Among Hot Springs people who went to work last week on the Provo project were Orville Cook and Clinton Welch, who are employed on the guard force, and Mrs. Mickey Ficker, who has accepted a civil service position as typist.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Halverson of San Diego, Cal., and Mrs. Al Hinkley of Edgemont were callers at Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar's Tuesday. Halversons were visiting friends at Edgemont, and then they were going to Winner and Yankton to visit her brothers.
Al McClusky is taking care of the Dunbar and Stearns sheep. He came here years ago from Iowa, the same time Erschens did, so is a friend of theirs.
John Konrath of Crawford was a caller here Wednesday.
Ray Falles went to Oelrichs Tuesday to assist Mr. Hansen through lambing.
M. M. Inman and Walker moved C. K. Calland's house to Edgemont the first of the week.
Albert Soske Jr. came up from Chadron Friday to spend the Easter vacation in the home of his father. He returned to school Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Soske came up Friday evening from Lewellen, Neb., to spend Easter with his father and family.
The Edgemont high school students had an Easter vacation from Friday until Tuesday morning.
W. Dainton and son came up from Pine Ridge, Neb., Friday and took his wife and nephew home for Easter. They returned Monday. Billie Smith accompanied them home for Easter.
Charlie Stearns and Mrs. Dunbar went to Crawford Friday. Charlie went for tractor repairs and Mrs. Dunbar visited her sister.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Dunbar came over from Martin, S. D., and spent Saturday visiting his uncle, M. S. Dunbar, and wife and cousin and family, Mrs. Charles Stearns. Charles Bartlett accompanied them here.
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Rickard went to Hot Springs Saturday evening to see her girl friend, Miss Rebecca Ballif, who had come from Kadoka.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Calland and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Calland and daughter were in this vicinity the other day calling on friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Bud Hand and children were out Sunday to visit in the home of her sister, Mrs. J. M. Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Johnson and family also visited there.
Alfred Jurrens, who has been driving the delivery truck for the Hot Springs creamery for several months, and Creyton Malone began work Monday as clerk-typists in the ordnance office of the Provo project at Edgemont.
A county health unit, consisting of one doctor, at least one nurse, and an office clerk, will be set up in Hot Springs soon as the result of an agreement with the state, made by the county commissioners at their regular meeting this week.
The new unit will be sent here by the state. The present county health unit consists only of Mrs. Myrtle Yoast, public health nurse.
The purpose of the enlarged unit, Commissioner C. O. Brady stated today, will be to take care of the increased health problems in the county that will undoubtedly arise from the Provo project, especially in quelling contagious diseases at their first appearance.
The headquarters for the unit is expected to be in the sewing rooms in the old Huebner hotel.
These units are established with funds provided by the county, state, and federal health departments. It will cost Fall River county approximately $200 a month, Mr. Brady said.
"We feel the obtaining of this unit is a 'wonderful break' for the county at this time," Mr. Brady said.
County land sales this month were "fair," with a large amount of vacant Edgemont property being sold. The county commissioners reported that nearly all the county-owned land in Edgemont has been sold and returned to the list of taxable property.
A report this week that all county registered warrants have been called for payment indicated that the county is in the best financial standing it has been for many years. So far as anyone in the courthouse at the present time can recall, this is the first time that all registered warrants have been taken up.
Maurice Miles, who was formerly employed in the domiciliary office at the veterans' facility, went to work this week as guard on the Provo project at Edgemont.
Unemployment is rapidly becoming an unknown quantity in Hot Springs, from all indications, as more local people accept jobs with the South Dakota Concrete Products company in Trimmer addition and the Provo project and enlist in the armed forces every day.
Numerous businesses are suffering as a result of the increased difficulty in finding help, with as many as four employees leaving at a time, and one or two were forced to close down.
Four employees of the Evans hotel resigned Wednesday and accepted jobs as guards on the Provo project. They were Charles Boehnlein, day clerk; Duane Lester, bell captain; Lester Graham, houseman, and Floyd Girton, night engineer.
