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Show Midvale, Utah, Friday, December 11, 1931 I LEADING CHARACTERS IN SCHOOL PLAY I ROAD PROJECT BEETDIGGERS ANNEX GIVES JOBS TO SOUTHWEST TROPHY Jordan Beats Phoenix in MIDVALE MEN EDITORIAL RAPS First Grid Test HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK'S NEWS The Seventy-second Congress of the United States opened Monday at the natiooo.l capital with the Democrats having a majority in the house for the first time in thirteen years. John N. Garner, Texas, was named speaker of the house, succeeding the late Nicholas Longworth, Republican, Ohio, whose close personal friend and political enemy he was. President Hoover sent a lengthy message to congress, laying out numerous suggestions for bringing the country back to prosperity. Oliver Wendell Holmes, justice of the supreme court of the United States, entered his ninety-second year of life and his thirtieth year on the supreme court bench Tuesday. Justice Holmes is still hale and hearty and an energetic worker. --- Chicago's Scandal, the Sanitary District steal, in which more than $5,000,000 was turned from public channels to personal use of board members, and which has been under investigation for three years, resulted in nine men going on trial during the week. Timothy Crowe, ringleader in the alleged misuse of public funds, was the main figure among the defendants. The Western Division of the United States.t-;,.Chamber of Commerce held convention at Spokane with more than 30,000 in attendance. The placing of silver back on its normal basis was one of the main subjects taken up at the conference, which was attended by a number of prominent Utahns. Oregon State University took the measure of Coach Ike Armstrong's Ute gridders Saturday to the tune of 12-0 on a field of mud and slush at Portland. This was the second defeat handed to the Rocky Mountain Conference champions during the year. Fifteen thousand fans saw the contest. Bridge Fans throughout the United States are watching the progress of the challenge match between Ely Culbertson, playing with his wife as partner, and Sidney S. Lenz, with Oswald Jacoby as partner, to test the merits of the "official" bidding system sponsored by Lenz and the approach force system of .Culbertson, for a wager of $5000 to $1,000, CUlbertson giving the odds. Parents, Teachers Plan Riverton Meet II'J Parent-Teachers meeting will be held at the Riverton Gymnasium Wednesday at 8 p. m. A good program will be rendered under the direction of Principal N. K. Thomson. The election of officers for the coming year will take place. The theme of the meeting will be the discussion of vital school problems. RIVERTON SECOND WARD M. I. A. STAGES COMEDY Riverton Second ward M. I. A. will present a three act comedy entitled "West of Broadway" at the amusement hall Friday and Saturday, December 11 and 12 with the following cast: . Thomas Butterfield, as John Buskin; La Verel Densley as Robert Bancock, Thomas Torkelsen as Jimmie Ballard, Jenny May as Jeannie James, Marjorie .. orkelsen as Imagine Millard, Oneeda Tischner as Madam De Loze, Rulon Platt as Josh Hawkins., Vesta Frost as Maw Hawkins, Arnold Butterfield as Jim Twyman, Leon Park as Lelia Bannister, Vera Butterfield as Pearl, Elias Butterfield as Henry Wood, John Steadman as Henry Mcllvane, Jack Park as Ike Goldstein, Cecil Freeman as Joe Blake, Arlin Garside as Mayor Watkins, Beth Smith as Cousin Sally, and a chorus of girls. A pageant "The Yankee Doodle Doll Parade" will be given by the grade children, both are under the direction of Leona Brown of the National Producing company of Kansas City, Mo. Game Association Plans Fish Hatchery Members of the board of directors of the Salt Lake County Fish and Game association, meeting Thursday of last week, voted to pruchase a fish hatchery in the near future. The association is considering a number of sites within the county, but will not make a final decision until state fish and game commissioner Newell B. Cook returns from the east. The association hopes to turn the hatchery over to the state after the purchase and will take no further steps without the advice of the state department. • The committee which has been investigating includes Ben Clark, chairman; L. P. Hickam, contract director; Ed Falkner, W. J. Ray, Del Terry, Bill Jacklin, Jake Grimm, Ed Larsen, W. McNiel, Fred J. Foster, L. Marrow and Lawrence Meyers. Foster, director of the U. S. bureau of fisheries for the Rocky Mountain region, has been analyzing the waters on the various eltes, ' Number 32. Sandy Laborers Work Also on Dry Creek .Highway Development of the Dry Creek division of the Draper road, where more than $30,000 will be expended in road improvements has provided work for 25 men and 15 teams from Midvale and Sandy, it is reported. A number of other relief projects are under way in