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Show ct Spotlighting UTAH' Volume 18 Southeastern Utah Sees Prosperity Times are good in southeastern Utah, especially along Highway J. A. WASHBURN U. S. lbt) to tne line. Some of this evident pros- HONORED BY perity can be credited to the BIRTHDAY PARTY uranium mining activity in the region. Prospectors, oil men, By Thelma Nye miners and promoters are in the aiea. .Long lines of trucks loaded TABIONA Mr. J. A. Washwith carnotite ore are rolling burn celebrated his birthday analong U. S. 160 to the Atomic niversary Saturday. He took Energy ore processing plant at Lhe trip with the MIA group to Monticello. Huge trucks e Saturday and returnfiom Colorado and Missouri are ed find a houseful of to home corn and into the region hauling tauing away Pinto beans and relatives had came from Salt wheat. All of which means that Lake City and Orem to help him the restaurants are crowded, the celebrate. motor courts filled to capacity, They were two sons, Vern and and Utahs highways are experand their families, and sisDon, iencing some heavy traffic. Since no rail head serves this region ters and brothers of Mrs. Washand the trucking business is in- burn, Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Wake-f.elMr. and Mrs. H. S. Lovetremendously, good creasing highways and strong bridges are less, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mena prime necessity. denhall and Mrs. O. R. Johnson. The old bridge across the ColThe group enjoyed a birthday orado at Moab, long admitted to be inadequate for traffic, is now dinner and visit and the visitors receiving a heavy pounding. It returned to their homes Sunday. is hoped that this key structure Neither Mr. or Mrs. Washburn will be replaced with an adequate bridge before a repitition will confess their ages in years, of what happend at Green River but they are both young enough takes place. (That structure in work and spirits. They have crumbled into the Green river attended the school and ward under heavy traffic, paralyzing dances and always waltz at least the entire region for many once with each other during the weeks. evening. They have also attendUP1D Road Signs ed the school sports events and To Aid Tourists Three big road signs, each ten take active part in all ward acof forty feet are being erected tivities. in southeastern Utah by the They are the parents of ten UPID at strategic road locations. scattered at present children, Calling the attention of the tourist entering Utah o the scenic at- all the way from Greece to Austractions of the region, one sign tralia,. and dn different parts of is being erected just over the the United States. Utah line on Highway 160 beMr. Washburn has taught tween Dove Creek, Colorado and e years acMonticello, Utah. The other two school for Wm. to cording Superintendent on are Highbeing placed signs J. under a Bond, at Crescent S. U. where technicality yet way and U. S. 160 join. Long of the present teacher retirement needed, the signs should do much law, is not eligible for retirement to draw travelers into the Arches pay. He is one of the first LDS National Monument, the Bridkes Seminary teachers and is the National Monument and the Mon- author of many of the textbooks ument Valley area. The signs car- used in the church schools and ry beautifully painted pictures class Work. of the above mentioned attractions and should do much to pubBoth Mr. and Mrs. Washburn licize and promote southeastern are beloved and respected by Utah. their students and all who know Cantaloupes Up In Grand Co. them, and we join with all of are inches three Cantaloupes their many friends in wishing in' Planted Grand county. high and hotcapped at the same time, them both many more happy acthe vines are thriving on a farm tive years. adjacent to the Colorado on the river road between Moab and Disease Makes Dewey. The crop will probably Strange be harvested about the middle Appearance in Utah, of June. The cantaloupes are a special early variety and appar- Says Health Department ently will be marketed many Resident notifiable diseases reweeks ahead of the regular Utah to the State Department ported cantaloupe crop. of Health by physicians and local "Mortgage Lifters" In San Juan county, a new health officers for the week endtype of bean called Mortgage ing April 29, 1949, amounted