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Show Uintah asim VOLUME 26 - NUMBER DUCHESNE, DUCHESNE COUNTY, 47 UTAH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1956 $3.00 PER YEAR 71 PER COPY Pucliesne, Uintah Counties Are Named Brduitif DisasterAreas Stockmen To Get4 Altamont Captures S. Aid On Feed Purchasing U. Let Us Give Thanks . . . : THIS THANKSGIVING DAY As we approach this Thanksgiving Day and make our plans for its observance, let us offer a special prayer to God, The Eeternal Father, for the Freedom We A land chosen above Enjoy in this Great Land of America. all other lands, where freedom has remained uninterrupted since that first Thanksgiving Day in 1621. HOWEVER, IN OUR deliberations, as we express thanks for the freedoms we enjoy and have been priviliged with aver these many years, let us offer a special prayer that The Almighty will guide the political and military leaders of the other nations of the world that they might settle for nothing short of world peace, and that Love and Confidence will replace Doubt, Fear and Hate. LET US EXPRESS THANKS for the brave men and women who have sacrificed their lives that we might be blessed with freedom and opportunity May the brave parents of the war heroes who paid the supreme price of freedom, get satisfaction and consolation that each has given something everlasting that makes this the great land of freedom and opportunity, where we have been promised by God that so long as we keep high the standards of democracy we will not be invaded by an enemy. THIS HAS TRULY BEEN a year of plenty, considering the things the great earth produces here in the Uintah Basin. Farmers have haised large crops of hay grains and other products have been abundant. . . . Most of our business establishments have remained solvent and look forward to a greater era in the BaSin. . . . These are blessings we dare not deny, and if we are fair and honest With Our Father In Heaven, we will bow our heads a little longer on Thankgiving Day and thank Him for all these things. ... , Duchesne Elder MISSION COMPLETED Dewey Murray, who fulfilled an LDS Mission from the Myton 'ward in the Northern States, returned to his home last Saturday. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Murray. SUNDAY SCHOOL GETS NEW OFFICERS; WARD CLERK CALLED Supports More Classroom Space P-T- A f Parent-Teach- As- er voted Monday to support a building program which would provide more classroom and library space and a new heating plant, for the high school, delegatto later ing a new gymnasium consideration. The vote was taken at a special meeting Monday and showed 47 infavor of the classroom plan and 43 for the gymnasium plan. The High School buildings chief needs are an equipped science room it has little or no equipment more space for the library, which is cramped and inadequately stocked; a heating plant to take care of the present building and more additions; any dressing rooms and a gymnasium for improved physical education, health and athletic programs. Parent-TeachThe Associations decision, made after a thorough discussion of finance and other issues, will be submitted to the school board as a recommendation. . Supervisors To De ' Elected In Duchesnes sociation Uintah SOS Vote Its time to mark your ballot again, if youre a farmer in the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District. During the week of November 26 an election will be held to elect three supervisors for the District, according to Harold Dudley, chairman of the District board. Ballots are being mailed out to all farmers in the district. These should be marked and returned to the State Soil Conservation Committee at Salt Lake City on or before Nov. 30. If any farmer in the district does not receive a ballot, he can get one at the courthouse in Duchesne or Vernal, or at the Soil Conservation Service office in Roosevelt. The men running for office are Wayne Goodrich of Vernal;. Ross Monsen, Bluebell; Senor F. Mort-enseMyton; W. C. Foy, Duchesne; and Fred Schwobe, Gusher. Three of the five men will be elected to the board for a period of three years to serve with two others appointed by the State Soil Committee. These Conservation five men will be responsible for the activities of the district for the next three years. Members of the present board are Harold Dudley, Randlett; W. C. Foy, Duchesne; Ray S. Brown, Montwel; Frank Liddell, Myton; and Marvin Smith, Maeser. The Soil Conservation District is a group of local farmers organized to help the