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Show . DISTRICT INTER-AGENCI- McV-'VuxvoriVv- e ES Water Conservation Subject of Meeting Watershed protection and other conservation problems were airet' y at a district meeting Wednesday in the Price city hall Attending were eastern Utah representatives of federal and state agencies concerned with conservation of natural resources. They came from Carbon, Emery. Grand and San Juan counties. Mailing reports on the work of their agencies were George Barton, Manti, president, and Lawrence Thordersen, Huntington zone representative of the Utah Association of Soil Conservation Districts; J. A. Libby, state conservationist, Soil Conservation Service; A. G. Nord, assistant regional forester; George L. Burnett Price district ranger, Forest Service; Clarence Anderson, state director, Farmers Home Administration; J. Taylor Allen, state chairman, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee Ariel Jorgensen, chairman, State Soil Conservation Committee and inter-agenc- state commissionetr of agricul- ture; and Dr. Carl Frischknecht director, and Paul Christensen, soils specialist, of the Utah State Agricultural Gjllege Extension Service. Dr. Frischknecht, who conducted the meeting, noted .that the Drivers Hereabouts Heeded Call to Get Car Plates Early Residents of Carbon county have evidently learned that it is not good for the disposition to wait until the last day to purchase their automobile license plates and this year the purchases were spread out more evenly throughout the period of license sales, according to Robert Holden, manager of the Price state tax commission office. Yesterday, February 29, the last purpose of the gathering was to permit personnel of the agencies to become better acquainted and to avoid duplication of effort. He said conservation of soil and water is one of the most important problems confronting the state. "We want to be sure that every acre foot of water is used wisely. Dr. Frischknecht said many acres in the state need adequate irainage. He said there are big losses of water from cottonwood and tamarack trees, weeds and brush, and from inefficient water use practices and inadequate water conveyance systems. INDEPENDENT Volume 65 10c NEWSPAPER . st Highlight on the sports scene for basketball fans of this area this week will be the play-of- f game at the Carbon College gymnasium Friday, March 2, at 8 p.m. between the Carbon high school Dinosaurs and West high school of Salt Lake City. The winner of this game will be eligible for a berth in the Utah state "Class A high school tournament. This game will be conducted under the supervision of the Utah High School Activities Association and admission will be 50 cents for students and $1.00 for adults. Tickets for the big game went on sale today at Carbon College. Construction The financial condition of Carbon county is in a highly healthy state, according to a report issued this week by County 'Clerk B. II. Young, with sizeable cash balances shown in each fund. A complete text of the financial report for the year ending December 31, 1955, is being published this week The Helper Journal. Nearing Completion The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints Institute and Seminary building under construction across the street from the Carbon College campus is nearing completion, it. was announced today. The construction has gone on steadily during the winter and upon completion will replace the facilities presently being used at the Fourth ward chapel. It wil' accommodate students taking LDS courses taught on both the high school and college levels. The classrooms, lounge and foyer are being finished in knotty nine and cedar. The remainder of the building, offices, library, workroom, restrooms, corridors and kitchen are finished in smooth painted surfaces. Much of the work has been donated by members of the Carbon and North Carbon stakes and other interested persons. The building is of modern design and will be a beautiful addition to the college area upon completion. It is expected to be ready for occupancy sometime this spring. Pre-Inducti- nits; Xf.J - State Road Contract The Construction Company of Price has been awarded a state road commission" contract B realigning, grading and surfac-!n- g Huntington contract was Canyon. The for $132,000 and was the lowest of six bids entered. Construction company officials stated work on One man will also leave on this he project would probably be day in this countys March draft started within the next week or two. quota. for 2.6 miles of road in L-J-- B Youths Warned About Explosives at Meeting For the purpose of informing the pleased to accept the pop passed towns young folks on the hazards out with the compliments of the ri rvrfflitiimnillt lYriUfflftfiirru HIGH BRASS ESCORT FOR QUEEN Miss Judy Jewkes, queen of Company A 1457th Engineer Battalion (C) (A), National Guard, is seen with Brigadier General Maxwell Rich, Utah adjutant general, left. Colonel William Alleman of American Fork, battalion commander, and Master Sergeant Robert Holden