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The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 24

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i Vhf 0 gtaniiarbCxamtmjr SUNDAY MORNING MAY 3 1936 24 1 ft Seminary to Graduate 115 Sets Figures I Ten Thousand Pupils To March In Loyalty Day Parade On City Streets MAHAN DOUBLE HITS ALL JAILS I Wm Mayhan Has Similar Name Looks Like Mahan But George Brown an-county tax valuation Assessor nounces totals VALUATION OF COUNTY RISES ON TAX ROLLS Assessor Says $449340 Is Increased Amount This Year SINGERS EARN PRAISE FROM FIRST CONCERT Southern Pacific Vocalists Fast Drawing Other Members a Mr Wiggins added however that it is not certain Weber High and Weber college will participate He assisted in the arrangements by IS Spectacle Will Be Halted To Permit Salute To Flag CARGOES ENLARGED MEETING WILL CONSIDER PLAN Sons of Utah Pioneers In County May Centralize Organization Officers of 28 Weber county camps of Sons of Utah Pioneers will meet Thursday at seven-thirty in the Ogden police station courtroom to consider a reorganization of the state and county division of their group The meeting was called by members of the executive board who will be in charge of session 0 The proposed reorganization calls for appointment of a who will have charge of all camps of Sons of Utah Pioneers located in Utah as well as in other states Colonels will also be appointed and each will have charge of a county organization Majors will be named to take charge of stake subdivisions No change is contemplated in the state executive board and the camp officers but the new plan will take the place of the present county or ganizations In addition the plan calls for organization of a Weber county rommenCement Exercises camp to consist of members at Place In Mark Robinson instructor of music in city schools 'A Merrill prin cipal of Ogden High Miss Sarah Wilson art supervisor Miss Sarah McCracken elementary supervisor The line of march will be north from Twenty-sixth street on Washington avenue along the east side of the street to Twenty-second street thence back on the west side i yeber 1936 assessed val of Washington avenue to starting uation exclusive of mines and utili-point west on Twenty-sixth street yeSi which will be handled later by to Kiesel avenue and there disband I tax commission is $449340 through the city park greater than it was last year ac- PATRIOTIC TRIBUTE cording to preliminary figures re- One of the highlights will be a leased Saturday by George Brown salute to the flag in front of the I county assessor who is mailing out to 4 Ten thousand school children will march Friday morning May 15 in the annual Loyalty day parade production of prize crop will be on display as the students attired in brilliant colors march through downtown streets to the tunes of a score of bands and drujn corps Tentative arrangements for the review were announced Saturday by Wiggins principal of Washington Junior High school who has been appointed general chairman by Superintendent Karl Hopkins The parade will contain 23 sections and will start promptly at nine from Twenty-sixth street and Washington avenue MEMBERS IN LINE Led by color guards carrying the national and state colors the line will be formed by Lorin Farr Dee Cars Handled In April In Yards Excel Those of April 1935 i (Clicks from the Rails) The newly organized Southern Pacific glee club made its initial appearance here last week at a di vision safety and fuel meeting and those who heard it agreed it is one of the peppiest railroad organizations in town The club has 24 singing members and is growing fast It is sponsored by Superintendent Goodfeliow directed by Hoskins and managed by Howard William double for the widely sought kidnaper is still making every Jail as he travels through the west local police learned Saturday Mayhan was arrested here about three weeks ago because he closely resembled Williaih Mahan public nemy No 1 He) was held in the city jail on a vagrancy charge while officers checked up on his fingerprints and his name get picked up in every town I said Mayhan when interviewed at his cell in the city ajil I-get out of here going to change my But apparently Mayhan did not carry out his plan Sergeant M-Hilton on Saturday received a letter from Chief of Police Cullen of Anaconda Mont Chief Cullen said he had Mayhan in custody and asked for a set of his fingerprints and