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Show mLj tt Mllllli lllT 111! vMt ofill r J&JJ1L- - A" Independeni Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1949 Oldest Weekly In Salt Lake County TELEPHONE 91 SATURDAY'S HOBBY FAIH Willi an interesting listing of hobbies for the Hobby Fair at the high school in Copperton, the Women's Sou-'tt- of Christian Service of Copperton and Lark, expect a good attendance at Sat-urday night's Chautauqua pro-gram. Judging of entries will begin immediately at 8:00 p.m. so that the winners can be announced at the fair. Judging will be bas-ed upon ingenuity, practicality and neatness of display. O COPPERTON WOMAN RECEIVES SEVERE INJURIES TUESDAY Mrs. Gladys Moor,-- , of Mr. and Mrs. daughter B. O. Pumphrey of Copperton, is recovering in St Marks hospital, Salt Luke City of injuries received in a car acc-ident on Bingham highway be- tween Sunset turn and West Jor-dan Tuesday morning. As near as can be determined, Mrs Moore applied the brakes on her car on Hearing the bridge over the canal to avoid hitting a car parked on the road and an on-coming car and lost control of her car. Mrs. Moore suffered a fractured pelvis in two places ACTIVITY FUND MEET HELD WEDNESDAY Directors of the Bingham Dis-trict Activity Fund and repre-sentatives from participating or-ganizations met Wednesday night at No. 1 Fire hall to discuss fur-ther plans for the organization and voiced their opinions for re-taining of the organization, which they said could not con-tinue unless more cooperation was received. Another meeting for directors and representatives of all com-munity organizations is schedul-ed for Wednesday night, Septem-ber 7. Time and place will be an-nounced next week. O CONTRACT SIGNED BY BROTHERHOOD A new contract was signed August 19, between the Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and Engincment and the Utah Cop-per Division of Kennecott Cop-per Corporation, it was announc-ed jointly by S. C. Phillips, vice president of the Brotherhood, and J. C. Landenberger, Jr., director of labor relations for Utah Cop-per division. The contract covers all condi-tions of employment. Present wage rates are continued in the new contract; however, the con-tract recognizes that a dispute exists relative to rates of pay f.r train service employees at the mine, and that this dispute is subject to further negotiations. Earlier this year the National Labor Relatijns board certified that approximately 11 signal op-erators and yard men were to be included in the Brotherhood's mine bargaining unit. Conditions of employment, including rates of pay for these employees, which are now designated as trafficmen are included in the new contract. There is no dispute as to rates of pay for these employees. The contract provisions covet-ing mine train service employees is effective as of July 1, 1949, and those covering trafficmen will become effective September 1st. The contract covering both class-es of employees runs to June 30, 1950. o KINDERGARTEN TO OPENHERE SOON Supt. Arthur E. Peterson of Jordan school district, announces the opening of a kindergarten department at Bingham Central rchool on Thursday, September 8. The classes will be half day sessions and will be limited to children who are five years old before the first of November of this year. Birth certificates will be required in the registration of each child. Miss Elolse Kohler, a graduate of B.Y.U., who has been specially trained in this 'work will be the teacher. She will conduct a stag-gered registration for all eligible children Thursday and Friday, September 8 and 9. Children whose family name starts with the letters from A to F inclusive will be asked to re-gister Thursday morning from 9 to 12. Those from G to L inclu-sive will register in the after-noon from 1 to 4. Children whose name begins with the letters from M to R will register Friday morn-ing and those whose names be-gin with the letters from S to Z will register Friday afternoon. This schedule of registration will enable the teacher to make a better contact with the child and the parents. Regular classes will begin Monday, September 12. It is also announced that the hot lunch project is nearly com-pleted and will be ready for op-ening by the last of September. A survey will be held during the first weeks of school to ascertain the number of students planning to eat at the school. This will en-able the district to determine the number of helpers needed and the initial amounts of food and supplies to order. Hi OF HONOR CY WIGWAM ffELUTTENDED ... w hundred friends and one of the largest .'