The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 7

7A THE OGDEN (UTAH) STANDARD-EXAMINER 4 SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 11 1954 Spring Runoff Still Below Average Despite Storms Many Letters Received On i Rail road Fined for Cruelty to Animals SALT LAKE CITY (AP) The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Co has been fined $200 on a charge of cruelty to animals in transit The fine was levied yesterday by District Judge Willis Ritter The charge came from a law which prohibits harboring WHITE BIRCH $1 ch Clump off 3 $2 expect to par DOUBLE the price for theee choice 3-5 ft White Birch Northern grown wont freeze out! Pay postman special sale pnee plus C- 5 postage or enclose payment to save postage Money back guarantee KRUSE NURSERIES Dept 8577 Bloomington IIL WASHINGTON (AP) bitter controversy over a dam should be built near the Dinosaur National Monument in Utah has sparked a spirited let-er-writing contest jj animals in freight cars for more wt Td 1 1 1 111311 36 hours unless proper feed 1 1 and care are provided groups got busy early this year after President Eisenhower ap- roved the proposed billion-dollar SALT LAKE CITY (AP) While March storms materially improved' the water supply outlook for parts of Utah the expected runoff this spring is still below the 1942-51 10-year average 4 That is the conclusion of the April 1 water supply outlook report issued jointly today by the Soil Conservation Service and the Weather Bureau I The report said water supply prospects for streams of the Great Salt Lake Basin indicate flows ranging from 70 to 80 per cent of "The main exception to this is in a small area of the Wasatch Official Denies Lee Hindered Uranium Hunt Front where the watersheds of the Farmington-Bountiful area have their poorest snow cover since the drought year of the report said "The flow for the six creeks near Salt Lake City is expected to be 70 per cent of Heavy Precipitation nelped The report said exceptionally heavy March predptation in southwestern Utah' boosted the runoff indications for the Beaver Virgin upper Sevier and smaller drainages of the area to near average Forecasts for streams in the Uinta Basin range from 95 to 110 per cent of average The report also noted that holdover storage in 14 reporting reservoirs is 66 per cent of capacity as compared to a 10-year average of 55 7 per cent of ca parity i Forecasts of water year flow in percentage of the 19-year average include: Bear River at Harer Idaho 69 per cent Logan River 75 Black smith Fork 71 Weber River near Oakley 76 Weber at Slide 57 South Fork Ogden River 73 Provo River at Vivian Park 66 AT HCUrtOD co YOU CAN OWN THIS PHILC0 ELECTRIC RANGE Fbr Only 6) (O t) PLUS YOUR OLD ELECTRIC OR GAS RANGE NEW This -is an drawing of how the new Lagoon now under construction will appear The former resort was burned to the ground Construction of the new fun spot is nearing completion Is 1 New Land of Thrills and Entertainment Rising Out of Ashes of Former Lagoon WI-: 0 G3 specially I I de-tarea will be painted with modern Workmen are completing con-tentranceway and murals Architect for the dance hall is Lloyd Snedaker A number of attractions including name orchestras and acts have been scheduled during the season Mr Kimball said As usual Mondays will be free days Grand opening for the season will be on Memorial Day Upper Colorado program Within a few weeks after bills were introduced' in Congress to authorize the federal government build the projects the House i nterior Committee had received nearly 5000 letters of i 'protest against Echo Park Dam Kay Project which would flood part of I the Dinosaur Monument! 1 An attache of the committee! which held hearings on (he issue said the protesting I letters I viously are the result of campaign jecause many are form' letters! from outside i the region The department of interior got about 2400 protesting letters soon after it recommended the authorization legislation then the pro-Echo Park campaign got rolling and the pro letter total! climbed to 2500 Utah members of Congress all Republicans declare their mail is overwhelmingly in favor of the dam Rep Stringfellow estimates he has received 18000 letters for) the dam and only a few against! it His Echo Park mail has been averaging about 100 letters daily since he made 369 speeches on the subject in Utah last summer Stringfellow has! been urging Utah civic clubs to get behind the project Rep Dawson says his mail has been running about 150-to-one for the dam His campaign for the project has included the sending! of about 2500 statements to those who had written the House Interior Committee of which he is a I member An additional 11500 copies of his "fact have been given to other members of 1 Congress for mailing i to their home districts I Sens Watkins and Bennett also-declare their mail is predominantly for the program which would provide power and urgently-needed water for lirrigation and municipal use Auto Firm Offers Police Cars To Rent SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A car rental firm said yesterday it struction of a new ballroom five Other buildings the roller coaster and installing nine new rides and seven new games in preparation for the opening of Lagoon resort Ranch Kimball general manager expects work to be completed May 1 on the resort Over half of the buildings at the 57-year-old amusement park were destroyed by a million-dollar blaze last November All build- has offered to provide the city ings 0n the west of the midwa with 12 police cars at a rental were burned to the ground-in- eluding the ballroom and a por- police of $7950 per month The city ec e-' SALT LAKE CITY The manager of the Atomic Energy raw material office in Grand Junction Colo Sheldon Wimpfen today denied that i he had blamed Utah Gov Bracken Lee with hindering ura-J nium development on the