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Show f I I 'SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT V A I: LEY" Vol. 59 No. 26 Thursday, December 26, 1968, Delta, Utah 84624 $4.25 year in advance 6 mos. $2.50 Copy 10c Rites Conducted At Hinckley for Hilda Wright, 69 ervicemen o t DEPARTMENT OK THE ARMY ithe American Economy). The re- HEADQUARTERS 78TH ENGINEER joinder of the evening was spent B;s!:o; Iconnrd Palmer conducted funeral services for Mrs. Ivan (Hil !evsew i u a nr 1 u r u i ! tHj fit IT 1 'SBB5I 1 ' " tJ ?vi"a I il Jill mm i I I AND 1 1 I 7 7 i a semblance S SI J S) S) S SAJ 'M names of real & "SSf lsf frfS7 r however, U X CX(j M standable 'if: V f BATTALION APO 09O35 t 4 rt0 da) Wright. 69, Saturday, Dec. 21." ..-.,. J-'ecemDer lauo tiXS in the Hincklev Ward Chapel. kC-YWA Mrs. Wright died of cancer Dec. 18 SUBJECT: Report of Actions on in the West Millard Hospital, Delta.' urol,eon itml Offering family praver was Mer- '!, r"lnLu,l; -u , , lin Christ ensen. Prelude and post-' i"?? cCou,n Ch5?nicle, ludc music was bv I.yla Rne Morris. A"N: Servicemen-Operations The Hinckley choir sang "Oh, Y.Cp tt. u cm. My Father" for the opening num- "eUa- Vlan ,, ' bor Dear Mrs. Riding, Invocation was offered by Dean We were delighted that the re- Farnsworth. A tribute written by port of our "Summer-Fall Cam-Mr. Cam-Mr. Wright was given bv Bonnie palgn" wes favorable enough to Manis. find a place In the 5 Sep 68 edition 'Mother"was sung bv Dnle Bliss "f your popular newspaper. It pro-aceompnnieJ pro-aceompnnieJ by Marcia Tnlbot. vklod a measure of amusementto Ions Christensen, Anna l ee Hop- te "Doys on tne troni" wno are worth on.l I via Rne Morris sang always grateful to see their efforts "In the Garden." They were nc- recognized. eompanied bv Miss Talbot. I At the risk of monopolizing the UVcrl Christensen spoke. '"Servicemen's" column, we, the "Beyond the Sunset" was sung undersigned, do respectfully sub-by sub-by Erm a Cropper and rend by Belva niit the attached report of our re-Morris. re-Morris. Thev were accompanied by eopMy completed "Fall-Winter Ot-Lyla Ot-Lyla Rne Morris. fensive", attached fs inclosure 1. Second speaker was Sebrina Ek'ns, Bishop Palmer gave brief remarks. "Abide With Me" was didning and enjoying the? resort area's fine entertainment. Present plans point to a Christmas Christ-mas in Paris for the next Kuropean -Theater exercise, - 5Ji-j I Williams, sung by the choir. Benediction was pronounced by Dean Evans. Burial was at Hinckley where the grave v?s dedicated by Tom Respectfully yours, SP5 ROBERT M. BENNETT A Btry, 5 Bn, 6 Arty APO 09557 Pall bearers were Lathel Callis- ter, Evan Christensen, Melvln Wright, Gene Probst, Irvin Chaffin VS'S and Blaine Christensen, nephews. "ROLL YOUR OWN" mm NOTICE, VOUIJG-AT-HEABTS The M. E. Bird Recreation Center, three of Europe's SP4 LYNN BUNKER HHC. 79th Engr. Bn APO 09035 , FALL-WINTEH OFFENSIVE (10-11 Nov 68 and 30-31 Nov 68) GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN SOUTH BAVARIA-Robert Bennett, Lynn Bunker and Tony Vangl, more reknown A cheery hello to each of you from the staff and management of Ike Clt Bob and Inez Riding Sue Dutson by Dick Morrison Pi-ize-winning playwright and author, Dee S. Sanford, has just published a little book under the title, MARJUM PASS. Released scarcely a month ago, it already hag become a conversation piece hereabouts, and it has given rise to at least a hint of controversy. The book pesents twelve shoi't stories of life on our west desert. Mrs. Sanford writes them as fiction, not as biography, although she ac knowledges that they could bear to the truth. The people are not used except in such under- instances as that in Mrs. M, Mary Ibarra, in tne autnors own 51 case, and possibly in others, she i : switches cender on occasion: the opening item employs the first per- n.snnnn fall ouii tri 7ri mi uiat piunuuii iv lcj, m' a man's story. But apart from the , fact that I feel sure that "Dan" is the fictitious nnrae for her late v husband. Dewev Sanford. I am not going to spend any time trying to identify fictionalized characters. The twelve stories, together with some prefatory and concluding remarks re-marks of a personal