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Show 1 Begin1 Work On Hew Delta School N - v, 4 . : , : ... .. ' ' ' ' . , i I . Yj t. Supt. A-- M. Maughan and Mil lard school board members Carl Theobald and W. C. Cole view the beginning of construction of the new elementary school in Delta. At this time the footings are all in, and they will start lay-ing brick early next week. It is expected that the new school will be ready ;for the 1953-5- 4 school year. General construction of the building is under contract to Irvin Talboe, Provo, and plumb-ing and heating will be Miller Plumbing and Heating Co., Pay-so- Total cost will be $377,423. Volume 43 Number 1 1 Delta, Utah, Thursday, September 1 l,'l952 ' $3.b0e Bands and Barbecue, Fights and Floats Readied For US 6 Completion Jamboree Biggest Celebration Ever Held Here Sept. 26-2- 7 Delta is making plans to entertain thousands o visitors for Ihe hign b Completion Jamboree September 26 - 27, largest celebration ever planned here. Hospitality will be the keynote of the event, and all citizens are appointed as goodwill ambassadors for the two-da- y festival. Golden H. Black, general chairman, said today that support of the program is excellent, and interest is high. Opening with the fights cardg Friday night, entertainment will continue throueh Saturday, concluding with street dancing Saturday night. Mr. Black has had a letter from Gov. Charles H. Russell o Nevada assuring him of his attendance, accompanied by a party. Many will be here from Nevada, includ-ing Sen. Pat McCarran, and Utah's Gov. Lee and state officials and road commission will also attend. For the .barbecue Saturday, Wayne Gonder and Vivian Dear-de- n, of Garrison, have contributed a beef. Mr. Black asks that any . person or groups who would like to contribute a beef get in touch with him or the committee mem-bers, C. M. Pace, Orvil Jeffery, or Earl Kelly. The fish and game commission are providing two. elk for the feast. The parade Saturday promises to be the largest yet seen here. Nephi is bringing five floats. There will be eight bands, from Santa-qui- n, Eureka, two from NephI, Mil-lard high school, two from Delta, and Ely. John Day, parade chair-man has promises of many more floats. Arve Rose, fight card chairman, reports that Palomar Is all lined up for the bouts and the reserved seats are all marked accurately. He says the committee guarantees that the patron will get the seat he buys. Highway 6 has been opened for travel now, and the blockades re-moved. Travel over the road will help pack it, and the final step, the seal coat, will be applied prior to the celebration. STREET SQUARE DANCE Preparations have been comple-ted for the big square dance Jam-boree Saturday night, Sept 27. Climaxing the two day Highway 6 Completion Jamboree. At 8:30 a very colorful two block torch light parade will begin the night ceremonies. Square dancing and round dancing In the street will follow. Six trophies will be given to dance groups. Mr. C. Vern Yates will be master of ceremonies and will do some of the calling. Pretty and talented little old Con-nie Christensen of Salt Lake City will do some novelty calling and will assist Mr. Yates by calling two more numbers. Other callers from all parts of Utah have been invited to come and participate. Many have responded saying they will bring several sets of dancers with them. Cedar City Is holding a Square Dance Jamboree in the BAC field-hous- e Saturday Sept. 13 and have sent the pe.ole of Delta and vicin-ity a special invitation to join the fun there. Isabel Thompson, old sis ir of Mrs. Alihea Orton, Delta, was bruised last Wednesday even-ing when she was struck by a car as she was crossing the street toward the Crest theatre. The driver of 'the car, Warren Jensen, of Salt Lake, applied his brakes, and one fender caught the girl on the hip and she was thrown to the ground. Her hands and knee and one elbow were skinned. For-tunately, no bones were broken and her injuries were slight. Isabel has been making her home in Delta with Mrs. Orton since the recent death ot their mother. . ifrimsry Returns Are M AI! In s But Show Trend li.'ie me primary election re-- : ' btaitied from (lie county clerk Wednesday shortly after one Ai tnis time all the re-turns are not in and tabulated, so that the following figures are not fi'ia), but will give a picture of the voting. . REPUBLICAN United