.'''witnessed the annual) ' mt.et and court of .''f Bingham Boy Scouts at "vigwam m Mill Creek Vlust Sunday afternoon, ting the day'.; activities ; hamburger fry and water-bu- st given by Harold ".r In charge of events Bob Carter, swimming Leonard L. Miller, court of and Joseph Timothy, a- -. Assisting Mr. Chesler 'jack Householder Sr., Earl Harold Nielsen, Mr. 'and James McLeod. Bisli-ato- n KubLson announced rmming meet and judges Martin Jensen, Carl Jack-LlL-y- d Miller and Charles n 112 of Copperfield, with ',57 points, finished first swimming meet. Second nonors went ta Troop 150 perton with 30 points, and ..d Troup 136 of Bingham .'8 points. The following is nary of swimming events: : Scouts d dash itvle) Pete Leyba, 112, Jdiry Patrick, 136, second; Jarter, 136, third; urd side stroke Junior 112, first; Dick Carter, .econd; Eldon Bray, 112, jrd back stroke E. Bray, rst; E. Sybrowsky, 136, :;P. Leyba, 112, third; iii life saving R. Burke, :xt, E. Sybrowsky, 136, :; N. Miller, 136, third; yard relay Troop 112, :roop 136, second; .m Junior Tyson, 112, D. Carter, 136, second; R. 112, third; :- s- dash (free - V. Butt, 150, first; B. 136, second; L. Ott, 136, rd side stroke G. Burke, ..st: V. Ochoa, 112, second; ghton, 150, third; rd back stroke J. Jen-hrs- t; L. Ott, 136, sec-- v Johnson, 150, third; rd life saving D. Hough-- i first; L. Johnson, 150, yard relay Troop 150, iroop 112, second; troop ...id; H-- Card ik is, 112, first; uchoa, 112. second; Burke, ard, ird Novice dash L. John-hrst- ; J. Gardikls, 112, :; Valdez, 112, third. -- of honor awards were: Class Award, Gary La-15- 0; Class Award Garold :k Gilbert L. Burke, Don-Tyso- n, Gregory H. Tyson, troop 112; :t Badge Awards Bill Hi, camping, civics, .Phy; Ronald Burke, 112, 3:lmg; Tommy Johnson. aid, business; Clifford 136, first aid, reading; u,". 136, metalwork; Earl !y, 136, life saving, L first aid: Stephen I "0, metalwork, music; wughton, 150, woodwork, :WK music; Jack Jensen, ftalwork; Tom Johnson, "manship; :erfoot Frank English. PROPERTY TAX HITS RECORD SSMILLION Property taxes levied in Utah increased 85 per cent between 1940 and 1948 according to a re-search report titled "Propertv Taxes in Utah" released by Utah Foundation, the private tax stu-dy agency. The 1948 total was 57 per cent higher than 1930, the peak year for Utah property tax levies prior to 1945. During the same period, the Utah Founda-tion report notes, the addition of the sales tax, corporation and in-dividual income taxes, and the mine occupation tax made sub-stantial inroads upon the pre-eminence of the property tax as top revenue producer, although it still ranks first by a considerable margin over any other single tax source. Property taxes in 1930 produced nearly $21 hi million for state and local government in Utah .accounting for approxi-mately 80 per cent of all taxes collected by state and local units. In 1948, property taxes levied in-creased to $33.7 million, but re-presented only 45 per cent of to-tal state and local taxes for that year, according to Utah Founda-tion analysts. Major factors in the increase in total property tax collections are the new properties added to the tax rolls, and higher metal production reflected in increased taxable valuations of mines, the report states. A spot check of Salt Lake county tax rolls by Utah Foundation analysts indi-cates that the 1948 tax on spe-cific properties which were on the rolls in 1930 was approxi-mately 10 per cent higher in 1948 than the property tax charged in 1930, and 27 per cent higher in 1948 than in 1940. Property taxes on specific properties were gen-erally lower in 1940 than in 1930. However, the report notes that the property taxpayer had no sales tax, income tax, irancnise tax, or occupation tax to concern him in .1930. These taxes were adopted in part to relieve the property taxpayer when the de-pression years brought heavy tax delinquency. The Utah Foundation report states that it is not possible; to give a meaningful answer to the question, "Who pays hte prop-erty taxes in Utah?" Although property taxes are classified by the State Tax Commission in 35 separate groupings, such group-ings do not coincide with the major sectors of the economy. It is pointed out, for example, that residential, business, and industrial properties assessed lo-cally are all lumped together as "City and Town Lots" and "Im-provements on City and Town Lots" on present tax rolls. Farm houses and farm buildings are reported as part of the same grouping with steel plants, smel-- I ters, sugar factories, and other 'industrial plants outside city lim-its all shown on Utah tax rolls and tax reports as "Improvements on Acreage." Valuations for tax purposes on mines, utilities, railroads, and certain other designated indus-tries are set by the Utah State Tax Commission, and the amount of taxes paid by these economic groups is reported in detail each year, the Foundation study points out. Support of Utah's elementary and high schools consumes the major share of the property tax-es now levied. For 1948, $20.3 million or 60 per cent of all Utah property taxes were lor the pub-lic schools, which aLso receive the entire revenue from the in-dividual income tax and the cor-poration franchise tax. Cities and towns levied $6.8 million proper-ty taxes in 1948, 20 per cent of the total, and counties $6.4 mil-lion or 19 per cent of the total property tax bill. No property tax for state pur-nos-has been levied since 1945, although the 1947 Legislature contemplated a state property tax levy for building fund purposes. This state levy thus iar has been avoided by the transfer of sales, tax revenues above welfare ap-propriations to finance state in-stitution buildings. Sports Here and There by Al Ablctt The second half race in the In-dustrial league race has simmer-ed down to three teams. In order for Helper to win they must take both of their games with Amer-ican Fork and Bingham to beat Magna. American Fork in order to win must take all of their three remaining games, two with Help-er and one with Provo. So from where I sit it looks like a tie be-tween Magna and American Fork. A great pitchers battle is ex-pected tonight, Friday, at Amer-ican Fork when "Nig" Tate of the Forkers tangle with Angelos Vittedia of Helper. Both boys have plenty of stuff and they know how to rV.ch. Tate hasn't been scored on in 23 innings and Angelo has won about 12 and lost two. It is a must for both teams. Magna has been the surprise of the second half. They took Helper in 12 innings 7 to 5 last Sunday and Wednesday night beat Provo 5 to 4. Radulovich and McGurk have been doing the hitting. Both men have been tuff with men on. Helper's trouble has been get- - ting hits with men on base; they had 20 men left stranded in the Magna game. In the American league it looks like Boston and the Yanks right down to the wire. Cleve-land can't win the ones that count. I like Boston. In the Na-tional it will be a dog light with the Bums and Cards. The Cards have great pitching but Brooklyn has speed to burn and one great pitcher in Newcomb. In the fight game around Utah this boy Rex Layne looks like the fair haired boy. He stopped young Harry Wills Monday night in six heats and in doing it show-ed plenty of punching power. He proved he could take a punch. Wills proved a tough customer. The next fight on the docket is between Nuttall and Hunick. These two boys have met four times and broke even. Ihey both have improved since their last meeting so this should be a real scrap. The open air shows have been drawing well. Al out 4,000 to the last one. AL JOHN LEVENTIS RITES SLATED SATURDAY IN SLC Funeral services for John Em-manuel Leventis, 63, Bingham, restaurant and tavern operator of Lead Mine, will be conducted tomorrow, Saturday, at 2 p.m. at the Greek Orthodox church, Holy Trinity, 2nd West and 3rd South, Salt Lake City, by Rev. Antonios Kalogeropoulos. Friends may call at 450 Main, Bingham, today (Friday) from 6 to 9 