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Show A Newspaper Devoted to the People of the Uintah Basin PEFENSE fri UgpEFENSE BUY STATES SAVINGS kbJ0DS 7i and PS f tk. STAX Covers AT, I. Its Utah State Fair Will Have Many Special Attractions Utah State Fair Victory Exposition, which opens Labor Day, September 3, and continues through September 11, will climax a record year of war proUtah Goes to Harvard duction in the industrial fiel is Dr. Charles H. Tozier, head of and provide visitors with a prer the visual education department, view of products, acHarvard University and party of cording to Sheldon R. Brewster, Boston, Massachusetts, are head- secretary-manageA spectacular grandstand reing into Utahs Monument Valley this week. Dr. Toziers visit vue, featuring Hollywood enterto Utah is significant in that tainers, is scheduled for the eveUtahs scenic attractions, her nings of September 3, 4, 5, 6, her rivers, 7, 3, 9 at 8:30 p. m. Afterwonders, geologic mountains and deserts strike a noon grandstand shows will be greater response in the famed held September 3, 4 and 9 at doctors heart than other scenic 3:00 p. m. Induced in the score attractions in the U. S. So im- of thrilling acts will be the Marpressed is this Harvard profes- ion Rankin Dancers; Darby and sor with what he found in Utah Ardell, perch and balance act; that he is returning to set up "The Butterfly, high trapeze visual education act; and Goebel's Lions and a permanent exhibit of Utah scenes at the Tigers. The Three Saints, a well known eastern hall of learn- ladies trio, just returned from a The party was met at nine months USO tour, and ing. Zions by David H. Mann of the Lloyd Hust 'and his Wonder Utah State Department of Pub- Dogs are Utah acts to be fealicity and Industrial Develop- tured in the show. Each evening ment, who gave Dr. Tozier valu- revue will be brought to a dazable information and direction zling close by a giant display of that will enable him to enlarge fireworks, including the impresthe scope of his efforts. sive atomic bombing of Japan. Horse racing and horse pulling Takes Ilis Own Pictures hold prominent places in the Dr. Tozier, old enough to re- 1945 fair schedule and promise tire, yet full of enthusiasm and to display some of Utahs finest good health, finds great pleas- horses. Horse pulling will be ure in taking his own pictures. held September 10 and 11 at Two retired millionaires, Afton 7:00 p. m. in front of the grandB. Atwood, Cheslia, Mass., and stand, while the horse races will Frank M. Howard, Windcheater, be held at 3:30 p. m. on the afMass., their wives, and Dr. and ternoons of September 5 to 11. Mrs. Tozier made up the party. Among the scores of educaThey were so enthusiastic about tional and interesting exhibits the photogenic grandeur and lined up for the exposition are majesty of Zion Canyon that mines and minerals, fish and they started work with the first game, manufacture, fine arts, daylight and were loath to stop flower show, pigeon, rabbit and shooting pictures when it ended. canary shows and the famed Their $3,000.00 worth of still May tropical insect collection. and motion picture equipment is Fun for all the family will be all personally owned; they paid found at the midway and carnitheir own expenses and the group val on the grounds every day of was as happy as Boy Scouts on the exposition. a country hike. Farms In Duchesne Students to Hear About Utah The groups enthusiasm for County Are Larger Bryce, Zion, the Bridges and the Now Than In 1910 Arches was of the type that The number of farms in the predicts more eastern visitors for Utah. They questioned Mr. County of Duchesne, State of Mann for two hours about Monu- Utah, as shown by the prelimiment Villey, its roacls, inhabi- nary count of the 1945 Census tants, how to reach it and what of Agriculture was 1,044, as to "'see. Next winter, students compare I with 1,104 in 1940, and was anThis in the Harvard visual education 1,201 in 1935. classes will see and hear about nounced today by Joseph H. Utahs scenic and geological Watkins, Jr., supervisor for the' wonders, thanks to Dr. Tozier. 