all information on him He wanted to verify the claim -he was not Mahan the kidnaper Sergeant Hilton mailed the requested information looks like Mahan and got the name but he the same said Hilton made sure'" of DEEHiiEwiLL OBSERVE WEEK id i Religious Exercises And Programs Scheduled For Anniversary Watts Practices are held each Monday and Friday nighty at the CQ7n QncyMadion Pin gree Hopkins Grant Lewis elemen- Union station Other Southern Pa reviewing stand Twenty-fourth street and Washington avenue when the parade will come to a halt as the band plays national anthem' The parade will include all students of schools in the city exclusive of the first and second grades Instructions contained in a tentative schedule advise principals of each school to hold practice marches The committee is to meet this week for further arrangements although it is unlikely any changes will be made Mr Wiggins said Will Take Tabernacle 1 tary Mound Fort elementary St Sacred Heart academy Mound Fort Junior High Washing ington Junior High Central Junior High Lewis Junior High Weber County High Weber college Ogden High school and its units large in Weber county Preparations for a membership drive will also be made at the session Purpose of the drive is to get as many members as possible before May 15 so that all may receive copies of official magazine publication of which will start on that date 4-4 Glass Broken Bird Survives cific employes or their sons are invited to try out for the club The membership includes Brown Byron Mower Jones Clement Koldewyn Gilbert A Crabtree Byron Hill Charles A Watkins Cleary Fern- elius A Partridge William Jack Roger Kingsford Parley Leishman Thomas Van Drimmelen Lafe Sessions Frank Horspool Oswald Liptrot John Buswell txjval Belnap Charles Neville Dwight Thompson and Burbidge OFFICE GETS INITIAL FUND some 26000 valuation notices property owners Property assessed by Mr Brown amounts to $36843330 compared to $36393990 at the same time last year The $449340 increase amounts to 123 per cent Last year the county commissioners deducted $79-100 from the preliminary figures 'in equalizing taxes Real estate assessed as town and city lots jumped this year from $8-814920 to $8847110 Real estate assessed as unimproved farm land included 5338 acres of dry land valued at $118900 a slight Increase 40782 acres of irrigated land valued at $3500210 also a slight increase 1492 acres assessed as fruit land valued at $124810 a slight decrease 165820 acres of real estate assessed as grazing land valued at $418290 a slight increase and 36939 acres of all other real estate valued at $82560 assessed as all other real estate including equi- THousand In I ties in state lands This brought the total assessment on real estate in the county to $13-653530 against $13604000 last year The total assessment on improvements this year amounts to $16-708830 compared to $16556650 last year This was divided this year into $14441660 on improvements on real estate assessed as city or town lots and $2267170 on improvements on real estate assessed as acreage LIVESTOCK FIGURES This livestock assessment total amounts to $321000 against $254680 last year Livestock assessments included 154 horses or mules on range assessed at $2850 2395 horses or mules otherwise assessed Mr Law has been engaged in the I at $66420 4 522 cattle on Ranges as-service here with offices in Ogden sessed at $56360 7J32cattte -postoffice building for the past 10 wise assessed at $330000 40 5 months although the agency was assessed at $13780 140 goats -created by order of the president sessed at $420-911 swine assessed one year ago The setting up of at $6480 and poultry assessed an adequate national regional and $160-state staff took several months so FARM AID SHOWN DY SUPERVISOR Ninety-four Loans And Grants Extended In Weber Personal property assessments BUILDERS PUSH WORK ON RASE Concrete Pouring Speed Depends Great Deal Upon Weather Concrete footing and tunnel construction on the new city high school is approximately 75 per cent complete Carl Johnson Salt Lake City of Curtis Johnson company in charge of the work reported Saturday Mr Johnson said with continuation of favorable weather their portion of the building will be finished in some three -time The slightest dampness he pointed out causes the ground there which is a mixture of clay to become sticky and renders work of any nature virtually impossible 1 Bids on' the main