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Show Utahs Fastest Crowing Newspaper, t a Microfilming Corp 14' Pierpont Ave. Hew i.3.5 And Continuing The Kane County Standard VOLUME XXIV NO. II KANAB, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 1956 Missionary Farewell Given In Honor of Farewell Party Is Given 28th For Lee G. Chamberlain Elder Workman - ORDERVILLE farewell testimonial was held at the Glendale Ward chapel Wednesday, December 28, for Elder Dee Workman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Workman. The following program was given: LDean in Anderson was charge. Song, "God Be With You Till We Meet Again; prayer, Charles C. Anderson; trio, Emily Spencer, Renee Bauer and Erroll Robinson accompanied by Leah Brinkerhoff; talk, Bp. Lue H. Brinkerhoff of the Glendale Bishopric; clarinet duet by Norma Brinkerhoff and Edith Ramsay; farewell address, President Jay Whiting of the Kanab Stake Presidency; duet, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mexwell; musical reading, Miss Mary Jean Dodds of Panguitch; vocal solo, "Friend of Mine, Charnelle McAllister A A News From Kanab i if si columnists always look back over the ending year in retrospect so I suppose that even one so unimportant as the Roving Reporter should do the same s was a good year, I befor most Kanabers it's true that Glen Canyon Dam, which was supposed to make us a second Las Vegas, didrvt get started, but maybe after the government builds a few more in Asia and Africa, theyll get around to us The uranium boom ended the same time that work assessment time , began not many uranium strikes that a mounted to .much although a number of people worked for companies who had tax money to invest (or waste, if you prefer) We had no catastrophes such as fires or floods, unless our drying spring winds could be so counted our cattlemen didnt do very well, however, but late summer rains helped the range land. We had new business firms starting up and a general condition of cleaning up and painting up that added to. the appearance of our town several new homes were constructed and sev- -' eral are in the process motels, cafes, garages and service stations did a good business and car salsemen had a field day that lasted all year Our high schoolers moved to a fine new building with no so showers or dressings rooms if you have a few thousands left over from 55 you could endow the school and have a shower or restroom named in your honor possible The high school dropped football after much debate and began a baseball program won a couple of games, too The Cowboys finally won a practice basketball game but remember that the Roving Reporter warned you in the first edition to be patient until the boys got the hang of things The motion pictures came back to Kanab and made three turn everybody leaned over backwards not to offend them were and "screaming scenes kept to a minimum its still too early to predict that Kanab is 1955 lieve, Si - Begin January 10 For Kano County Area & Tel. Ask Continued increases in the cost business emphasized substantially as a result of wage adlustments during the past two vears has resulted in the filing of a petition on January 5 by The Mounain States Telephone ) TJ-- f doing Company with the Public Serv-i'Commission of Utah, requests ing that body to review the C. in Eric Utah, earnings Aaberg, Vice President and General Manager, stated today. Aaberg said some Increase in rates was necessary in order that earnings would be sufficient to keep the business financially sound. Utahs telephone requirements continue to grow and it is important to the state that service be expanded to meet demands. To finance the increasingly large construction programs earnings must be at a level that will encourage investors to place their savings, he said. Current expenditures for additions to the Company's plant throughout the state are at the rate of about eleven million dollars per year with the 1956 requirements expected to exceed that of 1955, Aaberg pointed out that the wage increases will continue to keep telephone wages in line with those of other industries in communities where this company operates. Yearly wage contract negotiations in 1954 and 1955, both since the last rate adjustment was made In Utah, have added about $900,000 to the wage bill in the state. There are 3300 in the telephone employees state of Utah. About half of each dollar of telephone revenue is needed to meet payroll requirements. Costs of doing business have been poshed upward by increased prices for copper, steel, automobiles, building construction and. materials .used in daily operation, for new facilities and replacing worn out plant "We have a big job ahead of us to meet the requirements for more telephone service in the state of Utah and we are going ahead full speed toward that objective. It is essential that in doing so we keep the business financially sound In order to meet our obligations to the people of Utah, Aaberg stated. e Com-nanv- te() frontier. King of the Even b'ar killers need protection, Master Crockett. Seven million youngsters got the first Salk