the county and more are under preparation, according to officials of the state road commission. At Bingham more than $10,000 is being spent on several small projects and residents of the town are being hired to do the work. Twenty-five men and five teams are now being used in this work. The work is roJay Smart who will appear as Wilbur Jones or "Jonesy;" Jennie Bishop tated so that each crew of men rewho will be seen as Diana Devereap, the ingenue of the local stock company, ceives one week's work. At Magna and west of the Tooele county line more than $20,000 is being spent. Twenty-five men and five teams are being employed on this project. H. S. Kerr, chief engineer of the road commission, said the $50,000 improvement at the mouth of Emigration canyon would begin about the first of the year. It is estimated that about 50 men from Salt Lake City will be used. LIONS CLUB FETES 'COMEDY DRAMA FOOTBALL TEAM PROMISES TREAT Coaches and Others Tell Jordan Dramatic Art of Experiences at Department Presents Phoenix. Annual Play. The Jordan high school football team and coaches were guests of the Midvale Lions club at a banquet held Wednesday evening in the Firemen's hall at Midvale. The 1931 Utah and Southwest champions received praise for the outstanding records they had established. Coach Eddie Kimball and Assistant Coach 0. D. Ballard also received the plaudits of the speakers. Following a short address of welcome by C. E. Matthews, past president of the Lions club, 0. D. Ballard recounted some of the incidents in connection with the game at Phoenix, whe:e the Beetdiggers came from behind to win by a score of 12 to 7 and capture the Southwest championship. He also told of the "secret" practice the team had at Phoenix on Thursday night preceding the game. On account of the numbers of spectators present it was found inadvisable for the team to practice any of their regular plays, so they proceeded to put on an exhibition of fancy and freak plays used by a number of the college teams this year. William Maughan, principal of the Granite junior high school, and representative of the Salt Lake Tribune, said it had been a pleasure to him to write up the majority of the high school football games for the press (Continued on last page) With the production of "Jonesy," a comedy drama in three acts by Anne Morrison and John Peter Tookney, on Wednesday, December 16, Broadway will have come to Jordan high school in one of its latest and most amusing successes. A chance to revel in situations full of "real live" comedy will certainly be afforded all who see it. The members of the cast have worked hard to perfect themselves in their parts, and Miss Lucille Tuttle, dramatic art instructor at the high school, feels that she has been wise in choosing "Jonesy" to give the student of unusual dramatic ability that she has found in the school a chance to show what they can do. It won't be hard to imagine certain members of the cast doing some of the things they do, but who can imagine the punctilious Jay Smart in pajamas making love to a girl he has never taken out to lunch; or Woodrow Mickelsen dancing "something" that almost reaches the distinction of a ballet; or Howard Ballard with a black eye that he didn't get playing football? Well, there will be more and stranger things than these going on; and the forecast is that the performance is going to be a "red letter" day both for those who "walk the boards" and those who watch. The December issue of the Ax-IDent-.j\.x, official publication of the United States Smelting Refining and Mining company, has left the press of the Journal publishing company, and is the second largest issue of the magazine ever published. It contains 56 pages, exclusive of the cover. Statistics taken from the issuP show that for 33 months the magazine has been edited in Salt Lake and printed in Midvale. Counting covers, maps and headlines, 352800 linear and one half miles long. The issue inches of type have been edited-five and one half miles long. The issues over that period average 33.9 pages, which is larger than the average house organ. In addition to the contributions of regular correspondents, the issue contains an article entitled "Retrospection" by Marcus E. Jones, and an article devoted to the San Juan Country in Colorado by Edgar M. Ledyard, editor of the magazine, which is profusely illustrated. School Bus Collision Injures Students Several students were injured Monday night when two southbound school buses collided near Thirtyninth South and State streets, spilling students onto the highway. The low speed of the cars, investigators said, averted a ~saster. The youngsters were m a caravan of 40 or 50 cars, returning to Midvale, Sandy and Murray from the Union Pacific station in Salt L11-ke, where they had met the Jordan high school team, recently victorious over the Phoenix Arizona