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Show MILLARD COUNT CHRONICLE Delta. Utah. Thurs. March 28. 1857. Abraham Mrs. Alton Fullmer Our pretty oil well has gone and with It a lot of dreams but "What will be will be" who knows they may come back with a bigger rig and go further down. Oh well What's the use of cry ing over no oil. Mr. and Mrs. Max Ilolbrook, Mat Jr., Phillip and -Brad, all went to the wedding of Blanche's brother, Irvin, and Miss Janet Nelson, on Friday night in Salt Lake City, returning re-turning home the same night. Mr. Lee Talbot has gone back to Los Angeles to work. Mrs Gladys Tolbert spent Thursday Thurs-day in Hinckley at her relatives, doing genealogy work Clark and Reva Bliss drove to Provo Sunday taking Mr. and Mrs. . Rob Robinson with them. .They have a brand new Pontiac. The new car is a birthday present to Reva. Sherman and Gladys Tolbert have been going out to the Hot Springs to soak out some of the rheumatism. It really helps, I know. Miss Valay Deem, daughter of Orvial and Delia Deem, who goes to school in St, George, was home over the weekend, bringing her girl friend, Miss Gwen Roundy, with her. Winter Is hanging on hating to give way to spring been real cold of late. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Jeffery, who have been in Logan since January, while Reed was at USAC, returned to Delta this week for spring farm work. 5 t TO PROVE TO YOU WHAT THE EXPERTS ALREADY KNOW ABOUT AMERICA'S NUMBER ROAD CAR! f j? JHk &.L rm f fc - First the automotive writers said, "Keep your eye on Pontiac . . . this one's a sleeper"! Then the California Highway Patrol chose Pontiac after three days of grueling competitive tests of six of America's top performers. Next, in the top stock car event of the year, NASCAR's 160-mile Daytona Grand National, Pontiac outperformed everything on the beach including super-charged and fuel injection cars! NOW IT'S YOUR TURN Slip into that roomy driver's seat. Gently nudge the accelerator and feel Pontiac's barrel-chested 347 cu. in. Strato-Streak V-8 go into action. Put its instant response and Precision-Touch Control to a traffic test. Choose your own rough stretch and feel it disappear under Pontiac's Level-line Ride. The:v head for the open road and give that deep-breathing power plant a chance to show its mettle in the fresh open air. Man you've got a champ on your hands for sure! And to make it even more fun there's a chance to win a free Pontiac! Just follow the instructions at the right you may be a winning driver! HERE'S ALL YOU DO! Go to your nearest authorized Pontiac dealer during April and test drive the 1957 Pontiac. Fill out the official entry blank and deposit it with your dealer. That's all there is to III HJIJUT T IMAL, STATI ANB rEBERM. ftEULATIN. daytona grand national champi A stock 317-h.p. Pontiac with Tri-Power Carboretion-extre-cost option en any model-beat all competing con regardless of size, power or price in the biggest stack car competition of the year! SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC Dl!ALER 0- DRIVE THE SURPRISE CAR OF THE YEAR mm ...aunt. . . .VjASoCv-.v,;, n ..- AVilhv. GMMrfiaDM iMilHifil V I: :: a : Out of Kentucky, the great bourbon country, comes the greatest of them all, mellow, warmhearted, aged to perfection six full years . . . Ancient Age. We challenge you to find a better bourbon. Kentucky Ken-tucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old . 86 Proof Ancient Age Distilling Company, Frankfort, Kentucky -. . . eso f ...... t 1 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Delta Utah March 23, 1957 Editor, Millard Chronicle Publishing Co. ATTENTION: Richard Morrison, Author of "Once Over." Dear Richard: As I have told you many times on personal contact, con-tact, I enjoy your "Once Over" articles in the Chronicle Chron-icle very much and look forward to future enjoyment of reading more of them. I was particularly impressed impres-sed with your most recent one entitled, "A Word to the -Boosters." I am certainly no judge so say that what you stated therein isn't the opinion of a goodly number of local citizens, nor that you people aren't entitled to your opinions. However, I do think you might enjoy hearing from the other side of the fence. First, I would like to point out that' all of the projects pro-jects you mentioned over the past years, whether successful or not, have helped make Delta what it is today. However, you left out a very important one that helped our area financially very much and that project was the Topaz Relocation Center. Even the present, but soon past, project of the oil drilling has done much to bolster our area's economy. Farm product prices are at a low ebb, irrigation water is scarce, and high priced. A good number of the local people who would like to stay and enjoy your philosophy can't because they don't have the old monthly pay check rolling in. Already estimates from the County show a drop of approximately 1000 in population. Not dissatisfied people, Dick, but people peo-ple who want to stay and raise their families here but can't make a living. Look around. The business houses are more quiet now than they've been for a long time. Several have cut down employment to a bare minimum, and let's face it, some are folding up. A lot of local young farmers have had serious setbacks. set-backs. One of the things you probably didn't know is that our organizaton, the Millard County Industrial Development Association, was formed at the request of the County Commissioners and local civic groups to help improve the local employment situation so that people in your group won't get lonesome while ; you are enjoying pleasantness and security of our wonderful little community. As one of the speakers from the State Industrial Commission cited at one of our recent meetings, we won't attract near as many strange people to an industry in-dustry as we will the good old citizens of our County that have left and are yearning to return home if they could find work. We did recently help induce a fluorspar mill into our area that will employ about 12 to 15 local men. We are at present, as you know, trying to obtain a Naval Air Base in our County. This base will employ between 500 and 1000 civilians and almost all of these will be local County people. Maybe May-be even some of your group. The bomb target area that will