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Show J.iiViLIiAL. 141 ;iu.. PIEH.-O,-.: SALT LAX3 C IT .. sVr, , J 1 . . Uintah Basin Record Wafer and Power Board Will Tour Basin Friday Pair Is Charged In Burglary Of Store Army-llav- y Two brothers who made Roose- velt one of their stops on an apparent burglary1 spree are being t held in jail at Price and a Rose-vel- the merchant loot they took last Thursday night. and Sheriff Lorin Stevenson Roosevelt Police Chief Roe McDonald recovered loot taken from store by the Roosevelt Army-Nav- y two men who apparently gained easy access by cutting a hole in the rear door. Jack Newell, 25, and Terry V. Johnson, 21 were being sought by Orem police on holdup charges when they were apprehended in "Carbon county by Highway Patrolman Joe Arnold. He arrested them after they spent the night in a gravel pit near Wellington. Officers were led to a house in Consumers where more loot was found. They are brothers but Johnson was adopted by another family. second filed Mr. McDonald degree burglary charges against the two men. He said they went store last Thursto the Army-Nav- y day and looked it over while purchasing a shaving kit. They returned that night and entered the place through the back door, takrifle ing a sleeping bag, a 30-3- 0 and some .22 shells. has recovered Duchesne Parents Get Behind School Activities Parents of Duchesne High school and seventh and eighth grade students turned out en masse .to a Association special Parent-Teachprogram Tuesdey night and plunged into a work program to help students and teachers put over a varied student activity progarm. A goal of 75 per cent parents at the important meeting was surpassed as parents and students got together on such problems as scheduling and financing dances, attendance at basketball games and other events, a senior trip, class rings and whether seventh and eighth graders should be included in the high school activity pro-- ' . gram. Own Program The latter question brought a negative reply from parents of the young students and they met to start seting up their own activiy program. High School Principal Stanley Brady1, his faculty members and A members will set up steering committees for all activities in the upper grades, fulfilling Mr. Bradys plea for united effort to erase Duchesne high schools reper . ' P-T- utation. This reputation has been given to us by a few of our own stu dents and by students from other schools interfering with our activi- ties, Mr. Brady said. In his talk in the general meet-in- , which preceeded class sessions, Mr. Brady said the basic purpose of the school is still, of course, education, but he said the administration and faculty is wholeheartedly in favor of a full activity program. Student Financed He pointed out that school money cannot be used for these activities. These are financed by the students, through purchase of (Continued On Back Page) VOLUME A group of touring water and reclamation officials will inspect several Uintah Basin areas Friday on a tour sponsored by the Utah Water and Power Board. Board members Hugh Colton of Vernal and B. O. Colton of Roosevelt arranged the tour, particular-ly timely in view of current efforts to firm up water rights and get a fair share of future reclamation project money. Time Schedule The touring group, which will visit dam sites and agriculture areas from Fruitland to Vernal and beyond, is to travel by bus and has arranged the following; time schedule: First stop is at Fruitland at 8 a.m., where some Duchesne Coun-tian- s will join the tour. There, water and power board members will be shown the possibilities in that area, giving an idea as to acreage and land values. The group will arrive at Hanna about 9 a.m. to see the dam site. If time perimts, they will be taken through the pumping plant. The tour will then go back down the Duchesne River, over Blue Bench and into Duchesne City about 10 a.m. From Duchesne it will proceed back over Blue Bench through Talmage, Boneta, etc., look over the Lake Fork River and have a brief stop at Altamont about 11 or 11:30. From Altamont, the touring group will go down the highway, stop at Upalco dam site and .then go to Roosevelt for lunch and a meeting of civic leaders at the 26 - NUMBER 42 DUCHESNE, DUCHESNE COUNTY, 7 PER COPY 1 Frontier GrilL Friday afternoon, the group will go into Uintah County, and the board will hold its monthly meeting in Vernal Friday night. The tour is under the supervision of Jay Bingham, acting director of the board. March Of Bimes Chairman Reports On Meet The theme 'of the 1957 March of Dimes will be Lets Finish The it was reported by Mrs. Job, Maurine Bellon, following her return from a regional conference of March of Dimes leaders in Reno. Mrs. Bellon has been appointed as Duchesne County March of Dimes Chairman for the second consecutive year and will again" head" the ' annual " drive throughout the county in January. The fight against polio , will not be finished until polio is finished as a crippler of children and Mrs. Bellon declared in