OCR Text |
Show I! I VOLUME 45 No. 31. An Independent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAT, JANUARY , 19J. Oldest Weekly In Salt Lake Coanty WPA Sewing Project May Be Established for Women FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR ELIGIBLE UNEMPLOYED TO EARN LIVELIHOOD According to Mrs. Rex Tripp, chairman of the Bingham Welfare association, federal Works Progress Administration funds are available for a sewing project here for de-pendent women. The local associa-tion must provide the sewing room and electric lights and heat, while the WPA will pay the wages of the workers. Tentative plans are being made for the opening of the store room in the Woodring building on Main street for the sewing project, which will provide employment to 10 local women at wages ranging from $55 to $65 per month. Widows and women without means of support will be offered employment in the sewing room. The work will be con-tinued for approximately two and one-ha- lf months. Mrs. Naylor of Salt Lake City is expected to be in Bingham in the near future to take registrations for the project. Unless Bingham takes advantage of this offer the WPA funds will be used for a similar project else-where, Mrs. Tripp stated. Home Brew k - - :: ;: f; The Weekly Ravings I of Y Editor J As we enter the new year, pxac-- ! tically all of us in Bingham feel " that 1938 will be a year of greater r activity and prosperity for all. With our mines keeping up production, employment will continue to in--r crease and local business should i ' benefit. A live-wir-e community-- is one that possesses prosperous business institutions. We would all like to have Bingham listed in the category I. of progressive towns. In our opinion, the best way to accomplish this is to keep as much of our money in our own community O as possible. 1 The man or woman who feels that 2 he or she must run to Salt Lake I City every time they need a pair fi of box or a spool of thread, is ho asset to Bingham and we are sorry to say that there are many folgs just like that here. : . i O The following Hem is taken from a book published by the (Bingham I Chamber of Commerce in 1909: "In the early days Bingham was f ' a lumber camp. The hills were then r- ; covered with timber and it is said r that the first saw mill in the state E. was erected near the mouth of the I canyon. Gold was discovered in the I latter fifties and for a score of years placer mining was the chief in-dustry, although considerable lead and silver were mined. It was not until the end of the past century that men began to see the possibili-ties of the camp as a copper pro-- t ducer. Less than 15 years ago ,v ' (probably 1898) the first copper ore - was shipped from the camp and in tbis short time it has become the ' greatest low grade copper producer on earth. The hills are heavily mineralized, the ore averaging from , : 1 to 4 per cent and there is no end to the immense copper deposits. The t ore is as everlasting as the hills and v bo long as there is demand for a single ounce of copper' the camp ; will endure." "Bingham will be producing cop-- . per when every other camp has t i passed into oblivion. Copper min-- 'l ing here is no longer a prospect, it t" is a cold-bloode- d business proposi tion. The industry has been mas-- tered in Scientific detail. Millions of tons of ore are in sight. The hu-man : mind cannot fathom what vast quantities of the red metal lie beyond and underneath the ore al-ready blocked out. The ore lies high and is easily recovered whether by' tunneling underground or by steam shovels on the surface. The main problems which have con-fronte-d the engineers are transport-ing and reducing the ore. Already these have been mastered to such a v nicety that copper can be produced here at a lower figure than any other camp in existence, and each - year increased facilities for trans portation and improved methods and appliances for the mills and smelters will still reduce the cost of production. "Bingham, even in its youth, weathered the financial flurry of a tfew years ago and forged steadily head producing the red metal when practically every other camp in the country was forced to shut down. This tells the story of its ac-complishments at a time when it was really in its development stage. Now it has entered into an era of production and, judging the future by the past no words can exagger-ate the untold wonders in store for the camp. Surely, there are big days ahead fort Bingham." O We don't know who wrote the above article, but the writer must have known and loved Bingham well. His words are just as true to day as they were 28 years ago. O "New Deal spokesmen are trying to impress the American people that relief for our all too many un-fortunate unemployed would not be possible if it were not for the bene-f- . licence of this Administration. This is repugnant to every italr-miind- American. It is being deeply re-sented. Still deeper resentment is felt over the fact that the (Roos-evelt Administration is also at-tempting to use the relief money, which is the property of every tax-payer, to try to keep itself in poli-tical office." Chester C. Bolton, Chairman National Republican Con-gressional Committee. O Col. Lindberg and his family have taken up a temporary abode in Eng-land. Few will be inclined to blame them. It would be an in-justice to the Colonel to state that he is simply peeved because Mr. Hauptmann has not been electro--. cuted promptly enough. The 6 tress of the past few years has been great Mr. Lindbergh's prominence, the proximity of the scene of his sorrow and torture, and the efforts of cranks who buzz around a mur-der have not lessened the tension. 