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Show Page 5 by Earl Roe wearlroe@yahoo.com • 676-2376 Last week started as a good week and it was until Friday. I finally finished a lot of small jobs at which 1 had been plugging away for some time. These included fixing a place where I could take care of the aluminum cans which our Lions Club hopes you will continue to deposit in our collection bins. I even gathered enough for a load and got them loaded into my truck Thursday night. Friday morning I started for Cedar City and got about 5 miles down the highway when the whole rack slid out onto the road. Fortunately there was very little traffic and no one close behind me. Only one of the large orange bags came off the rack and only a few of the cans spilled out. I started to pull the rack out of the road and was having a hard time when some kind stranger stopped and helped me drag it to the shoulder. I then backed up to it and he tried to help me load it and found that we could not do it. Carla Owens had seen the whole thing and called her husband, Gary, on the cell phone and they both came to help not knowing it was me. We all loaded it, picked up the loose cans, tied the bag back on the truck and I slowly drove home after thanking the three of them for their help. After I had secured the cans with more ropes and tie-downs it was snowing so hard I decided to wait for better weather which came the next day. This week I will spend some time working on a more secure way to fasten the rack to my truck!! I received an E-mail message from Max and Glenda Excell who are serving a mission in Columbus, Ohio. They inform me that their mission is going very well and their extension is for 5 months instead of 6 which I said in a earlier Knothole. They will be coming home in September instead of April. At the present time Glenda is serving as Housing Coordinator and Referral Secretary and Max is serving as Financial Secretary but will change to Vehicle Coordinator around the middle of March. They are assigned to the Columbus 1st (Young Single Adult Ward) and this quarter are teaching a Book of Mormon class to the young people and really get a lot of joy out of their teaching and working with them. They ask that I say "HELLO" in their behalf to all of their friends and relative back here at home. Rick and Robbie Irish and their granddaughter, Andie Thomas recently flew to THE GARFIEL!) COUNTY INSIDER Dallas, Texas where they were met by Robbie's daughter, Kxisty Dann. All of them then drove to Pilot Point, Texas where Kristy and her husband, Johnny, live. The purpose of all this travel was to attend the baptism of Jadon Dann, son of Kristy & Johnny. (Grandma, Iletta couldn't go because someone had to stay home to take care of the animals 1) Rick, Robbie & Andie will probably be home by the time you read this. This Panguitch Connection will really test the memories of some of our older, long time residents. While Caroline was home helping her mother, Elizabeth Foy with her housework, they found a little book that listed all of the Stake Presidents and Bishops were during the time that Elizabeth's father, Joseph T. Finlinson, was Stake President in Millard County. Carolyn looked up the officers who served in the Panguitch Stake under President William Henderson and learned that one of the Panguitch Bishops was Benjamin Hulmes. I believe his wife's name was Lois and they lived down on the Experiment Farm North of town. (I hope someone corrects me if I am wrong!) John Hulmes (Benjamin's grandson) lives in Caroline's Ward in Las Vegas and said that his father lived in Panguitch until he was about 15 or 16 years old and that I probably knew them. Carolyn also said that John Hulmes was also a grandson of Melvin J. Ballard and a 1 st cousin to a guy she dated while attending BYU. (While this doesn't have anything to do with Panguitch Carolyn likes connections because (her words) "They make the world seem a little bit smaller and friendlier." I did know John's father. Benjamin had two sons. The oldest, Harold, is or was a Dentist in Boise, Idaho who I last met at a National Scout Jamboree where he was serving on the Medical Staff and David was the Bishop of our Ward in El Cerito, California while I was enroled in a Summer Session at Berkley University. I do not know which of these sons is John's father. There was also a sister, but I do not remember her name. It appears that we are going to have some more former Panguitch residents coming home