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Show County Commissioners, Bingham Ration Board Honored By Lions Club Bingham Lions club, under direction di-rection of Joseph P. Scussel, president, pre-sident, held an outstanding meeting meet-ing at Bingham club Tuesday evening when they entertained Salt Lake county officials and Bingham ration board No. 7518-6 and ration office clerks. Originally the dinner was planned to compliment the ration board. As observance of the completion com-pletion of the lighting system on Copperton highway coincided, it was decided to combine celebration celebra-tion of the two events. The resultant re-sultant program, directed by Chris T. Praggastis, toastmaster, , brought together for a quick exchange ex-change of ideas OPA officials and county representatives. Mr. Praggastis introduced ration ra-tion board workers and Alvin S. Nelson, OPA field operation officer, of-ficer, Salt Lake City, handed out certificates of award for "patriotic contribution of time and effort in the execution of the price and rationing program" signed by President Roosevelt, Chester ' Bowles and regional and district-directors district-directors of OPA, to Francis J. Quinn, chairman; Joseph McDonald, Mc-Donald, William Fahrni, Robert Jackson, Roy Shilling, members; and C. E. Adderley, Clair R. Mathis, Chris T. Pracastis and Mrs. Ruby Knudsen, price panel; and Mrs. Ruth Burress, community commu-nity service (publicity) member of the board. Also introduced as honor guests were Mrs. Agnes Steele and Mrs. Gladys Adamek, clerks at the Bingham office. E. H. Azbill, district mileage rationing representative whose ' home is in Salt Lake City, spoke on the outstanding service Bingham Bing-ham ration board members have given their district in faithfully following OPA regulations which are aimed at furthering the war effort, safeguarding public health and fostering public safety. Under Un-der rationing only one class of persons essential war workers are given preferential consideration. con-sideration. The remainder must accept their just allotment of scarce articles under "share and share alike". A good ration board member must "first learn to ration himself" him-self" Mr. Azbill emphasized. He also advised that ration rule : changes can be expected frorrt day to day in adjustment to conditions. con-ditions. Mr. Nelson spoke on "Inflation". "Infla-tion". He described the economic chaos in Germany when the mark became almost valueless after the first World war. George T4 Parkinson, chairman of the committee to light state highway in Copperton, told how he and T. H. McMullin and Ren-old Ren-old Marcon, committee members, went about convincing Salt Lake county officials that the lights were a necessary improvement from a safety standpoint. Walter Carlquist, superintendent superintend-ent of lighting for the county, told of changing lighting systems in Copperfield and Herriman to obtain needed materials for the Copperton installation. He complimented com-plimented youngsters of Lark, Herriman, Copperfield and Highland High-land Boy because Uess vandalism is reported to light fixtures near ' their districts than in other Salt Lake county communities. Commissioners Gwynne Page and George Morgan replied to Earl T. James, who spoke for Lions in thanking Salt Lake county for their interest In Bingham Bing-ham district. Musical numbers presented by Joel P. Jensen of Bingham high school included a clarinet quartet, quar-tet, "Dark Eyes", played by Fay Apostal, Colleen Robison, Beverly Bev-erly Anderson and Melba Ottosen. Otto-sen. This was followed by two saxophone selections, "Paper Doll" and "Mairzy Doats". Assisting Chris T. Praggastis, chairman, with arrangements for the dinner meeting were Clair R. Mathis and C. E. Adderley. A very fine meal was served by employees of Bingham club under un-der direction of John Feraco. Following the meeting Lions and guests adjourned to Copper- . ton where they witnessed Commissioner Com-missioner Page turn the switch lighting the 19 four-thousand lumen lu-men lights suspended over the highway by 16-foot upsweep style mast arms attached to power poles. Cost of the Copperton highway high-way lighting system, exclusive of labor expenditures, was estimated esti-mated at $1500. When workmen's work-men's charges are totaled the materials and installation will be over $1700. Operation and replacements re-placements will amount to $350 ! a year. r |
