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Show Spotlighting UTAH' Service Will Attract Tourists Many civic clubs, cities, counties and the States of Utah are spending good money to attract tourists to the State and in trying to hold them here for a longer stay after they arrive. Many stores realizing that they cannot compete on price know that they can compete on service to the customer. Everything possible is done to make shopping a pleasure and because of the many little added services, people gladly pay a higher price. Cities, towns, counties and communities must compete for the tourist trade on this same basis. People on the road are friendly. They like to visit and converse with their fellow travelers. The word travels fast as to what kind of a nights rest they had in your town. Unsightly rubbish heaps persuade many a tourist to drive on. Barber-shoharmony at the wrong hours and noises by service stations, changing tires, etc. all contribute to whether your town gets a favorable rating. The traveling public wants and ex-pects what you want when you are on the road. They want service favorable to their interests. In the Utah Quiz anyone in the state has the opportunity to express their ideas on what makes a town click as a tourist center. Your ideas may win cash prizes. Please note the following important facts about the contest and formulate your answers to the quiz questions. The quiz is Sponsorship sponsored by the Utah Motor Courts Association and the Utah State Department of Publicity. To create a greatPurpose er interest among Utah people in the vital importance of the tourist trade. Prizes The Motor Courts Association offers for the best answers to the twenty questions three cash prizes of $25, $15, aiid p all-nig- ht 1 $10. All answers should Answers be sent, prior to September 30, to Utah Motor Courts Association, Ness Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. Winners will be Winners announced at the Utah Motor Courts Convention to be held at Vernal, Utah on October 9, 1948. Decisions of judges are final. and instructions Questions will be available at motor courts throughout the state. UTAH QUIZ .... Points Allowed 2 Give numbers and general location of all U. S. highways in Utah. Name 3 qualities or abilities that you like best in persons who serve you when you travel. (75 words or less) Name and give general location of Utahs state parks. How far south does the Wasatch Mountain range extend? Where is the oldest log cabin Utah located? Why is increased tourist trade vital to all residents of Utah? (50 words or less) What is the state emblem? State flower? State tree? State song? Name the national parks in Utah. Name the national monuments in Utah. What is the principal difference between national parks and monuments? (50 words or less) 10 When you travel, what 3 attitudes in the persons who serve you irk you most? (50 words or less) What is the meaning of the word Deseret? What is its historical significance in this area? In what year did the Donner party traverse Utah? Where is Silver Reef? Why was it famous? (50 words or less) 10 15 Name four of the most important sources of income, in dollar volume, in Utah. (50 words or less) What is the latest (1940) census of the number of Indians in Utah? In which two counties do most of Utahs Indians reside? Where is the Utah Field House of Natural History located? Name the national forests that are wholly or in part in Utah. When did Utah become a state? How long did it have territorial status? Outline a weeks itinerary (what to see each day) in the state that you believe will do most in publicizing Utah. (150 words or less). TRUTII IN ADVERTISING the Advertising Club of York New organized a Vigilto outline a ance Committee in advertisfor truth program had such Hitherto proposals ing. been just talk.1 The outgrowth of the vigilance committees, however, was the organization of what is known as the Better webe These Bureau. Business formed to protect honest merchants from the undermining Influences of quacks and confidence men. In 1946 these bureaus were operating in 91 cities, and their influence was felt in a wide area around each of these In 1911 centers, Volume 18 DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1948. 