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Show Award Honors At Assembly Monday AHtelta High The annual award assembly in Delta high school was conducted Monday forenoon in the auditorium,- with an impressive array of awards and trophies for outstanding outstand-ing achievements of the past school year. The program filled two hours with students receiving awards and honors. The list of names is far too long to give in detail here, with honors bestowed in each department. de-partment. In the athletic department depart-ment alone there were 47 letter men this year. FFA and FHA awards were first on the program, followed by Joe H. Snow from citizenship and driver driv-er training. At the close of his talk Mr. Snow was recalled to the front of the stage and was presented pre-sented with a gift of appreciation from the student body. Mr. Snow is retiring this year, after years of teaching, mainly in Delta high school. His gift was a fishing rod to be used n the leisure time he will now have. Music and commercial department depart-ment awards made, followed by journalism, drama and debate, home economics and girls' athletics. athlet-ics. Awards in athletics to the boys came last, and proved to be a long, long list. Special Awards Announcement of the special awards was heard with keen interest. in-terest. Muriel Skidmore received the Edith L. Finlinson award for womanhood, presented by Mrs. Eleanor Nielson In behalf of the Finlinson family. . Wayne Western received the Anthony E, Stephenson award for manhood, presented by Mrs. Ruth Bishop. Margene Hilton received the Kenith R. Robins award for scholarship schol-arship presented by Mr. Robins. Lula Marie Hilton received the Cropper music award, presented by Ladd R. Cropper. Leo Prestwich and Dale Lang-ston Lang-ston received the Golden H. Black athletic award, presented "by Mr. Black. Richard Snow and Dorene Moody received the Danforth foundation awards for leadership, presented by Prin. Glen W. Seegmiller. Scholarship Scholarships were awarded to Betty Bennett, college of her choice by the Utah Congress of Parents and Teachers. This is the first time the scholarship has been a-warded a-warded in west Millard in eight years.' Gary Nielson, U of U; Richard Snow, Margene Hilton, B. Y. U. , Lolan Morrill, Salt Lake vocational school; Glenda Talbot, Dixie; Carl Baker, Jolene Torrens, U. S. A. C Sylvia Bishop Kent Dewsnup, Dale Langston, Leo Prestwich, Jerold Bishop. Snow College; Carl Win-field, Win-field, athletic, C. S. U.; Ramona Robinson, C S. U. Sugarville Hake Sale Saturday Sugarville ward invites all to shop with them Saturday for good home baked foods, pies, cakes, cookies and breads. The "sale will open Saturday at 11 a. m. in Quality Market Proceeds from the sale will be used to buy books for the pulpit in Sugarville ward chapeL Commencement Ilanee Thursday The public is cordially invited to dance Thursday night in the Delta high school gymnasium, after Com mencement excerises for the class of -54. I The affair is sponsored by DHS Alumni Association. Music is by, Eud's Band. Admission is one dol-lar.per dol-lar.per couple, and extra ladies are free. i Teachers Return Contracts Unsigned And Avait Raise In Salary Schedule At a mass meeting of all teachers of Millard County, it was again, agreed to return all contracts unsigned- Contracts were based on SSM) for beginning teachers with a E. S. decree to for teach ers with sixteen years experience. This salary schedule is less than the schedule offered the teachers tv the board of education, prior to the special election, ty an average aver-age of ' approximately S5-1C3 per teacher since all increments for c-ei :s toward a M. S. degree have ; been eliminated. This trhed-Ie Is Have Filed For Co mi tv Offices The following people have f.led for County offices to be filled in the fall election: Golden Black - for 4-year Commissioner. Com-missioner. LaVar Owens - for 2-year Commissioner. Com-missioner. Eldon Eliason - County Attorney. Attor-ney. Dale Ashman - County clerk. Wm. H. Mitchell - County Treasurer. Claude Robins - County Assessor. Assess-or. Culbert Robison - County Sheriff. Sher-iff. Camilla Hunter, county recorder, 4-year term. These people are all incumbents incum-bents and, all filed on the Republican Repub-lican ticket. No one has yet filed for the office of Precinct Justice of the Peace. The closing date for filing on the Republican ticket is July 24. Other offices that will be voted on this fall are: a Representative Justice of the Supreme Court; a District Judges A State Senator from this District and a State Representative Re-presentative from Millard County. Boy Scouts Set Camporee For Thursday, June 4 District Committe of Deseret Boy Scouts of America announce the yearly Camporee, scheduled Thurs day June 3, in Oak City Canyon. More details will be given next week, and the time and place set for meeting. The camporee will get under way at 5 p. m. on June 3, and camp will be broken next morning at 7:30 a. m. Two meals will be eaten out. Scoutmasters are urged to help the boys complete sleeping gear and mess kits for the outing. Delta City Has Rate Reduced On Summer Water The Delta City Council has voted vot-ed on a reduced culinary water rate for the summer months. June through October. This reduced rate or "Sprinkling Bonus" applies to residential users and results in a saving of one-third one-third on all water used in excess of the mimimum amount of $1.50 for 6,000 gallons. The council hopes this will encourage en-courage a more widespread use of culinary water for sprinkling purposes. pur-poses. Abraham Ilenefit Scheduled May 1 The benefit for Abraham ward building fund on the night of Mon day. May 31, in Deseret Stake house, promises to be a gala affair aff-air with aconcert by the Desert Sentinels on the program, and a bake sale after. Contributions may be made at the door that night, or to ward members before that date. The -concert will be the usual fine performance by the male chorus, chor-us, ably directed by Ladd R. Cropper. The bake sale is being staged on a large scale wth foods provided by members throughout the stake. A feature of the affair will be the presence of Margaret Masters of radio and TV' fame, and her husband J. Franklin Masters. By some hocus pocus the Chronicle led readers to belive that Mrs. Masters would be at the Delta elementary school bake sale a week ago. However she missed that successful affair, but writes that she will be here for the Abraham Abra-ham event on May 31. at the stake house. approximately a state average for beginning teachers but is $300 below be-low a state average fr teachers with maximum experience. The teachers of Millard County are holding out for a salary schedule sche-dule of S3 100 to $4300. This will give the teacher who has 16 years i f experier.ee, a wage com; arable with other such teachers of the state. This does not appear to be unreasonable since M ara'i at- il.ty to pay is far above the average aver-age courty. M..lar2 County Education Ass-i. Chest X-Ray Unit Comes In June To West Millard On Monday, May 1-th. a group of representative citizens from the towns in West Millard county met at the stake house in Delta to consider community organization for the community wide chest X-Ray X-Ray survey which will be sponsored by the West Millard Kiwanis Club in cooperation with the Utah State Department of Health and the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Associat- i ion. j The mobile unit will begin X-j X-j Raying in Delta June 22nd and will then move to Hinckley, Des-1 Des-1 eret, Oasis, probably Garrison, Oak City, Lynndyl and Leamington. The survey should finish X-raying by July 8th. This will probably be the last time for a number of years that the unit will be available in this area due to the change in policy in the use of the mobile unit. The meeting was called by Wil-na. Wil-na. Wixon, Public Health Nurse for West Millard conty. Mr. Joseph Jos-eph G. Carling, Executive Secretary Secre-tary of the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association discussed