structure will be received at Ogden city board of education office until four May 20 44- Briny Water Level Higher Will Encourage Improvement Construction HONEYMOON OVER "Married life is still going declared Stationmaster Branches Art Mathews upon his return last week from a honeymoon trip to California Art said he and his bride will reside at the Hotel Ben Lomond for the present Home And WPA Commencement exercises for the Weber seminary will be held Saturday May 16 at eight in Ogden tabernacle to be followed by-an annual ball in Weber High school gymnasium it is announced by Principal Floyd Eyre Some 115 students will receive diplomas Under direction of Principal Eyre a group of Weber seminary students will present a program in the Plain City chapel tonight The theme will be in the and will be presented in music speech and demonstration The following students will participate: Grant Taylor June Taylor Dale Bingham Keith Bingham Ida Mason Barbara Huff Reta Maw Thora Taylor Mary Gibson Edwin Jones Ellen Stead Carl Taylor Fern Sharp Margie Palmer Glen Charlton MUSICFiTEOF I A TONIGHT Annual Event Replaces the Usual Conjoint Stake Sessions headquarters here has received $485 as the initial allocation pri- McKnight Union Pacific general agent says that since his company equipped 1500 box cars I "je and to stimulate 're of a fund to be used to "energize and increase normal flow of Russell of Death Curve catches pheasants without half trying need a gun a trap or bow and arrow to bag the birds out our said Mr Russell Saturday njght were driving serenely along the highway when crash a plump pheasant hen landed squarely against the windshield The glass shattered and the bird landed in the back seat of the Neither Melba Christiansen driver of the car Mr Russejl nor the its feathers cushioning the was hurt But the car windshield was a total loss 4-4 Industrial Club To Reveal Nominees More than $94000 has been disbursed in grants and loans to residents of Weber county since the opening last July of a branch of the resettlement administration of the federal government it was reported Saturday by Howard Law county supervisor During this time the service has advanced aid to 476 farm families including farm laborers tenants owners sharecroppers and others FOR TEN MONTHS with the Evans loading device thus making possible the loading of four automobiles in each car instead of two there has been a notable increase in the number of automobiles shipped by raiL covery in the employment of labor in the building and allied The project which is written for $3549 is to benefit Weber Box Elder Cache and Davis counties STATE-WIDE PLAN Officials here said that over the While cleaning out his office at the Union station preparatory to moving next week to the former I Utah 'state industrial commission Hi 4 non IT I state it is intended to set up and maintain 19 local offices of the Ogden State bank quarters McKnight found an old picture The photo shows the interior of the Union Pacific ticket office on under competent trained manage ment in strategic locations It is intended to provide in formation concerning procedure to The annual music festival of the Nominations for officers for the the first floor of the Orpheum hotel 0nowed in repair and improve- as it was in 1914 In the picture ment of properties and in under-are the late Vf Chevers then I jajjjng new home construction and general agent McKnight I -n arranging financing where re-chief clerk Paul Beemer city auired to at ticket agent now residing in Los Angeles and Robert Goodman Officials here were unable supply additional information this time they said- OTHER AMOUNTS An allocation of $1000 was received Saturday for grading and graveling of streets and sidewalks in Daggett county This brings the total allocation for the project to clerk now in Spokane MALAD COACH OLD Speaking of old things the Union Pacific coach No 613 on the Malad local is estimated by railroad men to be from 25 to 65 years old and the oldest passenger car in operation on the Union Pacific It ensuing year will be announced at Mutual Improvement ablations ot the -monthly meeting of the Ogden oS taber Industrial club Monday at seven helcJ in tate reports Homer Shaw chair- nacle commencing man of the nominating committee clock The election will take place at This event replaces the conjoint the following meeting to be held the sessions of the Mutuals of the stake first Monday in