high school team. According to Marshall Roy Steadman of Midvale, who with Deputy Sheriffs J. E. Scheib and H. G. Holl.ey investigated the bus in which the students were injured crashed into the rear of a bus directly ahead. A CORRECTION In naming the members of the group assigned to pass on the needs of Midvale families in connection with the unemployment relief work being undertaken for the winter, the name of Robert Lindsay was omitted. Mr. Lindsay Is a member of this com- Jnittee. -The American Legion and Auxiliary of Jordan Post No. 35 held a benefit ball at the school gymnasium Friday, December 4. The following program was rendered: Quartette from Draper; solo, Riverton; piano solo, Sandy; ladies duet, Midavle; community singing. State Commander George s. Bailiff was the main speaker of the evening. Approximately $15o worth of produce and groceries was donated which was given to the Riverton First and Second ward Relief Societies to be distributed to the poor. To insure the receipt of Christmas packages and letters by Christmas day the postmaster general of the United States has issued a bulletin instructing users of the mails as to when and how to send mail matter. This bulletin has been received by Postmaster C. I. Goff, and is available for anyone to read at the postoffice. "Postoffices," the bulletin says, "will make every effort to handle Christmas mails without congestion and delay, but owing to the enorm~us volume this can be done only With the cooperation of the public. Compliance with the following suggestions will greatly aid the postoffice and insure the prompt handling of your mail." Some of the important suggestions contained in the bulletin are: Mail early for delivery before Christmas day, on which there will be no mail delivery. ' The use of a special delivery stamp will assure delivery on Christmas day, if mailed at the proper time. Special delivery service means the most expeditious handling and transportation of parcels practicable, as well as the immediate delivery at office of address. It is obtained by affixing a special delivery stamp of the proper denomination, or its equivalent in ordinary stamps, in addition to the regular postage. When ordinary stamps are used, the words, "Special Delivery" must be written or printed on the envelope or wrapper immediately above the address. It is urged that all mailers desiring immediate delivery of any matter mailed by them affix special delivery stamps thereto. Special delivery is for speed (Continued on last page) Through action of the Midvale Community club at its last meeting, whereby the organization voted to give $5 per month toward the operation of the Midvale public library, readers will be given an extra day's service at the library each week. In addition to regular days the library will now be open Fridays, which gives citizens library privileges on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays of each week from 4 to 8 p. m., it is announced by Mrs. C. M. Middleton, chairman of the committee. Mrs. Thelma Anderson is librarian, with Katherine Stokes as assistant. -"The · Community club, which was organized January 5, 1921, with Mrs. John A. Aylett as first president, took up as one of its first major projects the establishment of a local library. Until November, 1922, the library was maintained by gifts and donations. At that time the city council voted to allow $15 per month to the library, which amount later was increased to $25 monthly. A report of the librarian shows that the average monthly ciriculation during the past three months has been 1030 books. Since October 1, 150 new books have been received. Citizens are asked to donate to the library any books or magazines which they have read and for which they have no further use. The committee feels that such books, if given to the library, will bring pleasure to a great many more readers and reduce to some extent the output for new books. In keeping with the times, the committee and members of the Community club are now mending and rebinding books needing this repair. Mrs. A. E. Killpack, an experienced bookbinder, is directing the work. A check has been made of the cardf! in the library and it is found that more than 100 books have been loaned and never returned. Patrons of the library are asked to go over the books in their homes to find out if there are library books among them, and if so, to return them. Books that are more than 14 days overdue will have fines remitted if returned during this month. The Midvale library is fortunate to have received by gift this week the following books; My Little Margaret and The Little New Neighbor by Mary D. Brine; The Cheerful Smuggler, Ellis Parker Butler; The W. Chuck Family, Howard; Evangeline, Longfellow; The Century Book of American Colonies, Brooks; The Swiss Twins, Perkins; The Puritan Twins, Perkins; The