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Show Universal Microfilm. Corp. 1 1 62 -- 141 Pieroont Ar. AVV ADVERTISING AFTERNOON , " 7j AFTERNOON SERVING THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY 0f JJJt Atl-tU- t MINING - FARMING - MANUFACTURING VOL. 71, NO. 43. Oldest Weekly in Salt Lk. County BINGHAM CANYON and WEST JORDAN, UTAH. FRIDAY. MARCH 9, 19G2 An Independent N.w.P.Per PHONE AMherst 12 "A MIGHTY MAN IS HE" Agriculture is America's Biggest (mdijstry. witk AM Investment op about2oo "Billion , TWREfc FOURTH? OF TWfc VALUE OF ASSETS ORAU. CORPORATIONS (M Trie U.?. AfifiltULTURE EMPLOYS OVtA ft, 0W&. FARM&O PRODUCES 7 Million workers ! clSSy enough food awo fiber-i- d It takes 6 Million "to supply himself and 2s"oThA$ SUPPLY FARMERS, AND nVI A? iflMPROVEMEMTg iw NUTRITIOUS, 10 Million To transport, Jkjvj ViHoLtsoME foods results in our. STORE, PROCESS AND tQwVJ CHILDREN BEING-TALLER- . AND MERCHANDISE PRODUCT? S7tt it2'v WEALTH If R.VJITH A of the Farm N?CR EXPcTaw' ffljl' WEST SIDE WATER SYSTEM ANNUAL MEETING HELD AT BENNION MARCH 8 At the annual meeting of the West Side Water Syitem held last night, Thursday, the election of three director! wai held. They are: William W. Wilton of Bennion, Ronald D. Peterson of Taylorsville, and Royal Spratling of Writ Jor-dan. Holdover director are Hugh C. Bringhurst, president, of Ben-nion and Clen liogan of West Jor-dan. It was also decided at the meeting the votes in the future would be determined by shares and not by person. FREE IMMUNIZATION CLINIC TO BE HELD AT WEST JOR-DAN MONDAY, MARCH 12 A free immunization clinic, spon-sored and conducted by Salt Lake County Health Department, will be hold at Pioneer Hall, 1137 West 7800 South, in West Jordan thil Monday March 12, from 3 to 5 pm., it is reported. Shots to be given include diph-theria, pertussis (whooping cough) and tetanus for children up to age eight, and diphtheria, tetanus, polio, smallpox and typhoid, all ages. All shots are free. Parents and their children are encouraged to take advantage of this free clinic. FIRST OF SERIES OF FIGHT CARDS HERE SATURDAY First of a series of ten fights to be staged in the Jenson gymnasium at West Jordan, will be held this Saturday night, March 10, accord ing to Fran Haun, managing direc-tor of the Intermountain Boxing Club and promoter of the fight card. Fights start at 8:30 p.m. and all seats for the ring show are $2.00 each. Featuring the card will be a bout between Jerry Simms, West Jordan, and Joe Gaines, Los Angeles (heavyweight) and a semi main event Wayman Cray, West Jordan, vs. Larry Flores, Los An-geles, in a with three other fights to make up the fight card. The evening's card promises to be a real slam bang affair, so don't miss it. BHS JUNIOR PROM TO BE HELD AT U OF U TONIGHT The University of Utah Union Building in Salt Lake City will be the setting this evening, Friday, for Bingham High's big dance of the year, the Junior Prom, being staged by the Junior Class. Theme of this year's affair is "Moonlight and Crystal". Dancing starts at 8:30 p,m. and music will be fur-nished by Bob Burns and Hia Star-liter- s. Colleen Harker and Kathy Crel-li- n are chairmen of this year's so-cial event. Assisting them as com-mitteemen are Claudia Bone, Jane Carrigan, LuVera Mae Piatt, Karol Strom and Jeff Sutherland. Patrons for the evening are Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Amundsen, Mr. and Mrs. William C. Bone, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Crellin, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dehlin, Mr. and Mrs. How-ard Harker, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Gillam, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Sul-leng-and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Winn. Special guests include Tommy Rabb, Miss Afton Silcox, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Jorgensen, Mr. and Mrs Reed H. Beckstead, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Mar-ion H. Pen rod, Mr. and Mrs. Ken-neth L. Prince, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Sanderson, Mr. and Mrs. Marlin S. Bateman, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde V. Buxton, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Craw-ford, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Jimas, Mr. and Mrs. John Wheadon, Mr. and Mrs. Joel P. Jensen, Mr. and Mrs. Don J. Parr, teachers and partners. Class officers are: Clyde Gillam, president; Ar.ithony Stilinovich, vice president; Stanlie Sullenger, secretary; David