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Show ft Hfc illdii S N- - 38' A" IndePnd" . WVJ- - Newspaper BINGIIAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, FEB. 20, 1942 Oldest Weekly In Sail Lake County 'PHONE 91 STORES WILL BE CLOSED ON MONDAY George Washington' birth-day falls on Sunday this year and the legal holiday will be observed in Bingham Canyon Monday by the First Security Bank, Bingham post office, Utah Liquor Package agency. Utah Power and Light com pany, all of which will remain closed all day. Majority of the mercantile establishment have announced they will be closed. Thirf includes all grocery stores and butcher shops. Jordan dis-trict school will not have a holiday. . r FEDERAL INCOME TAX MAN HERE NEXT WEEK Announcement has been made by the United States collector internal revenue of that a deputy collector will be in Bingham Canyon at the City hall Thurs-day, Friday and Saturday, Feb-ruary 26, 27 and 28, to assist lo- cal residents in filing federal in-come tax returns. The collector will return to Bingham on March 6, 7 and 8 to give assistance to any taxpayer. There is no charge lor this ser-vice. The 1941 code requires single persons or married persons not living with husband or wife whose gross income is $750 or over and persons married and living with husband or wife whose income is $1500 or over to. file a tax return. "lAINS PROPOSE MCE PLAN IN 1 TAUONFLICT rltponcment of the 1942 ref-- - Sum election on the chain 'arT "death tax" until after the in the interest of a united PfjLe effort by all retailers, and independent, was urg-4- - the Utah Chain Stores As-itio- n this week in a proposal fitted to the Utah Retail Gro-- I Association, sponsor of the V proposal, originating with jtors of the chain store group, td the grocers' organization In in a petition asking legis-- t deferment of the referen- - should the legislature meet .rial session before August 2. It was signed by H. Tracy n- - as president of the chain association and sent to A. ewart, president of the association. :test of all issues before the legislature, the chain store vould impose a special tax $500 per year on each exist-hai- n store outlet in Utah, fin additional annual license tp to $5,000 on each store ished or relocated after the ive date of the act. measure. Senate Bill 44, rendered inoperative when than 54,000 qualified Utah i signed petitions success-invokin- g the referendum or the first time in Utah's y. Their action held up the ntil it could be voted upon e general election on No-- .. Icr 3. "J a time when American soil uiler invasion and American tare being sacrificed in its we believe, as we are igent that you do, that in a id of such grave national su we should submerge our trrpal differences and meet :t illy the emergency that fac- - ' i" Mr. Fowler wrote. ".a is a conflict in which all t have a place and which lids of each of us the ut-ji- n time, money and energy. 1 struggle in which it would fiminal to do less than our SBoth independent and chain jtrs have an important task jis war. We are depended to assure the steady flow fcilable supplies so that pro-i- n may proceed unhamper-- d civilian morale be main-- i at a high level. Our con- - , Jion is distribution. We are t rmy of supply. " AIR RAID SIGNAL WILL BE TESTED SATURDAY 10 AJ Announcement is made by H. L. Garrity, protection division chairman of Bingham Canyon civilian defense organization, that a large whistle has been installed on top of the Utah Copper company machine shops to be used as an air raid warn-ing signal. The whistle will be blown Saturday at 10 a.m. as a test and will last about five min-utes. Resident in Bingham Canyon listening for the whis-tle and not hearing it are ask-ed to notify their district cap-tain. The signal will be given in a serie of short blasts. O LESS THAN 500 MEN LISTED IN DRAFT SIGNUP Registration of 442 men for selective service in Bingham dis-trict Monday between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. was approximately the number anticipated for the third wartime draft, registration since World war armistice in 1918, Postmaster Earl T. James, in charge of registration machinery in the district, states. The number of men between ages of 20 and 44 now registered as available for military service totals 1422 in Bingham district. 