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Show Universal Microfilming Corp., P O Box 147 w vMtt fir nitiM imM VrOL. 62, NO. 44. An Independent Newspaper BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1954 Oldest Weekly la Salt Lake County TELEPHONE 91 A WELCOME DROP SuoulperJ J BINGHAM CENTRAL P-T-SCHEDULES MEET MARCH 31 Bingham Central School P-T- A will hold its meeting for March on Wednesday evening, March 31 at 7:30 p.m. at the school accord-ing to Mrs. Lucille Bianchi, pre-sident. The school band under the di-rection of LaVern Dickson, will present the program. Election of officers will also be held the same night. Nominated for office are: Mrs. Rita Ugarte for president, Mrs. Jayne Longfellow for vice presi-dent, and Mrs. Anna Mae Lovat for secretary. The public is cordially invited to attend. O COPPERFIELD P-T-MEET MONDAY NIGHT WELL ATTENDED A P-T- A meeting held at Cop-perfie- ld Monday night was at-tended by an overflow crowd. Theme of the meeting was on the order of League of Nations. It showed how different nation-alities worked together in har-mony. It was under direction of president, Mrs. Walter Leather-woo-d, her officers and commit-tees working together. First was the Japanese. This nation wus portrayed by three Japanese girls. One was Julia Miya who wore a traditional Japanese wedding dress. Two other girls Elsie Yamada and Rose Kawaguchi wore costumes worn by the young Japanese girls and gave a clarinet duet. Mrs. Henry Adachi and Mrs. Sue Ogawa were in charge. Next nation was Greece with Mrs. Mary Mannos in charge. Three of her children Tommy, Michael and Susan and Gussie Nepolis wore the traditional Greek costumes. They explained some customs of Greece, educa-tional opportunities, art, etc. They and their mother present-ed a Greek dance. The Puerto Ricans were repre-sented by Jennie Rosa dressed in a very pretty Puerto Rican costume and she demonstrated a Puerto Rican dance. Last of the group nationalities were a group of Mexicans under the direction of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Lovato and Mrs. Ri- - j cardo Lopez. First scene Mr. j Lovato gave the legend of the',I Virgin of Guadalupe; second scene showed a group of Mexi-can children honoring the leg-end of Guadalupe; third scene was street singers or troubadors singing and playing in the street. All participants dressed in tra-ditional Mexican costumes. Last scene was a Mexican hat dance given by Elsie and Lola Vigil. Rubio Lopez gave a musical number between the second and third scenes. Meeting was opened by prayer by Miss Faye Wnite. A song by the audience followed, led by Rachel Cobb who also led the group in the pledge of alleg-ienc- e. Mrs. Nona Carrigan and Mrs. Alta Boyd, president and secretary-treasure- r respectively of the Jordan District P-T- A Council, were special guests. Pete Mickelsen of the Jordan district school board was speak-er of the evening. He spoke on the "Melting Pot". A state quar-tet consisting of Camon Thom-son of Midvale junior high, Evan Mad.sen of Sandy junior high, LaVern Dickson of Bingham high and Joel P. Jensen, prin-cipal of Copperfield grade school gave two selections. They were accompanied by Mrs. Jensen. Election of officers for the coming year was held with Mrs. Walter Leatherwood relected president, Mrs. Morgan Harrison renamed vice president and Mrs. Colleen Montoya elected secretary-t-reasurer. Through the ef-forts of Mrs. W. L. Leatherwood, the editor of Kennescope and Ross Pino attended the meeting and took a number of pictures in color and black and white for the next issue of the hagazine. The refreshment committee ser-ved over 190 people. BINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL NEWS by Joyce Olsen Tournament Resume In the opening game of the tournament, Bingham lost to Spanish Fork 47 to 45. In the second game Bingham trounced Union High 60 to 42. In the third game the Miners walloped Park City 53 to 34. - In the final game of the four-da- y tournament Bingham defeat-ed Parowan 54 to 4i) to win the consolation championship and finish in fifth place in the tour-ney. The team are to be congrat-ulated on such a fine showing in the tournament. Bingham's Jack Mannion Unanimous Choice To All-Stat- e Team Only unanimous choice to tbe Class B all-sta- te dream team is Jack Mannion, 6 ft. 5 in. junior at Bingham high school. Jack also was second leading scorer in the tournament with 67 points. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mannion of Copperton. Victory Assembly A victory assembly was held Tuesday morning in honor of the basketball team. Special guests were Mrs. Paul Richard3, Asst. Supt. Reed Beckstead, Principal T. H. McMullin, Bailey J. San-tistev- an and mothers of the bas-ketball players. Speakers were Principal McMullin, Mr. Santis-jteva- n, Delmar Schick, Coach Udell Wankier and Mrs. Odell Peterson. Flowers were present -- ed to all of the mothers and Mrs. Richards. The trophy was presented to Sonny Robertson and Brent Pe-terson on behalf of the team by Vernon Malstrom, principal of Murray high school and presi-dent of the state athletic associ-ation. They in turn presented the trophy to Coach Wankier. Girls Club Dance Tonight "Sadie Hawkins Day" is the theme of the Girls Club annual dance to be held tonight, Friday, March 26 in the high school gymnasium. It starts at 8:30 pm. and music will be by Harold Rendlesbach's orchestra. Admis-sion is $1.00 per couple. The dance, in honor of the school basketball team, will be under the direction of Miss Vern Baer, club advisor and ReNae Holladay, club president. Music Festival Students from all schools in the Jordan district will partici-pate in a day-lon- g musical fes-tival on Wednesday, March 21 at Bingham high school. Emery Epperson, district music super-visor, will be in charge. School was dismissed Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons this week for P-T- A meetings and back to school nights. - RECREATION ACTIVITIES by Mike Zdunich, Charles Bates i The yearly tournaments are in ' progress at the Civic Center to determine which teams will play in the finals on April 7. We have; i tournaments in four different leagues. They are the PeeWee, Junior, Senior and Teen Age leagues. The PeeWee and Junior lea gues played their games on Mon-day night with the Bingham Braves defeating the Bingham Nite Hawks 15 to 3. Jimmy Har-ryma- n and Bobby Susaeta led i the Brave attack. Barry Osoro looked good for the Nite Hawks. The Copperton Sharpshooters led by the Markovich twins nos-ed out the Bingham Redskins 16 to 13. Helping the twins were s Dahlstrom, Swain and McMullin. Looking very good for the Red-skins were Lee Sturgill. Bert Williamson, James Jimas and Bobby Ilennings. So on April 7 it will be the Braves against the Sharpshooters in the PeeWee league final. In the Junior league the Cop-- 1 perton Cats beat the Copperton Hawks 19-1- 8 in a real thriller with Kent Sitnkins dropping in the final two points with ten seconds to play. Helping Kent were Keith LaComb and Johnny Johnson. While George Marko-vie- h, Johnny Lancaster, Gary Coiyar looked good in trying to bring victory to their ball club. In the other game in the Junior league the Copperfield Pirates trounced Spud's Gang 30 to 20. It was Joe Martinez leading the way for his ball club with the help of Ray Rubalcava and Ro-bert Whetsel. Harold Susaeta, George Sluga and Fumi Watan-ab- e played fine ball for the Gang. So on April 7, it will be1 Copperton Cats against the Cop- - pertield Pirates and this should ' be a real thriller. In the Senior league, Utah beat Bingham by score of 36 to 31. Caldwell haj a field day scor ing 19 points besides some fine defensive play. For Bingham George Rekoutis and (Bobby Nichols both played good ball. Lark beat Buck's All Stars by score of 31 to 19. Buck's All Stars are all seventh graders and really showed some fine im-provement during the season. Bill English was high scorer for Buck's team. The Sea Hawks who were the league champs at the Civic Center won two ball games to get in the finals April 7 defeating the Bingham Bas-ques by the tune of 31 to 