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Show jVlapIeton Hews M By Mrs. Norrii T. Bints Phone HUnter 9-5875 rs. Mabel Hopla enjoyed rstmas in Las Vegas with , son-in-law and daughter, 6 "and Mrs. Merlin Jones and e young daughter Karen Merlin has established a - office of his own in that bw Year's Eve was spent "our crowd" at the Social t :er in Spanish Fork. A hot C er was served early in the i., ling and was followed by ;0'T;ressive games. Places were " for Mr. and Mrs. Marcel- lus Nielson of Spanish Fork, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Mackley of Provo, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Holley, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn MacKenzie, Mr. and Mrs. Howard How-ard Whiting, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Wil-lis Harmer, Mr. and Mrs. S. Lavell Bird and Mr. and Mrs. Norris T. Binks of Mapleton. Mr. Bert Whiting was honored hon-ored on his birthday which happened to be on New Year's Day, with a family dinner at their home. Family members present were Dr. Rex Whiting and family of Heber and Mr. and ' Mrs. Niel Whiting and family of Mapleton. Mrs. Marva Whiting left for Needles, California Sunday. She has gone to be with her son Milo Johnson and family while Mrs. Johnson is in the hospital hospi-tal for surgery. Guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vance Gividen during dur-ing the holidays have been their son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Gividen who have Merrill Halverson are on - a furlough from the Marine Corp in Pendleton, Calif. These boys joined the service while the buddy system was still in effect ef-fect and have been taking their training together. They will be allowed to complete their service together. They will return to their base in Pendleton but expect to be sent to the Hawaiian Islands within with-in a few days. Also home for the holidays from his army camp at Fort Leonardwood, Missouri is Rodney Rod-ney Burt. He has been attending attend-ing a heavy equipment school while in the service and will be released some time next month. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Burt. The officers and teachers of the Mapleton Second Ward MIA were entertained at a holiday party in the church last Monday night with Grace Bennett in charge. Games and refreshments were the main diversions di-versions of the evening. Twelve officers were present. Guests at the James Lindsay home during the holidays have been their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Mer-vin Mer-vin Williams of Moscow, Idaho. Mrs. Williams is the former Fay Lindsay. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Harmer Har-mer have returned from a delightful de-lightful winter vacation to California. They were in Pasadena Pasa-dena on New Year's Day for the Rose Parade. They spent most of their time visiting old friends and neighbors as well as relatives and enroute home they stopped at Las Vegas for some holiday shows. been making their home in California. Other guests at their home were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price of Manti. A Fireside Chat for the Jr. M Men and Jr. Gleaners of the Mapleton ward was held in the Relief Society Room Sunday after church. The principal speaker was Roger Carley who showed"" pictures of Korea. The Mapleton Lions met in Memorial Hall for their holiday holi-day meeting at which their wives were special guests. President Reid M. Hales was in charge and assisting him in making arrangements were Mastin Wentz and Wm. Whiting. Whit-ing. Dr. Mark Allred, guest speaker spoke on hypnotism and its uses. Mrs. Beth Martin was used as a hypnosis subject sub-ject as a demonstration. Music was furnished by Harold Whiting Whit-ing who sang a solo and was accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Evelyn Allan. i BT2 Eldon Clyde and his wife and baby daughter are visiting at home after making their home in Concord, California Califor-nia where Eldon has been stationed sta-tioned with the navy. He has been in a navy hospital during the past several weeks and will return to the hospital at Oakland Oak-land for further treatment when they return to California. Another service man home for the holidays has been Hal Burrows who . has been training train-ing with the Sea Bees at Memphis, Mem-phis, Tenn. Mrs. Laveta Westwood -is in the Utah Valley Hospital for surgery. Mrs. Mabel Hopla has received re-ceived word of the arrival of a baby grand daughter, born to her son Harold and his wife at the Utah Valley Hospital. Harold is making his home in Provo where he is teaching school. Other proud grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Armond Hall who have a new granddaughter born at Payson to their daughter daugh-ter Berniece and her husband V. R. Beckstead of Payson. Dan Carly, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Carly and Boyd Halverson, Hal-verson, son of Mr. and Mrs. The Blaine Williams home was the scene of a New Year's party for a group of friends who had spent the early part of the evening dancing at the Stake House in Springville, returning re-turning to the Williams home for pot luck supper. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gividen, Mr. and Mrs. Clip Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Bushman, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Dickerson, Mr. and Mrs. Wen-dall Wen-dall Dangerfield and the hosts. Young Brete Williams was honored on his birthday Thursday Thurs-day of last week with a party at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Williams. Roller Rol-ler skating at Park Ro-She was enjoyed after which refreshments re-freshments were served at home to the following young guests: Ted Cloward, Wendall Johnson, Douglas Bartholomew, Myron Bennett, Larry Marsh, Dennis Everett, Jimmy Bushman, Bush-man, Russell Harmer, Steven Martin and Vicky Hooper. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Bennett were hosts during the holidays to 13 members of the Hollis Williams family. Gifts were exchanged ex-changed and an evening of games followed, by pot luck lunch were enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Binks have returned from a two weeks business and pleasure trip to Arizona. They spent most of their time in Phoenix where they visited two days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Cornell Cor-nell Davis and his family. While in Arizona they were visited by Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Davidson who were returning from a vacation and visit to California. The Davidsons were guests of their two daughters, Joan and Colleen who live in Whittier. Upon their return hume Sunday Sun-day the Davidsons were surprised sur-prised by the members of the Mapleton Second ward choir who enjoyed a social evening with them. Mrs. Ruth Larsen was hostess hos-tess to the officers and teachers teach-ers of the YWMXA of the Mapleton Ward at her home last week. Helping with arrangements ar-rangements were Lenore Bills and Iris Dibble. Games were played in which prizes went to Colleen Swasey and Gen Whiting. Whit-ing. Lunch was served to Delia Kappas, Colleen Swasey, Gen Whiting, Marva Whiting, Rhea Williams, June Young, Lenore Bills and the hostess. |