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Show I kjjLjL An dependent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY. AUGUST 10, 11)15 Oldest Weekly In Salt Lake County PHONE 1)1 Ightin1 Binghamites Report L Leonard Earl Cuthbert v to report back at ieral hospital, Menlo after a 30-da- y fur- - Sh spent with his parents, and Mrs. Leonard Cuthbert. yjj petty Officer G. O. ived an honorable ,m the navy at Shoe-.- , after two years' arrived home Aug- - ;urd has been received that Barbara Cowdell of S has been transfer-fro- San Francisco to Bal- - park. r T. 3C Gunerious (Gid) Ks Jackson, son of Mr. and James Jackson of Copper-i- s home on 20-da- y leave af-1- 9 months in the South Pa-- t fie reports August 20 at t Island. Calif. Gid says he one Bingham boy during his ,els in the Pacific: MM 3C Vardakis and Water Ten- - Jackson happened to be in ian and at Guam at the same 's a new rating for Frank son, son of Mr. and Mrs. (in of Lark, who is a control operator third I at Vernalis, Calif. eaman 1 C Horace Max Seal phoned from San Diego, if. on August 2 to tell his s, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Seal ,ark, that he was leaving for Pacific. lief Gunner's Mate Elden mer Peterson leaves Friday report at Los Angeles Mon- - - w Marine Pfc Joe Compagno, A h!'rb!Sa at thl "aval hos-pital at Oakland, Calif , the 10 months, wishes past to be remem- bered to his friends. R T 1C Jack B. Latimer, who completed two months' refresher course at Treasure island and was then assigned to a ship at Boston, had a one and one-ha- lf tiour stopover Saturday at Og-cle-where he was met by his wife LeJeune Latimer and Mr and Mrs. S. J. Granquist, Walter uranquist, Lorraine Caulfield and Mrs. Joseph Granquist. BM 1C Del Shannon visited Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson and Mrs. Shirley Jensen at Copper-fiel- d over the week-en- During his 37 months stay in the Aleu-tion- s BM tfC Shannon became acquainted with Coxswain's Mate Gordon Jensen. Pvt. Floyd H. Cox, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cox, Copperton, is enrolled in the AAF Training Command's basic airplane and engine mechanics course at Kees-le- r Field Biloxi, Miss. The course will extend over a 76-da- y period during which time he will receive instruction and actual experience in aircraft maintenance. This training will prepare him for entrance into a specialized course where ground crew students will receive ad-ditional instructions in mainten-ance and trouble snooting. The training program he is following which in addition to maintenance, includes instruction in fundamentals, electrical svs-tem- s, structures, fuel and oil systems, propellers, instruments, hydraulic systems, engine opera-tion and basic airplane inspec-tion. londay Mrs. John Nystrom re-r- L a telegram from her son, Controlman 2iC Neil Fors-- l at Norfolk, Va., stating that expected to be given leave to le home in September. Neil sted in the navy August 3, i. and has a most interesting ird, having served in the utian islands, South Pacific, una, England, North Sea,- in Normandy and Cherbourg isions, in North Africa and Mediterranean. His only re since entering service was four days in July, 1943. and Mrs. J. T. Davis of vale, formerly of Bingham, r from their two sons in the y regularly. Pfc Craig S. is is with a unit which won residential citation on Saipan. service the past 26 months, ig served in the Pacific 16 iths. Cpl. John T. Davis wears campaign stars for partici-o- n in action in Italy, France Germany. John's four years ne army includes 19 months' 'ice in Europe. erving with the marine arm-- I division on Guam, Gus cn, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bus cn of Salt Lake and husband the former Pat Mannion of iperton, has been promoted sergeant. He has been over-- s since December, 1944. jB8W 1C Gerald (Buster) lock is spending a y 'e while his ship is being re-ed for further service and spent many days in Copper-- where he formerly lived. ""Jgh Gerald has seen con-sole combat duty, he says thoroughly enjoys navy life. Pi. and Mrs. Thomas Camer-an- d daughter Caroline, Mr. Mrs. Dominic Perrelle and 