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Show I strollin9 'round 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 Municipal Airport CAA Station Volunteer Fire Department MILLARD COUNTY Population, 9,305 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 Livol Millard Weather has been ideal for harvest. har-vest. Potato harvest about 60 complete. Sugar beets about half finished. Most harvesting mechanical, mechan-ical, about half of' potatoes will go into storage. Condition of livestock generally good. Sheep moving to winter ranges. Feeder cattle sales steady to strong. Prospect for winter win-ter range poor. Hat In The Ring "Jack" Turner, Democratic candidate can-didate for Millard County Sheriff, has his hat in the political ring and awaits decision of the voters at general election, Tuesday, Nov. 4. Jack is a native of Millard County, Coun-ty, a son of Mr. and ' Mrs. R. L. Turner, early Deltans. Born in Delta, Del-ta, he was graduated from Delta High School and later attended Dixie Junior College at St. George two years. He is a farmer, and makes his home in Delta, with Mrs. Turner, the former Margaret Wilson, Wil-son, and their two young sons and a daughter. Thanks Many thanks should go to Lionel Lio-nel Taylor and his crew for the nice face lifting job on the town of Delta. Mid-summer the crew began be-gan the curb and guttering project pro-ject and it is completed except on Main. Mr. Taylor hopes that they will be able to get it finished before be-fore winter really sets in. New "News" Correspondents The ninth grade English classes as the Delta Jr. High are studying a chapter "All the News" in their grammar books this week. Mrs. Sebrina Ekins, who has been teaching teach-ing Mr. Geo. Bennion's classes, made an assignment for each student stu-dent to write a news story. Over a hundred students handed in their news stories to Mrs. Ekins Monday, and in this issue of the Chronicle are ten. According to Mrs. Ekins, the students did exceptionally we'l at their first attempt to write a news story. Mrs. Ekins is Director of Adult Education in this area and the correspondent for the daily Deseret News in Salt Lake. Now Full Time Agent Mr. Lavon Payne, Provo, met with Kennard Riding Wednesday, to complete plans for Mr. Riding to be a full-time representative for State Farm Insurance company. Mr. Riding invites all to contact him for best rates and service in Auto, Fire and Life Insurance. Drill Team Exhibition Margaret Ward, Salt Lake City, president of the Rebekah Assembly of Utah, will make an official visitation vis-itation Monday, Oct. 27, to Betah Rebekah Lodge No. 47, I.O.O.F., at Delta. After the regular meeting, at 9 p.m., the Rebekah state drill team will put on an exhibition, which the public is invited to attend. at-tend. Dinner, meeting, and exhibition exhibi-tion will all be in the Odd Fellow Hall, in Delta. Attention Hunters Hunters are gain reminded to bring in their deer hides to the collection points towards the building build-ing of permanent bleachers at the i'a'omar ball park. The hides will not be of as much value if folded as they would be if hung on a fence or flat on the ground to dry. The following are the designated collection points: Ron's Texaco Service Delta Sutherland Store Sutherland Morris Mercantile Hinckley Leo Day's Store Oasis Deseret Cash Store Deseret Oak City Cash Store Oak City John Anderson Store Leamington Roy Nielson Lynndyl DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to Glen and Norma Nor-ma Spencer Taylor, Hinckley on the birth of a daughter, 4 lbs. 12 ozs., Monday, Oct. 20. Weekend houseguests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Jensen were Mr. Al Meiner, Mr. Eugene Strickland and Mr. Albert Higgenson of Peoria, 111. The three flew here from Peoria for deer hunting and bagged two deer. Mr. Strickland was the pilot of the plane. "SERVING THE Volume 49 Number Two Deltans With Famed Tabernacle Choir Now on Eastern Concert Tour Two young Deltans, Janice Western, West-ern, and brother, Donald Ray Western, West-ern, are with the famed Tabernacle Taber-nacle Choir on their three weeks' tour of the east, as "singing ambassadors" am-bassadors" as they give seventeen concerts before their return. The choir, 325 members, left Salt Lake City Monday morning at 8 a.m., with best wishes from a large crowd