farmers with their soil, water and plant conservation problems. The supervisor, assisted by the Soil Conservation Serthe determine vice technicians, major problems in the district and ways to solve them. Here in the Uintah Basin there are a great many ways that farmers can help conserve or improve their land. , ' n, ROYALTY CHOSEN AT HARVEST BALL HELD FRIDAY AT DHS At the Harvest Ball sponsored by the Junior Class of Duchesne High School last Friday evening, Miss Kay Stevensen and Eldon Buckalew, were crowned King and Queen by popular vote of students. Kay is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Stevensen and Eldon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Buckalew. Both are from Duchesne. Decorations for the dance were very clever in the Harvest theme. A turkey and many rabbits, cakes and pies were given away to lucky winners. Sacrament meeting at the Duchesne ward, Sunday evening was conducted by Rowan Stutz, with Elmer Moon giving the opening prayer. New officers sustained for the Sunday School were Neill Jensen as superintendent with Weston Bates, and Jerry Christensen as counselors. Garrett Spencer was sustained as assistant ward clerk, Chad Peatross as a teacher in the Aaronic priesthood, Donna Swasey as organist in the Primary and Mrs. Parry Tippetts as a teacher in the Primary. Earl Jensen is the retiring superintendent. Short talks were given by Marline Davies and LaRae Jorden; a vocal solo "was presented by daughMeloney Davies, 5 year-ol- d ter of Mr. and Mrs. Morley Davies. Reports on the happenings of our boys in the Service and in the mission field were given by Weston Bates, Bishop Merrell, Noma Rowley, Charles Partridge, Ralph Fern Merrell, Delpha Rowley, Moon and Lucius Swasey and a duet was sung by Kim Warner and Jim Tippetts. BULLETIN Glen Hatch State Senator-elec- t of Duchesne and Wasatch counties, will meet people of Duchesne County at 4 p.m. Friday at the courthouse and at 8 p.m. Friday in Roosevelt at an un- announced place. Duchesne and Uintah counties this week were declared drought disaster areas by President Eisenhower, cattle, eligible making sheep and goat raisers able to receive aid. These men may participate under the hay and roughage program and the feed grain program, according to an announcement from Sen. Wallace F. Bennetts office. Applications should be made to the Farmers Home Administration offices in each of the counties. Eligible cattlemen will receive $7.50 per ton under the hay program and $1.50 per hundred discount on the corn, barley, oats, and grain sorghum. County agents Robert Murdock and Lloyd Smith of Duchesne County pointed, out that neither wheat nor cottonseed cake are included in the program, making it advisable for most feeders to use more grain and less hay to help animals receive a sufficient amount of proteins necessary. Any hay or grain already purchased or arranged for will not receive assistance. Mr. Smith said sorghum grain is available east of the Rockies and plenty of barley is available in Northern and Southern Utah. The agents said any dealer who wishes to .participate in the grain program must contact their local ASC offices. The request for drought assistance was forwarded from Mr. Murdock of the county drought committee to the county commission, the state drought relief director, and thus to Washington. Jay Fitzgerald of the FHA office in Roosevelt said an eligible n is one who is fully established in that occupation, must live within the disaster area of his county, and must show that he has to use the drought assistance program to maintain his foundation herd. He said each application is judged on its own merits. farmer-stockma- IMPROVEMENTS MADE ON DUCHESNE CITY WATER SYSTEM Duchesne City has just completed a long needed improvement on Top Honors For Land Judging Altamont High School was the winer of the second annual land judging contest sponsored by the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District. The contest was held Tuesday, Nov. 13, just south of Roosevelt. The competition was teams from Tabi-onbetween Union, Uintah and Altamont High Schools. Members of the winning team were: Gerald Kofford, Clair Miles, Kirk 'Brotherson, Junior Tidwell, Jim Street and James Lindsay, and their instructor is LaVer Bentley. The winning team will be presented fhe traveling trophy, which has been in Union High Schools showcase for the past year. Ray S. Brown, supervisor of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District, will make the presentation. Kirk