| Show '4 f Second v mlt Section Salt Lake City Utah-- falc fihuitf Radio TV7 Lop Page 23 Thursday Morning — January 27 1955 Dan Relief Clerk Fires Shot Thwarts Robbery Try Store Owner Attending Crime Tallc Valentine i Nothing Serious® ears have never heard nothing rink ‘filling in" while the ownci uf a Salt Lake stote attended a meeting on wavs to A —if they’ve never hung around the fringe of the crowd in front of a Salt routed a prevent buiglaues of bandits pair Wednesday about 9 p m Carry Horens 19 42G Quince St reached for a gun instead of (ash when confronted by two thugs who announced “Tins is a stickup " The jouth told officers he was “filling in for a few hours for the owner” of the Fourth & n Last and Seventh South Van Lake uranium board For the uninitiated a uranium board is a large bulletin board where local stock brok- ers post the current prices bid and asked— of ura- nium stocks a tv utiti gs-fou- t 44? heal the wild schemes the inside dope dreams the pitiful cries of losers the smug laughter of the winners I’m telling you if you didn't hear it' you wouldn’t believe it ( So in the interest of 'Americana I stood around a local uranium stock board the other day— and here are the scraps of conversation just called and talked to a friend of mine and this fellow who works has a brother-in-lafor a man who is a director of this cpmpany and this fellow says this stock is going to be worth $10 a share in three more days because they are going to merge with United States Steel and the only thing that’s holding back the merger right now is because Bernard Baruch insists on getting in on the deal!” Two interested spectators in front of the board were two elderly women One was knitting One was not The one that was knitting turned to her companion and said: "I used to pass the time going to strange funerals but lately I’ve been coming down here every morning because the people are more interesting— besides the seats are softer!” An old duffer—at least 90— confided to a young friend (about 80): ‘You call this a boom? Why I can remember back to the old Comstock Lode days when you sold the stock at a profit before you bou it it Humph" he humphed “this uranium stock is for children Give me Uranium bah! silver or anytime!" gold w Black smoke from two previous blasts hangs in the clear air over the Dugway Proving Grounds as a third explodes Woman Hurt Seriously In Crosswalk Salt Lake City woman suffered serious multiple injuries Wednesday about 7 pm when she was struck by an automobile making a left turn from 13th East at 21st South Suffering internal injuries back injuries head lacerations and fractures of clavicle and pelvis was Rachael Glenna C A Davis 32 201O-13t- East h Investigating officers said Mrs Davis was walking from north to south in the crosswalk when she was struck by an automobile operated by Donald Angus Buie 50 461-l- st Ave Narrowly missed in the impact was the victim’s mother Mrs Rachael Cameron Coon same address J Police investigation is continuing TRIBUNE FORUM A young fellow said worriedly to a friend “My wife thinks I’m playing the horses — if she knew 1 was in the uranium market she’d kiU pie in j 'W Lung Cancer Next Topic m Two downtown office girls stopped in during the lunch hour glanced at the board and one said to the other: “The stock I’ve got has the cutest little purple border with a pretty picture of an atomic bomb exploding in the air— and the president of the company has the most wonderful signature so masculine so forceful” And one fellow complained to his friend “personally I wish they wouM bring pinball maAt least with chines back pinball machines you get some lights once in awhile!” One chunky fellow remarked to a 6trangen “I’ve been putting all my lunch money into ura-1 haven’t made nium stocks I’ve sure lost but any money of lot a weight!" Of Club ‘Tool’ By George A Sorensen Tribune Staff Writer DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS — Rolls of man-mad- e thunder reverberated across Utah’s western desert Wednesday afternoon as the US Army and Air Force detonated 500000 pounds of obsolete bombs at this remote base Stacked five high in long lines cleared on the desert floor fragmentation bombs were exploded in a series of 33 blasts as part of an exercise for control of high explosives These stacks were fused to explode at intervals and as one column of smoke was reaching its zenith another mushroomed Newsmen and military personnel at observation points three and five miles from the site first saw a brilliant orange ball This was soon smothered by gray and black smoke that sped outward from the center forming first a triangle and Fair weather was expected then an arch to continue over Utah ThursFaint white shock waves day but observers predicted could be seen radiating through foggy conditions in valleys of the cold clear air and seconds the northern section during later the observers could hear the night and early morning the blast and feel the concusChilly afternoon temperasion The black smoke stood out tures were forecast with the in contrast to the snow that mercury expected to sink well covered the desert and nearby below the freezing level durmountains ing the night This smoke from the blasts Highs of 28 to 38 over the collected and hung over the state were predicted by the quiet valley at a height of 500 weatherman with nighttime “ lows ot 5 to —5 degrees A feet ' “ Col F N Eichorn command- high of 32 and a low