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Show 50,000 PEOPLE BUILD WITH IN OGDEN OGDEN DURING 1927 JUi WITHIN 3 YEARS AND THEATRE GltAMS VOLUME I UTAH. FRIDAY. HT.Ul AUY I. OGDEN, flour company WORK BEGINS ON BUYS THE ALBERS MILL AND AVEST OGDEN Director-Manage- tana, Buys Land From Chamber of Commerce for Plant Ocdcn chamber of commerce scored Construction work upon the oil another ten strike, after a year of fi which is being built upon the it was anpersistent work, when site of the old Junction City race Washburn-Crosby nounced that the in waa the the West Ogden district is rack, entering Milling company business at Ogden. and milling flour rapidly being carried on under the diThe announcement that the great mil- rection of J. G. Norn, former owner ling company of Minnesota and the of a refinery at Kalispell, Montana. northwest coming to Ogden practiThe property was owned by the Ogden cally places Ogden in the foremost centers chamber of commerce from whom ranks of the flour and grain of the west. The closing of the deal Norn secured the land. The tract is whereby the Albers plant, at Twenty-nint- h between the Denver & Rio Grande street and Pacific avenue, passes Western and the old Oregon Short to the Royal Milling company of Great Line track;, which were used before of the a Falls. Montana, subsidiary Washbum-Crosb- y company, and the the Sand Ridge cut-owas built. The further announcement that the cham- land lies south of the 'Utah Packing ber of commerce had given to the corporation Wasatch factory at the! purchasers a lot, held by the cham- end of West Twenty-Fourt- h adstreet. ber for a number of months and the Albers property upon The aide track from the Oregon joining the north, comes as a fitting climax 'to Short Line to the sugar factory in the very commendable administration West Weber around the south passes of the chamber of commerce during end of the which also parallels land, James President under the nast year the D. & R. G. W. tracks, thus afII. DeVine. fording the best trackage facilities For a number of months President possible. The land area is large DeVine, Secretary Jesse S. Richards enough to hold a one mile race track. and the committees of the chamber The Hooper post road borders the land hsve been working to secure the upon the east. former Albers property, owned by the After obtaining possession of the J. M. & M. S. Browning company, at tract ffom the chamber of commerce, a figure which would be attractive Mr. Norn began work upon the buildand agreeable to the present purchas- ing of the oil refinery. Two carloads ers. The formal announcement of the of material are on the grounds. This closing of the deal was made Tues- includes the large steel plates which will he used for the storage tanks and day by J. W. Sherwood, and manager of the Royal Milling machinery for the refining equipNo announcement has been company. The site to be given by the ment. chamber to the new company is about made as to the personnel or identity two hundred feet square, and will pro- of the company or the associates with vide ample room for the extension that Mr. Norn. will be built by the new owners to Since the completion of the Twen give the mill 1,000 barrels of flour a street viaduct which makes day. West Ogden within a few minutes In the issue of The Ogden Post ride of the city, the district has atDecember 17, last, under the heading tracted much attention as an indusof MSanta Claus and Ogden. it said: trial section. The two big plants of the Globe Grain & Milling company JTwo large flour and milling are' looking With longirtg" e'yes vnd oncof the large factories or the on Ogden. - The fulfillment of part several owned by the Utah Packing of this future for Ogd?n comes as corporation, ate located in the district a present for Ogden. This is only The site of the oil refinery has been the beginning of what the present held by the chamber of commerce for year will hold in store for Ogden. i number of years and was for sale at It is said that many other industries a very low figure to any industrial conof magnitude are also' "looking toward cern that would promise to bring and build an industry there for the city. Ogden with serious intentions. The Brownings 'as well as repre- The fact that Mr. Norn readily agreed sentatives of the large flour compan- to the attractive price offered by the ies already in Ogden, added their chamber for the entire tract of land is words of boosting for Ogden to those interpreted as meaning the oil refinof the chamber. These tempting ery will be of some magnitude, as the words of encouragement showed the site is about the same size as that Utah Oil Refining new company that Ogden was one of occupied by. th the greatest cities of boosters in the company at North Salt Lake. west. Royal Milling company is a Minnesota corporation, formed in 1893, by a small group of men who were