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Show Gilbert Searle strollin9 9round town ISt Of JOSHS Sfi Winners 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, 9,365 Grazing and Industrial Lands Alfalfa Seed, Honey, Poultry and Turkey Raising Stockraising, Dairy Farming Ducks, Geese, Pheasants Deer, Cottontail Rabbit; Trout, Bass and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Live! Wet Weather We are happy to report snow, in the storm Sunday; and early Monday. Mon-day. It wasn't deep, nor did It linger long, but it snowed. Deser-et Deser-et reports .15 inches of precipitation Jan. 26, and Delta recorded .16 inches. Dark clouds and cold Wednesday Wed-nesday night indicated more snow in the offing, we hope. Evening Classes Students of Delta Jr. and Sr. High will be permitted to enroll in the evening classes at the High School each Thursday night. Many parents have been requesting this and now permission is granted. Four classes are available to students. stu-dents. These are: Beginners Type, Spanish, Art, Photography. Classes bt "in at 7:30 p.m. for a fee of thr dollars. Although, three of these classes have started, there is still time to enroll. . Fifteen classes are sponsored by Delta High School in Adult Education Educa-tion on Thursdays after school, and in Sutherland, Oak City, Deseret, Oasis and Hinckley. Enroll now. Navy Recruiter Tuesday, February 3, Chief Harvey Har-vey W. Blanchette of the Navy Recruiting Re-cruiting office in Provo will be in Delta at the library between the hours of 12 noon and 6 p.m. Chief Blanchette will explain the various programs to young men who will soon have to make decisions deci-sions regrading which service and when to serve. These explanations will be of importance to the parents par-ents and they are urged to accompany ac-company their sons for these interviews. in-terviews. Mayor Max J. Robison announces Stores of Delta will observe Lincoln's Lin-coln's birthday, February 12, by closing. Washington's Birthday, which falls on Sunday will not be observed and all stores will be open as usual Monday, February 23. Clean-up Day for Delta will come in March or April and the stores will again 'be closed. Definite Defin-ite date for Clean-up will be an-naunced an-naunced later. Primary Children's Clinic On Tuesday, February 3rd at 9:00 a.m. a Primary Children's Hospital Hos-pital orthopedic clinic will be held at the Fillmore IDS Hospital. Please contact your Stake Primary president or Public Health Nurse for applications. All new applicants must return a completed applica-j tion, signed by their family Doctor, Doc-tor, to the Primary Children's Hospital Hos-pital for an appointment. However, if there is not time for this pro-1 cedure, the new applicants must bring completed applications, signed sign-ed by their family doctor, with them to the clinic. Farm Bureau Bai.quet Millard County Firm Bureau will meet at the Delta First Ward for its annual banquet and election of officers, Saturday, January 31. Noel Johnson, Western States Coordinator Coordina-tor of Farm Bureau, will be guest speaker and the Talent Find Winners Win-ners will provide entertainment. Tickets are available from James Nickle, Ben Robison, Waldo and Lillian Warnick, Frank Law and Inez Moody. The public is cordially invited to attend. Community Church Mr. Thomas Madron and a group from Westminister College, Salt Lake, will conduct Church services at the Delta Community Church, Sunday, February 1, beginning at 11.00 a.m. Preceding the Church services, Sunday School will begin at 10:00 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Heber Rose, Sutherland, Suth-erland, are justly proud of their sons-in-law, Gary Robison and Melvin Hepworth. Gary is married to Virginia Rose and is attending BYU, where he has been named to the honor roll. Gary carried straight A's. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald B. Robison, Gunnison. Melvin. son of Mr. and Mrs. Or lando Hepworth, Hinckley, is mar-. r:ed to Carmen Rose and is at-i tending CSU, Cedar City. He his been named to the honor roll fori his superior grades, also. ' "SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT VALLEY" Volume 49 Number U. P. Agricultural Improvement Car to Visit Delta Monday, February 9th The Union Pacific Agricultural Improvement Car will be in Delta Monday, Feb. 9, at the Union Pac- E. Roy Wheeler Dies Sunday; Rites Wednesday Elmer Roy Wheeler, 59, died at the Delta hospital Sunday at 9:55 p.m. after an extended illness. He was born May 23, 1899, at Pearl, Illinois, a son of Charles L. and Emma Smith Wheeler. His early ear-ly years were lived in Illinois, and he moved with his parents in 1907 to Hazelton, Idaho, and to the Delta area in 1919. He married Elda Conk, of Deseret, Deser-et, December 21, 1921, at Fillmore. The couple resided in Deseret, where Mr. Wheeler farmed, until 1938, when they moved to Delta, where they had since resided. Mr. Wheeler had been employed with the Millard County road department de-partment for the past fourteen and a half years. Survivors are his wife, at Delta, three sons and three daughters, Chester Wheeler, Garrison, Ronald, Arnold, Mrs. LeRene Thomas, Mrs. Enid Kozina and Patsy Wheeler, all of Delta, eight grandchildren; 2 brothers, Emerson Wheeler, Mid-vale, Mid-vale, Idaho, and Leonard Wheeler, Delta. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 1 p.m. in Deseret Ward chapel, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Friends called at the Deseret Ward chapel Wednesday from 11 a.m. until time of services. Prelude music on the organ for the services was played by Mrs. Winona Dutson. The opening prayer pray-er was by Charles Maxwell. The funeral discourse was given by Dick Kelly, followed by recordings record-ings of organ melodies, "When Day Is Done", and "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise". Dudley Crafts was the next speaker, followed by a vocal duet, "Jehovah God Is My Shepard" by Mr. and Mrs. Merlin Terry. Postlude music was by Mrs. Dutson, Dut-son, at the organ. Burial was in the Deseret cemetery, ceme-tery, under direction of Nickle moi-turay, moi-turay, of Delta. The grave was dedicated by Dick Kelly. Atending the services from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Wheeler, and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wheeler. 33rd Ilirtlulny . . . On January 31 Patriarch Charles R. Woodbury, of Hinckley, celebrates cele-brates his 83rd birthday, and best wishes and congratulations from his many friends are extended to him. Mr. Woodbury was born in St. t Charles R. Woodbury George, where he lived his early years He married Agnes Bickley, of Beaver, May 3, 1808, and since 1918 their home has been made at Hinckley. They are the parents of three sons and four daughters. An active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mr. Woodbury's many years have been spent in serving well his church and community, and he has earned the highest esteem of a wide circle of friends. On his birthday his daughters, Mrs. Zola Bunker and Mrs. Vilda Perkins, of Delta, will take Mr. Woodbury to Spanish, Fork to visit Mrs. Woodbury, there in a rest home. "ft : I : W - A , ' i N ) . r 31 Thursday. January ific Railroad Depot. The subject for this year's car will be "Soil-Water Relationships and Soil Compaction." This subject is of vital importance to farmers in West Millard, who are urged to give this program full support. There will be films and discussions discus-sions led by Paul D. Christensen, Extension Soil Conservationist, in cooperation with the U.P. Railroad. The following schedule will present pre-sent up-to-date information on Sod and Water Management: 9:10 to 10:30 a.m. Delta Junior High School, Voc-Ag. Dept. 10:40 to 11:50 a.m. Delta High School, Voc-Ag. Dept. 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Farmers and general public. (If it is more convenient con-venient to visit the car in the morning with the Voc-Ag students, please feel free to do so.) To improve, your soil and water management, plan to attend the car Feb. 9, advises Marven J. Og-den, Og-den, county agent. Dr. Wm. DeHart, USD Speaks at MX.I.D.A. Dr. Wh. DeHart of the Utah State University Extension service spoke to a group of twenty business men and farmers at the M. C. I. D. A. meeting held Thursday, January 22, at Hatch's City Cafe. Wallace Jeffery, chairman of M. C. I. D. A., opened the meeting and introduced the guest speaker. Dr. DeHart's theme for discussion