organizational or-ganizational possibilities with the following people who represented the towns and different organizations. organi-zations. Mrs. William Crafts, Deseret, Town Board; Mrs. Ed Christensen, Oasis, Relief Society; Susan N. Shipley, Oak City. Relief Society; Thelma Dutson, Oak City, Relief Society; Savalla Sanford, Delta, Womens Clubs; Wm. H. Bishop. Delta. Kiwanis Club; Betty S. John son, Delta, Sutherland; Hazel Sheriff. Sher-iff. Lynndyl. Relief Society, Nor-ine Nor-ine Shipley. Lynndyl. Relief Society Carma Hanson. Leamington, PTA; Mabel Harder, Leamington, PTA; Doyle Topham, Delta Kiwanis Club. In a survey just completed by the State Health Department and the Utah Tuberculosis and Health Association in four Southern Utah counties the possibility of an ep-demic ep-demic area Coccidiomycosis has been discovered. There is a possibility poss-ibility that this disease of the Lung which is caused by a fungus growth may reach further up the State to include Beaver, Millard and Juab counties. People over forty-five especially should take advantage of the X-Ray X-Ray unit while it is available. The schedule of dates for the Chest X-Ray unit in west Millard are Delta June 22-26; Hinckley, June 29; Deseret, June 30; Oasis, July 1; Oak. City, July 6; Lynndyl, July 7, and Leamington. July 8. Deseret Mother Is Buried In Rites Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Mus-etta Mus-etta Palmer Western, 79. Deseret resident for near three quarters of a century were conducted by Bishop Cecil Warner in Deseret ward Wednesday, May 12. Prelude music was played by Norma Moody, and Bishop Warner gave a sketch of Mrs. Western's life. Carol Cropper sang, " In the Garden", and invocation was by J. A. Bennett. Speakers were O. L. Dutson. Har old Western, from Provo, and Ver-le Ver-le Scott, of Salt Lake City, who paid tribute to Mrs. Western as a loved wife and mother, and valued friend and neighbor. Ray and Janice Western sang God Understands" and Erma Cropper sang "Silver Haired Mother of Mine". This song was written in 1933 for Mrs. Western on Mother's Day, by her son Orvil. The quartet of Dean Talbot, Eldon Sorenson, Elaine Spendiove, and Mivin Hepworth sang " 1 Need Thee Every Hour". The closing clos-ing prayer was by Stanley Dewsnup. Dews-nup. Burial was in the Deseret cemetery, ceme-tery, where the grave was dedicated dedi-cated by E. J. Eliason. Pallbearers wer Stanley Baker, Raymond Curtis. Cur-tis. Clen Curtis, Marlow Morris. Orin Ailred and Ray Western. Itelief Society Meet May 211 Deseret Stake Relief Society will hold their annual visiting teachers convention in the stake house Sunday. May 23, at 3:15 p. m. Visiting teachers will be especially espec-ially honored. All visiting teachers officers and members are invited to attend. The combined Slf.gir.g mothers chorus will sing, and an fglnal -r-?am ty women of the stake will be present ei. Volume 44 Number 47 Civil Defense School Slated Here June 2-3-4 Tuesday Ionard A. Higgins, state Civil Defense chairman, met in Delta with west Millard chairman Verna Walch, Deona Black and Irene Little, and confirmed con-firmed arrangments for a Civil Defense De-fense school to be held in Delta June 2, 3 and 4. The school is conducted as part of the state program for education of the public for health and safety measures, and the sessions for three nights will conclude with presentation of certificates by Dale Ashman, county C D chairman. The meeting will be held in the Delta high school auditorium, on the following schedule. Beginning Wednesday, 8 p. m., Registration 8 to 8:15. Introduction Introduct-ion 8:15 to 8:30 by Dale Ashman County cahirman and Rulon Call-lster. Call-lster. 8:30 to 9 p. m., Atomic Warfare and Necessity of C. D. and film "U. S. Civil Defense In Action." 9:00 to 9:05, rest break. 9:05 to 9:30, Colonel Sessions lecture on "C. D. Organization." 9:30 to 9:45, Film, "Survival in Atomic Attack." 9:45, Questions. Thursday June 3, 8 to 8:10 p.m. Film, "Biological Warfare" 8:10 to 8:30. Dr Spendiove. "Health Services". 