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Show 1 i y 5L 4 strollin9 5 round town DELTA. UTAH Population 1703 City Water and Sewer Electric Service Surfaced Streets Churches, Civic Clubs, Bank Veteran's Groups Hospital, Library Municipal Swimming Pool Municipal Airport CAA Station Volunteer Fire Department MILLARD COUNTY Population, 9,365 Grazing and Industrial Lands -Alfalfa Seed, Honey, Poultry and Turkey Raising Stockraising, Dairy Farming Ducks, Geese, Pheasants Deer, Cottontail Rabbits Trout, Bass, and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Livel CLEAN-UP WEEK IN DELTA In the regular City Council meeting meet-ing held April 11, the Delta City Council set aside the week of April 25 through April 30 at noon as City Clean-up Week. The Council urges everyone in the city to clean up and get rid of rubbish, etc. from their premises. The City trucks will be on duty to pick up rubbish if it is in a suitable suit-able container, all day Friday, April 29 and until noon Saturday, April 30. This will give ample time for everyone to gather the rubbish from their property for the City trucks to pick up. The City Council reminds all that unless the rubbish is in suitable containers the rubbish will NOT be collected. GUN SAFETY AND SURVIVAL The local American Legion Post will hold a second class in Gun Safety and Survival, beginning Thursday, April 14 (tonight). The Legion states that the membership will be limited to the first 25 boys or girls who sign up for it. The class will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Post Home. Sixty would be hunters just completed com-pleted the course successfully the last of March. Legionnaires are anxious to help the youth of the area in observing all rules and laws governing the great outdoors. POLIO CLINIC A polio Clinic will be held at the Delta High School Thursday (today) (to-day) April 14, 9:00 a.m. Friday, April 15, the clinic will be held at Delta Elementary, 9:00 a.m. Mrs. Dorothy Killpack says that the cost to each person will be $1.00. Future Fut-ure clinic dates will be announced. VOLUNTEER FIREMEN ELECT Delta Volunteer Fire Dept. held election of officers last Wednesday night at City Building. Officers elected are Alvin J. Bohn, Fire Chief; Kennard Riding, Assistant Assist-ant Fire Chief; Cleo Whicker, Sec; Wayne Sorenson, Truck Captain and Rex Harris, Assistant Truck Captain. Outgoing officers are Seth Jackson, Jack-son, Fire Chief; Alvin J. Bohn, Assistant As-sistant Fire Chief; Cleo Whicker, Sec; Jim Kelly, Truck Captain and Kennard Riding, Assistant Truck Captain. The new officers assume their duties immediately. MILLARD Alfalfa just starting to grow, no apparent insect damage to date. Too early to definitely determine crop prospects for this season. Livestock Live-stock condition generally good. No. unusual losses. Spring pastures slow need more storm. Winter wheat stands good, very little damage from blowing or winter kill. Burr-Buttercup Burr-Buttercup a serious weed problem in wheat acreage. Fruit prospects look good, provided there is no frost. DINNER MEETING According to D. L. Holt, Utah Power & Light Company Residential Resident-ial and Farm Director, automation-minded automation-minded women of today do not think in terms of a single electric appliance. They want a complete electric laundry, electric food preparation prep-aration center and electric heating. heat-ing. Mr. Holt spoke to a group of west Millard appliance dealers, Wednesday noon at Hatch's City Cafe. The meeting was directed by Orrin C. McShane, Telluride Power Co. Vice Pres. and General Mgr., and Jay F. Gardner, division Business Busi-ness Development Dept. Mgr. Present Pres-ent for the dinner meeting were R. L. Heyborne, Leo Day, Dan Davis, Wm. J. Starley, M. H. Workman, Orvil Jeffery, Eugene Morris, Van Warnick, Lee Kaschmitter, Allen Jenkins, Dee Yates, Lionel Taylor, McClaine Holt, Golden H. Elack Mrs. D. L. Holt and Inez Riding. BEATRICE SCHENA TO HEAD MOTHER CONTEST Beatrice Schena will be General Chairman of the West Millard Mother contest sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, according accord-ing to Eetty Kelly, president. Mrs. Schena has selected Charlotte Char-lotte Morrison to be chairman of Judging end all letters of nomination nom-ination should be addressed