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Show CKNIWEST, CCRP. 3322 SO. 3RD. EAST SALT LAKE CITY, MANTI MESSENGER Volume 89 Number 33 MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1975 15? per copy The citizens of Sanpete County will pay tribute to veterans of World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam and will erect a memorial in their honor. The memorial will be located in the Fair-vieMuseum in a room which will be dedicated to the servicemen of Utah. The project is expected to be completed early in 1976 and will be dedicated as part of tary service helped maintain Americas freedoms during the Twentieth Century. The Memorial will consist of five bronze plaques and will contain the names of all Sanpete County men who have served their country in all branches of the military service. In addition a plaque containing the names of the 358 Utah Servicemen who gave their lives during the Vietnam conflict will be inIt cluded in the Memorial. Americas The project, which will be will be a lasting memorial to Sanpete County men whose mili finished in bronze, will be the w work of the Utah The bronze internationally-famou- s Artist, work done by ced entirely through voluntary Fairbanks is estimated to cost contributions. anous service $25,000. An additional $5,000 Arvard Fairbanks. The bronze plaques will be approximately four feet high by 32 inches wide. The plaques will be mounted on base cabinets which will also contain storage space for military materials. Open books will contain the names of all who served in the five wars. A special place in the cabinets will contain the names of all who contribute financially to the completion of the project. organizawill also be needed to complete tions including Lions Clubs and the base cabinets, books and American Legion posts will be making house to house contact other costs. The Museum will dedicate a to raise funds for the project. special room for the Memorial. This room will also include Voluntary contributions can also be sent to Mrs. Floyd Young flags of states and nations, uniforms and equipment used in and Mrs Ted Madsen, both of the various wars. Fair.itw Anvone wishing to The project has the support donate flags, uniforms or miliof Sanpete County businesses, tary equipment can forward churches, government and civic them to Mrs. Young or Mrs. Madsen organizations. It will be finan 84115 Two Manti Ladies Two Manti ladies were ser- in Manti. iously injured last Thursday afternoon at 1:50 p.m. when they were struck by a car at Union Avenue and Main Street Sanpete Veterans to be Honored with Memorial UTAH " Mrs Orlean Thurston and Mrs. Lucille Munk were struck by a car driven by Kelly Duncan, 16, of Manti as they were FFA-FH- A Week Planned The officers and members of the Future Homemakers of America and Future Farmers of America clubs of Manti High School announce the first annual FFA-FHweek next week. Many interesting events have been scheduled. Tuesday will begin the week with the FFA Sweetheart Assembly, and quilt display and quilting bee in the home economics room at the noon hour. will include a Wednesday handmade afghan display at noon in the home economics room with the FFA banquet that evening at 7:00 at the Embers Cafe in Ephraim. A craft exchange will be held Thursday at noon in the home A economics room Friday will at top off the 9.30 a m. a group from Provo Technical College will present a fashion show and display The local merchants are providing the models outfits for the fashion show which should be an exciting start for the day. Mrs. Donald Dobson willlhen present a demonstration on the exciting new turkey products available. After lunch the FFA members have been invited to join the young ladies and enjoy a miniworkshop on communications conducted by Glen Jensen from Utah State University. The week will be finished off with the annual FFA-FHsleigh riding party. A the street from east to west. The ladies were on their way to attend the Manti Ladies Literary Club meeting when the accident occurred. Mrs. Thurston is in the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City where she is being treated for seven broken ribs (12 breaks). She was in intensive crossing care for some time, but is improving and is out of intensive caie at this time. Mrs Munk is in the Gunnison Valley Hospital. She sustained a fractured pelvis in two places. She too is improving, although the condition of both ladies remains serious. The areas need for ambulance service was underlined when it was necessary for Mrs. Thurston to lie in the road for over 30 minutes awaiting an ambulance from Mt. Pleasant. It was felt best not to move her until the ambulance arrived. Double up, America. f Two can ride cheaper than one. Correspondent Needed for Pictured is a drawing of what the Memorial to war veterans would like when completed and installed permanently at the First Winner 17.6 inches of water. The average is 10.9 inches of water. has just completed Feb. 1st The G.B.R.C. Meadows snow Snow surveys. course above Ephraim had 52 Water content of the snow inches of snow and 16.3 inches runs from 104 percent to 118 of water. Last year there was percent of the 1958 to 1973 21 inches of water. The averaverage. However , these age is 13.8 inches of water The G.B.R.C. Headquarters Ms. Johnson were: International figures may be misleading. 