of friends and relatives. Their first concert was in Wichita, Kansas, Tuesday night, where they Testimonial A farewell testimonial for Allan Edwards will be held Sunday evening ev-ening at 7:30 p.m., in the Delta First Ward. A cordial invitation is extended to all. Elder Edwards leaves soon to Elder Edwards serve in the Spanish American mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. JJe is the son of Mrs. Mary Edwards Ed-wards of Delta. He graduated from the Delta High School and for the past year has attended College of Southern Utah at Cedar City. Candidate for Commissioner Mr. LeClead Nielson is Republican Republi-can Candidate for office of Four Year County Commissioner. Mr. Nielson was born in Leamington Leam-ington and received his education in Leamington Grade School and Millard Academy, Hinckley, Utah. During his life, Mr. Nielson has been a farmer, rancher and livestock live-stock man. From 1931 to 1939, Mr. Nielson was a member of Millard County School Board; for the past thirteen years Mr. Nielson has been President df the Lynndyl Town Board. A veteran of World War I, Mr. Mr. Nielson Nielson is an active Legionnaire, a member of West Millard Hospital Committe for five years, and an active member of the Latter-day Saints Church. He has served in leadership positions as a Bishop of Lynndyl Ward from 1945 to 1950 and as a member of Stake High Council from 1950 to the present time. Married to Eleonar Ashby Nielson, Niel-son, Mr. Nielson is the father 3f seven children. A son, Dean, was killed in the armed services on Okinawa, World War II. Mr. Nielson is pledged to work for the best interests of the County Coun-ty taxpayer and will appreciate your confidence and support for public office for 4-year County Commissioner. ...... m;;:.y:.: f!.i,y. .-j; vyfit'.iff'im v' 'fry s- x 4 LVZJ PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT. PAHVANT 17 Thursday, October sang before a record attendance of more than 12,000, to "standing room only." Concerts are scheduled in Kansas Kan-sas City, St. Louis, Columbus, Ohio; Washington, D. C, with a special appearance at the White House; Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Eoston, Toronto, Canada, Detroit, and Chicago. In New York City their concert will be in Carnegie Hall two nights, November 4 and 5. They sing in Boston Nov. 6 in Symphony Hall. In Toronto the concert will be in Massey Hall Nov. 7. At Detroit, Nov. 8, they sing in Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium, and again Sunday, Nov. 9. The final concert is Monday, Nov. 10, in Orchestra Hall, at Detroit. In between concerts -choir members mem-bers will enjoy sightseeing, a Sullivan Sul-livan TV appearance in New York, attendance at "My Fair Lady" on Broadway, and a broadcast over CBS. Many of the choir are housewives, and some are school teachers, with some physicians, dentists, lawyers and artisans. Their director is Richard Rich-ard P. Condie. Janice is a soprano with the choir, and Donald is with the tenors. ten-ors. Janice attended University of Utah last year, and will resume studies there at winter quarter, after the choir tour. Donald, a graduate of U. of U., is teaching school in Granite district, in Salt Lake City. Janice was selected as "poster girl" for the choir, and publicity in advance of the concert dates will show Janice swimming in Great Salt Lake, horseback riding, at school and at home, in activities activi-ties typical of L.D.S. youth. W. 0. Cluff, 60. Dies In Richfield RICHFIELD Wilford Orus Cluff, 60, a son of the first president of Brigham Young University, died Tuesday at 1:15 p.m. at his resi dence of a coronary occlusion. For many years Mr. Cluff had been associated with the Telluride Power Co. at Richfield, now Utah Power and Light Co. He was sales manager o'f Telluride Power Co. at Richfield at the time of his death. Mr. Cluff was born March 2, 1898 in Provo, a son of Benjamin and Mary Jane John Cluff, Jr., and was reared in Provo. ,He moved to Richfield in 1917 as a Telluride employee and made the community his permanent residence. res-idence. On March 24, 1920, he married Melissa Ramsey in Richfield. The marriage was solemnized later in the Mesa, Ariz. Temple, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is survived by his widow, in Richfield; three sons; Dr. John B. Cluff, Richfield; Warren and Blaine Cluff, both of Salt Lake City; four grandchildren; two brothers, Gold-wyn, Gold-wyn, Hinckley. Millard County; Theon, Los Angeles; two sisters, Mrs. Fern Ingram, Compton, Calif.; Mrs. Ethel Crother, Provo, and several sev-eral hhalf brothers and sisters. Funeral services will be conducted conduct-ed Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Rich-I'.eld Rich-I'.eld Fifth LDS Ward chapel. Friends may call at the Neal S. Mag'.eby Mortuary Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. and Saturday prior to -ei'vif e. Burial will be in the Richfield Rich-field City cemetery. 