discus-sion was "Why have we lost the sense of cooperation?" During his talk, Dr. DeHart stated that from outward appearances, that we now lived in a spectator's generation. gener-ation. He clarifield this statement by saying that too many are too willing to let others do actual work, while the bulk of the population sits and watches. He asked the question "Are we losing our initiative in-itiative and creative thinking by this action?" To stress this question, ques-tion, Dr. DeHart askeH another question, "How do people react when a new idea is presented?" He answered both questions with the statement that when something new is presened, people have a tendency to draw in and say "No"'. The group held a round table discussion on the problems facing West Millard seed growers, other problems and touched on the problem pro-blem of civic clubs. As a probable solution to many of the problems facing West Millard, Mil-lard, Dr. DeHart strongly advised OASIS ELLA CHRISTENSEN Deon Gillen was in Richfield Monday on business. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Skeem and sons, Mark and Ken, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Skeem and twins, Brent and Brenda went to Salt Lake Friday to see the show "South Pacific" and Saturday they all went up to Alta and watched the skiing. Mrs. Ethel Stanworth was in Provo Pro-vo Friday. She brought her daughter, daugh-ter, Eva home with her. Son, Mark Abbott and family came down and took Eva home. Mr. and Mrs. Fon Hawley and daughter, Marlena attended the basketball in Provo. BYU played against Utah. Marlena stayed and visited with friends. Sunday Mark Lewis was a guest at the Hawley home. Mi. and Mrs. Dale Carling and two children from Sandy visited with parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fon Hawley. Mrs. Betsy Skeem was a Salt Lake visitor Saturday. Our sympathy goes to Clare and members of the Webb family in the loss of their father. We will miss him in our ward entertainments. Our family had the privilege of presenting the program in Sacrament Sacra-ment meeting Sunday night. Mrs. Annie Skeem's condition remains re-mains about the same. Mr. and Mrs. Alf Eishop from Salt Lake attended the funeral of Wm. Webb and later visited at the Albert Johnson home and their aunt, Annie An-nie Skeem. They returned to Sait Lake Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Keily Hawley, Shirley Skeem. and Janet Stanworth are recovering from bad colds and all that goes with a cold. Sure wish you folks would phone your news in to me. 29, 1959 Delta. Utah FORMER DELTAN SUSTAINED IN RICHFIELD LDS BISHOPRIC Talmage Christensen, former Del-tan, Del-tan, was sustained as First Counselor Coun-selor in the Richfield Second Ward Bishopric, Sunday night, Jan. 25. Mr. Christensen was a school teacher teach-er in Millard County for some thirteen thir-teen years, previous to his employment employ-ment with the L. D. S. Department of Education. At the present time he is Principal of the Sevier Stake Seminary. Before leaving Delta, he served as Stake MIA Superintendent, Superinten-dent, in the Sunday School Super-intendency Super-intendency and was one of the Seventy's presidents in Deseret Stake. Mr. Christensen is married to the former Shirley Webb and they are the parents of four children. child-ren. Mr. and Mrs.' Galen Gifford, of Garrison were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Kelly. The four were in Spanish Fork for the Riding Rid-ing Club Jamboree Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moody spent the weekend in Myton and Orem on business and visiting friends and relatives. Extension Service, Luncheon Jan. 22 setting up a coordinating council consisting of members of the various var-ious groups that are interested in the welfare of West Millard. DHS WRESTLING SCHEDULE February 2 Parowan at Delta February 5 Delta at Millard February 10 Delta at Parowan and Delta at Cedar City February 16 Richfield at Delta Town T een . Sandra Jean Gardner has been chosen "Town Teen" this weeK. She is 17, has blond hair, hazel eyes, and is five feet 3 inches tall. She lives at 183 South 2 West, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan G. Gardner and her three brothers. She is taking the following