p.m. and at the family resi-dence Saturday from 10 a.m. to time of services. Mr. Leventis died at his resi-dence Tuesday at 1 a.m. follow-ing an illness of 11 months. A son of Emmanuel and Maria Anagnostakis Leventis, he was born February 6, 1886 in Ther-riss- o, Crete, Greece. He came to the United States in 1907 and has been a resident of Bingham since that time. Mr. Leventis was employed by Kennecott Copper Corp. two jfsis as a imnei. lie later woi li-ed as a meat cutter, operated a tavern in Copperfield and later became manager of a restaurant and tavern in Lead Mine. He was a member of the Greek Orthodox church, the Bingham chapter of the Greek-America- n Progressive Assn., and the Pan-Creta- n brotherhood. On July 4, 1917, he married Argero Mavrogenis in Bingham. Surviving are his widow, a son, Mike John Leventis, Bingham; his mother, two brothers, Steph-anos, and Steliot Leventis, three sisters, Katma and Olympia Le-ventis, all of Fourne, Crete, Greece; Mrs. Elpiniki Kogianes, Provo. Burial will be in Mt. Olivet cemetery, Salt Lake City, under direction of Bingham mortuary. o DRIVER INSTITUTE AT RYU NEXT WEEK Utah school districts which de-sire to qualify for driver train-ing automobiles for local safety programs are invited to send re-presentatives to the special teach-er institute in driver education to be held at Brigham Young uni-versity August 29 to September 3. Teachers completing the course will receive official certificates recognized by national safety groups, and their schools will be eligible to apply for driver train-ing cars, stated Dr. C. J. Hart of BYU, associate director of the in-stitute. The cars are loaned to schools by the American Auto-mobile Assn. on the basis of the merit of their driver-trainin- g pro-grams, he reported. "The drivers we shall meet face to face on the highways of tomorrow are the high school students of today," said C. T. Bailey, executive director of the Utah Safety Council, in his en-dorsement of the BYU institute. "Our safety will depend largely upon the attitudes and habits de-veloped by the number of future i ..: - ii i ' i unveis enrouea in me nign schools of today." Teachers from all o'rts of the state are represented in advance registrations lor the course, which will be taught by Marland K. Strasser, driver training spec-ialist from New York City. It will open at 8 a.m. Monday in the Joseph Smith building and continue from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily through the week. PIONEER BASEBALL Two teams in the Pioneer lea-gue boast attendance lor the sea-son so far of over 130,000 fans and one is almost up to the 100,-00- 0 mark. According to figures compiled by the Pioneer league News Bur-eau from loop records, Salt Lake City still leads the Class C loop with a total of 134,974 fans up to August 17. The Billings Mustangs are next with 130,742, but the figure is for games up 'o and in-cluding August 10. In third place is Great Falls with 96,375 for games up to and including August 10. Figures for the eight teams in the league now amount to 661,845 fans. Pocatello is fourth with 77,-41- 3; Twin Falls is fifth with 73,-09- 1; Ogden sixth with $59,788; Boise seventh with 55,391 and Idaho Falls eighth with 34,341. Salt Lake reached its total in 50 games which means an aver-age of almost 2700 fans saw each of the games. Billings lias play-ed but 43 games at home for the top nightly average of 3.034. The Great Falls total was reached in 46 games or almost 2,100 per tilt. Pocatello had 77,413 fans in 46 games or an average of 1,682 per contest. Twin Falls averaged fans in 47 games while Ogden had an average of 1,219 fans. Boise's nightly average was while Idaho Falls had 763 fans per game. There have been 372 games played by all league teams. That makes an average of 1,779 fans per night which isn't bad. With the tight penant drive in prospect, Pioneer league presi-dent, Halliwell, feels sure that the record of 802,682 set last year will be shattered. The '48 mark was second in the nation for Class C circuits. Only the Florida International league, which had such cities as Miami, Havana and other metropolises, topped The league that Jack Built. Although official