Show m&T "SgSwee 12B THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINE- R OGDEN UTAH 5 UNDAY MORNING JULY 22 1936 FEATURE PAGE r V-- I ’ m iT Ml ju 02 tf r"s fi r’ j JS y ay m a gm io g fe: 2-D- fr-s- our W § 1 iiiii S E itry Junket Will Lead You To Beauty Spots Good Fishing By RAY WIGHT v?-:- V Like a trip that combines desert forest rugged canyon beauty — and some of the best fishing that can be found in Utah? Here’s one that can be done easily in a couple of days — less if you hurry a bit — and will take you through the badlands country of southwestern Wyoming the heart of the BRUSH CREEK GORGE with its colorful sheer cliffs colorUintas eastern in the Forest National through Ashley laced with the green of forest pockets reminds the ful canyons and within a short distance of the Flaming traveler of a bit of one of the southern Utah parks At Gorge and the Red Canyon of the Green River where it is only a short walk to " Or if you have the time you can pack into the primitive area ig an interesting instance of geol-o- f the high Uintas and see some ogv in a jolly mood of the mo-- t ruggedly beautiful! East of Evanston the road runs country in the United Suues am through increasingly drier coun-se- t fishing of an excellence net iound m more accessible streams try as the speedometer clicks off the miles through Fort Bridger and lakes Lyman Granger and other small EITHER WAY The loop trip runs through Ver- towns To anyone with a historical nal and Green River Wyo and do with can it equal facility bent Fort Bridger is well worth you by going either way Let’s take it a stop Established by Jim Bridgby way of Green River thence to er in the days when the West was Vernal and then home Highway 30 is smooth sailing happy hunting grounds for trappers it is todav in an excellent through Weber and Echo canyons up to Evanston Wyo We- state of preservation and houses ber Canyon is green and attract- an interesting collection of pioive a number of historical points neer and r relics of interest are described on roadAt Green River take the hardside sign boards and Devils Slide surfaced road which loops south and west toward the Uintas w hich have been visible a good part of the way from Evanston east It’s rugged dry country from Green River into Manila and you’ll probably be glad to see the forest ' jt IT'S A BREATHTAKING 1500 feet from the rim to the river in the Red Canyon of the Green River Nature provides here a panorama which includes deep red sandstone the green water of the Green River of the surrounding forest cover and the blue-blac— (Forest Service photograph) -- pre-pionee- k IT'S NO IN 1956 CAMPAIGN 1 Utahns Pis! Farm Issue Ahead : ”ces BjwMU'KRAY SALT M picking it as second one as third five as fourth and seven as fifth RATE PET ISSUES Not all of the chairmen marked prefrences on all six suggested issues Some gave ratings most of them as No 4 to pet issues One party leader thought foreign affairs had this place three suggested that tourist' trade in- dustrial development and Utah’s 'deplorable” roads should be con- gjdered as important topics One chairman from eastern Utah cautioned that the “national trend will influence many voters to ballot straight tickets hence will be a real factor on the state 310 LEE LAKE CITY (UP) — leader in Utah’s 29 participating in a Unitsurvey showed a wide today in rating top is- political counties ed Press variance sues of the 1956 campaign but picked farm problems as Item No 1 by a narrow margin County chairmen of both parties voted education and schools gs the second most controversial subject that will influence bal- lots in the September primary and November general election They picked taxation as the third most-importa- nt issue Per-- 1 taxation first and farm problems ) second FROM COLLEGE CENTER One of the chairmen who felt education was the least important issue added with an obvious shrug: “Don’t see why education and schools should be injected into the election but I guess it will” His card was p o s t- marked from a college center community j j His opposite political number although names were not known —in the same community had a special vote for the President’s “health and age” as Issue No 4 Several of those who felt pen- sonalities of candidates would dominate the Utah campaign addlevel” led “especially in the race for l Another from the governor” to their ballot part of the state voted for eduOne southern Utah chairman cation and schools as the No 1 went even further and summed state issue with personalities of up his feelings in one word Aftthe other four but rated it fifth candidates second but noted that er his mark of “1” on the personalities question he added in importance with local city-- j if the poll was strictly on tional he candidates "Quid put simply “Brack” as sixth issues s finalities of the candidates — with emphasis on GOP Gov J Bracken Lee —was fourth The chairmen said the union-oppose- d right to work bill was not a major issue of the rank of south-centra- na-coun- ty ' SIX TOriCS PRESENTED These six topics were present-- 1 cd to the' party leaderon ballots that by design were returned without signature with the feeling true sentiments would be por-- 1 trayed more accurately on an anonymous basis The chairmen were also asked to volunteer other major topics but few did Thirty of the 53 top party officials from Manila to St George returned their ballots and 10 rf them rated fa rnv problems as the No 1 issue It -— j i country beginning near the isolated county seat SITE OF DAM Flaming Gorge which will be the site of one of the huge dams to