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Show ii;WS ITEMS VOf IX II AHw-- (7v3rn I I f vOPil I II I FRIENDS FOR Jot R 92 I ( Qj PIIONEEMSOR 92 JJL45 A" Independent NewspapeT" "bIXGIIAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1910 Oldest Weekly in Salt Lak. County 'PHONE 91 Clean - Up, Paint --Up Campaign To Begin City Trucks To Pick Up Trash ApriM5 To 20 CRUSADE AGAINST GRIME The annual opportunity for ev-ery Bingham resident to actively practice good citizenship in the Clean-up- , Paint-up- , Fix-u- p cam-paign, a move to modernize and beautify Bingham, is announced by Mayor Ed Johnson for the week of April 15 to 20. Last year a very successful campaign was conducted with the cooperation of residents with all civic organizations and the city officials. Every resident is asked to take part in the campaign by coopera-ting in the concerted movement to make Bingham a better place in which to live. Art J. Sorenson, city council-man of health is director of the drive, and announces that the city will be divided into the following zones with different welfare groups supervising the Clean-u- p campaign in districts as follows: Carr Fork City employees in charge; trucks will pick up rub-bish Monday, April 15; From post office up Main street No. 1 Fire company; trucks will pick up rubbish Tues-day, April 16; Post office down to and includ-ing Markham Junior chamber of commerce; rubbish to be haul-ed away Wednesday April 17; Markham down to No. 2 Fire hall, including Heaston Heights, Lions club; trash and rubbish to be hauled away Thursday, April 18; No. 2 Fire hall to Royal laun-dry building, including Heglund, Dixon, Freeman and Railroad av-enue No. 2 Firemen; trucks will call for rubbish Friday, April 19; Royal laundry building to city limits including lower Railroad avenue Boy Scouts; Saturday, April 20. The city truck will work in the districts on the days specified above. Residents are urged to make a thorough Clean-u- p about their homes and place trash in an accessible place to be picked up by the city truck. You owe it to yourself and the city to Clean-u- p your living quarters during Clean-u- p cam-paign. Cooperate with those in charge. ;jt Bingham Canyon Community Chest Drive To Commence Monday, April 15 I . Support For !ublitf Is Asked Projects matter of his-rv- lt WWn l'j-1- s a will bo remembered in ngfani Canyon as the year in i,ic the Community Chest was formed, without ,ub the most important single hiavment of community spirit 4 ivic pride accomplished by e cl'.v in a year's span. Xh ' iif xt month, April 15 to ay! 15. dates of the beginning d XuAmz of the initial drive of Chest workers, will a pii ;od of decisive import-ed as the ways and means mfluttee will have the first pd tunity to measure in dol-- s md cents public support of i flew program. Goal Set (JncVr Chairman A. A. Macke, mfrutUv Members Mayor Ed hnl'in. Irvin Stillman, J. A. ,rdfcn. Mrs. W. H. Harris, B. A. rckjng. Louis Buchman and Art ilyi will begin a campaign to seja minimum of $2514.00, the KrtjU required by the budget opftd fur 1940, and enough ei that figure to establish an eqlate reserve fund for con-gdhcie- s. Hf Chest is an association of luAtary workers, organized t fcr profit but for the purpose rfising monies to maintain and welfare organiza-tha- t serve the residents of am Canyon. 4 the eve of the first Com-injt- y Chest drive nears, the ufjnan, Mr. Macke, states, "Be-ring in the growing spirit of oi$n helpfulness which has be- - nc the greatest asset of our nmunity, the organizers and mjiittoes of the Community est are looking forward to an subscribed budget in order ;ta contingent fund may be alJLshcd, with the hope that nfgiit be increased in future 11$ to constitute a reserve for 'otseen emergencies, hard e, or like possibilities." I Benefits Imantagea of a Community --a over the former methods of 3jjlg money to support organ-tipn- s arc many. An establish-omnumit- y Chest would, cut vf the various times of col-til1- 1 f funds; shift the cares Charities from the support of 4'-- ' tn the many; assure do-d- i that 1 i money will go to rfiwhile purposes and be ex-ij'- d in an efficient manner; if certain the existence of "fuvhile philanthropic organi- - vllfare groups profit by as- - projects