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Show N ewspaper Devoted to the People of the Uintah Basin Y? ? j PTP A, Covers ALL The Uintah Basin Volume 14 DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER William M. Curtis Family Hold Annual Reunion Saturday Splendid Work Being Performd By Experts In This District the Federal An activity which with many government is the people are not familiar work of the Soil Conservation Service. This work consists mainand experience ly in putting training behind the work of every farmer who is willing to cooperate with them. The soil conservation work of was started as in 1933, and at called the Soil a federal project that time it was Erosion Service, but farmers who wrote in so often called it the Soil Eroding Service that it was decided to change the name, which was done, and the name became the Soil Conservation Service. the erosion When we view which has taken place over long periods of time we may not be is. j aware of the dangers from erosion, or at least we think that erosion requires periods of time which can only be measured in look geologic eras, but which we at the chasm called Dry Gulch, and realize that it is only about 30 years old, we get some realization of the threat which erosion can be to our most productive lands. Now there is a real problem of controlling the irrigation waters on both sides of Dry Gulch, because whenever a stream of uncontrolled waste water runs nto the gulch it is only a short time until unother big piece of choice land has been washed into the gulch. To protect the farmers from this danger the Soil Conservation culpeople have desgnde special verts set deep in cement, where the waste water can run into the land gulch wthout , taking the with it. No doubt, if the Commission had been in existence when this gulch first started to form they Would have devised ways to protect the country so that there would not have been the big wash which now runs through the country Then, there is the problem of river control, upon which they are workng. At L. C. Winslow s farm they are erecting a diversion dam. Bud has had a dam in there for some time, one they and designed made themselves themselves, and every time high water comes a good part of it is taken out, and Jerry Merkley has to reconstruct the dam before any water can be taken out into the irrigation ditch When the dam planned by the Conservation people is finished the river will not wash it away, and any damage done can be rather quickly and easily repaired. ,Thi3 dam will cost real money, but the lack of water, and the continual rebuilding of the home made dam costs more real money by far, over a period of years, than this one planned by experts will. And all this expert service and planning is furnished free to the farmer. He pays only for the actual expense of the construction work. Down at Bridgeland the river was washing the banks away at Elden Bradys place. The Conservation people went in there and planned things so that the Over will not wash the banks away as it has done for many years before. They also directed the planting of willows and trees along the bank to assist in holding the soil in place. While they were planning they also planned the reclaimation of the waste lund which the river had flooded until now Mr. Brady has a fine pasture growing there, and several cattle are fedcing where formerly it was waste land, only waiting for the river to come over a little farther and wash it away. Another activity of the Conservation Service in the construction of small reservoirs for those who need them. For Harold Gee milks quite a few cows, and during the winters, previous to now, he used to have them twice a day down to the river to drink. The cows did hot like the long trips in the fld, and demonstrated their dislike by decreasing their milk Fiii Honoring the 89th birthday anniversary of William B. Curtis, the family held a reunion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Porritt Saturday afternoon and evening. A lawn party and refreshments were enjoyed by the following: Mr. and Mrs. Nephi Porritt, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Porritt and family, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Babcock and family, Mrs. Louise Trinnaman and family of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Erastus Curtis and family of Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Rex Giles and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Fullmer and family, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Young and family, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Winn and family, Miss Nina Behunin, Miss Joyce Pin-kar- d of Midway. Mr. Curtis was bom August 26, 1885 at San Bernadina, Cali-frn- a and has made his home in the Uintah Basin over thirty years, most of that time at My-toHe has 2 sons, Erastus Curtis of Roosevelt and Mark Curtis of