help attract such a base is nothing more than the old Sevier Lake Bed and the miss'ile dropped is nothing more than a foot long steel cartridge with a 12 gauge shotgun white powder charge to indicate where the missile hits. I will assure you, myself and the group I work with, love and respect our local towns as much as anyone. I want my sons to be able to live and prosper pros-per here also, if they choose to do so. I want to be able to shape their future and mine. There are chances chan-ces to be taken and I'm willing to gamble. True, if the town had a large influx it might boost some people out of business. But the chance is worth taking. It gives a business a chance to use. integrity and competitive com-petitive measures they never knew they had. Our organization is made up of 50 active County people, including all walks of hie. They are ail working work-ing wholeheartedly on these projects and are proud of it. We will admit that the chances are slim of attracting at-tracting inductry, but the Naval Air Base does look very promising. All I can say is more people better get off their dead ends and help or we 11 be kept busy waving goodbye to our friends on the cut of town express. And I might add, I'm sure glad Adam and Eve didn't belong to your group or poor old Eden would be pretty dull by now. Sincerely yours, A "Hell Bender" . s Glen W. Swalberg Ass't County Agent CORNER -v. U. iAAjQ- f T S irr f -i-- -V" - , Tin i mm t - YOUR DOLLARS FIGHT CANCE! I I S3N.NS fU ItSURt FtHM 1 IwJ.'A!- v ' MM Ml ! vn,m : fm ItrMci MMarck I 1150 F in ft tr-ifr ;m but.. rt Cute leuvd H. 574-1 (Mat) Trees for Farm Plantings - Forms to order trees from Utah State Agricultural College for wood lot, windbreak or shelter belt nlanting may be obtained from the County Agricultural Agents' Office in Delta. Marven J Ogden, county agent, said trees should be ordered immediately im-mediately for complete selection of ' species and early shipment. Order forms also can be obtained from the USAC school of Forestry. Trees cost $2 to $4 per hundred. Farmers must agree to protect 'hem from fire, grazing, or other 'njurious agencies. They must also a;rree to cultivate and irrigate t.hem for the first four years. Trees are made available under the Clark-McNary Act. Hardwood types available include in-clude green ash, Siberian elm, black locust, thornless honey locust, lo-cust, Russian olive, black walnut, golden willow, lombardy popular, common lilac and squaw bush. Soft wood varieties Include ponde-rose ponde-rose pine, blue spruce, eastern red cedar, and Douglar fir. Plantings of more than two acres will qualify for soil bank benefits. However, the state forester's office in Salt Lake City must "be contacted contact-ed to obtain these benefits. Dr. T. W. Daniel, professor of forest management, said trees should be planted as early in the spring as the soil can be worked. Instruction on tree planting Is available free on request. Keep Machinery in Shape You can reap better service from your farm machinery if you put it in first class operating condition before using it in the spring. Plows should be cleaned and all loose bolts and nuts tightened. If nlowshares need to be sharpened, 'hey should be removed and taken to the blacksmith shop. Mold-boards Mold-boards should be protected with a coat of oil. Rolling coulters should be removed, and bearings washed and repacksd. Hay mowers should be cleaned thoroughly and the cutter bar checked for lead, register and bad ly worn guard sections. You cat run your ffnger along the ledge olates to determine if the serationt ire badly worn. You should check for excessive wear throughout the mower. Spike-tooth harrows should be checked, for alignment and rigidity rigid-ity of frames. Teeth should not track. They should all touch the floor when teeth are vertical. If 'hey are dull and have not been turned once, they can be remove'', ind turned through 180 degrees. If this already has been done, they should be removed and shar-nened shar-nened by a blacksmith. Tractors should be cleaned, and each unit checked for loose or missing cap screws and nuts. Valves Val-ves can be checked by cranking he engine slowly when it is warm and as each piston nears the end of its compression stroke allow it to rock backward momentarily against the compression pressure. Check the electrical and cooling svstems, too. Buy Good Seed Good seed is the first step to success in growing crops. Seed should be high in germination germina-tion and free of noxious weeds and other crop seeds. It should be a variety adapted to your locality. You can't tell good seed by just looking at it The tag on the bag ?;ives information to help you. Check it carefully. State law requires all Beed offered offer-ed for sale to be tested and tagged showing germination, purity and weed seeds. Certified seed is best It is your guarantee of high quality qual-ity and a variety true to name. Look for the tag and seal of the TTtah Crop Improvement Associa tion. : 4 j Check Leaky Head Gates Inow is a good time lor larmera to check leaky head gates to prevent pre-vent loss of precious irrigation water during the growing season. It is estimated that even with the best irrigation systems, whert ditches are concrete-lined, 5 to 10 per cent of the water is lost. Millard County farmers shoul' check turn-outs, head gates, mea suring devices and other contro, structures and repair them when necessary to avoid seepage Iom and leaks. Water lost through leaky head gates means less available for the growing crops. This, in turn, means less crop production, less incom per acre. Take Care of Barnyard Manure There's money in manure, Dr. Paul Chustensen, soil conservationist conservation-ist at Utah State Agricultural College, Col-lege, points out. He says barnyard manure is worth about $2 per ton as a fertilizer, chicken manure even more. Manure also has real value as organic matter. As it decomposes it improves the physical conditioii of soil. Manure may lose its fertilizer value through leaching and through nitrogen escaping into the air. Manure left in loose open piles may burn and lose considerable of its organic value. The best way to handle manure is to keep it in moist, compact piles, or let it build up under sheds where animals keep it packed. In addition, straw may be used as bedding under sheds and absorb . the liquid portion of the manure |