950 men registered on October 16, 1940, initial registration date. 30 more signed up for selective service on coming of age July 1, 1941, and 442 on February 16. The following numbers were registered in communities of the district on February 16: Copper-ton- , 93; Lark, 33; Bingham Can-yon, 201; Copperfield, 82; High-land Boy, 33. Those assisting in registration were: Copperton Mrs. Charles F. Sullenger, Mrs. II. M. Rasmus-se- n, Mrs. James Denver and Miss Cleo Groves; Highland Boy Mrs. Vernon Jeffcott, Miss Marie Azzelio, Miss Mary Gerbich, Miss Ann Muhar, Miss Marie Button and Miss Erma Sponga; Lark Mrs. Clara G. Turpin, D. A. Thom-as, A. A. Erickson, Robert Sonne, Mrs. LaVon Crump, Mrs. J. H. McDonald, Miss Fern Crump and Howard Atkinson; Bingham Can-yon Mrs. J. J. Doyle, Mrs. Ellis Boren, Leland G. Burress, Mrs. Ross M. Cushing, Mrs. Joseph Timothy, Mrs. S. .J. Granquist, Miss Genevieve . Wells, Miss Alaine Siddoway, Miss Billie Ruth Camp and John J. Creedon; Copperfield Miss Stella Klop-enstine- ", Mrs. Blaine Milner, Mrs. John Barrett, Miss Connie Brown, Mrs. Harold W. Nielsen. RECORDER TELLS CITY EXPENSES, RECEIPTS OF 1941 Receipts of the city of Bingham Canyon for the year ending De-cember 31. 1941, totaled $47,903.-0- 9, an increase of $1031.31 over the total revenue of $46,871.78 in the year 1940, the financial re-port compiled by City Recorder Eugene Morris for the year im-mediately passed shows. In addition Bingham Canyon had available on January 1 actual funds totaling $1,844.68 and taxes due from Salt Lake county in the amount of. $22,247.47. Tax collection in 1941 was 100.9 per cent, including delinquent tax collections. The city during 1941 paid to retire bonds, notes and for in-terest the sum of $10,457.50, re-ducing indebtedness to $51,000. Complete receipts for the year totaled $47,903.09 and were from the following sources: general taxes, $29,870.79; state road mo-tor vehicle fund, $1,410.36; mer-chants licenses, $3,228.80; beer license, $800; peddlers' license, $67; fines and forfeitures, $1,510; dog license, $146.50; cemetery re- - venue, $435; water revenue, 8; rent from county on sher-iffs' office and jail, $720; miscel-laneous revenue, $77.76; sale of right-of-wa- y in Dry Fork canyon, $1,125; sale of portion of heating system in the Civic Center build-ing, $300. Disbursements totaled $46,584.-7- 7, broken down into expendi-tures in the various departments as follow: general fund, $9,504.03; retirement of bond and bond in-terest, $7,247.50; water depart-ment, $7,738.69; police depart-ment, $7,329.04; health depart-ment, $3,120.00; fire department, $2,436.82; street . department, $9,208.69. Listed by Recorder Morris were assets totaling $336,234.25: cash available. December 31, 1941, $1,844.68: taxes due from Salt Lake county December 31, 1941, $22,247.47; city hall, $15,741.52; fire station No. 1, $8,170; fire station No. 2, $4,800; cemetery, $1,207; waterworks, $150,000; fire department equipment, street department equip-ment, $1,000; paved roads, $47,-00- 0; garbage dump grounds, $500; sewer project, $24,000; Freeman flood water channel, $3,000; ce-ment sidewalks, $20,000. Liabilities amount to $53,137.07 and include bonds outstanding of $51,000; notes outstanding of $1,500; miscellaneous accounts payable January 1, 1942, of $637.