sub- Sandra Jean Gardner jects in school: Band, English, American Am-erican Problems, Chemistry, Short hand and Home Ec. Sandra's ativities include reporter for the Pep Club, F. H. A., W. A. A., a member of the Del-Ettes, and organist or-ganist for the Delta First Ward. She likes dancing, singing, and playing the piano. She won first place in the Farm Bureau Talent Find for playing the piano. She also likes playing tennis and twirling twirl-ing the baton. After she graduates, she plans on attending Brigham Young University. Univer-sity. KEN CLEMENTS SPEAKS TO KIWANIS CLUB Trooper Ken Clements, cf Utah Highway Patrol, was the guest speaker at the Kiwanis Club's regular reg-ular meeting Thursday, Jan. 22. He spoke on traffic safety and showed slides of accidents that he has investigated. He also showed some slides of the building of the Glen Canyon bridge, taken when he was there in July. DIAPER DOINGS To Lloyd and Luana Nielson Warner, War-ner, Delta, a boy, 7 lbs. 1 oz., Jan. 15. To John and Shirley Harris De-Lapp. De-Lapp. Delta RFD. a boy, 6 lbs-Jan. lbs-Jan. 27. fS'f.vmtW Wgff1PIWH T'Ti iiii.i i 1 1 In 'i mm i ii i ii yi i ii I hijiiim MIWl $3.50 a year in Advance Early 3 lorn Fire Takes $-1000 Toll A fire, of undetermined origin, a. the Glen Bunker hay chopping yard just northwest of Delta, caused an estimated damage of $400.00 early Monday. Delta Volunteer Fire Dept. was summoned at 12:45 a.m. Monday, and arrived to find the fire well underway. The roof on the warehouse ware-house had fallen in, and the walls had fallen out. Approximately 20 tons of chopped hay, several tons of chopped mash, and a number of empty sacks were "burned with the building. Apparently the fire had been going for some time before it was discovered. There was a heavy fog Sunday night after the storm that made visibility poor, and may have kept the fire from being noted earlier. Tony Callister, of Delta City Po lice, first saw the blaze from the Delta Cemetery, and rode out to locate it. He turned in the alarm from the N. S. Bassett place, neighbors neigh-bors to the south. The Delta firemen moved Mr. Bunker's diesel chopper, and two trailers loaded with hay to safety, but it was too late to save the building and contents. Mr. Bunker wishes to express his thanks here to the Delta firemen, for their prompt and efficient service, ser-vice, and he appreciates the fine work done by Fire Chief, Seth Jackson and his crew. The fireme nhad an earlier call that evening to a fire between th? Union Pacific railroad tracks and Lyman Row. They were called at 8:45 p.m. Sunday. On fire was an old abandoned lime pit with a roof over it, and there was no loss to anyone when it went up in smoke. Program Monday At DHS Shows Cookie Cookery How to keep that fine old American Am-erican institution the family cookie cook-ie jar well stocked at all times with the minimum outlay of time and money will be the theme of a program scheduled on Monday, Feb. 2 at 2:30 p.m., at the Delta High School, it was announced to day by Mrs. Alma Petersen, Home Ec. teacher at DHS. Featured guest at the session will be Nancy Haven, of Salt Lake City, Home Economist for Western Beet Sugar Producers, Inc., who will teach how to make four basic types of cookies to have on hand in the cookie jar, refrigerator or freezer. Students will be given specific instructions in all phases of cookie-making. cookie-making. Emphasis will be placed on economy in time and money Nnvested in providing nutritious, tasty cookies to brighten the family fam-ily menu. Wedding Vows . Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Moody, Salt Lake City announce the marriage of their daughter, Janice, to Janv.'s Whicker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Whicker, Hinckley. The wedding ceremony was performed per-formed at Elko, Nevada, Saturday, January 24, 1959. The couple will make their home in Salt Lake City, where Jim is employed. Scouts to Observe In the year 1910, on Feb. 8, the Boy Scout Movement was organized organ-ized in America. Obviously, the time was ripe for such a movement. move-ment. Small and seperated units were organized for boys all over the nation. These were organized into a large unit now known as the National Boy Scouts of