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Show ta Kicn County Reaper, Randolph. U : Gilsonitie, pock asphalt and. oil, sources ' of the i .Vernal region, promise tremendous prosperity for eastern Utah declared Governor Herbert B. Maw, fallowing a tour of the Uintah Basin. Ora Bundy, chairman of the Department of - Publicity and Industrial Development and President of the Nation-- ; ai Association who accompanied Governor Mawr, said that within the next few years, eastern Utah will become one of the most important idustriai areas of the west." .7 ' During the Visit at Vernal, Governor Maw recommended immediate construction of a $200,000 natural science museum. and a paved access road to the gilsonite mine at bonanza! The Barber Asphalt Sales Co., is planning expenditures of $3,000,000 for expansion of the 4 mine. Utahs "Gilsonite is the purest form of hydro carbon known to man. It is 'fodnjd in seams in rock' asphalt. It is a black organic compound from .which is manufactured, marine paints, enani-elJapajis, Varnish, roofing paper, insulation ; it combines readily with rubber- for. the manufacture of tires. Vernals asphalt, beds are said to 'extend 65 miles and some seams icf gilsonite , are S miles long. Manti Seeks Women Workers. At .least 300 women factory workers are needed at Manti by the Reliance Manufacturing Company, formerly, engaged in making parachutes for' the ... government. The plant is modern and affords pleasant working conditions. Wages start at 55 cents ah hour and a bonus system Is in effect. the plant is now manufacturing clothing and reports, it must have additional workers if it continues to operate in Utah. , Utah Comes to Front.' Free publicity for Utah worth at least $50,000 4f gured in magazine advertising space rates, ; is promised the state . in the form of mapr Utah articles or , scheduled soon in nine leading internationally circulated: magazines it i announced by the Utah Depart , Iptorit of Publicity and Industrial life pr yajopnaent. The ' Saturday Evening Post just completed an article illustrated in full color omjNorman Nevills, Utahs daririg family at Maxican 6 riveiman' ',ajd Hat and Monument Valley, and which is scheduled for a February issue. The . Icember isue.of "Esquire featured tUe "Utah Salt ? Flats In an article written by Wayne Kearl, former Utahn. "jEMa&arihe,?! December issue, fea--9 tores ..BdSfinell General Hospital at SeCity. "Desert Magazine, ptember issue, featured the San Juan river and southern Utah. ".Travel . November issue,1' featured the Bridges National Monument in article, by "Bob" McCullough, Park City, Utah. - "The National Ged-graphic Magazine featured Utahns r "Monument VaUey in its October issue. "The Highway . Traveler maga- zine will feature Utahs (Roman tic klto-V ,ht .their January road Magazine", featured "Soldier Summit" and the Denver and Rio Grande - .. Western Railroads activities in Utah current January issue. "Utah j to Magazine, will feature Alta and Skiing in the 'January issue. In addition, the department announces, News will release in February the San ri Juan river' picture filmed last summer in technicolor for the first1 time, and which will show to an estimated eighty ' million re-- Rec-lauiati- . . ; -- s, . . ed pub-Jisdi- .'.7. . . . Mag-azin- e, amex-:r,cellen- .r ; c, -- r issue.'-'Rail- . .peqplei, n 7 Presidents War Relief Control The Mr.-an- Board has'' called upon all overseas war : relief agencies is America, to support the Victory Clothing' Collection qn behalf of UNRRA in one united 'nationwide endeavor to collect clothing that is desperately needed in bombed-ou- t lands, it was announced today by Henry J. Kaiserj national chairman of the Victory Clothing Collection, scheduled for ..... January; T 31. Joseph' E Davies is chairman of the Presidents' War Relief Control Board which was set up by an Executive Or der t oauthorize and regulate the collection by voluntary agencies of funds and goods for overseas relief. Other Beard members are Charles P." Taft and Charles Warren. In making public the Boards directive, Mr. Kaiser stated that it was in line with a recommendation of Presi- dentTroman who called the January clothing (drive imperative and who declared, "The universal response last spring," when all groups concerned with ' problems of war relief joined with the United Nations Relief, and Rehabilitation Administration in one great naUon-a- l clothing appeal has proven beyond any doubt the value and efficiency of the United endeavor. d grams commemorating the states eq-- " trance into the Union will be held in all Utah schools and;' universities and at 8 oclock p. m. in Salt Lake City, the events will be climaxed by a days public meeting in the LDS tabernacle where Senator Abe Murdock will deliver a special message from President Hairy S. Truman. 