to Charlotte Morrison. Delta, Utah, RFD. by April 30. LaP.ae Petersen and Lois Eracken Hi? ill liiaic ui me uajiucw r- j gTam and Eetty Kelly is menu, chairman. A definite date for the banquet will be announced In next week's Chronicle. I "SERVING Volume 50 Number 42 Surgery Aids Young Car Crash Victim Tyler Faulkner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Faulkner, had surgery Friday at a Provo hospital for injuries in-juries received in a traffic accident on Friday of the week before. The 16-months old boy was hurt in the two-car crash that also injured in-jured his parents and older sister, Ronnie, 3, and demolished the Faulkner car. The accident occurred April 1, just north of Mona. The two occupants oc-cupants of the other car were slightly injured. Mr. Faulkner and Ronnie had bruises about the head and body and Mrs. Faulkner had several broken ribs and a fractured left foot, now in a cast. Apparently Tyler hit the dashboard. dash-board. His face was so badly swollen swol-len after the mishap that the full extent of his injuries was not determined. de-termined. Friday in surgery he was treated for a fracture in each cheek just below the ear and a fractured lower low-er jaw. His upper front teeth were knocked loose, and his lower jaw was shoved back about an inch. The young patient now has his head in a cast and sips a liquid diet, as his jaws are wired. Daily reports to his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Gam Moody, at Delta, are that he is improving in health and recovering well. Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner and the children moved from Delta early in March to Provo, where Mr. Faulk ner is studying at Brigham Young University. The week after the accident Mrs. Faulkner and the children were with her parents at their ranch at Delta. They have returned to Provo, Pro-vo, and the little boy was expected home Tuesday on release from the hospital. He will wear his cast five weeks. LD.S. Presidency Endorses Red Cross Fund Campaign A statement released, from the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints heartily endorses the American Red Cross Fund Drive now underway in west Millard County. "The Red Cross is important in American life. It trains millions in first aid, swimming, lifesaving, and home nursing; assists servicemen, veterans and their families; provides pro-vides blood for the sick and injured; provides help for disaster victims and affords training in good citizenship citi-zenship to millions of young people. peo-ple. "The support for Jiese programs comes entirely from voluntary contributions, con-tributions, and from the time and talent of some two million workers. i "We believe that the service the Red Cross is rendering deserves the fullest support and we therefore there-fore urge the members of the I Church to contribute liberally in response to their appeal for funds to carry on their great mission of mercy." (Signed David O. McKay) Signed J. Rueben Clark, Jr.) , (Signed Henry D. Moyle) The First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints r "1 Lee Welch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eee Welch, joined the list of two-time two-time winners in the Who's Who contest. Lee won the full amount of the jackpot for identifying Oscar Kelly, the featured personality in last week's contest. Drawing was held Monday afternoon in Quality I.G.A. FoocUiner. This week's Who's ; Who marks the end ef the twenty week contest which has furnished fun for many readers. Next week's drawing will be held at the Del-mart Del-mart with boxes placed at Service Cleaners and Laundry, The Delmart and the Chronicle. THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, April 14, 1960 Mathias Caleb Dutson, 91, Pioneer Leamington Resident, Dies In Calif. Mathias Caleb Dutson, 91, died Thursday, April 7, of causes incident inci-dent to age, at the home of a daughter, Evelyn Gunn, in Chats-worth, Chats-worth, Calif. He was born July 3, 1S68, at Fillmore, Fill-more, Utah, a son of John William and Elizabeth Dutson. He married v pur- " v. Mr. Dutson This group is completing its plans for the Stake House Air Conditioning Con-ditioning Benefit scheduled for Saturday night, April 16, 5:00 p.m. Delta Third Ward will host the event but oil members of Deseret Stake are invited to attend. The ! 