of zero ing officer of Tooele Ordnance to 5 above was forecast for Depot reported the bombs were the Salt Lake area 49-0- 00 Fog’s Rolling In Seers Predict The rise in the incidence of lung cancer in recent years has caused lively discussion in medical circles It centers around the question: Does cigarette smoking cause lung cancer? Some statistical studies 4nd experiments with laboratory animals indicate that it is an important factor A Others believe the breathing of smog-s- uch as that which bang over many- industrial centers — is even more important Salt Lake Area United Fund Panel of Six Inc a nonprofit corporation to A panel of six Utah physi- solicit and receive contributions cians will give their views on :'or welfare and health charithis and other questions con- ties in a single annual fund nected with this important dis- raising drive was born Wednesease 'at a forum next Tuesday day at 36 S State at-pm in East High School The corporate entity formed Auditorium y nearly 100 business profesbe the third in a series sional civic church and eduwill It TODAY’S VALENTINE on “Your Doctor and Your cation leaders meeting in the A Valentine today to Mrs Health” sponsored by the Utah Mountain Fuel Supply Co auRalph Backxnan wife of the State Medical Assn and The ditorium also is empowered to administer the funds t b u s South High School principaL Salt Lake Tribune The discussion will be conGrace Backman rates a public Valentine because she did cerned not only with possible something the other day that causes of lung cancer but also methods of diagnosis and treatfew other people be placed of ment Emphasis would think of men chest on regular doing 40 those most susceptible over It happened to the disease like this: Any Questions? Mrs Backman was in a downIf you have a question on town depart-men- t lung cancer phone it at once some store doing shopping to Tribune Information and it be answered by the panel when she saw an Indian family come in the store —a father Tuesday night The number is mother and several youngsters Those selected by the Medical All the Indian youngsters were dressed warmly except Assn to discuss the subject are Dr Elmer M Kilpatrick speone little boy about five one cialist in internal medicine who took look Backman Mrs at the youngster— and bought will act as moderator Dr Robert M Crowder radiologist Dr him a coat Preston R Cutler surgeon Dr SAM THE SAD CYNIC SAYS: Oscar N Rambo pathologist I know a Salt Laker who is and Drt Keith F Farr and such a baseball fan be even Sherwm M JJaeser Ogden Crsnfuil hates umpires in the winter! - Gov Lee’s letter two and a half pages of strongly worded defense of the project was addressed to David R Brower executive director of the Sierra Club San Francisco The club claims the Upper Colorado development would destroy the primitive beauty of the monument ‘Propaganda Plan “Insofar as your Invitation to Join your tour is concerned’’ the governor wrote “I shall decline simply because I do not want to be a tool in your apparent propaganda plan I feel that my knowledge of the river country and the knowledge that our engineers and experts have gained far exceeds that which the Sierra Club may acquire in its scenic sojourns down the river” - (7 i i A J X 7 8 ‘ with several civic organizations Landon M Persons general manager of Western Paper Products Co David S Turner secretary Utah State Federation of Labor executive secre-tar- y Girard E Haven executive secretary Community Chest and William L O’Meara trust officer Continental Bank and Trust Co Directors named for one year included: Mrs S A Regan Mrs Joseph Rosenblatt Dr Bruce J Surgery for Strange 111 Six-year-o- was resting at Mrs i rr h? r i Lo-mer- William L Felt Mrs Allen M Upman Henry G Tempest Raymond L Arnold Mr Crandall Paul J Devine Mr Persons Howard W Price Harold J Steele and Mr Turner Mr Devine reporting for the organization committee saic that nearly 90 firms in the Salt Lake area have pledged support of the United Fund which will swing into action late this year on its first solicitation w-i- Jeanine Cranford Walla rare operation on her lungs Liquor Profits Melon Sliced : Distribution of a million dot lari in state liquor profits to cities and counties of Utah v as certified Wednesday by Stia Auditor Sherman J Preece ' Of the $774249 to cities and towns Salt Lak City gets the biggest cut $284330 Ogden's share is $32 90S and Provo's $42007 ’ Salt Lake County will recei9 $90830 of the $225731 distributed to counties Other major county shares: Weber $21228 Utah $18828 Carbon $15908 Firs High-Flyin- g Hits Hotel Club Flames shot five stories high from the basement of the New Grand Hotel and the Manhattan Club 5 E 4th South Wednesday but only smoke w visible to spectators Flames from a charcoal burner set fire to grease la a grease trap in the night dub kitchen in the basement of lift hotel building about 1013 p The fire spread around tbf kitchen climbed upw atd through the length M the grease trap and agstn sprea outward on the hotel roof Total damage was estimated at $400 to the building 8sj Slnre last Iith ll Iralfic D?:t ViAh To Jan 27 1055 To Jan 27 All ©I 1954 mi To lira Kimball Ms Persons J 1 five-stor- y X-ra- w-i- Parsons Murray Rabbi E" Louis Cardon George S Eccles William L Fields George M Gadsby Karl S Little Anton F Peterson and John M Wallace r director? : Mrs Kimball William S Hook Magna n Eric C Aaberg Beverly S L L Ilalvorsen Edward W Jenkins