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Show Wt . , IH l, 43. NO-- 12- - An Indepemdent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1938 Weekly In Salt Uks County 'PHONE 91 Utah Copper Co. Field Day Program Offers Variety Of Sports, Contests, Amusements Tuesday Holiday Will See Award Trophies, Prizes In Contests "It's All In Fun Yours for the Best Time Ever" at the Utah Copper Field day at Cop-perton Community park next Tuesday from 10:00 a. m. on. Tickets are to be Issued at ball grounds for "children, red ones for pop, white for Ice cream, blue for rides on concessions. Hundreds of dollars In prizes, many valuable and attractive trophies and awards will be giv-en winners of races and contests. Beginning with assembly at the ball grounds and a band concert from the Bingham band at 10:30 a. m. there is not a dull moment in the program lined up by the entire Employee's General com-mittee and announced by Enter-tainment committee members W. R. Anderson, Harvey Goff, M. L. Jones, Carl Wilson and Lester Sumnlcht. At 10:30 a. m. tennis match-es, with $25 in trophies and cash awards will be played. Players have been selected In an elimina-tion contest and finalists are: M'ens Doubles: Tom Carrlgan and Les Carrlgan vs. Spencer Jacques and Howard Chrlaten-sen- ; Junior Singles: Spencer Jac-ques vs. Albert Marsh; Mens Singles: Tom Carrlgan vs. Jack Latimer; Mixed Doubles: Jack Latimer and Helen Loveless vs. Spencer Jacques and Virginia Watklns. Program events include: Chil-dren- s' races, 11:00 a. m.; Noon, lunch time; 12:50 p. m. band contest at the ball ground; 1:00 p. ni. races and contests. Hardball game (Gemmell vs. Bingham Independent) at 2:30 p. m.; Softball game (Gemmell vs. Bingham Radio) at 4:30 p. m.; 8:00 p. in. Bathing beauty con-test, open to all ladies, attrac-tive prizes; 9:00 p. m. grand open air dance, east tennis courts, lucky number drawing at the dance. Numerous "specialties of the day" are the prizes given for every imaginable pretext, "most costly boners" of the day and "Gent making most noise at game" "are examples. Wheelbarrow polo, one of the extraordinary contests, has ail kinds of queer rules and regula-tions and promises good enter-tainment. UTAH COPPER CO. FIRST AID TEAM ENTER MEETS According to Georgo Knudaon, safety engineer for the Utah Capper company, the mining company first aid team from Bingham will compete with teams from Magna and Arthur at Cop-perto- n next Tuesday, Employee's Field day. Members of the Mines team are Eddie Grant, captain; cliff But-terfiel- d, Heinle Smernoff, Tory Tobiason, Cyril Robison and Wil-lar- d Nichols, patient. The local team will also enter first aid contests at the Salt Lake county ifair to be held at Murray September 3.4 and 5, and possibly will enter the state fair contests in October. ORDER OF EAGLES STATE OUTING AT MURRAY PLANNED The local Fraternal Order of Eagles will attend a state outing at Murray city park Sunday. There will be softball games be-tween Bingham Eagles and Salt Lake Eagles, Tooele Eagles and Murray Eajgles. A trophy will be awarded the state champion. The public Is invited to attend. There will be races for children and swimming. Those attending may either bring their own pic-nic lunch or may purchase re-freshments at the park. Irvln Stillman and Clinton Ro-bison are In charge of the Bing-ham softball team. Murray Aerie will be (host to visitors 'from or-ganizations in Salt Lake City, Tooele and Bingham. WATER SHORTAGE CAUSES COUNCIL TO RESTRICT USE Beginning today, restrictions on the use of water for sprinkling lawns will require residents to use water but thirty miuutes in the morning in the lower end of Bingham and thirty minutes in the evening in the upper end, city council members decided Wednesday night. There is a shortage of water at present. Purchase of ground for both water tanks in Freeman at a price of $200 from former own-ers La Von Holes, H. O. Metos and V. T. Eddy was approved by the council. Councilman A. J. Sorenson re-ported lights ordered for the playground in lower Bingham have arrived and will be Install-ed in the near future. Ray Tatton and Irvin Stillman, representing Bingham