23, and defeating Lark in a thriller 29 to 27. The Sea Hawks have a fine ball club, coached by Buck Leyba. They pass the ball well and have some good scorers led by Dallas Hakanson and David Butt. So on April 7 two good ball clubs the Sea Hawks and Utah will play for the championship. The Teen Age league played their first games Wednesday, March 24. Three close games were played and each one was a thriller. The Rummies beat the White Knights 39 to 38, Racket-eers beat Highland Boy 20 to 16 and the Collegians beat the Da-gos by score of 32 to 29. There are some fine high school pros-pects on these teams, some of them being Joe Castillo and Tommy Lovat playing for the Rummies, Jerry Crellin, Johnny Arritola and G. Goris playing for the White Knights. Most of the fellows played good basketball. The semi-fina- ls in the Teen Age tournament haven't been played yet so more news next week the Teen Agers. HEALTH NEWS According to the weekly bul-letin of the state department of health, a total of 706 new cases of communicable diseases were reported for the week ending March 19th. Measles continues to lead the list with a total of 4(J4 new cases. Chicken pox came second with 129 and mumps was third with 62 cases. The following is a list of all diseases for the week: cancer, 3; chicken pox, 129; influenza, 4; measles, 464; German measles, 12; mumps, 62; strep infections, 21; whooping cough, 3; gonor-rhea, 1; syphilis, 2; gastro enter-itis, 3; rheumatic fever, 1; mono-nucleosis (infectious), 1. o Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Another name went into the great record of Bingham basket-ball as Jack Mannion was se-lected on the All-Sta- te team by a unanimous vote. Jack was the only man to have that distinc-tion. The big 6 ft. 5 in. Junior was proclaimed by the experts to be one of the greatest looking college prospects in the state. Jack did everything that is ask-ed of a basketball player. He scored on offense and he played both back boards in champion style. As I said the team went on to win the consolation cup with-out a game being close. Coach Wankier will lose a number of good boys by graduation but he will have the nucleus of a good club with Mannion and Stillman both back and a number of fine looking boys coming up from the junior high team. Coach Santistevan has his base ball players out and I under- - .stand their first game will be played today, Friday, against Granite at Granite. This year's team is composed entirely of veterans of last years American! Legion team, and about the only thing that it will lack is overall power at the plate. There are a couple of good hitters on the club and some of the others were coming pretty good at the close of Legion play last year. So this might be the making of a champ-- ionship club. They haven't had much opportunity to work out-side, so there may be some sleep-ers that will break into the line-u- d. But as of now here is the way the team shapes up. Still-ma- n and Oseguera pitchers, Mu-h- ar catcher, Anderson first base. At second it will be close, Niel-sen and Boren both pretty good boys, Robertson at short, John-son at third and in the outfield he will have Peterson, Bobby that is, Yates, Chesler and a num ber of other good looking kids . trying to break in. As I said this j is a good kid ball club and some help at the plate and they will be tough. The University ball club has gone to Arizona, but as yet have-n't been able to play a game. Wet grounds. Talked to Coach Sum-- , merhays and he tells me he has the makings of a good club. The Aggies have a number of veter-- ! ans back, and BYU has what it takes in college, a good pitching staff. Sure a lot of injuries in major league spring training. Bobby Thomson broken ankle, Ted Wil-liams broken shoulder, Mickey Grasso fractured ankle and a great many more not so serious. One of these accidents can make an also ran out of a pennant con-tender, as the Giant3 can tell you. They lost Monte Irwin a couple of seasons back and they never recovered. This year could have been Boston's yet, but with out