The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 8

A Sunday Morning- Salt fiakt Tdbunt- -March 26 1939 HeavyTie Boom Cable in Neiv Job Forest Chiefs Will Open New Offices Move Marks Completion Of Transfer Review of Week In Idaho Mountain Area Developments Retold in Brief il 4 Mayor Heads Evanston Rodeo Group Holland Selected As Honorary Chairman of Fete EVANSTON Mayor Holland has been named honorary chairman of the Evanston Cowboy Djays celebration here September 2 3 and 4 Stanley Ballinger will represent the American Legion on the executive committee Blackner and Scott Taggart the chamber of commerce and Lester Dean Lions club Dr Holland Cliff Hackman Robert Rowley Lawrence Reeves and William Wooley complete the committee Officers selected include Mr Row-ley chairman Coles and Alex Fife vice chairmen Lawrence Reeves treasurer Mr Hackman advertising chairman and George Gifford parade chairman (Dogtown Slim) Leuschner of Hayward Cal low bidder received the contract to supply rodeo stock Alice Sisty trick rider and Frank and Bernice Dean will appear as special entertainers A queen will be elected and a dance la scheduled Chairman Rowley reports the rodeo contests will be open to any type of contestant whether a member of the Turtle association or of amateur standing The $00 paid the town of Evanston from the proceeds of the 1938 show will be used to Improve the arena and grounds In the city park and new seats will be added to the grandstand Mayor Holland said Tjl Official Hits Raise in 4 Gasoline Price Idahoan Rise to Tax For Toll Bridge BOISE Idaho CD Asserting that Idaho gasoline companies apparently were attempting "to cover an anticipated "reduction In Lieutenant Governor Donald Whitehead of Boise said Saturday a recent 1-cent-per-gallon Increase in gasoline prices was ly The statement from Whitehead coming after a talk with Governor A Bottolfsen was seen as am other volley in the attack against oil companies accused by the administration of paasing on to the consumer the one-mlll-per-gallon gasoline tax imposed by the twenty-fifth legislature to raise an estimated $500000 for purchase of the Twin Falls-Jerome toll bridge Governor Bottolfsen said earlier in the week that the oil action showed and suggested appointment of a commission to study tho petroleum Industry with a view to enacting regulatory legislation A Week ego -Senator Thomas Heath (R) Franklin state Republican chairman and Senator Barlow (R) Cassia advocated the placing of wholesale oil dealers under regulation of the public utilities commission Whitehead said he had been advised tariffs on file with the commission that gasoline companies Intend to make a eent and a half reduction in basic price within approximately month" view of this fact It would appear that the companies knowing this reduction is forthcoming wish to cover up the reduction in revenue as much as possible by adding this totally unjustifiable cent per the lieutenant governor added legislature did not contemplate that the consumer would be forced to bear the mileage tax and the latest increase Is contrary to any conception of the no matter how He said that at this rate consumers actually be paying $600000 per year Instead of the $60-000 the mill tax would have gasoline firms thus are placed in the light of charging $600000 per year to collect $60000 annually from the A heavy cable holds back untold thousands of tons of ice at tie boom in Green Kiver Wyo as 100 miles of river Ice breaks loose following early spring warmth This jam threatened to flood low portions of city It was necessary to break it'up with dynamite Dynamite Blasts Free Ice Jam Threatening Green River Area Spring Floods Loosen Gigantic Cakes Above Below Community Front Tribune Intermountain Service GREEN RIVER The huge flow of ice which jammed the Green river here and for a time threatened to inundate lower sections of the south side of the city was disappearing Saturday as the ice was being ground to bits in flood waters and jamd were breaking up 7 Slayer hunt Wyoming dropped back Into the old gunplay day of it early history during the week when 26year-old 'Earl Durand self-styled MBf the Tetons" broke jail after 'Slugging hia keeper killed two officers who attempted to arrest iiim shot to death two possemen find probably killed one of his 'three hostages before he killed fiimself after being wounded coming out of the Powell bank he had fobbed of $2000 Durand set an all-time Wyoming killer record in law evasion rotate authorities declared The raw meat-eating youth was super outdoor man His aim (With a rifle and pistol was so deadly he used a bow and arrow to give game he hunted a