Volunteer Firemen, reported to the council that the old school house on Main street and houses along Wall street are a fire hazard. Attorney Elliott Evans was no-tified to take up the matter with the owners, the Jordan School District and Harry Steele. r BINGHAM CHAMPS LOSE IN TOURNEY Bingham Radio lost to Associ-ated Oil of Salt Lake City and were eliminated from the state softball tournament last Satur-day in the first game, 6-- 3. The local champions Jumped out In front in the first Inning, getting three runs. They got all their runs from Colbert, who was knocked out In the first Inning. Gundersou, one of Salt Lake's outstanding pitchers, relieved Colbert and held the Radio boys scoreless the balance of the game while his mates pushed over six runs. Bingham Garage Softball team defeated Yellow Cab in Salt Lake City by a score of 7 Sunday. Hdecision 4m GEMMELL s- - CHANCEAT LEAD Ji Lwnell club has a good JS nc to finish - at the top of J 'rjtah Industrial league this It is result of the decision Secretary Darrell Kidd, de- - V 'inf the game Carbon won t oemmell Wednesday 9-- 2 LJI & because of Carbon's use 7l 'a Ineligible player, Mascera, 'jli m Legion player. M leiligue rule forbids a team 4 f4 -- picking up" a player in ft tast 30 days of competition, i j the decision gives Gemmell I , victories and five defeats second place in the league. It oemmell wins from Pinney J sday it will leave the Salt Z te team with nine wins and . V I t defeats. V liagna has eight wins and five , Les and has a home game ' furday against Pinney and a V lie with Carbon Sunday. Li, With Magna and Pinney each f play two games this week end i Gemmell to Plav &ut onei foo Its as though the home team j I in outside chance to win. Wednesday's game saw George Jf Ifi turning in his first vic-- , y over Gemmell in two years, Ma fnpletely dominating the game. frbon chased Lou Valdez to the jowers with a five-ru- n uprising jj the second. iSunday Gemmell, with Gene il pitching, handed M'agna a '4 defeat at Copperton. This 3 s Oemmell's fourth win in six 4rU with the defending 'champ-- i f' j League Standing if Won Lost Pet. iney Beverage .... 9 4 .692 igna-Garfle-ld 8 5 .615 Smmell Club 9 5 .642 Mend 7 7 .500 !cvo 5 9 .357 Mon 3 ill .214 i ... WRITING CITY'S HISTORY IS NEW WPA PROJECT A proposed WPA project In Bingham Canyon is the writing of an authentic and official his-tory of this city. To discover and utilize every available source of Information a meeting has been called by Mayor Ed Johnson olf many of the older residents of Bingham at the city hall tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Plans for the history will be discussed by Mayor Ed Johnson and a representative of the WPA. Suggestions of those attending the meeting will be welcomed. A history of Bingham will bring publicity to this town, will furnish an accurate record of days gone by, and will give her residents knowledge of the town which will make them proudly community-consciou- s. O FAMOUS PAIR TO EMBARK ON FIVE MONTH JOURNEY Dr. Frazier and Party Will Join Two On River Haldane "Buzz" Holmstrom at Coqullle, Oregon, nd Amos Berg of Now York City visited with Dr. Russell G. Frazier last Sat-urday prior to leaving for the headwaters of the Green River, Wyoming, where they embarked Thursday morning on a five-mont- h trip down the Green and Colo-rado rivers, into Lake Meuda and further on the Colorado in-to the Gulf of California. If this trip is completed It will be the first time on record that such a fete has been ac-complished. A feature writer 'for the Na-tional Geographic magazine, Mr. Berg is a member of the world famous Explorer's club. Recent-ly his article, "A Trip Around Cape Horn", written on expert, ences of a Journey taken last summer In a 21 foot boat, was published in the Geographic. Mr. Holmstrom won praise of river-me- n by running the Green and Colorado rivers last fall In hla 450 pound cedar boat. Have Unique Bouts Traveling in two boats, Holm-strom in his beautifully construc-ted boat he made for the trip last fall and Berg making the run in a forty pound 16 foot 21 Inch rubber boat, the party is carrying the Explorer's iflag. This