Tibolla and Shar-on Helt, representatives. Class ad-visors are James W. Bingham, Miss June Culbcrtson, Cal Crump, Dean Bishop and Raymond Bishop. POST OFFICE LEASE AWARDED . LOCAL FIRM Construction of the new post office at West Jordan was further advanced yesterday with announce-ment by Postmaster General J. Ed-ward Day that a contract has been awarded to Jordan Builders Supply, Inc., of West Jordan. "We are continuing to build new post offices where they are need-ed," Mr. Day said, "but we are constantly our lease construction program to determine whether present buildings can be altered or remodeled to take care of our expanding volume of mail." The construction program is be-ing concentrated in those areas where the need is urgent and suit-able space cannot be obtained ex-cept through new construction. "We now have about 45,000 post office locations throughout the country, handling a volume of 65 billion pieces of mail a year. By 1970 it is expected tto rise to 90 billion. It is clear, therefore, that we must redouble our efforts, not only in expanding our capacity but also in devising new postal tech-niques to meet the demands of our growing population." Under the Department's lease construction program the Jordan Builders Supply will construct the new building at 1800 West 7800 South and rent it to the Depart-ment. The Department's capital invest-ment is limited substantially to postal equipment, while the build-ing remains under private owner-ship, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. "This formula," Mr. Day said, "utilizes the resources and invest-ment funds of private enterprise for needed postal buildings." The new post office at West Jordan will have an interior space of 2,016 square feet with an area of 4,500 square feet for parking and maneuvering.O JORDAN SHIFTS BOUNDARIES OF HIGHSCHOOLS High school boundary lines were redrawn in Jordan School District last Thursday night in preparation for opening of the new Hillcrest High school next fall. The Board of Education in ac-cepting the boundary changes, commended the administration's work as a "masterpiece of sim-plicity." As a result of the changes the student population at Jordan High will be drastically reduced, while there will be no change at Bingham High. And for the next few years at least, Hillcrest High, located at 7300 South and about 750 East, will have the largest student pop-ulation in the district. the boundaries for Hillcrest are: Between State Street and the Jordan River: everything from 8500 South north to the Murray School District boundary. East of State Street: everything from 8200 South north to the Murray-Granit- e dis-trict boundaries. This will include the school areas of Butlerville-Cottonwoo- d Heights, Union, East Midvale, Midvalley, Mountview and Midvale. For the 1962-6- 3 school year Hill crest High will have an estimated student population of about 1,050. All junior high pupils in the Hill-crest High area will attend Midvale Junior High, with the exception of ninth graders who live east of 5th East. These will attend classes at Hillcrest to relieve overcrowding at Midvale. The boundaries for Jordan are: Between State Street and the Jordan River: everything south of 8500 South, East of State Street, everything south of 8200 South. This will include the Draper-Cresce-areas. White City and Sandy, giving Jordan an estimated 1962-6- 3 population of about 650. The board agreed that all high school students residing in a given area will attend the high school which serves that area. STATE CLASS A HOOP TOURNEY STARTCMARCH 13 Bingham High Miners closed out the regular season of play last Fri-day night by defeating Cyprus 78 to 74 on the Miners' court and fin-ishing up the season in second spot in region standings with a 6-- 4 re-cord and claiming a berth in the state Class A tourney. The Miners, along with Jordan, winners of the Region Four champ-ionship, and the winner of the Murray-Grang- er game will repre-sent Region Four in Ihe state tour-ney starting next Tuesday, March 1 3. They will play in the southern bracket. The tourney will continue Wednesday, March 14; Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17. Sixteen teams are competing in the tournament. Southern bracket teams will play Tuesday and Wednesday in the BYU fieldhouse and Friday at the U. of U. fieldhouse and the north-ern bracket teams will play the first three rounds in the Weber High gym in Ogden. Finals will be played Saturday at the U. of U. fieldhouse in Salt Lake