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Show Universal Microfilm. Corp. 11162 141 Pierponi At. SERVING THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY 0 JJJjgt dJfltllttU MINING FARMING MANUFACTURING VOL. 72, NO. 7. Oldest w.rkly in Salt L.k. County BINGHAM CANYON and WEST JORDAN, UTAH, FRIDAY. JUNE 20, 19G2 An independent Newspaper PHONE AMherst 12 Down Memory Lane BY JOHN J. CREEDON UTAH COPPER FIELD DAY 1820 STYLE! Last week it waa Kennecott Cop-per Field Day at Lagoon and there was a great crowd on hand to have fun together and see old friends and fellow workers not seen since last year. The swimming pool was jammed with happy youngsters and a few of the older folks too. The rides had long lines waiting their turn to go sailing through space on the Ferris Wheel and the Giant Racer. The Merry-Go-Roun- little train and boats and planes were filled with laughing, happy children. , The picnic area was crowded to capacity and great quantities of ther the railroad or the Copper com-pany had to pay for the raid, but there was some question over who wa to pay for the damage. Lagoon has changed much since that day, being almost completely rebuilt after the fire a few years ago, but many of the same old at-tractions were there that day. 'The merry-go-roun- the Lagoon Dip-per and the old Fun House were loaded with passengers. The Bow-ery was much smaller, but the food nd drinks were just as plentiful and tasted just as good to the holi-day crowd. I noticed last week, Old 666, the little steam engine that puffed its way around the lake, pulling the tiny cars behind. Many a grandpa last week could recall riding old 666 in that bygone day. One of the main events was the baseball game between the Mine and one of the Mill teams. The riv-alry was keen and a great crowd witnessed the deeds of their heroes. Another event that received great attention was the tug-of-w- be-- fried chicken, watermelon and salad was washed down by gallons of punch and soda pop. There was a few of the old retired employes present and they had a great time greeting old rween Bingham and Magna. How those husky behemoths grunted and dug in the dirt, straining in every muscle, striving to uphold the hon-or of their town. That year I stayed for the dance and we spent some time rounding up the gang to start for home. It seems that a few were left behind and some of them woke up in the Farmington Calaboose, and worked their fine off by cutting the spac-ious lawns of the County Court-house. And what a ride home on the train with a full moon overhead and in the seats, several full of moon. There was singing and story telling all the way home for the hardy. Most of the family men were wrapped in sleep with their brood, exhausted after the strenuous day. Yep, that was a field day worth remembering I Mr. Creedoa friends and ac quaintances. There were prizes for the lucky numbers. ' We didn't stay for the bathing beauty contest or the dance, for after keeping up with half dozen little ones for about six hours, grandma und grandpa were bushed. I assume they had a big time in the evening when the day shift workers and their families arrived to join the big crowd already there. The day and all the fun and ex-citement brought back come happy memories of my first Field Day and I believe it was the first Utah Cop-per Field Day. 1 don't recall the exact year, but it was in the and it was held at Lagoon. The Utah Copper Co. furnished the transportation to Lagoon and back. We went in style by special train. The train left the B&G yards early in the morning and proceed-ed to Magna, where additional cars were coupled on the train and on to Salt Lake City. At the Union facitic Lepot our train was transferred to the Bam-berger Railroad and we had an-other engine put on to take us to Lagoon. What a wonderful trip that was. You didn't have to worry driving your car, for in that day many of us did not own cars and the roads were not the best either. The coaches were jammed with children and their parents. For the little ones it was their first ride on a train, for many of them. Lunches were stashed away under the seats and on the racks overhead. Being prohibition days, there was other goods hidden under coats and disguised as legal baggage. There was never a dull moment from the time we left Bingham un-til we arrived at Lagoon. The long train, even with a help-er engine had a tough time making it over the hills south of Farming-- - ton and when they stopped to build up steam, the merry makers left the train and hit for the melon fields lining the track on both sides. When we finally got rolling again, the coaches were loaded with melons of all types. 