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Show BEAVER CITY. UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE o 9 SIl Sfeauer Press ESTABLISHED UTAH SWE Pki WASHINGTON NJWS NOVEMBER 25, 1904 i ASS0CIATJ0M py 1 A. G. MERKLEY, Editor and Publisher Vear, f 2.50; 6 Mo. $1.2T; S Mo. 75c. SUBSCRIPTION KATEH (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE) First Class Publication entered in the Post Office at Beaver, Utah, as second clasB mail matter, under the act of Congress of A March 3, 1879. Advertising rates quoted on request. Telephone 24 THE MIGHTY 7TH DRAWS TO A CLOSE With Saturday, June 30 being the close of the Mighty 7th War Loan, it is well for the citizens of Beaver County, the state of Utah and the United States to pause and inventory our personal efforts in the support of this drive. Could we face our loved ones who are giving their lives for our freedom on the battle fronts of the world without a twinge of conscience? Do we think because theV-- war in Europe has ended that we can coast from now until J Day? The Japs are not licked. They are still fighting frantically killing our boys and it will take thousands of shiploads of supplies to win this war. Your dollars helped lick Germany. They are needed to lick Japan. As we go to press Beaver County has not yet achieved one hundred per cent of our E bond quota. We are proud of our past record. We have a few days left to keep our record clean. We do not want to hold Utah back. Let's not fall down now. Utah and Beaver County have never failed to make their quota before. Don't wait for a solicitor to call buy bonds at the bank or postofhee. Citizens of Beaver let's sacrifice, if that is what it takes, to put our county over the top. BEAVER'S NEW TENNIS COURT Citizens of Beaver can take just pride in the new double tennis courts, now nearing completion, located adjacent to the high school campus. Donated labor and cash of many persons has made this worthy project possible. Much praise is due the Chamber of Commerce for the untiring efforts of its committee which initiated the project and has been instrumental in interesting other groups and public-spirite- d public institutions in giving their support. Without the financial support of the Board of Education, the project could not have been completed at this time. Plans are already being formulated for the lighting of the courts to permit night playing by the court enthusiasts. The fact that such projects are' undertaken and completed is ample evidence of the progressive outlook of the leaders in the city. It is a healthy situation and augurs well for the future of Beaver. DECEPTIVE FARM PROFITS Declaring that the nation's wartime food policy is at a crossroads, Fred H. Sexauer, president of the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association, says the course adopted in the next few weeks will determine how much food people will have in 1946 and possibly 1947. "The production of war materials has been attained by incentive to workers, but the same incentive is denied farmers. Fair prices tn farmers, and adoption of recommendations made by farm organizations at the beginning of the war would have avoided much of the present and prospective food shortage. "To avoid severe food shortages in the months ahead OTA should immediately revise its whole approach to the food problem. "A sound, free economy in this nation can rest only ujxm a prosperous agriculture and active manufacturing. This requires a fair price level for farm products." PUT VICTORY FIRST ON THE FOURTH! (A Statement by The Utah Safety Council) This Fourth of July finds America closing in for the knockout blow against the Japs. Anything that delays this final knockout cost the lives of additional American boys and brings extra heartache and tragedy to their families. Certainly, no one on the Home Front wants to do anything that will delay final victory by even one minute and most of all wc don't want to do it on the day that commemorates the very freedom our boys are fighting to preserve. It is just a matter of simple common sense and patriotism, therefore, to make sure that this Fourth of July is dedicated to victory to speedy, complete and final victory. One way to do this is to take extra pains to see that the usual Fourth of July holiday accident toll is held down this year to an absolute minimum. For. as most of us know by this time, any accident may delay victory. How do accidents delay victory? By wasting manjowcr and material and time needed to whip the Japs. By bringing needless sorrow and pain and suffering to a nation already deeply scarred by the wounds of war. By killing off the very men and women in and out of uniform who are essential to the war effort. By making the burden of a lonesome homsick soldier even heavier through news that a loved one at home has been killed or injured by an accident. Records of the National Safety Council show that July is the deadliest month in the accident calendar. And a big part of this toll is due to the fact that every year America goes on a jamboree of carelessness over the Fourth of July holiday. Last year for example. 