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Show ? box elder Silver Hoard Flits Silently In, Out fiew3-ournal Brigham City, Utah Wednesday, August 20, A Semi-Weekl- BURLINGTON, N. J. (UP) There was rich prospecting in this New' Jersey city for six silmonths when a man-madver mine yielded $116,272,090. Chances of staking a claim were out, though, even if the folks in Burlington had known that stuff was silver. Only a few select government and trucking company employes got to do any mining from the 4,075-tostockpile. Five days a week trucks owned by the local firm pulled up at a house to pick up their $1,000,000 loads of silver bars. Then they moved under heavy guard across the Deleware River 1947 Newspaper y e Successor to THE BOX ELDER NEWS (Established and 1896) THE BOX ELDER JOURNAL (Established 1309) William M. Long, Editor Charles W. Claybaugh, Business Manager Mrs. Gladys H. Johnson, Advertising Manager Published evei ry Wednesday and Friday and entered as Second Clast Matter at the post office in Brigham City, Utah, under the ct of March 6, 1879. Subscription Rates: Box Elder County )4 00 a year; outside Box Elder Coun ty, $5 00 a year. Single copies 5 cents. Polio And Public Cleanliness In recent years, poliomyelitis has struck Utah twice in epidemic proportions: 399 resident cases and 24 deaths in 1943, and 242 resident cases and 19 deaths in 1945. Fortunately, early diagnosis, adequate hospital facilities and excellent continuing medical care kept the fatality rate at a minimum?" In 1945 coordination of the services offered by the Crippled Children Division of the State Department of Health, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the University of Utah medical school, the Salt Lake General Hospital, the American Red Cross, and the medical and nursing professions under the Utah State Emergency Poliomyelitis Committee effectively marshaled all available resources and fought the disease to a standstill. Utahs emergency organization has since been offered by the National Foundation as a pattern to its constituent state and local organizations. Ther is no danger that the state will be found wanting should there be a recurrence of a polio epidemic. Such assistance, of course, does not dispel the dread that every summer brings along with its pleasure. Peak of the 1945 epidemic came in August. The elusive infection, for which there is still no sure early diagnosis, often does its work and leaves its mark of paralysis as the first sign that it has been present at all. The physical therapy which restores afflicted limbs to normal use, sometimes only after many months, treats the manifest results of the disease, not the cause. Public health reports continue to call it unpredictable. But talk of polio should not spend itself in a senseless panic. Polio consciousness is a good thing even though a little on the fearful side if it will lead to positive action. Is there actually something we can do by way of prevention ? Every one of us would gladly roll up his sleeves and take the needle if the magic of inoculation would banish polio from our lives. The fact that in the epidemic year of 1945 Utah had not a single death from diptheria, typhoid fever, and smallpox the preventable diseases speaks well for our cooperation in the immunization program. We would give polio shots, should there be any, the same support But for polio there is no specific immunization. What we are being asked to do is simpler than receiving a shot or a scratch simpler but in a way more difficult. We are being asked to keep clean everything about our persons, our homes, our communities. There was the Biblical character who was told to bathe in the river Jordan seven times it never happens in the businesses, but in our place it seems like when it rains it pours. And always on the same customer. We stand pityingly, helplessly by and watch him get wet. If he doesnt get really angry, were lucky. And our best efforts seem to result in always worse things happening. It finally gets to a point where hed be justfied in saying, Certainly, the customer is always right hut why, O why, do YOU always have to be wrong when youre doing something for me? After awhile, we get jittery every time we see him coming. I supiKi.se well-operat- ed our weekly quota of mistakes, of course. But we have somewhere between 150 and 200 advertising and job printing accounts we serve, and upward of 2.000 subscribers. Yet every so often one of those 150 or 200 accounts, or one of those 2.000 subscribers, starts having "bad luck at our hands, and it keeps right on being that one account or that one subscriber. Youd think the law of averages would pass around the honor of being the victim of our stupidity. irS , J C , k P N OPENING SOON BRIGHAM CITY'S LARGEST We make Complete Record & Appliance Store Sons Of Utah Pioneers Our current fall guy, it seems, is Bishop Glenn Knudsen of Central Chevrolet and the Stories And Incidents Of Pioneer Times In Utah, Related Second ward. For several weeks, now, every The Box Elder County Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers job of printing