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Show strollin9 round totvn GOING SHOPPING? llCI I V 4 l i Mil il i . ''Ktau. 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 Rabbits Trout, Bass, and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Live! WEATHER 1 Lovely fall weather is slowly giving way to winter. The high reading for the week endingOct. 28 is 78 as recorded on Oct. 27. Oct 21 was the coldest day in the same period of time with a reading of 28. Precipitation for Oct. 27 was .01 and for Oct. 28, .31. LEGIONNARIRES AND PARTNERS The American Legion is having a masquerade dance Saturday, Oct. 31, 9:00 p. m. The doors will be o-pened o-pened to Legion and Auxiliary members and their partners and guest card .holders. According to Commander Sjostrum prizes will be given to the best costumed couple. Come join the fun, Legionaires. PHEASANT HUNTERS Pheasant hunters will again be served up good meals toy the Jolly Jol-ly Stitchers Sat. and Sun. and Mon. morning breakfast, Nov. 7, 8, and 9. The ladies have joined together to serve home-cooked meals and plenty of home-baked pies and scalding coffee. The Jolly Stitchers will begin serving breakfast at 6 a.m. at the Jolly Stitcher Hall. TURKEY SHOOT Delta Lodge No. 59, I.O.OJ., is sponsoring a turkey trap-shoot beginning be-ginning Saturday afternoon, Oct. 31 and continuing all day Sunday, Nov. 1. The popular event will be staged at the range north of Delta. A new feature this year will be special events for bow and arrow enthusiasts. LICENSES November dates to remember are 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30. On these dates the Drivers License Examiner Examin-er will be in Delta City Hall. At this time he will receive applications applica-tions and give examinations for operator's op-erator's and chaueffeurs' licenses. BAZAAR Sutherland Relief Socity will hold its annual supper and bazaar Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Nov. 4. The evening begins sharply at six with a turkey dinner din-ner and the bazaar will follow. The ladies of the Society have many beautiful articles to offer this year and at the request of many, rugs will be a new item. The prices on , the rugs range from $2.00 to $3.50 A nominal price of $1.00 for adults and $.50 for children will be charg- ' ed for the dinner. COMMUNITY CHURCH Mr. Leon Bush, Deacon in Wasatch Was-atch Presbyterian Church in Salt Lake City, and his wife, Margaret, will return to Delta Sunday, Nov. 1, to conduct Church Service at 11 a.m. in the Delta Community Church. Sunday School will be held at 10 a.m. Jolly Stitchers Card Party scheduled sched-uled for Saturday night has been cancelled until a later date. The new date will be publicized in the near future. HOSPITAL NOTES Charlene Peterson, 10 admitted Sunday for surgery. Oasis Man Hurt In Accident Donald L. Day of Oasis, met with a serious accident Thursday, Oct. 22, at Cedar City. He and two other men working on the Union Pacific railroad were returning from work. As they came to the intersection of the railroad and the airport road, the section car on which they were riding, collided col-lided with an automobile driven by a Mrs. Roberts. The impact threw Don 56 feet from the car. He suffered fractured bones of the left leg. dislocated hip, dislocated knee and a "broken nose, and several sev-eral cuts and bruises. He was taken to the Cedar City hospital, where he was treated for severe shock. Thursday morning he was taken by ambulance to the 1DS. hospital in Salt Lake, where he had surgery- His condition as last reported was somewhat Improved, Im-proved, but still fair. Mr. Day will undergo more surgery surg-ery In the near future. Mrs. Day is -with her husband at the hospital SERVING Volume 50 Number Bonnie Roe Bunker Gets Trip to 4-11 Congress Bonnie Rae Bunker, daughter to Mrs. Zola Bunker of Sutherland is one of many lucky 4-H'ers to receive re-ceive a trip to the National 4-H Club Congress at Chicago Nov.29 to , Dec. 3rd. Miss Bunker winner of the Frozen Fro-zen Foods Division sponsored by Whirlpool Corp., has had eight yrs. of outstanding project work in 4-H. In reviewing her 4-H life Miss Bunker Bun-ker states that she cannot remember remem-ber when she first heard or 4-H work. In her earliest years, Miss Bonnie Rae Bunker Bunker became interested in becoming be-coming an