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Show stroll in round town DELIA. UTAH Population 1703 Elevation, 4,649 City Water and Sewer Electee Service Surfaced Streets Churches, Civic Clubs, Bank Veteran's Groups Hospital, Library Municipal Airport Municipal Swimming Pool FAA Station Volunteer Fire Department MILLARD COUNTY Population 7,877 Grazing and Industrial Lands Alfalfa Seed, Honey Poultry and Turkey Raising Stockraising, Dairy Farming Ducks, Geese, Pheasants Deer, Cottontail Rabbiti Trout, Bass, and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Livel WEATHER c.immor tpmneratures reigned supreme during the past week. FAA Station records show a high of 86 on the 17th. The low for the same period was 44 degrees. A trace of moisture was noted June 18. A total of .03 of an inch was measured on June 13th and 15th. SCHOOL LIBRARY Parents and children alike are reminded that the library at Delta Elementary School is open every Wednesday through the summer months at 10:00 a.m. Mrs. Skid-more, Skid-more, school librarian, is on duty to make sure that children check out books for their ages a n d a special story-telling hour is offered from time to time. SLOP-HOP "Slop-Hop" is the name of the dance being sponsored this Friday June 21, 9:00 p.m. by the Teen-Age Record Rally Committee. Refreshments Refresh-ments will be served and there is a charge of fifty cents a person. The dance is being held at the Stake House. Hinckley Matrons Mother Dies, Rites Held Wednesday Funeral services were held June 19 at Smithfield for Mary Laura Merrill, mother of Harriet Spend-love Spend-love of Hinckley. Mrs. Merrill died of natural causes June 15. She has spent many months at the home of her daughter in Hinckley. Mrs. Merrill was born in Hyde Park Feb. 21, 1881, a daughter of Hans Peter and Laura Georgina Johnson Hansen and spent her childhood there. When she was a-bout a-bout ten her family moved to Preston. Pres-ton. There she attended Oneida A-cademy A-cademy and gave the salutory address ad-dress at graduation. Mrs. Merrill was a Sunday School teacher and secretary of the YW-MIA, YW-MIA, Relief Society visiting teacher and active in temple work. She married Olonzo David Merrill Feb. 23, 1904 and moved to Richmond. Rich-mond. Here her nine children were born. In Sept. 1934 she moved to Smithfield where she has since resided. re-sided. She is survived by her children: Mrs. Marion E. (Georgia) Allen, Clearfield; Mrs. Vern (Olive) Fillmore, Fill-more, Corinne; Mrs. Waldo (Linda) Peterson, Kalispel, Mont.; Mrs. Ernest Er-nest (Sarah) Hobbs, Palisades, Idaho; Id-aho; Stanley Merrill, Pocatello, Idaho; Mrs. Blaine (Harriet) Spend-love, Spend-love, Hinckley; Samuel W. Merrill, Preston; Mrs. Thomas (Julia) Ber-ryessa, Ber-ryessa, San Jose, Calif.; Mrs. Ronald Ron-ald (Alice) McBride, Salt Lake City; 32 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren; brother and s sters, Dora Brisco, Pocatello, Olive Maughan, Tempe, Ariz, and James Hansen of Preston. ' , '! I V-,v I ; MARY LAURA MERRILL I ileeeives Holt M ss Dena Harder, Leamington, received the hand-carved name belt award from the Roundup Cow-Belles Cow-Belles at the recent Millard County Livestock Show. Miss Harder received the award on her fine 4-H record books and general record as a 4-H entry. The belt was awarded at the Livestock Show Banquet by Jeannie Taylor member of the local CowBelle unit "SERVING Volume 53 Number 51 motion Th's is the second in a series of articles prepared to set forth the important phases of the Water Wa-ter Conservancy Act, Utah Code Annotated as amended by the Thirty-fourth Legislature of the State of Utah 1961. For complete " r$ X 4 7 , , c T I MARY NELSON TALBOT Mrs. Mary H. Talbot Dies of Causes Incident to Age Mary Nelson Talbot, 75, died at West Millard Hospital Monday at approximately 4:00 p.m. of causes incident to age. Mrs. Talbot was born in Deseret Nov. 15, 1887 to Jacob and Pauline Jensen Nelson. She was married to John S. Talbot June 25, 1905 in Fillmore. The marriage was later solemnized at the Manti LDS Temple. Tem-ple. Mr. Talbot died April 7, 1963. She was active in various LDS Church auxiliaries, particularly the Relief Society. Survivors include three sons and five daughters: Roy, Downey, Calif.; Clark, Earl, Mrs. Ian (Norma) (Nor-ma) McKellar, all of Magna; Mrs. Les (Mable) Welton, Delta; Mrs. John (Lola) Orsel, Gardenia, Calif.; Mrs. John (Arvella) Weilders and Mrs. Cornell (Alene) Vest, both of Salt Lake City; 19 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren; one s ster, Mrs. George O. (Lorena) Memmott, Springville. Funeral services will be held Thursday, June 20 (today) in Lynn-dyl Lynn-dyl LDS Ward Chapel at 1:00 p.m. Friends may call at the Relief Society So-ciety room from 11:00 a.m. until time of services. Internment w 11 be in the Lynn-dyl Lynn-dyl Cemetery under the direction of Nickle Mortuary. DriS Music Dept. Practicing for Coming Events Mr. Don DaGrade, DHS Music Dept. Head states that band students stu-dents are busy practicing for several sev-eral forthcoming celebrations. A busy schedule awaits the local bands. The activities will include .jarUcipation in Delta's Fourth of July Celebration both in the parade and the presentation of a concert. The following Saturday, July 6 the band will participate in two celebrations. In the forenoon band members travel to Fillmore to appear ap-pear in that city's parade in conjunction con-junction with the Horse Racing. The afternoon f nds the band in Minckiey presenting a band contort con-tort as part of the Post Office dedication dedi-cation ceremonies. In mid-July, the Delta band will ravel to Ncphi to appear in the Jle Stampede parade. July 24, the band takes to the road aga n headed for the Salt take City Days of 49 Celebration. In mid-August the band appears in the parade of the Days of the Old West Rodeo held in Deseret. Mr. DaGrade states that special incerts are in the summer schedule. sched-ule. These will be presented in Delta. Del-ta. Dates will be announced later. Ceg nning students in the area who are interested in registering r.-.ay still do so, according to Mr. DaGrade. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Parents of band students are urged to help their students reach their band practices. Band music adds much to any celebrat'on and a band director needs full support from his band members. This can best be done by appearing at scheduled sched-uled practices on time.) Z7 THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, June 20, 1963 details refer to the act itself. Article Ar-ticle prepared by Bruce H. Anderson, Ander-son, Water Use Specialist. Utah Stale University Extens'on Service. Ser-vice. These articles are prepared so the people in the Sevier Drainage Basin will know the details and importance of formulatng a Sevier Se-vier River Conservancy District of all the counties involved. As was noted in the first article of this series, the organization of a Water Conservancy District arises from a need for long range multipurpose multi-purpose programs in water resource development. The formation of a Water Conservancy Con-servancy District requires an official offi-cial act by the court in response to a request presented by the peo pie of a specific area. The request is in the form of a petition and shall set forth the following: 1. The proposed name of the district. dis-trict. 2. That property within the pro posed district which will be benefited by the accompish-ment accompish-ment of the purposes e.nnaara-ted e.nnaara-ted in section 73-9-3 of the Conservancy Act, which include in-clude the conservation, developing devel-oping and stabilizing supplies of water for domestic, irrigation, irriga-tion, power, manufacturing and other beneficial uses. ' 3. A general description of the purpose of the contemplated improvement and of the territory terri-tory to be included in the district. dis-trict. 4. The assessed value of all irrigated irri-gated land within the boundaries boun-daries of the proposed district shall be listed. 