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Show 1 (stMt rpllltf BIT OM Mlt InM IE ;ftl1 Jf; A" IndePenden Newspaper BIXGILAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939 Old Weakly in Salt Lake County 'PHONE 91 W P A PROJECT IS NOW UNDERWAY Improvement on the Main highway w.vs begun Monday when 15 WPA laborers commenc-ed laying oil mulch covering the Dry Fork water pipeline laid last fall. When this work is finished the workmen will begin on the con-struction of a drainage channel in Freeman. Both improvements are pari of a $9040.30 WfA pro-ject. Faye Mitchell is supervisor and Claude" Tibbie foreman. The city's share of the cost is $3,449.30, which includes $300 for a superintendent's salary and the remainder for materials. Labor costs amounting to $5,591.00 are to be paid with federal funds. The drainage channel will be 614 feet long and reinforced by a concrete flume 36" by 36". The old flume is of wooden construc-tion, is rotted and crosses pri-vate property. The channel to be constructed will be on the city's right-of-wa- and is being con-structed to take care of the heavy spring runoff. The road up Free-man is also to be improved. If the WPA grant is sufficient to cover cost, besides road im-provements already begun, Main street above No. 2 Fire hall will be widened and the City ceme-tery will be improved. UTAH COPPER CO. COMPLETES BRIDGES The two steel bridges eumiect-in- g the II and I levels of Utah Copper mine and tin- - assembly yard of the B & G railroad were completed this week and are new in use. The I bridge is 590 feet long and the H bridge is GlU feet in length. Cost of erection by American Bridge company is estimated at $80,000. There are six bridges spanning Highland Boy now: the B & G connection bridge, the G, H, I, J and L level bridges. O SDl! MGHAM TUNNELS 8 gSECONFUSION (AJ infrequently Bingham re-- ( 1 questioned about the 'U1,1H Vehicular tunnel to Too- - H t the driving distance to that I .'"when the new tunnel is Rar or other sources, usually m Informed, refer to the Bing-!fl- l m.Copperfi-- tunnel as tlu' 'ton tunnel", or ask how long underground tunnel is thro- - F, which Utah Copper com .iy ships their ore. " t such times those questioned feet. h for facts and figures to itfais e distinction between the 'avof and Elton fad ,nel plam. Here they are: iuns! The Elton tunnel, now under-- i f .v will be 23000 feet in length Vwm extend from 2500 foot m' el of the Apex mine to a por-- "' one mile below the Tooele elter. Size of the bore will be (tail- feet by 10 feet and it will be A as drainage of National Tun-ian- d Mines properties in High-- j Boy and for transportation j removal of ore at a cheaper 1 ' To date the tunnel is in from flfl,- J Tooele side 8700 feet. For the ITlti ,;t 30 days tunneling has been m t because a fissure of quicki-e :.d was hit in boring. This is I ported cleaned up and the :w stopped. 90 men are employ -- irJ at the tunnel in three shifts. Expected to be completed in OF- - proximately two years, the ES mnel will cost in the neighbor- - od of $1,000,000. Early in February of this year ,e $1,400,000 Bingham-Copper-d- d vehicular tunnel was open-- I to traffic by Salt Lake coun- - ntf officials. Built by Utah Cop-- r company to allow extension f mining operations over the ;unty road between Bingham j"" nd Copperfield, on its comple-o- n the tunnel was doeded by J sf company to the county, s The vehicular tunnel was be- - un in March, 1937, and boring egan in April of the same year, is 6986 feet long. COUNCILMEN HOLD ROUTINE MEETING City councilmen Wednesday approved renewal of the parking lot lease at 4C0 Main from the Bourgard estate for one year at a cost of $50. The first half July payroll of $610 was approved. Road improvement work of the crew of 50 WPA workers was discussed. It Was decided to paint the city hall soon, and council mem-bers authorized Dale Johnston, head of buildings and health de-partments, to arrange a contract with Walter Christensen, local painter and paperhanger. R. G. Wood of Beesley, Wood & company, auditors, is