1945 farm census in the First As can easily be imagined, this Utah Census District with headtype of publicity is the kind that quarters at Logan, Utah. cant be purchased, yet it is The total land in farms in of the most valuable to be se- Duchesne county, according to census 1945 cured and there is no doubt the preliminary acres, as but what tlhe future flow of count, was 537,013 tourist traffic into Utah will be compared with 300,321 acres in considerably stimulated by Dr. 1940, and 202,951 acres in 1935. Toziers lectures, his still pic- Average size of farms shown in census 1945 ture exhibits and his motion pic- the preliminary ture demonstrations befort Har- count for Duchesne county was 514 acres, as compared with 272 vard classes. acres in 1940, and 169 acres in Utah on Rotarlan Cover 1935. A Bryce Canyon scene, a color In announcing the 1945 census photograph by Fret Bond, na- totals of farms and land in tionally known color photographcounty, Supervisor Water of Los Angeles adorns the kins pointed out that the figures cover of the August edition of are preliminary and subject to This magazine correction. Final tabulations of the Rotarian. reaches every Rotarian in the Duchesne county farm census country and the cover is good returns will be ma e by the promotion for Utah. Mr. Bond Bureau of Census and announced has told the State Department from Washington when of Publicity that he is coming Mr. Watkins said. to Utah this fall when the reds and yellows are in the mountain Kohls Market Building forests to seek photogenic aspens or quaking asps for magazine Large Warehouse for covers. After all, one Utah Lumber and Hardware cover on a national magazine is Kohls Market in Duchesne is more effective than 10,000 desbuilding a large warehouse in criptive words. the rear of the big store. The Tourists Flood State dimensions of the new building A per cent in- are 21 by 85 feet. It will have crease in visitors to the L. D. a. cement floor and be solidly J S. Temple Grounds since built, and will be used as a in officials room for luniter and hardis store noted by day charge. Zion and Bryce reports ware. a 74 per cent increase with cars During the war there was control on both lumthe all ovef from government arriving ,.aily are ber and hardware, but these are country. The again on the road, Utah lodges, now lifted, and Kohls has orhotels and filling stations are dered a carload of lumber and doing a spirited business. Utah's a big supply of hardware, which income they expect to have as soon as tourist was a meager $37,000,000.00, supplies of these scarce materseventy-firials are available. only one, of the total national sum Inasmuch as the building respent by tourists. If Utah should strictions are now lifted they exh manage to get her pect quite an active demand for honest share of the tourist these materials. money, it would reach the stagSo Comprehensive are the docgering total of $200,000,000.00, only a tithing of what California trines of tho gospel, that they and New York gets from the Involve all moral truth known travelers. Utahns dont know it by man; so extensive are the yet, but .the tourist business is precepts, that they require every the state's greatest potential virtue, and forbid every sin. Wurrcn. The UTAH post-wa- r. Du-dhes- cou-plete- d, two-hundr- V-- stay-at-hom- ar st one-hundr- firty-eight- Word from Our Warriors LLOYD SMITH PARRISH OF MYTON, IS ON THE BATTLESHIP IOWA ABOARD THE USS IOWA OFF HONSHU (Delayed) Lloyd Smith Parrish, 28, machinists mate, first class, Myton, Utah, son of L. M. Parrish, Arlington, Va., fough aboard this 45,000-to- n battleship when she and other 3rd fleet battleships, cruisers and destroyers staged a daring midnight bombardment of industrial targets on this main Japanest island, jUst seventy miles from Tqkyo. Standing only a few miles off Iowa hurled more shore, the than 200 tons of flaming projectiles at war factories. A few days before this crowning achievement in her wartime career, the Iowas big guns had wrecked the port and industrial city of Muroran on Hokkaido, morthermost of Japans large islands. Since she was launched, nine months after Pearl Harbor, the big battleship has taken part in virtually all naval action in the d d conquest of Pacific territory. She