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Show the Hellenic Orthodox church for Mrs. Delia Vardakis, 48, of Lead Mine, who died April 11 in Bingham hospital of a heart ailment. (To Be Continued) - Catholic church was highly successful. suc-cessful. The dinner served to 300 persons was under direction of Mrs. Thomas Caulfield. Miss Betty Bet-ty Byrne, queen, was crowned along with attendants Mary Pa-zell Pa-zell and Virginia Baros. A dance revue by students at Bingham high school was given before a large audience March 28 under direction of Miss Virginia Harris. .. April 4 A number of officers of the Utah department of the American Ameri-can Legion attended a meeting of Bingham post No. 30 and the auxiliary at the Civic Center April 2. Clem S. Schramm of Salt Lake City and Utah department depart-ment commander, spoke on importance im-portance of the local Americanism American-ism program. The Bingham high school junior jun-ior prom followed a military theme and was voted a highly successful formal. Genevieve Wells was queen and Bill Hatch king of the juniors. April 11 The evening of April 8 approximately approxi-mately 130 Boy Scouts and their fathers attended the annual Fathers Fath-ers and Sons banquet. An even larger crowd was present for the court of honor following. April 18 To date $1251.10 had been raised rais-ed in Bingham for the Greek Relief Inc., Mayor Ed W. Johnson John-son reported. Charles Frederick Hoine volunteered volun-teered for service in the U. S. army. Requiem mass for James (Gen-cero) (Gen-cero) Caicco, 59, was conducted April 15 at Holy Rosary Catholic church. Mr. Caicco died of a heart attack. Services were held April 13 in Called to duty February 24 by selective service board No. 16 were Pete Rakich, Joe Melaquies Crus, Daniel Ignacious Caulfield, Walter Evald Granquist, John DeDios Gallegos, Ramon Calvon, Morris Reed Kelly, Richard William Wil-liam Fennemore, Julian Earl Baum, Joe Loverich, Frank Ser-assio, Ser-assio, Steve Amicone Jr., Moroni Eugene Trevort, Robert Irving Crellin, Daniel Eugene Fish, Frank Bradford Shafter, Edd Le-Roy Le-Roy Barnett, Wesley E. Longfellow. Long-fellow. Miles Gaythwaite was elected president of the Utah Copper company Employees Credit union. un-ion. February 21 Formation of a committee of civic club representatives to carry car-ry the spirit of Americanism week through the year and to encourage Bingham's 10 per cent alien population in an interest in American citizenship was accomplished ac-complished at a no host Americanism Ameri-canism week dinner sponsored by the junior chamber of commerce com-merce at Bingham cafe the evening even-ing of February 20. Plans for erection of 11 four-; room and three five-room modern mo-dern homes and garages at Copperton Cop-perton were approved by Utah Copper company officials. February 28 Last tribute was paid, Mrs. Margaret Bruno Chiara Contrat-to, Contrat-to, CO, who died February 24 following fol-lowing a long illness. Services were held in Salt Lake City February Feb-ruary 27. Her three sons and four daughters attended services. Chief of Police Reed E. Vetterli of Salt Lake City was a speaker at the Central school P.-T.A. meeting February 27. March 7 Mrs. Nettie A. Parissenti and Giacoma (Jim) Dell Osbel of Los Angeles were married March 3 in the rectory of the Holy Rosary Catholic church. They left that evening to make their home in Los Angeles. Announcement was made of the marriage of Miss Lila Lehman Leh-man of Granger and George Dahlstrom in Farmington on February 15. Eckers basketball club won the 1941 Intermountain AAU basketball bas-ketball tournament, conducted at R. C. Gemmell Memorial club March 3-6. Receipts for the Jordan school district for the school year 1939-40 1939-40 showed income as $726,381.04, including state school funds, $149,738.39; state high school fund, $4,060.25; local district school tax, $364,156.32; miscellaneous miscellan-eous receipts, $5,186-40; PWA grant, $78,279.34; cash balance on June 30, $124,960.34. Disbursements Disburse-ments totaled $776,381.04. March 14 Socrates (Sam) Pappasideris, 59, of 60 Main street, died March 10 of heart disease. Funeral services ser-vices were held March 16 at the Hellenic Orthodox church in Salt Lake City. Boxers carrying R. C. Gemmell Gem-mell club colors into the Intermountain Inter-mountain AAU tourney at Salt Lake City March 3, 4, 5 and 6 made a creditable showing with Joe Compagno, Albino Lopez, Ray Montoya, Joe Espinosa, all champs; Woodrow Bullock and Albert Salazar, runners-up. Bingham high school presented present-ed an amusing story of adolescence, adoles-cence, a