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Show Local ok flU 1 AW WW) tfoA ftM NEWSlTEMb VVCy II IL PVJrn UNI K FRIENDS FOR ' ' . TaTvxSO. 52 An Independent Newspaper - -- -. BINGHAM CANYON, UTAJL FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1940 Oldest Weekly in Salt Lak County 'PHONE 91 Boys' Baseball Playground To Begin Tuesday, June 4 With arrival of vacation time, baseball is in the forefront of every boy's activities, and news that the Copperton summer base-ball playground is to open Tues-day, June 4, at the new B. II. S. stadium, will be received with pleasure. - The playground has been spon-sored by the American Legion post No. 30 each summer since 1930, with the financial cooper-ation of Jordan school district. Bailey J. Santlstevan, coach at Bingham high school, will again be playground director, and ad-vises that buses for transporta-tion of Copperfield, Highland Boy and Bingham boys will leave loading stations used in past years at 9 a. m. As has been the case for the past three years, the school dis-trict will pay the playground director's salary and the Le-gion post will pay for bus trans-portation of boys to Copperton and back and for necessary equipment, incidental expenses and trips to the American Legion junior baseball tournaments. The Community Chest budget as set-u- p for this year allows $250 for the Copperton play-ground and $150 for the Ameri-can Legion baseball program. Daily average attendance last year at the Copperton playground was 283 boys, which attests to the worth of the playground. A "by product" of the playground acti-vities has been the development of a number of state champion-ship baseball teams. The Ameri-can Legion junior baseball title for Utah and the Utah state high school baseball crowns have both been claimed by teams develop-ed at the Copperton playground. " WOMEN BOWLERS TO BE (JIVEX PRIZES Communications received Tues-day by the Women's IVaIipp league notified Mrs. Mary 7. n. ' caria and Mrs. Mabel bober.-tha- t both weio receiving prizes for their past season's pkiv fr,.m the Queens Handicap Bowline Sweepstakes. Mrs. Zaeearia is winning an award for placing 95th in section of the Queens Sweepstakes witli a score of 1789, while Mrs. Robert's award' comes to her as secretary of the Bingham league. Roth women will be sent bowling shoes O I CENTRAL SCHOOL i PLAYGROUND TO j BEGINJUNE 10 The summer Recreation play-fji'oun-to be held for Ringham ni.'nct girls and the boys too ;'''! t. lv taken care of at the baseball playground, WU1 begm Monday, Jane 10, at 9 a. t.i. Sponsored jointly by the Wo-men's Civic club and Jordan school district, the nlnvmonnH will be supported this summer Ijy S2UU budgeted in the Com-munity Chest, plus the cost of supplies, building maintenance and the payment of salaries by Jordan school district. O. I). Ballard, Jordan school district playground supervisor, j was in Bingham Canyon Tues-- , day to make arrangements for tne playground. Three teachers will be named by the board of education to su-pervise the playground classes at their meeting June 6, Mr. Bal-lard said. Last summer 256 youngsters were enrolled at the playground, with as many as 105 in attend-ance in a single day. Dancing. art, story telling, tennis, games and handicraft groups are super-vised at the playground. o INGHAM TEAMS r VIN HONORS AT FIRSTAID MEET one veal' the 30-in- gold 'ihv of 'the National Safety r!rcil will remain with the Utah Iper company mines No 1 J aid team, as a result of the victory scored by the : lithe Ttah-Nevad- a Safety t,ty contest la-s- t Saturday at ur T!i trophy must be won ,'he same team three consecu-'ar- s before it is given into lanent custody. team mates, E. S. (Eddie) , captain; C. J- - (Cliff) But-',.l- Wavne Hansen, T. E ,'v) 'Tolnason, C. J. (Cyral) ;.,,d t E. (Carl) Wilson, a large gold cup, and each l!ved a" first aid kit and a ive medal-i, tr,t. r, division a Bingham jr. placed first, being present-i- t large gold trophy and each y.ltT a first aid kit. ifjii this team were John Niemi, Norman Densley, Joseph nr.es,' Ross Pino, Bud Rasmus-jjan- d Ward Cowan. th these teams were coached jGoorge Knudsen, Utah Cop--I company mines safety en-ijv- r, assisted by John Dahl-m- . B e Boy Scout team entered in f .vision received honorable :ion and first aid kits. Coach-fiyM- r. Rol'ison and Mr. Tobia-- 4 the Boy Scout team includ-SFju- I Richards, captain; Eddie iuson, Jackie Robison, K. Ros-in, Robert Siddoway and Don-- I Peterson. ATTENTIONI BOYS AND PARENTS We are taking this opportu-nity of inviting every boy in Bingham district to participate in