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Show Sing With U. of U. Opera DHS Junior Prom Highlights Friday High! 9 7 1 s i f v. a, - .ij n V . . : - chorus members for the forth-Dr. forth-Dr. C. Lowell Lees, center, dl- coming production of "The Mar-rector Mar-rector of the University Theatre, riage o! Figaro" at the Univer-gives Univer-gives pointers to Donald West- sity of Utah, ern. left, and Philip Moody, right, Two University of Utah students from Delta will be singing with the chorus when Mozart's "The Marriage of Figaro" is presented March 29 and 31 in Kingsbury Hall on the U. of U. campus. They are Donald Ray Western, baritone, and Philip. Maughn Moody, bass. The opera is a joint venture of the Utah Symphony, the University Theatre and the U. Department of Music. Mr. Western, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Western, Delta, is a senior student majoring in music at the university. He is a 1952 U. of U. Presents Mozart Opera r ' ' v -'III I i Hm- t.t'. , . ; -u - f Cohleen Bischoff and Marrin Sorensen prepare for the University of Utah production of Mozart'i opera, "The Marriage of Figaro." The musical classic is scheduled in Kingsbury Hall March 29 and 31. A cast of veteran vocal and stage talent was announced this week for the forthcoming production produc-tion of "The Marriage of Figaro" at the University of Utah. Two performances of the Mozart opera have been scheduled at Kingsbury Hall on the U of U campus for March 29 and 31. The title role of Figaro will be sung by Arthur Kent, former baritone bari-tone with the Metropolitan Opera. Other principals in the opera .include .in-clude Marvin Sorensen as Count Almaviva; Cohleen Bischoff as Countess Almaviva; Jewel Johnson Cutler as Susanna; Ann Cardall as Ch?rub:no; Emma Hemple as Mar-cellina; Mar-cellina; Glade Peterson as Basilio; John Marlowe Nielson as Don Cur-zio: Cur-zio: Reed Hansen as Bartolo; Keith M. Enar as Antonio; and Joan Newmark as Bnrbarina. The production will be the re-r.'ll re-r.'ll of combined talents of-the Utah Symphony, the University ThT.tre. and the U Department of Music. The trio who have made htery with the U Summer Festivals Festi-vals in recent years will pool ef-f.-r'y for the production. Maestro ?.!3cr!e? Ak'avanel will be director: 'ri-i? wiil he by Dr. C. Lowell .r- n-1 V;'l a:rt Christensen will Asistin? lh? d'.rtctors will be Vrn A-i.t-wo will design the Scrrla J-res who will super-vis super-vis costvTiinp: Dr. Robert M. Cun- di"k and Con Fuerstner who a;st In cachtng the principals, and John Marlowe Nielson who Is. tratn'r? the chorus. . 1 rsn-,n mp"-.ber for -Figaro" Lncluie Martha Ana F.s.v.er, Grice . v- graduate of Delta High School. A freshman this year, Mr. Moody is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin J. Moody, Delta. He is active In football and track at the university. univer-sity. He is majoring in engineering. engineer-ing. A 1955 graduate of Delta High School, he was a member of the student council and was active in athletics while attending school there. Curtain time for the two performances per-formances of the opera will be 8:15 p.m. All seats are reserved and tickets are on sale at Kingsbury Kings-bury Hall for S3 and 52. . il f r u V Ann Brown, JoAnn Brewer, Nancy Kent, Joy Thalman, Norma Jean Basinger, Marge Riches, Susie Mitchell, Mit-chell, Karin Wood, Richard Hanson, Terry Green, Gordon Bigler, Donald Western, Richard Dyer, Philip M. Moody, LaVern Merritt, Howard Olpin and Ronald Muslg. Taking dancing roles in the opera will be Judy Anderson, Judy Nelson, Sharon Givan, Nancy Gold, Mike Smuin, Kent Stowell, Gary Horton and Finis Jaung. The opera will climax the four-event four-event Mozart Cycle presented by the Utah Symphony in cooperation with the University. The Cycle is .being presented in commemoration of the Mozart Bicentennial. "Figaro" will be the first opera to he presented on the U campus in more than 15 years except foi seven Summer Festival operatic productions. Dr. Leroy J. Robertson, music department head, terms the upcoming opera "the beginning of a new, long-range program in opera at the University." All seats are reserved for the opera and tickets are on sale at Kingsbury Hall for $3 and $2, ac cording to Gail Plummc-r, manager of the University Theatre. Saturday Mom Oasis Garden Cub will open tht'r baVe sale Saturday at 10:30 a. m. in Gardner PhDto Supp'y. ana tney m ue me puunc to shop with them. They will have a wide