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Show Golden Wedding Date Hears Delta Jaycees Make Plans For Yuletide Events t2 ) -J"J .-a. V :y iliHinriiuiiiiii mm, , m Delta Junior Chamber of Commerce Com-merce is busy with "lans for various var-ious events for the Christmas season sea-son that include letters and tele 1 I yT) phone calls to Santa Claus, and a Christmas home lighting contest y T 00 C t ' y i . .- r MR. AND MRS. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Sampson. Deltans for many years and now residing at 128 College St.. Salt Lake City, will celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary Dec. 14th. They will be honored at open house in Salt Lake and then will come to Delta to celebrate their golden wedding date with old friends and neighbors on Saturday evening, Dec. 18, in Delta Second Ward. A cordial invitation is extended to their many friends here to attend at-tend the program beginning at 7:30 p. m., and the reception and open house later. No gifts, please, is requested. Benjamin Franklin Sampson was born April 14, 1884, in East Loa, Wayne county, (then known as Piute county), a son of James Polk and Roseann Turner Sampson. Mary Francetta Cook was born Oct. 2, 1S84, at Old Thurber, Utah, a daughter of Joshua Holden and Betsy Bybee Cook. The families were early settlers of the Delta country, arriving here Jaycees Ask For More Names Of DSA Candidates The Distinguished Service Award for outstanding service in his community com-munity will be prey2nted to a young man from west Millard at the annual DSA banquet, sponsored sponsor-ed by the Delta Junior Chamber of Commerce, on January 19. This is a big event, and speaker that night will be Boyd Bunnell, Price, state JC president, and the youngest city judge in Utah. Between now and Dec. 15 the Jaycees are asking for more names of DSA candidates. If you have in mind a young man, between the age of 21 and 36 years, who merits recognition for community service, please submit his name now to the Jayceea Those eligible are not limited to Delta, as the honor may be awarded award-ed to any young man in west Millard, Mil-lard, and names are asked for from the neighboring communities. Five judges, not Jaycees, will select se-lect the young man for DSA from the names submitted, and his iden tity will be revealed at the banquet ban-quet Jan. 19. Service Sundav In Comm. Church A gospel team from Mt. Pleasant will conduct services Sunday, Dec. 12, in the Community Church in Delta, at 11 a. m. The public is cordially invited to attend. SCS Engineer Has Appointment Roe Euhanan, Soil Conservation engineer, is being transferred to Albuquerque, N. M as a materials mater-ials engineer, in the laboratory. M. Buhanan has worked in this area for the past eight years, doing do-ing surveying for land leveling, drainage work, ponds and head-gates. head-gates. His wife and their sons. Darrel and Earl, are accompanying Mr. Buhanan to make their home at Albuquerque. Square Dancing Saturday Nijiht There will be square dancing Saturday night. Dec. 11. in Delta Fir .1 w ard recreation hall. AH are invited and Newel Day of Fillmore will be caller. Verl and Marion W children. Joy Charie: and Eugere. of Newcastle. Utah, drove to Delia Saturday, and Mrs. Woolsey ani the children are spend.ng the v.eek visiting her mother. Mrs Al.ce Jensen, and the family here. Mr. Woclsev will return on the weeksr.d d U family home. 3 , . B. F. SAMPSON in 1907. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson were married in the Manti Temple on Dec. 14, 1004, by John G. T. McAllister. Mc-Allister. Their home was made in Delta, where their family of ten children were reared, and all graduated gra-duated from Delta High School. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson moved to Salt Lake City in 1948. They are lifelong members of the L D S church, and were active in church and civic affairs in Delta, and continued their church work in Salt Lake. Their sons and daughters and many of their 33 grandchildren will be in Delta with Mr. and Mrs. Sampson for their golden wedding date. Their children are Mrs. J. Layton (Fontella) Eishop, Delta: Mrs. Lester (Betty) Johnson, Delta RFD; Charles Sampson, Provo; Eastern Sampson and Merlin Sampson, Samp-son, Logan; Mrs. William (Melba) June, Ogden; Mrs. Mabel Chapman. Chap-man. Mrs. Gilbert (Roann) Gooch, Mrs. Max (Ferris) Miner, Salt Lake City, and Mrs. Lynn (Louetta) Mortensen, Port Angeles, Wash. CALENDAR FOK HOLIDAYS Saturday, Dec. 11, Deseret Gold and Green Ball, at Deseret. Saturday, Dec. 18, Delta Third Ward Gold and Green Ball, at Deseret stake hou3. Saturday. Dec. 25 Christmas night dance, all girls orchestra, Deseret Stake M I A and DHS Alumni. Monday, Dec. 27, Oak City Gold and Green Ball at Oak City. Tuesday, Dec. 28, Abraham Gold and Green Ball, at Abraham Friday, Dec. 31, New Year's Eve dance, at Deseret stake