active 4-H'er through watching her mother being a leader lead-er of 4-H groups. Miss Bunker has completed 32 projects during her 4-H years some of which are crops, foods, swine, (Continued on back page) - ' M" ... : i Pi! easanf Badaes Will Be Sold Again Plans for the new West Millard Hospital to be constructed at Delta have been approved by the government gov-ernment and Peter Moyes, architect, archi-tect, and his two assistants are making final drawings so that actual ac-tual construction on the building can be started in the near future. Town teen Venna Walker, the 17 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell Walker of Sutherland, is the deserving de-serving Town Teen for this week. She is the business manager on the yearbook staff. Her duties are I to raise money for the yearbook I and help with decisions concerning 'yearbook problems. ' Venna's schedule is workshop, shorthand, art, senior English, geometry, geo-metry, sociology, and home econo- , mica. Her hobbies are reading and sports-especially water sports. Her favorite food is chicken, and she dislikes, spinach. She enjoys asso- dating with children, tut dreads' Mrs. Clayton's extra point work. After graduating from high school, she plans to major in nursing nurs-ing education at the B. Y. U. J - - - ; I ' - y v ? ' ' .' i : Venna Walker THE PEOPLE OF DELTA 18 Thursday, October FIFTY YEARS HAVE PASSED since the group pictured here sang in the first choir in Delta First Ward. They were called together to sing again at the golden jubilee celebration Celebration by Sebrina C Ekins It was an inspiring experience to attend the sacrament meeting at Delta First Ward Sunday evening in observance of fifty years since the ward was organized. To be greeted in the foyer by five past bishops E. Eugene Gardner, Gard-ner, Archie O. Gardner, Wallace T. Jeffery, Dr. Myron E. Bird and Ned Church was a unique thing. Then to learn later from Bishop Arthur This Year The finance committee of the hospital association has outlined a final drive for additional funds and for pledges to be paid as soon as possible. One of the "best money-raising projects for 'hospital funds in the past will be launched again for the pheasant hunt the project of selling hunting badges to all local and outside hunters for $2.00 each. Deseret Stake has pledged to help with this project and all ward bishops will be chairmen for badge selling in their various wards. Some bishops have already started to sell and people are urged to support sup-port their bishops with this project. pro-ject. The various civic clubs will help on the blockades to sell to outside hunters coming in to hunt in West Millard County. Business houses in Delta and surrounding communities will assist with the badge selling. Finance committee consisting of Leo Day, Jack Fowles, Loa Black and N. S. Bassett are making ar rangements for the badge selling. All people who have pledged to !pay are urged -to pay as soon as it is possible to Harold R, Morris, Hinckley, Leo Day, Oasis, Ruth Dewsnup, Deseret, Jack Fowles, at Sutherland, Melvin Roper or Bruce Lovell, Oak City, LaClead Nielson, Lynndyl, and Ferrin Lovell, Loa Black or N. S. Bassett at Delta. 4-H Achievement Might Tonight The annual 4-H Club Achievement Achieve-ment Program is scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 29, 1959, at the Deseret Des-eret Stake House, beginning at 7:30 p.m. At this time recognition is given to the different clubs, their members mem-bers and leaders for the work accomplished ac-complished and honors received in 4-H for the past year. At this achievement night many special awards will be presented. Marven J. Ogden, County Exten- sion Agent, urges that all 4-H members, their leaders and parents hA In flAnrl'tnra Mrs. La Veil Whitwer, new Home Demonstration Agent for Millard County, will present the home ec. awards. I . ', i t ' A -iV' --' i, . - - ' AND THE GREAT PAHVANT VALLEY" 29, 1959 Delta, Utah Delta First Ward observes, opening with the Sacrament meeting Sunday Sun-day night 30 members are in the group, led by John Avery Bishop, one of the ward's first choimters. Draws 547 Sunday Nigh Jensen that all five former bishops bish-ops are still residing in the ward and are all still active in some church capacity was another interesting inter-esting feature. I noticed many more memorable happenings