selection of fine home-baked foods on sale. ; especially baked for Easter. Cclr-j ed Easter tat will be a specialty. J 4 - - - '"V i The annual Junior Prom will be ' held Friday night, March 30th, at 9:00 p. m. in the gymnasium. The j theme is "Clue Star", and the l music will be furnished by the I Revelers. I The Junior class is really putting their hearts into decorating for Vheir Prom. The decorations are I iQiik tiiri uiiu ujvi uiuv lu spot decorations to go with the theme. The floor show will consist of an all girls dance, a couple dance and the theme song. I The Junior Prom assembly, under 'he direction of Linda Mortenson and Janeen Robinson, will be given Friday afternoon during sixth period. per-iod. The theme will be "Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland." Eryce Billings Bill-ings and Janice Western are in ! charge of the Prom Activities. The corsages this year are not to exceed $2.50. This is the policy of the school, and we ask everyone to please cooperate. Plan now"to attend the Junior Prom! Seminary Sings Easter Cantata Sunday Evening An Easter cantata, "Almighty Lord", will be presented Sunday evening, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Deseret Stake House. A cordial invitation is extended to everyone to attend. There will be no meetings in wards of the stake Sunday night, so that all may hear the cantata. The program is sponsored by the Delta IDS Seminary, and will feature fea-ture the Seminary chorus. Kenneth Ken-neth Graham is director, and Janet Nelson is accompanist. Urge Support Of Red Cross Fund Campaign The annual drive for Red Cross funds is being completed this week in west Millard, under the leadership leader-ship of Mrs. Pearl Nelson, campaign cam-paign chairman. The public is urged to give, and give generously, to help the Red Cross meet the heavily increased needs for their humanitarian services. The First Presidency of the Church al Jesus. Christ pf. .Latter-day .Latter-day Saints issued a statement on March 9 concerning the American Red Cross fund drive, which concludes con-cludes "We believe that the service the Red Cross is rendering deserves the fullest support, and we therefore there-fore urge the members of the Church to contribute liberally in response to their 75th Anniversary tear appeal for funds to carry on their great missions of mercy". A Capeila Choir Sings In Delta Thursday HIght The Brigham Young University A Capeila Choir, from Prove, one of the nation's outstanding college organizations, directed by Newell B. Weight, will present a concert Thursday night, 8 p. m., in Deseret Stake House. This is one of the finest musical events ever brought here, and Is sponsored by Delta's three wards. Admission Is free to everyone, and all are cordially Invited to hear ths excellent program, ranging rang-ing from sacred hymnals to contemporary con-temporary works and folk songs. The ensemble of 70 carefully selected voices includes two Delt-ans, Delt-ans, Carol Dawn Sorenson and Winston Christensen. BYU seniors. The choir is currently on tour of the western United States with hir noted young conductor. Mr. Weight. Tcnsple Excursion Stated Saturday A special temple excursion will he made Saturday. March 31- All members of Deseret Stake are invited in-vited to go. Those wkhiner to make the excursion ex-cursion should notify Walter Wright or George Sampson. The bus will leave from the Delta Seminary at 6 a. m. Easter Service At Abraham Th Sundav School of Abraham Is sponsoring a special program nnrt Fatpr sorv.ee Sundav morn- j ing at 8 a.m. In the Abraham LT? cnurcn. ine nau w tv'"1 ly decorated for the service, and cordial invitation is extended to j everyone to join In the Easter service. Volume 45 Number 38 Stoke MSA Road Show Garners Great Applause The Deseret Stake M.I.A. Road Show for the current year was presented two nights, Lynndyl, Leamington and Oak City on Friday, Fri-day, and the Stake House, Sutherland, Suther-land, Hinckley and Deseret on Saturday Sat-urday evening. It was a tremendous tremend-ous success both nights. The theme of the roadshow was "Proverbs". Each ward chose their own title and wrote and developed develop-ed the act fcy Integrating the talents of their ward in the media of speech, dance, music and drama. Following are the acts as they were presented: Oak City, "Beauty is as beauty does"; Leamington, "An idle mind Is the devil's workshop"; work-shop"; Lynndyl, "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men"; Sutherland, "Clothes