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Show Volume Seventy Nine Number Thirty One Tooele, Utah, Friday, January 4, 1974 Theatre Guild Schedules Auditions For Winter Play reverant portrayal of this family of Nazareth. The play calls for a rather We large cast of characters. will be casting 29 parts, Mr. Baldwin stated, ranging from n adults to one aged boy." The audition is open to anyone p.m. The play is a departure for in the community who is interthe local theatre group who have ested. People may drop by the specialized in light comedy and school any time within the set popular Broadway musical come- hours to read for parts. Anyone dies in the past. Director Ber-ne- tt not able to make it at the speciBaldwin described this play fied time may call Mr. Baldwin 3 and make other aras a serious, dramatic, religious at drama dealing with the events of rangements. The Guild plans production the ministry of Christ and the impact of his ministry upon his dates for the latter part of Febown family. It is a beautiful and ruary or first week of Mrch. The Community Theatre Guild announces that auditions for its winter production of Family Portrait will be held Monday January 7th at the East Elemene room tary School between the hours of 7 and 9 multi-purpos- pre-tee- 882-414- Mrs. Richard Gritzmacher, mother of Tooele Countys 1974 New Years Baby cuddles her handsome son who will claim a multitude of prizes as Mr. 1974 in Tooele. 1974 New Years Baby Claims Many Prizes of Mrs. Sebastian Unser and Mr. multitude Claiming of and Mrs. C. L. Gritzmacher, all well honor as as the prizes being the first child born in of Tooele, and Mrs. Eva Piatz of Tooele County in 1974 is Rich- Fillmore, is Dakota North ard Jason Gntmacher. claiming young Jason for a He was bom at the Tooele great grandson. Valley Hospital January 1 at The new baby and his par5:31 am. and weighed seven ents are now eligible to claim a pounds 12 ounces. Richard and Jackie Gritz- multitude of prizes from the macher, of 405 North Brook St., generous merchants of Tooele are the happy parents of their County. A complete list of first son, but boast a cute little prizes was published in the December 31 issue of the Tooele two year old daughter Jodi. Grandparents are Mr. and Bulletin. a Yernon-Reservoi- r Is Now Completed A sixtv-yedream came' true mittee selected the site the last month when federal inspec- reservoir now occupies. This comtors approved the construction mittee was comprised of Nels work completed on the Vernon Jorgensen, Charles Anderson, Lars Larson and Joseph FredReservoir. The Vernon dam and reser- rickson. AFTER THE site had been voir will have a capacity of 800 acre feet and will include 88 selected, nothing more was done thousand feet of pressure pipe- until 1950 when the Utah Diline plus required structures and vision of Water Resources subproper land management and mitted a bid to construct the treatment facilities. The entire reservoir. The Vernon Irrigation project will occupy 130,500 Company rejected the bid as acres, including 26,900 acres of being too high and nothing further was done until 1963. private land. In 1963 the irrigation comTO DATE 65 per cent of the pipeline has been installed. pany and the Vernon Soil ConWhen completed this pipeline servation District, co- - sponsored will produce 50 pound pressure bv Tooele County, submitted an per square inch for sprinkler application through the Soil irrigation, sufficient for 1,000 Conservation Services for water shed planning and a cost sharacres of Vernon cropland. There are no provisions for ing project. The final inspection and acdead storage to allow for fishwas made December the reservoir. in ceptance ing Originally, this project began 20, 1973, ten years after submission of the application. wav back in 1913 when a com School Board Dates Meeting The next regular meeting of the Tooele County Board of Education will be held Tuesday evening January 8, at 7:00 in the school board office, 66 West Vine. , Funeral Friday For Temperatures Cold In Tooele Three days of sunshine has been unable to moderate winters icy grip on Utah. observer Burdett Weather Bevan reports that the high for New Years Day was only 21 degrees with a high Wednesday of just 17. Early Wednesday morning the citys low was recorded at three above zero. Thursday dipped to zero. But Tooele didnt fair so bad when compared to Mary Stewart Mary Olive James Stewart, beloved mother and native resident of this city, died Monday, December 31 at the Tooele Valley Nursing Home of natural causes. She was 90 years old. ' BORN MARCH 25, 1883, she was a. daughter of Daniel and Love Peasnall James and was married to Benjamin G. Stewart Sept. 3, 1901 in Salt Lake City. The marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Mr. Stewart died May 24, 1926. They were the parents of six children all of whom survive. Mrs. Stewart was an active member of the LDS Church, having held many positions during her lifetime. She was an ardent Relief