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Show Spotlighting UTAH Utah News Highlights of 1948 Utah entered the 1948 year with the largest net income to its residence in the history of the state. Information released by the U. S. Bureau of Census shows that during the 1947 (our Centennial) year this income amounted to $733 million dollars. This amounts to $1208 per capita the most favorable figure experienced jn our state history which is 270 per cent of the pre-wlevels. This new high income springs from a post-wa- r industrial expansion era which has been greatly augmented by our new steel industry, Geneva Steel, and t he companies associated with or using the products of the plant. Geneva Steel during the year became our new largest payroll. The organization employs 6,000 people and has a payroll that amounts to $20,000,000.00. Geneva payroll during the year ran slightly ahead of the longtime big payroll, Kennecott Copper Co. (formerly Utah Copper) Industrial expansion during the year saw the establishment of many new manufacturing and processing organizations who spent thousands of dollars in the state setting up new plants and establishing new payrolls. At the head of the list is probably the Standard Oil Company developments which saw the completion of a new processing plant at North Salt Lake during the year and a 182 mile pipe line from Rangely Field, Colorado to the new processing plant at Salt Lake. These two projects called for ah expenditure in excess of ar $15,000,000. During the year the first commercial oil producing well was brought in on Sept. 18 in a well located a few miles south of Vernal. Within a few weeks two other wells in widely scattered districts of the state were announced. Now (December) we have the second producing well in the Ashley (Vernal) field. This second well acts as a confirmation well and assures vast development activities within the the state. LOCALS - V -- J and Mrs. Ernest Wilson had as their guests for Christmas dinner Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Partridge and Beverley. E. C. Campbell, proprietor of Mr. the Duchesne Cafe, left on Friday of last week to spend the holidays with Mrs. Campbell and their children. , Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Fouse and Jessee and son, Mrs. H. W. Richard, spent Christmas in Ogden with Mr. and Mrs. Fouses and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Scott. Mrs. Esther Burdick of Bluebell has been visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mott during the Mrs. Mott Christmas holidays. is a daughter of Mrs. Burdick. Mrs. Emma Sagers and son, Lloyd Remund made a trip to Heber Christmas day, where they enjoyed dinner with Mrs. Sagers two daughters, Mrs.. Karl Hick-e- n and Mrs. Orin Tumbow. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. H. Case returned from Salt Lake City Monday, where Mr. Case purchased a new Plymouth automobile. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Helen Odekirk, who had been visiting in Salt Lake since the previous Friday. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Poulsen of Salt Lake City spent the Christmas holidays in Duchesne visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Johnstun and children. Mr. and Mr3. Poulsen are the parents of Mrs. Johnstun. Mr. and Mrs. George C. Kohl spent a few days during the Christmas season visiting with relatives in Heber and Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Ver Dastrup and Edward Moffitt of Ogden spent the Christmas holidays with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Young of Boneta. While in the Basin they also visited with Mr. and Mrs. La Forge Dastrup and Bernard Dastrup and family at Altonah. Mr. and Mrs. Dastrup, who are former residents of Duchesne county, returned to their home in Ogden Monday. son-in-la- w All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes do their variety from light. W. T. Bacon. It is a little stream which flows softly, but it freshens everything along its course. Mad. Swetchine. Volume 18 $3.00 Per Year DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1948. , FLOYD S. HOLM REPORTS ON EDUCATIONAL MEET YOU Floyd S. Holm, Supervisor of High Schools in the Duchesne County School District, submits a report of the convention of the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, at Spo- Let's keep our resolutions, simple but firm. Ideas have legs. an accrediting organization for the high schools and colleges and universities in the northwestern part of the United States. The area included in this associations territory is embraced by the states of Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and a small part of the northern end of California. Sim-la- r organizations operate in other parts of the country so that it is possible for virtually every high school, college, and unver-sit- y in the country to be accredited by one or the other of these agencies. The big, general objective of the association is to upgrade the schools by requiring members or to come up to and certain rather high standards. Schools in the area are not required to be members of the association, but to have membership is distinctly advantageous in the following ways: Students transferring from one member school to another on the same academic level, that is, high school to high school, college to college, etc., will have their grades and credits accepted without question, or without reduction in