5fcslou Call ... ! A 'farewell testimonial and dance in honor of Elder Gordon F. Shipley, prior to his departure as a missionary mission-ary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will be held Friday evening. Oct. 24, 9 p.m. in the Lynndyl Ward chapel. His many friends are cordially invited to attend. at-tend. Elder Shipley will serve in the Western States Mission. He will enter the mission home in Salt Lake City, October 27 for a training train-ing period before leaving for his field of labor. Elder Shipley is a graduate of the Delta High School. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Shipley of Lynndyl. He has an older brother, Barton, serving a mission in the East Central States, who has been out for the past ten months. 23. 1958 Delta, Utah WITH TABERNACLE CHOIR Janice Jan-ice Western, and brother, Donald Ray Western, were with the Tabernacle Tab-ernacle Choir when they left Salt Lake City Monday morning on Slate Rites for Evan Evans Monday, 2 p.m. Evan Evans, Delta 'farmer for 30 years, and resident of Oakland, Calif., since 1945, died Tuesday, Oct. 21, while on vacation at Bray, Calif. Mr. Evans was a native of Wales. He was one of the early farmers in the Delta area, and was also a carpenter on construction of some of Delta's business buildings. He was active in development of this farming area, and made a host of firm friends during his years here. He was a member of Printing Specialties and Paper Products Union, Local 382, at Oakland. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Evans, of Oakland, Calif., one daughter, Mrs. Mary Winters, of Milford, Conn., and three grandsons. grand-sons. Funeral services will be conducted conduct-ed Monday at 2 p.m., in Sutherland Suther-land Ward chapel. Burial will be in the Delta cemetery, under the direction of Nickle mortuary, Delta. Friends may call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Ogden, Sutherland, Suther-land, Monday, from 11 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Mrs. Evans plans to arrive in Delta Saturday, and remain until after the services. Assisting with the rites will be Delta Lodge No. 59, I.O.O.F., of which Mr. Evans was a member. The Jaycse's Antler contest is off to a rather slow start, only one set of horns being turned in and measured to date. The measuring station is at Ron's Texaco Service and the Jaycees will eprreciate all hunters turing their deer antlers in. $900,000 ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AT Bids will be called for early next 1 year for construction ov the first part of a $900,000 administration and science building to be built at csu. Glen R. Swenson, state building board director, stated Wednesday that plans and specifications are nearly complete. 'Architect L. Robert Gardner is in charge of the planning. plan-ning. Beginning phase of the building received a $140,000 appropriation VALLEY" $3.50 a year in Advance 1 "Great American Tour 1958." Their parents, Mr, and Mrs. Ray Western, of Delta, saw them off Monday morning on their three week's tour, and concerts enroute. Three-Car Wreck Injures One Man Saturday, Oct. 18, an accident involving three cars occurred 8 miles north of Delta on Highway 6. Dee Black, Deseret, in a pick-up truck, was pushing Milo Morten-sen's Morten-sen's car into town. They were traveling between 20 and 25 miles an hour. Eran A Call, Salt Lake, hit the pickup in the rear, totally demolishing hfs car and injuring himself. Mr. Call received chest injuries and face lacerations. Damage Dam-age to all three cars was estimated at between nine hundred and a thousand dollars. Investigating officer was Trooper Ken Clements o'f Utah State Highway High-way Patrol. Final Rites for Yoyng Mother Slated Monday