adults, revealing that $46,900,000 would be needed to fight polio in 1957. Mrs. Bellon, together with her husband, Arvin L. Bellon, County Chairman and Neala Chapter Schaefermeyer, County Teen Age Chairman, met with Raymond ExNational Foundation ecutive Director, Joseph F. Nee, National March of Dimes Director and volunteer leaders from a four-stat- e area. Not Licked Yet The advent of the March of Dimes sponsored Salk vaccine has led a very great many people to believe that polio is just about licked. I wish it were, but the sad fact is, this simply isnt so. Millions and millions of susceptible persons are still unvaccinated and thousands and thousands already stricken or due to be stricken with polio are beyond the help of vaccine. Mrs. Bellon said. A total of $10,000,000 of the 1957 need will be earmarked for (Continued on Back Page) , Bar-rows- MYTON (Special) Two youngOct. 24, a week prior to his de- Myton men who have accepted parture for the Canadian mission calls to enter the mission field with headquarters at Montreal. Elder Martins father is not a for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints will be honored member of the church, but is very at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at a willing to support his son in his in the Myton ward chapel. missionary and other church A third, schoolmate of the other work. two, left just one week ago. The party ror uie missionaries The three, Elders Merrell Chandl- was given by the MIA and Sunday er, David Crapo and James Mar- school offficers and teachers. Foltin, were honored at a party last lowing an interesting program, week, the night before Elder guests danced and enjoyed reChandlers departure for the mis- freshments served by the Sunday sion home. School; All three young men are 1954 graduates of Union High School. Elders Martin and Chandler also attended Dixie College for one Gorge Project Hospital Receives $100 Gift From Duchesne Oilman HOSPITAL GIFT S. D. Wheeler, left, president and general a Oil Co., gives a $100 check to Dpchesne manager of the Mayor Chester Lyman for the Duchesne community hospital. Cal-Nev- Drilling Equipment Being Set Up In Duchesne Area Equipment is being moved in to start drilling on the first well on more than 12,000 acres of leases north and east of Duchesne. WheeleT, president and a general manager of the Oil Co., Inc., has arrived in Duchesne to supervise operations. Mr. Wheeler, whose firm is in corpated in Nevada, said he will drill at least 12 wells in the next 30 months, ranging dwon to the 2,000 foot and 4,500 foot levels, the latter being the Green River sand formation which is believed to ban abundant oil producing sand. The companys chief equipment is a combination rotary-cabl- e tool rig ideal for the peculiarities of Uintah Basin formations. The wells will "be drilled in with the rotary equipment, operating with a geared bit at the end of a continuous shaft of steel drilling pipe. Once the sands are reached, the unit is switched over Mil-to- n HONORED PRINCIPAL to a cable too, which employs a S. Nielsen, Myton principal, bit on the end of a cable. heavy last week was elected to a The bit pounds out the tricky Utah the trusteeship .of sands. f f is the s Educational - Association .. Cable pionehf attended their annual method ofdrilling oil pVoducton and is is a He fall convention. past considered superior to. rotary, rigs president of Duchesne Teachers for sandy formations. Association. Mr. Wheeler has spent many months secuing leases and having TWO DRAFT OFFICIALS geological work done in. the Duchesne end of the Uintah Basin. Terms of his leases call for an ATTEND CONFERENCE extended program of drilling over Two members of the Duchesne a period of several years. County selective service board met with state selective service officiMr. and Mrs. William Peatross als in Salt Lake City last week. visited in Price Sunday with Mrs. Chairman James R. Hall and Lidia Peatross who is in the hosmember Wallace Stephenson were pital there. She has recently been called to Salt Lake City for a operated on and is reported as conference of all local boards. doing well. S. D. Cal-Nev- while-teacher- A welcome contribution to help Duchesne Hospital pay off outstanding bills and keep current on expenses was received this week from oilman S. D. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler, president of the a Oil Co., Inc., which will drill on leases outside of Duchesne City, presented a $100 check to Chester Lyman, Duchesnes mayor.. Mr. Wheeler said his gift was in appreciation for the cooperation and help he has received from Duchesne County citizens and officials in oil leasing activity. The thanks of .the hospital, staff and the entire commuity go to Mr. Wheeler for his help, Mr. Lyman said. The hospital last week received from county a $500 allocation commissioners on 'Board President B. A. Jacobys plea that the institution needed to pay on about $1,600 in back bills. Vork Announced On Water System in DuFurther improvement water system chesnes spring-fewas revealed this week with the1 announcement that wooden collection boxes are being covered with concrete. Mayor Chester Lyman said concrete walls six inches thick are being poured around the collection boxes and the wooden covers are being replaced by metal covers. Mayor Lyman said the boxes, made in WPA days of wood, had developed leakage from surface water and the concrete wall method was adopted as a means of a more pure water insuring supply. Although the long dry spell Jras resulted in' little leakage contamination, he said, the concrete walls are being poured to prevent future contamination. d Be Prepared President Dwight D. Eisenhow a telegraph key in Washington Monday, and a water project vital to the Uintah Basin was launched explosively in the rugged Flaming Gorge of the Green . River midway between Vernal and Green River, Wyo. It is the $82,000,000 Flaming Gorge project of the giant Colorado River works and it will eventually create a reservoir 91 miles in length to furnish power and store water for a huge section of eastern Utah. Companion projects to Flaming Gorge are the Glen Cayon project on the line, the Navajo project in San Juan County, New Mexico, and the Cure-can- ti project of three or four dams on the Gunnison River in Colorado. The Flaming Gorge Dam site is about five miles south of the line. The reddish sandstones of the Uinta formation give the site its name. A power plant will be located at the downstream base of the 450-fohigh dam. The width at crest will be 900 feet. will begin next Construction spring with work on the single tunnel to carry the diversion Green River around the dam site. Bids will be asked next month . for the construction of an access road with a temporary bridge overv the Green River from Manila. Core drilling crews are now working at the site. Bids for the prime contract will be asked about a year from now, and construction is expected to take about six years. er pressed Utah-Arizo- na Utah-Wyomi- Selected NEW PRESIDENT to become the 1957 president of the U.B.I.C. is Kenneth Aycock, who was appointed last Monday by the city council. He succeeds George Stewart and will announce his own committee in the near future. BRIDGELAND YOUTH IS CALLED FOR MILITARY INDUCTION v Culinary Water Restrictions End Scouf Heads Announce Weekend guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Smith were Mr. and Mrs. Warren Ricks and Mr. and Mrs. Tabias Furness of Sugar City, Idaho. Dates To Train Leaders ing with formal training completed Classes Set For was increased from 4 to 51, concluded Mr. Bacon. Altamont And Vernal Areas Suicide Ruled In Thursday, Nov. 1 at 7:30 p.m. Altamont High School is the time and place set for the 1956 University of Scouting, announces James E. Bacon, chairman of the planning committee. Scheduled to run each Thursday evening from Nov. 1 to Dec. 13 with the exception of Thanksgiving week, the University of Scouting consists of six evenings of training in Scouting policies, methods and skills. A special meeting of the 12 instructors of the 1956 University of Scouting is being held tonight at Altamont. k Registration fee for the course will be 50. Those who attended the 1955 University of Scouting or hold from other training certificates experiences should also plan to participate in the 1956 affair, stated Mr. Bacon. Explanation the opening night will tell where they can get the most from this years training. Six Courses Offered Six courses will be included in this years Uuniversity of Scouting cub scouting, boy scouting, guide patrol, explorers, commissioner staff and district committee. Purpose of the University of Scouting is to give every adult working in the Scouting program and parents with boys in the program an opportunity to learn their responsibilities in a formal training experience. At the 1955 University of Scouting, the first ever held in the Uintah Basin, some 170 graduation certificates were issued. All four districts participated. This year two University of Scoutings are planned for the Basin one will begin Oct. 26 at Vernal for Uintah District, and the one at Alatmont, Nov. 1 for Roosevelt Moon Lake and Duchesne districts. As a result of last years University of Scouting, the number of adult leaders working in Scout in the THEYLL SERVE THEIR CHURCH Myton L. D. S. Ward hit the jack-precently when three of Its devoted young - members received and accepted calls to serve their church as missionaries during the next two years. Elder Merrill Chandler, (left), leaves ot Deer Hunters Head Out With an eye On the weather, hunters were urged to prepare for rapid changes of clothing warm clothing, ample fuel and food whether the outing is for Ohe day 91-Mi- le One Duchesne County youth has been ordered to report for the armed forces induction Oct. 16, according to Mrs. Helen Odekirk, clerk of the selective service board. The lone inductee is Robert K. Murphy of Bridgeland, who has just returned from a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. Another youth, scheduled to re Restrictions have been removed because from Duchesne