nature, make up an intriguing book. Few of us, indeed, could pass by the title of the first story, The : Snows of Forty Nine, without ex-irjlorins: ex-irjlorins: it further. And. surely fife j enough, it proves to be one about a sheepherder and his helper who :?5 with . more troubles of their own than they can handle, find themselves them-selves burdened with some unwelcome unwel-come guests, stranded in Marjum Pass, in the snows of 1949. The stories are all in somber mood, with the exception of one called Admirals in the Red, which some, including myself, would call amusing. In it, some of "the Her mit's" beer somehow gets into the Sarah Adams lacei Anderson ddys Barben -Laura Bradfield -Venice Davis Afton Fullmer -Elaine Hardy -Donna Richardson -Dora Rose -Arprilla Scow -Ruby Skeem -Judy Stoneking -Bea Villden Pass and then only when I would supper will be held at the center. become part of the Greater Valley, Is sponsoring a special holiday . playboys, recently completed a 2-movie 2-movie at the Sahara Monday, Doc; pronged, 4-day extravaganza at .10, 4:00 p.m. for all YOUNG -AT- two of Germany's most highly ac-HEARTS ac-HEARTS (Senior Citizens) and their, claimed cultureresort centers, friends and relatives. The 96-hour Spial commenced Selected for this special treat Is here in the Bavarian Alps, play- "Spencer's Mountain" with Henry ground of the jet-set and highly ronaa ana Maureen u nara. ine reKnown lor us oeauty and excei-show, excei-show, a marvelous heart-warming, lent skiing. After Imbibing the one, is in color and cinamascope. local color and scenery, the boys Admission charge has been re-( found their way to the Garmlsch duced to half-price, fifty cents. Spielbank, where they mingled Following the show a potluckjwith Europe's elite at the Gaming in Dies. Moderate losses were ior- gotten when, ps the highlight of the evening, International playboy uuather Sachs (whose wife, Bri- and the song that I had come to from Harry P. Joy, long-ago presi-thP presi-thP vniiov to sim? had heen sun2.." .dent of the Packard Motor Company Mrs. Sanford writes deep down who was searching for a supply of . gette Bardot was unfortunately in the soul. Her newest book is a 'tungsten; the district was named absent-See PHOTOPLAY Apr 196G, fine addition to the lore of our! the Detroit Mountain District. SCREEN GEMS Jul 67) graciously desert people. (MARJUM PASS, by Dee S. Sanford. San-ford. Art City Publishing Co., Springville. He $3.00, pb $2.00) D. M. There endeth my review of Marjum Mar-jum Pass, and here beginneth my own reminiscences of the same great scene. Reading Dee Sanford's book turned me on. I received my copy of MARJUM Pass Friday, December 6. Three days earlier, I had gotten up at 2:30 a.m., loaded my pickup with Fifteen, maybe twenty, miles south and west from Joy, Bob Stinson lived alone in that walk-in cave, making beer that packed a wallop, bothering outsiders not at all. The boys on the State Road crews used to stop and rest at Bob's. George Q. Terry, oldtime boss of the Hinckley road barn dropped 100,000 Marks to the polite applause of those present and was able to drive away in his Ferrari smiling. Having been blunted somewhat at Garmisch, Bunker, Bennett and Vangi planned what came to be known and shall ever be referred to in the annals of Military His- H k 1 ; - n.' If k f i J I, ZZZX - - , I SGT. CHARLES M. HATCH, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merrill G. Hatch of 4701 eiimore Ave., Alexandria, Va., has arrived for duty a t Clark AB, Philippines. Sergeant Hatch, a jet engine mechanic, is a member of the Pacific Air Farces. Ho previously served at Travis AFB. Calif. A graduate of Law ton (Okla.) High School, he studied at the University of Utah. The sergeant's wife, Judy, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Jelfery of Delta, Utah. NOTICE Milard County Commissioners will meet Wednesday, January 8, 1969 and Wednesday, January 22, 1969 in regular sessions rather than Wednesday, January 1, 1969 and Wednesday, January 15, 1969. Published in the Millard County Chronicle December 26, 1968 and January 2, 1969. now of Newhall, California, would tory as, "The Big Bash at Baden-haul Baden-haul malt and hops out to Bob