-0- 7. Assessed valuation was $2,017,-14- 0 in 1940 and $2,015,097 in 1941. Itemized report of the recorder and a bond and interest table are printed in full on page 4. War Brings Difficult Psychological Problem To U. S., Speakers Tell m eee Young men of United States face a difficult psychological prob-lem, Professor Meredith Wilson of the Brigham Young university told his audience at an inspiring Americanism Program Monday evening at Bingham high school auditorium. . "Reared in a generation that has been taught war is a posi- tive evil, contrary to all religious, moral and ethical codes. are finding it difficult to accept the fact that this war i necessary, that we must give lives and wealth to save our country," he laid. The first two years of the conflict United States' defense bill will be more than the entire cost of the World war. We have al-ready spent approximately 55 billion in this conflict, Mr. Wilson said. In discussing the causes of this war, Mr- Wilson stated that the Peace of Paris, more commonly termed the Treaty of Versailles, was not as unfair as has been popularly supposed. There has never been as complete an effort to settle fairly a war in the history of the world. The failure lay in America's mistake in not supporting the League of Nations, which would provided the machinery to perfect the peace, he said. In reality the World war was fought to save democracy. Injus-tice of the peace that followed was in the humiliation and embar-rasmen- t, the bitterness and collapse that followed the nations' fail-ure to carry out completely the spirit of the Treaty of Versailles. "Americans are still exhibiting symptoms of disillusion from the World war. We hoped we could escape this war. Now that we are convinced that we must fight, we must dedicate our strength and national resources, give, nearly half our national income for a chance at victory. "Giving so much, we should make certain we buy some-thing. Nations which fight wars on a basis of hate and hate alone crush the spirit of democracy. It would be possible to gain a world and lose our souls. This war must be a war which we fight because we love democracy and not because we hate the Japs or Germans. We must believe and believe deeply that we are fighting because there is something in democracy that touch-es the soul of the common man and allow him to live a a ov- - : ereign being. Democracy is the world's only hope," he concluded. The program was under direction of Warren G. Allsop, Junior chamber of commerce Americanism chairman. Several orchestra numbers were played by Billy Clough's orchestra before the meet-ing was called to order. Copperton Boy Scouts presented the colors ! and the invocation was by Bishop George M. Nix. v Calling for less preaching and more action, for Americans to , unite and get back of her leaders, Dr. Paul S. Richards, a featured speaker, said "We've done it before, and we can do it again but when do we get started?" "If we don't unite, it will be things in our own midst our . lackadaisical attitude, smugness, complacency and lack of en-thusiasm, nothing more than fifth column procedure which will destroy us. "We are facing a battle that will lake vears. And we are going to need all the endurance, faith and confidence thai any pioneers ever had. The way of American life is going to be on the road to sacrifice. We'll have a chance to prove if we are as great as we believe we are." ' The average American spends too little time reading and study-ing the inspiring documents handed down to us, Dr. Richards said. He advised all to reread the Mayflower compact, the Declaration of Independence, constitution and Bill of Rights, Washington's Fare-well address, Lincolns second inaugural address and Wilson's "The, Road Away From Revolution". "If we could learn to indoctrinate the principles of democracy into boys and girls as Hitlcrism has been taught German youth, we would have a nation so strong no power or powers could defeat us. "We have been led by the greatest inspiration the earth has ever known. The ideals of our leaders must become our Ideals, their inspirations must awaken our souls. Our conclusion must be that if we cannot .have the American way of living we want no life at all," Dr. Richards said. A reading, "What America Means To Me", was given by Doug-las Goff. Violin duets, "Happy Days", by Strelezka and "The Rosary , by Ethelbert Nevin, were played by Mrs. C. A. Morley and Dale Johnston with Miss Margaret Ireland as piano accompanist. v Deno Kannes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kannes