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Show L E G A E NOTICES Probata and Guard Wmihtp Notice!. No-tice!. Coiuult Clerk of DUtrlct Court, or rotpoetiTo tgnoti for Information. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF MILLARD COUNTY, UTAH ESTATE of Fred C. Kelm deceased, Probate No. 1912. Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned Executor at the office of his attorney. at-torney. Dudley Crafts, at Delta, Utah, on or before the 22nd day of May, 1969. DALE PEARSON, Executor of the Estate of Fred C. Kelm, deceased. DUDLEY CRAFTS Attorney for Executor Delta, Utah 81624 Telephone: 864-2748 Date of First Publication: February Feb-ruary 20, 1969. Date of Final Publication: March 13, 1969. Delta, Utah. All bids should be- addressed to the D. M. A. D. Company, co M. N. S. Bassett, Delta, Utah, and must (O) fL fo) ODD THE RAY CHURCH STORY. by Richard S. Morrison The people who know Ray Church in Canoga Park, California, be received on Dr before 10:00 a.m. rate his one of their successful and on Thursday, March 20, 1969; said' respected citizens. In business he bids must be made on the forms Is manager of the Canoga Park and in accordance with the in-' office cf a savings and loan associ-structions associ-structions attached to the contract ation; and he was recently elected documents and specifications, a president of the city's Chamber of copy of which may be obtained , Commerce. He is active in the Boy NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of LUe Johnson, Deceased, Creditors will present claims with vouchers to the undersigned, on or before the 1st day of June, 1969. Mary C. Johnson, Executrix Lynndyl, Utah Eldon A. Eliason, Attorney Delta, Utah First Publication: Feb. 27, 1969 Final Publication: March 20, 1969 by writing to D. M. A. D. Company, co Mr. N. S. Bassett, Delta Utah. A deposit of $10.00 will be required for each copy of the contract documents docu-ments and specifications obtained, and such deposit will be refunded, provided the set of contract documents docu-ments and specifications are returned re-turned within five (5) days after the date of opening the bids. Owners reserve the right to reject re-ject any and all bids, or to waive any irregularities or informalities as their best interest may appear. THORPE WADDINGHAM Attorney in Fact for Owncs Scouts; is a past presideii of the local Kiwanis Club; is a former vice-chairman of the North Hollywood Holly-wood selective service board. All this and more was duly reported in the Chronicle last January 2. But the people who grew up with Ray Church in Delta, know there is a lot more to his story than that. And those of us who have read it are grateful to Mrs. Cheryl Black Roper, a niece of Ray, for setting it down on paper, in a little book of some twenty-thousand words, more or less, home published by a duplicating process, NOTICE OF PROPOSED ABANDONMENT OF PUBLIC ROAD NOTICE Applications for two part-time female custodians will be accepted up to March 17 at the Millard School District Office, Delta, Utah. The work schedule will be after school or early evening for two or three hours. Any woman interested in this position, please contact Superintendent Taylor at the school district office. Talmage Taylor, Superintendent Published in The Millard County Chronicle March 6 and 13, 1969. INVITATION TO BID . NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Delta Canal Company, Deseret Irrigation Company, Melville Irrigation Irri-gation Company and Abraham Irrigation Irri-gation Company, hereinafter referred re-ferred to as the Owners, will receive re-ceive sealed bids for the work of drilling, furnishing of casing, perforating, per-forating, baling, surging and testing test-ing a 20 inch O. D. irrigation well; said work to be carried out and materials furnished in accordance with the contract documents and "specifications on file at the office of the D. M. A. D. Company at Date of First Publication: March, and placed on sale locally. 6, 1969 T HnpMpri tn neriisA it nu nlcht. Date of Last Publication: March1 with the idea that if I liked it I 13. 1969 I might submit a review of it to the Chronicle. Once started, I found I didn't want to put it down until I had read it through. In March, of 1941, Ray was about NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, twenty years old, and as hand-Millard hand-Millard County Commission has 'some as you'd expect a Marine of received request to abandon certain that age to be. He had completed public road areas in Millard County his basic training in San Diego, and will hold hearing in the Com-; and had been shipped with his out-mission out-mission chambers at Fillmore, Mil- fit to the island of Guam, lard County, State of Utah on April He found it a lonely place, as ho 2, 1969 at 2:00 p.m., for the pur-1 paced back and forth patrolling pose of hearing any protest or the beaches, observing, "Since I objection to the closing and aban-'was the seventh child in a family doning of said roads. Said roads of eleven children, I had that many sought to be abandoned are more