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Show (fJlf f?Mwt mrtaw mi Aid Pjl NQ" 22 An IndePenden Newspaper BLVCHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOV. 10, 1939 OIdt Weekly in Salt Lak County 'PHONE 91 Present City Officials Given Confidence Vote Incumbents Given Good Vote, Although Unopposed Little more than a third as many voters as reported to the polls in the municipal election two years ago cast ballots Tues-day in the biennial municipal election. Unofficial count was 417 vot-ers Tuesday. In 1937 there were 1157 citizens making an appear-ance at the polls, A heavy voto was not expected this year as the Non-Partisa- n party was un-opposed, and the turnout was considered good under these circumstances. First slate of officials to be elected since Bingham became a third class city, all incumbent were retained in office. New of-fices filled by election for the first time were those of city re-- , corder, city treasurer and the four-yea- r council position. Residents of Bingham Canyon will be served the next two years by the following officials, whose total votes gathered in the two districts are noted: Ed W. Johnson, mayor, 374; A. J. Sorenson, four-yea- r council-man, 378; A. J. Ablett, 375; R. , Dale Johnston, 386; C. A. Morley.Cv"" 377; Francis J. Quinnu 388; all two-ye- ar councilman, ' Also Eugene Morris, recorder, 393; Alvin Hall, treasurer, 386. --' By district the votes were: District 334 Ed W. Johnson, 201; A. J. Sorenson, 201; A. J. Ablett, 210; R. D. Johnston, 208; C. A. Morley, 204; F. J. Quinn, 209; Eugene Morris, 213; Alvin Hall, 209. A number of write-in- s were counted: For Mayor, H. F. Dowd, one; Art Sorenson, seven; L. G. Burress, four; C. E. Adderley, one; For four-ye- ar councilman, C. W. Adderley, one; Ross Mar-riott, three; For two - year councilmen: Fred Bemis, K. C. Anderson, John Dahlstrom, H. J. Kingsbury, Ren Nichols and William Pappas each received one vote. For this same office John Creedon received six votes, Rex Tripp five and Earl James eight votes. For the recorder position Eddie Grant received one vote and for treasurer Joe Scussel received three votes. District 335 Ed W. Johnson, 173; A. J. Sorenson, 177; A. J. Ablett, 165; R. D. Johnston, 178; C. A. Morley, 173; F. J. Quinn, 179; Eugene Morris, 180; Alvin Halt 177 Write-in- s were: Mayor, Joe Tome and Robert Bonar, each three votes, and Dave Werrett, one; For four-ye- ar councilman, Dr. H. C. Jenkins and Carrie Doyle, each one vote; For two-ye- ar council posts, William Swainston, O. G. Muir, Fred " Bemis, W. L. Faddis, L. G. Bur-ress, John West, John Feraco, Fred Dunn, Dorlesca Kenner, Margaret Contratto and Gladys Quinn; each one vote; For city recorder Fred Bemis, three votes and for city treasurer, Dave Werrett, one .vote. MIDVALE KIWANIS TO BE HOSTS TO LIONS Ivan Dahl, chairman of the entertainment committee of the Midvale Kiwanis club, has ex-tended an invitation to members of the Bingham Canyon Lions to attend a venison dinner at the Community church at 6:30 p. m. Monday. The regular semi - monthly Lions club meeting will be held at the Italian-Frenc- h cafe Tues-day at 6:45 p. m. It is very im-portant that all members be in attendance as the Community Chest plan will be discussed. O rHp f MTV5"' i i iJUULUI or I ' ' ' -- ' 1 ; . 1 Armistice Day --1- 939 Armistice Day, November 11, is set aside for the nation to pay homage to the men who sacri-ficed their lives in the But the day has a deep-er significance than the senti-ment alone, it is a day for re-flection and deep contemplation as well. Today, when we pause fur one hushed moment in honor of our war dead, let memory warn of the ghastliness of war Let the day be a reminder of the blessings' of peace. With war clouds looming on every horizon, forces were 4,355.000; American soldiers killed and died totaled 126,000; wounded 234,300; pris-oners and missing 4,500; total casualties. 350,300. The World War debt owed the United States as of June 30, 1938, was $13,007,010,382; total pay-ments amounts to $2,749,162,559; funded debt amounts to the total of $11,231,157. Estimated money cost of the World War to United States gov-ernment to June 30, 1934 was $41,765,000,000 as shown by the annual report of the Secretary let us stop and think. Let us think PEACE. World War battle deaths on both sides totaled 7,465,600. The World War cost United Slates $22,000,000,000 to April 30, 1919. Casualties of all belligerents in the War totaled 37,494.186. United States total mobilized. oi me .treasury ior tne iiscai year ending June 30, 1934. The treasury has not made any fur-ther revision in the estimated money cost of the World War since that date. Let us mourn the futility of war on this Armistice Day. Let us pray for the lasting life of our Democracy. Let us think PEACE. GEMMELL CLUB ANNUAL ELECTION TO BENOV. 