Provo Project

as reported by the Hot Springs Star

PEACE AT PROVO

The lights are coming on in the Ad. building as dusk settles over the plains of Provo. It is slipping down from the west and covering the ugly and beautiful alike in a mantle of peace. Yes, peace at Provo, peace even in the preparations for death.

Inside, a draftsman sits by his drawing board resting his eyes a moment, he is tired, it has been a hard day, and it's damn near time to quit - then - his jaw tightens - he remembers the headlines in the paper that morning - Hitler's at Rostov, the Japs are at Kiska, and Rommel is smashing his dusty legions at the very gates of Cairo. He bends lower over his board again and adds another line to his tracing - Hitlers' at Rostov, but there is peace at Provo tonight. . .

Outside, a faint murmur comes from the Batch Plant where the swing shift digs in for the long pull till midnight. The trucks roll up to the hoppers and away again in a never ending stream. The tempo seems a little faster than usual, perhaps it could even be called a fortissimo in aggregates.

Terteling is pouring concrete . . .

On down the valley the finger of night wraps a velvet cloak of darkness around the hard outlines of the magazine area and then drifts away to the trailer camps and on to Provo, and, off to east, Terteling's diesels take up their song of power with a full-throated roar as they bite into the peak load.

Back at the Ad. building the lights are still burning and the wind is sweet and cool from the west . . . the draftsman still bends over his board - There is Peace at Provo tonight. . . .

WASHINGTON, July 31 (AP) - The war department has announced awarding of the following contracts by army engineers in an amount between $50,000 and $100,000:

L. M. Seller company and Wendall C. Graus of Hastings, Minn., for the construction of a sewage plant in Fall River county under the direction of Fort Peck engineers.

Victor Varick, 68, Receives Fatal Injuries at Provo

Victor Varick, 68, died Saturday at 12:15 p. m. from internal injuries sustained when he fell from a scaffold while working at Provo Friday afternoon about 4 o'clock. He was brought to the Lutheran hospital for treatment.

Mr. Varick had lived in Hot Springs for twelve years, coming here from Tower City, N., D. He was engaged in stone masonry and carpentry. He was born at Salem, Ore., Aug. 18, 1875, and moved to North Dakota forty-seven years ago.

Mr. Varick is survived by his wife and five children: three sons, Lawrence, Clair, and Francis, Hot Springs; two daughters, Mrs. Homer Garrison, Eureka, Mont., and Mrs. Harold Owens, Marmarth, N. D.

Funeral services will be held at Benson & Joyce funeral chapel at 2 p. m., in charge of the Rev. Clay Morris of the United church. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery.

Minnesota Man Killed in Crash Near Edgemont

Three automobile accidents, one of which proved fatal for one person, occurred over the week-end on highways near Hot Springs.

John Anderson of Moorhead, Minn., was killed in a collision Sunday morning about 12:30 between Edgemont and Provo, south of the Bob Bailey ranch. The car, a model A Ford, in which Anderson was a passenger, was driven by John Cole of Columbia and was headed for Provo. The other car, a Chevrolet driven by Charles Tobin of Sundance, Wyo., was driving toward Edgemont when the two cars collided. All the men were employed at Provo.

Mr. Cole, who was injured slightly, was taken to Provo. There were several passengers in each car, but no others were hurt.

Another accident occurred about 3 o'clock this morning, two miles south of Minnekahta, when a V-8 Ford driven by Julius Baca of Keystone was sideswiped by a Chevrolet sedan, which left the scene of the accident. No one was hurt.

A beer truck and a pop truck, owned by Costello, the Grain Belt beer representative in this area, were in a peculiar accident near Pringle Sunday. The beer truck, which broke down near Minnekahta, was being towed to Rapid City by the pop truck. Apparently the pop truck was being driven too fast, and when the driver of the beer truck attempted to apply the brakes, the pop truck was thrown into the air and onto its back. None of the occupants of the two trucks were injured.

Hospital Notes

SISTERS' HOSPITAL

Mrs. Wilson Emery of Provo entered Saturday morning for examination and treatment and returned home.

