Show ’ THE OGDEN (UTAH) 16B t LV ' '' 1 o STANDARD-EXAMINE- SUNDAY MORNING R MAY 15 1955 I'?'!v The Big Question Now Is: ' How Long Will It Stay Clean? o women BonnVville Lak Scouts of CounciL “picked where their parents left off” lastweek— and carted'jiway tons ii mtente area trash ° uk In- - huge "Protect' £itterbug” Project Litterbug Ranger Clark Anderson told one group at the Huntsville city Parh at the outset ° tb Project toact as litterbug missionaries Whenever you see your parents or anyone throw trash onto pub- - Road Ogden recreation depart- - ment and county road crews equipped with heavy trucks to haul away the trash gathered Toassure complete safety for the youngsters as they searched th roads State Highway Patrol and Sheriff Department patrol Explorers of the Mt Ogden and Rocky Lomond Districts par "XCJ ticipated under direction of Bob Wade and Blair Hutchinson Heavy erosion which has cut gullies where there were level meadows before was stabilized by ' B®y ' 1000 Explore making” sighUjMness theyare leaders Scout and Cubs Scouts As a result of the clean-u- p cam- - S trSfte Weber and Elder Box have Imnm who over TuJ paign many people spread of Fvnimvre counties in search of a national long forgotten they contributed their backs to heavier work for red- -' "good1" ‘turn”” nuisance— roadway and park lit- - to readme litter may be at ter tossed out o£ mivins ears and On the suggestion o£ n? Sl2' Under the direction of ForeconClark Anderson ilnthinkins ninift1 Ranger they tables by off d many 0f the scouts who found ductd gully trosion aIJd rlesse in Snow Basin saved them to mail They picked up and poked peoplewpparently scat- - mDnrtant their way along hundrei of mile !?jhe tered tbeni on public ground of highways and back and fortn “This is the important work1 Reporting for duty at 8:30 am 7 Anderson said “that ties for across public parks May Ranger morning Saturday And wherever they went they Project Litterbug besides mobsr down soil in the watershed that of Scout supplies Ogden with domestic left the areas cleaner probably of Scouts were hundreds than they have been Since bean leaders Forest Service State watet supplies” and beer cans were invented Responded to Plea In putting over the (project ao enthusiastically the scoutjs were responding to a plea lastiear by President Eisenhower for agnation wide conservation goo4 turn In 1954 the President asked all US scouts to participate in 'conservation practices which would help preserve the beauty wildlife and nature of the outdoors Project Litterbug was tre: mendously successful last year and even more so last jweek Scouts from all seven districts in the Lake Bonneville Council about S”atiM Cri j °V ” th‘Sl area i Wl 0 aSe FULL LOAD—Scouts of Gateway District are shown lugging away junk they collected in Weber Canyon Left to right are Walter Meacham Bobby Cove and Gordon L Hayman Gateway District conservation chairman TREE PLANTING— Putting in one of 5000 evergreens planted during the Project Litterbug are (left to right) Clarence R Kent M Van De Graaf and Clifford Vellinga all of troop Anderson Points out grass wll tie the otherwise exposed soil down and it will not melt under heavy rain By doing Vel-lin- ga 170 'T ' ?B County from smalj pine The tree's Scouts’ “sweet teeth” were satis- have been planted by ScouU in fied during project Litterbug conservation projects as far back nine ciubs Qf Ogden District Fed as 1941 eration Women’s Clubs donated Many of them have gained large size and are holding an im- 125 dozen cookies to the Scouts Clubs contributing include the portant role in soil conservation in the Snow Basin area Child Culture Club Aglaia Club With Tender Care Chareya Club Home Culture After their morning litterbug Club Women’s Civil Club Worn-tas- k was complete practically all en’s Civic Club International f the scouts planted evergreen lations Club Polio Emergency trees with as much tender care Volunteers Ladies of the Guard as if their names were on them and Auxiliary National Federa-Thos- e tiny trees no doubt will tion of Post Office Clerks No- - 75 be taken care of in future years Representatives of each of the when the Scouts return to the seven districts in Lake Bonneville area and check the trees they Council planned the project In all there were 5000 pine planted with their own hands The Scouts learned that the trees planted about five for each small evergreens must be planted Scout Re-o- They All Wanted to Zoom by-B- ut They Didn't Quite Dare By CUFF THOMPSON The stage was US Highway east-T- he The players were motorists ! along the Weber River from the mouth of the eanyon to Peterson and Morgan District polished up In Box Elder County the Bird Haven Distgct worked Box Elder Canyon over and the Golden Spike District cleaned up the Tremon-to- n area - Record Section at Library Gets Heavy Use X' — 4 U w-a- s lx Book-of-the-Mon- 5 - v?a e VV - r' far-flun- - Stranger” by Morton PLENTY OF COOKIES—Mrs Walter Crawford (right) chairman of Youth Conservation for the District Federation Women’s £lubs and Mrs Mildred Brownell conservation of natural1 re-Ogden at sources chairmanhand outcookies to I Scouts A o j i v‘ favorites The impact of motion pictures on Ogden readers should not be underestimated the report said "Gone With the Wind” “The High and the Mighty” “From Here to Eternity” “The Egyptian” and even the classic "Moby Dick” all seen in pictures have influenced reading more than the best-selllists Proving Popular On the practical tide have been the immensely popular volumes— how to be your own plumber how to landscape how to repair television sets and other electrical appliances how to build a house and how to decorate your house after you build it These books have been largely responsible for swelling the circulation list by 1500 volumes over the 1953 record The uranium boom has made-itselfelt at the library and mining books and reference materials related to mining have been much in demand In both the Main and Branch libraries the juvenile reading program showed an increase in tha number of participant and er :v - j- 1 1 3 'STA' 1 J ’ -- how-tolo-- g Thomp- son have been consistently top Roy V inter-librar- non-fictio- n so-and-- so This big black cigar in the little green coupe pulled along side saw the patrol car slowed down a notch then got up enough nerve to creep by it He had no more than cleared the front of the Trooper’s automobile when his nerve took a vacation and he pulled over in front of him and stayed there But he was only a bit actor He made a left turn very soon ending his stint in the comedy When he signaled to make his turn you could almost hear the bones of his elbow creaking as he pushed his hand through the cobwebby window When the caravan stopped for a red light in Clearfield ticre gs lf It's Plenty Big and TAKING A BREAK— Most ofj the 600 scouts and leaders who cleaned up Ogden and Weber canyons! are shown at lunch time gathered in the Snow Basin area non-circulati- of distinguished drama the library hopes to add The library added 2490 adult and 2142 juvenile volumes or a total of 4632 books last year The total number of books now in the' library is 62122 Circulation in books reveals that Ogden readers during the book past year read one-hamore than they finished in 1953 — a little over seven books apiece for the 31210 borrowers the library has registered Two favorites of last year are still running strong In the "The Power field of of Positive Thinking’ by Norman Vincent Peale and in the field- of fiction “Not As a 5 end to receive rocket pins reading certificates and to celebrate an outstanding achievement —circulation had exceeded that of the previous summer by 2258 Gladys Peterson the ehH-d-r en’s librarian continued her round of Christmas stories at schools and wards with the result that she reached more children than in her traditional Book Week appearances In’ the Reference Department Therms Scovill reports that Contours a portable photographic and development unit has provided the public with pictures of costumes for group pageants and for guiding the dressing of dolls lor collections with copies of s and family genealogical charts with pages of reference material for shut-in- s in preparing school assignments with information photographed from noncirculating books in Salt Lake or other Ogden libraries Microfilm Reader Foreshadowing what the library expects to be a trend in the years immediately ahead is the use of the microfilm reader in genealogy loans and local history items housed as manuscripts in libraries outside Utah the report pointed out Among the most prominently used business guides are the Moody’s Investment and the services various Prentice-Hal- l and the innumerable directories and sets of statistics Not only specific concerns and persons have used the material but representatives of federal and municipal government and the Chamber of Commerce In the field of publicity book reviews and broadcasts have been continued “Good reading” has been given an specially favorable spot on Sunday eve-rungs at 6:30 over KLO During the fall Pearl and Thatcher Allred appeared in a series of engagements before Ogden PTA groups to discuss the relationship between the crime comics and juvenile delinquency Their talks were inves-based on the seven-yea- r of Frederic Wertham tlgations M D and his book "Seduction of the Innocent” Physical Improvements Physically the library has added fiberglass awnings across the west on the main floor and over the windows and entrance oi the Emerson Branch Book stacks have been added at the Branch and Marjorie Wilson librarian at the Emerson Branch has done an efficient job of rearranging the interior Book stacks have also been added to expand the young adult area on the main floor and this section according to Betty Roberts head of circulation has been inconstant us coats-of-arm- Brown’s Body" all with excel- lent casts are merely the Tt jr on “Hedda Gabler” “Don Juan in Hell” and “John vr'4 ’ Music-Appreciati- let” ykj J Club th Records combining as it does an analysis of the music on one side and the musical selection it relates to ' on the other should prove a unique service to the public the report points out Plays Are Added An innovation has been the ' adding of plays and dramatic ' recordings to the library Such things as “Macbeth” “Ham- - A v books read More than 100 “spa£e cadets” met at summer’s ures came from the record department according to the annual report of library activities During December alone circulation of records equaled that of the entire previous year and the total figures almost tripled those of 1953 Comprising in the beginning a few odds and ends of records the department has expanded until it now includes recordings for every taste — usually in three speeds— classical semi-classical and popular A recent subscription to the "-- W IT' GREW AND GREW— Assistant Ranger Roy Stoker examines pine tree planted by Scouts in a 1941 conservation project Explor Circulation Jumps driving automobiles The “villain” was a State Highway Trooper The story was a comedy that s would probably be a hit if it were reproduced on celluloid School The play begins when this All departments at the CarYou could almost hear the reporter pulled onto Riverdale — collective sigh of relief negie Free Library showed Road from Wall Avenue about gratifying results for 1954 but2 pm headed for Clearfield the really big circulation figThen — Naval Supply Depot As I made the turn there v - ' ' v headed in the same direction was one of those black and white vehicles readily identified as a highway patrol car It was progressing at a speed exactly five miles slower than TV' the legal limit for automobiles and other power driven objects on state highways V And the trooper maintained that speed and attitude rather nonchalantly throughout the performance It wasn’t that I afraid to pass him It was that I well I just you know wasn’t in any hurry So I pulled Hrin behind him Of course I stayed far enough to the rear so he wouldn’t get the idea that I had a guilty conscience or was ehicken or something Then the fun started or the rx 4T 4 r it V sVJ' plot thickened as ’twas said This red station wagon came drifting along not going too awfully fast but you knew the driver wasn’t waiting around to get there But she changed her mind a bit and slowed down Ih’' T'T X 'f when she saw the black and f white That was okay with me The JT X driver was a wow er nice ' ' r looking young lady with hair to "A- 5 7 'n match her car a downright pretty face and neck and a sweater that but then I had — mi jm to get my eyes back on the road The trooper was still there Far-Flu- ng and I had to let my natural urges and inclinations lie dorg These pictures give some idea of what a tremendous and mant above is The Basin photo project operation the Weber She relieved the pressure taken near Peterson shows how hillsides are being carved away somewrhat by pulling over bein building the Gateway Canal The Weber Aqueduct below will tween me and the trooper You carry water from Gateway Tunnel at the mouth of Weber Canyon know there are prettier necks to the tJintah Bench and South Ogden areas to look at the back of than those on a state trooper Her place to the left was taken right away quick by a big black sedan that floated up out of nowhere Its big red stop lights really started working when the driver caught sight of the patrol car Then the rude pulled over and crowded in between me and the redhead and I’m still thinking up a word for him I glanced in the rear view mirror and there were two other cars tagging me By this time we were passing out of '- I CONTROL EROSION — Raking in grass seed in a gully control project are (left to right) ers Stephen Smith Holgar Sass and Philip Johnson you-know-wh- at first-clas- - Every tired scout with muscles aching from bending ovei had learned an important lesspn by lunch time He knew that trash carelessly tossed away has ’to be picked up sometime j— and he one who willl have might be the j to do it Besides beautifying the Toads and parks In the two counties the 1000 scouts became missionaries of good outdoor manners during were 11 cars following the nonchalant trooper And everyone was behind him Nary a one was equipped with enough of the old to pull up beside him Finally the trooper tiring of the sport or through sympathy or maybe he had business there pulled into the grounds of the North Davis Junior High 91 4 I Morgan Valley w i r-- wr area participated fn the program by Dr Odell Jiilander chairman of conservation activities for the council Rocky Lomond District scoured the Ogden to Huntsville area Pineview District cleaned up to the Pineview reservoir area and highway on the west (north and Mount Ogdjen district Scouts took care of thej Huptsville to Weber County recreation area Along Weber River The Gateway District forked j it long-neede- f d y |