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Show itfl ralYIVft rriY 1Y 'HYftflft' Amilfl ntVf VQU 48. NO. 40 An Independent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1939 Oldest Weekly in Salt Lake County 'PHONE 91 Bingham Improvements Project WPA Application Is Signed Freeman Drainage Channel and Retaining Wall. Road and Street Improvements Total Cost Estimated at $9010.30; If Given Federal Approval Would Cost City $3449.30 Application to the W P A for approval of a project to construct a drainage channel and retaining wall in Freeman, apply an oil mulch on Railroad avenue and fill in strips with asphalt paving on Main street was signed Wednesday night by the city council. The project as described will cost $9040.30, according to application estimates. Of this amount the town will pay $3,-449.- 30 of which $3,119.30 will pay for materials and $330 for superintendent's salary. Labor will cost $5,591.00, to be paid with federal funds, W P A engineers figured. MINERS FINISH SEASON'S PLAY B. II. S. Team At Best In First Half Game At Deseret Gym i The largo number of Bingham sports fans and 250 high school students who traveled to the Deseret gym Tuesday evening to see Bingham and Jordan com-pete for a chance at a state prep tournament berth were reward-ed by witnessing the Miners play $ome of their best ball of the year, even though they lost to Jordan 24-2- Emil Pollick turned in his star performance of the season, com-pleting his high school play with a beautiful exhibition of agres-siv- e offense, maneuvering into defense play quickly and ably. He was the game's high point man, scoring 12 points. Play in the first half was ex- - :eptionally fast with both teams handling the ball cleverly and with some nice shots by Pollick md Orin Curtis of Jordan. End )f the first quarter saw the score tied at 9 all. At half time the locals were trailing 15-1- 3. Going into the final quarter Bingham made 6 points to Jor-dan's five, leaving the count A foul pitch by Pollick evened the count 21 all in the fourth ?erio and later he deadlocked he count at 23-al- l. Jordan then caged a field goal tnd a foul pitch while Bingham :olIected a free toss to end the coring. In the last 20 seconds Jingham lost their chances at he tourney when a set-u- p shot oiled, off the hoop. Jordan made 14 points out of 3 foUl pitches and Bingham 6 ronTl4. For the first time this ear Frank Callen left the game n : personal fouls. Eli Sasich, Tilliafrit guard, was lost to the quad for the same reason. Sasich laye a beautiful game, inter-eptiri- g many passes and using is heighth to good advantage. Bingham made three more leld goals than Jordan. Holland layne played a good game and :ore4 five points. Tregaskis, Joe Churich, (era$l Larsen, John Osoro, Pol-c- k, asich and Mayne were in ctiori their last game on the liners' squad. Only two regu-ir- s, Frank Callen and Sergio Jvarp, will be back next year, therf stars will graduate. Frojn the sophomore ranks Ernest Sheen, Kenneth eynolds, Frank Nelson, Stanley ongjj Joe Badovinatz, Gordon ;nsep and Stanley McClusky ill cpme the team regulars next iar1 GENERAL COMMENDS GLEN P. NELL IN CAMP MAINTENANCE United States Captain Glenn P. Nell, commander of CCC Camp Oakridge in Oregon, was commended for his work at the camp following inspection re-cently by General Bowley, Ninth corps area commander. During his visit at Oakridge General Bowley addressed the men during retreat formation and referred to the outstanding progress they had made. He rank-ed Oakridge as one of the six best operated camps west of Salt Lake City and one of the 20 highest in the United States, a report in a Vancouver paper reads. Mr. Nell was formerly a mem-ber of' the high school faculty and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Nell of Lark. His many friends will be happy to learn of his continued success. EXPENDITURES AND RECEIPTS LISTED IN JORDANDISTRICT Annual statement of receipts and disbursements of the Jordan school district as published in the Ute Sentinel at Midvale on March 3, showed a total of $563,-656.