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Show Hi TSie IPaivsorn n , ;;T, Vol 53, No. PAYSON, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 48 LaVar Johnson Advanced LaVar Johnson, son of Mr. and Mis. Lorin Johnson of Payson, has bem advanced to a 1st Lieutenant in the U. S. Army Ai. the Affect Corps, accord. ng to void received That Happenings this week by ins parents, lie wu Dinner Pail, Dividend Checks commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant ind Tax Bills of Every InInfollowing his graduation Loin In. National and dividual. lUlh. Advanced Army Flying School at ternational Problems Insepw,s Field, Texas' in PJiO. lie Kelly Local Welfare. nent I arable from was assigned to March Firid mon?'' nd The kindred problems of infladuty and was later transtion, taxation and cost of govern- ferred to New Orleans. ment are causing many a congresDuring the past few weeks he Few has been pa ticipating in Army these headache days. sional TING senators or representatives seem maneuvers at Atlanta, Georgia to have yet decided what can be and it was there that he received done to help solve them. nis promotion. Prices ate now going up with Highlights 1' extreme rapidity. President sevelt recently said that inflation has set in, and other major figures in the government have said the same thing before. A legion of economists have urged that Congress take steps to control prices. But so far the lawmaker, have shown amazing agility ii is dodging the issue. ticklish proposition. an extremely It would directly affect millions of voters. If it is to be successful in the opinion of most authorities, 5YE" it must be accompanied by wage fora the point of So, from fixing. freed ; who must of men depend oi flew ied m Votes to hold their jobs, it is danGar medicine. On top of that disci gerous there are a thousand and one different proposed schemes foi and no one know. asssr. price control, n, kmp which might be workable. Roo- Price-fixin- g igs tTOW, jlaye oniy just begun t burdens of taxation the suffer defense spending and war that The nev will make inevitable. tax bill is the heaviest in oui history. Yet it is designed ti produce less than $4,000,000,000 year in additional revenue, am and defense appropriations now total close ti $70,000,000,000. The President ha re s Shop aidto-democrac- , iei said that the governments cas! income must be increased, ant Secretary of the Treasury Mo: genthau has urged a bill whicl would impose on both individual jand businesleis a tax load indef- initely greater than that they ar ow carrying. The feeling grow ta official circles that some forn payroll tax may have to b and that this may be ac ,nie3 by a law to compe savings. Heavy taxatio as a weapon against in rged n off" the ground that it re purchasing power and less abiity to buy. The bil Mr. jliflafch Morgenthay recommer vles.a straight 15 per VMt tax on all salaries and wages cost of government issue i Burning into the limelight now IlfSii ha'id fact is that the wa. SjMBding has been piled on top of record breaking non-wspenu ing in which no important cost re 'duction has been made anywhere instance, appropriations to ak farmers, youth, reliefers, an. pothers are still at the depression eongressiona. Leading peaks. if ; ,.ithe '4 File ar fighter for baa been Senator Byrd of Virginia ' Mr. Byid is a 100 per cent sup program Prter of the land at the same time he believes Ithat the regular cost of govern ment should oe pared to the limit ; Be is head of a senate committee which is now trying to find ways I and means to reduce the non I tfeferue budget. Secretary Mor guaihau recently appeared befor. tibia, committee and testified that to Us opinion, very large cuts Could be made in practically a! departments. He did not estimate the total that could thus be saved, however, sometime ago he forecast that a reduction of at least $1,000,000,000 a year was possible. Othe'r authcritics have estimated that a cut of $2,000,000,000 or more is within econ-em- non-defen- se 1 anti-Hitl- er Vv , f tj non-defen- se Emma L. Wightman Dies At Vernal Mrs. Emma Lavina Wightman, ii), one of the throe oldest women of Payson, died