house, sponsored by stake M I A. Gus Shields orchestra. Former EDeltan Hies In Idaho LaRue Pritchett, former North Tract resident, died Tuesday Nov. 3D. at Nampa, Idaho, of a heart ailment, according to word received receiv-ed here by his brother-in-law, Frank Fleise. Funeral services were held Friday, Fri-day, in Nampa, and burial was there. Mr. Pritchett came to Delta in 1913. with his parents, to farm on the North Tract. He left from Delta to serve in World War I, and trained train-ed at Camp Lewis, Wash. While in the service he married Miss Cora Heise, of Delta. The Pritchetts sold their farm here and moved to Idaho, and Mr. and Mrs. Pritchett have lived in Idaho since 1319, for years at Meridian, and lately at Nampa. He farmed and was in the dairy bus- ' iness. , I Survivors are his wife, daughter t Myrtle, sons Max and Don, and one grandchild. Schedule Hake Sale Saturdav Delta Second ward Primary is sponsoring a Bake Sale Saturday. Dec. 11, opening at 10 a m. in the Quality Market. Funds from the sale will be used for Primary supplies and extras. There will be a wide assortment of baked foods on sale, such as pies, breads, cookies and cand.e Square Dances At Baker. Xev. S.;u3re dancing every Saturday night is s;hdul-l at Baker. Nev, ;n the Baker Hall, according to word teday from west M.llard E. eryor.e is invited to join the f-n. from 9 p. m. until 11:3-3 every Saturdav Sat-urdav nlsrht. Dr. and Mrs. M. E. E;rd will return re-turn to Delta Thursday, after a trip of two weeks, spent in M.arni, Florida, where Dr. Bird attended a ni-d.cal cor.-, er.t.-cri. Home Lighting Anyone who wishes to enter the home lighting contest may do so by notifying N. S. Bassett. president, presi-dent, or any other Jaycee. Judges will tour Dolta Christmas Eve and visit the homes who are listed in the contest. Three prizes will be awarded, S10 for first place, t?5 for second, and $2.50 for third. The winners will be notified and receve their awards Christmas Five Santa Claus Calls The Jaycees also have made arrangements with Santa Claus to answer all letters written him, at the North Pole, and mailed at the Delta Postoffice between now and Christmas time. Old Santa wants to hear from all the children, and they will have a reply. And about Dec. IS he will have telephone lines set up so that the youngsters here can talk to him at the North Pole during the week before Christmas. There will be more about that next week. Is Speaker At favcee Meet Dr. Leslie D. Burbidge, Salt Lake City dentist and senior member of the state board of correction, spoke on crime problems at the Delta Jaycee meeting Wednesday night. Dr. Burbidge gave an interes ting talk on methods employed by the state in dealing with the pri son inmates and corrective measures, mea-sures, especially with drug addicts. He related various incidents that gave color to his talk, and gave a clearer picture of how the state handles criminals and their problems. pro-blems. The meeting was in the Delta elementary school lunch room, where an audience of 50 persons heard the talk, from the Jaycees, and Kiwanis, Lions and Delta fire men. Cuss And Discuss Danish System Of Judging Stock The Danish system of judging fat livestock at junior shown or the" numerical system of placing animals in sequence and picking champions will be discussed at a meeting in Salt Lake City Dec. 18, for county agents and FFA advisors. advi-sors. The Danish system was denoun ced and branded as un-American at a recent meeting called by the Ogden Livestock Show officials to get viewpoints on the system and its effect upon the industry and junior livestock exhibitors. The Ogden show has used the Danish svstem in its junior depart ment for several years, but this year the system was abandoned in lavor of the numerical system. Officials Of-ficials decided that the old system syst-em did not provide young exhibitors exhibi-tors with sufficient incentive for superior achievement and development devel-opment of initiative. A long article in the Western Livestock Journal of Nov. 18, 1054 crave the opinions stated at the meeting by many prominent live stock men. No doubt there are some in Mil lard who would like to express their opinions on the subject, and their next opportunity to do so will be at the meet Dec. 18. Marven Ogden. Delta Chapter FFA advisor, will attend the meeting meet-ing and anyone who has views on the subject is invited to express them to Mr. Ogden, who will pre sent them at the meeting. Back To School Hight Enjoyed By Delta Parents "Back to School" night fur parents par-ents of pupils in Delta senior and junior h;gh schools, proved an interesting in-teresting event at Delta Parents-Teachers Parents-Teachers meeting Dec. I. Around two hundred parents visited the school and attended the ten-minute class periods conducted con-ducted in the various departments in both schools. Some of the parents and teachers teach-ers met