L. E. Beninghouse, manager of the hotel, stated this morning that their places have not been filled as yet.
The Stokes' Standard service, at 132 East River avenue, was closed this week when the manager, Tommy Stokes, accepted a job on the Provo project. A. T. Williams, Standard Oil representative here, said he expected a man to operate the station within the next few days.
Miss Helen Busse began work as a clerk-typist Monday in the ordnance office of the Provo defense project at Edgemont. Miss Busse was a waitress at Kelly's lunchroom.
Lester Graham, Duane Lester, Lloyd Girton, and Charles Bohnlein are employed as guards at the Provo project. The men were employed by the Evans Hotel company.
Joy Davis, formerly employed at the Chevrolet garage, went on duty early this week as night policeman for the city. The night force now includes Mr. Davis and George Kruger, who replaced Clint Gregory and Elmer Rosane.
Mr. Gregory has been promoted to chief, in place of William Andre, and Mr. Rosane is working on the Provo project.
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb., April 10 (AP) - George Illie closed his Platte Valley Cement Tile Manufacturing company plant yesterday despite the fact he has war contracts, discharged forty-one of forty-five employees who had signed a petition to form an A. F. of L. union, and declared, "If these men had wanted to form a union and co-operate with me, there would have been nothing done, but no one is going to run my business with a blackjack."
The company, which also operates at Fremont and Kearney, has a $37,000 contract to supply tile to a Colorado army cantonment and a $42,000 contract on an ordnance project at Provo, S. D.
Illie said arrangements had been made to ship tile from the Fremont plant to fill the war contracts. He said the plant here may be moved to Provo for that project.
HOW ARE THINGS going in Edgemont? Here are the latest answers to this question, as culled from the columns of the Edgemont Tribune:
"The last doubt as to the construction of the so-called Provo project quickly vanished, by the most conservative persons in Edgemont, when trailer houses and huge earth moving machines, together with large trucks, started arriving in Edgemont shortly after Tuesday of last week, when bids for construction of the defense layout were opened and read.
"Martin & Manning, well know well drilling firm, have been pulling in heavy duty drilling machinery, passing through Edgemont a few miles to the defense site.
"A gigantic 14-wheel International truck loaded with well drilling machinery, also carried along with it four huge bridge timbers, exceptionally long, used to span township bridges, to enable the terrific loads to cross without crushing through.
"Giant earth moving "cats" and odd looking machines are also arriving.
"Thirty-one trailer houses were counted in Edgemont Sunday, with more arriving daily, and the several vacant lots are filling up fast; rooms are practically all taken up already, although garages are being remodeled, and woodsheds are being remodeled into sleeping rooms in order to do everything to accommodate as many people as possible.
"Contracting firms, having charge of construction, have set up offices in the smoking room of the Bar cafe.
"Edgemont streets are now lined up with cars bearing license plates from several states in the union, which is just an inkling of the heavy traffic which will be experienced when construction is really in full swing.
"A number of guards have been placed at the Edgemont armory where the headquarters offices of the government officers are located, which offices present a very busy place, with more office equipment being added, together with additional office help."
Wayne Waggoner was a dinner guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Waggoner, Sunday. Mr. Waggoner is employed on the Provo project.
Vernon Ashmore has received an appointment as senior guard on the Provo project. Mr. Ashmore recently completed a course in aviation mechanics at State college at Brookings.
Charles Schmalz, member of the veterans' facility, began work Thursday in the guard station office of the facility. Mr. Schmalz takes the place of Maurice Miles, who has gone to work on the Provo project.
Not Edgemont, not Hot Springs, but Provo will see the biggest boom from the ordnance depot which the government is building near that little town on the Burlington railroad, between Edgemont and Ardmore. For while Edgemont and Hot Springs were towns in their own right (the former with a thousand population, the later with a little more than four thousand), Provo for years has been only a way-station on the railroad, with a store, a post office, and a few other buildings and houses.
