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Show I ur-vear-lci my Pies or lines if ter factor ftSisha "SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DELTA 'A Volume 48 Number Sutherland MRS. DORA ROSE Mrs. Nina Johnson and her two daughters, Evelyn and Elouise, made a trip to Provo last weekend to visit with Jeneal and then stopped stop-ped at Spanish Fork to visit with Delia and Kenneth May and their children. Mr. and Mrs. Heber Tippetts and Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Morgan made a trip to Provo on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Morgan are sporting a new car since their return, one they purchased while they were at Provo. Michael Petersen received a letter from a German boy, Herman Kaminski. Through the Delta Junior High School Michael was able to strike up this correspondence. This boy informed Michael that his father is a policeman, and that he has a sister. Many interesting things about Germany were conveyed con-veyed to Michael. Gary Steele was a visitor at Sutherland on Sunday. Mrs. Robison, mother of Ben Ro-bison Ro-bison and Nella Jackson, visited with them last week. Mrs. Delilah Ogden's mother was here to visit with Delilah and her family on Sunday. Gail Skidmore Is spending his two weeks' leave with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Evan Skidmore and family. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Johnson, Ray and Anna Lee, made a trip to Salt Lake on Friday, returning the same day. - Gary Church visited on Sunday with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ken-neth Porter and Shauna. Mrs. Arva Witbeck and her girl friend spent the weekend with Arva's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Johnson and Jerry. Arva had a break from her student teaching. Mr. and Mrs. Reed Tippetts and their children, Jill and Lee, spent the weekend at Duchesne visiting with their brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Perry Tippetts and family. Perry is the principal of the Duchesne Du-chesne school. Miss Gwen Lazenby from Salt Lake City was with her folks the Ell Fowles, over the weekend. Golda and Parnel Pratt and' children, chil-dren, Susan and Stephen, an uncle and aunt of Rae Petersens, spent the weekend in Sutherland with the Petersens. Mr. Henry Hoff also visited with the Petersens. Henry is a student at the BYU. The Bert Johnsons received a photograph of their son Howard, who is serving as an LDS missionary mission-ary in New Zealand. He has a look of maturity that has been gained since his departure from Sutherland, Suther-land, and he has also a look of a very dilligent worker and not the "easy going" type. High Councilman Walter Wright brought his program here on Sunday. Sun-day. Walter, Cloyd Talbot and George Geo-rge Sampson gave talks, and Mr. and Mrs. Junior Anderson sang a duet accompanied by Hazel Walker. The Youth Choir furnished the music with Linda Walker as organist organ-ist and Ora Mae May as conductor. Mrs. Talbot and Mrs. Wright accompanied ac-companied their husbands and it's very good to have them with us. It seems our seasons have themselves them-selves twisted slightly around, with winter changing places with spring. iHowever, the farmers being able to snatch a little time for work In "between the weather changes may get their farm work accomplished after all. Anyway the moisture is welcomed whole heartedly and all are thankful for it. The school kids enjoyed this past weekend very much because of the spring vacation and it seems that some of thhe teachers as well as the students took advantage of the vacation by tripping off to the city. Miss Gwen Lazenby and her girl friend from Salt Lake spent the weekend with Gwen's folks, Mr. and Mrs. Ell Fowles, Colleen, Frank and Sterling. Mrs. Zerma Schlappi was a representative repre-sentative of the Stake Sunday-School Sunday-School at the Sutherland Ward on Sunday. She has course No. 6 in charge and visited the class of Floyd Johnson. The Moodys have received word from their son Phillip and he is getting along fine. The allotted time for Lyman Henrie will soon have expired and we are all looking forward to his return. Many people from this area at-ttended at-ttended the basketball finals at Provo this weekend, among them were Marlene and Orland Ogden, Grant and Dale Bishop and others. Many of us live a long time before be-fore we seem to learn some of the fairly simple things that could have eased the way and made life more meaningful for us and for others. Many of us live a lone time before be-fore we learn to live; this may be one of life's chief purposes, to prepare Tor the things which are prepared in eternitv. Manv laws and manners are man made, but the things we have to learn as we 36 Thursday, March Delta Jaycee Wives Yiil Present Annual Fashion Revue March 26 It's