to Lifters is being raised. Actually 410 cases as compared with 278 the bean is a giant navy bean for the previous week and 511 for about five times the size of an the corresponding week last ordinary bean, and superior in flavor to either the navy or the year. Measles, mumps and chicken-po- x lima bean. Easy to raise and very all show an appreciable innutritious, the bean' is popular with patrons of the cafes in crease this week over last week. One case each of poliomyelitis southeastern Utah. Salt Lake was reported from Quadruplets Born at Salina At Salina, April 15, quadrup- City and Provo during the week. lets were born not human ba- Eight cases were recorded for bies, but lambs. The mother is .the previous week. A total of a very ordinary ewe who came 32 cases have been reported through a very tough winter and since the first of the year. probably to show her appreciThrep resident cases of amoeation, she brought "forth four bic ewe babies. The dysentery have been reporthealthy hungry belongs to the Jorgensen Estate ed for the first time during the and Dick Jorgensen, ranch man- week ending April 29. All three ager, is seeing that the hungry of these cases, however, are reyoungsters are getting the sup- currences, but they serve as a plementary feed necessary to reminder that the disease exists keep them thriving. Four lambs here and probably in much larger is a rarity among sheep, and when the occasion does happen, proportions than would be init is not often that all survive. dicated by these few cases. Only one case was reported during the Photographer Visits The "Needles" Area entire year of 1948. Jack Breed, nationally known Amoebic dysentery is transmitphotographer has ted in much the same way as tymagazine into the Needles packed fever; namely, through conarea near the Colorado river phoid taminated food, water and by of Moab. known Little northwest flies. reand rarely photographed, the gion is known for its many totem rock formations. Tabiona School Teachers Army-NavAirlift To Transport Utah Covered Wagons Honored at Party Gronway Parry is mayor of 26th Cedar City and in addition, he Tuesday, April has long been in the business of TABIONA The party honorn furnishing pioneer type the Tabiona school teachers ing comvehicles for movie last panies on location in Utah. was Tuesday evening, April 26, greatly enjoyed by the large Learning that a government bond drive was crowd present. Mr. and Mrs. scheduled for May of this year, Floyd Holm and Mr. William J. Mayor Parry offered the gov- Bond, both county school offiernment the use of his vehicles cials, also attended the party. in the drive. Accordingly, a fleet A feature of the program was of 28 Army and Navy planes will an original skit of a day at the land at Cedar City in May, pick school, with impersonaTabby up Mayor Parrys Covered Wagons and distribute them across tions of the teachers and students the country. Each vehicle will by the teachers. be accompanied by a Other program numbers were western movie star. The drive a clarinet solo by Mrs. Ina Van will gather momentum at Inde- Tassell; reading, Mrs. Daphne pendence, Mo., where President Van Tassell; selection, piano Truman will appear in the parade. Later Mayor Parrys wag- Mrs. Rella LeFevre, and short ons, and even oxen, will appear talks by Mr. Bond, Mr. Holm in parades in leading cities of and the teachers, Principal Mr. Wilson K. Anderthe nation as an aid to the bond drive. sen, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Washburn, Mrs. Elva Jones, Mrs. Ivy Bud Thompson, son of Mr. and Spencer, Mrs. Edna Smith, Mr. Mrs. George Thompson, returned Joe DiStefano and Coach Lorin to the army base at Albuquerque, Allred. Games were under the direcNew Mexico, last Saturday after spending three weeks In Du- tion of Mrs. Dot Ottosen. Mrs. chesne and Provo. He was call- Norma Wagstaff and Mrs. Theled home on account of the seri- ma Nye handled the program arClifford ous tillnses of his sister, Mrs. rangements. Roberts. of Provo. Mrs. PTA president, was master of Roy Powell, A pot luck lunch Powell is now recovered from ceremonies. was served. Thehna Nye. her illness. Utah-Colorad- 15-to- o n Nine-Mil- d, fifty-nin- 0 0 pole-appeari- y horse-draw- well-know- n ip, DUCHESNE, UTAH, FRIDAY, MAY 6, SAVINGS BOND DRIVE TO START ON MAY 16 $5.00 More than 4000 Modern Min- sales- men