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Show I A Letter from Pearl, lona and Barbara... Visits Library j Mrs. Jerilyn Mathis, Emery I County Librarian, visited the local library on Saturday. This ! is her first visit since taking ov er the job a couple of months ; ago, and she was much j impressed with the way Mrs. i Fern Harmon and Mrs. Ann Nord were conducting the j library and displaying the : books. Mr. Mathis and the children came along for the i trip. I Attends Funeral Mr. and Mrs. Ross Harmon j drove to Altamont to attend ' the Fred Birch funeral. The J Birches are very old, dear ! friends of Fern and Ross. i i ' Visits Helper Mr. and Mrs. Ross Harmon stayed overnight with their ! daughter and family, the i Rachiele family at Helper on Sunday evening. Sunday morning mor-ning Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Simpson of Salt Lake City stopped in to visit the Harmons. Melon Day Set Melon Day has been set for the weekend of the 13th and 14th, whether the melons are ripe or not. The date was set early, not taking the late season into account. There will be bike races, a SRA AMA sanctioned event, on Sunday, and it looks like a record turnout is being planned. Draws Buffalo Permit Ted Ekker was one of the lucky ones to draw a buffalo permit for the Henry Mountains Moun-tains for this coming hunting season. Weekend Guests Mr. and Mrs. John Folsom filled their big, lovely home with family and guests over the weekend. Mrs. Margaret Johnson came from California on Thursday, then on Friday, Mrs. John Sheppard from Salt Lake City drove in with Mr. and Mrs. Gene Southers from . Fruita filling out the quota on Saturday. Margaret will be here for a week or two visiting old friends. Visitors from Parowan Mr. and Mrs. Larry Rowley and family enjoyed a visit from Larry's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Rowley and his brother Norman from Parowan. As well as enjoying a family get-together, the fellows almost al-most finished the basement of the Rowley home for a family room. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Rowley have just returned from a mission to Australia, and were full of tales of down-under. The Rowley girls, Cindy and Julie, returned with their grandparents for a short visit before school starts. Author Visits Mrs. John Evans (Loie Belknap) and the Eben Dales were visiting friends in town this week. The Belknaps are making their river runs on the Green River Wilderness in Sportyaks, and are the only other river-runners besides Outlaw Trails who offer Sportyaking on the Green. Bill Belknap came off a trip. Loie and her brother Buzz are on the river now, and Bill will meet them this weekend and take the boats up for another trip this coming week. Mrs. Evans worked as a boatman for Sporryak trips for Canyon-lands Canyon-lands Expeditions three years ago, and with her brother co-authored the Desolation River Guide, the most authora-tative authora-tative and interesting of the of the river guides for GR Wilderness. Belknap's guidebooks guide-books are printed by A to Z Printing, which Eben Dale owns. The Dales and their family have been river runners for many years. New Couple Jeff Torr, who has worked for the Wineglass outfit for over a year, has brought his new wife, Geneva to this country. She is from La Veta, Colorado, and they were married July 26th. They will live in Green River, or on one of the Wineglass ranches. In Hospital Mrs. Marge Howland is in the hospital at Moab for treatment. Lee has been staying down with her off and on for several days. Sam Howland was home over the weekend. He is in the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake City for radium treatments. Mrs. Bill (Betty) Howland was taken to the Moab hospital for treatment for a heart condition this week. She is improving. To Mountain Mr. and Mrs. Lee Howland spent a day or two on the West Tavaputs Plateau visiting with the Don Wilcox family. Teacher Moves Roy May took a truck load of Debbie's belongings over to an apartment she had rented in Springville. She will be teaching teach-ing in Goshen this coming school year, but was unable to get housing there. Debbie has worked for Outlaw Trails this summer as a boatman, and enjoyed it thoroughly. City-County Building The new City-County building build-ing projected for Green River may well be a most interesting innovation. Efforts are being made to make this an experimental building for solar heating and air conditioning. This would mean a substantial grant to add to the money already allocated to the project, pro-ject, as well as providing a pilot plant for evaluating the practicability of solar heating in this area. Serviceman Calls Major Noel Baker called home on Sunday from Germany. Ger-many. He is flying with a squadron, and happy with his assignment. Mrs. Baker has been taking some classes in German to fill time until her son. Scott, can join them for his last year of high school in Germany. Scott and Douglas will arrive in Germany this week, but Douglas will return to the U. S. later this fall. SEVEN BIRTHDAYS Moabites Senior Citizens celebrated seven birthdays of members th.it fell in August. Price Kitchen Band was there to entertain the crowd. Lunch was served to over thirty people. Two members present whose birthdays fell in August were Clara Miller and Mike Gini. Cards were sent out to those not present. A group from the Senior Citizens spent Sunday night and Monday at Monticello fishing at Foy Lake. FROM TEXAS Recent visitors at the home of Sid and Ann Pool were her brother and family, Web, Sherrie, Patty and Michael Bounds, Decatur, Tex. They were on an extended tour of Arizona and California. While here they visited many points of interest, such as Dead Horse Point, Castle Valley and Arches National Park. Clinic Staffed For the first time in years, the Medical Clinic is staffed around the clock. Mrs. Sue Allen has her mobile home parked back of the building, and is available any time in case of emergency. Dr. Peters of Grand Junction is here every Tuesday, and Dr. Dodge is here on Tuesdays also, for dental appointments. Dr. W. Gardner Schmutz will be down this coming Friday and Saturday, Satur-day, August 15-16 for optical appointments for glasses, contact con-tact lenses, vision training and other eye problems. He will make trips to the Medical Center every month this coming winter, and a call to the Clinic will provide information infor-mation on dates and appointments. Campground Change Hands Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gardner of Springville have recently purchased the United Campground Camp-ground from Lee and Jan Howland. They have taken possession of the property, and are remodeling the upstairs up-stairs of the office building for living quarters. The Gardners are from Springville where Earl was associated with Romney Engineering as a tool and die maker. Mrs. Gardner, Gard-ner, Leigh, was employed in the auditing department of BYU. The Gardners have two children, David, 14, who will be in the 9th grade this winter and Joy, 13, who will be in the 8th. The Gardners are LDS and have always been active in church work, Earl being High Priest in charge of Temple activities in Springville. The community welcomes this fine family, and extends best wishes for a successful and happy sojourn with us. From Richfield Howard and Lucille Silliman enjoyed a five day visit with granddaughters Sara Beth and Amy Ruth, daughters of Rev. and Mrs. Jeff Silliman of Richfield. The girls spent July 21-25 with their grandmother, grandfather, Aunt Karen ' Smith, and cousin Satina Smith while their parents i came through Desolation and I Gray Canyons on the Green River on rubber rafts. The , boating party of fourteen included Dr. A. W. Scott, M.D., and his wife Sandra, and daughters, Elizabeth and ' Patty, of Prcscott, Arizona; ' Mr. Mike Armour and his 1 wife, Linda, also of Prcscott; Dr. J. Basil Haddad. M.D., ' and his wife, Snra and daughters, Paula and Hcth, of Sonoma, Calif.; and Mr. Hobllall and daughter Gigi of Richfield. The private party used four rnfls and had a successful nnd enjoyable river run. Rev. and Mrs. .Silliman also spent most of the week of July 2H to Aug. .Ird visiting in Green Kivcr. I I |