- was expended during the school year 1937-3- 8. Receipts were listed as $563,-656.3- 7 and divided as follows: Cash balance, operating fund, June 30, 1937, $49,078.70; cash balance, building fund, June 30, 1937, $.00; state school fund, $150,523.64; state high school fund, $3,994.88; Jordan district taxes, $353,669.30; miscellaneous receipts, (rents, vocational educa-tion funds, etc.) $6,389.85. Disbursements included: gen-eral control, $17,012.56; instruct-ion, $346,955.83; coordinate acti- - vities, 6,923.61; auxiliary agen-cies $33,280.63; operation, school plant, $48,741.03; maintenance, school plant, $20,622.34; fixed charges, $6,018.92; capital out-lays, $86,037.60; debt service, $.00; emergency, $510.65. Cash overdraft, operating fund, as of June 30, 1938, was $2,446.-8- 0. There were no bonds issued or redeemed. Officers, Trustees For Benefit Association Elected Announced New officers of the Utah Cop-per Mine Employees Benefit as-sociation announced this week include: E. R. Nichols, chairman; Ralph Murano, vice chairman; E. Mc-Farla-secretary; Jtin Knud-sen- , treasurer. Trustees elected to serve the coming year and the divisions from which they were named are: J. I. Rukavina, electric shovel engineers, cranemen and pitmen; Ralph Murano, locomotive en-gineers; E. R. Nichols, machine shop, bull gang and car repairers; J. Guy Murray, electricians, wa-ter service and carpenters; Thom-as Yengich, drilling and blasting department; Alberto Perez, track and dump men; E. K. Hirahara, Japanese pit track and dump men,; E. McFarlane, clerical and engineering departments; Ted Pederson, American trackmen and precipitation plant, and John Knudsen, foremen An amendment proposing the payment of $2 to trustees each time they attend a regular meet-ing was approved by employees. Wilbur Walker, R. D. Sorenson and John Reid were election judges. ELECTION DISTRICTS WILL BE SUBDIVIDED Subdivision of approximately 105 overcrowded election dis-tricts had been ordered by the Salt Lake county commission Thursday. Explaining the election statut-es involved, County Clerk W. J. Korth told commissioners that, although each district should not have more than 300 votes, about 105 districts including 75 in Salt Lake City showed more than 600 votes in the last elec-tion. He said the work should be completed as rapidly as possible in the city districts, owing to an election scheduled for this year. The cost of division would be negligible, he said, as his regu-lar staff could accomplish it. In all probability election dis-tricts numbers 334 and 335 in Bingham will be changed under this set up. In the 1936 presi-dential election there were 566 votes polled in district 334 and 584 in district 335. If the project is approved it would require 42 men 8702 man hours to finish the improvements desired. The plans for the drainage channel in Freeman call for con-struction of a 614 feet of 36" x 36" reinforced concrete flume. The old flume is of wood con-- 1 struction and is rotted out and partly through private property. The new flume is to be con-structed on the city's right-of-wa- The concrete retaining wall will be three feet high and 75 feet long. Railroad avenue is a dirt sur-faced road and has sufficient traffic to warrant, improvements, council members feel. The asphalt paving is needed to fill in strips between the pres-ent pavement and curb on Main street, city officials state. Improvement of Main street by widening the road above No. 2 Fire hall will be made if the WPA grant requested can cover cost, City Recorder Eugene Mor-ris stated Thursday. Preliminary plans on the pro-ject were completed February 1 and will be finally, completed April 1. It is hoped that the ap-plication will be granted within two months. GEMMELL CLUB'S MARDI GRAS BALL DATEJELECTED Officially heralding the advent of spring to this mining commu- - nity, which has been held in the grip of a real old time winter for the past few months, the Gemmell club will hold a Grand Costume ball with the Mardi Gras spirit prevailing, Wednes-day, March 29, at the club house. Early announcement is being made so that club members will have ample opportunity to suit their costume desires. Arrange-ments will be made to have an expert costumer and a select choice of costumes at the club during the week of the ball. The "Come as your Favorite Public Character" theme will be observed throughout with very attractive prizes for: (1) Best