who have taken over the patriotic task of selling the governments billion dollar issue of Series E Treasury Savings Bonds during the Opportunity Drive throughout the nation, have just their organizational completed work. They are poised to begin a whirlwind sales campaign on May 16 and carry it through June 30, Charles L. Smith, of Salt Lake City, chairman of the Utah Citizens Bond Committee, announced this week. Utahs quota of the issue is three and a half million dollars, and both state and county leaders are confident that figure will be reached early in the drive. The objective is to put Utah over the top the first state in the nation, andor to sell the greatest percentage above quota in the country, according to Mr. Smith. We feel that it is just a matter of effective organization, The bond sales he declared. group is taking nothing away from the individual, and is soliciting no donations. It is actually aiding the public by offering the safest investment in the world, it is offering a reasonable profit on that investment, and in addition, it is aiding the economy of the nation. The organization includes a general state organization covering all fields, with simitar orcounties. ganizations in the Promised sales are already being solicited in some counties in the race for the honor of being the first county over the top after the start of the drive on May 16. Heber C. Hall, of Roose-vis chairman for Duchesne county during the drive. la Per Tear New Atom Smasher Under Way ute Men of Utah, volunteer Advance Number 43 Junior Fat Stock Show To Give Many Prizes More than $5,000 in awards and premiums are offered members of and Future Farmers clubs in the premium book of the thirteenth annual renewel of Peace Officers Assn. 4-- H Will Present Educational Program ro X-ra- ys DUCHESNE COUNTY Jessie 31. L. Mecham, of BOY WINS HONORS Fruitand dies in AT FAT STOCK SHOW Ilcber Hospital April 28 velt, 4-- H el post-seaso- day-tim- the Eight regional police schools will be in vanious conducted ireas of the state during May under sponsorship of the Utah Peace Officers Association, co-p- a rating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Participation by the officers as received special emphasis, reports Loring J. McGee, FBI ipecial agents, who will be in harge of the classes. He will be assisted by L. W. Jishongh, Dolmar L. Larson and J. H. Callister, special agents; Workmen lower Into place the steel tank which houses the accelerating chamber of a new type atom smasher being built at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N. Y. Being built under a contract with the Office of Naval Research, the new machine, known as a non-fermagnetic synchrotron," will be of 300,000,000 electron volts. capable of producing Edward Wintertop, of Roosea member of the Future Farmers of America, with his prime Hereford and choice Hereford steers placed high in the competition at the Grand National Junior Livestock Exposition, held in San Francisco. The 1100 Future Farmers of Club members America and for competed premiums and prizes with more than 3000 head of beef, dairy and dual purpose cattle, lambs and hogs. Many of the young agriculturalists also competed in four of the arena events Western stock Game Department Makfes show horse class, greased pig scramble, Four Arrests Recently calf scramble, and calf riding. The livestock were classified Only four arrests were reportto the Danish system according ed by the Utah Fish and Game which places them in their acDepartment for the past week, tual market grades under which says Merrill Hand, chief law en- the must operate youngsters forcement deputy for the depart- when become adult comthey ment. mercial livestock producers. Having a fawn in possession This years Junior Grand Nan hunt cost during the two men $25 each in a recent tional show filled the gigantic case, Mr. Hand said. The men Cow Palace plant almost to cawere Earl Fowler and Melvin pacity and firmly clinched its place as the foremost livestock Forbush, both of Provo. Ferrell Munie, of Enoch, was show exclusively for juniors in fined $25 for shooting at pheas- the nation. ants from a highway. E. L. Oakes, of Moab, paid a like sum American Legion for shooting from a highway. Auxiliary will Hold Many sportsmen are violating the fishing laws at Utah Lake, Card Party Saturday Mr. Hand