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Show strollin9 9round town DELTA. UTAH Population 1703 City Water and Sewer Electric Service Surfaced Streets Churches, Civic Clubs, Bank Veteran's Groups Hospital, Library Municipal Swimming Pool Police Department Municipal Airport CAA Station MILLARD COUNTY Population, 9,365 Grazing and Industrial Lands Alfalfa Seed, Honey, Poultry and Turkey Raising Stockraising, Dairy Farming Ducks, Geese, Pheasants Deer, Cottontail Rabbits Trout, Bass and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Live! About Weather Hottest day of the past week was 93 on June 5, and lowest temperature tem-perature was that same day, with 42. The thermometer clirrfbed 51 degrees during the day. The weather cooled to 80 June 9, and 83 June 10. Early June 11 Deseret recorded 50 for the lowest temperature, tem-perature, and warm winds all day fanned the mercury upward. No precipitation for the week. Salk Shots Summertime is polio time. NOW is the time to start your polio vaccination. vac-cination. It's painless. It's inexpensive. inex-pensive. Don't take a chance take your polio shots. Not till everybody every-body has recived his series of three Salk shots will the dread plague of paralytic polio be com-pletly com-pletly wiped out in this country. At Girls State Among the 282 young citizens of Utah Girls State this week are Linda Walker, Elaine Cole, Charlotte Char-lotte Taylor, Andrea Moody and Jolinda -Alldradge. In city elections Monday, Elaine Cole was named a commissioner of Eisenhower City, Charlotte Taylor is a commissioner of Roosevelt City, and Linda Walker Walk-er is a commissioner of Washington Washing-ton City. Final Rites Funeral services for George Spencer Young, 90, believed to be the oldest grandson of Brigham Young, were conducted Tuesday in Salt Lake City. Mr. Young died Friday at Burbank, Millard County. Coun-ty. He had resided at Delta from December, 1957, until after the close of school in May, 1958, when he moved to Burbank with his son, J. Chester Young. His wife, Mrs. Martha Rigoy Young, died at Delta Feb. 28, 1958. Active and alert for his many years Mr. Young is well remembered by Deltans who saw him on his daily horseback rides about town, mounted on his Tennessee walker. Ear Commissioner Mr. and Mrs. Thorpe Wadding-ham Wadding-ham attended the Utah Bar Com mission meeting Friday in Salt Lake City. Mr. Waddingham, Delta attorney, was named Bar Commissioner for a three-year term at the Utah State Bar convention in Salt Lake May 15 and 16. Attention! I Saturday, June 21 will be a big day for Delta shoppers. In order to raise money for much needed built-in sewing room, all members Delta Second Ward are donating surplus articles of clothing and household items, also delicious home made bread, rolls, pies.etc. These articles will be on sale all day at 271 West Main, just west of Killpack barber shop. Remerriber the date, June 21. Come in and save. Eastern Trip Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bishop, of Salt Lake City, former residents o Hinckley, returned recently from a vacation in the east. They Hew to New York City via United Air Lines and drove back with their daughter daugh-ter and her husband, Beverly and Bruce Smith, and family. After a week of sightseeing in and around New York City they visited Niagara Falls and places of historical Interest In-terest in connection with the establishments estab-lishments of the LDS Church at Palmyra, N. Y., Kirtland, Ohio, Nauvoo and Carthage, Illinois. Senior S:hedule Softball Scores June 5 three Softball games opened the senior schedule, with scores as follows: Lynndyl-Leam-ington, 2, Delta 3rd, 10; Delta 1st, 9, Sutherland, 7; Deseret, 5 Hinckley, Hinck-ley, 12. June 6, Delta 2nd scored 3 to Oak City's 1. Sutherland racked up 13, to Lynndyl-Leamingtons, 3. Delta 3rd vs Deseret was postponed. post-poned. In a recent issue of the newspaper news-paper at Yuma, Ariz., was a picture pic-ture of Charles Warnick. former Dcltan, which read "KNOWS APPLIANCES". AP-PLIANCES". Appliance manager at the downtown Yuma store is Charles G. Warnick. Better known as Charlie, he joined Imnerial Hardware Hard-ware in January of 1948. He and his wife, Jonnie, have three daughters, Claudia, Cristina, and Vickie. Charlie is a son of Mrs. Lvnn Warnick, of Delta. Bonnie Marie Walker, 16. daughter daugh-ter of Mr. and Mrs. Faye Walker, of Deltn, is recovering at the Delta hospital after an appendectomy, Tuesday. 'SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT VALLEY" Volume 48 Number 80th Ilirihdny On Saturday June 14, between 2 and 7 p.m., Mrs. Geneverie Blan-chard Blan-chard of Oak City will be honored by family and friends at an open house on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Friends are cordially invited to attend. Mrs. Blanchard requests no gifts, please. Mrs. Blanchard has lived in Oak City for the past few years. She has been and is still active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints. She served many years is Relief Society visiting teacher, ind many other positions. She was born June 14, 1878, in MRS. GENEVERIE BLANCHARD Sweetwater, Nebraska, and moved west to teach school in Montana. Was married to Don Carlos Blanchard Blan-chard and moved to Idaho and Nevada. After his death, Mrs. Blanchard Blan-chard came to Utah to reside near her daughter, Mrs. Melvin Anderson. Ander-son. Mrs. Blanchard is the mother of twelve children, of whom nine are still living. They are Iris Lish, Empire, Em-pire, Nevada; William Alfred Blanchard Blan-chard Boise, Idaho; Evelyn Lish, Weimer, Calif.; Reuben Don Blanchard, Blan-chard, Reno, Nev.; Ralph Eugene Blanchard, Monterey, Calif.; Irvin Perry and Thad Everett, Lovelock, Nev.; Josephine Lee, Fallon, Nev., and Donna Anderson, Oak City. She has forty grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. Polls Set for June 20 Wheat Vote Voting places for the referendum to be held June 20 on marketing quotas for the 1959 wheat crop were announced today by Gene A. Walker, Chairman County Agricultural Agri-cultural Stabilization and Conservation Conser-vation Committee. Hhe locations are as follows: Scipio Town Hall, Holden Recreation Recrea-tion Hall, Kanosh Town Hall, Meadow Mea-dow "Recreation Hall, Oak City Church, Delta ASC Office, Millard ASC County Office. Eligible voters may cast their ballots at their local polling place any time between the hours of 8:00 am and 7:00pm on June 20, the Chairman said. Farmers who are eligible to vote in the wheat quota referendum are all those who in 1959 will have First Call for Farm Bureau Talent Find and Talk Meet Millard County Farm Bureau Talent Find and Talk Meet contest will be held early in August. The Farm Bureau amateur (junior) (jun-ior) Talent Find contest is open to boys and girls up to and in cluding 17 years of age, who are members of Farm Bureau families. fam-ilies. The Rural Youth Talent Find participants must be members of Farm Bureau families, and 'be 18 ( to 28 years of age inclusive. Contests are open for vocal solos, duets, trios or quartets, instru-mentals, instru-mentals, novelty stunts, dance numbers, readings or dramatic numbers, not to exceed five minutes. min-utes. scoring will be 20 audience reaction; 20 presentation; 20 adaptability to Farm Bureau meetings, meet-ings, and 40 quality of number and artistic development. UPcsL to Utah Power & Light Co. has an- j pounced its participation along; with seven other utilities of the! Rocky Mountain and Northwest! Pacific states in a two year re-j search effort to competitively produce pro-duce electricity from nuclear fission. fis-sion. E. M. Naughton, UP&L president, said the Rocky Mountain-Pacific' Thursday, June Final Rites for W. E. Robison Conducted Friday Funeral services were conducted Friday for Willis E. Robison Jr., 81 at 1 p.m. in Hinckley Ward chapel by Oren Bliss, second counselor of Hinckley Ward bishopric. Mr. Robison died June 4 of natural nat-ural causes at a rest home in Par-owan, Par-owan, where he had been for the past two years. He had lived at Hinckley since 1906. He was second child in a family of fourteen, of whom two survive. He had never married. Opening song was "Oh My Father", by the ward choir. Prelude fusic was by Mrs. Roma Ekins. Invocation Invoca-tion was by Don A. Bishop. Prayer with the family prior to the services ser-vices was by Leonard Palmer. Speakers were Arthur H. Reeve and Mrs. Mary Lyman Reeve friends of many years of Mr. Robison. Rob-ison. They paid tribute to his honesty, kindness and willingness to help others. "Prayer