| Show 1mwoRt21Atialz t '''''''''''Ai:4-4- '''ioti6-04-5 - - 4"8104110Ifib4te - - - - - — 0 — 0 vr I VAWb7 k i 1 - 1 A 7 t-k Tune - Gasp Supplier! Fights Rate Cut Proposal I t -- r i 4' i' 1 ' ' - re- - 'I ‘ Ii 3 4 ' ' or "--4::z- II ‘t fii ' z IA ' 4 4 4 -- -- t' '' 14 --- 1 :: fr - -- - i t ''' 4iC 1 tik - ' - t' t l't h - - 'i ' 1 1 t 1 r 1 L Aqueduct Delay Cuts Use of Water Only 2654 Acre Feet ' r )1 '"':c (1 -- "t ' 1 4''' ' - -- At litoi A 0 - t --- -- 4' - -- n --- - I - - - - : i- "" A - iv1- '''''''"' 4 - - - - w --1- -- c- s- - r' t ' - '' - - trr t ' f -- AV 4 if re L n'n---3- 'z 1 i 1 -: '$ ' 4 - '- - -- - t I " - -- r4fr k ' 1 ' r - I r f' - ' 1 '-- - ' - 4 j A specially prepared manuscript of the "Lord's Prayer" is rehearsed by Delight Thomas left and Frances James members of the choir Lord's Prayer' State Considers By Choir 'Supplemental' 1 lated Sunday use of Bushnell — 1 - A final outstanding touch to a Sunday evening Centennial concet in the tabernacle was added late 'Thursday as the L D S choir under J Spencer Cornwall rehearsed a special manuscript of the "Lord's Prayer" The arrangement will be added as a closing number on the Ce320-voi- The use of Bushnell General hospital of a "supplemental institution" still remained an outside possibility ThuredaY- - But t h e dream of using the miltimillion y dollar hospital as panacea for the state's public welfare institutional troubles was definitely ce ex-arm- out according to the state welfare project - ar e - on - Prominent S L Constructor Real Estate Agent Dies Granite Teachers Okeli Pay Seale ss ge - - Russo-Americ- an - e vice-preside- nt - f 7 1 1 It 4 - i - 1 Supreme Court Appeal Seen To Third District Ruling '' By EDNA DRAPER A group of 47 Utah schoolteachers Thursday won the first round in a legal battle for credits toward retirement benefits based on teaching experience in accredited church schools Third Maria Judge Roa Id A 1T Hogeneln upheld the teachers en-in 1 their contention that they are I titled Nto credit for their church school teaching prior to July 1 I 1937 when he overruled a general 1 I 1 r demurrer filed by the Utah state teachers' retirement board i: Since questions raised by the I demurrer were the decisive issues In the case an appeal to the state i supreme court is expected withI out the case to trial in - l i the bringing district court Present Inducement Judge Irogensens upheld the : validity of such retirement bene' ' fits on the theory that they are not additional compensation for services previously fully perq formed and fully compensated but rather that they are a present ini ' t 1 ducement measured by past experience to the public employe to S - e I 5 1 I 7 - ' - i I i - - - - I i 1 l 1 - - - - - - - " - - -- - - -''''- ' - 4 - 11 - skt - ct i ' - ' - t ' ( ' '! i' ' -- n - - - - - ' - - - :: '- in - J - - -- - :- ' - ' - ' - - - - ' ' - ' - t - -' - 1 '' - - - ''''-'4"- - '' ' - I - ' ' ' ' - 3 ' - - 7 i - - ' - " "' " - ) - e si 7 - i - - s - -- - ANNA- Fire fighters from cities and towns throughout the InterrnountaM area went to school Thursday to study the newest ways to train personnel as well as to learn howto fight modern blazes Some 300 representativespf departments in Utah Idaho Wyoming and Montana lattended the Utah opening of the state firemen's training school held in the Roosevelt high school 843 Lincoln- - at and at the No 5 fire station 1023 V 9th South Attend Group Meetings Following a general session in the school auditorium the firemen attended group meetings which featured such subjects as personnel organization and training fire prevention and inspection fire chemistry and proper ventila-- third-itnnua- The small boy who loves to watch the firemen at work may have his field day Friday if he is at the surplus canal pumping station where the most spectacuprolar portion of the three-da- y gram will be presented Giant pumps of the Salt Lake fire department will draw up huge the canal quantities of water from at the 9 am session The demonstration will give the visiting firemen an opportunity to study the apparatus and its protection value In any situation where lives and property are at stake The 1:30 pm program provides for a lesson in fire streams after which the fire fighters will show how to extinguish flames arising from actual oil blazes and explosions Meanwhile there will' be sessions at the No 5 fire station with relief valves governors masks and resuscitators