25 Annual election of officers for the Robert Campbell Memorial club will be held November 25, with members voting for the fol-lowing candidates: President James A. Marsh, geological department, and Le-lan- d Olsen, water service; Vice-preside- nt H. A. Check-er, crane operator, and Alvin Hall, office; Board of governors (three to be elected) Donald Reid, loco-motive engineer; Joe Loverich, T. S. operator; Marlin Schultz, shop; John Martin, track depart-ment; W. D. Cook, carpenter de-partment; G. T. Buckle, ware-house; Willard Nichols, electrical department and Douglas Donald-son, car repairer. SENIOR, JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS P.-TJU-O MEET The Parent-Teach- er associa-tion of the Bingham junior and senior high schools announce a visiting day for Wednesday af-ternoon, November 15. First part of the afternoon will be spent visiting classrooms. A program and general discussion of school topics from 3-- 4 p. m. will be held. The association urges all parents who have children en-rolled in the senior or junior high schools to attend. Persons wishing transporta-tion will meet at the following places and times: At the Bing-ham Central school, Bingham Mercantile corner, cr Adderley & Nichols garage at 12:30 noon; At Highland Boy grade school or at the Copperfield school at 12:20 noon. f Son honors fctfES TO B. H. S. 9'flTH TOOELE WIN fiJ Scoring a touchdown in the F I , and second quarters and Up in the- - fourth poriod. the wham high school Miners sub-LZt- d the supposedly powerful aI Me Buffaloes of Tooele last loKW by a score of 27"6 10 win I id B division in the Jordan d is I ,t a,,d the right to enter the Lft"Cii-final-s of state champion to play i'1 tnis division. K?jst y''fi' Bingham met Delt; - j '.he Copperton stadium in the fru'e semi-fin- class B football 'tnpionship, November 19, and !wfre defeated 19-- That was the "isttime Bingham gridders had ra,anced to the football champ-BC,i- p semi-final- s in the history -- Tthe school. irtyf Bingham high school football rollLw will meei Ihe winner of Hinckley-Delt- a game be-lt- d played IhU afternoon at liackley 0n Saturday. Novem-18- , either at Hinckley or m3lti in the state class "B" game. If Bingham wins the semi- - l contest lhey will meet ilher Morgan. Moab or Am-a- n Fork in the state champ-fashi- p game at the University 'j Utah stadium on Friday, isrember 24. The game scheduled with the 'hite Pine high school at Ely. wada. on November 18 nas ,n cancelled. Play-o- ff for B division honors jjis Saturday when Grand jty high school of Moab, .ched by Ken Soffe, will be it to either the Braves of North jmit or Trojans of Morgan. Teams in the running for the .5 besides Bingham are Ameri-- : Fork, winner of Region three, Hinckley and Delta in re-- : four. 7he Miners struck fast in the al period to score, within minutes after play started, Jon Jensen took a Tooele Jt on his own 55 yard line and Tied it back to Tooele's 10 A stripe. Frank Callen gained e yards and Jensen went over A a counter. Elwin Winn co-nned to make the score 7-- 0. r gham's second counter came ly in the second quarter when i ien went over left tackle be-- i perfect interference for a i'ard run and a touchdown, a failed to convert and the re at half time was 13-- 0. Continued on page four) o FIREMEN'S RABBIT HUNT SET NOV. 19 Announcement is made by Wilford Harris, chairman of the Bingham volunteer firemen's an-nual rabbit hunt committee, that the hunt will be made near Pro-moto- ry point, 35 miles west of Brigham City on Sunday, Novem-ber 19. All men of the community are invited to participate in this an-nual event. Assisting Mr. Harris with plans for transportation and setting time to leave Bingham are Firemen John J. Creedon, Ted Robison and Parker Gray. JOSEPH F.MERRILL TO ADDRESS THE CIVIC CLUB, GUESTS Using "The Causes and Cures of War During the Last Twenty Years" as his subject, Joseph F. Merrill, member of the council of the twelve apostles of the L.D.S. church, will be speaker at the Women's Civic club meeting next Thursday, 8 p.m. Open to the public, the meet-ing will be held in No. 2 Fire