1968 Platform Association, Colters was the last year the Feb. 1st snow course has 39 inches of Hell, Brodders and Sisters, snowpack water content was as snow and 10 inches of water. Loves animals, Author, Broad- low as this year. This just Last year there was 14.4 inchway Dramatists Guild, Humane confirms the statement that an es of water. The average is 8.8 Note, Mormon Miracle Pageant, average water year is a dry inches of water. In Salina Canyon the FarnHumanitarian, Dark blue eyes, year in this area. The Mammoth Ranger Stasworth Lake snow course has Lecturer, 5 - 4 12 - 125, 42 inches of snow and 11.9 tion snow course above Fair-vieThe Feeling of Height. has 45 inches of snow and inches of water. Last year it had enter. Its simple. Anyone may Just find the clues in the ads, 13.9 inches of water. Last year 17.2 inches of water. The longidentify the personality, write we had 17.5 inches of water and time average is 10.5 inches of water. your answer on any piece of the longtime average water conGooseberry Ranger Station paper, together with all the clues tent of the snowpack is 12.9 has 29 inches of snow and 6.9 which you can find, and deposit inches. in one of the six sponsoring Gooseberry Reservoir has 40 inches of water. Last year there merchants for that week. Each inches of snow and 12.9 inches was 13.4 inches of water. The week the sponsoring merchants of water. Last year there was average is 6.6 inches of water. for that week are listed under the arrow in the ad on page two. A person may put one entry (but only one) in each of the six entry boxes for that week. A large number of entries were deposited in last weeks contest. Nearly all correctly The Friday Forum speaker identified the personality. How- on February 21, 1975 will be ever, only five entries correctly Robert G. Pedersen. Mr. Pedlisted all the clues. Had one of erson has attended Brigham those names been drawn, they Young University and the Unwould have won $22.00 iversity of Utah. He is a gradEnter now -- - have a little fun! uate of the University of Utah, with a B.S. degree in banking It could be profitable. LaMar Jorgensen of the local Soil Conservation Service office Mystery Personality chants. Ms. Madsen had found nine of the thirteen clues about Ms. Johnson. Had she listed all 13 clues correctly, with no extra clues, she would have received additional an $14.50. Thai amount will be added to this weeks bonus making it worth $29.00 in the event the name drawn has listed all the clues for this weeks Mystery Personality, Clues are to be found only in the participating merchants ads on page two or in those merchants ads elsewhere in the paper. The 13 clues which described Feb. Snow, Water Content Tabulated Dorothy Madsen Names Dorothy Madsen, 96 East 2nd South, Manti, was the lucky winner of the first Mystery Personality drawing held Monday. The drawing was held Monday at Manti Grocery, one of the sponsoring merchants for the week. Ms. Madsen correctly identified the Mystery Personality as Ms. Grace Johnson of Ephraim. She received a merchandise certificate for $7.50 which can be used at any one of the 24 participating mer- MAKING SPECIAL PLANS for coming FFA and FHA special week events, Feb. 18 through Fairview Museum. Voluntary donations and contributions can be made to any one of the committee members. w Friday Forum Talk Calls Robert G. Pedersen 21 Hawkins are teacher Lorna and student LaRee Squires. All high school girls and their mothers are invited to the fashion show at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the auditorium. Manti North A new correspondent is needed for the Manti North Ward efJuanita fective immediately. Wesley who has been correspondent for several months is moving back to Arizona with her family this week. Applicants should apply in to The Messenger office person Dyreng said that those refor an interview. It is hoped that quested to attend are: all stake the position can be speedily boards, all ward Sunday School filled. All news items from the presidencies who will meet with area may be brought in to the the stake Sunday School board, Messenger office for publicaand the member of the bishopric tion until a new correspondent in charge of Sunday School. is selected. Stake Family Night Leadership Meeting Scheduled Tonight The raingages caught 2.5 inches of water during Jan. at