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Show Citizen - Thursday. December 9. iR2 . Pa ffP g p8! Darrell Odder wins first place for wood sculpture : 1 11 111 u a-t ft' v m DKA UinkTTTD .!.. X4 4-1.1 , 1 D A DT Dimi VC .H J vnnn W A CUI VPTHM ta K Santa knowing his wishes. really aren't sure they want to see him. H SANTA, AS AN UNSEEN, BUT WELL-KNOWN PERSON is always looked forward to by youngsters. In 2? g person, they aren't always as sure they want to talk to him, even though they want him to be sure to know 40 their desires. Here he talks with a few of the hundreds who greeted him upon his stay in American Fork. r jj ne mue uree-year oia was upset because Santa didn't remember her name and she had to tell him ! 9 jfy "V81! pn wmmmmmmm ir' ti 1 inn im ii in n m mm .1 tut ' tl s MfcC 55 1 r7 r - i 2 'J 1 F Jf J 1 Jh' ' 3 si.?.- f w A - -"A" -.5 ft- i j ;K,- M-j , Y , -'S II J 1 I LWstAl H REBECCA STUFFLEBEAM, all bundled up CASSIE RICHINS, all ready for the big night. ff with hat and coat. SJ n J - Darrell Odder, Highland wood sculptor, took first place for his entry in the Invitational Art Exhibit at the 33rd Death Valley 49'rs Encampment in Death Valley, California. Mr. Ockler's carving of "After the Hunt" placed first in the prestigious exhibit in competition with bronze sculptors from throughout the western United States. The carving shows a fallen hitch'n rail on top of which rests a worn saddle. In the foreground is a large elk horn. A rifle lies against the hitching hit-ching rail. The carving will now be exhibited in Death Valley, Mr. Ockler said. Mr. Ockler, who has been carving seriously for about six years, believes he is the only one who is trying to show the Old West through still-life scenes rather than action scenes of cowboys at work on the range, or around the campfire, or cowboys and Indians. He won third place at the Death Valley exhibit a year ago with another scene of a saddle resting on a hitching rail. A rifle and a pair of boots complete that scene. His scenes are so realistic you have to look twice to see if they are real or not. The details are so exact, there appears to be hairs between the elk horns and the trigger on the rifle is ready to be shot. Mr. Ockler says his latest creation is carved from bass wood, a wood he prefers to work with. The hitching rail and saddle are from one solid block, with the rifle and horns done separately. He added additional pieces of wood on each side of the original in order to give added width to the piece. There is about 90 hours of carving time in the selection. "You can't hurry a carving, you have to have patience," Mr. Ockler laughed, recalling he has about five hours of time in the two metal-appearing metal-appearing rings on the buckle of the cinch. "You have to have sharp knives so they will do the work for you," he commented. His first attempt at carving a western scene was a small saddle on a hitching rail. He also did a coyote howling into the night. "I thought these were pretty good when I did them, and wondered why others didn't," he recalls. Now, he DARRELL OCKLER of Highland puts final polish on artistic wood sculpture piece. He says difference between carver and whittler is in the finish of the piece. says he knows why they resembled "something out of a souvenier shop" as someone told him - they are out of proportion. He also has done an abandoned wagon wheel and skull lying on what appears as a desert backgaround. He is also becoming known among collectors for his duck decoys, something he started as a "novelty" item. "I didn't want to get involved with these because they take me away from the more artistic pieces, but now I find these are becoming known among collectors and I have to spend time with them," he says. He also does a road runner, and makes small plaques with the intricately carved wooden gun on it that are popular with collectors. He enjoys working in about any type of wood, including bass, black walnut, redwood and white pine. "It just depends on the effect I am trying to achieve, what wood I use," said the Wisconsin native, adding he often uses something with a knot in it for the effect it gives. His interest in wood carving began when he was eight years old and the family was living in Montana. "We lived in the mountains of Montana," he said, and a friend by the name of Huck Blackburn, a saddle maker and carver, gave him an X-Acto X-Acto knife and a piece of wood and got him started. He became interested in the artistic side of carving after attending a Charlie Russell show in Montana. A postman by vocation, he said he dreams up many of his ideas while walking his mail route. He would like to see more people take up carving because he is afraid it is becoming a lost art. A few years ago, he taught students at Barratt Elementary School the basics and he hopes some of the boys and girls kept at it. He said several people "whittle", but the difference between "whittling and carving is in the finish work, the detail." He added, 'The whittler leaves it the way it is when it is done with a knife, the sculptor finishes the piece with sand paper, steel wool, and stain, and hand rubs the wax into it." Local writers officers of Utah Press Women April Cox and Dawn Tracy, both of American Fork, and writers for the Provo Daily Herald, are directing the Youth Contest for the Utah Press Women for the next two years. New officers for the j group, an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women, were installed at the recent fall workshop of the organization held in Salt Lake City. joiaii o. laics, 1 2 Associate Editor of the 2f Box Elder news and . ' " it Journal in Brisham City, and a former nf American r including red-nosed Rudolph. Holiday panorama can be seen from Saturday through New Years Eve from s For't 18 tne newly in- tot p.m. 49 stalled president. the Utah Girl Scout council, is first vice-president vice-president over programs; Janice Hubbard, Salt Lake, Public Relations and freelance writer, Westminister College, is second vice president over membership; and Joyce Skidmore, Salt Lake, Public Relations, Arts Development, Snowflake Productions, is third vice-president s ... . JM 2S SANTA CAN BE SEEN WAVING from his sled at Mary Pulley Gardens. Scene includes all the reindeer, 55 resident A The State Eferm over contests. Joyce Christiansen, Salt Lake, editor of the South Salt Lake Bugle, is corresponding secretary; LaRee Pehrson, Salt Lake, a reporter and feature writer for Green Sheet Newspapers, is 'recording secretary; and Kathleen Bradford, a reporter and feature writer for the Deseret News, is treasurer. Josephine Zimmerman, Zim-merman, Provo, Farm Editor and Reporter for the Provo Daily Herald, is immediate past president, and currently a director of the group. Jean E. Gordon, American Fork, has been in charge of the annual Press Women Contest for the past two years. Utah Press Women is made up of media women from throughout the state. They hold workshops the fourth Saturday of January, April, and October and "informal get-togethers" at other times of the year. A holiday party is planned for December, a luncheon and tour for March and a summertime sum-mertime outing or tour. Farmers Note Taxes Before , Year Ends Avoid the ups and downs of a high tax bracket one year and a low one the next. Dr. Larry K. Bond, extension ex-tension economist, Utah State University, advises ad-vises farmers to look ahead. Where it provides an economic advantage, shift income or expenses from this year to next. 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