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Show Passengers line ud on the platform in the 1890s at Colton, waiting for the incoming passenger train. Colton is located about five miles southeast of Soldier Summit and once was a stopping off place for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. 75 YEARS AGO Report and Consigns Fragments to the Office Waste Basket. There was something doing with the Price School Board when it met last Monday. A considerable amount of business had been gone through with when it came down to where the reports of teachers and principals were to be heard. Professor Johnson, late principal, had prepared a paper or report on what had been done for the school term just closed, but when he reached that portion of the report where the board came in for considerable criticism at the hands of the ex principal, Trustee Lee suggested the professor cut it out. According to reports the professor thereupon proceeded to do so by tearing the paper into fragments and consigning the remnants to the office waste basket. The reports from several teachers were listened to and later filed, after which bills were allowed and quite a lot of other routine business gone through with. Mr. Lee offered his resignation as a trustee to take effect on the first -- num-bero- of July. July there will, therefore, be three trustees to elect in Price district. It is understood that Trustees Harmon and Miler will not again be candidates. In Mother Jones Leaves Frisco for Denver. Mother Jones will arrive in Denver from San Francisco today, and will be the guest of the Western Federation of Miners. She will be one of the principal speakers at the great mass meeting of the federation which has been arranged for this week in Coliseum Hall. Albert Ryan of Arizona, chairman of the committee of arrangements for the mass meeting, declares that the affair will be one of the largest and most fruitful ever held in the state. YEARS AGO New Asphalt Paving Started To Be Completed In Sixty Days. Several City Streets will Soon Be Free Of Bothersome Dust. Approaches To Park And Station Given Needed Improvement. 50 i Work has been started on the for new street improvements First South, First East, Second East and Third East, and according to present plans will be completed within a sixty - day period. At completion, Price will have one of the best intra - city street systems in the state. As a result of a petition from the residents of First South street and signed by 90 percent of the dwellers in that section, the city decided to install curb and gutter, grade, gravel and asphalt the road extending from the Tavern Hotel on Carbon Avenue to Fourth East. The hill on Second East will be cut to a convenient grade. The new improvements will enable traffic coming to the warehouses and freight depot of Price to make the journey without coming through Main Street. Ap- proximately $25,000 will be needed by the city. The road on First East will also have an asphalt construction, running from Main Street to the call for $14, (X)0, curt .md gutter already being instiled. Curb and gutter will be put in on p abandoned GLIMPSE of the Past Hot Old Time. Johnson Starts to Roast School Board. Is Called Down by Lee. Professor Tears Up The ruins of a lone building stand in contrast to modern power transformers in the ghost town of Colton. The town, once a pick-uspot for ice taken from local ice ponds, was after the invention Third East running from Main Street to the canal at a cost of $8,000. Notice to contractors for the paving of Second East has been sent out, and bids will be received on Monday, June 10. When the work has been completed the arteries running to the ball park, pool and playgrounds will not raise the dust which has been such an inconvenience heretofore. Kiwanians Help Childrens Play. Wading Pool Helped By Series of Dances Which Start June 8. Price Kiwanians are assisting their latest project, the childrens wading pool in the city park, by sponsoring a series of dances at the Silver Moon hall. The first of this series which will run through the summer, will be held Saturday night, June 8th, with Ralph Migliaccio and his music on hand as usual. the past year, the Price Kiwanis has completed and In turned over to the Carbon County School Board what is considered to be one of the best football fields in the state. This spring, a regulation cinder track has been built, surrounding the football field. The Kiwanians are now turning their attention to assisting the city and the Service Star Legion in the extension and further beautification of the City Park. With the view of affording the smaller children more recreation, they have undertaken the construction of a shallow wading pool, for children for whom the deep swimming pool would be dangerous. YEARS AGO Carbon Motorists on Their Good Behavior Throughout Long Memorial Day Week End. 25 Motorists of Carbon county can rest proudly upon the laurels won during the Memorial Day week end when not a single accident, not even a fender - scratching incident, was reported to the sheriffs office or the highway patrol. During the three Memorial Day week - day end throughout Utah four persons met death in the state through accidents, including one drowning and three killed on the highway. Nationally the week end resulted in death to 351 persons in highway crashes, the worst traffic carnage for any three - day Memorial holiday period in history. Ninety - two other persons were drowned, 20 died in airplane mishaps, and 69 were killed in accidents listed as miscellaneous for an over - all total of 532 accidental deaths. The