1 don't remember whe- - BINCHAM FIREMEN ANNOUNCE FOURTH OF JULY PROGRAM A 4th of July program, sponsor-e- d by the Bingham Firemen' Asso-ciation, will be held at Copperton Park next Wednesday, July 4th, and all children of Bingham and Copperton are invited to attend. 1 he program starts at 10 a.m., opening with children's races, in-cluding shoe scramble, three leg-ged race, also pie eating and water-melon eating contests and a com-bination shoe scramble. Cash will be given. There will also be a Softball game at 2:00 p.m. and concluding the day's events will be a fireworks display at 8:30 p.m. at the lower Bingham playground in Bingham. JORDAN DISTRICT APPROVES BUDGET Jordan School District Board of Education l.ist Thursday night ap-proved a 1962-- 3 budget by a split vote after considerable debate on a proposed nine-tent- h mill increase in the tax levy. The budget, which was finally approved 3 to I, calls for the ex-- i penditure of $7,004,652 and re- - n compromise in the mill firesents The tax levy will be I increased by only four-tenth- s of a mill. The original budget proposed that the capital outlay portion of the maintenance and operation budget be increased from one and one-tent- h mills to two mills this year. Opposing the raise were O. C. Madsen, who represented Kenne-cott Copper Corp., and Dr. M. Hyrum Harris, executive secretary, Utah Taxpayers Assn. Both pointed out they felt the board had ample money in the building reserve fund to go with the $1,859,220 which will be raised by the ll tax levy. 1 he debated levy is part of a per-missive 10 per cent of the basic minimum program the board may levy to purchase sites, remodel I'll i Duuaings ana purchase furniture for the schools. Dr. Harris said the board was "trying to fill the cellar during a time of famine." Several citizens of the district spoke in favor of retaining the in-crease and complimented the board on the budget. Supt. Reed II. Beckstead said the increase was necessitated by the uncertainty of the assessed valua-tion of the district. GUN AND SURVIVAL TRAINING COURSE TO BE HELD NEXT WEEK The Redwood District Boy Scout and Safety Committee and Advan.-- e ment Committee announced this week that Gun And Survival Train-ing Course will be held in the West Jordan Stake House next week on Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sat-urday, July 2, 5, 6, and 7. Classes start at 7:30 p.m. and Allen Smith will be instructor. There is a fee of $1.50 per person for the course. All boys and girls from 13 years to 82 who are in-- i terestcd are invited to attend. For more information concerning the course call Hugh C. Drommond, l health and safety chairman, AM or Edward Knight, advance-ment chairman, AM O LEGION SECOND HALF BASEBALL SCHEDULE GIVEN The second half schedule of the Salt Lake Valley American Legion Baseball Lengue was released this week. The half gets underway on Monday, July 2nd. Following are games to be play-ed by Bingham during second half: Monday, July 2 Bingham vs Holladay, 5:30, at Murray; Friday, July 6 Draper v Bing-ham at Bingham, 7:30; Monday, July 9 Murray vs Bingham at Bingham, 7:30; Wednesday, July I I Judge vs Bingham at Bingham, 7:30; Friday, July 13 Bingham vs Magna at Magna, 7:30. Wednesday, July 18 Bingham vs West at Jordan, 5:30; Friday, July 20 South vs Bing-ham at Derks, 5:30; Monday, July 23 Bingham vs Highland at Jordan, 5:30; Wednesday, July 25 Granite vs Bingham at Bingham, 7:30; Friday, July 27 at Bingham, doublehoader Draper vs Holla-da- 5:30, East vs Binpham, 7:30. BOY SCOUT COURT OF HONOR HELD THURSDAY The Redwood District Boy Scout monthly court of honor was held last night (Thursday) at the West Jordan Stake House under direction of Edwnrd Knight, district advance-ment chairman. Scouts and awards they received, by troop number are: South Jordan 1st Ward Troop 123 Cordon DeMill, merit badg-es, gardening, painting, music; Darrell Lloyd, second class, merit badges citizenship in the home, home repairs; Ray T. Newbold, star, merit badges citizenship in the nation, poultry keeping, plumbing; Richard Newbold, merit badges world brotherhood, swimming; Keith L. Palmer, first class, merit badges painting, rabbit raising, citizenship in the home; Paul R. Palmer, star, merit badges paint-ing, citizenship in the home, citi-zenship in the community; Stuart F. Palmer, merit badges citizen-ship in the home, painting, rabbit raising; James Simpson, merit badg-es art, plumbing, animal indus-tries; Brent R. Perschon, merit badges painting, reading, animal industries; Johnny G. Jolley, merit badge painting; Don K. Powell, star, merit badge electricity; Da-vid Shay, star. Riverton 2nd Ward Troop 151 Ricky Akita, merit badge cook-ing; Allen Anderson, merit badge gardening; Brent Barney, first class, merit badges firemanship, safety, cooking; Clark Beckstead, merit badges nature, gardening; Dell E. Beckstead, merit badges na-ture, marksmanship, automobile