time to mark your calendar again! The event is the annual Fashion Revue sponsored y the Delta Jaycee Wives. It will be held on March 26, 1S58 at the Delta High School auditorium at 8:00 p.m. Plans are now nearing completion, complet-ion, and it looks as if this will again be a gala showing o'f fashions fash-ions for all ages, and will, of course, include both women's and men's apparel. This is the fourth yearthe Jaycee Jay-cee Wives have sponsored this affair, and we hope you will agree that each year the show is a little better than the one before. This year shows every sign of being an outstanding event for everyone. The proceeds received from this event are not kept in the club treasury, but are all spent for some civic project and the betterment of our communities. Wet Weather Is With Us Iloora.v A light tut steady snowfall has been with us all day Wednesday and west Millard is soaking it up as puddles form and gutters fill in Delta. And with all that moisture, or so it seerrfs, precipitation of .04 inches inch-es was recorded by CAA at Delta municipal airport Wednesday forenoon. fore-noon. As the storm is continuing, that 'figure may go up considerably considerab-ly before the sun shines. The bilzzard Saturday, first fierce one locally in some time, was recorded re-corded by CAA as 2inches snowfall, snow-fall, and precipitation of .12 inches. inch-es. The airport must have been windswept, toward Delta, for many Deltans reckoned 4 inches of snow, filled with water. Deseret reported .17 inches moisture content in Saturday's storm. Mission Report ELDER GEORGE EDDIE DUTSON. home from two years in the British LDS Mission, will give his report in Delta First Ward Sunday, March 16, at 7:30 p. m. Open house for Eler Dutson will b9 held Sunday afternoon, from 2 to 6 p. m.. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Christensen in Delta, and again after church Sunday evening. All friends and neighbors are cordially cordi-ally invited to attend. Elder Dutson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oakland Dutson, Deltans now it Inglewood, Calif., were in Delta 'ant week and went on from Salt 'ake City Friday via United Air Une, to Lansing. Michigan, where they met their son. They are tra-vs'ling tra-vs'ling home by car. and will be joined at Delta by Beverly, Mildred and Nolan Dutson. from Inglewood, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jackson, of Kearns, to greet their brother. Eefore his departure for the United States and home Elder Dut son traveled in Germany, Switzer land, Paris and Holland, with SP3 Glen E. Jeff err, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orvil Jeffery. of Delta, when Glen had a furlough from the U.S. Army in Germany. DELTA SEMINARY SPONSORS PROGRAM The Delta L.D.S. Seminary is sponsoring a radio program on rad'o station KSVC Richfield this coming Sunday, March 16 at 3:30 p. m. and again in the evening. Those participating are: Glenda Memmott, Dwain Jackson, Anthony Adams. Jean Taylor, Arthur Jeffery, Mike Bennett. Dale McCormick, Caryl Eishop, Nadine Turner and Joalyn Stapley. live are that timeless virtues, eternal truths, the ageless questions ques-tions of right and wrong are not man made. There is a light which guides and even one who hasn't been taught to have an acute conscience is not happy if the course of his life is running against the light. Warmest regards (but not from the weather) your reporter. ND THE GREAT PAHVANT VALLEY" 13, 1958 Delta. Utah The Jaycee Wives take this op- portunity to thank you one and all for the support you have given us in oast vears. and sincerely hope that you will come out and enjoy the show again this year, Mrs. Margaret Roper has consented consen-ted to be our Fashion Commentator and is working with the local stores to bring you some outstanding outstand-ing news about this year's styles. Tickets may be obtained from any Jaycee Wife, or will be available avail-able at the door. Is Appointed to Denver Hospital Miss Mary Ann Hopkins, former casework supervisor for Family Service Society of Salt Lake City, has been appointed director of social service and rehabilitation at National Jewish Hospital at Denver. Miss Hopkins has been with the hospital since 1953. She will direct a sta'tf of social workers, occupational occupa-tional therapists and teachers who are putting into practice new con cepts of rehabilitation of tuberculosis tubercu-losis patients. A native qf Delta, Millard County, ' ;vnss nopiinis is a &i auuatc ui ham Young University. She was a school teacher in Utah for some time, later graduating from the New York School of Social Work. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers. Miss Hopkins is a daughter of Mrs. Flora Koiter, former Deltan ' now at Vernal. She taught at Delta Elementary School several years after her graduation from BYU. Thank All for I Fine Support Of Heart Fund Another Heart Fund campaign has come and gone and once a-gain a-gain the residents of West Millard Mil-lard have demonstrated their generosity gen-erosity by surpassing their previous contributions. These results were achieved by efforts of the Lady Lions in Delta, assisted by women in each community. com-munity. We congratulate each and every one on the wholehearted and thoughtful manner in which you rendered this important public service. We extend to you the sin-cerest sin-cerest thanks of the association's officers, members and volunteers. Sincerely, Loa Black, Pres., Lady Lions verna uaraner, aec y-ireas,. Following is the amount con- tri'buted rrom eacn district: Abraham $ 24.95 Sutherland - 64.95 Sugarville 31.77 Deseret 57.36 Hinckley 40.20 Leamington 26.47 Lynndyl 31.32 Oak City 41.92 Oasis 34.11 Delta 1st 133.73 Delta 2nd 104.75 Delta 3rd 109.83 TOTAL $701.36 Alcohol Topic Of Discussion Facts concerning alchoholic bev-?rages bev-?rages were presented to the stu-lents stu-lents of Delta High School by Mr. 'larris, a representative of the government, through the Utah University, Uni-versity, Tuesday, March 11th at second period. Out of 100.000,000 adults in the Jnited States 70,000,000 drink alcohol. al-cohol. Seventy-five out of every '00 college students drink these leverages. One out of every four-een four-een of these social drinkers become be-come alchoholics and one out of very four of these doomed drinkers drink-ers are women. There is no prescribed eure once person acquires this habit, but he person must endure torture only known to alchoholics, 'for some ime to overcome the disease. One -.wallow thereafter will cause this oerson to come under this diseaso igain without cure and will shorten 'lis life. It ranks among the most dreaded diseases known to man. Mr. Harris said he has been cure! for 11 Vi years; he was on "skid row" himself for twenty-five years; and once, during this time, he was drunk for a period of fifteen months. He stated that as a youth he had good athletic abilities and he had possibilities of a good military mili-tary career if it hadn't been for alchohol. The reason he came under un-der such a condition was that he hadn't known he was among the 1 out of 14 that are natural alchoholics. alcho-holics. He stated that there are few people that know this until it is too late. $3.50 a year in Advance Schedule Clinic Monday 3Ioriaing A clinic Lot typhoid and small- Pox shots opens Monday morning ai ueua uin aciiooi, iur wn High and Junior High. A second clinic will be later Monday morning at Delta Elemen tary school for the elementary school children. The public, as well as pupils are invited to the clinic, which will be conducted by Mrs. Mary B. Graff, Millard public health nurse. Those who haven't had shots in 5 years should have them again she said, or one can have boosters The F.hots will be given in a series of three, with the 'first Mon day, second on March 24, and the third on March 31. f5 " r - i LOADED WITH GRAVEL soon after this picture was take( this dump tnjck bought by the city of Delta last month is useJ on the Delta street depaitment and water department. HOMEMAKERS MEET MONDAY AT 1:30 "Use of Pictures in the Home" will 'be the subject discussed by Rhea Gardner, Home Furnishings Specialist from Utah State University Uni-versity at West Millard Homemak-ers Homemak-ers Club meeting Monday, March 17. Meeting time is 1:30 p.m., at the Home Economics room at Delta Del-ta High School, in cooperation with Mrs. Alice Gardner's Home Ec. classes. Rhea Gardner is well informed in her field, and gives a most interesting in-teresting presentation. All Home-makers Home-makers are invited to hear her discussion. Mr. and Mrs. June Black left UVlliA 1 UfSUdJf iui a ivccr a viaiu in Los Angeles, California. Kennard Riding threw a scare into his wife and neighbors Tuesday Tues-day morning when he was found in the yard unable to move. He had been swinging from a bas in the yard in an ei'iort to cure a stitch in his back, when the stitch Ued Wm in Rnots The neighbors helped carry him into the house, and he is now recovered. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Scott Chesley, and Mr. and Mrs. John Day took in the Class B basketball tournament in Provo. I) 2 A WREATH OF RED EOSES IN memory of her brother, Theodore Que Jensen, kil'.ed at Pearl Harbor DG:embr 7, 1941, is placed by Mrs. Ruth Steele, second from right, on the goli plaque on the U.S.S. Arizona. At left are Elder Ksnt Dewsnup end his mother. Mrs. Arpriila Scow, and at right is Sharon Steele. Their tour of Pearl Harbor was made Feb. 24, and per- f Bradley Vaughn Maxfield, 4-year o il son of Dee and Donna Lewis Maxfield, of Trout Creek, died Wednesday forenoon of injuries received about 10:30 a.m., when he was run over by a tractor driven driv-en by his father. The parents started from the ranch, 100 miles northwest of Delta, Del-ta, as soon as possible with the child to bring him to Delta for medical care. He died shortly after they left their home. The accident occurred while Mr. Maxfield was cleaning a long, narrow nar-row shed at his ranch, working with a bulldozer and track-type tractor. While he backed in and out of the building the boy had been within view, playing nearby at the ftnee. "When he re-entered the shed he saw the child on the ground, where apparently he had fallen as the tractor backed over one side of his body. Bradley Vaughn Maxfield was born at Ogden Sept. 9, 1953. He is survived by his parents, a brother, broth-er, Gerald Dee, and a sister, Vic toria, all of Trout Creek, Juab County; a grandmother, Mrs. Idon-na Idon-na Maxfield, Kearns, Utah. He was a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Dorsey i 8 r All streets in the City of Delta will be graveled as soon as possible. possi-ble. Mayor Max Robison stated today, and the truck, used, but stout and sturdy, will be kept busy. - Births This Week To Floyd and Doneta Works Hardy, Delta, a girl, 714 lbs., Feb. 28. To Richard Dell and Barbara Petersen Peter-sen Ashby, Delta, a boy, 9 lbs., March 5. To Cleone and Arlene Hurst Talbot, Hinckley, a boy, 7 l'bs. 3 oz., on March 12. Dr. Van Orden of the Utah State University at Logan will speak at the Delta High School P-TA meeting meet-ing Thursday, March 20th. The subject of his speech will be: "The Implications of Science in Today's Society." Everyone is urged to at- tend this interesting and informa- tlVe leCtUTC Karen, 10-months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Carling, was an overnight patient at the Delta hospital Tuesday for medical care. Reed Stewart, of Hinckley, is a medical patient at ' the Delta hospital. Mrs. Parley Elder, of Oak City, was brought home Wednesday in the Nickle ambulance after five weeks in a Salt Lake hospital. She is now at the Wixom Rest Home in Oak City. I mission to go on the Arizona and place the flowers was arranged by William A. CottrelL National Vice Commander of the American Legion, and Dr. Phillip M. Corboy, Past National Executive Committeeman, Commit-teeman, both living in Honolulu. T. H. Theodore Que Jensen, for whem Post 117, American Legion. j is named, lost his life on the U.S.S. Oklahoma when the ship capsized i ; k?, 4 :fvV , - . tit, 1 " - I H ' v.-.'-o St. fc . .,M .? Sabey, residents of Delta since last September. Funeral Saturday Funeral services will be conduct-, ed Saturday at 12 noon, at Callao, in the LDS Branch church. Friends may call at the Callao Relief Si-ciety Si-ciety room Saturday morning until un-til time of services. Burial will 'be in the Ibapah cemetery, under direction of Nickle mortuary, of Delta. Small Business Advisers Visit Delta March 17 Mr. R. Clair Anderson of Mantl, Chairman of the Small Business Administration Field Advisers for the State of Utah, announces an SBA Business Prospect Survey in the interest of small business in the Delta area. Conducting the the survey starting March 17 will be Mr. Harold R. Smethills, Region al Director of the Small Business Administration in Denver, Colorado, and Mr. M. C. Danielson, Regional Chief of the Administration's Pro curement and Technical Assistance Division. Accompanied by Mr. Anderson, these officials will visit as many Ismail shops and manufacturing plants as possible during the week of March 17. They will observe plant production potential and capacities and offer advice on such subjects as Finance, Government Contracts, Management, Develop ment Credit, Increased Production, New Products or other similar busi ness problems. The Survey Team will be In the Delta area on March 17, and con duct a survey o'i the area. A public meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Delta Seminary Building. The general public is invited and urged to attend the meeting and present any questions or problems they may have for discussion and solution. The meeting is being sponsored by the Delta Lions' Club, the Delta Jaycees, and the Delta Kiwanis Club. Attcmlecl I.O.O.F. Meet at Heaver Les Welton and Dick Hunsaker were representatives of Delta Lodge No. 59, I.O.O.F. at the state Odd Fellows and Rebekahs assembly held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday Wed-nesday of last week at Beaver. Betah Rebekah Lodge No. 47, I.O.O.F. was representated by Mrs. Mabel Welton and Mrs. lone Holl-ingshead. Holl-ingshead. Also present for the 3-day meet were Mrs. Phyllis Munster, who was named state warden for 1958, and Mrs. Louise Bogh, 1957 state treasurer. treas-urer. Mrs. Welton was 1957 chaplain. chap-lain. Coiislsaet Police Training School A Police Training school, first in a series of five, was conducted Wednesday, March 5, at Delta by