weve done for the Second By ward has had mistakes in it, or else the job ticket gets lost and we fail to make delivery Reminiscences of Alex Toponce. the train without their teamsters returned to the states in on time. Whenever someone says "There By J. E. Halverson safety. The cattle were driven was a mistake in one of the ads yesterday, In the summer of 1857 1 join- off by the Mormons and those we dont even ask wjiose ad. Its always ed Albert Sidney Johnstons that were not used for beef by Central Chevrolets. army as an assistant wagon the hunghy men were returned boss. Our freight train was load- in the summer to the company The harder we try, the more persistent ed with supplies that the army after peace had been made bethe Gremlins become, and the worse the used from day to day and we tween the Mormons and the mistake they plant and slip through on us. kept right up to the main body. government. The loss to the Its small satisfaction to Glenn that we try The route was up the Platte, army was about five hundred twice as hard for him, and do twice as much the North Flatte, and the Sweet- thousand pounds of government over South Pass, down supplies. The loss put the army work for his money as we do for anybody water, the Sandy and across to Fort on short rations for the winter elses. He still gets a bad job. Bridger. It was the old Oregon and spring until they could be Trail and everything went well reached with supplies in the The reason we mention it here is, will with us until we reached Bridg- spring of 1858. In 1889 when I was crossing you please be extra kind to Glenn, in view er. There we heard that the of the bad deal hes getting from us these Mormon Cavalry had slipped Wyoming with a drove of horses the north and had we passed some of Lot Smiths days? And of course, in mentioning it around to some of our freight achievements, and there were here, theres the risk in fact, its highly captured train. A party of Mormons un- still some of the old wagon probable that weve spelled his name der command of Col. Lot Smith irons around where the wrong, or made some other serious blunder. had been sent by the Mormoh wagonslying were' burned authorities to the rear of JohnWhen I later settled in Utah stons army to cut off supplies. to cure him of his illness. The formula They captured and burned three I came to know Lot Smith very seemed childish, the remedy too simple. of our trains, two on the Sandy well. He was a rough and ready Physicians can offer us nothing sensational and one east of Green River. type. He would have passed as to combat polio; but they agreed that most They gave the captain of each a cattleman in any country. One day I said: Lot, what and fundamental in our fight train the privilege of taking his best wagons and teams did you burn all that stuff for? against this unknown enemy is spotless one to Why didn't you take it to Salt sanitation. Every source of contamina- and loading itor with supplies to the Lake? return back go home, tion must' become the object of our vigiHe chuckled and said, "You point. lance from h litter to city dump. starting no outrage fellows might have caught me. They committed Too many homes do not yet - practice the whatever toward the men, and As it was I fixed you good and shiny cleanliness the modern kitchen ad- as soon as the captain of each plenty. vertisements would have us believe. There train told them he had all the When I was in Arizona in is indifference, indolence, even slatternli- food necessary to supply him 1903, trailing sheep, I passed to get back to the starting Lot Smiths ranch on the road ness in too many places. point they told him to abandon to Flagstaff. I went up to his It is a simple program, but demanding. the and they were set on place to make a call and found To fight polio: a clean person, a clean fire train, and everything burned that he had been killed the week house, a clean community. was consumable. The captain of far-reachi- back-porc- Keep Trucks Serviced This Way bridge to the mint h Phia, where the vail were destined to be 1 macoins. The silver was assem Burlington just as was spirited out It tT ed from war plants all nation, to which it J" lent through the tion Finance corporal enough scarce copper f, could not be obtained-assembly lines moving A RFC guard likes to story of a War worker ly told a companion theres silver around k wonder where they hide worker was standing j , a conduit worth thol dollars. before by an Indian. The Indians sheep had broken into Lot Smiths field and Lot had shot one of the sheep. The Indian in revenge killed him. He had been living there for some years with two wives and had quite a ranch on Maricopa Wash about ten miles fom Willow' Springs. I bought a lot of grain for my sheep from his widows. Lot had been for a number of years, in charge of the cattle owned by the Order of Enoch of the Mormon Church, gotten up by Brigham Young, in which everything was owned in common, as in the early days of the Christian church. But they found it hard to keep it going and they finally gave it up. 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