'Darn Those Girls, Anyhow!' FARMERS EXCHANGE COOPERATIVE IS NOW LAUNCHED Readers will be both ' pleased interested in knowing that the Farmers Exchange Cooperative which the Black brothers and others have 'been promoting for the past four years, is now on its feet and going strong, Everyone has been in favor of this project, but there has been some skepticism as to whether $3.00 Per Year In Advance Zone Meeting of Lions Clubs; Officials in Attendance and it could 'be accomplished. AMERICAN LEGION AND AUXILIARY IN JOINT SESSION (.4 The final boost which assured complete success was given by the National Farmers Union Service f I I' ' - ' - JS pif , b. successful cooperative ventures. They haive field representatives in the Basin organizing local groups. Adequate financing has been extended by the National Farmers Union Life Insurance Company and Kamas State Bank to permit proper operation. The local cooperative can now give you best prices on your grain and be confident of ability to pay. The profit sharing feature is another important item of Feeds of all kinds the and flour with be available at the Duchesne mill, starting this weeU D. E. Black will be in New York and Boston for two weeks but on his return will start a vigorous sales campaign. A nine cylinder diesel engine is being installed at the mill as a supplementary power unit. This is the type of engine that wa3 installed in the big tanks during the last world war, and is rated a engine. Co-o- s SktoX ' ' ' ' ' N - - - t ' ' ir jv., Cooperation. The National Farmers Union is a national association of farmers established to promote the farmers welfare" through a program of meetings w here problems are discussed and solutions sought by educational, legislative and cooperative means. This organization owns, on a cooperative basis, the largest grain terminal in the world and has promoted and assisted many other DuThe American Legion, chesne Post No. 22, held a special meeting Monday evening, September 13, with Commander Robert Belt in charge. Su.eral topics came up for discussion. A plan was set up for the rental of rifles to mem-cer- s in good standing to be used during the coming deer season. The city basketball team was discussed with reference to the a gion Post sponsoring the team this year, with permission from the Lions Clulo, last years sponsors, in order lihat the team could participate in the Legion League and also make use of the extra privileges offered by havA committee ing two sponsors. wall meet with the Lions Club In the near future to present this problem. Repairs and redecorating of the Legion Hall were also referred to. Immediately fallowing the special meeting the Legion members Joined with the Auxiliary, who also were in session, and a joint meeting was held with Commander Belt In charge. Plans for redecorating the hall and make other needed repairs were again brought up and Mr. Belt and Mrs. Bessie Kohl were named to head a committee to take action on the project as soon as possible. This official business was followed by a social session. Those In attendance were: Auxiliary Mr3. President Bessie Kohl, Goldie Wilcken, Mrs. Bessie on r3- - Artie Stocks, Mrs. Tat-fir- e ton Bench, Mrs. (Robert Belt, Mrs. L. C. Winslow, Mrs. Elray Larson, Mrs. Anderton and Mrs. t 'JT vJmC K , . v' Members of the H Club leave the Brown County Fair In New Ulm, Minn., with their exhibits in protest to girlie shows. Walkout of some 200 and clerical indignation finally pressured the fair board into cancelling all shimmy sideshows. 4-- ers Utah State Fair Opens Tomorrow, September 18 SUFFOLK SHEEP WILL BE SOLD AT OGDEN SHOW p. EXTREME FIRE HAZARDS EXIST IN ASHLEY FOREST Several hundred workers exhibitors are dressing up buildings, outdoor exhibits, areas and gardens of the Utah State fairgrounds for the biggest exposition in Utah history, opening officially at 1:00 p. m. Saturday, with Governor Maw and other state and civic dignitaries participating in the ceremonies. Honored guests for the occasion also include Ted Malone, radio personality known for his Between Westing-hous- e and the Bookends Story Teller programs, and Marilyn iRobinson, Miss Utah, home from Atlantic City and the Miss America Pageant with a valuable scholarship won there, in her possession. Marilyn will cut the ribbon officially opening the gates of the tfair. There will be no end to the things to do, see, and enjoy at the 1948 Utah State Fair, declared (Sheldon R. Brewster, We have more and larger exhibits than ever before; more free acts to entertain visitors; more special features for all ages; the biggest and finest State Fair Revue; the most gigantic fireworks display ever brought to Utah; the most fun we've ever offered kiddies, in the Tiny Town Circus; the best staged Miss America Contest for Utah, at which event well select a new Miss Utah to represent us next year at Atlantic City; the largest Baby Parade ever held in Utah; scofes of exhibitions, demonstrations, oddities and other things of interest; and all this amidst the flowering grandeur of the most beautfiul fairgrounds in the country. Every hour of every day, for eight full days, is full of excitine events. so-se-nt Sale of purebred Suffolk sheep will be included on the Ogden Livestock Show auction program this year for the first time, officials announce. The stock show will be conducted Nov 13 through 17, with the sale of Suffolk scheduled for November 15. Entry notices from producers desiring to consign