our summer playground which is to be held in the new high school stadium at Cop-perto- n beginning Tuesday. June 4. As the playground will be held on the new field, every boy is admonished that no to the field or to school property will be tolerat-ed. Loitering about the school buildings will not be permitted and all boys must leave im-mediately at the close of the day's program. Parents are advised that hard baseball is played and children under eight years should not be sent to the playground. All children must be able to take care ot themselves. The Jordan school district and the American Legion post No. 30 will in no way be held responsible for accidents occur-ring on the playground or in games or in the transportation, loading or unloading of child-ren in school buses. Please be informed of these facts. B. J. Santistevan Recreational Director JUNIOR CHAMBER TO ASSIST IN FIRE PREVENTION At the regular semi-month- ly business meeting of the Bingham junior chamber of commerce held Monday evening, Elliott W. Evans, newly-electe- d national di-rector from Utah, and Dale John-ston, state director, gave reports on the state directors' meeting held in Salt Lake City last week-end. Mr. Johnston reported that two new clubs had been admitted to the state organization, Salina and Bountiful. Mr. Evans and Mr. Johnston were named as dele-gates to attend the national Jay-ce- e convention, to be held in Washington, D. C June 19-2- 3, inclusive. The local Jayeees voted to name a Fire Prevention commit-tee to work with local firemen in contacting property owners and requesting elimination of fire hazards before the Pacific Board of Fire Underwriters makes building inspections which will influence their decision on the request for a reduction in fire insurance rates. Parker Gray, chairman of the committee to contact sightseeing buses to stop in Bingham, report-ed that parking spaces are now available for the buses and that his committee would work with a Lions club committee in con-tacting sightseeing bus line of-ficials. Chris Praggaslis, local attorney, was1 elected to membership in the Jayeees. WINS U. S. MINES U. OF UTAH SCHOLARSHIP Eugene Willard Pearson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milo W. Pearson of West Jordan, was awarded the 1910 D. D. Muir Jr. scholarship offered by the United States Smelting Refining and Mining company Friday at Jordan high school commencement exercises. A full four-yea- r course at the University of Utah and an annual $400 allowance are provided by the scholarship. The scholarship is annually given to a son of an employe of U. S. Mines who has been a company employe at least five years at daoy wages. COUNCIL STUDIES NEW TRAFFIC LAWS Model traffic ordinances were presented the city council for study by City Attorney Elliott W. Evans at the regular meeting Wednesday evening. Offenses covered include drunken driv-ing, driving without operator's license and disregarding stop signs. City Recorder Eugene Mor-ris said it is unlikely the ordinan-ces will be passed or put into ef-fect before January, 1941, as a traffic committee is to be appoin-ted to study the ordinances and all traffic problems before the council takes action. Decision was made to budget 1941 funds to allow revision of city ordinances in 1941, bringing them up to date. a icngtniy discussion of pro-gress in concreting the Dry Fork water tunnel was held. There are 20 WPA workmen now employed on the project, the advantage be-ing that thejjVPA pays .wages of the foreman on projects employ-ing 20 WPA workers. About six months will be re-quired to complete concreting of 1000 feet of tunnel. Following discussion it was de-cided to allow Councilman Art J. Sorenson to investigate proposed sale of old boilers and pipe at the Civic Center and purchase of a new or used upright boiler. POWER COMPANY WILL ELIMINATE APPLIANCE LINE In a quick move to gear itsell to the task of meeting power re-quirements of industrial mobil-ization under the national defense program the Utah Power & Light company recently announced its early withdrawl from the appli-ance merchandising field, except-ing store sales of lamps and small items for customers con-venience. In making the announcement, George M. Gads by, president, explained hereafter the company personnel will devote all its en-ergies to providing electric ser-vice for the many and varied types of industries, commercial establishments, homes and farms which receive service from its lines in the intermountain area. He said the electrical dealers in the territory served by the power company will take over the