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Show CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS IN 1945 Main Happenings in Bingham Bing-ham district the first 11 months of 194S. January W. H. Woodring, a pioneer Bingham business man, now living liv-ing in Salt Lake City received the lirst life certificates In pharmacy phar-macy issued by the state department depart-ment of registration. Mrs. Deon Hodges was reelected reelect-ed to head Rebekab lodge. Mrs. Jennie Mattsnn tnulc over managership of Diamond Inn on New Year's day A new business establishment the Veterans Cafe opened on I Mew Year's eve. Owners of the j new enterpi Ise are Charles Di-i Di-i mas, George Makris and Mike Pappas. Local hospital (Bingham Can-lyon Can-lyon Hospital) was approved by ! the College of Physicians and ; Suregons. The betrothal of Miss Beverly , Davis, daughter of Mrs. Ebbs Davis of Salt Lake City to Frank Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Dew-ey Nelson of Lark was announe j ed. January weather begins as ! "fair and warmer". Announcement is made by w. j S. (Bill) Jones, owner and operator oper-ator of the Copper King for the past 30 years, that on January 1 Andrew Stephenson of Salt Lake I City leased the husiriess establishment. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Butt exchanged ex-changed marriage vows with S. Sgt. Raio Eastwood, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Eastwood of Salt Lake City April 12. 300 native Puerto Ricans ar- j rive to work at Utah Copper open pit mine. Pvt. Raymond Kopesec, report-ed report-ed missing, is known to be a Ger-I Ger-I man war prisoner. Mr- and Mrs. Fred Smith of Copperton announce the marriage of their daughter Shirley to Yeoman Yeo-man Glenn Stoker of Midvale at ! San Diego April 18. Funeral services for Myer F. (Mike) Brisk were held Tuesday at Civic Center. Pvt. Florence Gotro, USMC, became the bride of Sgt. John Pantalone April 8 at Los Angeles, j With announcement of the re-1 tirement of Dr. C. N. Jjl perintendent of Jordan icJ district the past 12 years col the notice of promotion of 1 thur E. Peterson of Sandy to I perintendent. Reed Beckstoudl former principal of HiRhl Boy, is new assistant sudJ tendent. p I George (Miley) Smilanich J April 12 at a Salt Lake hoJ of a lung ailment. May A bride of May l was J Dawna Joy Nerdin who exchsl ed vows that evening with I bert G. Huebner. Howard Hausknecht. son I Mr. and Mrs. Howard HJ knecht was announced vuleJ torian of the 1945 gradual class. (Continued on next to last pj Winter returns in snow and j blizzards after a false spring in January. Snowfall in January j was a meager 6 38 inches. In contrast February brought 20-: 20-: inches of snow. March Miss Dorothy Alaine Siddo-way Siddo-way became the bride of Harold Henderson in a ceremony held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clive Siddoway. Pfc Lawrence E. West, son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. West was officially reported dead. A prisoner taken by the Japs at Mindanoa in June 1942, Pfc West was lost with the sinking of a Japanese prison ship near Mindanoa Min-danoa on Sept. 7, 1944 by torpedoes tor-pedoes from an undisclosed source. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest F. Brenner Bren-ner announced the marriage of their son, Sgt. Lee L. Brenner to Miss Mary Colman of Sunderland, Sunder-land, England. Mrs. Lucille McMullen Van Tromp died March 1 of a heart ailment. Mrs. J. Lynn Booth was elected elect-ed to head Women's Civic club for the coming year. Mrs. Richard H. Willey was named head of Copperton Study Guild for 1945. Sgt. Jack Whitten, son of Mr- and Mrs. Harry Whitten of Salt Lake City, former Bingham residents, re-sidents, was killed in action in Germany March 5. Another Binghamite, Fireman lC Malcolm Rose, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Rose of Copperton was killed in action on Iwo Jima. where he served with Seabees Bingham aerie No. 659 Fraternal Frater-nal Order of Eagles celebrated their 41st anniversary. March Jose Isaac Rodriquez died March 14 at Bingham hospital. Mrs. Vernile E. Beddoes died March 24. Services were held at Orem. The marriage of Miss Estelle Stringer and Robert G. Poulsen was an event of March 30 at Bur-bank, Bur-bank, Calif. "My Spanish Sweetheart" was the Bingham junior high school operetta presented March 29 at the school auditorium. April The records for March show Bingham had 30 inches of snow. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt died April 12 of cerebral cere-bral hemorrhage at Warm Springs Georgia. Old clothing drive sponsored by Bingham and Lark Lions gets underway. Idella Dean Butt, daughter of Fire loss for Bingham in 1944 totaled $3000. John Harry Pitts of Salt Lake City and a former Bingham re-; re-; sident died at his home of na-' tural causes January 16. Miss Margaret Mannion of Copperton Cop-perton became the bride of AEM 2C Ralph Brown of American , Fork. Elmo A. Nelson was the recipient re-cipient of the 1944 United States Junior Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Service Key. Pvt. Raymond Kopesec was listed missing in Germany. He ! is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jo-seph Kopesec Of Highland Boy. I. ( wis B. Parkin of Copperton died of natural causes in a Stilt Lake hospital. Interment was at Bountiful cemetery following ser-! ser-! vices at Copperton. Highlight of the annual meeting meet-ing of Scouters of Salt Lake council was presentation of lour Silver Beaver ribbons. One of the awards, the highest bestowed by the national executive board of Boy Scouts went to Joe Kemp of Midvale, Scout commissioner of Bingham district and a 20-year veteran scouter. At the first annual meeting of Bingham volunteer firemen's 20-year 20-year club, E. J. Householder was elected president to succeed H. R. Marriott B. A. Hocking was elected vice president and C. I. Stillman was reelected secretary-treasurer. secretary-treasurer. February George T. Parkinson elected permanent president of BDAA. Other permanent officers named were Frank Zaecaria, vice pre-ident; pre-ident; Harold Chesler, secretary; Alvin Hall, treasurer. Mr. Hall served as temporary chairman during organization. Mrs. Minerva Janes Ayiv.s Jones, wife of Park y Jones, died j at her home after a brief illness. Former Police Chief Stanley P i Davies died at his home following follow-ing a stroke of parti lysis. Utah Copper company rcceiv-ed rcceiv-ed 4th Army-Navy pennant. Recognition as outstanding Buy Scout in Bingham district from j the standpoint of achievement during the year went to Douglas Morris, 15, for three years a member of troop 136. Announcement Announce-ment of the winner award was a feature at the annual Father j and Sons banquet and Court of Honor held February 7 The annual Sweetheart dinnerl dance of Bingham Jaycees was held at Minor room of Newhouse hotel. The Women's Civic Club celebrated cele-brated their 2f)lh anniversary with a dinner at Community Methodist Me-thodist church, CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTSIN 1945 (Continued from page two) John Dellagnola died from a heart attack on the street. Requiem mass was held May 11 at Holy Rosary church for Maria Elena Moyeda, who died at a local hospital. Bingham Eagles and Bingham IDS Sunday school hold special Mother's day programs.. Mearna T. Gates of Pomeroy, UTash., president of U. S. Junior Chamber, was entertained at a luncheon May 18 by the local club. Several state and national Javcee leaders were also present. Commencement exercises were held May 16 at Bingham high ; school. j Funeral services were held for J. A. Thomas May 26. Bingham district's twelfth casualty cas-ualty of World War II was Marine Ma-rine Private Delbert Dexter, who was killed May 10 on Okinawa. Juno Benton Boyct was named head of Lark Lions. Other officers elected were Fred Linck, 1st vice president;' Clyde Crump, 