Perfect" was sung by Eleanor Roberts, Choral Clark and Sharon Clark, nieces of Mr. Robison, with piano accompaniment by Karen Roberts. The choir sang "Nearer My God to Thee", and the benediction was by Aroet Taylor. Burial was in the Hinckley cemetery. cem-etery. Orlando Hepworth dedicated the grave. Pallbearers were Clark Bliss, Frank Robison, Brose Roberts, Harry Rodabaugh, Carl Workman and Orlando Hepworth. Members of the family from out of town that attended the services were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Robison, son Frank Jr. daughters, Luella and Mrs. Thomas Rynearson, from Murray; Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rodabaugh, Roda-baugh, and Mrs. Mildred Stutz, Provo; Mrs. Marian McClellan, Mrs. Mary Lyman Reeve, Salt Lake City, Mrs. Loa Hansen, Mrs. Vangy Ras-mussen Ras-mussen and Dee Robison, Fillmore. farm, except those who are participating part-icipating in the 1958 feed wheat program. Feed wheat participants are permitted to grow up to 30 acres of wheat for use only on the farm where grown, without being subject to marketing quota penalties. If at least two-thirds of the growers who vote in the referen-dum referen-dum approve the quotas they will remain in effect for 1959-crop wheat and price support will be available to farmers who comply with their farm wheat allotments at a national average of not less than $1.81 per bushel, or 75 percent of parity. Farmers who exeed the larger of the farm allotment of 15 acres will be subject to a marketing mar-keting penalty of 45 percent of the wheat parity price on their "excess" wheat, and if the excess is not stored or delivered to the Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture, the excess acreage will not be considered in setting future allotments. If the quotas are not approved by at least two-thirds of the growers grow-ers voting, they will not be in effect, ef-fect, and price support will be available to farmers who comply with their farm wheat allotments at about $1.20 per bushel, or 50 percent of parity. The Rural Youth Talk Meet participants part-icipants 18 to 28 year, inclusive. The 1958 subject is "Change in Agriculture How It Affects Our Future". Time limit for the talks is five minutes. Notes may be used. Scoring will be content, 40; stage presence, style and voice, each 15, and effect on audience, 15. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Workman and children, from Toole, are visiting in Delta with parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Workman and Mr. and Mrs. Morgan May. They are going on to Flagstaff Ariz., where Dale has been transferred for three months as accountant. Pvt. Donald J. Floyd, who has been at Fort Devens, Mass., is spending a furlough in Delta with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Floyd. 50 Participate in Nuclear Research Nuclear Research Group in turn has associated itself with General Atomic division of General Dynamics Dy-namics Corp.'s already multi-million dollar research effort. Mr. Naughton said prime goal of the study program is "development "develop-ment of reactors capable of producing pro-ducing high temperatures and pressure pres-sure utilized in modern power plant 12, 1958 Delta, Utah Recovers from Crash Injuries In Mishap Sunday at Willard Stephenson suffered a concussion in a two-vehicle collision col-lision Sunday on an intersection in Colton, Calif. The accident occurred oc-curred about 10 a.m. as Mr. Stephenson Steph-enson and three young Deltans, Kay Bassett, Richard Moody and Newman Callister, were on their way to LDS conference. Word of the accident was telephoned tele-phoned to Mrs. Stephenson Sunday afternoon, at Delta, and at that time, several hours after the col- lieccives Degree At U.S.U. Rites Gilbert Sorensen received his degree de-gree from Utah State University at June Commencement, and was graduated among the top ten percent per-cent of his class with membership member-ship in Phi Kappa Phi, national scholastic honorary society. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Sorensen, of Delta, were In Logan Friday and Saturday for the commencement com-mencement activities. Gilbert resumed his college studies stud-ies after his return from service in the U. S. Air Force. He married Geraldine Evans, of Delta, and they have one daughter, 2 years old, named Laurie Anne. This summer sum-mer they will move to Kingman, Ariz., to make their home, where Gilbert will teach in the high school. r no West Millard Riding Club and the Days of the Old West committee will present their Junior Rodeo on Friday night, June 13, at the Deseret Des-eret Fair Grounds. Events will begin at 7:30 p.m. with a relay race, followed by the Grand Entry. Other events are as follows: Small Boys Calf Riding; Girls Barrel Bar-rel Race; Older Boys Steer Riding; Calf Roping (19 years and under); Queen Contest, and while decision D. D. S. Itegrcc DR. HAL J. KILLPACK Hal J. Killpack received the degree de-gree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from Loyola University School of Dentistry, in Chicago, Illinois, this June. He will be commissioned first lieutenant in the United States Air Force August 10, 1958, at Montgomery, Mont-gomery, Alabama. After four weeks training he will be stationed in Portland, Oregon for two years. He was graduated from Delta High School in 1951, and studied three years at the University of Utah before going to Loyola to complete his dental education. Dr. Killpack and his wife, the former Ruth Marie DeVault, of Sacramento, Calif., arrived in Delta Del-ta a week ago and will spend two months here, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Killpack. They had resided in Chicago since their marriage last August operation." The program will also include intensification of work in the "challenging field of direct conversion of heat into electricity." Members of the group in addition addi-tion to UP&L are Arizona Public Service Co., California Electric Power Co., Pacific Power & Light Co., Portland General Electric Co., Public Sen-Ice Company of Colo SilSipliif mmy, Jlune. IJ $3.50 a year in Advance Colton, California lision, her husband was still un conscious. A second call came Monday Mon-day evening so say that Mr. Stephenson Steph-enson was much improved and had regained consciousness some time before. He was in the hospital, and seemed to be improving steadily. Newman Callister received a broken collar bone in the accident, and after being cared for at the hospital was being sent home to Delta by train, to arrive Wednesday Wednes-day morning. Kay Bassett and Richard Moody escaped without injury. Mr. Stephenson and the three young men have been in California working with the bees. Millions Bid Millions of dollars were mentioned mention-ed Tuesday as the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation opened bids for construction con-struction of Flaming Gorge Dam. Bids for the prime contract ranged as high as 50 million dollars. Arch Dam Constructors, Omaha, Neb., a joint venture firm, was apparent low bidder for the prime contract with a "bid of $29,602,497. Manila, Daggett County, town nearest to the damsite, had a temporary boom in population Tuesday, with 456 interested visitors to hear seven bids read. As Manila's population is about 150, and Daggett County o'i judges is pending Harold Mein-hardt Mein-hardt will give an exhibition of Cow Cutting; Horse Bucking; Hat and Coat Race for girls only. After the show there will be a jackpot roping event for any amateur ama-teur (non-association members). All hoys and girls who are interested in-terested are urged to come out and participate. All contestants must have a signed sign-ed statement from their parents and should sign up with Goldwin Cluff Sr. as soon as possible before the events are filled. - The lights will be on at the Fair Grounds Thursday night for anyone who would like to come down and enter or practice. An added feature Friday night is the challenge from Jay Bennett to Curly Robson for a Barrel Race or a Three Leaf Clover Race, owner own-er to ride his own mount. If this transpires, and Curly seems eager to accept the challenge, no telling what the outcome will he. Won State SAIt Speech Contest Merrill Warnick, and friend Marty Mar-ty Nielson, were recent visitors in Delta with Merrill's grandmother Mrs. Lynn Warnick. Merrill is a son of Fred and Mary Daly Warnick, of American Fork, and this spring received an all-expense paid trip to Biloxi, Mississippi. Missis-sippi. He was chosen over six other contestants at the Sons of American Amer-ican