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Show Universal Microfilming Corporatio Salt Lake City 1, Utah 141 Pisrpont Avenue 5-1- -58 1HE Volume XXIV t K'ti i 4,1 si I Published Every Friday Number 52 Biggest Post Office Rush Comes to End g.. ;s..j I ,. mn mm i i , - 7- m at Midvale, Utah $2.50 PER YEAH BY MAIL SUBSCRJITION, ' Mwtr-wrmfrw- j ti 'i -" The Christmas rush, greatest in the history of the Midvale post office, held right up to Christ- mas Eve, but postal workers p )". ENTINEL SINGLE COPY 5c yum n vm v f . Friday, December 27, 1957 pw wimr miirwii H. S. Sites Under Study By Committee Study of possible high school sites is being conducted by the Lay Committee of 15 in Jordan school district. School census figures indicate that Jordan district will require another high school by 1963. Members of the committee are being supplied with maps indi cating school sites owned by the district, along with other information on school enrollments, future enrollments, and likely growth of subdivisions. Figures on present and future enrollments, compiled by the pupil personnel department under direction of P. M. Mickelsen, show 1,287 students enrolled at Jordan, and by 1963 there will 'f ' cleared everything before quit IpV '--i ting on Dec. 24, and special crews delivered packages which arrived tnnsimas morning. Postmaster David L. Warner said that the rush began early . . , , ...... i a, ana lasiea longer unan usu, ,. with the morning mail on Dec. 24 j bringing 5 pouches of Yule cards and 19 sacks of parcel post. Comparing with last year's rush, Postmaster Warner said that the peak day last year brought in 9 pouches of letters and cards. This year there were two days when 11 pouches arrived, crammed full of holiday Archibald Gardner Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers, had a dinner and Christmas par. be 1,848. mail. At Bingham High School there ty at Pioneer Hall last Thursday afternoon. Above are shown some of the 60 who at On the peak day, postal work-;er- s are tended. presented 793 students, in (Sentinel Photo) spent 18 hours one day cas 300 junior high school cluding ing mail on one of the four Midstudents. By 1963 this fugure will Rev Napier Speaker car. . . vale routes. It took three 11 increase to 816 in the 10th, 11th, At Kiwanis Yule Meeting riers to deliver the mail on that and 12th grades only. route, and one of them started A short Christmas message by Present enrollment figures are off with 6,000 letters In his pack. the Rev. Fred Napier featured actual. Figures for 1963 are basI Business of selling the Christmas meeting of the ed on present enrollments in the I stamps was brisk. The stock of Midvale Kiwanis Club Monday grades which will be in high 160,000 stamps laid in for Christ I school then, and do not allow for evening. Yuletide songs were i mas card mailing was gone, and Sandy City's proposed budget sung by Paul Ross and Richard any increases due to children ",'S "'t the Midvale office was selling for 1958 totals $52,249.65, it was Shipp, with Mrs Ed Shipp as ac moving into the district. In the of fmm an emergency stock r 1 announced this week by city of companist such increases have amountr past 40,000 additional before the holi ficials. ed to about 4 per year. day arrived. Last year a stock of Main source of revenue is a 20 "Resorting" Trial It is persently the concern of was ' two's adequate. 120,000 mill tax levy, the same as 1957, Scheduled for Monday board members and district The counter on the cancelling on the valuation of $1,542,505. as to how this school officials " ' Trial of four men charged with TT.'; mT ""'rvit . machine ran up 180,000 cancel- This would a total of be met, and the need best bring may resorting at a Midvale tavern between Dec. 6 and 1 lations li Ml mil iuji Lay Committee, organized was postponed last Friday and is Christmas, besides all the parcels efforts of the PTA to Appropriations include $10,500 now scheduled for through Monday, Dec. and metered matter. for for aid in $11,132.50 administration, solving school problems, : 30, in municipal court, before offered the opportunity has been public safety, and $30,500 for C. E. Matthews. streets and public improvements. Judge of studying the high school site The hearing on the budget has situation and offering a recom By JAY ' ' "' " been set for Tuesday, Dec. 31, at mendation to the board. ' " ' '. 