hall. Arrangements have been made by the program cqmmittee, Mrs. J. William Grant, chairman; Mrs. Elliott W. Evans, Mrs. Joel Jensen and Mrs. James Cullcton. Musical numbers will include vocal solos by Joel Jensen and selections by music students at Bingham high school. Hostesses will be Mrs. Art Sorenson, Mrs. Sam Sturm, Mrs. Louis Arritola and Mrs. John Gresham. POWDER BLAST KILLS WORKER, INJURES ANOTHER Funeral services for Iakovos Giakomakis, 42, of Copperfield who was killed late Wednesday afternoon in a cave-i- n at the Utah Copper company mine will be Sunday afternoon at one o'clock at the Hellenic Orthodox church, Salt Lake City. The body is at the Bingham mortuary. With Mr. Giakomakis at the time of the accident was Charles D. Nichols, who was seriously injured. Powder gang workers, the two had prepared one charge and were springing a second hole for a smaller charge when the large charge exploded. Falling rock crushed both men. Mr. Giako-makis was killed almost instant-ly, suffering a fractured skull. Mr. Nichols' injuries included fractures of both legs and many lacerations and bruises. His con-dition was reported as "fairly good" at St. Mark's hospital yes-terday afternoon. A native of Crete Island, Greece, Mr. Giakomakis had been a resident of Bingham Canyon the past twenty-seve- n years, since his arrival in this country. He had been employed at the U. S. Mines and by Utah Copper company. Besides five sisters in Greece, Mr. Giakomakis is survived by a cousin, Jack Kelles of Salt Lake City. O BYRD EXPEDITION BEGINSJOURNEY The Byrd Antarctic expedition left the Boston Navy yards yes-terday in two ships, the Bear and North Star, and are expected to dock today at Philadelphia to pick up two planes. Slated to leave Philadelphia Saturday at 10 a.m., next halt for the boats will be at the Pan-ama canal. Friends who wish to write to Dr. Russell G. Frazier, only Utahn and physician-surgeo- n with the expedition, may address mail to him in care of the postmaster, U.S.S. North Star, Panama canal. The party will have 'reached Auckland, New Zealand, on Christmas day, after the long trip through Panama canal and down the west coast of South America. The 125 members of the expe-dition are scheduled to be gone two years, 14 months of which will be spent on the ice. Object of the expedition is to claim land for United States and gather a mass of scientific data. Best wish- - es of their countrymen go with members of the group for their success and safe return. STATE ASSEMBLY OFFICERS VISIT REBEKAHS HERE The official visitation of the president of the Rebekah state assembly of Utah to the local chapter, Ruth No. 7. was held Tuesday evening in the Masonic hall. The president, Mrs. Sylvia S. Carey of Salt Lake City, and the following members of her suite were present: Mrs. Jennie Nelson of Murray, warden; Miss Ethel Smith of Salt Lake City, secretary; Mrs. Marie Stuart of Sandy, treasurer; also a num-ber of past presidents and past grand masters. Mrs. Carey received a lovely corsage and responded with a talk on "Rebekah Odd Fellow-ship". Mrs. Stuart reported on a meeting held in Salt Lake City Saturday evening. As district su-pervisor of Rebekah lodges Mrs. Stuart announced appointment of five committee chairmen for the local lodge: Miss Clara Christ-ense- n, education; Mrs. Frank Mead, attendance; Mrs. Mike Brisk, publicity; Mrs. Ruth Buck-le, membership; Mrs. James Den-ver, program. Billy Denver played piano so-los. After the business meeting a dinner was served to forty seated at three tables, placed in a horseshoe formation and ar-ranged with a horn of plenty filled with fruits and miniature horns of plenty holding salted nuts as favors. Mrs. Mead and Mrs. Buckle were responsible for the refresh-ments and Mrs. Helen Kreasan of Highland Boy won a set of embroidered dish towels which were raffled. o MASONS SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER RELEASED The monthly schedule for Canyon lodge, No. 13, F. & A. M. for November released by Secre-tary John Robertson this week is as follows: Monday, Nov. 13 All officers and members of Canyon lodge will be guests of Mt. Moriah lodge at a 7 o'clock dinner in the Masonic temple in Salt Lake City. Tuesday, Nov. 14 Regular semi-monthl- y meeting at the lodge hall. Past master Lincoln G. Kelly, Mt. Moriah lodge of Salt Lake City will be speaker. Tuesday, Nov. 28 Regular semi-month- ly meeting at 7:30 p. m. Horace Beck of Salt Lake City will be speraker. STAKE