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Show Hanksville News. . . Hv lUrbara Fkher l'lS, l'thcl Sophia Wells Ni'ts I'oli'luaioil U-r SI st birthday hero Suiulav iH ;n iPn tuuiso to tli'1 entire I'liin-nninii- Her neiee, Mrs. 1 aura Johns was in eh.u'Ke 0" 1,10 ;l;ui'-Fihel ;l;ui'-Fihel as born May lth, IS;'- desert Lake Finery CountO the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Wells. She had eleven elev-en brothers and sisters. She wed W illiain Frank Nines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick F. Xoyes of Teasdale on Oct. 20, 1911. Their marriage was solemnied in the Salt Lake Temple in 19:':'. Shortly following their marriage Frank went to work for FUis and Jim Crystal Sheep Co. He was also engaged in farming and mining at Spring Canyon and Kenilworth. They later ran the J. A. Austin Ranch in Finery and bought a farm in Victor. Following the drought there in 1938, they moved to Hanksville where his brother Hy rum and his wife, Nettie, F.th-el's F.th-el's sister, were making heir home. He obtained the government mail contract and hauled mail from Hanksville to Tor-rey Tor-rey three times a week. Four years later Fmery King pursuaded Frank to take over the care and feeding of two thousand head of sheep. Frank and Fthel have both hoen ery active in the church work. F.lhel served If) y ears as president pres-ident of the Keliof Society, So-ciety, eleven in Hanksville Hanks-ville and four in Victor. She also served as councilor coun-cilor as well as judge of elections and as registration reg-istration agent. Frank was Supt. of the Sunday School and councilor to Bishop Thomas M. Wells in the Fmery Stake. Frank and Fthel served as Wayne Stake missionaries mission-aries for two years. Frank passed away Dec. H, liHiS following a lengthy leng-thy illness. Fthel has alwavs had a house full of children although al-though she and Frank were never blessed with ones of their own. They assisted in raising many neices and nephews and took Indian children into their home. They have helped many in the mission mis-sion field in South America Amer-ica and Fngland. Fthel insisted on baking their 50th wedding anniversary an-niversary cake in 1961 because she'd baked her wedding cake when she and Frank were wed. She also made her wedding wed-ding dress. Frank carried car-ried a watch fob all his life that Fthel had made from her ow n auburn hair when they were wed. Fthel and her sister, Nettie, both widows, still make Hanksville home and are visited often by another sister, Irene Sanderson. Manti, and brothers. Thirty-eight BYU students stu-dents under the direction of head instructors. Dr. Keith Hooker, Richard Peacock, Sharon Derr-coit. Derr-coit. and assistant instructors, in-structors, Don McPher-son. McPher-son. Rusty Holly, Martha Hale and back-up, Paul Scherbel. are participating participat-ing in the Outdoor Survival Sur-vival Course which will cover 250 miles hiking and surviving during a 29 day period. The trek began at Keg Knoll Thursday May 3rd. Then they w ill go down Horseshoe Horse-shoe Canyon, the Spur, and Outlaw Trail County. They'll travel to Poison Poi-son Springs and cross the Henry Mountains and on to the Boulder Mountain and wind up the trip at Escalante, Utah. Dr. Hooker has been travel- ing back and forth to Hanksville andGreen River Ri-ver to hold office hours Wednesday and Thursday. Thurs-day. Mrs. Harriet Xoyes, Hanksville Postmaster, announced National Postal Pos-tal week with first day-covers day-covers on sale at the office May 1st. The . school children and mer- cnants carried out the theme of the week with posters displaying stamps issued over the years. Merchants gave 10 off on greeting cards and postal card sales during this memorable week. You've all heard the poem, "All For The Want of a Nail"? Well, Dr. Keith Hooker had a similar sim-ilar song, "Because of a Nail." Thursday morning when he began loading his Cessna for his regular flight to Green River to hold -office hours as he does in Hanksville on Wednesdays, he discovered discov-ered a nail in his plane tire. He removed the tire and took it for repairs but couldn't get it replaced re-placed properly so knew he was running late. Borrowed Bor-rowed DarysEkkers car, loaded the damaged tire and headed by highway to Green River. Dropped car and tire at Green River and asked that one of Jim's boys repair the tire and return the car to Hanksville, and fly his plane to Green River. Everything went as scheduled sche-duled until the pilot went to leave the tiedowns at the Hanksville Clinic and discovered, "no brakes". Repaired this item and taxied the craft to the south of town runway and noticed, "flat tire". Walked back to town and got a tire pump and discovered dis-covered this wasn't the cure for the doctors tire. Removed the tire and took it to the Texaco station and learned he'd pinched the tube during repairs in Green River which caused a nice slice. So an SOS was sent back to Green River Aviation Avi-ation who flew in with another tire and Dr. Hooker who flew the craft back to Provo. The MIA Laurel Conference Con-ference for Wayne Stake was held in Hanksville May 5th with the entire group going to Hot Springs south of town for a picnic and hiking. Those mothers and daughters attending were: Mrs. Wilma Brian and daughter, Camiel; Mrs. Elda Ellett and daughter, Fran cine; Mrs. Donna Blackburn and Lisa; Mrs. DeLaine Chappell and two daughters, daugh-ters, Nora Ann and Je-Nell; Je-Nell; Mrs. Betty Chappell Chap-pell and daughters, Betty Ann and Marsha; Mrs. Joy Adams and Kathy; Betty Sawyer and Coral; Anna Lou Hutchings and Virginia; Ann Heaps and Beverly; Gladys Johnson and Elaine, Harriet Noyes and Bonnie; Barbara Bar-bara Ekker and Neva Fay and Rita Ann; La Rae White; Mrs. Ruth Hallows, Hal-lows, State MIA Laurel leader; Mrs. Clay Blackburn, Black-burn, Laurel leader, and Mrs. Ann Leird, Hanksville Hanks-ville Laurel leader. The group enjoyed sloppy joes, green and set salads, cake and punch. The bus driver was Kirk Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Liston, Escalante, and former area residents, stopped and visited friends and looked over trailer parks in preparation prepa-ration for their move here where he'll be employed em-ployed with the State Highway Department. Kelli Blackburn is with grandparents, Ritter and Flora Ekker, from her home in Emery. Kelli is the daughter of Morris and Phyllis Ekker Black- ' burn. ' |