Revolution state finals in the public speaking contest held in the Family Living Center on the Brigham Young University campus. The subject of his oration was "The Constitution and its Revolutionary Revo-lutionary Background". Dr. Earl Pardoe, national president presid-ent of tbe SAR, accompanied Merrill Mer-rill to the national contest at Biloxi, via airline with a stopover in New Orleans. Visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Bennion on the weekend week-end were their son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Bennion, of Hayward Calif., and their daughter, daugh-ter, Erma Jean, and family, from Provo. Cpl. Jack Orton, with the 1st Marine Div., at Camp Pendleton, Calif., visited in Delta during the week with his aunt Mrs. Lola Farnsworth. rado. Public Service Company of New Mexico and Washington Water Wat-er Power Co. They will supply $500,000 to further the research effort. ef-fort. The Rocky Mountain-Pacific Nuclear Nuc-lear Research Group is the successor succes-sor to the Rocky Mountain Nuclear Power Study Group in which Utah Power has "been active since 1951. M!M Calls Tuesday Eve At a meeting Tuesday evening in the city hall, plans were formulated formu-lated and committees selected for gathering of information for the future development of the Millard County area. About twenty interested persons, including those connected directly with the Millard County Industrial Development Commission, were present. The purpose behind this meeting meet-ing was to lay plans for the meeting meet-ing and banquet to be held Wednesday, Wed-nesday, June 25, at the First Ward Church. Speakers will be contacted for the 'banquet and meeting. It is hoped that Gov. George D. Clyde and other state dignitaries, possibly one from USU, and the State Industrial Commission will be in attendance for that night. This group and the committees who met Tuesday will meet again Tuesday, June 24, to make final plans and preparations for the meeting at 5:00 p.m., Wednesday evening and the banquet to 'follow 'fol-low at about 8:00 o'clock. This is something that vitally concerns all people in Millard County, and the Association invites in-vites all to attend this important meeting and banquet. Plates at the banquet are $2.75 and if I got the information right, it will be more than worth it. Letters are being sent out with a return postcard for your reser vations. Please send the cards 'back was 364 on the 1950 census, there was plenty of room. Flaming Gorge Dam will be the 7th highest concrete con-crete dam in the United States and will create a reservoir which will rank 14th in size. The dam will rise about 490 feet above bedrock, bed-rock, and its gracefully curved crest will extend for 1180 feet across ac-ross the canyon of the Green River. DAYS OF THE OLD WEST QUEEN CONTEST There will be keen interest Friday Fri-day night in the queen contest for Days of the Old West rodeo, scheduled sche-duled August 15 and 16. A queen and two attendants will be chosen, to reign at the 2-day event in August. Aug-ust. A good many contestants have entered, and more are coming in, and the contest for the royal trio will 'be exciting. Come out, everybody, every-body, and see the contest. The entries will be dressed in Levis and shirts, not costumes. Judging will be on horsemanship and personality. personal-ity. L. I). S. Mission MISS RAELENE WOOD A farewell testimonial for Miss Raelene Wood, prior to her departure de-parture for the British' Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints, will toe held Sunday, June 15 at 7:30 pan., in the Delta Third Ward chapel. Raelene is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wells Wood of Delta, and a sister of Larry Wood, Long Beach, California. She is a graduate gradu-ate of Delta High School and Hen-ager"s Hen-ager"s School of Business. She has been employed in Salt Lake City for the past three and a half years. She will enter the mission home in Salt Lake City June 25, and will sail from New York City July 9, on the S.S. Mauretania. In addition to nuclear research since 1954, UP&L participated in the mid-1955 experiment that gave Arco, Idaho, nuclear-produced electricity elec-tricity for more than one hour the first time in history the sole source of light and power Tor an American