at the head of Washbum-Crosb- y Co. of MinGeorge Nelson, of Logan, Utah, and neapolis, where the head office of the Amend, of Canada, have been Jacques company is still located, although the general office where all business oper- signed to meet in a wrestling match street ations are carried on is at Great Falls, at Harbertsons Twenty-thir- d suditorium. The match promises to Montana. The initial mill at Great Falla was be equal to any of the fine matches that have been presented at the audionly 250 barrels daily capacity. This mill was eventually increased from torium during the past few weeks. W. S. (Buck) Larsen, district mantime to time to 1250 barrels. Then, in the Pacific Coast Canners 1910, the company built still another ager for will have charge of the extra Inc., plant at Great Falls to accommodate a daily capacity of 2500 barrels ad- feature program which will be put pn between the wrestling and boxing ditional. bouts. Besides its activities at Great Falls where the company is operating much the largest milling plant anywhere between Minneapolis and the north Pacific coast cities, it also established (Continued On Page Eight.) f vice-preside- "i nt com-rsnl- Wj I ik r.' t.i es George Nelson Meets Amend Monday Night Dancing Students Will Meet Mordkin On Orpheum Stage Form of Government Ogden is favored as the only city in the state and practically the only place between the Pacific coast and east which Mordlrins Ballet will be een. famous ballet troupe, traveling in a special train, will, upon nsir arrival in the city, be met at the depot by the dancing teachers of Ogden and Salt Lake. Following the Performance at the Orpheum theatre, which begins at 2 oclock, a reception will be held by Mordkin and his troupe 'or the dancing teachers and advanced pupils of the various schools of Og den and Salt Lake. The reception it being snonsored by the LeCrist and The, Sophie Reed schools. To better enjoy the Mordkin per- formance on Sunday, several of the Pupils of Mrs. Sophie W. Reeds jehool will form a box party. Mri. Reed with Mrs. Hugh C. Wood and Mrs. Samuel Blackman will chanepon the following pupils: Misses Marcia Jood, Louise Eccles, Mary Rich. Irene Lockwood, Eleanor Weeks, Marian Ure, Blanche Shaw, Dorothy Manning, Hazel Schenck, Fay McFall, Marian Gimlin, Mary Louise McKay, otty Seaton, Guinevere Hess, Dorothy Robinson. A section of the. theatre of 200 seats has been set aside for the dancing teachers and advanc rd Pupil from Salt Lake. -- t Adtices Received Here Say When the recognized authority on American government, James Bryce, wrote the "American Commonwealth, he declared the government of cities to be "The one conspicuous failure of the United States." Later he said: r govern m Ait "is the latest word in municipal reform. Woodrow Wilson remarked: I regard the plan of municipal government as a marked advance over any plan hitherto tried in this country, from the standpoint of both efficiency and democracy. Dr. Charles E. Merriam, University of Chicago, declared that "The manager plan represents the most striking advance in government since the government was founded." It," said A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard university, "is not the only one for reaching the end in view', but it is the best that has yet been proposed for American cities, and the one most in harmony with the spirit of our inCouncil-manage- council-manag- er stitutions. These, and countless other opinions, demand our respect, and assure ua at the outset that the director-managform merits the attention of every er broad-thinkin- citizen. g The following statements are gathered mainly from pamphlets and magazines published Dy various national and international civic organizations: History of City Government First: The early "Federal Plan, modeled after the federal government, consisted of a hoard of aldermen and a common council, both elected by wards on a national party ticket. The presiding officer was .the mayor, with little or no veto power. The checks and balances between the two legislative bodies, who also appointed ad ministrative officials, brought about Elecand tion by wards and party tickets introduced the machines and politics. The long ballot, with many names on the ticket, confused the voters. Although some administrative officers were later elected by the people, rather than appointed by the board, this arrangement w'aa not successful because political favorites, rather than technical administrators, were elected. Nor did the election of boards (waterworks, fire, police, etc.) help the situation. There arose a still greater conflict of authority, decentralized responsibility, and a still longer ballot. Second: The mayor-counc- il plan appeared about 1890. Experience had demonstrated that the legislative and administrative functions must be separated, and that competent technical administrative officials could