1 - I t . I - i 4 kir-CaiitlifiOiilng Benefit Sponsored By 3rd Ward Come one! Come all! Everybody's welcome to the Stake House Air-Conditioning Air-Conditioning Benefit. All calendars in the Stake are marked April 16, 5:00 p.m. This is the beginning of the program for the benefit of the cooling system in "The Deseret Stake House." The host is the Delta Third Ward. Featured attractions are the carnival car-nival sponsored by the Elders Quorum Quor-um and the Country Store in charge of the High Priest Quorum. A good deal of the Country Store merchandise merch-andise such as hay, chickens, eggs, etc. will be on display outside the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Millard County Chronicle Dear Sirs: We have moved to a new ad-ress. ad-ress. We enjoy the Chronicle and find that there are several people in St. Paul who are interested in Delta news and we pass the Chronicle on to them. Our family is getting acquainted with Minn, ways gradually. The weather is cold day and night. It doesn't slow many people down though. We just bundle up and out we go. We think of Delta and our Delta friends often. Noel Twitchell, who is here on a mission is stationed in our area and we see him once in awhile. I am sure his family and friends w'ould be pleased at how well he looks. We plan to come back to Utah next summer and hope to visit Delta for a short time. We are surely looking forward to seeing all of that open space and our friends. Yours Truly Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Warner SHOPPERS WISE ECONOMIZE THEY SHOP WITH THOSE WHO ADVERTISE Delta, Utah Copy 10c Christana Anderson of Oak City, June 13, 1895, in the Manti Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints. She died Jan. 26, 1952, at the age of 77 years. Mr. Dutson had been a life-long resident of Leamington, moving there with his father from Fillmore when he was 9 years old. They were one of the first families to settle in Leamington, Mr. Dutson owned and operated a farm at Leamington all his life He was an active member of the LDS church throughout his life. He was the father of eight child ren, all still living. They are Lo reta Peterson, Scipio; Evelyn Gunn, Chatsworth, Calif.; Chloe Pace, Los Angeles, Calif.; Dorthella Soder quist, Salt Lake City; Christy Som- ers, Pioche, Nev.; Verla Mcuuire, Fullerton, Calif., and Leonard and Rulon Dutson, Leamington, Utah. Also surviving are a brother, Sam uel C. Dutson, 87, Roberts, Idaho, and a sister, Sarah Ann Wiley, 84, Lynndyl, Utah; 27 grandchildren, 60 great-grandchildren, and nine great-great-grandchilddren. Funeral services were conducted Monday, April 11, in the Leaming ton Ward chapel by Bishop Richard Nielson. Burial was in the Oak City cem etery, under direction of Nickle Mortuary of Delta. 1 7 ' ' benefit will feature carnival attractions. at-tractions. Country Store, dinner, bazaar, ba-zaar, fish pond, Easter Cake and Bread Sale, book store and other features. Fun will be the order of the day. 'building. Also, some of the carnival car-nival attractions. Anyone in the stake who wishes to contribute produce or usable merchandise to the Country Store may contact Don T. Bishop, Eldon Eliason, Glen Bunker or other homecoming committee com-mittee members. A full course hot dinner will be served by the Delta Third Ward Relief Re-lief Society inside the Stake House from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. There wlil be a Bazaar with all kinds of merchandise mer-chandise on display. The MIA is sponsoring a Talent Program beginning at-8:00 p.m. If you want to be on the program, contact Rose Black. The Primary is sponsoring a fish pond full of toys for the younger group. The MIA has an Easter Cake and Bread Sale, and Candy Kitchen of delicious homemade candies. You can buy that novel or history hist-ory or child's book you've always wanted, at a second-hand book store sponsored by the Genealogy Department. Every person in the Stake is urged to attend this function. Bring the family and help to complete the cooling system. Save your boxes box-es and egg cartons. Bring them with you. Sophomore Swing Did You Say? "Seranade of the Bells," Decorations galore, A floorshow and band, And more, More, MORIS All herald the Swing, (They will all be there, too) Along