on! Baden". Deep within the heart of the grader, or otherwise. Bob was the scenic Black Forest, at the a free-thinker. On occasion, late in 'steps of the Plush, stately Baden-his Baden-his life, he quoted Tom Paine to ' Baden Casino (See KALEIDOSCOPE me. I Warner Bros, starring Warren Again, some fifteen miles further , Beatty 1967) at precisely 1800 hours snnniips inrinHin? mv little doc .'south. Jack Watson, the "Mavor ofiCentral European Time, the three Stray, and headed west. The moon Sawtooth," held forth running his i again rendezvoused. In view of the cattle. He spent a lot On time in' 'em aim cununuing liueniauunui Delta, and among his descendents Balance-of-Payments and monetary liguor-by-the-drink, and then rolled his four cylinder Dodge while trying try-ing to negotiate Marjum Pass. Another An-other time, a gas-engine-powered pump-pack chewed part of his arm off, way out there. I hauled gas to the CCC camps was almost too bright. A sifting of snow had blown across the landscape. land-scape. You'd have to have seen that landscape to believe it as everything from the Crickets to Topaz scintillated in the moonlight. moon-light. I drove west through Marjum Pass, past Painter Springs, and finally to the wheel tracks which lead toward Notch Peak. Why was I doing it? I am a desert rat, a nature lover, and a in the late thirties. One day, at shutterbug, not to say an eccen-j Painter Springs, a CCC boy asked trie. I wanted ome early morning, me if I had ever heard the moun-shots moun-shots of Notch-that little-known ( tains rumble. I said no. He went monolith of scenic grandeur which 'on, "They was sure raisin' hell last stands in such splendid isolation. 1 night." Those mountains do "raise Came the dawn. It was cold. I hell" with their rumblings, quite decided to climb a rocky rise and .often, from Drum to Notch. Geolog-get Geolog-get a head-on shot of that mile- ical forces are still pushing them high cliff. By ten o'clock I had upward. Already 9728 feet in ele-taken ele-taken some moonlight, dawn and vation, Notch Peak is still "grow-daytime "grow-daytime shots and started home.,ing"--and not silently, either. All the time I was thinking of past ' When my gas truck was unload-times unload-times and people. i ed, I headed back home through Three of the best of the desert .Marjum Pass. The howling of th? punch; and the Bishop's wife's TSLls are sone, now. but. i naa siiuw-uiuwmg wina an out aruwn-lawyer aruwn-lawyer charges that it destroyed known Jack Watson, and before, ed-out the whine of the gears uf her dignity which no doubt it did.! Bob Stinson died, I had become the Ford V-8 truck. High on a cliff In. Moving Sands two men and, his friend, and before that, I hadithe painted words, Grand Central, a woman lnqp rhpi'r wav on the talked to Mary Laird while she was could be seen, and they still can. desert. The concluding words hold, still running her ramshackle store at joy. Those three! Mrs.Leird, living alone on the slope of Drum, stocking: stock-ing: a few canned goods to eat and sell, no doubt recalling at times the good old days of 1914, when are some of my good friends. One crisis, the gallant three decided to day, he imbibed too much of Bob s L ao lneir lmns Ior otner uun a quality of unreality equal to that found in the music of Claude Debussy's "Fetes": "A multitude of people, young and old, filled the space as they danced slowly across the sand. Then the light and the people faded and disappeared into the moving desert air". I cannot doubt that the letters of a mother to her son who is in the Service in Korea, tell one of Deo Sanford's own stories, to the! sad conclusion which relates the passing of her late husband. "Dear son: It's over....I went to the pasture pas-ture land....Knelt by the banks of the Silent Mother Stream....the rumblings of Drum Mountain died away in the distanse "Your Mother, Johanna." The final story, The Kiss of Isa-belle, Isa-belle, I read with a feeling of mounting horror, as it moved toward to-ward its terrible denouement. Fictionalized characters or no, I am sure of one thing: MARJUM PASS is Delilah Sanford's own story. "All writing ;s autobiography" autobiogra-phy" was it Elbert Hubbard who said that?and this