PERSONALS

Bob Weber began working at the Provo project today. John Corbett has taken Bob's place at the B. & M. grocery and began working there Friday.

The matter of filling the vacancy of grade school custodian was left with the committee on janitor and grounds for further inquiry. The vacancy was caused when Melvin Killian, who has held the position, took a job in the fire department at the ordnance depot at Provo.

CASCADE

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wight of Provo (the newlyweds) were sightseeing around Cascade Sunday.

Other visitors during the week: Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Reierson and son, Herman, and Arthur Link of Provo. Dale and Marie Page and Roy Pierce and George Schuppan of Provo and Winner. Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. George C. Jones of Provo and Fort Peck, Mont., Mr. and Mrs. James Baker and children of Yakama, Wash, and Provo.

RUMFORD

Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Faulkner and little daughter are staying with Mrs. Clarence Crowe while the boys are in Sioux City. Mr. Faulkner is working at Provo.

Hospital Notes

LUTHERAN HOSPITAL

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seaman of Provo. The infant girl weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.

RAPID CITY, Aug. 4 (AP) - Deputy U. S. Marshal Tom Faverty left for Chicago today with George Heiss, 38, charged with violating the selective service act.

Heiss, who has been working on the military project in Provo, was arrested on the request of Illinois officials and the removal order was given by Judge Lee Wyman of Deadwood.

The U. S. civil service commission has announced employment opportunities as classified laborer (male), 65 cents an hour, Black Hills ordnance depot, Provo. Employees will be paid the overtime rate of time and a half for all work in excess of 40 hours a week.

Applications for this examination may be filed with the secretary, board U. S. civil service examiners, Black Hills ordnance depot, Provo until the needs of the service have been met.

Information regarding the requirements of the examination and application forms may be obtained at any first and second class post office in the state of South Dakota.

Miss Maurine Miller of Edgemont, fourth grade teacher for the past four years, has resigned to continue the position she has held this summer at the Black Hills ordnance depot at Provo.

Miss Miller's successor will be Miss May Young of Cottonwood. She was graduated from Lewiston, Idaho, State Normal school and has had five years of experience, three of which have been in South Dakota and the past two years in Kamish, Idaho.

PATHFINDER

Transit Lines

Announces

Change in Schedule

NOTE: Special bus will leave Hot Springs for the project at 1:00 a. m., if enough passengers are available to make two-thirds of a load.

Richard S. Phelps

OWNER and MANAGER

REORGANIZATION OF PERSONNEL AT PROVO

Captain Lane Takes Eustrom's Place As Area Engineer

PROVO, Aug. 6 - All hands were on deck today in the administration building of the U. S. engineers, at the Black Hills ordnance depot.

Captain W. L. Lane, who came here from the Yukon territory, Alaska, is chief of operations and acting area engineer. He was given complete charge Monday morning. Captain Lane replaces Major Harvey J. Eustrom who was sent to Fort Peck on special duties there.

First Lieutenant Eugene F. Stanton, executive office of the Rapid City airbase, is on the way here to become the executive officer of the Black Hills ordnance depot to fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Captain Lane. H. H. Nicholson and J. S. Quidor of Fort Peck are here on temporary duty.

Other changes include: H. C. Tilzy, chief engineer; A. E. Flynn, head of inspection, and F. A. W. Estrup, in charge of construction. B. L. Snell of Fort Peck was brought in to head the equipment and maintenance section, and Clyde R. Walters now heads the inspection of the new combat storage area.

With the additional contract recently let by the government for the combat storage area, construction is likely to continue well into November. Scores of laborers are employed each day, and according to J. W. Terteling of J. A. Terteling Construction company, many are needed to complete the project on schedule.

A new dining room to seat 400 persons is nearing completion and six new forty-man barracks are ready for occupancy.