with the Sophomores, And, naturally, YOU. The time to arrive, Is 9:00 on the dot, Friday, April 15th, And the gym is the spot To come, looking sharp, And everyone bring Expectations of enjoying. THE SOPHOMORE SWING!!! VALLEY' $4.00 a year in advance IRRIGATION NOTICE The irrigation water will be in the City of Delta about May 1. Ditch tax lor all water users wUl be $5.00 per user and must be paid before any water is delivered deliver-ed to the property: This is payable pay-able at the City Office. The City also has some water to rent at $15.00 per share, plus the ditch tax. GRAVESIDES SERVICES Graveside services were held in Nepht for the still-born baby of Clark and LaVee Austin recently. The baby was born in the Juab County hospital, Nephi. Grandparents, Grandpar-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cowers Cow-ers and great-grandfather, A. W. Clyde, attended the services. Funeral Services for Mary Jensen Held Thursday, April 7 Funeral services for Mary Hal-ley Hal-ley Wilken Young Jensen were held Thursday, April 7, at the Sutherland Suther-land Ward chapel with Bishop Max Johnson conducting. Mrs. Jensen died Monday, April 4, at the home of her son, Alva A. Young, of causes incident to age. Invocation was offered by Bur-rell Bur-rell Bybee. Remarks were given by Bishop Johnson, which was followed follow-ed with Eulogy, read by Hal Young, a grandson. Mr. and Mrs. Merlin I Terry sang a duet, "Sunset" ac-' ac-' companied by their daughter, Naomi. Na-omi. Mrs. Terry is a stepdaughter of ' Mrs. Jensen. Speakers were Zelma Dearden, i Garrison; Bishop John W. Fullmer j and Bishop Hagan. They spoke of Mrs. Jensen's sterling qualities which composed her character and praised her for her life-long work in the L.D.S. Church. Bishop Hagan, who was Bishop of Abraham at the time Mrs. Jensen was rearing her children, spoke of the many adversities adver-sities that confronted her and how she faced each one and overcame them. A close friend of the family, Dora Rose, sang "Going Home" accompanied accomp-anied by Mrs. Hazel Walker. The benediction was given by Wm. J. Walker, president of the High Priest Quorum of the Nevada Stake. Prayer with the family prior to the services was given by Lionel Taylor. Tay-lor. Interment was in the Hinckley cemetery under the direction of Nickle Mortuary. Grave dedication was given T)y Jack Rushton, a son-in-law. Pallbearers were grandsons, Alva Young, Jr., Allen Rushton, Fred Farnsworth, Richard Nielson, Har-vy Har-vy Young, Jr., and David Young. Assisting with the flowers were granddaughters Julene Young, Millie Mil-lie Anne Young, Saundra Young, Halley Kay Young, Maralee Young and Emily Young. . I J Mrs. Jensen Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gardner and Mr. and Mrs. Glen Gardner and their children, of Salt Lake City, visited in Delta over the weekend with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Gardner. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nielson of Richfield visited in Delta several days last week with Mrs. Nielson's brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Clay-son Clay-son Cahoon. Sunday the Nielson's daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. McRay Evans, and three children, child-ren, of Nephi, joined them at Delta for the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Wright have had as houseguests, Mrs. Wright's sister, Mrs. Virgilia Dysart and her daughter, Ann, of Oakland, Oak-land, Calif. Mrs. Dysart and Ann arrived ar-rived Sunday and left Tuesday. Mrs. Glen Stewart entered the Fillmore L-D.S. Hospital Thursday, April 7, for observation. She was released Wednesday, p.m., April 13. PHONE YOUR NEWS IN 4731 OR 24CJ2 ASK FOR MRS RIDING j .5 I . 