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Show Democrats Elect N. i Bassett New County Chairman Delegates to the Millard County Democratic Convention elected N. S. Bassett of Delta, RFD, to serve as County Chairman Saturday night at the courthouse in Fillmore. Opposing Op-posing Mr. Bassett in the election was Howard Roundy of Oasis. Newly-elected vice-chairwoman, Mrs. Robert L. (Jean) Phillips, resides re-sides at Kanosh. She was elected by acclamation. It was moved from the floor and carried that the county chairman select the secretary. Howard Roun- N. S. BASSETT dy has accepted this position. Delegates elected to the May 1st State Convention are Carl What-cott, What-cott, Fillmore; Orvil Beckstrand, Meadow; Jess Bennett, Holden; Guy L. Robins, Scipio; N. Jack Nielson, Niel-son, Leamington; Lorin Oliver, Delta, Del-ta, RFD; L. R. Swensen, Hinckley; Lester Cropper, Deseret; Wallace Jeffery, Rex Wood and Leonard Vo-dak, Vo-dak, Delta, and Clarence Anderson, Oasis. The courtroom was filled to overflowing over-flowing by delegates and non-delegates. Missed among the convention-goers were State Senator Thorpe Waddingham, who was out of the state on business and County Commissioner Com-missioner Leigh Maxfield, recuperating recuper-ating from recent eye operation. A vote of thanks was given to Noel Robins, Evelyn Cropper and Guy L. Robins, outgoing officers for their efforts in behalf of the Democratic Demo-cratic Party of the County during the last five years. During their tenure of office the party has instituted in-stituted the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner which grows larger each year. Mr. Bassett received an ovation when he pledged untiring efforts in building the strength of the Democratic Party of Millard County. Millard County Art Accepted for New York Showing The American Artists Professional League, Inc., of New York City, N. Y. has accepted art displays and work of Millard County artists to be shown at their National Art Con vention in May in New York City. The request was made in Oct., 1964 to Beth M. Anderson, Hinck ley, Western Dist. Supervisor for the League and her assistant, Mrs, Myrtis Peterson, Delta. Shown will be works of Ruth Nielson, Klee Finlinson, Claudine Nielson and Clara Johnson all of Leamington and Thelma Peterson, Daisy Rodgers, and Launia Wilson of Fillmore. The League has presented three awards to Millard County for the accomplishments made to support art in the county. The awards were made in 1959, 1962 and 1964. Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Peterson have long been active in art circles of Millard County and in other places in the State. "It has taken years of hard work to receive recognition rec-ognition and the opportunities presented pre-sented to us now," says Mrs. Anderson. And-erson. "As a county, we are interested in bringing new industries in. We have many wonderful, talented artists ar-tists n our county. Many are depending de-pending upon county residents to support their talents as artists as a source of income", Mrs. Anderson Ander-son continued. She expressed the hope that local lo-cal artists have been employed to do commercial sign-painting and advertising. Mrs. Anderson says "it is a privilege pri-vilege to help creative artists and the Millard County Art Center progress." pro-gress." NOTICE! Delta Lions Club members and their wives have been boiling and dyeing Easter eggs by the dozens and dozens in preparation prepara-tion for the Annual Easter Egg Hunt this coming Saturday at 9 cum. at Palomar grounds. The children will be divided into 2 divisions for the hunt. The first division will be all children under 1st grade. Children, grades 1 to six or up to 12 years of age. will comprise the 2nd division. 