The population of Provo township according to the 1940 federal census, was 70. The population of Provo when the construction of the depot reaches a peak is anyone's guess. But some of the optimistic citizens of this little town believe it may reach 10,000. This figure is undoubtedly is a little high, but it is easily believable that the number of people to be employed on the project during the summer will be equal to the population of Hot Springs and Edgemont combined. And when one takes into consideration the fact that many of them will bring their families, to live in trailer houses and tents, the 10,000 figure might not be so fantastic.
Provo today is a humming little place. A great quantity of earth moving machinery is already on the ground, within sight of the grocery store, run by Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Dunbar. Off in the distance can be seen the tower of a well drilling machine, digging deep into the earth for the millions of gallons of water which will be needed by the contractors. Guards with guns slung under their arms stand at the main entrance to the government property. Trailer houses are parked along the road, occupied by men who are already on the scene with machinery. The Burlington railroad has placed an agent in the Provo depot - George Abrogast - after having got along without one for several years.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar are taking the charge-over from a peaceful rural trading center to a wartime boom town in their stride. But they confess they are a little puzzled about the whole thing and don't know quite what to expect. They do, however, see a great - though temporary - boom for the town, and they are hoping that some of it will be permanent. And of course some of it will - for after the project is built, a not inconsiderable permanent force will be needed to maintain it.
Most of the land around Provo is owned by the Dunbars and Mrs. C. E. Bennett of Deadwood. Mrs. Bennett is the widow of a Burlington trainman. The Dunbars own their store property and 360 acres close to town. Mrs. Bennett owns around 300 acres right at the town.
The demand for property at Provo has been surprisingly good, but the prices asked at first for some of the desirable places may have discouraged prospective purchasers. The most desirable town lots were offered at $1,000 each, without any takers. Later this price was dropped to $250, also without any appreciable increase in real estate activity.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar are afraid that Provo's chances for development are being hurt by these "boom prices" for land. They would like to see substantial real estate activity started, but they think, if it is to do Provo any real, lasting good, it will have to be at prices which people are willing to pay. Too high prices for property will drive people elsewhere, they believe, and presumably they are right. Many a town has had opportunity within its grasp, only to lose it because of overeagerness on the part of some citizens to get rich quick.
The Northwestern Bell Telephone company has built a one-story building a mile north of Provo, to accommodate the telephone business which will come from the project. Laurence **** of Hot Springs was the contractor in charge of the building which has one large room for the ****** equipment and three living *** for the operators. The switchboards are being set up, and the equipment will be in use in ten days.
A restaurant is being built in Provo, right across the street from Dunbars' store, but so far as they know, no other business is being considered for the town. However, things are moving so fast there now that before another week has gone, other stores or businesses may be projected to take advantage of the expected boom.
Right now, there is no doubt that Edgemont is getting the big defense "play" in this part of the country. Dozens of trailer houses - probably more than a hundred altogether - can be seen on vacant lots all over town. One enterprising trailer house dealer has six or eight marked "for sale" on a vacant lot as one enters the business district.
The Edgemont business section on Sunday was filled with parked automobiles, most of them with out-of-state licenses. Restaurants and drug stores appeared to be doing a good business in the middle of the afternoon. Liquor store dealers were getting their stock in readiness for the anticipated demand for bottled goods. Captain Wade, the labor relations man for the army, stationed at the armory, said Edgemont is doing a "nice job" in handling the influx of workers.
The armory, incidentally, had a goodly quota of workers even on Sunday afternoon. Several Hot Springs young men were on duty there, among them Bill Richer, Lefty Welch, and Dick Weyl.
Captain Wade said the army has had no trouble in getting workers for the project, but there is a shortage of engineers, which is a general condition over the country.