Society worker and was and representative magazine quilting chairman for many years. She was a visiting teacher for over 50 years. She was noted for her creative talents and made many beautiful things with her hands. Quilting was her special hobby in later years. She spent many happy hours making quilts for her family and friends. She was a charter member of the Tooele County Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers and held positions in both the County Camp and the Hannah England Camp. SURVIVING are three sons and three daughters, B. Grant other areas in the state. For example Coalville recorded the states official low Wednesday of 28 degrees below zero. The days highest reading was 32 at St. George. At Vernon, Wednesdays low was 15 below. Other lows recorded in Utah include a minus 22 at Bryce Canyon; minus 11 at Cedar City; minus 15 at Hanksville; minus 25 at Loa; minus 19 at Logan and minus 20 at Roosevelt. Elsewhere in the nation temperatures have been even more uncomfortable with Evanston, Wyo., shivering with a minus w'hile at West Yellowstone the mercury dropped to Restraining Order Against City Council Is Dissolved An audience that nearly filled the Countv Court Room Thursafday morning was notified ter a forty minute vs ait by Acting City Attorney Barrie A. make a public notice and proanswer to the complaint still ceed sxith the budget healing if pending against the former city it wants to. council. Next step in the proceedings Once the answer has been now that the restraining order filed it is joined with the comVernon that District Judge Stew-ar- t has been dissolved, vs ill be ta- plaint and the judge may or M. Hansen had dissolved the ken by Acting City Attorney may not hold a hearing on this restraining order he had placed Vernon, ssho will now hie an complaint. on the Tooele City Council prohibiting them from the city budget. Actually the purpose of the injunction vshich was obtained by Dale James ssas to pres'ent the former council, George Mantes, Bill Gochis, Gail Paiker, Frank Whitehouse and Robert Wassom from the city budget. County residents with ques- grievances concerning personal This has been accomplished tions concerning the tax assess- property only. Personal property since this council cannot publish ments on personal property will includes automobiles or other a public notice in sufficient be able to appeal to the Tooele vehicles including mobile homes time to hold the meeting before County Board of Equalization not permanently attached to a the new council takes office during four monthly meetings an- site owned by the taxpayer. nounced today by the County Monday, Jan. 7th. real Questions concerning Harvey Wright vs ill replace Commission. such as homes and farms property of first a of as member The the Mantes George meeting will be heard at a series of the council having defeated him Board will be held at 2.00 pm. scheduled to begin in Also in the November election. Tuesday, January 15, at the meetings If a property owner Office in the May. since the court injunction ssas Commisiioners feels his tax assessment may be issued, Gail Parker, has resignCounty Court House. Subsetoo high he can bring his case ed as a council member. held will on be quent meetings This new council - Gochis, Feb. 19, March 19 and April to the County Board of Equalization, Whitehouse, Wasson and Wright 16, all at 2.00 p.m. County Clerk Dennis These meetings are to hear Ewing said today. and the vacant seat can now Board Of Equalization Schedules Meetings 37 below. Forecasters are predicting increasing clouds for Thursday night and Friday with slightly warmer in the temperatures Salt Lake City - Tooele area. , f 'xr'fn. :7: V j j 4 r i MRS. STEWART Stewart and Mrs. Edgar (Marcell) Dunn, both of Salt Lake City; Mark and Reed J. Stewart, Mrs. Leona S. Pocock and Mrs. Clarence (Erma) Rupp, all of Tooele. Also surviving are 18 grandchildren, 50 great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren, and two brothers: Roy James, Tooele and Clyde R; James, Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held Friday 2 p.m. at the Third and Seventh Ward Chapel. FRIENDS MAY call at the Tate Mortuary Friday from 12 noon until funeral time. Burial will be in the Tooele City Cemetery. Funeral Sat. In Lehi For J. B. Strickland James B. Strickland, 69, Cedar Fort, Utah, died January 2, 1974 at an American Fork Hospital of natural causes. He was born October 5, 1905 at Mercur to George and Mary Bradshaw Strickland and was married to Edna Mae Elton June 17, 1931 at Cedar Valley. HE . WAS a member of the LDS Church and a retired employee of Tooele Army Depot. are his wife of Surviving Cedar Fort; two sons and two daughters, James D., Tooele; Loyde, Riverton; Kenneth L., of Cedar Fort; Mrs. Dale (LaRae) Castagno, Erda and Mrs. Karl (LaRee) Stewart, Lehi. Ashes and debris are still smoking Wednesday afternoon after a fire Tuesday night destroyed the Vernon home of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Yates. Vernon