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Show Tuesday VCJ 1 V lSy (TPIU U ( TiMJ lU Wednesd Evening VyUVVV KJJ? VVvAy VW vvy Evening gTI An Independent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1919 Oldest Weekly In Salt Lake Counly TELEPHONE 91 CLUB DANCE TO BE HELD AT RAINBOW RANDEVU SAT. Rainbow Randevu in Salt Lake City will be the scene of an R. C. Gemmell club dance for members only, Saturday evening, August 13. UINTAH BASIN REUNION SUNDAY IN SALT LAKE The annual Uintah Basin Re-union will be held Sunday, Aug- ust 14 at Liberty park, it was announced Sunday by Willard Day, Salt Lake City, chairman, festivities will begin at noon with a picnic luncheon. Partici-pants are requested to their own provide food. A program has been arranged featuring Secretary of State He-ber Bennion Jr., as principal speaker. Mr. Bennion is a form-er resident of Uintah Basin. It is expected that a large crowd will be in attendance, Mr. Day said, as there are some sev-en hundred names on the register ot the association. AH present and former residents of the Uin-tah Basin are invited. LAST RITES HELD FOR KIYOSHI IMADA Funeral services for Kiyoshi Imada, 56, of Copperfield, were held last night (Thursday) at 8 p.m. at 450 Main street, Bingham. Mr. Imada died Sunday at 9:12 a.m. in a Salt Lake hospital of injuries usffered February 16 when snow and ice slid from a roof on him. He suffered a bro-ken back and has been hospital-ized since that time. He was born October 10. 1892, in Saitama-Ken- , Japan, and came to the United States in August 1921. He settled first in Aber-deen, Wash., and then worked on a farm in California. Later he was employed by the Kcnnecott Copper Corp. in Ruth, Nev. In January, 1946, he became associ-ated with the Bingham plant, Kenecott Copper Corp., and had served as a track man since that time. Surviving are a brother and sister in Japan. Additional services Will be conducted today (Friday) at 5 p.m. in Salt Lake Memorial mau-soleum where cremation will fol-low. Rev. Terakawa of the Salt Lake Buddhist church will offic-iate at both services. o COPPER FIELD DAY TO BEAUGUST 22 The annual Field Day for em-ployees of Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation and their families, will be held at Lagoon resort on Monday, August 22nd. Windshield stickers will be distributed by the committee to employees, which will allow free admittance to the resort of all occupants of the car. An extensive athletic program .s now being arranged by the committees in charge of the dif-ferent events, which will start at 1 p.m. It will include foot races, novelty events, horseshoe pitch-ing, baseball game (mine vs. mills), sol'tball game, swimming events, and dancing. The Magna-Garfiel- d Drum and Bugle Corps will give an exhibition during the late afternoon. All conces-sions will start at-1- a.m. General chairmen of the Field Day committee are G. W. Knud-se- n, representing the mine, and R. L. Erickson, representing the department of mills. General committeemen are W. R. Ander-son, James Carrigan, Henry Johnson, Thomas Mannion, C, J. Robison and C. E. Wilson from the mine, and W. R. Damron, W. C. Madill, Parley McCleve and George Smith from the mills. BINGHAM COSTS TRAIL BUDGET FORHALF YEAR Expenditures for Bingham city government during the first six months of 1949 were $2162 less than budget estimates but ex-ceeded 1948 outlay for a similar period by $2415, according to an auditor's report, released Friday by Eugene Morris, city recorder. Budget estimates for only one item insurance and bond prem-iums were exceeded during the six month period. In all other de-partments expenditures were considerably less than budget al-locations for the first half of the year or on a par with funds ear-marked for spending. Mr. Morris said the council in-creased the amount of insurance on the city hall building and two fire stations after the budget of $38,856 was set up. The decision necessitated expenditure of $601 more than the $500 originally pro-vided for insurance and bond premiums. Total expenditures were $38,-69- 3, exactly $1262 less than