Mrs. Blythe Taggart received word Tuesday of the death of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Joyce Bull Stapley, 29, at Covina, Calif. Mrs. Taggart and husband, R. V. Taggart, Tag-gart, an dson, Jerry Stapley, Evan-ston, Evan-ston, 111., left late Tuesday night for Covina. Mrs. Stapley, born in Salt Lake City, is survived by her husband, Valjean (Tony) Stapley, a daughter daugh-ter and two sons, Christine, William Wil-liam H., and Roland V., at Covina; her parents, a sister and two brothers, bro-thers, Salt Lake City. The two older children, Christine and Billie, were' in Delta this summer sum-mer with Mr. and Mrs. Taggart, during their mother's illness. Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted Monday at 12 noon, at Deseret Des-eret Mortuary, 36 East 7th South, Salt Lake City. from the 1957 Legislature with the total cost estimated at $900,000. Completion of the first part of the building will be ready for stu-dent-'faculty use by fall quarter of 1959 Mr. Swenson said. The new building will house all laboratory, classrooms, lecture, office of-fice and storage facilities for the departments of engineering, mathematics, math-ematics, geology, physics, chemistry, chem-istry, biology, agriculture, home and family living. In addition to 4- Appliance Dealers I Sponsor School Miss Evelyn Hansen, Home Service Ser-vice Director of Utah Power and Light Company will conduct two cooking schools in the Deseret Stake House Recreation hall Thursday Thurs-day and Friday, October 30 and 31. All appliance dealers in Hinckley, Delta, The Chronicle and Telluride Pcwer have banded together to conduct this two-day school of cookery and home laundering. The Charlie Dillenbeck Dies in California Car Accident Charlie Dillenbeck, of New Hall, Calif., was killed in a car accident Saturday, Oct. 18. Mr. Dillenbeck is a brother of Marion Dillenbeck of Hinckley. The driver of the car was the fiance of Mr. Dillenbeck's granddaughter, grand-daughter, and was seriously injured. in-jured. The other occupant of the car was the twelve year old brother broth-er of the driver, who was also killed. The accident occurred on a busy Freeway and the three had started to a ball game when their car was hit by a California State Trooper, who was chasing another car. The officer was seriously injured and is not expected to live. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Cahoon, Ula Bay and Mrs. Kelly Talbot left I Wednesday morning to attend the i funeral services for Mr. Dillenbeck. FOOTBALL The Delta Rabbits have two grid games within the next few days. Friday. Oct. 24, the Rabbits will journey to Wasatch and Friday. Fri-day. Oct. 31 the Rabbits meet North Sanpete here on their own home field. Local football fans hope for continuing mild weather. weath-er. E3 Iluliet NEsallers Window of Car; No Que Injured Deputy Sheriff Edgar Mills and Trooper Ken Clements of the Highway High-way Patrol investigated an unusual accident in Hinckley at 8 p.m., Sunday, Sun-day, Oct. 19. As a car, driven by John Mead of Citrus Heights, California Cal-ifornia and owned by Morris E. White of Brigham, Utah, was traveling trav-eling east through Hinckley, a high-powered rifle bullet passed through the back window of the car, completely shattering it. Other occupants of the car, and riding in the back seat, were Mr. and Mrs. Rigby Young of Sandy, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. Young were being given .a lift into town as their car had broken down out on the desert. The bullet did not harm anyone in the car and came from an unknown source. HOSPITAL NOTES Melvin Anderson was admitted to the Delta Hospital as a medical medi-cal patient .Monday, Oct. 20 and released Wednesday, Oct. 22. Only 21 deer hides have been turned in to the Lions Club on their drive to build permanent bleachers at Palomar Hall. This count was made Tuesday, Oct. 21. Hunters, take a little time and leave your deerhides at one of the collection points. C.S.U. these the administration offices will be located in the building. Facing 300 West the modern building will be just north of the director's cottage. Special equipment for the structure struc-ture will include a greenhouse, an explosion safe vault for chemicals, records and cash vaults and display dis-play cabinets. With the growth of the college it is anticipated that work will move ahead rapidly on the building build-ing program. UM. .