safety, landscaping, bookbinding; Kerry Beckstead, first class, merit badges firemanship, safety, cook-ing; Monty Bone, merit badge nature; Dean Butterfield, star, merit badges firemanship, safety, gar-dening, citizenship in the home, na-ture; Robert Huebner, first class, merit badges firemanship, safety, gardening, cooking; James Hock-ing, first class; Wm. Bill Jardine, star, merit badges firemanship, safety, soil and water conservation, nature; Ronold Larsen, merit badg-es firemanship, safety, coin col- - lectins, soil and water conserva-tion; Roy Larsen Jr., merit badges stamp collecting, coin collecting; Dennis Madsen, first class, merit badges firemanship, safety, gar-dening, cooking, fishing; Fred Niel-sen, merit badges firemanship, safety, gardening, nature; Robin Nielsen, second class, merit badg-es firemanship, safety; Brad Ne-vi- n, first class, merit badges fire-manship, safety, cooking; Allen Peterson, merit badges garden-ing, nature; Rodney Peterson, merit badge nature; Craig Rindlesbach, tar, merit badges firemanship, safety, gardening; Dennis Roberts, merit badges nature, gardening; Terry Sours, second class, merit badge cooking; Douglas Tateoka, merit badge gardening; Craig Thorn, second class, merit badge cooking; Steven Wardell, merit bad-ge fishing. Riverton 3rd Ward Troop 320 Arden Andreason, merit badge, art; Robert Dryer and Dale Freeman, merit badge, zoology; Wm. T. Free-man, merit badges reptile study, weather; Alan Hanen, star, merit badges bookbinding, personal on page four) BINGHAM LIONS CHUCK WACON BREAKFAST AT N WEDNESDAY The public is cordially invited to attend the Bingham and Copperton Lions Chuck Wagon Breakfast to be held next Wednesday morning, July 4th at the Copperton Park from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. Tickets are idults $1.00 and children 50 cents. There will also be prize drawings. Proceeds will be used for the com-munity civic building at Copperton. Everyone welcome to attend. BOX ELDER NEWS PUBLISHER IS NEW NEA PRESIDENT Charles W. Claybaugh, publisher of the Box Elder News Ac Journal, Brigham City, was elected president of the National Editorial Associa-tion June 21, at Hershey, Pa., re-presenting 7,000 weekly and small daily newspapers in the U.S.A. The election took place at the 77th annual convention of NEA. On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Claybaugh had a thirty-minut- e pri-vate interview with President John F. Kennedy in Washington, D.C., discussing legislative problems as they apply to the nation's news-papers. Mr. Claybaugh has served on the board of directors of the NEA since 1955, and this past year was vice president of NEA when the 76th annual convention of the associa-tion was held in Salt Lake City. ?f i rV-v- I ' CHARLES W. CLAYBAUGH He has spent a lifetime in the newspaper business, starting on his father's paper, the Pretty Prairie Times, Pretty Prairie, Kansas, and graduating from Kansas State Col-lege at Manhattan, Kans., with a degree in journalism. Ho came to Utah in 1942 and purchased the Box Elder News and Journal. Since that time he has never ceased to be active in the Utah State Press Asso-ciation, serving on its board of di-rectors and as secretary, vice presi dent and president. He is currently on the USPA board of directors. He is presently president of Brig-ha- City Rotary Club, past presi-dent of Brigham City Chamber of Commerce, member of the Utah Headliners Chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Tau Alpha, and the Salt Lake Advertising Club. He ser-ved as a lieutenant in the Naval Air Force during World War II. RIVERTON TOWN DAYS JULY 4TH FETE WEDNESDAY An invitation is extended to all residents and former residents of Riverton and the general public to attend the Riverton Town Days July 4th celebration at the town park in Riverton next Wednesday. Schedule for the day will be a breakfast at the town park from 6 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., and parade at 10 a.m. In the afternoon, there will be booth games, cake walk, rides, races and horse races, and con-cessions. Also Little League and Pony League ball games 5:30 to 8:30, Riverton Rough Riders Horse show, prize drawing 8:30 p.m., and fireworks at 9:00 p.m. Prizes will be portable TV, rifle, sleeping bag, and fishing pole, line and reel. THEODORE W. KRUEGER SERVICES SLATED SATURDAY Funeral services for Theodore Wilhelm Krueger. 