polio vaccine in 1955. Your March of Dimes funds developed this vaccine, tested it, provided the first shots within days after it was proclaimed safe and effective. Now, March of Dimes research is making it even more effective. But we must still remember those, bom too soon to be protected by the vaccine, who still need care and those tens of thousands who will be stricken in polio epidemics before the vaccine is made even more effective. -- - -n v X iitf CGOGT! ? GIK03 Ordcrvillo Daily Hows Happenings By ton visited with Mrs. Norene Porter Amy C. Stark, and the Arland Sunday. Mrs. Ben Picklesimer and chil dren of St. George, and Mrs. Lillian Christensen of Provo were visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Chamberlain Friday Brook-sby- Mr, and Mrs. Sterling Seeg-mille- r visited of Sprlndale friends and relatives here one day last week. Mrs. Marion Young, accomp- anied by her sister, Mrs. Afton Jameson of Kanab, spent sever- al days last week visiting with their mother, Mrs. Ida Ander- son. in Bakersfield, California, While there they made a tour Utahs Little Hollywood but of the Los Angeles Temple. prospects have improved Mr. and Mrs. Give Jolley of State Patrolman Johnson re- Orem visited at the home of ported that our county had a Mrs. Jolleys mother, Mrs. Eliza good traffic record the past year Cox, last week. ' one death and only a few bad Mrs. Martha Porter returned accidents The ratio of births over deaths home Saturday after an extend- was good also Kane County had ed visit in North Highlands, Cal74 recorded births and undoubt- ifornia, Burley, Idaho and north- edly more as some babies were ern Utah. I bom in 'the Garfield County Miss Patricia Reese, young were there Hospital twenty daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron 0f jagt Week. Mrs. Ramona Chamberlain took her daughter Fae Donna, and Miss Janet Carroll to St George Monday, where they are attending school. Around Kanab With the Roving Reporter Bib-sh- Tel. of Nows Items f First Aid Courses To testimonial was held for Elder Lee Cornell Chamberlain, son of Mr. and Mrs Cornell Chamber-lain- , on December 30th, in the Elementary School Gymnasium. ' .. Mountain States Review of Earnings missionary The entertainment was under the direction of Bishop Joseph C. Bolander, and Gordon Chamberlain of the YMMIA acted as Master of Ceremonies. t A short program was enjoyed, with a song, I Know That My Redeemer Lives, sung by Miss Corinne Chamberlain and Claude Bishop with Karen Bolander at the piano; Mrs. Elaine Young gave a comic reading; a trombone solo by Darel Lamb with Mrs. Lorene Lamb at the piano. The speaker was Mr. Stewart LeFevre of Panguitch. Lee responded with a short talk. Other activities of the evening were auctioning off of seven beautiful of Kanab. Elder Workman has graduated cakes and dancing. A very enfrom Valley High School at joyable time was had by all. Jias attended school at Dixie College and school at the CSU at Cedar City. He entered the LDS Mission home January 4th for a weeks instruction prior to filling a Mary and Norman Swapp left foreign mission in the Central Sunday for a vacation on the American Mission. His mother, coast. They visited relatives at Mrs. Geneve Workman, is spend- South Rim, Arizona, en route ing this week at Salt Lake City and plan to visit relatives and friends in Riverside, Pasadena with him. and Ridgecrest Sunday January 1st Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Judd has the pleasure Local of having Elder and Mrs. Mark Barbara and Whit Parry ar- E. Peterson and Miss Nora Petrived home Tuesday night from Shumway as guests. Elder Richfield erson wife for left and Salt Lake City and Chicago where Whit underwent surgery Sunday evening. on his right ear. Whit reports Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Judd gave that the operation was success- a dinner for Miss Nora Shumful and he feels fine. They will way on the 30th. Those present be here briefly before leaving were Nora, Dee Frost, Mrs. California where Barbara Jessel Brown, Mrs. Bertha Lewwill attend Market Week. Their is and Mr, and Mrs. Alvin Judd. son, Sean, has been staying with Frances and Clark Swapp have Barbara's mother in Los Angeles will return to Kanab with them. returned from a Christmas trip to Washington and Montana. Superintendent Davis made a They report that they were very business trip to Wayne County lucky, managed to escape storms last week. and floods all the way. $3.00 Yearly, 5c Single Copy Mr. and Mrs. Roland Cham berlain, and family, ana Mr. John Chamberlain spent Thurs day of last week visiting in Trop lc with Mr. and Mrs. Richard Mecham and family, deaths not all of them Kane entertained her young some from County residents of last week at friends Saturday Arizona Mrs. Lois Swapp furnthe occasion a party, birthday ished this information her sixth birthday. being 24 November was really the Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Adair big red letter day of the year thats the day this column was and daughter, Mrs. Norma Ham- bom I had high hopes of put blin, and her daughter. Rose, all ting Walter