an-ticipated. Total receipts were $20,657, which is $1004 more than estimated when the budget was set, but $1823 less than received in the same months of 1948. In actual cash on hand, the city is not so rich as it was during the first six months of 1948, but a big share of the decrease from $29,297 to $16,639 is accountable to purchase of a $5150 street de-partment truck and the fact Salt Lake county has not released some $4000 which is Bingham's share of property taxes due from the 1948 tax levy. Beesley, Wood and Co., audit-ors, reported the assessed valu-ation of the city now is $2,317,045 which includes real estate, per-sonal property, utilities and mines. This amount is subject to Min-or adjustments, the report points out. The total represents an in-crease of $40,906 more than the 1948 valuation. Based on a 15-m- ill levy and 98 collection, tax revenues for 1949 should be ap-proximately $34,060 compared with an estimated tax revenue of $32,508. CHAM FIRE I WIN AWARDS AT STATE MEET tht. outstanding and l' 1. groups at the 39th ventH.n of .the Utah Vtnen's Association held bt'r lat week was the local jepartment. .Ladies Auxiliary won first excellent march- - for their tfd drill and colorful um-Th- e firemen won the nov- - tn. with the bucket brig- - jutting out an actual fire in j0USc in the back. .firemen and ladies enter-ith- e delegates and residents with an exhibition of e dancing and the skit used ".Lions minstrel show "Fire-"Siv- e My Child" was put itn two of the other depart-act- s failed to show. convention was entertain-ed interesting throughout -- tec davs. Alvin Pack of "station KALI, held the con-- n sotllbound for almost an with" his "World of Tomor-tal- k on Thursday. L. C. romery of Heber gave a on 'Early Utah History" h brought out many facts t ,vn to many of us. - Bingham delegation took lie Turner Motel and it was! it!v place for three days and li' They had the largest p present at the convention. ;ji Stillman presided over ratings and conducted them ' 'i.'. TiiNfitTt'T T:,rlin rhnlt? and saw to 5: the meetings were started r.ec.-.-ii that order was main-- i a: all times. Mrs. Mae r.an was stenographer and ill proceedings of the three-r.ec- :. a J. Creedon was reelected .t office of secretary for his term. Mrs. John T. West reelected treasurer of the s Auxiliary. Twenty-fiv- e pins were awarded to John est, W. H. Harris, Bruce Ivie II, L. Jones and LaVel Timo-receive- d a ten-ye- certifi- - siy elected officers of the iition are: Rulon A. Brymer, who succeeds Irvin Still-o- f Bingham as president; rci W. Casey, Richfield, first president; Mark Boyack, j.i Fork, second vice prcsi-A- . W. Rhone, Tooele, trea-- ; Mr. Creedon, secretary; liti Smith, Heber, trustee. !ir City was selected the convention city. fr.dmg the convention for -- ice days were: Mr. and Rss M. dishing, Mr. and W D. Cook, Mr. and Mrs. Householder, Sr., Mr. and jjtonard L. Miller, Mr. and Hugo Bianchi, Mr. and Mrs. M Booth, Mr. and Mrs. R. 'nan, Mr. ;mj jerrs Eari 7, s. Mr. and Mrs. Stillman, 'd Mrs. W. E. Rager, Mr. f. Harold W. Nielsen, Mr. ,'Irs. Creedon, Mr. and Mrs. 'J Byrne, Mr. and Mrs. John Mr. and Mrs. John R. w. and Mrs. Verl Peter-ai- d Mrs. LeVell Timo-- f and Mrs. Joseph Timo-;lr- - and Mrs. Anthon O. Ja- -' Mr. and Mrs. Marlin and Cyrus Anderson. At-- A 'l'1--' parade only were f Mrs. Louis Arritola, Mr. G L. West, Mr. and "an Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Householder, Jr., Mr. and nmer Peterson, Mrs. Lon ; and Ben McAllister. Mrs. v.Y.