My ton; 4 daughters, Mrs. Jane Porritt, Mrs. Martha Porritt and Mrs. Faith Babcock of Myton and Mrs. Louise Trinnaman of Salt Lake City, all being present for the celebration except one, json Erastus, who was unable to attend. He has 22 grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Two grandsons are serving in the armed forces and the husbands of two of his granddaughters are also in the service. He has a sister, Mrs. Phoebe age 92 years at Mackay, Idaho and one brother, Joseph B. Curtis age 78 years, of Leslie, Idaho. n. Os-bu- rn Mayor Wiliam H. Fitzwater spent several days in Salt Lake City this week on business. production. The Soil Conservation folks surveyed and staked out a pond by his coral, and also secured the services or a bulldozer to make it for him. This machine made the pond in about four hours, and now Harold has a pond that will hold water ail winter, and his cows just step out of the barn to get their water supply, instead of the long journeys which they formerly made. Many of our people avail themselves of this service. The owner pays for the services of the machine used in making the dam, the plans are supplied by the Conservation Service. Another very helpful part of their work is in planning and recommending proper crops for poor land. Tom Gilbert has about 80 acres of land which would not raise alfalfa or grain profitably, but he had water for it He was puzzled as to what to do with it, as it would not produce the crops he was used to raising. So he asked the advice of the Conservation men. They recommended planting it to a combination of grasses and clovers which by experience throughout the nation had proved to do well on land of that kind. Tom planted it as they advised, and now has a permanent pasture. When we visited that pasture he had about thirty fat cattle feeding cn it, and next year expects to harvest three tons of good hay then per acre from that land, and he will also have several months of excellent pasture for his stock on that land. Not bad. We are safe in saying that the work of the Conservation Service carries with it a guarantee of tiie security of the fertility and permanence of the farm lands wonof the nation, and also is a derful school for the training of our nation's farmers in proper sefarm practices, which will sensible maximum cure for them production and the continuing of the fertility and endurance assurreasonable a with land, our lose not will we ance that 'farms by mismanagement or by erosion in Harry Woorward is his with district, charge of the headquarters at Roosevelt; Roy leader in Shipley is work unit is this area, and Francis Todd an engineer. ne This district is the largest comprising States, United in the of which 5.400.000 acres of land, and owned is 1 100,000 privately hi this end of the district abut under the 200.000 acres is now ConserSoil supervision of the words other in vation Service, land ha the owners of the under the direcagreed to work tion of the soil conservation XT -'.-- 'id 1, 1944. K1 Telegram Sent By Red Cross Tells Of His Death In Pacific A tf Word from Our Warriors k. la Advance Number 7 Roosevelt Hospital To Offer Service Contract On Annual Basis Miss Anna Stark, primary supervisor in the district schools here, has returned from her home in Spanish Fork, and is now making the necessary preparations for the opening of school on September 11th. Mrs. B. A. Jacoby and children returned to Duchesne Monday from a vacation in Ennis, Montana, and Pocatello, Idaho, where her parents live. Mrs. Jacoby tame to Salt Lake with her parents where Mr. Jacoby met her Sunday. Jacoby's have a min ing property at Ennis, Montana, in which the government is getting interested. It is a mica product, used in electric work and in isinglass in stoves. LaDene Poulsen went to Salt Lake City to visit for a week. Mr. and Mrs. George Davis and family of Salt Lake City are visiting with Edna Peterson. Mrs. and Mrs. Peterson are Davis : telegram was received by Mrs. Retta H. Chatwin of Utahn 7- last Tuesday, telling of the death h of her son, Ray Wilson, who was killed in action in the Pacific. No further details are yet available. SGT. HENRY L. FOWLER Ray was 21 years of age, and had been in the Marines for about two years. He has three Sgt. Henry Fowler brothers in the armed forces: Reported Missing In Fred Wilson is in the secret serAction Over Italy vice; Lloyd is serving in the Merchant Marine, and Orin is a reSergeant Henry Fowler is ported as missing in action over sergeant at Camp Roberts. The sympathy of the entire Italy since August 2. The advice was received by his wife at community goes out to this fam- sisters. Seligman, Arizona and then re- ily in their bereavement, and a Mrs. Alice Rife returned to ported to his sisters, Mrs. Louise realization also that hundreds of Larsen and Mrs. Grace Woods others of our sons are facing the her home in Salt Lake City Sunat Myton. Henry is the son of same dangers and there yet may day after spending a week visitMr. and Mrs. Earl Fowler, for- many other families receive the ing in Duchesne with her son Mr. mer Myton residents now living same kind of message which and daughter-in-laand Mrs. Vem Rife. at Ogden. He was bom August was received by Mrs. ChafayjQ Barbara Talmer and Iris Ken16, 1922 at Myton and attended school here and at Roosevelt. Hd Duchesne Woman Has nedy of Springville and Eileen Davies of Talmage were Duentered the service on July IS, First Baby Born chesne visitors Tuesday. 