1 ' At last Thursday's school 2 p.m. in the Sandy City HalL Overheard on Main Et.: board meeting, ten bids were re his wife came Keith L. Root "Poor Joe ceived on gasoline for school home from her vacation early Sandy Family Has A farewell testimonial will be buses and other district vehicles. rHe sent her a copy of the Sen- Baby on Christmas Day held for Keith L. Roos, son of The low bid of Bill Roderick, tinel with one item clipped out" Since Christmas Day observes Mrs Wanda C. Roos, at Union 7953 S. Slate, of 20.4 cents per -Uui birth of a child, what finer -".-fa' The Salt Lake County budget, First and Fourth Ward con Christmas Is over, and it y chapel. gallon, was accepted and the on Christmas than a new Annual totaling $7,844,324.44, will have awarded. tract seems that most folks lived gut gasoline Sunborn baby! a final hearing before the coun 7420 South 1300 East, next consumption approaches 80,000 through the season, though some Mr & Mrs SanJ. Dec. 29 at 5 Gull, Ralph day, Dec. p.m. 31, ty commissioners on seemed a bit doubtful the last gallons. had a a little Christmas dy, child, The program follows: prelude, The remodeling project at Jor when adoption must be complct few weeks. We have one more girl, born to them at Cottonwood ed and any revisions made. Flora Erickson; opening song, dan High School was revised to holiday next week, and then Maternity Hospital. week the commissioners include changes which will pereveryone can settle down for a Quite a number of babies in This congregation; invocation, Lamar trimmed off the $401,900.21 mit use of 1.000 square feet of pro work before the of stretch long II. White; sacrament song, conthe Salt Lake valley will share posed budget, leaving it $327,- storage space in the school attic. next holiday comes along. their birthday each year with the 447.74 higher than the 1957 bud gregation; sacrament service; IL W. Jorgensen, assistant sup Christ-Child- , l .1 . .. as 30 were born get. speaker, Pres. Donald B. Milne; erintendent, and Y. W. Harrod This is the week that advertis this year on Dec. 25, at Salt Lake As it now stands, the budget selection, trio; speaker, Arthur were asked to L . m" ?w yvmtfmviv,.,Hm. study possible bus ing really goes into the doldrums but the Gull baby was requires a 9.7 mill levy, compar M. Marchant; remarks, Bishop rerouting. along 7th East, to pro,For some reason, advertisers hospitals, the only one In this area. Milton L. Eldredge; selection, tect ed with 9 mills last year. grade school children who have the idea that nothing hap v.; I The new budget contains no trio; remarks, missionary's mothJ; pens the week after Christmas (Continued on back page) thing for the county fire depart- er; closing song, congregation; Yet we have seen cities where Three individual winners in the Midvale "City of Lights" Christmas contest have been the day after Christmas was the ment, which has been placed in a benediction, E. Vern Bringkurst; the annual which of sjMjnsored competition. biggest sales day of the year. We county service area. announced by the Chamber Commerce, DUP window featured 301 which a Originally, garbage collection after Christ Pine believe that business St., At top is shown the Harlan C. Bates home, was included in the service area be to ILU'E mas doesn't bad, and the on Noel door, greeting many Yule painting revealing a stained glass masterpiece, a merchants by their apathy A Midvale employe of Kcnne- - resolution, but complications recolored lights. In center is the John II. Marchant home, 131 Pioneer St , where Santa unless make it so. cott Wilson Thomas, 6790 South quired that this change be postSome 60 members and guests peeks over the roof while a reindeer guards him against falling, and a fireplace blazes 280 East, died Monday of injur- - poned until next year. of Archibald Gardner Camp, reIt won't be long, though. By ise suffered a week before at the Two departments which merrily on the porch. Below is the Harold D. Landers home, 324 Pine St., resplendent luncheon and DUP, enjoyed with hundreds of lights, a nativity scene, fireplace group, and Santa Claus with' rein-- J, Jan. 10, the Sentinel expects to open pit mine where he was a quested budget increases got dePioneer Hall, at Christmas party decreases instead. The sheriffi level foreman (Smtind Photos) have its weekly "Shopping West