stated, and the departA public card party will be ment Is picking these men up held in the Legion Hall Saturday as fast as possible. Common offenses are fishing night, May 7th, starting at 8 after 9 p. m., and taking more oclock. Prizes will be awarded for than the limit 20 fish. Fishing beside bonfires after dark Is clas- both men and women high scores sed as using an artificial light to in bridge, five hundred and piattract fish, and is an offense, nochle. Drawings will also be held for a free door prize for Mr. Hand pointed out both men and women. A luncheon will be served after the card BIRTHDAY CLUB ENTERTAIN playing. The Ladies Auxiliary urges Mr. and Mrs, Homer Fitzwater entertained the Birthday Club and Invites you to come and join at their home Saturday, April 30. in the evening of fun. The occasion was Mr. Fitzwaters birthday. A delicious lunch was Summer Session at served. In addition to the host and hostess others present were Utah University Mr. and Mrs. Tatton Bench, Mr. To Open After June 20 and Mrs. Walter Nelson, Mr. and SALT LAKE CITY ApplicaMrs. Dave Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Timothy, Mr. and Mrs. Er- tions for admission to the Uninest Wilson, Ruby McDonald, versity of Utah summer session Ruby Fitzwater, Lena Mae Thom- will be required of all students as and Elizabeth Thomas. Mrs. except those enrolled as regular e students during spring Ernest Wilson won high score and Lena Mae Thomas, the quarter, Dr. A. Ray Olpin, presiprize dent of the University, announcconsolation prize. ed this week. Requests to register for the DUCHESNE LOCALS expanded summer session must Mr. and Mrs. Orin Olsen were be filed through the office of the at Helper last Saturday where Registrar by June 1st. Registration will take place on they attended the funeral of a relative. They were accompani- June 20 In the University Lied by Mrs. George Thompson brary with registration material to be prepared for all those who and Bud Thompson. Mrs. George C. Kohl and Mrs. have filed advance applications. not apHannah Rockhill were visiting in Registrants bewho have in enrollwill delayed plied on Roosevelt Tuesday of this ing, said Joseph A. Norton, week. registrar. On Monday, April 18 Mrs. HeThe Summer Session applicaber Moon accompanied her broth- tion form Is printed as the last Mr. and Mrs. page in the regular er and summer A. L. Pierce to Salt Lake City school catalog or may be obtainwhere she spent a week visiting ed by writing to the Office of at their home, also with two the Registrar, Park 204, Univerother sisters, their families and sity of Utah, Salt Lake City. other relatives, among them her aunt, the only survivor of her SENIOR IIOP TO BE HELD mothers family, who has been TONIGHT, FRIDAY, MAY 6 seriously ill for some time. On The Senior Hop, an annual April 24, Edwin I. Taylor, took his mother, Mrs. Moonv to Pleas- dance given by the graduating ant Grove where she visited and class at Duchesne High School made the acquaintance of a new will be held this evening, Friday, granddaughter. She also visited May 6th. It will be an apron with a daughter, Mrs. Rex Gour-le- y and overall event, and everybody and her family at Pleasant Is assured of having a good time Grove. Mrs. Moon returned to and are especially Invited to ather home in Duchesne Saturday tend. Pat Markleys orchestra will furnish the music. evening. sister-in-la- 1949, Mrs. Jessie Mae FRUITLAND Lloyd Mecham, 57 years of age, widow of Lewis Otis Mecham, died in, the Heber hospital, Thursday, April 28, after a lingering illness casued by a heart condition. She was bom May 11, 1892, at Center Creek, Wasatch county, Utah, a daughter of John and Emma Phillips Lloyd. She mar- ried Mr. Mecham Sept. 6, 1911, in Heber. They lived in Walls-burMountain Home, Arcadia and Fruitland during their married life. Mr. Mecham died In August, 1947. She was a member of the LDS Church. Dur.ng World War II Mr. and Mrs. Mecham had five sons in the service at the same time and all of them overseas on the fight-.n- g fronts. One son was severely wounded. Surviving are nine sons and laughters: Edward L. and Lewis J. Mecham, Mrs. Myrth Young, Jennie Lee Mecham, all of Fruitland; Harold D. Mecham, Heber; .teed L. and Keith R. Mecham, Wailsburg; Mrs. Artamesia Mrs. Emma Duchesne; Schafer, Cortez, Colorado; four brothers and two sisters: William