Terteling Lowers Cost of Food to Employees

Workers Now Buy Commissary Meals For 29 Cents

A lower food and lodging cost to war workers was inaugurated at midnight Tuesday for J. A. Terteling employees. J. W. Terteling of the J. A. Terteling & Sons Construction company announced arrangement had been made with the Olympic commissary whereby all of his employees could now purchase twenty-one meals for $6. This, according to Mr. Terteling, is probably the lowest price paid by workmen for meals on any war project. Mr. Terteling stated that a new arrangement also went into effect at the same time. His employees do not have to eat all their meals in the mess hall, if they do not want to. Only the meals eaten there will be charged for. Meal tickets will be good for as long as they last.

Each meal figures about 29 cents each, and full credit will be given for all meals remaining on the card when and if it is terminated.

The same charge of 30 cents per night for beds and bedding is still in effect.

The sound car of the U. S. engineers' public relations department was used to announce the new savings to the Terteling employees Tuesday night. The car cruised throughout the igloo area and the barracks, informing the workers of this welcome announcement. H. E. Thayer, safety engineer for Terteling, did the announcing, and Roy King, general manager for the prime contractor, acted as chauffeur.

Food is at no premium on the Black Hills ordnance depot, according to Ray Harris, manager of the big general store next to the Lance theater. Mr. Harris reports that more than a carload of merchandise is sold every other day, and his stock is always fresh and new, due to the rapid turnover of goods.

Mr. Harris formerly operated the Red and White food store in Chadron, Neb., and originally started with his stock of goods from there, just four weeks ago. Many different lines have been added recently. The store is generally known for its moderate prices and is conducted on a strictly cash basis. The interior is patterned after the big self-service stores operated in larger cities.

Besides a complete line of canned foods, pastries, fresh meats, fresh fruits and fresh vegetables, a limited line of men's work clothing, drug sundries and hardware is on display. Daily newspapers and magazines will go on sale soon.

The recreation hall is now equipped with a commodious elevated stage for the orchestra and song leaders and announcers.

The platform was built by the recreation service workers and provides a great convenience for the musicians as well as furnishing a much better service for participants and spectators on the floor.

A new electrical cooling unit water drinking fountain has been installed between barracks No. 4 and the P. X. hall. The unit is hooked up to the power line, and at the pressure of a button, the cool, pure well water is at your disposal. The fountain is lighted to accommodate you at night also.

Since beginning the league tournament on the project last Sunday, there has been a tendency on the part of a few teams to overlook the announced schedule and fail to report at the diamond for their game.

It is believed that the team managers have not become familiar with the schedule and have skipped their game appointment unwittingly and that any apparent laxity will disappear as the tournament progresses. The recreation leader in charge of the tournament announces that beginning with Sunday, Aug. 9, any team failing to report for their scheduled game will incur a forfeit that will eliminate the team from further tournament play.

Church Services Gain in Popularity On Provo Project

Nearly 100 church-goers attended the services in the Lance theater building last Sunday. The meeting was conducted by four missionaries from the church of the Latter Day Saints and was held at 9 o'clock. Elders Loosle, Allen, Watson and Scott also participated in the interesting services. Elder Watson acted as spokesman for the group and introduced his brethren. Elder Allen made the first talk, followed by Elder Scott, who has recently been doing missionary work in New Mexico. Elder Loosle had a well-rounded program of music. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Brenanshaultz of Edgemont, a portable organ was borrowed for use on Sunday's program. Mrs. LuWellie Clark played the accompaniment for the singing.

Next Sunday, Aug. 9, services will be conducted in the usual non-sectarian manner by the Rev. R. E. Uecker of the Lutheran church of Custer. Everyone on the project is invited to attend at 9 a. m.

Tuesday night, Aug. 4, Bishop W. Blair Roberts of Sioux Falls and Rev. Stanton MacIntosh of the Episcopal church conducted communion sacramental services in the library at 7:30 p. m. before a devout group of worshippers. Mrs. Clark at the portable organ rendered the religious hymns.

Wednesday night a regular prayer meeting was held in the library, where a large crowd attended. Mr. Putnam of the WPA recreation group was in charge of the service.