Terteling & Son, who have the major contracts for the project, has established Edgemont headquarters in the Methodist church basement. The understanding is that they will operate under open shop labor conditions, but this may be changed if the situation should change. Contractors usually prefer to ride along with the labor policies in the communities in which they work. This part of South Dakota has always been open shop territory. Unions have not been able to get much of a foothold here. If the Provo project can be built by non union labor, it probably will be; but if the contractors are unable to tap a sufficient pool of experienced non union workers to get the job done on time, they may be forced to call in the unions.
Living quarters in Edgemont are now hard to find. All available rooms have been rented. Families have made bedrooms out of their garages. One Hot Springs boy is said to be sleeping on a davenport in a home, in lieu of a bedroom.
Rents have gone up somewhat, it is said, and so have meals, although not to a marked extent. The boosts in meal prices have been made gradually, a nickel of so at a time.
Some Hot Springs men are carrying their lunch, thus avoiding the crush at the restaurants during the noon hour. They travel to Edgemont in the morning and back in the evening, five or six in a car. Transportation in this manner is cheap.
The highway to Edgemont has become rather rough due to the heavy travel in the last month. Some observers doubt it will stand up all summer if travel gets any heavier.
Ernest Wight, deputy sheriff under Clarence Hall, resigned his position and began work last week as senior guard on the Provo project at Edgemont. Sheriff Hall said Mr. Wight's place has not been fill as yet.
Mrs. John Sweem began work this morning as stenographer on the Provo project at Edgemont. Mrs. Sweem has been employed as secretary to Attorney E. B. Adams for the past several years.
H. L. Hopper reported at Edgemont this morning to begin work as a timekeeper on the Provo project. Mr. Hopper recently gave up his Denver Post agency here to E. F. Wiswell.
Herman Hansen and Harry Thomas went to visit the new project at Provo Monday.
George Abrogast of Colorado came Thursday as relief agent during the rush. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Piel and family moved back to the section house.
The new restaurant is nearing completion and Ethel Condit will be the new proprietress.
Mrs. Graham came up from Hazard, Neb., Saturday morning to spend the week-end with her husband. He is the railroad boss.
Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Johnson and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Johnson and family spent Saturday evening at Edgemont to help the ladies' mother celebrate her birthday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thompson came up Sunday to visit her brother, Albert Soske, and son, Robert.
Mrs. Andrew Gossel was taken ill Saturday evening, and Dr. Olsen was called from Hot Springs. Mrs. Gossel was taken to Hot Springs for medical treatments.
Miss Tina and sister, Miss Jansjie Noble, of Mule Creek came down Sunday and spent the day in the home of Mrs. Leonard Rickard.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hatz and Mr. and Mrs. Bradford and sons were down Sunday evening from Deadwood to visit their friend, Ethel Condit.
Miss Mary Manders spent the week-end with her sister, Kathryn, here as usual. Miss Mary has been chief operator at the Chadron telephone exchange for several years, but will go to Provo to take charge of the office there in the near future. She will be assisted by several other operators at the switchboard.
Misses Kathryn and Mary Manders drove to Provo Sunday to inspect Mary's new home. Miss Lucille Manders and brother Eugene, accompanied them.
Kenneth Halls is working on the government branch job of the Provo defense project in Hot Springs.
HERE'S NOT SO GOOD NEWS on the subject of bus transportation from Hot Springs to Provo. It comes from the passenger traffic manager of the Burlington Trailways headquarters in Chicago:
"Referring further to your letter of March 21 suggesting the establishment of service between Provo and Hot Springs:
"I have had our local people look into this matter very carefully, and the result of the investigation leads us to the conclusion that we could not undertake this service at the present time. Much of the highway between Hot Springs and Provo is hardly suitable for bus operation, nor does our investigation indicate that any very large number of the employees of the Provo activity will reside in Hot Springs."
The Star thinks the Burlington traffic manager may be wrong on the number of Provo workers who will live in Hot Springs. We suspect that a lot of them will live here, especially those with families who are unable to find living quarters in Edgemont.
A young man was in The Star office yesterday, to see if this news paper had any furnished apartments advertised for rent. He said he could find nothing desirable in Edgemont, and besides, he added, rents were shooting sky-high.
