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Show Macscr I Eloise filler Parker I Phone 7892178l May Bowden celebrates 87th birthday Mrs. Warren Bowden (May) celebrated her 87th birthday last Sunday. Sun-day. All of her family living in Vernal gathered to help her observe her big day. Norwood Hardy had a cataract removed from his eye last Wednesday in Salt Lake City. He had to remain in the Salt Lake City area for a week and he is staying at the home of son Larry in Bountiful. Three student teachers from BYU have arrived in the Basin for the next two months. Sandra Kr.ye Whitworth of Wauwatose, Wis., will be teaching first grade at Central Elementary. Trenine Longhurst of Idaho Falls, Idaho will teach at Discovery and Suzan Rutherford Ruther-ford of Tujunga, Calif., will be teaching at Maeser Elementary. While the girls are student teaching they will be staying at the Blanche Smith home. Correction in last week's news : it was Mr. and Mrs. Robert (Monta Rae) Showaltcr not Siddoway that took Viola Caldwell to Salt Lake City for a doctor's appointment. L. Winn and Dorothy Rowen (Red) are leaving for a three week visit in St. Marys, Georgia with their daughter Sharlee and husband John Lenartz and two children. While there they plan to tour Disney World just some 30 miles over into Florida. Marion and Ted Allen's sister Mary Hacking has been in the local hospital for one week, then she was taken by ambulance to the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City for one week. She returned home last Tuesday and is feeling much better. Last Saturday Lynn and Eula Hall went to Meeker to visit their son Mike and family. They returned by way of Craig, Colo. Sunday. Clyde and Clara Hall are spending a week in St. George visiting Clara's brother and wife Betty and Garth Col-ton. Col-ton. They plan to do some fishing and enjoy the warm sun. Tad Merkley had surgery on his left ankle in the Veterans' Hospital in Salt Lake City Jan. 29. It was necessary for the doctors to fuse and pin the bones in that area. Tad can get about on crutches crut-ches some, but most of the time he is bedridden. The doctors plan to take the pins out in March if all goes well. However, he will still be confined to crutches and more bed rest for an unknown length of time. Leo and Virginia Hacking and their son Edwin and his wife Bonnie with their five children spent a week traveling travel-ing to Puerto Penasco, Mexico. When passing through Mesa, Ariz., they stopped stop-ped off to visit the Don Calders. Edwin, Bonnie and their children traveled to Los Angeles to tour Disneyland and the Sea World. Last week Kirk and Margene Jolley spent five days in New York City on business and pleasure. Margene's parents Clyde and Clara Hall stayed at the Jolley home and took care of their grandchildren. Wayne and Helen Collier had company com-pany last week from Pleasant Grove. Mrs. Collier's sister, Norma Freeman, her husband Dee and son Kyle, were returning home after being in Colorado Springs, Colo, on business. Mr. and Mrs. Don Bowden, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Turner and son David spent nine days touring Mexico. They flew from Salt Lake City to Dallas, Texas where they had several hours lay over so they were able to tour the South Fork Ranch, the Ewing's ranch on TVs Dallas. This is owned and lived in by a real Texas family so they were not allowed to tour the private property. They also saw the Dallas Cowboy's stadium. Some of the famous places they toured in Mexico were a visit to the Historic Chapultepec Castle, and a stop at Grasshopper Hill in Chapultepec Park, once the royal palace of Emperor Maximillian and his Empress Carlotta. They traveled to University City and visited the famous Xochimilco Floating Gardens which includes a boat ride on one of the flower-decorated "Tra-jineras." "Tra-jineras." They toured the Sun and Moon Pyramids just south of Mexico City. After the pyramid tour, they were treated to the special Folklore Ballet. They also visited Taxco, probably the oldest silver mining town in North America. Then, of course, there is always the bullfights. They finished their tour at Acapulco where they went deep sea fishing and enjoyed the sun and beautiful beaches. |