Monday at noon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. H. E. Seeley at Vernal. Mrs. Wightman, fami.iarly known a3 Aunt Vine, suffered a para-leti- c stroke in October and severa" weeks ago was taken to the home of her daughter. Previous to that time she had been in good health, caring for her flower garden and home and making rugs for which she won prizes at the 1941 Utah County Fair. Mrs. Wightman was born in 1C. Salt Lake City, September anc E. of Robert a 1852, daughter Caroline P. Collett, Utah Pioneers In 1872 she married Charles H. Wightman and has lived in Pays-o-tnvicinity practically all her life. .Surviving a're a son, Frank two daughters, Mrs Wightman; Myrtle Ross and Mrs. Carrie Seeley, all of Vernal; a sister, Mrs Maud Evans of Salt Lake City; three brothers, R. E. Colktt o' Tdaho Falls, Idaho; Mark Collet M Raymond, Alberta, Canada; an ' Villiam Collett of California; 16 grandchildren and 30 great-gran- d children. Funeral services wer conduct-1'- ' Thursday at 1:30 p. m. in the 2nd vard chapel with Bishop Knne1 anner in charge. Interment was n Payson City cemetery. Prizes For Best Decorated Homes thi-oug- Collision Dies Announce Marriage , in law-aut- o n Rt-v- o o Mr. and Mrs. Kedsie Winni. announce the man iage of theii the annual Stake dance and social Miss Delia Winnie, t( held in the Junior high school daughter, Mr. Don Wood, son of Mr. and Thursday night. A program was Mrs. George L. Wood of Provo followed with dancing and reThe mar. iage took place Saturday freshments wore served. All pro- and Mr. Wood latuins this wt ' k ceeds go to the Nbo S'ake aft to Camp Sari Luis Ob:-p- o for their Christmas. a weeks furlough in Utah. A large crowd participated miss-:onari- n Mr. and Mrs. Henry Jeppson were in Eureka over Thanksgiving. They were accompanied homo by , Miss Bonnie a grandthe week end. daughter for Cro-mar- o Mr. and Mrs. Leland Elmer and children came from Panguitch for Thanksgiving. Mrs. Elizabeth Sim- ons accompanied them an indefinite stay. home for Mr. and Mrs. George Q. Spencer and family visited last week in o For Steel Plant Pu-m- Cullus Club Holds Expansion All Utah County was elated morning whou word was out that the Reconstruction e. nance Corporation, which on iMi her 31 advanced $35,090,000 to the Columbia Steel Company to .nxtail two new pig iron furnaces at 1 rovo, had advanced an additional $91,000,000 to install two moie pig iron furnaces, also one to produce open health furnace . tell ingots and a rolling mill to turn out steel plates. This will, ne a total investment of $126,000,-JeIt transfers to Provo two steed plants which originally were intended to be erected at IitUsburg, i iiumsday Culifotmia. In addition Annual Banquet to the pig iron, and steel output there will be a tremendous increase in coal and iron lit of the ore mining and coking of coal. It Outstanding s week was the annual Cultus Club .s not known exactly where the teel plant will bo constructed but Thanksgiving banquet hold Wednesday night in tiw Second warn it will be in the vicinity of the hall. piesent Columbia Steel plant at Thtee long tables were effect- Ironton. wit! ively decorated in keeping OPM estimate that the com-ituithe occasion. Each was centered pig iron and steel mills at with handmade ships suggesting Provo wild give steady employdie Mayflower with sails spread. ment to upwards of 3000 men, but Tail lighted candles were in yell many more will be employed in ow holders and garlands of color- the construction program. Plans ful berries and sprays added e for the development are far adgay note. Favors wre very clev- vanced, the first contracts to be erly made Pilgrims designed in awarded will be for furnaces, black and white ami the program1 rolling mills and equipment. Conwere decorated with Tiumksgiving tracts will be let for structural motifs. steel to be used in the building of ..lie various units of the plant. music was giver Introductory by Mrs. Madeline Dixon and Mrs Both O P M and R F C are behind The banquet pro- Tie project so there will bo no Mae Dixon. gram included community singing difficulty in regard to priorities. led by Mrs. Nellie Stewart; wel- Details