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Show r - I. Poll Indicates Political Race Will Be Close Smith After being exposed to nearly two months of torrid campaigning. Utah voters who have made up their minds on the top posi-- l tions at staice are iavormij me A Repuiblcan candidates by margins ranging as high as 5 to 3, but the existence of a large share A good home with care and of undecided voters leaves the state still in the "doubtful" colfood right now may mean umn. saving the life, or the difGeneral Dwight Eisenhower is ference between a good citizen and a criminal to any leading the GOP ticket in the latest statewide poll of voters' or all of six Shoshone Inopinions, drawing th support of dians who have been de55 per cent of those interviewed serted in our county by while Governor Adlal Stevenson their parents. is favored by 30 per cent. Fif', Found without food, cloth ' teen per cent of those questioned Ing or bedding, were two remain undecided. , . girls and four boys, ranging in age from 18 months to 12 The margin 4s narrower in Utah guber-- , t years... The youngest need- -' the ed hospital care and blood natorial race, where the Republican incumbent, J Bracken Lee v transfusions to overcome the has an edge of 6 to 5 over his 'malnutrition that he was Democratic opponent, Mayor suffering from. The children are now in Earl J. Glade of Salt Lake City. the care of the Box Elder Here the proportion of "undecided" voters is 11 per cent, a County Public Welfare, and bloc which is still large enough -- Walter Jagai, director, states to send the election either that a good home with se.; way. curity and some affection ,' would make honorable citiWhat appears to be potentialzens of the youngsters. ly the closest contest of the three In this county of plenty, is the U. S. Senatorial race, with Senator Arthur Watkins leading f there must be homes for these six unfortunate child- Pep. Walter Granger by 42 per ren. Can you help? If so, cent to 34 per cent- Nearly of the voters remain in - contact Walter Jaggi of the Public" Welfare Department the uncommitted category, how at Brigham City. ever, which could radically change the picture by election day. A of adults in Utah were asked their opinion in a personal interview survey posing: the following question in regard to the candidates ' in each race. "If the election were being held today, for which candidate would you vote?" Those The traditional Homecoming undecided were asked: "Toward of the Tremonton Second ward which one are you leaning?" will be held on election day evReturns in the survey through ening, next Tuesday, beginning the first of this week give the promptly at 6 p.m. ' A full course dinner of roast . following results: beef and all the accessories will Presidential Choices Eisenhower - 55 per cent be served, and an outstanding . 30 per cent musical program has been preStevenson , ' 15 per cent pared. Undecided returns will Election be broadGubernatorial Choices cast and viewed over TV if pos 48 per cent Lee sible. 41 per cent Glade All " " former, members and 11 per cent Undecided friends of the ward are invited ' Senatorial Choices to come and enjoy the evening ..... 42 per cent Watkins v. together. 34 per cent Granger 24 per cent HARRY Undecided WOODWARD SUFFERS Looking at the poll returns UNFORTUNATE FALL from a regional angle, Eisenhower's support is found to be Harry Woodward is in the strongest in the counties of Valley hospital, where he was smaller population and his mar- taken after a fall Sunday, in a fractured d which he suffered gin slimmer in the heavily of the centers. Ration by which leg. It was a fracture Mr. Woodward has had Eisenhower is favored over difficulty with for the on Back Page so much past two years. by" Oliver m Can You Offer Home To A Needy Child? -- ! hotly-contest- one-four- - cross-secti- th on Second Ward Homecoming Next Tuesday - - , - - i, SERVING VI. xxxx THE The Tremonton ambulance was to Howell , Thursday morning to bring Quentin to the hospital for treatment.' He was injured in-- J ternaiiy while working on a power pole on the new road under construction in that part of the county. , o.s, ,i Mr. Fredrickson was on the pole, and had loosened the power line, when one of the large carryall machines drove intb the wire, breaking the pole which fell on the injured man. Reports from the hosptal are that he was in fair condition Thursday afternoon. called Fred-rickso- ' - i: V- 1 I - DONA I,D SCOTT AND ALASKAN TOX Pvt. Donald E- - ? Scott oi m J Field- n "We like Ike" was. the cry of Bear River high school students as Eisenhower defeated Stevenson by three to one margin in a mock presidential elec431 tion staged last Tuesday, at the ... ,j, f . votes were j, When the final tallied, voting