animals to the , sale will be received by Alma Esplin, at the Ogden Livestock Show office, at . Ogden. Fishing Contract on Mr. Esplin said the first sale will be restricted to a maximum Strawberry Reservoir of 125 Suffolk sheep. The aucIs Still Hanging Fire tion sale of purebred Columbia The status of the Strawberry sheep, to be held the same day, Reservoir contract between the will likewise be limited to 125 Utah Fish and Game Commission entries. The sheep auctions will start and the Strawberry Water Users Association is about the same as at 10 a. m. with the Columbia it was .two weeks ago, according breed followed immediately by the Suffolk auction. Other aucto Director R. L. Turpin. tions scheduled for the stock invited The water users have the game commission to meet at show week are purebred Hereford cattle, Nov. 16, and prize Payson to discuss the matter. It is not likely that the commis- winningNov.fat17. cattle, sheep and sion will hold a special meeting hogs, at Payson, Turpin said, but the water users have been invited to meet with the commission at its regular session September 18 in the Atlas building, Salt Lake City. secret- ary-manager. Number 10 Weather records and observations indicate that a high fire danger exists on the Ashley Forest, asserts Forest Supervisor, Ona A. Harrison. report-abl- e Out of the twenty-on- e fires discovered burning on the forest, 12 were man caused A 400 acre man caused fire was recently extinguished at considerable cost and labor on the Farm Creek mountain. Joint action by the Forest Ser- vice and the Bureau of Land Management was required to a 300 acre man caused Na-iton- al (The Duchesne Lions Club welcomed Heber, Vernal and Roosevelt Lions Club representatives a zone meeting held in the Mission Cafe Wednesday evening, September 15. (Members present were Andrew R. McConkie, first vice president, and Edson S. Packer, second vice president, of the (Heber Lions; Charles L. Winkel, secretary; C. R. Henderson, president, and Alvin E. Weeks, zone chairman, all of the Vernal Lions Club; Howard M. Ivory, president and Geo. R. Harking, secretary, of the Roosevelt Lions; Irvin Cole, president; and Wm. L. Sather, secretary, Duchesne Lions. Representatives of the Randlett club and the district governor were unable to attend. Club relations and problems were disthroughout Zone 28-cussed and ideas exchanged by members present. The next zone meeting will be held in Duchesne Wednesday, November 3, at 8 p. m. The Roosevelt delegation announced that they will entertain the zone clubs sometime in November, that date having not been decided as yet. A strong inter-clu- b relation program will be started immediately to create a better underA standing and relationship in the clubs In this zone and with Lions clubs In general. The Duchesne Lions Club will hold a regular meeting Wednesday, September 22, at 8 p. m. in the Mission Cafe. All members are expected to be present. Popular Young Couple Married in Salt Lake Temple Sept. 15 Bar-suppre- ss in Cottonwood Canyon, south of Mountain View, Wyoming. Another five acre man caused fire was extinguished In heavy Margaret Sather. Legion Corn-slas- h in Sage Creek on the Fort mander Robert Belt, Elray Ison, Artie Stocks, Elden Wilcken, district. adace Stephenson, Troy bailey, Considerable watershed timber, Wm. H. Case, Tatton Bench, and values improvement grazing have been destroyed becauuse of John Peterson, Wm. L. Sather. Had they not these fires. the labor and funds used Tularemia Shows In their suppression could have Increase In been used more profitably. Man caused fires on the Ash- Health Reports this season have ley Forest, Local health officers and physi-ican- s started from camp fires that reported a total of 98 resiwere ifot extinguished, smoking, cases of notifiable diseases dent and brush burning on adjoining to of the State Lar-Bridg- er d, By Thelma Nye TABIONA daughter of Miss Gwen Reid, Mr. and Mr3. Parley Reid, of Hanna, and Mr. Jack Josie, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Josie, of Tabiona, were married in the Salt Lake temple Wednesday, September 15. A bridal shower honoring the bride will be held in the Taioiona ward house Saturday afternoon, September 18, with all friends of the young couuple invited to attend. Saturday evening, the newlyweds will entertain at a wedding dance in the Tabiona high school gymnasium, to which everyone is Invited to come and have an en- - Department lands. 