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Show ftLjg; LiL A" Independent NewspaPe BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1946 Oldwt Weekly In Salt Lake County PHONE 91 Five - Month Metal Strike Settlement Seen This Week After five long months, a strike against the Utah Cop-per company, U. S. Smelting Refining and Mining company ami American Smelting and Refining company was settled this week. Meetings were held by the striking miners, millmen and smeltermen Tuesday night and working agreements and strike settlement were ratified by a large majority. Contracts were agreed to by both the union and com-pany and will probably be signed Saturday The union would like to have these agreements signed as soon as possible, in order that work can be resumed by Monday, June 24th, if possible. Local unions and its operators will resume negotiations to discuss plans and system of resuming operations within a day or two. All employees at the. respective plants will be returned to work by the company without discrimination as soon as plant operators will permit. Settlement agreement in part is as follows: Eighteen and one-ha- lf cents (18 Vic) per hour overall increase for all days pay men; $32.00 per month increase for clerical and technical workers at Garfield and 18 Vic per hour for clerical and technical workers at Arthur-Magn- 9Vc retroactive to September 1, 1945 for days pay men; $16 00 per month retroactive to Sep-tember 1. 1945 for clerical work- - ers of Utah Copper company and American Smelting and Refining company. Vacation privileges not to be impaired by strike. All employes to work four weeks prior to tak-ing vacations or requesting vaca-tion pay in lieu of vacations. All workers, upon the termin-ation of the strikes at the re-spective plants shall be recalled to work as soon as pUnt opera-tions permit and be allowed a period not to exceed fifteen (15) days from such call in which to report, except for men unable to report because of bona fide illness or other legitimate cause. To be eligible to receive any re-troactive pay, as hereinbefore provided, a worker must comply with the requirements of this paragraph and in addition must complete a minimum of ton days work thereafter. The union agrees not to use the maintenance of membership clause or any other security pro- - visions of its contracts with the company against any employee because of any act done or omitt-ed to be done by such employee during the strike. (The compan-ies will be willing to waive this provision as to men who have signed agreements to pay $1.00 a day to the strike fund and have failed to carry out their agree-ment. This arrangement is made with the understanding that the union will make every reason-able effort to reach settlement with the particular men involved-Th-common labor rate will remain at $6.45. The Utah Cop-per company at the open pit will increase the $6.15 rate to $6.45 and the $6.35 rate to $6.65. The Utah Copper will make aU of the increase due to reclassification retroactive until Sept. I, 1945. The contracts shall cover the period July 1, 1946 through June 30, 1948, inclusive, either party having the privilege of wage rates by giving notice between June 1 and June 30, 1947, inclusive. According to Joe Dispenza, president of local 485, CIO, strik-ing members and their families have been provided with coal, food and medicines from the several warehouses maintained by the CIO through contributions from business firms and fellow members who were employed. Nearly 1000 people were given aid in the Bingham warehouse during the past five months. r MISS NELLIE STEVENS SUCCUMBS JUNE 12 Miss Nellie Stevens, former Bingham Methodist church work-er and missionary, died Wednes-- ! day morning, June 12 at the Ro-- 1 bincroft Deaconess Rest Home in Pasadena, Calif., where she was1 working. She was here in Bing-ham from 1918 to 1926 and dur-ing those years was deaconess at the Methodist churches. From! 1926 to 1945 she was living In the eastern states. Then, until this last year she was in Salt Lake City at Esther hall until May, when she left her duties here to go to the Robincroft Deaconess Home in Pasadena.) During her stay here she nude a host of friends who will mourn her passing. Funeral services Were held in Pasadena June 14. She was 67 years of age at the time of her death. ATTENTION Girl Seoul mothers and any-- I one interested in scouting. Assistance is badly needed in carrying out Day Camp pro-gram. Will all who possibly can, please volunteer their ser-vices. For further information call Mrs. Elmo A. Nelson. 