appliance merchandising business now being relinquished by the company. "The emergency preparedness program will require speeding up of industrial mobilization to sup-port our national defense forces ", Mr, Gadsby- - said. vIn the inter-mountain area the demands for non-ferro- metals for materials used in industry to expedite re-armament will be increased. In all of these emergency prepared-ness conditions electric power plays an important part. It is necessary in meeting production requirements that there be an adequate and dependable supply (Continued on page eight) i Sports Here and There By AI Ablett I, - jfr 'H" f ' V " ; r The Industrial league race has tightened up. Before the season is over it will make a Scotchman look like a spendthrift. Gemmell woifone and lost one the current week, Pinney beat-ing us 9 to 4 and Gemmell tak-ing Magna 4 to 2 Wednesday. Gemmell has been in a batting slump and their average has gone down like a thermometer in an ice house. But woe to the pitch-ers when the clubmen finally snap out of it! Defensively they have been one of the best in the league. The Magna game Wednesday was a thriller from start to finish. Bass and Erickson hook-ed up in an pitch-ing duel. Magna was on the long end of a 2-- 1 score going into the ninth. Valcheck, who got three for four, led off for Gemmell with a single. On a hit and run play Sluga singled through the infield putting two on with nobody out. Zac-cari- a layed down a bunt and Erickson hit him with the ball, making the play to first base. Sumnicht fouled out. Robert-son hit a swinging bunt down the third base line and the throw to home was late, with all hands safe. LaComb, pinch-hittin-was walked, forcing Sluga in from third. Zac was out on an attempted squeeze play. Bass beat out an infield hit, scoring another run. The next man up was out, ending the inning. Gemmell led 4-- and in the last half Bass bore down, forcing the first two men to ground out and striking out Walbeck, who was pinch hitting, for the final out. Gemmell defeated Provo on Memorial day by a score of 12-- 2. The Yankees are coming, and to the rest of the American lea-gue that sounds as bad as it did to the German in 1917. But Joe Cronin is still doing a swell job with the pitching he has been getting. Cleveland with Bob Fel-ler will be plenty lough. The Brooklyn Dodgers have been staying right up there and Durocher has a fighting ball club. Walters of Cincinnati has won eight straight. I still think the Reds have what it takes over a long haul. Boy, the Gemmell club Ama-teur team has been going great, tied for second place, and they play Henagers for that spot to-day (Thursday). The Amateurs beat C.Y.O. 5-- 4 Thursday. The Copperton playground woll stait on June 4 in the new high school stadium. This is one of the most worthy projects in the state. Bail-ey Santistevan, the supervisor, has an average of over 250 youngsters out every day and the environment of clean sports-manship is the greatest exper-ience the boys could have. More power to the playground and to (Continued on page eight) ELLIOTT W. EVANS IS UTAH STATE JAYCEEDIRECTOR City Attorney Elliott W. Evans, a past president of the Bingham junior chamber of commerce and past director representing Bing-ham on the board of the Utah state junior chamber, Sunday was elected a director of the United States junior chamber by 100 members of the state board at their meeting in Suit Lake City The three Utahns to act as re- - - k 4 - iff K " $T 1 Itr ' i 1 ELLIOTT W. EVANS preventatives on the national board of the young men's organi-zation are Mr. Evans, John H. Wilson Jr of Logan and Val D. Hicks of Price, president of the state junior chamber. There are 27 Jaycee units in the state at present. Utah direc-tors are expected to attend the natural convention at Washing-ton, D. C, on June 19-2- COPPER CO. HEAD LEADSENGINEERS Chairman of the Utah section, Americaa Institute of Mining and Metallurgical engineers, elected Friday, is D. D. Moffat, vice pre-sident and general manager of the Utah Copper company, suc-ceeding R. A. Pallanch, superin-tendent of mills for United States Smelting Refining and Mining company. Leland A. Walker, assistant manager of mines for the United States Smelting Mining and Re-fining company, was elected vice chairman, and Adolph Soderberg, engineer for the Utah Copper company, secretary. The institute's regional meet-ing, expected to attract 1200 min-ing officials, will be held in Salt Lake City September 10-1- 3, and is being planned by Mr. Moffat. O li CLASSES' SCHEDULES SET inmer band instruction for district music