Carl Bierman, supervisor of the WPA recreation program being conducted at the Black Hills ordnance depot at Provo, resigned his position Monday to return to his home at Bison, where he will resume his duties as superintendent of the Bison high school.

Mr. Bierman has been in charge of the recreation activities conducted by the recreational department of the WPA on the ordnance depot since their inauguration there under the direction of the public relations office of the U. S. engineers. He has been responsible for the success of the program, which has attracted considerable attention. His presence on the area will be greatly missed by everyone who has had the pleasure of meeting and knowing him.

Temporarily, Mrs. LuWellie Clark, assistant supervisor, will take over the duties of supervisor, or until such time as a successor to Mr. Bierman arrives.

'Progress' Clocks Reveal Status of Provo Construction

At the intersection of Rushmore road and East road, in the corner of Terteltown (the Terteling trailer camp, across from the ball field), a progress signboard 90 feet long and 26 feet high has been erected. Progress clocks are under various contractors' names, showing percentages of construction progress for each individual contractor

The sign is set in concrete and was erected by the Freeman decorating company, who have their shop on the area. The clocks show with one hand where each contractor is now and the other hand shows where they should be. Study the sign and see if you can play your part to increase production for your contractor.

The following contractors are listed on the huge sign: Terteling & Sons, Peter Kiewit & Sons, F. S. Lampson, Feller & Graus, Fuel Economy company, Rye & Henkel Construction company, Shaw-Haggart company, W. H. Noel, Black Hills Power and light, and Pillsbury Construction company.

Another gigantic progress clock is in the process of construction and will be erected at the intersection of Rushmore road and Lookout Road. The clock will be 14 feet by 14 feet and the hands will show a picture of Hitler on one and a boot on the other. Lettering on the boot will read, "How Soon?"

Of course, if the contractor ever gets ahead of schedule, the boot will have to go through Hitler.

Sign painters are also lettering several signs to be tacked up in the commissary. Some of them are as follows:

"Boys on the front won't fare so well if you don't stay and work like Hell."

"Smile and your neighbor smiles with you. Try it. It's contagious."

"The boys on Bataan didn't complain, why should you?"

"The food's O. K., the beds are swell, let's quit complaining and work like Hell."

The recent change in division heads of the U. S. engineers has caused the changing of office spaces and had revamped the locations of many departments. Among the most prominent changes in the "Ad" building is the enlargement of the reception hall, where a receptionist will be in charge and direct visitors to whom they wish to contact.

Executive personnel have located their offices in various parts of the building and placed those directly under them close by.

Offices of the area engineer, executive officer, and the chief engineer have been moved to the top floor of the building along with the engineering and inspection divisions. The right wing of the first floor now houses Administration, Mail and Records, Finance, Payroll, Correspondence, Supply and Contract, Personnel, and Cost. In the left wing, Protective Security, Public Relations, Labor Relations, Operations and Maintenance, Computation Division, and Sanitation and Safety.

The new arrangement will facilitate the work of the various departments in the expedition of their business.

A twenty thousand gallon cistern is nearing completion at Provo. The cistern will provide water storage facilities for the war workers who have crowded into the community. The township committee, composed of four prominent citizens of the community, Mr. Dunbar, Mr. Trotter, Mr. Robertson, and Charles Stearns, clerk, are responsible for the new improvement. Tuesday evening, workmen threw out the final shovel full of dirt, and construction of the tank twelve feet square and twelve feet deep began Wednesday.

It's Not All Work At Provo and the Ordnance Depot

The old adage of "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy," is wholeheartedly adhered to at the Black Hills ordnance depot. It is common knowledge that a full recreational program has been instituted through the efforts of the U. S. engineers and the contractors, being aided in the filed work with the workers of the WPA recreation group, but now the program has reached the place of self-instigation. By that we mean that when something definite is not planned, the workers themselves initiate activities. A case in point is the enjoyable evening spent Monday night in our recreational hall.