221 J. O PLAYGROUND NEWS B. J. Santistevan, Area Recreational Director Bingham American Legion defeated Bennion post No. 83 of Salt Lake City 2 to defeat the last of the three city teams. This team was made up of East high school boys. This puts the Bing-ham team leading the Metropoli-tan league. Tuesday we defeated Murray Legion post 9-- 0 on the Murray field. Philip Montoya pitched his first complete game against Ben-nion post and did a masterful job, striking out 11 and allowing but 3 hits. Jack Knudsen also pitched a fine game when he blanked Murray Cal Crump has returned to the Bingham Le-gion lineup after a brief illness-Highlan- Boy is back on the playground with a fine team. In Bobby Edvick and Matt Pazell they have a good battery. Paul Smilanich, Robert Allen, Paddy Ortego and Pete Massa are their heavy hitters. The Copperfield Pewees are out in front in their league. Chris Katis has a good hitting and fielding club. In Gilbert Burke he has the top pitcher in the league. John Dee Mitchell, Marion Cowdell, Howard Grant, Gary LaComb, Junior Streator and Don Diederich are the mainstays of the Copperton Yanks. Dale Crump is improving daily as for the seniors in the senior league. The Carr Fork Eagles have signed Keith Deakin, Louis Sal-div- ar and Joseph Nichols and are playing hustling to try and stay on top in the junior league-Th- Pop Eye club members have received new caps and sweat shirts from their sponsor and are leading the Popsicle league. Dick Carter, Mac Stocks and Henry Galvan are the leading hitters for the Frogtown Pirates. Ronald Huntsman and Clare Ra-g-are also good fielders for this club. The McGill, Nev., Junior Base-ball club has challenged the Bingham club and the two clubs may again have a series. We played this club in a two-gam- e series last year on Labor day at Ely and McGill, Nev. This same! club was met in the Western Sectional tournament at Denver1 by the Bingham team last year. Larry Stillman, John Landen-berge- r, Dick Houghton and Grant Pullan are good hitters and fielders for the Copperton Cubs. Val Sutherland, Joseph Anderson, Jimmy Wilson and Phil Downs are the mainstays for the Copperton Cadets. Junior Herrera has organized a new team in Carr Fork which is to be known as the Carr Fork Commandos. The Bingham Dod-- i gers are the leading club in the Junior league. In Sammy Robi-so- n, Bob Sanchez, Dean Lipsey and Dick Roblez they have a fine bunch of ball players. SOCIAL SECURITY REPRESENTATIVE TO BE HERE JUNE 25 I A representative of the Salt Lake City field office of the Social Security board will visit Bingham Tuesday, June 25. He will be at the city hall at 11:00 a.m. Several interviews have al-ready been arranged for him with individuals who have spe- - cific personal questions regard-- I ing their status under the Social Security Act, and it is hoped that any others who have ques-tions about their cards or eligi-bility rights or those who desire other information regarding so-cial security will contact him at the city hall on that day. CANNING SUGAR Another sugar stamp for home canning will be validated later in the canning season, if the sup-ply permits, OPA announces But the total allotment of sugar for home canning will not exceed ten pounds during 1946. Five of this ten pounds of canning sugar was made available to consum-ers when spare stamp 9 was val-idated March 11. Sugar is still in short supply throughout the en-tire world. B.D A.A. SOFTBALL LEAGUE STANDINGS Won Lost Pet. B.C.0 5 2 .7141 Merchants 5 2 .714! Lark 4 3 .571 Firemen 3 4 .428 Frogtown 3 4 .428 Copperton 2 4 .333 Lions 2 5 .285 Results June 13 Lark 8, B.C.O. 7; Merchants 10, Firemen 4; June 17 B.C.O. 8, Lions 1; Frogtown 6, Lark 5. Next Week's Schedule Monday, June 24 Lions vs Frogtown at Lark; Lark vs Fire-men at Bingham; Thursday, June 27 Merchants vs Copperton at Bingham; B.C.O vs Frogtown at Lark. " A joint statement issued by American Smelting & Refining Co., United States Smelting Re-fining & Mining company and Utah Copper company read: "The longest nonferrous metal mining strike in Utah's history is now over. It has caused a sub-stantial and nonrecoverable loss in metal production, payrolls, supply purchases, freight traffic, taxes, retail sales and other trade channels. The loss in expendi- - Local Happenings tures by the three companies to approximately and the payroll loss alone totals approximately $5,000,000. At the rate of production in De-cember, 1945, the last full month of operations, the loss in metal production is estimated at 165 million pounds of copper, 31 million pounds of lead and 13 million pounds of zinc- "The most regrettable feature of the entire matter, it is agreed by officials of the three compan-ies, is the personal loss of earn-ings by employes during the strike, which amounts to an av-erage of about $1000 each. "One of the important matters resolved in the final