ROAD SHOW EVENTOFTUESDAY Carrying out the theme title, "M.I.A. Around The Year", the West Jordan stake roundelay or road show was presented in nine wards Tuesday evening. The acts included: West Jordan, February; Valen-tine's day minuet, Sweetheart waltz and Sailor's tap dance; Copperton, October: Spooky-spoo- k night, witches, ghosts, black cats, jack o'lanterns, grand sound effects; South Jordan, July: "West-ward Ho!" an evening around the campfire with a band of pio-neers. Songs and dances to the accompaniment of accordion and harmonica. Ensemble chorus, "All Is Well"; Violin solo, by John Chipian, "Our Boat of Love", by Sam Pezzopane with accompaniment by Mrs. George Austin. Lark, January: "Winter" with snow queen, icicles, snow maid-ens and Jack Frost, dance to tune of "Winter Wonderland"; Riverton First ward, Septem-ber: Cavalcade, a series of tab-leaux depicting important Sep-tember dates in American his-tory; Herriman, April: Dances of (Continued on page ten) NEW STOVE TO HE BOUGHT BY FIREMEN At the No. 1 Firemen's meet-ing Wednesday evening authori-ty was given a committee to pur-chase an electric range for in-stallation at No. 1 Fire hall. Named to select the stove are Wilford Harris and Marlin Sch-ultz. Mrs. Loren Stokes and Mrs. Schultz are auxiliary members who will be consulted in the choice. O METHODIST CHURCH WOMEN TO JOIN OTHERS AT MIDVALE TUESDAY Borrowing their idea from Congressional committee hear-ings, Methodist women through-out the United States on Tues-day, November 14, will sit in on an examination of the activities and accomplishments of their church in the fields of social, welfare and missionary work. The hearing, a united endeavor on the part of Methodist women meeting simultaneously in some 2,000 local churches, is a part of Fellowship week, one of Metho-dism's annual observances. The week, designed to emphasize the story of the church's world-wid- e (Continued on page ten) NEW POSTMASTER TO BE SELECTED Mark L. James, who was ap-pointed acting postmaster of Bingham Canyon December 8, 1933, and whose appointment was approved February 18, 1935, for a four --year term, is quitting that office as soon as the civil service commission appoints an-other postmaster. Postmaster James' physical condition prohibits his reappoint-ment to office. Applications for examinations for the position of postmaster of Bingham Canyon must be received in Washington, D.C., before November 29, Miss Althea Christensen, secretary of the local board of examiners of the civil service commission, has announced. The statement of the commis-sion and their notice of the me-thod of appointment is published elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin. Postmaster James' many friends regret to see his term in office end, and wish him well in any new enterprise he may under-take. O ! 1ARENCE H. LEE FUNERAL RITES HELD WEDNESDAY Mineral services for Clarence y Lee, 39, who died of a bral hemorrhage Saturday in Bingham Canyon hospital e held Wednesday afternoon 'he Bingham mortuary chapeL 3ishop David C. Lyon officiat-ed also gave the opening "O'er. Francis Miller was the aker. Eugene Morris gave the sing prayer and Dr. Paul S. ds dedicated the grave at 'family plot in the Bingham "etery, Musical numbers included the "Sing of "End of A Perfect 'f, by Mrs. Clive Siddoway' 'j Miss Annie Masters with Don Reid playing accom--'imen- t. Hawaiian instrument tions by Salt Lake City mu-an- s were the other numbers, allbearers were John West, t Sorenson, John Creedon, Ted n, Melvin Christopherson Jack Householder. was born July 21, 1900, in gham Canyon, a son of George :1 Martha Curtis Lee and had here and in Salt Lake City his life. 3e is survived by his widow, x Retta Gardner Lee, whom r married in Ely, Nevada, in 1932; a sister, Mrs. Neva 'e of this city; a brother, Dell of Los Angeles, Cal., and and daughter by a former '.age, Clarence H. Jr., and mine Lee, both of Los Angeles. ANNUAL LEGION DANCESATURDAY Commander E. J. (Jack) House-holder of the American Legion post No. 30 reports that the local Legionnaires expect to be hosts to a record crowd at the dance Saturday evening in the Civic Center. The post's annual Armistice dance is one of the more popular entertainment events of the win-ter social season, and the dance Saturday promises to attract many n Legionnaires and friends of the local post. Phil Baker's orchestra has been engaged. Directing arrangements are O. R. Warner, chairman, and Jess Southwell, Sam