June which are usually held in the wards Monday meeting will be on the evening of the first Sunday held at the Continental Baking in each month company plant Members of the club Miss Lottie Randall Chas will inspect the bakery and cake and jra Lowder comprising plant and attend a dinner and en- the stake Mutual Music committee tertainment have charge of the festival arrange- Other members of the nominating ments committee who aided in making the The f0uowing program will be nomination selections are Lay- pnted ton MacDonald and Lloyd I presemea Slater Amaryllis Paul Ambrose Bee Hive Girls of four stakes of the church will celebrate Anniversary week starting today They will participate in programs and religious exercises today Monday and Tuesday in their ward buildings On Wednesday and Thursday there1 will be demonstrations in i window showing the work in the fields of activity On Friday there will be a swarm day and graduation exercises will be held in Weber County High school On Saturday afternoon May 9 a tea will be given in the Ninth ward recreation hall at Thirty-first street and Porter avenue 1 Those In charge of the affair will be Caroline Adams general chairman tea and program committee Addis Thomas chairman Esther StewartMargaret Nelson Viola Stephens swarm day and graduation exercises: DeLila Robinson chaifman Linette Taggart Helen Johnson Donna Mae Clapier demonstration Pearl Walker Mrs David A Johnston Marjorie Shurtliff and Alice Tanner Jones 4-4 Girls Will Offer Program Tonight To usher in Bee Hive week the girls of the third Bee Hive class will give a program ath the Tenth ward conjoint meeting tonight at seven The following program will be given: Song by congregation Queen of the prayer Iona Nelson tithing talk Mary Sherman I A slogan Dorothy Christen- sen history of Bee Hive work Stake Beekeeper Margaret Nelson vocal duet Mable Petitt and Lenora Ja-cobson purpose of Swarm day Marion Pledger talk on Gospel prin-ciples Edna Irvan guardians release Beatrice Sherman vocal chorus Dorothy Ambler and others prayer Barbara Arnold 4-4 City Lisf opped By Scarlef Fever to $6159970 $5 433 is heated by two stoves is of wood A An additional $550 was received for school lunches in Davis county construction and slightly rickety but still apparently good for several Summit COUnty was given $1373 to more trips that actual operations in this district date hack to July 1 1935 Mr Law stated "Farmers and businessmen alike have received great benefits from the said Mr Law program is so designed that it deals with the individual case If it had not been for grants during the winter months thousands of farm families in the United States would have lacked the necessities of life The ability of resettlement to meet this ned revals an fficient working FUNDS LIMITED Lack of available funds made it impossible to extend the standard farm plan to all those desiring loans the resettlement representative pointed out but in his district I -The marriage of Maxine Wein-he said 257 farmers are operating del daughter of Mr and Mrs under budgeted loans This part Weindel of St Joseph Mo to How-of the program he added is prov- ard A Messick of Ogden son of ing very successful Mr and Mrs Messick 827 Advice to farmers on modem Twenty-third street took place cropping methods is one of the fea- April 30 at the home of the bride-tures of the standard farm plan ac- parents After the cere-cording to Mr Law 4-4- jumped from $5978660 This figure includes merchandise supplies and trade fixtures assessed at $2534650 implements tools and machinery assessed" at $1156980 motor vehicles valued at $1373270 household furnishings assessed at $1086590 and personal property not otherwise assessed $8480 There were 10684 motor vehicles registered this year for the $1373-270 assessment compared to 9304 at the same time last year assessed at $1125140 4-4- Ceremony Held In Messick Home mony a wedding dinner was served to the bridal party and immediate raise walls on a municipal reservoir two and one-half feet -4-4- -4-4- Missionary Will Appear Tonight Pleasant View ladies chorus Hymn of Love Antonin Dvorak Twenty-first ward mixed chorus Kentucky Babe Geibel Seventh ward ladies chorus Deep River negro spiritual Fourth ward mixed quartet Moonlight Sonata Beethoven trumpet duet by Fay Seager and Cars handled in the Ogden yards during April numbered 86 per cent more than during the same month of last year Smith superintendent