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Show M I JMngltaiii "Bull rtin BDl. '"'ll11: An Independent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1916 Oldest Weekly In Salt Lake County PHONE '.'1 Red Cross Drive To Begin Saturday, March 16 The time has again come when Red Cross workers will be eon-- j tacting each and everyone of us for a donation, so that the Red Cross may continue to perform the fine job that they have done in past years, as well as in re-cent days(World War II). accord-- , ing to Eddie Arata, Bingham district chairman of the drive. The drive will officially begin March 16 and continue through March 31. The Red Cross still has a huge task to perform, to ease the suf- - fering of the less fortunate. We know the destruction and suffer-ing left in the wake of a disaster. When tragedies occur, Red Cross workers are on the scene im-mediately. They feed, clothe and shelter needy victims; give me-dical care to the injured and help them through the long period of rehabilitation-Hel-your Red Cross carry on! War is never over for them. All donations and courteous considerations shown to the fol-- ; lowing Red Cross workers, as listed by Mr. Arata, will be great- - . ly appreciated: Bingham business district Karl T. James, Elwood Johnson, Joseph P. Scussel, Clarence Johnson, Elmo A. Nelson, Mary Serassio, Anast J. Chipian, Eddie Arata; House-to-hous- e workers Mrs. Jack Householder, upper Bing-ham; Mrs. Mary Zaccaria, Mrs. Mabel TUoberg, Mrs. George Klo-nizo- s, Carr Fork and Copper Heights; Central Bingham Mrs. P. A. Alhas, Mrs. Bob Jimas, Mrs. R. Cunliffe, Mrs. Joe Dispenza, Mrs. R. A. Murano; Markham Mrs. Dan Delaney, Mrs. H. W. Nielsen; Heaston Heights Mrs. Renold Marcon, Mrs. J. M. Martin; Freeman Mrs. W C. Carter, Mrs. E. T. Johnson; Lower Bingham Mrs. Elmo A. Nelson, Mrs. Ellis Boren, Mary Drossos, Helen Drossos; Copperfield Stella Klopen-stin- e; Highland Boy Mr. and Mrs. Harold R. Barton; Copperton Mrs. Emily Ab-let- t; School workers Harold W. Nielsen, Bingham Central; Ma-bel Neprud, Copperton Grade; T. H. McMullin, Bingham high school; Stella Klopenstine, Cop-perfield Grade; Harold Barton, Highland Boy Grade school. WEATHER REPORT According to Joseph Spend love, weather observer at tin Utah Power and Light sub sta-tion, temperatures for the first two weeks of March ranged frorr a high of 60 degrees on March JO to a low of 2Q degrees Marc) i. There were 5 clear days. ) part cloudy and 5 cloudy days 5 inches of snow fell during tht two weeks. Precipitation was .68 There is snow on the ground now. CITY COUNCIL Payroll for first half of March in the amount of $1075.70 was approved for payment at the Wednesday evening meeting of the city council. The council also approved the remodeling of the old furnace room at No. 2 Fire hall to pro-vide equipment storage cabinets and hose drying racks. It was also aooroved to move the fire hydrant on Heaston Heights nearer to the hose house. A sander, which was ordered by the city to sand streets fol-lowing a snowstorm, is due to be shipped from a factory' in Pen-nsylvania on March 15. O CIVIC CLUB TO SPONSOR READING The public is promised Ml un-- I usual treat in the presentation of Grace Nixon Stewart, talent-ed dramatist. Mrs. Stewart will appear at Bingham high school, Copperton, Wednesday evening. March 27 at 8 p.m., to read the three-ac- t play, "Victoria Regina", made famous by Helen Hayes The dramatist is being sponsor-ed by Women! Civic Club. Mrs. Stewart is doing exten-sive lyceum work throughout the west this year. Critics have rated Mrs. Stewart as one of America's greatest artists of character im- - personations and have said of her work, "Grace Nixon Stewart's personality, golden voice and perfect freedom of control of body technique, enable her to give mast brilliant portrayals of many characters. The range and quality of her voice show a ver-satility seldom seen in western America". The evening's entertainment includes appropriate musical numbers and promises to be one of the highlights of the season. The program, for which an ad-mission charge of 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students, will be open to everyone over 12 years of age- O Spotlighting UTAH j Mahoney Selling Geneva Dr. J. R. Mahoney, director of the