general manager the Western Production Co., was in Duchesne Saturday where he took care of business matters and visited with friends. The company is mining Gilso-nit- e and elaterite in the Uintah Basin. According to Mr. Bair at present two mines are being worked in the Strawberry section and one at Willow Creek. The company has a reduction of Non-Metall- ic and paint mnaufacturing plant at Midvale. Mount Emmons Girl Is Featured In Oklahoma Newspaper The activities of 'Miss Vera Rogers and her companion, Miss Marie Burnett, L. D. S. missionaries in Tulsa,- Oklahoma, is - given prominence and favorable comment in the Sunday, June 30 edition of the Tulsa Daily World. Much space s given to an ex- - . planatlon of the teachings of the L. D. S. church A fine picture of the young ladies accompanies the article. Miss Rogers is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Rogers, of Mount before and Emmons, leaving on her mission was secretary to the Duchesne County Treasurer, Both of her parents are descendants of early Utah Pioneers. Mss Burnett is a native of Salt Lake City, |