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Show Join The Duchesne County Stampede, Duchesne, August 22-- 3 r The TCP A fNT?Y County Seat Duchesne: Gateway To Uintah Basin Newspaper , Volume G. Covers ALL The Uintah Basin DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY JULY 23, 1937. Committees Are Named as Plans For Duchesne County Stampede Get Under Way New Committees County-wid- e Formulate Plans For Two-daRodeo Event To Be Held On August y Announcements RELATIVES MEET AFTER SEPARATION OF MANY YEARS Thru Loud Speakeis All Will Be Broadcast Plans began tcf take form for the Duchesne County Stampede to be held in Duchesne on August 22nd and 23rd, when committees were named to take charge of the , ' various events, at a meeting on Wednesday evening. B. A. Jacoby, chairman of the finance committee will be assisted by Wm. H. Case and C. C. Mickelson of Duchesne and Frank Defa of Hanna. Rodeo chairman, C. H. Selch, assisted by Frank Richards, Chris Merkiey Jr. and Harold Powell of Duchesne, Con ODriscoll, Bridge-land, - Oran Curry, Tabiona, Newell Wimmer and Howard Cowan of Jaunita. Park and Grounds chairman, G. A. Goodrich whose assistants have not yet been announced. Police Edward Wilkins and Fitzwater. chairman, Jess Chas. Partridge, Mont and Homer Fitzwater. Lonnie Sports . Parade chairman, John-stu- n, Poul-so- n Reed Cowan. chairman, E. W. Leland Hair, Dean Pow- Program Crocker, ell. General Program Outlined committee will include of the general committee, with Ed Wilkins having charge of the music, B. A. Jacoby, tickets- and Irvin Cole, floor. Mr. Jaioby was appointed sec- retary of general affairs connected with the Stampede. The Whitlock sound equipment will broadcast all announcements and make comments throughout the two days crowded with events. The general outline of the program will consist of two baseball games on Sunday, supplemented by rodeo events. Rodeo and baseball finals will occur on Monday, the day will be filled out with a big parade, geneiul spouts and races, horse races and a big dance in the evening. The entire program will be staged in the Duchesne City park which has been maintained during the summer under the supervision of Jess Johnstun. The lawn and trees are in fine condition and will prove a perfect setting for the Stampede. Dance members . HARRIS SUFFERS HURTS IN FALL FROM CAR GLENDA Miss Glenda Harris, twelve year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Abe m Harris suffered severe lacerations of the chin, abrasions on the nose and hands and badly sprained wrist Saturday evening when she fell from the back of ia car on which she was riding between the Price ranch in Indian Canyon and Duchesne. The car, driven by V. V. Osborn of Duchesne, swerved into the borrow pit, and the girl was thrown off into the road. First aid treatment was given by the Duchesne First Aid squad and Miss Harris was then taken Dr. to Fort Duchesne where Frank Nelson treated the injur, ies. Her condition was not considered serious. JUST TO REMIND YOU Contract Club, Saturday, August 7th with Mrs. A. J. Feller. Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Theodore Camp, Wednesday, July 28th at 3 p. m. with Mrs. Max Peterson. WHY DUCHESNE CO. STAMPEDE? The question has been asked, "Why Is the Duchesne rodeo The Duchesne being termed County Stampede ? For two good reasons: First Duchesne is the county seat of Duchesne county. S cond, bncau.se all will be stampeding to Duchesne on August 22nd and an 23rd to witness performers from all over Duchesne county. Two splendid reasons! because 1 Certificates Of W. P. A. AND N. R. S. Immunization Given Merit Awarded To OFFICIALS DISCUSS To 25 Children At LABOR PROBLEMS Bridgeland CCC Men Pre - School Clinic On July 13th, 1937 at Bridge-lan- d C. C. C. camp BR-1Anthon G. Armstrong was given a certificate for completion of a course in Arithmetic and Elwood Andrews was given a certificate for completion of a course n Forestr1, y- 22nd-23r- d Mr. W L. Dutton of the United States Forest Service, Washington, D. C., was In Duchesne Tuesday to visit with his aunt, Mrs. P. W. Fouse whom he hadn't seen since he was four years old. Mr. Dutton, who is chief of the division of range management in connection with the Taylor Grazing Act, has been transacting business in California and Utah and decided to stop here to see his aunt. Mrs. Fouse, who has been seriously ill with septicemia for the past two weeks has improved sufficiently to be able to enjoy the visit of her nephew. New Principals Named For Roosevelt, On July 19, 1937, Paul R. Johnston was given a certificate for completion of a course in Photography, John Larsen