is more so than most. Mrs. Sanford could write of the work of a sheepherd-er's sheepherd-er's helper. She had lived it. The book carries a hint of mysticism, mys-ticism, and more than a hint of symbolism. "Marjum Pass is the passageway from one great Valley into the Greater Valley and beyond," Mrs. Sanford writes in the preface; and returning to the same theme softly as she is leaving the first great Valley which had been her home, she writes in the epilogue, epi-logue, "I realized I would only re-logue. re-logue. "I realized Iwould only return re-turn to go west through Marjum That creek-bed trail was once pa -t of what was called the Grand Central Cen-tral Highway, to the buildings of which Delta's late M. M. Steele was a dedicated man. The old order is gone, but the present generation of desert rats try. They helped reverse the critical Gold-Flow situation by removing several hundred D-Marks from the grasp of the German economy on the Roulette Tables (where it subsequently sub-sequently will be routed back into Successful Eagle Court of Honor A very successful Eagle Court of Honor was held in the Stake House last Wednesday evening. Five boys received their eagle badges: Scott Roundy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roundy of Oasis, Jon Fin-linson, Fin-linson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bryce Finlinson of Oak City; Forrest Roper, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Roper, Delta 1st Ward; and Brent Farnsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Farnsworth and Fred Erick- Sarah McCullough Dies at Age 87 Sarah Alvey McCullough, 87, died at home Dec. 23, 1968. She was born Nov. ID, 1881 in Nottingham, England to James and Sarah Mayfield Alvey. She was married to Levi H. McCullough Mc-Cullough March 27, 1902 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They moved to Delta in 1907 where she has since resided. Mrs. McCullough has been an active member of the LDS Church. Survivors: sons, daughters, Hamilton, Ham-ilton, Elva Stone, Fern. Sampson, all of Delta; Alvey, Farmington, Utah; Jay, Calif.; Mrs. Arnold (Letha) Peterson, Tooele; Mrs. Kyle (Mildred) Hetirie, Las Vegas; Mrs. Ronald (Leona) Lake, Salem, Ut.; 40 grandchildren; 53 greatgrandchildren; great-grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Annie Adams, Kanab, Ut. Funeral services will be held Friday, Dec. 27, 1968, 12:00 noon at Delta Second Ward. Burial will be in the Delta Cemetery Ceme-tery under the direction of NIckle Mortuary. Extended Care Patients Applaud Entertainment The patients at the Extended Care Facility of the local hospital were entertained with a very special Christmas program Monday evening, Dec. 23. Presenting the program was the American Legion son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Auxiliary. Program numbers were Joy was a busy mining camp; and, is very much with us. Two of them, even earlier days when, after a Jack Thomas and "Andy" Anderson, "tragically disrupted first mar- geologist, who recently quit his job riage," she had taken up the pro-1 with Brush Beryllium and went, fession of barmaid, entertainer, and 'tis said, to South America, have goodtime girl in the better saloons erected a sign beside the old Juab in Virginia City. County road some 100 miles west Thirty-six years have passed, of nowhere Nephi, to you,--which since the day she said to me. "It s reacts: been lonely since Mr. Laird died. In the winter, a few sheepherders come through. In the summer, hardly anybody." In the Deseret News, May 30, HOWDY Welcome to Bull Durham country Where everyone drives Chevs. They tell me some of the boys Erickson of Delta 3rd Ward, Mr. Gene Fullmer was guest speaker of the evening, and proved to be an outstanding inspiration He and his lovely wife added charm to the program. Gene Full mer gave an inspirational talk and then concluded with an informal session of questions and answers, which he handled adeptly, The Eagle Scouts are to be com plimented on this achievement. The Eagle awards were made by Dennis Bowthorpe, fieldman for the district. Mr. Martin Ludwig and Mr. Arjann Dekker handled the ar rangements, and the program. $959.25 REALIZED THRU THE COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS CARD The list of season's greeters in were hunting near Drum Mountain last week s Chronicle contributed a 1967, Sebrina Ekins touched on the and someone remarked that it, total of $959.25. $45.50 of that legend of Matt Evans. "Matt , looked like Marlboro country. Buss j amount was contributed directly to Evans was a miner, and after aiihomas, 1 think it was, observed, the Delta High football field. The brawl in the saloon one night, hewnat tney were smoking, and said i Millard Day Care Center realized was thrown out. Next morning he; it looked more like Bull Durham ,$180.30 thru direct contributions was found frozen to death in the country. Then, noting that all were and the West Millard Hospital re snow. Mary Laird, owner and oper-, driving the same make of vehicle, ator of the hotel-saloon, perhapshey added that fact to thes ign. decorated his grave for many, I took a movie shot of the sign. and under it put the caption, ''Roll your own"....Roll your own which? You're asking me! In my own reminiscences here, I have used nil real names, I have borrowed, also, what I wanted from Mr. Beckwith's book, Millard and Nearby. Some facts I picked up myself tn the desert; and yet a few others Mr. Beckwith and I discovered dis-covered together when we were driving and flying over the area. His books tells us that the Pahvant -Ute Indians called the Sevier River the Big Silent Mother Stream. He had his own way of getting information about the Indians. He years....as she was the last one o live at Joy." In the Salt Lake Tribune on March 5, 1950, Frank A. Beckwith characterized Matt Evans as "a nice young man, come west from Pennsylvania, who was tasting in cautious gulps the new, wild, life." The brawl was on Christmas Eve. He was buried on Christmas Day. The day before he died, he had presented Myrtle and Estelle Mike-sell, Mike-sell, two Delta girls, each with a costly Chinese silk scarf. Myrtle became Mrs. George Spor, whose name, hyphenated with Topaz, became that of the beryl lium mining area. Joy got its name would go and talk with them ceived $743.45. The amount con tributed to the Hinckley Ward Building fund was not totaled in the final amount NOTICE A Beef Feeders Short Course will begin Jan. 8, 1969 at the Delta High Vo-Ag room at 2:00 p.m.The course will continue for five weeks for two hours each week. Conducting the course will be Dr. Clair Acord, Dr. Don Thomas and Dr. Dennis Funk and others of Utah State University. Everyone who feeds cattle should take advantage of this opportunity. Give your college student a subscription sub-scription to the Millard Co. Chronicle. Chron-icle. Order today. by children or grandchilden of veterans. Rev. Robert Fields, First Baptist Church, opened the program with scripture reading of the Birth of Christ, Luke:2, 1-20. A lovely folk song "Go Tell It On The Mountain" was sung by Roger Stephenson and Duane Call-ister Call-ister who played guitar accompaniment. accompa-niment. Darhl Dalton and Kris Riding Sang "Do You Hear What I Hear?" accompanied ac-companied by Jane Lovell. Luiga Schena, small son of Ben and Becky Schena, gave a delightful delight-ful Christmas poem. This was Luiga's first "stage" appearance but will probably not be his last. Karen Morrison played "I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day" on the flute accompanied by her mother. Seven Nielson cousins, grandchildren grand-children of LaClead and Eleanor Nielson, sang two special numbers, "Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer" Rein-deer" and "Drummer Boy". Saralee Kelly gave an original reading called "Christmas". Jolyn Clark and Jill Dalton did an original dance to 'S'anta Claus Is Coming To Town". RaNaye Nielson nlayed a medley of Christmas carols. Those appearing on the program were joined by children in the audience aud-ience in singing "We Wish You A Merry Christmas". Carol Ann Nielson played the piano while patients and their guests sang several oldtime favorite favor-ite Christmas Carols. Fresh fruit, contributed by Quality Qual-ity Market and attractively arranged ar-ranged on two large trays by La-Vonne La-Vonne Morrison, were presented to the patients to conclude the evening. |