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Show sirollin-- sirollin-- 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 Livel REGISTERED- ANGUS Another 20 head of Registered Angus cattle have been consigned to the Delta Livestock Aucon's Stocker and Feeder Sale April 5. Regular Livestock Aucuon w.n be held every Tuesday at 1:0 p.m. POLIO CLINIC All adults interested in getting polio shots please contact Mrs. Louise Eogh or Mrs. Dorene Mein-berg Mein-berg at D. Stevens Co. no later than Monday, April 4, 1960. Dates will be set later when the number wishing to participate is known. W. Millard Mother Contest In Offing The American Legion Auxiliary is announcing that it plans to conduct con-duct the second annual West Millard Mil-lard Mother Contest in the near future. Plans are in the forming stage and details will be announced an-nounced next week. The Auxiliary started the program pro-gram of choosing an outstanding mother of West Millard County and giving her special recognition last year. Nomination letters were mailed in to various committee members and the winner selected by a group of three judges. Mrs. Clara Killpack was the first winner of the contest and was honored at a banquet and presented with a dozen long-stemmed red roses. The banquet was held at Delta First Ward. Mrs. Delores Warnick was General Gen-eral Chairman of the West Millard Mother Contest last year and was a'bly assisted by several committee members. Elementary P-TA To Meet April 6 The regular meeting of Delta Elementary Parent-Teacher Ass'n is scheduled for Wednesday, April 6, 7:30 p.m. Mr. Bill Davies, Director of Pupil Personnel of Millard County, will be guest speaker. Appearing on the program with Mr. Davies will be members of Mrs. Fullmer's third grade class who will sing a medley of songs. Mrs. Betty Turner will conduct the installation of the newly-elected officers, Mr. Dan Hansen, Mrs. Glena Moody and Mrs. Clarice Gif-ford. Gif-ford. All school patrons are Invited to attend. v t i k Elder Douglas E. Torrens To Serve In East Central States Elder Douglas Eugene Torrens has "been called to fill a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the East Central States. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Torrens of Deseret, Utah. A farewell testimonial given in honor of Douglas, prior to his departure de-parture for the mission field will be held Sunday. April 3, I960 at 7:30 p.m. in the Deseret Ward Cha-peL Cha-peL He enters the mission home April 11 and departs for the mission field April IS. Elder Torrens is a graduate of Delta High School and Delta Seminary. Semi-nary. He has been attending Vocational Voca-tional School at Provo and majoring major-ing in electronics and taking a missionary course at BYU. "SERVING Volume 50 Number 40 Dili, lo Present "Prince of Pilsen" It is that time of year again, and the D.H.S. is putting the finishing fin-ishing touches on its operetta, "The Prince of Pilsen". The Fete aux Parfums has brot a colorful assortment of guests to ' the Hotel Internationale, including two confidence men down on their luck, Wilbert (Quayle Dutson) and Dilbert (David Young); Artie Wint-erset Wint-erset ('Leo Lyman), an English Photographer; Pho-tographer; and a group of American Ameri-can college girls under the wing of Miss Melisa Crocker (Nadine Turner). Later they are joined by Jake Boomer (Scott Nickle) and his, beautiful sister, Jean (Glenda Mem- j mott). To their amazement they are welcomed as the Prince and Princess of Pilsen. " I Miss Crocker, meanwhile, warms up an old romance with Artie, who proves a reluctant suitor. Jake is happy to find that one of Miss Crocker's charges is Nancy Adams (Marlene Bogh), in whom he has a romantic interest. The real Prince of Pilsen (Anthony (An-thony Adams) arrives with a group of Heidelberg students. He loses his heart to Jean, tout his attentions atten-tions result in a duel between himself him-self and Jake. They are arrested by Sgt. Brie (Sid Carter). Meanwhile, Francois (W y d e 1 1 Jeffery), the head waiter, and Si-donie Si-donie (Darla Terry), Miss Crocker's maid, have plotted to steal the formula for-mula for the winning entry in the Fete aux Parfums and to sell it to an agent from Paris. This musical comedy filled with intrigue and romance is being pre-! sented on April 7th and 8th, at ' 8:15 p.m. Tickets may be purchased from any Bishop in the Deseret Stake. The cost is 50c per person loivn hen Sharon Law, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Law of Delta, Utah, is ; bers this week brought their cam-teen cam-teen of the week. She is 5'1" and j eras and Mr. Harris explained how a siriKing rjruneue witn a quiCK smile. Sharon enjoys school and has ShaTon Law maintained a good scholastic average ave-rage throughout her high