Show HANKSVILLE News Items By fly Mrs Mn Barbara Ekker Eight youngsters In the Scouts and Dee Beehive hive groups In the tho MIA are arc practicing for tor a two-act two com drama edy-drama entitled Aunt Hat flat tie The director Is Mrs Elora Ekker of the MIAMA MIA PTA MA meeting was held Thurs Thurs- I day under the direction of of Mrs Sylvia Ekker president It was reported that 54 was cleared on the Valentine dance The playground playground play play- ground equipment Is going up very speedily Those responsible for these additions are arc Bob Walker Walk Walk- er and his many willing hands from the airport Please come come- out and help construct the cement cement ce cement ce- ce ment slab This is a PTA project project pro pro- jest and should be supported Ekker daughter of Mr and Mrs Bruce Druce Ekker Reno neno Nev will attend then theft winter wInter- Olympics at Squaw Valley begin begin- ping ning Thursday Feb leb 18 is t She sin sing I I with her high school choral group which was chosen to sing during tiring 10 Wa activities s. s Mrs Martha McDougall Is re ro residing re- re siding with her granddaughter and husband Mr and Mrs Sherman Shereman Sherman Sher Shere man Assay in Salt SaIt Lake Mrs McDougall Is well remembered hero as one on its early residents She works at the Lions House Housein in Salt Lake and also the genealogy gene geue library Her granddaughter teaches school In Granger and her husband attends the sity Her lIer new address Is 24 E. E 1st No Apt 43 Mrs Redford and Mrs ris f Rees flees are arc visiting ng a ft few days In Hanksville with Mr Rees nees and Mr Mn and Mrs Mn La Nate Nale Albrecht Mexican Hat Expeditions is to aid Id in ln the filming of a ft TV series Berles entitled Rivers on the World This company Is working on the design of a power craft for tor this work Dean Ekker is employed on a drilling rig in upper Wayne coun coun- ty The Brannon and Murray rig closed operations near Bloomfield Bloom Bloom- field last week Densil and Warren Taylor arrived arrived ar ar- rived In Hanksville after after af ter grading the county road road to Both Doth men reside in Butch Dutch Cassidy will ride again next week and the benefits will willIO IO ho 0 to the Medical Center in Green River For more details be in Hanksville next week end Feb 27 7 Mr a sad td Mrs Charles s Moss former residents on Hanksville arc are residing in SaUna Salina Kan where Chuck is an on Inspector at ata ata ata a grain elevator there and other surrounding towns Jess Thorton has moved into one of the houses on the Harold liar Har old Ekker ranch He was residing at lit Woodruff Spring t With Claude I I spent tho the afternoon at the tho cemetery It Was to collect data from Crom headstones I r really lly was shocked hocked at the poor markers I was there trying to find the i birth Irth and death date of one of Hanksville's most colorful characters char char- characters Dillie Billie Hay fay When I finally found Cound his grave there teetering in the earth was a board similar simil simil- ar to a fence slat with the words William Hat HayY Haf burnt in to its surface This was hardly legible due to the many years of wind and rain Other graves were similarly marked such as that of Frank Kimball Mike Steele Arthur Crockett John Mead and ether persons who added quite a bit to Hanksville's past his his' history tor tory Maybe if Butch Dutch C Cassidy was win buried burled there or some other hot nott able character there would be a tJ marble marker but these men were Just common This really isn't a news note but It does need attention The DUP has er or- erI erected I eded stone markers on a few of the graves but those above were neglected One slat head John Graves craves first white man to Inhabit ln In In- habit this valley not hot born here Guy Robison is erecting a windmill on his well welt at his ranch at Fairview He lie had a well drilled drilled drill drill- ed there sometime ago and was operating it with a n motor driven pump Now Mother Nature will take over the operation Before Detore the only source of water for Cor the ranch was from the Henrys I Sixty sheep of Frank Williams Will Will- lams iams Montrose Colo died last Friday of milkweed poisoning while white herd herders rs for trailing them to their grazing area It was believed be be- believed that the weed was eaten at the Notch 10 north of here and after watering at atthe atthe atthe the Fremont river the sheep died near Dry Valley 9 miles east cast of Hanksville The herders were busy lusy Saturday t lr ar s skinning th animals ani an- i mals mats for tor their pelts It w was s le feared teas fear l' l l ed tit that would lose Jose more before they reached Lone Cedar This is the first time lima such tuch an Incident has occurred among the many manysheep sheep cheep herds that have been trailed trail trail- ed td through this area |