bureau of economics research at the University of Utah is now on the pacific coast pointing out to industrial leaders and organi-zations the fact that the western states need steel for expanding industries, and that Utah's Gen- - eva steel plant is ready to sup-ply it. The plant will be sold May 1, to the highest bidder and can furnish all the steel the west needs. Dr. Mahoney is pointing out. World Needs Utah Wheat Utah farmers are being urged by the Utah State AAA commit-tee to move their stored wheat into the regular channels of trade- There is no advantage in holding wheat, it is pointed out, for grain is now selling at the ceiling price and there is little possibility that the ceilings will be lifted. The wheat is needed to pre-vent mass starvation in Europe The government has asked all American farmers and consum-ers to cooperate in making wheat and flour available to the hungry of the world. Moroni U.S. Turkey Capitol The city of Moroni is "talking turkey" these days, for it has been termed the "Turkey Capitol of America". Last year, the "Turkey Capitol" shipped 189 refrigerator cars of dressed turkey from a farm area of only 1225 people. This achievement places Moroni in a unique class it shipped more turkeys than any other city of its size in the nation, and the industry brings more than $2,- - 000,000 annually to the community-- Canyon Yields Record Cougar Utah's big wild cat, better known as a cougar, puma or mountain lion, can do consider-able damage when he gets into a herd of deer or sheep. He par-ticularly likes young colts. Down in Fairview canyon near San-pete, local sportsmen have kill-ed or captured six big cats, some of which have been brought to town alive for exhibition. One of the animals weighed 130 pounds and measured 7 feet, 4 inches long. The cougar kills for the fun of killing and Sanpete sports-men are having a lot of fun kill-ing the killer, which after being treed by a pack of dogs, is either captured or shot. The hunters get $15.00 bounty per animal from the state and also the thrill of knowing they are protecting deer and livestock. Utah Relics Escape Atom Bomb The cruiser USS Salt Lake City is soon to be destroyed with other obsolete vessels in an atom bomb test to be laun-ched by the navy. The ship's bell, the silver service and es-cutcheon however, will be re-turned to Utah to be placed on permanent exhibition. The Utah State Historical So-ciety through its secretary, Mar-guerite L- Sinclair, following ne-gotiations with the navy, will pay transportation expenses for the return of the relics. The sil-ver service will go to the Navy Science building at the Univer-sity of Utah, the escutcheon to the City and County building and the bell to the historic ar-chives at the state capitol. Would Foster Utah Industrial Expansion The Utah Manufacturers as-sociation, with the aid of a new-ly appointed committee, Will conduct studies and surveys to determine problems affecting in-dustrial expansion of the state, then propose and undertake ac-tion to promote further indus-trial expansion in Utah. The University of Utah re-search bureau will cooperate in the movement as well as other interested organizations. As soon as definite information is ob-tained as to just what is needed to promote the industrialization of Utah, a program will be for-mulated to carry out the com-mittee's objectives. Temple For California Saints The keenest topic of interest among the Latter-da- y Saints of Southern California is the prom-ised building of a huge temple in the Los Angeles area. Hundreds of California saints are planning to attend the semi-annual conference in Salt Lake City April 5, 6 and 7, it is re-ported by David O. McKay, me-mber of the first presidency, who is back from a speaking tour of the coast LDS churches. Utah Eggs Best in U. S. If it were not for ceiling pric-es. New York and West Coast buvers would pay from six to eight cents a dozen more for Utah eggs than eggs from any other part of the nation, Utah poultry-me- n have been told. Future marketing prospects for Utah eggs are very bright, egg producers have been notified and eastern and western markets have been totally unable to get enough Utah eggs because of armed forces priorities. JYour Binghamites jlReport 'Mm ene Guff. 