characterized couple (man and woman); (2) ,Best character portrayal (man or woman); (3) Best portrayed movie or radio star; (4) Public enemy No. 1; (5) Public hero No. 2; (6) Special novelty prize; The very best of music will be provided and several novelty skits are planned. Don't forget a costume, and a mask is absolute- - ly necessary; and don t forget the date, Wednesday, March 29. During the week preceding the dance a very outstanding moving picture, "Trade Winds", with Fredric March and Joan Bennett, will be shown Tues-day and Wednesday. March 21 and 22. at the Princess. r PREPARATION FOR CITIZENSHIP AIM SCH00LCLASSES About 30 residents of Bingham Canyon regularly attend citizen-ship classes being given at the Bingham Central school Tues-day and Thursday at 7 p. m. Sponsored by the federal gov-ernment and WPA, classes are planned to prepare aliens for naturalization and in passing fi-nal citizenship examination. Mr. and Mrs. Glen W. Browning are instructors. The classes are free and en-rollment may be made at any-time. Recent action of WPA in re-moving aliens from relief rolls on March 1 and reported laying off payrolls of aliens by eastern firms is expected to result in immediate action of a large num-ber of foreigners in obtaining citizenship papers. PAYMENT SEWER NOTE APPROVED BY CITYCOUNCIL Payment of $2000 to Utah Cop-per company on the city sewer note was authorized by the city council Wednesday night. An $8000 loan was made in Novem-ber, 1934, by the mining company for construction of the sewer, in addition to a donation of $16000 for the project. A balance of $2000, payable January 1, 1940, remains to clear up the debt. The council also approved pay-ment of $588 in miscellaneous accounts, including garage, light and plumbing bills. Report from Scott and Welch, architects, on plans for remodel-ing the Civic Center will be considered by the council next week. The estimates and plans were expected earlier but the firm has been delayed on the plans by bad weather, they re-ported. WALTER BARTZ LAST RITES HELD SUNDAY Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon in Salt Lake City for Walter Bartz, 54, who died at a Salt Lake City hos-pital last Friday evening of sili-cosis. Opening prayer was offered by William Hawks. Musical numbers included a vocal sola "Oh . My Father", by Harry Clark and singing by a quartette. Bishop . David C. Lyon officiated and also spoke during the services. Bishop Kasper J. Fetzer was the other speaker. Benediction was by Lester Fry. The grave was dedicated by Bishop Lyon. Pallbearers were L. H. Driggers, Joe B. Pacheco, Christ Apostal, John B. Lavato, Ralph Meredith and Harvey Hal-verso- n. Interment was in the Salt Lake City cemetery. Mr. Bartz was born March 11, 1884, in Illinois, a son of Mr. and Mrs. August Bartz. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. , Katherine Bloom Bartz; three daughters, Mrs. K. Nelson of Bingham; Mrs. Bertha Lavato of Copperfield; and Mrs. Florence White of Kansas City; a son, August Walter Bartz of Bing-h- a; two brothers, August Bartz of Long Beach, Cal., and Frank Bartz of Chicago; and four grand-children, Coming Events Monday, March 13 Martha chapter, Order of Eastern Star and F. & A. M. Canyon lodge party at Masonic hall. Monday, March 13 Junior chamber of commerce at Italian-- French cafe at 7 p. m. Monday, March 13 Dorothy Edwards, Girl Scout director, will meet with Bingham troop, Civic Center, 8 p. m. Tuesday, March 14 B. V. F. D. conjoint meeting at No. 2- Fire hall, 8 p. m. Tuesday, March 14 C. Y. O. Study club, Rosary hall, 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 14 F. & A. M. Canyon lodge No. 13 at Masonic hall, 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, March 15 Altar Society at Rosary hall, 8 p. m. Thursday, March 16 Order of Eagles meeting 8 p. m. Masonic hall; Mrs. Hyman Smernoff will entertain Eagles auxiliary at Masonic hall, 8 p. m. Friday, March 17 Kallie Foutz of Salt Lake City will talk on "Feminine Beauty and Glam-our" before Women's Civic club, No. 2 Fire hall, 8 p. m. Friday, March 17 St. Patrick's dance at Civic Center, cele-brating American Legion birth-day, 9:30 p. m. rs MARBLE MACHINE LICENSE RAISED BY CITY COUNCILMEN Future rates for licensing