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Show 1 ! 9 3 ' SUNDAY. JANUARY 15, 19M f Uth County. Utah A CIIKjhAY HERALD Rites Scheduled For S. T. Curtis JUHlnij . Byrd Explorers Fly Over South Pole Here VOne Place Ydu Can Change Directions' With o ii t C hanging Go u rse EDITORS: note: Newsmen 75, long illness. Mr. Curtis had been a resident of this city for many years prior to his death. He was born r. i for a ringing description on the ac- companying Admiral Byrd on his Antarctic expedition drew lots to see who should be- the first to : accompany aerial explorers on a ' trip over the South Pole, Saul Pett, Associated Press staff man, won the draw. fol- lowing ' epic level. This will now be done in one broken-hearte- d line. All I can see blow, above and to (he left and right of our orange- tipped wings is a dirty white blur. This is a whiteout the Antarc tic trick of refraction by which light bounces bff billions of minute ice particles, and results in zero - His despatch follows: : Nov: 27, 1880 at Salem. Utah, the son of Samuel Thomas and Sar ah Olive. Curtis tlis early years were spent in that community and he was educated' in Salem - f schools. He fol lowed the occupation of farm- visibility. It is just my luck to strike it nowj ing during a Curtis Mr. portion of large Press ... It's All The Same i his lifetime.. OVER THE SOp:H POLE, ."Don't feel bad," sayj our color He was married to Jonena John (UP)-I- t Friday, ' Jan. (Delayed) ful heavily- mustacheo plane com son Dec. 30, 1903, at Provo. They is now 7:28 p.nr. (New Zeland mander, Lt. CoL Hal R. Kolp. made their home in Spanish Fork time)l A minute ago we were fly Marine pilot from Akron. through most of their wedded life, ing south.; Without changing course "You didn't miss anything. The except for a few years during we are now flying north pole is exactly like the rest of the which they lived in Idaho, where Eighteen hundred feet below, us dull, flat d plateau we Mr. Curtis operated a farm. He lies the "precise bottom of the have been: flying over all day. was a member of the LDS Church. world from which all directions We hit the; pole on the return Survivors include his widow, are north. This is the magical 90 leg of a long, tiring flight of ex three daughters, Mrs.. Wilburn degree south latitude one of the ploration deep into the unknown (Beulah) Phipps, Orem; Mrs. Lynn two most exclusive navigational heartland of the Antarctic. We (Edith) Hill. Spanish Fork; and Bositions Ion -- earth. This is the took off frbmi the base, McMurdo Mrs. McLain, Harry (Hazel) South Pole which men have died Sound, head! toward and four sons. S. Glenn Cur Orem; Queen in the reaching. Maude Land,! reached a point 550 tis, Orem; Thomas Darwin Curtis, We have Just completed a circle miles behind the pole at latitude Orem; Wilburn Curtis, Spanish of five miles radius. Thus we have 82 20 de- Fork; and Harvey Curtis, Pay son. longitude south, degrees flown around the world in five Also surviving are a sister, Mrs. headed and left turned east; minutes. There are 10 of us aboard grees for the pole- on the homeward Charity Dickman, Orem, twenty- base fliers of oper-- j the plane-nintwo grandchildren and 11 great journey. d atibn deep freeze and one grandchildren. correspondent. Their boredom is Funeral services will be held understandable since, for most of Monday at 1 p.m in the Spanish Skythe crew of the Fork Fifth Ward Chapel with j master, this is their second flight Continued from Page One) Bishop Geslison officiating. Friends over the pole in 11 days. The ex call at the Lowell J. Crabb may and citement of - this correspondent is World Airways, Air France Mortuary tonight between 7 and 9 Sabena Belgian World airlines. .understandable. or. at the family home, 412 equally said; the Intercontinental p.m. Boeing ' j 3rd E. First Reporter S., Monday from. 10 a.m. will Imore than 280,000 of services. Interment time until Less than 40 men have been poundsweigh and Villi cruise at speeds here before us. This - is only the of from 550 to 600 miles per hour, will be. in the Spanish Fork City fifth flight in all history over the It is a direct development of Amer- fCemetery. pole and I, they; tell me, am ica's first! Jet transport, Boeing's the first reporter ever to fly over present 