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Show Universal Microfiln Corp 141 3 Pierpont alt Lake City, Utah mm Volume 35 Number Published weekly at 125 W. Center St., Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah. Entered as Second Class Matter Post Office at Midvale, Utah under the Act of March 9, 1878. Subscription rate, $2.00 per year. Government Study . . . that people are more interested in working ment improvements, were together, there is more cobereassured by M. DeMar operation, and there is Teuscher, Salt Lake political coming a better climate for a change, the political edieditor, that they are 'headed in the right direction. tor said. He suggested a study of Teuscher contended that the type of government Salt Lake county government is long overdue for an practiced in Maricopa Counwhere the ty (Phoenix) overhaul, but that the people do not want to go all county board is made up the way to metropolitan gov- of three area representaernment. "You must recogtives who hire an adminisnize the inevitability of havtrative officer who sets up ing one city in the valley county departments and corunless you do the right relates the work of the elected county officials. thing," he said. "I can understand why the "Whatever you do, don't expect it to save money. people of Kearns do not The most you can get is want to incorporate, but I more for your dollar," can't understand how the Teuscher added. He dis- fifth largest community in cussed a number of possible the state can get along changes which could be without any local governmade, pointing out strengths ment," Tuescher said. Dr. Bruce Egbert, and weaknesses of each and of the west side stressing the fact that any change in government must group, declared that "we are have the approval of Salt losing what we started out Lake City and the populous for, because we are worryeast side of the county. ing about people we don't He reminded the group that both the city and the county are creatures of the and have no legislature powers except those granted by the legislature. "This fact makes the legislator the most important officer in the county," the speaker Midvale volunteer firemen added. answered 66 calls during Any change, to be achiev1967, 60 of the calls within ed, must go before the legthe city and 6 calls in the islature for permissive legislation, and must have the county outside the city limits. support of the people, TeuEstimated fire losses for scher reminded the group. "You must convince the the year were reported at legislature that you want $135,081 by Fire Chief Bosh in his annual and area representation, report which has been comyou must sell the legislators of the entire state," he said. pleted and submitted to the He advised the group "to city council. This loss was let the people know what much greater than usual because of the fire which deyou are doing" at all times this calls for considerable stroyed Bern's Super Foods and the Chaney apartments. statesmanship." Chief Bosh's report shows Salt Lake. City would like to sell you something in reverse one big city which is not what you want here, Teuscher said, noting that the city is preparing to ask the legislature for a new form of government and for privileges of annexation to the city. He predicted that the Charles B. Shuman, presicounty would have better dent of the American Farm success selling the people a has Federation Bureau government than named Elmo W. Hamilton, the city would have in sellpresident of the Utah Farm government, ing a one-citBureau, to the federation's and the governnational livestock advisory efment might be the most committee for 1968. At the ficient. time be announced the same AlOne of the most encourag- appointment of- Don T. len, president of the Utah County Farm Bureau, to the federation's national dairy for committee advisory West side residents, studying many possible govern- L- - . ""ii -- I its? If itiiiiii " will V,i fi&i ing signs is n Freeway signs were erected this week preparatory to the opening of the Draper-Midvasection on Wednesday. This sign, just north of Sixth Ave., warns drivers that they must leave the freeway, and the barricade at left funnels all traffic onto the directing cars back to State St. via 7200 South which has been rebuilt divided highway forming an access road to the freeway. as a four-lan- e le v off-ram- p, Freevay, Mid vale to Draper, Opened to Traffic Wednesday freeway from 7200 South, Midvale, to Draper crossroads was opened for travel this Wednesday morning. There was no opening ceremony nor dedication, as the highway is not completed, and travelers are warned that minor construction will continue for several weeks. Highway Department spokesman said that with the heavy investment of tax dollars in the highway, and the fact that the freeway is less hazardous than State St., it was advisable to open the section of freeway and give the public the use of the road. The freeway section between 7200 South, Midvale, and 5300 South, Murray, will not be open until next fall, and traffic will be obliged to use State St. to detour around the uncompleted section. On and off ramps are being used at 7200 South, although the underpass at that location remains uncompleted. Sugar St. (7200 South) is still impassable west of the underpass to N. Main St., and the only access to the freeway for southbound vehicles is from the east. Local traffic may use the frontage road from downtown Midvale to Sugar St., to reach the freeway 5 . the opening of the freeway, the