City. Pairings have been announced lor the first day's games of the tournament (Tuesday, March 13) in the southern bracket at BYU at follows: 3:30 p.m. Bingham vs Orem; 4:50 p.m. Provo vs Murray or Granger; 7:00 p.m. Jordan vi Highland; and 8:20 p.m. East vs Spanish Fork. CURRENT EVENTS AT BINGHAM HIGH by Darlene Gilbert Galen Myers, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Myers, 12078 South 700 West, Riverton, was recently named winner of the Union Pacific scholarship. He obtained this honor by submitting his farming program record 'book, which the judges ex- - aminea. oaien, a senior at Bing-ham High, will receive $200 for the college or university of his choice, if he ma-jors in agricul-ture. This schol- - Darlene Gilbert arship is given In nrm turlj.nt in county served by the Union Pacific Railroad. Sixty students from' Utah are given the State Farmer Degree. Galen has also achieved this-.- A test was given in each F.F.A. re-gion, and Galen received the high-est score in this area. Galen is also competing for the Star State Farm-er Degree. Only one boy from Utah can receive this honor. lf' jjb ft '; GALEN MYERS DISTRICT YOUTH CONFERENCE HELD AT WEST JORDAN WEDNESDAY "Time Challenges Youth" was the theme for the Jordan District Youth Conference held Wednesday, March 7, at West Jordan Jr. High School. Chairman of th conference was Mrs. Paul Henneman ' who is a member of the Jordan Council P.T.A. Vice-chairm- of the event was P. Ml Mickelsen, director of pupil personnel. Other members in charge of the conference include: Mrs. Henry Wahlquist, H. W. Jor-gensen, G. Reed Sanderson, Ralph B. Keeler, Dean Barton, Mrs. Jean Taylor, Warren G. Allsop, Mrs. Elizabeth Gillam, Andy Johnson, and Cleve Hale. Students attending the conference consisted of one representative for each home room plus student body officers from the five schools par-ticipating, Bingham, Jordan, West Jordan Jr., Mt. Jordan Jr., and Midvale Jr. High Schools. Four main topics were discussed under the heading "Using Time Wisely". They arc; I. To plan and (Continued on page four) RULING REVERTED BACK TO THIRD DISTRICT COURT IN DISCONNECTION CASE Owners of 30 tracts of land, part of which lies along the south bor-der of the town of West Jordan, Monday heard a decision from the State Supreme Court on the right to disconnect from the town. In a unanimous decision by Jus-tice E. R. Callister Jr., the court reversed the Third District Court. The lower court had held that all the land to be disconnected would have to be along the border. In its decision, the high court held that only part of a contiguous group of property would have to be along the border, otherwise the process of disconnection would be too cumbersome. The case was remanded to the district court to consider the pe-tition for disconnection in the light of the decision. WEST JORDAN JR. HIGH NEWS DISTRICT YOUTH CONFERENCE HELD WEDNESDAY Approximately 150 participated in the Jordan School District an-nual youth conference, theme of which was "Time Challenges Youth", held Wednesday, March 7, at West Jordan Junior High School in West Jordan. Delegates attend-ing included representatives from the district's two high schools Bingham and Jordan, and three junior high schools West Jordan, Mt. Jordan and Midvale, who par-ticipated in the discussion groups led by the counselors from the var-ious schools. A nice lunch was served to all delegates participating. SCIENCE FAIR West Jordan Jr. High held their science fair an exhibit of models, charts and demonstrations prepar-ed by the students in the science department, in conjunction with a meeting of the West Jordan Jr. High at the school last night (Thursday). GUIDANCE ASSEMBLY FOR 8TH GRADE HELD THURSDAY An 8th Grade guidance assembly was held yesterday (Thursday). The girls heard a talk on good grooming while the boys heard a talk given by Father John J. Sulli-van on pornography. 7th Grade Assembly Today Supt. Reed H. Beckstead will be guest speaker at the 7th Grade guidance assembly to be held at the school today, Friday. Title of his talk is "No Man Is An Island Unto Himself". r W. J. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL A TO MEET ON THURSDAY. MARCH 15 West Jordan Elementary School is holJing their last regular meeting of the present school year at the school next Thursday night, March 15, at 7:30 p.m., it is an-nounced. Election and installation of of-ficers for the coming year will take place at the meeting. Program for the evening will be a film fes-tival during which will be shown various films dealing with the United States and its government. All parents are invited to attend. Down Memory Lane BY JOHN J. CREEDON BINGHAM BOOM BUST Bingham made the headlines the past week on the national scene as a feature article in "Saga", a magazine for men, highlighted some of the seamier side of our town. . The writer, Dave Sutton, spent two or three days in Bingham a year ago compiling material for the article and taking pictures of the Canyon. He consulted with several of the old timers left, including myself and formed his article on the stories he heard while here. I know that some of the readers of the magazine will be indignant about the picture he painted of the "roudy, bawdy mining camp", but we must realize that this magazine is for men and it must carry a bit of the sensational and bizarre side of things to make it sell. Some of the stories and state-ments have been colored and the imagination stretched to make it an exciting article, but most of us know, who have lived in Bingham during its boom days, that most of the colorful stories and char-acters cannot be mentioned in print as they were. the bars that remained open had white mule for sale and the way of hiding it from the law were many and sometimes ingenious. Many of the upright citizens of Salt Lake City and County came to Bingham for their spirits and to let their hair down when they were here. These people did not help the name of Bingham one bit and in many cases caused more trouble in one night than the natives would do in a month. We had our "Red Light" district too, but it was regulated by the law and the citizenry saw little of the gilded ladies. They kept strictly to themselves and minded their own business. Because there was a grin or two when the names of these places were mentioned, did not mean that we were proud of them or approv-ed of them, but they were part of life in our type of a community and they served their purpose. We know too, that grapes by the carload came into Bingham in the fall and that they were not used to make grape jelly or preserves. The episode of the grape pulp in the fire pump was true, but the water did not feed the fire as the story goes. The alcohol had long since been diluted. Big Martin did live and live it up in Bingham. He was a powerful Swede and when he got liquored up, it took the entire police force to subdue him. 1 doubt that he broke the telephone pole off at the base, but it makes a good story for the millions who will read about it. The incident of the corpse in the card game must have some truth in it. I have talked to eye witnesses that saw the stiff propped up in the corner of the undertakers with a derby hat on and a cigar stuck in his mouth. It seems entirely pos-sible that he sat in a game or two. Bingham was no better nor worse than other mining camps in the West, but we lasted longer than most and as far as the mines are concerned we are still going. We were built on a stronger foundation than most of the boom towns. You had to work for the precious metals locked in the mountains and there was no quick way to a big stake. But for the expansion of the Kennecott pit we would still be the best town in the world with the finest people anywhere. Mr. Creedon tThe tfod ;lde of people and a town makes dull reading. We know that from experience with the news-papers. They give little space for worthwhile happenings, but big scare heads to the scandals and sensational bits of news. AH of the stories and events in Dave Sutton's , article have some basis of truth in them and he put them down in a manner that ap-peals to the type of reading we are most accustomed to nowadays. ' ' Life in Bingham was free and easy in the early days and there were many boomers in and out of the Canyon, seeking a quick buck or two. It was a code of the West that gambling, drinking and ladies of easy virtue followed the miners wherever they went and Bingham was no exception. It is generally agreed that we had about 30 saloons with varied types of entertainment at one time and when prohibition came, it wai little noticed in Bingham. Most of NEW SAFETY RECORD ESTABLISHED BY KENNECOTT'S UTAH SMELTER Magna A new safety record was established last week by Ken-neco- tt Copper Corporation's Utah smelter as it compiled one year without any disabling injury. The smelter has worked an esti-mated 2,435,795 man hours with-out lost time accident. This estab-lishes a new record for any single plant in Kennecott's Utah opera-tions. The previous standard