students, 4r supervision of the Jordan district and sponsorship of junior chamber of commerce, commence Monday, June 10, 4 will be held for five days a A, Monday to Friday, inclus- - k Passes for the Copperton grade SS'l band will begin at 3 p.m. f.c-- Bingham high school mu- - &:id students of Bingham Cen-ftifho- ol will meet at the school if at 5. p. m. ft-- ' junior and senior high '! band will meet at Bing- - Central at G p. m. &es will leave Lark at 5 p.m. Copperton at 5:30 p.m. for the i' and senior band students il'tcnd classes. FIREMEN WELCOME 3 NEWMEMBERS Membership quota of Bingham volunteer firemen, company No. 1, was filled by reception of three intiates, Boyd Nerd in, Mar-lowe Turpin and John O'Brien, Wednesday evening at the fire hall. There are now 25 in No. 1 company. Other business of the evening was presentation of a 20-ye- cer-tificate to E. J. Householder and 10-ye- ar certificates to Earl T. James and Loren Stokes by Chief Ray Tatton. A midnight breakfast of bacon and eggs was served to 20 fire-men. On the committee were John J. Creedon, W. H. Horns and Clinton Robison. Parade, Programs To Feature Flag Week Appropriate Flag week cere-imonies, for the week of June 4, was outlined at a meeting held Monday evening for civic, frater-inal and religious organization irepresentatives in the Utah Pow-er and Light company office. All homes and business houses are asked to observe the special week by displaying the flag. Plans for a successful observance of Flag. week, as proclaimed by Mayor Ed Johnson, were outlin-ed by the following committee: W. L. Faddis, Lions club chair-man; Ed W. Johnson, city; J.Wil-liam Grant, Lions club; George Evans, Lions club; Art Sorenson, firemen; Mrs. Mike Brisk, Am-erican Legion auxiliary; L. Fern. Pett, Boy Scout council; E. J. Householder, American Legion; Mrs. Harley N. English, Women's Civic club; Bishop David C. Lyon, L. D. S. church; the Rev. Daniel Leahy, Holy Rosary Catholic church; the Rev. Meredith Smith, Community church; C. J. Meyers, citizenship class group; Leland G. Burress, junior chamber of commerce. Sunday, June 9, has been desig-nated as Flag Sunday, with ap-propriate services being arrang-ed in all churches. All civic and fraternal organizations will use-- Flag theme for meetings dur-ing the week of June 4. The American Legion and aux-iliary are planning a public mass meeting for one day during the week, with a speaker brought ini from outside to make the prin-cip- al address. On Friday, June 14, all local organizations will participate in' a parade on Main street,, which, will be followed by an open-ai-r patriotic program on the Bing-ham Merc, porch. It is the desire of the committee that all local groups and as many individuals as possible who are affiliated with an organization, join in the parade. r LOCAL VALUATION WILL BEALTERED The reduction In assessments of property attributed to the new household exemption law, will lower assessed valuation of pro-perty in Bingham Canyon about $60,880, County Assessor A. J. Skidmore recently notified City Recorder Eugene Morris. An exemption of not more than $300 on the furnishings of the home of each householder was enacted by the 1939 legisla-ture, and this provision will make a difference in Bingham's property valuation, which was listed in tax assessment rolls of Salt Lake county in 1939 as About $1000 less in taxes would be collected at the present taxation rate of 13 'a mills by the city with the new reduction in household valuations. Due to a revaluation of im provements in Bingham by the state tax commission, the pro-perty has risen in assessed valu-ation $79,840. The increase by this change will more than off-set decrease in valuations brought about by the household exemp-tion law, Mr. Morris anticipates. 'TRUSTEES NAMED ;stees for the M.E. Com-a'- y church were elected at I fourth quarterly criference I Fnday a, follows:" C. A. Herbert It. Gust, Mrs. l Prigmnre, Mrs. E. E. 