Brotherson and Clair Miles of Altamont tied for the individual scoring honors, with 152 out of a possible 186 points. Highest scores from the other schools were made by Dennis Jones, Tabi-onLarry Cook, Uintah, and Craig Ross, Union. These boys will have their names engraved upon their schools land judging plaque. During the past few weeks the instructors and the agricultural Soil Conservation Service technicians have spent considerable time getting the teams ready for the contest. In addition to the Altamont team, the following boys and their instructors participated in the contest: Tabiona Farrell Young. Jay Lazenby, Roland Roberts, Dennis Jones, Dean Webb and Elmo Hardman, with their instructor, William Lewis; Uintah Marvin DudSnow, Clair Batty, ley, Burton John McCoy, Larry Cook, Mack Lee Batty, with Doyle Landon, instructor; Union Craig Ross, Kent Charles Neil Anderton, Boren, Winn, Gilbert Hullinger and Gary Houston, with Robert Steele, instructor. s six-ma- n a, Auxiliary Plans Bazaar For December Second The Duchesne Auxiliary will hold there Bazaar on December 7, beginning at 2 p.m. at the American Legion Hall. In the evening, as a climax, a card party will take place and the quilt they have made will be given away. Everyone is invited. the city culinary water system. Mr. Bates supervised the concreting 'of 15 boxes which are used for the cleaning out of the collecting lines. Mr. Bates installed a settling devise to collect all sand before it enters the lines, The price of greatnes is responwhich will greatly improve the Winston Churchill quality of the water. sibility. Courts Of Honor Set In Basin For First Sunday A week from Sunday, Dec. 2, district Courts of Honor are being planned for Roosevelt, Moon Lake and Duchesne districts, reports Rulon Dean Skinner, Field Scout Executive. Scheduled to be staged at Montwel, Boneta and Hanna, the Courts of Honor will see the climax of the 1956 advancement for each of the three districts. Due to the LDS conference slated for the same day in Roosevelt, the Montwel Court of Honor will be held at 4:30 instead of 3:00 p.m. as originally announced, reports Sharon Cummings, Roosevelt district advancement chairman. Because of lack of advancement in the Moon Lakke District, no Court of Honor was held in the month of Nov. so the Dec. Court of honor is set for 3:00 p.m. in the Boneta LDS chapel, reports E. Don Nyberg, Moon Lake District advancement chairman. Hanna troop 265 will be host for the final Court of Honor for scouts and explorers of Duchesne District with the event set for 3 p.m. in the Hanna LDS chapel, according to C. C. Mickelson, Duchesne District advancement chairman. The Hanna court of honor will see the climax of the Duchesne District 1956 advancement contest, he added. Roosevelt District will need 15 advancements in rank at the Dec. 2nd court of honor in order to equal their 1955 advancement record, stated Mr. Skinner. Duchesne and Moon Lake Districts have more than doubled the advancements in rank they had in 1955, he THE WINNING TEAM These high School boys and their instructor were responsible in winning the land judging contest sponsored by the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District. They are from Altamont High School. Left to rgiht they are: James Lindsay, LaVer Bentley, instructor, Clair Miles, Gerald Kofford, Kirk Brotherson, Junior Tidwell and Jim Street. Ag PRESENTS PLAQUE Ray Brown, one of the supervisors of the Uintah Basin Soil Conservation District, presents plaque to LaVer Bentley, Agricultural Instructor at Altamont High School, ip recognition of his land judging team winning first place fat e recent contest. Reception Facilities Are Nearing Completion TV Work on physical facilities to bring television to the Roosevelt-Myto- n area was reported progressing rapidly this week, with paper work destined to be the slowest factor in bringing TV reception. R. Earl Dillman, president of the Uintah Basin Television Corp. said the main antenna tower and housing for one of the two translator-transmitter units have Keen completed on Tabiona Mountain. Near Myton, work is getting underway on the second tower and translator-transmitte- r house. The Tabiona tower will pick up Channel 5 (KSL) and beam it to the Myton bench facility, from where the signal will fan out over the Roosevelt-Mytoarea. The two units are scheduled to be shipped from New York by Adler Electronics within the next few days, Mr. Dillman said. Power needs are being filled at both antenna sites, with