results , showed that the Republicans had made a clean sweep of the field in all but top offices. Milton B. Taylor and Rees M. Rees were the only Democrats to receive q the s ;: i victor's nod. i - Mock elections are held annually at Bear River to promote enthusiasm in November elections and provide an experience in procedure of proper voting.' The voting procedure as followed in Tuesday's balloting exaetly imitated that of official elections. Registration tables, voting . booths, election judges, and the ballot boxes predominated the scene. Nearly 80 per cent of the school's population heeded the cry of democracy and cast their ballot for candidates of their school. the fox October, A ...... Mrs. .William Storrer is reported to be improving, following an emergency operation performed at a Logan hospital Friday afternoon. Mrs. Storrer was driving to Logan, when she was suddenly Orpkcuni Theatre To Reopen Next Sunday . Eticken. She was operated on when she was taken immediately Theatre patrons of the valley to the hospital. will be interested to learn that the Orpheum Theatre in Tre- KENNETH SCOOPMIRE the first of monton will FAMILY November, after being closed TO TREMONTON RETURNS for redecoration during the summer weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Scoop-mir- e are returning to Tremonton this week to make their DR. D. B. GREEN TO home. Mr. Scoopmire -- was re ASSIST DR. WOODHEAD cently graduated from the PharDr. D. B. Green will be in one macy school in Pocatello. They of Dr. R. G. Woodhead's offices have been living in Logan for beginning Nov. 3rd to do dental the past few months. work. He will be assisting in Mr. Scoopmire will be associthe doctor's office to help alle- ated with Adam Brenkman in viate the pressure which is upon Adam's Drug after the first of the local dentists. November. Dr. Green intends to work until spring or until the pressing HUNTING PERMITS SOLD need subsides. There are no more, hunting s, Patients may call Dr. permits available in the Thatchoffice for appointments er, Penrose, and Bothwell area. All permits have been sold- - . withJDr. Green. ..,.. .. choice. hand if needed. - - Chairman of the project for the club was Mrs. Agnes Virginia Biackham Is president bf the group. Cecil McNeeley W. C. T. U. MEETS THURSDAY Buried Tuesday The next meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union will be held Thursday af- Funeral services were conducted Tuesday afternoon in the Thatcher ward for Cecil R. McNeeley Jr., 27, who died Friday evening in the Salt Lake City Veteran's hospital after an illness of two months. Bishop Orson Jensen of the Penrose ward conducted the service. i Mr. Neeley was Announce Senior M. Men Basketball Schedule Thatcher Thursday, January on February 2 and 3, 1953. schedule follows: FIRST HALF Thursday, November 11 8 1st at 2nd .... . . 9 3rd at 4th ... Bothwell at Thatcher ... 10 - Elwood - Thursday, November 2nd at 4th Bothwell at Elwood Thatcher 3rd 8 9 : at 1st 10 Thursday, November 27 Bothwell Elwood .." - 4 Bye 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 10 , Thatcher at 2nd 3rd at Elwood Thursday, December 11 1st at Thatcher ... Elwood 3rd ,. p-m- . at 2nd .... I....... - - ... : 4th at Bothwell Thursday, December Monday, December Thatcher at 3rd Elwood at 4th 1st Bothwell at 2nd p m. p m. 10 Bye p.m. 18 2nd 3rd at Bothwell Thatcher at 4th 1st at Elwood 8 9 .'. i. - 22 Bye p m. p.m. p.m. 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 10 Bye p.m. SECOND HALF. Monday, December 29 Elwood Bye 8 pjn 2nd at 1st Bye 9 p- - m. 10 p.m. -- :v l:j3 &mte !! I 8 p.m. Bye p m. 9 10 p.m. 19 8 p.m. 9 10 p.m. p m. Bye Just before Election Day, Nov. 4, the nation's Boy Scouts will place on the door knobs of 30,000,000 homes, Liberty Bell cutouts, shown above, urging every citizen to vote. Their Campaign is being conducted in cooperation with the Freedoms Foundation. It is entirely without reference to any candidate or party. n, Taking part In the largest ers Web'er, Box Elder, Morgan single Boy Scout activity ever and North Davis counties, are 2nd - Bye arranged in the United States, Carl Caskill and Bruce Jenkins. Officials believe that the LibBothwell at 3rd 9 p.m. more than 4 500 Cub Scouts, Boy 10 p.m. Scouts and Explorers of the 4th at Thatcher erty Bell Message distribution Area Council will call on by the Scouts will be the largest Thursday, January 29 . 8 homes in this area be- single Job of its kind ever done 2nd at Bothwell all the pm. 3rd at Thatcher 9 p.m fore election day and place on in the nation. 4 th at Elwood ... ... . 