Special Agent Ralph H. Jones, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Investiga-tion. Four counties were represented by sheriffs and deputies, Delta City Police, and Leonard Vodak, Delta City Councilman, in charge of public safety. The second school in the series will be conducted at Nephi on March 19. :1 30 minutes after it was hit. The Arizona sank in 36 feet of water upright. The main deck is 8 feet below water, and a small portion of the top deck is above water, where an American flag flies proudly proud-ly ever the ship. There are 1102 men stEl entombed in the Arizona. Only a few are permitted to visit the ship at one time, and with Mrs. Steele and her party were i Navy narrator and a photographer. Desert Sentinels Scheduled for Spring Concerts The Desert Sentinels presented an outstanding concert in Fountain Foun-tain Green Friday evening. Richard Rich-ard Long directed and Mis-s Linda Walker was accompanist. Mrs. Long was guest soloist, and a male quartet quar-tet sang two numbers. On April 9 the Sentinels have been invited to present a concert at theMillard High school in Fillmore. Fill-more. They also have a concert scheduled in Circleville which will be sponsored by the stake there. Enrollment of the chorus has increased in-creased to 26 members now, and Mr. Long is preparing four special numbers to sing with the Sierra Singers of Reno, Nevada, when they present a concert in Deseret Stake house on Friday, April 18, directed by Ladd R. Cropper. Adult Education Classes Cover Field of Yariety Adult Education classes at Delta High school will be held as usual Thursday evening. Classes now being held include Advanced Sewing and Tailoring, Mrs. Gladys Eppich, instructor; Knitting, Mrs. Rae Huff; Repairing and Refinishing Furniture, at Del ta High School shop, James Wil liams instructor; Male Chorus, Rich ard Long, director; Farm Co-ops, George Spencer, and Advanced Sewing and Tailoring, at Sutherland, Suther-land, Mrs. LuclllStapley, instructor. instruct-or. Another sewing class at Sutherland Suther-land will begin March 20 for ten weeks. Ten classes have been completed at the Delta High School, and 13 at Millard High School, since November, No-vember, 1957. Short courses planned at Delta include Demonstration of Sewing with emphasis on collars, Mrs. The-ta The-ta Jones, USU; Landscaping, What Adults Should Know About Driving Driv-ing a Car, and Mental Health. A class. The Exceptional Child, will be taught by Mrs. Harriet Eli-ason. Eli-ason. The Adult Education program will end in Millard County about May 12, according to Mrs. Sebrina Ekins, director. Van Motor Co. Adds New 3 9 an Ralph (Stony) Stoneking is now emplayed in the shop at Van's Motor Co. in Delta, according to Frank Van, owner and manager, and will handle the shop work, including body and fender work and painting. "Stony" has twenty years experience ex-perience in that line of work and brings skill and ability to the shop, Mr. Van said. He was 2V4 years at Tooele Ordnance, Ord-nance, on front end alignment, wheel balancing and frame straigt-ening. straigt-ening. He operated a body and fender shop at Roosevelt three years, and worked at Peterson Motor a year. For the past three years he did welding, body and fender, and farm machinery work for Done Equipment. A Variety Show of ten novelty numbers from BYU and dinner at Deseret Stake House are the outstanding out-standing entertainment Saturday night, March 15, sponsored by the Hinckley Elders Quorum as a missionary mis-sionary benefit Tickets for the event may be obtained from Duane Galli, Douglas Spencer or Dee Stevens. Stev-ens. 4-H CLUI NEWS ITEMS We held our first meeting Monday, Mon-day, March 10, 1958. We elected officers the first thing. The President is Kent Canister, Vice President, Jerry Callister, Secretary, Sec-retary, Jackie Corbett and Reporter, Ronald Baker. We named our club The South Tract Farmers. West Millard Electricians March 5, 1958, we the West Millard Mill-ard Electricians held our first meeting meet-ing this year. It was held at the County Office in Delta and we elected new officers. offi-cers. They are Gary Barney, Pres.; David Taylor, Vice Pres.; Gordon Jay Stone, Sec; Rex Stone, Reporter. Repor-ter. Lionel Taylor is our advisor. This is our second year for Electricians Elec-tricians and we discussed our program pro-gram for the following year. Our next meeting will be on March 19. There were eleven members present. Rex Stone, reporter. Deseret 4-H Club A first year 4-H Club was organized organ-ized March 6 at Deseret. They chose the name "Six Seam Queens." Officers are President, Susan Rowley; Vice President, Bonnie Jensen; Sec. & Tres., Gloria Conk; Reporter, Gaylyn Cropper; Activity Chairman, Kathleen Knight; Song Leader, Marilyn Mace. They are taking Phase 1 of Sewing Sew-ing and their leader is Beulah Rowley. |