8,850 Americans died from accidents in July died at the rate of 12 an hour, night and day. Maybe we're going to have a little more gas to burn up this Fourth of July. Maybe we've been saving the old ca'r for a little splurge over the holiday. Maybe we figure it's due tie, after all these wartime headaches and restrictions. But that boy over there in the Pacific Isn't going to splurge on the Fourth of July. There'll be no holiday trip for him, no time out for fun. And about the worst news he could get from home would be word that one of his home folks had had an accident an accident that would destroy the very security and happiness of the home he's risking his life to preserve. So let's cut out the holiday foolishness this Fourth of July. Let's stay home and save gas and tiresand lives. Let's be extra careful to be sensible and sane and temperate whether we drive, or swim, or play, or just plain loaf. Let's spend the Fourth in such a way that we can go back to our jobs on the Fifth alive, healthy, well and ready to tear into the Japs again with everything we've got. Let's fix it so that all the accidents happen to the Japs! This year, of all years, let's put victory first on the all-o- Fourth ! ut MINERSVILLE FROM OUR CONGRESSMAN W. K. GRANGER THE FOOD SITUATION The chief topic of conversation these days seems to be food. Perhaps this is because we like to eat three times a day and we find that shortages of the kind of food we prefer are becoming more frequent. These conditions result in fears because it Is not generally understood that the end of the war in Europe has not reduced the demand on our food supplies. In fact, the demands now are greater, while! at the same time we have the greatest food supply of any nation in the world. But we must remember that while the peoples of Europe have suffered from hunger we have consumed a greater amount of food per capita than In peacetime. One might easily assume that the farmer has failed to produce but a look at the facts will clarify that situation. For in 1943 the American farmers produced 32 per cent more food than this or any other nation ever produced before the war. In 1944 they exceeded even this by 5 per cent, record increase making an all-tiof 38 per cent above pre-wproduction. This year they are planting an even greater acreage of food crops. This record has been made in spite of the handicaps of war, and the food produced has been far in excess of wha.t was done in the first World War. The United States has produced 50 per cent more food annually in this war than In World War I. With 10 per cent fewer workers on farms and with the total national popuar .L' I ft "X ' I Alveretta Robinson Mr. and Mrs. Glen Fowler of Idaho are here visiting Mrs. Fowler's mother, Mrs. Vern Rollins, also to visit her brother, T5 on a Floyd Rollins who is home hos- from the Bushnell M of the U. Marshall F 1c Vance S. Navy, son of Mrs. Drue Hall is home on leave. Vance went overseas in October, 1943. He has been serving in the Pacific. M Mr. and Mrs. George Wood, Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Robinson., Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fotheringham, Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Jamesen, and Blain Banks attended the funeral services of Stanley Vernon at Milford K t J J if. Q A last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Clothier who now are living at Cedar City, received word that their son, Pfc. Maurice Clothier, died in the Pacific area Oct. 24, 1944. Maurice was taken prisoner at the fall of Corregidor in the Philippines. He was a prisoner there until October. They were being sent to Japan when the ship was sunk. Jay Browner of the U. S. Navy came home on leave Monday. He is the Bon of Mrs. Vella Stephens who is living in Caliente now. He is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Gillins. L ' ,,T ...mim JAMES A. ATKIN IS PROPELLER SPECIALIST Shown replacing a battle dam aged propeller is Sergeant James A. Atkin, 27, of Beaver, Utah, an Eighth Air Force propeller spec ialist with the 4 52nd Bombard ment Group. Set. Atkin's department keeps the 7 Flying Fortresses of his base constantly supplied with perfect propellers mechanically and makes careful inspections of the vital parts. He checks intricate eovernors, controlling speed of rotation, on specially construct ed testing machines which simu late the stress and strain of actual flight. Upon return of the planes from Mrs. Hilda Marshall has gone to Provo to be with her daughter, Geraldine, who is ill. Mrs. Lapreal White, who has been living in California, is home to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Baker. Her husband, Elmo White, is in the services and at present is sta- a mission, Sgt. Atkin tests the tioned in Texas. 