following the coronation Subject Will be On Stomach Ulcers Ulcers of the stomach and intestines will be the subject for the next health forum which will be held March 12 at the Carbon College cafeteria at 8 p.m., according to the Carbon County Extension Service, which is one of the sponsors of these forums. The visiting doctor for this panel will be Dr. T. C. Bauerlein of Clinic, Salt Lake City. He will head the panel. Dr. L. H. Merrill of Hiawatha will be moderator. Local doctors for the panel have not yet been selected. Ulcers are painful, and an increasing number of people are afflicted with this serious disease. This panel is planned to help guard the people of Carbon .county against this disease. The public is invited to submit questions on this subject to the county agents office, Phone 247, and come out to hear the discus-- j Inter-Mounta- in The cash balance on hand in the general fund increased by over the balance at the beginning of year $153, 307.30 as compared to $143,574.18. Total receipts to this fund during the year plus the balance on hand at the beginning of the year totaled $315,-779.and of this amount expendi- tures totaled $162,472.59. The courthouse special bond election of last November, which went against the issuance of bonds Final apportionment of tax monies collected in Carbon county for the year 1955 have been made, it has been announced by County Treasurer N. P. Pettersson. Of the $1,367,734.85 charged for collection, $1,326,076.44 was retoit.jfriljltfc ceived which is 96.95 per cent of ceremonies Saturday evening at the annual Na- the total. 4 tional Guard military ball in the Price municipal Of the toteil collected, went for school purposes or building. Miss Jewkes wears the castle crown which is the insignia of army engineers. She will 69.88 per cent. Of this total, 1 go to Salt Lake City later this month to oompete went directly to the Carwith other contestants for the title of Miss Utah bon county school district while National Guard. Advocate Photo by Woodruff the state school collection of $140, 773.03 went to the state for reap$926,-653.7- $785,-880.7- A Dollar Days business promotion sponsored by retail members of the Price Chamber of Commerce will be put on next week, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Local merchants will offer hundreds of bargains in almost every line of business to help stimulate trade and bring outside people into this business center. A special edition will be printed and distributed free to homes in Carbon, Emery and Grand .counties, with additional advertising space in The Spots will be used over KOAL radio to help emphasize the sale. This is the first time for several months that the group has sponsored such a project, and extensive plans have been made to make it a success, according to the committee in charge, including Gomer P. Peacock, Ijlarvey Cun dick and Garr Hanson. Armory Bids Coming Soon Brigadier General Maxwell Rich, adjutant general for the Utah National Guardi told those attending the Price National Guard units military ball Saturday night at the municipal auditorium that bids for the construction of the new armory building here would be called for the latter part of March or soon after the first of April. v Fund Raising ..; started out with $1,072.84 85 and ended the year with $10,427.01. The building and construction reserve fund is pegged at $211,-183.of which $123,826.43 is invested in U. S. treasury notes leaving an actual cash balance on hand of $87,357.27. To pay indebt- -' edness fund started out with with $832.21 and ended the year with the same balance. The welfare fund started out with $1,036.34 and ended up with the same amount and the highway improvement fund started out with $485.66 and ended up with the same amount. 70 i 99.14 per cent, and Sunnyside, 99.40 pep cent. $13,-743.- 28, Hiawatha, Castle Gate and Sunnyside tax collections were within the 99 per cent collection mark, the highest in the county. Wellington had the lowest collection ' total. For property In the county at large outside the incorporated cities and towns the collections to- taled 97.18 per cent. - 1 1 National 4-- H 4-- H Week To Open Club their program will 4-- H Watkins c.A-- $43,-122.- dis-aste- at Members of the county '4-leaders council met with the Extension agents Tuesday afternoon to plan the activities for the coming year, including those for the national observance. In observance of the national week, club members throughout the county will prepare window displays which will demonstrate - poor fund had a balance of at the beginning of the year and ended up with a balance of $44,386.14. The hospital, Infirmary, county physician fund had a balance of $108,820.18 at the opening of the year and ended up with a balance of $109,370.40. The weed fund opened the year with $13,415.76 and ended up with $13,004.54. In the agricultural extension fund there was $8,635.45 at the beginning of the year and at the end it contained $8,831.72. The exhibition and advertising fund Workshop Saturday Groups in Carbon Club Week will be the work they have done in National March 3 to 11, according to infor- clubs. Immediately following the mation received by Miss Charlene club week, an intensive enrollment Lind, home demonstration agent. This will begin the activities in Carbon county for the coming Monday Meeting ar ..w.v.v.'