Sleeping rooms for single men were renting for $18 a month, he said. Two meals a day in a private home cost $28 a month. These prices do not sound exorbitant, but they are somewhat above normal.
Probably fifty Hot Springs men and women now work either in Edgemont or in Provo on the project. Most of them commute back and forth each day in private cars, several riding in each car.
Very likely most Hot Springs men and women on the project will continue to use private automobiles for transportation. So long as the tires hold out, this should be the most satisfactory way to get back and forth, as well as the cheapest. It begins to look as though it might be the only way.
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. DeLong and family of Vale, Ore., arrived in Hot Springs Tuesday evening and plan to make their home here. Mr. DeLong, who has been employed on an ordnance project at Parsons, Kan., has been transferred here for employment on the Provo project.
Five engineers from the Hot Springs reclamation office, who have been working on the Angostura project, have been transferred to the Black Hills ordnance depot at Provo for a temporary period. They are H. V. Lounsbury, Marcus Hilden, R. V. Linderman, Lloyd Sundahl, and John D. Lemons. The started work there this morning.
WASHINGTON, April 16 (AP) - Representative Case (Rep., S. D.) said today that army engineers were studying the feasibility of constructing a cantonment in the Black Hills area of South Dakota in the event further expansion of the army required increased facilities.
Case said also that benefits from national defense projects located in certain South Dakota communities were spreading out to other sections. He reported the Eyrich limestone quarry at Loring was in line to get a subcontract for furnishing the crushed rock on the construction job at Provo, where the Black Hills ordnance depot is under construction.
Case also said he would present to the contractor on the Provo job statements which he had collected from superintendents on the Indian reservations on the number of Indians experienced in road building, concrete work and rough carpentry.
Cement for the Provo project, he noted, is being produced at the state cement plant in Rapid City.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Klein of Gettysburg have rented an apartment at the DeLuxe tourist court on College hill. Mr. Klein, who is employed as a carpenter on the Provo project, is a brother of Mrs. Art Hughes and Lee Klein.
J. G. Weber began work Monday as truck driver on the Provo project. Reuben Merrill, who has been assisting Mr. Weber at the Terry Carpenter service station, has taken over its management. Mr. and Mrs. Weber, who have been residing in the rear of the station, plan to move Friday to 104 Jennings avenue.
Twenty-three houses and apartments in Hot Springs, which were listed with the Chamber of Commerce housing service, have been rented since the Provo project opened, it was reported today. These twenty-three places bring their owners a total of $607 rent each month.
The service reported that as yet there hasn't been much call for single rooms, but it is believed that single workers will start calling for rooms here as work progresses.
To date, most of the renters have been men who brought their families with them and plan to live here for the duration.
John Seeley began work this morning as a carpenter on the Provo project.
Mrs. Leora Roycroft and son, E. R. Estes, of Moose Pass, Alaska, were through Hot Springs the last of the week on their way to Edgemont for a visit with their son and brother, who is employed on the Provo project.
WASHINGTON, April 20 (AP) - Representative Case (Rep., S. D.) reports that the defense facilities section of the federal works agency has agreed to send an engineer to Edgemont and Sturgis, S. D., to report on sewerage and water problems growing out of defense and military establishment expansion in those areas.
The congressman said the engineer would be sent from the Chicago regional office to determine what system could be given Edgemont to provide sufficient sanitary and water facilities in connection with the construction of the Black Hills Ordnance depot at Provo.
From there, he will go to Sturgis to look into sewerage problems resulting from expansion of military facilities at Fort Meade.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Thompson of Harrison were visiting her brother, Albert Soske, and son, Robert, Tuesday evening.
Ivan Walters came home from Missouri Monday of last week to assist his mother with her sale which was held at her place Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Stearns and daughters and Mrs. Dunbar were transacting business at Hot Springs Thursday.
Wyoma Sturdivant and Elnor Johnson each missed a day of school last week.