8:30 to 8:50, Film. "Emergency Action". 8:50 to 9:00, LaVonne Morrison, "C. D. and Red Cross." 9:00 to 9:05, Rest break. 9:05 to 9:15, Film, "Fire Fighting Fight-ing for House Holders." 9:15 to 9:25 Question. 9:25 to 10:00, Dr. V. L. Hall "Education and C. D.". June 4. Friday, 8:00 to 8:30, "Womens Responsibility in C. D", by Mrs. Victor J. Bird. 8:30 to 9:00 "The Operation Ivy", which is the H-Bomb in Color. 9:00 to 9:05, Rest Break. 9:05 to 9:15, Tests. 9:15 to 9:30, Presentation of Certificates by County Chairman, Dale Ashman. 9:30 to 9:45, Summary by Leonard Leon-ard A. Higgins. 9:45 to 10:00 Film, "Cities Must Fight". Stake Beehive Swarm Day Slated May 25 The Bee Hive girls Swarm Day program will be held May 25, at the DHS auditorium, at 8 p. m. All Bee Hive girls and leaders are urged to be in attendance, also al-so mothers, leaders, fathers, bishoprics, bis-hoprics, and MIA presidencies and MIA Maids. Alo leaders of all wards are cordially invited to attend. at-tend. Unit U! fleets Xew Officers Newly elected officers of American Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary 89 are Margaret Mar-garet Roper, president; Clara Kill-pack, Kill-pack, first vice; Zola Bunker, second sec-ond vice; Maxine Bishop corresponding corr-esponding secretary; Irene Little, secretary; Ora Gardner, chaplain; Eeryl Sorensen and Pearl Nelson sergeants-at-arms; Lou SwaJberg, publicity and historian. Elections were held Friday even ing, at the unit meeting at the home of Mrs. Amelia Cole, with tlx Pace Verna Walch and Lula Warnick as co-hostesses. Clara Kill pack presided. Members planned their project to furnish the kitchen at the Legion Leg-ion HalL Mrs. Zola Eunker reported re-ported the clothing shippment, and Mrs. Romania Eird outlined Poppy Day selling May 19. Mrs. Maxine Bishop gave a brief history of the Legion and auxiliary since their organization. Poppy wreaths were made during the evening, tut decorating veterans veter-ans graves. Refreshments were served at the end of the evening. 7 f jgT JT J ' - Tiff, Delta, Utah, Thursday, Full Mouse For Commencement There will bo a full house at Commencement Thursday night at Delta high school and probably Standing Room Only, from indications in-dications today according to Prin. Glen Seegmiller. There are 101 graduates this year, and to each graduate three reserved sent tickets have 'been issued. That accounts for 303 seats, and the seating capacity in the auditorium is 3. All are reserved seats, for parents, faculty, school board members and donors of awards. Benches will be placed around the auditorium to take care of about 100 persons. But it is evident that seats will be limited for the exercises and the public is reminded that unless they are on the reservd sat list their chances of finding seats for the program are slim, Indeed. Clean-Up Day Leaves Delta Spick And Span Delta City Council wishes to express ex-press their apreciation to the people peo-ple of Delta for their splendid cooperation on Clean-up Lay, Wednesday, May 12. There are special thanks to the Delta Garden Club, Uons, Kiwanis I O.O.F., JayCees and the Delta Vol unteer Firemen, for their help during the day. All the citien efforts nuide the clean-up day a tremendous success. succ-ess. Extemporaneous Speech Stake Contest Winners Dale Workman, Janice Nielson and Emogene Nielson were rated "superior" for their talks on the extemporaneous speech contest pre sented Monday night by , Deseret stake speech department. They were selected as winners by three judges, and will talk In stake con ference. The largest group ever to part icipate iri the annual contest were heard Monday night. There were nine contestants from the twelve wards in the stake. Those who took part were Arva Johnson, Sutherland; Jolene Torrens, Tor-rens, Deseret; Helen Jean Taylor, Hinckley; Dale Workman, Delta First ward; Zolet Prestwich, Delta Second ward; Chloe Gardner, Delta Third ward; Pauline Lovell, Oak City; Emogene Nielson, Lynndyl, and Janice Nielson, Leamington. The contest was presented by the