figures have not as yet been received in the loop office, it is understood that Great Falls went over the 100,000 mark last week. With Billings, Pocatello, Twin Falls and Salt Lake nip and tuck for title honors, tremendous crowds are anticipated at those parks for the remainder of the season. A crowd of 3,434 fans were on hand at Halliwell park in Poca-tello the night of August 17 to see the famous Johnny Price. It was the largest crowd except for opening night. The Idaho Falls Russets have been one of the "losingest" teams in the country this year. Accord-ing to a United Press report, the Russets have a won and lost col-umn that ranks second in the nation in futility. Only Leavenworth of the Wes-tern Association, whose average was just a shade over .200 have a worse record. Selectric fan number 100,000 received a 1950 season pass at Great Falls. Although in the second divis-ion most of the season, the Selec- - tries have been drawing very well. Great Falls was one of two teams in the country in Class C leagues to play .500 ball and still rest in the second division. The biggest and best player appreciation night was promised to Ted Lewandowski, Pocatello shortstop, who is out for the rest of the season with a fractured ankle. The slender St. Louis infielder will be given a "Silver Shower" at Halliwell park August 27. A committee of radio and news sports writers and others, are collecting silver to be presented to the popular shortstop in a gala ceremony, before he returns to St. Louis. O TRAFFIC . VIOUTIOM The following citations for traffic violations were issued by the Bingham city police depart-ment during thp past week ac-cording to Dan Delaney," chief of police: Elwood Mortensen, Escalante, drunken driving; Lawrence Kite, Bingham, reckless driving; Jose V. Nieva, Wells, Nev., passing on turn; Victor Fontana, Bingham, parking. O , No city council meeting was held tltis week reports Eugene Morris, city recorder. - A miscellaneous shower com-plimenting Miss Jean Jensen, a September bride-elec- t, was giv-en by her mother, Mrs. W. R. Jensen, Wednesday evening at the Bingham LDS church. As-sisting Mrs. Jensen were Mrs. Eugene Morris, Mrs. S. L. Thom-as and Mrs. Herman Sanderson. Bingo was played after which dainty iefreshments were serv-ed. Miss Jensen received many lovely gifts. There were thirty guests present. MONDAY NIGHT TO SETRECORD Some of the nation's top re-cord breaking radio shows will return to the air Monday, Aug-ust 29, after a summer vacation. The grand winner is Lux Ra-dio Theatre! About to celebrate its fifteenth anniversary on the air (October 14), this distinguish-ed dramatic sirees has had 627 hour-lon- g broadcasts over KSL since its debut in 1934. Heard on Mondays at 7:00 p.h., with Wil-liam Keighley as host, returns to the air next Monday night when Bette Davis will star in "June Bride." Inner Sanctum, radio's great-est mood-and-myste- series, wins second prize in the num-ber of Monday broadcasts. This famous 6:00 p.m. program pre-sided over by Paul McGrath, has run up a total of 287 weekly broadcasts and, of course, is still going strong. The squeaking door will open on time next Monday! The other three Monday pro-grams on KSL, Arthur God-frey's Talent Scouts, My Friend Irma and the Bob Hawk Show are close contestants for third prize with Mr. Godfrey nosing out the rest with a total of 142 broadcasts. Bob Hawk is right behind with a total of 128, while Irma, the Monday night baby, comes in last with a score of 106 Monday night programs. These five family favorites have a grand total of 1290 broad-casts. Or in other words if their total times were added together and the programs broadcast con-secutively there would be ma-terial enough to last for forty solid days. And that's a record. KENNECOTT COPPER HALVESITS PROFIT The report of the Kennecott Copper Corporation and its sub-sidiaries just released disclosed that earnings for the first ha 1 of this year were less than halt that shown in the initial su months of 1948. The consolidated net incom-aft- er taxes and other charges, but before depletion, amounted to $23,293,358 for the six months ended on June 30. This is equiv-alent to $2.15 a share on the out-standing