at the city hall auditing first half year accounts. O CATHOLIC SUMMER SCHOOL SERVICE THIS AFTERNOON The closing of a four week summer school for the Catholic children of Bingham Canyon will be marked by the giving of the Benediction of the Blessed sacra-ment today at 2:45 p. m. Assist-ing Father Reardon will bo Bil-ly Pino, as master of ceremonies, and the following Altar boys: Bartley Vietti, Victor Roblez, Jimmy Culleton, Junior Gonzal-es, Rudy Pino, Amedeo Pino, Billy Taylor, Harry Manos, Paul-ino Garahana, Robert Osegera. The girls will sing the Bene-diction under the direction of Mrs. Mary M. Culleton. Sunday the handicraft work will be on exhibition. The school this summer has been especially successful and gratifying to Father Reardon and his assistant, because of the splendid outlook and coopera-tion of the children. July 26 the annual C. Y. O. outing at Lagoon will be held. MUSIC COUNCIL HOPES TO ASSIST YOUNG VIOLINIST The Salt Lake Music council sponsored a garden party Thurs-day noon at the home of Mrs. James E. Hogle to raise addition-al funds for a scholarship the council awarded Art Peterson, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Peterson of Salt Lake City, for-merly of Bingham Canyon. Mr. Peterson is studying violin with Professor Leon Samentini at the Chicago Musical college. Mr. Sorenson is rated as the out-standing music student in the history of South high school and is making "amazing progress" with his studies in Chicago, ac-cording to Professor Samentini. Among the 500 women at the tea were the following from Bingham or formerly of Bing-ham: Mrs. Sam Sturm, Mrs. Wayne Shelley, Mrs. Forrest Adams, Mrs. S. J. Granquist, Mrs. Art Sorenson, Mrs. Paul Erz, Mrs. James Culleton, Mrs. Har-vey Wolfe, Mrs. Rose Stuart, Mrs. T. A. Peterson, Mrs. Frank Mead, Mrs. M. A. Stuart, Mrs. Bryan Bird, Mrs. Scott Linnell; also Mrs. Marie Wicks and Mrs. Minnie Wicks of Meeker, Colo. O FIREMEN PROGRAM AT VERNAL LISTED An outline of the annual Utah State Firemen's association con-vention program to be presented at Vernal Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 3, 4 and 5, was given by John Creedon, associa-tion secretary, at the regular monthly conjoint meeting of vol-unteer fire companies No. 1 and No. 2 Tuesday at the No. 2 Fire hall. Mr. Creedon stated that firemen planning to attend the convention should make early reservations through him. There have been a few changes made in the usual convention pattern. Instead of having the banquet the first evening, it is planned to hold the dance the first evening and the banquet the second evening of the con-vention. On Thursday and Fri-day regular business meetings will be held during the day with the selection of the 1940 conven-tion city and election of officers at the Friday meeting. There will also be a joint memorial service held Friday in which ladies aux-iliaries will take part. Saturday morning a trip to the Dinosaur national monument will be arranged for those desiring to go. At 6:30 p. m. Saturday the annual street parade will be held to be followed by a gigantic night show at the fair grounds under direction of the state as-sociation's educational commit-tee. Bingham firemen will give a demonstration on use of fresh air masks as one feature of the show. Frazier Party Back From River Trip Dr. R. G. Frazier and his party of river runners, Bill Fahrni of Lark, Frank and Gilbert Swain of Bingham, Hack Miller and Charles Kelly of Salt Lake City, Willis Johnson of Thistle, and Amos Burg, National Geographic staff member, returned Tuesday morning from an 18-d- trip down the Middle Fork of the Salmon river from Bear valley to Riggins Hot Springs on the main Salmon river, Idaho. Mr. Burg took 5300 feet of 35 m .rn. film in technicolor which will be released through Para-mount studio as a world movie-tone. The party traveled 235 miles on the river. Fishing was very good, the largest trout caught weighing about 25 pounds, according to Dr. Frazier. Known as the "River of No Re-turn", the Salmon was found to be high, but the party