'v. Mrs. Nick A. Yengich .daughter Kay Arlene spent "ay Picnicking in Provo can- - Pfc Roy E. Bartell, who had the opportunity of visiting many points of interest in Italy, has written his mother, Mrs. Alena Bartell, Salt Lake City, that he will be home any day. He has been in the army two years. Pvt. William Hugh Huebner. a furloughed soldier reinducted July 30 at Fort Douglas, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E Huebner of Cop-perton. Pvt. Scipio LeRay Kenner ar-rived July 29 from a naval hos-pital at Farragut, Ida., to spend a 33-da- y furlough. Wounded while behind the Jap lines at Okinawa, Pvt. Kenner was evac-uated, arriving in San Francisco June 17 and sent to Farragut. He was with a party of 60 Am-erican marines taken to a moun-tain resort in Canada for two weeks as guest of the Canadian government. A son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Kenner, LeRay has completely recovered from the leg injury he received but is to report back at Farragut on ex-piration of his furlough for a checkup. Expected to arrive Sunday in Salt Lake City is Seaman 1;C William K. Andreason, who has been in the Pacific since Janu-ary. Mrs. Andreason and small son Kit have been in San Diego the past month awaiting Sea-man Andreason's arrival. Pfc Victor G. Cordova, an weight boxing champion; of Colorado and son of Joe Cor- - dova, is now a personal body guard for the firt calvary brig-- 1 ade commanding officer on south-ern Luzon. With the initial troops to enter Manila on February 3 of this year, Cordova is a yeter-- , an of four campaigns with the first cavalry. He saw action in the beachhead landing of Los Negros in the Admiralties and r.Mvte in the Philippines- Prior furlough with his family f months overseas. w and Mrs. George Conish sunday evening enjoying at the home of his mo-- r Mrs. Matt Conish. aman l c Ira Jay Forman Wednesday from San '"Cisco to visit nine days with and her parents, Mr M,'s William Ray. t i Pete Badovinatz, " whose djrj8 overseas service in-e- it 7,mnths in the Mediter- - theatre and earned him fjugn .tars in France, Italy, jf Tand England, arrived , 'uesday night to spend ayg with his mother, Mrs. st Badovinatz of Highland tm a sister, Mrs. Clyde Het-la-ancl a brother, Joe Bado- - L, .?te was met at Charles-"fW- h Carolina, by his wife, 'wmer Jennie De Fae of in ,'tnd his daughter, Linda who returned to Utah with 1 1.,;111 the medical corps, .completed a two-mont- h 10 England. Jjng toleaveAugust 12 to , r,13,"1 k at Camp Plauche, arir!?ans. La., First Sgt E! chck" Allias has had I Sy, visit with his mother, Allias, and other rela-ict5- d friends. He is an in-- j basic army subjects. I to becoming a bodyguard, Ptc Cordova was in charge ol a ma-chine gun team. He entered ser-vice on January 24 1942 and took basic training at Foit KUty, Kansas. He was later sent to Fort Bliss, Tex. He sailed with the initial cavalry June 2, 1943. Cpl Steve Amicone left Sat-urday morning to return to Camp Howze, Tex., after a y He visited his brother, Pfc James Amicone, who is en-joying a furlough with relatives in Midvale following eight months m the European service. Lt John K. Madsen a Bing-ham high school graduate and son of M and Mrs. Rulon Mad- - friends m B'inghanf'Monday. With the England's largest POt iouui two days before V-- E day F& 'orf Dibble hospita Shing m Salina canyon and vis lUtconimued on page eight. Bingham American Legion Team Entrains For Denver Tourney Nineteen Binghamites, including r players, the coach, two mascots and the American Legion representative en-trained for Denver Thursday evening where they will meet the state champions of Colorado, Arizona and Nevada in the regional American Legion baseball playoff. The group is traveling first class pullman via the Den-ver and Rio Grande Western K. K, A workout will be held this afternoon (Friday), after which a banquet will be given by the Denver American Legion post honoring all the par-ticipating teams. Drawings for teams to be played will be conducted during the banquet. Coach Bailey J. Santistevan reports that if theHmgham boys win the Denver playoff, they will remain in the Colorado city until they