negotiations resulted from assurance by the companies that they would not discriminate against any em-ployes involved in the strike, and the union for its part agreed not to take general retalitory mea-sures against employes." O Bridge club were guests last Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Earl T. James. New mem-bers into the club are Mrs. Har-old W. Nielsen and Mrs. John J. Creedon. Mrs. Irvin Stillman was an invited guest. Aaron Beard and sons, Bernarr and Robert and Don Deakin left Sunday to spend a few days vis-iting in the southern Utah parks. Mrs. David L. Bills recently returned from Grand Junction, Colo., where she attended the funeral of her brother-in-law- , Lloyd Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond B. Carter have as guests for an in-definite time their nieces, Lillian and Barbara Nelson of Roose-velt. Entre Nous club were guests last Wednesday evening of Mrs. Axel Sybrowsky. Invited guests were Mrs. Irma Nelson and Mrs. Fay Andreason. Prizes at cards were won by Mrs. Hyman Smer-nof- f, Mrs. Nelson and Kay Braun. mw w w w v land Mrs. Don Carpenter of Mur-ray and Mr. and Mrs. Boyd J. Nerd in. Mr. and Mrs. Glayde Alexan-der of Butterfield canyon had as week-en- d guests Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Drouby and children of Bauer. Mrs. James Jimas entertained at a nicely appointed luncheon Tuesday in the Empire room, Hotel Utah, given in honor of Miss Mary Kerikas of Salt Lake City. The luncheon also announc-ed the engagement of Miss Keri-kas to William Anton of Port-land, Ore. Miss Kerikas is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kerikas. Among those present were Mrs. Emanuel Kanoupes of Delhi, Calif.; Mrs. Joseph Jones and Mrs. Bob Jimas of Bingham; Mrs. A. C. Rizos, Mrs. Peter Diz-lkie- s, Mrs. George Nicholi, Mrs. John Zoles, Mrs. B. Vaxil and Mrs. John Kerikas, all of Salt Lake City. Mrs. Jimas presented Miss Kerikas with a lovely gar-denia corsage. Mrs. D. E. Ireland left Monday for Pocatello to spend a week with her daughter, Miss Mar-garet Ireland. Mrs. Elizabeth Antell enter-tained at a delightful stork show-er Saturday evening at Rune-ber- g hall in honor of Mrs. Ruby Slotte. Mrs. Antell was assisted by Mrs. Marvin Ray and Mrs Ernest Nolan. There were 30 guests present. Delicious refresh-ments were served. Among those attending the funeral services of Mrs. Nellie Johnston at Vernal Tuesday were Mayor Dale Johnston, Mrs. Violet Carpenter and daughter Eleanor, Bob Johnston, all of California, Mrs. Ella Terry of Salt Lake City, Mr. and Mrs. Victor John-ston and daughter, Mrs. Bert Peck and son Jimmy. Members of Martha chapter No. 7 of Bingham attending the visit of the worthy grand matron in Salt Lake City recently were Mrs. Myra Larick, Mrs. Maude Myers, Mrs. Myrtle Thomas and Mrs. Helen Watson. Orlene Beckstead of Sandy visited several days last week with her uncle and aunt, Mr-an- Mrs. Jess Rawlings. Ross Beckstead of Sandy and Jess Rawlings fished the open-ing day at Diamond Fork. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Angus nf Chieaco visited Sunday at the Pinochle club were entertain-ed Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. George Dahlstrom of Copperton. Invited guests were Mrs. R. L. Cunliffe, Mrs. Tory Tobiason and Mrs. Helen Prizes were won by Mrs. R. G. Steele and Mrs. Matousek. Delicious refreshments were ser-ved to nine. No. 2 Fire auxiliary were guests Monday evening of Mrs. Joe Timothy. Prizes at cards were won by Mrs- Lawrence West, Mrs. John Martin and Mrs. Clarence Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Van Duzee of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, were week-en- d guests of Mr. and Mrs- - Frank Shafter. They visit-ed the Yellowstone national park on their way down. Monday they left for an extended tour, to in-clude the Boulder Dam, Los An-geles, Calif., Tijuana, Mexico and on up the coast into British Col-umbia. Mr. Van Duzee is a bro-ther of Mrs. Shafter, whom She had not seen for nineteen years. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Shafter and daughter, Cherryl and Mr and Mrs. Milton Stevens of Hol- - home of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd J. Nerdin- - Mr. Angus recently re-turned from 2 1 2 years in Ara-bia. Mrs. Helen Matousek of Kan-sas City, Mo., arrived Sunday to spend two weeks with her sister and brother-in-la- Mr. and Mrs. John Adamek. Enjoying an evening of danc-ing at Saltair Tuesday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth An-gus of Chicago, Mr and Mrs. Leon Mitchell of Riverton, Mr. den visited in Bingham and werei guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shafter. Mrs. Stevens is an aunt of Mrs. Elmer Shafter. Frank B. Shafter returned Tuesday from a two-wee- vaca-tion in California where he vis-ited with old friends. He reports fishing is very good in northern California. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dizikies of Salt Lake City visited Wednes-day evening with Mr. and Mrs. James Jimas. NOTICE Applications for temporary employment at Bingham post office for clerk-carrie- r and custodian work will be accept-ed this week by Postmaster Earl T. James. Preference will be given in the following or-der: disabled veterans, veter-ans and others. According to Clyde Durnell. secretary, the next dinner meeting of Bingham Canyon Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held Monday, June 24, at 7:00 p.m. at Moretti's board-ing house. four linjhamites teport Thomas recent-arrive- d I 2c Eugene home to spend a leave with his parents, Mr. "d Mrs. Byron G. Thomas ot k At the end of his leave he artl back to Boston, Mass. c C Keith D. Mayne, son of , and Mrs Dewey Mayne of jpperton is home on two-wee-avt from the coast guard. He Island for ports to Treasure 0. instruction. MMM 2C Gilbert Lee Lopez home on leave from the sub at New London, Conn., and visiting friends and relatives the vicinity. He recently re-aped for 'w0 years more. He entitled to wear the European-patic- , Philippine, victory and d conduct ribbons with four in for major engagements and it deuce for two submarine pa-ci- s. He plans to visit friends in ifomia and Chicago before turning to his base and hopes be transferred to the Pacific ctor in the near future. MMM 3C Jim N. Serassio. son Mr. and Mrs. Bert Serassio of ark, was honorably discharged om naval service on June 15 t the U. S Naval Personnel Sep-atio- n Center, Shoemaker, Calif, e entered the service in April M and is authorized to wear le victory and American theatre bbons. He is a former employee the U S. Mine at Lark. With the Eighth Army in Jai-n (Delayed) Tech. Sgt. Glenn Draper, 22, Bingham Canyon ntrooper with the 11th Air-urn- e division, is on his way ime. The date of his "stateside" rival will be dependent upon le speed in w hich he is process-- i at the 4th Replacement de-i- t Yokohama, and upon the railable shipping conditions-- Sgt. Draper was inducted Fort Douglas in April, 1944 t qualified as a paratrooper at on Benning, Ga., in November, M He joined the 11th Air-tn- e division on Luzon in July, 45 Bung a qualified paratrooper, ft Draper has the honor of wing the highly polished rap boots, and the paratrooper lies that every airborne outfit noted for. He will also sport ' the chest of his combat jack-- i the following awards: The static Pacific theatre ribbon, ition ribbon, the d conduct ribbon and World II victory ribbon. Draper was employed as a "dent brakeman before his and upon receiving his charge, he plans to finish his Nation. He is the son of Mr. r,(i Mrs. E. R. Draper. FATHER OF LOCAL RESIDENT SUCCUMBS Funeral services for John Al- - fred Spendlove, 81, Provo, form-er Salt Lake county deputy sher-iff, who died last Friday night at his home of a heart attack, were held Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the Provo Sixth LDS ward church by Bishop Frank T Gard-ner. He was born December 16, 1864 in Rockville, Washington county, a son of John and Mary Davis Spendlove. He was edu-cated in the Rockville and Hur-ricane schools and followed the freighting, contracting and build-ing business in southern Utah and in Mercur and Magna. Ac-tive in the LDS church, Mr. Spendlove was a high priest in the Sixth LDS ward church at the time of his death. He was on a two-ye- ar mission to the south-ern states from 1888 to 1890. He moved to Provo in 1906 and then moved to Magna a short time later. While residing in Mag-na, he served as deputy sheriff of Salt Lake county from 1913 to 1918 and then moved back to Provo. He married Eleanor Jep-so- n Owns, Sept. 19, 1886 in the St. George LDS temple. She died Oct 3 1909 and he married Ad-di- e Henline April 23, 1912 in the Salt Lake LDS temple. She died Oct 6 1929. He then married Annie Jones Jan. 22, 1939, in the St. George LDS temple- Surviving are his widow; and the following sons and daughters: Joseph A. Spendlove, Bingham; James J. Spendlove, Richfield; Janus A. Spendlove, Boulder City, Nev.; John A. Spendlove, Provo; Mrs. Clarence Scott, Og-de- n Leonard Spendlove, Los Angeles, Calif.; Mrs. Ott Lom-qui-and Marion Spendlove, Ri-verside, Calif.; William H. Spend-love and Mrs. Afton Humphries, Hurricane; Mrs. Sam Archuletta and Mrs. Dwaine Lund, Corona and AS Calif 44 grandchildren ureat 'grandchildren; one brother and three sisters. Walter Spend-love, Boulder City, Nev., Mrs-Lizzi- Workman, Mrs. Fannie Sanders and Mrs. Addie Emily, Hurricane. HEALTH NEWS For the week ending