'MM H'red Goff, lW discharged last Saturday Hfrom the navy at Shoemaker, MmC Mi-- Mrs. anit mm expect to make their jHtiuiue at 82 Main street. S C Scott Lipsey was dis-- i Bcharge March 8 from the navy ;, rton, Wa: h H Sgt Keith G. Draper has been recently promoted to this rank. 'Hll lie on 01 Mi-- - allri Mrs. E-H. Draper. Sgt. Draper is with the 63rd Signal Corp K Vienna. mm The following citation was several weeks ago by mm poi on j on if Mr. and ! Mr- - 1. L. Watson of Conperton: F Watson, AM 1 c, USN cited m the name of pr the United States, First Ma- - I Brine Div ision Reinforced under H hi i of Major Gen, Alex- - A Vandegrift USMC Ci B tat ion mm, The officers and enlisted men Hui the First Marine Division, re-- on August 7 to 9, , demonstrated outstanding gallan- - iiy and determination in executing forced land-I-ing assaults against a number of IBstrongly defended Japanese on Tulagi, Gavutu, Tan-amben- Florida and Guadalca-nal al, British Solomon Islands, IB completely routing all the enemy I lori es and seizing a most val-- II uable base and airfield within IB tile enemy zone of operations in south Pacific ocean. lj From the above oeriod until1 December 9, 1942, this rein fore-- j lied division not only held their I B important strategic positions des- - H ' HetermineH ;inH ronnntriH Japanese naval, air and land at-tacks but by a series of offen-sive operations against strong enemy resistance drove the Jap-anese from the proximity of the airfield and inflicted great loss-es on them by land and air at-tacks The courage and deter-mination displayed in these were of an inspiring order. Frank Knox, Secretary of the h William B. Sullenger, boat-swain's mate second class, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Sullenger of Copperton, is attached to Air Transport squadron 4, based at the Naval air station in Oakland and Mofff tt Field, Calif. Squad ion 4 is the heavy maintenance squadron for the Pacific wing of the Naval Air Transport Service- S. Sgt Burton L- Slade, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Slade. of Salt Lake City, and husband of Helen Slade of Copperton, who served 7 months overseas as a mess sergeant, is authorized to wear the Asiatic-Pacifi- c theater ribbon, good conduct medal, Am-erican theater ribbon, and the! victory ribbon. Prior to entering tlie army May 21, 1943, Slade was employed at Los Angeles, "e was discharged from the army at Fort Douglas March 13. DRIVE FOR RED CROSS NEARS ( Rl'CIAl. STACK Alter having canvassed all o( the business, industrial and pro-fessional firms in Salt Lake county, during the first two weeks of the Salt Lake county chapter drive for the American Red Cross fund for 1946, shock troops under John Longden, chairman, next monday will be-gin the final phase of the drive to raise $180,500 in Salt Lake county as its share of the $150,-000,00- 0 national fund In the county outside of Salt Lake City, the drive is being conducted by Wm. H. Cardwell and P. L. Thomas, as with Horace Sorenson as chairman in the Sugarhouse dis-trict of Salt Lake City. The quota for Salt Lake coun-ty, outside of Salt Lake City, has been .set at $15,000 by Mr. Long-den. Local community quotas have been set by the county chairmen An attempt will be made to raise all of them by March 23, one week before the closing of the county campaign. Under the direction of Messrs. Caldwell and Thomas, Salt Lake county has reached its quota for 1945 and has set an enviable rc- - cord, and according to Mr. Long-- j den, there is anticipated a full quota for the 1946 fund "drive. First reports of the drive for funds collected will be made at campaign headquarters at the Tribune-Telegra- auditorim, on March 18, according to Mr. Long-den. HONOR PLANNED FOR LOCAL CITIZEN A banquet and program is be-ing arranged in honor of T. McMullin, in recog-nition of his twenty-fift- h year In Bingham as a coach, teacher and civic leader. The banquet will be held in the cafeteria at Bingham high school, Copperton, March 28, at 6:30 p.m., under the supervision of Mrs. Verna W. Jones. Joel P. Jensen, Bingham high school music instructor, is in charge of the program and pro-mises it to be one of the best. Tommy first came to Bingham as coach at Bingham high school in 1921 at the beginning of the school year. His first team in 