weather here cut into the usual Memorial Day traffic and many persons took advantage of the good weather Monday to pay tribute to their deceased loved ones. The worst pervious national toll for a three - day Memorial Day week end was 335 deaths in 1952. Twenty - five persons met death on Utah highways during May two more than have died during any previous May. It was during that month, too, that two traffic fatalities were recorded in Carbon county, the first for the year and the only ones thus far in 1954. modern of Sun Advocate, 1979 Wednesday, May 30, Price, Utah 5 refrigeration. Colton, however, is a name still used by railroaders who travel nearby D&RW lines. Photographs were taken by George Edward Anderson and are supplied by Harold1 B. Leo Library at BYU. (3lniirslni xyu. Wheres Idi Amin? Libya a Good Guess WASHINGTON For the past several weeks, American in- telligence agencies have been playing a new guessing game: Wheres Idi Amin? The deposed Ugandan dictator has been hiding out since his government was overthrown last month. The new rulers would like to get their hands on him. They hold him responsible for the senseless deaths of hundreds of thousands of Utandans during his reign of terror. have checked We our in- telligence sources to find out what has happened to Amin. One report claims he is in Libya under the protection of Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi. This report warns that Amin may be plotting a comeback. Another report contends that the new Ugandan rulers would like to make a deal with Qaddafi to swap 40 Libyans captured in the recent fighting for Idi Amin. Yet another intelligence source told us that Amin is laying low and that he is believed to be in Libya. Our best intelligence source, always highly reliable, told us he had received independent corroboration that Amin is Qaddafis guest in Libya and is actively planning a terrorist campaign against the new Ugandan government. Amin has the secret support, according to this analyst, of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Both Amin and the PLO are close to Qaddafi. And, our source said, the PLO has agreed to help Amin with his terrorist plot. The aim is to destablilize the Ugandan government and demoralize the Ugandan people. Then the terrible Amin would attempt a comeback. on Marston: Vice President Walter Mondale is the latest high official to become entangled in what has become known as the Marston scandal. David Marston used to be the U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, where he investigated some powerful Pennsylvania Democrats. One of More former them, Rep. Joshua Eilberg, placed a telephone call to President Carter to complain about Marston. Not long af- terward, Gritiin Attorney Dell Marston. Now we have another General abruptly fired learned that subject of the investigation, state senator Henry Cianfrani, met with Vice A Mondale. President source has knowledgeable reported to the FBI that Cianfrani spoke to the vice president about Marston. This was denied by Mondales office. A spokesman admitted there was a Mondale - Cianfrani meeting but claimed it was strictly routine. He disputed that the Marston investigation was discussed and denied that Mondale had anything to do with firing Marston. Marston was Nevertheless, summarily fired. He took advantage of the publicity to run for governor of Pennsylvania. He lost and is now running for mayor of He won the Philadelphia. nomination several Republican days ago. Both Eilberg and Cianfrani were drummed out of office. Eilberg was fined and received probation; Cianfrani was convicted and jailed for corruption. The FBI, which investiaged the phone call between Eilberg and President Carter, is now looking into the contact between Cianfrani and Vice President Mondale. Pentagon Pipeline: Inflation is eating its way into the kitchens and dining halls of the nations armed forces. Because of spiraling food prices, the Pentagon plans to limit its purchases of high priced food items. The brass hats say the troops will will have to eat less beef and more poultry, pork and cheese. The Army alone is planning to cut its beef purchases by 25 percent and increase the use of soy - extended ground beef. Red salmon will be eliminated completely from the soldiers diet and they will also have to make do with a million pounds less of raisins. More than $500 worth of fuel was burned up recently to bring a front-enmonstrous loader up the James River from Fort Eustis to Fort Lee, Va., so Army generals would watch the machine work. But when the machine was rolled onto the pass through. The scientific pavement where the generals were to view it, the asphalt buckled. The demonstration never took place and another $500 worth of fuel was consumed to ship the machine back downriver. Watch on Waste: The antelope are leaving New Mexico and the taxpayers are going to pay through the nose to find out why. This state was the home where thousands of antelope roamed, but now there are only a few hundred left. They are not in danger of extinction, but the federal government wants to know why they dont like New already community n So $311,000 in public funds will be spent for a four - year study of the foods antelope eat and the types of fences they manage to 111,000 years. a IMBnar fa? End Big Selection Many Styles, Fabrics and d Colors to choose from VJUNEiSPECIALl s5 's off a new wig when you trade in your old one LADY STOP 39 W. Main, Price What machine trims grass Yvith string? The Green Machine the amazing new electric weed and grass trimmer. 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