-.le- Longfellow "p and Mrs. Gordon Jensen r.idyy evening to attend ;'CHL; :nd dance. Council-or ,;'Irs- Harold Chester to WnltUrday S?SSijn3 B.D.A.A. FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp BDAA NINE BATTLES "ROOKYITUS", AS FIRST YEAR PASSES The BDAA baseball nine, sorta down in the dumps after losing game after game in the fast In-dustrial loop, is asking itself the same questions that have popped up now and again among the hot-stov- e generals. "What'.; the matter with our ball club' Why can't we win a game?" etc.' Well, not being endowed with any more brains than the law illows, we have tried to find out all the answers and just tell the boys so they could go right ahead and win, but seems like we got in a heap more trouble than they did. After consulting various crys- tal balls and other mystifying devices, we finally came to the conclusion that our ball club was only enjoying what any young thing encounters, and is fondly called "growing pains." Yessir, as some professor once said, "The only good teacher is experience, and the hard way to learn is usually the best." As BDAA's first season in thj semi-pr- o circuit rolls by, the "rookie" team can be praised lor the effort they have put forth teams of older and much more experienced players. The 'Athletics' have lost a number ( close games, some not so close, and have only the 'first year jit-- 1 ters' to blame for most of their defeats. Our ball club has at times had cood uitchinc. at other times the boys have turned in stellar de-- I Tensive games. Some games the locals have hit like they were all members of murderer's row, but it has been difficult for them to combine these three factors when needed most. The majority of Bingham ball fans realize, even more than the boys do themselves, the tough road the rookie players have to travel and are giving their sup-port not only for this season but the future as well. For the boys, we can say they have played good ball, hustled every minute and have really tried to improve. What they have started is something few towns can boast of, and we know they have the ability to compete in the faster circles just as soon as old man experience gives them a bit more seasoning. Travel Tq Helper Sunday The BDAA squad, after play-ing hosts to the Brigham City Peaches last night, travel to Helper this Sunday for a night tussle with the Merchants. On Thursday, August 18, BD-AA meets American Fork at Cop-perton and the following Sunday, August 21, Provo will be guests of the home club. LEGION BOYS LEAVE Today the Bingham American Legion junior baseball squad is on its way to Winslow, Ariz., to compete as Utah champions in the Regional tournament. The locals play their first game Aug-ust 14 and the tourney will last four days, Drawings will be held for opponents. The results of these games will be followed closely by local fans and boost-ers as well as interested fans trom all parts of the state. Our best wishes go to these young-sters and to the men who have helped American Legion base-ball along. SOFTBALL SLANTS The softballers are getting mixed up more and more as the chase goes on. Three teams tied for first place, another right on their heels and the other clubs straining to upset somebody. A & M won their only game from Gemmell 13 to 2. Gemmell won their other encounter from the Lions 9 to 1 and the Eagles also split, winning from Lions 9 to 0 and losing a thrilling extra inn-ing affair to the Merchants. The Merchants also dropped B R & S. G. 9 to 5 as the radio-- ; garagemen copped their other from Emerald Club 11 to 6 game Emerald smothered Lark 17 to l" and the other game Lark vs A & M was postponed for a few j days. j The tight race for second half honors will go on for three more rounds, so don't miss the excite-ment. A Round Robin tourney wLl be held at the end of the regular season and the teams will battl for the two trophies on display at Tangaro's Beverages. LEGION TEAM LEAVES FOR TOURNAMENT Bingham's American Legion baseball team, winner this year of the state Legion baseball crown for the sixth time, left last night (Thursday) at 10:55 p.m. via Union Pacitic pullman for the regional playoffs to be held at Winslow, Ariz., August 14, 15, 16 and 17. Teams from Arizona, Utah, California and Nevada will par-ticipate in the playoffs which will be double elimination. Win-ner of the tournament will go to Washington. The group expect to be gone about eight days and will visit Los Angeles on the trip. Making the trip are: George Dimas, manager of the team, O. R. Warner, American Legion re-presentative, and the following boys: Warren Sumnicht, Roy Montoya, Marion Cowdell, Har-old Patrick, Merlin Coleman, Dean Lipsey, George Sluga, Geo-rge Apostal, Bob Sanchez, John Garahana, Felix Bedont, Chris Ballamis, Edward Gaythwaite, Ronnie Kastelic, John Mitchell and Ravmond Hall. o . PLAYGROUND NEWS by George Donas This week ends another year of summer baseball sponsored by the Salt Lake County Recreatbn depar.ment. It seems this year there were more activities which made the playground a more en-joyable place to be on. Just to mention a few, we had a new event called the baseball carnival which caught the eye of most of the boys. Th.