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Show 'rp$edl GENERAL The State Engineer held a meeting meet-ing on April 25, 19C3 with some 200 people of the Sevier Desert Area interested in the ground water wa-ter development of the Valley. Many were there who have pending applications which total 326 cubic feet per second (c.f.s.) and wish early approval so that they can proceed with development. Others ' n-hi n 1 1 o n H .1 H 170ra nwrppa ef BY. ' isting wells and do not wish further fur-ther ground water development at least until a complete study and analysis of the water resources have been made. A number of community com-munity leaders, government officials, offi-cials, etc., also attended because of the widespread importance of policy on ground water development develop-ment to the economy of the area. Improvements at Lehman Caves Are Open to Public Another in the series of MISSION 66 improvements at Lehman Caves Nation Monument has been completed. com-pleted. Exhibits, telling the "Cave Story" are now in place and are open to the public. Starting with an overview of the various types of caves, the story then dwells upon the geological development de-velopment of Lehman Caves. This history is told in picture and story and is supplemented by actual specimens of cave materials. Within With-in this group, three cases are devoted de-voted to explaining how the cave's decorations grew. Finally, the story of surface phenomena phe-nomena are related in paintings, diagrams and specimens. In all, there are 15 different panels and cases in the new exhibit room. Two lobby exh bits feature maps of the cave and nearby National Park areas. The latter shows well how centrally located Lehman Caves pre for those interested in seeing the finest scenic attractions in the nation. Other of the Monument MISSION 66 projects are nearing completion and all will be ready for the dedication dedi-cation of new facilities on June 8. Watch this newspaper for further details of this big event and celebration. cele-bration. Lady Lions Variety Sale This coming Saturday, May 11 is the day of the Lady Lions Variety Varie-ty Sale. The committee urges all of you who have items to turn in to the sale to take them to the following: Lavon Taylor, Pearl Snow, Donnetta Hardy, Ora Gardner, Gard-ner, Marie Lake, Quality Market, or call Mary Wright and she will arrange to have the articles picked up. Remember to stop in at the Old Telluride Office building on Saturday. Satur-day. Satisfy your sweet tooth with delicious home made candy and view and make your selection of the wonderful bargains you will find there. Former Matron of Sutherland Dies Mrs. Ina S. Gerhart, 55, 20th St., Great Falls, Mont., died unexpectedly unexpect-edly Tuesday, April 30 at a Great Falls hospital after collapsing Monday Mon-day at her home. She was buried at the Highland Cemetery in Great Falls. " Mrs. Gerhart was born to Ina and Daniel Simpkins of Circleville, U-tah. U-tah. They moved to Great Falls in 1901 from Sutherland. Mrs. Gerhart was employed in the office of the International Maytag May-tag -Co. She was married to Chris Gerhart April 10, 1937. She was an active member of the LDS Church. Survivors include her husband; son and daughter, Phil and Mrs. F. D. Hollingshead, Salt Lake City; two brothers, Kenneth W. of Great Falls, and Thurland H. of Fairfield, Mont. Poppy Day as a memorial to A- merican war dead and a tribute to disabled servicemen orginated after the First World's War. Soldiers re turning from Europe in 1918 were familiar with the wild poppies which bloomed in the battlefields of France and Flanders. The A-nierican A-nierican Legion Auxiliary says tlx first national Poppy Day in the United States was held in 1921. i a -a 4 ! ! Art, ? V ' 1J - J Policy m Ground Woier At this meeting, personnel of the U. S. Geological Survey and the State Engineer's Office presented current information on the water resources and the effects of pumping pump-ing new irrigation wells on other! neer solicited the opinions of the local people and has since considered consid-ered the facts presented and desires de-sires of the people in developing a policy to be followed until such time as further information warrants war-rants a change. Of particular importance is that applications for 199 c.f.s. of flow have been approved but so far only a small part of this flow rate has been fully developed. It is yet unknown un-known what the ultimate development develop-ment of these rights will be. Also, some 83 c.f.s. of old claims are in "SERVING Volume 53 Number 45 SUSAN LYMAN THREE GIRLS from Delta High School are being sponsored by Cahoon-Jensen Unit 135 of the American Legion Auxiliary to attend at-tend Girls' State at Utah State. University in Logan from June 9th to 16th. Those selected are Susan Lyman, Ly-man, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyman, Delta, RFD; Margo Nielson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Nielson, Oak