will have neces-- f funds for service and all a- - hie time may be devoted to projects, rather than solicita- - of funds. One Drive f subscriber to the Commu-Ches- t fund has the know-- 9 that he will not be asked f during the year to support $imunity welfare project, and Continued on page 10) SOFTBALL MEETING SCHEDULED TONIGHT Irvin Stillman, president of the Bingham district Softball association, has called a meet-ing of the league for this eve-ning (Friday) at eight o'clcok in the Gemmell club library. All teams represented in the league last year and all teams planning to enter league play this season are asked to have representatives at this meeting. STUDENTS TO ENTER COMMERCIAL TESTS A commercial team from Bing-ham high school is at Brigham Young university at Provo today to compote in tournaments. Re-presenting the local school are: type A Ethel Richards, John Anderson, Cleo Groves and Jean Wilcox; amateur type Marion Pett, Marzetta Colyar and Dor-othy Whiteley; shorthand A John Anderson, Mary Hess, Flo-rence Larsen and Alberta Col-yar; shorthand B Shirley An- - derson, Joy Ann Jackson, Norma Hall and Betty Barnett. r ' JAYCEES ENTER IN BOWUNGTOURNEY A junior chamber of commerce bowling team from Logan won the first state-wid- e Jaycee tour-nament Saturday evening at a Salt Lake City alley. The Bing-ham entry defeated the Provo team with which they were pair-ed, but did not garner enough pins to defeat the Logan entry. Elliott W. Evans, Norman Mac-Nei- l, S. J. Granquist, Harvey Wolfe and Stan Jacques repre-sented the Bingham chamber. Also taking part in individual play were Dr. B. D. Bennion, Jess Southwell, Jack Christensen and Leland Burress. Mr. Evans rolled high individ-ual score for Bingham members, with a 251. A Salt Laker, Jack Jones, was the only bowler with a higher score, Eight local Jaycee members were guests in the afternoon of the Salt Lake unit and the Fisher Brewing company, making an in-spection of the brewery and en-joying a Dutch lunch. ! WORKER KILLED IN MWISHAP Percy. R. Jones, 28, of Bluff-dal- e, died instantly at 9:20 a.m. Wednesday in the Lark mine of the United States Smelting Refin-ing and Mining company, when a slab of rock slipped out of the face of the drift and struck him on the head as he worked with two other men in setting up a drill column bar. George E. Bowen, mine super-intendent, said Mr. Jones was working with Macke E. Loggins and Raymond E. Shephard, both of Lark, at the time of the acci-dent. E. A. Hodges, state metal mine inspector; Superintendent Bow-e- n, and Oscar A. Glaeser, com-pany safety engineer, completed an investigation Wednesday af-ternoon. Inspector Hodges said the ac-cident was unavoidable and that no one was to blame. Mr. Jones was employed by the company as a miner, mucker and mechani-cal shovel operator since 1936. He was born in Bingham, July 10, 1911, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jones, and attended school in Bluffdale. In addition to his parents, re-siding in Bluffdale, he is sur-vived by his widow, Mrs1. Mada Benson Jones; and the following brothers and sisters: Leslie of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Berdie Tur-ner of Bluffdale, Mrs. Leah Hor-to- n of Murray; Heber, Edward, Ronald and Helen Jones of Bluffdale, and Mrs. Marjory Han-son of Lark. FIREMEN TO ASSIST IN CLEAN UP DRIVE The Bingham volunteer fire-men at their regular monthly joint meeting Tuesday evening voted to assist in the annual Clean-u- p campaign to be conduc-ted in Bingham Canyon during the week of April 15-2- No. 1 Fire company will have charge of the district from the post office to upper Main street. Collection of trash will be made in this district on Tuesday, April 16. Art Cook and Jack House-holder were named as commit-teemen in charge of the cam-paign activities. No. 2 firemen will have charge of the district which includes Main street from No. 2 Fire Hall to the Royal laundry building, Heglund, Dixon, Freeman and Railroad avenues. Chief Clive Siddoway has not as yet named the committee from No. 2 com-pany. Rubbish from this dis-trict will be hauled away on Friday, April 19. Eddie Grant was elected cap-tain of the Firemen's softball team for the 1940 season. Jack Coombs, president of the Uni-versal Safety