stock and contrasts with $48,267,406, or $4.46 a share, earn-ed in the corresponding period a year ago. Operating revenue for this year's period declined to ut,-237,0- from $173,376,030 for the six months to June 30, 1948. The report says that there as no charge in the reserve for con-tingencies during the six months of 1949 and that the balance .n the reserve on June 30 aggre-gated $17,633,060. Sunday, August 28 Highland Boy Community House Church school at 10 a.m. There will not be an evening church service this Sunday, Aug-ust 28. Miss Ada Duhigg is to preach at Marysvale, Utah, Sun-day night. Sunday, Sept. 4 Church school at 10 a.m. Evening service at 7 p.m. Fall and winter kindergarten begins Wednesday, September 7. LEGION BALL TEAM LAUDED BY NATIONAL OFFICE Below is a letter of commen-dation received this week by O. R. Warner, manager American Legion Junior baseball team, Bingham Post No. 30, from W. C. "Tom" Sawyer, director of Am-erican Legion national Ameri-canism Commission at Indianap-olis. Ind., regarding the recent regional tourney at Winslow, Ariz.: Dear O. R.: Now that Region 12 American Legion Junior Baseball tourna-ment is history, allow me to com-mend you and your entire Utah group upon your sportsmanship and conduct during the recent tournament in Winslow, Arizona. It is indeed a pleasure to deal with a team, coach, and manag-er, who play hard and aggressive baseball and yet are at all times, both on the field and off, good sports and gentlemen. You have every reason to be proud of the record which your team made in the tournament and in Winslow. The fact that Utah placed five men on the team is evidence of the way in which they were rated by the scouts, and I assure you that from the standpoint of their rating by the management and by the town, they were tops. I hope that an-other year we may see you in tournament play and that you may go on past the regionals. Sincerely, Tom :MS TO GRADUATE M AIR FORCE SCHOOL Ration exercises of Class which First Lt. William A son of Mr. and Mrs. aoris of Bingham will be held 71 m the Base Theatre, y torce Base, Calif. started January 31 of w.ianJ nas undergone ;',KS of intensive train-,.- n Ration, bombing, and of C(luiPment. Com-'a- nt M i3 cou''se marks an . milestone in the mi!i- - tl,f thls officer. In i aos available an in-- . to do a job requinng services San. lG sPecially skilled ;.c vai, a factor of 4hino in economically i5 La Pos war air force ofanv cf,f(?ctive striking the world. s DR. STEELE TO ADDRESS CHAUTAUQUA CROWD Final program of the Chautau-qua series will feature Dr. Robert D. Steele of Westminster- college. Dr. Steele will speak at 5.00 p.m. in Bingham high school aud Sun- - torium at Copperton next d3heASs 23cf Program has Aeueiusin2iprrdefs KSS5S: edX Women's Society of ChrfsU Service o'Copgrxon and Lark for the Copperton Community cnurcn building. v Mercur Pioneer Society will hold their nineteenth annual picnic and reunion at Liberty park in Salt Lake City this Sun-day, August 28, reports J. R. Jar-vi- s of Salt Lake City, secretary of the society. An exceptionally appropriate program for this oc-casion has been arranged by the entertainment committee. BIRTHS Receiving congratulation n the birth of a son at St. Mark s Salt Lake City on Aug-ust 9 are Mr. and Mrs. James Eugene Goff of 82 Main. Mr. and Mrs. David Dimmick announce the birth of Bingham on 19 St. August a of a daughter Mark's hospital, Salt Lake cny. Mr and Mrs. James H. Adams of Copperf.eld are the proudpg-pnt-s s of a son born at Salt Lake City, Aug. 18. Wednesday visitors and dinner guests of Miss June Holmes at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Holmes, was her sorority sister, Miss Patti Jones, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. W. F. Jones of McGill, Nev., and Miss Judy Slotte. , o Mr. and Mrs. William Goris announce the purchase of tne home at 17 Carr Fork from Fran-cis Quinn Tuesday, August 23. Ward Relief Society ?nsoring . dinner a the are lorught, Friday, iujust 26 from 5 to 7:00 p.m. Ticiel are adults children under 12. 5U Sh illiam Steele of "l Aihl' are the proud XSietifter born July j 's the former Betn iitiTWLongrandparents Rawlings. |