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Show "SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT VALLEY" Volume 49 Number strollin' 9ronnd 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, 9,365 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 Lival Weather January went out giving everyone every-one a cold shoulder. The 31st, with its recording of 10, was the coldest day of the week ending Feb. 1. Jan. 28 gave us the warmest reading read-ing of 43 for the same period. Jan. 30, 1 inch of snow fell containing .08 precipitation. Thus far, for Feb. the mercury has hovered above freezing by 6 degrees. Feb. 2, with a low reading of 11 has been the coldest day of the new month. - Army Recruiter MSgt. Alvin L. Anderson, Army Recruiter headquartered at Provo, will visit Delta Feb. 11 and 12. Sgt. Anderson can be contacted at the Southern Hotel on the above dates. He 'will give information to young men and women who desire enlistment en-listment in the service and "to explain ex-plain military obligations. For further fur-ther information contact Sgt. Anderson And-erson at the 'hotel or call collect FR 34150, Provo. Days of the Old West There will be a special meeting for the election of committee and committee chairmen for promotion of the Days of the Old West, at Hatch's Cafe, Thurs., Feb. 5, 7:00 p.m. All persons interested in the promotion of good sports in West Millard aie urged to be present. Eldon Eliason is in charge of this meeting and is anxious to have a good committee elected to help him promote this program. A special invitation is extended to the County Commissioners. Refreshments Refresh-ments will be served. G. W. Cluff, Secretary. Mayor Announces Stores of Delta will observe Lincoln's Lin-coln's Birthday, Feb. 12, by closing. clos-ing. Washington's Birthday, which falls on Sunday, will not be observed ob-served and all stores will "be open as usual Monday, Feb. 23. Cleanup Clean-up Day for Delta will come in March or April and the stores will again be closed. Definite date for the Clean-up will be announced at a later date. Third High In Class of 295 D. O. Jacobson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maiben O. Jacobson, Oak City, received a certificate for outstanding outstand-ing grades in the prescribed course of study at the Aviation Fundamentals Funda-mentals School, Norman, Okla. Mr. Jacobson finished third high in a graduating class of 205 members. Mr. Jacobson enlisted in the Navy July 15, 1958 for 3 years. At present pres-ent he is stationed at N.A.T.T.C., Memphis, Tenn. State Senator State Senator Thorpe Wadding-ham Wadding-ham and Mrs. Waddingham, in Salt Lake City for sessions of the Legislature, Leg-islature, spent Saturday night and Sunday in Delta with their children. child-ren. Mall Postmaster, June W. Black reported re-ported today that mail service has been extended recently to 1,577.335 additioral American families and lf.'C,51G business concerns. This is according to a newly issued is-sued "ID'S Annual Report" from Fost master General Arthur E. Sum-merfield Sum-merfield fr the year ended June 30, 1953, Postmaster Black ex-1 plained. 32 Thursday, February 5, 1959 Delta. Utah KIWANIS CLUB GIVEN TWO INFORMATIVE TALKS JAN. 29 Bud Eassett, local farmer, gave an interesting talk on agriculture last Thursday, Jan. 29, to the local Kiwanis Club. Floyd Sam, electronic electro-nic technician at the Delta airport, gave an interesting talk on different differ-ent equipment used at the station. The Kiwanis club meets every Thursday night at 7:30 ,p.m BEEHIVE BAKE SALE Saturday, Feb. 14, there is going go-ing to be a Bake Sale, sponsored by the Delta First Ward First Yr. Beehive class. Everyone is invited. Time is 10:00 a.m. at the Quality Market. . Comprehensive Study of Sevier River Drainage Basin Being Made by U.S.U. Logan A vast reservoir of basic information which will help Utahns better understand their water supply sup-ply problems and their relationship relation-ship to weather, is being assembled annually by scientists at Utah Agricultural Ag-ricultural Experiment Station which will eventually aid in completing a state-wide evaluation of the water resources. Cleve H. Milligan, professor and he'ad of the department of civil and irrigation engineering at Utah State University said Monday the experiment station is helping water users and other state and federal agences in promoting a comprehensive comprehen-sive hydrological study of the Sevier Sev-ier River drainage 'basin which might result not only in a more efficient ef-ficient use of the waters of that river but disclose possible new sources. "In Utah," noted Prof. Milligan, "much of our water supply comes from small unmeasured streams. "Before the waters within the state can be developed fully, it will be necessary to know the a-mourit a-mourit coming from these numerous numer-ous sources." Research on factors which determine deter-mine water yield