Appliance com-pany of Salt Lake City, was pre-sent and demonstrated carbon dioxide (dry ice) fire extingui-shers. Mr. Coombs showed the effectiveness of this type of ex-tinguisher in putting out gaso-line fires. Following the demon-stration firemen enjoyed a Dutch lunch. ANNUAL CARNIVAL DANCESCHEDULED Because the Carnival dance given by the junior chamber of commerce last year was such an outstanding success, the organiza-tion has decided to give a simi-lar dance this year, on Saturday, May 25, which promises to be of interest to entertainment-seekers- . C.C. Colyar, Parker Gray and William Motis were named com-mittee members to make arrange-ments for this annual affair. Election of officers will be made by the Jaycecs at the first meet-ing in May. Jess Southwell, El-liott W. Evans and Harold Bar-ton have been named nominating committee members and will make a report at the Jaycee bu- -' siness meeting to be held April 22. Arrangements are being made by the local chamber to be hosts to members of the Salt Lake chamber of commerce in the near future with a trip over the Utah Copper company open-pi- t mine, followed by a luncheon. Dale Johnston and Jess Southwell were named on the committee to make the necessary arrange-ments for entertainment. O MRS. AJ. PETERSON DIES ATSON'S HOME Services were conducted Wed-nesday at 12:30 p.m. at the High-land Park L.D.S. ward chapel. Salt Lake City, for Mrs. Hilda Josephina Wallgren Peterson, 80, of 2653 Highland Drive, Salt Lake City. Bishop LeGrand Rich-ards officiated. Mrs. Peterson was 'a resident of Bingham Can-yon from 1900-191- 7. , Mrs. Peterson recently under-went an operation at the Bing-ham Canyon hospital and had been receiving treatment for the past four weeks. She was releas-ed Friday and was taken to home of a son, Alvin Peterson, of 310 Main street, where, she died Fri-day evening of pulmonary embo-lism. An active worker in the Relief society of Highland Park L.D.S. ward, she was a convert to the church, emigrating from Sweden in 1883. She was married to August J. Peterson August 17, 1887, in the Logan L.D.S. temple. The cou-ple came to Bingham in 1900, and after 17 years' residence here, moved to Salt Lake City. Besides her husband, Mrs. Pe-terson is survived by five sons, Alvin and A. M. Peterson of Bingham; Joseph E. Peterson of Rio Tinto, Nev.; P. J. Peterson of Tonopah, Nev.; Holger Peter-son of Salt Lake City; a daugh-ter, Mrs. F. Ernest Dean of Salt Lake City; a brother, Enoch W. Wallgren of Sandy; a sister, Mrs. Amelia Hasalone of San Fran-cisco, Calif.; 16 grandchildren and six n. Interment was in Wasatch Lawn cemetery under direction of the Bingham Mortuary. MARCH INCOME AND EXPENSE FOR CITYJ LISTED Budget report for March for the city of Bingham Canyon as made to the city council Wednes-day evening by Recorder Eugene Morris shows revenue as follows: Water rents, $656.50; merch-ants licenses, $201; dog tax, $48; peddlers license, $2.00; fines and forfeitures, $101; cemetery, $25; Women's Civic club (library), $100. Total $1133.50. Expenditures were: public safe-ty department, $896.51; streets and sewer fund, $625.17; water department, $204.40; general fund $934.76; bonds, notes and interest, $121.60. Extra labor expenses cost $22.-7- 5 for the street and $8.75 for water departments. A payroll of $612.50 for the first half of April was passed for payment. GIRLS AT B.H-S- . WILL ENTER POSTURE PARADE Girls of the Bingham high school are working industriously for their appearance at the pos-ture parade at Brigham Young university's posture parade The junior high group will compete Friday, April 26, and the senior high Saturday, April 27. Under Mrs. Marlowe Turpin, instructor, the girls have been practicing the past three weeks. They will also enter volley ball, catch ball, dancing and baseball throw events. --i R. C. GEMMELL CLUB PROGRAM LISTED An R. C. Gemmell club dance will be held at the clubhouse on Saturday, April 27. Music for this "Waltz Night" entertain-ment will be furnished by the Smooth Keys. The second club show sche-duled for the month of April will be shown at the Princess theatre Wednesday and Thursday, April 17 and 18. The picture, "Road to Singapore", now playing first run in Salt Lake City and star-ring Bing Crosby, Dorothy