being discussed- at the morning meetings and sprinkler systems and automatic alarms on the afternoon agenda Firemen Hold Classes Salt Lake City firemen who have specialized in their particular fields conducted the afternoon classes Lt Robert A Tanner reported on the national and local progress in fire prevention and inspection In hotels and places of public assembly illustrating his talk with photographs of the proper and improper types of exits inclosed stairways and fire escapes Salt take City has made regular Inspections of all hotels and other public places for many years The newest equipment can fail of its objective unless personnel —from the chief to tht recruit— receives proper training and each man carries out his duties declared Lt William Kresser r i) )vio NO FOCTISrUISIIER 1 ' — SUIIIIIIER'NEARIr C : - are Asst Chief C A Robinson Murray J H Scholzen president Hurricane volunteers and C V dordon drillmaster of Cedar City units : T3 ' - - ' DIRT-BLOO- IE! Firemen Study New 111 e th ' i ! i i 1 t 1 prior to July 31 1933 are valuable public servants and their value is measurable by such experience The legislature has deemed it expedient and a matter of sound policy to offer such retirement benefits and thereby in- -duce such experienced teachers to remain in the public school system until they reach the age of retirement" he said "The wisdom of the policy is peculiarly the province of the legislature so long as the legislation does not contravene the limits tions of the constitution" he con- l - $15000 Blaze t t 4 ii nt Retail Stores Plan To Close July Pilots to Take Hop to Cedar City Hamilton assistant secretary Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce said Thursday Closing of the stores was made In accordance with a proclamation by Gov Herbert B Maw marking July 5 a holiday However majority of grocery and meat markets in Salt Lake open according City will remain to Sherman P- - Lloyd secretary Utah Retail Grocery Assn He pointed out that owners were cooperating in the matter to allow the closing of some stores The first Utah postwar air tour will be held Wednesday when approximately 40 private planes are expected to mark National Air Tour week Monday through June 28 with a trip to Cedar City Joseph S Bergin state aeronautics director said Thursday The celebration will open an air show at Roosevelt Sunday Proceeds will be used to further airport construction in the community Mr Bergin said another air tour will be held June 28 when pilots will gather at Logan GOAL: PURSE SNATCHER Marshals Lock the Doors Hideuand-Go-See- Staid corridors of the federal building set the scene for a serious game of Thursday afternoon and every office buzzed with ungovernmental excitement— a purse snatcher had been at work In the treasury department and was somewhere in the building Generally accepted as a member of a risky profession a purse snatcher hardly could choose a more dangerous task than operation In the federal building Treasury department secret service agents and all personnel of the U S marshal's office were alerted quickly when Elsie B Spencer missed her purse in the fourth floor treasury department office All exits to the main floor were hide-and-se- ek cluded c' f t Reversal of Ruling decision Is a - -I f i t I t I l I ! y i E Jensen Hazel Brockbank Jennie Retail trade stores in Salt Lake The suit is filed in behalfCampbell of themCity will close July 5 to offer selves and all other teachers simiemployes a three-da- y holiday dur- larly situated Weston E end week ing that 40 Play ( Thsdaenere calcuApproaching lationa the weatherman Thursday riffled through his "Farmers Almanac" and announced that Saturday will be the long- est day of the year—and the first day of summer as well will be exactly 15 hours The day and 5- - minutes from sunup to sunset from 4:57 am to 802 pmSolstice--th- e point at which the sun swings to its northernmost orbit—will occur at 11:19 pm and thereafter "Old Sol" will begin his southern swing through the summer After a presummer setback weather in Salt Wednesday Lake City staged a comeback Thursday as the mercury rose to a high 87 Climatologists predicted "s lightly cooler" 'weather for Friday pin-poi- I by the state attorney general's office All plaintiffs in the action are An estimated $15000 in build- public school teachers with teachIn church schools ing and flowers went up in flame ing experience prior to July 1 1937 believed