for the first time, and all enk'ved the association. Clas." work was d-scusfd and outl.ne: and delays showed the work accomplished" ac-complished" in the daily clasps. A tour v,as made of the senior hi jr. school, where extensive remodel ins -as completed this vjrr.rr.er and at the end of the evening parents par-ents and teachers met for a social hour in the gyrnriaiiurr- Number Call For Blood Monday, Dec. 13 At Palomar Hall The Red Cross Bltuulniobile will be at Palomar Monday, Dec. IS. from 1 to 5 p, m., and all physio- ally able to give blood are at this time urged to be there and help fill the West Millard quota of 100 pints. No need to worry if more than the quota is taken that day, it all goes for a good purpose. pur-pose. Do you have type O negative blood? If so, the Bloodmobile will be pleased to have you donate Dec. 13, as there is a call out now for that type of blood. All types of blood are also welcome. The Red Cross blood program will provide blood or blood derva-tives derva-tives without charge at any hospital hos-pital in the. state, with the exception excep-tion of the L D S hospital In Suit Lake City, Whenever it is needed. There may be a small ndminstrn-tive ndminstrn-tive charge, but there is no charge tor the blood itself. You may help carry on this great program by giving one small pint of your good red blood when the Bloodmobile calls, at Pulomar, Monday, Dec. 13. Telluride Promotes Veteran Officials To Hew Posts Paul P. Ashworth, General Man ager of Telluride Power Company, has been advanced to the newly created position of Executive Vice President and O. C. (Cliff) Mc- Shane, Assistant General Manuger. was promoted to the position of General Manager being vacated by Mr. Ashworth, according to an announcement by li. R. Waldo, Pres. of the Company, in reporting action taken by the Hoard of Directors at their recent meeting. These appointments will In-come effective Jan. 1. lr5. In his new position Mr. Ashworth Ash-worth will continue to have full supervision over the operations of the Company but will devote himself him-self particularly to the broader questions of Company policy, system sys-tem planning, and power supply. Mr. McShane will take over the supervision of personnel, and the detailed operations of the Company. Com-pany. Both of these men are veterans in the Company, Mr. Ashworth having joined the original Tellu ride Power Company in Colorado in December l'iOO while. Mr. Mc Shane entered the Conipuny's em ploy at Heaver in I'.ilG. Both men started in as power plant operators. opera-tors. Mr. Ashworth was one of the first of the Telluride Association scholars at Cornell University, graduating gra-duating from that institution In l'.)14 with degrees in both Electrical Elect-rical and Mechanical Engineering. In addition to his professional work since moving to Richfield in 1D3H, Mr. Ashworth has been active act-ive in Church and Civic affairs os High Councilman, Chairman of the South Sevier Chapter of the American Amer-ican Red Cross and of Selective Service Hoard No. 2'J, President of Rich!, eld Business Mens Alliance, Vice President, Treasurer, and Director Dir-ector of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah, and Chairman of its Legislative Committee. Com-mittee. He is a 3o year veteran In the Boy Scouts of America and is now a Vice President of the Utah National Parks Council. Mr. McShane has served four years each in the House and Sen ate of the Utah Legislature, two terms as President of the Richfield Chamber of Commerce, four years as a member of the Utah Legislative Legis-lative Council, and ia now a mem ber of the Board of Regent of the University of Utah. He also served on the Governors Q man Committee on Education. During Worid War I he saw active ser vice in the Navy and attained the rank of Colonel in the Air Force iu::rg World War II. By curl'js coincidence both Mr Ashworth and Mr. McShane are natives of Beaver and both their f ithers were active in the service of the Beaver City schools almost 73 vears ago. Mr. Ashworth Sr. as re-.dnt of the Board of Educa tion and Mr. McShane Sr. as one f th teaching staff. "The tppo;ntrnnt of these ex oerienred mn insures quai.f.ed Tiar.airemer.t of the Company and rcr.tinue.i dependable service to U cuorner?", Mr "aido stated. "and is in Lr.e with the Company v of L.l.ng its high executive zoi:V.f!T.i in so far as pos;lt ,'rm w.thin its own ranks.' Volume 45 25 Doha- Utah, Thursday ll V Medicates w Iluilcliii; Dedication and formal opening of the David O. McKay building at iiiigUam Young University in Provo Pro-vo will be Tuesday, December 1-1. Dedicatory services will be conducted con-ducted at ti;30 a.m., in the George Albert Smith Fiehlhouse, followed by visitors' tours in the new building, build-ing, nnd open house by the College Col-lege of Education and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Ronald Hielson Talks