The softball game was in full swing on the ball field with all the noise and fun that goes with a game, the library was absolutely quiet with letter writers and book readers, and across the hall the barber shop was doing a clipping business, when someone sat down to the piano in the P. X. hall. Before we knew it, the microphone was down and the party was under way. Singing, impromptu tap dancing, quartets, both barber shop and otherwise, soloists, piano players and instrumentalists, were on hand. You know, it's like the old home parlor on Sunday evening. People come forward and sing without prompting or coaxing, and all join in the fun.

Our songfest finally grew to such proportions that we had about 600 people participating. The non-singing athletes, not to be outdone by their vocalized brothers, gave us one of the best boxing exhibitions to date.

When we started a few weeks ago, there was that restraint that comes with folks being strangers and not feeling at home. Now, we're like a family. Exactly like a family. Sure we have our squabbles, who doesn't? You know, Mom fights with Dad over the money, the "kids" don't like their spinach, Johnny has trouble over doing his rightful chores, it's that way here, too.

Something that always inspires the onlookers and we who are the instigators, is the spontaneous patriotism of the group. We go along and ask for suggestions for songs and always sometime during the evening, as it happened again Monday night, someone asks for "America," and immediately afterward the Allegiance to the Flag just naturally follows. We usually close the little ceremony with the singing of "Remember Pearl Harbor." This may sound like sentimentalism, but when you stand on a platform before these people, all in working clothes, the marks of their labors still upon them, ranging from the ages of 16 to 70; and knowing that for some this is the first war, and for others it's merely the repetition of a former Hell, knowing that they come from every possible walk of life, some with the most complete cultural backgrounds and others who never have had a chance, you realize that under that one Flag of Freedom they are united without class, distinction, or discrimination. United in one common cause with only one common aim, it is not sentimentalism, but good common American sense.

At 8 a. m. Wednesday workmen applied the first brush-full of dark brown stain to the P. X. hall. All thirty two of the buildings in the mobilization area, including the hospital and temporary location of the ordnance department, will receive the paint.

Announcement was made by Mr. Ledbetter, manager of the Lance theater, that beginning next Tuesday, midnight shows will be featured on both Tuesday and Saturday nights. The shows will begin at 12:30 a. m., to accommodate the swing shift and others who care to attend.

A special featured showing of "The Little Foxes," starring Bette Davis and Herbert Marshall, Tuesday night at midnight. Then Saturday night on the midnight show, "Wild Bill Hickok," featuring Bruce Cabot and Constance Bennett, will be the attraction.

The calendar for the rest of the month has many high grade shows, and Mr. Ledbetter says no second grade pictures will ever be shown at the Lance theater.

Provo Water Tower Up 105 Feet in Record Time

The last batch of concrete was poured into the hydraulic form on the double barreled water tower Tuesday, when the structure reached 105 feet in height.

A most sensational engineering feat was accomplished, and is ready for the construction of the dome, according to Cushman Clark and Art Kiehn, of the U. S. engineers, inspectors.

The tower, which will be used for the storage of 100,000 gallons of water, was watched by hundreds of interested workers as it shot up at the rate of about fifteen feet each day. The hydraulic lift advanced the form only three-eighths of an inch per minute as the concrete would dry.

The tower was erected by Feller-Graus, prime contractors. The structure when completed, will have a dome sixteen feet nine inches high and thirty-two feet in diameter. It will be equipped with a dome light and beacon platform.

Papa Bear, Mamma Bear and Baby Bear, Peter Rabbit, and all of the well known characters in the children's story books, will be related to all the children on the area in the Lance theater every Saturday. Mrs. Berniece Witte and Mrs. Dora Hunt of the works project administration recreational department invite all the children on the Black Hills ordnance depot to be on hand Saturday morning at 10:30 to hear about their favorite fairy tales.

Mrs. Witte and Mrs. Hunt are both well trained in story telling, and this hour is a new activity for the recreational group, sponsored by the public relations department of the U. S. engineers.

Children too small to come alone are invited to bring their mothers along with them. They, too, might enjoy the stories.

The story hour will be conducted every Saturday at this same time in the Lance theater building until further notice.

Residents on the area have been very generous in contributing late magazines for the library.