2nd vice president; Leland Nielsen, 3rd vice president; Clyde Gillam, secretary, Jack Hall, treasurer; Glen Waterman, tail twister; Max M. DuBois, lion tamer; D. A. Thomas and R. L. Christie, two-year trustees. Miss Beverly Marie Nix became be-came the bride of William N. Bar-nett Bar-nett August 16. George T. Parkinson, manager of Utah Power and Light office at Bingham since March 1943, j was transferred to Evanston, Wyo., as district manager- V-J day was proclaimed August Aug-ust 14 with most business establishments estab-lishments closing for a two-day holiday. , Mrs. Maude Evelyn Bowlby died August 13 at her home in Copperton of a cerebral hemorrhage. hemor-rhage. Peter J. Latsis of West Jordan and formerly of Bingham died ! August 13 of a lingering illness. ' (Continued on back page) J for Antonio Cuglietta, who died in a Salt Lake hospital. July Miss Edith Lois Hornickel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kurt E. Hornickel of Salt Lake and formeerly of Copperton, became ; the bride of MMM 2iC Sherman ; Wilcox, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Wil-liam Roy Wilcox of Lark. Rex T. Tripp, secretary-treasurer of Bingham Mercantile com-i com-i pany was appointed a member of J Jordan school district board as successor to Dr. Paul S. Rich-! Rich-! ards, who resigned recently be-1 cause of the press of his increas- j ingly large practice and the de- j mands of his duties at the U. of j U. school of medicine. Miss Joy Dean Davies and AMM 3,C Jack Thurmond repeated re-peated marriage vows at the Hy-rum Hy-rum Jensen home in Salt Lake City July 13. Miss Faye Cowdell became the bride of RT 3 C Keith O. Timothy Timo-thy in Chicago. Mrs. Sarah Frances Steiner of Salt Lake City, a resident of Bingham for 35 years died July 17 in a Salt Lake hospital. Bingham's war bond purchases purchas-es in the seven campaigns total $1,075,376.10. O. O. Barton, Utah Construction Construc-tion employee, was killed July 20 when knocked from the top of a loaded truck by an overhead wire 300 feet east of the Sunset Miss Mary Frances Frazier, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Frazier and Lt. (jg) Thomas S. Strathairn of Hilo, Hawaii, exchanged ex-changed marriage vows at Astoria, As-toria, Oregon. Helen Rae Stillman became the bride of Chief Gunner's Mate Eldon Hosmer Peterson July 26 August Mrs. Anna Martin Watkins of Copperton died at her home after af-ter a lingering illness. American Legion baseball state champions entrain for Denver regional tourney. 1 Harold W. Nielsen was installed install-ed as new president of Jaycees. Mrs. Nielsen accepted leadership of the Jay-C-Ettes. John Russell Frazier, son of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Frazier graduates grad-uates June 5 from New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, N. Mexico. Elliott W. Evans, Bingham City attorney was elected president of the Lions club. Others elected were Leland G. Burress, first vice president; George T. Parkinson, Park-inson, second vice president; C T. Praggastis, secretary-treasurer; W. V. Robinson, tail twister; W. R. Anderson, lion tamer; W. H. Harris and T. H. McMullin, two year directors. Miss Kathleen Grabner and T. Sgt. James Jones exchanged marriage vows June 19 at Albuquerque, Albu-querque, New Mexico. J. Dewey Knudsen was named commander of American Legion, j Mrs. Irene Brisk was elected j president of the auxiliary. Miss Anna Muhar became the bride of Theodore Bilbao Junej 14 at Community House. A wedding of June 16 was that of Mrs. Anna Ballen Lujan and Pete Uriona. The couple are ma-1 king their home in Salt Lake. Maurine Hyland wins Bingham Bing-ham district war bond queen honors. Requiem mass was held June ! 21 at Holy Rosary church for John Predovich who died at the Bingham hotel. R- C. Miller of Midvale, and a former resident of Bingham, died in a Salt Lake hospital June 21 following a long illness. 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