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Show stroll in 9 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, 9,365 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 Low temperature for the week ending Jan. 26 was recorded Jan. 20. High reading of 49 was recorded record-ed Jan. 26. Skies dave been cloudy and overcast all week. Moisture was received Monday and Tuesday, .10 and .02 respectively. Union Pacific Ag. Car Here Feb. 8 Monday, Feb. 8, is the date scheduled for the annual agriculture agricul-ture program presented toy the Union Pacific and the Utah State University aboard the Agriculture Improvement Car. The theme for this year will be "Dairymen Look to the New Horizons" Hori-zons" and will be presented by John Barnard, USU Extension Dairyman Dairy-man and Wesley D. Soulier, U.P. Agriculture Agent. Members of the Delta F.F.A. Chapter will attend two morning sessions, 8:25 and 10:30. The general gen-eral public is invited to attend these sessions if more convenient. The afternoon session will begin at 2:00 and is for the public. Otis Walch Accepts Otis Walch, manager of the Delta Del-ta Branch of the First Security Bank of Utah, has accepted the volunteer assignment of Chairman for the west side of Millard County for the savings bond division of the U. S. Treasury Department, it was announced today by Fredrick P. Champ, State Savings Bond Chairman. Chair-man. Mr. Walch will succeed Herman Munster, who has faithfully served In this position for the past 5 years. In joining the volunteer bond organization, or-ganization, Mr. Walch said: "Being closely associated with the economy econ-omy of this area and realizing the Importance of the savings bonds to our economic stability, I am proud and anxious to participate in the promotion of this bond thrift program. I believe that more people peo-ple should fully understand the advantages ad-vantages and desirability of sav- Beta Rebekah No. 47 Elects New Officers Election of officers for Beta Rebekah Re-bekah No. 47 was held Monday, Jan. 18. The newly elected officers are: Mabel Welton, Noble Grand; Eva Holt, Vice Grand; Louise Bogh, Secretary; Sec-retary; Faye Steele, Treasurer; Lena Peterson, Jr. Past Grand; lone Hollingshead, Warden; Elladene Corbett, Chaplain and Faye Howell, How-ell, Conductor. Monday, Jan. 25, Madia Parker gave a short sketch of the life of Thomas Wildie, founder of Odd Fellowship, and in honor of his birthday, Jan. 15. After the meeting meet-ing a birthday party was given for Betty Baker. Hostess was Faye Howell. LEON HUNSAKER IS CHARTER MEMBER OF SIGMA DELTA CHI Leon Hunsaker, Delta, is a charter char-ter member of the BYU undergrad-Cantor undergrad-Cantor nf R'pma Delta Chi uaic, i""!1 " - -o journalistic fraternity. The fratern-! lty recently organized on the EiU campus will be installed Jan. 29. Installation officer will be Victor E. Bluedom, a former Iowa news-nanerman. news-nanerman. Prior to the installation a dinner will be held at the Joseph I Smith Building followed by a period per-iod of instruction for officers and members of the new unit. The official of-ficial charter to the BYU chapter will be presented at the installation banquet which will be held at 8 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Overson. Lynndyl, received word of another grandchild bom Jan. 25 to Eugpne and Marga Christensen Overson, Murray. The baby girl has an older iiter, Melinda and brother, Steven. 'SERVING Volume 50 Number 31 56 4-H Members Attended Tractor Meeting Thursday Fifty-six 4-H Club members at- tended the first meeting of the West Millard 4-H Tractor Program Thursday, Jan. 21 held at the high school Farm Mechanics shop. Many parents and leaders were in attendance, at-tendance, also. Mr. Max Robison, Utah Oil Co., presented the first lesson on Safety in the Operation and Maintenance of Tractors. In addition to the discussion, dis-cussion, two colored films were shown. Each of the 4-H members and their dads will make a safety inspection in-spection of their own tractor before the next meeting. i The next meeting will be held at Farmers' Supply