1 (Lindbergh has not lived long, but during his brief life-spa- n he has ac complished what may be considered k 1 :r i a complete fulfillment of his duties to the public. If he sees fit to flee from a personal woe and search or a haven of peace, that is his own business. It is better that he should slip away and catch up the threads of a broken life, while youth re-mains, than that he should tarry here and move on tq an embittered old age. FORMER BINGHAM GIRL HAS FIRST 1936 BABY BORN IN 8ALT LAKE A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mullett In Salt Lake City at 12:01 a. m. New Year's day, being the first birth recorded for 1936. Mrs. Mullett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sid Tregaskia of Bingham, and was born and reared in Bingham. The Mullets are the recipients of many valuable awards offered by Salt Lake City business con-cerns to the parents of the first born in 1936. They nearly lost the coveted honor, however, as an-other baby was born in the same hospital at 13:02 a. m., just one minute later than their infant ar-rived. COPPER COMPANY PROTEST TAXES PAYMENT FOB 1935 MADE TOTALING $15,000; SUM TIED UP The Utah Copper company made payment of 1935 taxes in excess of $105,000 under protest Saturday, the sum being remitted to James R. Jarvls, county treasurer. The protest, it was said by C. M. Brawn, Utah Copper superintendent of welfare, will be filed with the state tax commission. Treasurer Jarvis pointed out that approximately $45,000 of the pro-tested payment was to have been apportioned to schools of that dis-trict immediately after January 1, 1936. The protest automatically pro-hibits the treasurer from apportion-ing the funds to the school district for a period of six months. Mr. Jarvis declared that the amount tied up, therefore, would seriously hamper school district op-erations. Nature of the protest was not learned and details will not be made public until a brief has been filed with the state tax commission,! Mr. Jarvis said. Salt Lake Tribune. I LOCAL I tyAJ?PEMNG New Years was celebrated in gala fashion in Bingham, with no serious accidents nor law violations to mar the holiday. Large crowds attended the New Years eve dances at the GemmeU clubhouse and the Ameri-can Legion hall A few residents celebrated the coming of 1936 at cabarets and night clubs in Salt Lake City. George Knudsen, safety engineer of the Utah Copper company, is confined to St Marks hospital where he underwent an operation for appendicitis last Sunday night. iDr. Pugh & the attending physician. Mr. Knudsen is recovering rapidly. Jay Farnsworth, of the Bingham Mercantile company grocery depart-ment, is a patient at the Bingham hospital where he is suffering from a a attack of acute rheumatism. Jay is a member of the Bingham fire department. William Motis, Guy Ernest and Joe Rack.'sh were taken into custody toy police officers New Year's Eve, charged with being drunk. They were released on $10 bond each to appear before Judge S. J. Kenner. I Work of preparing the 1938 bud-get for .the town of Bingham is still In progress and it is anticipated that the document will be completed within the next two or three weeks, according to Eugene Morrti'twn clerk. Bingham's newly-electe- d members of th tnurn twwvl Joihn J. Creedon and Earl T. James, will be inducted into office at a special meeting of the town board next Monday eve-ning. Councllmen F. W. Qukin and Ed Johnson are the retiring mem-bers of the board. A baby girl was born to, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strasberg, Saturday, December 88, at the family home at 147 Main street. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse W. Sandstrom announce the arrival of a baby boy, born to them Tuesday, December 31, at their home in Lark. Work was resumed Thursday on the city sewer project with a larg? crew of WPA workers employe. The heavy snows are slowing up th: work to some extent. . Mr. and Mrs. Melvin W. Ander-son of Salt Lake City visited New Years day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Kruse, ADMIRAL BVRD DECLINES BID 10 VjSIT HERE POOR CONDITION OF HEALTH CITED AS REASON TO DR. R. G. FRAZIER In response to an Invitation ex-tended by Dr. Russell G. Frazier, local physician and member of the Explorers' Club, a letter has just been received here from Ad-miral Richard E. Byrd, famous ex-plorer, declining the opportunity to visit the Utah Copper company open-cu- t mine here. Admiral Byrd will deliver a lec-- , ture at the University of Utah on January 10. The letter reads: Boston, Mass., December 28, 1935. My Dear Dr. Trazien .Thank you for your letter of De-cember 9 which has just Teached me, and for your invitation to visit the Utah Copper