America. Amer-ica. Scouting and Exploring are highly high-ly patriotic movements for young "men. No organization stresses loy alty to God and Country as this one does. For this reason, it has enjoyed the confidence and support of men of stature in our nation. Many presidents have given it fuil support. Civic Cubs, Veterans groups and churches sponsor this movement. In this area, it is sponsored spon-sored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sunday, February 1, in all the wards of Deseret Stake, an inter esting program will be presented: The program will be conduted by an Explorer Post Advisor and will stress the theme "Onward for God Gilbert Searle, Engineering Spec ialist with the Soil Conservation Program, joined the list of Distinguished Dis-tinguished Award winners Wednesday, Wednes-day, Jan. 28, at the 12th annual D.S.A. Banquet sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Searle is now president of the local lo-cal JayCee club. His name was Janeal Owens Has Interesting Trip to Mile-High City Janeal Owens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. LaVar Owens of Sutherland, Suther-land, has just returned from Denver, Den-ver, Colorado, where she attended the 4-H Western Roundup. Janeal won the trip in giving a demonstration demon-stration at the Utah State Fair. At the Roundup Janeal was to give her demonsration, but Colorado is celebrating cel-ebrating her Centenniel Year and the time was limited. Ten of the 119 delegates at the convention were from Utah. Other states represened were Wyoming Montana, Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Oklahoma and South Dakota. While in Denver, the 4-H group X I 1 Janeal Oweng visited the Civic Center, Museum of Natural History, and the Slate Capitol where they attended a ses sion of the state legislature. They were entertained by several prominent pro-minent business associations at banquets and tours. The 4-H delegation helped to celebrate cel-ebrate Colorado's Centenial year at the big Western States Stock Show and annual rodeo in which many famous cowboy stars participated, and, at the Denver Theater, they .saw the premiere of the motion picture "These Thousand Hills". This picture was filmed In Colorado. Color-ado. Janeal states that the trip was an extremely interesting and edu-caional edu-caional experience as well as a fun rip, One that promotes better understanding un-derstanding between other states and people. This kind of trip is an opportunity opportun-ity and a goal that all 4-H members mem-bers should work toward. Changes of addresses of two missionaries from Deseret Stake have been received at the Chronicle Chron-icle office. Elder Merrill L. Johnson John-son has been transferred from Ho-gansburg, Ho-gansburg, New York to 64 Second Ave., Westwood, Nr ,v Jersey, and Elder Wm. W. Henderson has been transferred from Saco, Maine to 6 Forrest Street, Newmarket, New Hampshire. M. W. and E. L. Moody left lor Chicago, 111., Saturday, Jan. 24 to attend a convention for Seedmen. They will return this weekend. Miss Rochelle Cropper spent the weekend in Delta and Deseret with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Cropper, and returned to Salt Lake, where she is employed as a beauty operator. 49th Anniversary 'and my Country." America the Beautiful will be sung by the congregation. con-gregation. Invocation, Guide Patrol Scout Flag Ceremony, after which on Explorer will read "I am the United States. " This reading will be followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Al-legiance. Scout and Explorer chorus will render a musical number, a Scout will speak on "How the Priesthood helps me to be a better American", an Explorer will speak on "God's Plan for America". The Scout and Explorer Chorus will sing another number. An interesting speaker connected with scouting will speak and congregation will sing "Onward Christian Soldiers", The colors will be retired at this point and benediction bene-diction will be offered by a Cub Scout. Everyone is invited to this program to see and hear some of the fine things that he young men the fine things that the young men of this area are learning and doing in Scouting and Exploring. Exploring motto: "Our Eest To day for a Better Tomorrow." chosen