On Youth Forum In Britain Ronald Nielson Elder Ronald Fnrn-U Nielson, L I)S missionary In Great Britain, represented re-presented the United States In an International forum of youth at Barn.sley Y.MCA, England, In Nov-ember Nov-ember according to word sent his parents, Mr. ami Mrs. Lnfe Nielson at Hinckley. He wrote "A couple of weeks ago I was asked to represent the United States on on International Forum, which I did. Enclosed is a copy of the program. It turned out very well and I was asked by the President of the Women's Auxiliary Auxili-ary of the United Nations in Barns ley to come back at u future date, and tell them about the Book of Mormon, and show them some pictures pic-tures about the book an about Utah." Eight young men took purt in the forum, representatives of six countries, coming from Great Brit-tain, Brit-tain, Germany, Nigeria, India, Poland, Po-land, France, Pakistan nnd USA. Ronald spoke on the topic "Billy Graham recently conducted a remarkable re-markable campaign to what would you attribute its nuccess, anr does tne tenm believe that religion re-ligion .should be an everyday concern con-cern in our daily lives, and not just on a day of praise." He has now served one of his two years in the British mission, first in Scotland, and now In England, Eng-land, where be is district president. He attended the fall district president conference Nov, 12, 13 and A. Hamer Riser, mission president, presi-dent, wrote his parents "We want you to know that it is fine to be associated with these young men, trusted with such great duties and mi much responsibility. Ronald is well, very busy, and though he : carrying important responsibilities, he is discharging them ull most efficiently." Friends here who would like to write to Ronald may address them to Elder Ronald Nielson. 171171 Elk-smere Road. Sheffield 4, Yorkshire, York-shire, England. Visitors t Crane Home On Thanksgiving Mr. and Mf&. II. A. Crane served dinner to Dr. Clair Porter nnd family, of Payson. and Mr, and Mrs. Frank Crane, of Yuba Dam, On Dec. 1 they were visited by-two by-two couples, old neighbors from I'vati, who in place of giving the Cranes notice, brought with them i a roasted rooster, two loaves oi bread and a cake. They had not sn Delta since th Cranes moved to town, and after showing the three new churches, chur-ches, new school building, the seed cleaning plant and tell.ng about ill the big se,-d crops, they were much impressed with the importance impor-tance of Delta. Mr. Crane says he can't f.gure out why the visitors brought their dir.r.er, as they have been at his place lets of times before and had r.ever went away hungry, an-:! they know Dv'ta has lots of water. Maybe they thought, he said, that 'he pr.ee of dried apples had got beyond him. December 9, 1954 Santa Claus Arrives To Greet All Young i OU! Santa Claus him . ( w ill be in Delta SatujV i.v at 1:30 p. m., and invites all the young people in the countryside to meet him at the Christmas tree on Main Street, at the Telluride Power Co. corner. He will have a treat for all his young friends, and a short chat and then will depart for North Pole and his toy shop to fill the Christmas gift orders. After Santa's visit there will be a Free show at the Crest Theatre, for nil children under twelve years of age. A special program has been arranged for their enjoyment. Santa is making the trip to Fire Threatens Wilhlen EEoine Thursday, shortly after 7 p. m., the Delta Volunteer Fire Department Depart-ment was called to the Earl Wlll-den Wlll-den home, on South First West, when- flames were eating on the kitchen wall and threatened to spread. The fire was soon out after their arrival, and damages are estima ted around $20 or so, for paint over the damaged wall, Mr. Willden had just gone to the show when he was culled out by word of fire at his home. When he arrived at the scene all was well. The fire had started in n box oi papers and trash that had been put out to cart away. Then some one had dumped In n pan of ashes from the fireplace, and a smoldering smolder-ing ash had started the blaze. Mr. Willden wishes to thank the Delta firemen and the neighbors who helped so readily, and soon had the fire out, nnd saved his home from going up in smoke. Gold And Green Ball At Deseret Saturday Might Deseret ward MIA 1m sponsoring the annual Gold and Green ball Saturday night, Dec. 11, and Invite everyone to the gala affair. The theme is "Arctic Sparkle," curried out In decorations in the ward hall. Dancing will begin at 9 p.m. to music by the Meadow orchestra. There will be n floor show ut inter mission, directed by Mr. nnd Mrs. Jay Warner, ward dance directors. At Leamington Friday Night Leamington Relief Society will hold their bazaar and dinner Friday, Fri-day, Dec. 10. starting dinner at G ij.m. Adults will be charged 75 cents a plate, and children will be 35 cents. Please bring your own dbhes, nnd