value; students graduating from any member school may enter any member college or university without fear of loss or reduction of credits, and without having to take special tests for entrance. A school that is not a member of the association might be a good school, but if it is not a member it is accepted as a school of good quality without further question or embarras-men- t to pupils. The standard in the secondary (high) schools that the association is concerned with are: Buildings and equipment; library, personnel, number and kind of books and periodicals, amount spent for books and periodicals; pupil attendance and scholarship records; requirements for graduation; the school atmosphere and morale; professional preparation of teachers and administrators; teacher turnover, that is the percentage of new teachers in the school from year to year (It is believed here that no matter how good teachers are, they must teach in the same school for at least a few years to do their best job); teacher load, that is, how many pupils taught per period by the Continued on Page 8 a local level, we resolve io make this community a better place FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PIONEER If, on OF UINTAH BASIN Ih which MTN. HOME fo live, if may have an effect on making the world of nations a better For the year ahead, this news- paper pledges a program of complete editorial support for any and all efforts at community betterment. is only as strong as we make it. Ho one outside it cares much what hap- pens to our town. But we care. Let's prove that we care by "ing that resolution now- -fo mak- - build ! 4a better community. would-be-membe- rs well-defin- PLAY PRESENTED AT MTN. HOME CHRISTMAS By Mrs. Charles Fietkau ft is in that spirit that the peo- ple who publish this paper wish vforyou- aSENIOR CLASS AT D. II. S. TO HOLD NEW YEARS DANCE New Years Eve, Friday, December 31, there will be a dance at the Duchesne High School The social event is gymnasium. sponsored by the Senior Class and everyone is urged to come out and have a good time and dance the old year out and welcome the new year in. Everything for the occasion has been provided, along with the latest and most popular dance This dance is for the music. general public and all are invited to attend. FAMILIES GATHER TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS By Peggy Ann Case MT. EMMONS Mr. and Mrs. J. Edgar Holder had all their family together on Christmas day: Mr. and Mrs. Dee Holder and son of Salt Lake City; Mr. and Mrs. Garth Sargent and baby of Coalville; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fieldsted and children of Boneta, and Miss Betty Holder. Dee, a member of the Salt Lake police force, and his wife and son returned to their home Sunday. The Sargents visited here until Monday before returning home. Another large family gathering for Christmas dinner met at the Earl Case home. Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Case, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Case and son, and Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Case and son, journeyed out from Salt Lake Mrs. Stella for the occasion. Webb came in from Odgen. After dinner they talked by telephone .0 Carl and his wife, who are living in Indianapolis. 0?uiucvi John M. Martin' Found Dead In Cab of Fire Truck at Bingham BINGHAM John M. Martin, years of age, a Bingham fireman, was found dead Wednesday, December 22, at about 8:45 p. m., in the cab of a fire truck at Bingham Station No. 2, says the Salt Lake Tribune. The cause of death was undetermined. Max Ewing, chief of police, and Salt Lake Jack Householder, county deputy sheriff, said Mr. Martin had been dead about 24 He was seen hours. Tuesday evening in Bingham and presumably stopped at the fire station instead of going home. No fires occurred during the 24 hours he was missing, and it was not until Wednesday evening that fellow firemen, attending a Christmas party at the fire hall discovered the Jaody. Upon finding the body the party was cancelled. A physician, who examined the body, was unable to determine the cause of death. A native of Fulton, Mo., Mr. Martin married Elsie May Johnson, in Vernal, June 11, 1937. Mrs. Martin, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred O. Johnson, pioneer residents of the Uintah Basin, was born and reared in Duchesne. Her father was the first forest ranger in this area. Mr. Martin made his home in Myton during his youth and was a resident of Myton at the time He was emof his marriage. ployed by the Indian Irrigation Service for several years and made his home in Myton until he went to Bingham. He is a nephew of Mr3. I. R. Tuttle, of Myton, who is now visiting with his sister, Mrs. Walling, in Goldfield, Nevada. Besides his widow, he is survived by a son and daughter, Fred D. and Martha Sue Martin; a brother, Charles E. Martin, St. Anthony, Idaho, and two sisters, Mrs. Jack Jenning3, Globe, Arizona, and Mrs. Paul Walling, Scofield, Nevada. 