had no trouble navigating it and return-ed with six boats, although they started out with four. The two boats picked up were those aban-doned last year when an attempt to run the river was given up because of high water. - Boy Sconts Prepare For Camping Trip To date approximately 54 Boy Scouts of Bingham district have met requirements to attend Camp Steiner at Granddaddy lakes re-gion July 29 to August 5, Joe Kemp, secretary, has announced. Councilmen of this district met at Copperton Friday evening and appointed Joe Timothy to work out the transportation problem. Troop 150 of Copperton held their court of honor at the grade school Friday with L. F. Pett as chairman. Tenderfoot badges were given Walton Parker, Bert Peck, Kay Robison. Second class badges went to George Nielson, Douglas Goff. Merit badges went to Blake Gammell, physical de-velopment and public health; Russell Loveless, civics, bugling, music, carpentry and woodwork; Robert Goff, woodwork and car-pentry; Ray Pett, public health and physical development. Mr. Kemp announces that phy-sical examination blanks for Camp Steiner have been ordered and will be available to Scouts through their Scoutmasters. The annual court of honor will be held at Camp Steiner Friday, August 4, at 7:30 p. m. All par-ents are requested to make a special effort to attend. Final plans for camp will be made at the Gemmell club li-brary, Wednesday, July 16, by Scoutmasters and No. 3 commit-teemen, Mr. Kemp states. MINERS HURT IN CAR ACCIDENT ON BUTTERFIELD ROAD John Wester, Fred Bengs and Axel Erickson, all of Bingham, received facial cuts and bruises in an automobile accident near St. Joe mine in Butterfield can-yon Tuesday at 3:15 p. m., when the car being driven by Mr. Wes-ter collided with an ore truck loaded with five tons of ore. The ore truck was being driven by Stanford Carson. According to Mr. Carson, the accident occurred when the Wes-ter machine had passed one ore truck and was passing his ma-chine. The car passed the front of the truck and then collided into the rear, overturning the car. A complaint was signed by Wester charging Carson with reckless driving. The injured men were enroute to work on their mining lease in Butterfield canyon. They received treatment at the Bingham hospital. Deputy Sheriff J. L. House-holder investigated the accident. Hearing will be held before Justice of Peace Alfred Henkel at 2 p. m. Monday. The Wester auto was completely wrecked GEMMELL CLUB OUTING TODAY All today is R. C. Gemmell club day at Sunset beach on the shores of Great Salt Lake. Club members are asked to take lun-ches and spend the day enjoying swimming. Music will be furnish-ed for a children's dance between 5 and 6 p. m. Gemmell club and Bingham Radio will play their regularly scheduled softball game at 6 p. m. In the evening dances will be scheduled on both inside and outside floors. Admission to the beach is free on presentation of club cards. Numbers on the dance program begin at 8 p.m., W. Russell An-derson, club chairman, has an-nounced. The outing and dance at Sun-set Beach was planned this week in place of the regular club dance tentatively scheduled for tonight. The club show at the Princess next Tuesday ' and Wednesday, July 18 and 19, is "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle", with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. O FIREMEN REQUEST MACHINE PURCHASE Bingham volunteer firemen Tuesday night voted to petition ; the city council to purchase a ! resuscitator - inhalator machine, , demonstrated at the monthly joint meeting by Jack Coombs of the Universal Safety Appliance com- - i pany of Salt Lake City. ) Named to present the fire-men's request to the city council were Chiefs R. R. Marriott and Ray Tatton and Assistant Chiefs j Clive Siddoway and Joe Scussel. JORDAN DISTRICT ASKS NEW BIDS ON DUPLEX HOMES Jordan school district will ad-vertise again for bids on con-struction of two four-roo- du-plex homes at Copperton, it was decided at the board meeting last night. The contract was awarded June 29 to J. H. Angel for $17,-21- 5, who has since forfeited the contract. Competing bids on the homes were rejected by the board. New bids will be opened at the next regular board meeting July 27. Plans for the homes were pre-pared by Ashton and Evans, Salt Lake architects. The homes are intended for housing of school teachers and families. The apart-ment house at Copperton is in three-roo- units, inadequate for average-siz- e families. Mr. and Mrs. Earl James and Mr. and Mrs. Mark L. James are leaving tomorrow for a vacation at Yellowstone national park. LAYGROUND DRAWS ATTENTION OF MANY The entire Bingham Central :hool membership went to the 'opperton park Tuesday to par-ieipa- te in a Treasure Hunt. When nearthed the treasure proved to candy and peanuts. Following arious games, the children were lerved punch and ' had a picnic incheon on the lawn. Today the annual Pet show is 'ring held at the school. Dogs, ts, birds and any other pets "11 be displayed by the child-cn- . From now until the program s presented in early August, hildren at the playground will ehearse dances and roles for the imual playground entertainm-ent. Local Happenings - - m m m i aaa m m m Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Schrunk of Portland, Oregon, executive sec-retary of the Oregon State Fire Fighters association, visited John Creedon Saturday. The couple are on a two-wee- k vacation tour of the western states. Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Spendlove were Mrs. Annie Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Peterson and son, Paul, of Tooele. Miss Mary Ellen Malloy of Long Beach is a house guest of her aunt, Mrs. Mike Brisk of Copperton. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Marriott and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hughes, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Nichols and Mrs. Rose Stuart of Sandy left today for Roberts, Idaho. The party will fish on Warm river until Monday. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Schwalm of Long Beach, Cal., following a week's visit with Mrs. Sch-walm- 's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Horn, and her sister, Mrs. M. S. Meyer, left Tuesday for their home. Mr. and Mrs. John Adamek and William Sejnost returned last Friday evening from San Fran-cisco where they visited the Golden Gate international expo-sition. Mr. Sejnost left Saturday morning for his home in Kansas City, Missouri. Mrs. Marie Wicks and son, John, and Mrs. Minnie Wicks of Meeker, Colo., are guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Art Soren-son. An appendectomy was perform-ed on Miss Leora Timothy at the Holy Cross hospital in Salt Lake City last Friday. She is reported recovering satisfactorily, at her home. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Nelson left Saturday evening for Detroit, Michigan, where they will pur-chase a new car and continue on their way to New York City to see the World's Fair. They will be gone two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Boberg were among the spectators Tues-day at Yankee stadium, New York, of the annual all stars game between the National and American leagues. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Angus have as their guests for the next several weeks Mrs. Angus' moth-er, Mrs. Lavel Stocks, and sister, Nellie Beth Stocks of Ridgefield, Washington. Home Wednesday from their wedding trip which took them to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pasadena and Boulder Dam, were Mr. and Mrs. Ludwig Zorn. Mrs. Zorn is the former Miss Bever-ly Clays. The couple made the trip by motorcycle. They are making their home at Telegraph. Mr. and Mrs. Dormus Larsen of the Hidden Treasure Mine visited in Bingham Monday. The couple and son, Gerald Larsen, moved last week and are settled in a recently completed modern home. With the exception of four years the family resided in Lehi, they have been Bingham resi-dents since 1924. Mr. Larsen is associated with U. S. Mines com-pany. Mr. and Mrs. John Creedon visited at Brigham Saturday and Logan