crossing at Sixth Ave. was closed to traffic. With This 'n That By Jay Local traffic will probably find it convenient to use 6th West as a link between the ends of the freeway at 7200 South and 5300 South, although traffic will be directed via State St. Northbound traffic leaving the freeway at 7200 South and continuing northward has a choice of following 7200 South to State St. or doubling back to Center St. via the frontage road, and continuing north on 6th West (N. "Main St.). Letters Keep Coming, Ask End of Strike Letters from Copper Families continue to come, .into the Sentinel office, all finding disfavor' with the current strike situation and hoping that someone will do something about it. Because these letters are an expression of opinion of the public and a matter of public interest, the Sentinel is haopy to print them, and encourages more letters on the same subject. Differing opinions are also welcome, as the bentinei s columns are, as always, open to the public for expression of opinion. Since the last edition went to press, these letters have been received: about US? Our family has gone without and gone without. And for what? We're getting further behind on bills. Even if the strike ended, we'd be two years trying to get where e were before it happened. By then, guess what? Another strike, more than likely. If these fellows who head negotiations weren't so stubborn, we could have had our Christmas this year, just like they had for their own families, and maybe the situation would be corrected. A Very Discouraged Family. Overheard on Main St.: "Postage is so high that when they come around for taxes I'm going to tell them I gave at the post office." Utah Juvenile Court has finally concluded that there is little juvenile delinquency among youths who have jobs. This, of course, is something that everyone else has known all the time. Chief trouble is, of course, that there are so few jobs for young people. Federal laws have priced young people out of their jobs. but stupid have succeeded in passing laws that make employment of youngsters out of the question. No employer can afford to pay a high schooler $1.60 an hour to sweep out and to do odd jobs, especially when the total reaches $2 by the time the employer pays all the taxes on it. Other laws restrict the age at which young people can be hired. Discriminatory laws have left it so that about the only job a youngster can get is delivering papers and, let's face it, there just aren't that many papers to be delivered. We need to get our laws straightened out so that a youngsters can earn a little spending money in his spare time and a business man can afford to hire a boy or girl without making out a fleet of government reports ICouunued trow page Z) Well-meanin- g Elmo Hamilton Named Adviser one-count- y y reply to a letter in The Midvale Sentinel, I think this family stated the strike situation mildy. I think this strike is the biggest bunch of nonsense. If both company and union would give in just a little, this needn't ever have happened. Maybe these fellows who head negotiations are rich and ore in no hurry for a settlemennt, but what In I have debated about this letter for quite some time. Things are getting tt rough for my family. The strike has caused a lot of grief and hardships for Ken-neco- many people. My husband has been fortunate to find a little part time work, but it has ended and we are faced with no money whatsoever it's been used on bills on this ady-too-long strike. This strike has about cost me a nervous breakdown over worry on bills and enough money to clothe the kids that are in school. I worry how we are going to pay the next light bill and next water bill. We are about ready to have the phone removed. We already quit the paper and milk that the kids need and should have. We've had a lot of illness since July. My doctor bills are getting more and more all the time. My youngest son, age 8, needs shoes badly, and his levi's and shirts he's had to wear these now for two years. I was hoping to get new clothes in August but decided to save the money for bills when the strike came along. I have to tell my oldest son, now a senior, "No I don't have arty money for gas to go to the school dance." He's missed a lot of fun in his last year of school. He's tried but all in voin to find a job for money to do these things with. fife has become sheer hell. What is there to look forward to . . . another nasty letter saying unless this is paid services will be discontinued. Seven months is too long for a strike. A Disgusted Housewife alre- care about." "We came in as John Q Public to study the situation. If the politicians don't like it, let them get out and turn it back to the people. I am sure that as long as we keep our government with the people we will have no difficulty," Egbert continued. At the previous meeting a motion had been adopted to launch a study of an At commission. county Monday's meeting this was amended to eliminate any particular number, as there was considerable sentiment and expressed for commissions and it was deemed advisable to study all of the possibibties together. The next meeting of the group was set for Monday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m., when Prof. J. D. Williams of University of Utah will discuss various home - rule types of government. n Midvale Fire Losses "135,081 During 1967 d one-count- y - New Voluntary 1968. Improvement Program Set The Voluntary Improvement program is an adult education project, staffed