of the Ogden Union Railway Depot company reports Due to increased business the company recently Restored a five-man section crew which waslaidoffduringthede- November 3 will pression Boyd Smith is foreman of pvri cost the state and counties several Heavy river discharges caused by melting snows have raised the level of Great Salt lake three inches in the past two weeks Southern Pacific railroad officials reported Saturday Measurements received from Midlake showed the briny waters have risen from 33 inches below zero on the railroad gauge to 30 inches below The lake level is now 20 inches higher than its all-time low of last year Other increases are expected for a month or two 4-4- Address Made By Ogden Man's Son Forbes Campbell assistant to the chief of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation and a son of Joseph Campbell district superintendent of the Continental Oil company 2737 Jackson avenue addressed representatives of 24 Florida banks recently in Tampa The group composed of members of the Tampa chapter of the American Banking institute heard Mr Campbell explain insurance is protecting millions of depositors in American Mr Campbell has his headquarters in Washington and was sent to the Florida meeting as a special speaker 4-4- Giles Will -Address Mutuals The Seventeenth ward I A will hold conjoint services this evening at seven-thirty John Giles of the general board of the I A will be the principal speaker Clinton Price will offer two baritone solos Instrumental music will be furnished by Martha Zinn Marjorie Moyes Althea Zinn and Dolly PolOdora 4-4 Ninety-five-year-old Miss Elizabeth Byford of Wallasey England committed suicide by hanging the crew Elder Byron Belnap who recently returned from the Swiss German mission will speak tonight Howard Williams at the conjoint session in the First Hope Harry Powell Eden mixed ward Thirty-third street andGrant chorus avenue Cast Thy Bread Upon the Waters There will also be a musical pro- (juet by Mr and Mrs William De gram: A1 cello solo by Stanford Mik signed by girls from the branch Seidner baritone solo by Hyrum for the deaf Richards duet Gladys Vandrim-1 Little Old Garden Thomas Saunders Has Car Minus Generator thousand dollars estimated John Mix assistant secretary of state today The referendum law requires that copies of the sales tax law be mail to each of the more than 200000 registered voters and that copies of it be printed at the expense Then opponents and proponents the law may prepare arguments and print them at their own ex pense for distribution by the state The copies of the law and arguments must be mailed by the secre of state to the county audi- families MrtuM i has been making her hore for the past year and a half with Mr and Mrs A King 961 Twenty-fifth street 4-4- First Aid Pupils Get Certificates OLDEST 3IERCHANT Fred Smith who operates a curio store at 103 Twenty-fifth street near the Union station claims to be the oldest merchant on Twenty-fifth street Smith who gets most of his business from train tourists has been in business at the same location for 42 years seven years as a groc er and 35 years as a curio dealer Each winter he trades with 20 tribes of Indians from Mexico to Canada and his store houses one-E" ed the of Hewitt Twentieth ward male quartet I Dream of Jeanie Stephen Foster Eighth ward mixed chorus Little Chinese Mandarin Montague Phillips North Ogden ladies chorus Bird Songs at Eventide Eric Coates Sixth ward mixed quartet Lullaby Moon Billie Brown Huntsville ladies chorus Come Where the Lilies Bloom Will Thompson stake chorus An invitation to the general public to attend is extended by the committee City Commissioner Edward Saunders discovered Saturday he has a car While he was in a meeting with the other members of the city commission Friday someone stole the generator from his automobile which was parked by the entrance to the city police i 4-4- hall he reported to Scarlet fever with 18 cases led the list of contagious diseases reported during the past week at the city health department Following scarlet fever in the total of 40 reports of contagion were whooping cough with eight chicken pox seven mumps four and measles three melen and Erma Vandenakker 4-4- Supervisor Will Dispatch Helpers Attorney John A Hendricks supervisor of the federal business census in 10 Utah counties will send enumerators to Daggett Cache Rich Uintah and Summit counties during the