States Senator: Marriner S. Eccles, 278; Arthur V. Watkins 934. Representative in Congress: Geo. W. Staples, 900, Douglas R. String-fello- 266. Governor: A. Cyril Callister, 142, J. Bracken Lee, 1070. Secretary of State: Truman S. Curtis; Lamont F. Toronto, 501. State Auditor: Paul P. Cropper, 810; Sherman J. Preece, 409. State Treasurer: Golden L. Allen, 667; Sid Lamborune, 441. Attorney General: E. R. Callister 678; Lothaire R. Rich, 379. DEMOCRATIC United States Senator: Walter K. Granger, 696; Herbert B. Maw, 172. Representative in Congress: Geo. T. Frost, 275; Ernest R. McKay, 507. Governor: Heber Bennion, Jr., 414; Earl J. Glade, 439. Secretary of State: Edward- J. McPolin, 123; Milton B. Taylor 681. State Auditor: Ferrell H. Adams, 589; Arias G. Belnap, 211. District Attorney: Orville Isom, 132; Milton A. Melville, 753. County Commissioner, 2 year term: Virt S. Barney, 370; Reuben L. Turner, 467. JUDICIAL For Justice of the Supreme court 10 VPflr tprnr TnctiVa T actc A Wade, incumbent, 687; Richard J. Hogan, 307; George W. Worthen, 548. For Justice of the Supreme court 4 year" unexpired term: Justice F. Henri Henroid, incumbent, 373; Will L. Hoyt, 1211; Joseph G. Jepp-so- n 151. Chronicle Vill Again Give Frost Warning Service This year the Chronicle will again handle the frost warning service, and will relay the daily forecasts to all telephone calls. The forecasts will come from the United States Department of Commerce weather bureau, Salt Lake City. J. C. Eberhardt, meteor-ologist in charge, wrote Tuesday stating that they Intend to start the forecast as soon as conditions become critical (temperatures ar-ound 40 or lower. Thereafter forecasts will be sent daily. Observations will be sent to the weather bureau daily from Deseret and Sutherland starting this week. Mr. Greene, of the Salt Lake of-fice, was in Delta last Wednesday, and checked the thermometers at Deseret and Sutherland for ac -- curacy. That particular day the temperature was 97 degees, with a minimum of 59. A number of 'farmers are hoping for no frost throughout September, as they need the time to ripen the alfalfa seed. Some who had cut were wrathy Tuesday when high winds prevented hauling and threshing, and windrows of alfalfa seed were being blown and rolled across fields. Grandchild Is Injured In Car Accident Patsy Malone, old daugh-ter of Jack and Merlene Law Ma-lone, 1224 Mayflower, Arcadia, Cal. was seriously injured in a oar ac-cident at Colton Cal., on the even-ing of Labor Day. The child is a granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. LeGrande Law, of Delta. ' According to word received here the little girl ran ahead o'f her mother onto the highway, and was struck by an oncoming car. She was dragged 40 feet and was un-conscious when picked up. Her mo-ther and aunt, Mrs. Billie Law, witnessed the accident. She was taken to the community hospital at San Bernadino, where her injuries were listed as "criti-cal". She has a fractured skull, in-ternal injuries, and multiple bru-ises and lacerations. She is receiv-ing special nursing, and was being roused every hour to prevent her going into a coma. Her condition now is reported as improving slightly, although she is not yet out of danger. At the time of the accident her grandmother, Mrs. Law, was in California with Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Little, whom she had been visit-ing in Las Vegas, Nev. Mrs. Law is remaining with Mr. and Mrs. Malone to help with Patsy until she is out of danger. Lucky Winners Of Elk Permits As nearly as this reporter can tell 'from reading the fine print in the 1952 list of elk hunters, re-leased Sunday by the State Fish and Game Commission, eleven were from West Millard County. For Manti general, either sex, are Ward Johnson, Delta, No. 72, Lloyd Peterson, Delta, No. 121, and Barbara Shurtz, Delta RFD, no. 140. Nebo general, bull, Ernest And-erson, Oasis, No. 8, Nebo general, either sex, Frank Heise, Delta RFD No. 205; Robert J. Jenson, Delta RFD, No. 231; Cecilie M. King, Del-ta, No. 255; R. P. Swensen, Hinck-ley, No. 428. Salt Creek - Santaquin, either sex, John Kozina, Delta, No. 96; R. F. Lovell, Oasis, No. 101, and Golden Wamick, Delta No. 181. Will Represent Millard County At State Fair Three signs, each 16 feet high and 40 feet long, costing $900 each will soon be placed along U. S. Highway No. 6 to invite travel through this area of