of the contracts under come address by President Lucih which the development is to take Silencer; toastmaster, Mis. Doro-.h- place have not been made public. O I M has warned people of Christenson; toasts, Mrs. Edn; Utah that it will require time to Snow, Mrs. Edna Hill and Mi stunt ibtain materials and machinery, clever iiazel Erlandson; Club Beta Cultus membeis; read out it is not unlikely that in the a dance num and Mias tear future, work will begin on Davis; ing, he foundations for the buildings her by Barbara Francom. Dancing concluded the festivi irul the structural steel is to be ties. Arrangements were ir i ecu red while this work is being of the banquet committer done. Stahei: Dclsa included Word of this gigantic project which DorThelma means a great deal not only to Harmer, chairman; Pear Ivu Provo but to all Utah County, Chase, McClellan, othy nd it will be a boon to the entire Ott. state, using as it will the states ed latural resouVees. Mr. and Mrs. Byron Stahei o weie in Salt Lake City Saturda .light to attend the beautifully A. Allen in St. l ar, anged wedding Dor Miss when hurch t j,hy St. wart and Ballon Kdwan. Claimed By .Filer of Bulte, M mtaru. wen married. o Fredrick Augustus Allen, 75, The bride was a daughter of thi late Ho i' Y. Stewart of Provo am. lii'i! Sunday night at the family Mr. ai.d Mrs. Dun Higginb f Mrs. Stab 1. nonie, 195 South 6th Last Street, land child n u left Saturday morn ac- - a hlle i wide attending Brig ifter an illne.-- f of several months. they ling for their home at Pic-- u'x lie vas horn at Pa rowan, Jan-- 1 ArizMi-tafter spend!. ig a i y , is 66, a son of Daniel and Sarah Whitt ly Alb n. He married their parents. Mary Spe: cer, Nov- mber 8, 1888, .r. the Monti Tt triple. Mr. Allen has always been a IT. from Idaho f ir an indef iey active ineTiiber of int' e L.mus-:e,- .l Thank-givinhd: Price the . o.rr Mil-WJlian. .4. her a with daughter, ckureh, par at the home of Mrs day, pue-t.- s Mon tinier. lie ha, been a conductor '.s,ay. Mrs. ELmei FrancnirTs o r ringer in cha rs almost all of Boyack. his life and ab-playcl the organ Mr. and Mrs. Reed Bills and o ind violin. little son and Mr. Dale Pierc' NOTICE OF SCHOOL BOARD He La s viv'd by h.s widow; and children returned to Los AngELECT ION one son, Lewis E. Albi of Pa--- i eles Sunday after sperding the Mrs. Amy it ; two daughters holidays in Payson An il tier, to place c e im inlm' ii 'ckrtead id T.iMi,,i and Mm. with their parents, Mr. and Mr ') tie Beard of Education of tt Tw'lla Isaac of Tr land; m o sister, John Retts and other relatives. Nebo Sein o! D..-- net, will be hi 1, Mrs. Ann e II dl ug b.ad of Chino I'.fE Valliy, Ari. 3, 17 grandchildren mi Wi dm day, Don irib'-di at Pay. n, Utah. 5 arid gtearigra' hi i"o.. Fredrick Death i i (ri-,,ial- o , H.-li--r, i !: ( Nope it isnt a new suit! . . But it sure does look like new, Ill admit! All I did was send it to Peerless Cleaners tirr one of their swell cleaning jobs ind it came back looking like a million cleaned and pressed perfectly! Jr. as SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER for f.ve yiar'. Voting will City at the be held in Payson Pay-o- n District on Wed- MENS SUITS OVERCOATS .. HZp PEERLESS CLEANERS CASH & CARRY J1-- . Hig1' Second Dance of Series judges of To Be Held Saturday bnhlmp. electa ti will be S;i if I E. Taylor club will 'The Payson dancing Sor ih Sti rling and Linden Crook. of the residim-withi(lance hold their second eh ctnrs All regirinied will be rinrent se.nes Satui'day evening the election St the new Payson , high school eligible to vote. Mem bore of the B. L. ISAAC, CWk Fork dancing club will be Board of Education Spanish affair at the Nebo School Distrk't guests S lion The i and West Mountain nesday, December 3, 1911, at the Payson Junior High School. All registered citizens are a!1 Paid Adv. owed to vote. o hi i The family of Mrs. George A. Wyler arranged a surprise party in her honor Tuesday night the occasion being her birthday anniversary. VOTE FOR at the election to be held In Advance g o Snow. Enos W Simons, - J Salt Lake City with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Sid Coray entertained at a dinner party Saturday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Lee R. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Page, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Oleson, Dr and Mrs. A. L. Curtis, Mrs. Emma Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. Laban HardQ ing, Mr. and Mrs. George Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Payson in ii- Per Year $2.00 $91 ,000.000 Advanced home r( on ones do in the baseim i t at par'.im high m k u 1.1 is b, mg com i'.etely jvmo.lclt d. It has I) on foiP hoi lunches since the opc.i i.g of but Thole was in.nhqi.a'e. scaling (apac'ty for only 5t) a: otic tine and almost fair times that number a'-bring nirved da.y. One p! titan v.!l bo tom it ;r d iUij.hor eric tod to do.--c the kitiKn from the serving room. It will be completed in hell I tWO Wicks. While the work is going on, the ihl shop building is bell g used fo p:opa ing and serving- the hoi lunches. 1 nt Eldon the Saturday of the Per Copy High School Rooms Being Remodeled (Talk 20, died Payson City Hospital iiti-night, the third er.wh on Ilighwat 91 just south of Pay-oearly C.il Monti Thursday morning. LeBaren, 23, ami Roger Kay Open-sha21, both if S i; tu'iuiu, wi r killed instantly in the accident. Reece died of a skull Pactum and other injuries suffnel when the northbound coupe dnin hv LeBaron cra-he- d into a south ! end Ru.lington bus, and Openshaw were pnsscngeis in tie LeBaron machine. Eldon Clark Reece was born ii Payson, October 15, 1921, a son of Robert Cla k and ChaloU Koyle Recce. He attended school in Payson and spent his entirt life here. He is survived by his parents; two sisters, Leoia and None Reece two b. others, Lynn and Max Reece, all of Payson; three grand parents, John R. Reece and Mrs Rose Curtis of Payson; and Mrs. Albert H. Koyle of Salem. funeral serLargely attended vices were conducted Tuesday u 1 p. m. in the First ward chape! with Bishop Jordan A. Law i The opening song, "O charge. My Fathe'r, was rendered by th E. II. Cutler ward choir with conductor and Mary Wyler, organist; invocation, Lee Elmer; voNot Undei stood, Mrs cal solo, Irene P.ovstgaard; remarks, C. II White; vocal .duet, "Thy Will B' Done, LeRoy and Ella Gale; re It P esident marks, Wayland Wightman; instrumental solo, Eu gene Braithwaite, with Mrs. Mac Dixon, accompanist; closing remarks, Bishop Law; song, Sometime Well UmPrstand, choir' benediction, George Staheli; dedicatory prayer, Joseph Bates. Interment was directed by Clan din Funeral Home. Double funeral services for t.h and family left two young Santaquin men were Thanksgiving morning for California to visit conducted Sunday at 1 p. m. in with their daughter, Mrs. Basil Santaquin with burial in SantaBroadbent. Their son, Lieutenant quin cemetery under the direction Elmon Ellsworth, who had been of t.he Deseret Mortuary. o here from Camp San Luis Obispo for a weeks furlough, returned Announce Marriage with them. non-defen- rs 6c Ells-wort- o 5 three-quarte- 1 Meeting Monday e. e Ip Payson youn-coupl- Mr. and Mrs. Flint McClellan entertained at a family dinnei Those present Friday evening. were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hen-linand three children, Mr. and Mrs. McKay Perkins and baby son of Magna, M'r. and Mrs. Lenr. Huff and family, Mr. Ross Dowdle. Mrs. Ann E. Wilson and Mrs Sarah Elmer. 28, rtroniele Third Victim of Luis A. Bates of Principal Payson high school accompanied by a number of students left Wednesday inu:ning to make a tout Payson City has again appro- of several high schools. With him priated $25.00 to be giw-- in prizes were Lynn Powell, student body for a Christmas home decoration Maunne Christen mm piesident; Louis A. Bates of the vice contest. Marsh Done, busipresident; city council has announced th ness manager; Arlis Douglass, distribution of the prizes as follsecretary. ows: The purpose of the tour was Fi'est prize for best decorated to study student government and home, $8; second, $5; third, $3; duties of officers, how assunbhos fourth, $2; fifth, 1. First prizi are planned and conducted, and for best decorated home window, the allocation of student funds. $3; second, $2; third, $1. They