This is a service for which the library is deeply grateful and we wish to issue a request that persons having magazines which they are willing to dispose of, the contribution of these for the library will be most acceptable.

A special sacramental religious service and holy communion were conducted by W. Blair Roberts, bishop of South Dakota, assisted by the Rev. Standish MacIntosh of the Protestant Episcopal church, in the library at the P. X. hall Tuesday evening. Organ music for the service was offered by Mrs. Sally Thelin of the WPA recreation staff.

Many inquiries for croquet have been received by the recreation leaders and some sets have been made available for those who would like to enjoy a game.

This equipment is at the library and can be checked out at the desk. A temporary ground will be provided at the extreme end of the recreation ball diamond.

The regular Tuesday night community sing, held at the schoolhouse at Provo at 8 p. m., has been changed to Monday night. The regular women's ball game that is held there on Monday nights will be held on Tuesday. This will make it easier for some people to attend both events.

THIS IS "Provo news day" for the readers of The Hot Springs Star and the Black Hills News. Several columns of news material pertaining to activities on the great defense project are printed in both papers. This material is written by the public relations department on the project, which also supervises the distribution of the Black Hills News through WPA workers there.

The Star has received a number of compliments for this tieup which it has provided between Hot Springs and Provo. In both news and advertising, the arrangement has been advantageous to both.

By reading Thursday's paper, Hot Springs people know what is going on at Provo. By placing their advertisements in the Black Hills News, Hot Springs business people are able to get their messages to the workers on the project and their families.

Provo People, too, have a better idea of Hot Springs, we believe, after reading issues of the Black Hills News. They know that this is a first rate little city, with many businesses and attractions which should appeal to them.

We sometimes suspect that many Hot Springs people do not realize the immensity and importance of the Black Hills ordnance depot. We have been told that a few - a very few, we hope - would just as soon not read about the project and its people.

To these few, we will say that the ordnance depot is the biggest single project the state of South Dakota has ever seen - and it is located just 40 miles from our doors!

More men are employed at Provo than in the rest of Fall River county and Custer county combined. The money being expended by the government on the project is probably fifteen or twenty times the total assessed valuation of real and personal property in Hot Springs.

Information on the Provo project has to be given in general terms, due to the fact that it is a military installation, and these are wartimes. Nothing which could aid the enemy in evaluating this country's military preparations should be told.

But enough can be told, and observed, to get the point home to local people that they are living right close to one of the greatest war installations in the country. Not only is it breath taking in size, but the number of people who are there during its construction, and who will work there after construction is finished, is astounding. For this year and for the duration, at least, Provo is one of the important centers in this whole area - let us not forget that.

M. Bailey, head engineer, who has been here since the boom started, was transferred to Fort Peck, Mont., and left Wednesday for his new work.

Congressman Case of Washington, D. C., and daughter were callers here one day last week. He thought a great change had taken place since he was here almost one year ago.

A crowd met at the schoolhouse the last of the week for games and community singing. There will be the same thing each week, and all are cordially invited to attend.

Quite a number are taking inoculations for different diseases each Monday at the schoolhouse.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rickard were Sunday visitors at Edgemont.

Matt McDonna went to Rapid City Friday to meet his wife, who returned home from Lisbon, N. D. where she had been the past two weeks visiting her mother and other relatives.

Wayne Jackson went to his dad's ranch Friday to assist with the harvesting. He returned Saturday evening.

Agent Hack went to Crawford to spend the week-end with his family.

Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Dunbar and little daughter and his two sisters, Miss Wilma and Miss Ethel, who are visiting them from Chadron, where they go to summer school, came over Sunday to visit in the home of their Uncle M. S. Dunbar and their cousin, Mrs. Wayne Jackson, also their cousin, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stearns.

Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Robinson and son, Forrest, and wife were calling Friday morning at the homes of her brother, John Hoar, and family and Clyde Hoar and wife, also to see her mother at Edgemont.

Mrs. Marcus Dunbar called on Miss Mary Manders at the telephone office Sunday. Mrs. Dunbar was a telephone girl before her marriage and Miss Manders was her boss.