Family Loses Home, Belongings In Fire Fire destroyed a small frame Yates and their son Marlin were house and all its contents late able to get out of the house Tuesday night in Vernon and with only the night clothing they grandchildren also survive. the occupants were barely able were wearing as flames nished Funeral services will be held to escape. through the structure at about Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Wing Marvin 11.00 p.m. AND MR. Mrs. Mortuary Chapel in Lehi. Bishop The family had retired for Clovd Harris of the Cedar Valthe night when Marlin, a junior ley Ward will conduct the serat Tooele High School, was vice. awakened by smoke. He warned FRIENDS MAY call at the his parents and they were able Wing Mortuary Friday, 7 to 9 p.m. to escape without harm. They and Saturday prior to funeral were taken to the homes of time. friends for the night and are Burial will be in the Cedar At 2.00 a.m. Sunday, Tooele now staying with another son Fort Cemetery. residents will ''join the rest of Gerald Yates, in Grantsville. the house America in setting their clocks Neighbors 'said ahead one hour as Daylight went up like a tinder box and Saving Time again becomes ef- was gone almost before the alarm could be turned in. The blaze is fective. Clocks will remain on the Daylight Saving Time schedule Masters The Ming Center continuously for the next two Glazing is now open years in an effort to better use for business at 83 North Main. the evening sunlight and save on OWNED AND operated by energy. Marlow Peterson and Brent SaTwenty eight years ago when Utah motorists were reminded gers, Tooeles newest business World War II brought a fuel today by Linn C. Baker, Vice enterprise is a process where crisis the United States adoptautomobiles are treated with a ed its first Daylight President, Utah Safety Council traffic ming chemical to preserve the Saving Time plan. This will be that darkness doubles troubles. With the advent of cars finish. only the second time it has winter weather, motorists are to the owners, been done. According faced with the added driving hathe vehicle once zard of poor visibility during the never needs waxing, since it months ahead, Baker said. is guaranteed to prevent oxidaLONGER HOURS of darktion. Tooele City Police are in- ness, combined with snow, fog Mr. Sagers, who will manage the new enterprise on an eve- vestigating three minor thefts and frost can result in a truly ning and weekend basis, was born which occurred between Dec. hazardous situation in todays in St. John and graduated from 31 and Jan. 1. heavy traffic, he pointed out. The smart motorist compenThe first is the theft of about Tooele High School. He also attended BYU and Dixie College. five gallons of gasoline from an sates for these added dangers by A FORMER LDS missionairplane owned by Percy J. making certain that his lights Smith, of 509 Holly Drive. This are functioning properly and ary, he is married to Carol Foremaster and now lives in Stans-bur- y occurred sometime on Dec. 31. aimed correctly, by using a brush The second concerns a bat- or scraper to clear the windows Park. He invites people interested tery stolen on Jan. 1 from the and windshield before starting in the Ming Process to call car of Leo Mantas, 99 North Out, and by maintaining extra Baker him or drop by the Center any Broadway and the third is the care behind the wheel, from Kelvin of said. a for tire a theft Bnlo, evening except Tuesday Before starting out on a 260 North First East. demonstration. A sister, Mrs. Raymond (Mary) Ault of Cedar Valley and 21 Daylight Saving Time Effective Sun. New Business Opens In Tooele believed to have been started by faulty electrical wiring although the cause has not been definately determined. ACCORDING to the Tooele County Sheriff s office damage could run as high as $25,000 including the home, furnishings and personal belongings of the family. Only the chimney was left standing and rubble was still smoldering Wednesday afternoon. Two fire trucks from Tooele and one from the South Area of the Tooele Army Depot answered the call. The temperature was about 15 below zero at the time of the fire. Darkness Doubles Traffic Troubles year-roun- Ming-treate- d d Thefts Reported Inspection team views reservoir site from atop over - flow structure at Vernon Reservoir Dam. DASICETDALL-LEAGU- OPENER, FRI., JAN. E HILGs 7S HJDCnIKID 4 JV - 6 p.m. Varsity - 8 p.m. Adults $1.50 i cold day, its a good idea to start the engine a few minutes ahead of time to give it a chance to get partially warmed before deturning on the heater and froster, he advised. This simple procedure can reduce the liklihood of condensation. Postage Increase Postponed Postmaster, Richard H. Weight announced today that the postrate increases originally age scheduled for January 5, 1974 has been postponed until Saturday, March 2, 1974. This includes both domestic and international postage rates. The Tooele post office may be contacted for further |