1 In general, users of the forest Health for the week ending Sep-are well Both young people are very careful regarding fires tember 10. That represents a known In Duchesne county. Miss considerable increase over the 63 Reid is a graduate of Tabiona during hazardous periods. The cases the week. previous in all desired is of and has been emcooperation It is encouraging to note that high school LDS church office in the detecting the occasional lighted two cases of infantile par- ployed Salt in for some time. Lake cigarette flipper and those who only have been City reported for the Mr. Josie is a of Roosethoughtlessly leave a burning alysis graduate fluctuaweek. However, weekly and attended school velt the camp fire, states Mr. Harrison. tions occur high frequently and may ' not have any statistical signifi- University of Utah. He has in MANY ATTEND The water users have submitcance. it is en- spent the past few mon.h3 Nevertheless, Salt Lake City where he ha3 been ted a contract for the fishing to a minimal Mr. and Mrs. Dean Larsen and have MACHINERY only couraging rights on the Strawberry Reser- baby,- who for the pa3t two years number of cases of poliomyelitis employed. Jack Josie is the other of the TRAINING COURSE voir which would call for pay- have been the Marvel reported during the last several famous ment of $7,500 a year for ten Moore ranchoperating boxing brothers and has on the edge of the cases have when weeks many concerns are business won medals and trophies several Many big other expenditures years, plus in some other secbeen just north of Duchesne, in amateur tournaments in Salt awakening to the fact that their tions reported Of amounting upward to $50,000 inlast week moVed to Roy, Utah, the of the dountry. future a3 well a3 that of the road repairs, etc. Copies of the wkere Mr. Larsen has accepted MILK TRUCK INVOLVED two cases reported this week, Lake City and the intermountain is entire nation He is in the definitely very to the contract have been sent a position on the Merlin Cook IN TWO ACCIDENTS one each occurred in a patient country. class and won the AAU Senior dependent upon the conservation commissioners and to the state poultry farm. At the present of our soil and water resources, frT E!mo a"? fuurrayt fUt?h Division trophy for that weight By Thelma Nye attorney general for study. One case of hookwarm infestafjme Mr. Moore is looking after at the last tournament in Salt according to Grant E. Chugg, Turpin pointed out that the his ranch in Duchesne, In spare TABIONA The truck which representative of the Soil Con- tion was reported from Salt Lake Lake City. Is infestation of state paid $1,000 for fishing moments after operating the hauls the This a type high servation Service at Roosevelt, City. but ocuncommon in this state, In was to privileges this year, the last cafe. Lake Salt milk who has returned from AlbuquerGIRLS GIVE PARTY grade contract in the LDS tt year on a ' Mickelson and Ward Ab- - volved in a second accident New Mexico, where he at- curs quite frequently Jay que, 1948. u in United which the state set Last Saturday night the LDS made a trip to Provo Sun- - day when the vehicle hit a bridge tended a three-da- y farm ma- southern part of the The original contract with the day for the purpose of securing abutment about four miles north States. This case, according to Girls committee sponsored a course. water users provided that the a room for the coming school of Heber and was badly wrecked. chinery training information received from the at- - weiner roast in the city park for contract which expires this year year. Both boys intend to reg- - ,The driver, in the Sunday acei- Physician, was contract- - the Aarbnic Priesthood boys and New tendin& t0UF all girls from 12 to 21 yean of does not affect any of the rights ister at the B Y U at the open Ident was Ralph Smith accom- ed UtSide f UUh duri,ng SCSC x and An of Utah the services. With each of the parties had in the ing of the first quarter. ege. There was a baseball game duty oanied bv his wife both of whom zona attended this big training lake and its fishing waters prior Tularemia (rabbit fever) shows followed by other games. An in- Mr. and Mrs. Dave Thomas received cut3 and bruises. Mrs. session on August 30 and 31, and the most marked increase of the terestlng program of singing was to the 1938 agreement and the and Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Beebe Smith, who wa3 most seriously 1, which was sponsorSeptember real- the leaves contract's expiration presented around the campfire by returned home Monday evening injured, was taken to the Heber ed by the International Harvester notifiable diseases with six beas same cases the different groups, Interspersed by status in the dent during reported is she parties recovering. a pleasant trip to hospital where after dif85 Approximately week as compared with no cases solo for which prizes fore the contract. Mrs. Smith is a Tabiona schojl Company. Idaho, and on to ferent pieces of farm equip- - for the previ0U3 week and only were singing, awarded for the best. This absence her and On their return teacher Canada. during a to cost ment estimated around ARM IN BOY of activity was followed by a weiner the came down through Wash- her position at schoo Is being