Ormond Konkle W T Nightingale Mr O’Meara and L F Pett f y Ulali Lawmakers directors: I Winsome Jeanine Faces Kiwanis to Honor Three-yea- r Vli-- Gary Borens 19 variety store clerk shows 25 caliber gun and bullet hole intended for bandits who fled empty handed Moms March’ Set Toniglit Clen-deni- lli A r j I? Jeanine Cranford Latter-daSaints Hospital Wednesday while surgeons prepared for an operation to determine the nature of an unknown lung disease from which she has suffered for several weeks The operation scheduled for Thursday will be performed by a chest surgedh lie will insert a needle into the child’s lungs to obtain samples of lung tissue for study in the laboratory In this way it Is hoped that the nature of the baffliwg disease can be determined as a guide to treatment Whether the chest w ill have to be opened will depend on the findings of the biopsy hospital officials ex plained Jeanine is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Cranford Blachly Ore Her father is a y truck driver for the Fred CranCo Mrs Logging ford is the former Jenny Kar ren of Vernal Utah Mrs Cranford said Jeanine was stricken with pneumonia Dec 27 while visiting with relatives in Vernal Doctors there discovered another unknown lung disease and the child was More than 3500 women Thurs- brought to LDS Hospital Jan day night will conduct the an- 17 for diagnosis and specialized nual “Mothers March on Polio" treatment j an annual highlight of the Mr Cranford arrived in Salt March of Dimes Lake City Wednesday by air to Lake Salt City be with his daughter Throughout and County the women will go from door to door seeking contributions to aid the National Society for Infantile Paralysis in its fight against poliomyelitis Mrs L W Mugleston 1356 E 13th South mothf r of seven “K i w a n i s 40th Anniversary children is chairman She Eaid Week” will be observed Thursthe mothers will begin ringing day by members of the Kiwanis doorbells about 7 pm and hope Club of Salt Lake City when to complete the campaign by members play host to Utah legislators at noon in Hotel Utah 8 pm Will She said Ih&l lhewomcn Moderating a panel discuscall at every house in the area sion will be O N Malmquist not Just those with porch lights political editor for The Sal Lake Tribune' turned on as in past years Two-yea- 4 f 100 Salt Lake Area Leaders Organize United Fund Elect Officers raised John M Wallace chairman of Mayor Earl J Glade’s exploratory and organization committee presided D Fotd Crandall manager of the Salt Lake division office Metropolitan Life Insurance Co wis elected president by unanimous vote of the organization committee that named other officers as follows: Vice presidents Mrs Warren G Kimball who has worked t T i - I ‘ 1 j t Ironically the owner Sam Shortino was attending a meeting of the Salt Lakt Butchers and Grocers’ Assn which was featured by “tips" from police officers on how store operators could help reduce the city’s rate of lobberies and burglaries Told to reach for the store’s 'receipts Mr Borens instead opened a drawer in a small cab- tnet beside the counter and pulled out a pistol “1 knew the 25 caliber pistol was m there "the intended victim told Officers U L Thorpe and A O (1’at) Snell during training exercise In which 49000 obsolete bombs The relief clerk fired one were destroyed in joint US Army-Ai- r Force operation shot while the thugs stood before him The bullet went through a plate glass window in the front of the store “just seconds before the two thugs made it to the back door” the' youth said Didn't See Gun The youth said he did not see a gun in the hands of either of disposed of on orders of higher the bandits but one of them authority and as part of the held forward something in a training for the 2949th Support Group of the US Air Force Gov J Bracken Lee Wednes- coat pocket when he announced “It is this group’s purpose to day declined to be cast in the that a stickup was in progress The men who took flight with study all aspects of these and role of a “tool" in the “apother type bombs from recelw probable visions of bullets in ing storing maintaining on parent propaganda plan” of the their backs were described as — Sierra Club an outspoken op- one 5 ft 9 180 lbs through disposal” Col Eichorn light component of the Upper Colorado said medium brown hair plexion River Storage Project combed straight back 25 to 30 Maj David S Von Eschen The governor's office made a predominantly blue is the group’s commanding offithe chief executive’s re- wearing public cer and Maj James W? Fox shirt and blue jeans and plaid ply to a Sierra Club two 5 ft 7 170 lbs dark brown training officer The group con Uve who wrote him represents last week hair combed back sists of approximately 400 offi with the suggestion Gov Lee He had a heavily pocked face cers and men stationed at be won over to the club’s might wore an old dirty gray suit and TOD and Dugway jpining one of its Total destructive power of viewpoint by river tours of the the blasts Wednesday was about projected Dinosaur National Monument 180 of the atomic bomb ex- area ploded over Hiroshima in World Governor Reply War II Big Boom Jolts Utah Governor Lee As Old Bombs Bang Shuns Role - f r i VIST Talk on Robberies the A chunky fellow in a leather jacket had a thin man barricaded against the wall and his conversation went like this: i V v '9 the gossip “I b kVi-- Your EAVESDROPPING: — 9 Jat H To vVL All tf 27 14 h K’i w s f so I |