not be secured by election. The mayor was therefore endowed with greater powers, appointing and supervising the heads of administrative departments. The legislative bodies were merged in one. This form is in effect in Boston and Philadelphia. A variation in this type arose when the necessity for the mayor to obtain the consent of the council to hia appointments was removed. This was the "Strong-mayor- " plan. With a strong man this form was an improvement, but a weak council could still embarrass him. If buck-passin- g. log-rolli- semi-independe- nt Company Has l'nri hased Local Hoods; To Use Structure :ih Office Huilding; Extensive Improvements Hein); Made Fred Thompson in "A REGULAR SCOUT ed OGDEN Boh Cutter in THE BORDER WHIRLWIND Sunday-Mond- ar Viola Dans in BRED IN OLD KENTUCKY y Tuesday-Wednesds- Art Aeord in "LOCO LUCK" vice-prcsi-det- it; Thu ra.-- F vice-preside- rum-n-rso- ur city-manag- er f?- BORN TO THE WEST" Tuesdsv THE PALACE OF PLEASURE" Wednesday THE OLD SOAK" Thursday TIIE FIGHTING STRAIN" Fridav Ranger the dog in FLASHING FANGS" Saturday, February 12 THE YELLOW BACK Sunday "THE FLAME OF TIIE YUKON p 1 pris-pleasu- re. extend-associatio- city-manag- er headquarters. Ogden Is the headquarters of lhe'a dining car and hotel department of return I always managed to have brief chat with him. lucatTon siml 1 5ry,it,ry- - V.rx returned to Ogden in Michiican, J where it is 'known-3- 9 20 in in Californii, 24 in ? ce act uT?n lhe l,ta,ce However Florida, and is established in every hot i 25.000 or over of popupSKpJ S! t0,d me to ure a datehe here, Sultry Virginia ble jn city was h.t Richmond. It. lation except growth . Ogden andTs en- no longer depends on propaganda, nor lvjronBt All the various roads that go on ita newness to make up the great Union Pucific its success and reputation win new LyBu.Tn practically center in Ogden. The Oregon Short Line to the NurlhVaron fnpk nrn i I and. northwest is here; the Salt Lake otto Meek, who owned the big ranch United States having the f nd,s I Daker, Nevada, to be used in the pricIVca form of government. Cleveland, with IUle aa ,lhe here. Cruze called off the list of lI?,0.n lJe picture. a population of 7C9.841, is the largest. 1 cHst-- 1 the Oirden the is fro"? needed for the picture, Cincin0maJia property Kansas City, Mo., Fort Worth, the Southern Pacific, I Thu, Included item like several hun- natti and Rochester joined the ranks er" and the western ternnnua of the Den- - dred head of oxen and horses, ox cent 95 last year. Practically per & hows, 150 wagons with the canvas or all changes in form of city govern- ver Rio Grande Western. sheeting to cover, wild horses, cattle, ment by vote of the people are for Indians, and all the supernumeries (Continued On Page Eight.) needed for the production. Meek, among other things, had to provide a K long narrow body of water to represent the Missouri river which the . I wagon train crossed. Every detail for A m Tm. .S Kts "W J city-manag- er J-- y -- Saturday PANTAGES VAUDEVILLE and "PA I S FIRST" Sunday Matinee Only Mordkin and hia Russian Ballet Snnday night Stuart Holmes and Jane Winton in MY OFFICIAL WIFE" Mondav "ABIES IRISH ROSE (Not a Motion Picture) Tueiday-Wedneda- MY Thura.-Fri.S- y OFFICIAL WIFE aj PANTAGES VAUDEVILLE ind RIN TIN TIN COLONIAL Saturday "CONE OK TIIE NORTHWEST" Sun.-Mon.-T- ue THE TEMPTRESS Wednesday THE ROY FRIEND" Thuraday-Frida- y THE HONEYMOON EXPRESS" WHITE CITY GARDENS DANCING Tues.-Wed.-a- nd Sat.-Night-s. Music by Jack Passey and His White City Band BERT II ANA DANCING Wednesday and Saturday Nights Music by Olie Reeves Orchestra CALL A YELLOW CAB. J h 1 . Surdav-Monda- y usky-Famous line Priscilla Dean in "WFST OF BROADWAY" Saturdav "THE THUNDERING HERD lVl That the Union Pacific Railroad company is still looking toward Og-das the possible general headquarters of the road was the talk in local circles during the past week, when it was reported the comnany is said to have closed a deal recently where-hit acquired the bonds of the David Eccles building. This it is said is the first step toward the purchase of the building for a general headquarters Accompanying this report building. was one that th railroad com puny also still negotiating with the A It llevwood estate for the purchase of the iwntvrty at the comer of street and Washington Twenty-fift- h v ri.