the national route. Plans for placing the signs were made at a meeting in Eureka Mon-day night of mayors and represen-tatives from Payson, Santaquin, Eureka, Delta, and Ely, Nev. Pres-ent from Delta were Mayor C. M. Pace, Golden H. Black, general chairman, and John Day, parade chairman o Highway Six Comple-tion Jamboree. The Ely delegation included Mayor N. E. Broadbent, Vail Pitt-ma- n, past governor of Nevada, El-w- A. Robison, James A. Dement, publisher, William B. Stoops, Geo. Poulsen, C. E. Geraghty, and Dar-win Lambert, executive secretary of White Pine Chamber of Com-merce and Mines. The signs will advertise that US 6 is now completed, and gives the faster route to San Francisco and Los Angeles. The route will be show and mapped thereon will be Spanish Fork, Payson, Santaquin, Eureka, Lynndyl, Delta, Hinckley, and on into Nevada through Ely, Eureka Tonopah. Lehman Cave will be marked a9 a tourist attrac-tion. Bishop, Cal., Los Angeles and Long Beach will also be shown. One sign will be placed in Span-ish Fork Canyon, east of Spanish Fork, and one will be placed at Santaquin. The third sign will be financed by Eureka and Santaquin and will be put at Lynndyl just before the highway crosses the tracks. Ely will pay $100 on the signs, and the other towns named along the route in Utah will share the additional $1700 cost. few Signs Will Invite Travel On U.S. Highway Six Millard County will be well re-presented at the State Fair this year. Eloise Bassett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bassett and Leu Wanna Bunker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bunker of Sutherland, won honors at the County Style Dress Revue to be held at the Fair Grounds Monday, September 15 at 5:30 p. m. Mary and Grace Wamick, daugh lers of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Wami-ck of Hinckley, will demonstrate and Joan Bradfield daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bradfield of Leamington will demo-nstrate the freezing of chicken. These girls were winners at the demonstration given at the county fair. . The boys to attend and comp-ete at the State Fair in tractor driving and livestock judging are Sherril Tolbert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Tolbert of Abraham, Robert Blanche, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gus Blanche, also of Abrah-am, Jerald Knight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Knight, of Delta, Steve Cummings, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Cummings of Fillmore of Fillmnrp Thpco T mpmhprs will compete and participate in both the tractor driving contest 'and the livestock judging contests. Larry Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jan Wright of Delta will exh-ibit his Holstein heifer which he won from the Brooklawn Creamery Co. at the County Jr. Livestock in 1951. Tommy Adams of Kanosh will exhibit Dixie Dugan III a registere-d Jersey heifer presented to him by the Salt Lake Tribune at the Junior Livestock Show in 1952. The group will be chaperoned by Mrs. Waldo Wamick of Hinck-le- y and supervised by Sarah Niel-- , i son Home demonstration agent and Ralph H. Home Ass't. County Agricultural Agent. Talent Finds Go To State Fair Mrs. .Edith Anderson Finlinson, Oak City, and Carolyn Callister, Delta, and Carl Oliver, Sugarville, will represent Millard county at the State Fair in the state Talent Find contest Sept. 18. They were judged a's top talent in the contest in August sponsor- - ed by Millard County Farm Bur-- ; eau. The Talent Find contest is spon-sored by County, State and Nation-al Farm Bureau, and the purpose of the project is to eneourge rural youth groups to make better use of local talent; to encourage the young people to participate in wholesome entertainment, and to recognize outstanding talent by giving contestants a chance to participate in local, county, state and national conventions, and at county and state fairs. Winners of the state contest at the Fair will go to the national Farm Bureau convention. Mrs. Finlinson won first place in 'the county contest, with a piano solo, Malaguena. Miss Callister and Mr. Oliver won second place, with a vocal duet. They gave their numbers on the program o'f Days of the Old West. Telluride Power Co. are present-ing them Sunday, Sept. 14, on the Telluride Hour, over Richfield rad-io station. September I a Is Farmllureau May Thursday