Is the 84th time the club flag has been taken on expeditions, two of these trips being occas-ions when the flag traveled over the north and south poles. The rubber boat has 21 air compartments, a double bottom, and is carrying a load of 4,000 pounds. The boat was especially designed for the trip by the Goodrich Rubber company. On this trip the party is carry-ing $4,000 In photographic sup-plies, Including several cameras and 250 five-Inc- h and seven-inc- h colored plate films. A pet racoon presented the men by Dr. Frazier will give thm hours of amusement. To MM-- t Frazier Joining the two adventurers September 21 will be a party headed by Dr. Frazier and In-cluding Frank Swain of Wng-ha- Charles Kelly and Dr. A. L. Inglesby of Salt Lake City in company with Julius F. Stone and son George of Columbus, Ohio, and William Christ of Cle-veland, Ohio, the latter three will arrive by plane September 20 in Salt Lake City, ifrom where they will travel by auto to Hank- - svllle, Utah. Arriving at Kite via buckboard they .will meet Berg and Holmstrom and make a trip through Glen Canyon of the Colorado. Mr. Stone ran the Colorado river in 1909. Dr. Frazier will take colored pictures of all pioneer Mormon crossings of the Colorado. Both Berg and Holmstrom are very interestlrug men to meet. The Saturday Evening Post de-scribed Holmstrom as "Five feet eight inches of physical dyna-mite." He Is a river man and Is very enthusiastic and energetic when talking of his first love. He is an expert craftsman wheth-er he is guiding a boat or fash-ioning it. Mr. Berg Is cultured and po-lished, with the unshakable poise achieved by wide travel and a diversity of intellectual Interests, an adventurer who is also a and journalist. REGISTER BEFORE SEPTEMBER 13 Check Saturday At District Places Listed Books will open at 8 a.m. Sat-urday, August 27, In six dis-tricts of Precinct 10, Salt Lake county, the final registration date before the primary election, September 13. Voters are urged to check their qualifications to vote at the primary, run-of- f and final polls. While citizens will not be el-igible to cast ballots at the pri-mary on September 13, if they do not register August 27, they may still register September 20, October 11, 12, 18 and November 1 before the final poll. Registration iplaces in this dis-trict are: 333 Annie Denver, 109 East highway, Copperton. 334 ?Mrs. Lilly Timothy, 145 Main street, Bingham. 335 M'rs. Carrie Doyle, 586 Main street, Bingham. 336 Stella Klopenstlne, Cop-perfiel- d, Bingham. 33 Mrs. Anna Tregaskis, Highland Boy, Bingham. 338 'Mrs. Clara Turpin, Lark Drug store, Lark. Registration places are open at 8 a m. until 9 p.m. Those who failed to vote at the last two general elections must be dropped from polls of qualified voters until they re-register. Check August 27 and see If you are duly registered to vote at the primary September 13. FOREIGN BORN AMERICANIZATION CLASSES VARIED New Subjects, New Appeals Attract Many Supplementary to free adult education classes in elementary subjects which began August 16 at the Central school, a socializ-ing program to meet needs of foreign born will begin Monday, August 29. Under Glen W. Browning clas-ses in engllsh, reading, writing. American history and study of the constitution are being held each Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p. m. for those of 18 years and over. The first night 18 persons enrolled. The classes beginning next Monday at 7 p. m. will bo. in charge of Phoebe H. Roberts of Midvale, alien supervisor In this district. The course is of especial Interest to women and it is en-tirely free. Among other subjects the class will study sewing and cooking. Primary aim is to fam-iliarize foreiign-bor- n with Ameri-can customs. Excursions through the state capitol, University of Utah, courts and public Institutions are part of the plans outlined by Mrs. Roberts. - STAKE OFFICER TO SPEAK SUNDAY AT CHURCH SERVICES The Aaronic priesthood of the Bingham ward L. D. S. church is In charge of the meeting Sun-day nLght and have announced that Reynold Bills of Riverton, a member of the stake high council, will be speaker. Norman Densley, supervisor