10 p m. the door knobs Liberty Bell According to Mr. Caskill and 1st cutouts reminding citizens to Mr. Jenkins, the plan of Bye vote. ; , for the Ogden Area CounThrouihout the nation most cil will be as follows: Materof the organization's Cub Scouts, ials will be delivered to District Boy Scouts and Exolorers num- Commissioners who will place it in the hands of Unit Leaders bering over two million, are to visit 30.000,000 homes rlo,r to the "Get Out the Vote'' campaign. mobilization day November 1st. Funeral services for Heber in their The Scouts "Get Out and Vote" On that date all Scout Units Close Butler, 82, who died las is snonsored jointly erials to every home in the Thursday evening will be con- 'ampai 1th tha Freedoms Foundation. Council. ducted Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Bear River Stake tabemac'r Many of the nation's leaders of Later at Bov Scouts Courts 11 noUttral parties have of Honor and other public Scout- -' in Garland. Bishop Arthi'T the Scouts' efforts to Michaelis of the Second watf functions each member who "urther the cause of good took part In the campaign is to will conduct the service. inscribed by encouraging more ""e've a suitably Friends may call Friday ev 'tlzrns to have a part In se- "Gt"d Citizenship" pocket re enlng and Saturday from 10 r r. m. until time for the service a' ating the nation's leaders. minder, the size of a n. reminder of his the family home in Garland. personal Directing the "Get Out and Burial will be in the Garlan' fote" campaign activities of the Participation in the nationwide cemetery by Rogers Mortuary. Ogden area Council which cov citizenship project. 22 , . 8 p.m. Cg-d- en dlstri-butio- , ;, Butler Services Saturday ex-nec- trd . i 8 9 10 Bye 8 p.m. - January at 4th Thatcher at 1st p.m. 2nd at Elwood pm. 3rd Bye January p.m. Thursday, Elwood at 1st Bye Elwood at Thatcher............ 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 1st at 4th 10 pm. 2nd at 3rd Thursday, December 4th Bothwell at 1st at 3rd 4th p.m. 1st at Bothwell p m. 2nd at Thatcher m. p llllllili 8 p.m. 9 p.m. 10 p.m. 8 The Thatcher at Elwood 4th at 1st Thursday, January 15 Bye Monday, Bothwell 20 - . . the third at p m. 3rd at 2nd Top teams of the area,, will Bothwell meet In the stake tournament 10 born Feb. 12, in Penrose, a son of Cecil B. and Jennie Anderson McNeeley. The family moved to Thatcher when he was a child. He graduated from Bear River high school, and served in the Army Engineer's Corps in ' the Philippines during World War H. He was a Staff Sergeant. ; He married Francis Fashbaugh in Tremonton Oct 28, 1945. They lived in Thatcher for two years, then i moved to Boise, Idaho. They have lived in Penrose for the past two years. Surviving are his widow, one son, Alan, 3 and one daughter, Sally Joan, 1, his parents, and the following brothers and sisters, Mrs. ileen Shellbarger, Roy; Mrs. Clara Harding, Big Delta, Alaska; Max, Blaine, Lyle, Lar ry, ' and Leon McNeeley of Thatcher, also grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Anderson of 1912 Monday, January 5 1st at 3rd 4th at 2nd Elwood at Bothwell .. non-partisa- n . en-'ors- ed ip -- half-dolla- Ike A well stocked chest was presented to Mayor Kleon Kerr Monday night by the Business and Professional Women's Club for use in case of aerial attacks on our home city. The club was assigned this project by the Civil Defense organization. The chest contains flashlights, batteries, pencils, note books, water purifier, tourniquet, bandages, dressings, baking soda, vaseline, scissors, tweezers, medicine droppers, spirits of ammonia, and basins. It is recommended that every family provide themselves "with a similar box: with such emergency supplies to have on Scouts to Visit 30 Million Homes w The votes as cast were as lows: & R. - H. S. Voting Business and Professional Women Present First Aid Chest To City Wood-head'- Ilillllf ,.t . re-op- en 1 , ; ' SS5Si , . - 1951. , , he cauoht while on guard duty near Eielson Air Base in Alaska. Scott, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter A Scott of Fieldirg, is serving with the 171th Armored Field Artillery Battalion in Alaska. MRS. WILLIAM STORRER He has been in the Army since REPORTED IMPROVING ing, Utah holds Number 5 High School Holds Mock Election Stev-Continu- 9 p.m. .... 10 p m. 30, 1952 Power Company pou-ulate- 4th at 3rd Thatcher at Bothwell VALLEY Published Weekly at Tremonton, Utah, Thursday, October - The schedule for the M I senior DasketDaii competition was announced this week for South Bear River Stake teams. All games will be at Bear River high school gymnasium, with 6ix teams playing each night.. The first game will begin at 8 p.m., the second at 9 p.m., and RIVER BEAR Employee Injured ed . 