City; and Susan Reeve, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elford Reeve, Hinckley. Alternates Al-ternates are Ruth Ann Lyman, Linda Corbett and Gaylen Crop- ELDER LEO EKINS will give a report on his 22 year LDS Mission Mis-sion in Denmark Sunday, May 12, 7:30 p.m- in Hinckley Ward ChapeL Elder Ekins is the son oi Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ek'ns. The first Memorial Poppies distributed dis-tributed by the American Legion and Auxiliary following World War I were made of silk by French widows wi-dows and war orphans. But poppy manufacturing was soon turned over ov-er to disabled veterans in this country. Hospitalized U.S. veterans in Minnesota produced the first memorial poppies made in this country in 1922. I hf ft I ; ; ) if lL irrnr nnMtMli.ijlim-iii..,.ilwriiiiwiii.i I existence, many of which are not : being used or are partially being used. Thus, in the interest of the public, it seems only proper that a reasonable time limit be placed on development under these pending applications. Unless diligence is followed, water will have to continue con-tinue to waste to evaporation and use by phreataphytes, or over-appropriation will ultimately result if additional applications for wells are approved. NEW POLICY TO BE FOLLOWED: A. The policy proposed on all but small stock and domestic, wells is as follows: 1 Removal of the arbitrary boundaries between basins which have been followed to some extent in the past. ZED &&&&& THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, May 9, 1963 MARGO NIELSON per. According to Mrs. James V. Kelly, chairman of Girl's State for Unit 135, the girls were selected se-lected by a committee on the basis of a letter each girl wrote. Clierie Morris Heads Auxiliary Cherie Morris was elected to serve as President of the American Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary at the May 2nd meeting. Other officers are Ly-la Ly-la Rae Morris, Vice President; Glen-da Glen-da Roundy, Second Vice President; Jeanne C. Taylor, Sec.-Trea.; Jean Harris, Historian; Louise Bogh and Helen Warner, Sgts. at Arms; Irene Little, Chaplain; Beatrice Schena, Charlotte Morrison and Carol War-nick, War-nick, Members-at-Large. The new officers will be installed at the next meeting. During the meeting, Memorial Day crosses were cleaned, repaired and decorated with poppies in preparation pre-paration for Memorial Day, May 30th. On this day, crosses will be placed on veterans graves by auxiliary auxi-liary members. WATER will be turned into Delta City ditches Monday, May 13, 7:00 a.m., according to Perry Winsor. Water rents for $17.50 a share and ditch taxes are 55.00. The ditch tax is due before Monday. DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to Fondd and Marie Dexter Henrie on the birth of an 8 lb. 1 oz. girl, May 7. Jerri Sheehy and Marilyn French of the Fashionette Beauty Salon attended the Phantasy Hair Style Show last week at Hotel Utah. Hair stylists of California gave demonstrations de-monstrations of the latest hair styles. The American Legion Auxiliary reports that wearing a poppy on Poppy Day will honor more than half-miliion Americans who died and the nearly one-million wounded wound-ed during both World Wars and the Korean Conflict. Topaz Tour The Utah Geological Society will be touring the Spor-Topaz Mt. area Saturday. May 11. under un-der the leadership of Dr. Norman C. Williams. The group will meet in Delta. 8:00 a.m. at Hatch's City Cafe pr'or to 1 earing for the mining area According to information infor-mation receired at the Chronicle office Wednesday afternoon local people are invited to join the car caravan. A reg'stration fee of lifty-cents will be charged for each person. Registration booths will be marked by placards Saturday Sat-urday morning. Each person talcing talc-ing the trip with the group is to furnish his own food and water. Gu'de books on the area will be on sale at the registration booth. It is quite apparent from the data now available that the entire area is a single basin and must be so administered. 2 Applicants whose filings have been approved for several years will be allowed limited time to complete their developments. develop-ments. The next "proof due" date on each application will be the limit of time allowed unless the applicant will have had less than five years in which to complete their development devel-opment 3 Approval of six applications for a total of 49 c.f.s. which have an earlier filing date than some of the approved applications ap-plications in the basin. Final proof will be due on these December De-cember 31, 1968. Any partial Delta, Utah Copy 10c personal interview, leadership and scholarship qualities. Contributors along with Unit 135 are Delta Lions and Delta Lady Lions, Oak City Town Board and Hinckley Lions. Orvil "Darb" Croft, 51, Dies Saturday; Rites Held Monday Orvil Raymond "Darb" Croft, 51, died