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Show Millard County Chronicle ' IU1.S. irn:S:iJ oi the Week GAYLYN CROPPER Pert and friendly, blonde haired and green-eyed Gaylyn Cropper is teen for this week. . 30 Years Of Repeal Finds Nation Continuing Trend To Moderation New York Thirty years ago this month, the ill-fated "noble experiment" Prohibition Prohibi-tion ended with repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. Only a small minority of Americans today still mourn its passing on December 5, 1933. Shocked by the lawlessness, organized crime and disrespect for law which 13 years of Prohibition Pro-hibition had bred, an outraged public voted overwhelmingly to return to social order and moderation. mod-eration. And a look at the record will show that the public is getting what it voted for. For example, instead of drying dry-ing up the country, Prohibition actually touched off a drinking spree and per capita consumption con-sumption of distilled spirits was authoritatively estimated at 1.95 gallons for the so-called "dry era," as compared with a 1.61 gallon per capita ' for 1910. And today, at the height How Much Revenue IS Produced By 1962 F.d.ral, Slat and local Rvnu from th Alcoholic. Bvrag Industries amounted to $4,953,251,346 or.. bry ihgW hour of 1962. Akohofc Bffog Wtafty of national prosperity, the average av-erage American consumes 29.3 per cent less or 1.37 gallons per capita during 19G2 than he did in the "dry" years. For the 15-year period of 1947-1962, 1947-1962, the per capita consumption consump-tion figure is 1.25 gallons. Even though overall consumption consump-tion has risen steadily with an expanding adult population enjoying en-joying more leisure time and more money to spend, the percentage per-centage share of the consumer dollar spent on distilled spirits has declined along wiih the per capita figure from 4.34 per cent of the consumer dollar spent for distilled spirits during dur-ing the Prohibition years, to 1.76 per cent for the 1947-1962 1947-1962 period. Today, one out of every 52 working Americans is- em-i 1 '!"Al SFTS for MOM and DAD and THE ENTIRE FAMILY SHOP and SAVE ... at The DELMART Thursday, December 12, . The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Cropper of Deseret, Gaylyn is the oldest in her family with two younger brothers. A very busy girl at DHS, Gaylyn is a top student in the Business field at our school. She was on both the shorthand team and type team that went to Cedar City last year to compete in these commer- cial fields. Gaylyn finds herself ( more involved this year with her business work than she was last J year. Her class schedule Is: Senior English, Algebra II, Office Practice, Functional Math, Shorthand II, Pep Club, and Year Book. Even more than this, Gaylyn has the big job of business manager of the Triangle Tri-angle this year. Gaylyn has displayed to us at DHS through her actions in helping with her Junior Prom programs last year, her Senior Hop programs and the school play programs this year, nnA nthpr etpnril unrk that her business work does not end with the close of class for the day but ! is a part of her life. It is no sur- prise that Gaylyn plans to continue her education with business courses at the BYU. Whatever she sets out to do she does well both in the classroom and in school activities. Besides be ing on her Junior Prom Committee last, year and on her Senior Hop Committee this year, as before ployed by this industry, which annually purchases more than $7.3 billion in materials and services from other industries. It spends approximately one-quarter one-quarter of a billion dollars annually an-nually for farm produce. It pays wages and salaries of more than $5 billion a year and provides the major portion of commodity revenue for the U.S. Government. More than one-half million dollars every hour, every day of the week that's the amount of public revenues contributed to Federal, state and local treasuries by today's alcoholic beverage industry. Since Repeal, Re-peal, the industry has contributed contrib-uted more than $59 billion in Federal taxes more than enough to have paid all of the Federal government's expenses for 130 years from 1789 to 1918. Federal taxes on distilled spirits are currently five times the cost of production, while The Alcoholic Beverage Industry? PraW Mrt hoH-a-mWIg doflon In nmm the combined Federal, state and local taxes and fees account ac-count for an average of 58 cents out of every dollar spent by consumers for liquor. Excessive liquor taxes have also encouraged the spread of the illegal, non-taxpaid moon- I shine racket. Moonshining con tinues as a national menace, and may even be on the upswing up-swing as a result of higher state taxes on the legal product. prod-uct. Last year, Federal, state and local authorities seized 18,651 illegal moonshine stills. Total moonshine output in 1902 is estimated at 46 million gallons or nearly one out of every six gallons of liquor produced pro-duced in America - with a loss to Federal, state and local governments of $';20 million tax dollars. P """""" "Sw mrPiMini fcit !,- , nut . mentioned Caylyn is also a mom- ber of the F.H.A. and the Pep Club and was a Girls State alter nate. Even with this Gaylyn still has hobbies cooking and sewing. Few of us have tasted her cooking, but we have seen her talent in sewing as she makes many of her own I clothes. (And better than wilh many of us, the things she sews are made well enough to wear!) A strong supporter of school spirit, this, vivacious teen is an outstanding student with a grade point average