Filipino Twins, Perkins; The Dutch Twins, Perkins; The Cave Twins, Perkins; The Cruise of a Land Yacht, Baxter; Alice of Old Vincennes, Thompson; Little Sister to the Campfire Girls, Hyde; A Cape May Diamond, Raymond; Admiral Caravan, Carry!; Christine, Cholmondeley; Three Bright Girls, Armstrong; Black Beauty, Sewell; The Trimmed Lamp and other stories, 0. Henry; Peter, F. Hopkinson Smith; The Veiled Lady, F. Hopkinson Smith; Code of the Mountains, Buck; Mary Gusta, Lincoln. Legion and Auxiliary Hold Ball in Riverton AX-I-DENT-AX LEAVES PRESS j Postal Chief Advocates Action M1•dva1e L•b 1 rary Offers EX t ra serv1ce • t 0 Readers U. S. IN BUSINESS That the United States government is in trade in competion with its citizens, to a considerable extent, and to the detriment of private business, is pointed out very clearly in an editorial in the American Agency Bulletin. This magazine is distributed regularly to fire insurance agents of stock companies thro!lghout the country. A list of 80 different classes of business in which Uncle Sam is competing with private industry is submitted, and includes operation of motion pictures theaters, architecture, banking, operation of bakeries, manufacture of clothing, dairy farming, printing, generation and distribution of electrical energy, insurance, textile manufacture, sale of timber and wood pulp, manufacture of shoes, and many other commercial enterprises. "The business men of this country," says the editorial, "are therefore placed willy nilly in the anomalous position of paying taxes to support an institution which competes with them. Time and again it is proven that political plums which our lawmakers may cast to their constituents in the way of jobs in Washington in government printing plants, laboratories and all sorts of enterprises, overbalance whatever sense of justice our government officials may have in regard to those on whom government is dependent for support." The editorial makes further comment on the fact that stock insurance companies, public utilities and many of the major businesses of the country today are very much in need of effective lightning rods to protect their properties which they have built up, against the lightning of governmental control which is hovering over the business skies. It would seem, from a perusal of the editorial and the list referred to, that "more business in government and less government in business" might be at least a partial solution of our present economic difficulties. When the government of the United States engages in the ownership and operation of business which have long been recognized as the particular field of private industry, there is introduced not only unfair competition and the elimination of a market for products, services, etc., which private incjustry should supply, but a tremendous increase in cost of government, which, in turn, is reflected in increased tax burdens which the individual citizen must carry. Under Lights Playing their first game under arc lights Coach Eddie Kimball's Beetdiggers took the Southwest prep school grid title at Phoenix, Arizona Wednesday of last week when they beat the Phoenix high school team 12 to 7. The game was a post-season charity contest and was witnessed by approximately 3000 fans. This signal victory gives Jordan a clean slate for the season, and adds to the laurels of Coach Kimball, himself a former Jordan player. Coming back to his old high school as coach he carried his team to the first state prep title the school has ever won and climaxed this achievement by leading the players to the southwest title, one which the Phoenix team has held twice previously. In addition to the squad and the coaches, Kimball and 0. D. Ballard, L. W. Nielsen, principal of the school, and S. J. Mickelsen, president of the district school boal'd, made the trip. According to Coach Ballard, the Jordan team played "inspired football." Phoenix scored in the first period and converted the extra point. From then on, however, Jordan, with the famous "Four Norsemen" in the backfield, gave trouble aplenty to their opponents, piling up 209% yards from scrimmage as against 144 for the Coyotes. Jordan's famous forward passes, however, were not functioning under the lights. But five pass attempts were made, three by Jordan and two by Phoenix, all incomplete. Each team made twelve first downs. When the victors returned to Salt Lake they were greeted by about 600 milling, shouting fans who thronged the depot to capacity. The Jordan high band in uniform was on hand to add to the welcome, which was followed by a caravan of motor cars parading through the streets of Salt Lake and down State street to the high school. A collision between two busses in which several students were injured marred the affair. Besides the reception given them at the depot on their arrival home, the Beetmen