receive instructions to proceed to the next tournament city. Arrangements have been made by the Bulletin for tele-graphic results of the first game, which is scheduled for Saturday afternoon- - Results, as soon as they are received, will be posted in the Bulletin win-dow. Those making the trip are as follows: O. R. Warner, Coach Santistevan, William Thomas, Don Price, George Dimas, Kent Stillman, Don Stoddard, Jack Knudsen, Ken Hall, Bailey San- - tistevan Jr., Victor Roblez. Wayne Ray, Marvin Pullan, Douglas Morris, Mickey Culle-to- n, Billy Boren, Caf Crump, Briggie Knudsen, Don Gust. In the game between the state champions and the old Gemmell club team played Monday even-ing, the Gemmellites woti by a score of 12-1- 0. Sufficient funds were raised through this fame to give the boys an extra day in Denver if they lose out the first day. All Bingham district resi-dents are hoping that the funds will not be used until the team reaches the next tournament city, which in all probability will be Great Falls, Mont. O , PROMINENT PROVO LAWYER TO SPEAK HERE ON MONDAY George S. Ballif, prominent Provo attornev and a former member of the Utali Public Ser-vice commission, will speak at a public meeting in Masonic hall Monday, August 13 at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Ballifs talk will be on "World Affairs". Mr. Ballif was recommended to the Bingham junior chamber of commerce, sponsors of the program, by Senator Elbert D. Thomas as one of the outstand-ing speakers in Utah on the sub-ject of "World Affairs". The public is invited to at-- i tend this program. Meetings of this type are being sponsored all over the United States by the Jaycees to enlighten the peo-ple on such matters as Dumbar-ton Oaks conference, Bretton Woods conference and the Unit-ed Nations charter which was drawn up at San Francisco. If a sufficient number of Bing-ham residents show interest in this type of public program, it is planned to hold more of them in the future. Bob Jimas. Jaycee state director, is committee mem-ber in charge of this affair O CITY SETS 15 MILL 1945 TAX LEVY Bingham city officials have set their 1945 levy at 15 mills, the same as last year's. Broken down, tax returns will be apportioned in this manner: three mills to bonds and interest; one mill to the contingent fund; five mills to public safety; three mills to streets and sidewalks; two mills to public affairs and finance; one mill to erection and mainten-ance of city halls and memorials. Salt Lake county's auditor. David P. Jones, notified City Recorder Eugene Morris on Aug-ust 7 that the total assessed valu-ation of all property within Bing-ham Canyon for 1945 as it ap-pears on the oounty assessment rolls is $2,382,623. This compares with $2,061,789 for 1944, the in-crease occurring in net proceeds from the mining of ore in the city and for mine supplies and equipment. At Wednesday's meeting of the council, bills and accounts totaling $633.82 were approved for payment. A request received for more picnic tables at Heaston flat in Dry Fork was received and con-sidered, decision being made to ask Utah Copper for permission to grade the road and provide the tables. Fines and forfeitures for July amounting to $282.50 were re-ported. A cement foundation for the Carr F'ork water tank has been completed and delivery of the tank is awaited. Permission to connect a ce-ment drainage ditch to the city sewer main was requested by Mrs. Blanche V. Miller and Cir-il- o Sorrae, owners of property at 281 and 287 Main street. The property owners were advised to go ahead. O Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Last night the American Le gion team left for Denver, carry-ing the gouJ wishes of all Bing-ham into their play for the re-gional championship. Win or lose the fellows will get a big hand when they come home-Ra-onto an interesting article in an Iowa paper the other day. I know most of the Old Timers around Bingham remember Christy Lauck, better known as Chris, who recentb' naid a visit to his old home town of Indian-- I ola, la., and it brought memories to the editor of their paper, of the great football team of Simp-son college of 50 