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Show olume 34 No. 32 Kanab, Utah, Thursday, September 2, 1965 -- Six go for physical exams; Four more enter Armed Service Several of Kane Counties young men went to Salt Lake City Tuesday of tins week from the local Selective Service Office to take their physical exams for the armed services. Coing were, Leo Jay Findlay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lnn F. Findlay. John R. Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Devon Jackson. Stewart C. Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Robinson and Mark Van Church, son of Mr. and Mrs. V'an Church, all of Kanab. From Orderville were, Roy Willard Esplin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Williard Esplin and Sherrill Lamb, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rolland Esplin. Four young men were to enter the U. S. Armed Forces from Kane County Wednesday of this week in Salt Lake City. Cliarles Wayne Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. V'em Anderson of Glendale; David Ivins Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Craydon Robinson of Kanab; and Martin LaNard Black and Floyd E. Black, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Black, Kanab, are the four. Report on County tour By Dwain Ilaacke Local farmers and ranchers of the County spent an enjoyable day Wednesday viewing some of the soil and water eon- servation practices that have been installed on privately owned farms and ranches in the county. The tour was sponsored by the Kane County .Soil Conservation District and the County ASC Committee. Jesse C, Tuttle, Castle- Dale, chairman of the state ASC committee and Ted R. Holt, Lewiston, a member of the state ASC committee and their wives were on tour. The tour included a large variety of conservation work which included stops at the ML Carmel irrigation company canal lining. Kit Carmel rail and rock diversion dam, Orderville irrigation siphon and the companys rubble- - mason-- . ryrock diversion dam. Rex Bauers field size planting of To-pwheatgrass, brush and control and range seeding tree on Cam Swapps and Heaton Bros., ranches at Alton. A good example of how raw gullies can be healed and restored to top forage production was exhibited by the grass waterway on Ray Palmer ranch and the series of small earthem erosion control dams on Earl Sorensens ranch. Henry Carroll explained his range seeding program being done on the Glendale Bench.. Mr. Carroll said they had seeded approximately 2800 acres of range lands on his ranch within the last three years. The group also visited the Bunting diversion dam o n Johnson Wash. Ray Buntings irrigation well and regulatory reservior, and ditch lining and pasture plantings on Guy Cha- - . ar KANAB WEATHER REPORT Miss Mona Laine Crofts Elder John Merle Findlay I i ' jl tl 4 k, Kanab youth to fill mission -- Temple wedding date LDS Temple promises will be recited by Miss Mona Laine Crofts, daughter of Mrs. Elaine Crofts, and the late Maughn A. Crofts, and Mr. Bryson H. Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. LeCrande Jones. All are residents of Kanab. The couple will be married September 11, 1965, in St George and come home that evening where they will be honored at a reception in the Kanab Stake House from 7:30 until 10 oclock. The futjire bride is a graduate of Fredonia High School, where she was active in many student functions, as well as in previous years while attending Page schools. The bridegroom is a graduate of Kanab High SchooL He has attended Steven Business College and Brigham Young University. He has filled a two year mission for the LDS Church in the Southwest Indian Mission field. The couple plan to live in Provo where they will continue their education this fall. St George Hen-age- rs Elder John Merle Findlay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Findlay of Kanab, will be honored at a Missionary Farewell testimonial Sunday, September 5, 1965, in the Kanab Stake House. Elder Findlay has been called to serve an LDS Mission in the Southwest British Mission, w ith headquarters at Bristol, England. He is a graduate of Wasatch Academy in Mt Pleasant, Utah and has spent the past school year majoring in philosophy and chemistry at Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska. Elder Findlay will enter the Mission Home in Salt Lake City, September 6. couple tells engagement A bethrothal of great interest to scores of friends and relatives in Northern Arizona and Southern Utah was announced in Fredonia last weekend. Mrs. Caroline Carlley revealed that her daughter, Mer-ly- n Keith, will become the bride of Jense McCormick, resident of Fredonia. was bom The bride-to-b- e in Arkansas and graduated from schools in Stockton, Kansas. She was employed for several years in the gift shop at McCarren Field, Las Vegas, and since coming to Fredonia to reside with her mother has worked in the Towne Market She is the daughter of Mrs. Carlley, an instructor in the Fredonia High School, and the late W. F. Carlley. McCormick, bom in Fredonia is the son of Mrs. Martine McCormick. He is a graduate of Fredonia schools and for several years has been with the Forest Service, Kaibab division, in a supervisory capacity. Paul McCormick, also of the Forest Service, is his brother. Their grandparents were the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Jensen. At the time of this writing, wedding plans had not been announced. life-lon- Esplin family reunion Friday An Esplin family reunion will be held in St George Saturday, September 4, 1965. A program