was in no the initial strikes at the Marshalls, air strikes at Truk, the Carolinas, Mariannas, Formosa, New Guinea, actions in the Philippines and at Okinawa. island-to-islan- Jap-hel- o C. STUTZ, FORMER PRINCIPAL OF TABIONA II. S., WRITES FROM GERMANY HOWARD Howard C. Stutz, former principal of the Tabiona high school, who was taken into the army some time ago, is now in Germany. Recently he wrote to Supt Bond, and his letter was so interesting that we asked the privilege of printing ft in the in part, The letter, paper. follows: Dear Mr. Bond: My trip came a little prematurely and has proven much less enticing than I ha I planned but it is an education. Ive seen a lot of Germany and France and found really beautiful countries despite the war scars. Traveling through the country there are times when the war seems almost a myth. The valley may be peaceful and quiet with neat and vineyards. The cows graze peacefully in the hedged pastures and the people work industriously in the fields. The green grass carpets the whole But over the next landscape. hill there Is chaos. The animals lie dead in the fields. The green turf is broken with brown foxholes and gaping shell craters. The trees are hewn to shre 6. The railway tracks are twisted Debris is everyand upheaved. where. If one was inclined to believe the supernatural, it would appear that the hand of death had consciously selected areas to destroy. Here In Germany one wonders why a people with so much at their disposal could want to war for more. Their land seems to be exceptionally productive. The homes are very modern and much nicer than any of the surrounding European countries. Everyone looks prosperous. Yet even in defeat they look so haughty and aloof as though we were the ones who had erred. What an education they must have reHow I wish I could ceived. road their books to see what they to in order to were exposed create such an extreme attitude. I often heard there were some spots in the Army. I good had about decided they were always going to be just over the next hill when Bingo." I hit. I was headed for line outy in the infantry when I got the break to get into this Combat Engineers group as a clerk. Somebody must have been doing some overtime on their prayer well-ke- pt crop-stri- ps bones. Incidentally, while my mind is on education, if you ever get a chance to arrange a geography classroom, be sure to have the students and map properly ori- ented with the compass direcWhen I studied geotions. graphy, the map was hung on the south wall and try as 1 may, I just cant get Russia east of me and Italy south of me. I still see them there on the map so that north just aint north. Its one of the most difficult false impressions I have ever tried to correct and $2.50 "" Duchesne Now Has Open Air Dance Hall And Tennis Court The people of Duchesne have again shown their willingness to assist in a project which will be for the benefit of the city, and we now have a new tennis court, which can also be used as an outdoor dance floor and a basket ball court. It is also used for roller skating. Mr. Ferrin Van Wagoner was chairman of a committee which solicited funds for the project, and to date they have raised the sum of $113 in cash. There has also been a considerable amount of labor donated on the cement LOCALS n, record-breakin- g Number 7 0. Mrs. Mr. and Ted Johnson were visiting at the home of Mr. Johnsons parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Johnson at Ioka Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Giles of Provo were Duchesne visitors on Saturday. :. A. m Oakes Ames Halstead, Basin Pioneer and long time resident of Duchesne, died last Wednesday morning at the Vernal hospital from a stroke. He was the son of John M. and Lillis Carr Halstead, and was born January 19, 1873 at Charles City, Iowa, and was 72 years of Duchesne Office To age at the time of his death. Remain Open, Many Mr. Halstead came to the Others Will Be Closed Basin at the opening of the resand on homesteaded As an economy measure thirty-nin- e ervation, what is now the Arzy Mitchell Utah War Price and Rationplace in 1905. He was a carpenter ing Board offices will be closed, and did quite a little