of the priest-hood, will be in charge of the meeting. s LOCAL NOTES Mr. and Mrs. William M. Gall-az- zl and son Ray and Mrs. Roy Gervals and sons Ralph and Leslie, all Of Los Angeles, ar-rived in Binigham Saturday and are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lor-e- n Stokes. Mrs. Galeazzi is the mother and Mrs. Gervais a sister of Mr. Stokes. Mr. and Mrs. John Sybrowsky, Joe Rawlins and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bowen of Salt Lake City fished Sunday at Mirror Lake. Dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Sorenson were Mr. and Mrs. Wal-lace Sorenson of Caliente, Ne-vada, Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Stand-is- h df Park City and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Short of Salt Lake City. The State Unemployment com-pensation office has been moved from the old Cornet store build-ing to the city hall. Office hours will be maintained from 9:30 a. m. until 4 p. m. each Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thomas of Copperfield are visiting in Butte, Montana, with their daughter, Mrs. L. W. Robinson, and vaca-tioning in Yellowstone Park. They will return home sometime next week . W. B. anglesby, Glen Long, Vern Skinner and Gail Farns. worth returned "Sunday from a four-da- y trout Iflshing trip which took them by pack train into the Granddaddy lakes region. The party had fine luck. Mr. and Mrs. Max Spendlove, recently returned from a two week trip to Yellowstone park and the Tetons, are gueats this week of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sppendlove. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sturm, Mr. and Mrs. Art Sorenson return-ed home last Friday from a two-wee- k vacation in Canada, the Northwest, San Francisco and Reno. MY. and Mrs. Bert Thomas and Miss Alida Thomas of Lark, Mr. and Mrs. James Barkle and dau-ghter Miss Pauline and James Jr. of Copperton and Reverend Wayne Clymer and Vyrle Stauf-fe- r of Murray spent Sunday at Saltair. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ander-son and Mrs. Caroline Huebner left Saturday for Elko, Nevada, Mrs. Huebner's home. Mrs. Hueb-ner has been a guest of her dau-ghter, Mrs. Anderson, most of the summer. Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Freeman of Fillmore visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Vietti. Their son, Ralph Joseph, remained here for a week's visit with the Vietti and Joseph Scussel families. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Chadwick and family of San Francisco are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Neldon Chadwick. t LOCAL BOYS ENTER BASEBALL SCHOOL Following are names of boys who attended the CIncinnatti Reds baseball school in Salt Lake City conducted August 17-2- 0: Jimmy Byrnes, Pete Saltas, Joe Frisch, Isaac Oliver, Steve Vranes and Joe Osborne of Lark. Many valuable pointers on national sport were giv-en the players by Coaches Mick-ey Shader and Hank Seviered. O- - GEORGE KNUDSEN JUDGE OF FIRST AID CONTEST Mr. and Mrs. George Knudsen, son Briggle and Mrs. Ida Mug-fu- r left Wednesday morning for five days in Denver, Coio.., where Mr. Knudsen will act as judge of the Colorado State First Aid Contests to be held Friday at the Civic Auditorium. The teams competing will be from Colorado coal minimg and metal mining communities. Lucky Driver Escapes From Near Wreck If a 'fly had perched on the radiator cap of O. T. Muir's car Tuesday night, the machine would probably have hurtled down the mountainside from the dugway above Copperfield. The lights on 'his car failed him just as he made a turn, Mr. Muir Bald, and before he could completely stop the car it was precariously balanced on the rock rim of the road. Mulr was thrown from the machine but escaped unhurt. The car was pulled back onto the road, unmarked. ODOR CHAMBER PES DELEGATES TO CONVENTION Resolution Asking Wider If Copper Use Is j Sponsored ' jNamed Monday evening as del-ates to the Junior chamber of Smmerce convention to be held Ogden September 3, 4 and 5 fre the following members of local unit: Elliott W. Evans, Dr. B. D. Snnlon, Jack Cbristensen, Jos-- : Scussel, L. E. Stillman, Har-- : Nordberg, Harold Barton, ' fkert Barrett, Vern Faddls, f H. c. Jenkins, Howard Bel-t- oi and Jess Southwell. JiAIternates will be namd Mon-- r evening at a meeting to be j'i at the Italian-Frenc- h cafe T p.m. foe of copper in manufacture ' 'ales tax tokens and automo-- 1 license plates is asked in a solution to be framed by El-- "t Evans and presented the a' Junior chamber convenion ' their consideration. Evans was elected a state "t rector for the coming year, to J I office September 5, suc-pli- g Joel Jensen, who has ltd for fifteen months. 