4 . was pleasantly the days when it the magic wand, : the mahogany ing. Bishop Amos B. Robinson attended a church welfare1, meeting held at sr t Montpelier Sunday. v 7Mr. and Mrs. ;: Ray . Elggren and ; small 'daughter Elizabeth, ...spent several days; of last week at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Jos. C.' Robinson. Mr. Elggren is returning to civilian life after; having served in the, war. at Guadalcanal. A tSunday SchooJ meeting was held ' in connection with Sacrament meet' ing Sunday. Special music consisted of the singing of. Luthers Cradle Hymn by nine small- girls; "Shine On, '7 by Jennie Lee 'Earley, Donna' Earley and Merle Thomas ;.a trio, My Testimony, Eva. Earley, Hazel Weston and Afton Cheney ; talks by Vernon Robinson and Mary C. Rob- - . - 1 . : . '7 " Van Price, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Price, has returned from having served in the- Japanese war, to civilian life once more. Van is on a short visit here because his wife is at Nephi, with a brand new baby daughter. Congratulations and - - . welcome home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eller, Lavon Lurene and Ronald, shopped in ' on Tuesday. Montpelier . " Mrs! Gretta Esterholdt and chil! ' dren of Garden City spent Monday at the home of Mrs! Clarence Cheney , 1 i v. spd from; w bad case ecOoTK8 e has'beeti fa pitAl;and is reported to WrerovVl . , -- Mr. and Mrs. Parnell Jahnsori are rejoicing over the safe1 arrival of a fine baby- daughter, bom Thursday in a Logan hospital. Mrs. Barbara Norris i$ taking care of the children ; 7 while there. f, Farrell Johnson. spent several days at Balt- Lake where his wife Is ini s a hospital. ' Carl.1 Norris' and Glen Price1 spent the week end in Salt Lake and Ogden..; r Stake ' Board1 member Whitney Transtnnn, 'Alfred- Hart- Jr;:7 Verie Rich and Bro. Wilson attended Sunday school in thier official capacity o ; . I, Sunday. ' 7 Mrs! 'Ross Cheney and daughter, Connie Jean and Heber Irwin werfe business visitors in Montpelier Wed. nesday. .. Mi;s. Ben Orvin ahd daughter; Jan-- , ice, spent several days in Ogden last . , week. ; .... Montpelier shoppers Saturday" included Mr. - and Mrs'. ' Earl Satterth-waitMrs. Vara Cheney, Mr. ; and Mrs. Jesse Earley, Mrs. Ralph Irwin and Sidney Irwjn. ' The annual ferkde school Christ- mas program was held in the recreation hall Dec. I8th. The' teachers directing if were Lola; W. Johnson, Edna Wamsley and lEvelyn Alley. A minstrel show by 17 boys started the program off, followed by songs and dailies by the children of the Pri-- . mary grades; a poinsetta drill by a group of girls, a Christmas tree and an operetta, Hansel and Gretel. The T - ! . . - - , - - -- ' e, -- ; iai Ttay .Yhopiock motored to Locn8' Wednesday to get his wife andtoen,011' 77 daughter.;.;;, . Insori. , . , y : v-- born-i- . VC'. The gentle tick of a. pocket watch, when conducted to the. ear. through listening stick, can be heard even in a noisy room.. This ability to single out "sound made the listening stick tele- -. an important tool graph repeater attendants. , f ' The listening stick was ah ingenious but simple device by Bell System engineers and i made by Western Electric early iri the 1900s to aid'the telegraph room attendant of the day. And that harried guy needed help. Often hundreds of telegraph in- struments,: spread on tables in one small room, clattered away simul- J--. attend bis grandfarers funeral. Bishop and Mrs.1 Willard Peart and Mr. and Mrs. Lew Hayward motored to Salt Lake Thursday. ' Scot JackAon is now home from the service. . , taneously. Attendants shouted orders back and forth above the din. . In this babel of electrical . and human voices, even an expert technician had. difficulty reaching . across a table to pick out one eleo-trical voice from the many. The listening stick did the trick. Made of finest mahogany, , the listening stick is aboUt wo feet; long and five eighths' of an Inch thick. It operated much like a doc tors stethoscope. The telegraphef would place one end of the stick containing a. hollow wooden ebr--; piece to his ear, and the, other end against the frame of (the rnstru.