-- the trip up to the Spruce lodge which the boys are still talking about, and the tra-..,,- ,) UlllUUdl n,,i, r,11.11,1 ,1 W;iull more than 300 fishermen throw-ing their hooks into the stream to see who would catch the win-- r ing fish. With many events taking place during the year, the playground now closes with the county baso-ba- ll tournaments. These tourna-ments are played to see who meets the Salt Lake winners for the state crown for young kids. Canyon Motor, who are de-fending champs, will defend their crown this year if possible. Most of the boys on this squad are playing legion ball and are leav-ing for Arizona which means the tournament will have to be hel 1 later in the month if they are to participate. As a minor league entrant we are entering a Bingham team which is being taken over now by Gary LaComb. Gary is hav-ing the same trouble as Canyon Motor as 4 or 5 of his regulars are also taking the trip to Ari-zona. We hope that some arrange ments can be made so that these two teams can participate when the boys return. At our own playground the Bingham club took the front seat in the Senior league with Can-vo- n Motor close on their heels. Credit should be given to George Apostal, Dick Roblez, Clair Ra-ger and their pitching ace, War-ren Sumnicht for keeping this club on top. In the Junior league, the A & M Sky Larks were the leaders while the Copperton Stars were close behind. Boren, Lovat, Jam-es, Serraro, Busey and Johnson were the big guns for A & M. The Popsicle league was swept clean by the Bingham Browns. Tony Menna should be patted on the back for the fine record his club made. The Hakanson broth-ers Joe Costello, Frank Zdumch did a little Bianchi boy, kept this club going. This seems to be it for another year They say, alls well that ends well and to us we have had a good year. Your directors, B. J. Santistevan and George Dimas, want to thank the boys and par-ents for their fine cooperation this year and we hope next year our program will be bigger and! better. j CITYCOUNCIL Miscellaneous bills totaling $1,-249.- were approved for pay-ment at Wednesday night's re-gular meeting of the city council. Dr. F. E. Straup, city health uuieiT, mei wun councnmen anaj discussed a proposed new city ordinance regulating health and sanitation which will include restaurants, beer parlors, cafes, business houses, rooming houses and even some private homes. Present ordinance does not ade-quately cover the present health and sanitation problem it was said. Order of a new float for the Freeman water tank was also ap-proved at the meeting. The new ordinance 'changing the system of elections, which was passed by the council last week, appears on page 5 of this issue of the Bulletin. CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM GIVEN The following list of programs are those scheduled for the Chautauqua to be held at Bing-ham high school auditorium at Copperton beginning Sunday, August 21. The series is being sponsored by the Women's So-ciety of Christian Service for the benefit of the Copperton Community Church buildint? fund. Series tickets cost $1.50 each, and admission to a single performance will cost fifty cents per person. Sunday, August 21 An even-ing of sacred and semi-classic- al music. Monday, August 22 A 16 mm. sound movie, "Reaching from Heaven." Also an added short movie, "Dog Wanted." Tuesday, August 23 Famoui O'Connor, the magician. Wednesday, August 24 The Bush Novelty band. Thursday, August 25 A book review. Friday, August 26 Two one-a- ct comedies, "I'll Eat My Hat" and "A Pair of Lunatics. Saturday, August 27 Hobby Fair. This will consist of a dis-play