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Newspaper
Milford News
Location
Milford, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
1
A penned outline sketches a plan to dream much and think little with scattered bouquets and elevated aims. It mentions firing two hot shots now and later to watch sparks fly as noted by the author.
A Milford area meeting features E Freer of Union Pacific lauded for rail and road improvements. Millard County Commissioner chairperson Pretty praised for long service and focus on county needs. The visit includes a Lynndyl stop en route to Eureka and mentions upcoming Tooele rail parallels and a local roadside eatery plug.
President Roosevelt approves WPA funding for Milford fair grounds stables and improvements totaling about 10 500 with 3 000 from a municipal bond issue. D E Kirk praises Tod Thompson and local officials for expediting the project as Milford braces for a three day fair and Homecoming from September 7 to 9.
Salt Lake City judge J C Laofbouron spoke Friday evening during the annual visit of grand lodge officers to Albert Pike Masonic Lodge No 14 in Milford. A good turnout of local and visiting Masons attended. Saturday evening local lodge master Victor Carlson joined others at Cedar City for the grand master H R Waldo’s lecture during special initiation ceremonies.
Miss Margaret Moore daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Mooe and a freshman at the University of Utah Salt Lake City has won a medal for high grade work in orchestra and high rank in scholarship Ruby sets will be added each year as she continues. Moore a Milford high school graduate class of 1985 served as class vice president junior and senior years. The family moved to Salt Lake City last fall to permit her entry into the university where she is enjoying college work.
Prospectors and mining companies in the western states and Alaska were told to work their claims or abandon them. Secretary Harold Ickes warned Congress is not inclined to pass annual assessment legislation and set a July 1 deadline for $100 of development work. If unmet, western claims on public lands face relocation and Alaska claims face forfeiture. The 1872 mining law required $100 of annual labor to prove good faith and spur development, but Congress has suspended this provision for several years.
Notice to taxpayers announces Beaver County Board of Commissioners will sit as a Board of Equalization at Beaver County Courthouse at 10 am on Thursday June 3 and Tuesday June 20 1989. Complaints about assessed property valuation will be heard by the board. Miller Clerk. Subscribe Dont Borrow.
Editors of Utah newspapers visited Moab Grand County May 27 and 28 for the state press association midsummer convention. Members toured scenic areas after a Lions Club golf outing, with a 10 000 foot La Sal mountains recreation stop and a northern editors softball victory 23 to 11 over the south.
Elsine Kirk of Milford was among 52 advanced dancing students at Brigham Young University's open air dance review Friday night in the Y stadium. Directed by the physical education department, the Prelude to Dance featured a Greek theater ambiance with special lighting and modern youth moods. Dancers wore special costumes with coordinated colors and a motion picture of the event was filmed in motors.
Beaver county welcomes Susie H. Sanford appointed extension clothing specialist for Utah. She reported for duty at Utah State Agricultural College in Logan on May 1 after studies at Oregon State College and graduate work at UC campuses. Sanford, formerly home demonstration agent in Uinta county Wyoming, succeeds Mrs. Hortense Snow Carpenter and caps years of Kalifornia and Utah training with a Utah return to service.
Burbank CCC Notes' Company 1508 paid a farewell tribute to Captain J Hobart Miller on Sunday evening May 28 at Burbank Canvy DG117 near Garrison. Miller has led Company 1908 since October last year and boosted morale and standing after relocating from Cetimr City to a more isolated campsite.
Property owners urged to control noxious weeds now to prevent spread. Government funds aid spray materials and partial cultivation costs, with strict quarantine enforcement likely. Eradication saves land value, water and yields, while helping neighbors and preventing broader agricultural damage.
In its fifth month, the seventy sixth congress shows little output beyond routine appropriations. Key issues include neutrality law revisions, social security, railroad rehabilitation, taxes, and labor tension. News notes youth in the New Deal with Brigadier General George Marshall and army officer retirements, plus possible White House staff expansion under Roosevelt.
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