were entertained all day Tuesday by a celebration at the school. The day was spent in an honor assembly, a matinee dance, and a four-act play given by Granite high school. A dance is planned for December 18 at Jordan, whereby a purse is to be raised for the purchasing of individual awards for the team members. Gold footballs for each player are to be given, and the student body and alumni are endeavoring to raise enough money to make the purchase. FORESTER WARNS Martin Opens TREE CHOPPERS Le Neve New Beauty Parlor As usual at this time of the year, many requests are made upon the forest service for permits to cut the young fir and spruce trees from the local watersheds of the Wasatch National forest for Christmas tree purposes, according to A. G. Nord, supervisor. . . The policy of the forest serv1ce IS to allow the cutting of young trees cnly where their removal will result in desirable thinning to improve conditions of growth for the remaining trees of a stand, and where their removal will not result in the impairment of a watershed. Otherwise, it ls held that the cutting of the young trees would result in an unpustifiable waste. The fir and spruce timber of the Wasatch mountains was so fully cut over in the early settlement of the country and later damaged by fire and reduced from the primitive condition to such an extent that the objects of forest management have been very much one of rehabilitation. It is impossible to supply the general demand here with Christmas trees from these mountains, since this class of cutting alone would soon strip the watersheds of their forest cover. Other than tne removal of a few trees for public purposes, no other permits are issued by the forest service for ~hristmas trees from the local watershed. In the Uintah mountain area of the Wasatch forest, however, there are dense stands of young lodgepole pine where the forest service would desire to direct the cuttings, but this species of tree is undesirable as a Christmas tree because of its scraggily branches, and is not in demand. Two Weeks Left In Doll Contest With but two weeks until the close of the doll contest at the Midvale Drug company, many of the contestants are getting worried as to whom will win the prizes. There are a number who are running the fifteen leaders a close race, and the final count of the votes on December 24 may bring some surprises. The fifteen leaders are Fay Shulsen, Coleen Denos, Jean Steadman, Mary Jane Booth, Dorthea Brown, Fay Ferguson Bonnie May Berry, Donna Jensen: Gloria Rasmussen, Edith Reed, Carolyn Aylett, Melba Sorenson, Marjorie Kasky, Marilyn Nelsen and Dareline Downs. Effective this week, the Midvale Drug store will close at 10 p. m., except Saturday, when the closing hour will be 11 p. m. Miss Le Neve Martin, graduate of the Quish Beauty school, has opened a beauty parlor at 88 North Main street in Midvale, where, according to her announcement, she is equipped with appliances to do the lastest kinds of beauty work. Finger waves, marcels, permanent waves and shampoos are among the services she features. MIDVALE SCHOOL TO GIVE CHRISTMAS PROGRAM The committee in charge of the Midvale school Christmas program, to be presented Friday evening, December 18, in the school auditorium, has completed the plans for the entertainment, and will start immediately on rehearsals. The program will consist of tableaus or living pictures based upon incidents from the life of Christ. The characters in the pictures will be selected from the pupils. The entire faculty is busy with the costumes, backgrounds, and groupings. There will be ten pictures, featuring the following ideas: Promise of a New King, The Light Has Come, Holy Night, Wise Men Bearing Gifts, Christ at Twelve, The Healing, Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me, Pedro'sc Gift, The Other Wise Man, and Christ at Gethsemane. Each picture will be complemented by a musical and literary interpretatiOn. Miss Ludlow and Miss Cornwall will read, and Mr. Lee Master will direct the music. Red Cross Membership Shows Gain In County Incomplete reports on the fiftieth annual roll call of the American Red Cross in Salt Lake county reveals an increase of from 50 to 75 per cent in .nemberships over previous years, Mrs. Mary A. Allen, executive secre.ary, reports. According to Gaylen S. Young, :hairman of the chapter, other reports received at the county headlUarters indicate that their solicita_ion will be in keeping with the early returns. Those who have reported incomplete returns include the following: Murray 120, Bingham 96, Draper 25, Riverton 23, Jordan school district, exclusive of the communities of Midvale and Sandy, 60. The figures so far received, which leaves nine communities and several school districts yet to be heard from, insure the county chapter of a larger enrollment than in 1930, according to Mrs. Allen, |