40 noise-make- rs tm Tabiona Ward of LDS Church Present Holiday Entertainments By Mrs. Thelma Nye TABIONA the Uintah Basin, who died 20. The services were under the direction of Bishop Sidney B. Rust. The opening prayer was by Clifford Stevenson, followed by a song, In the Garden, Fern .loffitt and Porter Morrell, by Karyl Lea Bench, ill of Duchesne; speaker, Lorin devenson; song, "Sunset, by Vnona Miles and Leora Farns- 'orth, accompanied by Fern Mof- -' tt; speaker, Ray Oman of oneta; song, Anona Miles and eora Farnsworth; remarks, Leon lurton of Talmage; song, Per-- . ct Day, Fern Moffitt and orter Morrell, accompanied by liss Bench; closing prayer by tue Miles. Burial took place In the Mtn. Some cemetery. Fred Lindsay dedicated the grave. The pallbearers were grandsons of deceased, as follows: Boyd Bleazard, Floyd Lyons, Jim, Jack and Stanley Stevenson and Delbert Black. Mr. West was born in Spring He City, Utah, June 28, 1867. came to Duchesne county with the early settlers and lived ii this locality most of the time for the past forty years. Hu wife died about a year ago. Hi is survived by five children, 21 and 25 greatgrandchildren grandchildren. All organizations In the Tabiona Ward joined in presenting the annual Christmas celebration. A program was presented by the Primary association Christmas Eve with every child in the ward of Primary age, who was present, taking part. Due to the failure, of the electricity in all places serviced by the REA a large part of the program was presented with kerosene lamps and flashlights furnishing the illumination. After the program the chilSanta dren dancing. enjoyed Clau3 made his annual visit and presented each child with a sack of candy and nuts. A dance for adults was held Christmas night in the Tabiona Young: Couple Married Monday, December 20 TABIONA Wedding bells rang out for Miss Doris Casper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Casper, Tabiona, and Mr. Dale H. Horrocks, son of Mr. and Mrs. LaVell Horrocks, Neola, on December 20. The bride was honored guest at two bridal showers which were given in her honor. The Tabiona home economics class gave her a kitchen shower and many nice December gifts were received. 18, another shower was held in the Tabiona ward house. A program was rendered and delicious refreshments were served. Many beautiful and useful gifts were which presented to the bride. High School gymnasium, The young couple will make was greatly by the enjoyed crowd present after the gym got their home m the cast where Mr. warmed up a little. The power Horrocks will attend school. shortage most of Christmas day as well as Christmas Eve made Myton Man Promoted it tough on everyone depending To Cadet 1st Lieutenant on electricity for heat and cooking, etc. LOGAN Charles E Edwards, of Myton, Utah, was advanced to Tabiona the rank of cadet first lieutenant Grade Schools in the Utah (State Agricultural On Xmas Program College Reserve Officers Training By Mrs. Thelma Nye Corps unit promotion ceremonies last week at USAC, accordThe TABIONA elementary held to Col. E. W. Timberlake, ing grades presented their annual of military science and professor was which Christmas program tactics. by the large greatly enjoyed crowd present. Promotions were announced in It consisted of two one-aconjunction with the annual plays with every child in the ele- Scabbard and Blade, national mentary grades participating. A military fraternity, cadet hop. special feature was the rendiThe Utah State ROTC regition of Silent Night by Mr. ment consists of 1500 cadets and DiStefanos flute band consisting is the largest of its kind in the of students In the fourth, fifth nation, according to Col. Timber-lakis band This and sixth grades. The unit has grown in the very good to listen to and it past three years from 24 cadets is certainly a unique way to and two instructors to 1500 ca1 teach the children to read music dets and 33 instructors. and be able to participate as a group in a musical selection and CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Mr. DiStefano is 'to be congratulated on the wonderful showing PRESENTED SUNDAY hi3 students have made thus for A special MT. EMMONS in music this year. was Christmas presentprogram Teachers in charge of the pro- ed Sunday morning under the diMrs. Jones, Mrs. were Elva gram rection of Sunday School SuperSevIvy Spencer, Mrs. Edna Smith intendent Leonard Wall. and Mr. Joe DiStefano. were sung eral Christmas songs Colorful constumes and beauthe smaller groups. A retold tiful stage settings also added by was given by Mrs. Olive story color to the excellent program. Miles, and two short stories by Veretta Comm and Frances Wall. BBY GIRL ARRIVES A ladies' double trio, composed A seven pound baby daughter of Mrs. Rhea Lambert,- Deane was born to Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Case, Betty Holder, Lorraine 27 at the Dastrup, Jean Mecham and PegDecember Robbins Roosevelt hospital. Both mother gy Ann Case, sang two selections, by Mrs. Edythe and baby are getting along accompanied at Put A Christmas MTN. HOME play was put on here last Thursday night by all of the school children, under the direction of the teachers, Don Nyberg and Alta Beckstead. Every child in the schools participated. It was a splendid play and carried out to perfection on the new stage. Later the Sunday School offi- New Years Eve Dance cers, had Mr. and Mrs. Santa Party at Tabiona Claus come with their packs and gave every one a bag of Tonight, December 31 nuts and candy and an orange. TABIONA Arrangements are The little folks enjoyed the rea for big New Years completed mainder of the evening dancing. Eve dancing party to be held in the Tabiona High School gym MARRIAGE LICENSES 31. tonight Friday, December John Uresk, Myton, Bonnie Lou Everything needed to have a real MISS EMILY MI)SKN New Year's EJve party is planned, TELEPHONES FROM ALASKA Kump, Lapoint. Emmons Mt. Clifford Roberts, president Robert