years ago. A team that met all the college teams of the corn belt and came 'lout on top. In fact the 1893 team on which Chris was half back was unbeaten, untied and against. And that was in the days of the flying wedge and rugged football. Two of the men on that team later played for Stagg at Chicago and Kennedy, the quarter back, became a tra-dition. Chris is well known here, having lived in Bingham for many years. The second no hit game of the year in the Industrial league was pitched by Bob Stewart of Pin-ne- y Wednesday night. The big left hander set the Murray club down without a hit or a run, struck out 12 and only allowed three men to reach first base. Two walked and the other two got by on an error. The Bingham tans will see Big Bob Galena days. Provo and Pinney are the two teams I pick to go down the wire in the second half. Lob Collins has come back to manage Provo, Don Overley having gone into the army. Lob is a scrapper. Brigham City has a fine look-ing team on paper, but they just can't seem to win. In Jack Jack-son and Earl Owens they have the best one-tw- o punch in the league. Big Jack hit two for the circuit Wednesday night and Earl got one, but it wasn't enough. Provo winning, 10 to 8. The Bingham boys are doing all right for themselves this year. We have six on tne Pinney team: Babcock, Zaccaria, Sluga, Alves, Robertson and Oliver. Babcock is having a big year playing the outfield. Zac is still one of the best ball Hawks in the league. and has started to hit his stride at the plate- Sluga is as steady as ever and always a threat. Al-ves hasn't a peer in fielding and Ray has been hitting with the best of them. Robertson can catch for my money and with men on he is plenty tough at the dish. Sammy Oliver pitched the first no hit game in the history of the league and Sammy still has his good days. Valcheck, an- - other former Gemmell player who is now with Provo, is going good. The most improved ball player in the league is Russell Gust, a Bingham boy who has come a long way in the last couple of years. He is with Mur-ray and to my notion is the best looking young ball player in the league. Will try and keep you posted. Looks like with this new pitch Uncle Sam has developed and that big Russian playing the out-field it won't take them long to tack the Allied pennant to the pole. So until next week, AL O VICTORY FLAG ASKS PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR BENEFIT SHOW A benefit motion picture show, proceeds of which go to Victory Flag society's Christmas book, Bingham Canyon's first all war motion picture night is to be stag-ed at Princess theatre at 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 15 Tickets are 50 cents each. The management of Princess theatre is donating facilities to Victory Flag. There are 200 boys among the 900 who left Bingham to enter service who have no one at home to send them a Christmas book The Victory Flag society is spon-- I soring the show for the purpose of raising money to see that each service man from Bingham re-ceives a Christmas book. All proceeds go to the Bingham at war year book. The program includes these films: "The Fleet That Came To Stay", "San Pietro"; "Fight For the Skies"; "The Returning Vet-eran". LAST RITES FOR RAYMOND MATSON TO BE HELD TODAY Funeral services will be hejd at one o'clock this afternoon. Friday, for Raymond M. Matson, 72, father of Mrs Arthur Bent ley, who died July 28 in San Francisco of a congestive heart failure following three weeks' illness. A son of Charles and Mary Giamon Matson, he was born August 4, 1872, in Springville He had resided in San Francisco the past 25 years and was a re-tired miner. Surviving are a former wife, Mrs. Leah Rands of Los Angeles; two daughters, Mrs. Dolres Clark of Honolulu and Mrs Bentley; a son, Ivan Matson of Los Angeles; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Burial will be in Murray ceme-tery under direction of Bingham mortuary. Friends may call at the mortuary until time of fun-eral. HOSPITAL WORK CLASS TO BE STARTED SOON Women interested In nurse's aid work at Bingham hospital have an opportunity to enroll for the class Mrs. John Hutch-ing- s w.ill