Company's mine. Ordinarily I would enjoy this trip, but here is my situation in rgeard to accepting invitations other than my lectures. I have never fully recovered from the fume poisoning I received at the Advance Base in the Antarctic and am under a rather strict schedule on orders from my physician. I am not allowed to accept any invita-tions aside from my lecture. I am sure you will understand.. With kindest regards, R. E. BYRD. YOUTHFUL SHOOTERS FACE LOSS OF THEIR AIR GUNS Young boys of Bingham who re-ceived airguns as Christmas pres-ents and who cannot resist the temptation to shoot out light fclobe throughout the city, will lose their rifles if apprehended by police offi-cers, Chief Pautsch stated this week, There have been many complaints of broken light globes, especially the bright holiday lights across Main street. The shooting of airguns within the city limits is a violation of the City Ordinances, Section 60, Chapter 3, Chief Pautsch stated, and boys caught violating this section will have their airguns taken away from them. TWIN BOYS BORN TO COPPERFIELD COUPLE New Years eve ' brought to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Bnrke of Copperfield, a pair of fine twin boys. The babes were born at the family home on December 31, and are the 12th and 13th children of Mr. and Mrs. Burke. Obituaries JOYCE RINDLESBACH ' Funeral services for Joyce RindlesJ-bach-, aged 13 years, who succumbed Thursday, December 19, of appendi-citis, were held Sunday at 1 p. m. at the Bingham L. D. S. ward chapel, Bishop David C. Lyon Of-ficiating. Interment was made ia the South Jordan cemetery under the direction of the Bingham. Mortuary. The deceased is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Rindlesbach. 153 Main street Surviving are her parents and a sister, Jane Rindles-bach. DAVID STEEL Funeral services for David Steel, 72, who died at his home in Lark Friday, December 20, were held Sunday at 1:30 p. m. from the Bing-ham Mortuary chapel, with Rev. A. E. Butcher, pastor of St Paul's Episcopal church of Salt Lake City, officiating. Interment was in Mt Olivet cemetery. Mr. Steel was born in England, where a daughter survives. His? wife, Mrs. Leonara Steel, died De-cember 1. MARY LEW SMITH Mary Lew Smith, aged 3 years, died at her home Tuesday, Decem-ber 31, from membrabe croup and diphtheria. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Smith and the following brothers and sis-ters: Leland, Joe Ann, Richard and Raymond The family moved here from Draper a short time ago, and Mr. Smith is employed by the U. S. Mine. Funeral services were held Wed-nesday, January 1, at 2 p. m. at the L. D. S. ward chapel, Bishop David C. Lyon officiating. Interment was made in the Bingham cemetery un-der the direction of the Bingham. Mortuary. JOHN S. PROWSE John S. Prowse, 62, for 31 years a resident of Lark, died Saturday night of a heart attack at his home. He had been ailing only a short time. Born in Sancred, England, Mr. Prowse came to Lark 31 years ago. He engaged in the chicken business, retiring a few years ago. Surviving are his widow, a son, John Prowse, and two grandchildren. One sister who resides in England also sur vives. Private funeral services were con-ducted from the family home at 1:30 p. m. Thursday. Burial "was at the Fort Harriman cemetery, with, the Bingham Mortuary in charge. 10 SILL BOYS HURT IN COASTING ACCIDENT JAN. I Lee and Gene Halverson, aes 5 and 7 years respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Halverson, was both bruised and cut when they ran into a car driven by Robert Hoine, 20, Wednesday afternoon, January 1. The lads were coasting down a larie in lower Bingham, and crossed the highway. They struck the front wheel of (Mr. Koine's automobile which was proceeding up Main street. The boys were going so fast that they could not stop in time to avert the crash, which was unavoid-able, according to Chief of Police Al Pautsch, who investigated the ac-cident Mr. Hoine rushed the lads to the Bingham hospital where their injuries were treated. Lee was tak-e- n to his home shortly afterward, but Gene, who received a deep gash over his right eye, is still in the hos-pital. COPPER DEMAND SHOWS INCREASE By D. D. MOFFAT Vice President and General Man-ager Utah Copper Co. The year 1935 has seen an encour- - aging increase in the demand for copper, and while consumption is far from normal this present great-er use is reassuiing in comparison to the low ebb of the copper mining industry in recent years. The small price increase which occurred in the last year also is encouraging, but. like consumption, it is far from the normal figure secured for cop-per, the present price being around 9 cents a pound compared to the average of 15 cents which prevailed during the four-yea- r period 1926 to 1929. A considerable portion of the meager increase in the price of cop- - per has been consumed by higher wage levels and greater costs for supplies. These factors make it necessary that the Utah Copper company exercise the most rigid economy in its operations. Wages Increased Employes on the payrolls have been Increased roughly 52 per cent in 1935 which, together with wage increases, raised the monthly