visited at Orem at 9 a. m., Placing of colored light festoon' Murray at 11 a. m., Cyprus at 1 the entire business dist-- i p. m., and Salt Lake City lat-- i ict is almost complete. City elec- in the day. trician James F. Hiatt, with a Mr. Bates is student advisor at group of assistants is doing the the school this vear. work. The lights will be turned o- on early next week. Other special activities will be Lions Hold a special merchandising event now being arranged by the retail merchants committee of the of Commerce. Also the childrens Christmas party, annual project A meeting of the Payson Lions of the Beta Cultus Club to b' Club was held Monday night at held Saturday, December 26. The the Payson Hotel with President Chamber of Commerce is assist-nCa! Stanley Wilson in charge. with the finances. Elton and Lloyd Sulliva-were o special guests as good will visitors f.om Dividend. Plans Stake Palmyra New members initiated were, Anniversary And Giant Gardner, principal of Pay-so- n Homecoming Celebration Jr. High school; D. C. Forsey, and Elmer mayor-elec- t, Payson Palmyra Stake, a part of Nebo Jensen, Salt Lake Tribune repreStake until a division was made 11 sentative. years ago, will have a stake annual Christmas party for the and homecoming celebraladies and the committee named tion at the high school gymnas included Vernal Twede, Grant ium at Spanish Fork, Friday at Gardner, Elmer Jensen, Dr. M. L 7:30 p. m. Mdroyd and J. Harold Mountford. G. Ray Hales, former couruselo: The road committee was inin the stake presidency, will be structed to meet with the Chamber honored at the event and given of Ccmme:ce committee to investtributes and a gift of appreciation igate any new military road buildQuayle Dixon, son of Mrs. ing and to assist in having such Adelia S. Dixon of Payson, re orojects favorable to Payson. placed Mr. Hales as a counselor to President Henry A. Gardner. Dr. and Mrs. J. II. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Butler haw announced the approaching marr iage of their daughter, Ethel Elizabeth, to Mr. Keith L. Erickson .on of Mr. and Mrs. Marian Erickson of Schofield. The ceremony-wil- l be performed Friday night at .he home of the bride in Spring J. W. Thornton Named Lake with Bishop Leo Menlove Chairman of Lions The bride will b officiating. Clubs Safety Drives attended by her sister, Mrs. Reba Olson as mation of honor, Zina J. W. Thornton of Provo has Butler and Clista Erickson a? been named by District Governo: bridesmaids and Mr. Sanzo Yam .ra Overfelt to the chairmanship asakie will be best man. jf the combined safety drives of After the ceremony a large the 50 Lions clubs of Utah. Mr will be held in the Sprin, reception Thornton was first president of Lake hall in honor of the the Provo Lions Club, a district Dancing will be the dileputy governor, a district gov- version. ernor, and is now a counselor of A brides kitchen shower wa' he International Association of given Wednesday night in hono bions Clubs. if Miss Butler at the home of Acting in a supervisory capacity Eva Harper in Spring Lake. Zina over the Lions clubs safety com and Verla Butler were assisting benittees, he will form the link hostesses. Utah Safety tween them and the The couple plans to live at Council and Governor Ileibert B Riverton. Maw. of the world, it is easy for Congress to take the line of least resistance and do little or nothing But the heat is being turned on now, and some of the turners art men high in Administration circles. This country has not yet reason, in spending. 5. Congress has been almost en- adopted a fiscal policy, a wage policy, or a price policy suitabb tirely occupied with foreign policy to the times. We are far behim 'during the past year, at the England in that respect. It look' of domestic policy. In a as if Congress must really g fcrt such as the present, with down to cases and grapple with public attention focused on a war economic problems which are of which extends over direct concern to every citizen of (Continued on Page 8) these United State. , Principal and Student Officers Make Tour Of High Schools Payson City Offers To First Lieutenant Economic .ake ? 1 |