culinary water use, port, was given- a delay his father has- been injured and Mayor , Chester Lyman announced is unable to work their farm. this week and residents are free to water their lawns, Mayor Lyman warned, however, Mr. and Mrs. Deon Brown and removal of restrictions does that Orem in visited Goff Mrs. Lily AMERICAN LEGION SHOOT not permit waste and tickets will ATTENDED BY LARGE CROWD Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Vanor Brown and family and Mr. and be given anyone found letting The Arperipan Legion Merchan hoses run unnecessarily long. Cleon Brown and family. Mrs. dise Shoot held at the air port was afternoon attended Sunday by a large group and many prizes were won. The Auxiliary sold luncheon to those present. testi-moli- With propects good for a highly successful Uintah hunt, Basin sporstmen will join 130,000 other nimrods Saturday for the first 'day of Utahs general deer season. The hunt for Utahs most plentiful big game will Continue through Tuesday, Oct. 30, 'for the state generally, with extended weekend hunting set for some areas. One deer of either sex is legal limit. ,"1 Massive Structure North Of Vernal To Hold Lake On Green River; Core Drillers First To Start Cal-Nev- y Elder Chandler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Chandler, will, serve in the California mission at Los Angeles. He was active in band at Union and( attended Dixie Col. lege last year. Elder Crapo, son of former Bishop and Mrs. Harold Crapo, was active in band and football at Union and has worked recently in Salt Lake City. He will enter the mission home October 24 and will serve in the Gulf States Mission, with headquarters at Houston, Texas. Elder Martirv son of Mr. and attended Mrs. Charles Martin, Union High and Dixie College and will enter the mission home on $3.00 PER YEAR Poshes Key To t Myton LDS Ward Sends Three To Mission Fields year. 18, 1956 THURSDAY, OCTOBER UTAH, or several days; shovel, ax and chains for vehicles. Expeditions into the rough country should be planned carefully with maximum allowance for al! camping supplies. The Utah Department of Fish and game listed protection against fires as ranking right along with ordinary firearm safety. All over Utah, and particularly in the Uintah and ip the Ashley Na tional Forest areas, fire danger is listed as critical, meaning that campers, for their own safety1, the safety of others and the preservation of range and timber must exercise rigid fire precautions, and the mission home this week for the California mission. Elder James Martin, (center), will serve in the Canadian mission, and Elder David Crapo, (right), will labor in the Gulf States. The latter two will enter the Mission home Oct. 24. (For First Shoot rangers and department field men will be on the lookout for all violations. The department listed the following special regulations which the deer hunter should know and observe: Only persons 16 years old or older, when properly licensed, may hunt deer in Utah. All deer killed must be immediately tagged with the tag provided. Red Clothing Every person, while hunting big game, shall wear conspicuous red headgear and shirt, sweater or jacket. Legal deer hunting is confined to daylight hours. It is illegal to use any type of artificial light. It is unlawful to hunt, kill or pursue deer with any rifle having a bore of less than .25 calibre, shooting a cartridge less than two inches in length, with other than a soft nose or expanding type bullet. Hunters are also required by law to stop at any checking station where a stop sign is displayed. Special Units With respect to special hunting units in certain areas, a shorter (Continued on Back Page) Knife Death Of Altamont Homan A coroners jury has returned a verdict of suicide in the stabbing death of an Altamont "woman, Mrs. Dora Wanzitz Murray, who died Tuesday. Mrs. Murray was brought to the Duchesne Hospital early Tuesday by her husband and sister, and was pronounced dead on arrival. Funeral services will be conducted at the Bridgeland Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints. Burial will be in Roosevelt Cemetery under the direction of Olpin Mortuary. Mrs. Murray was born March 7, 1919, in Mtn. Home to Jimmie and Mary Ankerpont UncaSam Wanzitz. She was married to Harris Murray. Survivors include her husband; two sons and a daughter, Benjamin, Gregory and Darlene of Altamont; a sister, Elaine Wyaskit, Arcadia; four s, Bobilene Ballard, Salt Lake City; Neva, Marita and Mary Bridgeland. y half-sister- Col-loro- FORMER TALMAGE FAMILY STRICKEN; DAUGHTER IS DEAD old daughter of The nine-yea- r a former Talmage couple is dead, and her mother and at least one sister are in critical condition as the result of botulism poisoning which struck their home in May-bellColo. Gwendolyn Thayne, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thayne died Tuesday morning. Details of what happened have not been received here. The family moved from Talmage last year. The body of the girl is being sent to Olpin Mortuary in Roosevelt for services. e, |