Sunday. A board of direc-tors meeting of the Utah State Firemen's association was held at Logan. . Mr. and Mrs. Leon Ablett and Mr. and Mrs. Don Nyquist of Des Moines, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Ablett and daugh-ter, Beverly May, of Canyon City, Colo., left Monday after visiting a week with Mr. and Mrs. Al. J. Ablett and Mr. and Mrs. William Ablett The Bingham Stage Lines have moved their bus depot to 60 West Second South in Salt Lake City. This new station gives patrons the convenience of inside loading and a modern waiting room. The local office in Bingham has been completely remodeled. BINGHAM FREIGHT LEADSJ50FTBALL Going into the last quarter of district softball play, the Salt Lake-Bingha- Freight .line is ahead in number of games played, in games won, and lead out last night with the first game of the quarter, a 2 victory over the Eagles. The other four teams have a postponed games to play as fol-lows: Bingham Radio and Fire-men; Gemmell club and Eagles. Next Week Friday, July 14 Gemmell vs. Bingham Radio. Monday, July 17 Eagles vs. Firemen. Tuesday, July 18- - S. L. Bing-ham Freight vs. Bingham Radio Thursday, July 2-0- Firemen vs. S Freight. Last Week Friday, July 7 Bingham Radio G, Eagles 4. Tuesday, July 11 Firemen 5, Gemmell club 4. Thursday, July 13 Eagles 2, S. Freight 8. Standings Won Lost Pet. Freight 9 3 .750 S L Bingham EST :::: : i i & POLICE COURT FINES LISTED FOR WEEK j Fined as follows when they ap- - j peared this week before Justice of Peace Alfred Henkel in ans-- wer to charges listed were the !; following: . !i Howard C. Thomas, 19, reckless driving, $15; Mike Cordova, 20, over parking, $2; Matt Johnson, 58, disturbing the peace, $5; Rex Christensen, 35, reckless driving, $30; Shorty Jarrod, 38, disturb- - ( ing the peace, $25. Blaine Wells, 22, running red! light, $5; Tony Barage, 40, dis-turbing the peace, $10; Joe Ros-so, 27, 559 South 9 West, of Salt Lake City, disturbing the peace, $50 or 35 days in county jail; j Albert Archaletta, 21, of 164 Third North, Salt Lake City, dis-turbing the peace, $30 or 30 days in county jail; Cloyd Davenport, 32, of 4275 Ninth East, Murray, disturbing the peace, $10; How-ard Steward, 22, disturbing the peace, 30 days in county jaiL CLUBMEN LOSE TO MAGNACREW 7--5 The local Gemmell club base-ball crew were handed a defeat by Magna by a score of 7 to 5 in their second contest of the last half play here Wednesday. The locals held a 3-- 0 lead over the smeltermen going in to the fifth inning. Five singles by the Mill-me- n coupled with three costly errors made by the locals allow-ed the visitors to score 6 runs in the fifth to cinch the game. The locals put two tallies across in the sixth in a vain attempt to catch the Magna crew but fell short two runs. Sammy Oliver on the mound for the locals and Leif Erickson, Magna southpaw, were each nicked for ten hits. Had the local boys given Oliver the proper support the clubmen would have been riding on top of the league. Ralph Fielder, Doty Bush and Frank LaComb were Gemmell's best hitters. Fielder and Bush toH 9 fnr 4 anri Tnomb hit safely 2 out of 3 trips to the plate. Industrial League Standing Won Lost Pet. Provo 2 0 1.000 Gemmell Club 1 1 .500 Magna-Garfiel- d 1 1 .500 Pinney Beverage .... 0 0 .000 Helper 0 2 .000 Next Weeks Schedule Friday, July 14 Magna at Pinney. Sunday, July 16 Helper at Pinney (double header); Magna at Provo. (Continued on Page Five) CIRCULATION AT CITY LIBRARY IS NOW INCREASING Mrs. Ruth Vine Tyler, Salt Lake county librarian, visited the Bingham library at the City hall Monday. She was especially pleased to note the steady in-crease in the number of books issued at the Bingham library since it became a unit of the county system. During June the library loaned 1437 books on the eight afternoons it was open, Mrs. S. J. Gresham, librarian has announced. The library is open Monday and Thursday from 3 until 8 p. m. In the county system there are 12 branches functioning at pres-ent with headquarters open at the Midvale junior high school. Out of the county library fund raised by 1938 taxes totaling $36,488, there has been spent $23,627 of which $17,619 was ex-pended for new books, accord-ing to a report made by Mrs. Tyler. JUNIOR CHAMBER SPECIAL MEETING SLATEDTUESDAY A special meeting has been ailed by President Dale Johns-- i n of the junior chamber of ommerce at the City hall court m 8 p. m. Tuesday, July 18. 