Saturday, May 4 in the West Millard Hospital of exposure and bleeding ulcers. Mr. Croft had been stranded in Miller's Canyon about 45 m i 1 e s west of Delta Tuesday when his horse ran away. He had been looking look-ing for stray sheep. The horse returned re-turned to the sheep camp about 10:00 p.m. that night triggering the search. Mr. Croft told rescurers that he had spent most of Tuesday night walking and had spent about two hours in an abandoned shack. He was missing from the camp 36 hours without food or water. He had two matches in his pockets with which to build a fire Tuesday night for warmth. He was found at 5:15 p.m. Wednesday and taken to the West Millard Hospital. Assisting Deputy Sheriff Edgar Mills in the search were Owen George, Vein Anderson, Bernell Thomas, Parry Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. 1 L.ncoln Cropper, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Cropper, Mrs. Melba Croft, Al Will- den, Verl Watts, Whitey Dekker, ' Jack Robison, Newell Knight, Phill Kawlmson, Ann Hurst and the State Trapper. Orvil Croft was born March 2, 1912 in Deseret to George F. and Mary B. Croft. He married Hannah Woodard Feb. 26, 1938 in Nephi. They were later divorced. He married mar-ried Melba Steele Rawlinson March 26, 1960. Survivors include his widow at Delta, a son and daughter, Sherman Sher-man Neil in the U. S. Navy and Clara Dawn Adam in Florida; sisters, sis-ters, Mrs. Lincoln (Nora) Cropper and Mrs. Clive (Mable) Black both of Deseret. Family prayer was offered by Evan Croft of Provo. Prelude and Postlude muse was by Winona ' Dutson. Speakers were Eldon Eliason and Ralph Crafts. Musical numbers included in-cluded "Beyond the Sunset" by Dorothy Croft, "Whispering Hope" by Dean and Ralph Rawlinson and "The End of A Perfect Day" by Melba Jacobson. Closing prayer was by Ralph Curtis. Burial was in the Deseret Cemetery Ceme-tery under the direction of Nickle Mortuary. Oren Allred dedicated the grave and pall bearers were Phill Rawlinson, Raw-linson, Lincoln Cropper, Vincent Cropper, James Sampson, Stanley Steele and Donald Croft. Jolly Stitchers will meet Friday, May 10, 2:30 p.m. at Josie Walker's home. Lucille Kimber will assist with hostess duties. SUSAN REEVE Development In development completed as of that date will be the limit of the right. 4 Withhold any further approval approv-al until: (a) Additional information is developed concerning increased in-creased water withdrawals from completion of approved wells, and their effect on water levels in the valley. (b) Another meeting with the people of the area and a report on item as shown in (a). B. STOCK AND DOMESTIC WELLS 1 Applications for stock and domestic do-mestic wells for individual home uses not exceeding a withdrawal rate of 0.015 c.f.s. will generally be approved re 7 VALLEY' $4.00 a year in advance Meet to Be Held for Parents, Students On Summer Course Parents and their Delta High School students are invited to attend at-tend a special meeting to be held in the Delta High School auditorium auditor-ium Thursday, May 16, 7:00 p.m. to discuss a new summer educational educa-tional program. In this advanced technological age such an educational program will better prepare students to meet the demands of the times. The program, if adopted, in this area can be an advancement in education in Millard County. Teachers who will be available this summer are Prin. C. L. Bennett, Fay Jacobson, Pat Hansen, Reese Finlinson, Ladd Black, Dana Pratt, and Jim Williams. There will be no fee for the students. The new officers of Delta Jr. and Sr. PTA, Mrs. Eldon A. Eliason, Pres.; Mrs. Rulon A. Callister, Vice Pres.; and Mrs. Lyle Bunker, Sec.-Trea., Sec.-Trea., have sent letters to all parents par-ents with high school students regarding re-garding the meeting. WEATHER High temperature of the week was 87 recorded May 6th at Delta Airport. Low for the week was 38 on May 2nd. No precipitation. HOSPITAL NOTES Jean Draper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Draper, appendectomy, May 7. Harold Hepworth, medical treatment, treat-ment, May 7. Art Hill admitted May 1 for surgery, sur-gery, still hospitalized. Donna Anderson released May 8 following surgery. JUMPING FROM TENTH place to first place in any event is no easy feat. Make the event Bull Rid ng in rodeos and the jump is practically unbelievable, but Howard Carroll pulled it off recently re-cently by taking first place in a Baton Rouge, La. rodeo and sec-place sec-place in Phoenix. With these two most recent wins Howard is now in first place in Bull Riding in the Rodeo Cowboys, of America Ass'n in point and money standings. Howard, 24, is one of the ten b'ggest winners in the bull and bareback riding features at rodeos ro-deos all over the United States. In the Baton Rouge rodeo. Howard Ho-ward marked 174 on the second gardless of their priority order. 