was given a certificate for completion of a course in Diesel Engine and a let- ter of commendation on his ex- cellent work. Richard Campbell received a certificate for completion of a course in Forestry and Evan Workman received a certificate for completion of a course in Journalism. Job Training Added to Program Special job training classes are being organized in the camp. The men who hold ratings and special jobs will be required to take this training to hold their jobs. In the future all men who are picked for ratings and special jobs will be picked from these job training classes. The men who are the most industrious and show the most ability in these classes will be in line for ratings and special jobs. By the use of this system the men who hold special jobs will be Duchesne Schools better trained. This will make for more efficiency on the work proW. C. Barton was given a conject and also enable an enrollee tract for the principalship of the to be better trained for a job in Duchesne high and elementary civilian life when he leaves the C. schools and Alvin J. Teuscher was C. C. named principal of the Roosevelt high school, it was announced from the superintendent's office this week. Mr. Barton has been employed in the Midvale district prior to coming here. Mr. Teuscher was a teacher at the Roosevelt high last year, having charge of the social science department there. Superintendent W. J. Bond was in Heber, Salt Lake City and Logan Wednesday and Thursday interviewing prospective teachers to fill out the teaching roster for Power Rates and Service, the Duchesne district. He could Blue Bench, Roads not be reached late Thursday for Get Attention information concerning the qualifications of the new principals. The Duchesne Gateway Club held its first meeting under its WEED EXPERT TO newly adopted constitution, in the form of a banquet at the Mission ASSIST IN PLAN Inn Wednesday evening. Fourteen ERADICATION OF members were present to listen A weed expert will be sent to to committee reports and act upthe Basin from the extension di- on several important morons. A vision of the Utah Agricultural large majority of those present took out membership cards under college at Logan, it was stated in efDuchesne Thursday by David F, the new rules which became which proand fective 1st, July of commissioner agriculSmith, vide for quarterly dues payable in ture, to assist in the advance. in now underway program To Protest Power Service counties. Duchesne and Uintah A committee was appointed to A $10,000 allotment for the two-yeprogram in visit the Public Utilities Comisthe state was made by the last sion and enter a protest against legislature, a good share of which the poor power service received will be expended in Duchesne and in Duchesne. B. A. Jacoby of the Uintah counties, it was stated. Duchesne Driig will head th(s Counties will be expected to furn- committee, and will be glad to ish all equipment and materials, receive any specific complaints supervision and labor will be paid from Duchesne citizens before by the state. they make their trip, he stated. A report on the recent survey Weed poison will be available to farmers and irrigation com- on the Blue Bench was heard by panies who have need for it. This the club from Its Blue Bench comwill be distributed by the commis- mittee, and the committee was insioners of the counties, upon ap- structed to continue its work in plication. cooperation with the Uintah Basin Planning League in proMITCIIELL-PULLE- Y moting activities in this direcNUPTUALS RECITED tion.Road Equipment Discussed BY L. D. S. BISHOP The road committee was into structed the propoinvestigate The marriage of Miss Doris Mitchell of Duchesne and Mr. Kay sition of turning the old county over to the state, with M. Pulley of Strawberry was caterpillar last Friday before theInpossibility of the state using solemnized it the purchase of a new 60" Bishop Levi J. Anderton. for maintenance work in this Miss Mitchells name and the county. .story of her spectacular rescue Leland Hair and Chester Lyfrom the snow - covered Cedar man were appointed as a commountain, 20 miles west of Du- mittee to to comattempt four-da- y chesne, where she spent a the transaction for a suit, plete lonely vigil during a period able site for the Manual arts shop weather, held the for the Duchesne high school. of sub-zer- o newspapers in Utahs The recent school board action spotlight last March. in rtfusing Arcadia residents Searching posses varying in their desired bus route change number from 25 to 75 men from was brought up for discussion and Duchesne and vicinity combed the the Olub decided to investigate