360 eggs will be hidden and 70 of these will carry prize notations. nota-tions. The public is invited to participate. "SERVING Volume 55 Number 42 Clean-Up Halted By Weatherman The 1965 cleanup campaign of Delta came to a sudden halt as the weatherman poured rain over Millard Mil-lard County, sent snow flurries and wind during the past week. According to Councilman Bob Price, who is also Chairman of the Cleanup Committee, plans to clean Delta Main Street will be carried out this coming Saturday, April 17, weather permitting. The Main Street Committee, Mr. David Jacobs in charge, will clean Main Street and back to the first street off Main on either side. A lot of help will be needed if the project is to succeed. The work crew will consist of the cleanup committee, Councilmen, the city street employees and, it is hoped, representatives from the Ki-wanis Ki-wanis Club of Delta-West Millard, Delta Lions Club, American Legion, Odd Fellows, Barracks, and other groups. Jt is expected that scouts will be out in numbers to assist a-gain a-gain with the cleaning. Work will begin at 8:00 a.m. at the overpass and continue until 12:00 noon. Delta Cemetery Cleanup is tentatively ten-tatively set for Saturday, May 1. The plans for the cemetery cleanup include cleaning the road to the cemetery, fences around the cemetery cem-etery and policing the cemetery itself. All persons with a personal interest in Delta Cemetery may want to mark May 1 and plan to attend to family graves the same day. 4th of July Plans To Be Discussed Appointed by Delta City Council Monday night to serve as Board of Directors of the Fourth of July Celebration Cel-ebration Committee were Rex Day, Jerry Hawley and Frank Baker. Councilman Bob Price, in charge of the celebration ss calling a get-together get-together for Monday, April 17, 8:00 p.m. for committee members who helped with last year's celebration, all interested persons and the new directors. At that time a review will be made of past celebrations and plans for the coming celebration will be discussed. If you served in any capacity on last year's celebration committee, please attend Monday night, meet with the new directors and help plan the 1 965 celebration. Elder NEUMAN CALLISTER, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Lathel Callister, will report his mission Sunday, April 18, 6:30 p.m. at Delta Third Ward. Elder Callister has Just returned from fulfilling an LDS mission to Australia. Elder ALLEN J. BARNEY, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat L. Barney recently re-cently returned from the New Zealand Mission field. He will give a report of his mission mis-sion experiences Sunday, April 18. 7:00 p-m. at Sutherland Ward ChapeL All are cordially invited to attend. "'j' THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, April 15, 1965 DENYS SCHENA Girls Staters Denys Schena, Golda Jane Black and Mary Lyman have been named winners in the Girl State contest and will attend Utah Girls State, July 7 hrough July 11 at Logan. Alternates are Linda Nickle, 1st; Beverlee Bunker, 2nd, and Alison Moody, 3rd. Announcement of the winners was made at the junior class assembly as-sembly Friday by Inez Riding, Girl State chairman of the local American Ameri-can Legion Auxiliary. r 7 1 uowh vaunt -By INEZ RIDING This becoming a middle-aged woman wo-man is one of the most "unfunny" jokes that could ever happen to a person. We're past the sweet dreams of girlhood and not quite to our second childhood. We're stuck between two age groups. Groups who THINK they know where they are going or KNOW where they have been. We ain't nowhere only stuck and life stretches before us in an unestimable number of days of weight-watching! The battle of the midriff bulge can take years and years and years only to end when life ends. We wander through three-day diets, seven-day diets, two-week diets, new foundation garments and all kinds of exercises all designed to help us regain that swelte figure WE THOUGHT WE HAD about the time we said "I do". Remember how we could eat and eat and eat in younger days and look at middleaged females who were letting nature take its course and think "That will never happen to mee"? Now what's happened? -Well, that is one of the biggest questions in our lives. That slim woman that was you is still there only covered over with layers and layers of unwanted un-wanted (I hate to call it "fat". Hew Patrolman Tom Rynearson is the new Utah State Highway Patrolman for this area. He stated that he put in his application for the transfer as soon as he received word of the resignation resigna-tion of Mr. Ken Clements formerly of Delta. Mr. Rynearson is moving his family fa-mily from Eureka to Delta this week. They will be located in their new home on Center Street and Second North in t h e newly constructed con-structed house just north of the Dale Pearson's residence. He and his wife, Darlene, plan to enroll their children Douglas, Gregory, Cheryl, and Shauna in the Delta Elementary School this week. Mr. Rynearson has patrolled the Eureka area where he has had residence re-sidence for the past 3 years. He will patrol West Millard as far as the Nevada State line to the west, and to the north as far as Eureka, and may have occasional call to the eastern part of the county. 