-V time for each day will be from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Attendance prizes consisting of electric toasters, steam irons, mixers, mix-ers, radios and other small appliances appli-ances will be given. All adults who visit an appliance dealer between now and October 30 will be given a chance to register for these prizes. priz-es. You may also register at the cooking school. Miss Hansen has arranged a completely com-pletely different school for each day and prizes will be given both days. The public will benefit greatly great-ly by attending. The appliance dealers participating participat-ing are Workman's Furniture, D. Stevens Co., Quality Market, Golden Gold-en H. Black & Son, and Morris Supply, Sup-ply, Hinckley. Former Deltan Dies in Colorado Willmer E. Tomlinson, 73, of Lo-ma, Lo-ma, Colo., died Oct. 8, 1958, after a lingering illness. Born Nov. 3, 1885, at Fort Collins, Col-lins, Colo., he spent his" early life in Wayne and Emery counties of Utah. He married Martha J. Warner War-ner at Green River on Jan. 28, 1907. They lived at Green River, Wellington Well-ington and Delta, Utah, before moving to Loma, seven and one-half one-half years ago. Mr. Tomlinson lived in Delta for several years and farmed on the South Tract. He will be remembered here as Bill Tomlinson to his many friends. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Martha Mar-tha Tomlinson, Loma, Colo.; two sons, Joseph of Loma, Colo., and Chief Warrant Officer W. Barney with the Air Force in Germany; six daughters, Mrs. Hope Timothy and Mrs. Elmer Smith, both of Loma; Mrs. Virgle McDonald, Grand Junction, Colo.; Mrs. James L. Wood of Roswell, N. M.; Mrs. Arthur Murray Mur-ray (Doris) Alberta, Canada, and Mrs. Rex C. Martin, Toledo, Ore.; 34 grandchildren and 17 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held in Fruita, Colo., October 11, 1958. services Held for Alma D. Hayes Funeral services for Alma D. Hayes, 57, former Lehi resident were held in Lehi at the Wing Mortuary Mor-tuary chapel last Thursday. Mr. Hayes died in a Rock Springs, Wyoming Wy-oming hospital, Sept.. 28. He was married to the former Genevieve Fox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Fox of Lehi. Mr. and Mrs. Hayes had resided in Lynndyl, Utah for 14 years prior to moving to Salt Lake, where they also lived for several years. They had moved to Green River only three months before Mr. Hayes passed away. Survivors include his widow and the following sons and daughters: Richard D., Kenneth A., of Salt Lake City; Mrs. L. M. Denning, Dugway; Mrs. Dean Eatough, Lynndyl; Diann Green River, Wyoming, Five brothers, broth-ers, four sisters and five grandchildren grand-children also survive. Bishop Calvin Swenson officiated at the services and offered thf prayer for the family. The prelude and postlude music was rendered by Roberta Peterson at the organ console. The invocation was offered by E. Eugene Gardner of Delta, after which a vocal duet was sung by Mas. Rulon Russon and Stanley Clark, accompanied by Zada Phillips. Phil-lips. Remarks followed by Jay Nelson, Nel-son, of the Deseret Stake presidency, presi-dency, of Leamington, Utah. The biographical sketch was read by Carl Benson of Lynndyl, and an organ or-gan solo was played by Mrs. Peterson. Pet-erson. Bertrand Beck then followed with remarks, and the closing musical mu-sical number was a vocal duet by Florence Hall and Ann Bushman, accompanied by Mrs. Peterson. Th; benediction was pronounced by Bishop Reed Nielson of the Lynn-:ly! Lynn-:ly! Ward, with the dedicatory raye: at the graveside being given giv-en by Patriarch Clarence Hogan of Lynndyl. Pallbearers were Calr Hayes, Soda So-da Springs, Idaho: Earl Hayes and Glen Hayes, both of Georgetown, Idaho., all brothers; Milo Fox of Salt Lake City, a brother-in-law; Ralph Parker, c'i Kearns, and Glen Parker of Salt Lake, nephews. The flowers were cared for by the Sixth Ward Relief Society, and interment was in the Lehi cemetery, ceme-tery, under the direction of the Wing Mortuary. THE LIGHTER SIDE Sunday School Teacher: "And do you say your prayers before your meals?" Little Johnny: "Oh, no. Mommy is a good cook." Lady: "I want an inexpensive pair of shoes." Saleslady: "To go with what?" Lady: "A cheap husband." |