building in District Director H. Grant Ivins 0 X x Gop-pinge- Per Year Is Advance Oakes Ames Halstead, Basin rioneer, Died At Vernal Wednesday F. M. Sheldon of Folsom, California, was attending to business matters in Duchesne the first part of the week. Mrs. Joe Anderson and children of Salt Lake City are the guests this week at the home of ,work. Mrs. Andersons parents, Mr. and Besides the $113.00 cash dona- Mrs. Ernest Odekirk. dotions the town council has Ray Mott and Conrad Hollennated $50, and the Commercial beck spent a few days in Salt Club has also donated $100.00. Lake City this week. There has been paid out the Bishop Walter Kerkseik of Mt. sum of $70.00 for labor, and Emmons was transacting busisum of $225.00 there is owing the ness in Duchesne on Monday. for cement. Miss Glenna Johnsort arrived The plan is to improve the court with a fence and a stand, from Provo on Monday of this so that the musicians will have week for an indefinite stay. She a stand, and the crowds can be has accepted 'a position in the Recorders office. regulated at dances and roller County Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Daniels is fence a if put skating nights of Mt. Emmons were transacting around the arena. business here on Monday. They and the Mr. Van Wagoner committee are to be congratu- have recently sold their holdings lated on the success of their ef- in Mt. Emmons and will go to Salt Lake City to make their forts, which will be celebrated home. with the opening dance on FriHugh Gagon of Hiawatha was day night, August 31st. attending to business matters in although light as it may seem Duchesne on Monday. on the surface, it has prove! Roy Eliason spent a few days pretty dam serious at times. I in Salt Lake City attending to think you realize how important business matters this week. Otto E. Johnsen made a trip it i3 to know where you are at when in enemy occupied to Heber Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Koyen countries. It would be a little embarassing to drive a jeep into of Talmage spent Tuesday aftera town as a spearhead of an noon in Duchesne. Lawrence Pack of Roosevelt armoured column. In talking to the fellows who was a business viistor here on have been overseas since the be- Monday. Mrs. H. E. Hellekson spent the ginning of the war, I have seen end in Helper, returning week have that they gathered accommore than they could put into to Duchesne Monday, words. Im not waving any pen- panied by Mr. Hellekson, who nants for being over here now spent the past several months but I realize that I have had working in Carbon county. Mrs. Dorothy Larsen has spent some breaks. Even in the short the been have here, my time that I past few days assisting her education has been steeped and father in Mooies cafe. Chester F. Paris, general secnot altogether pleasant. But tftere are numerous gems to be retary of the Indian Rights AsFor sociation, with headquarters in gleaned from the rubble. I spent Philadelphia, was calling on his instance in Schwab-Haconsiderable time in an Academy friend, Hugh Owens, last Wedof Natural Arts and Sciences. nesday. Miss Anna Stark, who goes to The collections of rock specimens and insect an! plant mounts her home in Spanish Fork each There were summer, has returned to Dubeautiful. were and chesne to prepare for the openlaboratories highly equipped Preservasections. ing of the school season. experimental Mrs. Eddie Carman took her tion of embryologic studies were Karmen to Heber last myself. I enjoyed daughter really grand. Monday for medical attention. Then again, at the town of Theron Wardle, the son of Mrs. I visited a museum. One can really appreciate them amid Clella Wardle, is spending a furso much chaos and destruction. lough in Duchesne. Kenneth Price, the grandson of Few of the centers of culture Mr. and Mrs. James Price of Duhave been hurt. One thing that lhas surprised chesne, is back from the Pacific. me most of all over here is the He was in the battles at the numerous amount of crucifixes Marshalls and the Marianas, and throughout the country. Almost wears a silver star as well as a every farm and house has a navy unit citation. Mr. Ed Wilkins has been ill crucifix in