Show GREEN RIVER NEWS I ISome Borne Some people have hobbies hobbies- hobbles 1 and there are some hobbles hobble that own the people Among the latter latter lat lat- 1st- 1st t ter er hilt BUI Heath Keath of would rate pretty near the top lop Mr Heath came to from Wayne county some years ago and worked on the railroad for several years A few years ago he left loft the employ of the railroad and gave hi his full time timeto to what had been his hobby up to then rock collecting In his door yard In Elgin he has tons of samples of ot agates of the following kinds Wood bone common geode carnelian and grape petrified wood and bone fossils fossils and shells tiled wood nodules and geodes Indian rel- rel relics relics rel reI ics ics dinosaur bones and gastro gastro- lith jaspar jade an and d carnelian Ills His ore samples In which h he e Isn't much Interested Include copper iron lead manganese and uranium Up to the present most of ot Mr Heaths Heath's activity has been confined confined con con- fined lined to locating and bringing g In samples of ot the semi precious s gem material in this section Lately he has begun polishing g stones and making bookends o of ot f the more Interesting specimens He Ile states that most of his samPles samples sam sam- ples Pies came from the country within with with- in a radius of about ten miles although the he San Rafael deser desert deseri and reef have contributed their that It share Mr Heath finances his operations operations oper open by selling cut stones an and d also rough samples charging g from fifty cents to 20 dependIng depending depend depend- ing on the size value and unusualness unusualness unusualness unus unus- of the specimen During Durin g the tourist season two or three thre e cars a day follow his signs f In Into Into n to view his collection When we were leaving with wit witha h a few lew samples we couldn't re resist resist re- re Mr Heath stated It doesn't take a million dollars dol dol- lars tars to have a hobby all yo you u need to do Is live In n southeastern southeaster n Utah and toe be a rock hound Wilson and sons opened th the e cantaloupe packing shed on Wed Wed- The melons are of unusual unusual unusual unus unus- ual quality this year due to the th dry season which keeps vine vin e wilt down The last few warm nights have bro brought the fruit t to toa a rapid ripening in spite of th the e cold late spring which gave the them the such a poor start The shed will run for about a month or until heavy frost kills the vines One of the most t r Melon days since the event was wa started in 1915 was held Mon day dy with a large crowd of out- out town of-town people attending The day started with a ln r n parade of the children ch featurIng fea fea- fea- fea turing floats and individual en en- en tries 1 At noon after fter eating ir melon n and visiting i IM at the city park the crowd moved to the river whore where vh re boat races were enjoyed The races went off oll on a well arran arranged ed schedule and both tooth the spectators tors and participants enjoyed the events The iThe rodeo at the new Roping club corrals started at 3 o'clock with races The first was a fish- fish bait derby won by Lorin Milton on Rita Walter WaIter Seager took the next one on Ghost Lloyd Searson SearSOn Sear- Sear SOn came In jn first on Billy In jn the third ird and Firrel Fin Jensen won the fourth on Tony TOlY The girls' girls race went to Ha Ita Mae TIdwell on Darkey Dar Dar- key IrwIn Allen won the with a score of 28 seconds Calf riding firsts were carried away by Derfin Jensen Dean Ekker Ed Rae Cottrell Wellington won the potato race broom polo and the barrel race The he ball game went to Sunny Sunny- dale The dance one of the biggest this his year was a fitting ending for or the day with everyone havIng having hav- hav Ing ng a good time to the fine music music music mu mu- sic of the Red lied Rock Orchestra from Moab Ferris Hunt the events for lor or the day his spicy c comments 1 boat race and r Iro ro- ro making every InterestIng InterestIng Interest Interest- much muth more d deo eo event Ing to the crowd I |