4 Winning M-Men Basketball Team of Deseret Stake is Delta First Ward with Perry Winsor, coach. Team ' members are (kneeling) Steve! Church, Albert Winsor, Dan Davis and Jay Jellery. Standing are Coach Winsor, Roger Bliss, Jim Nickle, I Pictured are Owen Cahoon, Tillman Till-man Johnson, Dale Bliss. Dan Davis and Joe Christensen, who were selected se-lected as the five outstanding players play-ers of tne All Church Tournament, held in Delta last weekend. Verdell JR. M-MEN of Delta First Ward, are pictured with their coach Perry Winsor, who is displaying the Snrtrtcmrfnshm tronhv won at the tourney in Spanish Fork recently. Piano Students to Present Iteeital Piano students of Eldonna C Anderson will be presented in recital re-cital Saturday, April 16, 7:30 p.m., Delta First Ward Relief Society room. Students participating are Laura Lee Barbers, Peggy Lovell, Jane Lyman, Ly-man, Beverlee Bishop, Janice Bishop, Bish-op, Ronnie Moody, Lois Ann Moody and John Black. Karla Church, Jackie Evans, Richard Rich-ard Killpack, Mary Lou Nickle, Julie Ju-lie Nickle, Joan Ashby, Sidney Dal-ton, Dal-ton, Suzanne Shields and Golda Jane Black. LOABELLE MANGELSON TO PERFORM IN ORCHESIS Loabelle Mangelson of Delta will perform in the annual Orchesis dance concert to be presented by the University of Utah on April 15 and 16. Orchesis Is the dance organization organiza-tion at the U. Mrs. Mangelson will be one of forty-three members to perform in the concert. She will dance in "Psychological Drama," "Mooncatcher," "Antic Semantics" Se-mantics" and the "Finale." The program for the concert is varied, ranging from a Bach suite to a comic parody on the modern newspaper. MRS. AUDREY CLEMENTS COMPLETES UNIQUE QUILT Mrs. Audrey Clements, wife of State Trooper Ken Clements, has just completed a quilt after working work-ing on it for ten months. The quilt features state police shoulder patches. Mrs. Clements began the project by writing sixty letters to various state police agencies in the country. She received fifty-two re plies. Maryland was the only state unable to fill the request and instead, in-stead, Mrs. Clements was sent a color photo of the patch from which she manufactured her own patch. Porto Rico went so far as to invite the Clements for a visit. Mrs. Betty KeUy and Miss Ro-chelle Ro-chelle Cropper went to Salt Lake Tuesday. They delivered a box of records, books and old nylons to the Veterans Hospital. Tuesday night they attended the dinner honoring hon-oring the National Pres. of American Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary, Mrs. Alexander Alex-ander Gray of Tennessee. Mrs. Kelly and Miss Cropper arrived home Wednesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Mitchell and their young son and four daughters, of San Eernardino, Calif., are visiting in Delta with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geve Mitchell. ; I , , ill ft ; ? i ;M i '; f :i M Ay j , I i ' I HIM', IU; (I ;-5f;-Ur. .'HV; 34. - ' (y ; '.. -..J Ralph Stoneking, Kennard Riding and RichaTd Dekker. First Ward won the title last weekend at the All Church Tournament held at Palomar Hall. Ten teams were entered en-tered in the tournament. Bishop is presenting medals to the five. The tournament was made up of the ten teams of Deseret Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The team members are (L. to R.) Robert Steele, Steve Church, Jim Nickle, Ralph Stoneking, Richard ' Dekker and Rex Day, Mr. and Mrs. Jay M. Jeffery are the parents of a new baby girl, Jae-leen, Jae-leen, born March 25. The new baby has two older brothers, Dennis and Melvin. Grandparents are Adeline B. Jeffery, Delta, and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Ferguson, Provo. Town Teen David Eppich, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rosslyn Eppich of Delta, Utah, moved to the Delta area during his "freshie" year. Students and teachers teach-ers alike immediately noticed that he was outstanding in both leadership leader-ship and scholastic ability. He quickly assumes responsibility and is thoroughly dependable. He has been a top student at David Eppich D.H.S. He w as on the Jr. high honor roll, and has maintained excellent grades in his three years of high schooL His main interest is science. He has been a member of the science sci-ence club for two years, serving as president in 105S-53. Ke attended the science fair last week and placed second in the physical science sci-ence division for which he received an Invaluable prize of a handbook of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. mathe-matics. He is also a member of the key club, and having won his letter let-ter in football, he is a member of the letterman's club. He likss to fly airplanes, swim, and hunt. David plans to work in Delta this summer. He will attend Erighta Young University this fall and major ma-jor in Chemistry. .. sf J |