Jordan, last Thursday, pre the and was cut $5,100, Guide" going again, and mer-- i Hi was fhe first accidental partment sided over by Mrs Geneva Lar chants will have their annual death at the Bincham mine In 18 county assessor's office was trim- son, captain. clean up and inventory sales go months, Thomas suffered a back med $2,100. The program Included accor ing full blast. fracture while supervising the Two Fire Alarms In dion selections by Michael and of an empty waste Gene Maynard, readings by Midvale During Week This week we pointed out j dump car. He was kneeling Blaine and Sheldon Hamilton 11 facts in the national tdveryide the car when one of the Two fire calls were answered and Christine Mascara, and Using picture, in the editorial dump gates flew open, striking by the Midvale department songs by Vclda Ne! column. The same facts apply to him in the back and him ing the week. son, Joan Rose, and Marinda Di pinning honorable in mention icvcral.won the had and three the prizes Pine St and Pioneer St homcsj local advertising, too. It seems. to the ground, Saturday noon a defective fur- - mond, with Nelda Richardson as won individual honors in the Outstanding displays, the Judges Salt Lake County home lighting that no one has ever devised any Surgery was resorted to ear- - nace motor brought a call to 224 accompanist. ontcst. (Continued on oacx page) Christmas lighting contest, and placed Adams St. first as street. ;lier Monday at a Salt Lake Hon Olympus St. Virginia Anderson was lunch their that announce jpital in an effort to repair the On Christmas Eve an automo-- eon chairman, assisted by Clara The Adams St won the "best street" judges .: , . I n4i i J kmnil fn Hazel i Jones, Evelyn "Kiuit. lone, aoanaonra iur sunm ume Hogan, designation, it was announced choice was based o" participation Wilson Monroe Thomas was at about 650 S. Allen St., was Spratling, Leola Dlmond, Ella of homes. Christmas Eve. by a larger percentage born Sept 22, 1918, in Bingham found ablaze, and firemen cxtin- - Batcman, Eudora Bateman, Atta Wilford Adams and Robert J. Residents of all participating Canyon, a son of Martin G. ind'guished the flames. Merret, and Catherine Ham. TTaI Tkntnna . Marpnrrt Wilunn Morlcy, co-- chairmen of the home homes on the winning street will f ...Mr'.. graduated from the University of lighting contest, announced the receive free tickets to the Burk Utah In 1939 and spent eight winners as selected by the Theatre, Midvale. Santa Claus years in the air force, being disJudges expressed tneir disapjudges, as follows: charged with the rank of major. paid a joyous that more honr4 in During World War IL he served Harold D. Landers, 324 Tine pointment visit to the the city did not participate in the in the China-BurmFraternal OrIndia TheSt. ater of Operations. der of Eagles contest They praised the hich He married the former Mar-?arJohn II. Marchant 131 Pioneer quality of many of the ChrMmas Christmas parBeaJty, and later was ty la 4 Friday displays, and only wihcd for St more. evening at the Harlan C. Bates. 301 Pine St. On Aug 16, 1!).V1. he married The 1!57 conle.it did not at Eagles Home. S'i an Keller Maddox In Elko tract Hrrc Santa Is more entries many great three these The judges placed Nov. 'han the contest last year, though j shown greeti beautifully lighted homes in a nany who Surviving include his widow; ing Mrs Alparticipated ad led to' tie for the three places, and each lieir displays this year. j three Mns from his first marbert Mark and will recche identical trophic her baby, and Judges were three art Instruc, riage, Mai tin, Lincoln and John; from the MHvnle Chamber of lora In Jordan district Khools,' two Mrpchililren, Jeffery and in background Joan Maddox, a!) of Midvale. is Mrs Mike Commerce, which has sponsored Paul Kuhnl and Clyde Nichols, Funr-ra- l the Christmas lighting contest andy, and Mra Itay Lester. Mid-- , Mark. services will be held vale. for several year. Fri'lay at 1 p m. in the Midvale Methodist Church. Although Pine St won two of The H irold Landers home also Mat I' ' Missionary Sandy City Sets Budget Of $52,249 I a, II m ii i in This 'N That ' ' 1958 County Calls Budget a i jtii rOr 7. t MIIIS ' ,'; ...' : x, ;,.t Homes on Pine, Pioneer Win Yule Lighting Prizes Midvale Miner Injured Fatally West Jordan At Bingham Pit Has Party g be-so- I h 1 1 1 J a : I) ct f i v L. r |