be built by the federal government as part of the upper Colorado River Project can be seen by taking a short trip out from Linwood small town just inside the Utah border The side trip is three or four miles long and over a dirt road which is poor but passable The gorge will make you reach for a camera and wish you’d loaded it with color film if you hadn't taken that precaution Manila has service stations and overnight accommodations if you wish to stop there The oiled road stops at Manila and you'll be on a good graveled road from there almost all of the wav to Vernal It's a steady climb boundary Af to the top at Summit Springs but nowhere difficult Much of the wav you’ll be in Sheep Canyon which presents an interesting study of sheer walls and mammoth colored rock spires Part of the route is called by officials Service Forest the “Drive Through the Ages” because of its unusual geological features Carefully prepared signs describe the rock formations A turnoff is marked on the highwav near Green Lakes from '? t 1 f - X tl i f COLORFUL CANYON The Rel Canyon is a colorful rugged canyon cut in red Uinta sandstone and quartzite The green color of the Green River w U k k REALLY UP? yjj i MAYBE w u in la4' is especially noticeable in contrast with the red rock and beautiful color patterns are produced Antelope can often be seen in tne lower sagebrush country and elk and deer are common in the higher country Much of the time in the higher By CLIFF THOMPSON country? King’s Peak is visible Ask the average citizen 35 years of age or to the west reaching an altitude of 13498 feet it Is the highest about the hike in the cost of living over the past 20 and you are apt to trigger a long dissertation on how peak in Utah Forest Service campgrounds more h costs to live today than two decades ago are placed at intervals along the bad for start next time msa years ago for t work week Today he earns $321 Higher Standards of Living Account in Part for Increase i and up 48-ho- ur in a 40-ho- ur t month week Interesting isn’t it? A loaf of I 'bread figuratively speaking 'costs you twice as much today as in over 1936 But you get almost thret as much for an hour’s work years times So if you have to work a shortmuch er time for a loaf of bread ha the cost of living gone up—or down? yourself about you feeling Yeah— we didn’t figure in the road and the Green Lakes re- one consider of a television set or s new cost has j cost of much the gone upv living sort is a good place to spend the two or three years or ear every basic commodities an increase in taxes did we? night Carter Creek not far away thing Tie i j is good fishing for the small stream addict as are t number of others in the area The forest country in the Ash- lev Forest furnishes one of the best examples to be found any- M here of the multiple use of na- tional forests Saw mills are com-- ! mon wildlife is abundant altd scenic and recreational features are tops More beautiful canyon country is traversed by the road as it drops down to Vernal Wild flow“suners including the flower” and Ipdian paint brush are abundant this time of the year in the high mountain reaches i j so-call- ed MONUMENT OPEN Side trips from Vernal include the Dinosaur National Monument north of Jensen and the Vernal field house- museum which is open every day to display its superb collection of dinosaur and other fossils Highway 40 west from Vernal leads through Roosevelt Duchesne and other Uintah Basin towns before it loops up over the Wasatch range past the Strawberry reservoir and down Daniels Canyon to Heber From there you can drop down to Provo through Provo Canyon getting views of the Deer Creek reservoir and Bridal Veil falls or go north past Park City and home by way of Salt Lake City or Weber Canyon - Bacon sold for 30 cents compared NO TELEVISION SETS to today’s 55 cents Potatoes are is same That the about those ars things we didn’t But they just were until the recent hike have In 1636 Sure there wer jumped them to 12 cents a pound automobiles but not near as Fryers are up from 22 to 53 many But there weren’t any telecents a pound salt is double as vision sets Nor did the Ogden is canned corn Oleomargarine is citizen 1938 edition jump in his almost double and veal steak has car every few nights and run out jumped from 20 cents to 49 cents to a drive-i- n movie — $130 plus loaf of bread you must have money Tor have money y0U must Work So what you are actually doing is through a series of trades swapping a little labor To buy a " l°r & l°al °1 bread So to get a true picture of the cost of living increase let us con- sider howr much more work you have to do today to get a loaf of bread than you did in 1936 a pound Let us do a highly unscientific GO ON TO OTHERS survey — one the government We could go on with other economic experts could probably clobber with their slide rules items but they come out about statistics and ’mathematical"' de - the same The basic commodity in the cost of living — food — is grees ! There are several factors that made up the total cost of living of 1936 One of them was the cost of food LOOK AT FILES Come along to the files of The of 1936 Ogden Standard-Examine- r and let's see how the price of food was going First we niust recognize that the figure taken for the 1936 price say on potatoes may have been a sale price a few cents under the average for that year On the other hand the same thing may have occurred in obfrom the taining the 1956 prices files of The Ogden Standard-Examine- r So the whole thing will probably even out Getting down to cases sugar in 1936 sold for 59 