Gooseberry Ranger Station in Salina Canyon, and 5.0 inches of water at Gooseberry Reservoir Stake Family Night LeaderThe Jan. above Fairview. will be heldThurs-da- y storms were generally lighter ship meeting (tonight) at 7 p.m. in the above Salina with increasing Manti Center North Ward amounts as you move from south to R. Morgan to north with the greatest Jan. Chapel, according Dyreng, counselor in the stake precipitation above Fairview. presidency. -- Lamanite Generation is Booked An exciting new entertainment group will perform on the Snow College campus March 29. The group is the Lamanite Generation--- a group which includes some of the top Indian talent at Brigham Young University. The Lamanite Generation will present a program of contemporary music and dance blended carefully with traditional Indian, Polynesian and Mexican numbers. The program will also include some contemporary Indian numbers written by BYU Indian students. Although the Lamanite Generation is a relatively new group, it has already performed in the American Southwest and Northwest and in western Canada before both Indian and audiences. On a recent Florida tour the performers appeared in Disney World and "in civic and university auditoriums in PenGains-vill- e, sacola, Tallahassee, Tampa, Orlando, Jack non-Indi- an sonville, Miami and Fort Lauderdale. The group performs, of course, in native costumes and with special settings. The Lamanite Generations performance in Snow Auditorium on March 29 is sponsored by the Snow College Associated Indian Students. Larry Felt, Provo, a Snow College student and former missionary to the Indians, who is a tutor and counselor to Indians on the campus, is co ordinating the performance Snow Auditorium. We expect a full house for this exceptional entertainment and are already getting out publicity and getting the ticket sale underway, he said. He said that tickets are priced at 50 cents for high school and college students with activity cards, $1.00 for adults, and $3.00 for family tickets. They can be reserved by calling extension 255. Grace Johnson is First Mystery Personality Author, lecturer, humanitarian, and good friend is Miss Grace Johnson, Mystery Personality for last week. clues seem inThirteen adequate to describe a person who has contributed so much of those to the betterment around her. Steeped in the history and traditions of Sanpete County she has always had a desire to perpetuate those traditions for the enjoyment of those who will follow Broadway Dramatists Guild and the International Platform Association. An avid humanitarian, Miss Johnson cares for many pets herself, and encourages others to follow the advice of LDS Church authorities in being kind She frequently to animals. authors articles under the heading of Humane Note. her. Miss Johnson has lectured extensively, and with books and plays has contributed to western historical America. She is author of Colters Hell, historical novel of Yellowstone Park, and other western titles. Locally she won first prize in the 1961 Utah Institute of Fine Arts playwriting contest with The Feeling of her play .Height. She received dramatic instruction at the University of Utah and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, and is a member of the Grace Johnson Perhaps her greatest litachievement is her authorship of the Mormon Miracle Pageant. Conceived as a stake project foT young people, the production has received world-wid- e acclaim and annually attracts in excess of 100,000 people to Manti to see it enacted on the Manti Temple Hill. More recently she authored a book entitled Brodders and Sisters, being the early life and times of the Mormon town of Ephraim, Sanpete County, Utah and including, to be sure, the famous Ephraim Stories. She is also author of a book entitled The Story of the Mormon Miracle, which chronicles the writing of the Mormon Miracle Pageant. Still hale and hearty Miss Johnson (Grace to her friends of whom she has many) lives in Ephraim. She keeps constantly busy on some project or other, either a new literary effort, or working to make life easier for her animal friends. erary Robert G. Pedersen and finance. He has done graduate work in business management and finance. He is Chairman of the Board and President of Stratford Squire International, which owns several other companies, including Magic Mill, Moby Dick -- Maritime Antiques, Advertising Design, etc. He also has other extensive business holdings. Mr. Pedersen lives a very vigorous life and maintains an active interest in athletics. He is an outstanding speaker, and because of his extensive background in business, academics and world travel, he is in great demand to business, service and church groups in the U.S. and abroad. 00,' t II LAMANITE GENERATION, an entertainment in group who will perform at Snow College March 29. 283-461- 1, |