79, of 483 lit Main St., Bingham Canyon, who passed away Wednesday at 1:30 a.m. at his home of natural causes, will be held at noon Saturday (to-morrow) at St. Paul's Community Methodist Church at Copperton with Russell Bryant, pastor of the church, officiating. Friends may call at Stevenson's Memorial Chapel, 1861 W. 7800 South, West Jordan, tonight, Fri-day, from 6 to 8 p.m. and at tHe church a half hour prior to services. Mr. Krueger Was born April II, 1883, in Effingham, 111. to August and Henrietta Wollen Krueger. He was a resident of Bingham Canyon for a number of years. Surviving him are a sister, Mrs. Henry (Ida) Ebeling, Wheeler, 111., and a half-broth-and half-siste- r, Walter Krueger, and Gusta Draves, both Dieterich, 111. Interment will be in West Jordan Cemetery under direction of Stev-enson's Memorial Chapel. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Roblez, 255 South Main, Midvale, are proud parents of a baby girl born Mon-day, June 25 at LDS Hospital. The baby weighed 8 lbs. 8 oz. and as yet is unnamed. Happy grandpar-ents are Mrs. Beth Densley of San-dy and Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Ro-blez of Bingham. Cottonwood Maternity Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Orvid B. Housley, 15503 Camp Williams Road, River-ton, boy, June I 8. Mr. and Mrs. Theron A. Tisher, 13400 So. 2040 West, Riverton, girl, June 18. Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Wiechman, 10600 So. 1079. West, Riverton, boy, June I 8. Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Malko-gianni- s, 8572 South State, Sandy, girl, June 19. KENNECOTT OFFER EXTENDED TO SIX OTHER UNIONS Kennecott Copper Corporation Wednesday offered the same econ-omic package which previously had been extended to tha Inter-national Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, the United Steel-worke-of America and other un-ions to the six remaining unions within the Utah Copper Division. The offer would increase the com-pany's over-al- l hourly employment costs by about 2 I cents per hour. The unions involved in Wednes-day's offer were the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Locals 1081 at the mine, 1845 at the refinery and 1438 at the power plant, the Order of Railroad Con-ductors and Brakemen No. 506, Operating Engineers Local No. 3 and Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (OHP) that represent some of the em-ployees on the company's ore haulage system. These six unions represent approximately 730 em-ployees within the Utah Copper Division. The Kennecott offer includes wage adjustments ranging from 6 cents to IOV2 cents per hour in-crease in the first year and from 6 cents to 8V4 cents per hour increase in the second year. The offer also would result in higher premium pay for afternoon and night shift workers and would increase pen-sion benefits for the six unions in-cluded in Wednesday's offer. There are 19 union locals within the Utah Copper Division. On June 30, contracts with 16 of these lo-cals expire. The remaining three contracts terminate on July 31. rf'S CITY COUNCIL A regular meeting of the Eing-ha- City Council was held Wed-nesday night, according to Mrs. Mae Stillman, recorder. Miscellan-eous bills amounting to $418.27 and the regular payroll totaling $985.20 for the last half of June were ap-proved for payment. Appointment of Robert King as street and water supervisor, to re-place Leonard Bell who has resign-ed, was also reported. The next Council meeting will be held on July I I, it was reported. NOTICE Announcement was also made that city garbage pickup will be made on Monday, Thursday and Saturday next week instead of the usual days because of the 4th holiday, and starting on July 9th, the regular pickup days will be Monday, Wednesday and Friday. MIDVALE JAYCEE MEMBERS RECEIVE OFFICIAL PINS At a dinner meeting of the Mid-val- e Jaycees held last Wednesday night, June 20 at Bayou Country Club, the officers and each member present of the club wero sworn in and received their lapel pins. Business for the evening includ-ed discussion of the functions of the club both internally and ex-ternally. A very interesting pro-gram has also been arranged for the coming year, with several guest speakers slated, it was reported. Also named at the meeting were: Gregory Tyson, sgt. of arms; R. L. Hansen, public relations; Ray Uli-bar- ri, membership; Robert Long, finance; Bradley B. Bloom, Spoke Award; Tom James, program; Bill Miles, ways and means; Keith Carl-son, social and Nolan Olson, legal advisor. Erwin Fichter was elected as a new director of the club. Jaycee of the month award were presented to Vice President Tom Taylor and Don Norton by Presi-dent Ned Miller for outstanding contributions to the Midvale Jaycee effort. ' Due to a holiday, July 4th, the next meeting is scheduled for July 1 8 at Bayou Country Club. Lions Elect International President Curtis D. Lovill of Gardiner, Maine, was elected Internat-ional President of Lions Inter-national at the Association's 45th Annual Convention in Nice, France. Lions International, with 640,000 members in Jib" countries, is the world's largest service club organization. Lions International is