school years. She is interested in business and has taken every business class available to her in high school. She was on the first year shorthand team that went to Vocational Day in Cedar in her junior year. Her favorite classes are, of course, shorthand and type. She intends to further her business education by attending one of the business colleges col-leges in Utah next falL She types for Dr. Lyman after i school and on Saturdays. She also in me jiiga scnooi oook- store before and after school, and during noon hours. Sharon is very quiet but has many friends. She attains her goals by steady quiet consistency. Jr. Prom Scheduled Friday Hight, April 1 After hours of work, fun, problems prob-lems and good organization, the Cass of 'CI is ready to roll out the red carpet to anyone and every one. The Junior Prom is scheduled for Friday, April 1, 1960, in the high school gym at 9 o'clock. The theme of the Prom is "Misty" and the hall is decorated in a stunning stun-ning pattern with various spot decorations dec-orations hidden in the mist. The chairmen of the Prom are i Scott Callister and Margery Wright. They and their many co-workers have diligently tried to make this of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Taylor. Mrs. evening of dance a time to re- Tayloi's mother, Mrs. Grace Eher-member Eher-member by all. ing. of Newcastle, assisted. They have engaged the Star- lirhter Danrp Rand to nmvid the'fv,n;, p-.nr'kr Mnnrfav nnrl'vities beaan with a aame between , music. I -Admission: $L50 per couple. I THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, March 31, 1960 Aerial photograph by Ed Harris of the $260,000 D.M.A.D. pyoject four miles northeast of Delta on the Sevier River. Work on the reservoir began September 14, 1959 by the Marion J. Hess Construe lion Co. and ended mm: Mew Masses Martei i The new Photography Class at Delta High School on Monday nights is attracting many camera fans. Next week Ed Harris instructor instruc-tor will take pictures to show the 1K05 nf flash prminmpnt and will Hpmnnsl rate liehtiner. Class mem- each was operated. It was interest ing to see the various makes of 33 MM, a 500 reflex camera with I special lense and a big press cam era brought by Bradford Hatch from the soil conservation office. New mem'bers are welcome to come to .School operetta, will be presented the 8 weeks left. j Thursday, March 31, at 8 p.m., in Some of the projects were not . the DHS auditorium, f inished so a request was made for j Admissions will be 10 and 25 a third Repair and Refinishing class cents, a charge found necessary under Mr. Williams. So Monday since last week when it was an-night an-night a new class will start and nounced that no admission would will be held on Mondays and Thurs- be charged. days at the shop at 7:30 p.m. for The delightful musical comedy 5 weeks. Fee $1.00. If you have an in two acts has a modern American old table, a broken chair or some- setting somewhere in Virginia, and thing that needs fixing bring it promises fun and relazation for to the class and Mr. Williams will the entire family. show you how. Some of the women have been askinsr for another Netting Class under Mrs. Teeples. This has been arranged and if you want to learn something fascinating go to the high school Monday at 4:30 and register for a 6 weeks class ($3). I drove over to the Oasis Chapel one Monday nigiit where Att. Eldon A. Eliason is teaching a Farm Law, Social Security and Law Class. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kimber, Mrs. Zerma Jefferv of Delta and Oliver Shields had driven all the way from Sugar- j I ville to take this class. Wells Rob inson and Bert Hales were there I from Deseret besides Mr. and Mrs. ! Albert Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Norvel I Christensen and others from Oasis The class will run until April 25 and anyone is welcome. Mrs. Rowley's Cooking Classes 73th Birthday fclelsrat ejl Mrs. Elida Taylor returned to Delta Del-ta during the week, after spending the winter in Cedar City with her sons and families. At Cedar City Mrs. Taylor celebrated cele-brated her 75th birthday on March 16, and was honored at a family party. Present for the occasion were all of her children, Mr. and Mrs. Ren Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Taylor and Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Taylor, all of Cedar City; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Taylor of Wells, Nev. and Mrs. Cecil (Vilate) Griner of Boulder, Nev. Grandchildren home for the party-were party-were Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Alien Worthen. of Logan, Mr. and Mrs. Ladd Holt, of Panguitch, Mr. and Mrs. Terry Rosenberg, of Cedar City, Mrs. Ken Griner. of Salt Lake Citv. Mrs. Tavlor's niece and hus- band. Lottie