next two weeks for completion of the work' it was reported Saturday 4- Dental clinics and scientific institutes in Moscow and Leningrad Russia have been experimenting with the desensitizer discovered by Professor Leroy Hartman of Columbia university New York and have found its use applicable on a wide scale Five Ogden women who recently completed a standard Red Cross course in home hygiene and care of the sick received certificates from national Red Cross officials Saturday according to Mrs Gwil-liam executive secretary of the Weber county Red Cross chapter They are Mrs Hazel Keyes Mrs Lila White Mrs Nettie Dinsdale Mrs Mae Williams and Mrs Thelma Russell Mrs A Eckenbrecht acted as Wallace To In Clinton Wallace will be services in 3 Speak of the most unusual collections of genuine western curios in the state He has everything from tom-tom drumtf and garments of beaded buckskin to pirate pistols and prehistoric stone club heads not to mention rings bracelets and hundreds of other trinkets Smith says there is a real shortage of curios and they are becoming scarcer every year easier to sell them than it is to buy he says EXTENSIVE TRAVEL Ernie Dahlin Ogden traveling watch inspector for the Southern Pacific travels 50000 miles annual- ly on the Salt Lake division maintaining the standard clocks A veteran of many years he is said to have an acquaintanceship among railroad men equaled by few others on the lines in Nevada and Utah very -Payment 0 Attorney Lewis the speaker at the Clinton ward chapel instructor of the class which was The I A is Hr charge of the required to complete 36 hours of program study A reading will be given by Vera Chadwick The Eighteenth ward Relief society chorus and the Clinton ward I A chorus will sing tors for final distribution Mix estimated printing alone wil cost the state approximately $3000 4-4- Scandinavians Meet For Address Torieif Khaphus Salt Lake City will speak at a Scandinavian meet ing in the Third ward chapel Friday May 8 at eight Mr Knaphus who recently finished his work on the Angel Moron monument at the Hill Cumorah New York comes from Norwegian stock He has built several monu ments for the church and other in stitutions An entertainment program has been arranged Sponsors of the meeting desire all Scandinavians to attend The Scandinavian Relief society is in charge WIN BICYCLE RACE TORONTO May Jim my Walthour young New York rid er and Charley Winter of Irvington won the six-day bike race Which ended here tonight IS AN Investment Here CDTlPT Flavors of MiL iCa 'wiLaaiii-a IceCream FOR TODAY ONLY Chocolate Spray French Nought Pecan New York Special These special flavors at no additional cost Extra large cones today as an advertising Feature PARAMOUNT CreamCo Next to Ogden River Bridge The BrSwns have been paying every month for over four years into a Federal Building and Loan ciation Savings Account Their balance plus the dividends earned at 4 is more than enough to be the down payment on the home they axe building -They know that' every payment they have made is an investment in their happiness and their future Come in and discuss your building plans with us SPECIAL for Sunday Full 8 Course DINNER with Half Fried Spring Chicken or large T-Bone Steak Anirs SHOE TAUERU i 19th Street and Washington Ave Delicious Picnic Xunches put up any time jus phone 2660 Tom the Trackwalker this week says locomotives would last longer if they would quit smoking and choo (chew)-ing Ninth Ward Will Entertain May 14 The first of a series of dinner parties will be given Thursday May 14 in the Ninth ward hall Thirty-first street and Porter avenue There will be a dinner from five to eight and a musical program from eight to nine-thirty The menu for the dinner to be prepared by the Relief society of the ward will be an elaborate one The proceeds will be used in helping to get the ward out of debt ward members are urged by the bishopric to be present and the public is invited to attend $1250 As Usual YOUR BOY Is Worth It Give him a Life Insurance policy It will help him to make a good start Our lans for boys will appeal him and to you Vander Schuit 2772 Liberty Ave Representing Metropolitan Life Insurance Co 5 Building Loan Association 2376 Washington Avenue Takes Good Snapshots in Black and White or in Natural Color 5 Anastigmat Lens A fft- Sporting Goods 302 25th Street Ph 113-W 0 With Safety IQ' fj i.

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