best known for its many youth pro-grams, community service proj-ects, sight conservation activi-ties and aid to the blind. Last year Lions Clubs around the globe completed more than 200,000 individual community service projects. LOW BIDS LISTED ON SCHOOL WORK Fredrickson Builders of Salt Lake City are low bidders for remodeling at the Bingham and Jordan high schools. To be remodeled , is the biology and physics-chemistr- y department and toilet facilities at Bingham High. At Jordan the remodeling will be for the chemistry department. The Fredrickson bid of $115,900 was low of only two bids submitted. The firm has 150 days to com-plete the project. SANDY TO FEATURE FOURTHPROGRAM A variety of events feature the 4th program to be staged Wednes-day, July 4th in Sandy. The pro-gram will be held in the Jordan stadium and all are invited to come to Sandy to spend the Fourth. The day's activities are slated to start at 6 a.m. with an air raid aerial mortar bombs explode., fol-lowed at 6:30 a.m. by the flag rais-ing, gun salute, welcoming by Pre-sident Marlon S. Bateman, short address by featured speaker and a vocal solo by internationally known singer. At 7 a.m. a chuck wagon breakfast (50c and $1.00 plates) will be served and at 9 a.m. will be a parade with 1500 children par-ticipating which may be viewed from bleachers. A horse pulling contest featur-ing trained triclc. pony will be held at 10 a.m. and excellent half hour variety musical and magician shows will be given at 2, 4, 6 and 8 p.m. There will be a champion softball game from 2:30 to 3:30 and a Lit-tle League all star game at 4:30. When dark there will be fireworks consisting of 120 aerial bombs and 60 ground displays. KENNECOTT FIELD DAY EEAUTIES Winner of the beauty contest held at Kennecott Field Day last week waa Mrs. Kathlene Ewell (left). Mrs. Ewell is the wife of Forrest Ewell. an employe r at the mine. Other participant were (from left to right): Eva Trujillo, Susan Marks, Mrs. Connie t Krause, Betty Maria) Zdunich, Bonnie Mortensen and Sharon Taylor. V Robert Bailey from Bingham High 5(chool, LaMont Thoinack, Granite High School; Delos Eggles-ton- , Ogden High School and Robert Goff from the University of Utah left Sunday, June 24, for Lawrence Kans., to attend the American Dri-ver Education Association conven-tion being held there June 26 to July 1st. Mr. Bailey will remain two weeks longer to attend driver classes at the University of Kansas on a scholarship from the American Trucking Association. S&H PROMOTING STATE OF UTAH Utah's granite capitol and Ken-necott Copper Company's open pit mine are among the sightseeing contrasts featured in a new state-wide tourist promotion program sponsored by Sperry and Hutchin-son Company. From Big Rock Candy Mountain to the imposing Salt Lake Mormon Temple, more than 3 1 7 attractions are outlined in three colorful sec-tional maps of the state north, southwest and southeast avail-able free of charge at service sta-tions giving S&H Green Stamps in Utah. In addition, a free book-let "Unique Utah" attractive-ly die cut in the shape of the state, contains full color pictures of sce-nic attractions throughout the state. Twenty-si- x billboards will also be located on key highways publiciz-ing local events each month. Among other attractions of the historically laden area are Big Cot-tonwood Canyon, Creat Salt Lake, Salt Lake's 68 year old City and County Building, Temple Square and Hogle Zoo's liger, Shasta born of a lion father and a tiger mother. The well researched project of-fers a glove compartment history cf the sli'.e for touri-- t and native alike, in addition to pinpointing the individual attractions "by the num-bers" in relation to major high-ways on the respective maps. When previewed by Gov. George D. Clyde and D. James Cannon, tourist and publicity director, the Sperry and Hutchinson firm's in-terest end activity in promoting travel in Uiah weie highly praised. First Security Bank and Bingham and West Jordan post offices, also some business houses will be closed next Wednesday, July 4th in ob-e- r. unco cf Independence Day, a national holiday, it is leporied. Five girls who will be seniors at Bingham High School next fall, are among those attending the annual American Legion Auxiliary Girls State at USU at Logan this week. They are: Sharon Schmidt, daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph J. Schmidt, and Betty Gardner, dau-ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gard-ner, of West Jordan, Kathy Crellin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Creilin of Copperton; Vera Mae Piatt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rulon Piatt and Marjean Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Brown, of Riverton. Girls State be-gan June 24 and continues to July 1st. |