and Farlev Dutson, of. Cedar City also attended the party Dinner was served at the home Mr. and Mrs. Bert Taylor brought went on to Weils after a short visit' in Delta. Delta, Utah Copy 10c with the dedication on March 12, 1960. The resef.voir, a project of Delta Canal Co., Melville Irrigation Co., Abraham Irrigation Co. and Deseret Irrigation Co.; with participating agencies Utah Water and Power iscation Classes trove i are getting a great deal of favor- ble comment from the women. "If you go once you will keep coming" they are saying. Besides, the class at Delta on Mondays, Mrs. Rowley has one on Wednesday nights at (Continued on back page) Jr. High to Present Operetta March 31 "Moonlight", Delta Junior High The Jr. High chorus class is under the direction of Merlin Christensen. Leading roles will be taken by Rita Bishop, Susanne Law, Konra Deem, Billy Brown, Rex Warnick, Jody Black, Stephen Church, Eddie Bradfield and Richard Hopkins. ' issue of April 14, 1960. If you have Any student wishing to enroll in never entered, do so with this issue-the issue-the Gun Survival Class send a card time is running out. Boxes will be to the American Legion, Post 13S, placed at Hatch's City Cafe. Spor Box 416 by April 9th. I Bros. Motor Company and D. Ster- I ens Co. The jackpot for next week """" " will be worth 515.00. r L. Pictured c.-e Coach Doug Allred and Coach Merlin Christensen and members of the Delta High School ; basketball team and their guests, ct the high school lunch center Saturday night The evening's festi- the team and their fathers. Mrs. Jay (Mavis) Bennett refereed the! VALLEY" $4.00 a year in advance Board. Millcid County Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service, and Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, will now impound 11.-000 11.-000 acre feet ol water as compared with the former capacity- of 1700 acre feet. Karen Wilkins won last week's Who's Who contest by coilrectly identifying Van Warnick as the : featured personality. She received a check for $30.00 as she found all eleven clues. Eva Dutson drew Karen's name at Grant Church and Son, Builder's Supply. The contest will end with the 1 i l I 5 I i v i , - Si 1 i 1 game. Mrs. Elaine Allred was in chctge of table decorations and the wefe be3Utiiully decorated . . . with flowers donated by the A.D.C Flower Shop. Mrs. Mary Mooay was cctina hostess for the banquet, Principal CL. Bennett served as master ceremonies for the pro-' 11 0 J i ! S S Vote f o Exercise The 118 members of the ninth grade class of Delta Jr. Hi School voted to hold the expenses of Promotional Pro-motional Exercises down to a minimum mini-mum at a special class meeting held Wednesday, March 23 at the high school auditorium. Meeting with the class were Mr. Jim Porter, Mr. Reece Finlinson, j Mrs. Reed Jacobs. Teacher Advisors jj and Mrs. R.H. Riding, Parent-Advis- or. Mr. Thurmon Moody, was un-i un-i able to be present. . I ' Before presenting rules govern-; govern-; . ing the Promotional Exercises to the group for voting, Mr. Finlinson, Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. Riding spoke. . Mr. Finlinson made brief remarks explaining why certain rules were suggested, Mrs. Jacobs spoke on the importance of the event to every graduating member of the class and Mrs. Riding explained a parent's viewpoint on the cost of school activities when the graduate gradu-ate is a member of a large family. Other topics discussed were: no one should feel out-of-place because be-cause of the lack of a new suit or of a formal dress; a Ninth Grade Promotional Exercise is just that and not a Graduation and the acti- 'vities surrounding the Promotional Exercises should not be as elab- ! orate as a Graduation Exercise I from a high school. The class voted to use a local orchestra lot- dance music; all class members will wear class pins; no fresh corsages will be allowed. The rules of dress for the exercise are as follows: (girls) no formals, no bare shoulders (strapless or extremely ex-tremely low necklines) street length summer dresses of pastel shades were decided upon with heels optional. (Boys) suits or cau-sual cau-sual slacks and jackets; white shirts and neckties.. Mrs. Inez Wiley will head the hall decorations committee with 4-H Club Leaders, Classes Listed Delta: Cameron Adams, Gardening, Livestock, Crops Tractor; Allen Og-den, Og-den, Sheep Other Livestock and Crops; Kelly Peck, Swine Other Livestock and Crops; Terry Hart, Dairy Other Livestock and Crops; Roland Murdock, Entomology (Insects); (In-sects); Lionel Taylor, Electricity; Willard Stephenson and Reed Wood, Beekeeping; Helen Baker, Home Grounds Beautification; Shirley Clark, Foods I (Boys); Vola Bunker, Foods I (Boys). Sugarville Dell Ray Nielson and Elaine Niel-son, Niel-son, Tractor, Foods; Art