1940 and received training in the In Roosevelt Hospital Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Cook and Army Air Force, graduating iii The first baby bom in the family made a business trip to February 1944, from Harlingen Army Air Feild, aerial gunnery Roosevelt hospital was a fine Salt Lake City Monday. school of AAF Training Com- boy weighing 8 yt pounds, born George A. Roper and son Verl mand as a qualified sharp-- ', to Mr. and Mrs. Sharon Meckum G. P.oper of Upalco, were transshooter of the sky. He sailed in of Duchesne. acting busness in Duchesne last Mrs. Mecham is one of the Friday. late June for the European Luther E. Potter of Myton theater of war to serve as a twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Orson C. Nielsen of Bridgeland, was attending to business here bombardier. and former head clerk in the F S Monday. A office in Roosevelt. Grant Murdock made a trip to Mr. Mecham, the father, ope- Price Saturday. rates a farm abut five miles east W. E. Broome of Myton was of Duchsne, and is at present tbe transacting business at the Court elder of the Bridge-lan- d nouse on Monday. ! presidingward. Dan Mitchell of Roosevelt was The baby, and parents will be a business visitor here Monday. PRIVATE PETER W. IVTE, Miss Virginia Burton of Talgiven a case of baby food by the ONE OF THE FRUIT LAND Safeway store; a baby blanket mage arrived in Duchesne MonBOYS, WOUNDED IN FRANCE by Penneys; a satin quilt by day for an extended visit at the In a letter to his sister, Ada Leslie Ashton and Sons and a, home of her sister, Mrs. Howard Private years subscription to the Roose Cowan. L. Lee of Springville, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rchens of Peter W. Ivie says that he was velt Standard. Arcadia spent Monday in Duwas hit by some' shrapnel and chesne. flown back to England in an Now You Can Draw Jess Johnstun made a business His letter is one of A Bead On Em airplane. to Heber City Tuesday. trip the type, and not very If you have a few moments to Duane Grant, who is employed on comments the He good spare, you may begin to oil up long. in Salt Lake City, spent the care that he and the other the flint-locWPB has week end with his family parents, Mr. wounded are gettng in the hos- taken of the fact and Mrs. cognizance Parry Grant. pital, and says that the ride in that animals and birds are causMrs. Fern Birchcll of Long the airplane was wonderful. widespread destruction to Beach, California was a guest at ing The care that our wounded crops and livestock all over the the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jess men are receiving in this war is The ban in the sale of Johnstun country. Friday. Mrs. Birchell one of the outstanding developammunition to hunters will be was a former resident of Roose-- . ments in modern warfare. removed temporarily in the near velt Available for nimrods future. Neil Titcomb of Mt. Emmons will be 240 million rim fire car- was a Duchesne visitor WedPVT. GEORGE II. STEVENS WRITES FROM FRANCE tridges and 130 million shot gun nesday. shells. Wolves, coyotes, foxes, TELLING ABOUT THE W AR Denzil Hemphill and son of weasels, wild ducks, crpws and Myton were attending to busiin folks to his Orem, Writing pheasants should not be told of ness matters here Tuesday. H. Stevens Utah, Private George this regulation. Happy hunting. Earnest M. Morrison and Mrs. gives some interesting sidelights Swindle of the Farm Karma .88 an All and fire. He France. in war by caught agout the office in Roosevelt were Security out comforts his mother with the the crew got safely. Pvt. Mecham was slightly attending to business matters in assurance that he always digs a good slit trench to sleep in. burned, and a sniper hit him in Duchesne and vicinity Wednes. This trench is six feet long, two the right wrist as he climbed day. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Caldwell He was feet wide at the bottom and one down from the tank. foot wide at the top, and has placed upon the back of a second and sons Norman and Orland about two feet of dirt over it, so tank, which blew up when it of Salt Lake City, were visiting that evidently it would take a was hit. Here he was more bad- with friends in Duchesne this ly burned, but he was able to week. direct hit to hurt him. Mrs. A. F. Maxwell and Miss He is in the artillery, and run to a shell hole and wait there Maxwell of Salt Lake City Calista ceased Germans the until are firing pounding away says that they at the Germans pretty much all at the crew of the second tank. were guests the first part of the the time. There are about 12 Then he moved a little way back week at the hme of Mr. and Mrs. men in the crew, and when any to find a company aid man, and Lester F. Maxwell. Mrs. Bessie Barton visited in one of them has anything, he was taken to the road, where a evacuato Helper him Saturday with her sister, the shares it with the rest of the jeep carried Mrs. Ralph Myers. Mr. and Mrs. alhe In four tion are in days hospital. that crew, way they was on an LST, bound for Eng- Myers brought her back home on ways getting something. Sunday, It looks good, he says, to see land. Mrs. Carlos and Marsing a flight of big bombers going Major Horton E. Hughes of his ward daughter made a trip to Heber Oklahoma, over to pay the Jerries a visit Shawnee, where Pauline reevery once in a while. They cele- surgeon, said, Private Mecham Ctiy Tuesday, ceived meiical attention for her brated the 4th of July by firing Is getting along very well. some time which broken was leg, receive Patients Just possievery their all day with artillery. be ago can ble attention that given another day where they were. Gail Lance made a trip to them by fine doctors and nurses, o Heber City Wednesday to secure medical in the latest aided by PRIVATE LEWIS MECHAM Col. medical attention. Lt. said improvements, OF FRUITLAND Mrs. Grant Bleuzard of Mtn. Daniel J. Fourier, the commandWOUNDED IN' FRANCE Home was visiting in Duchesne ing officer. HOSPITAL Pvt. Mecham, who was a farm- Wednesday. She recently returnU. s. STATION ENGLAND Escaping from ono er at home in Fruitland, was in- ed from Florida, where she had been with her husband, who is miming tank with only minor ducted on August 6, 1942, at Fort In the armed service. injuries. Private Lewis Mecham, Douglas, Utah, and received h's and Mrs. J. M. Mlckelson Mr, at Fort basic member I."V training 28, of Fruitland, Utah, been liave He joined the tank visiting relatives In of a Tank Batallion, was wound- Kentucky. ed when a second tank was blown unit in France, as a rephiCinunt Manti for the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff C. Mickel-so- n up while taking him to safety. on June 12. His parents, Mr. went to Springville Monday He is now recuperating in a and Mrs. Otis Mecham, live In to the funeral of Mrs. attend He Hoshas four sisters Fruitland. United States Army Station lat- May Crandall, a relative of Mrs. All brothers. the and where four has he in England, pital been awarded the Purple Heart. ter are in the service: Reed, 25, Mtckelsrin. Mr. George Davis of Salt Lake I was the assistant driver in Is in Iceland; Harold, 29, Is in a K former Dhchesno resident was in New 22, Mecham Guinea; ith, our crew of five," Pt. said. "On July 6th, down to- France, and Edward, 31, is still visiting here last Friday. Continued On Pege 8 ward St. Lo, the tank was hit in the United States. I $2.50 Ter Year Final arrangements have been completed to offer a Hospital Ser vice Contract to every single person and' every family in the area to be served by the Roosevelt 'Hospital. An organization will be effected in every Community and a campaign will be Initiated directly. In the Roosevelt Community a campaign community of members of the J.C.C. will assume the responsibility of contacting every family to explain the benefits of the plan and enlist the subscription of every family. In the other communities throughout the area a committee of people serving purely on a voluntary basis are assuming the same responsibility in their re-- ! j spective localities. The cantract in its final form is designed to become effective October 15, 1944 for one year. Its rates based on actual hospital exl perience provide a contract for a single person at $10.00 per yeaii and for a family of two or morq persons at $20.00 per year. The benefits offered by the plan are as follows: (1) Twenty-on- e day of hospital care during the yea.! for one person listed jn the contract If you need more than 21 days your charges per day will ue uiscounted 3d 13 after 21 days have been used up to a1 limit of 60 days. (2) Board and bed in a room of three or more beds. (3) General nursing care by the regular nursing staff of the Hospital. (4) Use of the de"are livery room and under a family t (.. use of the operating room, area thesia when given by a hospital employee; surgical dressings; use of laboratory; and drugs and medications ordinarily provided by the Huspital. (5) Private or semi-privaroom by paying the difference in cost over a ward room. (6) An allowance of $40.00 per day for 10 days for emergency care n a general hospital elsewhere, when you are away from home, in case of accident or emergency illness. (7) Maternity care after 10 months