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Show Five Generations .Volume 44 Number 21 Delta, Utah, Thursday, 1.50 a Yoar in Advance ' S i'T " 1"" :: ; ' K : - 4 -l " 1 teifiJiil- ' f : '. v. ! ! There were five generations at the family gathering in Delta Del-ta during the pheasant season, when the mothers and daughters daugh-ters pictured here arrived. Photo by: Glen Gardner Ask $81,000 In Damages For Death of Father Fallon, Nev., November 11--'special to the Delta Chronicle). An $81,000 damage suit stemming from a pedestrian death on U. S. 50 near Salt Wells one night two and one half years ago will come to trial here next week. Jury trial in First Judicial District Dis-trict court of Nevada will com mence next Tuesday in a case brought by the heirs of William Edward Done of Delta, Utah against ag-ainst Harry Hartman of Fallon. The eight sons and daughters of the elderly Mr. Done, who was struck and killde by a car driven by Mr. Hartman in May of 1951, have asked for over $81,000 in damages in representations by the Fallon legal firm of Diehl and Recanzone. The plaintiffs allege gross negligence neg-ligence on the part of the defendant, defend-ant, charging that the deceased was struck as he walked near the shoulder of a curve on the driver's left hand side of the highway. Mr. Done had been visiting relatives re-latives in Redwood, Calif, and was walking eastward toward Delta, Utah, where he had made his home with a son, Harold Done. Mr Hartman's car was traveling westward, west-ward, the accident occurring 13 miles east of Fallon at about 12:-45 12:-45 a.m. May 30, 1951. The court action was filed shortly short-ly after the accident, numerous legal actions by both sides finally fin-ally culminating setting of a jury trial for next week. Mr. Hartman is represented by To Taik In Delta Thursday Night '! (, ' - ; " r V -J" ... ' ! . -.- - -!: - V - - tk V x . - ' : ' V . V; 'V - ".: I' i ? . Mrs. Ora Pate Stewart, shown here with her sons. Bobby. Allen Darid and Wendell, is the noted author and lecturer who wili speak in Deseret stake house Thursday night on a program sponsored by th stake MIA, beginning at 7:33 p. m. At front is Mrs. Annie Ottesen great- great grand mother, of Salt Lake City, and standing at .left is her daughter. Mrs. Carrie Mortensen, great-grand mother, Emery. Appear flee. 1 In District Court Alton EI wood (Ed) Theobald, over 21 years of age, and DeVon Theobald, 18, sons of Alton Theobald Theo-bald of Hinckley, and Dale Croft, 13, son of Orrvil Croft, of Deseret, were charged with second degree burglary, and Darrell Charles, over 21, of Hinckley, charged with possession pos-session of stolen property, were recently arraigned before Emil Pearson, Justice of Peace, in Delta. They waived preliminary hearing hear-ing and were bound over to the District Court in Fillmore on Friday Fri-day Dec. 4. Dale Croft is in the jurisdiction of the juvenile authorities auth-orities and is to be taken to Ogden. The young men were apprehended appre-hended by local peace officers and admitted breaking into the Donald Mcintosh farm home, Hinckley Hin-ckley high school, and the theft of various articles from these places and used car lots. . Part of their loot had been dumped into the reservior, they died gallons of gasoline from cars, said. They had taken several Tiun tractors and school buses in the area. The inquiry into their offenses is being continued. Births This Week... To Chester and Elladene Fullmer Full-mer Corbett, Delta, a girl, Nov. 12 To Alton Elwood and Ruth Mc-Clellan Mc-Clellan Theobald, Delta, a girl Nov. 17. the firm of Woodburn, Forman and Wood burn of Reno. The program is free to every-ore. every-ore. end oil ore urged to take this opportunity to hear Mrs. Stewart talk and revetw her books, such as Letter to My Son. Pages From the Bock of te. ana nrancnes urer tne WalL 1 . ii.- .1 Mrs. Annie Eioderick, grandmother, grand-mother, here from Worland, Wyo., is next, and at the right is her daughter, Mrs. Roma Thomas, and her 3-months old daughter, Jacqueline, from Garrison. No Extension Of Time On Payment Of Taxes County Treasurer William H. Mitchell reports that up to and inluding November 15th $75,528.58 of the taxes have been collected. This represents only 13',' of the total amount assessed which is $569,303.73. There will be no extension of time on tax collections. The dead line being Nov. 30th at Noon. Any mail post marked on that day will be acepted without penalty. Yiiiihj Farmers Start Classes West Millard Young Farmers will begin shopwork classes Saturday, Nov, 21 in the vocational shop at the Delta high school. They will be held each Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the winter classes. Urge Parents To Keep Hogs Eiosne Please keep dogs home and do not let thern follow the children to school was the plea today from Gertrude Western, principal of Del ta elementary school. Tuesday morning a little girl at the Delta school was badly hurt by a dog. When dogs follow their little friends to school, and hang about the school grounds, trouble fol lows, with dog fights and hurt children. Parents are urged to see to it that dogs are not at school, to help prevent accidents. '-.