may disguise a fool but his words will find him out"; Sugarville, "All Is fair in love and war". Hinckley, "If wishes were fishes we'd have a great fry"; Deseret, "You can't judge a book by its cover"; Oasis, "Time and tide wait for no one"; Delta First, "Don't cross your bridges until you come to them"; Delta Second, "A lazy boy and a warm bed are difficult to part"; and Delta Third, "Birds of a feather flock together". Directors of the road show acts from the wards were Kenneth Graham Gra-ham and Joye Bennion, Delta First; Ruby Bishop, Delta Second; Lily Dawson, Delta Third; Luclle Sampson, Samp-son, Deseret; L. R. Swensen, Hinckley; Hin-ckley; Norma Nielson, Leamington; Beverely Dutson, Lynndyl; Maesel and Eldonna Anderson, Oak City; Inez Kelly, Oasis; June Hinckley, Sugarville, and Toneta Sorensen, Sutherland. Utah Farm Bureau Group Visits Hation's Caoitol Mr. Riley S. Thompson, Scipio, Vice President of the Millard Co. Farm Bureau, was one of five Farm Bureau award winners from the State of Utah who went to Washington, D. C. to get first hand information on "How the Farm Bureau Operates in Our National Capital", These men met with Representatives Represen-tatives Henry A. Dixon and William Will-iam A. Dawson, and with Senators Sena-tors Wallace F. Bennett and Arthur Ar-thur Watkins of Utah, as well as other National figures. Mr. Thompson says they found out that the Farm Bureau takes a very active part In trying to get policies that we develop here at home enacted into laws In the Congress. They discussed the Farm problem with Utah's Congressional Con-gressional representatives, and although al-though Secretary of Agriculture Benson was very busy they did get a chance to shake hands with him and visit briefly. These men saw the House and Senate in action. They visited the U.S.D-A. and listened to a very interesting demonstration on research work being carried on by that department. They listened to outstanding talks by John C. .Lynn, Associate Director of the Washington office: Roger W. Fleming, Sec.-Treas. & Director of the American F. B.'s Washington office; Dr. Earl Bectz an assistant secretary of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, and Senator George D. Aiken. Aik-en. Making the trip to Washington with Mr. Thompson were the following fol-lowing men: Leo Syphus, St. George; Arion E. Erekson. Salt Lake County; Frank Eohman. Morgan County; LaMar Dastrup, Sigurd. Utah was among 13 states to enroll two million members dur ing 1053, and these men were selected for their outstanding work in carrying on this membership member-ship campaign. From The Progress. Delta Fleni. ITA Meets April I Delta elenien'ary school Faints. Teachers Association will meet oa Wednesday. April 4. at 7 p. m. in the school liriliinz. New officers will be elected at this meeting. Pupils from the school wi'I give the program with special musical numbers. Mr. and Mrs. Albert SkHmort were in Cedar City last week for the teachers' convention, end also ttttaitd, the CSV e?ra. Delta, Utah, Thursday, LD.S. Mission J -M ' 3 S i s . ' AlK . 1 t .... ;'t - Elder Hollingshead Elder James T. Hollingshead will serve in the North Central mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and departed Monday from Salt Lake City after his training period in the mission home. His headquarters will be at Minneapolis, Minn. He visited in Delta a week ago with family and friends, and attended at-tended Deseret Stake quarterly conference. His farewell testimonial was held in Downey Second Ward on March 15. He had been secretary in Downey Down-ey Ward Aaronic Priesthood, and this spring had served as a guide at the Los Angeles LDS Temple prior to the dedication. Elder Hollingshead is a graduate of Delta High School, where he was active in student affairs and a member of the wrestling team. !Ie was also graduated from Delta Seminary. Qualify Market Bids All To 21st Anniversary Fete Quality Market is celebrating their 21st anniversary in business in Delta, and invites everyone, young arid old, to visit Uieir store Saturday, when entertainment is planned for all day. Orvil Jeffery, owner and manager, man-ager, and the staff in all departments depart-ments of the super market, will welcome patrons, and shopping will be a pleasure. Gifts will be distributed during the day, and there will be hourly contests of interest to the housewives. house-wives. Refreshments will be served all day. Of