June 14, there was reported to the Utah state department of health a total of 503 cases of communic-able diseases as compared with 426 for the previous week- With the exception of mumps, the number of cases of the more com-mon communicable diseases was fewer than for the previous week. No cases of poliomyelitis, diph- - theria, smallpox, nor typhoid fe-ver were reported for the week. The United States public health service report just received shows that for the first 22 weeks of 1946, 1,034 cases of poliomye-litis had been reported as com-pared with 811 for the corres-ponding period in 1945. One case of undulant fever was reported from Cache coun-ty. According to the attending physician, the patient is an adult female and the source of the in-fection has not been determined. Since January 1, of this year, a total of 13 cases of this disease has been reported in the state and in most instances the source of the infections were given as "the drinking of raw milk". Totals for the week were as follows: chickenpox, 76 measles, 164; German measles, 33; mumps, 108; pneumonia, 2; scarlet fever, 6; tularemia, 1; undulant fever, I; whooping cough, 37; gonorrhea (resident), 18; gonorrhea (nonre-sident), 16; syphilis (resident), 24; syphilis (nonresident, 9; ma- - laria, 1 ; rheumatic fever, 7. o MOTHER OF LOCAL RESIDENT DIES JUNE 12 Funeral services for Mrs Nel-lie Johnston, 83, former resident of Vernal, who died last Wed-nesday at 10:15 p.m. in Santa Cruz, Calif., at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Violet Carpenter of a heart ailment, were con-ducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Vernal- - Mrs. Johnston was born De-cember 19, 1863, in Dundee Scot-land, and had been a resident of Vernal for many years before moving to California to live with ' her daughter. Survivors include her daugh-ter Mrs. Carpenter; two sons, Robert L. Johnston, Vernal; Vic-tor E Johnston, Bingham Can-yon and four -l ren. HER WOUND Bubbles, bubbles and more bles. Everyone was blowing Ul at the soap bubble contest Vlast Wednesday at the play-CUnd- s hi Bingham and Cop-K"- n' At Bingham little Bobbie W9 ard Jackie Babcock blew "j01 bubbles than any of the W1 m the 6 age group. Je- - Boren blew the largest bub-- ' all with Janice Hocking W Lois Green's bubbles al-- F as large. Marilyn Thorne Kr l"e most in her group and uet;e Johanson had the bubble .lasted the longest- - Ellen Ber Khomas and Michael Ivie L6 champion blowers in !r division. m&u :,t cpperton also Bubh! many Prize winning Bat Su'san Santistevan, Tom Be Susan Garrity and Bob" Btm blew the finest and Bounf bubbles in the 3-- 6 age Bir.it my Landenberger. Gay Bto U and Beverly Ray Be 5tU,?Pqu;ilod in their blow Ws. as were Nanette San- - Wln and Roslyn Hansen. week the playground of-Bt- Special evert n addition BbnJe8Ulur entertaining hours Kg 70,j?raft- stry telling, danc-- P'cnics and games. Bme a't'n't already enrolled, .Monday and have fun with I t too laje to begin. NOTICE In accordance wilh the laws of Utah and ordinance of the City of Bingham Canyon which forbids the sale, possession or use of firecrackers, roman candles, rockets or other ex-plosive fireworks, the Bingham Canyon fire department will enter complaint against any-one violating the above law and ordinance in an effort to reduce fire losses and protect human lives. The citizens of Bingham district are asked to cooperate with the fire depart-ment so that they and their children may enjoy a safe and happy holiday. BIRTHS Mr and Mrs- Elliott H Land-hei-of Copperton are theproud eight pound baby parents of an June boy Craig, born Saturday, 15, at Holy Cross hosprta 1. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Heale of Alpine are the parents of a 17 at Bing baby boy born June ham hospital. RllMevj Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. the proud pat-ents of St- Johns are born June 19 of a baby girl 'MrTwi Hutchmgs street are the pro of Ml Mam of a six pouneIter ounce parents June 20 at B.ng baby girl born ham hospital- COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH Service of worship at Bingham 11:00 o'clock; Copperton at 10:00 o'clock; Sunday school at Bing-ham 10:00 o'clock and Copper-- field at 2:00. Parents, bring your children j to church. Come with them and they will like the church far better than to just send them-Let'- go. Rev. A. L. Norfleet UTAH HIGHWAY PATROL SUGGESTS KNOW YOUR TRAFFIC LAWS Bicycle- s- Eped"with Signal: No person shall ride a bicycle equipped with a bell unless it is or other device capable of giv-- i audible for a dis-- , ing a signal tance of at least 100 feet; except bicycle shall be equip-- ! that no with nor shall any person 5se upon a bicycle any siren or whistle. I |