Frank Prue, elevator man in the men's building, has gone to Provo to work, and Lou Stone, who operated the elevator in the women's building, has taken Prue's place, and Mrs. Mary Weir is now running the elevator in the women's building.

Quite a few of the employees out on vacation have taken jobs at Provo. Among them are Mrs. Winterberg, Mrs. Nora Bassett, Miss Laura Berg, Mrs. Georgia Raver, Mrs. Hy Hilterbrand and Mrs. James Stoddard, who are members of the home.

Jesse Hodges has a permanent job at Provo. Mrs. Hodges is expected home this week, and they will move out of their apartment here at the home, and Mr. and Mrs. Gallagher will occupy it for the present. Mr. Gallagher is at present working at Provo.

George Beswick has also gone to Provo to work for a month or more. Rex Beswick has been working there for some time.

Robert Bowman, who is employed on the Provo project, with a office in Edgemont, was over to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Bowman, one evening this week.

Mayor D. W. Sewright made several appointments at the last session of the city council which were approved by the council. They were: Mrs. Ed Wherrit, reappointed city assessor; Carl Ottmann, civilian defense co-ordinator and executive officer; the Rev. Clay Morris, building inspector. L. J. Bingham, who held the last two offices, resigned, since he can no longer attend to the duties because of his work at Provo.

PROVO, August 10 (AP) - Bulldozers began pushing their way through the hard dirt Friday morning, Aug. 7, in preparation for the construction of the new combat storage area. The contract was recently let to Billingsley, Girtsen & Krotochival Construction company of Minneapolis, Minn.

S. P. Leier, general superintendent, said today that more than 200 men would be employed immediately and that his company would be geared to the high tempo of present-day war construction to speed the erection of the storage buildings. Nov. 15 is set for the time for completion of this new area. Mr. Leier also stated that their own camp and mess hall will be immediately constructed to accommodate the war workers.

PROVO, August 10 (AP) - The main entrance gate know as number 2 guard post, was moved yesterday on the eastern area line, just at the western edge of Provo. Guards will be stationed there permanently and this gate will be the main entrance to the Black Hills ordnance depot from now on. The move was caused by the recent purchase of additional acreage which will be used for the construction of the combat storage area.

In the near future, persons entering the project will come directly from this gate over Rushmore road which will be completed soon.

Number 5 gate, the back door to the area, was also moved several hundred feet around the corner closer to the intersection of Lookout road and the Storm road. The reason for this change, according to Max Welch, assistant protective security officer, was so that the guards could direct all the passenger-car traffic down Lookout road.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Clarence K. Calland to Parkin Land & Livestock company, w 1/2 sw 1/4, section 14; nw 1/4, section 23-10-2.

SIDNEY, NEB., has an ordnance depot under construction, similar to the one being built at Provo. Local people should be interested in the following story from Washington on the Sidney project:

"A $5,000,000 expansion program, doubling the original announcement cost of the Sioux ordnance plant at Sidney, Nebr., has been authorized by the war department, aides of Senator Butler, republican, said.

"Senator Butler's aides said the expansion would be in excess of the five million dollar mark, and that the work would be supervised by the Omaha army engineer office. They gave no further details.

"The arms depot, which is in Cheyenne county, was begun last March. At that time army officials said 500 employees would be required to operate and maintain the huge depot. Cost of the project was then announced as approximately $5,000,000.

"In June Sidney officials reported that the town's population, ordinarily 3,300, had doubled as a result of the plant, which made a boom town of the quiet farming community.

"Involved in the construction of the ammunition depot was the building of many underground magazines (igloos), underground magazine roads, safety shelters, loading platforms, equipment and other buildings."

A. F. Cousins and Mary Blennadean Mahood, were married Thursday August 6, by the Rev. Clay Morris at the parsonage. Mr. Cousins is an engineer on the Provo project and Mrs. Cousins came here recently from Ranier, Minn.

Mr. and Mrs. Cousins are now living at the E. R. Philips apartments.

 

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