Hill and Gerry Hill, Gardening, Livestock, Crops. Hinckley Sheldon Western, Tractor, Livestock, Live-stock, Crops; Enid Damron, Foods 1 (Boys). Deseret Loren Rowley and Beulah Rowley, Row-ley, Tractor, Livestock, Crops. Oak City Myron Christensen and Mrs. Myron My-ron Christensen, Tractor, Livestock, Crops; Calvin Dutson, Electricity; Tom Pratt and Lyman Finlinson, Entomology. Leamington Wanda Nielson and Clara Johnson, John-son, Home Grounds Beautification; Ray Johnson, Entomology; Burton Hanson, Poultry (Individual); Floyd Bradfield, Poultry (Individual); (Individ-ual); Louise Lovell, , (Individual); (In-dividual); Dean Harder and Mrs. Dean Harder, Electricity, Livestock, Crops; Glenn Roper, Livestock, Crops. Lynndyl Curt Johnson, Tractor, Livestock, Crops; LaForge Lovell, Entomology (Insects). gram. Appearing on the program were Roger Davis who paid tribute to Coach Allred, Mrs. Allred sang a olo, Jim McCormick gave a tribute tri-bute to Coach Cnristensen and Wil- lard Stephenson was guest speaker. The tributes to the two coaches were written by Elaine Dekker. Timem! Hold Preiiisffoii siises other committee members to be chosen by her. The decorations will be simple, consisting mainly of fresh flowers. The floorshow, presented during the dance following the exercises, will be under the direction of Mrs. Ruby Bunker. Mrs. Bunker will use ninth grade talent as far as possible possi-ble and the show will be approximately approxi-mately 25 minutes long. Mrs. Delores Warnick was appointed ap-pointed chairman of the refreshment refresh-ment committee. Suggested menu is sandwiches, salads, drink and cake or pie. The committee is at liberty to change this as might be desired. Through the years, parents of all the class members have met together and the above rules have oeen the policy governing the ex-, ex-, ercises. The two parent advisors 'were appointed this vear hv Prin. Eppich to work with the teacher advisors and thereby eliminating another meeting for all parents. Wiley, Mrs. Bunker and Mrs. War-The War-The Teacher-Parent Advisors take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Wiley, MSs. Bunker and Mrs. Warnick War-nick for accepting the chahmen-ship chahmen-ship so quickly and graciously. They also commend the Ninth Grade class members for their mature ma-ture attitudes in voting to adopt the rules as presented to them. - r Mrs. Stephenson Open House . . . All relatives and friends are invited in-vited to Open House honoring Mrs. Adelia E. Stephenson, Sunday, April 10, 1960 from 2:30 to 6:00 p.m., commemorating her 80th birthday. Mrs. Stephenson was born April 6, 1880 in Oak City, Millard County. A daughter of George and Martha Turner Lovell. Her early life was spent in Oak City and Leamington. On June 5, 1897 she was married to Charles Nelson. He died July 21, 1932. Their children are L. Jay Nielson, Niel-son, Leamington; Rhea Banks, Manti; Amy Erickson and Charles F. Nielson, Salt Lake City; Edna Bradfield, Scipio; and Mabel Ech-ing, Ech-ing, Nampa, Idaho. She has 19 grandchildren, 52 great-grandchildren. She has always been active in the Church, serving as president of the Ward Primary, pres. of the Ward Mutual, Counselor in the Relief Re-lief Society, Teacher in the Sunday School and a Relief Society visiting teacher for many years. She was the telephone operator in Leamington for 25 years. On March 21, 1947 she married' Anthony E. Stephenson and has made her home in Delta since that time. COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICE Church Services will be held in the Delta Community Church Sunday, Sun-day, April 3, at 11 a.m. Mr. John Holmes and his wife. Mary, will be in charge. Their children, John Jr., Gaylie and Jim will assist them. They are members of Wasatch Presbyterian Church, in Salt Lake City. LIVESTOCK QUOTES March 23, 19G0 By Win Walker Cattle saleable, 600. 50 of today's run was feeders of various grades and sizes, the market was strong and lots of buyers buy-ers for this class of cattle. 20 fed heifers, which brought a good price. The top for today was an 800 lb. heifer fed by Carl Ashby and purchased pur-chased by Hatch's City Cafe for $26.40. Choice heifers brought S'-j. to $26. Good and low choice. $23 50 to $24.75. Commercial, $20. to $23. Holstein, $24.90. Feeders, $23.85 to S26. Steers, choice, $24.30 to S25.20. Good. S22. to $21. Hoi stein, S13.90 to $21.50. Feeders, $26.83 to $2s35. Cows, standard, carload, $15.75 to $17.30. Commercial. $11.20 to $13.-60. $13.-60. Canners, $13. Dairy cows, $13.30 to $16.30; by head, $200. Bulls. $13.73 to $20.50. Caives, urior 4 "0 lbs., steers, $29.50 to 31 25. Keifsrs, $20. to $27.73. Veal. $24. to $26. Eaby calves. $27. to S ;g. I Alfalfa, 523.30, baled U.S. No. 1. ' per ton. Barlev, $2.1' p..-r !) lbs. M.io, |