-Sa-t. LYCEUM James Cruzc's Production, Old Ironsides," Is Hailed as Host In Films; Premiere Showing of $2.00(1,000 Feature In New orh ; Rise of Former Resident I'1 cupti.i "Old Ironsides Nads t p Broadway," the current issue or I.U.eit.v magazine ho were weak, the recall was too pays a splendid tribute t.i James Ouzo, the Ogden A be defect effective. to lay who has risen to the position of hoy m the fact that the administrative the director in motion head was elected; nor could he devote Old Ironsides." a Paramount pictures. all his time to administration. The declared to he the greatest picture, picture lung ballot was still in use. made in 192(5 or in the history of film-- " Third: The commission plan came hen Cruzc made "The Coverin 1901 after the flood at Galveston ed Wagon he was declared to be in 1900. The legislature of Texas apono of Americas big directors, but proved this form, requested by the Mnre the nihtorical offering centering tiusines ftien of Galveston in order to aniund the (unions battleship Conbring quick results in the emergency. stitution, ( ruze has been termed the Houston (1905) and Dot Moines greatest director in filmdom. (1907) copied the general scheme, but Cruze wns "just one of the directors made the mistake of dividing the adTor the I ministrative departments among the Players a few Hi chance came with commissioners. The original plan in Jlrii The Covered Wagon," which came to tended that the commissioners should hint liccause nobody else wanted it determine the policy of the city gov avenue. , or saw its possibilities. Jim Cruzc ernment, but appoint technical and The extensive improvements of the saw what could be done with the trained men aa administrative heads of departments. A "short ballot" with Union Pacific in the railroad district picture. He did it, and lifted his salcarried forward. The new ary to $1WH) a day. hut few officials to be elected was a are C i under construction unop house round ruze, whose full name is James step forward. However, the fart that h property acquired. in the district Cruze Bosen, is the same today as men were elected to a dual capacity that of legislators and administrators wet of the present railroad yards and he was when playing at the old street. Work Utahns theatre (now the Ogden - was a fault. The people took a south of Twenty-eight- h Is on with increas-- 1 theatre) with the John Lindsay com-n- e carried also Wing greater interest in elections. Men ad Tho of th improve- - puny, in which were Luke. Cosgrove, trackage. the to control suited city tnirably I and under ments George Mel ford and many others now contemplated to way policies were frequently unqualified I known is in pictures. I remember Cruze it Oeden in manage city departments; employes by the Unian Pacific I from the time he lived out at Five will about a!d cost in $700,000. to allowed were engage actively I 'ld .went (he old rock the as continual politics; there were jealousies between Ogden's , growth school at the romcr of commissioners and departments, and Junction City of the west, with its in- - IL Jrt) I lack of unified authority and responcreasing magnitude as the grain and I j w'clilhstreet and Washington ave-flo!"'0' v 'hk well Jhru lThe .maK"if sibility. market west of Chicago, as Fourth: The plan s its big strides as a livestock mar-- 1 !T T?Rnc!Kton dunior. high opera house originated in 1908. Under this form, ke and industrial and manufacturing Twenty-fourtof .lhV the voters elect, on a short ballot, of the the have eyes escaped center, n the Barr I legislative body known as the council, big railroad companies. stock company nul? there. Grant commission or board of directors. In , I Syphers, now of the police department, this small body of men is centralized AYi 'i'Li.i i . I loftheUmon Pacific was a.member of the company, aa waa all authority. They fix the policies I 8 of the city by ordinance, and they arc I ?on ? the late rofessor T, B. Lewis, principal of elected on the basis of their business Frtlaiid and I'0 Angeles from Ogdin. en-1 To Montana points and the west the high school, also a member. Cruze ability and judgment. They appoint tranre to the Yellowstone park the I would drop in occasionally and get 25 a technical man known as city man-- I is shorter. The Oregon Short I cents night for "suning" as a sger, who can be removed at their I Stanceowned Union Pacific, by Thus the legislative and Line, which is of Idaho state the crves rat-1 sc are administrative functions pa ed, and the corporation manager is nov coming lo the front as a potato well aa a grain state. The wheat appointed on the basis of ability. rather than his prominence, political from the Snake River valley, or friendships. ling from the St. Anthony branch down I on to the Twin Falls tract, is shipped Discussion form started at I to the Ogden elevators and mills. Og- The Staunton, Va., In 1908. It is there-- 1 den is the renter or hub of activi-- 1 in Cruzes ability, and did everything fore old enough to have outgrown its I ties of the Union Pacific system, yet I possible Co aid him. Cruze was away is almost a thousand miles to the I from Ogden for many years, but on speculative features. It is an estab-r- it h WEEK BEGINNING FEBRUARY 5. 