stake speech department, under the direction of La Von Barney and Ralph Crafts. Name Omitted Of Seminary firad When the names of Deseret Stake Seminary graduates were published last week, one name, that of Stanley Max Hollingshead, was omitted. The name of his older brother, James Hollingshead. was there, but Stanley's name was nowhere to be seen. We regret the oversight, and hope this correction helps. Stanley received his diploma Friday night in the Seminary graduation exercises exer-cises in the stake house. Births This Week . . . To Lawrence and Lucy Deard-orff Deard-orff Mitchell. Delta, a girl, 8 lbs. 12 or.. May 19 at Fillmore L D S hospital. At Delta hospital To Leonard and Eemiece Hep-worth Hep-worth Palmer, Hinckley, a girl. S mm f lr,s. l oz., .-.ay o. To Heber and Lois Clark Curtis. Delta, a girl, G lbs. 8 oz., May aJ. To Nathan and Myrta Davis Hale Trout Creek, a girl S frs., May 14. To Ferron and Dor"a Euckrr.iller Lovell, Delta, a cirl, 9 lbs.. May 15. May 20, 1954 Delta Juior High School Holds First Graduation Exercises Friday The first graduation exercises f be held Friday at 8 p.m. jn Deser of 115 students. The program will open with the n':e Johnson. Prin. D. A. Ailred wi the invocation will be bv Pres. J Livestock Show Opens Today The 23rd annual Millard County Junior Livestock Show opened Wednesday morning in the bi? barn north of Delta, with a large crowd on hand all day to view the handsome livestock entered by 4-H FFA, and Individuals. A detailed account of the big event will be given next week, as right now we are busy winding wind-ing up the paper to go to press so that we, too, can go to the stock show. Utah Lions Set June 10-12 For Annual Meeting Past International President, Eugene Eu-gene S. Brlggs, will be the feature feat-ure guest at the Annual State Convention of Utah Uons to be held at Logan, Utah Thursday, Friday, and Saturday June 10-11-12. The Utah Council of District Governors Harold M. Petersen, Logan, Lo-gan, La Var W. Thatcher, Salt Lake City. Alvin E. Weeks, Vernal, and lkuce F. Parker, Panguitch, expressed expres-sed agreement that Lions and Lai ies of the 13f clubs of the State would enthusiastically welcome the selection. Lion President Hriggs will participate in all of the three day activities, which will Include Important business sessions, and an outstanding recreation program Eugene S. Prlggs, Enid, Oklahoma, Oklah-oma, served as President of Uons International during the fiscal year 11M8-4'.). He had previously served the International Association Associat-ion as Third, Second and First Vice-President and as an International Inter-national Director. For six years he served the Okmulgee, Oklahoma, Uons Club as director and during the year 192G-27 was president of that club. In 1920-30, while he was a member of the Durant, Oklahoma Uons Gub, he was District Governor Gover-nor of all of the Lions Clubs In Oklahoma. Lion Brlggs was born in Howard County, Missouri. He received B. S. Degrees from Central College at Fayette, Missouri, and from the University of Missouri. From the latter institution he also received his M. A. Degree. In 193-1 he received re-ceived his Ph. D. degree from the Teachers College of Columbia University Uni-versity in New York City. For many years Dr. Briggs has been a very prominent figure in educational circles and since 1938 has been President of Phillips University, Uni-versity, Enid. Oklahoma. He is the author of several books, on educat ion and is a contributor to educational educat-ional and religious magazines. In 1929 he founded the Oklahoma Vocational Guidance Conference, and he is a life member of the Oklahoma and National Education el Associations. He is a member of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America and also serves on the National Board of Directors of the National Conefr-ence Conefr-ence of Christians and Jews. Lk.n Eriggs is married and has two children. He is a member of all the Ma.vonlc bodies and is affiliated affi-liated with a number of religious welfare, and educational