La-mo- ur and Bob Hope, will be shown. TENTH PRECINCT REPUBLICANS SET MEETING APRIL 18 According to Jess Southwell, secretary of the Tenth Precinct Republican club, a meeting will be held by that organization on Thursday, April 18, at 8 p.m. in the Woodring building, which was formerly occupied by Cor-net's store. The Salt Lake coun-ty chairman, David Thomas of Salt Lake City, and Dr. Paul S. Richards will be speakers. The purpose of the meeting is to out-line a program for the year. Lions Will Meet Tuesday The first semi-month- ly Lions club meeting for the month of April will be held at the Italian-Frenc- h cafe Tuesday evening at 6:45 p. m. A discussion of Clean-up week activities and a propos-ed airplane trip tentatively dated for Sunday, April 21, will be business topics. Sam Sturm proprietor of Sturm's Cafe, received a broken leg while at work on the Olm-stea- d tunnel at Draper on Wed-nesday, April 3. The accident happened when a car Mr. Sturm was dumping failed to catch, causing the car to topple over and pin his leg. FIRE INSURANCE RATES REDUCTION IS SOUGHT Representatives of the Fire Underwriters board to make a new survey of Bingham Canyon are expected in the near future by the city council. Rates asked in Bineham Can- - yon range from 70 cents to $7 per $100 insurance. The-moder- fire-fighti- equip-ment owned by Bingham Canyon and the low fire losses of the past several years are expected to influence underwriters to re-duce property fire insurance rates. At council meeting Wednesday evening purchase of a $37.50 fog nozzle for use on the No. 1 Fire department truck was approved. P.T.A. SCHEDULES FINAL B.H.S. MEET The Parent-Teach- er association of the Bingham high school will hold their final meeting of this school year at the hieh school auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Mon-day, April 22, it has been an-nounced by Mrs. George Addy, vice president in charge of pub-licity. Election of officers will be held, a talk will be given by D. A. Wooton and a social will follow. CLOSING PROGRAM " IS SET BY M. I. A. There will be no Mutual Im-provement meeting at Bingham ward L.D.S. chapel next Tuesday evening, Miss Helen Morris, president, has announc-ed. Plans are being made for the closing program, "Honor Night", at 7:30 p.m.: Tuesday, April 23. Mrs. Ora F. Beck, entertainment leader, will be in charge. Re-freshments will be served. O Boyd Bernard, former local postmaster and a resident of Salt Lake City, was a visitor in Bing-ham Sunday. How Funds Given Community Chest Will Be Spent This Year After careful consideration of the budget committee of the Bingham Community Chest, it has been definitely decided to allot the amounts listed to the approved beneficiary organiza-tions now members of the. Chest as follows: American Red Cross $250. The Red Cross has always been known as a ready aid in any em-ergency. Every subscriber of one dollar or more to the Community Chest automatically becomes a member of the American Nation-al Red Cross. Boy Scouts of America $400. There are 150 boys enrolled in the Bingham district Boy Scouts. Leadership, sportsmanship, citi-zenship and conservation are taught to these boys of today who will be our men of tomorrow. Americanism essay contest pri-zes $12. Sponsored by the Bing-ham junior chamber of commerce for Bingham high schol students. Bingham high school senior student awards $12. Sponsored by the Bingham junior chamber of commerce. Christmas lighting $15. Spon-sored by the Bingham junior chamber of commerce for resi dents in Bingham district. Summer band instruction $150. Sponsored by the Bingham junior chamber of commerce for the purpose of giving musical in-struction to the children of the Bingham district under qualifie leadership. American Legion, junior base-ball $150. Junior baseball is bas-ed on the theory that the princi-ples of good sportsmanship are closely related to the principles of good citizenship. Summer playground activity (Copperton) $250. The fund is handled through the American Legion to provide proper recrea-tion and supervision of play-ground activities for all boys Oi the community. . Central school summer play-ground $200. To provide play-ground activities for the smalle children of the Bingham district under the