is being conduct chool Board Hcorgaiiizetl Fillmore T h e Millard County school board has been reorganized with Kenneth Nielson of Leamington Leaming-ton as the new president, Ormus L. Dutson, of Deseret, vice pres., Quin T. Shephard of Delta member and tow new members elected last November, Nov-ember, J. Clifton Beckstrand of Meadow and Mr. Dallas Rogers of Fillmore. Mr. Beckstrand will repre-more. repre-more. Mr. Beckstrand will represent repre-sent Meadow, Kanosh and the Snake Valley communities. Board members are appointed for a two year term. . Mrs. Helen Rogers was reappointed reap-pointed clerk and treasurer for the district. Golden P. Wright is superintendent sup-erintendent of Millard District. The retiring members of the school board are Joseph L. Robinson Robin-son and Gardner Kimball. Mr. Robinson Rob-inson served on the board for 14 years and was past president of the board. They were instrumental in helping to build up the schools in the county during their Ion; years of service. I N PICTURED ABOVE, right, are Mr. and from left to Mrs. Tillma i' Johnson, recent winner of the Jay Cee Outstanding Young Fanner . ' Y i A . i i u . if i U.P. AG. CAR HERE FEB. 9 TV a TTnjnn Prtrifi A nririil tura I car will be in Delta Monday, Feb. 9. For information and picture, turn to back page of this issue. Leo Leroy Gardner, former Del-tan, Del-tan, died at his home in Sacramento, Sacra-mento, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 2S. Funeral services were held at the Berg Mortuary, Provo and burial was in Salem Cemetery. Mr. Gardner Gard-ner was the oldest brother of Mr. Eugene Gardner, Delta. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner attended the funeral service. ed by the experiment station at (Continued on back page) 00th IHrlhclay John L. Nielson will be honored at an open house Sunday, Feb. 8 from 2 until 6 p.m. at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Susan N. Shipley,. The occasion being his 80th birthday. Mr. Nielson was born February 5, 1879 at Oak City, Millard Co., Utah a son of Niels Peter and Florence V. Dutson Nielson. He attended school at Oak City and Brigham Young Academy and has always been active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Nielson married Rachel Fin-linson Fin-linson in the Manti Temple Dec. 17, 1902. They had four daughters, Mrs. Boyd (Elma) Anderson, Pleasant Plea-sant Grove, Mrs. Ivan (Susan) John L. Nielson Shipley, Mrs. Marvin (Florence) Lovell, Oak City, and Mrs. Don (Rochel) Melville, Salt Lake City. Mrs. Nielson died in 1913. He married Ida Roper March 25, 1921 in the Manti Temple. They had three children, Mrs. Christian (Ava) Anderson and Gayle R. Nielson, Oak City, and Aldin J. Nielson, Milford. She died in 1939. Mr. Nielson has 31 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren. He requests re-quests no gifts, but will welcome visitors at the open house. Award ani Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Searle. DSA winner. In accepting the awards, both gentlemen paid .high tribute to their wives in belp- Li ZlS. : j r m 1 .. ... 4 " r . Utah's $3.50 a year in Advance License IMatcs Go mi Sale Delta, Saturday all day, Feb. 7. Lynndyl, Monday forenoon, Feb. 9. Leamington, Monday afternoon, Feb. 9. Delta, Thursday all day, Feb. 12. Hinckley, Saturday -forenoon, Feb. 14. Sutherland, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 14. Meadow, Wednesday forenoon, Feb. 18. Kanosh, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 18. Oais, Thursday forenoon, Feb. 19. Deseret, Thursday afternoon, Feb. 19. Holden, Saturday forenoon, Feb. 21. Scipio, Saturday afternoon, Feb. 21. Delta, Monday all day, Feb. 23. Delta, Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 25. Oak City, Wednesday forenoon, Feb. 25. At all other times plates will be sold in Fillmore. Two Utah Seniors To be Picked to Attend Conference Two Utah high school seniors and one high sohool science teacher teach-er will be selected to attend the National Youth Conference on the Atom in Atlantic City, N. J., Aprl 30 and May 1. The conference is being sponsored sponsor-ed by the Utah Power and Light Company and Telluride Power Company Com-pany in conjunction with about 60 other investor-owned electric utility util-ity companies throughout the nation. na-tion. According to E. M. Naughton, president and general manager of Utah Power and Light and gen eral chairman of the conference, the purpose of the two-day event is to "present" to a group of the nation's most able high school science students and teachers an authoritative picture of the promise of the peaceful atom in all its various var-ious applications, and to help advance ad-vance interest in the study of science in the United States." Each high school in the state will have opportunity of recommending recommend-ing one student. He or she must be a senior of exceptional ability who is studying science. State winners will be determined