sporting He had ridden a horse from Canada to Mexico Arrested and jailed on an elk killing charge a misdemeanor 4ie took hi jail term quietly until tadvlsed he was going to face a complaint for steer killing he bludgeoned the jailer the latter into an auto and 'drove to his home While Hhere Undersheriff Baker Town Marshal Charles Lewis cf Cody appeared Both were shot 5to death by the sharp-shooting who started afoot in a 5lizzard for the mountains Posses searched without avail until mid-Veek when he appeared at a ranch several miles away forced the rancher to take him high up In the hills Kills Ik Two of Posse There he was on a height by possemen but when Or rVllle Llnabary and Arthur Ar-gento attempted to rush him both were stopped by shots from rifle or pistol That night While a national guard mortar was being brought up to blast Jjiim out he slipped away The next day wearing his erst-Jwhile badge Durand halted an auto in the poese-covered territory hadtthe driver take him Uo Powell where he successfully -robbed the Powell First National pank He shot out its windows be More leaving turning the entire male population into an armed posse Tieing three bank employes together he led them out of the building and was shot by fyea-old high school Jioy Jt was at 'this time that one of his host bges Johnny Gawthrop a bank (clerk was killed possibly by ran" maybe by a stray shot which (followed the one wounding Dur-and The bandit then crawled back (jn the bank and put a bullet through his brain a Accidental Fatalities Thomas 'Shea former Wyoming assistant Tribune Intermountain Service ROCATELLO Idaho With arrival here Monday of I Merle Varner supervisor of tho Caribou na tional forest headquarters of that forest and transfer of approximately 150000 acres the Cache national forest in Idaho to the Caribou will be effected The Idaho territory transferred to Caribou forest lies in great measure in Bannock and Bear Lake counties (Slim)-Hansen forest ranger in charge of the old Pocatello district of the Cache national forest said Mr Varner would oe accompanied hero by a chief clerk and staff of three men For 'Efficiency The change he said was ordered by Woods of Ogden Utah forester for region No 4 in the interest of efficiency As many of the government bu- reaus Interested in allied problems in preserving the natural resources Including forests are located in Pocatello it will expedite interoffice relations to have forest headquarters in Pocatello Mr Hansen explained Already Pocatello has the division of grazing the soil conservation service biological survey and the Pocatello district CCC offices in Pocatello Ranger to Remain In moving the Caribou office to Pocatello the forest service arranged for a forest ranger to remain at Montpelier as well as the warehouses for equipment used In fire suppression road and trail building It has been reported the forest service 431 ay at some future date establish a supply depot warehouse and garage in Pocatello where equipment from throughout section would be serviced Another reason for the movt is that many of the cattle and sheepmen using the Caribou national forest also have headquarters for operations in and near Pocatello Open CCC Camp BAGGS The local CCC camp will be occupied April 30 according to Burback regional grazier by 180 enrollees from Texas An advance detachment under Lieutenant Mozley from the Rawlins camp is preparing the came site for occupancy Boise Collegian Takes Three Speech CALDWELL Idaho Boise junior cpllege was awarded a plaque for the team scoring most points In drama poetry and prose at jhe annual Idaho speech conference Schools represented were the University of Idaho South Albion nor mal Boise junior college North' west Nazarene college and the Col lege of Idaho Willard Aston of Boise junior college placed first in oration drama and prose Winners included: Oration Aston first John Sutk erland Northwest Nazarene college second Drama: Aston first Charles Bll yeaux second Extempore: Fred Parker Naza' rene college first Lucille Woodruff second Prose: Aston first La verne Lee Nazarene college second attorney general and A Interviewer were killed instantly 13 miles north of Wheatland Wyo when their car collided with another The six occupants of the other machine escaped injury Shorts on News of Threo Slates the upper and lower Snake river valley areas as well as the section around Bancroft in Eastern Idaho suffered from floods damaging highways Winter traffio has increased noticeably oip the Lincoln highway said the Wyoming state Superintendent of highways Las Vegas Nev was host to Stephen Chadwick American Legion commander with a side trip to