Co., 348 W. Main, Delta, Utah, under the supervision super-vision , and instruction of Alfred Lake. Topic for discussion at the next meeting will be "What makes an Engine Run?" Meeting time will be 7:30 p.m. Mr. G. V. Ross to Visit Witnesses The Delta congregation of Jehovah's Je-hovah's Witnesses are looking forward for-ward to the visit of Mr. G. V. Ross, special traveling representative of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Brooklyn, New York. ' Highlighting his visit will be a public discourse entitled "Walkng Wisely In a Wicked World," to be given Sunday, Feb. 7, at 3 p.m. at the local Kingdom Hall. Bonds Chairmanship ings bonds as a safe. liquid casn reserve," he continued. "Although our share of the state's 1960 sales goal has not yet been announced, we are sure that the citizens of West Millard will. assume their full share not only for the economic welfare of our country, but for their own benefit," Mr. Walch said. Mr. Champ also announced that Mario Cloward, manager of the Fillmore Branch of the First Security Securi-ty Bank, has accepted a similar volunteer position for the east side of Millard County. I own 7een Renee Hunsaker, daughter of Mrs. Emma Hunsaker of Delta, Utah, is our featured senior personality per-sonality of Delta High School. Renee enjoys school and its acti- RENEE HUNSAKER vities. She feels that she has gained most out of her speech class and has demonstrated this by the part she took in the school play this year. Besides the school play, she has had an opportunity to show her talent in the office of senior assembly manager. She plans to i Charles R. Woodbury, resident of put her speech into practice in la- Hinckley since 1018, celebrates his ter life in her church work and ci- S3rd birthday Sunday, Jan. 31. vie activities. I Mr. Woodbury was born in St. Two of Eenee's hobbies are read-: George, Utah, where his early life Lng and hair styling. She Is spend- was s;ent- He married Agnes Backing Back-ing an hour each day in the beauty le' in 1803- Thev celebrated their salon under the instruction of Lu- 50th wedding anniversary in Hinck-cille Hinck-cille Stephensen. She plans to makej ley m 13 3- hair styling a career by either ::r- V.'oodbury has long been an teaching it or working in a salon. . active member of the LD.S. Church Renee has a very pleasing per- ami s a patriarch of Deseret Stake sonaiity and a good sense of hu- At present he is sick with flu. His mor many friends wish him speedy re- mmmmammmmmtmmm covery end a Happy Birthday. THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, January 28, 1960 Winner of last week's Who's Who is pretty Miss Julie Skidmore, 7th grader at Delta Jr. Hi School and a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Evan Skidmore of Sutherland. She is receiving re-ceiving a check for $7.50 from Ethel Western, employee of The Delmart for identifying Fenton S. Gardner. Fans are urged to read the rules " if V ' " f " ' . 4 I . n . V- ' . : -.- . SHI hi i 1 I Vaughn Allen, president of the local JayCee Club is congratulating congratulat-ing Gene Walker and Ralph Erick-son Erick-son for receiving the Distinguished Gene Walker Receives DSA Avard . . . Gene Walker, Sutherland, received re-ceived the Distinguished Service Award at the annual J. C. banquet Wednesday, Jan. 20. Some of Mr. Walker's more outstanding out-standing accomplishments for the past year were: As president of the Jr. Livestock Show, Mr. Walker had the big task of keeping the livestock live-stock show here in Delta; re-elected Chairman of the County ASC Committee; through his position in ASC he helped to secure a large sum of money for the D.M.A.D. project. Mr. Walker is interested in summer sports and is a pitcher in the Sutherland ward. It was during dur-ing his year of presidency of the local JayCee organization that surveying sur-veying of Main Street for curb and guttering was started. C B. WOODEURY 03rd Birthday... Copy 10c again carefully as many still are writing all the clues down. THIS IS NOT NECESSARY. Mrsr Eugene Losee who was shopping at the time drew the name irom the box. Boxes will be placed at Service Drug Co., Grant Church & Son and Kelly's Sinclair Service, and the jackpot will amount to $30.00. w .