30TH ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Jeffery extend an invitation to all their friends and customers to come into Quality Market this weekend and help to observe their 30th anniversary in the grocery business. Many outstanding out-standing buys are advertised in a 6-column ad in this issue of the Chronicle. "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World," week of fun One show each night Delta, Utah 84624 10c copy $4.00 a year in advance GOLDA JANE BLACK" Selected . . . Denys is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neno Schena of Abraham. Golda Jane is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Golden Black of Delta, and Mary is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Lyman of Delta. The girls were declared winntrs following the compilation of points given for potential leadership ability, abil-ity, personality, poise, written test on city, county and state governmental govern-mental affairs and a paper on "Why I Want To Attend Girls State." even though I know that's exactly what it is!) Do we just settle with a complacent compla-cent air into our mantles of extra weight or do we stage battle? Well, now we think that over for several days and decide to do battle. So we begin with a diet. The first day goes by. Pretty good. That nagging in your middle goes away a wee bit and you're PROUD OF YOU. You look yourself straight in the eye and say "01' Gal, Good Show" or some other equally silly thing that will build your will power pow-er for the hungry days ahead. About the 3rd or 4th day the (Continued on back page) Hinckley Lions Honor DHS Team The Hinckley Lions Club sponsored spon-sored a dinner and program honoring honor-ing Delta High School basketball team members, the two coaches, Merlin Christensen and Bob Hor-lacher Hor-lacher and Prin. C. L. Bennett at Hatch's City Cafe Wednesday, April 7th. The program consisted of a trio and a quartette from the Delta High School Girls Chorus. Talks were given by team captains, Robert Rob-ert Callister and Stanley Hales, Coach Christensen and Prin. Bennett. Ben-nett. Making program arrangements were Lions Verdell Bishop and Ralph Crafts. Legion Installs Installation rites were performed at Cahoon-Jensen Post 135, American Ameri-can Legion, Wednesday night, April 14, 8:00 p.m. The 1965 officers are Willis Morrison, Mor-rison, Commander; Boyd Bunker, First Vice Commander; Howard Hardy, Second Vice Commander; Don Corry, Adjutant; Rex Jensen, Sgt.-atArms and Golden Cluff, Chaplain. Executive Committeemen are Leo Burraston, Larry Morris and Boyd Schena. The second regular meeting of the post will be held Wednesday, April 28, 8:00 p.m. at the post home. Reminder! An Easter Egg Hunt, sponsored by Hinckley Lions Club, will be held at the church grounds Saturday. Sat-urday. April 17. 9:30 a.m. Prizes will be given. Make this a family affair and come out and enjoy the fun. deb p c VAhLEY" MARY LYMAN Funeral Rites for E. Lawrence Abbott Conducted April 8 E. LAWRENCE ABBOTT Funeral services for E. Lawrence Abbott were conducted Thursday, April 8, 11:00 a.m. .in the Sutherland Suther-land Ward Chapel by Bishop Fer- rell Walker. Survivors include his - widow; sons, daughters, L. Nathan, Delta; Phillip, Las Vegas; Mark L., Ameri can Fork; Martha Jones, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Walter (Florence) Speal mon, Terry ton, Idaho; 30 grand children; 23 great-grandchildren; brother, Thomas L., San Mateo Calif. Family prayer prior to the services ser-vices was offered by Isreal Abbott, a cousin from Pennsylvania. Prelude and postlude music was by Rayda Rawlinson. Invocation was offered by Joseph Bennett. The choir with Zoe Fowles con ducting and Rayda Rawlinson ac companying, sang "Oh My Father", opening song and "One Sweetly Solemn Thought", closing song. Olive Isom sang "I Need Thee Every Hour," accompanied by Hazel Walker. "Beyond The Sunset" was sung by LaVar Owens, Thurman Moody, Glen Rawlinson and Ben Robison, with Eleanor Roberts reading read-ing and Eva Dean