by volunteer teachers and financed in part by funds from the Federal Office of Economic opportunity. Rev. Burl G. Kreps and Mrs Betty Spangler will head the program. Designed to reach as many as possible of the 19,660 adults in Salt Lake county who have not completed high school this program hopes not only to raise the educational level of the students but his and as well. VIP has been set up in an attempt to more nearly meet the educational needs of these people, many of whom wish to improve their educational status but cannot participate in existing education programs that are too expensive or too distant. Tuition is free. When transportation is needed, every attempt is made to secure this service by arranging rides with other students, tutors, etc. Tutors are undergraduate students, professional teachers, school principals, registered nurses, lawyers, business men and women, etc. Each tutor is assigned to two or three students. In this program in order for a person to quahiy as a tutor, he must be a high school graduate and have a sincere interest in helping others for a minimum of two hours a week. Informal classes will be held at the County Library headquarters, 80 E. Center, Midvale, each Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m. Feb. 6 will be teacher orientation and on Feb. 13 students may register. On Feb. 20 classes will begin. More information may be obtained for students or prospective tutors by calling Dick Wintch, or Jess Nye, self-respe- 487-364- 1 255-351- The two advisory committees are part of the organ- ization's effort to develop programs to aid American agricultural producers. Hamilton is serving his second one-yea- r term as president of the Utah Farm Bureau and operates a large farm in Riverton. Allen has been president of the Utah County Farm Bureau for six years and also serves on the Utah Farm Bureau's board of directors committee. and executive He operates a dairy farm in Vineyard. $100,000 that an average of more than 20 firemen responded to each fire call during the year. A cut knee during the Bern's fire constituted the only accident to men or equipment during the year. Besides answering alarms, the department responded to all requests of citizens to stand by while they burned grass and weeds. Of the 16 automobile fires answered during 1967, volunteers extinguished 10 of the fires with their own chemical extinguishers carried in firemen's cars, the chief reported. Grass and rubbish fires topped all others, with 23 calls, and automobiles were second with 16 calls. Other calls were classified as follows: dwelling houses 5, storage shed 3, garages 3, gas on street 2, apartments 2, machinery, grocery store, 1 each. There were three call backs to the Bern's fire. The chief's report lists the following causes of fires last year: children with matches 6, backfire 5, wiring 4, car accidents 3, cigarets 3, incinerator 2, burning rubbish 2. and sparks from train, charging battery, vandalism, cleaning clothes with naphtha gas, turpentine on pilot light, combustion, hot plate, rubber boiling over, grease on fire, and fire spreading from Bern's, one each. Salvaged from Fire, Equipment Stolen Machines and equipment salvaged from the fire which Bern's Super destroyed Foods in November, have been stolen, Duane Rasmus-sehas reported to police. Four check-ou- t scales, an adding machine, and three cases of light bulbs, stored of the in the basement burned building, have been removed from the premises. n School At 1 32,60 General contract for construction of an addition to Cottonwood Heights elementary, 2451 East 7600 South, Flotation Mill Feels Imact Oi Long Strike Impact of the copper strike on the Midvale flotation mill of U. S. Smelting, Refining, and Mining Co., was told to members of Midvale Kiwanis Club Monday evening by A. A. Nelson, superintendent of the mill. Instead of working normal shifts of five days one week and six the next, the flotation mill has been working two or three weeks, then being down one, so that its men have lost approximateof their wages. ly 40 Operations at Park City, in Colorado, and in Idaho have shut down entirely, so that the Midvale mill receives only an occasional car of custom ore from small shippers. Nelson noted that the men at the mill and at the U. S. and Lark mine are also members of the steelwork-ers- ' union, and with their contract expiring in May it is possible that the strike may be extended to the lead-zin- the famed Romanoff-Stradi-variu- s violin insured for wmmmm $100,000. Rubinoff is being brought to Midvale under sponsorship of Midvale Kiwanis Club. He will play a concert at Midvale Junior High on Feb. 12 starting at 8:15 LI C?4 ;?A p.m. The violin is famous for its silken, lustrous tone, its full range and almost unbelievable depth. Made in 1731 by the master of all violin makers, this particular "Strad" eventually found iis way into the hands of ' the Romanoffs, one time rulers of Russia, and still bears the bejeweled crest of that family. During the revolution, it was smuggled out of Russia and eventually was purchased by Dave Rubin- at; strike has resulted in the mill stockpiling some 50,000 tons of concentrates in its yard, with the total growing about 100 tons every day the mill operates. Nelson estimates that it will take about eight years to process the concentrates now on hand, and feels sure that the company could invest its money at greater profit than in stockpiling ores. The situation is intensified because the strikers have prevented the