of local hobbies; prizes will be offered for the three best hob-bies. First prize will be $5.00; second, $3.00 and third, $1.00, with the judging based upon in-genuity, practicality, and neat-ness of display. All hobbyists are invited to exhibit one or more hobby displays, but persons who are interested must call either Earl Lake (phone 317) or Mrs. Mary Anderson (phone 608J) by August 25. Sunday, August 28 An ad-dress by Dr. Robert D. Steele of Westminster College. All programs will begin at 8:00 p.m. : o TRAFFIC VIOLATION Five citations for traffic viola-tions were issued by the Bing-ham city police department dur-ing the past week reports Dan Delaney, chief of police. They are: Joe Vigil of Midvale and Jo-sephine Salazar of Lehi, no op-erators' license; Victor Moesinger, Sandy, fail-ure to yield right of way; Sherman Ferguson, Murray, no operators' license; W. D. Porter, Bingham, park-ing. Several minor accidents were also reported during the week by the police department. The first occurred Tuesday afternoon when Karen Wilcox, age 7, of 79 Carr Fork, ran directly in the path oi a truck driven by Homer Eastman of Lark and the second one was Wednesday atfernoon when Mrs. Steffie Gerbich of 407 Main stepped into the path of a car driven by Arno Bliven, Alex-ander apts., Bingham. Both vic-tims were treated for minor in-juries and shock. No citations were Issued in either case. O o B.D.A.A. SOFTBALL STANDINGS Second Half Won Lost Pet. Bingham Mcrch. 3 1 .750 Eagles 3 1 .750 Gemmell Club .... 3 1 .750 A & M 2 1 .666 B. R. & S. G 2 2 .500 Lark 1 2 .333 Emerald Club .... 1 3 .250 Lions 0 4 .000 Last Week's Results Emerald Club 17, Lark 1 Eagles 9, Lions 0 A & M 13, Gemmell Club 2 Bingham Merchants 9, B. R. & S G 5 B. R. & S. G. 11, Emerald CI. 6 Gemmell Club 9, Lions 1 Bingham Merch. 10, Eagles 9 Next Week's Schedule Today, Friday, August 12 Bingham Merchants vs Lions at 6 p.m.; Emerald Club vs A & M at 7 p.m.; Gemmell Club vs Eag-les at 8 p.m.; Lark vs B. R. & S. G. at 9 p.m. Monday, August 15 Eagles vs Lark at 6 p.m.; Lions vs Em-erald Club at 7 p.m.; Bingham Merchants vs A & M at 8 p.m.; B. R. & S. G. vs Gemmell Club at 9 p.m. MORLEYS RETURN FROM EASTERN VACATION TRIP Mr. and Mrs. C. A. (Spud) Mor-le- y and daughters, Darlene and Maurine, arrived home Sunday, August 7, after vacationing a month in the east. While there they visited Spud's mother, Mrs. Laverne Spicer, Saybrook, Pa.; his father, Horace Morley, and his sister, Mrs. Harold Miller, both of Barnes, and a brother, Edgar Morley, Clarendon, with other friends and relatives in Sheffield, Pa. Lion Spud was a delegate from the Bingham Canyon Lions club to the International Lions Club convention July 17 through July 21 in New York City. Lion Spud was appointed a member of the election committee at the Inter-national convention. The head-quarters for all sessions were held at Madison Square Garden with general headquarters at Hotel Commodore, Hotel Statler and Hotel New Yorker, with the Utah delegation headquarters at Hotel Algonquin. Convention sessions were very interesting and many wonderful programs were arranged for the Lions and their families, among which were Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, a col-orful, spine-tinglin- g ceremony of the presentation of flags of the 26 countries in Lionism, a three and one-ha- lf hour Lions Inter-national parade down Fifth ave-- 1 nue, Lions International All-St- ar show, and Olsen and Johnson in "Funnsapbppin", and a ladies breakfast and fashion show at the Waldorf Astoria. Cedar City Lions quartet won first place in the International Lions Male Quartet contest. Outstanding points of interest other than convention sessions visited by the Morleys were the Empire State building, a guided tour through the R.C.A. build-ing, two-ho- ur boat trip around Manhattan Island, attended a big league baseball game between New York Giants and the Cin-cinnati Reds at the Polo grounds by way of sightseeing trip thru Central park and Harlem, shows at Radio City Music hall and at the Center Theatre, the largest Ice theatre in the world, a trip to Coney Island