hills and valleys surrounding the the situation and appointed a Dick Muir ranch on the Straw- committee for the purpose. berry river from which Miss Mitchell had wandered following MARRIAGE LICENSE a party hrid at the ranch house. She was discovered on the evenKay M. Pulley, 20, Strawb rry ing of the fourth day under a and Dot is Mitchell, 20, Duchesne, small cedar tree where she had July 16th. for shelter. crawled Although Floyd E. Workman, 20, Vernal In an home Reva Shiner, 19, Vernal, July exhaust, back and brought ed condition. Miss Mitchell was 17th, complex ly recovered in a short Douglm V. Parker, 31, Oak time and has suffered no Creek, Colorado and Eleanor Lor-en- a from her harrowing exper. Smith, 35, Oak Creek, weed-eradicati- ar weed-eradicati- knee. $2.00 Glen E. Reese, state director of the employment division of the Works Progress Administration, Samuel Pack, W. P. A. supervisor of District No. 3, and Thomas R. Faddis, state director of the National Reemployment Service were in Duchesne Monday to discuss labor problems with Ernest W. Crocker, District director of the N. R. S. A close coordination of the two agencies was suggested to better enable them to work out the labor problems. No definite program was outlined at the meeting. Twenty-fiv- e children were examined and immunized against smallpox and diphtheria Tuesday, July 20th at the second conference conducted by Dr. L. S. Saunders of Roosevelt. Miss Mary McQuillan, director of staff education from the state board of heallth nursing division, assisted Mrs. W. A. Jennings and Miss Bertha Becker, public health nurses. The clinics, two of which have been held in Duchesne this summer, are free to all children. A great interest has been R. R. A. DIRECTOR shown in the clinics. More children were brought in than could ACCEPTS GOVT. taken care of". Nurse Becker POST IN ALASKA be said, We hope that the communwill cooperate in every way Mr. E. Peterson, Duchesne ity so that the clinics may be conResettlement Adminis- tinued County throughout the year as tration director, will leave Satthey are of great value in detectFairhis for with family urday ing physical defects which can be banks, Alaska where he will take corrected before the children enthe position as superintendent of ter school. the government agricultural staA typhoid campaign will be tion. started soon, it was stated, durMr. Peterson has been prominit is hoped that one which ent in Basin affairs for many ing hundred per cent immunization years. He was one of the organizbe given. The disease, which ers of the Uintah Basin Industrial may can so easily be guarded against, Convention, having held the po- is through impure water, sition of program chairman last etc.spread immunization will last One year. for a period of about two years. Prior to his appointment to the Dates on which the InoculaResettlement Administration two tions will be given will be anyears ago, Mr. Peterson was farm nounced in the RECORD as soon agent for Uintah county, a po- as arrangements are completed. sition he had held for many years, during which he gained national recognition for his boys and girls club work. Prominent In L. D. S. Work Mr. and Mrs. Peterson have both been prominent in church circles in Duchesne and Uintah counties, Mrs. Peterson being active in stake Relief Society and Mr. Peterson was a member of the high council in Vernal and conducted classes at various times in the Duchesne Mutual Improvement association. Con. Wagon at Roosevelt The younger members of the Gels Contract For family, Sytha and Elizabeth are their Clinton, with parents. Wayne Busses going who is a student at the Utah A contract for four new Wayne State Agricultural college at Loschool bus bodies was gan, is planning to join the family after his graduation next spring. signed at a Duchesne County Cornelia is attending the Dee Board of Education purchasing school of nuursing at Ogden and committee meeting in Roosevelt will complete her work there. Tuesday evening. The bodies will Mr. Peterson's successor in the be purchased through the ConResettlement Administration of- solidated Wagon and Machine fice at Duchesne has not yet been Companys Roosevelt branch, who submitted the low bid among sevannounced. In Dueral from auto dealers counties. PriUintah and chesne Day Set For Fete ces submitted by the various dealAs Midview Dam ers were almost identical on the Nears Completion purchase of the bodies, but the the bidder offered successful Friday, September 10th was set largest allowance on an old body as the date for celebrating the to be turned in by the Board. The purchase calls for three 20 completion of