was approximately 2,339,000 man hours at the refinery in 490 days. Forty-fiv- e sets of seat belts were awarded to smelter employees Mar. 2 at shift change time at 4 p.m. to recognize their accomplishment. The belts are for the front seat of the family car and will be installed without cost to the employees se-lected. The smelter has 1,396 em-ployees. The smelter is leading in a con-test sponsored by the National Safety Council among nearly 30 similar plants in the non-ferro-metals industry. It placed third in the competition last year when the Utah Copper Division concentra-tors and refinery earned first place awards. Kennecott is attempting to im-prove on last year's safety record, the best ever achieved in Utah. Twenty-si- x disabling injuries were recorded last year for a frequency rate of 1.95. - E x4 liV " A II Iff A fcuv&,'tV r y Yii " Left to right, T. T. Pinder, smelter-refiner- y plant safety engineer, and C. J. Nagle, joint chairman of the Safety Council, Utah Smelter, inspect seat belts awarded employees for achieving safety record. WEST JORDAN LEGION AND AUXILIARY TO MEET MONDAY NIGHT, MARCH 12 Regular monthly meeting of West Jordan American Legion Post I 19 and its auxiliary will be held this Monday night, March I 2 at 8 p.m. at Marv's gym, it is reported. All members are asked to come out. Clint McShane, state department commander, will be in attendance. O IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH by Connie Mochizuki Monthly Entertainment Sunday The monthly entertainment spon-sored by the Immaculate Concep-tion Men's Organization will be held this Sunday, March I I in the church hall at 8 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend and participate and as in the past, many lovely prizes have been selected for this occasion. The refreshment stand will be staffed by the following members Oi' Immaculate Conception Altai Society Mrs. Ralph Murano, Mrs. Joe Susaeta, Mrs. Albert Kastelic, Mrs. James Zanardi, Mrs. John King, Mrs. Kenneth Moore, Mrs. John Anderson and Mrs. Frank Guarascio. Church Cleaning Church cleaning for the month of March is being done by the fol-lowing ladies: Immaculate Concep-tion Mrs. Verl Peterson and Mrs. Boyd Anderson; St. Paschal's, Lark Mrs. Nelson Martinez, Mrs. Aar-on Vasquez and Mrs. Bias Garcia. Altar Society To Meet Tuesday Monthly meeting of Immaculate Conception Altar Society will be held this Tuesday evening March 13 in the church hall at 8 p.m. Members are urged to attend the business meeting to discuss final plans for the St. Patrick's Day din-ner. Silver and pantry shower for the Franciscan Sisters. Hostesses will be Mrs. Sam Feraco and Mrs. Sam Dispenza. Men's Organization Elects Officers New officers for the year 1962 for Immaculate Conception Men's Organization are: Boyd Anderson, president; Mark Muhar, vice presi-dent; Verio Kendrick, secretary, and Roos Pino, treasurer. ST. PATRICK'S DINNER SET FOR SUNDAY, MARCH 18 Immaculate Conception Altar So-ciety is sponsoring the parish's an-nual St. Patrick's Day dinner to be held on Sunday, March 18 in the church hall. Dinner will be served from 2 to 4 and 5 to 7 p.m. Tickets are being sold by members of the altar society. They are adults $1.50, children 75c and $5.00 per family. Everyone is welcome to come. T DONALD CREER T. Donald Creer, 58, of 295 Mountain View Drive, Murray, died Monday afternoon, March 5, at 1:10 p.m. in a Salt Lake hospital of injuries suffered in an auto acci-dent near Farmington February 19. He was injured in a collision be-tween his car and a pickup truck at the State Street intersection in Farmington on U.S. Highway 94. A former practicing attorney in Bingham Canyon, he also had ser-ved as Bingham Canyon city at-torney. At the time of his death, Mr. Creer was a title examiner in the right-of-w- division of the Utah Highway Department. Funeral services will be conduc-ted Saturday noon in the Murray Third-Eight- h Ward Chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of latter-da- y Saints, 4600 Brown St. (140 East). Friends may call at 4760 South State Fri-day (today) from 6 to 8 p.m. and Saturday prior to services. Burial will be in Murray City Cemetery. West Jordan Lions Club and Lady Lions are making plans to hold the club's birthday dinner on Saturday evening, March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Marv's gym, it is reported. Canyon Lodge No. 1 3 of Mid-vale has scheduled a special meet-ing and conferring of M.M. Degree for next Tuesday night, March 1 3, at 7 p.m. it is announced. |