of Salt Lake City, gave three vocal selections, "We've Done It Before and We Can Do It Again", "The Red, White and Blue" and "God Bless America". Benediction was by Bishop David C. Lyon. BINGHAM TREKS TO GRANITE FOR TONIGHT'S GAME District Standings Won Lost e 6 1 .857 Davis 5 2 .714 Cyprus 4 3 .571 Jordan 4 3 .571 Murray 4 3 .571 Grantsville 3 4 .3331 Bingham 2 5 .286 Tooele 0 7 .000 Pingham high school's cagers travel to Granite tonight to meet the high team of Jordan district. Last Friday the Farmers suffer-ed their first setback to date, a 54-3- 2 trouncing at the hands of the Davis Darts. Granite, still smarting from a first upset ,is anxious to lengthen their lead in Jordan district. And will likely to demonstrate that Farmers can top Miners by a big-ger margin than the 29-2- 8 victory gained here last January 3. This year's Miners' squad will go down in school history as a team that could hold their own with the best in the state for three-quarte- rs of a game. In the final few minutes of play the Mi-ners have bowed to Granite, Jor-dan, Murray, Grantsville, Cy-prus. None of these opponents has found easy victory over the game and fighting Miners. Last Friday in Copperton gym-nasium, Jordan raised their stan-ding a notch and improved pos-sibilities of entering tournament play by defeating Bingham 34-2- 6. The score was tied 26-2- 6 and three minutes remained for play when the Beetdiggers jumped for a decisive win. The Beetdiggers have improv-ed greatly since early season. The Miners won 36-2- 6 at the San-dy gymnasium on January 23. Don PouLsen was high for the Miners with seven points and Bob Nichols next with six coun-ters. Jack Gleason played a good game. Absent from Bingham's squad tonight because of illness will be Jack Thurmond, who has the flu; Bob Nichols, down with a kidney infection; and Don Poulsen, quar-antined with measles. Coach War-ren G. Allsop plans to play Noel Copenhaver, Rollo Bianchi, Don Crump and Billy Sullenger, along with Regulars Jack Gleason, Glenn Sheen and George Furgis. An outstanding feature of the game here last Friday was pre-sentation of an Americanism week stunt during the half by the Minerette club under direc-tion of Miss Virginia Harris. The girls formed a red, white and blue airplane and marched down the gym floor. The audience join-ed in singing "The Star Spangled Banner" as the girls stood at at-tention and saluted the flag. o OPEN FORUM IS ATBHSTONIGHT Dr. Frederick Ingvoldstad, a member of the Columbia Lecture bureau, will speak tonight at eight o'clock at Bingham high school on "World Conditions". He appeared at Jordan high school last Friday to discuss "What Has the Soviet-Naz- i War Done?" Appearing here under sponsor-ship of Jordan school district, Dr. Ingvoldstad has traveled recently in Berlin, Moscow, Stockholm, London, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Budapest, Helsinki, Prague, Riga, Trieste, Bucharest, Vienna, Paris, Milan, Odessa and Malta. A profound student and equip-ped with artistry in speech, Dr. Ingvoldstad will tell of his con-victions in trends of world af-fairs. His schedule in Jordan dis-appearances is announced by Dr. C. N. Jensen .superintendent, as follows: Feb. 19 Speaks to students at Jordan high school; 7:30 p.m. Forum with adults at Jordan high school. Feb. 206:00 p.m., guest of Bingham Lions club; 8:00 p.m., forum at Bingham high school. Feb. 266:00 p.m., speaks to Lions at Jordan high school;. 