caused by spontaneous Plaintiff's include: John G Gubcombustion completely destroy0 ler Mathew F Noall Marion L a warehouse at Hyland Floral Harris Hyrum Reid Ralph S 3700 Highland dr and caused ex- Gray Vadal W Peterson H A tensive damage to the south end of Dixon David Gourley J It Smith the greenhouses Nathan J Barlow Arch M ThurThe flame started in the ware- man Irvin S Noel Cal McKnelly house containing approximately 75 Joseph Jenkins Nell Cosgrove bales of peat moss and spread to Lorenzo H Hatch Margaret Wilthe greenhouse containing 300 ex- liams Anna E Stark LaVetta Wallace Anna P Robinson Ira L pensive orchid plants Upon receiving the call at 3:20 Peterson Izetha Bowman George pm three fire trucks were dis- H Durham Leland H Monson patched from the county fire de- Charles A Osmond Roland C partment Mid though one truck Parry was stalled near200-39t- h South NIarion T Redd Merlon Steventhe crews from all three worked son Lester W Searle Myrtle Jacwith the two hose trucks for three ques Alma J Knapp Edwin M hours to extinguish the blaze Bronson Ellen E Crooks John G Crook Mathew M Bentley Arthur K Hafen Leland Hafen B Glen Smith Mary L Bastow John T Woodbury Jr Francis J Gurney Fern Young Eva Ruth Browning 5 ON HEAT t t - 'od - ----- ---— BIT OF - - - - Necessity of ' keeping equipment in first class condition is stressed by 'Lt William Krasser left at the' annual firemen's school "rupils" tion practices i - - --- - A i I - - - ''' ruled The legislature has recognized 1 on the contrary that teachers de4 veloped by years of experience in f duly accredited church schools at the expense of church schools I who became public school teacher-membe- rs -- - - " 1 ' 4 t 1 -- - - - f' 1 constitute' direct or indirect appropriation of public monies in aid of' church schools he further - - - in - continue in public service Such retirement benefits do not - - - - ' - - t - - ! i- - - -- ' - - - t - r'-- : - - ' - 1 - - ' - 4 - - - - - - - - - - - Eric Johnston Pays S L Visit - t t 1 - 4 ft - - - - e ' -- - vaxA - I i -- - - 1 - PAGE TiriRTEMN 1 - t - n -- - ' t LOCAL NEWS 1 - t $314790 Assets Listed ' Assets of the district are listed at $31479920 including 4221- 31481 cash on hand taxes receivable accounts receivable U S i bonds and accrued interest on investmentsFixed assets are listed at $658249 less a reserve for deof $366199 showing a preciation totalI of $92050 Project development costs are set up at $2557204 including -- -e inn 1 t ChurhTeaçher Credit Upheld 'orc il ear emenu - - 1 1 film-exchan- )10' volb of-th- - 4 Tribune Special TOOELE—Explosion of a blasting cap caused serious Tooele child and painful but less injuries to a serious injuries to his two companidns Thursday morning Mr and Mrs Willard Nichols at Holy Cross hospital in Salt He suffered serious eye injuries and burns on the hands and arms investigators reported Taken to their horil' es after treatment by a physician were Blaine Skelton 10 son of Mr and Mrs Orin Skelton and Steve Griffith 10 son of Mr and Mrs C A Griffith Investigation disclosed the boys found the cap in a dry canal bed The cap exploded when one of them hammered it with a rock The Skelton and Griffith boys were injured by flying gravel te IN 1 vL!r: Ate ‘i'' C!nr t e"? L 4 gsto " 11 ' e 10-year-- ' With construction of the Salt Lake aqueduct of the Provo river project still incomplete the Salt Lake metropolitan water district was able to utilize only a portion of water made available during 1946 consumating the sale of but 2654 acre feet according to the annual report of J : A Nel- t son controller released Thurs- day 1 Evaporation losses accounted for 64 acre feet of water and 2282 acre feet of the district's supply on Dec 31 1946 reverted to the Provo Rivet' Water Users' Assn The district is to be reimbursed at $1 per acre foot Mr Nelson reported Mr Nelson's report included an audit by Wells Baxter & Miller certified public accountants cover- ii ing district accounts for the year i and reviewing benefits and obli- i gations arising from the district's ' participation in the Provo river $2306774 for the Salt Lake valcommission ley aqueduct and $239430 for Deer Welfare commissioners agreed d commission-sponsorei ntennial cost of that adapttng creek prohibitive event It has the customary Ma- Bushnell to take over the patients Assessment on stock of the Same Since 193t lotte setting but contains a serene of any of the present welfare Provo River Water