more to miss than the next fellow, particularly described as follows: I We had never had much money, No. 1 I but I certainly had not considered That portion of the old Mud 'us poor, because we had been so Lake Road beginning at a point happy." Thoughts of what hs 2640 feet East of the Southwest 'brothers and sisters might be do-Corner do-Corner of Section 6 T. 18 S. R.iing added to his feeling of home-6 home-6 W.. SLM.Th. Snut.hpast.erlv to sickness. Of "little Ned," his older a point 2640 feet S. of the NE ,i of Sec. 7 T. 18 S. R. 6 W. SLM. The said area is now within the fenced property of Clark B. Cox. No. 2 That road beginning at a point 1760 feet West of the NE. Corner of Sec. 1, T 17 S. R 7 W. SLM, Th. Southeasterly to a point 1760 ft. N. and 1320 ft. W of the SE Cor. of said Sec. 1, T 17 S. R. 7 W. SLM. This portion of road is entirely within the fenced property of Del Shurtliff, beginning begin-ning 1- miles west of the Phillips corner. MILLARD COUNTY COMMISSION By Walter L. Ekins, Chairman Published in The Millard County :hronicle March 13, 1969. I'll" ,-1 V: S01 fo fertilize EARLY! Fertilize early this spring and watch your profits grow. Early fertilization enables natural moisture to move the fertilizer down into the root zone, where it is readily available to the plant. Fertilizer applied late often moves, under furrow irrigation, to the tops of the furrows and isn't available as it should be for maximum yields. Early fertilization with USS Fertilizers will give your crops the quick start they need this spring. And remember, USS Fertilizers are sold by reliable dealers dealers who can provide soil fertility planning assistance, backed by United States Steel research and agronomists. Start your fertilizer program NOW! (U$S) Fertilizers brother, he remarked, "Ned could also broad-jump about as far as anyone I've ever seen." Then there was Jimmy, and Mel, "as rugged in football and wrestling as anyone any-one I'd ever care to take on." He recalled how his brother Grant had gained the nickname, Shine; and similar thoughts came to him of the other six of them, the children of George and Sarah Church. Boredom and nostalgia turned to excitement and horror, however, that infamous day of December 8 (December 7 in the U.S.). The Japs declared war not only by bombing Pearl Harbor, but also by bombing the little town of Sumay, on Guam. The U. S. Marines and sailors on Guam had little with which to defend de-fend themselves, because in Ray's words, Congress had been fearful the any preparation for the defense de-fense of the island, only 1600 miles from Tokyo, would agitate the Japanese government. However that may be, the Jap force he guessed at three thousand men soon took the island, murdered a lot of American servicemen more it less at random.. ?nd shipped the Kt to Japan as prisoners. During the thirty days on Guam before being shippe to Japan, the irisoneis got a taste of Jap brutality. brutal-ity. It ws a prelude to the existence exis-tence they were to know from that ime until trio day they felt "the force air wave" which came from he explosion of the first atomic op..i, which hnd been dropped on Uho.'.hima, "about, forty miles away," which, in effect, brought he war to an end, and freedom to the survivors among the prisoners. The story of prison life first in Zentsuji, then in the "death camp" -f Tanagawa, and later, to Ray's datively good fortune, in Osaka .nd other places, is filled with l ama and suspense, the more so because it is true. WEST MILLARD CO-OP Delta, Utah The brutality of most Jap prison bosses was extreme, although predictable; pre-dictable; life was made worse by brutality of some Americans; while in some instances Japs showed a degree of hitmen understanding. An ex - American Navy man named McLain, who had turned traitor to the U. S. was put '.n charge of the prisoners on Guam, and retained in that position after transfer to Zentsuji, in Japan. On cne occasion, Ray gave MeLain a thorough beating-up; then, asked if he would take American or Japanese punishment for the act, Ray chose Japanese, thus putting himself outside McLain's jurisdiction. jurisdic-tion. Presiding at the trial was a "big Jap colonel, an older man who had been through many campaigns,' He listened attentively to both sides, then dismissed the case with the words, "All must cooperate," Later, however, McLain got his revenge by including Ray's name with a list of fifty men . ordered to the death camp of Tanagawa. Tan-agawa. (At war's end, McLain was court-martialed, according to the story, and Is today serving life imprisonment im-prisonment in Leavenworth, Kansas.) Kan-sas.) At Tanagawa. slave labor and I insufficient food led to Ray's losing I weight from his normal 180 pounds plus to only 87 pounds. "All of us looked like skeletons," he recalled. Brutality of a "loyal" American among the prisoners is recounted. One army Sergeant, "a big bully," had ordered two Americans beaten up claiming they had stolen food from somewhere and were bringing punishment by the Japs to the whole camp. He also ordered a man pushed off the