three-act play, "June Mad", before a packed house, to win many compliments for the cast and departments cooperating cooperat-ing in the production. March 21 Funeral services were held March 21 for Mrs. Neva E. Able, 58, widow of Charles Abel, who died March 19 following a long illness. A native of Bingham, she was a daughter of George E. and Mary L. Curtes Lee, and employed employ-ed 23 years by Utah Power and Light company. Ordered to report for selective service were Jack George Keller, Kay Albin Rosequist, Joe Neichi Ito, Sam Gavich, Hobert Hidejo Ikei, John Edward Christensen, Harold George Seim, Michael Koukles. March 28 Mayor Ed W. Johnson, chairman chair-man of the Greek Relief Inc. drive in Bingham Canyon, reported re-ported that to date $725 had been sent to state headquarters. Bernell Ewing, 28, helper in the powder department of the Utah Copper company, was killed kill-ed March 25 when he came into contact with a 5000-volt electric wire near a shovel on the M level of the mine. Mid-Lenten Mardi Gras carnival carni-val given March 25-26 at the Civic Center by the Holy Rosary 1941 IN REVIEW-A REVIEW-A CHRONOLOGY (Continued from last week) January 17 Bingham's fire loss in 1940 was estimated at $10,025 by Fire Chief Ray Tatton, who said that $10,000 was accounted for in the blaze at the Grand apartments on October 29. Bonded indebtedness of Bingham Bing-ham Canyon was cut from $65,-000 $65,-000 to $58,000 during 1940, the annual report of Recorder Eugene Eu-gene Morris revealed. January 24 Miss Katie Paulos of Magna and Theros John Speros were married January 19 in the Hellenic Hel-lenic Orthodox church in Salt Lake City. Over 500 employees of the Utah company mines and mills attended attend-ed the 20-year men's banquet at the Hotel Utah January 21. Colonel Col-onel D. C. Jackling presented 42 men in the "class of 1940" with gold' service pins and certificates. certifi-cates. Dr. Paul S. Richards was reelected reel-ected president of the Jordan school district board of education when the board was reorganized. January 31 Mrs. Lida Berry Dawson, 69, wife of E. F. Dawson, died January Janu-ary 29 of pneumonia and a heart attack. Services were held February Febru-ary 1 at the LDS chapel. Jordan school district is foremost fore-most in the state outside Salt Lake City in provisions for defense de-fense program contributions, Dr. C. N. Jensen stated before a P.-T.A. P.-T.A. audience at Central school. "There are 12 classes in auto mechanics, me-chanics, machine shop, blue print drafting and ' welding,", Superintendent Superin-tendent Jensen stated. Bingham Canyon rates the title ti-tle of "a good place in which to live," because of superior health provisions, good educational facilities fa-cilities and a general standard of living high enough to provide reasonable comforts of life, a survey sur-vey outlined by Dr. William Thorndyke of Columbia university univer-sity revealed. February 7 Miners' Mercantile, an important impor-tant business institution in Bingham Bing-ham district since 1900, announced announc-ed that arrangements were complete com-plete for a closing sale. Established Estab-lished by A. B. Gibson and Ralph Zwicky in company with stockholders stock-holders who included the late George H. Dern, former U. S. secretary of war and governor of Utah, the store was purchased on January 1, 1918, by"H.-B. Av-en. Av-en. Later his sons and son-in-law, Horace Aven. Budd Aven and A. W. Maly, became stockholders. stock-holders. In 1929 H. B. Aven left to make his home in Lancaster, Calif., and in 1937 he sold his interest to other stockholders. R. C. Gemmell Memorial club boxing classes conducted by Ken Shulsen were attended by 65 men and boys. Henry Tyler Jackson, 63, employed em-ployed at Bingham Drug, died of coronary occlusion February 5 at Bingham hospital. A defective furnace caused an estimated $2000 damage by fire at the Holy Rosary Catholic church the morning of February February 14 Americanism week activities arranged by the junior chamber of commerce and the American Legion auxiliary were announced to include a program on February Febru-ary 19 honoring recently naturalized natural-ized citizens, those aliens studying study-ing for citizenship and those who became 21 and eligible to vote; an Americanism dinner for representatives re-presentatives of clubs, schools and the city council on February Febru-ary 20 to discuss possibility of interesting aliens in becoming citizens: a lecture, "From Snow Covered, Suffering Norway Back Home to Safety", by Mrs. Brigg A. Perkins, wife of a vice consul in Norway, at Bingham high school February 17. |