Users' Assn lie testified that gas rates have an audience institutions is prohibitive even if Is listed at $6699185 representnot changed since 1931 during quality that will hold three-minuthe state Is given the institution ing 45500 shares of stock the diswhich time the cost of coal has t spellbound during a trict owns at the rate of $145 per for nothing more than doubled "I submit that delivery Mr Cornwall said and 5 shares held by memshare Supplemental Possibility it is obvious that without somee board who are direc8 bers Additional Numbers one having advanced the money Bertelson commissioner tors of the association at a cost pSophus to finance the development period The choir will sing eight addi- In charge of institutions said a of $885 less advance payments when losses were certain there tional numbers during the concert report has been requested from made by salt Lake City in prior would be no natural as utility while famed baritone Leonard superintendents of the American in the amount of $410 years tere today to regulate" hosschool state Fork Training WilLiani T aitt LLA I Jr Limited ga Lim g a e vice Warren of the Metropolitan Opera pital at Provo and the state inpresident in charge of exploratesti- - Assn will be guest soloist accord- dustrial school asking suggestions Under terms of the stock subproduction and transmi F Hewlett tabernacle for use of the hospital as a sup- scription contract the district tolester ing lied that due to the "keen compechoir president agrees to pay its proportion- based plement to their institutions tition offered by major oil comor 4655'0 the commission has upon stock ownership The concert one of five to be panies now drilling near the comnot taken--'en- y action awaiting of the cost of the Deer creek resunder of the fields in presented auspices southwestern pany's gas of the superintendents Dr eryoir By terms of the contract Is ex- reports commission Wyoming and Western Colorado Centennial P FarnsworthT chairman said of the water users' association I the M FS must speed - up its ex- pected to be "one of the richest he feared that budgets of the in- with the U S Bureau of Reclamaploration program and finest ever pre- stitutions ' prevent expenditure of tion the total cost of the project He said the company should be sentedundoubtedly In the history of the taber- additional funds which would be to the association was not to exallowed a S5221000 five-yeex- nacle" Mr Hewlett said required to staff the Brigham City ceed $11400000 so that the disploration reserve to protect ade- I trict's liability was limited to institution 43 for 1 Package Deal' quately 17tahs gas supply $5301000 in Doubt Disposition Meanv-hil- for - one During the morning session Ed'a three In addition the district has a ward L Durn federal power com- "package deal" on tickets will be Meanwhile the exact disposi- contingent liability up to 35 of mission consultant said under offered by the Centennial commia- tion of Bushnell remains in doubt the direct or $1855350 liability that he had sion and will music Although a special legislative com- if other subscribers default Cost made no direct allowance for fu- drama and art encompPass as cultural enter- mittee turned in a negative report of the project is to be repaid in ture capital tnvestrnents in com- tainments Gus P' Backman Cen- regarding the advisability of tak- 40 equal annual installments withputing the rate base proposed by tennnial director said Thursday ing over the hospital the 27th out interest commencing the year the commission For every reserved seat ticket legislature left the final decision following completion or on order of the secretary of interior The purchased 'to "Promised Valley" a up to the board of examiners musical drama to be staged in Subsequently the board offered district also agrees to pay its late July and early August the a bid on the hospital at a 100 proportionate share' of maintebuyer will receive as bonus a free discount which is now being con- nance cost of the project when ticket to his choice of five Sunday sidered by the War Assets admin- completed Current liabilities are listed at evening tabernacle 'concerts and istration in Washington D C one ticket to the Centennial art Decision to ask the institution $61954 including accounts payable exhibit scheduled for July If they could see any supplemental of $47380 and withheld taxes The "package deal" may be pur- use for Bushnell was taken