7:30 p.m., forum at Jordan high audi-torium. Feb. 27 forum with Bingham high school students; 8:00 p.m., forum at Bingham high school for adults. March 5 forum with Bingham high school students; 8:00 p.m., forum for adults at Bingnam high school. March 6 meets with Midvale Kiwanis club; 8:00 p.m., forum for adults at Jordan high school. AAU BASKETBALL DATKXHOSEN Teams are already registering for the Intermountain AAU bas-ketball tournament to be held at the Gemmell club at Bingham March 9, 10, 11 and 12 if it is found necessary to play the fourth day. ' Two divisions, for junior and senior teams are being planned Joe Christensen, AAU basketball chairman, has announced. Teams can enter by contacting Mr. Chris-tensen at the Salt Lake City and County building, or Willard Ni-chols at the Gemmell club. It is expected that several lo-cal teams will enter the tourney, besides Gemmell club. Provo Lions and Gemmell club have al-ready entered. Ogden will have at least two teams in the play. By beginning play Monday and finishing either Wednesday or Thursday, those teams winning the tourney will have ample time to prepare for the national meet in Denver March 15. Fine trophies will go to winners of the two di-visions. o Local Happenings eee eee i eee eee Out of 3000 U.S. army men in training at Fort Francis E. War-ren, Wyo., Pvt. James Byrne, formerly of Copperfield, placed high in a shooting match and was awarded a medal. Dinner guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Parker in Mid-val- e were Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Mor-ley and daughters, Darlene and Maurine. Mrs. W. F. Bowers of Sault St. Marie, Mich., a sister of Mrs. Ed Heather, who is visiting here in-definitely, Mr. Heather and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Mills expect to have as guests this week-en- d Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Smart, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Osborne, all of Sault St. Marie, and Miss Elizabeth Os-borne of Lansing, Mich., who are en route to visit Vernon Osborne, in .. U. S. service in California Mrs. Smart is another sister of Mrs. Heather, who is in Bingham hospital convalescing from a double major operation. Mrs. H. R. Gust, Russell Gust, Mrs. J. T. Davis and Craig Davis returned- Saturday from a 10-d-visit in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Donnetta Ellis of North Hollywood, niece of Mr. and Mrs. Gust, returned with the party for a visit of indefinite length. Dr. W. E. Blackstock, of Salt Lake City, district superintendent of the Community Methodist church, will be in Bingham Sun-day to hold quarterly conference following morning church ser-vices at the Civic Center. A public card party sponsored by the members of the auxiliary to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, aerie No. 659, was held last ev-ening at the lodge hall. Mrs. Al-vi- n Hall, Mrs. Verl Peterson, Mrs. Irvin Stillman, Mrs. H. Smernoff and Mrs. Peter Smith were on the committee of ar-rangements. Miss Althea Christensen spent Thursday in Salt Lake City to be present at a birthday dinner for her sister, Miss Clara Christen-sen. Mrs. Retta Payne of Burley, Idaho, who is convalescing from a recent operation, has been a guest of her son-in-la- w and dau-ghter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Det-mer- s, for the past week. Edward B. Anderson, 25, of 212 Main street, was reported as a little improved Tuesday after a leg amputation following an accident at Utah Copper mine Monday. He was injured when his leg was crushed beneath the caterpillar tread of a power sho-vel. ) CROSS SENDS SUPPLIES HERE . ihipment of materials to be into articles for the Ameri-- i fed Cross is expected Mon-j- t the Bingham district cen- -' instairs in the Bingham cafe Jjng, Mrs. W. H. Trevarthen, tljchairman of the Red Cross, "ofinees. Approximately 150 articles of arjng apparel are completed fe'eek by local workers, most-membe- rs of the Highland Boy 1 Copperfield Red Cross units, s Iartha Circle and the Am-es- t Legion auxiliary. Plenty tnttrials available at the irjam Center to make pajam-Gfesse- s, boys' shirts, bathrobes 1 toys' pants. 