707 Jet Stratolinef, already it. on order by leading domestic and Now what does a good reporter international airlines. The new jet SALT LAKE CITY Mark Allan do in such an exclusive spot? He will have landing and takeoff char reaches into his book of adjectives acteristics i atHeast equal to those Dewey, 5, former Salt Lake resi of any transport air dent died Thursday in Riverside, added. the company craft, Cal., hospital; funeral services New Devices Like others in the 707 family. Monday in Riverside. Mrs. Edith (Continued from Page One) the new intercontinental will be Chugg Worthen 81, 414 Coatsville four or five feet above the ice Equipped with. Boeing - Developed Ave., died Friday. Mrs. Ethel . the wolf snarled and leaped at Jet engine sound suppressors and ButU 69, 2618 S. 11th the craft. It went another 50 thrust reverters. Both devices E., diedArgo Albert Hyler, 71, Thursday. have been under development by 1384 Lincoln St., died Thursday. feet before nosing over. Burgess and Lilya said they Boeing for more than two years, Mrs. Ruth Buckley Duggan, 48, 24 stayed! in the wreckage for and full scale tests of them are Harmony St., died Wednesday. several minutes because the continuing here. WELLSVTLLE Henry W. Garmale wolf continued to menace range of the inter died in Wells- 60, rett, Thursday interna normal with them. They finally chased him continental, tional fuel reserves, will be more ville; funeral Monday, 1 p.m away with an axe. than 5,000 miles, the company said, Wellsville Second LDS Ward, Then; they built fires to attract search planes and had adding that the new plane also will friends may call at the. family to use' them to dry out after operate efficiently over ranges as home Sunday evening and Monday. COTTONWOOD Thomas Colley they fell through thin ice near short as 500 miles . 124 Stayner, 72, 2781 JE. 6200 South, the shore., Passenger capacity will be "We spent the next couple of persons in the first class version, died Thursday. hours before we were rescued or 146 passengers when fitted out Paris with the new plane will be drying, out and watching for for tourist service. to seven from time Schedule hours, Boeing officials said. Chicago stray wolves," Burgess said. ( By SAUL PETT (For The Combined American i, 1 1 j : ; J I - 1 snow-covere- 14 I . e WASHINGTON (UP) Sen. A. S WASHINGTON (UP) Mike Monroney White House refused to today on a demand by Sen. Hubert day a government aviation SPRINGVILLE David Hous- - H. Humphrey that Presi port "proves the case of those of man, 20, son of Mrs. Med Miner, dent Eisenhower say if he agrees us who have been protesting is in Dixie Pioneer Memorial Hos with Secretary of State John Fos against the of in St. of ter Sinclair Dulles' "brink war" foreign Secretary of Commerce George recovering pital from injuries sustained Tuesday policy. Weeks. i an Press The issued autom the Budget bile in Presidential accident. report, by Secretary night of C. there said said air colli James danger": Bureau, Hagerty David, and three companions, all whatsocomment sions' be would "no has reached alarming pro members of the Mesquite, Nev., portions. It called foridrastic steps M Men basketball team, were re ever" on any aspect of the broiling over the Life Magazine in- to modernize the current air con turning from M Men games at dispute trol system. I with Dulles. terview St. George when the 1955 model statement of the Sen in his third chairman Monroney, sedan driven by Housman failed in Humphrey, has accused as Aviation Subcommittee, said ate many days, to negotiate a curve at Santa the administration of conducting the present inadequate control . Clara. "news stand diplomacy" and mis system is "the direct result of David has been employed by leading Congress. He said state Weeks' penny-pinchirbudgetary Frank Fer Json and Hugh Gard ments attributed to Dulles in the policies" where air traffic control ner of Springville, who manage a magazine interview did not jibe improvements are concerned. the secretary He took issue with the report's with Information service station at Mesquite. be would and it recommendation that a leading Congress gave last Mr. Miner returned night beneficial if the to draft the individual be got appointed legislators at the after visiting injured boys to without con version master for correct a traffic air ;" having plan the hospital yesterday. She reto Life trol. subscribe Magazine." ports that David suffered chest New Plane j - v-- . i Utah Obituaries long-Tang- e Fighting Wolf i Ger-aldi- ne i -- . x - Full-paylo- ad j H -- t - . : ' . - i aid (D-Min- n) ground-mindednes- s" , iz and back injuries. David's companions, all of Mes- q iite, were also injured. Richard! Alma Reid, 25, a school ttacher, suffered head and face injuries and possible fractured pel vis. Ferral H. Knight, 17, suffered possible broken neck, abrasions and lacerations of the face. Kenneth Jones. 