2 Such applicants will be cautioned cau-tioned that their rights must be considered only as having a priority of the date of filing and that they are subject to all prior rights of all natures. They should not expect water levels to remain the same as encountered at the time of drilling of the well. C. REPLACEMENT OF WELLS 1 Holders of existing rights will generally be given rapid approval ap-proval to repair, deepen or replace re-place their wells. 2 It is recommended that full use be made and facilities be installed in wells to obtain water to the extent of these early rights before attempting THE RIBBON CUTTING ceremony cere-mony pictured above officially marked the Grand Opening of Western Auto Stores in Delta. Valley Builders is the sales agency for the national chain of Western Auto Stores. During the three day sale marking the event many persons rece'ved free gifts. Mrs. Ila Stanworth. Oasis, received receiv-ed the Grand Prize, a Toaster-Broiler. Toaster-Broiler. (L to R) Ken Rose, Western i Ivun-up'Eml Delta City trucks will be on the streets Saturday to pick up rubbish for residents. resi-dents. Contact district supervisors or Evan Gardner. Gard-ner. II.1I.S. Alumni Hinckley Alumni Committee is busy decorating and completing plans for the Hinckley Alumni Banquet Ban-quet and Dance Saturday, May 11. One of the nicest affairs in t h e town of Hinckley, the event has always been attended by more than 200 each year. All Hinckley High School alumni are cordially invited to attend. ATTENTION Hinckley Lions Club announces there will be no roller skating Sat urday, May 11 because of conflicting conflict-ing with the Hinckley Alumni Banquet Ban-quet and Dance. The following Saturday, May 18, the regular skat ing schedule will be resumed. bull, good for first in the go-round go-round and first average and $1016. In Bareback Riding he finished fin-ished third for S5 16- more. At the Phoenix rodeo Howard added $1756 to his rodeo earnings. earn-ings. He is in fifth place in the Ail-Around Championship Standings. Stand-ings. Rodeoing came early to Howard, How-ard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken CarrolL He first became interested interest-ed in riding as a boy on the family's fa-mily's alfalfa seed farm near Hinckley. In the first rodeo appearance ap-pearance at Hinckley, Howard won a pound of cheese and a grease gun. To quote his mother, Gwen, This started it all". a ft ' A ( x Iff fr to get approval of new applications. appli-cations. D. CHANGES 1 Under the law, changes in points of diversion, place or nature of use may be made - subject to the effect of the change on existing rights. Permission Per-mission will generally be granted to change well locations loca-tions subject to interference conditions. The State Engineer cannoc waive the statutory requirement require-ment of advertising of changes when the point of diversion is moved more than 660 feet and he may require that notice be given the public even though the distance moved is less than 660 feet. Auto Wholesales Sales Representative; Represen-tative; Arlo Jensen, Manager of Valley Builders in Gunnison; Mayor Church snipping 'the ribbon; rib-bon; Bob Larsen, Dist. Representative Represen-tative for Western Auto; Mr. and Mrs. Vance Peterson, owners of Valley Builders; Otis Walch, local Branch Manager of First Security Bank and Van Warnick, manager of the local Valley Builders and Western Auto Store. Assistant Manager of the local store is Seth Jackson. Exams Open for Oasis Postmaster An examination for Fourth-Class Postmaster for the post office at Oasis, Utah, $2457 a year, will be open for acceptance of applications until May 21, 1963, the Commission announced today. Applicants must actually reside within the territory supplied by the above mentioned post office and they must have reached their 18th birthday on the closing date for acceptance of applications. There is no maximum age limit. However, persons who have passed the age of 70 may be considered only for temporary renewable appointments of one year. Complete information about the examination requirements and instructions in-structions for filing applications may be obtained at the post office for which this examination is being announced. Application forms must be filed with the U. S. Civil Service Ser-vice Commission, Washington, D. C, and must be received or postmarked postmark-ed not later than the closing date. -v1 A 1955 graduate of Delta High School, Howard attended CSU at Cedar City and BYU at Provo and graduated from Utah State University Uni-versity in Logan in 1961. He holds a degree in wildlife and conservation. conser-vation. During his college days. Howard rode in Intercollegiate rodeos and was appointed Regional Re-gional Director of the Nat onal Intercollegiate Rodeo Ass'n while at USU. Howard, who has been a pro-fessional pro-fessional for the past three years and riding in rodeos for the past eight, has never been injured. Proud papa. Ken says "I'm thankful thank-ful for that". |