1 very important that all Jaycees lie present to make plans or Galena days celebration to ;e held in September. UTAH COPPER CO. FIELD DAY SET FORJUGUST 2 Utah Copper company employ-ees are anticipating their annual field day at Copperton Wednes-day, August 2. The committee to plan the program had not been named Thursday. o !t STUDENT MAKES U OF U. HONOR ROLL Jean Culbertson, Bingham Can-yon, is among the University of Utah students whose grades for the spring quarter gave them high honor standing, according! to announcement from the re-gistrar's office. To make the honor roll, a stu-dent must make a scholastic av-erage not lower than midway between A and B. WEATHER REPORT Joeph Spendlove. Observer , , Min. Max. Prec. 7 58 70 uly 8 66 80 ;Uly 9 71 85 10 74 90 77 11 73 89 light showers 12 71 88 trace rain 13 72 86 Return From Vacation Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Adderley, Mr. and Mrs. Ren Nichols and daughter, Nyla, and Mrs. Daisy Bogart returned last Friday from a four-wee- k vacation trip that took them to Vancouver, B. C, Seattle, Portland, Golden Gate international exposition in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boulder Dam and Zions national park. While in Los Angeles the party visited Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Dudley, Mr and Mrs. Bert Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Hocken, all for-mer Bingham residents. BINGHAM GOLFERS SET TOURNAMENT Bingham golf enthusiasts are getting into condition ior the second golf tournament of this season at Nibley park, 3:30 p. ra. Thursday, July 27. All entries must be made with Joe Scussel before July 27. ) ( SEWING CLASSES ARE SCHEDULED Demonstrations in making of slip covers and draperies will be given at the sewing school to be held at the M. E. Commu-nity hall, Monday to Fndaj, Tulv 17-2- 1, under direction ot Greta M. Macklin. Morning clas-ses begin at 9:30 and afternoon New ideas m classes at 1:30. will be demonstrated. sew ng no charge and everyone Serested is cordially invited to attend The Singer sewing ma-chine company is sponsoring the classes. Maying to make home IN SAN FRANCISCO . Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ritter daughter, Evelyn, are ex-jc"- to leave next week for n Francisco to make their nonie- - Mr. Ritter, who has man-ned The Toggery, a man's ap-wr- el shop, in Bingham the past ,'ears, has accepted a position ""ered by the Metropolitan Fur-'tur- e manufacturing company. ;lrs- Ritter is a member of Mar-- a chapter No. 7, O.E.S., and "itter is affiliated with Can-yo- n lodge No. 13, F. & A. M. " j Leaves For Camp Dr. and Mrs. L. C. Joseph and! V; daughter, Laura Joan, will leave i today for Fort Lewis, Washing- - i ton, where Dr. Joseph will have two weeks training in the medi- - cal corp of the U. . S. Officers Reserve Corp. After training-i- s concluded, Dr. Joseph will take his family to the San Francisco- - 1' international exposition before I they return home. - .r LIONS BASKET LUNCH TO BE HELD TUESDAY All Bingham Lions and their ladies are asked to be in attend-ance at the basket picnic lunch at Picnic flat, Dry Fork canyon, 6:30 p.m. next Tuesday. Cold drinks and coffee will be furn-ished, Secretary W. L. Faddis has announced. Attention Legionnaires! All American Legion members of District 3, which includes Bingham post No. 30, are invited to attend an outing at Woolf Creek on the National Forest, 40 miles norteast of Heber, July 16. A program of entertainment and sports is outlined. Mrs- - Paul S. Richards and dau-"ter- s. Lenore and Ethel and son, . are at their summer home 41 wttle Cottonwood canyon. Mitchell of Parowan isa iest this week of her sister, Mrs. Flossie Ramsey. ' |