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Show Hanksville News. . . By Barbara Ekker The Hanksville Medical Medi-cal Clinic Board of Directors Di-rectors met early Friday-morning Friday-morning with Richard McDermott, Director of Utah Rural Medical Clinics, Clin-ics, Inc., and officials from Utah Valley Hospital. Hospit-al. The group included William Thatcher, lab technician; Norman Noble, No-ble, radiology and x-ray; George Erickson. chief engineer; Richard Drake, nursing administrator; Ralph Adophson. accounting; ac-counting; and Ralph Thompson, head of purchasing. pur-chasing. They toured the Hanksville Clinic andad-vised andad-vised on what improvements improve-ments could be made and how their individual departments de-partments would assist in aiding the Hanksville unit. Board members in attendance were Jerry Clark and Lou Mallory, Bull Frog; Mr. and Mrs. Grant Clark. Capitol Reef National Park; Harold Ekker, Ernest Shirley, Dee Jackson. Edna Robi-son. Robi-son. Nina Robison, Hope Miller, and Barbara Ek-ker. Ek-ker. The group proceeded onto Green River to meet with their board of the Green River Medical Clinic and tour their facility fa-cility there. Neva Fay. Rita Ann, and Sybil Marie Ekker, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Ekker, have all been selectedas finalists final-ists in the 1973 Miss Utah Teen Ager Pageant which will be held June 15, 16. and 17 at the Ramada Inn, Salt Lake City. The Miss Utah Teen Ager Pageant Pa-geant is an official state preliminary to the Miss National Teen Ager Pageant Pa-geant to be held in Atlanta, At-lanta, Georgia on Sept. 1. There will be contestants contest-ants from all over the State competing for the title of Miss I'tah Teen Ager. They will be judged on scholastic achievements, leader- ship, poise, personality, and beauty. There is no swim suit competition. 'Each contestant will recite re-cite an essay on the subject. sub-ject. "What's Right About America". The three girls are sponsored by: Outlaw Trail Inc., Green River; Canyonlands Expeditions, Ex-peditions, Kanab. Utah: Bull Frog Marina, Lake Powell; May Hardware and Cabinets: Canyon-lands Canyon-lands Book and Gift Shop; Charlotte Clothes Closet, Valley Propane, all of Green River; Reo Hunt, oil well locations, Hanksville; Hanks-ville; and Mr. and Mrs. J. Bracken Lee, Salt Lake City: and June Young, Bull Frog. Mrs. Carolyn Hatch and daughter, Kori Lynn, and her sister, Ruth Ann Reay, spent last weekend in St. George visiting old college friends who had come from Phoenix for the reunion. Mrs. Glen (Susan Ryan) Penlico and son Patrick, Mrs. Carla Hunt and son. Zackary. Tracy Paul Warrington, son of Mrs. Bonnie Warrington War-rington of Simi, California, Califor-nia, and former area resident, res-ident, was installed last week into Demolay as chaplain. Leon D. Cook, Sandwich, Sand-wich, Illinois, spent a few days in Hanksville visiting older residents. Mr. Cook, a former Green River resident, k recalls that his late fa- ther, Irvine Cook, and an I uncle, Frank Cook, drove the first car, a Reo, across the desert into Hanksville in 1908. Their reasons for coming was I to survey out a site for a dam on the Fremont ' River. Mr. Cook visited I with Mrs. Edna Ekker Robison, 82, who took a t ride in that 'machine' ' upon it's arrival here ' with her two week old son, Harold Ekker. Mrs. ) Olive Hunt also recalls the event by naming her ' son, Reo, after the auto-) auto-) mobile. Mr. Cook is a ) retired consulting engineer engi-neer . |