front, many of them life size. I had in mind that for the past ten days at the L. D. the Germans had degraded al- S. hospital in Salt Lake. He has most to Pagans. Perhaps they Deen suffering with an infection would be easier to deal wiUi it of the lungs and intestinal tysinphoid. they had. It wpuld be more Mrs. Vern Rife and children hollow mockery cere than this Robert and Jean made a trip to so inflated with Salt Lake City Tuesday. They that exists now. But now that Hitler and Ber- were accompanied by Mrs. Ed lin are Kapput," one section of Wilkins, who visited Mr. Wilkins the mess is apparently about at the Li D. S. hospital. Mr. and Mrs Dick Johnstun and back In- - looking terminated. son returned to their home little ten or years, over the past eight it looks like a Ihuge cycle ro- in Chicago, after a visit in Dutated almost back to the primary chesne and other points. Jess Johnstun, father of the former, stage. accompanied them to Chicago. Sincerely yours, Howard C. Stutz. Men and women of riper years and FORMER larger lessons ought to ripen T. HENRY FISHER, Into health and immortality, inDUCHESNE RESIDENT, RECEIVES ARMY PROMOTION stead of lapsing into darkness or gloom. Mary Baker Eddy. Henry. T. Fisher, of Salt Lake T. Sgt. Fisher wears City, Utah was recently promoted Guinea. from Staff Sergeant to Technical two battle stars on his Asiatic-Pacifi- c campaign ribbon. He is Sergeant, while serving on Luzcii in the Philippine Islands with the also entitled to wear the Phil1307th Engineers Construction ippine Liberation ribbon, as well as the Good Conduct ribbon. Battalion." T. Sgt. Fisher worked for the Overseas since March of 1944, New in Construction Company besaw service Utah Fisher TSgt. Guinea before coming to Luzon fore the war, and continues to He has been use his construction experience in the Philippines. in the army since July 1943, when in the army in his capacity as he volunteered for induction into Construction Machinery Superthe Engineers. He wears the intendent. Award T. Sgt. Fisher's wife lives in Service Meritorious Wreath, which his unit was Salt Lake City, while his parents, awarded for outstanding devotion Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Fisher, live in to duty and excellent perform- Buhl, Idaho. ance of a particularly difficult Sergeant Fisher is a brother of was Lotus The Fisher of Duchesne, and award assignment. lived here for three years. He given for the Battalion's in assembling also married Wanda Johnson, a work craft In New Duchesne girl. landing amphibious ll states ONOS wdviamp DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1945. I'Xatah lias in tNTED savings Mf f'Jup II Jkk 3 Volume 15 before-the-w- BUY V. tNJTEO Duchesne. has announced. He went into the theater busiPrice control and rationing ness in 1924, continuing in that board office to be continued in business until 1943, when he re- Duchesne County will be the tired. Recently he was taken ill and went to the Vernal hospital, where he passed away last Wednesday morning. Surviving him are the following sons and daughters: George W. Halstead, Fresno, Calif.; Charlie R. Halstead, Vernal, Utah; Floyd E. Halstead, Oregon City, Oregon; Ralph H. Halstead, Duchesne, and Elva H. Eytel, Port Orchard, Washington, and also the following Mary Foster, Salt Lake City; Andrew W. Wood, Peonia, Colo.; William B. Wood, Umapine, Ore.; Robert T. Wood, Salt Lake City; Arthur Wood, armed service, overseas; Sirchia, Los Marjorie step-childre- n: - Angeles, Spokane, Calif.; Anne D. Marsh, Wash. are also 17 grandchil- There dren and 3 great grandchildren. The funeral will be held in Duchesne at 2:00 p. m. on Saturday, Schools To Open Sept. 21; Several New Teachers Are Signed Mr. W. J. Bond announces that the schools in Duchesne County wiH open on Monday, September 24. This will be some weeks later than the usual opening. Reasons for the delay are the shortage of teachers, and also the shortage of help in getting the school buildings ready for these hool opening. Among the new teachers who will be in the county this year are the following: J. Robert Gillispie, who will be principal of the Roosevelt high school. Mr. Gillispie has taught one year at