by the payable of $14574 Eric Johnston head of Hollywood's office of censorship is chased for $3 or $240 the price commission after a meeting with This leaves a surplus of $314- 17966 subject to the obligations the board of examiners politics — at least of 'Promised Valley" tickets through with reclamato be Incurred to the bureauof ternporarily — and wishes referred to as a plain hard-bitte- n tion and the water- - users' assobusinessrnan ciation The tall graying motion picture Revenue during the year totaled executive aho holds final word $9045993 Etxpenses amounted to on American film policy paused $3165018 leaving an excess of over expense for the year revenue at Salt Lake triefly municipal of $5880976 airport late Thursday evening en route to Chicago the first leg of Harold Haven Hills 62 prom- Wash Miss Louise Hills Salt a transatlantic journey to "tightinent Salt Lake construction en- Lake CIty and-MiMary Maren down" and investigate D C Hills garet Washington pacts with other nations gineer and real estate agent died two grandchildren a sister Miss a illness after lingering Vital to V S Policies Thursday Maria T Hills and a bPother Hills-de- n Edgar S Hills both of Salt Lake "of course a good exchange at 2 drpm at his home 2704 Teachers of the Granite school City system of films is one of the pri1907 Mr Hills was the first In district will Private services night accepted graveside mary methods of strengthening University of Utah' graduate to be conducted Saturday in Salt a salary Thursday schedule for the 1947-4- 8 international relations" lir Johns- receive a degree in mechanical en- Lake Dr Robert school year of $2280 minimum for City cemetery ton asserted adding: "We pora member of D Steele president by was He teachers with bachelor degrees of gineering trot our American lives loves Phi Delta Theta fraternity and of ster college The familyWestmina maximum of $3585 after 16 with regtests and mannerisms of living through the American ' Society of Engi- that no flowers be sentyears teaching experience the screen medium We appear neers The schedule was an adjustment as a human race—not a political ' cirWell known in over a previous schedule that promachine—to others who see us" cles he was first construction vided a maximum of $3640 but associated with Labeling the Fred Hale later with Palliser and held a $950 increase limitation tuation as "suffering from HOIS and was for many years secretclause which had been rejected political barriers" the censorship ary-treasurer of the -McKean by the teachers Granite school official reiterated that "Russians Construction Co board members expressed approval do not want American films exhe assisted in f of the accepted schedule at a board buildings Among cept innocent fantasies that show designing and- - constructing were meeting held Tuesday night it no democracy at work They have the Salt Lake Country club the was reported by Kenneth Allred alus from distributing prohlb:ted Square hotel and the old president of the Granite Teachers most all films there while Amer- Temple American Theater Assn t ica shows all Russian films reDuring-thUnder the accepted salary offer past four years Mr an teachers of rardless of the intensified comm- Hills was secretary and treasurer the district will be ur--Sm worked into them" of the Skyline Building and Inplaced on schedule including vestment Co which has conteachers with bachelors' and masSees Europe Exchange structed more than 200 homes in ters' degrees or the equivalent Hope for a future where 'Ain Davis county He was also without any limitations — media of entertainment and treasurer of the While the accepted schedule is and Hills Corp lower moving pictures newspapers by $50 than the one proA native of Salt Lake City he stage entertainers — will be exposed by the teachers they exLrged between Europe and was born Oct 9 1884 a son of peessed faith in the board of edqAmerica was expressed by Mr Lewis S and Theresa Burton cation's promise that a maximum Johnston as "not too far Way Hills He married Mary Edith of $3640 would be reached for the 1948-4- 9 but still behind the 'iron curtain' " Roberts Aug 20 1912 in the First school year First European stop on the Methodist church Ogden David ' J Gourley said Supt schedule of the "busirArrian" war Mr Hills served During the Thursday night following the meetbe - a film festival in Brussels as a volunteer nnmber of the Muring that work in preparing new