company from zinc and lead metal in storage during the strike. Nelson pointed out that, if the lead-zinindustry is forced to pay the same wages as the copper indutry, including the. $8 a day raise asked by the union, and if lead and zinc prices drop to the level of a few years ago, the local plant could be forced out of business. "With new properties coming into production and with wages and fringe benefits threatening to go as high as $43 per man per day, there is no bright future in the lead, zinc, or copper industries," the speaker told his audience. He noted that one of the problems is that out of 60 union members only about 5 ever attend union meetings. Sensitive to heat, humidity, altitude, and the risks that beset any treasure of such vast value, the Stradi-variu- s is guarded and handled with deference and extreme care at all times. The ancient instrument still is the acme of perfection in musical instruments, tains the original varnish f o strength of highly developed muscular action to draw certain tones from one of the world's most delicate instruments. In addition to the evening concert at the Junior High and Auditorium Rubinoff His Violin will also appear during the morning of Feb. 12 at school assemblies at Midvale Junior High and Hillcrest High chool. The school assembly program will be briefer than the evening performance, and there will be no charge to students, many of whom are purchasing tickets to the evening performance at a special student rate. Tickets for the Rubinoff concert are available from any member of Midvale Kiwanis Club or Hillcrest Key Club and at a number of business places in the area. Salt Lake County Library has reported to police the disappearance of an Olymp-itypewriter with carriage valued at $300 from the library headquarters, 80 E. Center St., last week. Midvale police are investigating the loss a Rubinoff New Chairman Named to Board Keith C. Brown is the new chairman of the Salt Lake Recreation Board. County Mr Brown, who resides at 2662 Verona Circle, is a member the of Granite School Board of Education, and for the past year has served as of the recreation board. Named as of the board was Briant Stringham Jr. The new is a member of the Murray City School District Board of Education and lives at 325 Clark St. n Alia Asks City Aid to Finance 7-M- Sewer ile A sewer line to Alta, estimated to cost $400,000, is in the advanced planning stage and the Little Cottonwood Sanitary District is making arrangements for adequate financing. In a meeting Monday, the promoters of the district asked the city of Salt Lake to participate in the financing of the sewer line because of the protection the system would give to the city's watershed. Federal funds will be available to pay of the cost of the 7 miles of sewer needed to reach Alta from the end of the present sewer serving the LDS Church vaults near the one-thir- d h re-an- d $34,-80- c Typewriter Missing From Library Here off. was awarded to Wathen Construction Co., Lehi, Wednesday night by Jordan board of education. Wathen Construction had the low bid among 23 bid ders for the school addition, a of figure submitting $132,600, which included the mechanical and electrical bids accepted the previous evening. The bid specified 175 days for completion, which will make the building available at the start of the coming school year. The addition will provide two three - room pods for classes and expanded library facilities. Last Tuesday at the first bid opening the mechanical contract was awardled to A & B Plumbing & Heating Co., Salt Lake City, at and the electrical contract to Cottonwood Electric, Inc., Murray, at $11,368. The successful bid was well below the estimate of $167,000 made by Scott 4 Louis, architects. The board of education gave approval for Sandy City to begin work at once on a new well to be located on school property at 10700 South 10th East, on which filings had been completed earlier. Board members accepted an invitation for Jordan high schools to participate in the series of basketball telecasts. c mill. The Rubinoff Plays Concert Feb. 12 An interesting fact is that during certain passages of "Warsaw Concerto" Rubinoff exerts as much as 60 pounds of pressure on the violin. It takes tremendous Bid Ss Violin . . . When Rubinoff appears in Midvale Monday, Feb. 12, in a program of popular concert music, he will play on one of the most precious instruments in the world, at the Addition to Overhaul Due; Metro Unwanted t 1968 Thursday, February 5 mouth of the canyon. are going Preparations forward to issue about worth of revenue $275,000 bonds, which it is estimated can be sold at 5 to 5Mi interest, payable over a 25 year period The city was asked to pay some portion of this money, and Mayor J. Bracken Lee gave the Al ta group some encouragement, saying that he had always felt the city should pay a share to protect its watershed, and that the county also has a great interest in such a sewer line. The Salt Lake mayor made no firm commitments. Presently, resort owners in the canyon are paying $3,000 a year to haul sewage from canyon facilities. in Those participating Monday's meeting included Richard Christensen, Burrows Smith and Co., financial consultants for the district; Edwin Gibbs, operator of Alta Peruvian Lodge; Charles Morton, operator of Alta ski lifts and ski school; Theodore Johnson, developer of new Snowbird area below Alta; Elwood Neff, district engineer, and Harian Nelson, representing a lodge-motchain and Alta Chamber of Commerce. |