of 3.9 She is indeed a person who can stand on her own merits. -Laura Moody DHS News Items BAND AND CHORUSES: The date has been set for Wednesday, Wed-nesday, December 18, for the combined com-bined bands and choruses Christmas Christ-mas concert. The time will be 8:00 P-m. It will be held at the DHS auditorium and everyone is cord- "lvllcu l lK"u: A group A erouo from the High School ' Girls chorus has been selected to i perform at the Region Ten Princi pals and Supervisors meeting on December 11th. Also performing at this meeting will be a quartet consisting con-sisting of Eldon Ekins, Keith Jef-fery, Jef-fery, Roger Shurtz and Golda Jane Black. The Music Clinic Chorus will be performing at the Delta Lions Club on December 11th. LIBRARY: There are still many over-due library books and fines to be paid. Also, there are three volumes of the World Book Encyclopedia missing miss-ing from the library. Please return them. Please check your home libraries for books which have been missing for quite some time. Their return will be greatly appreciated. F. H. A.: The F. H. A. meeting will be held Thursday, December 12th at 7:30 pm. at the DHS auditorium. They will be going on a hayride. LUNCH: The Lunch Ladies are getting decorations de-corations up in the Lunch Room now. They are having the Special Christmas Dinner on December 20. OFFICE PRACTICE: Mrs. Barfuss says that the Office Practice class is learning how to use the filing system. DJHS: The 8th and 9th grades had a party Friday during which theyi viewed the movie Journey To The Center of the Earth. ADULT EDUCATION: Plans are being made by Mrs. Ekins for Adult Education classes. These classes will be started by the first of the year. DHS is considering the purchase of an off-set duplicating machine to use for making special pro grams. Bud Bailey will be on KUED Channel 7 on Friday, December 13 and 20 to give special news reports of Delta High. This program begins at 12:30 and lasts for fifteen minutes. min-utes. All patrons of Delta High are urged to watch. Judy Kaye Jeffery Pat Hunsaker - F.H.A. BECOMES PROFIT-MAKING ORGANIZATION The F. H. A.-sponsored record hop proved to be a success Friday, December 6, as the "future home-makers" home-makers" raked in the dough, mak ing a profit of $30.00. The dance was well attended de spite the blood-curdling thoughts of missing Saturday morning's sleep for the sixth school day in a Week of fun and frolic. Laura Lee Hansen n H Q South Sevier Rams' Delta Rabbits, 71-43 The Delta Rabbits had an early taste of defeat as the South Se vier Rams fascinated the audience with outstanding teamwork, fast footwork, and scoring ability. Parsons, rated best Sophomore in the state tournament last year, and Wade, all Region Nine guard for two consecutive years, were the Rams high-point men. South Sevier's score by quarters as compared to Delta s was: Delta 8 21 37 43 South Sevier 11 39 59 71 Bud Bailey, high point man for Delta with 21, was followed by Ronnie Bailey with 11. Dennis Dav is made 4 points and Wendell Niel. son scored 2. Robert Anderson scored twice on foul tries, and Robert Ro-bert Callister once on a foul try. The Bailey brothers were the only one's scoring until the third quarter. quar-ter. This game proved to be a bad break for Delta but a profitable experience. Good luck in your coming games. Nita & Lynette SHOP AT HOME SHOP WITH THE ADVERTISERS firm U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Use Christmas Seals -7' FIGHT TB and OTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASES To Those Away . . - i 1 f , ' ; 4 It V'A "' i I - r s I : f -, i tj - ! . i ' ', i I M i i 4 ' - ' iV i ill - f . ' i ' - .. V. k f S I News Reports Plea to Farmers -By-Alfred Aphid & Leoguerdo Lygus ( Correspondents to the Chronicle from West Millard United Insect Association) It has been brought to our attention atten-tion (having just attended the funeral of our dear friend, Craig Coddling Moth) that the farmers of West Millard County have unmercifully un-mercifully and cruelly been killing our friends and families by Para-thionrDylox, Para-thionrDylox, Dieldren, and D. D. T., the top four public enemies of the insect world. We insects feel it is our duty to inform you farmers that the various var-ious businesses are making a racket rac-ket out of selline these sDravs. as tha, moIn QO 1 7f in T Hf;ilnH! alone during the months of June, July and August; and sales are going go-ing up every year. We insects plead with you humans hum-ans and farmers to remember that spraying is very risky. Although there is very slight pollination decrease de-crease or incidental damage to the crops or livestock, this spraying ha caused great sorrow and grief a-mong a-mong us insects Aphids and Lygus Bugs especially. " The average farmer this year, spent $449 on sprays enough to buy a new stove or refrigerator. A- uvwi, uvo ui mt7 louiiitris even spend more by hiring application of insect sprays. Just think of how much money you could save and how much happier hap-pier we could be if you didn't go to all the trouble and bother of spraying us on an average of 3.67 times a year. Due to circumstances beyond our control (namely another dear friend's funeral), we shall have to quit for this time. The Biology II Department, as a public service, made a survey to get the facts in the preceeding article. They contacted 38 farmers in this area and all of the businesses busi-nesses that sell insect sprays. EIRue Alldredge Laura Lee Hansen 4 til N -1 ucjc Christmas ; T j SEND YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER TO FRIENDS AND RELATIVES