on the basis of scholastic record, teacher comments, and a personal interview, by a committee of prominent pro-minent scientists and educators of the state. The students and teacher will leave Salt Lake City, April 29. Utah Power and Light company will pay all expenses for the trip. Featured speaker of the event will be John A. McCone, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Melvin D. Ross is in the LDS Hospital, room 406 and his condition condi-tion is very satisfactory. Mr. Ross underwent surgery last Friday. Mrs. Ross reports that Mr. Ross will probably be home this weekend. week-end. v.. . "1 ing them to set and gain their goals. Both young couples are well-known well-known in this area and are active in many civic and church activities. Second Lcsrgest In liie By W. R. Walker In the fall of 1946, the Auction was opened with Dewey Sanforrt as owner and manager, and Col. E. W. Coon Auctioneer, and Norman Nor-man Scott, Ringmaster. It was later leased to Whit Le-vanger, Le-vanger, Jim Manning and Bill Morgan. Mor-gan. Col. Manning acted as au;-tioneer au;-tioneer wMle the other two acted as ringmaster. After two years, Mr. Sanford a-gain a-gain resumed management with Col. John Henderson and Col. Bill Adams as auctioneers. Mr. San-ford's San-ford's health failed, so he again leased the Delta Auction to Elwin Pace and Russell Knight. Col Henderson Hen-derson remained as auctioneer. Later, upon the death of Mr. Sanford, San-ford, Pace and Knight purchased the auction which they now operate oper-ate with Russel Knight as auctioneer auc-tioneer and Elwin Pace as ringmaster. ring-master. During this time they have had a large turn-over in help, but T. A. McCormick has always been office of-fice manager, and to him goes lots of credit for its success. Along with the Millard County !"! V-V -S-AX RINGMASTER.. Elwin . Pace., and Auctioneer Russell Knight are pictured pic-tured above swinging into action Series of Health Forums to be Held Delta A series of health forums will be held in Millard County to be sponsored by the Utah State Extension Ex-tension Service adult education program and civic and church leaders lead-ers in the county. The forum will consist of a panel of medical men with a doctor as the moderator. The first forum will be held at Fillmore at the Millaul High school audiorium on Wednesday Wednes-day Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. The forum at Delta will he held on Thursday Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Delta High school auditorium. audit-orium. The subject for the first forum will be "Heart Diseases", and Dr. M. E. Bird, Dr. Clark B. Cox of Delta and Dr. Robert V. Despain, and Evan A. Beckstrand of Fillmore Fill-more will paricipate on the panels. Rather than group discussion with questions and answers, people are being asked to submit their question regarding the above subject sub-ject to the Millard County Chronicle Chron-icle at Delta or to Health Forums, Box A, Fillmore Utah. The questions will be screened by the doctors and the panel discussion dis-cussion will toe conducted around them. At Delta after the panel discussion a short film will be shown on the Rheumatic Heart. At a planning meeting held at Delta this week representatives from the following organizations pledged full support of the program. pro-gram. Farm Bureau, Adult Education, Educa-tion, Delta Senior High PTA, Jay- Continued on back page) VALENTINE DANCE WILL BE HELD AT HINCKLEY FEB. 14 A Valentine dance will be held on Saturday, February 14 at Hinckley Hin-ckley gym. The hall will be beautifully beaut-ifully decorated for the occasion and the Kombo Keys orchestra will furnish the music. The theme of the dance will be "Lovers Question" (one of the top tunes) and will be carried out in the decorations and floor show 3t 10:30. The dance will be sponsored oy the Scouts and Explorers of Hinckley Hin-ckley directed by Sheldon Western and Arthur Reeve, leaders. A charge of 5 per person or a S! .00 a couple will be made. Heading the committee on decorations dec-orations will be Waldo Wamick. Duane Ekins, Margaret Ekins and Kathv Carroll. A dance committee , of IS teen-agers will assist with the decorations and advertising. j n t -. .. JWit utow "iftrnni riKriBi irtnflvrm-iif-nii--w Junior Livestock Show, the Del'e Auction has been one of the big reasons for the growth of the livestock live-stock industry on the West side of Milhu-d County. At present the auction has over 50 corrals, a good ot'lice and sale barn. It is not uncommon un-common for the sale to reach over a hundred thousand dollars for one day's receipts from the sale of livestock. The greater portion of this money is distributed among the feeders and growers of livestock live-stock in Millard County. The feeders feed-ers who patronize the Auction have learned that the buyers want quality qual-ity and dressing percentage. This they are trying to supply. With th's reputation, the Auction has grown to be the second largest in th-j State in sale volume. The Auction's two annual Feeder Feed-er Sales held usually the first part of April have attracted much recognition rec-ognition throughout the Western states. Together with the feeder, honest hon-est and fair dealing given by the management, has contributed more than any one thing to its growth. Livestock is responsible for 8 63 v y .v ? ftp-, . ; J: V 15 .!': V 1 P ; 1 : i , ' - , ' ' -. . vt iO.