the Midview reservoir by a committee of approxifoot 4 inch bodies and one 17 foot mountmately 25 persons meeting at the 4 inch body. They will be and chassis owned CCC camp Thursday ed on privately Bridgeland evening. Horace Allred, president used on the Mountain Home, of the Moon Lake Water Users East Neola, Bluebell and Mont-wroutes. The three first menAssociation, under whose sponconbeen dam has the will be mounted on new tioned sorship structed was chpirman of the chasis, the fourth on a used meeting. Lyman Burdick, Presi- chassis. The contractors on these dent of the Farmers Irrigation routes will leave soon for the Company, and a recently elected automobile and bus manufacturDirector of the Moon Lake as- ing plans to get the new trucks sociation, who had personally in- and bodies. vited representatives of comContracts Listed munities in the county to be presroutes contracted durbus New ent at the meeting was present recent meetings of the the ing to take an active part in the Board of Education include the plans. following: Civic Clulm Represented A District owned bus will opSkeleton plans were formulated erate between Hanna and Tabiat the meeting, to be amplified ona. This bus operated between at the next meeting, when it is Neola and Roosevelt last year. hoped a larger number will be Utahn to Duchesne route, to Elmer L. Bell for three present. Puljic invitation to at least one representative from each years at $150.00 per month. civic organization and each irStrawberry to Duchesne route, awarded to J. M. Mickelson for rigation company in the county to be present at the next meet- three years at $109.00 per month. Mid view to Myton route, warding, was requested through newspapers, and will be supplemented ed to John E. Zirker for one year by written invitations to the at $120.00 per month. known organizations. The meetAntelope to Myton to Rooseing will be held at the Bridge-lan- d velt to John E. Zirker for three CCC camp at 7:30 p. m. years at $175.00 per month, Mr. Zirker has one more year Friday, July 30th. Those who arrive In time will be taken on a (Continued on Page 8) tour of the dam, to be followed by a business session at approxi- Bridgeland. There will be a large dance in the evening. It Is promately 9 o'clock. Chairman Appointed posed that all events will be free. Committee chairmen appointed Everyone is Invited to bring picThursday evening were: Publicity, nic lunches,, though there will be Geo. Harrison, Roosevelt; Sports, conecssions where food and drinks Bunnel, Bridgeland CCC camp; may be purchased. Because of the importance of Piogram, Lyman Burdick, Bluebell; Refreshments, Roland Kreb-b- the Midview project to the entire My ton; Finances, L. J. Gil- county it is hoped that there will be at least one representative of bert, Arcadia. The tentative outline calls for each organization in the county a program at the dam site at 10 pr sent at the next meeting to a. m. the rnoining of the celebraassist In formulating the plans tion. The afternoon will he de- and making the celebration a real voted to sports of all kinds at success. Pre-scho- ol Year in Advance Number 52. Huge Throngs Expected to Participate in Duchesnes Pioneer Day Celebration President Herbert B. Maw Will Give Keynote Address; Childrens Sports, Baseball, Rodeo To Be Featured Senate LYMAN BURDICK NAMED DIRECTOR OF IRRI. ASSN. Horse Races To Lyman Burdick of Bluebell was named as the new director of the Moon Lake Water Users Association to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of William Hancock, formerly of Bluebell and now of Myton, it was announced last week. Mr. Burdick has been president of the Farmers' Irrigation Company for several years and is thoroughly familiar with the irrigation problems of the Basin. He is also a deputy of the Duchesne county sheriff. One of the largest crowds Duchesne has ever entertained is expected to gather in the beautiful city park next Saturday to celebrate the arrival of the Mormon Pioneers in Utah. Unofficial reports from the various towns in the Basin indicate that a wide representation may be expected from the two counties. Senate President Herbert B. Maw will launch the full day of events when he appears befoie the crowd at the park to deliver an address on Utah Pioneers at 11 a. m. Senator Maw has graciously consented to be present at a personal sacrifice of missing the Covered Wagon Days celebration He will arrive in his own city. early Saturday morning to be a guest for the day of Senator G. V. Billings. Singing Cowbojs Preceding Senator Maws address, ten minutes will be devoted to the rendition of cowboy songs accompanied by stringed