19, suffered severe it : injuries, possible fractured jaw, and a fractured leg. All, how ever, were improving, according to hospital reports. , Utah's Growth Geneva Coal Miners Honored (Continued from Page One) Four vet DRAGERTON (UP a total of eran coal miners with more than 120 years spent under ground were honored Friday ax a U.S. Steel service award ban quet here. Thirteen miners in all received awards for service totaling 315 Steel years with Columbia-Genev- a Division. I bug-eye- four-engin- ed Weeks Scored Denial Made Gasoline Tax By Oklahoman By GSA Head Refund Bill General The Administrator Edmund F. Introduced Fri comment re White House In Ducks Comment Hurt Youth 'i Samuel Curtis, Crash Nevada died Thursday at his home, a SPANISH FORK . 4 SpringVille proving irrigation distribution sys tems through construction of con trol structures, lining canals, in stalling pipelines, modifying the methods of water delivery and dis tribution, and construction of over night farm reservoirs. The booklet estimated that near of the 6,000,000 of wa ly one-thir- d ter diverted annually from Utah's streams and reservoirs into irriga tion canals seeps into the soil and is lost from the canals. "The annual yield: from underground supplies is less than 200, 000 acre-fe- et per year, while potentials are estimated to be several times this amount," the book- awards were present ed to Levi Arthur Nelson, Alex C. Curtis, James Edward Taylor and (Continued from Page One) Taliesin W. Evans. The awards one of the first communities to be were presented by R. M. Von hit' by the Christmas floods. senerai superintendent. Storch. I "Its maximum height last coal mines and quarries for let said. Steel division. month was 47 .feet," Counts said, bia-Geneva 50 yeans of the first During "but even at 40 feet it will cause Utah's history, 1,000,000 acres of an awful lot of damage to land were placed under Irrigation and Healdsburg." but in the succeeding 60 years only 140,000 acres have been added. Up to 2.42 inches of rain had Has Revolving Fund in California in northern fallen The Utah Water? and. Power the past 24 hours. iTo Board is doing much to increase Brought by offshoots of a storm the available water supply and efRadio Buda- ficient use, of the state's water repinpointed 1400 miles west of VIENNA (UP) San Francisco, the rains were pest reported Saturday night that sources. warm and posed a threat to the United Press staff correspondent use of a revolving fund, Sierra snow pack. This was the Dlona Nylas and her. husband, theThrough, board ihas possible the same situation that contributed to Associated Press correspondent En- - construction of made worth $2,469,000 the December! disaster. dre Marton, have been sentenced of water improvements since 1947. The heavy rains were blamed to three and six years in jail. In addition, projects have been Two members of the American struct ion in 26 counties that each for a small landslide in Red wood Canyon 20 miles east of Embassy in Budapest were also year provide a newt water supply Oakland that derailed the loco found guilty and sentenced by the equal to 86,500 acre-fewhich benSacramento military tribunal of the garrison of efits 183,500 acres of land. The motive of a Northern freight train. No one Budapest, the radio report said board follows the admonition of was hurt. They were identified as, Bela Ka- - Brigham Young, who said: .varther north, flooding Navarre potsy and Kornel Balazs. "Seek ye water, not gold, for Radio Budapest gave no time of water will provide a sound econoCreek cut State Highway 128 bei tween Fort Bragg on the coast the sentence, nor did the report mic base." were