1 committee Including Mr. rins. Mr. Soussel, Doctor Ben-?o- n and Leiand Burress was fenied to imake arrangements accomodations of local del-etes at Ogden. I Monday evening at 7 o'clock, a ;, eeting to name committees to Uend departmental convention Meetings and to make arrange-nt- 8 for convention delegates 'l be held at the Italian-Frenc- h afe. I J. Preaton Grant, who has been charge of a group of CCC men at Camp Mary's Creek, Wa-shington, the past five months, came to Bingham Sunday to spend a two-wee- leave of ab-sence. B. Y. U. EDUCATOR MOURNED BY MANY Newspaper publishers of Utah mourned with authors, educators, religious workers of the inter-mounta- ln west the death Satur-day of Harrison R. Merrill, pro-fessor of journalism and director of extension work at Brigham Young University. Professor Merrill regarded newspapers "universities of the masses" and took an interest in all Utah publications. He attend-ed regularly meetings of the Utah State Press association and enjoyed giving members advice and encouragement. He Jvas born November 13. 1884, at Smithfield, Utah, a son of Orrln J. and Elizabeth White Merrill. He obtained his educa-tion in Preston, Idaho, schools, the Oneida stake academy, Uni-versity of Idaho, U. S, A. C, B. Y. U., Northwestern University and Columbia University. Aniong survivors besides his immediate family are two neph-ews known in Bingham Canyon', H. B. Merrill and Grant Mer-rill, former manaiger of Safeway store here. MINOR REPAIRS COMPLETED ABOUT BINGHAM CANYON 1A crew of five men working under supervision of Ross Mar-riott have filled all cracks in Main street and Carr Fork pave-ments with gravel and tar dur-ing the past week. The same group of men used a caterpillar tractor to level the city dump in Dry Fork Mon-day. Signs are being placed at the dump instructing those de-positing .garbage where and how it may be dumped and marking places where rubbish must not be deposited. Mo ties! Due to excessive use of water the City Council has found it necessary to make restrictions to preserve water storage through the dry season. The following schedule and rules will be enforced by the Watermaster. Time of Sprinkling 8:30 to 9:00 a. m. from Markham St. to lower city limits. 6:30 to 7:00 p. m. from Markham St. to city limits of upper Main street and Carr Fork street. The entire water system will be checked by the watermaster in the next few days. All leaky taps, pipes, faucets and etc. found must be repaired within three days after notice is given. These rules become effective Friday, August 26, 1938. Signed, City Council of Bingham Canyon, Utah j r WEATHER REPORT Joseph Spendlove, Observer 1937 1938 Min. Max. Min. Max. August 19 60 79 62 78 August 20 62 78 .60 78 August 21 70 82 63 76 August 22 66 85 66 85 August 23 71 86 67 84 August 24 64 78 68 84 August 25 62 80 66 80 Precipitation noted on August 21, 1937 and Augnst 24, 1937-3- 8. v Mr. and Mrs. James Barkle of Copperton and Reverend Way-- , ne Clymer left Thursday morn-ing for a trip through the south-ern Utah parks and Grand Can-yon. Mrs. Bert Faddls of American Fork Is a guest of her son and daughter-in-law- , Mr. and. Mrs. W. L. Faddii. I CONDITION IMPROVED i Theo Chesler, who was strick- -' ill suddenly Sunday, was re-frt-much improved' Thursday Wternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Harold ealer and son Norman of Salt like city visited at the Ches-- r home Thursday. I O Bill Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Mitchell of Copper Heights, left Thursday ev-ening for Reno wliere he will attend the University of Nevada.1 |