Art Honadel and family moved last week to the Ernest Heppner place. The boys are going to the Plains Valley school now, but Miss Betty did not start.
Wyoma Sturdivant was a passenger to Edgemont Saturday morning, returning Sunday morning. She spent the night with Grandma Hoar.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunbar received word that his nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus, are the parents of a big baby girl born April 15th at the hospital at Chadron. All concerned are doing fine, even Daddy.
Everybody is very glad that we had such a fine rain and it came down so slow all of it went into the ground.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Piel and his mother made a business trip to Alliance Sunday. As it was so muddy they had to go the long way by Hot Springs.
Mrs. Wilbur Louis came down from Upton, Wyo., one day last week to stay for an indefinite time in the home of her father.
Don Jorgensen came Tuesday as agent here until they can get the permanent one.
Well, traffic is very good these last few weeks. A person has to look every direction before crossing the streets - something we never had to do before.
Mrs. Lucile Lesurer of Deadwood is assisting Mrs. Condit in the cafe.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Robison took Mrs. Pierce to Edgemont hospital Sunday. She was feeling quite badly. Hope she will soon be well again.
Andrew Gossel went to Hot Springs and brought his wife and children home. Mrs. Gossel is feeling quite well again.
Mrs. James Bridgeman began work Monday in Edgemont in the office of the contractor on the Provo project.
Mr. and Mrs. "Cappy" Young and family of Bassett, Neb., have moved here and will make their home. Mr. Young, who has employment on the Provo project, is the son of F. L. Young of Hot Springs.
My paper states that the contractors at the Provo works have encountered rattlesnakes and the state snake employment officer has been called to the scene. It is stated that Mr. Jackley will spend a week there teaching the men where to find the snake dens and then they will have to look after it themselves and catch the snakes as they emerge from their holes.
PIERRE, April 22 (AP) - A forty-mile an hour speed limit was imposed on four highways entering Sioux Falls and a thirty-five mile an hour limit was set on a stretch between Rapid City and the airbase there by order of the South Dakota state highway commission, issued today.
The thirty-five mile limit on highway 16 between Rapid City and Box Elder was established under the zoning power of the commission, at the request of federal engineers supervising the airbase construction.
Secretary Harry Westphal also announced the first construction project approved for this year - ten miles of accepted road in Fall River county to connect highway 18 with the Black Hills ordnance depot. It will consist of hard surfaced highway for heavy loads and will be paid for entirely with federal money.
Mr. and Mrs. "Cappy" Young and family of Bassett, Neb., who recently moved here, have rented the Hummel cottage on Eighth street. Mr. Young is employed on the Provo project.
FALL RIVER COUNTY people should become alert to the fact that the construction of the ordnance depot at Provo will not be without problems for this whole area. And one of the big problems will be the maintenance of healthful living conditions - for we must recognize that with the coming of thousands of strangers, conditions will arise which could adversely affect the health of the county. Some of these strangers may be germ-carriers, others may bring contagious diseases into our midst, a few will be careless in their living habits.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce has made up its collective mind to put on a stag party for the men of Provo which will eclipse anything of its kind ever attempted in this part of the Black Hills.
All the razzle-dazzle effects, all the glamour, all the entertainment and food and drink which make stag parties notable events in the lives of the male gentry, will be available Saturday night, May 2, as the Jaycees and businessmen of Hot Springs gather with their guests in the Odd Fellows hall for a night of frivolity and good fellowship, of excellent "eats" and entertainment. The party will begin at 9 o'clock and run until the "last dog is hung."
The idea of the stag party, as explained by a Jaycee official, is to get the key men on the Provo project to Hot Springs for a rousing welcome and good time. The Jaycees have obtained a list of 105 such persons - the army group and general contractors and sub-contractors. Many of the 105, when asked if they would like to come here for the party, evinced a keen desire to attend. Nothing, they said, would keep them away except, possibly, hell, high water, or a Japanese invasion of the Black Hills.