-sp -sr? J 1 r Service Award and the Young Farmer's Award. The awards were presented at the annual banquet held last Wednesday night. Ralph Erickson, Deseret, won the Young Farmer's Award, presented the same night. This award is based on the farmer's accomplishments accomplish-ments for one year. The awards were presented by Gilbert Searle, last year's D.S.A. winner and Tillman Johnson, winner win-ner of last year's Young Farmer's Award. Principal speaker for the banquet was Urban Gebo, State Vice Pres, of Kearns. The "banquet was held at Delta First Ward and catered by Hatch's City Cafe. Table decorations were by Jaycee wives. Hold Leadership Workshop Here America is not only a land of liberty, but also a land of meetings. meet-ings. Sooner or later you may be called upon to take charge of a meeting or meetings, if you haven't already. How do you rate as a leader? Would you like to improve your leadership abilities? If so, attend at-tend the leadership training workshop work-shop which the Utah State Univer sity Extension Service will be conducting con-ducting February 4, at Delta. This workshop will be held in the Delta I Stake House, from 9:30 a.m. to f 3:30 p.m. Leaders from the College will be there to conduct the work- shop. f The objective of the workshop is to increase the ability of local leaders to conduct meetings and programs. All community, county and commodity planning leaders are urged to attend. All others interested in-terested in developing leadership abilities are invited, also. NEWS REPORTERS All residents in the Third Ward area are asked to contact Mrs. Bob (Roma) Horlacher to report their news. Beginning with next week's issue all three ward aieas will have special sections of happenings. happen-ings. Athena B. Cook will be re- I porter for Delta Second WaTd area and Inez Riding few First Ward area. Cubs, social and civic, are asked to report their news to the office. All weddings, engagements, obit uaries, etc will be handled as in the past. Delta, Utah VALLEY" $4.00 a year in Advance Hearings Held on llatural Gas Line Through Utah Hearings before the Federal Power Commission will open Monday, Mon-day, Feb. 1, Washington, D.C., concerning con-cerning the construction of a natural na-tural gas pipeline by El Paso Natural Na-tural Gas Co., to run through Utah, Although a definite route has not been established, of great interest in-terest to Millard County and neighboring neigh-boring counties is the tentative route under consideration. The ten tative route, coming in at Thistle, Utah, would run in a southwesterly direction through Juab and Millard Counties, near Nephi, Juab County, and between Fillmore and Delta, Millard County. It would continue through Beaver County, between Beaver and Milford, and on to Ce dar City. This route could be altered by terrain and right of ways. To protect the interests of Juab and Millard Counties, Nephi, Fillmore Fill-more and Delta city officials and the two county commissions have taken the necessary steps to intervene inter-vene in the hearings and take whatever action might prove necessary. nec-essary. The availability of natural gas in the Southern Utah area promises prom-ises many benefits, both in industrial indus-trial development and economic improvement. Geo. Van s Jewelry Burglarized Sunday George Van's Jewelry Store was burglarized early Sunday morning. Burglars had gained entrance thru the back door after an unsuccessful unsuccess-ful attempt to open the skylight. Mr. Van discovered the Durglary Sunday afternoon when he returned return-ed to his store .on business. It was noted that the burglars had tried to conceal the broken door. After a cursory search of the premises it was discovered that a case of 30-30 shells was missing. A more detailed search later revealed that nothing else was taken. City officials are investigating. This is the fourth business firm to be burglarized since the first of the year. D. Stevens & Co., Grant Church Lumber