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Show Hanksville News Notes By Barbara Ekker Hanksville Little League Team completed their summer summ-er of games and celebrated the affair with a game against their parents Thursday. A barbeque honored the team and their coaches, Ron Gots-pooner Gots-pooner and Mike Butkus at the Derk Garber home Saturday. Sat-urday. Sponsors for the team were Energy Fuels and Colt Mesa Mining Co. These companies com-panies bought bats, balls, bases, and materials to build a back stop and then ordered shirts that were painted on by the team moms with the spon-ors emblems. Suits for other Little League teams in the county were furnished by the Wayne County Commission. Commis-sion. Kay Hunt, 52, long time resident of Hanksville, died early Sunday morning in the Price hospital. He was rushed there by Green River's ambulance ambu-lance crew Saturday after an apparent ' heart attack. Kay has resided in Green River for some time because of his mining business. His wife, Jeannine, has been in Salt Lake with her son, Karmin, who's employed there and with her mother, Ida Weber, who's been hospitalized there. Kay's son, Gregory and wife, Karen, and brother, Reo, a-long a-long with his mother, Olive Hunt, were with him when he died. The funeral will be held Wednesday at 1:00 at the Hanksville Chapel with Fau-cett Fau-cett Mortuary, Price, and Bishop Kay Erickson conducting conduct-ing the services. Mr. and Mrs. Derk Garber were in Salt Lake last weekend week-end to purchase a new boat and to take Rhonda and Darl to Logan to visit their father. Mr. and Mrs. Butch Bullard launched their new boat at Powell this week and initiated it well by breaking a prop and knocking off some paint and bending some chrome. Lawrence 'Shorty' Hale received re-ceived word that his oldest brother, Mert, who was 85 had passed away in New Mexico. Shorty has been in this area for a number of years where he hard rock mined but had since retired because of poor health. He was born in 1901 in Bloomfield New Mexico. Edward M. Kirby, Principal at the Houisatonic Valley Regional High School, Barclay Prindle and attorney James Metro of Sharon, Conn, joined other lawmen and outlaw buffs this past week at a convention in Carson City. These men are well known in this area for their Connecticut group, "The Wild Cat Gorge Boozing and Wilderness Society" So-ciety" and making yearly trips west a habit. They joined the National Association and Center Cen-ter for Outlaw and Lawmen which is located at Utah State University at Logan. Each year these 'Connecticut Yankees' Yank-ees' are the highlight of the conventions with their costumes cos-tumes befitting the outlaw era. This year Barclay dressed dress-ed as a marshall, Kirby as a sheriff and Metro wore a striped prison suit and was handcuffed to the others for the entire affair. Lula Parker Betenson, Butch Cassidy's sister sis-ter who lives in Circleville, also joined the group at the rendezvous at Carson City. Kirby 'a book, "Saga of Butch Casidy" will be released soon by Filter Press. Gilbert Ekker, Green River, Riv-er, was injured Saturday afternoon af-ternoon when the pickup he was driving to pick up a boat party on the Colorado River went out of control 14 Vt miles south on U-95 and hit a cement culvert tearing out the rear end but remained upright. Ekker was brought to town by Mr. and Mrs. J.R. Taylor, also of Green River, who'd been to Hite to 'float' their boat after it sunk in a slip at the Hite Marina while in wet storage. Helen Falconer accompanied accompani-ed Kristy Carol to Hanksville Saturday to visit her nieces, Barbara Ekker and family, from her home in Blanding. Mrs. Carol and daughter, Valerie, were enroute to Cedar Ced-ar City to pick up another daughter, Virginia, who's a student there in nursing. Mrs. Carol is a nurse at the Blanding Nursing Home. |