as the meeting progressed. pro-gressed. Two choirs were there to sing, the ward choir directed by former Bishop Bird, with Mrs. Rae S. Huff as accompanist, and a second sec-ond choir consisting of thirty members mem-bers of the original choir, led by J. Avery Bishop, and his wife, Mrs. Lemira Bishop, accompanist. The three Delta Wards had joined join-ed together for this occasion. The chapel was filled, the stand, the choir seats and every available space in the recreation hall. I have seen large crowds to conferences but never 547 people to a sacrament sacra-ment meeting, which was the actual ac-tual count given to me by Max J. Robison, finance clerk. Another thing that impressed me was the beautiful bouquets of fall flowers on the stand and throughout through-out the building which had been grown and arranged by Mrs. Ruby Bunker, a member of First Ward As the speakers spoke of "80 acres ; ereasewoods" which were railed and cleared for farming in the early ear-ly days of Delta and told of the hardships and struggle with the stubborn soil to make this desert blossom as a rose, I would look at the flowers and think no, their efforts were not in vain. I was impressed with Bishop Arthur Ar-thur Jensen as he conducted the meeting and with his timely remarks. re-marks. The ward choir set the tempo of the meeting with the opening number, "Come, Come Ye Saints." Herman StuckL former ward mem - 1 't The latest picture of the D. M. A. D. project is shown above. No. 1 marks the old headgate which will be enlarged and raised. No. 3 marks the boundry of the old dam. The $3.50 a year in Advance At far right is his wife, Mrs. Lemira Bibhop, who played the accompaniments accompani-ments on the same organ used fifty fif-ty years ago. ber, offered the opening prayer. The choir sang two more numbers, "Behold the Great Redeemer Died" as the sacrament song and "It was for Me." Bishop James Taylor, former president of South Delta Branch in about 1918, told of his experiences of leaving Wayne County and coming com-ing to Delta as one of the first settlers. The thirty members of the old choir then sang, "If I Could Hie Away to Kolob," an old time favorite fav-orite of the first bishop Iliett E. Maxfield. They later sang "Secret Prayer." Anthony E. Stephenson, who was among the first settlers and was the first Supt. of the MIA organization, organiz-ation, gave a talk on the life of Bishop Maxfield and told some of (Continued on back page) Accident Injures Children; Totals Car Cheryl Gay Roundy, 2-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Roundy is still in poor condition at the Holy Cross hospital in Salt Lake City. The baby has 3 fractures in its skull and a broken leg and is suffering from shock and loss of blood. The baby was injured in a car accident near Oasis Sunday at 9:30 a.m., when a car driven by an aunt, Miss Connie Kay Cropper, 16, crashed into a big tree as she reached over to pull the blanket off the baby's face. The baby was being held by her brother Scott Roundy, 6, when the accident occurred. oc-curred. Scott had cuts and bruises and a zigzag line behind the old boundry is the proposed new dam not un-der un-der construction. No. 3 shows the location of the Deseret-Abraham diversion now being constructed. MAYBE, AFTER I GOTO THE POLLS AND VOTE TUESDAY, NOV. 3, IN DELTA Tuesday, Nov. 3, the regular city election will be held. This year both precincts, 18 and 18 will vote in the City Building. According to Mrs. Caroline C. Bennett, City Recorder, polls will be opened from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. Election judges for precinct 18 will be Josephine Pratt, Joe Fullmer Full-mer and Archie Gardner. Judges for precinct 18'i will be Anthony E. Stephenson, Deona Black and Irene Little. Three councilmen are to be elected elect-ed in this year's election. Each councilman elected will serve a 4-year 4-year term. Progressive candidates are V. S. Barney, Chad Spor and Lionel Taylor. Tay-lor. Dell Ashby, Ben Bunker and Glen Stewart are candidates on the Non- 1 Partisan ticket. Each voter will find space on the ballot for write-in write-in votes, also. During the same time that city elections are being conducted, an opinion survey will be held. Voters will have a chance to voice their opinions on two widely discussed questions concerning city government. govern-ment. The