Feraco, Joe Tome and Mike Zampos. Tickets are on sale or may be bought at the door for $1.00. COUNTY LIBRARIAN WHIVISIT HERE Mrs. Ruth Vine Tyler, county librarian, will be in Bingham Canyon Monday to visit the Bingham Central school and ad-dress the students on the subject of "Books and Reading". Novem-ber 12 to 18 is National Book week, and is an especially op-portune time for residents of Bingham to visit their public library at the Bingham City hall, Mrs. J. L. Gresham, librar-ian, has announced. Those re-siding in Copperton should visit the county library branch located in the Bingham high school. Any resident in Bingham dis-trict is welcome to call at either branch library and receive a free library card and select a book. Authors of Today and Yester-day (reference), Stanley Kunitz, a biographical and autobiograph-ical gide to modern world litera-ture; Voice From the Dust, B. G. Lee, published with the thought to make the Book of Mormon more easily understood by young-er people; Children of God, Var-di- s Fisher; ry of Man, H. C. Link; Antarctic Icebreakers, L. K. Fox; (Continued on Paa 7) MISS LENORE RICHARDS IN U. OF U. PLAY CAST Appearing in the cast of the first University of Utah dram-atic production this year, Thorn-ton Wilder's "The Merchant of Yonkers", an offering of the Theta Alpha Phi, tonight and tomorrow night at Kingsbury hall, Salt Lake City, will be Miss Lenore Richards, graduate stu-dent at the university. Miss Richards is cast in the part . of Flora Van Haysen. CENTRAL SCHOOL P.--T. AJWEET SET Main business of the Parent-Teach- er association meeting to be held at the Bingham Central school next Thursday evening (November 16) at 8 o'clock will be election of officers. Mrs. Harry Parker, president of the P.-T.- last year, has left Bingham and reorganization will include election of a new presi-dent, a vice-preside- nt and sec-retary. A fine program has been ar-ranged, Principal R. R. Bell an-nounces, and will include a vocal solo by Miss Maude Jensen; a talk on Education week and Book week by Reid Beck of Draper; numbers from a brass quartette from the Draper school; violin selection by Roberta Carl-qui- st of Jordan high school; vocal solo by George Barton of Draper. The Boy Scouts of Troop No. 136 will present "Crime Doesn't Pay" and the L. D. S. Priesthood class have a short skit to be giv-en during the evening. RED CROSS DRIVE LASTS ONE MONTH The Red Cross Roll Call in the business district of Bingham Canyon which was conducted during October was successful, Mrs. W. H. Trevarthen, chairman, announced this week. Although the quota set, $250, was not reached, the amount raised exceeded the collection made in Bingham last year. In 1938 $147 was given by proprie-tors and employes in the busi-ness district. This year the donated to the Red Cross was $160. Mines employes make their contribution through the Salt Lake offices. Assisting Mrs. Trevarthen in the drive here were Miss Ada Duhigg, Highland Boy; Mrs. Richard Steele and Mrs. A. J. Boberg, Copperfield; Mrs. Rex Tripp, Mrs. George Bolman and Mrs. D. F. Johaneon, Bingham. RELIEF SOCIETY FALL PARTY IS WEDNESDAY All adult members of the Bingham ward L. D. S. church are invited to the Relief society Fall party at the wardhouse, 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, November 15, Mrs. Jane Spendlove, president, has announced. Chairmen for the social are Mrs. Lawrence Snow, program; Mrs. Art Cook, refreshments and Mrs. Ed W. Johnson, entertain-ment. Relief society ward conference will be held at the wardhouse Sunday, November 19 at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Spendlove and her of-ficers extend an invitation to all to attend. INTEREST PAYMENT ORDERED BY CITY An interest payment of $356.25 on the new Dry Fork water line bonds of $19000 issued in April, 1938, and effective May 1, 1938, was ordered paid Wednesday night by the city council. The payments are made semi-annually, on May 1 and Novem-ber I, to the First Security Bank. Payroll and miscellaneous ac-counts amounting to $1282.25 were also approved for payment . r O WEATHER REPORT Meph Spendlove. Observer Min. Max. Prec. 44 56 42 59 "5 40 50 ;v-- 36 51 'V 37 52 40 54 'v 9 38 48 flurry snow The R. C. Gemmell club has scheduled a "Waltz Night" dance to be held at the club ballroom on Wednesday, Nov. 15. Music by Adolph Brox and his Coconut Grove orchestra. Another dance is being planned for sometime around Thanksgiving, according to W. R. Anderson. |