ore-loading dock, to make the murder look like an accident, because he had written a letter (which was never sent) offering the Jps his knowledge of codes if thev would only give him food and clothes. (Learning of this plan, Ray, who had been made prison Chaplain, rushed to the dock, arriving just too late. The man lay, broken of body, on sharp rocks forty feet below the dock, He was still alive and lived several agonizing days, "Why did they push me?" he gasped. "Were you pushed?" Ray asked. "Yes," came the pitiful answer. Ray used his authority as Chaplain Chap-lain to give the Sergeant a verbal dressing down, and commented, "He just laughed at me." As to how he was made Chaplain, the man who had held that position posi-tion when he arrived was one Captain Frank, a Mormon from Gunnison, Utah. On Frank's death, the CO, having learned that Ray held the office of Elder in the Mormon Church, asked him to take the job. Ray recalled that "Even as an Elder in our church, I was still fairly stupid as to theology." And he had never attended a funeral. Even so, he became spiritual spiri-tual leader of th whole camp. "I don't know how many funerals I conducted. Men died like flies. If I was working, sometimes the dead were taken away without a funeral, funer-al, or even a prayer." ' He hid been a prisoner about eighteen months before he received his first word from home. This was a letter from his sister, Deonn, (mother of the book's author). It had been a year on the way! Throughout the war, the Japs broadcast messages from prisoner. Ray's number for such broadcast was never drawn, but he traded some cigarettes to a min whose , number was drawn, thus gaining I the chnnce to broadcast. The mes-, mes-, sage was heard in the U.S. and t i gave his family their first informa-i informa-i tion about him. Ray, like many I another Mormon boy, didn't smoke. A lot of them traded their cigarette cigar-ette allotments for things of valus. After mny months in Tanagawa, I Ray ?nd some hundred others were transferred to Osaka, where things were better in some ways, although they found the rations even skimpier. skim-pier. "Our bewilderment over healthier prisoners but such scant rations was short-lived." The reason rea-son was the chances prisoners had to steal from railroad cars along the tracks at the docks. Those who could not steal, including the sick. starved to death. When the new arrivals' lives literally depended on their success et stealing, their cleverness became a wonder even to themselves. In one instance, Ray climbed into a cattle car, and "finding the cow with the fullest bag," milked her into a bucket he had found. Caught by a Jap guard with his two companions, com-panions, he explained that he had seen the cow was in misery, and just wanted to help her out. The guard finally decided not to report him, thinking him just another crazy American. Five years in Japanese prison camps ended when they sailed for home, shortly after the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Seeing Point Loma, "we cheered, we yelled, yell-ed, we hugged each other, we cried and offered up thanks," he recalled. It took Chervl Black Roper fifteen fif-teen years to get the whole story out of Ray. She wrote and re-wrote It many times. She gives credit for professional assistance to Mrs. Marvel Mar-vel Clayton, without whose help the book would not have been written. Ninety nine percent of the men In the story are now dead; almost all as i result of P. O. W. treatment. "Ray's faith and the faith of his loved ones was his Gleam of Hope ", she concludes. con-cludes. From this, Ray chose the title of the book, "Follow the Gleam." Now, under recognized auspices, Follow the Gleam could very well have become one of the great stories of the war. There are many locally written books which hold as much of Interest as those that make the best seller lists, yet Millard County Chronicle Thursday, March 13, 1969 which never attain that distinction. I rhavo been finding It rewarding to write reviews of them. For one thing, they usually bring back old memories and associations. associa-tions. I well remember the day Ray's broadcast message was heard in Delta. Later on, I listened to many such messages, and transmitted trans-mitted them to families In many ! states. But I didn't hear this one. ' However, the patrons of Pace's Pool Hall did. Bill Pace took a short-w ve radio to the pool hall ' for the benefit of his customers, 1 and a lot of guys heard it. These broadcasts were repeated several times during a twenty-four hour period. Questions of "morality" arise. Should a prisoner be damned for stealing when his life depends upon it? No, I say, a thousand times no. When one is under total control of barbaric wardens, the little laws of ordinary ethics do not apply. The enemy has destroy ed them, not the prisoner. It Is , ethical to survive, and he follows j the higher ethic. I recommend "Follow The Gleam" to those who did not know Ray Church, as well as to those who did. It is a well told true story. 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