Miles, says Jay s Mr. and Mrs. John P. Madsen of the TaWona-Hann- a Evelyn Faye Muir, Fruitland. a telephone message who are received Carlos A. Thompson, American Association, from their entertainment. Donna Jean the daughter, Miss Emily, Taylor, Myton. sponsoring Fork; from Juneau, Alaska, Christmas Robert D. Nyberg, Mtn. Home; Plenty of confetti and will be on sale and also day. She wished her parents a Kay Ames, Ioka. and ice cream. All proceeds Merry Chnstmis and happy holiHoward Dale Horrocks, Neola; pie from the affair will be used to day greetings. Doris Eliza Casper, Tabtona. Miss Madsen is teaching EngNeal Reed Murray, Myton; buy much needed playground Ella Rogers, Mt. Emmons. equipment for the Tabiona school. lish in the high school in JunJohn Douglas McAffee, RooseEveryone is invited to come eau, and is head of the journalisvelt; Elva Grace Buckalew, Du- and have a real New Years cele- tic department, and a part of bration at Tabiona. Ladies please her work is directing the publichesne. Vern Cook Ames, Ioka, Phyllis bring a pie with you if possible, cation of a school paper every Nellie Sharpies, Roosevelt. but if you do not have a pie wepk. She stated to her parents Grant Fredrickson, Roosevelt; come to the party anyway, and that she was enjoying her work and getting along nicely. satisfactorily. June Anne Snyder, Myton. buy one someone else made. Parents-Teacher- December pioneer of er Start in your own backyard. You figure out what you can do fo better the churches, schools and institutions of this place we call our home. This community Funeral services .vere held Thursday, 23, for Joe West, a place in which governments may live. We'll start in our own backyard. Sub-Zer- o Temperature Hits Dueliesne and the year ahead...! Tradition ordains this the season of resolve. kane, Washington, December 9, 10 and 11, 1948, which he attended. The report follows: The Northwest Association of Secondary and High Schools is Number 25 Big Snow and i V In Advance ct e. For the past week the Uintah Basin has been in the grip of the biggest winter storm that has happened in several years past. The fall of snow has been general all over Utah and the most of the intermountain area. In Salt Lake City Tuesday, December 28, nine inches of new snow fell, making it the heaviest snow in 52 years, according to a statement in the Deseret News. In all 15Ji inches of snow, has fallen during the past week. In Duchesne, according to L. C, (Bud) Winslow, local observer for the United States Weather Bureau, 11 inches of snow has fallen since December 22, with a water content of .91, The storm started about noon December 22 and continued on into the following day, then stopped, and Christmas night, under clear skies, the temperature dropped to 18 below zero, Mr. Winslow reports. The cold snap abated under a rising barometer and the second utorrn sot in December 27 and lasted until December 28, laying down several inches of new snow. Following the second storm the temperature dropped to 7 below zero the night of December 28, and the next night, December 29, to 14 below took a nose-div- e zero. IThe highways in and out of the Basin have been kept open and traffic has moved in and out without a great deal of delay. Wednesday the local 'State Highway crew, with their big equipment, along with the Duchesne city equipment and crew, plowed the snow on Mam street, which is Highway 40, up into wind-row- s and the snow will be removed from the business section as fast as possible, In the upper country, according to reports which have came in, the snowfall has been somewhat greater than In Duchesne. The roads Into the byway areas have also been kept open in spite of the unusual storm. Carma Moon and Neil Fabrizio Recite Miss Marriage Vows Dec. 18 By Tracy Roberts HANNA Of special interest to their many friend3 is the news of the Marriage of Miss Carma Moon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Moon, of Provo, and Mr. Neil Fabrizio. The ceremony December 18, was solemnized with President Heber Moon of the Duchesne Stake of the LDS Church' officiating. The bride wore a gown of ditional white satin, with finger tip veil, and carried a bouquet of red roses. She was attended by her sister, Miss Donna Moon, as matron of honor; Miss Joan Elliott as maid of honor, and Rosalie Swenson as bridesmaid. Arlease Reid acted as best man for the groom. The mothers of the young couple), were lovely in afternoon dresses,' and wore corsages of rosebuds and carnations. After a short honeymoon in Salt Lake City the newlyweds have taken up their residence in , Hanna. ENTERTAIN AT DINNER AND CARD TARTY Mr. and Mrs. John P. Madsen entertained at a dinner party De- 28. Following the sum500 wa3 played at meal ptuous which Mrs. Wimmer and Dave Mr. Thomas, won high scores. and Mrs. Madsens gue.sts were Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Harrison, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Neilson, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Horrocks, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Partridge, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. mer Fitzwater, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Er- nest Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Tatton Bench. Mrs. Emma C. Wimmer, Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas and Mrs. Albert Stephenson, cember - Ilansen, The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life. Charles M. Schwab. |