AWAY FROM HOME 'From the Office Of the Principal EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION IN DELTA HIGH SCHOOL We have been privileged people at Delta High School this past week. Never in my life have so many important historical events happened in so short a time and with such enormous convention. No longer do we need to wait fox weeks or months after a great e-vent e-vent takes place for the world to be notified of it. It so happened that I was informed of the assassination assas-sination of our President within minutes after it happened. Within 30 minutes our entire school was watching television on one of the three channels. I could not help marveling at the progress the world has made in the art of communication. Not only were we hearing it as these events happened, but we were actually ac-tually watching the events as they took place. We are extremely fortunate to have educational television in the schools of Millard County. The reception re-ception is wonderful; we are continually con-tinually improving the use of this visual aid, finding many, many more programs that can be brought to our people. Some of the fine programs thatj our students have been able to view in the past few weeks are, of course, the President's assassination, assassin-ation, the killing of the assassin of our president, (actual pictures of this), the funeral and procession, proces-sion, and finally, the burial in Arlington Ar-lington Cemetery. On November 27, we-had the great opportunity of listening to our new President, President Johnson, deliver his speech to the nation. We have had two wonderful programs in a health series that has been brought to our viewing at Delta High School This has been on tobacco and youth. We are privileged to study Algebra I, Spanish, and social so-cial studies programs. We are extremely fortunate to have the opportunity on December 6, the 13, and the 20 of our stud-entbody stud-entbody president, Bud Bailey, to give DHS news at 12:30 over KUED Channel 7. This is called the KUED Observer. Everyone should tune their televisions to channel 7 on the above dates. Delta High School is privileged to host Region 10 administrators Convention on December 11, and the entire day will be spent in a discussion of educational television in Millard County. Dan Keeler, director of education television of the State Department of Speech, will be the guest speaker that day. ATTENTION: SENIOR CITIZENS ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT YEARS May field Manor Nursing Home services will be confined to the care of aged and chronically ill persons capable of enjoying en-joying the excellent recreational and social opportunities opportuni-ties in our spacious well-equipped home. We will NOT offer accomodations to mentally retarded retard-ed or emotionally disturbed persons requiring institutional institu-tional treatment. Our trained, experienced staff provide skilled nursing service, unexcelled food, and a genuine friendly interest in YOU. Phone Gunnison 2919 or 4608, or visit or write MA Y FIELD MANOR, MA Y FIELD, UTAH . . YOUR HOMETOWN NEWSPAPER IS A STRONG LINK WITH HOME From the day your children leave home for the first time throughout their stay away from home the local newspaper you send them regularly can be one of their strongest ties with home. An important addition to your letters, it helps them keep astride of changes that occur in their home town; events that happen to people they know-. It can be a source of comfort b them and to parents par-ents at home, because by informing them, you interest them and keep them closer to home. MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE Wrestling Matches For the second fme this week the Delta High Wrestlers defeated the Juab Wasps. The score was 48-10. The matches went: Wt Delta Juab 98. NETL CALLISTER Broadhead 106 KEITH JEFFERY Jarrett 115 VON CALLISTER Thomas 123 RAY ADAMS Harmon 130 JERRY CALLISTER Nez 136 LEE GRYGLA Winn 141 RANDALL ALLEN Truscott 148 Craig Christensen DALEY 157 DENNIS WHICKER Coulson 165 RON BAKER White 180 Jack Bishop NEWTON Hwt. RICHARD MECHAM Ingram All the exhibition matches were pinned ty Delta. December 11 at 3:30 the Rabbits will be at Lehi December 12 at 2:00 at B. Y. High and at 8:00 p.m. Delta will be at Payson. Congratulations and good luck on your tough schedule. Lynette Riding Anita McCall Bobcats Thump Rabbits, 72-51 Delta's Rabbits experienced defeat de-feat Number 2 for the season as they traveled to Panguitch Saturday Satur-day only to be greeted by a 72-51 beating from the Bobcats. Panguitch controlled the game m its entirety with outstanding point performances bv their Center Rich; ards, who led the scoring with 26 pomts. , Bud Bailey, who usually nets 15 or 20 points a game had trouble all night, being held to 7. Ron Bailey Bai-ley wears the wreath for Delta with a 15 point counter, and Robert Rob-ert Callister closest to him with 8. Others appearing In the scoring column for Delta were Wendell Nielson and long shot artist Dennis Davis each with 6 points. Don Knight and Dave Corry ended the night with 2, and Robert "Anderson raised the score 1 more point for the Rabbits. ....... Score by quarters reveal the story: Delta 9 22 32 51 Panguitch 18 31 48 72 Although beaten twice, the Rabbits Rab-bits aren't going lax by any means and next weekend's performance will probably show what they can do. Best wishes. Bob Bennett An ideal gift for the college student stu-dent Is the Millard County Chronicle. Chron-icle. Order today. Utah PRESS ASSOCIATION I 14 WIST IIOADWAT SAIT IAXI CITY, UTAH |