The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 30

1C1B THE OGDEN STANDARD-EXAMINER SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 17r 1944 Meets Death During TSoltlier AroilSCll City May Demand Battle in France City Places Final Touches rnniiwmntinn At Events on Home Front On Next Year Budget Outlay to Be $1103985 For Well Damage Ogden city will probably demand compensation from the reclamation department and the Ogden River Water Users association n5 a result of leaks dis- 4 Pvt Elvin Richardson somewhere in Germany is indignant because soldiers have to be taken from the front lines to plead with workers in the United States i to make more munitions He expresses hi-? feelings in a letter received Oeden citv commission Saturday Gains Advancement put finishing touches on the budget for 1945 which provides for a total outlay of $1103985 as compared with a budget of $910734 AfORE WAN ElBR WIS VBM Saturday by The Standard-Exam for 1944 Marcus Critchlow city auditor reported iner a letter to wmcn is atiacnea a clipping from "Stars and Stripes' Pvt Richardson speaking: In Medical Corps I I i I- The adopted budget for 1944 was 11 $874088 but it was subsequently MM increased to $910734 Mr Critchlow explained "The clipping attached to this letter is from 'Stars and Stripes' "I think it is pretty good when men have to be taken from the front lines and sent home to plead with the people to make more firearms "Instead they should take those Appropriations for 1945 show an 9 i increase of $193251 over 1944 and the total $1103985 is also tne 3 covered in the city culinary water "collecting system in Ogden valley City Commissioner Harold Welch stated he expects to make this recommendation to the Monday meeting of the commission Commissioner Welch declared he seeks to fix the responsibility for what appears as "faulty engineering and gross negligence" in the original job when Pine View reservoir was constructed by the reclamation bureau At this- time the bureau undertook to provide a new collecting system from Ogden city artesian wells which sys total amount' of revenue antici pated for the coming year Is I Decrease Expected According to Mr Critchlow strikers and slackers and put them in the front lines! and show them what we are up against It is my wager that they would be willing to go back home and work double their time after they had been on the line for just one day i si hiij ffi revenue will decrease because in II 1A 1944 the citv collected $42000 in occupation tax not anticipated as revenue next vear Howeveer the Pfc Endri Pistoia "We are doing a damned good job over here and we will continue city iwill receive $20000 additional taxes on the same tax levy 185 mills from the anticipated increase to do the same until Hitler and tem was supposed to operate satisfactorily when the reservoir was filled to capacity all of his outlaws are under six I wl in valuations it was pointed out feet of sod but we can't do it with Mr Critchlow explained in Word has been received by Mr and Mrs Pistoia 459 West Twenty-first that their son Pfc Endri Pistoia 20 was killed in action in France on Nov 15 while serving with the infantry out the support of our home front creased amounts over the 1944 budgeet would be necessary in var Maybe some of the people back home would like to have a VI or a V2 in their back yard or have planes come down strafing them ious departments for numerous Mil reasons or have to live in a foxhole half In i the statutory and general full of water and watch your buddy fundi an increase was necessary it of the wells" the commissioner stated "and the end of this work is not yet in sight I am advised that the leaks developed because what are generally accepted good waterworks practices were not employed Types of equipment to withstand the pressure of the stored water as well as needed flexible joints were not installed" Commissioner Welch said the records show the government accepted the responsibility to pro get killed or crippled No I'll say because of the municipal election scheduled for 1945 and because 1 it isn't any picnic over here and anybody who thinks it is can trade Pfc Pistoia was I born Oct 31 1924 in Devils Slide Utah He attended Ogden city