'Pin fiye days weekly Mon- -' ftrough Friday from 1 to J pi at the center assisting fTrevarthen and Mrs. Louis inan in supervising sewing i fnitting and in handing out fiak are Mrs. J.H. Barkle, 1L.W. Sumnicht, Monday; John West, Mrs. S. J. Gran- - 1 iuesday; Mrs. L. S. Breck-p- . Francis C. Oswald, Wed-fy- ; Mrs. A. C. Cole, Mrs. I Gust, Thursday; Mrs. A. .Jfrick, Mrs. Theo Chesler, ;$ women or organization u?ig to help with the Red program may apply at the jjfr for materials. Wool for hf'g has not been available Jf expected at any time. From f Pn all knitting done for the i Jross will be for men in U.S. f services, exclusively. BBS PLAY. FUND TO BE CIVILIAN DEFENSE BENEFIT by Betty Byrne At 8 p.m. Thursday evening, February 26, a three-ac- t play with all the color of modern family life will be presented by Bing-ham high school in the Copper-to- n .auditorium. Proceeds of tic-ket sales for the sparkling come-dy, "Ever Since Eve", will go to the civilian defense fund, admis-sion charge is 25 cents. Concerned with the problems of youth, the play is that rare ve-hiclea family story written sim-ply yet with both humor and in-sight, so that it has audience ap-peal for all ages The leading role, that of John-ny Clover, is portrayed by Paul Richards. His little helper, always getting him into trouble, is Jpy Dean Davies, who is Susan Blake in the play. Mr. and Mrs. Clover, Johnnys father and mother, are played by Mavis Garrett and Robert Goff. The part of the crisply humor-ous journalism teacher, Martha Willard, is taken by Irene Ander-son John Anderson is cast as the high school principal. A bundle of frills and fluff, Connie Kuhni is the typical sou-thern belle in the making. Harry Watkins and Dick 'Jones give characterizations as Preston Hughes and Officer Simmons. With Mrs. E. Odell Peterson as director, there is no doubt the play will be successful and every-one attending will vote the even-ing well spent. O CITY OFFICERS APPOINTED FOR TWO TERM Two-ye- ar appointments as city officials were given the follow-ing Wednesday evening by May-or Ed W. Johnson and council-me- n: S.. P. Da vies, chief of po-lice; R. J. Contratto, patrolman; George H. Austin, night patrol-man; Fay Mitchell, watermaster; Dr. M. Smernoff, health officer; Elliott W. Evans, city attorney: Francis A. Miller, justice of peace; Mrs. Anton Smith, cus-todian. No appointment was made of a utility man. Money saved from the salary usually paid this ap-pointee will be diverted to de-fense expenditures if needed, Re-corder Morris reported. It was decided that delinquent water accounts will be turned over to City Attorney Evans. Those water users who have fail-ed to respond to letters asking amounts past due will have wa-ter turned off, it was decided. A bond payment of $4000 and interest of $330 on the $12,000 refunding bond issue of 1933 was approved by the council. Pay-ment of $375 interest due on the 1938 tax anticipation note of $20,000 was ordered. B & G WORKER IS TRAFFIC VICTIM Vivien Atkin McAllister, 31, of Midvale, an engineer for the Bingham and Garfield railway, was killed instantly at 9 p.m. Monday when his sedan, in which he was riding with Jerry G. Bel: lamy of Pueblo, Colo., and an un-identified man, crashed into the rear of a truck on U. S. highway 91 on the outskirts of Farming-ton- . Mr. McAllister is survived by his widow, Grace C. McAllister and five small daughters, of Mid-vale; his father, A. L. McAllister of West Jordan; a grandfather, W. J. F. McAllister of American Fork; two brothers, Benjamin E. McAllister of Bingham and Whit-ney N- - McAllister of West Jor-dan; two sisters, Mrs. Venetia Pollard of Bingham .and Miss Luella McAllister,- - now at Little Rock, Ark. Funeral services for Mr. McA-llister will be conducted Friday at 1 p.m. in the West Jordan LDS chapel by Lawrence T. DahL Bu-rial will be at West Jordan. COURT OF HONOR . AWARDS LISTED A large crowd attended the Boy Scout court of honor held at the R. C. Gemmell club li-brary Sunday evening at the conclusion of Boy Scout week. D. E. Hammond, chief executive of the Salt Lake Boy Scout coun-cil, was the principal speaker. Dr. Paul S. Richards, chairman of Bingham district courts of honor, presided over the meet-ing and presented awards. J. C. Landenberger, Ted Srog-gi- n and Dr. H. C. Jenkins were committee men in charge of ar-rangements. The following Boy Scouts re-ceived awards: Tenderfoot troop 112,. James Rekoutis, Pete Baros and William Lopez; troop 150, .Bailey J. San-tistev- Jr., Clinton Coleman and Orville Armitstead; troop 