1922 won the Jordan division title and entered the state tour-nament and for eleven consecu-tive seasons the Blue and White was an entry at the tournament. In 1930, he was appointed principal of the high school and has served in that capacity up to the present time. For six years he served as coach of the bas-ketball team as well as acting as principal. He also served on the town board of Bingham in the late twenties. Reservations may be made for the banquet with Joseph P. Scussel or John J- Creedon. com-mittee in charge of the affair. O BINGHAM WINS FIRST GAME IN STATE TOURNEY Norm Caldwell, Duchesne cen-ter, dropped in a charity toss to start the scoring in the first an- - nual class B high school basket-ball tournament at the Descret gymnasium Wednesday after-noon in the Bingham-Duchesn- e contest which opened the meet. Bingham put on a great second halt spurt to win, 46-3- 9 It was Nick Vidalakis, sub-stitute Bingham forward, who turned in the best offensive per- - formance, as he accounted for 13 points. Kent Stillman was next in line with four fielders and an equal number of free throws for an even dozen tallies. Duchesne, sparked by Cald-we- ll and Guards Gene Nelson and Lloyd Grant, was out in front 14-1- at the end of the first per-iod. However, in the second can-t- o, Vidalakis came to life and sent the Miners ahead, 21-1- 6, at intermission. O VETERANS HOLD SPECIAL MEETING Monday, March 11, 144 mem-bers and officers of the Return-ed Veterans Club held a special meeting at the Civic Center. It was passed 100 per cent to eon-- t tinue with the club and mem-- I bers and officers would like to have every returned veteran join the club. A committee was appointed to work with the Fourth of July committee: Bob Kliebenstein, Woodrow Wilson and Sam Dis-penza. A vote of thanks was render-ed to the citizens of Bingham district for approving the V.F.S. placque in memory of fifteen boys who lost their lives in World Warll, and also to the city council for the preparation of the Wel-come Home day citations. Jack Latimer, secretary and treasurer, gave a financial re-- j port, and stated that the club had $180 in their treasury. The club agreed to cooperate with all civic organizations for the betterment of this commu-nity and announced that on the Fourth of July they will have a baseball game, army vs- navy. The next meeting will be held at the Civic Center Monday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m. Represen-- I tatives will be present from the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. LAST CALL FOR CENTENNIAL SEAL Utahns who wish to submit their ideas for a "Centennial Seal" to be used officially throughout the state for the Utah Centennial celebration in 1947, must mail their sketches, their description of their ideas, and a color scheme before midnight, March 16, Gus P. Backman, di- - rector of the Centennial, an-nounced this week. All entries must be mailed to the Seal Contest Editor, the Utah Centennial, Box 329, Salt Lake City 8, before midnight on March 16. Prizes of $350 in war bonds, maturity value, are being offer-ed for the best suggestions. A bond of $200 will be offered for the winner, $100 bond for sec-ond place and $50 for third place, all' awards being made by the Utah Covered Wagon Days, which for years conducted the annual Pioneer day celebration in Salt Lake City. The seal should be simple, im-pressive and dignified and adap-table for use by many business firms on their stationery, on state stationery, on flags, banners, posters and other media of pub- - "city- O-- I BUDGET YOUR SUGAR STAMPS With the unusually early vali-dation of a ration stamp for canning sugar, housewives will have to budget and plan care-full- y or they may find them-- i selves without sugar for late fruits, the information panel chairman said today. Explaining that spare stamp No. 9 in ration book four became valid for five pounds of sugar March 11, the chairman said, "Don't cash your canning sugar stamp until you are actually rea-dy to do your canning- While it is expected that another stamp may be validated later in the year, the amount of sugar it will purchase depends on the supply situation in two or three months. The government is forced to make the same yimount of can-ning sugar available to all