schools and was employed by the Southern Pacific railroad prior to his induction on May 25 1943 He received training at Fort Benning Ga Camp Haan Calif Campi Carson Colo the i city' has additional bonds to payi during the year places with me or any other I over here in tne ponce department aaai- Ml tional officers have been hired "I know it is hard to say you will work a few hours extra when Col Thair Rich who will go on the payroll for a there is a party going on in town vide an adequate collecting system Rich full year for the first time next Dr and Mrs Edward I but" let's all put in those extra and for that reason should bear year 2475 Jefferson have received a ca hours and get this damned thing the expense of effecting the re An increase in the fund for the 5 T-1 over with and then we will go on pairs at this time He said this ble from their son Thair stating fire department is to provide for It the biggest party ever Here's to he has been advanced to the rariK additional help and for promo- is the first time the wells have been inspected during the seven an early victory in '45" of full nlonl in the medical coros tions and Fort Bragg i He was assigned overseas lastl September He had been stationed in France since arriving overseas He was a member of St Joseph's Catholic church Survivors include his parents one brother and six sisters Pvt Joseph Pistoia with the army in Peru Mrs Elda Richards Mrs Olga Martin Norma Pistoia Dora Pistoia Mary Pist0ia and Eva Pistoia Ogden and his grandparents i small increase in tne neann of the army years the reservoir has been in use Inspection of the broken pipes indicated that some of them had been leaking for several years department is for wages for a new inspector Col Rich went from London to Paris in the early days of the in Sgt Rich Receives Medical Discharge In the parks department the in nrxjcihlv immpHiafplv nnr lnstnl vasion when there was still fight crease is to allow the completion of construction of a ski tow at Snow Basin lation he added "Ogden city entered into a con ing in the streets of Paris His bus Mr and Mrs Joe Mattucci Ogden iness was to take over the bos- The increase in the amount After four years and two months tract in 1934 with the bureau of reclamation and the Ogden River Water Users assn which per pitals evacuated by the Germans needed in the cemetery depart- of meritorious service with the and locate the various allied medi- rnent is to provide lor new addi- army air forces SSgt Joseph I mitted the flooding of city-owned ml units as thpv arrived from the Rich son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Rich of Morgan received a front He said the Germans evacu- i Improvements medical discharge from the AAF ated the city so rapidly that they Increases in the public improve land upon which the Wells are located At the time the government participated with the city in the cost of replacing a 36-inch wood stave pipe line from the convalescent hospital Fort George left the hospitals without damage merit fund are to provide for" the Wright Wash I and with full equipment The hos- following projects pitals are some of the finest in Replacement of sidewalks curb SSgt Rich entered the army in September 1940 at Salt Lake City and received his basic training at 4 wells with a steel main" Welch the world He says little in his and gutter $2000 new street pav- A LUXURIOUS LIVING ROOM SUITE letters but states he has a bigger ing $20000 new curb and gutter McClellan fieidi Sacramento Calif job on hand than he ever ex- $2000 new sidewalks $2000 Nil pected to have Hinckley airport $50000 street Marshall Pliarris Col Rich has been in the army department shops sanitary A gift for all the family-that means comfort nnywthat means comfort He attended $ir corps technical school at Chanute field 111 and in August 1942 he went overseas to serve at bases in England Africa and Italy with the Fifteenth air I for nine years and spent three sewers $45000 street signs $1000 and beauty for many ny years in Panama in the Gorgas hos- opening nfew streets $2500 curb ll years to come! Full fjri Cn)7 in high quality covering II UJ iA durability The daven- wjj0 spring construction force as a flight engineer on Fort pital He