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Show Auku.'iI 21, 11)51 THE JOURNAL Page PRESIDENT SIGNS LAND BILL 3 FARMINGTON Katherine U. Rose Correspondent Phone Farmington 41-- J A personal shower was given oil Monday evening at the home of .Miss Nina Lund for Miss Wanema Miehsell, prior to her marriage to on Septem-- 1 Kynast-oand private! of such deficiencies are the result citizens are currently paying off of wholly inadequate budgets, a her 2. Twenty guests were present. in valuable dividends, according to factor that only the people of Utah Miss Shirley Hall was The Beazer class in Primary, Paul F. Hill, field director of the land public officials can remedy. Western Region, National Safety! officials coordination of activi- - Farmington Second ward, went up to the canyon Saturday morning Council. Mr. Hill pointed up this es public support activities is fact in a special report he present- - lacking in Utah; accident records and cooked their breakfast. They ed to the Utah Safety Council this were of the re- had to make a stove out of a can at traffic safety agencies co-hoste- ss. appraised i week. It makes sense, and it saves millions of dollars, he said, to carry on an aggressive, intelligent program of accident prevention activities at every level, and the cold statistics clearly demonstrate why. Mr. Hills remarks prefaced his annual presentation of the analysis report on Utahs inventory of traf-President Dwight D. Eisenhower hands Congressman William A. fic safety activities. This is a servDawson (R Utah) the pen with which he signed into law a new ice rendered by the National Safemultiple-us- e mining bill which will greatly stimulate uranium ty Council, designed to measure mining and exploration in Utah. The President complimented Repbill House. who in Dawson resentative the the relative effectiveness of such successfully sponsored the activities compared with what other states are doing. areas m Utah and, other btates were closed to mining prospectors be- KENNECOTT cause thev were covered by federal oil and gas leases. As the need for uranium developed, it became ap-- ! Eisenhower I). President Dwight that the existance of oil and' paient has signed new legislation which Kas leases covered land potentially makes some vital and significant jn this vital metal. However, land laws in the public unccr the old mining law, those changes oil and gas development covering uranium on oil and gas and metal mining under the min- - leased lands were unable to protect ing laws. their claims. In signing the legislation, the The new law, according to ReprePresident complimented Represensentative Dawson, permits the joint tative William A. Dawson (R.,Utah) use of the land both by oil and gas who sponsored the measure in the leasees and by uranium miners. House. The bill was sponsored in The measure should be of vast the Senate by Senator Arthur V. benefit to Utah where 74G of the Watkins (R., Utah). Characterized as the most far land is owned by the Federal Government. It is in the interest of reaching public land law changes State and Nation to see that in thirty years. the law removes land is put to its highest use the conflicts between those search- unpioductive and idle ing for oil and gas and those pros-- ; an(l because of an unnecessaiy conflict pecting for metalie ores on the in old laws, Representative Daw- public domain Until this law was enacted, vast son explained. 1 New Land Bill to Stimulate Utah UraniUm Mining . 5.; commended level; 13 additional highway patrol officers are needed; and driver education on a high standard in Utah is badly needed, were the chief weaknesses noted by the report. Ry correcting these deficiencies, Mr. Hill said, Utah would rank among the top level in the nation, and the real reward in such an achievement would be in the sav- ing of countless precious human lives and many millions of dollars. The monetary investment would be a comparative drop in the bucket compared with such dividends, he concluded. j COPPER and use the top for a frying pan. Mrs. Mary Myers is the teacher. Ronald Carlos Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Clark, has accepted a mission call. He will serve in a the mission. Ronald will enter the mission home Texas-Louisian- on September 8. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith arrived in Farmington on Tuesday to attend the wedding of their granddaughter, Miss Sandra Moon. Dennis Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Clark, won the main prize of the evening on Saturday at an electrical party. His ticket won for him a fine bicycle. RIO GRANDE RAILROAD ; dis-governi- ng nt i NEW V.F.W. COMMANDER-IN-CHIE- F Kennecott Copper Corporation is climaxing its Gotten Anniversary with dedication of the new Kennecott Research Center on the University of Utah campus. Thus starts another chapter in the fascinating Utah copper story, already a record of brilliant achievement, due to the courage and genius of Col. Daniel C. Jackling, founder of Utah Copper Company. Home railroad of Utah and Colorado, the Rio Grande proudly salutes Kennecott Copper Corporation, its partner in progress. The same spirit that enabled Brigham Young and his followers to make the desert blossom as the rose" is reflected in the accomplishments of Kennecott Rio C. N Grande rails down through the years have been a vital steel highway linking Utah to the nation's markets. w ' a world leader in its field. s -- v V.V . .Vv.v.v. ' vv" . ' i t Ww4wv .v.v.W.V.V.-.V- -- .A. . MERTON B. TICE (right), of Mitchell, S. D., newjy-clecte- d Maintaining an unceasing improvement program, the Rio Grande will continue to deliver dependable transportation service to insure full realization of the great potential of the future. 1 Xtjz' commander-in-chl- ef of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, receives, In Philadelphia, a the outgoing gavel from Wayne E. Richards, of Arkansas City, Kansas, s national commander. In his acceptance speech at the organization advoB5th annual national encampment, Tice rcafllrmcd the V.F.W. s ( International Sound photo) cacy of universal military training. DENVER & RIO ORANDE Pioneering for WESTERN RAILROAD 84 Yuri |