Moody accompanist. accom-panist. The life sketch was given by Josie Walker. William Bunker spoke on early life experiences. Bryant Larson spoke and closing remarks were given by Bishop Walker. All the speakers described Mr. Abbott as a man who believed in high principles and lived as he believed. be-lieved. He was deeply loved and respected by all who knew him. Throughout his life he was active in civic and church affairs. He was privileged in serving five missions for the LDS Church. Benediction was offered by Lyle Egan. Pallbearers were grandsons, Dale, Lawrence, Lynn and Garth Abbott, Merrill Johns and Ben Speelmon. Richard Speelmon assisted with the casket. Burial was in Delta Cemetery under un-der the direction of Nickle Mortuary. Mortu-ary. Grave dedication was by Phil-liu Phil-liu Abbott. Flowers were under the direction of the Relief Society Presidency Velda Pace, Hazel Walker and E-laine E-laine Turner. One hundred and thirty relatives were served lunch at the church by the Sutherland Ward Relief Society So-ciety after the services. DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to Phillip R. and Lorene Black Smith on the birth of a 6 lb. 6 oz. girl, April 12th. at the Crest, April 8:00 p.m. Adm. If t" City Council Aics eweir Problems Present for Monday night's Delta City Council meeting were Council- men Barben, Price, Ashby, Moody and Hardy, City Attorney Eldon E-liason, E-liason, City Supt. Wells Wood, City Treas. Wayne Sorensen, City Re corder Caroline Bennett and Mrs. Madge Johnson. Mayor Church presided. pre-sided. Evan Gardner met to discuss curb and gutter projects on Second West. Also discussed were irrigation ditches and delivery of irrigation water to various lots all over town. Councilman Moody will contact the property owners to find a solution to some of the problems in delivering deliver-ing the irrigation water. Supt. Wood is surveying some of the ir rigation ditches in preparation of the expected changes. Fourth of July Celebration plans were discussed briefly. Inez Riding reported that Congressman Burton had consented to be the featured speaker at the patriotic program. Mrs. Riding submitted her resignation resigna-tion from the Executive Committee Commit-tee and recommended that Rex Day, Jerry Hawley and Frank Baker Ba-ker be appointed to serve on the Executive Committee. Council accepted ac-cepted the resignation and appointed appoint-ed Mr. Day, Mr. Hawley and Mr. Baker to the committee. Councilman Council-man in charge of the celebration is Bob Price. The Oath of Office was admin istered to Madge Johnson by Attorney At-torney Eliason. She is replacing Mrs. Bennett as City Recorder. It was reported by two council- men and Mayor Church that several comments had been made to them recently about the length of time city employees are taking tor "coffee" breaks in the mornings and afternoons. Councilman discussed dis-cussed the comments and the "coffee" "cof-fee" break practice without coming to any decision on whether they would be discontinued or not. Councilman Ashby reported that eighteen Delta businesses were delinquent de-linquent in buying business licenses. The list of delinquents will probably be turned over to the Police Dept. for collection. Councilman Hardy discussed briefly the Police Dept. car and plans are being considered for the purchase of a new one. Councilman Moody gave a report on a special meeting held last week when Mr. A. L. Sorenson of the Salt Lake firm of Sorenson, Caldwell and Richards, Consulting Engineers, met with council mem Pause, Be Proud West Millard Hospital is observing observ-ing its second birthday anniversary this week. Dedicatory rites and openhouse were held Saturday, April 13, 1963 and the hospital officially of-ficially opened the following Wednesday. Wed-nesday. The hospital has had 1050 patients pat-ients admitted during the two years of its life. 165 babies have been born within its walls and 30 deaths have occurred. Thirty hospital as sistants have been trained during the two year period. Thirteen an presently enrolled and each has do nated over sixty hours of volunteer work in addition to their regular employment. The local chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross has furnished six or seven Gray Ladies each week who help to make hospital life more pleasant for patients. The hospital is financially