honoring the memory of Hattie Esplin Durfee wil begin at 10:00 A.M. in the Fifth-SixtWard Chapel, 85 S. 400 E. At 12:00 noon at the City Park a free barbeque luncheon will be served to all members preh sent Games and sports for the children will follow the luncheon and the adults will conclude the day with a business meeting. There will be a two dollar registration fee fbr each family. mberlains farm east of Kanab. Several other types of conservation practices such as sprinkler irrigation systems, brush control, pasture planting, range yeding, soil bank grass seedings and tree eradication were called to the attention of those attending the tour as they drove over the route Farmers and ranchers familiar with the projects visited, told what conditions existed before the prastices were installed and how the conservation practices improved their fanning and ranch operations by decreasing water and soil losses and increasing forage production. Seventeen local farmers and ranchers attended the tour. Steak planned Here on Labor Day Chamber of and direcofficers Commerce that they week this said tors a start will campaign to contact everyone that has not paid their dues. A statement from the Chamber says, "we will appreciate your paying as much as possible on your dues. We have an obligation at the local bank for $2600, which is due. "This obligation is as much yours as the board of directors of the chamber, and it must be paid off. It is the balance owing on the large signs advertising Kanab. Everyone needs to get behind the Chamber and support them. VVe are getting much adverse publicity from surrounding areas and we need the signs and chamber promotion to counteract this. There is no need for the slow periods that we are experiencing, if everyone would get . behind the Chamber erf Commerce and help." The Kanab i Crofts Jones tell Kanab C of C asks for dues and supportr g i tlj neighbors 4 00 Fry The North and South Wards of the LDS Church are sponsoring a steak fry and dinner on Lalxir Day in Kanab. The dinner, family style, w ill get underway at 5:30 p.m. on the Stake House grounds. The Relief Societies of each ward are preparing the menu and will supervise the serving. Tickets are being sold for $10 per family, and will lie available at the door as well. Everyone is invited and welcome to attend. Kanab News Notes and Current Events Mr. and Mrs. William Mur- phy and children of Phoenix have been Kanab visitors and guests at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Finley Bun-tin- Mr. and Mrs. John Martin turned to Kanab from the g. re- Nor- thwest last w'cek. Mr. Martin has been empolyed there and Mrs. Martin visited him there a week before they returned to Kanab. Fredonia news happenings By K. Black and Klallisa Jensen man, are expected to arrive very soon. They are long-tim- e Fredonia has been the center of much coming and going this summer as former residents, old friends and relatives have returned to enjoy the pleasant climate of The Strip. Here from Washington, D. C., earlier in the season, were Mr. and Mrs. Vem Miller to the A. F. Jensens and her relatives the R.B. Griffiths. Accompanying them was her sister, Jo Kane, of San Francisco. had just said goodby to her sister Edith Mrs. Griffiths n, Sumner, Washington who came here from a trip to Kenya Africa. From Fredonia she went to Los Angeles to visit a daughter and then departed for Honolulu. Another sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Peterson, also of Sumner, were house guests of the Griffiths and sampled Lake Powell cruising among other scenic trips in the area. Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Woel-feof Los Alamitos, Calif., visited her sister and brother. Tine Cram, Sherman and Ted Jensen. She is the former Phyllis Jensen.. l, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Marlow, with son John and Marlows sister, Mary Ellen, of Lakeport Calif., paused overnight at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Ryder. They were enroute home from a summer in New York City. Marlowe, a high school teacher in Lake- Unrk port, studied at as the of a iversity recipient national scholarship for teachers of English. Newi-Yo- Ryder left Sunday morning for Los Angeles to supervise construction of an adition to the home of the Ryders older daughter, Mrs. Karen Crosby. Another California English teacher here for a month has been Jack Edmond, chairman of his department in a San Francisco high school. He came, with his brother Arthur Habegger, also a Bay Area resident, to visit his mother, Mrs. Clair Pearson. Mrs. Fearsons parents, Mr. and Mrs. Art Jarvis, of King- - former residents of The Strip who plan to see the "new sights of Lake Powell and Rainbow bridge. Warm weather has family reunions, in the state of Utah. Traveling to Salt Lake to gatherings of their respective clans have been Don Ellison family and, to a White family reunion, the Woodrow Johs o n s, Stirling Heatons and Gene Heatons. produ-cciLonan- To introduce his new bride, Johny White came from Mesa to stay a few days with his sister Mrs. Don (Antoinette) Mackleprang. Their parent s were the late Mr, and Mrs. Weaver White. Miss Nlalisa and Master Karl MacDonald of Goodyear, Ariz. have divided recent visiting weeks between their father (Karl MacDonald, Sr.) and friends in Kanab and ttheir grandparents, the A. F. Jensens. They have returned home by plane .last Monday to prepare for the opening of of school. Mr. and Mrs. Scott Johnson, Tempe, with daughter, Jamie, paused to refresh friendships at the Allan Judd home on their way to stay with his parents, the