Colorado plateau jn a telephone call from Washington where he is conferring I with AEC executives Wimpfen said the commission and i other government agencies were still "studying the arising from request that the Interior Department survey more than 11000000 acres of public domain in Utah Dispatches Grand Junction had quoted Wimpfen as blaming Lee for hindering the Colorado plateau uranium I devel opment on the grounds that the Utah survey request would freeze filing of mineral claims on the land for the 20 years the survey will require for completion Lee upon being told of the original stories had said Wimp-i fen was talking "through his Today the Utah chief executive said he was glad to learn that the 1 AEC did not blame him for any delay in mineral exploration Utah has made application for survey of unsurveyed lands the governor explained in order to obtain the revenue from the one-ninth share of these lands However Lee added that at no time "have we been advisee that the survey would freeze the uranium would pay for gasoline and insurance but all other upkeep expenses would be the obligation of the owners Neuman Petty president of Motor Lease Inc disclosed the terms City Commissioner Lyle Nicholes announced earlier the city was considering renting tion of the roller coaster During May the parVwill play host to many school dutings and will have a pre-season opening on Saturdays and Sundays beginning Saturday Mayll Mr Kimball said Innovations at Lagoon will be a new entranceway coming into fu i 1111116 tier rHiteo ii signed lighting No pillars will obstruct view of the bandstand Other new buildings include a Prize Center with 60-feet of window space displaying prizes a Patio Room7 tap room and lounge adjacent to the Patio Gardens Ballroom two large storage buildings lining the! main entranceway a modernistic building at the south of the midway housing new games1 and the new roller coaster entrance and loading platform as well as two picnic boweries the Maple Terrace and Pine Terrace All buildings have 1 been constructed of fireproof materials with fire walls and safety areas New roller coaster tears have been designed especially for Lagoon replacing those burned They will have an automatic locking device and powerful headlights on the front of each train The entire coaster structure has been reconditioned and checked for safety New Rides Nine new rides are: Tilt-a-Whirl circular platform ride Giant Octopus with f6 cars on eight revolving arms Rock-O-Plane with rider-controlled spinning cars Ferris Wheel replacing former destroyed model Roll-0-Plane whirling ride Kiddie Airplanes and Kiddie Autos Spook House dark ride and a new take Shore miniature train with an observation car The seven new games are a Shooting-Gallery with over 350 different targets including parachute i jumpers and battleships Spill-the-Milk ball game enlarged Penny Arcade Candy Races Lite-the-Lite with" a penny and Shoot-Till-You-Win pistol game A large portion of the brick police cars instead of buying them 6 the middle of the park even with Petty period is planned said a two-month trial cter It will be lined 1S planned- thJ end al "The cars that will be provided £avf a area are specially built and equipped both sldes police Petty said "They roller coasten have 160-horsepower engines and New Ballroom hea7 absorrs-Tlley The new ballroom called Patio are built for police work wiU at the new COLOR STYLED PHILCO ELECTRIC RAIIGE Former Employe Retains Wages SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A key figure in a recent Salt Lake County payroll investigatidn has refused through his attorney to return $546 in wages demanded of him by the County Commission The former part-time employe of the roads and bridges department John Tangaro told the commission he could no understand the basis for its de mand "inasmuch as nothing in the hearing would warrant the action you have Tangaro was one of two Bingham area men named in a petition which asked the payrool investigation Hearings based on the petition were completed by the commission recently and this week the commission asked the county attorney to seek the return of the money from Tangaro President Named EVANSTON Wyo Mrs Frank Faulkner has been elected president of the Auxiliary to the Veterans of Foreign Wars Washakie Post Evanston two-month trial period will let us know how expen-1 sive it is to run the cars We north epd of the midway the bandstand being where the former auto gate was It will be one You Broil Under Glass Only With a Phiico No Down: Payment Only $1200 per Month flUrz? vtoip sms think we can do it at a low cost because Ve pan to adopt an as- I cLtw Hnr6Si sembly-line type of maintenance mThf and instructive driver area or over 4000 Persons The area for over 4000 persons NOW hall can be closed during incle ment weather or opened for open-air dancing Inside there will be a raised terrace for tables and chairs overlooking the dance floor and band stand Outside will be a patio with tables and special outdoor dancing area overlook ing the inside floor and band stand The modem design will Lays Off 141 Since Jan 1 1ERR0D 1 5I8-24A STTST 0v fcmi 15 IMS (frSHpmp idfrrm i (AP) The SPARKS Nev Southern Pacific Railroad re-1 feature translucent plastic at the ports 141 men have been laid off a the Sparks shops since the first of the year Reason for the payoffs the SP said was partly a normal seasonal decline in traffic and partly I the changeover from steam to 1 diesel locomotives The layoffs have reduced the I shop working force at Sparks from 453 to 312 The railroad denied reports published in Reno that the Sparks shops and roundhouse aye being eliminated Colorado Bill Said Purposely Stalled SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A Utah water expert charged yes terday that failure of a House 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