5. A general designation of divisions divi-sions of the district and the number of directors of the district dis-trict proposed for each subdivision. sub-division. To be valid the petition must De signed by at least 20 per cent of j the owners of the land within one ' county or ten per cent, (or five hundred) which ever is lesser, of the owners of the land in each county or a part thereof to be included in-cluded in the district, but not em braced within the limits of any in-f corporated city or town. Each tract of land shall be listed opposite the name of the signer, the land in each ownership, together with improvements im-provements thereon. The indicated land must have an assessed value of not less than $33. The petition must be signed by not fewer than ' THESE PICTURES show summer school at the Delta High School in fu'l swing. Every week day morning cars are lined up in front of the high school at 6:00 a.m. with three classes beg'nning at that hour. Mrs. Dudley Crafts and Dav'd and Anita Crafts spent the weekend in Salt Lake City visiting with the Jim Knight family and Mrs. Thenel da Parker. They attended the grad-uat.on grad-uat.on exercises at the University field house where Don Parker received re-ceived his bachelor of science degree de-gree from the U. of U. MRS. LYDIA EKINS will mark her 80th b rthday with an open house Thursday. June 27th at her home in Hinckley. Mrs. Ekins requests re-quests no gifts, please. Friends are Invited to call between 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. era Conservancy District I 1 jp z- -ir-dl t NO ' I V r " ; 3 Delta, Utah Copy 10c five per cent (or 100), whichever! is the lesser, of the owners of land ' embraced in the l'mits of each in-' corporated city and town, situated' in the proposed district. Each ownership, own-ership, together with improvements thereon and must have an assessed value of not less than $300. When a petition is filed, the court or judge shall fix a time and place not less than 60 days nor more than 90 lays from the date o filing for a hearing. A bond must be filed prior to the hearing date set by the court suf-fie'ent suf-fie'ent to pay all cosls connected with the proceedings. Further information regarding this subject may be obtained by contacting board members of the Sevier River Bas'n Water Users Inc. The next article in this series will be entitled "Protesting the Petition". Howard Hardy Nominated for Hinckley Job President Kennedy's nominations for three Utah postmasters were received in the Senate recently and referred to the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, the office of Frank E. Moss announced. Last week, the President accepted accept-ed from Senator Moss the name of Howard Hardy to be Postmaster at Hinckley. I The Committee is expected to act on the appointments at its next meeting, the Moss office said. HOSPITAL NOTES- Mrs. Ronald (Wanda) Bates, medical, medi-cal, admitted June 18. William Crafts, medical, admitted June 19. Charles N. Rodman, medical, admitted ad-mitted June 19. Lulu Cropper, medical, admitted June 17. Louise Nielson, surgical, admitted June 13. Terry Abbott, medical, admitted June 18. Phyllis Wood, surgical, admitted June 18. Bertrice Erlcksen, surgical, admitted admit-ted June 17. David Crafts is in Fort Ord, Calif. for two weeks summer training with the Army Reserves. THIS PHOTO shows Mr. ray ' Jacobson in his industrial math class. Part of the class discussion centers around important algebraic alge-braic equations and part in prac-t prac-t cal prob'.ems and their solutions aided by demonstration of scientific scien-tific principles. Other classes not shown but which are well attended are: Shorthand. Type. Bookkeeping and hop. Miss Hansen also has a fi'.'l schedule of home econo-m econo-m cs studen'.s. Our school principal, Mr. C. L Bennett, has encouraged students end adults io take advantage of these courses. The P.T.A. and Mrs. Ekins have also helped to bring this new program before the pub'ic. ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC A Primary and State Orthopedic Clinic will be held Friday, June 21 j ; at Delta irst ward. Application j blanks are obtainable from family j I physicians. 7 VAZLEY" $4.00 a year in advance SENATOR Frank E. Moss (D-Utah) (D-Utah) will be present at the dedication ded-ication ceremonies of the Hinckley Hinck-ley Post Office. Saturday, July 6. Frank Anderson, Assistant to the Regional Director in Denver will also be in attendance, according to Mrs. Beth Brown, Post Mistress. Mist-ress. The post office, located in a building owned by Arthur H. Reeve, retired Postmaster, has undergone extensive remodel'ng and installation of new equipment. equip-ment. Residents of Hinckley extend a cordial invitation to all to attend the dedicafon ceremonies. Full details of the ceremony and a brief history of the Hinckley Post Office will be published next week. U. P. Proposes the Discontinuance of Trains M. 9 and 10 A notxe of concern to the