supervision of the Wo-men's Civic club. Thanksgiving Day baskets $25. For the purpose of providing cheer to the needy of the com-munity in cooperation with school children of the district. Also un-der supervision of the Women's Civic club. Fourth of July celebration $450. To provide suitable enter- - tainment for children and adults of the district on the national holiday. Under supervision of volunteer firemen. Highland Boy Community House $425. For support of a meeting house and playground for the community. Activities in-clude religious services, irrespec-tive of creed, education and phy-sical training classes and social affairs, as well as community welfare. Girl Scouts of America $100. The purpose and policy of this organization, which favors no sect or creed, is to promote the virtues of womanhood by train-ing girls to recognize their obli-gations to God and their country and to prepare for the duties de-volving upon women in the home, in society and in the state. Campaign and operating ex-pense $75.00. To cover cost of membership, honor roll cards and postage. The total budget is $2,514.00. On the budget committee were J. William Grant, Stan Jacques, Irvin Stillman and Miss Ada Du-hig- g working under Dr. Paul S. Richards, Community Chest president. Mrs Art J. Sorenson, Mrs. Marie Wix, Mrs. T. A. Peterson of Salt Lake City and Mrs. Rose Stuart of Sandy left last Thurs-day for a three-wee- k visit with relatives in Los Angeles, San Diego and Pomona, California. O The Women's Democratic or-ganization at Copperton met last evening with Mrs. Odell Peter-son. Trees To Be Planted In I Cemetery By Jaycee Group I an opening activity to start fannual Clean-u- p week in ham Canyon during the week II 15-- the junior chamber rmmorce decided at their ar meeting Monday evening fake a project of beautifying ciry cemetery. The Jaycecs I to devote Sunday afternoon Fansplanting cedar trees in jutv cemetery. Nbers of the junior chamber ! meet at Vaun's Service sta-- H Copperton at 1 p. m. Sun- - lhe group will be divided, paif traveling to Butterfield J" to obtain the trees and ,0er half going to the ceme-- o make preparations for --ng the trees. ting to Dale Johnston, President, the city will allow the group to use he ut truck and other tools will be for the work. All junior chamber members are urged to be at Vaun's Service at 1 p. m. Sunday to lend their efforts in, beautifying the Bingham come-- j tery. It was also decided by the Jay-- ( cees to take an active part m tht annual Clean-u- p campaign acti ties, by supervising Clc.n-uV- j work in the district fron W post office down to and nc udmg, Markham. City trucks will up refuse and trash from this, section all day Wednesday Apnl Dale 17. A committee Johnston, Ray Call. Orv.lle Graj will con and Leland G. Burress Monday tc, enhst tact residents their cooperation in the cam paign. GALENA DAYS WILL BE HELD SEPTEMBER 11-1- 2 At the regular semi-month- ly junior chamber of commerce meeting held Monday evening at Sturm's cafe it was unanimously decided to hold Galena Days on Wednesday and Thursday, Sep-tmb- er 11 and 12. Advancement of Galena Days' dates from the last week in September was ne-cessary in order that delegates attending the national conven-tion of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, which is being held in Salt Lake City September 11 and 12, will be able to spend one day enjoying events sche-duled for Galena Days. According to word received by Dale Johnston, president of the junior chamber of commerce and Galena Days general chairman, there will be approximately 800 delegates arrive on special train via the Bingham and Garfield railway on the morning of Sep-tember 11, to spend the entire day in Bingham Canyon partici-pating in Galena Days activities. The Galena Days visit by the mining groups will be part of the regular American Institute of Min-ing Engineers program. There will be representatives attending the convention from Alaska to Africa. It will be the desire of the junior chamber of commerce e the second annual Galena Days one of the most pictures-que and best celebrations ever held in the state, thereby assuring the mining visitors a treat they will remember, a program event never duplicated at any A.LMJS, convention. |