Lloyd, Heber; John E. Lloyd, Layton; Samuel N. Lloyd, Ogden; Harry P. Lloyd, Randolph; Mrs. Grantsville; Elizabeth Green, Mrs. Mary Hawk, Los Angeles, Calif., and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Monday, May 2, in the Fruitland LDS ward chapel by Golden E. Brown, of Ogden, but formerly a resident of this area. Opening praper was offered by Rue Miles of Mtn. Home. The singing was rendered by Mrs. Fern Moffitt and Porter L. Merrell, of Duchesne and conSomesisted of the following: In the Gartime, Somewhere, den and "Going Home. The speakers were Leandrew J. Gilbert, Thomas Gilbert and Marvin G. Shields, all of Arcadia. Remarks and benediction by Mr. Brown. Burial took place in the Fruitland cemetery. Porter L. Merrell dedicated the grave. A large crowd attended the services, many finding It necessary to stand outside as the ward house was filled to overflowing. g, Sherman Falkenrath, Japtain alt Lake City police department iirector of education, and Herman L. Bauer, association secretary. Classroom instruction and prac-.icwill cover fields of automobile searching, courtroom procedure, police technique in handling prisoners, and use and care of firearms. Captain Falkenrath will outline disaster operations by police with a film to illustrate his points. Special Agent MoGeC has been with the FBI since March, 1940 and is stationed at Reno, NeHe was an attorney bevada. fore entering police work. Special Agent Dishongh will direct the firearms school. He a as firearms instructor at the FBI National Academy, Quanta co, Va before being assigned to the Salt Lake division, where He too. he is now stationed. was an attorney, serving as deputy prosecutor at Little Rock, Vrkansas, before entering the FBI in 1940. Special Agents Callister, native f Blackfoot, Idaho, has been vith the FBI for' seven years. He as an athletic coach and before that. At one line he was high school coach it Coronado, Calif. Another former high school :oach, Special Agent Larson, na Jve Utahn, coached at Evanston, e Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show, which has just came off the press. The show will be held in the stockyards, North Salt Lake, June 8, 9 and 10, with Merrill Parkin, who has headed the show for years, as manager once more. The premium list guarantees $3,000 as a minimum amount to be added to auction sale prices of the stock, which us all sold on the final day of the show. In addition the youngsters will receive many thousands of dollars over and above the regular market price through the auction sale, which for three years has been the biggest in the nation, making the Intermountain the top show of America. and Future Fanners Only are allowed to exhibit, and then only that stock grown under the supervision of their vocational teachers or county agents as livestock projects. There will be added to the premium awards also many special breed association awards in nine classes. To that also will be added 42 cash and Future Farmprizes to er clubs for events in connection with the show, other than the quality of the livestock. They include chapter awards for total scores, for beef, hog and lamb scores, for uniforms, for beef, for beautification of the barnor 4-- H 4-- H yard. It Is scheduled to be- the richest show In the west for youngsters. Premium lists may be obtained from county agents, vocational teachers or by writing to William D. Backman, Acting Secretary, Intermountain Junior Fat Stock Show, Box 329, Sait Lake City 8, Utah. - Half Million People in In Utah Warned How to Fight Cancer Nearly a half million persons in Utah have been warned by a .Vyoming, before becoming their newspapers and by radio on 4a.lt Lake county deputry sheriff. symptoms of cancer, and how Jter two years with Sheriff S. the best to fight the dread disease, he FBI entered the Jrant Young, it was estimated by the Utah .n 1941. Division of the American Cancer the Falkenrath joined Captain ia.lt Lake police department in Sociey. The intensive fight on Ameri1922 as a patrolman and has No. 2 killer was carried on ca's worked up through the ranks to National Cancer April, captain. He is a graduate of during Control and was made month, the FBI National Academy and to Mrs. Emil possible, according has qualified as instructor under de state thru commander, Neuf, PubUtah State Department of of the jiress