cents per pound Today it is 104 cents not quite 100 per cent more Tomatoes have followed the same pattern 10 cents then 19 cents now Almost double' In 1936 you could buy a pound of flour in bags for 29 cents Today it cost 99 cents a ft’s 500 miles of the most tight- pound A piece of sirloin steak ly packed scenic thrills you can that cost you 23 cents a pound in 1936 is £9 cents a pound today find in the West 48-poun- d 20 to 30 cents per adult and child in the ’family So maybe wa shouldn't Warn the cost of living for increase in the amount ef money it takes to 'operate family Maybe t thin called an increase in the standabout 100 per cent higher today ard of living should come In for than it was two decades ago May- the blame be a bit more We want more things now than we did in 1936 A luxury in 1930-Quite an increase eh what? found in very few homes is not But we’re through in to on another factor necessity now found in all (or Moving the cost of living we find men's the head of the house has very shoes advertised for $6 in 1936 little peace) As there have been addition cost y0U §12 today Suits were advertised for $25 then Todav it to the cost of living iide in mor takes $50 or more to get a good conveniences so has the other suit except in sales Shirts have side of the ledger the labor side gone from S150 to about S3 some noted advancements a bit higher WON’T COMPARE Here again the average increase Working conditions 1936 styl is about 100 per cent and the same thing holds true for other will not compare to today's The household items furniture and pension plans the medical plans hospitalization insurance unemsuch So we find it cost about $2 to- ployment pay labor unions prothe workmen’s job and day to live where it cost our par- tecting all these were not known rights ents $1 in 1936 or just in the thinking stage 20 HOW LONG TO WORK? years ago Even in the increase in taxes Now we move on to the other — do we can find evidence of increas-w- e commodity labor How long nowto to earn work have ing demand for services — better in! ? to $1 the and that $2 compared bigger highways more cient fire departments and the According to statistics provided- cost of an Army and Navy to pro- -' by the local Employment Secur- jtect our Constitution — guaranteed ity office the average workmen right to gripe about the high cost was earning S118 a month 20 of living j ’ ' j - j ‘ effi-1936- l i GETS TICKET t if f S !(A JOKE SON) YAKIMA Wash — What happens when a group of military policemen have an opportunity to meet the son of the chief of police from their home town? Ffe Maurice Schooff son of Ogden Chief of Police M J Schooff here for a two-wee-k summer camp program with the U S Army Reserve found out an answer to this question a The young reservist member of the 96th Quater-maste- r Co was behind the wheel of a friend's car when — a warning traffic violation ticket was issued by Pvt Robert G Ramsey 125 Binford Ave Ogden who is a member of the Ogden-base- d 96th Military Police Company now on duty here “It wasn’t a serious violation” the MP explained with a smile “But it did seem good for a change to be able to see a traffic ticket flow in a different direction” j Pfc Schooff who also mustered a smile over the inci- e vitif three Red Gorge IT e last in importance deep of the Green River 1500-fee- t CHIEF'S BOY In considering the ballots the Tinned Press political staff allowed six points for a first place rating five for second lour for third and down to one for a sixth spot vote Counting four votes for sec- end six for third two for fourth five for fifth and two for sixth that gave the farm problem issue a point total of 132 nine': above the next largest category NEXT GREATEST BALLOT In number of first place votes alone the personalities of candidates had the next greatest ballot with nine but heavy voting for second and third places put education and schools with 123 and taxation with 120 ahead of the 103 points for personalities Six chairmen rated education as the top issue nine as second eight as third two as fourth one as fifth and two as sixth Four put taxation first with seven rating it second nine as third seven as fourth two as fifth and none as sixth votes Alter the nine first-placthe personalities question h a d t hree selections as the second is- sow two as third four as fourth eight as fifth and three as sixth The right to work bill drew a point total of 78 from three first-placratings one as second four as third seven as fourth five as fifth and nine as sixth Local city and county issues bad 61 points No oneYaied it 13 said it was sixth and tops but sc the one place Brush Creek runs into a cavern produced by the dissolution of limestone then emerges again as a clear mountain stream several miles below SPIRES OF ROUK look down on State Highway 41 as it winds through Sheep Creek Canyon in she Ashley National Forest The area is a uhotographerks paradise The road incidentally has been improved over what is shown here — (Forest Service photography dent commented that the military police organization is “just about as efficient as the one in Ogden” PS — Later the Ogden reservist found out that the whole thing was only meant as a joke son of Ogden Chief of Police M J reservist receives a traffic warning ticket imm P t Schooff as the young Army Robert G Ramsey left) 125 Binford Ave Ogden a member of the 96th Military Police Co at Yakima Firing Center Yakima Wash Looking on with interest is Maj Virgil L Moore 1062 Cross St Ogden who is provost marshal for the 96th VICTIM of revenge is Pfe Maurice Schooff Infantry Division |