first question in the opinion op-inion survey will be "Are you in favor of taxation for ditch covering within the city limits?" The second question will be "Are you in favor of the special improvement district for curb, gutter and oiling?" This opinion survey will have no legal standing, but will give the city council the true picture of the wishes of the residents of Delta. J. Avery Bishop will handle the ballot box on the opinion op-inion survey. A sample voting ballot and surrey questions can be found on another page ot this papct. slight brain Injury. Miss Cropper suffered from shock, cuts and bruises on the face and arm. Two other children who were in the back seat escaped with no serious injuries. Joe Roundy, 5, was the most fortunate all he had was ground glass in his hair that was so fine it looked like dandruff. Barbara Bar-bara Roundy, 3, had cuts, bruises and suffered from shock. The accident happened about ' mile north of Oasis where the road was narrow and the only tree in that section was located. No cars came along so Connie Kay carried the baby in her arms and had the other three children walk about 14 of a mile down the No. 4 shows the new dike and No. S locates the overflow spillway now under construction. The dam is to be completed by Feb. 13. I960. Ted Harris, photographer Rabbits Are All Ilarin9 to go . by Kenneth Lovell With a season record of 8 wins, 0 losses and one tie, the Delta Rab bits are concentrating on The Game with Millard this weekend. Probably, Probab-ly, most Utah sportswriters will pick Millard because of their su periority over Delta the past several years, but that's O.K. We, the Rabbits, Rab-bits, delight in upsetting the Know-It-Alls, It will be a game with a lot at stake for both teams. They are both unbeaten this year and the winner will represent Region 9 in the Class B finals held in Nov. Even though Delta hasn't beaten Millard since 1942, the players, fans, teachers teach-ers and Coaches are very optimistic. So let's all get out and perhaps we will see history made on the afternoon after-noon pf Oct.30. The record for the two teams thus far this year are: Millard Millard Millard Millard 51 21 47 55 North Sanpete 14 Wasatch Ac. Juab Richfield North Sanpete Wasatch Ac. Juab Richfield 0 6 0 7 7 6 6 Delta Delta Delta Delta 61 45 7 46 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bishop and Janice went to Salt Lake Sunday to visit their son, Jim and wife and new daughter, Stacy. This is the first child for Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bishop. Proud grandparents state that the wee one is peanut size. railroad tracks to the home of Oscar Os-car Kelly. They were taken to a doctor in Delta and the baby was rushed into Salt Lake. The driver of the car was met at St. John by a police escort to make traveling easier and faster through traffic. Sheriff Edgar Mills cooperated with the family in locating the parents par-ents of the children. They had left their home at 5 a.m. Sunday with a couple from Delta to deer hunt and have their lunch in 8 mile. Sheriff Mills radioed game Warden Eb Stapley and within a short time Mr. Stapley drove into their camp and told them of the accident They rushed to Delta and by 11 a.m. were on their way to the injured in-jured baby in Salt Lake. The children were taken into Hinckley by their aunt to spend the day with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mahonri Cropper. Sheriff Mills invstigated the accident ac-cident and reported damage to the late model car belonging to the Croppers as a total loss. The car was towed into Delta from the scene of the wreck and the many spectators wondered how anyone could get out alive. Wed. Noon: Latest report on the baby. Cheryl Gay. stales that she is showing a slight improvement. The family will be home for a few days and return to Salt Lake Sunday. Mrs. Yestenskow, 86, Died Tuesday ' : I Mrs. Francis Ann Eench Westen-j Westen-j skow. 86. died Tuesday at 4:25 1 p.m. at Delta at the home of a i daughter, Mrs. M. E. Eird of causes ' incident to age. j ! She was born August 5, 1ST3 at 'i Manti, Sanpete County, the daugh- 4 ter of William and Martina Larsen i Bench. She was married to N. Feter thhe Manti Latter-day Saint Temple. Tem-ple. Mr. Westenskow died in 1944. She was the mother of six child-( child-( continued on back page) |