In addition to the men of Provo, others who will attend as guests will be head men at the cement products plant in Trimmer addition and farmer friends of businessmen.
The stag party is strictly an invitation affair, sponsored by the Junior Chamber for the businessmen of Hot Springs. Tickets will be sold for four smackers apiece, but each ticket will be good for two persons - the purchaser and his guest. The 105 Provo men will be assigned to ticket buyers who have no special guests they wish to bring. Those who wish to bring their own guests will, of course, be permitted to do so.
The lunch being planned for the evening by a committee in charge of "Bud" Estes promises to be a humdinger. Eight different kinds of cold meats, besides bologna and "hot dogs," will be set in tempting array on long tables. Twenty gallons of baked beans will be prepared by an expert in the culinary art. All kinds of cheese, celery, buns, hard rolls, bread, popcorn, pretzels, and hot and cold drinks will be available.
Norman Jenniges will be in charge of the evening's games, and a "barber shop quartet," composed of some of Hot Springs' most tuneful singers, will entertain at various moments during the party.
The hot spot of the evening's entertainment undoubtedly will be a one-girl floor show, brought here from Denver at considerable expense. This young woman, whose act is not unlike that made celebrated by Sally Rand, is booked through Radio Artists, Inc., and comes highly recommended. Her performance has been termed an artistic triumph.
The Star has been asked to publish a special Junior Chamber of Commerce edition for Saturday, May 2.
It will be distributed free to the guests at the stag party, as well as to regular subscribers here in Hot Springs.
The purpose of the stag party is to acquaint the army men, contractors, and other key men on the Provo defense depot with Hot Springs, and to get them to coming here this summer for business and recreation.
Hot Springs has many attractions which should intrigue these men and their families. It has good stores in which to shop. It has a good motion picture theater and a warm water plunge which is second to none in this part of the country. It has good hotels and restaurants, and not far to the north are Wind Cave and Custer state parks.
The Junior Chamber wants the men of Provo to know Hot Springs and its attractions. The stag party has been planned with the idea that friendship can be established between the two which will be mutually congenial and profitable. It is an idea worthy of support by business and professional men and all others interested in creating a tieup between Hot Springs and the many men who will be engaged this summer on the great defense project at Provo.
The U. S. civil service commission is recruiting inspectors (general construction), inspectors (safety), surveymen, and rodmen and chainmen for employment at the Black Hills ordnance depot, Edgemont.
Salaries for these positions range up to $2,300 per year, with time and one-half paid for work in excess of 40 hours a week.
Persons who are qualified for these positions are urged to apply. Applications of persons who are not interested in employment at the Black Hills ordnance depot may be considered for employment elsewhere in the middle west.
IN LOOKING for "Provo items" in this week's Edgemont Tribune, we found these:
"Steve Mader and his big pipe are to be seen on the street corners these days, as Steve was recently appointed to the traffic squad, and is really keeping a sharp eye on traffic violators, regardless of whom they may be. Stop signs that had been badly needed have now been installed, and the 'natives' are starting to cut out the jay walking."
"The Buckingham Transportation company announces that it is now giving daily service through Edgemont and to Provo, and is erecting a loading dock near the Red Star service station. The company has overnight deliver from Denver."
" Edgemont can feel glad that the main streets were given the finishing touches last summer, as they will see some heavy traffic this summer."
"In spite of the hustle and bustle in Edgemont, some folks are still finding time to plant a victory garden."
"At the rate trailer houses are arriving in Edgemont, there will soon be more trailer houses than regular houses."
Edward F. Gainor to United States of America, ne 1/4, section 19-10-2.
PROVO, April 27 (AP) - The change from a peaceful rural life in this little foothills town where only the train whistle broke the silence into a hustling wartime boom town is being taken with ease by Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Dunbar.
But they confessed today they are a little dazed by the activity around this way-station of the Burlington railroad where the appearance of a single stranger used to become conversation and cause for speculation. Provo was the center of life for a township with only 70 permanent residents, and the Dunbars' grocery store was the center of that.