George Johnsons of Page. Scott will return to Arizona State University this fall to complete work for his degree in electrical engineering. John Chamberlain dies after truck overturns north of Kanab John Chamberlain, James Keith Swapp Civilian Conservation camp at Pipe Springs have been the subject of reminiscence by three former officials of that establishment who have been August visitors: Roy Wright of Oreville, California has been staying with Ed Hatch, at White Sage; Dr. and Mrs. C. L. Biedinger, of San Luis Obispo, Calif., have made their summer residence at Clair Pearson lodge; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Black, of Modesto, Calif., have visited at the A. F. Jensen residence. Black an instructor in anthropology and economics at Modesto Junior College left this week to take up his academic duties. (Continued on Page 2) age 78, of Orderville, was found Sun- day afternoon crushed to death beneath his overturned pickup truck. Highway Trooper N. Merrill Johnson of Kanab, said the southlxnmd truck suddenly angled to the left, crossing the opposite lane of traffic and climbing part way up a sand embankment before turning over. Mr. Chamberlain was out the right front door and pinned beneath the truck. Drivers passing in the opposite direction just before the accident, later told the officer that the victim was slumped over the wheel The accident happened on U. S. Highway 89 about Former Kanab miles north of Kanab at about 3:15 p.m. Trooper Johnson said there was no indication that youlk jolni Navy Mr. Chamberlain had tried to Reporting for active duty or turn the truck. stop at Creat Lakes Naval Training Dr. J. J. Sannella, Kanab, Center August 30 was James said that although the victim Keith Swapp, son of Mr. and have suffered a heart at may Mrs. James Swapp, .former reshe believed that his deaidents of kanab who now re- - tack, th was caused from injuries in side in Vernal, Utah. the overturn. A graduate of Vernal High Funeral services were to Sc1kx)I, Keith spent most of be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. his school years in Kanab bein Orderville. We will carry fore the family moved to Verfuneral services and story in nal where his father 'is emnext weeks S. U. N. ployed with the Bureau of Reclamation. Keith left Kanab to visit with his folks prior to going to the training center. lie has . lived in Kanab for thepastyear. with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Swapp, and work' Forace Green: Mr. Green ed at Kaibab Lumber Co. will teach sixth grade at the Kanab Elementary SchooL He is a graduate of the Brigham Young University and has had 4 years of previous teachiijg experience in the Jordon Schohas also had Mrs. Marne Jameson of Price ol District He extensive experience in the Utah, spent the weekend here field of Journalism and in visiting with her son and famscout-worPrior to moving to ily, the Karl Jamesons and he a member of was Kanab to attend the farewell testimonial of Education in the Board the for her grandson Elder Roger Granite School District Jameson which was held SunLonda Gowens Chase: Mrs. day evening. Chase will teach English and William Jons returned to Social studies at Kanab High Kanab the past week after SchooL She is a graduate of spending two months in Ore- - Brigham Young University and gon and Wasliington where has had two years of previous he works each year reparing teaching experience at South .and working with large har- High School in Salt Lake City and at American Fork Jr. High vesting machines there. School in American Fork. She We recieved a note from is originally from Tooele, Utah. Mrs. Dana Findlay who has James Dale Ott: Mr. Ott been visiting in Dexter, Oresixth grawill teach a half-dagon with a daughter, is now de at the Kanab Elementary in Las Vegas to spend the winSchool and a half-da- y at Valter months. Mr. Ott is Elementary. ley Mr. Rolx'rt B. Davis who a 1965 graduate of College of spent several years in this area Southern Utah and previously and in Page, is in Kanab this attended Dixie College. He is week visiting from his home in originally from St George, Rochester, New York. Mr. Da- Utah. vis was associated with Jerry El wood Fairboumn: and Scott durMr. Fairboumn is scheduled to teach at Kanab Elementary ing construction of Glen Canyon Dam and has made many SchooL He will graduate from friends in Kanab and the area. the University of Utah in the He said that he always liked field of Elementary Education. to come back to Kanab for He is originally from Draper, a visit and enjoyed our peace- Utah. ful surroundings and friendly Wayne Robinson: Mr. Robfolks. inson will teach science, math Mr. and Mrs. Kent Pugh and chemistry at Kanab High and balm son were in Kanab SchooL He has attended Colover the weekend visiting lege of Southern Utah and home folks and to attend the Brigham Young Universi t y, farewell testimonial for Elder and is a recent graduate of Utah tate University. He is Roger Jameson, brother to Mrs. Pugh who is the former orginally from Glendale, Utah. ' Karen Jameson. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Willis and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brooksby children, Mr. and Mrs. George and family of Mesa, Arizona. Kirby, and children, spent the have been visiting the Ferry weekend in Salt Lake visiting Hamblins. While here they the Nolan Willis family who enjoyed a family reunion and recently welcomed a new baby boy. outing at ripe Springs. ( - th-row- n li of new Kane teachers List Kanab news and events y an The good old days of the Yearly, 10c Single Copy |