pay-rolls from $128,000 to $261,000, an increase of 103 per cent Expendi-tures for supplies are also greater, having increased 117 per cent. Satisfaction is prevalent through-out Utah's coDDer producing indus- - try in reviewing the year's improve-ment, as is a hope that the trend will continue upward However, the mining industry has ahead of it a long, tedious road to regain ground lost in the last few years. Taxes Prevent Expansion The tax burden on industry, which is considerably higher than in post-wa- r years, has reached such proportions that it acts as a real deterrent to the expansion of pres-ent mining operations as well as to the opening of new mines. I am aware that regulation of in-dustry has been, and is repeatedly referred to by business officials and economists and I would not again cite it except that 1 believe reflec-tion will disclose that regulation of industry can go beyond the point where it is beneficial to the public and to business, whose aims are one and the same in that they both seek a normal trade existence. I believe that regulation has now reached beyond its useful intentions and is a restraining influence on progress. Due to its wide use, copper may be expected to benefit relatively from any further improvement in general business. Salt Lake Tele-gram. DR. IVESTPHAL JOINS LOCAL HOSPITAL STAFF Dr. and Mrs. R. S. Westphal, re--1 cently of Chicago, have arrived in Bingham where Dr. Westphal will be connected with the medical staff of the Utah Copper hospital. He is a graduate of Rush Medical college, and has been a physician at the Illinois Central hospital in Chicago. Mrs. Westphal is also a graduate physician. They will make their home in the Princess apartments here. Dr. Westphal replaces Dr. L. C. Johnson, who witn Mrs. Johnson, left last week for' Anaconda, Mont, to make a brief visit with Mrs. Johnson's parents. They will go to Chicago where Dr. Johnson will continue his studies at the Rush Medical College. While here the Johnsons made many friends who regret to see them leave the camp. Party at Community House The Highland Boy Community House was the scene of a pleasant New Years eve party last Tuesday night, the young people of the com-munity being the guests. Games of various kinds were indulged in un-til 1130 p. m. at which time re-freshments were served, A musical program was then given, and the new year was welcomed in at mid-night in a joyous manner by those present BODY OF FORMER RESIDENT BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL The remains of Antone Perne, 48, who died in Butte, Montana, December t8, of tuberculosis of the lungs, were brought to Bing-ham Thursday for burial. Perne worked in the mines . hero for many years before moving to Butte. Funeral services will be held Sunday at the Bingham Mortuary chapel with the Triglav lodge No. 13 in charge. BIRTH ANNOUNCED A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Johanson, 90 Main street, last Sunday, December 22, at ' the L. D. S. hospital in Salt Lake City. Mother and little daughter are . re-ported to be getting along very nicely. Mr. Johanson is an em-ployee of the local United States postoffice, and Mrs. Johanson was formerly Miss Lola Carrlgan, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Car-riga- Mary May Ellerman of Salt Lake City is spending the holidays with her cousin, Betty Jean Benson. Community Church Services for Sunday, January 5: 9:45 a. m. Sunday school. 11:00 a. m. Morning worship. The new pastor, Rev. Talmadge Gilson, will be introduced to the congrega-tion by Superintendent W. E. Blackstock. Rev. Gilson will preach the sermon. Following the morning service the ladies of the church will serve a covered dish luncheon in the church parlors. 1:00 p. m. Sunday School at Cop-perfield. 2:00 p. m. Sunday School at Highland Boy Community House. 7:00 p. m. Evening service a Highland Boy. Supt. Blackstock will preach. COAT-THEF- T RACKET AT DANCEREPORTEO A new method of thievery, that of stealing coats from checkrooms during local dances, has sprung up in Bingham, according to Chief of Police Al Pautsch. On New Years eve, Pautsch stated, two coats were stolen from the Gemmell Club dance, and one from the Legion civic center. Mrs. Margaret Preg-gast- is is the loser of a new valuable fur coat,, and Miss Mafalda Tog-gliat- ti is minus a valuable coat . Severe prosecution, including penitentiary sentences, await the guilty parties, if apprehended, as the charge is grand larceny for such offenses. KEEPING!)! YOOq IN TOUCH WITH WORLD EVENTS Out WEEKLY NEWS REVIEW give you a condensed, editorial interpreta-tion of the events of each week that are making world history. It is a syndicated ! newspaper feature prepared by Edward W. Pickard, one of the highly trained newspaper observers of the nation. READ IT newsPaPet 001 ct to readers any carefully from bettet foundation ' intelligent week to week discussion of the history-makin- g events You will find it interring of the world. We consider ourselves for-- ind helpful in youi dticufr II - on of rld .vena with tuiutt in being one of the newspapers youtneighbor..ndfrind. 11,1,1 J able to secure this valuable feature. Let the Bingham Bulletin do your printing. |