Tabiona facility power scheduled to be on Back Page) ""1 Duchesne Stake Selects New High-Councilm- an Bishop Bernell Turnbow who was recently released as bishop of the Tabiona LDS ward, was called two weeks ago to fill a vacancy on the stake high council. He replaces Bishop Earl Van Tassell, the man sustained to suc-ce- d him as bishop at Tabiona. Other stake high councilmen are Wanless Shields, Stanley Ross and Jack Gilbert, Arcadia Leland Utahn Ward; Wright, Branch; Orven J. Moon, Marvel L. Moore, Kermit Pouison, E. O. Barker and William Peatross, Duchesne Ward; Marvin R. Michie, Tabiona Moon, Ward; Vernon Hanna Ward. READ ALL THE ADS Kiwanis Club To Marti Annual TO APPEAR IN DUCHESNE Brigham Young Universitys colorful opera chorus will appear at the Duchesne LDS Stake House at Nov. 28. Members of ail Tickets are ward budget 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, ward are cards. invited. KNOW YOUR SCHOOLS Science For Elementary Grades Most teachers avoid science as part of their curriculum. They all say, Where do we begin and what do we teach? Most teachers do not realize that with every subject they teach, they are teaching some phase of science. Science education is concerned with helping the growing child to understand his environment, to relate himself to it, and to function happily in it. This then gives us the idea that science Is not the intricate machinery, the chemical or mathematical formulas, or the scientific research made by the field of medicine. This involves the different phonetic sounds of the voice while singing, reading or spelling. This involves the trees that we play Farm-C- if .... under, to be in the shade, and why no brief answer, but our prois not as hot under the blem can be simplified if we ex- the sun tree as it is under its direct rays. Many students have the desire to know some of the intricacies of our surroundings, but many there are also that need to be stimulated to become acquainted with the more common phenomena of our surroundings. Duchesne has many County things to be utilized as science projects that will aid the student to a better knowledge, better home, better communities, better state, better nation and a better world. This source is fnexhaustable to a teacher. How can we sift the meaningful from the trivial, the forward moving from the static. There is amine it in the light of several of science tenets fundamental education. 1. A good science program is strongly structured. It provides a frame-worof concepts, rather than a surface of isolated facts. When we organize our program on the basis of fundamental concepts, we change science into a tool subject. Each concept becomes a probe, an examining tool, with which to desect new facts, to discover their essence and relate them to what we already know. Equipped with the concept that each part of a plant root, stem, leaf, and flower has its specific (Continued on Back Page) k Opera Chorus Of BYU Due In Duchesne Hov. 28 The colorful Brigham Young University Opera Chorus under the direction of Dr. Don L. Eari. will appear in the Duchesne Stake House on Nov. 28 at 7:30 p.m. Acclaimed by intermountain music critics as the outstanding opera group in the west, the 60 student-artist- s will present a varied program of serious and comedy numbers as well os old favorites by the operatic masters. Director Earl has been widely recognized for his production of highly skilled singing groups since he joined the BYU faculty in 1946, and he considers this group the best he has ever directed. Admission to the class is given only after a careful and exacting audition and (Continued On Back Page) y Wee!i Roosevelt Kiwanians will join' Farm-Cit- y the world wide Kiwanis Week observance with a special program emphasizing rural-urba- n unity, Wednesday night, Nov. 21. The meeting, replacing the or dinary Thursday night meeting of the club at 7:30 at the Frontier Griiil, will feature Hugh Colton of Vernal as principal speaker. Mr. Colton is a prominent attorney and a member of the Utah Power and Water Board. Woodrow Nielsen, chairman of of the Kiwanis Conservation and Agriculture Committee is in charge of the program. Bring Guest Each Kiwanian is asked to bring a "guest with him a farmer if the Kiwanian lives in town and a town resident if the Kiwanian is a farmer. Assisting Mr. Nielsen in planning Wednesday nights program are Jack Nielsen and John Zupko. This will be the second consecutive year for a Farm-Cit- y Week observance. Last year, more (Continued on Bock Page) |