cooperation splendid lic Instruction vocational educaand radio throughout the entire tion division. He Is a certified state, plus the devoted and charipilot and Is well known In Utah table assistance of several thouscircles. aviation and volunteer workers. The courses are given In two-da- y Throughout the month, through schools starting May 9 and the generosity of the state press, running through May 27. The Utahns were warned of the defifinal school reaching officers in nite of cancer. They symptoms the second most populous area were told when these symptoms of the state, will be a three-da- y see their physician-oto appear course. register for their nearest canThe schedule follows: cer defection center, provided by for Iron the American Cancer Cedar City, May Society. and Beaver counties; Kanab, May were also informed that 75 They for Kane, Washington and cent of cancer cases, caught Garfield counties; at Richfield, per can be cured, but that in early Sefor Piute, Wayne, May 90 per cent of the cases where vier, Millard and Sanpete coundelays have occurred, the disease ties; Brigham City, May is fatal. for Box Elder county; May standFrom an educational for Grand, San Juan, Carbon month's has the point, campaign and Emery counties; Vernal, been a decided success, according 20-2Uintah for Duchesne, May to Mrs. de Neuf. In many comand Daggett counties; Logan, munities, the quota in the annual for Cache and Rich fund May drive of the American Canfor cer counties; Ogden, May was raised promptly, Society Davis and Weber, Morgan but in some communities, due to counties. a late start, the solicitation of Schools for Provo and Salt funds Loss of Antelope Was is being earned over Into Lake City and other communiEach community will end May. Not Great During ties In those areas will be held Its drive as its quota is reached. some time In June. Past Severe. Winter BOY RUNS INK) SIDE The antelope loss during the MRS. BATES TO RETIRE OF TRAILER SUNDAY NIGHT past winter was not what It was son Clinton Harris, Mrs. Florence Bates has notiexpected to be. This statement fied the Board of Welfare Mr. Abe Mrs. and Harris, County was made by Mike Gaufln, big of her intention to retire on June was cut and bruised when he ran game supervisor for the Utah as into the side of a trailer attached Fish and Game Department, upon 1, 1949, from her position to an automobile Sunday eveWelfare Director. County an of checkup early completion been Mrs. has Bates ning, steadily May 1st. weston the Daggett county and The boy was running across In this employed department ern Utah antelope rangelands. Main street, near Anna Nielson's 1933. The animals went high on the since when an automobile occustore, rangelands, and kept out of the MR. AND MRS. WALTER Mr, and Mrs, Ted Allred, pied by Millsaid. "In drifts, Mr. Gaufin NELSON ENTERTAIN of Roosevelt, passed. The young ard county and again In Juab man for a moment to hesitated found we have that only Mr. and Mrs. Walter Nelson county car but did not nothe .let pass a few have died where they were entertained the members of the tice the trailer attached and forced by the storm Into drift 500 Club at their, home Sunday Ho suffered into soon fences, and A delicious bumped pocketed to evening, May 1st. and the where they could not move. How- luncheon was served to the fol- cuts, abrasions was bruises, on his jaw, which worst of Mr. and Mrs. ever, most of the animals got lowing guests; no injury. out of the valleys and were able Dave Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Vern butMr. serious and Mrs. Allred were abto get into highlands where they Rife, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Mursolved of any responsibility for avoided the deep snows and still dock, Mr. and Mrs. Fernald Jefthe accident and were traveling fed on the browse. Some of them feries, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Tima slow speed. at got as high as 8000 feet. othy. In the card playing high f chk-to The game score prizes were won by Mrs. expects Mr. and Mrs. Man-e- l Moore make an extensive air and ground Jefferies and Mr. Murdock; con- were vis:tng and taking care of study of the area In the near solation prizes Mrs. Rife and Mr. business affairs in Sait Lake Thomas. future. City Monday, May 2nd. Mc-cha- 0, 11-1- 2, 13-1- 4, 16-1- 7, 18-1- 9, 1, 23-2- 4, 25-2- 7, it |