Williams big bat at the start, it will be a hard row to hoe. Not much to tell you about the Salt Lake Bees. The team is picked at the minor league train-ing camp of the Phillies. So for a couple of weeks we will be pretty much in the dark. I see where Dave Cunningham, the former U of U and Magna star! is hitting the ball at a great clip ' for Los Angeles in exhibition j games. Dave was with Des Moin-- ! es in the Western league last year. Not much on the rest of the local boys as yet, but will j keep you posted. So until next week. AL O BM.A FLASHES by Jim Abplanalp Miners End Fine Season Our local Bingham High School hoop squad wound up a very successful season last week by garnering fifth place and the consolation championship in the "B" tourney at BYU fieldhouse. Coach Udell Wankier and his charges are to be congratulated tor their fine showing all thru the regular season as well as the four tournament games. Although the boys lost a heart breaker in the first round of play, they came back with a lot of fine play and determination to cop the lation prize. The Bingham squad this year has been perhaps as good as any team from this district, and de-serves credit for a lot of hard work and fine performances. The local hoopsters impressed many fans at the tourney as one of the finest, and contributed the outstanding performer of the whole meet. Yourg Jack Man-nion, only junior picked on the All-Sta- te five was given the honor of being the stand - out player of the tourney. Jack was the second top scorer of the meet and turned in his finest perform-ance on the very last night. The rest of the boys contributed a great deal to Mannion's fine showing and we believe big Jack would be the first to give them credit. So, congratulations to Coach Wankier and his fine bunch of "Miners". Their "champs" in our estimation and we hope all the boys gained worthwhile knowl-edge and training from their ex-periences. We'll go after 'em next year, and keep hoping and working hard for the fine bunch of boys that take up this splendid sport. Our Diamond Dilemma The baseball situation is now a big question as to whether we can keep enough young ball players around to make up a ball club. Due to reduction in forces at the mines, several of last years players feel they must go else-where for employment. Manager Babcock is working hard to keep his club intact, but is faced with the problem of most of his play-ers seeking work elsewhere. We are doing everything possible to keep a baseball team in Bing- - ham but we do not have very definite assurance as yet. Hope something can be arranged soon. We'll let you know how things are progressing.O IMMUNIZATION CLINIC STARTS TODAY AT THE CIVIC CENTER Through the ' combined efforts 'of the Bingham Central, Copper-jto- n, Copperfield' and Highland jBoy P-T- units, the annual im-munization clinic will be held again this year, to be conducted by the public health nurse under direction of Dr. H. C. Jenkins. Only the one clinic will be 'held this year it was reported. ;It starts today, Friday, March 26 and will be held every Friday thereafter through Aril 30 at the Civic Center from 2 to 5 pm. Shots for diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, typhoid fever. Rocky Mt. spotted fever and small pox vaccine will be given. iThey may be gotten in either the series or booster shots. All children under 18 years of age must be accompanied by parent or guardian or bring a signed order for immunization ' wanted. Payments must be made j when registering for the first i shots today, Friday, Immunization for high school students only will be held at the high school on Wednesdays. Children in the first, second and third grades who wish to be im-munized against polio will not be able to have shots after April 2nd. GEO. STRINGHAM SERVICES SET FORSATURDAY Funeral services for George Melvin Stringham, 47, of 13 Markham, Bingham, who died unexpectedly early Wednesday morning, March 24, at his home of natural causes, will be held tomorrow, Saturday, March 27 at 1 p.m. in the Bingham LDS Ward