1927 ORPHEUM EGYPTIAN st. d n OGDEN'S LEADING ATTRACTIONS Reginald Denny in THE CHEERFUL FRAUD Hail-roa- HI? r AU Legislative Committee of the Ogden Chapter of American Association of Engineers Describes Evolution of Governmental Iiodies, and Reasons for Failure Formal Opening of Hotel Bigelow to be Featured Event Hotel Bigelow company directors at the meeting of the were stockholders of the company during the past week. These directors are A. P. Bigelow, G. L. Becker, J. N. Spargo, Mrs. E. L. Van Ieter, R. W. Stevens, W. H. Harris, Ralph E. Bristol, Fred 1. Nye, W. H. Shearman, C. A. Wright and H. W. Beckett, Jr. The directors then elected the following officers: A. P. Bigelow, president; G. L. Becker, first R. W. Stevens, second J. N. Spargo, treasurer; II. W. Beckett, Jr secretary and general manager. . The opening of the hotel, it is planned, will be an event which will be attended by hundreds of Ogden's citizens about April 1. It is planned to have an opening of the magnificent structure that will be in keeping with its elegance. President Bigelow introduced the A departmental heads of the hotel. number of the directors and stockholders were very optimistic as to the effect upon the community of the new hotel. President Bigelow was authorized by a resolution to negotiate a loan from an eastern insurance westcompany. He stated that for a ern city to be able to secure this big loan at special terms was, compliment to the pity. H. W. Beckett, Jr., managing director, reported that already negotiations have been completed for the holding of a number of conventions it the hotel during the early spring and summer months. AS THE GREATEST r y, ff OGDEN BOY RATED UNION PACIFIC Tl SITE Two Carloads of Material Upon Ogden Chamber of Commerce Ground of Old Rac Track; Completes Successful Work; J. G. Norn, Formerly of MonRoyal Milling Co. Announces Culmination of Important Deal Co. With Washbum-Crosb- y Xl MIIF.lt 9 Engineers Discuss OIL REFINERY AT SITE 127. PHONE 88 Taxpayers Assn and Newspapers Affnck the making of the picture, including the buffalo hunt upon Antelope island, I in Salt . luke, was worked out in Ogden That the Utah Tixpayers associs - lat the Marion hotel by Cruze. When tion is misrepresenting the expendi - it came time for the company to be tures for the Utah schools and the gin filming the picture, Cruze carried newspapers of Utah on the basis that on the work without a hitch. they defeated efforts to increase taxes I Last August when in Los Angeles of corporations and those utilizing the visited Cruze at his wonderful home natural resources of the state, was the at Flintridge, in the suburbs of Pasaan hours ride from the charges made by R, A. Fowler, super' dena, about intendent of the Weber county schools Lanky studio in Hollywood. He had and president of the Utah Education- just finished the picture which has al association, in his address before been termed his masterpiece, "Old the members of the Ogden Exchange Ironsides, made at a cost of $2,000,-00- 0, after over a years preparation. rlub Tuesday noon, at the Weber club. told me of the many Cruze He said that the teachers of the state On Page Four.) were now organizing "not as radicals" but to secure, larger state funds for the upbuilding of the school and KllTGlOW IvCCClYCS I higher salaries. That part of th:s increase will be asked through the passage of a "severance tax along the same lines as that in California was stated by the speaker, who also indicated that the teachers' retirement fund plan will be President A. P. Bigelow, of the Webased upon the Virginia state laws. The "severance tax" will apply to all ber River Water Users association, industries taking natural resources has received from the government the from under or on the ground of Utah, I fully executed contract for the Echo excepting agriculture, the speaker II reservoir. The contract waa received with the approval of the United said. In making hia claim that the news- - States Reclamation service in Wash-papeof Utah had blocked previous ington. legislative attempts to change taxi Mortgages on properties of the laws, Supt. Fowler said that when such I canal company members of the asso-actiseemed likely in the legislature, nation are being executed, and it is the newspapers immediately set forth expected that the bids for the con-ththe proposed tax increase would retraction of the project can be general effect or to give that im- - I vertised as soon as these are returned pression, whereas the tax was only I to the reclamation service, The application from Salt Lake City on the corporations, releasing the farmer and small home owner from an I for 5,000 to 10,000 acre feet of water increase. However, he said, that some in the Echo dam has been received by of the proposed "severance tax, as the association and will be placed on in the case of coal mined in Utah, file. After the comprny members would be "passed on to the ultimate have been supplied, water will be given consumer. ........ ,1 to Salt Lake City. A SirfFPl 5 HI 1 prob-(Continu- ed Federal Contract Echo Reservoir rs on at ad-ha- ve |