136, Shirl Busey, Douglas Morris and Ernest Clough. - Second class troop 112, Fred Neria. First class troop 112, Pete Malkos, Teddy Leatherwood and Billie Mclvor. First' Honor awards Explorers troop 350, Kenneth Ray and Douglas Goff. Merit badges troop 112, Pete Malkos, reading; Teddy Leather-woo- d, reading; Eugene Halver-so- n, wood carving; troop 150, Lynn Pett, music; Glen Pett, reading; Howard Matthews, sig-naling; troop 350, Bob Nichols, athletics; .Life award troop 350, Eddie Tobiason. LOCAL ATTORNEY RECEIVES HONOR The Greek community of Utah, through a committee headed by Alke T. Diamant of Salt Lake City has announced selection ot Chris T. - Praggastis, Bingham attorney, as the young citizen ot Greek ancestry best typifying ideals of American citizenship. Mr Praggastis will be one of the group of representatives of vari-ous nationalities honored at an annual Americanism luncheon to be given by the Salt Lake chamber of commerce Febru-ary 20 at the Beau Brummel cafe, 131 South Main street, Salt Lake Citv Each honor guest will receive a gold citizenship award Ray U Liflywhite, chairman of the jun-ior chamber Americanism com-mittee, states. Mr Praggastis is a graduate of the University of Utah law school, a member of the Bingham jun-ior chamber of commerce board of directors, secretary of the Bingnam Lions club, vice presi-dent of the Bingham aerie, Fra-ternal Order of Eagles, and a Hfra orTnhCraasnk. and Greece He was born December 26, 1912, in Bingham. DEFENSE BENEFIT DANCESATURDAY Advance ticket sale for the an-nual Bingham Volunteer Fire-men sponsored Washington's birthday ball, to be held Satur-day, February 21 at the Civic Center, indicates that the dance will be one of the best of the mid-winter season. Proceeds from the 50 cents per couple charge will go to the Bing-ham district civilian defense fund, Clarence Robison, chair-man, has announced. Tommy K's orchestra will furn-ish music. 5 AMERICANISM EMBLYJONDAY M Americanism assembly .Tl at Bingham high school tternoon, Friday, will be 1 Instead at 2 p.m. Monday, it fum by PrinciPal T- - H- - talk on "Americanism" will 05 wb Chris ? Praggastis. tvans will present students judged win-f- ? ine speech and poster f by the Bingham chamber of commerce. Posters will be exhibit-rlc- h finals heard. 6 Gu AllsoP' Ja7cee Am- - chairman, will preside. wwra and appropriate iemm part of the en- - I N. TWO COUPLES WELCOME TWINS Two sets of twin's 'arrived in Bingham Canyorr : within the week. The lucky couples were Mr. and Mrs. Louis. .Arritola of Copperton and Mr. and "Mrs. Kay Miya of Copperfield. Borii Friday, February 13, at Bingham Canyon hospital, the baby sans of Mr., and Mrs. Arri-tol- a weighed in at five-poun- ds three-quart- er ounce and five-poun- ds eleven and three-quart- er ounces. Mr. and Mrs. Arritola have three other children, John, 5; Joan 4, and Rosemary, 2 years old: ' The Miya children were born Sunday,' February 15, at the fa-mily home in Copperfield. The boy weighed six-poun- one-- , quarter ounce and the girl five and one-ha- lf pounds. The mother is an American citizen and has two other children, Kathryn, 5, and Julia, 3 years old. " Mr and Mrs. Louis Roberson and daughter, Rhoda Lee, of Am-erican Fork, who are leaving Fri-day morning for Shingle Springs, Calif., to visit Sam Toghatti Mrs. Roberson's father, visited Wed-nesday with Mr. and Mrs,-An-tho- Jacobson, Mrs. Roberson s brother-in-la- w and sister- - The Robersons plan to make their home: in California. O Private First Class John Ed-ward Christensen, on furlough until March 1, arrived home Sun-day to' visit hi sparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Christensen of Copper-to-n. He is stationed at Gowan ifeld, Boise, Idaho. V A son was born February 18 at Bingham hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Roland M. Warner of 187 Main St. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gonza les of Copperf ield announce the birth at their home Feb-ruary of a daughter 18. oP' son of Mr. and Mrs. San DrVlfa?m8 p left Wednesday to join the U.S. 1 |