contracts will start as soon as Belgium He plans to examine ray Office of Price- administration film conditions in Holland Den- ration board the original contracts are returned mark Sweden Poland Austria— in addition to his Survivors to the board and teacher pledges and behind the "iron curtain" as widow include a son and two Harold Haven IIIIls Was prom- concerning salary bargaining are - far as possible daughters John It Hills Richland inent contractor and businessman destroyed cross-examinati- aett el 1 BOYS HAMMER CAP WITH ROCK THREE HURT ONE SERIOUSLY ' - — 1 n- -4 -- - 1 2i- ' 3 t' k'1: s 1- - ' ' '-- c ! - ) - s" — - - - - ' I - i : - is 4 -- 4 ti s '" - - ''( - A vili - 6 L r e I 'k - - ' v ' ex- 4- --- e 5e--- i ' rt 7 ''' - 4 'o SALT LAKE CITY UTAH FRIDAY MORNING' JUNE 20 1947 f -- r:-- 120) (1171: responsibility" engineers (Commission witnesses Monday and Tuesday proposed a return of e on an original investment figure of S19915000 which would lower gas rates by $1294000 annually) Calk for Reserves First witness for the gas company Jules D Roberts vice president in charge of distribution testified that the company should be allowed rates which would prorevide fer reasonable seres in order that capital the utility can continue seekpig new reserves to protect future 'gas suPPIY- A mere determination of the lowest cost of current operations may conflict with the public interest as to its future gas snpply" he said Recounting the history of the natural gas project in Utah Mr Roberts said that from its inception in 1923 until 1933 (when the former utility reorganized into the present company) the company operated at a loss and a period of low earnings followed t - - f1 t ountants-and ' ' -- ( - I 'would The contention was raised by Joseph Severn Jones company counsel alio in an opening statement of the company's position said evidence would be introduced to show that commission witnesses had based their proposal on "an incomplete and inadequate rate base - excluding substanHe 'Lai items of investment" proposed that the company be allowed a 6 14 e't return on its original investment cost which he indicated should be greater than that arrived at by commission acc- o ii r that present gas rates are i 1 ' nancial Mountain Fuel Supply Co attorneys Thursday opened the company's defense against a commdssion complaint alleging t PAGE 14 S - e 71r1b SECOND SECTION I ---- ' ' ' If duction proposed by state public service committsion witnesses cessive 1: x - Maintaining that a rate ' ' - RADIO LOG 4 Incomplete Rate Base i e Claims Commission Uses Inaccurate Rehearsal- At for-TWO ' ' - - k locked The elevator operator was warned Other girls in the treasury department had seen a man running down the hall Paul A Glesar treasury &apartment secret service agent who was trailing the culprit on the second floor found the missing purse— intact—down the hall from the civil service office A man was apprehended in the civil service office by 1l1s Maylett and George Baker deputy U S marshals Held in Salt Lake county jail Thursday night was a man listed as Douglas Fairbanks Close 27 Tooele He will be arraigned Friday morning before the U S commissioner C N Jensen A Teacher Selection Program Aired - Recommending an 11-poi- nt pro- - gram for Utah's education administration in the recruitment and selection of qualified teachers Dr Roald F Campbell head ot the educadepartment of elementary tion University of Utah addressed the Utah educational administrator's conference Thursday During the afternoon Dr H Aldous Dixon president Weber col-- lege led a group of students graduate students and educators in special instruction for those desirconvening college credit for the tion's meetings Dr Max T Krone dean institute of fine art University of Southern California will speak on "And Joy in Livings' during the final day of the conference Friday He will speak at an assembly in Kingsbury hall at 9 am A final panel discussion readed by J C Carlisle professor of education Utah State Agricultural college Logan will be held at 1:50 on the subject "Problems of Teacher Education" - all-stude- nt Press Bureau Shift - J W Fehlhaber for two years day editor of the Denver Associated Press staff will succeed Loudon Kelly as correspondent LI charge of the 6Salt Lake City bureau on July it was announced Thursday by Rent Cooper executive director of A P t i t i II aff 1 - 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