chapel with Bishop Wil-for- d H. Harris officiating. Friends may call Friday even-ing, tonight, from 7 to 9 p.m. at Bingham Mortuary. Interment will be in Midvale city cemetery under direction of the Bingham Mortuary. A son of Clarence Eurastace and Ida Swan Stringham, he was born September 23, 19UG, in Bing-ham Canyon. He was married to Mary Bodell, August 7, 1925, in Salt Lake City. He resided in Bingham all his life, and was employed by Kennecott Copper Corp. as motorman. Survivors include his widow, Eingham; one son, Dean, who is coach at Delta high school, Delta; his mother, Ida Shaw, Los An-geles, Calif.; five brothers, Clar-ence, Midvale; Lawrence, Mur-ray; Leonard, Layton; Carl, Salt Lake City and Eugene, Los Angeles; one sister,. Norma Car-- ; penter, Pioche, Nev. o LIONS CLUB OFFICERS NOMINATED BY BINGHAM LIONS Nominations from which Bing-ham Lions will select their of-ficers for 1954-5- 5 were made at the regular semi-month- ly meet-ing held Wednesday night at the Civic Center according to Dean Ham, publicity chairman. Those nominated were:, president, Har-old W. Nielsen; first vice presi-dent, Carl A. Curtis; second vice president, Joe Dispenza; third vice president, Hyman Smernoff; secretary, Reed Kelly; treasurer, Verio Kendrick; lion tamer, Shirl Scroggin; tail twister, Dean Ham; directors, V. S. Barlow and Jack Tallas. Holdover directors are C. A. Morley and Ross M. Cushing. Ernest Simkins was welcomed in as a new member. Guests at the meeting were Dick Stewart of the public relations depart-ment, Kennecott Copper Corp., Salt Lake City and Floyd Cox. Announcement was made that the Bingham club received no-tice that it is holding first place in attendance at meetings and that they are ever on quota . of new members. The state conven-tion will be held at Logan June 10, 11 and 12, it was reported. After business the film "Life's Stream" was shown through the courtesy of Standard Oil Co. under direction of Mr. Ham. " At a meeting held at Bingham Club Cafe yesterday, Thursday, a committee representing Bing-ham Canyon city council, con-sisting of Councilmen Bob Jimas and Lawrence West with Wilson Atkinson and C. A. Morley, re-presenting local businessmen, and J. C. Landenberger Jr. of Kennecott Copper Corp., were assured that tourist buses would make a to one-ha- lf hour stop either going to the copper pit or on leaving, enab-ling the tourist to visit the most unique and historic mining camp in the west. These arrangements have been accomplished by per-sistent meetings with S. R. Andy Anderson, traffic manager with Gray Lines Motor Tours. Bingham Copperton Gold and Green Ball "April Showers" is the theme of the Bingham and Copperton Gold and Green Ball to be held at the Civic Center on Saturday evening, April 3. Jay Pond's or-chestra will furnish the music for dancing. Floor show starts at 8:30 p.m. Admission $1.00 per couple. WEATHER REPORT Joseph Spendlove, Observer High Low Friday, March 19 39 23 Saturday, March 20 .... 39 30 Sunday, March 21 38 25 Monday, March 22 38 25 Tuesday, March 23 37 32 Wednesday, March 21.. 36 28 Thursday, March 25 .... 34 26 Rain and snow flurries during the above period accounted for .73 of an inch porecipitation. TEN PIN TAPS by Al Ablett Monday night saw some of the boys turning in some good gam-es. Raymond Johnson shot a 616 series for high in that depart-ment, and John Kallen had a big 228 game. Only three more weeks to go, and Team 8 looks like a cinch. They won four Monday. Team 2 in second place did the same, but no gain. A number of the boys shoot this Sunday in the Mock Ritz Classic. Don't be surprised if Bingham don't knock this one off. Ken Chestnut has resumed practice after his operation. Good to see Ken back. Roblez was high in the Wed-nesday night session, 516. These boys hurry their last game in order to see the fights. Here is next Monday's sched-ule: Teams 3 vs 1 and 4 vs 2 at 6:30 p.m.; teams 8 vs 6 and 7 vs 5 at 8:30 p.m. o The Lions club committees are making final arrangement checks on all phases of the Sixth An-nual Lions Crab Sizzle