Show Douglas Chews do lots lotsof lotsof lotsof of living in 50 years Douglas and t Eleanor leanor Chew will celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary February 11 It at p pm p.m. m In the Jensen Ward Chapel All AH o of their relatives and friends are arc Invited t RONNI HULLINGER bride bride- elect A previous date dale was can celled due to illness This date was chosen to coincide with the missionary farewell the Sunday following for a grandson Ulan Rian U R Peltier Mr and Mrs Chew recited wedding vows on December 21 1926 at the Uintah County Courthouse Pontha Calder county clerk officiated In 1965 15 the marriage was solemnized in inthe inthe inthe the Salt Lake Temple AMONG THOSE who have made plans to attend are Mrs Chews Chew's only living brother Melvin Wilkins of Salt Lake City a sister Elsie Case and a aniece aniece aniece niece Mrs Wendell Cuba Atwood and the Johnny all of California Born at the foot of Douglas Mountain in a dugout located in Browns Brown's Park Douglas Chews Chew's mother named him after the mountain The birth occurred July 9 1902 making Doug as he came to be known the child in the family of 14 born to John Hoyle and Mary MaryEliza MaryEliza MaryEliza Eliza Metcalf Chew Growing up in the Browns Brown's Park area Doug remembers seeing some of the Wild Bunch He lie remembers seeing Big Dig Nosed George when his body was left hanging from the gatepost lIe He says that Butch Cassidy always gave nickels to the kids and was the most gentle man he had ever seen Doug and his brother Rial broke horses nobody else could ride and Doug broke his and everyone else's while herding sheep on Blue Mountain DOUGLAS loved to dance and so met the slender black- black haired girl he married The youngest child in a family of 11 Eleanor was born to Albert Wm and Mary Ellen Dudley in Jensen on March 9 1906 The young couple started out outon outon outon on the old Chew place in Jensen with 45 head of old ewes When spring broke there weren't many left so they herded sheep for Bill Collier on Pot Creek on Diamond Mt Then they borrowed money to start their own sheep outfit and in 1942 purchased the Ed Lewis Ranch on Gr Green Il River where the Chew Ranch is iq 1 no now It t was the largest argest land transaction recorded up to that time Eleanor remembers putting a achild achild achild child in front and one in back of the saddle and going horseback over Blue Mountain to Pats Pat's Hole to visit Doug's mother or take supplies ONE OF TIlE TIE first people in Jensen to own a car a 4 1920 Buick Doug purchased a anew anew anew new 1926 Chevrolet just before his rus marriage He said hes he's always thought that had something to do with Eleanors Eleanor's saying Yes Said it got 32 miles to the gallon Although a stockman all his rus life Doug said hed he'd always wanted an airplane So in 1947 48 with the help of Gib Bennett and Basin Flying Service he not only earned his pilots pilot's license but went to Wichita Kansas where he bought a Cessna His llis airport was on the hill rull above the ranch and it took him rum seven minutes to get to Vernal In winter he would scoop a path for the plane with a Cat and aiming at the trough in the snow would set the plane in it wings nearly touching the snow on either side Then one winter a hard wind unraveled the anchor ropes scooped the top off the hangar picked up the plane sailed it out through the flats and dumped Iton it iton iton on its the tail only thing salvageable was the The usually taciturn Doug had this to say You cant can't believe how I t missed that dang thing I had a pain in my stomach for two weeks after In February of 1962 Doug was baptized into the Mormon Mormon Mormon Mor mon Church a pleasant occurrence occurrence occurrence occur occur- rence for his wife Since then the two have filled an Indian Mission their marriage has been sealed in the Temple and have enjoyed their work in the Church Douglas has been in the of the Sunday School worked on the finance committee for almost ten years to build the Jensen Ward Chapel At present he is the caretaker for the Jensen Cemetery Eleanor has always been active in the Church as a first counselor in the Relief Society presidency as a visiting teacher and as a charter member of Camp Escalante Daughters of the Utah Pioneers At present she is Relief Society Sunday session coordinator tor ONE SON and two daughters daughters' were born Dean Mrs Harry Melba Hill and Mrs Henry Glee Peltier Glee died July Julys 3 1973 They have 14 grand grand- children In 1963 Douglas was nearly killed by a bucking horse and knew that his rus bronc days were over-he over was 61 This Tills reporter asked Dean how he could best describe his Dad I could change Deans Dean's words but the ones who know Doug best would know that Dean didn't say it that way so so-in so in his rus words Sheer it guts-it didn't matter what-Dad what tore into it Herb refuge manager of Ouray National Wildlife Refuge returned home Sunday afternoon from Socorro New Mexico where he had attended the annual meeting of the Whooping Crane Conservation Conservation Con Con- Association On Saturday he visited Bosque del Apache in New Mexico where he saw the whooping crane that had spent several weeks this trus past summer at the Ouray Refuge and Pelican Lake area He also saw the whooping crane chick that had been hatched in 1976 and sighted inthe in inthe inthe the Jensen area October 15 Three whooping cranes from the transplant flock were there thereas as well as sandhill cranes that were wintering in the area with a ferocity that got the job done one way or another He was not afraid of anything that walked-two walked legs or four In the summer of 1972 Douglas tool took his gr and family members oven old ld VW O Outlaw 1 Wt Trail frail fi- fi from M Chews Chew's homestead cabin down into Pats Pat's Hole and over into Browns Brown's Park I never did want much said Doug except a good family and anda a good living and Ive I've had both In reminiscing about her mother-in-law mother Laura Hacking Chew revealed that she had always been treated like a ad d daughter and had admired the resourcefulness with which Eleanor met her problems |