- -' ment. The sound, moving by conduction through the closely kbit' fibres of the mahogany, focused at his ear, As a doctor judges the1 regularity of heart beats, the tele- graph man determined the clarity i of dots and,, dashes coming through. He could detect pny flaws in the adjustment of the instru- ment, and, concentrate on one cir c'uit.at a time. r ' . Today, ; thanks to modern switch boards, networks, vacuum tube amplification and other improvements,! Bel System telegraph,, repeater,, rooms ; are;1 about as quiet as an ordinary liv ' : mg .room and the listening stick is. just a pleasant memory to old ' f time brass pounders. . - , . . 1 ; , toll-cab- le ; i . ' One-Thir- d About 'States is forested.'one-thi- Forested; of the rd , 7 United - . 1 'de-sign- ed . v,;-- Mr, and Sirs. TomSevy have return I ed, from a Short trip to their home. MrJ Steve Wilson accompanied them 'to'C dar City and visited with her family Mrs. Earl Passey, taught her class while she waa away. , Word 'was received that Gene McKin-non had been transfered from .the W pita! "At Camp Hod, Texas, to the efans hospital; in Salt Lake City .'Hal arrived in Salt Lake and is now dis charged from the Army. He and Mrs McKinnon arrived in Randolph Sunday, Bob Jackson came home on leave to , . Accuracy of BirthT Certificates It. .is hoped his new plan will eliminate these errors and thereby increase the Divisions service to the peolpe of ' .' 7 Utah. N ; i record. 5' sA , ! New Program to Increase the , 's V . i . baton that marked their trade. , i . H oldtime..telegrapherswhO'recall 'A'jo , - - 1 E IV S Mr. and Mrs, Achcl Jaeobsoh toVk ston to aee a doctor, Leo McKinnon L. B Tftw OrVal Johnson mo&d to EhT1 I City last, Friday. ; Wm.rKennedy was a business I Vlsltor at Evanston last Thursday. Miss Barbara Petid'iab , PaSS finger" to Evahston Wfidnesdav ute to'grigtoiun; City mas .holidays. ' Mrs. Arthur Burton ha been suiferintr . by-he- 1 ? like Today the .listening stick,'' and mustache cup the the bustle, the rubber, collar is only a; museum piece, but- there are fnany . , ; ff"1 11 ilr. and''.i,Mrs,: Frank McKinn , -. Randolph were visitors in town Sunday, enroute home from Garden City. Mrs. Arlo B. Weston spent a week at Logan with her folks, Mr,' and Mrs, M. Y. Coombs and family. Mrs. June Price Ward was called to Hendersonville,,; North Carolina, due. to thedeath of .her brother-in-laThlel Ward, who had been killed. No details were; given. She r parwas taken to Evanston . Price, Frank Mrs. ents,; Mr,' apd where she entrained Monday even . The 'birth certificate of every baby Utah is kep permanently in the Division of Vital Statistics of the State Department of Health. .As the babies mature in years, they will, be called upon many times to show proof of age, birthplace, and parentages The emergency during the past few years has shown the value placed upon birth certificates. , ,Many of, the.certificates of birth which are filed in the State Division of Vital Statistics are believedto contain statements which ar. in error, or to be inIn order to determine to complete. wb at extent this is true, a birth query firm has. been prepared, for mailing to patents' of newborn .babies. .This. form will Show a. copy of the childs birth certificate as it is on file in the Division, of Vital Statistics. It will be sent soon after the certificate has been received in the' State office. A postage-fre- e ' 'envelope1' will be enclosed for use form.' In returning the ' The parents are requested to examine the copy' of the birth certificate1 as it was ' filed-- for errors or omissions. It is found to be completely and accurately filed out, the parent' should sign, the form and1 return it to the State office. ' If there are any 'corrections or additions to be made, fhey. should be entered on the form by the parent and returned to the State 'office where the corrections will be made on the original v certificate. ' i ' Many persons, when obtaining their birth certificates, have found that certain items of information were given Incorrectly, or omitted altogether on the original certificate. This has caused them inconvenience and sometimes considerable expense. Frequently, documentary evidence must be obtained an presented in- support of additions to the LOCAL Bows To Progress 71 (For week of. Dec. 16.) Mrs.VWm. E. Marshall of on leave Mr. and. Mrs. Fay Kennedy arrived in Randoph Dec. 9th for the week end. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Rex and Mrs. E. A McKinnon were in- Evanston Tuesday: ' Word .was received by Mr. and Mra Jacob Norris of the birth of boys born to Mrs. Wm. Howard and to Mrs. JDwane Norris. Word was also received later that the ibaby bom to Mr. and Mis. .Wm. Howard of Evanston died. Gordorii Pealrt' has bee discharged from the Army and has arrived home. -Mrs. Russell Thornock has been, a recent visitor at' the home of Mrs, We- . ldon Burleigh1 at Evanston. ,7 7 5 i i Stable Markets forState ; Peach Crop is Indicated ' Increasing markets for Utah's peach 870,000 bushels this year, are' indicated' in a study of the nation's canned food eating habits at Crop,, estimated made by, the American Can company, last' nowhich revealed that in rmal? prewar crop year, Americans ate 1940-4- 1, 4.50 pounds "of peaches; canned weight per capita as against 3.40 in 1939-In the last prewar crop year, 1941, the pack of Utah peaches .totaled 34,912 cases, according to Gordon H. Kellogg, vice president of the American Can Co. The study slab disclosed,, Mr. Kellogg said, that1 peaches are the most popular of the canned fruits, with pineapples, for which hefe Was a per capita 0. , ? second consumption of 3f.71 in - Mr. - Kellogg added that the national consumption 'of canned fruits increased from 13:34 pounds in l930r31 to 19.22 lbs. in 1940-4gain pf .imost six pounds. During the' same, period the per capita inconsumption, of- canned vegetables creased from 20.94 to 25.43,. or approximately 4 pounds per capita- established t Canned food eating habits among millions of. servicemen during taken the war years probably, will be fastill thus back into civilian life, 1940-4- 1, a 1, -- whole performance waa . enjoyable and . beautiful, with effective costuming and scenery.. . Merry Christmas to all . our read?; ers. , FOR- - BATTLE.VOIGES .? ' Golden Anniversary;1- Te Golden Anniversary of Utah's statehood will be duly observed by Utah cUiSeris January 4, 1946. Special pro- Listening Stick riEivs LAiinoun Victory Clothing Collection Drive Needs' Your Support increasing consumption, rther Mr. K logg said- i.f Oria K Cook Receive ' 1 Navy Di&charge From Oriai'K: Cook, 23, ship ook. att class;- of Garden City, Utah, e - to the Naval Amphibious Base, fro Creek, Va7 is being disdharged of duty. he Navy after 20: months Cook, .whose wife" Is 'the fomeJ . $ atrice Willie, - was employed .by ing the servipe.. Cook, ' "Tor every len of ere we mine. (mother ton must be developed or we will soon be withoutmining industry in Utah. En, , courage thoso who prospect and develop. : before-fintfer- INDUSTRIAL JEWELRY Dr. E. E. Monson, Secretary of State and chairman Of the general commit-te- e m charge of the fiftieth observance throughout Utahanniversary is .distributing 50,000 souvenir programs to Utah ' schools. The programs will bd ' given to all students and parents attending special anniversary "Utah Citizenship assemblies now being arranged by school officials for January 4th. The souvenir programs will carry the preamble to the state constitution, a. brief historical sketch, the names of the first state officers, and the names of the six surviving signers of .the Utah constitution, and who will be in- attendance at the tabernacle exercises. ' Utah was the forty-fift- h state to join the Union, "was added to the constellatioq'of the 'national . I flag. When, the news readied Utah, fifty years, ago, Janpary 4, that Utah had been admired to the union', guns were fired, whistles blown and bells set to ringing. Celebrations rwere held and. -- and-a.-navy- -- METAL MINING INDUSTRY o! UTAH general rejoicing was the order of the . day, Two'days later, on January 6, inaugural ceremonies for the newly elected state' officers took place in the Salt Lhke tabernacle. The building was beautifully decorated with a huge flag,-13feet long and 78 feet wide, suspended from the ceiling, and a chorus of 1000: school children gave the first rendition of Utah We LpW Thfie.;' The' six' surviving sigpera of the Utah Constitution still living 'and invited ter1 attend the tabernacle services January Rh. are: W. J. Kerr, Portland, Oregon," Mons Peterson, Moab, Utah, Elmer (E. Corfman, Hollywood, Calif., and Noble Warrum, Chas. N. Streveli and Louis ,,L. Coray, all of Salt Lake City. ' A" f Official Uo. S Navy Photo Water Buffaloes dropped 'off the deck'of thiir could clear out water. Once on land Marines fonmi ' if d "battle talk microphones out Scientists at Bell solved th? . proof lip mike and headset water-soake- ,.v tl , Pu,nP her .haubee,7 dro wned VS lMillion' - .C 77TL tt POLLAR rn is q?ed yearly at d flec-goi- Iaflt h trier Companys ch1l.iKi1ee loit hair plating piecerpartsriihf braid eled by carol p h Carole js wearing, imporused In war equpme'1j, jjo- .riri'g1 and ber earrings elbconlc, 4 unt parts in munication devtoes V,l taet frequently jnsgd c jjv ltf laces because of urrn ; high frequency dia, -. sf-mo- , J Sf1 . , L'f- - I 1. i X- ' -- ...ii ' r Jii-- , st |