Yard and Hunsak-er's Hunsak-er's motor Co. were burglarized on Jan. 10. Deputy Sheriff Edgar Mills states that there have been no new developments de-velopments in the earlier burglaries. burglar-ies. There is no evidence that the four burglaries were committed by the same parties. DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to Wayne and Jerene Johnson Shee-hy Shee-hy on the birth of a 9 lb. 2 oz. girl, born Wednesday, Jan. 27. HOSPITAL NOTES Linda Lou Talbot, Hinckley, admitted ad-mitted for surgery Thursday,' 'Jan. 21; released Wednesday, Jan. 27. ' Mrs. Louise Bogh, president of Delta High P-TA, announces that the regular meeting of the organization organ-ization has been postponed until March 2. The Music Dept will be in charge of the program at that j time. ' V ' ' .- . . V- " i i . i 1 A party honoring Hilding Sjos-trum. Sjos-trum. Oasis, was held Sat., Jan. 23 at Hatch's City Cafe. Mr. Hilding recently retired from Northrup King & Co. after approximately 35 years of employment with the Company. All Northrup King employees and their wives were oa hand lor the party. During the course of the eve-1 jning they presented a gift to Mr.,Iy. I Sjostrum. Present also, were RalphJ Lorenzo "Ren" Sampson, 83, Died at His Home Tuesday J. Lorenzo (Ren) Sampson, S3, died at his home Tuesday, Jan. 2G, 4:00 a.m. of causes incident to age. Mr. Sampson was born Feb. 28, 1S76 in Glenwood, Utah, a son to James Polk and Rose Ann Turner Sampson. He married Rosetta Albrect, Sept 12, l'JOG at Loa, Utah. The marriage was later solemnized in the Manti Temple. Mr. and Mrs. Sampson came to the Delta area in 1903 and settled in the South Tract area. They moved into Delta in 1939. Mr. Sampson served as Sunday School superintendent of the original ori-ginal Third Ward and at the time of his death was a High Priest. Survivors include his wife and the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Hamilton (Erma) McCullough, Delta; Boyd Sampson; Mrs. Cecil (Marcella) Ross, Delta; Doyle Sampson, St. George; Mrs. Don (Dorothy) Webb, Delta; Mrs. Albert Al-bert (Chasty) Bennett, Holden; Dean Sampson, Las Vegas; Mrs. Shirley (Lila Mae) Debenham, Wash. D.C.; 33 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Mrytle Nenerary, Bakersville, Calif.; ELDER ELWIN M. JOHNSON Called on Mission Elder Elwin M. Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bishop and Mrs. Max Johnson of Sutherland has 'been called to fill a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the North Central States Mission. Elder Johnson is a graduate of Delta High school and Delta Seminary, Semi-nary, he has attended four quarters at U.S.U., Logan. A farewell testimonial in his honor will be held at Sutherland Ward Chapel, Sunday, Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m. He will enter the mission home Feb. 8, 19G0. Tri-State Lumber Tri-State Building Center and Payette Building Center in Boise, Idaho are combining under the new name Bestway Building Center according ac-cording to an announcement released re-leased today by Mr. Van Warnick, local manager. "The name change which "became effective the first of the year, is merely another step in a program of operating integration in order to bring better building material service to Millard County and the area, by Boise Payette," Mr. War-nick War-nick said. According to Mr. Warnick, signs, store painting and other work connected con-nected with the change is well underway. un-derway. He emphasized that the new name change will be only an outward appearing one. The Delta store will remain the same and that generally the same line of SCIENCE CLUB TO SHOW FILMS The Delta High Science Club presents pre-sents the Wet Desert and other films by Mr. Ed Harris. The program, which will be free, will be held at the Delta High chemistry laboratory, Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. .1 - 4 - ' Jf I Kelly, Vice President of Northrup Kinj & Co. and Intermountcda Civ. Mgr. and Wilner Blakely Mgr. of the Salt Lake City Branch of the Co. Seated left to right are Ralph' Kelly. Mrs. Sjostrum, Mr. Sjostrum, Mrs. Shirl