fam-- i ilies because it would be Im-possible for the diminished OPA ration staff to process the mil-- lions of canning applications as was done last year, he said "Spare stamp No. 9 is intend-ed for home canning only. If you don't plan to can, destroy your stamp or return it your lo-cal board", the chairman said, adding that grocers should dis-courage the use of home canning sugar stamps before the canning season begins in their areas. Last day for using the stamp is Octo-ber 31, 1946. VJ.W. DISCUSS RESOLUTIONS Veterans of Foreign Wars, Dugout post No. 3521, held their regular semi-monthl- y meeting Tuesday evening at Eagles hall. A discussion was held on the three resolutions presented by Ute post No. 2162, V.F.W., Provo. The resolutions under discussion are: L A state bonus of $1.00 per (fay for every day served out-side the continental limits of the United States. 2. That veterans be given pref-erence for all state jobs. 3. All overseas veterans a $1500 property tax exemption. Action on the above resolu tions will be taken at the next meeting, which is to be held Tuesday, March 26 It is requested that all mem-bers of V.F.W. and all returned overseas veterans of World War II be present aot this meeting. B.D.A.A. FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp Broadcast Enjoyed Wednesday afternoon, the sports fans of Bingham were treated to a very interesting ra-dio program, put on the air for their special benefit. Station KNAK, Salt Lake City, under auspices of the Bingham District Athletic association and several prominent local business houses, broadcast the opening game of Utah high school class "B" bas-ketba- ll tournami lit Highlights of the game and players were given by our old friend Mickey Buch-- I man, who really did a fine job in boosting Bingham and its citizens. Play by play description of the fast and rugged game between the Duchesne Eagles and Bing-ham Miners was nearly as good as seeing the game itself. Bing-ham started the 1946 tourney off with a decisive but hard won victory over Duchesne. The Min-ers were alternately hot and cold as they passed raggedly at times, but hit the hoop consistently to win 46-3- 9. Bingham went into second round play against the Park City Miners and if they win this game, should be in there for the championship Sat-urday night. Bits About Bowlers Woe is me. Hardly a cheerful word to say about the "Pin" fra-ternity. A worser coincidence could never have coincided, but better I let you in on the bad news anyhow. Last Tuesday the BDAA women's team met the Camera Centre squad on the Ritz alleys and after the smoke clear-- ! ed away the locals were on the short end four to nothing. Sad huh; but now for the final blow-Dow- Sugarhouse way the BDA-- 1 A men's team encountered an-- ! other Camera Centre bunch, and with bowed heads admitted, "Well, we only lost 4." The gals will have to put on their best pace from here on out, and their all stirred up enough to do it. The men who were tied for the league lead at Southeast, fell to third spot, but are determined to climb back. up. In the state bowling tourney which winds up Sunday, Frank Zaccaria and partner, Doug Muir, remained in 9th place in the doubles events. J. Abplanalp took over 11th spot in the singles, just 1 pin ahead of Paul Slotte. Will give you the dope next week about the ladies state bowl-ing tournament. A sponsored show will be held Tuesday, March 19, at Princess thealre. The picture will be "This Love of Ours", starring Merle Oberon, Claude Rains and Charles Kor-vi- Shows will be at 1:30, 7 and 9 p.m. BDAA member-ship cards must be shown at the box office. o v .The next meeting of Fraternal Order of Eagles, aerie No. 659.' will be Fridav, March 22. The, reason being that the Murray Kailes lodge are celebrating their anniversary. Members of Bing-ham aerie will observe their 42nd anniversary with a party to be hold Saturday, March 30. BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Jack Latimer are the proud parents of a baby boy born March 9 at Holy Cross hos-pital. Mr. and Mrs. Art Lipsey are the parents of a baby boy born March 1 at Bingham hospital- - Mr. and Mrs. Mickey Callisto of Crosby, Minn., formerly of Bingham, announce the arrival of a baby boy, born March 6 at Miners hospital, Crosh" He is to be named Dennis Glen. Mrs. Cal-listo is the former Blanche Lip-sey. Mr. and Mrs. Moriso Ogawa of Copperfield are the parents of a baby girl born March 9 at St. Mark's hospital. Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Archelotte, of Dinkeyville, are the parents of a baby boy born March 13 at their home. Mr. and Mrs. Jose L. Romero of Copperfield are the parents of a baby girl born March 7 at the Bingham hospitoal. Next meeting of Copperton Study Guild will be held Mon-day, March 25 at the home of Mis John Dahlstrorn. Mrs. T. H. McMullin will be cohostess. Dr. Charles E- - Dibble of the Univer-git- y of Utah will be guest speak-- , JAYCEES HAVE GUEST SPEAKER Bingham Canyon Junior Cham- - ber of Commerce met Monday evening at Masonic hall for their regular semi-month- ly dinner meeting. The dinner, a new innovation of the local club's problem of having dinner meetings, was prepared by Mrs. Umberto Mor-ett- i, and served by club mem-bers. Bob Jimas, state director of the local club, introduced the speaker of the evening, Hughes Brockbank, Salt Lake City, new-- : ly elected national director for the Utah state Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Brockbank's topic of dis-cussion was on national conven-tions! and was very interesting in the fact that he gave what to expect and what is gained by attending them. He urged any members that had the opportu-nity, should attend The state organization is chartering two buses this year to go to the con- - vention, which will be held in Milawukee, Wis. Reading of the minutes was given by Secretary Elmo A. Nel-son, and approved by the club. All outstanding bills were ap-proved for payment. Committees were appointed by President Harold W. Nielsen, in charge of the meeting, to select a placque, and also arrange for two affairs, honoring a local man and a local group. Time, place, and parties to bre announced. Next dinner meeting of Lions club will be held Tuesday, March 18 at 6:15 at Bingham dub. HEALTH NEWS For the week ending March 8, local health officers reported a total of 843 cases of communic-able diseases as compared with 827 for the previous week. The number of cases of meas-les continues to show a slight in-crease throughout the state, a total of 545 cases of this disease was reported as compared with 512 for the previous week. Emery county and Ogden city each reported one case of epi-demic meningitis. According to the attending physicians the pa-tients were both children. Eight new cases of tubercu-losis were reported for the week, 2 of whom were listed as non-residents. One case of amoebic dysentery-wa-reported from Weber coun-ty. The patients contracted the infection while in the armed service. O '' WHEEL CHAIR VOLLEYfTT W agreed on the value of sporU recreation. UISB SCHOLARSHIPS TO BE GIVEN SOON Scholarships for future drama majors will be presented by Cast 83 of Delta Psi Omega to two! freshmen entering University of Idaho, Southern branch next fall. Dr. Vio Mae Powell, head! of the drama department an-- ! nounces- The scholarships to be given to one boy and one girl shall con-sist of $75 each to be applied to their tuition at UISB next fall, Dr. Powell explained. A contest to determine the winners of the scholarships will be held in the near future. Stu-dents interested should write or contact Dr. Powell. r COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH Services at Copperton at 10:00 o'clock, Copperfield at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday school at Bingham, 10:00 o'clock; Service of Worship! with sermon at eleven. Let's go to church during Lent and be ready for Easter and observance of the climax in the earthly life of Jesus- Rev. A. L. Norfleet ' FLASH " At the time of going to press Bingham beat Park City in ih second game of the Utah stale' B division basketball tourna-ment 26-25- . A representative of the United States Employment Service will be at Bingham city hall Wed-nesday, March 20 from 2 to 4 p.m. to assist anyone desiring general employment information or information on returned vet-erans problems such as G.I. Bill of Rights, employment, etc. The next meeting of Jay-C- - Ettes will be held Monday ev- - ening, March 18, at the home of Mrs. Ray Carl in Copperton. Mrs. L. F. Pett will give a book re-view. |