bring the whole family for dinner nnd the evening. There will be many fine articles in the bazaar, such as quilts, crib quilts, beautiful pillow cases, dish towels and aprons. The MIA will have a bake sale and candy sale after the dinner and program. Is New Member Of Honor Soeiety Madison. Wis. Marian Bennion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Bennion. Delta. Utah, was among new members who were initiated init-iated Into Sigma XI, national honorary hon-orary scientific society, at its annual an-nual dinner held recently at the University of Wisconsin, at Mad ison. The new members, all of them graduate students and post-doctorate fellows at the University, came from homes scattered throughout thr-oughout Wisconsin. 31 other states and Washington, D. C, and from i 13 foreign lands across ss the world, cosmopolitan revealing again th nature of the University of Wisconsin's Wis-consin's student body. Sigma Xi is one of the 20 national nat-ional professional societies which nave cnapiers on me iscoas.a campus, and w nose programs in-elude in-elude activities of professional in-1 terest to their members in the var-1 ious fields of endeavor. The object . of Sigma Xi is to encourage original or-iginal investigations in science, both pure and applied. The society soc-iety was founded in 1SSG and new has ;i: chapters ana some tv : clubs established in leading un- iversities and technical institutions ! cf the !.r.:te;3 states ar.a v,ar.aua. $3.50 a Year in Advance Saturday in Delta Folks At 1:39 p.m. Delta by airline, and his plane will be heard in the sky shortly before he lands in Delta. Delta City Council and the Delta firemen have made the date with the jolly old fellow, and will meet him, and escort him into Delta on the new fire truck, with the bell aclanging. The huge Christmas tree on Main Street was provided by the Delta Lions and put up by a crew from the city and Telluride, and decorated with lights. Main Street is also strung with colored lights, and will shine through the holiday holi-day season. DHS Alumni Set Annual Banquet Christmas Night The annual Delta high school alumni banquet is scheduled for Christmas night. Saturday, Dec. 25 at 8 p.m. in Delta high school. The Class of '45 will be the honored hon-ored class this year, and invitations invita-tions are extended to all classes for the event. A large crowd is anticipated, with many alumni home at holiday time. After the banquet and program the dance will be in Deseret stake house, in conjunction with the stake MIA sponsored Christmas dance. DHS alumni officers in charge of the banquet nnd festivities are Joe Moody, president; Merna Turner Tur-ner Boothe. vice president; La-Vonne La-Vonne Barney, secretary; Lucile Turner Hansen, hold-over, nnd Don Bird, Glen Fullmer and Dvvaine llriekson, committee. Population Survey Taken Locally Starting Dec. 13 The December Current Population Popula-tion Survey, to be taken locally and in 221) other areas in the country coun-try during the week of December 13, will include special questions on part-time work nnd urban agricultural agri-cultural activity in addition to the usual questions on employment nnd unemployment, according to Supervisor Milton E. Allred of the Census Bureau's district office in Salt Lake City. The special questions on part-time part-time work are expected to develop devel-op information on the number of persons who normally work full time but are currently working less than their usual number of hours because of slack work or other economic factors. The questions on urban agricul- luriil activity are being asked in connection with the U).1 Census of Agriculture which is now in its final stages throughout the country. coun-try. These questions are designed to determine the number of farm operators who reside in urban areas but who are responsible for farm operations elsewhere in the United States. These questions will also disclose any agricultural activity, ac-tivity, such as greenhouse, nurseries, nurser-ies, and the like in urban areas. Current Population Survey interviews inter-views in this area are conducted by Mrs. Margaret Palmer of Deseret. Des-eret. Auxiliarv 117 Met Montlav American Legion Auxiliary 117 met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Ruth Steele, with Mrs. Pearl Topham and Mrs. Bonnie Maxfield as hostesses with Mrs. Steele. After the business meeting Mrs Steele demonstrated various ways of wrapping Christmas gifts. Refreshments Re-freshments were served later. pPU1f T"I? V Q!r i ) i U ZCil To Shirl and Pare. Delta, a Eottomfieid ',- lbs.. Pec. bov. 2, at Fillmore L D S ho ital. j , rjt,pa Hospital To Grant and N.elson, Leamin. a g; S Ids. K oi., Dec. . To Tillman and Wrgm.a Henri' Johnson, Delta RFD, a b-?y, 7 !h: 3 ox.. Dec. i. To Carl and Pesy Knix Srr.Hr Delta, a girl, P lbs. 2 ci.. Dec. 5 uaest for the weeker was 2av's ;:av Harp Skinner from Fleas. a..ev, |