special interest to the youngsters young-sters will be the free rides on the Merry-go-round, brought in for the day by Wonder Bread Co., for its first appearance in Delta. F. F. A. Will Convene The State F. F. A. convention will be held in Salt Lake Gty Friday Fri-day and Saturday. Several mem-hers mem-hers from Delta plan to attend. Dixie Dutson, chapter sweetheart, and Julia Lambright, attendant, will also represent DHS there and vie for the honor of State Sweetheart. Sweet-heart. Itites If eld for Former Resident Mrs. John (Wilhemlna) Walker, North Tract resident during the 1920's died Monday, March 19, after a stroke, friends here learned Friday. Funeral services were conducted Saturday in Inglewood. California. Mrs. Walker had lived in California Calif-ornia since the family moved from Delta around 1929. Survivors are twin sons, Robert, Fairbanks, Alaska; Ala-ska; Tevis. Corona Del Mar, and daughter. Mrs. Dorothy Burr, Corona Cor-ona Del Mar. Takes Post With Iload Commission O. J. Bennett. Delta, has accepted a post with the State Road Com mission, and ef'ect'.ive April 2 w.!l r.ll duties of radio dispatcher at Delta. Announcement of the appointment ap-pointment was male tday by St. H. C Sherwood, r.f the State Highway High-way Pr.'rol. j Mr. r"-ne!t. former deputy sher iff in Millard County, and present j city rrar'.al for the City of Delti. ; will assuT.e his new duties on , Moniay. j nwaU Dewsr.up. tni',9 dispa'ch-er dispa'ch-er at De'ta vi to date, is transferred transfer-red t the Highway Planning Sjr-ivey Sjr-ivey Division of the State Road Comm!!ori. rd will wrrk cut cf l.t Uk Ct7, March 30, 1956 Speech 3 Sect licit! n St. flicorge The annual Regional Speech meet was held in St. George, at Dixie College, this year on March 23 and 21. Those who participated from the Delta High were: Leah Church, Grace Warnick, David S. Crafts, Dorothy Morrison, Sherry Morris, Noel Twitchell, Nick Pace, Judy Petty, R'Lene Jensen, Frances Harris, David Church, Harry Wind, Jimmy Bishop, Jay Wilson, Glenn-da Glenn-da Snow and Paul Damron. On April the 6th and 7th at the State Forensic Meet at the University Uni-versity of Utah, the following students stu-dents will represent Delta in debate: de-bate: Leah Church, Grace Warnick, David Crafts and Dorothy Morrison. To be held on April 13. and 14 is the State Drama and Interpretive Interpre-tive Speech Festival at BYU. Participants in this meet had to obtain superior rating at the rel gional meet. Those who won this honor were: Sherry Morris, Leah Church, Dorothy Morrison and Harry Har-ry Wind. Heres' wishing all of them lots of luck. Delta DHS PTA Plans Forum at Meeting April 4 Delta Senior and Junior High School Parents-Teachers association associa-tion will conduct a forum for discussion dis-cussion of any problems pertaining pertain-ing to school as presented by parents par-ents and teachers at their meeting Wednesday night, April 4, iin DHS auditorium, at 8 p. m. Preceding the forum -will toe a program by DHS students, Including Includ-ing speeches that rated superior at the recent speech meeting in St. George, and won the right to compete in state finals. Dana Pratt, speech instructor, will introduce intro-duce the numbers. Special musical numbers will be given by the DHS band, under the direction of Evan Christensen. Parents are urged to attend the meeting and give their full support to the PTA program. Water At Delta Cemetery On April 2nd Water at the Delta Cemetery will be In and available Monday, April2, according to Glen Stewart, of the cemetery committee. The committee urges those who have cemetery lots to clean them now of weeds and trash. Mr. Stewart Stew-art said considerable Improvement has already been made, including the installation of three walk-In gates at the south. Cattle guards will soon be installed also. Arrangements may be made at Delta City Hall for caretaker service ser-vice at the cemetery, at $15 for a half lot. and $25 for a full lot, for the season. Jay Bunker will be custodian at the cemetery again this year. Anyone wishing to plant lawn on their lot this year should see Mr. Bunker or Mr. Stewart about the best method, depth of soil, and so on, to obtain the "best results. Those who wish fertilizer for their lots may obtain Jt from Mr. Bunker. Bun-ker. Receives Her Citizenship Mrsr. Ivy Allred of Hinckley received re-ceived her citizenship papers in ceremonies at the court house In I She was bom In Grimsby. Eng land, and