of marble machines and other sim-ilar machines will be $100 for the first machine and $3 for each additional machine, the city council announced Wednesday night. Licenses must be renewed every three months. Heretofore the fee was a flat $25 per month, City Recorder Eugene Morris said Thursday. o O WINS RECOGNITION IN MUSIC CONTEST Edgar Fernley, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Fernley, was award-ed first prize in the male voice division in the music contest sponsored by the Utah Federa-tion of Music clubs. The affair, held Monday evening at the La-dies Literary club in Salt Lake City included competition by young musicians from Ogden and Salt Lake City. Mr. Fernley is a former Cop-perto- n resident. He has sung in Bingham Canyon for schools and at civic functions. ST. PATRICK'S BALL BAND ISFAVORITE Gaity and blarney of the Irish and the spirit of St. Patrick will be as much a part of the atmos-phere at the American Legion Birthday ball at the Legion Civ-ic Center tonight (Friday) as will the music of Phil Baker's orch-estra. Melodies as gay as an Irish jig for the swing devotees and as sweet as a love song of old Erin for the more conservative are promised. Committee members for the affair, which marks the 20th birthday of the American Legion, from the auxiliary of Post No. 30 are Mrs. Wayne Shelley, Mrs. Glen Davies, Mrs. William All-mar- k, Mrs. C. A. Morley and Mrs. Ross Hocking. LIONS CLUB PLANS LADIESBANQUET At the regular semi-month- ly Lions club meeting held Thurs-day evening plans were made for a ladies night to be held dur-ing one evening of the junior chamber of commerce play, "Cat of Nine Tails". Immediately fol-- 1 lowing the banquet, as a gesture of cooperation, all Lions and their partners will attend the play which is being presented for the benefit of summer band work in Bingham Canyon. Leland G. Burress, Ed Johnson and John Feraco are on the committee in charge. Joe Scussel reported that work on widening the three bridges between Bingham and West Jor-dan is progressing rapidly. C. A. Morley reported that work on Civic Center will com-mence as soon as plans are re-ceived from architect. District Representatives Against Mine Taxes With the time limit for intro-duction of bills without unani-mous consent of senate or house reached, sixth district legislators outside of Salt Lake City last week devoted their attention to consideration of pending mea-sures up for final action. Senator Lawrence E. Nelson voted for S. B. 25, levying an excise tax on natural gas, after an amendment offered by him had been long debated and final-ly defeated. The amendment would have made it mandatory for the public service commis-sion to regulate natural gas pric-es to a point where distributors could not charge the smallest customer more man iwice me rate paid by the largest consum-er. Senator Nelson voted no on S. B. 190, modifying the state primary law, including elimina-tion of run-of- f elections and pro-viding for a modified system of party convention. He was absent and not voting on four bills con-sidered in the senate last week. Representative Isaac L. Soren-son voted for a house bill giving local option on 'liquor sales to counties and cities. Representa-tive Wallace H. Jenkinson voted against the bill. Both were again-st a measure increasing mine occupation taxes and both favor-ed a bill providing for the regis-tration of legislative lobbyists. v WEATHER REPORT Joseph Spendlove, Observer Max. Min. Prec. Mar. 3 19 38 2 in snow Mar. 3 15 38 4 in. snow Mar. 5 14 33 5 in snow Mar. 6 14 30 trace snow Mar. 7 28 45 Mar. 8 22 47 Mar. 9 34 42 According to weather records it has been 54 years since thp breaking up of winter passed the date of February 20. The thaw of the past three days leads Joseph Spendlove, who keeps records at the Utah Power and Light substation, to cautiously forecast the approach of spring. JUSTICECOURT William Pierce, 30, of Sandy and Arthur Dansie, 30, of Herri-ma- n were fined $3 Tuesday by Alfred Henkel, Bingham city justice of peace, for illegal park-ing. Ffoyd Damman, 20, of Bing-ham was fined $5 for parking in front of a fire hydrant. o WU KNOWN MINING I MAN PASSES AWAY Charles Hodge Marshal, 65, ed Thursday morning in a Salt ike jCity hospital. Known