in a short time. I received an E-mail from Linda Miller telling me how much she enjoyed reading the Knothole and the Burma Shave slogans. Her biggest questions was about what civic organizations we had in Panguitch because she is a person who likes to be involved in Community affairs. She especially wanted to know if our Lions Club accepted women as members and how often we meet. Linda is the wife of Rickey Miller, son of Kent and Carolyn Miller, and grandson of France and Lena Miller (deceased) & Si and Ireta Crofts (deceased). Rickey graduated from PHS in 1980 (Kevin's & Deanna's class) and can't wait to get back to Panguitch. He has been in the well drilling busines in Arizona for the past years and has now purchased Alma Fletchers drilling busdiness and will set it up in Panguitch. Linda sent me a lot of information about relatives and otherties to Panguitch, but I will let them tell you about them in person when they get here. I did have a couple of 'positive' experiences last week. I been told that the pair of'mouming'doves that have been hanging around my bird feeder are Asian Doves and are 'illegal" emigrants to our area. Our State Wildlife Department is worried that they may become a nuisance so they are not protected under the game laws. (Check with a Game Warden before you shoot one!) Last Wednesday at four in the afternoon I saw the largest Bald Eagle that I have ever seen and I have seen a lot of them, especially while I was in Alaska. This hugh bird was sitting in John Orton's field just North of town eating on something. When it took off, I know it had a wingspan of 6 feet or better. We have had quite a number of these birds in our area this Winter. I had no idea that the Burma Shave slogans would be such a hit with so many of our readers, but I knew they would stir the memories of many. Looking' for the next one really made long trips seem shorter when a high speed was around 50 miles an hour. (You had time to read them!) 1 have a booklet containing all of them and their history and I hope I don't 'run out' until I have used all of them! "To get away-From hairy apesLadies jump-From fire escapes. " —Burma Shave(1936) HAVE YOUR WELL WATER TESTED FOR FREE The Canyonlands Soil Conservation District is sponsoring a free ground water testing program for the people of Boulder, E s c a l a n t e , Henrieville, Cannonville and Tropic, who have their own water supplies (wells, springs, and other ground water systems). The water will be tested for bacteria, pesticides, nitrate and minerals. Contact Mark Quilter (Utah Dept. of Agriculture and Food) at 801-538-9905 or mquilter@Utah.Gov for more information. MARCH 1,2007 AG MARKET NEWS Receipts: U323. Last Week: 1,546. Last Year: 755. Feeder Steers: weak to 1.00 lower, except 450-550 lbs 5.00-6.00 higher Feeder Heifer: firm to 1.00 higher, except 450700 lbs weak to 1.00 lower. Holstein Steers: scarce. ,Sl%ughter Cows: LQ0-2.QPiighejP,S^t»gbte^Bulls: firm. Feeder Steers: Medium and Large Frame 1-2: 200-250 lbs scarce; 250-300 lbs 120.00-124.00; 300-350 lbs 116.00123.00; 350-400 lbs 120.50-126.00; 400450 lbs 118.50-125.00; 450-500 lbs 112.50-123.50; 500-550 lbs 109.00119.00; 550-600 lbs 100.50-109.00; 600650 lbs 95.00-105.50; 650-700 lbs 91.50102.00, 700-750 lbs 89.50-96.50; 750800 lbs 88.50-95.00; 800-850 lbs 86.5092.00; 850-900 lbs 86.25-91.75; 900-950 lbs 86.00-89.25; 950-1000 lbs 84.0088.00. Holsteins Steers: Large Frame 3 - Baby Bull Calves: scarce; 200-300 scarce; 300-500 lbs scarce; 500-700 lbs 55.50-81.75; 700-900 lbs scarce; 9001000 lbs scarce. Feeder Heifers: Medium and Large Frame 1-2: 200-250 lbs scarce; 250-300 lbs 110.00-114.00; 300-350 lbs 102.00109.50; 350^00 lbs 104.00-114.00; 400100.00-1^7.00; 5O0-5SD lbs 93.50103.50; 550-600 lbs 92.00-98.00; 600650 lbs 86.50-93.50; 650-700 lbs 85.0091.50; 700-750 lbs 83.50-90.50; 750-800 lbs 86.00-89.10; 800-850 lbs 83.50-89.00; 850-900 lbs 84.25-86.25; 900-950 lbs 82.00-83.50; 950-1000 lbs scarce. Heiferettes: scarce. Stock Cows: Medium and Large Frame 1: 1st Calf Heifers: with calves at side 870.00-1,000.00/hd. Slaughter Cows: Boning 80-85% Lean: 41.00-48.00; Breaking 75-80% Lean: 43.00-47.50 Cutter 85-90% Lean: 35.5039.75. Slaughter Bulls: Yield Grade 1 10001500 lbs 57.75-58.00; 1500-2165 lbs 60.50-65.50; Yield Grade 2 1000-1500 lbs scarce; 1500-2085 lbs 55.00- 58.00; Feeder Bulls 905-1225 lbs 48.00-74.50. VEDA HALE ORIGINALS AND PRINTS WINTER HOURS open upon request 63 N. Main, Panguitch 435-676-2895 Vedahale@yahoo.com |