-l! - i Mrs. Stewart has giTen around 83C9 Talks, serious and humorous. humor-ous. She is the mother of seven sev-en children and the wife o! a university protessor. Her program pro-gram will be -olcrful end expressed ex-pressed with humor and sound philosophy. 4'IsooI Seet Annual convention of Deseret "':l;c Sunday School will be in Delta Sunday, Nov. 29, in Deseret h i-j o according to Rulon .H's:er, stake Sunday School '.;.:!!. Ther? vill be a session at 2 p. m. for nil Sunday School ofiicers and teachers, and all 291 are urged ur-ged to attend. Speakers will be Richard E. Folland, executive secretary of Des eret Sunday School Union Board, Earl J. Glade, Edith M. Nash and Eva Mae Green, board members. County Garden Clubs Convene In Delta Nov. 21 Millard County Garden Club con vention will be held in Delta, in Deseret stake house, Saturday, Nov. 21, with the affair open to the public and everyone invited to attend. This is a special celebration of the honors in beautifieation projects pro-jects Millard County received at the recent convention in Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kansas. Special invitations are extended to all civic groups who helped in beautifieation work to attend the meeting. Mrs. Beth Anderson, district supervisor, sup-ervisor, will display the material shown at the National Council of America at Leavenworth that received re-ceived high praise. Mrs. Edna Gregerson, president of Utah Garden Clubs, will speak on Millard county's national connection. con-nection. Mrs. Beth Steiner, judging judg-ing school chairman, will report on the Leavenworth success. Genevieve Folsom, Salt Lake Tribune garden editor, will pay tribute to Millard county. Mr. and Mrs. Vanona Merrill, of Price, and other state officers will also be present. There will be a dinner, at 12:30, at the stake house, at $1.00 a plate. Reservations for dinner must be made by Friday evening at the city cafe, who will cater the affair. The general meeting wil open at 2 p.m. in the stake house, with a special program, under the supervision sup-ervision of Effie Nielson, Ruby Skeem and Virginia Gowers. There will be a small Flower Show at the convention, showing arrangement of fall flowers and Christmas decorations ,with Celia Christensen and Ella Christensen in charge. Mrs. Ruth Dewsnup has table decorations in charge for the dinner, din-ner, l.ucretia Teeples is in charge of registration. Alciedean Barker, publicity, and Rendell Swensen, county awards. Services Held Wednesday For Delta Matron Mrs. Isahell I.ougy Smith, "8, and early Delta settler and resident resi-dent for many years, died Sunday Sun-day evening at Tooele, at the home of a son, George L. Smith, after an extended illness. She was bom Dec. 11, 1874, in Tooele, a daughter of Francis g and Mary Warburton. She was married to James Adams Speirs Smith in Tooele, and their early married life was lived there. They came to Delta when the project was r.ew around 1010. Mr. Smith died years ago, and Mrs. Smith lived here and raied her familv of nine sons. Sj! .Vina are James L,, George L., MaTtew L., Joseph L. Smith. Tooele; Francis I. Smith, Provo; W.'liarn L Smith. Durhesne; Richard Rich-ard E. Smith. Fruita, Colo; John I... Th.-nas L- Smith. De'.ta; 2S grandchildren and 17 greatgrandchildren: greatgrand-children: a si-t-r. Mrs. William E. Nix. Tooele. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Delta 1 Third ward. Burial was in the Delta cemetery. i la's Bagh Wins .to Awards On Ideas For BLM f v - V d i Nets J. Bogh Nels J. Bogh, Range Aid in the BLM office at Fillmore has recently recent-ly been awarded a Certificate of Merit, as well as Cash Awards for two suggestions submitted to the Interior Incentive Awards Committee, Comm-ittee, according to J. Pratt Allred, Range Manager of the Fillmore office. The awards were made by Ralph J. Mitchell, Acting Regional Admin istrator - Region IV, in behalf of Edward Woozly, Director of the Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Bogh's suggestions included the design and construction of cattle guards and a clutch cam on well pumps. Both proposals will result