1Kb Ogden. At the funeral service, Arietta Thornley played the organ prelude and postlude, and the Thatcher double mixed quartet sang. "Sometime We'll Understand". The invocation was offered bv Eugene Miller. Speakers were Calvin W. Waldron, Bishop Delores Stokes of Bothwell, Lynn Markham, Bishoo James Wight of Thatcher and closing remarks by Bishop Jensen. Other musical numbers given were a vocal duet, "I Walked in God's Garden", by Irene Shuman and Lorna Stokes, accompanied by Joan Waldron; a vocal duet bv Maurlne Wight1 and Verl Waldron;, titled "Always", a special request by Mrs. McNeeley, as this was the sixth wedding anniversary of the couple. The closing song by the quartet was, "In the Garden", pnd Lvman Zollinger gave the benediction. Burial was In the Riverview cemetery Jsy Rogers Mortuary, with Joseph Nelson dedicating , the (rrave. Full military honors were the direction of the Borgstrom Brothers Post V.F.W., and Jackie Stokes playing taps. " . ternoon at at the home of 2:30 354, Stevenson fol- 155 Nixon 372, Sparkman 140 Watkins 295, Granger 2QI Stringfellow e Lee 331, McKay 160 200 301,-Glad- Toronto 236, Taylor 256 Callister 274, Vernon "217 i x Preece 278, Adams 208 Lambourne 207, Reece 278 Calderwood 260 Fonnesbeck 131 Cliff Kerr 403, H. Reece 103 Kleon Kerr 385, J. White 107 Potter 394, Anderson 101 Wight 322, Wright 170 SENIORS TAKE TESTS TO DISCOVER APTITUDES Some 138 senior students at Bear River have recently taken a series of aptitude tests designed to aid In determining occupations for which they are suited. These tests were developed by the government because of the need for people who could do things well. They help make it , Mrs. David Holmgren. f Mrs. Agnes Stirling, county health nurse,' will give a talk possible to recognize the indion polio. , vidual's ability to place him in Anyone who is interested is his proper occupat'.on. to . invited , attend. Utah's Lien Law To Be Tested By Ballot Nov. 4th Utah voters on Nov. 4th will1 be asked not only to select theW candidates, but to vote also on repealing of Utah's Lien Law. At the request of county officials The LEADER is publishing (some information regarding the law. The two versions werej furnished by the Box Elder County Welfare commission and the; Senior Citizens of Utah,, whose president is Mary C. Work"'. man Dillon. Some persons favorable to the' The 1939 legislature provided Lien law repeal ask, "Why are that all revenue from the sales to tax be the older people singled out by the should forappropriated care of the governor the lien law? Why not take aged, orphans and dependent liens on any dependent children children. Old age gTants were raised from $30 to $40 a month. cases that have property?" The original lien law exempted The Legislature, in passing' the homes having a value of $1200 lien law, had very sound and or less. Some valuations were fundamental reasons for attach- decreased to protect some homeowners. The 1948 special session ing the lien requirement only to of the legislature provided that older persons who own property: liens be taken on all homes First, an exceedingly small valued in excess of $300. This number of broken homes with amendment has caused untold and humiliation-dependent children own prop- suffering of senior citizens of , erty. .. the state. They found that childwhen their homes needed reSecond, the dependent ren are on the welfare program pair it was almost impossible to an average of only two years secure help because plumbers per case, while the old people, and other crafts refused the on the average, receive grants job because the state held a lien on the property. Appeal to for a much longer term. welfare agencies proved equally Third, and perhaps most Im- futile. life span portant, the average To get any semblance of state of the person Is only assistance old age people 'must 12 to 13 years. ' This means that ' as PAUPERS or either qualify estate the the settlement with themselves of any sense of after death can be made within strip home ownership.-These are a reasonably brief period of facts which for the spokesmen time. In the case of dependent Interests of the state supporting law of same type the children, the lien law have concealed from might carry ' on for 40 or 50 the public In their pretended could years, before settlement research of the lien law, they bo made. have not gone behind the scenes Fourth, it would not be good j and. contacted old. age groups American policy to saddle youn1?' and seen for . themselves the children and their pcrenti with forced self denial, and.' acute obligations which might inter- destitution suffered by hundfere with their educational pros- reds of aged groups, who prefer pects and the other opportuni- to suffer and be virtually, disties in life. Nothing of this na- carded by society rather, than ture is in the picture with the s"rrender the pride of borne t older people. ownership. ; - . , ; , i |