held. the where trials to motorists and Uklah, forcing say The report also spoke of. more REALLY ANGRY make a long detour. unidentified En"criminals' LINCOLN. Neb. (UP) Police the' Yuba At Army City was Mrs. last arrested Marton an irate pedestrian to jail hauled Feaththe that gineers predicted er River would rise to 67 feet by June. Her husband was imprisoned after he: (1) angrily; kicked dents into a woman driver's car fenlate Sunday night, 14 feet below in February. the December peak. Civil De ders; (2) hopped onto the hood of There are about 20,000 species the car; (3) got down, reached fense officials planned to evacu ate the Shanghai Bend area if of birds in the world, about 800 into the window and began beatof them in the United States. the river reaches 65 feet. ing the driver. Rivers Again Thirtv-vea- r Colum- Guer-nevil- le ' " Correspondent Couple Sentenced Jail In Vienna - WASHINGTON (UP) Services Mansure emphatically denies that he' recommended the insurance brokers who received a fat fee from federal expansion of a nickel plant. However, Mansure said he wanted "a western firm and someone friendly to the party friendly to the administration" to get the brokerage fee for the contract Balmer and Moore, a Chicago firm, fitted hese specifications. Mansure said he had known William Balmer, a member of the firm, for years through friendship, business and politics. Balmer was chairman of the GOP Executive Committee in Chicago, he said. Randall Cremer, vice president of Frederick Snare Corp., which shared the 43 million dollar build-in- , n contract with recom& said Mansure Scott, mended the Balmer and Moore Merritt-Chapme- WASHINGTON (UP) The sponsor of a bill to give farmers fed- eral tax-fre- e gasoline fpr farm machines said Saturday not, special safeguards would be needed to keep it out of their automobiles. Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins (R-O- ) said most farmers would voluntarily keep the gas out of their private automobiles "realizing that lt would be in their own best interest." But a Bureau of Public -- Roads official disagreed. The official, who declined to be quoted by name, said many states that abolished taxes on gas for farm machinery "are having a hard time tax-exem- pt . it." of He said one state in JLhe heart of the agriculture belt 'has con- sistently been refunding 40 per cent of all its gas taxes to persons Company. claiming the farm exemption. But Mansure told a hastily-calle- d new conference Friday that "I "This doesn't ring true," he didn't ask him (Cremer) to place said. Jenkins' bill was introduced Jan. the contract with any specific 9 immediately after President Eifirm." senhower urged Congress to repeal the two-cefederal tax on gasoline and lubricating oils used exclusively for agricultural purposes. The bill contains no penalty pro- -' visions. It's up to Internal Revenue and Treasury officials to decide how WASHINGTON (UP) Walter they're going to enforce .the proWilliams, undersecretary of com- gram," Jenkins said. "Obviously merce, said Saturday he definitely any wilful attempt to evade taxes is not a candidate for governor of is a fraud punishable under the Internal Revenue law. But I don't Washington.1 think that will be a difficult prob"I say sincerely," he told a lem." a candidate reporter, "I am not for public office. I think my re- The House Ways and Means Comn sponsibilities for public service are mittee has scheduled a closed ses-t'here in the federal department." Monday morning to consider He made the statement when a similar bill-asked to comment on a report in Washington that he would be avail- time, he said he made K 1 clear able for thie state's top job. he was not a candidate. to He said he was invited speak "At least as of now four before the Spokane County Repub- months later there is no reason lican organization Last August as for the circumstances to change a "candidate for governor." At the he said. nt Williams Denies Candidacy for Governorship : SPECIAL MONDAY ONLY! BRODCADE CHROME-SPU- N et 10-c- ar . I. en 45" Wide Regular 1.89 SPECIAL -- .. Yd. SEWING CENTER SE5i - i SALE! our famous name n ran o FROM TAYLOR'S made of world-famo- i Kharafleece us PaintI Paintl and more Paint! 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