.vviSvi. E Catholic Youth H WVi nfiMmaBafcsdftaat: . A D V O C AT Plans Complete for Red Cross Readies year. Vr--. S Special taxes were apportioned as follows: State bounty, $1,377.62; predatory animal control, $351.26; inspection, $376.04, and tuberculosis portionment. The uniform mini- and Bangs disease, $24.96. mum local tax which amounted to $367,233.96 and the county school tax, $18,646.75, go directly to the school district. . County funds received the following apportionments: General fund, $91,808.50; road and bridge, $76,507.07; indigent fund, $22,952.13; bond interest and sinking fund, $30,602.84; hospital, satisfacPlans are infirmary and county physician torily for the progressing CYO workshop to be and exhibition Committees have been organized fund, $30,602.84; held here Saturday. in the various communities of Car- advertising fund, $14,710.99; weed The meeting will begin at 2 p.m. bon county for the annual drive for control, $3,060.29, and extension and is scheduled to close at 4:30 funds for the American Red Cross. fund, $7,650.71. after which refreshments will The Carbon Water Conservancy p.m. The drive is being conducted served. be , under the general chairmanship of District received $7,650.72. procedure, fund Parliamentary Dan Keller, Price. to Apportionments incorporated projects and entertainment The Red Cross this year is mak- cities and towns and the percen- raising ideas will be discussed during the ing a special effort due to the tage of collection in each are listworkshop. Mrs. A. C. Norwood, great demands made on funds as ed as follows : diocesan youth chairman; Miss a result of the flood disasters in Price, $56,017.72, 95.31 per cent; Valentine Gorlinski, committee California. Helper, $25,721.73, 97.36 per cent; Miss Auguste Utermann, We feel our citizens see the Scofield, $1,216.92, 91.48 per cent; member; committee member, and Miss Maneed for this great organization in Wellington, $5,872.14, 78.85 per D.C.C.W. (Diocesan rie Thompson, disasters and can see the good that cent; Hiawatha, $3,798.34, 99.13 Council of Catholic Women) presisubwere has come to those who per cent; Castle Gate, $9,376.60, dent, will be here from Salt Lake jected to this misfortune. MoreCity to take charge of the workover, it is a refreshing feeling to City Buys Car, Truck Members of the Helper, East shop. ir know that should a similar CYO clubs will Carbon The Price city council Monday attend. and Price overtake us, the Red Cross Would be ever ready to assist,1 night authorized the purchase of A meeting of the adult leaders a new car for the police departMr. Keller stated. On the local level we know the ment and a new dump truck for of these groups will be held from 12 Saturday morning prior great value of our blood program. the street department. The new 10 to This We, therefore, urge all our citi- car will be a Plymouth from the to the workshop- proper. zens to contribute generously to Bunnell Garage for a purchase meeting will be held in order that the fine and worthy cause." price of $1,149 plus a trade-i- n ve- adult leaders attending mav reContributions are being accept hicle, The dump truck will be ceive instructions on the different ed at the office of the American purchased from the United Mo- phases of the workshop. All meetings will be held at the Red Cross in the library building, tor Company for $2,600 plus a I trade-iNotre Dame school. , Price. , March 3 to law enforcement officers WjiSi-- W n. would be rewarded. & E Number 9 $ Dollar Days on Tap Next Week $ of tampering with any type of ex- company. Mine Superintendent Donald plosives, Independent Coal and Coke Company authorities invited Newberry .announced that a simi all boys and girls to a meeting lar demonstration is set for SatSaturday morning at the Kenil- urday, March 3, at Castle Gate and would be given later in other worth auditorium. communities upon request. Safety was Pete Corey Safety Engineer in charge. He lectured on the per- Engineer Homer Hyatt will be in ils of playing with blasting pow- charge of the Castle Gate meeting sion. der, blasting caps and cartridges and pointed out the fact that careless adults have left such objects in and about old mines, old prospecting or construction sites, in or about old camp houses and may be discovered in surrounding hills of mining communities. In past years miners were compelled to purchase their own explosives. Mr. Corey stated that any youngster finding caps or powder and reporting the location to him, town officials or .. N Final Apportionments Made from 1955 Taxes Next Health Forum Price Company Gains AND for a new courthouse building, cost the county $1,907.49 out of the general fund. In the bond interest and sinking fund, the year started out with a deficit of $386.78 and at the end of the year the fund