from names of ten youn men for service to the welfare of this community. Other awards went to Tillman Johnson, Outstanding Young Farm er Award; Robert Palmer, New JayCee Award; Vaughn Allen and Jerald Justesen, Key-Man awards. After the Award ceremony, Car man Kipp, State President, spoke of the good that a JayCee Club can do for a community. He stated stat-ed that the Delta Chapter has always al-ways been on the top of the list of active JayCee Clubs throughout Utah. Mr. Albert Nickle, Master of Ceremonies, entertained the gathering gath-ering with jokes and between jokes introduced LaRon Oliver, Phill Rawlinson and Mrs. Douglas Allred who rendered vocal solos. The banquet was held in Delta First Ward and catered by Hatch's City Cafe. The tables were beautifully beau-tifully decorated with centerpieces by Gowers' florists. Other DSA winners are Willard Stephenson, Eldon Eliason, LeRoy Smith, Earl Kelly, Rulon Callister, Carl Ashby, Gene Peterson, Leonard Leon-ard Vodak, N. S. Bassett, Gle.i Swalberg and Thorpe Wadding-ham. Wadding-ham. Final Rites Pay Tribute to William J. Webb Funeral services for William J. Webb, 78, Hinckley farmer and church worker, were conducted Saturday, Jan. 24, by Bishop Eldon Hurst in the Hinckley Ward LDS chapel. Mr. Webb died Jan. 19 at his home In Hinckley of a heart ailment. Prelude music for the services was played by Mrs. Roma Ekins. Bishop Eldon Hurst read a brief history of Mr. Webb, and gave remarks. re-marks. The opening song was by the Hinckley Ward choir, "Oh My Father." Fath-er." The opening prayer was by Golden Webb, a nephew of the deceased. The first talk was given by Oren Bliss, who paid a beautiful tribute to the life of Mr. Webb, as an outstanding out-standing friend, neighbor, and as a loving husband and father. His life was given as an example to all who knew him for his fine qualities. quali-ties. Mrs. Erma Cropper sang "The End of a Perfect Day." Arthur Reeve spoke of early incidents in-cidents in the life of Mr. Webb, and expressed the high regard held for him as citizen, father, frienl and church worker. Mrs. Ruth Talbot played an organ or-gan medly, consisting of some of Mr. Webb's favorite tunes. Mrs. Angle Pratt read a tribute from his children which was an original poem written by Elaine W. Dekker. The closing song was "No Man Is An Island," by Hinckley Ward choir. The closing prayer was by Walter Ekins. Postlude music was played by Roma Ekins. Eurial was In the Hinckley cemetery, cem-etery, under the direction of Nickle Mortuary. The grave was dedicated by Myron My-ron Anderson, a grandson. Pall bearers were Ronal Petersen and Bill Dekker, grandsons, and Bill Johnson, Myron Anderson, Fred Jensen and Roy Wood, grand-sons-in-law. An exceptional tribute was given Mr. Webb by the presence of the Deseret Stake High Priest Quorum and by the hundreds of friends and relatives from both far and near who came to attend his last rites. Sugarville MRS. VENICE DAVIS Sister Ora Gardner, president of the stake Relief Society, visited our ward Tuesday afternoon. We are happy to hear that her husband, hus-band, Fenton Gardner is improving. Sunday morning, high councilman. council-man. Eldon Eliason visited the priesthood class. Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Oliver and Larry made a trip to Provo Sunday to see their new grandchild blessed, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Oliver. Oli-ver. They will alo visit their parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Oliver here. George Jtnson is home from the hospital and is feeling somewhat better. We are glad to see him out again. Mrs. Faye Clark entertained ;.t a party Saturday night for Mau-rine Mau-rine Jensen returning from her mission. mis-sion. Those who attended were Sharon and Choral Clark, Rutn Losee, Verla Jenson, Shirlee Shields, Bonnie Abbott, Inga Mae Shurtz, Yvonne Shurtz, Geneal Jensen, Elaine Losee and Clara Poulsoa. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mienhardt made a trip to Pleasant Grove for her brother's testimonial. He is leaving on a mission soon. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Losee and family visited in Salt Lake City and Kearns over the weekend. Mr. and 'Continued on back page) |