of participation on a Family Contract except that if 700 contracts are in force during the year this limitation will not be effective. Would you need such a plan? Each year, one average family of three members in every five requires hospital care. Accidents, sickness strike suddenly when you least expect them. They cause hardship and distressing worry because few families are prepared, financially for 'such emergencies. It is better to pay for hospital care a small amount each year while you are well. The more contracts sold the more and better will be the service available to us. Let us support the movement and welcome the community volunteer canvasser. , , te School Board Secures Two New Busses For Use In This District Friday morning there were two brand new school busses capable of seating 48 children in each. This will be a big help to the district, as our busses were all getting older. One thing that puzzled us was how they let these busses get away from the painters witliout having the sign painted on the back, This bus stops at all railWe road always crossings." thought that was standard equipment for a school bus. How would they know how many railroad crossings we had in rJuchesne County? 3Ir. J. A. Washburn, Former School Supt. To Teach Seminary Here Candidates Pav Visit Here: Sav Reoublicans Have A Good Chance J. Bracken Lee, mayor of Price and candidate for Republican Governor of Utah, together with Colonel Leland O. Gee, Republican candidate for State Treasurer, spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning in Duchesne. While here they called on a number of the citizens, many of whom Mayor Lee is already with. Mayor Lee discussed many of the problems of the Rasin while in the Record office and showed a real nterest in our affairs. One thing which he understood quite well was the Indian Canyon highway. He gave us very definite assurance that he favors that highway, and if he is elected and has the allocation of any funds for the improvement of a high way between Carbon County and the Basin he assured us that it would be used to improve that road. He said that the Republcans in Utah have a very good chance of being elected tills year, and .hat there will be a great inter-- . 'sed jn tils election, 1 the importance of .i getting out the vote, saying lvit Pcity workers should be diligent in seeing that all voters cornu to the polls, as the chances for securing an administration attuned to the needs of the people is better than at any time in the past 12 years. Colonel Gee was in the Phtlip-pne- s at the time the war broae out, and was undei -- e there for 18 months. He was v. minded tlrree times, and was evucuated four days before Corigedor fell. He served 13 months after that in New Guinea, and was retired November 5, 1943, because of wounds rceived in action. Colonel Gee is a college graduate, a trained accountant and business administrator, well bual-fe- d to handle the position of . 1 i State Treasurer. Roosevelt Hospital News Babies Born: To Mr. and Mrs. Sharon FL Mecham of Bridgeland a boy, bom August 21, 1944. To Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. Jaczsen af Altonah, a grl, bom 26, 1911. To Mr. and Mrs. August of Arcadia, e Frank L. a boy, bom Hol-gat- 28, 1944. To Mr. and Mrs. Clyde August of Roosevelt, August a girl, Wahl-qui- st born 28, 1944. Zelpha P. Mrs. Rust of Hayden was admitted to the hospital and later allowed to return home. Lafarge Dastrup of Mt Emmons was admitted to the hospital August 23, and is responding to treatment Mrs. Carl Hacking is recovering satisfactorily. Mrs. Frank Horrocks entered the hospital August 24th in a serious condition, and Is showing Improvement. Darrel Clark, a six year old boy from Indian Bench, east of Roosevelt, entered the hospital for tieatinent for a shotgun wound in his side. He lived only a few minutes. He, with anol'n r small boy, was playing with a shotgun and it accidentally Ray Casper of Saif Lake City Mr. J. A. Washburn arrived in was visiting at the hme of his Duchesne lust Tuesday, prepara- grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. tory to assuming the duties of Casper this week. Seminary teacher in Duchesne Kathryn and Don Larsen rethis year. Mr. Washburn has had turned Wednesday from, a week's a wide experience in this work, vacaton spent in Salt Lake. and from many years has been Bishop Levi J. Anderton and engaged in Seminary work in Porter L. Merrell went to Sait Provo, Utah. La h t 'lueaday, returning Wed- He retired from act nmg. .i.- about two years r prevailed upon fn , u n ........ active work, owing to the shoit-ag- o WEATHER REDOUT Date of tmehers. Mr. Washburn is no stranger Aug. 24 to Duchesne, being a forint r Aug. 20 26 superintendent of schools here, Aug. 27 as well as being principal of the Aug. Aug. 28 Duchesne school for some time. Aug. 29 Clarence Baum of Strawberry Aug. 30 was visiting in Duchesne |