teach beginning Aug-ust 20. The course will be given In two lessons a week during the last two weeks of this month and will be of much , practical value. Those interested are ask-ed to telephone Mrs. Hutchings at 131J. SEEN AND HEARD Overheard near a telephone booth: "the two hardest things to get nowadays are soap and central" . . Everyone up town Sunday afternoon saw the space where the large plate glass win-dow was before the smash, but few seem to have heard the crash . . . The state champion-ship Bingham Legion post brought home was a good com- - munity shot in the arm, a pickup in the doldrums of midsummer . . . Seems Coach Santistevan knows how to instill competitive spirit in Bingham teams. His boys sincerely hate losing and so are terrific winners. Proof: Four state championships in six years, 1939-41-44-- . . . Com-mittee members for Galena days, September 14-1- 5, expect to visit Midvale to take in Harvest days this week- It is grapevined that various chairmen are aiming at a "colossal" Galena celebration . . Remember about six years ago when John Madsen spent most of the year he was a senior at Bingham hich school flat in bed to cure a back ailment? Now Lt. Madsen, John recently dis-carded a cast after licking a similar back injury received in a fall while in England with the transportation corps. John says he's certain that he is fit to re-turn to duty. JAYCEES TO MEET MONDAY EVENING Members of the Bingham Can-yon junior chamber of commerce will meet Monday evening at 6:30 o'clock at the Bingham club. Following the business Jaycees and their partners will attend a public speaking program at the Masonic hall. GEMMELL CLUB DANCE SET FOR AUGUST 17 W. R. Anderson, entertain-ment chairman of the R. C. Gem-mell Memorial club, announces that a club dance will be held Friday evening, August 17. Be-cause of a limited financial bud-get, music for the occasion will be provided by electrical record-ings. Next Gemmell club .show for this month will be held Wednes-day and Thursday, August 22-2- "A Medal for Benny" will be shown. rv LIONS ENTERTAIN AT DINNER FOR LEGION CHAMPS Members of the American Le-gion post No. 30 state champion-ship baseball team were guests of Bingham Lions at a banquet and program Monday evening at the Bingham club. Joseph P. Scussel, committee-man in charge of arrangements, acted as toastmaster. A. J. Ab-lett, who umpired all the Legion tourney games at Brigham City, was the main speaker. Mr. Ab-lett said that the Bingham boys were sportsmen and gentlemen in every inning of every game played in the tournament. He stated that the impressing thing was that in victory the local boys held the respect of all the other players. The speaker said that every player on the champion team is a credit to Bingham dis-trict. C. A Morley, owner of the Canyon Motor company, report-ed that the trophy ' presented each year to the state Legion champions and the individual which are given by the Ford Motor company had not arrived in time for presentation at the banquet. Mr. Morley com-plimented the team and wished them success in the regional tour-ney at Denver this week-en- d. Captain Billy Boren in behalf of the Legion crew presented Coach Bailey J. Santistevan a lovely leather suitcase. Coach Santistevan praised the boys for their fine cooperation this year. He also told history of Bingham Legion teams, and an-nounced to the bos that they would leave Salt Lake City Thursday evening at 5 o'clock for Denver. The crew will arrive in Denver 10:00 a.m. Friday. Lions voted at their business meeting to cooperate with the junior chamber of commerce in putting on a successful meeting Monday evening at 8:00 o'clock at the Masonic hall when George Ballif, prominent Provo attorney, will speak to Bingham Canyon residents on "World Affairs"- - BIRTHS Radioman 1 C Keith Sullenger, now in the Pacific, and Mrs. Sullenger of 407 Main street, are parents of a six-pou- four-cunc- e daughter, Stanley Rae, born August 7 at Bineham hos-pital. Mr. and Mrs. George Nichol-son of Lark announce arrival of a daughter August 7 at Bingham hospital Cpl. Harold B. Eddings, now in England, and Mrs. Biddings of 21)9 Main street