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Show Corp Universal Microfilming 141 Pierpont Ave. 20 Years Ago By Mrs. C. E. Rife . Notice of a raise in wages of 25 cents a day v was posted by Utah's leading silver-lea- d mining companies. The increase applied to all men working for days wages, but did not effect the salaried men. The increase would benefit approximately 2 2 50 men throughout the state, principally in Tintlc, Park City and Bingham. Major companies granting increase were: United States Smelting, Refining and Mining company employing 800 men in various parts of the state; Silver King Coalition Mines coihpany; Park City employing 525 men; Untie Standard Mining company, Tin tic District employing 500 men; Park Utah Consolidated Mining company, Park City, employing 375 men and the Mammoth Mining company employing about 100 men. The notices announcing the wage raise were as follows: A 25 cent increase in the daily wages of employees will become effective in Feb. 1937. In Tintic the wage scale to miners would be 86.00 per day, muckers 8550 and surface men the V Volume The Eureka (Utah) Reporter, Friday, February 22, 1957 Fifty-Si- x 'ntens've KiLir" Number Eight Red Cross Drive y Local Mining Stock Gets Place on TV II Chairman Clarifies Reports Made Against Red Cross in. Years Past The Red Cross Drive in Tintic will be conducted on March 9 and 11, according to Wilson Lee, chairman of the drive. Officers of the organ ization feel that it will expidite matters to set aside the two As a publicity stunt, Jimdays, rather than dragging it my Stewart passed out out for the entire month. shares in the Silver Shield Mrs. Florence Potts, chairMining and Milling Co., man of the Red Cross in Tintic, ' which is situated in the and the volunteer workers have Tintic District, to television reported that there is some and movie columnists remisunderstanding among our cently. people about the Red Cross, It is one of the penny particularly its work during stocks listed on the Salt World War II. Some veterans Lake Mining Exchange, water pipes. express criticisms of the Red cents quoted at around 2 Cross and therefore tear down 85.25. a share and Jimmys gifts Mr confidence in this organ.and Mrs. Dunn of Earl public were in lots. Twenty-on- e members and a were which was established Satization dinner guests Nephi, The stunt proved amusing few special guests of the Eure76 yean ago by the Congress of to Eureka folks. ka Kiwanis club made a trip urday evening of Mr. and Mrs. the United States to give volJack Coffey. to Nephi and were most enjoy-abl- y untary service to the. people in entertained by the club of times of emergency. Mrs. Potts that city. who urges PTA feel thathaveall veterans comThe visit was in return for legitimate they the one made by the Nephi to her the facts plaints give Kiwanis, when most of their so full that investigation may membership came to Eureka Cross. be Red made the by inter-club an for visit. Veterans of their families The Eureka club furnished A . meeting. rilLbe-hel- who at ..PT evening Monday ' personally have had no adthe program at Nephi, which 8 in be will the Little verse Theatre. Founders It experience with the Red p.m. was thoroughly enjoyed by the urged to consider large gathering in attendance. Day program, and Supt Blight will talk on the Cross are before carefully repeating ruJess Wilson, principal of Tin-ti- c school consolidation which has mors or spreading malicious High School was the princibeen in the news lately. He stories about this great organple speaker.. means will ization. what it explain just The musical part of the prohow True Answers and will. effect Tintic. it was furnished a gram by quartette composed of Neil OHare, The High School Chorus will By Following are the true ana swers to some of the criticisms of numbers, couple Jerry Bergstrom, Joe Jameson present and Heber Jones, who sang two and the Past Presidents of the may hear about the Red Substantial gains in rank you honored. will Cross: be n Wirth-liMiss Genevieve organization songs; among banks of the nation Officers are urging a good rendered two solos and The Red Cross does not have been made by the First attendance. on (Continued page four) charge servicemen or their famSecurity system of banks, acilies for any of its services or cording to Mrs. Mary Newman, It has been said that First Security Bank, supplies. manager, MESSAGE BIRTHDAY Red Cross sold blood on the A Eureka. The 1956 bank rank- - the battlefield. This is impossible ings, according to the amount the Red Cross collected and of total deposits, have been blood and then turned compiled by The American processed over to Forces to Armed the it Banker, daily banking newspaSTRENGTH ANP SECURITY, CHERISH PUBLIC be administered by army medper. ics to wounded servicemen. 