Sept. 18 is Farm Bur-e- a Day at the Utah State Fair. All Farm Bureau members are invited to attend on that day. The Talent Show will be held at 2 p. m. Farm Bureau will pre-sent a program over the loud spea ker and announce winners of the Talent Find. Hinckley Man Dies Wednesday Of Heart Ailment Ivan Dee Wright, 25, teacher at Tod Park school, Tooele, died last Wednesday morning in his home of a heart ailment. He was born Nov. 11, 1926, in Hinckley, a son of Ivan M. and Hilda Christensen Wright. He mar-ried Peggy Geraldine Hall June 23, 1950, in the Salt Lake temple. Most of his life had heen lived in Hinckley, where he received his early education and was graduat-- ' ed from Hinckley high school in 1945. He was graduated from BYU in 1950. ' He was an active member of the LDS church, and was a Seventy. He was also an Eagle Scout. He is survived by his wife, a son, Gordon, and a daughter, Peg-gy Dee Wright, all of Tod Park; his parents, at Hinckley; three bro-thers Boyd C. and Neldon J. Wright Hinckley, and Lawrence K. Wright, with the U. S. Army in Korea; three sisters, Mrs. Leloa Farns-wort- Provo, and Verla and Car-m-a Wright, Hinckley. . Funeral services were conducted Saturday at 1 p. m. in the Hinck-ley ward chapel. Burial was in the Hinckley ceme I ery. Bishop Waller Ekins conducted the services for Mr. Wright, open-ed with "O My Father" sung by the Hinckley ward choir. Opening by Harold R. prayer was given Morris. Talmage Christensen sang a so-lo "In The Garden", with piano accompaniment by Mrs. Roma Ek-ins. The first speaker was Arthur H. Reeve, whose tribute was follow-ed by a solo by Mrs. Erma Crop-per, "Going Home", with Mrs. Ek-ins as accompanist. Ladd Cropper, Mr. Wright's sem-inary teacher, spoke, and Stanley Dewsnup, a former classmate gave a tribute. The closing song by the We'll Under-stand". choir was "Sometime Some of Mr .Wright's classmates that attended the funeral were Belle Damron Bohn, Tenna Jensen Petersen And-erson Johnson, Merodean .Carol Talbot Bishop, Stan-ley Dewsnup, Reed Reeves, Rped Stewart, Dawn Kelly Moody Del-m- a Jean Webb Galli, Helen Webb Watson, Cheral Reeve Blake and Irvin Chaffin. " ' . Oasis Resident Dies Thursday Of Long Illness Mrs. Ora Petersen Lovell, 38, wife of Ray Lovell, of Oasis, died Thursday at 1:30 a. m. at her home after a lingering illness. She was born April 9, 1914, at Oasis, a daughter of Nephi and Mary Petersen Petersen. ' Her early education was receiv-ed at the A. C. Nelson school, at Deseret, and she was graduated later from Hinckley high school. She married Ray Lovell Nov. 24, 1937, at Nephi, and their home was made in Oasis. A lifelong member of the LDS church, Mrs. Lovell had 'been ac-tive in church organizations. She had served in the YWMIA, and as counselor in the Primary. She was secretary of the Oasis Garden Club, and had been elected president of Hinckley PTA 'for the coming year. Survivors are her husband and two daughters, Mary Jean and Bonnie Rae, at Oasis; three bro-thers, Meron Petersen, Hinckley, Ray Petersen, Oasis and Raymond Petersen, Deseret; a sister, Mrs. Alberta Stanworth, Oasis. Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 p. m. In Oasis ward chapel, by Bishop Peter H. Peter-son. . Burial was in the Oasis Lawrence Cropper conducted the services for Mrs. Lovell, and opening prayer was given by En-och Gillen. "In the Garden" was sung by the trio, Evelyn Skeem, lone Chris-tensen and Glenda Roundy, with accompaniment by Lula Marie Hil-ton. Speakers were Homer Petersen and Bishop Peter H. Peterson, who paid tribute to Mrs. Lovell as a loving wife and mother, and good friend and neighbor. Mrs. Wanda Beckwith sang "My Mom", with violin accompaniment by Mrs. Norma Hannifin, and piano Mrs. Thelma Black. Mrs. Elaine Dekker gave a orig-inal reading and tribute. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Western sang a duet, "God Understands", accompanied by Miss Gertrude Western. Closing prayer was by Clark Bishop. Burial was In the Oasis cemetery where the grave was dedicated by J, Val Styler. Organization And Leadership Are Stressed At PTA "Marvelous things can be ac-complished through the PTA or-ganizations if the officers will only operate through the many chan-nels of the organization" expres-sed Miss Dema Kennedy of Chi-cago, one of the four field con-sultants for the National Congress of Parents and Teachers, who was the guest speaker at a regional PTA conference in Delta Monday. Miss Kennedy gave helpful ad-vice on "training leadership" and outlined the structure of P T A work on a National, State and loc-al level. Mrs. Donald E. Rose of Salt Lake City, who is the new presd-de- nt of P T A in Utah and Mrs. Cecil H. Baker, of Logan, who is the first vice president of the state organization accompanied Miss Kennedy to Delta and were spea-kers at the conference. Mrs. Rose stressed the fact, that PTA organizations are organized for the welfare of all children. "It is definitely an educational or-ganization with the theme this year being 'The Citizen Child, his Needs in a Free World', " Mrs. Rose said. Mrs. Baker talked on the programs in the PTA organ-ization. Mrs. Don W. Peterson of Fill-more, who is the regional director and Mrs. Lavon Morrison of Delta who is the West Millard council president were in charge of the meetings. In attendance at the day-lon- g sessions were representatives from all the PTA organization in West Millard county, council members, Supt. A. M. Maughan, Miss Mar-garet Snyder, elementary super-visor of the county and all school principals in the district Musical numbers were furnished by Ladd R. Cropper and Mrs. Nor-ma Hannifin with Mrs. May Crop-per and Mrs. Norma Wright as ac-companists. City Officials Co To League Mayor C. .M. Pace, Delta city ccuncilmen Earl Kelly, Carl Ash-b-and Rulon Callister, City clerk, Mrs. Carolyn Eennett, City treasure-r, Wayne Sore.nsen and city wate-rworks supervisor Wells Wood att-ended the Utah Municipal Lea-gue convention in Salt Lake City 'iiucday through Saturday, "i'hey will be accompanied by M's. Pace, Mrs. Kelly, Mrs. Ashby, J'ts. Callister, Mrs. Wood and Max Bennett. first general session will be Thursday at 2:30 with the wel-cm- e address from Mayor Earl Glade. Wednesday there will be fecial meetings dealing with wat erworks, sanitation, planning and zoning. The convention will conclude on Saturday night after the annual liquet, at the Newhouse Hotel. Primary Confab To Be Held All Day Thursday Deseret and Millard stakes will hold their regular Primary confer-ence all day Thursday in the Des-eret stake house. Two members of the general boards ' will be In attendance for the sessions. All ward and stake Primary of-ficers and teachers are asked to attend, as well as parents and any one Interested. Wednesday night at 8:30 (to-night) a meeting will be held In the stake house for parents of children of Primary age, Primary officers and workers. The same 2 general board members will pre-sent talks at this meeting. ISake Sale Set For Saturday Deseret Relief Society will hold a bake sale in Quality Market on Saturday Sept. 13. Pies, cakes, bread, rolls and cookies 'will be offfered for sale. Mr and Mrs. Ira Church, from Provo, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wamick, from American Fork, vis-ited in Delta over the week end. Report Picnics At Cemetery It has been reported to the Delta cemetery committee that there have been some instances of per-sons going to the Delta cemetery in the late evening and picnick-ing on the lawn-covere- d graves. Empty beer cans have been found, and lunch wrappings. This is unseemly conduct, to slate it mildly, as cemeteries are not intended for picnic spots. The public is asked to cooperate with the cemetery committee in bring-ing these picnics to an end. A cer-tain amount of patrolling may be necessary, and a floodlight would be a big help, . Births This Week.. To Robert and Louise Bishop Carting, Deseret, a boy, Sept. 3. To Ernest and Phyllis Peery An-derson, Oasis, a girl, Sept. 6. To Stanley and Faye Hunsaker Steele, Delta, a girl, Sept. 7. To Hale and Wyora Hunter Jef-fery Delta, a boy, Sept. 9. Oasis Ward Sets Outing Saturday asis ward members will hold ho"' annual outing Saturday, bePt. 13, in Oak City canyon, with suPPer served at 6 p. m. at the resort. Members are to furnish - their jn steaks, and take- them to Leo before noon Saturday. Other. tems-t- the menu will be potluck. Mr. and Mrs .Amos Maxfield and Mr and Mrs. Leigh Maxfield were in Salt Lake City Thursday for the wedding and reception of Mr. and Mrs. Don Reimann. The bride is the former Virginia Maxfield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Layton Maxfield. Wedding vows were said in the Salt Lake LDS temple, and the reception in their honor was held in the Colonial Hills ward |