'l!ow, Mrs. James Barkle J- William Grant. Dr. W.E. kstock, district superintend-i,- f the Utah Mission of the i0dlst church, presided at the ess meeting. The Ladies served a covered dish sup- - 4 BINGHAM CENSUS FIGURES GIVEN There are in Bingham district 0063 people, the 1940 census fig-ures as released by the Salt Lake district census supervisor reveals. Bingham lost 291 people since 1930, the official figures being 2357 in 1940 and 3248 in 1930. Comparative figures, 1930 and 1940, for unincorporated com-munities in this district are not available, but the figures listed for 1940 are: Copperton, 861; Copperfield, 1143; Lark, 515; and Highland Boy, 587. The decrease in Bingham's population may be largely ex-plained by the growth of Cop-perton. In 1930 there were 102 homes at the Utah Copper com-pany's model town. At present there are 164 residences. Salt Lake county's population is listed in the new census at 210,707 and Utah at 522,011, both figures being subject to possible revision. O I Proclamation i To the Cituens of Bingham district, Greetings; WHEREAS, in these days of world-wid- e turmoil, with 'ersive forces and influences striving to discredit and 'rj-- th" 'deals and institutions symbolized by our Flag, all loyal Americans should answer '.his challenge dlsPlayuig and paying tribute to that Flag as the ' w riSl'!.s and liberties; and, WHEREAS, with this end in view, the period June Hlh ' 4th lias been designated as Flag Week by the United ;js F1R Association, headed by the President of the United as Honorary President General, during which time lot,c zeroises and other appropriate functions art to be m towns and cities throughout all the land, NW, THEREFORE, as Mayor of Bingham Canyon, I ; wlairn June 8th to 14th as FLAG WEEK and direct that th's Period the Flag of the United States be displayed mui'fipal Furthermore, I do buildings and vehicles. i I' e Peope of Bingham district to display the stars and : Ms at their homes, places of business and other suitable well as on their cars, and to hold patriotic excr-- ; ; Plan Flag parades and do other suitable things as a exPression of our love of our country, our allegiance : J glorious banner and our belief in the institutions of democracy. U WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand l'Ule1 the spal of City of Bingham Canyon to be Im?, 3lst da' of he 'ear of our Lord Nineteen I and Forty. 1 Ed W. Johnson, k Mayor of the City of Bingham Canyon ATTEND MISSION OF UTAH METHODISTS Attending the annual session of the Utah Mission of the Meth-odist church, which begins to-day at 9:30 a. m. and continues until noon Monday at Tremonton, are the Rev. and Mrs. Meredith Smith and Mrs. Herbert R. Gust, lay delegate from the M. E. Com-munity church. Due to the ab-sence of the Rev. Smith, there will be no morning service Sun-day at the church, but Sunday school classes will be held as usual. Outstanding speakers at the Utah mission meetings will be Bishop Edwin F. Lee of Singa-pore; Bishop Wilbur E. Ham-make- r, resident bishop of the Denver area. Dr. C. E. Schofield, president of the Iliff school of theology at Denver. From Highland Boy Commu-nity House, Miss Ada Duhigg, Miss Vera Duhigg smd Miss Alice Brown will be in attendance. SOFTBALL LEAGUE NOW ORGANIZED After several delays, a softball league has been formed in Bing-ham Canyon. At a meeting held Tuesday evening at the Gemmell librarv five teams signified intentions of entering this year, ithey are as follows: Fraternal order of Eagles, Bingham Radio iShop Bingham Firemen. Gem-- i mell club and Miner's Merc, Irvin Stillman, president of the organization, states that Joe Oso-ir- o and John Mitchell were nam-io- d committee to contact on a Principal T. H. McMullin of the high school to arrange for dates that games can be played on the softball diamond in tle sta- - new dium. Mr- - Stillman has called another meeting to be held at the Gemmell club library Tues-da- y at 8 p.m. The purpose of the meeting is to draw up final plans this year's play and to elect officers. F.O.E. TO INSTALL OFFICERSJONDAY Installation of John T. West as worthy president of the Fra-ternal Order of Eagles, aerie No. 659, will be made Monday eve-ning, June 3, at Eagles hall. Eagles from Tooele are expected to at-tend the ceremonies at which, besides Mr. West, the following will take office: Neil Fresh, worthy vice presi-dent; Herbert R. Gust, worthy secretary; Bert A. Hocking, wor-thy treasurer; Dean Ham, wor-thy chaplain; Merl Porter, wor-thy conductor; Ed Edmonds, in-side guard and Steve Kosovich, trustee. A Dutch lunch will be served. NEW SOFTBALL DIAMOND NOW BEING LAID OUT According to Bailey Santiste-van, Bingham Canyon recreation-al director, work on a softball diamond in the new stadium at Copperton is underway. Base paths are being cut from the sod and a back stop is being made at home plate. The laying out of a softball diamond in the sta-dium, comes as good news to lo-cal softball enthusiasts, who in past years have been playing on a small, rough and dusty plot near the precipitating plant. The new grounds will be ready for use about June 15. Parker Gray. Ray Call, Bailey Santistevan, John Hutchmgs and OS nsen left Wednesday for Jackson lake where ticyplan to fish until Sunday. |