-ii i at the Delta Livestock Auction. Mr. Pace is the gentleman in the plaid shirt being assisted by Clark Drap 33rd Annual DHS Parents' Day Slated For Thursday, Feb. 12; Register at 0:45 The 33rd annual Parents' Day at Delta High School will be observed ob-served this year on Lincoln's Birthday, Birth-day, Thursday, Feb. 12. All parents are cordially invited and urged to attend the school that day, and studens will have a holiday. hol-iday. een This week we have selected Jo-linda Jo-linda Alldredge for our Town Teen. She is seventeen years old, has brown eyes and brown hair, is five feet, five inches tall, and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton "V V Jolinda Alldredge I. Alldredge of Oak City. Utah. She is an outstanding student, a senior, sen-ior, at DHS. Her classes include American problems. Algebra I!, physics, geometry, English III. and 'iior science. Jolinda has held class offices in the high .school as well as in the seminary. Her interests are outdoors, out-doors, scien-e, sports, certain buys, iind sch'M.l in general. This coming summer -he plans to woik an I then at't-nd college at EYU and major in chemistry. lier participation as W.A.A. secretary. sec-retary. Assembly Manager, and Science Club secretary will surely help her on the road to success. "Hats off to an outstanding "Town Teen." of all the taxes paid in Millard County. If you would take the a-mount a-mount paid in taxes by the Railroad, Rail-road, the percentage would be much greater. Feed lots have increased ovt 500 in the life of the Auction. The price received equals that of other markets, giving the patrons the benefit of transportaoion to market. Speaking from the lighter sid-', the Auction has furnished good entertainment en-tertainment for some 400 to 500 spectators each week. The local customers have learned the "chant ' of the Auctioneer and have long since stopped raising their own bid. Once in a while some fellow, talking talk-ing to his neighbor with his hands, has bought himself a cow. Hatch Farnsworth once purchased a can-ner can-ner cow for his restaurant when Col. Henderson couldn't tell the difference between Hatches and Win Walker's thumb! As all bids are in sign language, the Auctioneer is the sole judge as to the successful bidder, and if he cannot find one, the animal is (Continued on back page) 4 & er in the ring. Mr. Knight is the gentleman behind the mike, at the left and next to him is Cluff Talbot. Tal-bot. The day will be a holiday for parents, too, although there will be classes in the forenoon, minus th': hickory stick. Registration will be at 8:45 a.m. Feb. 12, followed by a short program pro-gram in the D11S auditorium. Classes Class-es will be conducted by DIIS faculty fac-ulty between 10 a.m. and noon, and parents may sample elasswor the students are having. Turkey dinner will be served at noon, opening at 12:15 in the hot lunch center. Also during the noon hour a film will be shown in the auditorium. The afternoon program opens at 2 p.m., featuring vocal and instrumental instru-mental numbers from College of Southern Utah, and Mrs. Elaine Southwick, well known southern Utah leader, as speaker. After the program concluding e-vent e-vent on the day's program will be the annual basketball game, with parents vs. faculty. The parents' organization this year is headed by Carl Ashby, president, pres-ident, and Mrs. Roma Ekins, secretary, sec-retary, and they are aided in making mak-ing arrangements for Parents' Day by D. A. Allred and Rosslyrt Eppich, principals of Delta High School and Delta Jr. High. Trip to Hawaii Made by Airline A group of eight from west Millard Mil-lard are enjoying a week in Ha waii, making the trip loth ways via airline. They are Spencer and Myrtle Nielson, Leamington, LaClead an 1 Eleanor Nielson. I.ile nn.i Marv J Johnson, Lynndyl, and Orran and Stella Ashby. Phoenix, Arizona. The Johnsons made the trip to the west coast by Union Pacife while the Nielson foursome drove, with a stop at Iis Vegas Saturday Satur-day night to i.sit Mr. ar.d Mrs. W. G. Stewart and f.tmi'y. Mr... Stewart is Mr. and Mrs. LaClead Nielson's daughter, Carmen. Mr. and Mrs. Ahby drove from Phoenix to meet the others of the party for the take-o.'f early Monday. They arrived at the Honolulu Hon-olulu airport at 7 p.m. Monday. While in Honolulu, in addition to sightseeing, the travelers w.'l visit Boy and Lola Ashby- Thompson, Thomp-son, now serving in the Hawaiian LDS mission field. |