sound through a hospital taxing district, sale of pheasant badges, Christmas Donations and cash donations by clubs, organizations and individuals coupled with good administration. Dudley Crafts, local attorney and one of the first boosters for a hospital hos-pital in this area spoke at the dedicatory dedi-catory ceremony. During his talk Mr. Crafts said "I doubt if there is a person in west Millard County who hasn't contributed in one way or another to this building". The spirit of cooperation from all residents of west Millard County rose to its highest peak in the saving, sav-ing, planning and construction of the hospital. IT STANDS AS A MONUMENT TO A DETERMINED PEOPLE. Cancer Crusade Committee Meets The West Millard Cancer Crusade Central Committee met at the home of Verna Walch to check on the reports of the chairmen and the progress of their departments. The results were encouraging and reaching the ultimate goal of the quota of $1,000 is a promising climax. cli-max. Maxine Mills stated that all social and civic clubs had been contacted and generous responses were gratifying. Jean Moody, Educational Chairman Chair-man expressed appreciation for the Junior Crusade Chairmen, Golda Jane Black and Butch Mills for their excellent master of ceremonies ceremon-ies performance at the high school assembly last week where the stu-dentbody stu-dentbody presented a fine program in behalf of the Cancer Society. With such cooperation of the people, peo-ple, success is assured. 14-20 One full $1.00, 75c, 50c bers on the Delta sewer disposal plant. The Utah Water Pollution Control Board and State Healtn Dept. have been in close contact with Delta City Council on the sewer sew-er system and urging the city to act quickly to provide the necessary neces-sary sewage treatment facilities. The health officials have been reluctant re-luctant to use their legal authority to compel water and sewer cleanups clean-ups and preventive programs, to date. Consensus of the council is that lack of funds will shortly cease to be accepted as a reason for not beginning the construction of the secondary system. It is entirely en-tirely possible that beginning at the next fiscal year, July 1, 1965 a sewer tax of $2.00 monthly will be made for all home connections on the sewer line and slightly more for businesses. The revenue realized from this sewer tax will be used in defraying the cost of rehabilitating rehabilitat-ing the sewer system. Councilman Barben reported on Delta Municipal Airport plans for repair work on runways. Councilman Price reported that work is progressing at Delta swimming swim-ming pool on the installation of the heating unit by opening date, May 30. Rates will be discussed and decided upon at the next council meeting. Councilman Price is now accepting applications for summer employment at the swimming pool. CONGRESSMAN BURTON Congressman Laurence J. Burton (R) of Ogden has accepted an invitation to be the featured speaker at the patriotic program at Delta's Fourth Annual Fourth of July Celebration. The invitation was extended to Congressman Burton by Betty Kelly, President of the American Legion Auxiliary and Inez Riding member of the Executive Committee Com-mittee of the Fourth of July Celebration. Cele-bration. Congressman Burton accepted the invitation by a telephone call last week. RICHARD BROUGH was elected County Chairman of the Republican Republi-can Party in a convention held April 3 at the Courthouse in Fillmore. Fill-more. His term of office is two years. Other officers elected are: Mrs. O. J, Rogers, secretary; Mark Paxton, state central committeeman, committee-man, both of Fillmore; Mrs. Grayson Roper, Oak City, vice chairwoman and Mrs. James Nickle, state central committee-woman. committee-woman. Conducting the convention was Otis Walch, Delta, outgoing chairman. The Republicans named seventeen seven-teen delegates to the state convention. con-vention. Their names will be published pub-lished next week. ELDER DONALD RAY PETERSEN, PETER-SEN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne B. Petersen of Hinckley, has received re-ceived a call to fulfill an IDS mission in the Irish mission field. A testimonial honoring Elder Petersen will be held Sunday. April 25. 7:00 p.m. in Hinckley Ward ChapeL He is a graduate of Delta High School and has attended College of Southern Utah for one year. jJ |