Winchell, Drew of Kanab, And Mr. and Mrs. Pearson and Dan Valentine out Adairs daughter, Afton of Whit- of business but so far nothing tier, California, visited in town . much has happened the John recently. son Rover (whose handwriting, Mr. and Mrs. . Don Wagner I think I recognize) offered her of Fredonia visited In services keeping Johnson on at thefamily home Sunday. Adair Ira the map I thank her, and I feel that we shouldnt neglect John President and Sister Delbert son so anything she cares to G. Taylor and son Robert of Rexcontribute to this column such burg, Idaho visited at the home as society events, weddings, club Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Crofts and civic activities at Johnson Friday of last week. Mr. Taylor will be faithfully reported be- was president of the mission sides Im running out of things where Lincoln and Bessie labor- to write about in Kanab. (Ed. ed. Note: That doesnt seem to keep Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hall of you from going on and on.) Harmony, visited at the Id like to suggest a project New home of Mrs. Ella Covington, for the Johnson Rover that would surely make news how and with other friends and rel- about starting up a guide serv- atives, Sunday. ice for the people who pass In sacrament meeting Sunday Johnson every week end for Miss Toni Sanders, daughter of those nature hikes and studies Mr. and Mrs. Gam Blackburn up In Skutampah pasture that was graduated from Primary inwould .fill one whole column to the MIA. Miss Dickie Lee possible Esplin was confirmed a member Most Kanabers were at the of the church by William Hea missionary party at the new gym ton, and her father, Richard to welcome in the new year the Esplin. The infant daughter of crowd was well behaved and not Henderson was blessed by so nosiy and for once there was her father and Donald Esplin, room to dance . and given the name of Connie, Sorry I missed out on the The infant daughter of Bp. and Roses blessed event, so please Sister Joseph Bolander was accept by belated congrats fatner and Cor- by her Thank you Mr. Rose for comand nell Chamberlain given the plimenting me on this column but Mr. Rose I wouldnt look name of Laureen. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Carroll, good in orchids! See you again next week if I Mrs. Martha Porter. Mrs. Lov- can find anything to write about ina Heaton and Miss Nellie Ilea- . - A number of townspeople were in St. George Wednesday of last week, attending the Priesthood Temple Excursion, among them were Mr. and Mrs. Byron er Bishop joseph Bolander, Mr and Mrs. Agnus Bishop, Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Crofts, Harvey Crofts, Darel Lamb, and Mr. and rS- - Wallace Slaugh. Fish-Rees- e. Mrs. Hester P. Heaton is vis Make Ready For January Success Sponsored by the Kane Countv Red Cross Chapter, a class in First Aid will be held two evenings a week, beginning January i 10th. The course will continue for fie weeks. Dr. P. G. Fulstow will be the Instructor. The class should be limited to not more than 21 people and approximate-1- 8 people have signed up for it. Those wishing to register for this very valuable instruction are asked to get in touch with Mrs. Gwen Craven, Fredonia. Mrs. Craven is the First Aid Chairman for the Red Cross. Textbooks and all the latest material relevant to this rapidly changing field have been procured and it is felt that such a course is most Important, both in the interests of Civil Defense and ordinary living. Classes will be from 7 to 9 p m. in the assembly room of the Kanab Elementary school on Tuesdays and Fridays. There will be ten two hour sessions. Hurricane High School Will Present Play Here Saturday "The Phantom of the High School, a mystery comedy, presented by the Hurricane High School wilt chill and thrill theatre goers of Kanab on Saturday, January 7th at the KHS. The play is directed by Lelwln drama coach. The Wilkinson, KHS Drama clas is sponsoring the show and will entertain their guests after the liens l!e;;:ni:gs Says Polio Leader January is the month for the annual Pilio Drive, says Mr. M. W. Beard, Kanab, chairman of the Kane County Pilio committee. e "Never before has the been greater to the March of Dines, to its promise of help and hope, to its volunteers. It is a challenge in terms of dollars; but the final reckoning is in terms of lives, he said. Mr. Beard went on to say that the needs of the 1956 March of Dines is $17,600,000.00, and If the full need is met, 55 cents plus of every one of those dollars will go toward the care and assistance that polio patients must have. Make ready now for January chal-lang- Success, he said. Mr. Beard stated that The Vaccine Quota in the county to date is 201, and that the.amount distributed is only 72- - leaving 129 undistributed. He said that aU one had to do to get the shots is to call at the doctors office. Mr. Beard along with the following county and town officers are working hard to reach the County Quota in dollars and ask the help and support of everyone. of county, Mrs. Zel-d- a Bondman; Kanab; Kanab Chairman, Mrs. Ina Hamblin; Mt Carmel, Mrs. Alice Tait; Mrs. Rena Tait; Glendale, Floyd Johnson and Alton, Mrs. Martha Roundy. Sec.