'props' for battle damage and Mr, and Mrs. Mack Outzen of whenever exchanges necesary, Tooele are here visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Mar- MANDERFIELD 30 L1 Cv per cent greater, our shall. civilian population has had about Arthur Hardy of Gunnison and By Mrs. Melvln Edwards 10 per cent more food per capita his two sons, Russel and Warren Herbert Edwards, son of Mr. during this war than in the 1917-1- Hardy, both serving in the Navy, Mrs. Edgar Edwards, arrived and Mr. are period. here visiting with Hardy's here Sunday night from Camp Car daughter, Mrs. Ruby Baker. YANKS CAPTURED IN son, Colorado, to spend his Mr. and Mrs. Ray McGinty who PHILIPPINES furlouigh with his parents, and Have been living In California have other relatives. With the Joy over the liberation Helen Patterson was taken to of all our prisoners in Europe moved back to Minersville. a the Milford hospital Tuesday eve comes the sad realization that only Carl Truman of the Army is ning where she underwent an one out of every 12 American prisShe was accompanoners of war taken on Bataan and here on a furlough. He is the hus- apendectomy. band of Mrs. Phyllis Marshall Tru- ied by her mother, Mrs. Cleo PatCorragidor have been liberated. More than 18,000 Americans man. terson. Rs were captured by the Japanese and Sherman Bradshaw, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray BradMrs. Farrel Hansen, who has only 1447 have been liberated thus far. Most of the survivors are now been in California with her hus- shaw, met with a painful accident in prison camps in Japan, China band who is in the Navy, is here Friday afternoon just outside the and Formosa. All with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. family home, on the state highofficers are believed to be either Joseph Fotheringham. way, when he was knocked down in Japan or China, while enlisted Mrs. Eliza College of Lehi was by a passing car. He was rushed men and the officers of junior rank was here visiting her sister, Mrs. Hazel into Beaver, where an if able to work, are in labor batand Mrs. Hannah Corbridge made. It was discovered that two Eyre talions. bones were broken just above the Those who were sick or and Lillie Roberts. too weak to work were left in the ankle. He now has a cast on his Mrs. Shirley Hollingshead has leg and is doing nicely. Philippines. gone to Mississippi to see her hus (Omitted last week) NAVY'S RECORD IN ATLANTIC band, Keith Hollingshead. who is Alice Ashworth of Beaver, is visWith the realization of the tre- serving in the Navy. iting for a few days with Mr. and mendous task confronting the Mrs. Cleo Patterson and family. Navy in our fight in the Pacific, it The War Widows' club was enRussell Sly of Milford is spendis well to review the record qf tertained at the home of Mrs. I. ing a few days with his grandparthe Allied navies' in the Atlantic. N. Nolder. The party was in honor ents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Edof 3604 American sol- of Mrs. Fred Pryor's birthday. wards. diers, or four for every 10,000 em- Games were played on the lawn Mr. and Mrs. Clark Prince barked, lost their lives in ship until about 10:30. Pictures were spent the week end In Salt Lake sinkings or ship damaged in the shown that Fred had sent City, they also visited in Provo European war. The record is al- home from France and Ger- with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pendlemost twice as good as for World many. A pot luck luncheon was ton and family. War I, when 7.2 deaths at sea served to the following, Mrs. FlosMr. and Mrs. Cecil Edwards and were recorded for every 10,000 sie Adams, Mrs. Marguerite Pryor, children Sally and Lorrie. and Mr. embarked. Mrs. Phyllis Truman. Mrs. Eva and Mrs. Roy Bradshaw of MilWith Navy, Marine and Coast Guyman. Mrs. Dixie Lamb. Mrs. ford visited Friday with Mr. and Guard losses at 9560, the armed Yvonne Grlssman, Mrs. Gertrude Mrs. and Jesse Edwards. Edgar forces total losses for the sea e Dalton. Mrs. Ranee Eyre. Mrs phases in the European Area Viola Plckell. Mrs. Merlin Limb, lation ' T By furlough pital. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY 29, 1945 8 . 30-da- them for new ones until the dim. aged propellers are repaired. The maner in which he performs his duties, plays an Important part the success of his unit's daily bombing assaults against indai. trial and military installations It with coordination Amerlcm ground troops as they swept ova Germany, according to his officer. Sgt. Atkin is a member of He Third Air D,iviston the divlsioa cited by the President for its historic England-to-Afric- a shuttle bombing of a Messerschmitt rcraft factory at Regensburg, aiGe- rmany. The son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeddj Atkin of Beaver, he was a carpet ter here, before entering the AAI in September, 1942. Carol Anderson of Richfield ii visiting with her aunt and cousini, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Baldwin. Peggy Cauten of Delta ls vacationing with her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Sly y high-ranki- y REDUCES 8 to 15 in summer -- war-rar- reaches 113.164. The greatest loss of life in a single incident was suffered when the Rohna, a British troop-shiwent down in half an hour under bombing attack off Djidjelli, Algeria, November 26. 1943. Heavy seas and darkness hampered rescue work, resulting in 1015 dead, which was more than half of the total of 1981 American military personnel aboard. p, Three hundred and fourteen American soldiers were lost in the sinking of one landing craft (LST) while another went down with 126. Thirty-on- e additional incidents of sinkings or damage were listed In which loss of life ran from 1 to 20. YANKS IN EUROPEAN HOSPITALS During this war 1,375.000 American soldiers and sailors have been hospitalized in the European theater of operations and practically all of them will be restored to duty there or returned to the United States by mid-JulIt has been reported by the theater's chief surgeon that the death rate among American Army battle casualties in this war was less than half that of the World War. Fewer than 13.000 of those hospitalized have died, while more than 2,000 medical officers and soldiers have been killed while serving with the combat troops. Of noteworthy importance is the report that 195.000 pints of whole blood were furnished by civilians at home while the soldiers In Eur ope furnished 140.000 pints. y. TEMPERATURES TO 30 SAVES 20 in winter costs on heating Ym cm Muty wiUO A yowuH i lr Reynolds Building Supply Reaver, l'U Phono 135 Mrs. Barbara Girssman, Mrs. Merle Fails and Mrs. Farrel Hanesn. A birthday party was eiven in honor of Mrs. Alta Hollingshead at her home. Realtlves and friends were present. Stm LEGAL NOTICES NCI ICE OF CALL FOR RIDS NOTICE IS HERERY f.IVFV- That Beaver County Commission ers will receive sealed bids for the purchase of the hereinafter de scribed property; said bids to be mailed to the office of the County Clerk, to be received on or before 10 A. M. on the 9th day of Julv 1945, at which time said bids will be opened; the said Beaver Coun ty reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids; said property is as follows, t: Commencing at the SE cor. of Lot 2, Block 76 Plat "A" Beaver City Surrey, running thence West 75 feet; thence North 100 feet; thence East 75 feet; thence South 100 feet to beginning, containing 0.172 acres more or less, to gether with all water rights belonging thereto and all improvements thereon. Said property being known as the Mary A. Mumford home. Dated at Bearer. Utah, this ?th day of June. 1945. BY ORDER OF THE ROAnn OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. By WILLIAM A. MILLER, WAR BONDS CP . fjermce We Have No More Safety Deposit Boxes to Kent But A NEW SERVICE is available in the form of a compact sealed container protected by our fireproof, burglar-stron- g of Vault, for the your precious War Bonds and other valuable papers at the nominal sum of $1.00 per year, which affords ample protection. Drop in and let us demonstrate it i safe-keepi- ng to-wl- (First pub. 6-- 8; last Clerk. pub. PAY THE CONVENIENT WAY A checking account here is valuable in many You always have a complete record cf expenditures, you are protected against loss or theft of cash, and yau can pay your bills by mail. Enjoy this convenience now! Your account is invited by this friendly bank. ways. BEAVER CITY BRANCH OF MTI.TOon . w.. ct t ,r.f irn iJirxn, mnm MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION |