Show Whiterocks Faculty Party At Whiterocks By Verna Hoopes The Whiterocks school faculty ty party was held Thursday e ev cuing ening Sept 16 at the school kit kitchen chen Those present included include d Principal and Mrs Gerald Mit Mi chell cheB Mr and Mrs Norman Norma n Kitchen Mr and Mrs Royal Roya l Horrocks Mr and Mrs Alma Alm a Pratt Mr and Mrs Stanley I Ho l lopes Mr Mir and Mrs Alfred He H e Mrs Bernice Nelson Anne Palmer Sharon Ruggles Cheryle Cartrette and Mr and an d Mrs Gene Nyberg Mr Mir and Mrs Ray Houston housto n accompanied Theda Huber of Vernal to Salt Lake Friday Theda will receive medical care car e while there Mrs Wilma Allen motored to Salt Lake last Saturday to bring her daughter Carol home Car Car- Carl 01 o l received medical care while there The heavy snow fall didn't seem to dampen those lucky elk hunters who recently drew out a permit to hunt elk Friday many hunters were headed for forthe forthe the mountains to get a good ear ly start Sat morning Mr and Mrs Eldon Anderton of Dugway Gary and Dee Christensen Mr and Mrs Dale Christensen of the Salt Lake area and perhaps others arrived in town Friday to participate to in the hunt some just to help drive them into the hunter with the permit The Frank Knowlton Cons traction Co which has been In Inthe inthe the Farm Creek area most of the summer putting in four new bridges went home last week The Knowltons were from Boun Boun- and the Bill Jones were from Jerome Idaho Jessie Robb and her brother Kim were winners In the tah County fair recently Jessie won first place on her cedar jewelry box and Kim won a blue ribbon and a trophy on a plas plas- plas plastic tic tie pin md and cuff link set which featured fish hooks in a plastic setting Mr and Mrs Howard Collett were pleasantly surprised reo re- recently at 2 a am m in the morning when the phone rang to hear their son Jacks Jack's voice on the theother theother other end of the line lie He was calling from Honolulu Hawaii where he is In the Marine Corp He expects to be sent soon to Okinawa and then on to the Viet VietNam VietNam Nam area Mr and Mrs Gale Rasmus Rasmus- sen were in Salt Lake last Tues Tues Tues- Tuesday day Sherry accompanied them and had her glasses repaired Wilma Robb was a patient at atthe atthe the Roosevelt hospital last week weekend weekend end She was able to return home Tuesday The Bill Hoopes and the WK Harveys from Tridell were din din- dinner ner guests of the Bill Workmans In My Myton ton Sunday Glendon Work Work- Workman man spent the weekend with Jimmy Hoopes Mr Mir and Mrs Max North and family from Heber were visit visit- visiting ing friends In Whiterocks Sun Sun- Sunday day afternoon The annual school fair was held Wednesday The children came loaded with their largest pumpkins squash tomatoes carrots apples and almost any any- anything thing you can name that is grown in this part of the coun coun- coun country try They also exhibited their hobbies and their cooking abill abili- abilities ties A large selection were on display at the school gymn Thursday afternoon and even even- evening ing Parents who came to PT A that evening looked over the items Six Wl Whiterocks residents were hospitalized Wednesday reportedly evenIng after their car reported reported- ly collided with a truck near He He- Heber bet ber Listed in critical condition at the University of Utah hospi hospi- hospi hospital tal In Salt Lake is Mrs Carver Redcap and her law daughter Mrs Donald Redcap Alonza Jim driver of the car Carver Redcap Donald Redcap and Angela were taken to the Heber Hospital and are still there at this writing Those in inthe inthe the Heber hospital were report report- reported ed not seriously injured Marl Marl- Marllyn lyn Cornpeach was In Salt Lake Thursday and Friday to visit her sister Mrs Donald Redcap Alan Hoopes the small son of Mir and Mrs Kenneth th Hoopes of Las Vegas Nevada came to Roosevelt with his aunt Linda Milligan and spent a week at atthe atthe the homes of his grandparents Mr and Mrs Bill Hoopes of Whiterocks Mr and Mrs James Milligan of Roosevelt The Mil ligans will take him back to Las Vegas when they take Linda to Dixie College in St St George this week Paula Hoopes Joan Huber Sandra Brough and Rasalie Me Mc- Mc Kee were elected cheer leaders at West Jrr Jr High last Friday Mr Mir and Mrs Bob Phillips are the proud grandparents of ofa ofa a baby boy born Sept 5 to Mr and Mrs Ernest Alan In Vernal The baby weighed 8 lbs bs and was 21 inches long Mrs is the former Dixie Phillips Delma Long accompanied Du Du- Du Duchesne chesne Co DUP captain Rose Malnar Mrs Ruth Jensen Mrs Mt's Rose Gardner Mrs Delma Bastian all DUP members to Vernal on Sept 11 where they attended a meeting and lunch lunch- luncheon eo eon at the Uintah County Court house and then In the afternoon they attended the dedication of the old Ashley Post office It Is quite a sight to see the trees still loaded with apples and then covered with several Inches of snow One of the Win Win- fred f red Longs trees was unable to withstand the extra weight and it toppled over pulling the roots out of the ground Many of the residents of White rocks were quite surprised to wake up Friday morning Sept 17 to find about nine inches of that white stuff on the ground that usually doesn't fall until November It continued to fall all day Friday There was a few of us who were up during the night and spent some anxious moments watching the fire and sparks fly from a downed elect elec line and it started a fire in inthe Inthe the grass which was mixed with snow Lights were flashing along the line which lit up the town for 45 minutes before the power was cut off County Commissioner D Bla Bla- Bla Blayne Morrill attended a dinner and meeting in Duchesne Thur Thur- Thursday evening Sept 16 for the Republican delegates from Uin- Uin Uintah Uintah tah Daggett Duchesne and Wasatch counties Because of the storm he reported he spent 1 12 hours on the road coming from Duchesne to Roosevelt VaLois Morrill Jo Anne Mit Mit- Mitchell I chell and Verna Hoopes attended stake MIA preparation meeting in Roosevelt Wednesday even even- evening evening ing Jessie Robb spent Thursday night at the home of her sister Sharon Birchell and attended the Sports clinic for M MIA IA girls and leaders Like the rest of the Uintah Basin residents the early snow fell on top of grain hay bay corn potatoes apples and almost the complete crops of the residents of Whiterocks Only time will tell how much c can n be salvaged Also it has caught the biggest share of the cattle still in the mountains The first PTA of the school year was held Wednesday even even- evening ing at the school gymn New tea tea- Anne Palmer Sharon Ru- Ru Ruggles Ruggles ggles and Cheryle Cartrette were introduced to the group Principal pal Mitchell explained the meth meth- methods of the new way of doing Math and the parents viewed the Items on display for the fair Tridell's group served punch and cinnamon rolls |