-Trea- Noted Visitors Visiting in Kanab Sunday and attending Sunday School and Sacrament meeting were Elder and Mrs. Mark E. Peterson. Elder Peterson is a member of the Council of the twelve apostles of Mr. and Mrs. Carlos Judd - komo- - recejUly . after the LDS Church. spending five days In Provo with their daughter, Nellie and fam lly. While there Carlos went to Salt Lake CItv to visit David Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Crosby Leach in the LDS hospital. He reports that David was doing recently returned from California where they enjoyed viewing fine. the tournament of roses and a Mr. and Mrs. Stephen John- tour through the Los Angeles ston and son, Andrew, have re- Temple and many other interestturned from San Diego, Calif ing experiences. ornia. and plan to spend the remainder of the winter here Visiting with relatives and hol-daworking at improvement of the friends in Kanab during the were Peggy and Gary BunMuseum. They were happy to get back to our nice clean at- ting and their small daughter. mosphere, the smog In Callfom With them were Fran and Evan Hamblin. They are all living in ia was most disagreeable. Globe, Arizona, at present left for Miriam Betenson Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Heaton Mountain View. California, the the visit of several of to Christmas spend before enjoyed Friday some time with her daughter, their children during the ChristElaine (Mrs. Roney Pratt) and mas holidays. NoTman Heaton, and his daughter Linda were her new grand daughter. here. Norman is Superintendent of the Iron Mine in Cedar Gty. Also visiting them were Mr. and Wedding Mrs. Blain Stapely and family HeaMrs. Ruth Riggs of Kanab and from St. George, June ton and family. Marand Mr. Kenneth Howe of ble Canyon, Arizona were married on New Years Eve in FreSmall minds discuss people; donia. Mr. Howe is the chef at average minds discuss events; Marble Canyon Lodge. great minds discuss ideas. ed i if Lccl l!ovs Items ys Alton Hows Events By Allan Cor The Monte Sorensen family of New Castle were visitors at the Frank Baldwin home last week. Mrs. Laura Campbell visited in St. George last Wednesday. She went there with her son, Donald. Mr. and Mrs. Vane Campbell were In Kanab last Wednesday on business. The Isreal Hoyt family spent king in Parowan with her daughter and family. Mr. and Dart of last week at Merced, California visiting their son and Mrs. Stewart Reese brother Willard. Mr. and Mrs. David Sorensen Mrs. Afton Heaton was in Salt accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Low d Lake cjj Sorensen and family of City a few days last week.' dar City, Tuesday of last week, Mrs. Delila Heaton and chilt0 Las Vegas and Boulder Dam, were in St. George a few dren Nevada. days last week visiting at the Doren Lamb, Kent Carroll and home of her parents, Mr. and Chamberlain left Tues-o- f Mrs. Leo Barton. day for Logan where they are The Gail Heaton family left attending school t the USAG last week for a few days visit in New Year visitors at the Dave California . Sorensen home were Mr. and Visitors at the Allen Cox home Mrs. Lowell Sorensen of Cedar were Mr. and Saturday clty Mr. and Mrs. Elbum Sor- Mrs. Giveevening Jolley from Orem, ensen 0f Henderson, Nevada and Mr. and Mrs. Donald De- - Mr. and Mrs. Afton Hepworth and Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Mille, of Rockville with all of of Panguitch, and Mr. and their children. Mrs. Rex Crofts and Mr. and Mr. and Mrs. Reo Heaton en- Mrs. Aaron Reese of Ordervllle. tertained a few friends New Years eve at their home. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. Orson Young, Mr. and Mrs. Elsie Hewett and her mother, r,vJ. T it Mrs. Ann Hewett, left Tuesday h Mrs. Amy H. Esplin and for Salt Lake City where Mrs. ily and Miss Ha Paine of Idaho, Hewett will receive medical atweek end visitors of Miss Jean tention. . ette Esplin, and Misses Colleen Verda Drake returned from and Verda Johnson and Miss her Christmas vacation in Phoe Cherrill Lee Adair visited in Fredonia, and Moccasin nix and brought her nephew, Pat Duffy for a short stay. Her Saturday of last week, mother, Mabel Drake, likes ' It A New Years party was held so w'ell in Phoenix that she has annette decided to prolong her visit Verat the homc of Miss da reports that Frances Duffy wlth EsPlin fortY Youn2 is working for Air Research, Inc. at Sky Harbor in Phoenix. (Continued on page four) Ce-an- FOOT SOLDIER SUPREME U. u u $fp i;-)- Hep-wort- h m, 4 khP Lccal News Hems fam-Ralp- tPle " V ' ;' $. ,Hj sri n,a7 ! (ought In lli future with applied science, hat the mfantriman it recognized at the backbone of the United States Arm. The Army ia built around him. Artillery and Armor support hi advance, the services feed and supply him. No battle ia wen until lie the key combat role; In peace, hit taak ia to train for t ,re: that miaaion. Here, an infantryman checks the sights of a deadlv Pr. 'Dncher, just one of the many weapons familiar to a trained Iniled States Army infantry soldier. t |