Show Page 8 Millard County SUTHERLAND Dora Rose Ph: to Bert and Norma Congratulations Jensen for the 25th wedding anniversary They were visited by Jeff and Suzanne Mitchell from Springville UT Then Bert and Norih traveled to Cove Fort and over the mountain to where the Indian Artifacts are Before going there though they ate dinner at the cafe in Meadow They have been asked to enjoy a dinner at the cafe in Spanish have been Fork where reservations made and this to help celebrate their anniversary Rulon and Ruth Jones made a trip to Salt Lake where they visited with daughter Carolyn and John Schwab and family Their oldest boy was baptized Rulon stood in for the confirmation To spend the weekend with Dick and Bette Judd were daughter Trudie and and children David Wimpy Adelyn and Erin They Christopher are from Logan Utah President and Mrs Phillip Smith took their son Elder Jared Smith to the mission home on Wednesday Daren Smith resumed his studies at and daughter Logan University Stephanie left for SUSC in Cedar City Clara Green mother of the bank manager Garth Green Kent and Arlene Bradshaw Wendy’s mother and stepfather brother Russell Bradshaw all DSPS Thurs March 17 198 from Cedar City were here over the weekend to visit with the Greens To visit with the Spencers were BarTheda Aine from bara’s mother Spanish Fork and sister Judy Daniels from Lake Shore They visited the Sutherland Second Ward on Sunday Mrs Robinson from the East side of the county spent some time with daughter Ireta Shurtz and family She Second also visited the Sutherland Ward Melvin and Carmen Hepworth from Cedar City Michael and Elaine Rose from Delta David Dale and Jordan also from Delta and family of Pres and Mrs Rose prepared a birthday dinner for Heber Rose They also presented him with a beautiful birthday cake and many nice gifts He received lovely cards from those who were unable to be here Sometimes we may wonder why we have to live so long before we learn to live There are many things we might wish we had learned sooner than later in life There are many mistakes and misunderstandings along the way Mistakes of judgment bad beginnings lost time There are strained relationIf we ships errors of understanding could learn to live to be more less more understanding charitable resentful and less in quick judgment and condemnation Many of us live a some learn seem we before to time long of the fairly simple things that could have eased the way and make life more meaningful for us and for others We send our deepest sympathy to all of the Mary Edwards family for their loss at this time HINCKLEY Valyn Dutson Ph: Last week LaVern Theobald went with her son Paul to attend the funeral services of her brother Calvin Croft in Orem who passed away Feb 25 of a massive stroke He was buried in the Provo City Cemetery LaVern During the cold winter Theobald visited with her children Also she visited a week with her sister in and her Salt Lake Inez Steed daughter Grace Waldram in Bountiful She attended a Christmas Croft family dinner at Merril and Melba Croft’s in Salt Lake In Orem she visited with Paul and Dorothy Theobald and in with Verrue and Shirley Payson and daughter Joyce and Theobald family LaVern went to St George to visit Paul and Dorothy who were living there for the winter Merlin and Buelah and family and son Golden and Carol Theobald of Las Vegas were also in St George where he was having treatments at the hospital LaVern enjoyed very much the visits with her family and she is now at home Wesley and LaWanna Peterson were S VwV in Vernal recently to a Soil Conservation meeting Mike Palmer went to Salt Lake on business for a couple of days Robert and Sarah Manis have bought the Fannie Lee Hilton home It’s good to have young people move in Jim and Nancy Larson of Lake Tahoe California were here recently to spend the weekend with Jim’s mother Oleta Swensen The Larson’s daughter Barbara and a friend came down from Provo to see her family while they were here Ross and Valeda Hilton were here from Cedar City visiting with Jim and lone Christensen They attended the WAC basketball tournament in Provo They had tickets for eight games Allan and Deb Wilkins have a new baby boy They are very happy with his arrival David Allan has two old sisters Christy and Elaina Evan and Joan Maxfield had a large family gathering to celebrate the blessing of their daughter Victoria Joan We just received word that we have a new granddaughter Cathy and David Feltch of Vernal are the proud parents As yet a name hasn’t been chosen Deseret Arprilla Scow Ph: New address for Bob Willoughby is: Robert D Willoughby 52937225 Marine BTRY 73503 Fort Sill Oklahoma Let’s all write to our service men Letters from town folk and relatives are PFC really appreciated Get well wishes are sent to MarGene Rowley who is at home recovering from knee surgery LaFawn Skeem who had a heart attack in Tooele is now able to be at home Garold and Elaine Moody spent a few days in St George visiting with their son Darrin Moody and wife and children and also with Elaine’s mother Verna Schmutz Rose Nichols is in Salt Lake City visiting with her two daughters Elaine and Gloria They are both recovering from hip operations Shane and Mary Holst who have been living in Deseret are now moving to Page Arizona to make their new home Daughters of Utah Pioneers of the Fanny Powell Cropper Camp held their March meeting on Wed March 9 at The the home of Winona Dutson lesson was given by Edna Christensen on “DUP Camps in Idaho Wyoming and