Boulder danv Utah-Wyomlng coal miners will ask a 60 cent per day wage increase said Virgil Wright district United Mine Workers secretary-treasurer of Cheyenne Lincoln highway towns are going after the "Fair traffio in a big way through a proposed advertising campaign Nevada legislature at its closing session trimmed the tax rate 15 cents below the levies of 1937 and 1938 Odd Bits of Thumb waving for free rides is legally banned after May 1 under a new Wyoming law making such action or any other to a a misdemeanor The Idaho state highway department will not attempt to open the road to West Yellowstone Mont until April 1 to 20 feet square It was expected that great ice jams would form in the Firehola region south of Green River hut that the water backing up from these would not come near the town Friday evening the water and ice level had exceeded the 1938 flood marks but this lasted only for a Short time Extent of damage to the Standard Timber company's tie-loading plant here will not be known until the waters have subsided sufficiently to Inspect the piers which hold the tie boom One large cable in the main boom formed a barrier to large cakes of ice hastening the formation of the ice pack that backed water into roads and some residence yards Friday night I 8 -i POCATELLO Idaho Spring weather is here to stay Again Saturday the temperature climbed to the unusual high of 65 degrees the seventh day of 61 degrees or higher war i pH Hill Travelers Get Warning On Tick Fever Health Director Points to Prevalent Peril BOISE (JF Eearly travelers Into Idaho's hills received their annual warning Saturday from the Idaho division of public "beware of the deadly spotted fever-carrying tick" Dr Hr Lt McMartin public health director reported a survey for the past 10 years disclosed mors than one-third of the 355 cases reported in Idaho for the period proved fatal A dozen deaths last year brought the total since 1938 In Idaho to 121 38 Cases Last Year There were 38 cases reported In the state in 1938 compared with 65 in 1929 the highest number for the decade Seventeen died in 1929 mountain spotted fever is conveyed to man from infected animals by the common wood tick or the dog Dr McMartin said "The case fatality rate varies from 10 per cent in some Infected areas to 80 per cent in western Montana certain localities of eastern Oregon all affected portions of north Idaho and eastern McMartin said the greatest number of cases and deaths from the disease occur south of the Salmon river in Idaho Soon After Snow Melts of the disease are usually reported soon after the snow melts and the growing season In the early spring symptoms are usually chill fever headache accompanied by soreness of the eyeballs and sensitivity to light followed by backache joint and muscle pains loss bf appetite and A rash appears on the second to fourth day beginning on the wrists and ankles Albion Rancher Ends Own Life' ALBION Idaho James Whey-land 66 long time Albion farmer was found dead In his home early Saturday from what Sheriff Pace said was a self-inflicted lethal potion The body was discovered at the Louis Camp ranch four miles south east of town where he had made his home virtually all his life He hadbeen dead only a short time when Sheriff Pace arrived with Coroner Joseph Payne from Burley Thq coroner said three letters were left describing the means of disposition of his property No Inquest will be held Mr Wheyland was born at Park City Utah October 26' 1873 a son of James and Charlotte Hofflnes Wheyland and moved to Albion when a small boy He never married He is survived by a half-brother Louis Camp and three sisters Mrs Lee Dewey and Mrs Price of Burley and Mrs Lottie Brackenbury of Albion Funeral services will be conducted by the Payne mortuary i' i 1 IBOV-NOW'i lb 4ND SAVE i FUR SALE Ely Rotarians Fete Guests Tribune Intermountain Service 1 ELY The' Ely Rotary club was host to) the Caliente club at a dinner in the Nevada hotel A short musical program was Included In the entertainment with the following numbers being given: Glee club of Ruth school sang two selections followed by two numbers by the Ruth Glee club Mrs Howard Church of McGill sang a solo Rotary" and as an encore sang Here Is My Speakers of the evening were Mayor John Gallagher Vail Pittman and George Doyle who discussed their recent trip to Brawley Cal where they attended the Four-States Highway association convention Members of the Oaliente Rotary club who were present Included Lew Hazen Don Rowan Clarence Lane Jim Gottfrledson Evan Edwards Frank Wilcox Fred Lawry and Ross Frazier Crews Repair Roads ROCK SPRINGS Wyo State highway maintenance crews are at