in monetary savings to the Bureau as well as improvements in service. In his letter of congratulations, Dir ector Woozley went on to say, "It is encouraging to see employes at all levels of the organization participating par-ticipating in this worthwhile attempt at-tempt to improve our management I want to thank you again for the spirit of cooperation as evidenced by these suggestions. You are to be commended for your interest in the Bureau's activities and we shall look forward to your continued contin-ued participation in the Incentive Awards Program." The Incentive Awards is designed to encourage employes to develop and suggest new methods to improve im-prove the over-all management of the Interior Dept. and its Bureaus. Mr. Bogh and his wife, Louise, and daughters Julia and Marlene, make their home in Delta, Utah. An award of $225 and a Certificate Cert-ificate of Merit were granted Mr. Bogh for his suggestion pertain ing to the design and construction of cattle guards, and his second award was for $50 for his suggest ion concerning the clutch cam on well pumps. Badge Sale Adds Over $5000 To Hospital Fund The sale of badges during the past pheasant season for hunting on lands posted for the West Millard Mill-ard Hospital Assn. brought in a total of $5018, of which $3,800 came in from the road block ades on the main arteries into the area. A net sum of $5637.08 has been deposited to the hospital fund ac count, which now totals some what over $20,000, besides the lot which is bought and paid for. the quarter block north of the new Delta First Ward. Expenses of the recent badge sale deducted from the gross were $204.23. badges, $74.95, printing, print-ing, and $1.74. kerosene for flares and flashlight batteries, according to Ferin A. Lovell. secretary and treasurer for the WMHA. Deseret stake sponsored the badge bad-ge sale this year for the hosiptal committee, with Eldon Eliason as general chairman, who expressed their appreciation of the fine work and cooperation from committee r i-mhers and farmers and of the public who bought badges. Plans are now underway to inquire in-quire about hospital building contracts, con-tracts, and Mr. Eliason and the committee will go to Salt Lake Cty s on to discuss the project. III) Honors Armistiee Dav American Legion Post 89 and Aux iliary marked Armistice Day, Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Nov. 11, at a banquet and program in Delta First ward j hall, with sixty-two present, veterans vet-erans and partners present. Community singing opening the irogiam, and prayer by Parley iloper, chaplin. Commander Will Ciilpack gave the welcome address, add-ress, and introduced W. C. Cole is master of ceremonies. Taking part on the program were Ora Gardner, vocal solo, Fannie Lee Hilton, reading, Beth Workman, Work-man, violin solo, Marie Moody, vocal solo, Margaret Roper, reading, read-ing, and John Swalberg, harmonica harmon-ica solo. Mrs. Maxine Bishop, state auxiliary aux-iliary vice president, spoke on the meaning of Armistice Day and Leg ion and Auxiliary fellowship, and told of the program for civic betterment bet-terment outlined for the auxiliay for the coming year. Mrs. Margaret Margar-et Gardner played organ music and the program was closed with community singing. Services For Mrs. Bunker Set Thursday Mrs. Alvene E. Iverson Bunker, 72, one of Delta's early settlers and resident for many years, died Monday at her home in Spring-ville Spring-ville of a heart attack. She was born July 26, 1881, at Washington, Washington County, a daughter of Peter and Dorothy Evers Iverson, Utah pioneers. She was married to Arthur Bunker May 14, 1902 in the St. George Temple, and until 1909 they made their home .in Bunkerville, Nev. Then they moved to the Delta area, where Mr. Bunker farmed for years, and they both helped in the development of the new country. They had moved to Springville ten years ago to reside, and Mr. Bunker died there in 1948. Mrs. Bunker was active in many LDS church organizations, and had served many years in Relief Society. Soc-iety. She was a member of Daughters Daug-hters of Utah Pioneers. Survivors are three sons, Lawrence, Law-rence, Glen and Lyle Bunker, all of Delta; five daughters, Mrs. Romola Norton, Mrs. Roka Fack-rell, Fack-rell, Mrs. Ruhy Twitchell, Springville; Spring-ville; Mrs. Dorris Hyde, Rupert, Idaho, and Mrs. Lillian Christensen, Christen-sen, Roosevelt; four sisters, Mrs. Amanda Whicker and Mrs. Stella Terry, Delta, Mrs. Margaret Mc-Cardle, Mc-Cardle, I.os Angeles, and Mrs. Emma Em-ma Bunker, Salt Lake City; Two brothers, Wallace and Walter Iver son, Washington. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Thursday at noon in Spring ville Second-Eighth ward chapel. Burial will he in Delta City cemetery, cem-etery, where graveside services will be conducted Thursday afternoon after-noon between 3 and 4 p.m., after the arrival of the funeral cortege from Springville . DAUGHTER DIES It was learned in Delta Wednesday Wed-nesday at noon that Mrs. Bun-Eer's Bun-Eer's daughter. Mrs. Romola Norton, had just died at Spring-Title. Spring-Title. It was she who discorer-ed discorer-ed her mother dead when she she called at the home Monday Mon-day noon, and she suffered a stroke, trom which she never regained consciousness. You ii Farmers To Meet Xov. 1!) West Millard Young Farmers will hold their regular meeting on Thurs day night, Nov. 19. at 8 p.m. in the vocational shop at Delta high school. Dr. Clair Porter, veterinarian. ! from Payson. will be the speaker I at the meeting. Mrs. Iva Mitchell president of the Legion Auxiliary 117 visited the hospital at Roy Utah recently where she presented several bouquets bou-quets of beautiful roses. She has made a great number of friends at this hospital and enjoys calling there. Injured In Car Crash On US6 Early Sunday Several persons were injured in an accident at 4 a.m. Sunday oi U. S. Highway 6, 75 miles west of Delta, when a car parked in the middle of the road was rem-med rem-med in the rear by a second car. In the parked car were Dewey Smith, of Elsinore, and Glen Smith of Richfield, vho had slopped to fix a tire, it was reported but had failed to put on parking lights. The second car, with Indian passengers, did not see the parked car in time to stop, and rammed into the back of it with such force for-ce that Reed Drye, 23, of Delta driver, and Paul U Baker, 19, in the front seat, where shot through the shattered windshield. It was 9 a.m. before report of the accident was made to O. J. Bennett, deputy sheriff,, who investigated. in-vestigated. He found Baker weak from loss of blood, from gashes about the nose and mouth. Drye was slightly injured, and Dewey Smith had a probably broken arm. The victims were brought into Delta, and then Baker was sent to the hospital at Fillmore. Mental Health Meet In Delta Friday Hoy. 20 A conference on Mental Health problems will be held at the Fillmore Fill-more Elemantary School Nov. 19, for East Millard, and one at Delta on November 20, for West Millard. Mill-ard. The meeting, in Helta will be in the activity room at the new elementary school. This is under the joint sponsorship sponsor-ship of the school district, the school nurses and the Parent-Teacher Parent-Teacher Association, and will be conducted by a special team of consultants of the Utah State Department De-partment of Health. The program pro-gram for the conferene is as follows: fol-lows: 1:30 to 3 p.m. A meeting with parents in which problems of the pre-school child will be discussed. Emphasis wil be upon the physical physi-cal and emotional development of the child during the first few-years few-years of life. 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. A meeting with teachers in which school problems pro-blems will be discussed. All teachers teach-ers of the district are expected to be in attendance at this meeting. meet-ing. 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. A meeting with parents and teachers on an individual basis. 7:30 to 9 p.m. .A general evening meeting sponsored by the P. T. A. This meeting is planned for the general public and will revolve re-volve around an interpretation of mental health as it affects the home, the school, and the community. com-munity. The film "Problem Children" Child-ren" will be shown and discussed by Mr. Arch Thurman, State Dir-etor Dir-etor of Mental Health Education. The visiting specialists and consultants con-sultants for the conference will be Mr. Thurman, Mrs. Alice McKay, medical Social worker. Miss Bessie Bes-sie Hansen, Nursing Consultant, and Dr. Moroni Brown, Chief Clinical Clin-ical Psychologist of the Child Guidance Clinic. This is the first such Conference Confer-ence to be held locally, and those who have listened in on similar ones elsewhere say that it is indeed in-deed a wonderful opportunity to receive this help in guidance problems pro-blems right here at home. County Farm Poliev Meeting Wednesday. November IS at 7 p.m. in the Holden Ward Chapel, resolutions wTitten tjy the County resolutiuns Committee, as a result of meeting recently held in local towns throughtoul the county, will be presented at a public meeting meet-ing discussed and voted upon. We would like to extend an invitation invitat-ion to all Farm Bureau members and the public as well. Mi"ard County Farm Bureau. |