are parents of a son born August 7 at Bingham hospital. v Bingham Mortuary Has New Floral Refrigerator W. V. Robinson, owner and manager of the Bingham mor-tuary, announces that he has in- - stalled a new flower refrigeration unit in his place of business. Fresh cut flowers are now avail-able at all times. It is no longer necessary to place orders a day in advance of delivery. Mr. Ro-binson invites the public to come in and see the new floral dis-play. Home Missionaries will speak at the Sunday night meeting in Bingham LDS wardhouse. Angus Christensen of Copperton and D. F. Johanson of Bingham ward will be main speakers, it is an-nounced by Bishop David C. Lyon. UTAH AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL CHAMPIONS Pictured above are members of the Bingham Canyon American Legion baseball team that left Salt Lake City Thursday evening for Denver where they will participate in the re-- . . piay0ff with teams from Nevada, Arizona, and Colorado. Back row left to right O. R. representative; William Thomas, nght field; George Dimas, second base; Kent Warner Legion shortstop; Don Stoddard, pitcher; Jack Knudsen. third base and pitcher; Ken Hall, left fie'ld- - Bailey Santistevan Jr.. pitcher; Victor Roblez, catcher; Wayne Ray, first base; Bailey coach; Front row left to right Briggie Knudsen. mascot; Marvin Pullan, infield; 1 tevan n"1 Morris, outfielder; Mickey Culleton, catcher; Billy Boren, captain and center field; CaTcrump. outfielder; Don Gust mascot; Don Price, pitcher, was absent when picture was taken. ; LOCAL NOTES . A meeting of Fraternal Or-der of Eagles will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday, August 16, it is announced H. R. Gust, secretary. The auxiliary will have their regular meeting the same evening with Mrs. W. C. Thomas as hostess. A canyon party at Maxfield's lodge in Big Cottonwood canyon on August 1 complimented Pfc Richard W- Lyon and his cousin, Helen Torkelson, a Red Cross worker at Letterman hospital, San Francisco. Members of the David C. Lyon and F. C. Torkel-son, Salt Lake, families were present. Mr. and Mrs. James C. Nackos and children of Pocatello, Ore., visited Tuesday with Mr. Nackos' father, Charles Nackos of Cop-perfjel- d. Hep Kat Haven, the 'Teen club, completely renovated by a thorough scrubbing and polish-ing, was open for business Mon-day night. President Bud Jones reports that 30 members turned out to refurbish the club, A new feature now planned is the candy bar, soon to be installed. An automobile which belongs to Paul Stott of Murray, left on the uptown Main street parking lot, coasted backward into the large three-pane- d front window at Utah Power and Light com-pany's office at 115 p.m. Sun-day. Mr. Stott had left his ma-chine and walked into the hos-pital before it began its unguid-e- d movement across the street. Horace T. Gocftrey of Union was named president of Jordan school district board of educa-tion at the August 2 meeting of the board at the administration offices at Sandy. He succeeds Dr. Paul S. Richards, recently re-signed as Bingham's representa-tive. Rex T. Tripp, named to succeed Dr. Richards on the board, is the new chairman of the finance committee. R. S. McClintock of Spokane, Wash., arrived in Salt Lake City Saturday on business. Joining him Sunday for a visit at Park City were Mr. and Mrs. L. C Amsden. Mr. McClintock was in Bingham Tuesday. v FATHER OF COPPERTON RESIDENT SUCCUMBS Funeral services will be con-ducted today, Friday, at 2 p.m. at Fillmore LDS ward chapel for Miah Gorman Day, 53, who died Tuesday in a Salt Lake hospital. Mr. Day was the father of Mrs. Roland Warner of Copperton Other survivors are his widow; a son, Miah Gorman Day Jr., and four daughters, Mrs. Mary Turner, Las Vegas, Nov.; Miss Ramon Day and Miss Norma Day, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Warn-er of Copperton. For 22 years Mr. Day had owned and operat-- j ed the Day hotel at Fillmore. v Chris T. Praggastis, local at-- 1 torney, will leave Bingham Aug-- : ust 15 to open offices in the Bos-- ; ton building in Salt Lake City. Mr. Praggastis will share office with Gordon Hoxsie, a Sail Lake City attorney. 4 |