workln various sections of thoRock Springs "highway district repairing paving damaged by the spring thaws In several sections of the district the paving deteriorated badly as the frost came out of the ground with the result that several dangerous holes occurred In paving FULL 6-PASSENGER 4 1440 Cokes Fine Quality Toilet and BATH SOAP Late Friday night it became necessary to blast the jam et the Standard Timber tie boom to release the waters and Ice backed up for almost two miles in the one big jam thus halting the flood threat The spring flood loosened all the ice from5 river that had been frozen to a thickness of more than three feet in places Friday evening the river was a ribbon of moving ice for miles -above the city Islands gravel bars and lowlands were left strewn with the big ice pans some of which weighed tons Several of these Ice pans were more than three feet In thickness and 15 Guard Enlisting Reaches End At Green River GREEN RIVER Wyo Enlistments for a motorized military police unit of the Wyoming national guard are being closed here with the company to be In operation by April 1 announces Raymond Davis in charge of organizing the new unit The company is one of several assigned to Wyoming during the past few months The Green River guard unit which will he equipped with motorcycles and armored cars will have a personnel of between 60 and 68 young men recruited from the Green River and Rock Springs areas This will he the first national guard unit ever organized in this county Damage Action Follows Crash GREEN RIVER Wyo As an outgrowth of an automobile accident on Lincoln highway five miles east of Rock Springs on January 17 Harold Finch of Laramie has filed a $588930 damage suit in the Sweetwater county district court against George Stephens of Rock Springs Finch charging that Stephens driving in a careless reckless and unlawful says he suffered severe cuts bruises and lacerations about the face which resulted in permanent scars permanent partial disability of the olfactory nerve and several broken teeth For these injuries ha asks $5000 in addition to $8250 for medical dental and hospital treatment $40650 for damages to his automobile and $400 damages for lost time He alleges Stephens turned across the highway in front- of him as he attempted to pass Stephens lems having been an engineer and later district engineer in Pocatello during the trouble When the soil first began to slip it slid gradually toward the road on an impervious strata of clay which ran under the roadbed As a result the surfacs was lifted and since it first began the road surfacs has been raised between eight and 10 feet- Under direction of Mr Flint a series of trenches were -dug and filled wijh large stones and gravel to catch the water and drain it from thp mountain before lt reached the cut Also thousand of yards of soil have been moved from the borrow pit by power shovel and trucks ALL NEW EASTER STYLES IT PAYS TO PAY CASH Watch for Moths Store your Coat Now Phone Was 6200 for Protective Service Car Wilford Wood Furs NORTH SALT LAKE Wi 6200 for Appointment SHOWING- The Non 1939 Combination Coupe ORMAM tor A Very artunate Purchase From one of leading makers of expensive soaps The lot includes all the wanted varieties large bath tablets fine cold cream soap buttermilk soap castile soap gardenia squares coronation ovals almond cream soaps" and others in a great' assortment of colors and shapes! All the soaps are hand-milled by a French Milling Process 1 Salt Lake City Store NEW VISION a wwn Kncec-vxn'e vv Engineers Tame Mountain Ncar Inkom Tribune Jntermountaln Service POCATELLO Man's ef acquainted with the unusual prob- $2569 for a Now Name Come In today-nSee and drive this new outstafld ins combination coupe and (ive It a new name Anyone is eligible to win An addition to the Graham line of automobiles for 1939 is this CQmbi nation coupe a new style body with a full-width rear seat and an exceedingly large built-in trunk Be sure to get a demonstration before you buy any car not so puny as it is often appeared Saturday to have conquered the on the Old Oregon Trail-Yellow stone Park highway between Inkom and McCammon about 15 miles south of Pocatello Every spring and summer for the past several years sines the state highway department realigned a section of the combined routes the face of a cut on a mountain has slipped causing much labor time and expense to remove the soiL However this year the mountain has not moved with the thaw and highway engineers are confident they have solved the problem (Spike) Flint director of the highway department is well mm qamww 120 EAST FIFTH SOUTH GRAHAM DISTRIBUTOR WAS 4243 I.