Instruments by the Three Singing Cowboys, one of whom is being imported for the occasion. A loudspeaker system is being installed so that no word of the address will be missed. The system will and be used for announcements comments on the events throughout the day with cowboy songs interspersed throughout. A male quartet which includes Rulon J. Larsen, Porter Merrell, O. F. Ellingford and G. A. Goodrich will give several numbers, followed by a song and tap dance by little Miss Kelsey, who la rapidly gaining recognition for her ability. The Liddell Sisters of Bridgeland have promised to contribute several vocal duets. Two vocal duets by Merle Sexton and Merle Goodrich will conrlude the progiam. Greased lig Contest One hour will be devoted to luncheon when many will take advantage of the shade and lawn in the park for picnic luncheons. ice Hot dogs and hamburgers, cream, pop, etc. may be bought right at the park and cafes on Main street will cater to the crowd. (Continued on Page 8) Climax Of Full Fast Day Events pre-scho- ol mum tall-ste- el el s, ler FUNERAL RITES IIELI) THURSDAY FOR C. M. SMITH Funeral services were held in the L. D. S. Ward Hall Thursday at 10 a. m. for Charles Mathews Smith, 77, retired farmer of the Uintah Basin, who died at his home in Duchesne Tuesday of and nephritis. Mr. myocarditis Smith had been ill since March. The services were under the of the Roy A. Schonian mortuary with Bishop Levi J. Anderton in charge. Following the services, the remains were taken to Price for burial in the Price City cemetery. The invocation at the services was offered by James L. Oman. Vocal duets were sung by Miss Merle Sexton and Mrs. Arthur Goodrich, "Speak Gentle Words and Lest We Forget. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Goodrich sang Dear Old Daddy of Mine. Porter Merrell sang Beautiful Sunset. History of Life Given Merril Larsc-- spoke on the subject of Our Reverence and Existence Here on Earth, and Por. ter Merrell gave a brief history of the life of Mr. Smith and told of his association with Mr. Smith and his family. Bishop Levi J. (Continued on Page 8) n EX-SEItVI- MEN ENJOY SUNDAY EVENING PICNIC men of Duand their wives were guests of honor at a Sunday evening outing this week near the Strawberry road west of Duchesne. The event was sponsored by the American Legion and Auxiliary members. Enjoying the affair were Messrs and Mesdames Jim Price, Titus Jones, James Dalgleish, E. W. Crocker, Rulon J. Larsen, Wm. H. Case, Arthur Orr, A. J. Gerry, Ernest Wilson, Elmer Bates, Mrs. Jess Johnstun, Mrs. Guy J. Hollenbeck, Mrr. Abe Harris, Mrs. Vern Price, Mrs. R. M. Pope, Dick Broome, Larry Crocker and Billy Orr. The chesne FIRST AID SQUAD WILL BE ON CALL AT R. C. STATION of Members the First Aid squad must report immediately to the Red Cross first aid station upon the sounding of siren signal which is two blasts, to distingu-Is- h the call from a fire alarm, It was announced today. Any accident case which requires the services of the squad and can be moved, should be taken at once to the station and the telephone operator requested to sound the first aid signal. In case of an accident on the highway, where the injured parties require tn ptment at the scene, squad members, arriving at the station may get the needed information from the telephone operator. The station is now fully equipped to take rare of two or more patients at once with a fully ntocked emergency medicine kit, bandages, splints, stretchers and cots. The room has been made as pleasant as possible wilh new paint, new linoleum on the floor and curtains at the windows. Hot water and lee can h obtained at a moments notice from the Mu-- 1 tuul Creamery a few steps away.1 TABIONA CHILI) ESCAPES DEATH IN IRRI. DITCH Ruby Turnbow, young daughof Mr. and Mrs. Alien Turn-boof Tabiona narrowly escaped death by drowning when she was rescued from an irrigation ditch into which she had fallen Monday. The child was playing on the bridge crossing the deep canal when she tumbled in, it was thought. She was found lodged against some drift wood, just a few minuLs after she had fallen ter w in. WEATHER REPORT For week beginning July 15th. Precipitation, .02, E. S. WINSLOW, Cooperative Observer. STAMPEDERS DON TEN GALLON IIATS Youre not in the Yippee! swim If. youre not flaunting a ten. gallon chapeaux with an orange band proclaiming the Duchesne County Stampede, to be held in Duchesne cm August 22nd and 23rd. The hats are on sale at severul business turns s In Duchesne and will be distributed throughout the county within the next vccric or two. Fine shade, snappy looking and ndverlung the biggest event in the county. |