town came from en a-tomic a-tomic station. YMQt filing: lopansnt promptly so you will be assured of a place at the banquet table. If Millard County is to grow and prosper, it will take the help of all the people, not just a working few. Come on out and get behind the various projects that are being be-ing planned for the well-being of the Millard County area. Record Number Of Anglers Open Fishing Season An estimated record number of anglers enjoyed generally good fishing returns throughout the state during the first weekend of the 1958 season. Reports predicted earlier, the "old favorites" sustained the heavier heav-ier loads of angling pressure last Saturday and Sunday. Most of these, from Pine Valley waters on the south to Cache Valley on the north, produced from fair to excellent ex-cellent creel returns. Reports noted generally good water conditions and creel returns from lakes, streams and reservoirs in southern Utah. Most still waters in the northern sections produced well, though many streams were still In the high water stage, difficult dif-ficult to fish, and had not 'been stocked heavily prior to the opening open-ing because of potential high losses of hatchery fish under present conditions. con-ditions. The department said that normal nor-mal plantings will continue over the state through the summer with ample stocks remaining and ready to go into all high running streams just as soon as conditions permit "Many lakes still frozen over, wet trails and camp grounds," was the story of the few hardy fishing parties venturing into the high basins of the Uinta Mountain country. Predictions are that this section and its waters will soon be in "fishable" condition as the current warm weather trend continues. con-tinues. The 162 day season will continue generally throughout the state until un-til November 15. - Births This Week To Gary Dean and Anne Henrie Dalton, Circleville, Utah a boy, 8 lbs. 2 oz., at the Delta hospital June 10. Vegetable Insects The new 1958 vegetable insect control recommendations are just off the press, according to Marvin J. Ogden, Millard County Agent and free copies are now available to commercial and home gardeners. The new publication titled, "Control "Con-trol of Vegetable Insects," Utah State University extension circular No. 266, names the vegetable and the insects that attack it and gives the latest spray recommendations for their control. It also contains handy tables and reference material mat-erial for safe handling of insect poisons. Most home and commercial gardeners gar-deners have already encountered insect pest problems. Timely treatment treat-ment now will save a lot of damage dam-age later on in the season, advises Dr. George F. Knowlton, extension entomologist, Utah State University, Univer-sity, Logan. "Control vegetable insects in Utah for canning, marketing, and home garden crops," was prepared by Dr. George F. Knowlton and """" v-an, cAieiiMun norucui-turist, norucui-turist, both of Utah State University, Univer-sity, assisted by an advisory committee com-mittee representing the departments depart-ments of entomology, horticulture, botany and plant pathology, USDA and US Public Health Service entomologists, en-tomologists, and representatives from the national chemical companies. com-panies. Mr. and Mrs. Orran Ashby drove in Monday from Phoenix to spend the summer on their North Tract farm. With them were their daughter, daugh-ter, Margaret, just graduated from eighth grade, and their son Kenneth, Ken-neth, graduated from high school. Their son Larry, at BYU for the past year, joined the family here for the summer. Miss Joyce McCullough visited Shirley Christensen and Catherine Callister at BYU during the last week of school. She also visited her sister, Mrs. Darlene Nielson, at SpringviUe. County Agents Comments Shearing completed. Condition of wool very good. Most wool sold or shhipped to warehouse storage. No damage to hay due to rain. 5 of 1st croo hay cut Bee population sliehtly higher than last year. New producers have moved to area. No damage from poisen spray as yet Insect damage to date normal" or less except for green stinkbug, which has caused serious damage particularly to fall trraln. An in timated 6.000 to 7,000 acres have been treated for control. Control good. |