wide-a- s a mining man, he had lived oml912-193- 8 in Garfield and ;for that was in Mercur over years. May Bingham Utah Copper 'fflplny employees knew Mr. arshal as author of salutations r tile 20-ye- ar employees' ban-let- si which he wrote from 1926 938 Funeral services will be held mdjjy at 4 p.m. at the Mason-teiipl- e Salt Lake City. MAXINE RASMUSSEN ON A. C. COMMITTEE FOR ANNUAL VODIE Miss Maxine Rasmussen, of Bingham, has been chosen as a member of the "Kollegiate Kap-ers- " committee at the Utah State Agricultural college. She is re-presenting the Theta Upsilon so-cial sorority. "Kollegiate Kapers" is an an-nual gala pep vodie directed and produced by all the student body organizations on the campus. It is a colorful event which brings forth talent irom every group oi the student body, and is keenly anticipated by its over three thousand members. The theme of Kollegiate Kap-ers this year is built around a World's Fair plan. The Theta Upsilon sorority's act, under Max-ine- 's direction, will be the "Cele-brities of the World's Fair." Maxine is a junior in the school of education. She is a member of Spurs, national honorary colleg-iate pep club for sophomore and junior coeds, vice-preside- nt of the M. J. B. club, Murray Jor-dan Bingham club, and active in Theta Upsilon sorority. She graduated from Bingham high school where she was president of the Pep club. Leaves Highland Boy After 33 Years' Residence Mrs. Mary Melich Negomir of Highland Boy, a resident of Bing-ham Canyon the past 33 years, Jias sold her home to Utah Cop-per company and moved Thurs-day to 395 South Third East, Salt Lake City. Mrs. Negomir has two sons, Grey Melich of Phoenix and Mitchell Melich of Moab, and two daughters, Mrs. Sophie Bor-ic- h of Huth, Nevada, and Miss Helen Melich of Moab. Mrs. Mary Delich of Highland Boy will move to Salt Lake City sometime next week. She has purchased a home adjoining that bought by Mrs. Melich. o GEMMELL CAGERS TO PLAY NEGRO GHOSTS AT MURRAY MONDAY The Gemmell club basketball team who tied with Watkins Mo-tor of Brigham City for first half honors in the Industrial league, will play the Negro Ghosts at the Murray high school gym Monday evening. Proceeds from the game will go to the benefit of the Murray high school. - 4 O EMM ELL CLUB WINS OVER WATKINS MOTOR 1 Tncf Gemmell club basketball w Watkins Motor of igham City 58-4- 9 at the club TO I Thursday evening to tie e Motor crew in the state al league race. i s Attends Jr. C. of C. Banquet Louis Buchman attended the Press-Radi- o "Roast" given by the Salt Lake City junior cham-ber of commerce at the Hotel Utah Monday evening. The en-tertainment was patterned after the Washington Gridiron and spotlighted (panned) leading citi-zens, legislators and public of-ficials. v Jailed At Request Deputy Sheriff Jack House-holder obligingly took Earl Bro-d- y, about 40, to jail Tuesday morning at his request. Brody startled Carr Fork resi-dents when he dashed down the street clad only in shorts. Earlier he had thrown water glasses at a mirror in his room at Cyprus hall, and chased Mrs. Jennie Erickson, employee at the hall, down stairs when she came to investigate the disturbance. Brody then ran from the build-ing to the City halL He was taken to Salt Lake City for mental ex- - aminations. Gregory Gonzales, 39, was booked on a drunken driving 'charge in Salt Lake City Satur-day evening after his car crash-- , ed into a car at Sixth East Fourth South streets intersection. - OW AND ICE WRECKS j PORCH IN CARR FORK fees and snow which had on the roof of a two-n- il dwelling occupied by the sUi9 Pino and George Horner nilies, slid from the roof and sioished a 30-fo- ot front porch residence at 30 Carr Fork ednesday. Estimated damage see at $150. i - i AMATEUR HOUR IS PLANNED BY P.-- T. A. An amateur hour at the Cop-perfield school auditorium Satur-day evening, March 25, is being planned by Mrs. LaVere Jones, Parent-Teacher- 's association pre-sident. Mrs. Emma Nichols returned to Copperton, where she lives with Mr. and Mrs. Heber Nichols, Sunday after a two week visit in Los Angeles with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. Joel Jensen of Copperton are receiving congra-tulations on the birth of a daugh-ter Sunday evening. |