and an exciting trip on the subway. After leaving New York City they visited in Washington, D.C., Mt. Vernon and Alexandria, Va., and also with Lt. and Mrs. C. R. Sullenger, Arlington, Va., son of Mrs. Helen Sullenger of Bingham. Douglas Morris to Serve on Mission Prior to leaving September 21 for the Canadian mission field, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints at Tor-onto, Ontario, Canada, Doug-las E. Morris, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Morris of Bing-ham Canyon, will be honor-ed at a farewell testimonial Sunday evening, August 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Bingham LDS ward chapel. The farewell program will include: organ prelude by Nora Austin; opening song, "The Spirit of God Like A Fire Is Burning" by congre-gation; invocation by Wilford H. Harris; sacrament song, "Rock of Ages" by congre-gation; sacrament; vocal solo by Ned Brown, accompanied by Mrs. Austin; remarks by Bishop C. W. Wimmer; music by Maxfields; tribute to a missionary by John Ander-son; response by missionary; vocal solo by Ralph Siddo-wa- y, accompanied by Mrs. r : - .' .;. v.'l t - ; 'yr";-- 7 ; ' - ' ? - J- - V if ' i ' " f V; - - ' V ' ' ii mil in r r - - " " " Austin; remarks by Bishop Clin-ton S. Robison; music by Max-field- s; closing song, "God Be With You" by congregation, and benediction by David C. Lyon. Mr. Morris is a graduate of Bingham high school class of 1948 where he served as student body president and was active in sports basketball, football and baseball. The past year he at-tended the University of Utah School of Pharmacy. , Sports Here and There by Al Abletf Magna, the most amazing team in the Industrial league, is on top by virtue of beating Provo Wednesday night 6 to 4. Just shows what one man can do for a team. Bud Powers transferred from Helper to Magna, and the Millmen started to move. Bud is a take charge guy and he can make that play out there. Pete Radulovich has been getting a lot of mileage out of his pitching staff that is composed of a couple of youngsters and two oldsters. McFarlane is the young man that has been shouldering the burden, but Sammy Oliver and Lief Erickson were the two veterans that took care of Provo. Coors of Denver beat Helper in a two game series for the re-gional championship and the right to go to Wichita to the na-tional tournament. Coors has a good team but a couple of errors at the wrong time is all that kept Helper from copping the duke in both games. Bruce Knoppa, the former Philadelphia A's first baseman, was the big gun for Coors. He hit three home runs in the two games, two of them with the bases full. Billy Ley, the Denver shortstop, - was hos-pitalized in Grand Junction, when he came down with con- - vulsions. Billy is sought after by several big league teams. They also have Cicottia, a nephew of the great Eddie Cicottia of Black Sox fame. A fine looking young pitcher this boy. A grand bunch of fellows and we wish them luck in the national. American Fork and Magna (Continued on page eight) BIRTHS ,;"ld Mrs. Njfk Nielsen of n are the proud parents bom July 28 at St. 'lospital in Salt Lake City, jjj-ughtcr war, born to Mr. John Roluti at their ,n Highland Boy on Aug- - :&hMd- Ceorg0 Bullock Boy are the proud lV lon born August 7 ,ldrKs hospital. boy was born August teaa? ;Irs- - Helena lr m rooms nLurs- - Robcrt Trujillo fn An Parnts of a baby U5t 8 at their home Fork :!CWIrs- Do"glas Fitzger-PPerto- n announce the Ul inKr at St. Mark's 5m balt Lake City - on :4'sah born August 5 at ghatti of Murray. - ;.w tfiCf-" " Bingham Community Methodist Church Sunday, August 14 Simdav school at 10 a.m. Bring school. your children to Susnednady them. Do more than just Worshipserviceatlla.moStay for worship; a ages. An evening with my Bible each Wednesday at 8 p.m. John Earl Lake, pastor. NOTICE Cilv dog tax is now due and payable. The City of Bingham Canyon has issued a warning any person desiring new dog license may purchase license from City Recorder Eugene Morris at his office in the city L After August 20 any dog found not having license will be disposed of. |