to be held Saturday, April 10 at the Civic Center in Bingham. According to all reports they are bigger and better each year, that is the crabs reports the publicity committee. O Camp Polk. La. Pfc. Felix Bedont, son of Mrs. Vigclante N. Preloran, 538 Main St., Bingham, will move to the Fort Bragg, N. Car., maneuver area next month with the 37th Infantry Division for Exercise Flash Burn. Bedont, in the army 14 months, is a sup-ply clerk in Headquarters Bat-tery of the 135th Field Artillery Battalion stationed at Camp Polk, La. o BIRTHS It's a girl for Mr. and Mrs. Carl Zahos, Knight Hotel, Bingham, who arrived at Cottonwood Ma-ternity hospital on Saturday, March 20. Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Chavira announce the birth of a baby boy at their home 26 Carr Fork, Bingham, Thursday, March 25. A son was born March 23 to Mr. and Mrs. Pedro Rivera Noel at their home ion Copperfield. . JAYCEE TEEN-AG- E ROAD-E-- 0 TO BE HELD APRIL 25 April 25 is the date set for the Murray City and West Jordan Jaycee Teen-ag- e Road-e-- o to be held in the Salt Lake County Fair Grounds at Murray, Ray Smith, chairman of the Junior Chamber of Commerce even, said today. All teen-ager- s, boys and girls, who hold a driving permit or a license are eligible to enter this driving contest. The local winner will go on to the state contest in Murray on May 8 to compete for a place in the national contest. One youngster from each state will take part in the National Road-e-- o August 10-1- 4 in Wash-ington, D. C, to compete for $3,100 in scholarships. The na-tional contest is sponsored by the U. S. Jaycees, Liberty Mu-tual Insurance Companies, and the American Trucking Associ-ations, Inc. Mr. Smith said application blanks for the local Road-e-- o can be obtained at Murray, Jordan, Bingham and Cyprus high school and Ray's service station. Entries can be turned in at these points. The deadline for returning en-tries is April 12. Irvin Stillman left Monday ev-ening to visit with his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Larry Marty of Los Angeles, Calif, and other relatives and friends in the surrounding vicinity. LADIES BOWLING Late Tuesday night, Edna Ro- - bertson had the highest game bowled in the Gemmell Club women's bowling league this year with a 200 .game. Second high of the evening was a 174 game rolled by Midge Gray. High series for the night were Beverly Moore with a 481 and Edna Robertson with 469. Schedule for Tuesday, March 30th, is: teams 5 and 1 on alleys 1 and 2, teams 6 and 3 on alleys 3 and 4, at 7:00 p.m.; teams 4 and 8 on alleys 1 and 2, teams 2 and 7 on alleys 3 and 4 at 8:30 pjo. BINGHAM C Y O TEAM BEATS HELPER CYO On Sunday, March 21, the Bingham CYO team played the Helper CYO team in the Civic auditorium at Helper winning the game 36 to 29 and the right to play the last team of the Salt Lake CYO in the tournament finals to be played in the near future. Fr. Pellegrino and Elias Roblez, coach of the team, ac-companied the team to Helper. Team members making the trip were Mike Gonzales, Tom Lo-vat, Chris Herrera, Bernie Cor-dova, Robert King, Joe Castillo and Johnny Arritola, Annual spring dance sponsor- - ed by the Bingham Volunteer i ' Fire "Department for members and partners and their guests1 will be held at the Civic Center Saturday night, March 27, ac-cording to Marlin Schultz, gen-eral chairman of the affair. Dane ing starts at 9 p.m. and music will be furnished by a live orch-estra. Other members of the committee are Joe Dispenza, Joe Susaeta, Theron Hickman, Paul Groves and Vincent Miola. CLUB DANCE APRIL 3 R. C. Gemmell Club in Carr Fork will be the scene of a club 'dance on Saturday night, April 3, it was announced this week. Dancing starts at 9 p.m. continu-ing until midnight. Music by Ted Johnson and his orchestra. Club members only. Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Nerdin and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Huebner and son visited in West Jordan with Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Nerdin Sun-day evening. |