contained $29,339.39. The airport fund had a total of $57,200.23 at the beginning of the year and at the end of the year had $7,983.50. Of this fund, $49,530.57 has been invested in U. S. treasury notes and therefore is available when needed. The road and bridge fund started out the year with $90275.56 and ended up with $66,892.98 aft er expenditures of $120,004. The Class "B road fund started out the year with $5,043.95 and ended up with $5,146.82. The indigent ,44l - explosives. The young people were impressed with the talks and displays. Many of them had never seen a blasting cap. They were also OF THE SUN County Financial Statement Reports Healthy Condition in for Sheriff Albert Passic of Carbon county was another speaker on the program and told of specific examples of youngsters who had either been maimed or killed when caps or powder detonated. After the lecture, the youngsters, numbering about 90, filed past a long table on which was displayed a complete collection of all types of blasting caps and velocity nunch cartridges. Mr. Corey identified each, its use and the danger to the inexperienced handler. He also stressed the fact that it is against the state and federal laws for anyone under 18 to use CONSOLIDATION Price, Carbon County, Utah, Thursday, March 1, 1956 per Copy . other A Game Here Tomorrow to Determine State Tourney Berth Squad Carbon-We- Institute Building day on which cars could operate on Utah highways with 1955 plates, only 187 passenger plates were sold and 58 truck plates. This is a far cry from the crowds which Columbia, Horse Canyon jammed the license bureau during Miners Return to Work dates. deadline previous With the settlement of a disThroughout the sale period, the Price office issued 6,037 passenger pute in the transportation departcar plates and 2,038 truck plates. ment at the Geneva Steel comLast year 5,129 plates were issued pany plant near Provo last week, some 700 employees of the United in addition to 1,367 truck plates. "tates Steel Corporation at Horse Canyon and Columbia were called Three Carbon Youths hack to work Monday night and Tuesday morning of this week. Get Calls The East Carbon miners had been 'died since the Monday before on Exams when the work stoppage at the Three Carbon county youths Geneva plant tied up coal cars. have been- instructed to report for their army physica examinations, it has been announced by Otto B. McKinnon clerk of the Carbon county Selective Service board. These youths will report at the Continental Bus depot in Price at 11:50 a.m. March 13 for transportation to Fort Douglas. They are William Francis Leek, Scofield: James Vincent Polito, Sunnydale. and John Henry Coopride, Drager-ton- . - - TIIE LOOT FROM LIFTING . . . When James Workman, 19, Dragerton, was apprehended by Carbon county sheriffs officers in their search for the culprits in several store burglaries they were led to the loot shown above which Workman admitted collecting over a period of six weeks. In- - Would Protect Domestic Fuels ''s Bill Senator Arthur V. Watkins (R., Utah) has introduced a bill to protect the domestic coal, oil and gas industry against imports of cheap eluded were dishes, electrical appliances, guns, natural gas. The bill would rejewelry,- watches, clothing and many other assort- quire the Federal Power Commised items valued at about $500. Workman told of- sion to block such imports when ficers he had pilfered these items by shoplifting they threaten to bring heavy unand ransacking cars throughout Carbon county. employment to the domestic fuel Sheriffs Office Photo industry. - College Called to Set Up Mine Classes Activitiy be conducted throughout the county. members and the Former county and home demonstration agents will visit schools to interest students In enrolling in the program. Public meetings will be held for these students, at whicli time parents must be in attendance if they are interested in having their boys and girls in the program. Dates and times of these 4-- H 4-- H 4-- H A meeting will be held Monday evening, March 5, at 7 at the Carbon College administration building, Room 5,- for all persons interested in studying to prepare for the state examinations to become certified mine foreman, fire bosses and shot firers. An earlier meeting had been called but dud to various rea- -' sons only a few persons made an appearance. Irel Longhurst, vocational director at the college, stated that at this meeting a schedule of classes will be formulated and that all interested persons are invited to attend. meetings will be announced later. Special activities for the coming year will include the annual June camp, compicnic, the county munity and county exhibits, and an achievement banquet. council for Members of the this year who participated in the planning of these events are 'Mrs. Elzar McKendrick, Carbonville, president; Mrs. Mary Martini of, Helper, vice president: Miss Jerry Hayes, Price, secretary; Richard Duke, Spring Glen, recreation chairman; and council members, Mrs. Gladys Whitlock of Price and Judy Ann Hartley of Wellington. 4-- H 4-- H . |