million dollarg were seen in op- - a total of 26 from the first All FALL ON STAIRWAY ta the roast. time, the There was about forty present year Mrs. Velma filled Abplanalp eration by sesington, into Idaho, and thence ' during the three-da- y of these cases, according to the people present and a good time which in accident The Idaho to In previous home. back son going sion, with the importance of ma- information obtained from the was Jessup Johnsen, reported by all. of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Johnsen, they accompanied Mr. and Mrs. the same truck was involved took chinery In the soil conservation contracted Rob6. physicians, attending to Lloyd children and Thomas place September Elmer his while arm fell and program being stressed, Mr. their infection through insect Veterans Administration of Hanna, wa3 driving. The chugg'said' descending a stairs during the Sandpoint, w$ere they Intend to erts, bites (usually the deer fly) and collided with a car machine J. morning recess period on the make their home, The working mechanism of fr0m the handling of infected IvCprCSCntallVe 10 De In Mrs. Leland driven Clegg, by Mr. and Mrs. Jes3 Johnstun opening day of school. The frac- was wild rabbits. ,each Piece of jn Duchesne, Sept. 22 ture was reduced by Dr. Hamil- - left Thursday morning for Grand Hanna. Edwin Clegg and Mrs. Pained by a equipment representa- factory In were Jones passengers ton. (Junction, Colorado, for a visit the Cleff automobile, which was ve and be machines were then tell If wild rabbits are infected; contact representative of the Five weeks ago the boy fell (with friends. They expect to SPen Is best not to handle Veterans Administration will vis- it Practically operation. None to extent. of therefore, an damaged broke his arm, and the cast turn to Duchesne Sunday, of farm them at all. However, If they R Duchesne County on the fol- the passengers, nor Mr. Roberts every available type had just been taken off when the son Mr. of and .machine for land preparation, are handled, every precaution lowing schedule: Merkley, Phillip material suffered injuries. second accident happened, break- Mrs. Wilson Merkley, returned planting and fertilizing, and for should be taken to prevent infec-- 1 Duchesne Court House Sept. ing the arm in the old fracture. home last Friday, September 10, Ed Gee was in Grand June- - harvesting was included in the tion. They should be handled 22, 9:30 a. m. to 11:30 a. m. At from Ontario, Canada, where, for tion Company rep- with rubber gloves. Hands must Dalgloish Store, Myton, Sept. 22, for a short visit training course. STUD F CLUB MEETS two years, he filled a mission for with Saturday the part not be put near the mouth or 1:00 to 2:00 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Wilkins, resentatives explained each machine can play in touch the face or eyes until they Members of the Study Club the LDS Church. He is going tojtj-jjAt Roosevelt Legion Barracks following day Mrs. Henrietta that met at the home of Mrs. Albert attend school at the BYD atJVVllson made, the trip to Grand applying a complete soil and have been thoroughly washed Sept. 23, 8 00 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. vo. Junction where she visited withiwaer conservation program on with soap and water. The house(Stephenson, Thursday evening, Prc Miss Laura Clemons left last Fouse a Miss made Ernest business (Laura 9ih. the Wilkins family. Mr. Gee the land, while SCS technicians wife, in preparing rabbits for September Clemons conducted the business trip to Salt Lake City Monday, and Mrs. Wilson are brother and asked many questions about the cooking, should also handle them Saturday evening on her vacaShe will vist in Butte, In machines suitable for use In their with rubber gloves until they are tion. Delicious refreshments returning to Duchesne Tuesday. sister of Vivian Wilkins. session. were served to the following thoroughly cooked through and Montana, for a few days with Captain Howard Jessee left each case they were piloted on respective areas, members: Mrs. Ollie Schonian, Wednesday for Salt Lake City their trips by Arnold Robbins in through. Advoidance, as far as her cousin, Arthur BIgley, and From Butte she Mrs. L. C. Winslow, Mrs. John where he (will take a plane to his airplane. On each lap of the possible, of insect bites, such as (Mrs. Bigley. to Spokane, to and horse deer ticks, California. flew flies, flics, go From Mr. Robbins' plans P, Madsen, Miss Laura Clemons, Sacramento, journeys will help to prevent in- - ington for a short visit before Miss Anna Stark, Mrs. Edwin there he will go on to Japan acrosj in an hour and twenty fection from this source. to resums actlv duty, Carman. returning to Duchesne. minutes. - ; j d i j j - ten-ye- Hanna-TaLton- ar Sun-bo- J1 ' j ' Sand-poin- t, Cran-broo- k, j J i re-a- ' ' to I ' Wash-other- s, |