area is posted in the local Union Pacific Depot. The notice is one of a proposed pro-posed discontinuance of Passenger Train Service and a change of schedules. The notice reads in part "Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1416 Dodge Street, Omaha 2, Nebraska, hereby gives notice under Section 13a(l) of the Interstate Commerce Act that effective July 15, 1963, it will discontinue passenger trains Numbers 9 & 10 (City of St. Louis) between Ogden. Utah and Los An geles, Calif." A list of the stations that these trains serve is given plus the pro posed change of schedule. Delta is one of the listed stations. Persons des ring to object to the proposed discontinuance and change of schedules should notify the Interstate Commerce Commission Commis-sion at Washington 25, D. C. of such objection and the reasons therefor, at least 15 days before the effective effec-tive date of the proposed discontinuance discon-tinuance and change of schedules. The notice is dated June 4, 1963. J 4& r. I f ' 4 I v v.- 5 i THIS PHOTO shows Mr. Dana Piatt teaching his class in business busi-ness English. He has a group of Vo n . rv n Parade Route Is Longer This Year for 4th of July Festivities; Fl At the Monday night meeting of the Fourth of July Committee, Ar-jaan Ar-jaan Dekker, Parade Chairman, announced an-nounced that the parade route was definitely established. The parade will form between 1st and 2nd South on 4th West and travel the length of Main street to Second East where it will turn North and break up. It was hoped that the parade could travel to 3rd East and turn North but the detoured traffic traf-fic from the overpass will be using that street. Mr. Dekker announced that prizes priz-es for floats will be the same as last year. He, also noted that the fioats will fall Into two divisions, Commercial and Organization. Prizes Priz-es for the Commercial Division will be $15.00, $10.00 and $5.00 advertising adver-tising space in the Millard County Chronicle and cash prizes for the Organization division will be $25.00 for first, $15.00 for second and $10. for third. Many businesses and organizations, or-ganizations, church and civic, are planning their floats, reported Mr. Dekker. Some changes in the celebration were noted at Monday's meeting. There will be no band concert the night of July 3 as originally announced. an-nounced. The band will perform and march with the parade on July SENATOR Thorpe Waddingham was named as pres'dent of the Utah Bar Ass'n last week at the three-day convention of the association as-sociation in Salt Lake City. Sylvester C. Smith, Jr., Newark, N. J. president of the American Bar Ass'n addressed the convention conven-tion and told the lawyers that they have a pr'mary duty to "interpret "in-terpret the profession to the public". pub-lic". Mr. Smith declared that the public has a right to expect the profession to state and restate with courage the principle that "compliance with the f 'nal order of a court proceeding is essential to our rule of law." Speaking at the same session was Rear Adm. William C Mott, Judge Advocate General of the U. S. Navy and a representative of the ABA's standing committee for education on communism. Mrs. Waddingham accompanied accompan-ied Senator Waddingham to the convention. Queen Tryouts Set for June 29 Queen Tryouts for Hinckley's July 23 and 24th Celebration will be held Saturday, June 29 8:00 p.m. at Hinckley Fairgrounds. The tryouts are open to all single girls and there is no age limit. The public is invited to attend the tryouts. Committee in charge of the Rodeo Ro-deo are throwing In a bit of rodeo flavor With the tryouts. Riders will be on bucking horses and bulls and to top it all off is a calf-roping contest pitting Ned Teeples against Allen Jenkins. Each man will be roping five calves. Winner will be the fastest roper and a jackpot of $100 awaits him. Circle June 29 and attend the queen tryouts in Hinckley. Hinck-ley. Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Peterson and ch Idren, Allen, Kathie and Lynn, of Kearns spent the weekend in Delta with parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Peterson and brothers Carlyle and Shirley and families. - students and adults. The latest accepted usage of punctuation, spelling, pronunciation, and word study are d'scussed. I 1 oafs Galore 4th and present a concert prior to the bell-ringing ceremony and patriotic pa-triotic program scheduled to get underway at 11:00 a.m. Seats will be provided under the shade trees at Delta High School. Schedule for Julv 3 is a "Round- the-BIock" parade at 6:00 p.m.; Boxing and Wrestling, 8:00 p.m. followed by a dance at 9:00 p.m. Place and sponsoring organization of the July 3 dance will be announced an-nounced next week. Committeeman David Moodv. in charge of concessions announced several more organizations had contacted him durine the week a- bout setting up various concessions. mere will be games of skill, rides, a photo booth and food booths for the amateur carnival. All oreaniz- ations are invited to enter a con cession. WEDNESDAY, JULY 3RD 6:00 p.m. "Round-the-Block" parade pa-rade 7:00. p.mBand Concert (Jr. Hi. School lawn) 8:00 p.m. Boxing and Wrestling matches (Palomar) 9:30 p.m. Open Air Dance THURSDAY, JULY 4TH Daylight Salute Sunrise Flag-raising ceremony at school lawn 9:00 a.m. Parade (Man Street) 11:00 a.m. Program (High School lawn) 11:30 a.m. Talent Contest 1:00 p.m. Kids Sports (High School and Jr. High School Lawn) 1:00 p.m. Free Swimming at Delta's Del-ta's Municipal Pool 2:30 p.m. Special Sporting E-vents E-vents 2:30 p.m. Musical Feast (High School Lawn) 4:00 p.m. Swimming and Diving Meet (Pool) 5:30 p.m. Softball Game 7:00 pjn. Kids Dance 9:00 p.m. Aerial Fireworks Display Dis-play (Football Field) 10:00 p.m. Record Rally Highlight of the July 3 dance will be the announcement of the reigning royalty for the July 4th festivities. According to Mrs. Audrey Aud-rey Clements, voting is beginning to pick up. Many persons have donated do-nated a dollar towards the celebration cele-bration and received tickets making mak-ing them elegible to receive the complete camping outfit given a-way a-way by Delta City and enabling them to cast votes for their favorite favor-ite candidates. An announcement was made Wednesday morning that Carol Ann Farnsworth's name has been withdrawn from the Fourth Royalty Roy-alty contest as she is an attendant attend-ant to Miss Kris Hardy, Queen of Days of the Old West Rodeo. Miss Lexiane Merrill has been chosen to replace Miss Faxns-worth Faxns-worth in the contest and all votes cast for Miss Farnsworth to date will automatically become votes for Miss Merrill. Other contestants contest-ants are Susan Ashby, Sandra Lisonbee, Suzanne Law, Carol Ann Jeffery, Delene Ashby. Lois Brush, Gwen Stephenson and Ruth Anne Lyman. Ava Losee, in charge of the talent tal-ent contest, reminds all youngsters who are interested in entering the contest to register with her giving name, age, address and number to be presented. Mrs. Losee resides at 144 No. 400 West or call 5721. The Mayor Sez: "Got a flag? Fly it! Got a bell? Ring it! Join Deltans this Fourth of July and Let Freedom Really Ring with daylight salutes, parades, patriotic programs, band concerts, flag-raising ceremonies, games and dances", urges Mayor Ned M. Church as the June days roll by and the big day gets closer and closer. "I'm paticularly impressed with the plans for this year's celebration. celebra-tion. The sunrise flag-raising ceremony cere-mony should be well-attended and by having an early morning ceremony cere-mony Old Glory will be flying all day long", he continued. "At 11:00 a.m. Delta will join other cities and towns and communities com-munities acrois the nation with a bell ringing ceremony. We should bend forth every effort to make the Fourth of July and all it stands for live in the minds of our young people. Love of country is one of the greatest forces on earth." he added. "I urge all Deltans to join hands with the committee and make th;s Fourth of Juiy's celebration one Iong-to-be-reme:nbered. A lot of effort ef-fort has been expended by the committee and its plans look very good on paper. Let's ready our town and roil out the red carpet for our visitors and give them an old-fashioned celebration that will make them want more next year", he concluded. THE 7 UP's 4-H Cub held their 8th meeting June 15th at Jennifer I Nickel's home. Those present were vicKie Barney, L nda Van Wagoner, Wagon-er, Rita Mae Shields, Vada Lovell, Kay Abbott, who is a newcomer, Carla King who was a visitor and their leader Laura Lee Hansen. We made sugar and drop cookies. Our next meeting will be held June 22. |