Arizona” History of “Hales Family” was given by Lucile Hales Members present were Cleo Eliason Eunice Black Beulah Rowley Luella Edna Western Western Fayetta LaVern Lucile Hales Christensen Elaine Theobald Roper Margaret Moody Aprilla Scow and Winona Dutson Refreshments were served by Winona Dutson Terry and Sheila Zorn and sons from Vernal Utah visited Sunday Feb 28 at the home of parents Jim and Lucile Sampson Douglas Western from Midvale visited over the weekend with parents Faun and Luella Western Bishop Robert Allred wife Beverly and children went to Orangeville on Sunday to be present at some family members’ ordinations Congratulations to Jim and Teresa Napp and family for having been baptized and confirmed members of the LDS Church on Sat evening Mar 6 Horace and Theone Smith visited Thurs and Fri at the home of Faun and Luella Western The Smiths were on their way home to Idaho Falls Idaho after having spent the winter months in Mesa Arizona Horace is a brother of Luella David Western visited last week in Deseret with his parents Ray and Fayetta Western and grandparents Faun and Luella Western before leaving for An- - vyyv V rcnzwrrw ° & Oasis a °jsj SAHARA MOTORS 3rd ANNIVERSARY SALE Saturday March Q°- - C 19 - 10:00-5:0- chorage Alaska to visit with Tony and Mary Western and family He has employment in Alaska in commercial fishing Doyle and Marth Mace who have spent the past several months in St George were at their home in Deseret for a few days They also visited their son Joe and family and daughter Marilyn and family in Kaysville from Tooele Carolyn Haynes visited during the week with her mother Edna Christensen and her sister Beverly Eliason and family Rick Cropper from Cedar City visited a few days at the home of parents Blaine and Mae Cropper Elaine Henstrom Kate Dorton and Marion Warnick from Salt Lake City spent Wed and Thurs in the area visiting with family members and friends They are in the process of getting material and pictures of Deseret for the new book that is being printed Blanche Jensen is visiting with her son Max and family in West Jordan for a few days i i SANDS APRTMENTS J Mary Bassett The Sunshine Generation is appearing in the Sands recreational room the evening of March 10 If you would like to come and see them I am sure they will share some sunshine with all of us The building committee has started to bring their plans of building 8 more units onto this already popular friendly Sands Apartment unit They have already dug the soil on the east side of the building making a space for a basement One machine hit the main power line and we were out of power and heat for a few hours Mrs Lee Snowdon stopped by to see LaFaye Cory and sister Lola Young They had been to Salt Lake City to see their new grandson this past week Loretta Narron visited Mrs Lillian Taylor on Friday afternoon Every morning when my blinds are up I see Lillian Taylor out for her morning walk happy healthy full of joy and sunshine Marge and Ed Hawley have returned from St George last week where they spent some time sightseeing with Ed’s brother Med and wife Pearl They visited with our former neighbor Verdella Adams who lives there and also Norman and wife Faye Sjostrom and his sister Virgie and husband Jack Murray from Price while there Vivian Holman had weekend guests her granddaughter Diana Sargent and great granddaughter Whitney Sargent from Riverton Twenty members of the Crafts’ family met at Tops Cafe to celebrate birthdays in the Crafts family Cherley Crafts was one of them He was presented with a pretty birthday cake On March 4 Joe Bishop came to town He took Charley and Fontella to birthday dinner Reed Crafts a brother called to say he would take Charley out to birthday dinner Thursday Charles Crarts son came in from Fallon NV and Zane Crafts paid a birthday visit This should be a birthday long remembered by Charley NaRae and Walt Petersen took their mother Quetta to American Fork for eye surgery They also visited daughter Sue Quetta’s brother Clif Larsen babysat house and dog Millard County lost a favored son in the passing of J Calvin Croft on 25 1988 at the Provo Regional Feb Hospital Bom 10 May 1903 in Deseret Utah a son of Jacob Croft and Mary Eliason he was the great grandson of the Jacob Croft who made the trek to Utah in 1856 and was sent by Brigham Young to Fillmore to colonize and build dams along the various creeks and Sevier River including the first dams at Deseret and Scipio These dams helped provide the power for grist and saw mills Calvin was a graduate of Brigham Young University and taught school in Hr HOLDEN Chcrryl Wood Fh to Chris and Ross Congratulations Stevens on the birth of a baby boy on Tuesday March 8 The new baby has two older sisters and three brothers at home to welcome him Proud grandmother is Ellen Stevens of Holden Jill Christensen was a patient in the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake for a few days last week We are glad she is home again and feeling better Beth Crosland was a patient in the Fillmore Hospital four days after suffering a fall in her home on March 5 She was transferred to the LDS Hospital by ambulance on Tuesday March 8 We hope she can come home soon and we wish her a speedy recovery Mark and LaRee Stephenson took Stella Stephenson io Salt Lake City Saturday to visit her brother Ross who is a patient in the LDS Hospital Dean and Connie Bennett and family attended the and Louise Bennett funeral services of Louise’s niece in Salt The niece died Lake City Saturday