has been overseas for a and gutter and street paving at year and a half city cemetery $10423 improve- of unusual beauty and id resses and transports He wears the air medal i and the European His wife the former Clotell ment of Five Points pane Juuu Returns to Duty Marshall Pharris seaman first class son of Mr and Mrs Charles Pharris 2619 Gramercy has re port and chair two pieces Budge and two children reside in improvemeent of Ninth street and theatre" ribbon! with three battle stars Los Angeles Liberty avenue park $2000- inv Town Board Forms i Large Honor Roll The town board of Hunts ville recently appointed a committee for the purpose of obtaining pictures of service members collecting them in a large frame placed in the Huntsville postoffice" There are now 93 pictures out of 106 men and three girls in the service The population of the whole town is only 701 which makes more than 15 peri cent of the residents in the service There is one family with seven boys serving and the mother and father of these boys are employed at the Utah ASF depot Another family has five sons in th service Other families boast two and three sons in the armed forces Several of the inert from Hunts- KilJiuJvvi(Vwie jiwjsieA th rravte given the supreme sacrifice which makes the total dne more than in the first World war "Huntsville is very proud of these boys and girls because a large percentage (volunteered and many would have been able to have deferments1 to do farming The parents have carried on when their sons left doing the farm work" said a board statement SSgt and Mrs Rich have been A brother Major Junior Edward provement of Mt Ogden park Rich is on his way to the south $10000: construction of new fire residing at East 3504 Baldwin Spokane while he was waiting his dis 1 Pacific with the army medical substation $18988 new drill tow- Ml corps erl $4000 charge at Fort Wright It is announced that they will return to If anv money is left unappro their home Morgan shortly priated the city will increase its Maj We Suggest i program to provide more euro gutter street paving and sidewalks Free Gift flliop Mkrintf in Holland Action 8 10 Tlntejl i-ortraii with ii turned xo nis snip after spending a 20 day 'leave in Ogden 1c Pharris enlisted in the ii a in June ing at Farragut Idaho and San Diego Calif lie has been on active duty in the Pacific for the past 11 months He participated in the battles of a Jsaipan Marshalls and the Philippines' for every order Fin ished in 6 dftvu Right prices Mr and Mrs Elbert Garr 2R73 Order Conducts Rites Tonight Ogden chapter Order of DeMo- line quality I Stephens STUDIO 909 23th St Van Buren have been notified by the war department that their son Always Open lieuc jLiDert (Larry) Garr 27 has been missing in action since Pharris Dial 2-2207 1 1 Dishes Figurines Vases Vanity Sets Buffet Sets Liquor Sets Cookie Jars Glassware Pyrex Ware Pictures! Mirrors Throw Rugs Occasional Tables Upholstered Chairs End Tables Lamps Bridge Lamps with Table attached SPECIAL CLOSEOUT SALE on floor samples of highback PLATFORM ROCKERS Regular STItfh (ThET $3695 value Now Li9oWU lay will install officers in the He Nov 26 over Hoi- which he has five battle stars attended Ogden City schools land Lieut Garr is a P-51 fiehter nilnt and was stationed Mr and Mrs Pharris have two other sons in the service Corp Fred Pharris with the air corps engineers in England and Jack Pharris with the medical corps at Camp Barkeley Texas They9 11 Appreciate with the Ninth air force in Bel gium He was re- Masonic temple tonight at seven-thirty pm The officers are: Ted Mohler master councilor George' Mohler senior councilor Jack Stark junior councilor Scott Biddle senior deacon Harmon Barton junior deacon Robert Yea-tori scribe Dick Campbell senior steward Woodrow Young junior steward Dick Rainey marshal Kenneth Hodges chaplain George Tracy standard-bearer Roy Shaub sentinel preceptors Ben McComb Jack O'Donnell George Dickson Walter McCain Frank Thurman Dave Overstreet and 1 i a 'i -fa 1 fa cently awarded the eighth oak leaf cluster to his air -medal after serving overseas 11 months He enlisted in the national guard in 1940 and transferred to Records Lieut Garr Modern Bedroom Suites fllCI ljl-f-r- i B'filT 