'First Security Bank of Utah, Army medics wear on their N.A. advanced fourteen places sleeves the international symduring 1956 to the rank of 106th bol of mercy and neutrality largest bank in the United the cross of and this fact may States. First Security Bank of have given rise to misunderIdaho, N.A. ranked 144th. standings about who adminis, tered the blood. The Red Cross did not sell LDS cigarettes dining the war. It gives cigarettes free to hospitalized servicemen only. At times Sacrament meeting on Sunconduring the war, Red Cross day evening, Feb. 17, was supplies were mixed up with ducted by Lee Bird, with Norma Jameson at the organ aqd army PX supplies and, thereWanda Colovich, chorister. The fore, Red Cross cigarettes sometimes were sold in the PX service follows: Opening song, while the Red Cross gave PX "The World Has Need of Willing Men; invocation,' Sharon cigarettes away free. The sellSeamons; Sacrament song, "O ing of cigaretes, which the Red Cross purchases tax-frewould God The Eternal Father; Patricia Giles and Dennis Bate be a violation of the Internal were 'graduated from Primary. Revenue Act certainly not Red Cross policy. Dennis Bate and Larry Sanpermitted by derson received tenderfoot Never Sold scout awards. Glen Larsen sang Sweaters and other comfort Ah Sweet Mystery of Life, articles were never sold by the JameNorma Red Cross. It Ls conceivable that accompanied by son; speaker, Harold Potts, a a soldier stationed in Alaska, former resident. Closing song, having been given a warm We Thank Thee O God for a sweater knitted by a devoted Prophet; Benediction, Harold Red Cross volunteer, would sell Fox. the sweater if he were transferred to a warmer climate. If The way of the world is to Red Cross items were sold (Continued on page two) make laws, but follow customs. -- - five-sha- re . School Consolidation Subject of Meeting Here Monday Evening to d. Gains Reported Bank System : 'as a very per copy Planned in Eureka From Mar. 9 to Damage Done A fire which could have been disastrous for Mr. and Mrs. Joe Roybal of Mammoth, was discovered before too much damage wa done. An over heated' furnace was given as the cause of the fire. The fire was between the walls of the living room and a large hole had to be cut to reach the blaze, but otherwise not too much damage was done to the residence, which is owned by the Roybals. The owners marvelled at the fact that .smoke damage was slight, and are thankful they were at home, otherwise it might have been a different story in view of the water shortage in Mammoth at the present time, due to frozen Two-Da- 10c important source of Church News e, New Mine Shaft Named After Late Mr. Burgin Bear Creek Mining Co., wholly owned domestic exploration affiliate of Kennecott Copper Corp., has named the new 1,080-foexploration shaft on its Eureka district project after the late William A. Burgin, it was announced by the officials last Saturday. Mr. Burgin, who lost his life in a commercial airliner crash in the Rockies a year and one-ha-lf ago, was former regional exploration chief for Bear Creek at Denver. Mr. Burgin was a of Mr. and Mrs.' Joseph' Beaaon of Salt Lake. Mrs. Beason will be remembered as Desdemona ot lead-silver-zi- nc eon-in-lai- y. (Continued on page 3) - Andy Manson, 77 Dies at Provo Rest Home Andrew D. (Andy) Manson, 77, died last Friday in the Hardy Rest Home in Orem of pneumonia. He was a resident of Eureka for over 65 years. He was bom in Thursa, Scotland, March 21, 1879, a son of James and Annie Manson. He came to Utah with his parents in 1886. They resided in Kimberly for years and then' came to Eureka, where he had since lived. He married Lillian M. Robinson, March 19, 1903 in Provo. She died four years ago. He operated a Mercantile business here for many years, and was Eureka City water master for several years. He was a Charter member of the Eureka Moose Lodge, and held the office of Governor of the organization. He was active in civic affairs and was always interested in any activity that was of benefit to the community. Survivors include George W. (Jud), Moab; Donald L., Orem; (Continued on page four) Ore Shipments In Past Week Chief Consolidated Mining Co. and subsidiaries, 1,656 tons; Tintic Standard, 180 tons; Bul- lion Beck, 120 tons; Colorado Consolidated, 180 tons; Filtrol Corp., 1,320 tons. . |