suddenly at the age of 40 Louise’s sister Viola Croft and son and two grandsons came back with Louise after the funeral and spent two days Overnight guests of LaNola Johnson recently were Roy and Lucille and son Regan of Bountiful who came down especially to attend the missionary farewell of Sean Wood Also staying overnight were LaNola’s granddaughter and husband Shawna and Ed Payne and four children of Bountiful who were on their way to St George for KSL on a filming assignment Radio The annual Relief Society Birthday be held will tonight Thursday party March 17 at 7:00 pm in the Cultural Hall All ladies are invited for a dinner and a program nimuxiiuHRimtniinnnnniiiiiimnnnuiDiie Happy I Birthday ( I 0 Dodge Dixie ( aiiiiimnammiiimuHfliuimiiiiiimimmiiiiiil mm REWARD! Target Utah’s Small Cities for We have a scenic state but in addition to that we have a very attractive business climate Companies can save up to 64 in operating costs in Utah Small Cities you have a company or know of a company that would like to relocate to a Small City in Utah let us know the company relocates here we’ll give you a $1000 reward new business I I IR I I I Complete coupon and Utah Small 6150 State Salt Lake Cities mail to: Inc Oflice City Building Utah 84114 Or call: R H fl I I I I I IH R R R R R R g Q R R H R Cl name Cy 000 reward s subject Ths esLa&tshea criteria provided upon request as be UTAH SMALL CITIES INC 6150 State Calvin Croft J Calvin Croft Office Building in Idaho and in Hawaii Hinckley After returning from an LDS Mission he taught Australia in Tasmania school in Duchesne where he met his also a future wife Lula McClellan teacher at that school Pursuing his love for the “good earth” Calvin and Lula traveled to Ames Idaho for Calvin to complete and graduate work in Farm Crops Plant Physiology He was instrumental in developing the hybrid corn that is famous He was awarded a Master’s Degree in 1932 and returned to teaching in Duchesne County and Provo In 1936 he was solicited for a job with the US Government as a Range This was imand Ranch Consultant mediately after the passing of the Taylor Grazing Act when Congress itiated efforts to help recover the overgrazed ranch and eroded public lands Calvin helped accomplish this by planting thousands of acres in crested wheatgrass having all livestock licensed and reducing by half the number of cattle and sheep permitted to graze upon public lands Adjudicating grazing permits took him to Idaho Montana Nevada and Utah In 1955 he was given a contract to Africa go to French Equatorial specifically to Tchad to gather facts about livestock ranch and environment conditions and make recommendations for modernizing the industries and farms He found primitive living conditions suggestive of Biblical times because of the nomadic tribesmen and the almost exclusive use of camels bulls and human beings for menial tasks Other purposes of his mission the citizens to were to educate democracy to help resist Communism and to help them prevent starvation He retired after nearly 30 years with the Department of Interior He then travelled extensively throughout Europe South America Alaska and the Orient completing his circling of the globe The LDS Church was always important to Calvin and he was active in its service wherever he lived He and his wife Lula served as Ordinance Workers as a regular in the Provo Temple some 4000 worker he completed endowments He loved sports both as a participant and spectator In wrestling he was and won Intermountain Champion He awards in tennis and basketball loved to work in the garden raising flowers and a lawn In vegetables 1987 he received an attractive plaque from Orem City “for efforts to contribute to CIVIC PRIDE by achieving excellence in property beautification” He like to compose poetry and wrote some 58 poems many of which were Several of his poems have published been published in the Millard County Chronicle Progress Calvin and Lula had five children all surviving: Mack Croft of Highland Utah Kent Croft Vivian Best and Clair Croft of Provo Utah and Mary Cram of Las Vegas Nevada He La4fern survived by two sisters: Inez Utah of Hinckley Theobald Steed of Salt Lake City and two brothers Merrill Croft of Salt Lake City and Elmo Croft of Orem Utah Salt Lake City Utah 84114 James Edgar Manis James Edgar Manis James 61 died Edgar Manis 29 1988 at Bremerton February Washington He was born April 7 1927 to James Thomas and Marion Veronica Kavanaugh Manis in Monarch Alberta Canada He was raised in Montana and Utah He served in the US Air Force in World War II and returned home to Hinckley Utah to begin his printing career at the Millard County Chronicle where he worked form He moved to Shelton Washington and married Ethel Mae Rife on September 2 1955 They relocated to Bremerton in 1957 where Ed worked at the Bremerton Sun and Bremerton Printing Co before purchasing r Printing Co in 1969 His hobbies and interests included tennis gardening and photography most recently his grandchildren Ed was a member of the Bremerton Lions Club and Bremerton Elks No 1181 He is survived by his wife Ethel Bremerton Wash and daughters sons Tammy Manis Annette Manis McClausland Bremerton Sandy Tanya Comrades Terry Manis Calif Colorado mother Jerry Manis Marion Manis Wash Dayton brothers Jack Las Vegas Nev Walter Hinckley Ut Bob Dayton Wash Jimmy Edmondton Calgary Alberta Canada nine grandchildren two Funeral services were held March 3 1988 in Bremerton LDS Church Burial was at Forest Lawn Cemetery k : t |