'V WmllllllwlnM 1111)111 lly uz 'atiMw''''T'''' (STTj Th'air Lanterman McCain assisted by HOME MOVIES Large Stock Castle Films Pictoreels Official Films Hollywood Films We will order any home movie subjecf for you AGE PHOTO 360 21th Street Dial 2-0020 "Everything Photograpahie" Riley Robert Marshall Gaily John Stark and Pence are! the installing officers The -Misses Ruth Henderson Jov the army air corps in August 1941 He received his training at Brooks field San Antonio Texas and Kelly field Texas He was assigned overseas last December He is a graduate of Ogden high school and attended Weber college While at Weber he was a mem Coppelia Ballet Suite (Delibes) Boston "Pops" Orchestra (In beautiful picture envelope) Ql QI Y-603 i Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tschaikovsky) and Dagger Dance from Natoma (Herbert) Boston "Pops" Orchestra (In beautiful picture envelope) (£1 1 Y-602 VltOl Blue Danube Waltz and Tales from the Vienna Woods (Johann Strauss) Webb and June Webb will give a short program after which the De-Molay Mothers will serve refresh and ber of Phoenix fraternity and also sponsored CPT He was widely ments fa fa fa Known in soitbau and Men sports in Ogden as well as in ski Schbol Children Gather activities He was formerly cm Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia ployed by the Utah Power Light to $131 Urchestra (In beautiful picture envelope) Y-604 fa fa 4 Steel Coil Springs 8 1 005 Mattress up from 1 Gift Boxes for USO "Any old boxes today?" the Madison boys and girls answered the call of the I gift wrapping service offered to enlisted men at A Orders were given to students about the requirements in quality and beauty of the boxes Seventy-five attractive gift boxes were delivered by Blair Thompson Charles Gerardo and Dale Skinner to the service center GLASSES MAKE IDEAL CHRISTMAS GIFTS Rhapsody Blue Parts I and II George Gershwin pianist with Paul Whiteman's Orchestra jf 35822 Ava Maria (Bach-Gounod) Ava Maria (Schubert) Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchestra (Just released) di nr 7416 JJLUD A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens adapted produced and narrated by Ernest Chappell with cast of 20 QO Victor album DG-29- V00 The Best Gift of All Is a Bond War in ew snipment just arrived Hollywood styiea in blond mahogany and walnut Set consists of four "pieces 1 1 Final Toy leciranee PRICES GREATLY REDUCED ON ALL ITEMS Jjj Ogdenites Graduate Two Ogden men were among thpse graduating from intensive courses of specialized training at recent service schools ceremonies at Great Lakes 111 The graduates and the schools they trained in are: Vincent Toscan 26 son of fa i Sheet Music Guy Lombardo's Record and Radio Hits or Nothing at All" rn "Sleepy Serenade" etc) Jut Bing Crosby's Popular' Song Folio Monday or Always" jr "The Honey Song" etc) OUC Frank Sinatra's Songs of Romance "It Had to be You" "Shadow Waltz" etc) UC Abe Lyman's California Melodies "1 Cried for You" etc) UUC Mr and Mrs Philip Toscan 135 west 1 wenty-lirst basic engineering and John Koenig 19 son fa fa fa of Mr and Mrs Koenig 2557 Madison signalman Dolls Shoo-f lies Rocking Horses Rockers Upholstered Chairs Games Table and Chairs Sets Blackboards Skis WagonsTo-boggans in 7 8 and 10-foot lengths Baby Exercisers Baby Swings Toy Chests Ten-pin Games Baby Car Seats Toilet Seats Construction Toys -7 1 Drive Out and Save i i Classes are a practical gift and the "Blessed' relief from eyestrain which they afford will be appreciated by the recipient for long years to come You cari select attractive glasses as a gift and the recipient can come in before or after Christmas for his thorough examination and the proper fit! Consult Dr 7 Dearden AT QRS Rolls A-1 Shoo Repairs "Dance With a Dolly" "White Christmas" "I'll Walk Alone" "Trolley Song" "Joy to the World" "I'll Get By' 1(1 fa fa fa 60c each Good looking and longer wearing after our thorough repairs i 11 fa I Glen Bros Music Buy Bonds OPTICAL CO Mezzanine at Penney's Buy Bonds ON THE Composition or cord soles used on men's work or boys' school shoes PENNEY bS DOWNSTAIRS STORE NATIONAL OPERATED BUY DONDS 2944 VTmah Bird DIAI 48SI 254G Wash Blvd fa Dial 4621 fa JW fa rPHONE 8321-.