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Show 2 Sun Advocate, Price, Utah Wednesday, July 11, 1979 real! WM Save all our sheets- .on Sale 2 for An Sale 6.79sS; sporty $5 reg. sheet, 3.49 each twin Tuck in our plaid shirttails for the best dressed bed in town. Of mini-flor- al all-ov- pattern in multicolor pastels n on cottonpoly muslin Sale 2 for 7.50 Reg 4 49ea cottonpolyester percale. Sale 7.64 Reg. 8 99 Full Sale 12.74 Reg. 14 99 Queen Sale 14.44 Reg. 16 99 King Pillowcases by the pair Sale 5.94 Reg. 6 99 Standard Sale 6.36 Reg. 7.49 Queen Sale 6.79 Reg. 7.99 King no-iro- Full Sale $7 Reg 7.99 Queen Sale 8.50 Reg 9 99 King jCjVCw Pillowcases by the pair. Sale 2.88 Reg 3 49 Standard Sale 3.49 Reg Sale 3.99 Reg 3 99 Queen 4 49 King Flat and fitted are the same price. Entire stock does not include crib sheets ,r' m Sale 2.99 reg. ft 3.99 ? V Fanciful flowers decorate sheets of cottonpolyester percale Sale 3.99 Reg Sale 7.49 Reg - ' twin sheet, ; 4 99 Full 8 49 Queen v v t Standard i 4 t V ft 'V t - kV iL C in solids stitched with white. Sale 5.99 Reg. 6 99 Full Sale 9.49 Reg 10.99 Queen Sale 10.99 Reg. 12.99 King Pillowcases by the pair. Sale 4.69 Reg 5 49 Standard Sale 4.99 Reg 5 99 Queen Sale 5.49 Reg. 6.49 King w v , v J V . V ' ul Pillowcases by the pair. Sale 3.49 Reg. 3 99 f Cottonpoly percale A V' vv Sale 4.99!:rsT i : sf A J ,:v Save On blankets. werw A, ' small deposit holds your blanket on layaway. A Sale 9.20 it J 4A 4 4JL 4.X i Jl 4b fci 4. I Sale 24.80 to 13 off 30 -- P i. , A v 4 A ' .v y Reg. 6.99. Sheer polyester panels; machine washable Sale 6.95 ea. Reg. 7.99 60x84" 4 4, 4 twin mcwi & 4k i x,4 Reg. $31. Our automatic electric blanket has 11 settings, automatically adjusts to changes in room temperature. M. acrylicpolyester; corners. Sale 5.21 Sale $14 Reg. 5.99. voile panels of ea. 60x63" Slub-textur- Reg. 17.50. Lightweight Vellux blanket has stu, Jy nylon pile bonded to a polyfoam base. Machine washable. Sale 16.80 Reg $21 Full semi-she- er which have occurred in the west. It took Voll eight months to complete the wall hanging. Fred Voll Jr. looks over a wood mural he completed in 1977.' It illustrates the various life styles and transit modes 0 Soft-napp- snap-fi- t tiivi'. Panels. Sale 5. 94 60x63' twin Reg. 11.50. Lightweight acrylic thermal blanket gives airy comfort in summer, winter warmth when topped by a second blanket. Sale 10.80 Reg. 13.50 Full railroading with miniature model trains in the basement of his Helper home. his retirement, Fred Voll Jr. is still a railroader at heart. Although he retired 15 years ago, Voll keeps up with In Helper curator recalls (Continued from Page 1) the railroad was building a terminal. Voll refutes the story that Colton became a ghost town because modern refrigeration made its natural ice obsolete. The once thriving railroad town was a supply point for Rio Grandes refrigeration cars, the ice being harvested from nearby frozen springs and stored in a huge insulated shed. It was also at Pleasant Valley Junction where the main line branched to Scofield and the Winter Quarters mines. Before Freds father arrived in Pleasant wood frame Valley Junction, a engine house had been built for the helper locomotives used to boost the trains over Soldier Summit. Voll arrived to help expand ttie engine house into 11 stalls made of brick. After the division terminal was built in Helper in 1891, the use of the one in Pleasant Valley Junction was gradually abandoned. The terminal was moved to Soldier Summit in 1919 and then back to Helper in 1929. Colton died in the 1930s, Voll adds, not because of the ice but because the terminal was moved back to Helper and the town was no longer of use to the railroad. Some years later, Freds mother, then in her 70s and in the twilight of her life, insisted on being taken back to Colton so she could visit her old home. The town had long since been torn down and carried away. The old lady, with the help of a cane, made her way down what was once Coltons main street. She said, Heres where the millinery shop was, and there the bakery. The barber shop was over there, Fred says, shaking his head. If Id just had sense enough to write it down, Id have a complete history now of but like a fool, I didnt. Colton -- polyestercotton Sale 5.94 ea. Reg. 6.99 60x84" two-stal- l, 20 Save mattress pads. OFF On Sale 7.59 twin Our entire stock of Reg. 9.49. Fitted mattress pads in smooth white cottonpolyester quilted to polyester fiberfill. Machine washable, dryable. Sale 9.99 Reg. 12.49 Full Sale 12.39 Reg. 1 5.49 Queen Scatter Rugs to 10 25 Special off 4.99 Draperies. Sale 15.66 Reg. $1 Boys shirt. pr. 50x63" 8. T extured dobby-weav- e Boys colorful crayon plaid shirt is polyester draperies of cotton rayonpolyester or cotton cotton with short sleeves button-thrflap pockets Sizes u rayon. Acrylic foam backing. Sale 17.10 pr. Reg. $19 50x84" Sale 29.70 pr. Reg $33 75x84" Sale 37.84 pr. Reg $43 100x84" 0. Long sleeve, Special 5.49 is dCPenney Utah Price, 19T9 JCPnny CO Inc 0. ... Rottenestday The Rio Grande transferred Freds father to Ogden sometime in the 1890s, and thats were Fred was born Nov. 14, 1896, on a day my father described as the rottenest, coldest and most miserable of his life. Voll Sr. had to make his way through a blinding blizzard to find old Doc. Perkins so the child could be delivered. Some years later, when Fred Jr. went back to Ogden to get a birth certificate, he discovered there were only four births recorded that month, and they had all been attended by Perkins. Fred grew up in Ogden, and in 1914, like his father, he leaned towards the railroads, going to work for the old Ogden Union Railway Depot Co. Three years later he joined the U.S. Navy to serve during World War I. He was on active duty two years, four months and 29 days, serving mostly in the Asiatic theater aboard the cruiser USS Brooklyn, the fleet llagship USS Wilmington and later the gunboat El Cano. The latter was one of the ships the U.S. captured in Manila Bay during the War. Spanish-Amcrica- n During his tour overseas, Volls ship visited Vladivostok, Russia and other Asiatic ports. We cruised up the Yangtze River in China, Voll recalls. They called us John Ds Navy because we were there to protect Americas interests, including John D. Rockefellers. Continues career After being discharged from the Navy, Voll returned to Ogden to continue his career in railroading. He went back to work for the Ogden Union Railway Depot Co., but during a lengthy strike in 1922, switched over to the D&RGW, where he worked under D.G. Cunningham, the master mechanic in the Western Division. They sent me to Soldier Summit because I knew something about mechanical stokers, Voll says. Later, I moved on to Helper. I did everything, working in the pits, turning the wheels, making parts, you name it. In 1930 he serviced the last steam engine at Soldier Summit and on Nov. 11 of the same in what year, serviced the first Engine was then the new engine house in Helper. In those steam engine days, Voll says they d more parts than the railroads today. Steam locomotives wore out mcfre parts and had to be regularly serviced. We made dam near everything in the machine shops, he says. They didnt hand us ready-madparts in a box like they do on the modern diesels. Perhaps it was the ingenuity required in such craftsmanship that gravitated Voll to his current job as curator of the Mining Museum. After his retirement in 1965, Helper began plans for a facility that would lure tourists into this historic little railroad town. I opened my big mouth and got the job, Voll says, and here I am today. Voll began painting the wall murals in the museum in 1965, incorporating the history of mining in Carbon County. The job doesnt pay much at $72 a month, but it does give the something to do . . . and his accomplishments give Helper something it can look to with pride. Voll lives across the street from the Mining Museum with his wife, Gladys. His sons are raised and have moved away to pursue various occupations, none of them railroading. But railroading is still in Freds blood. In his home, along with paintings, d welding rod sculpture, and myriads of other objects of creativity, the old railroader has built a complete hobby railroad system. Its a veritable miniature replica of the D&RGW, Union and Southern 35-- 4, hand-crafte- e finely-detaile- wood-carving- s, Pacific Railroads. You never retire, Voll says emphatically. I dont know what a fellow would do if he had to retire. f |