organizations. organi-zations. He also belongs to Phi Delta Kappa, Kappa Delta Pi, and to Pi Gamma Mu. Service Sunday At Comm. Church Service wiU be conducted Sunday, Sun-day, May 23, at 11 a. :v.. at the Delta Community Church, under the direction c-f Don MacDougall. of Payson. The subject discussed will be "A Prcphetlc Utterance". The public pub-lic Is cordially invited to attend. SI 1 y . if $3.50 a Year in Advance or Delta Junior High School will et stake house. The class consists nirch of the class, music by Bon-11 Bon-11 give the welcome address, and une W. Black. The class chorus will sing and Dorothy Morrison, classs president, will introduce the theme. Bryce r.illings, valedictorian, will talk. Jance Western will sing a solo, and the quartet of Stephen Pearson, Pear-son, Mario Sagers, Larry Wright and Clyde Roper will sing. Talks will be given by Mary Warnick, Wayne Overson, LaPriel liovell, Jerold Finlinson, Gay Og-den Og-den Paul Dewsnup. The girls' triple trio of Paula Turner, Linda Mortensen, Joyceen Spencer, Dorothy Roper, Lorene Black, Janeen Robinson, Janice Western, Darlene Palmer and Ann Kelly will sing, with Bonnie Johnson John-son as accompanist. Eddie Cole, lister Moody and Robert Ilolman will play a trumpet trio and Mario Mar-io Sagers will sing a solo. Presentation of the graduates will be by K. R. Robins, and presentation pres-entation of diplomas wilt be by W, C. Cole. After the excerises there will be a dance at 9:15 p.m. for Junior Jun-ior High school students and their partners. JayCees Told Of Natural Gas In Utah Development Discovery of vast quantities of natural gas in Central Utah will be a vital factor in the industrialization industrial-ization of the state and will benefit bene-fit every Utah resident, the Delta Junior Chamber of Commerce was told Wednesday night. The speaker was Winthrop R. Cady, Salt Lake City, representing Three States Natural Gas Company, Com-pany, the firm that is developing the largest natural gas fields in Carbon, Emery and Sanpete Counties. Coun-ties. He also showed a motion picture of the drilling operations. N. S. Bassett wa in charge of the meeting. The state will benefit from the Industries that will be attracted to Utah as a result of the gas, Mr. Cady said. He cited instances where industries were established in gas-producing areas to take advantage ad-vantage of low fuel costs. More than 40 percent of the chemical plants built in this country since World War 11 have been established establish-ed in the large Texas gas fields, and the only aluminum and magnesium mag-nesium plants built in this country since the war also have been erected er-ected near natural gas fields. Some of the benefits from the gas discovery are being felt now, Mr. Cady said. Gas service is be-ins be-ins extended to thousands of individuals in-dividuals and firms that were unable un-able to obtain it because of a previous pre-vious shortage. Utahns are being j employed by the scores in drilling j and pipeline operations. I The State and the counties this ; year will receive about $125,000 in production royalties from the gas fields, plus thousands of dollars from land leases, the speaker said This money goes into the school fund. Next year the production roy alties are expected to double, and within two or three years the school fund will benefit by more than $100,00.000 a year, he said. Three States Natural Gas Company Com-pany has 15 producing wells in the Carbon-Emery area, and expects ex-pects two or three more to come In within the next two weeks, the speaker said. Three Slates Natural Gas Company, Com-pany, he said, has spent more than $9.00,(X) in its Utah operations, and anticipates spending up tj J.C-CX.000 mere if the gas fields j continue to respond to exploration ' and development as they have dur ing the past three years. Another ! ;3,0:vO has been $ by Utah ! Natural Gas Crr.par.y on a p ; e-i e-i lir.e to transport the gas frcra the J Score!.! area to the mala dlitribut ! i:n system of Mountain Fuel S-p-i r :v Corr.r-ar.v near Crem. |