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Show rorn Green iuen j ..i...... i.-,.. im... .... i -..p.. pp. - P.. i. . 1 fc fi ii' i i ii i n i ii 1 ,d SEELY REUNION Mr. and Mrs. Errol Stott and Kathy hosted a family reunion for 63 members of the Justus Wellington (Wink) Seely family. Present were Mr. and Mrs. Richard Seely from Laurel, Maryland and their daughter and family, Ed and Sherie Seely Fox from Meritt Island, Florida; Mrs. Buelah Bohleen, Seattle, Washington, and her family fam-ily Charlie Markley from Salinas, California; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seely, and their family, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Seely from Denver, Robert, Jr. and three children from Salt 'iin r"1 iipiiriy B vi.nl Lake City and Mrs. Johnnie (Jeanie) Davis and three girls from Vernal; Mr. and Mrs. Hawley Seely and Mr. and Mrs. Brown and family from Grand Junction, Mike Seely from Chagrin Falls, Ohio; and the Stott family, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Stott from Richfield and Mr. and Mrs. (Earline) Scholtzen from Hurricane. Aunt Dora Seely Ottstrom was the only surviving daughter of Wink Seely. Festivities began in the morning with a chuck-wagon chuck-wagon breakfast at the Stott ranch house at 7:30, and ran on until lunch time. The main meal was the lamb chop supper in the late afternoon, which included dutch oven potatoes. pot-atoes. There was a display of heirlooms and handicraft handi-craft all day, and the evening was given to a talent show which included includ-ed family history and singing by various groups. Mike Seely, who grew up all over the world as his mother married James Silliman after Bill's death, and Colonel Silliman and his family who were Army i people, spent about a week getting acquainted with local members of his family. ' GUESTS ENJOY FEAST i Mr. and Mrs Jack i MacKay hosted two . couples on Sunday who stopped in to have lunch and enjoy the afternoon while on a trip around the West. Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Wackenhuth of North Caldwell, N.J. and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Crutchfield of Salt Lake City relished the meal which Nancy MacKay so enjoyed serving. Added to the produce from their own garden, Nancy had traded some tomatoes to Helen Wilson for some canteloupe, and states that the Wilsons have not forgotten how to grow them, that is was the best melon she had ever tasted. The guests left much impressed by how well rural American can live. They planned to visit Deadhorse and Arches, then go on to Monument Valley and travel to Silverton and drive over the Million Dollar Highway High-way . before returning to their homes. DULLENTY VISITS Jim Dullenty, who did the research for a book on Butch Cassidy published by another fellow, spent the afternoon visiting in Green River Sunday. He is in Salt Lake City trying to save the records of the Utah State Prison. Due to the Privacy Act of 1964 Utah has taken the stand that all records over five years old should be shredded, and Jim is trying to save those of around the turn of the century since some of them are pertiment to outlaw research. Jim has a book at the printers, which should be out next year, which will give a great deal more information on Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch than has hitherto been known. He has followed the background back-ground and has family trees and other information informa-tion for Sundance, Kid Curry, Elzy Lay, Flatnose George Curry, Harvey Logan, and other members mem-bers of that illustrious crew. He is a reporter for a newspaper in Kenni-wick, Kenni-wick, Washington, but spends a good deal of his time traveling around the country digging out this material. He has made one trip to Ireland, and many trips to California and other points in the United States, including Salt Lake City from time to time. When asked if William Phillips was Butch Cassidy, Cass-idy, he hedges. That last little piece of definite ' proof has never come to him that would settle that controversy one way or the other. He has never been able to take William Phillips beyond 1908 when he married his wife in Michigan, nor can he document Butch Cassidv later than that time. He has several letters written by both men, but graph-oanalysts graph-oanalysts do not agree on whether or not the two are one. However, a manuscript written by William Phillips tells of the adventures adven-tures of Butch Cassidy, and is very accurate as to dates and places in South America. Dullenty has had correspondence with a number of embassies ' and other sources in South America, as well as access to personal files of Seiber and other people, which verify the authenticity of the manuscript. And William Phillips did claim to be Butch Cassidy. Various people in Wyoming Wyom-ing knew him as Butch Cassidy, and claimed to have known him when he was in that area in the 1890's when he was a young man. But Jim is a hard-headed news reporter report-er and wants facts, which he has been unable to come up with in his extremely careful and exhaustive research. His book is awaited with a great deal of anticipation by a host of Wild Bunch fans. PARENTS VISIT Mr. aiid Mrs. Jack Foster from Kansas City, Missouri have been visiting visit-ing Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth May for a few days. The Fosters are Vicki's parents, and the youngsters young-sters have gone all out to show the guests a good time. They met them in Vernal and enjoyed a float trip on the river from Flaming Gorge dam to Little Hole for the weekend. week-end. Several local outings are planned to make her parents aware of the beauties of SE Utah, Vicki reports. NEW TOWN PLANNED Roy May, who is planning plan-ning a new town between Bullfrog Marina and Shootaring Mine on the south side of Henry Mountains, made a trip to Panguitch to meet with the County Commissioners Commission-ers recently. Shootaring is owned by Plateau Resources, Re-sources, which is backing the operation of setting up a place for its employees to live other than the narrow canyon where the camp is now situated. May, together with co-developers Kenneth and Vicki May, with John Dempsey and Dave Crane, quality development, develop-ment, Marvin R. Reed, Utah State Director of Health, Henry Jolley, superintendent of Garfield County schools, Art Maxwell Max-well of Nielson, Maxwell and Wangsgard Engineers, Engin-eers, presented final plans and maps for the town to the County Commissioners. Commission-ers. They plan to call the town Ticaboo, after the canyon and ranch where Cass Hite lived and died in the early part of the century. Commissioners J. Proctor, Proc-tor, Wallace Ott and H. Dell Le Fevre expressed satisfaction with the progress prog-ress May has made in getting various sanctions, authorizations and permits perm-its to carry out the necessary paper work prior to construction. A water well has been dripled and is adequate to furnish water for the community. A sewage lagoon in part of the plan, and the town will have its own power plant. The townsite will include in-clude a shopping center, cafe, motel of 71 rooms, a Community building housing such services as Welfare, Social Services and legal offices. A mobile home site of 111 trailer spaces will be the first living facilities offered, but there will also be an area of single family lots. Since the townsite is being built for employees of Plateau Resources, these people will have first choice of lots, but there will be offerings to the public, also. This will be of interest to a good many people who enjoy boating on Lake Powell, but need a homesite near the lake. School Superintendent Jolley reported that there are now 35 students at Bullfrog and 16 students at Shootaring. There will be a full school service from Kindergarten through High School offered, which will include special Adult School and summer school programs. A meeting with Governor Gover-nor Matheson has been set for September 13, to inform him of the proposed propos-ed townsite, and plans will be discussed at that time to set up further meetings with his representatives in November to coordinate all state services to the community. May states that construction con-struction will begin November Nov-ember 1. This will include roads, water, sever and power installation with contracts let to local construction companies. Occupation by the first families is set for late winter or early spring. |