Roosevelt, and was principal one year at Altamont high school. During the war he taught Physics at the University of Michigan to Army trainees. Edward A. Sandgren of Ogden, Utah, will teach vocal music at both the Roosevelt high school and the Roosevelt elementary. J. J. Cook will teach instrumental music also at both Roosevelt high school and the elemen- War Price and Rationing Board at Duchesne, Utah. The ration- ing board office at Roosevelt will be closed. All applications for tires, etc., should be mailed to the War Board Price and Rationing at Duchesne, Utah, after September 1, 1945. and Price panels community service committees of those boards being consolidated, however, will continue to function. OPA is not abandinlng its program, Mr. Ivins said. Only by the most strenuous efforts can OPA hold down living costs. We are asking all price panels and all community service members, even of those Boards being closed, to continue their work until normal conditions return. Mr. Ivins praised the work of non-pal- d board members and board employees. Their patrio- tic service has saved the nation billions of dollars and economic chaos, he said. Moon Lake Stake Honors Bishop Kerkseik With Evening Party The seven wards of the Moon Lake stake entertained at a party Friday evening at the Mt. Emmons ward hall in honor of Walter Kerkseik, retiring bishop and seminary teacher. A large representation from each ward turned out and enjoyed a very pleasant social. Mr. and Mrs. Lee roy Thacker played for and modern dances and ice cream and cake were served. The following program was presented: Song, "If I Knew You and You Knew Me, Mrs. Fern Snow and Volney Boswell; reading, Mrs. Rita Hansen; quartette, The Rest of the World Go By, Mrs. Garda Seeley, Miss Jeanne Goodrich, Miss Betty Lou Seeley and Gardner Goodrich of Bluebell; with guitar accompaniment by Miss Seeley; accordian solo, Willard Gowans of Bluebell; vocal old-tim- solo, White Cliffs of Dover, Franklin Smith of Bluebell; readJensen, Boneta; Georgia ing, piano selection, Virginia Swasey, The Sweetest Boneta; duet, Story Ever Told," Mrs. Lillis Wilkins and Mrs. Anona Miles of tary school. Mtn. Home; reading, Miss Joyce McDonald of Talmage, and reAttention Mothers! marks by Bishop Kerkseik. WilA Play School Mothers Club lard Gowans entertained with his while refreshments meeting will be held Friday at accordian 8 p. m at the home of , Mrs. were being prepared and served. Johnnie J. Cook, president, for the purpose of electing officers De Witt Grandy, Soil and organizing for the coming Conservationist, Has year. All mothers having children at Returned to Duchesne the age of three, four or five are Mr. De Witt C. Grandy, who requested to attend. had lived in Duchesne for several months before being taken into the military service has returned Four More Duchesne to the district again. Return From Boys He spent several months in Service With Army military service, and was recentFour more of our Duchesne ly released from that service a medical discharge. boys have reported to the draft through now in Duchesne lookHe is board that they have returned from military service with hon- ing for a house to rent, and as soon as this is found, his wile orable discharges. They are: They Calvin R. Llsonbee, formerly and family will return. of Roosevelt. He has seen ser- have been living at Paris, Idaho, vice in the Philippines, Bismark while Mr. Grandy was in the Archepeligo and Luzon. He now army. lives in Salt Lake City. Human wisdom is the aggreChalmer Wilford Workman, of Roosevelt, one of our Basin In- gate of all human experiences, dian boys, recently was released constantly accumulating, selectfrom the army. He was in ac- ing and reorganizing its own tion in the Bismark Archepeligo, materials. Story. Northern Solomons, Central Pacific, New Guinea and Eastern WEATHER REPORT Mandates. Lowell Bingham, of Myton, has returned from the army. He was in the Central Pacific, Guadalcanal, Luzon and Northern Solomons. lie was wounded in action on Luzon on May 12, 1915. Marvel E. Woo , of Myton, has returned from military duty. He was in New Guinea, Luzon and Southern Philippines. L. C. Winslow, Cooperative Observer. |