They still are a little astounded by the selection of their village of a railroad depot, grocery store, church and several dwellings as the site for a huge ordnance depot.
They see through the dust across the street from their store a new building - the first to go up in many years on property which no one wanted before.
And when they go to town - in Edgemont, seven miles away, they see more of the same conditions. But let's stay with the Dunbars and watch the activity here for a bit.
The demand for property here is good, but the prices are high - so high the Dunbars fear for the future of their village.
The most desirable lots were offered at $1,000 each, without any takers. The prices were dropped to $250, but still without any appreciable increase in activity. These demands for boom prices, the Dunbars fear, are delaying "the civic development of Provo."
Streams of passing trucks rumble toward the project. From their back door, the storekeepers see armed guards at the site, and down the road beyond them dust swirls upward from the many tractors at work.
Spotted here and there are numerous trailer houses. A cow grazes nearby, undisturbed by the noise and confusion.
But if the Dunbars are wondering about it now, they may expect to be confounded when hundreds upon hundreds of men will be living in nearby dormitories built by contractors on grassland where sheep and cattle have roamed unmolested except for the rattlesnakes.
But no prospective project employee should worry about sleeping and eating facilities. A mess and sufficient barracks are being erected at the site to provide for employees. In addition to regular camp facilities, a trailer camp area, furnished with water, lights and sanitary facilities, has been provided. It is also intended to establish a grocery store in the trailer camp area and to erect a post exchange, where light meals, tobacco and necessary supplies can be purchased.
And when the Dunbars go to town at Edgemont, they still will feel the crush of crowds.
The streets of Edgemont are lined with parked cars; the sidewalks around cafes and bars are filled at mealtime and after working hours. In vacant lots are scores of trailer houses, and in some spots bedding is laid in the open for the night.
Housing problems are tremendous. Every available room is rented; garages and porches have been converted into sleeping quarters; trailers have been snapped up. And still men sleep under the stars at the edge of the Black Hills.
Prices are high compared with a year ago. $15 a person is typical room rent. Every business building in town is taken for the first time since whisper of oil started a boom 20 years ago.
Along the principal business street of Edgemont are five bars, six cafes, two pool rooms and one barber shop in addition to a hotel, hardware store, general store and a few other long-established businesses.
The largest cafe and bar are located in a corner, two-story building - the best location in town - on which two Edgemont men are reported to have made a killing." The story is that they purchased the building from an absentee owner for $2,700 and in turn leased it for $9,000 for two years.
The cafe, where the minimum price of a meal is 50 cents, is the busiest place in town, with exception of the army engineers' office in the armory. Every chair is taken at meal time, and as soon as one diner leaves, another is seated. The place is open 24 hours.
City officials find traffic problems for the first time in their memory. Stop signs have been erected along main street, and new fire-fighting equipment is on the way.
The Dunbars used to walk down the street and greet everyone they saw. If present conditions are a sample, they may be crowded off the wide walks in another few weeks by thousands of strangers.
CUSTER -- Heavy machinery is being moved to the lime quarry at Loring this week in preparation for supplying crushed stone for the Provo munitions dump. Harold Eyrich has the contract to supply 300,000 cubic yards, which will call for the loading of 75 cars each day.
There are 75 men at work at the site at present, building a 1,700 foot siding to the quarry. A primary 42 by 48 trailer crusher weighing 168,000 pounds is being moved to the quarry this week, and actual crushing is expected to be started next week. A 200 horsepower diesel engine will drive the crusher.
The S. S. Roberts Construction company of Rapid City has the sub-contract for the screening and will put in a plant to handle the operations. Owen Mann of Belle Fourche has the contract for steam shovel operations and will use two shovels.
The output for the Provo job will be 3,600 tons per day. The Terteling Construction company was awarded the contract for the job at Provo, and Mr. Eyrich supplies the stone to the company.
Mr. Eyrich said three crews would be employed and the men will be transported to the job from Custer by bus. - Chronicle.
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