came to the united States when she was 17 years of age. Later she went to Canada, where she and her husband. Douglas Doug-las Allred. resided until they came to Hinckley eight years ago. Mr. Allred, principal of Delta Junior High Sehoo". received his j citizenship papers at rephl last ( September. Meet Thursday On Direct Loans The public is invited to a meeting meet-ing Thursday. March 23, at 8 p. ri. In Del'a Hih School, en the veterans' vet-erans' direct loan program. E. W. Garbett and G. B. Brown, of Utah's Veterans Administration, will b present and discuss direct loans to veterans, f r farm, re-mod re-mod ellrg, and purchase of existing resiif-r.ee s. The r-.! r. wiill be in charge cf Garr Ashby. veterans firm trtlnlns prcjraja representative. $3.50 a Year in Advance verfurns Early Saturday And Injures Six A 1952 sedan with seven passengers, passen-gers, three adults and four children, child-ren, ran ,off the road and turned over Saturday at 6:30 a. m. 8 miles north of Delta on U.S. 6. Six of the passengers were injured, and one, a boy of C, escaped without a scratch. Driver of the car was Jerry L. Wooisey, 20, Naval Air Station, Oakland, Cal. With him in the car were his fiancee, Geraidine Partridge, Part-ridge, 28, from Ignashigq, Cal., her sister, Mrs. Evelyn Stott, 38, and Mrs. Stott's four children, Randy, 6, Linda, 4, Loren, 3, and Peggy, 8 months. They were on their ,way from Oakland, Cal., to Payson, to visit relatives, and had been driving since Friday at 8 a. m. Mr. Wooisey Wooi-sey had been relieved as driver for two periods of about an hour each on the trip. When the car turned over Mrs. Stott was thrown out and was pinned under the car so that she suffered a broken left shoulder and pelvis. Randy, eldest of the children was uninjured. Linda received a severe skull laceration, possible skull fracture and internal injuries. Loren Lo-ren had facial lacerations and an injured leg. Peggy, the baby, had lacerations about the head and right leg. Mr. Wooisey suffered minor cuts and bruises, and Miss Partridge had a broken left knee cap and numerous .bruises. Trooper Kenneth L. Clements, State Highway Patrol, Delta, investigated in-vestigated the mishap. The Injured travellers were taken tak-en to the Payson hospital, where Mrs. Stott and Linda, most seriously serious-ly injured of the group, were reported re-ported later in "fair" condition. Honor M-Men and Gleaners ot Saturday Event A banquet, program and dance honors M-Men and Gleaners of Deseret Stake Saturday night, and marks the close of M-Men and Gleaner week March 25 to April 1. The banquet, catered by the City Cafe, will begin at 7:30 p. m. Tickets Tic-kets for the affair are being sold in each ward, and deadline for the purchase at $1.10 each, is Thursday Thurs-day njght, so that the committee may know in advance how many to prepare for. " A special pro-rram will be given along with the 'banquet, with Richard Rich-ard Finlinson, Oak City, as master of ceremonies. Dancing will be later, to music by Bud's Eand. Special Invitations have been sent to all Master M-Men and Golden Gleaners for the affair. Mrs. Sheila Ogden is chairman of the event, assisted by Mrs. Vera Stevens, Gleaner Girl counselor, Raymond Vest, M-Men counselor, and Frank Bishop, advisor. Ladd R. Cropper Directs Hew Chorus in Reno Ladd R. Cropper, who served long and well as music director in west Millard, both in Hinckley ward and Deseret Stake, and the Desert Sentinels, is now director of a new chorus, the Sierra Singers, SO-voice male chorus, at Reno, Nevada. His wife, Mrs. May G. Cropper Is the chorus accompanist. The chorus is com prised cf members mem-bers cf the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from Reno, Sparks, and the University of Nevada. They presented their first concert March 17, in Sparks. The Reno Evening Gazette cf March 14 carried a picture of the group, and an article on their organization or-ganization and concert schedule, which includes Hawthorne, Susan-ville Susan-ville and Salt Lake City during March and April. In Salt L?ke City the chorus will furnish the music for the priest-hiol priest-hiol session of the annual April Conference cf the LDS church, Aprd 7. al the Tabernacle. Mrs. Ferr.ard Kinten returned to her h-yme st Hurricane, Utah, on i Mor.d?y, eft" a islt in Delta wilh her sister aid husbar.d. Mr. tr.d j Mrs. Ray EUho?. Also vising at the Eishp home recently were Mr. ' er.d Mrs. Joseph Ardencn, cf r;a.-Jsh. fork. |