Pace, Mr. Shirl Pace, mgr. of the Delta branch and Mr. Blake- V : ; V 'L t Morning, Jan. 2 three brothers, George, Delta; Ben, Salt Lake City and Clyde, Pocatello, Idaho. Funeral services will be conduct ed Sat., Jan. 30, 1:00 ,f.m. at Delta Second Ward. Friends may call at the ward Relief Society room from 11:00 a.m. until time of services. Burial will be in the Delta ceme-tary ceme-tary under the direction of Nickle Mortuary. LICENSE PLATES License plates for motor vehicles ve-hicles will go on sale Friday, Feb. 5 for Delta. Other dates and places are: Lynndyl Feb. 9, Tuesday a.m. Leamington Feb. 9, Tues. p.m. Delta Feb. 11. Thursday all day Delta Feb. 15, Monday p.m. Oak City Feb. IS, Monday am. Hinckley Feb. 17, Wed. a.m. Sutherland Feb. 17, Wed. p.m. Meadow Feb. 19. Friday a.m. Kanosh Feb. 19, Friday p.m. Oasis Feb. 23, Tuesday a.m. Deseret Feb. 23, Tuesday p.m. Holden Feb. 25, Thursday a.m. Scipio Feb. 25. Thursday p.m. Delta Feb. 26, Friday all day The dates have been changed for Sutherland and Hinckley. The original list read Hinckley, Feb. 16, Tuesday forenoon and Sutherland, Suth-erland, Feb. 16, Tuesday afternoon. after-noon. The date has been changed to Wednesday, Feb. 17. Residents of Hinckley and Sutherland are ' urged to make note of this change in date. Join the Hew March of Dimes I Scientists all over the world rely on a laboratory at the University of Kansas for help in identifying unknown viruses which are health problems in their countries. Support for this virus "Clearing House" is provided ty the NEW MARCH of DIMES as part of The National Foundation's virus research program. pro-gram. When help is requested, which happens daily, the laboratory labora-tory airmails free vials of serums, which serve as standard testing agents for identifying viruses. Since 1953 this March of Dimes service has assisted scientists in 35 countries. coun-tries. March of Dimes-supported research, re-search, which produced the Salk vaccine and the new Sabin live-virus live-virus oral vaccine, is also seeking causes and preventives for birth defects and arthritis. JOIN the NEW MARCH of DIMES Co. Changes Home building materials will be stocked. Customers are reminded that the same brand products can, as always al-ways be matched with those items sold in the past. New Adult Classes Now In Progress Several new Adult Education classes started Monday night, Jan. 25 at Delta High School. Principal C L. Bennett is instructor instruc-tor for parents of high school students stu-dents in a new class called "You Your Child and His School. With 25 years experience in the educational educa-tional field, Prin. Bennett is well qualified to teach this class. Prin. Rosslyn Eppich is teaching a class in Survival Training. The course includes gun, home and camping safety. Upon completing the course each member will be given a certificate stating that he or she Is qualified to teach young people. The same course with P.od- ney Wright as instructor will begin be-gin in Hinckley, Thursday, Jan.23. Both Mr. Eppich and Mr. Wright have hunter safety certificates to teach these classes. Goldwyn Cluff, instructor, started a new class in Ceremics Monday night. The new oven recently purchased pur-chased for the school may be used in this class. New classes for farmers are Farm Welding with Merritt Floyd as instructor. in-structor. This is the second year for this class and last year's class proved highly successful. Tractor Maintenance with Wallace Wal-lace Whicker, instructor started Monday, Jan. 25. Actual work on tractors and information on servicing servi-cing and maintainirg farm tractors will be part of the course. Farm Law, Social Security and Taxes with Eidon Ellason, instructor, instruc-tor, will begin in Oasis, Feb. 8 with registration beginning Feb. 1. This will be the only clas in this course presented in west Mr.iard this winter so Interested persons are urged to make plans to regis- ter now. . Other new classes are Netting:, Repairing and Eefinishing, Methods cf Teaching and Dancing. Contact Mrs. Sebrina C. EKins in Hinckley for further inforrr.alica, |