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Show 'SERVING THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT VALLEY" Volume 51 Number 14 Thursday, October 6, 1960 Delta, Utah Copy 10c $4.00 a year in advance strollit? 9round 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 FAA Station ' Volunteer Fire Department MILLARD COUNTY Population, 9,365 Graziag 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 MOVES Joe Stewart, former employee of The Millard County Chronicle, is now working at Deseret Press in Salt Lake City. Mr. Stewart was employed at the Chronicle for 18 or more months. He was in Delta over the weekend with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Stewart. SUIT CLUB Eldro Jeffery, manager of Quality Qual-ity Market Hardware, was the winner win-ner of the suit given away by the local cleaning establishment this week. Mr. Jeffery states that he can not believe his good fortune yet . Registered? If Hot There Is Still Time Delta residents who are not already al-ready registered to vote in the forthcoming elections have four more chances to do so. Registration dates are Tuesday, October 11; Tuesday, October 18; Tuesday, November 1 and Wednesday, Wed-nesday, November 3. Places of registration are at the homes of Deona Black for residents of precinct pre-cinct 18Vi and LaRae Petersen for precinct 18. Hours of registration registra-tion are between 8:00 am. and 9:00 p.m. According to Mrs. Black, lists of registered voters of both precincts will be placed in the Delta Post Office after Friday, Oct. 15. Voters should check the lists carefully to determine whether they are registered regis-tered or not. If their names are not on the lists, then they should re-register. All prospective voters should make sure that they are registered in their prospective precincts as their votes could be challenged otherwise. Join in the Delta-West Millard Kiwanis' campaign to see that every eligible voter is registered and then vote your convictions Nov. 8. Waterfowl Season Opens October 8; Beware of Redhead and Canvasback An expected 30,000 waterfowl hunters will move onto Utah's marshes and other waterways Saturday, Sat-urday, Oct. 8, for the noon opening open-ing of the, annual duck and goose season which continues this year for 93 days of shooting ending Jan. 5, 1961. Current predictions forecast good hunting during the early weeks of the hunt based upon an average or better production of waterfowl on all Utah marshes. The success Is expected to decrease as the season sea-son goes along as a result of the poor production of ducks this year on the northern nesting areas. Migrating Mi-grating birds from the north annually an-nually make up a large portion of the later seasen bag. The game department listed the following reminders to waterfowl hunters. The noon opening hour, Oct. 8, will be strictly enforced as will the iitv snooting hours of one-half hour before sunrise to sunset thereafter. there-after. Five birds comprise both the daily and possession limit for ducks. It is illegal to kill or possess either canvasback or redhead ducks this year and hunters were advised to know their target before pulling the trigger. Though a bag and possession limit of six geese is allowed, only one of these may be of the dark or Canada spcies. This essentially limits the bag to one goose since few geese of other than the dark species are found on Utah's fly-ways. fly-ways. All persons 16 years old and older old-er must possess a proper state license li-cense and a federal waterfowl stamp before hunting. The stamp must be affixed to the state license li-cense and must be validated by the hunter's signature on the stamp. Juveniles 14 and 15 years old may hunt waterfowl without purchase pur-chase of the federal stamp provided provid-ed they possess the state juvenile bird huntine license. However, thpv may hunt only when accompanied by someone of adult years 21 years of age cr older. Shotguns must be plugged so they are incapable of holding more than three shells in firing chamber and magazine combined. AH other rules and regulations governing the waterfowl season are listed in the I960 proclamation covering this hunt. They are a-vailable a-vailable from all license agents or fish and game offcers. DHS Homecoming Set for October 14 Delta High School will observe the Second Annual Homecoming Day, Friday, October 14. One of the highlights of the day's activities will be Founder's Day assembly at the high school auditorium audi-torium between the hours of 9:00 and 10:30 a.m. Another feature of the day will be Founder's Day Parade through downtown Delta. The parade will have bands, pep club members, numerous floats entered by campus organizations and business firms of West Millard, the Homecoming Queen and her attendants and cars L..-!.... j: : : rri j ueainig uigiiuaiies. i lie parade i gets underway at 10:30 a.m. i,uncn win De servea rrom i:uu to 1:30 to students and teachers. The general public is invited to eat lunch at the lunch center, also. Homecoming game pits the Delta Rabbits against North 'Sanpete. Game time is 2:30 p.m. The Homecoming Dance will climax cli-max the day's activities at 9:00 p. m. Very danceable music will be provided py a live orchestra. Headline for Gas Tax Kef mid Sot Tills Weekend Although Sept. 30 is by law the last day to file for State gasoline tax refund, applications will be accepted ac-cepted through this first week of October, according to information received from the State Tax Commission. Com-mission. This special consideration is to help farmers this first year. Application for Federal refund, which should have been filed by Sept. 30 ' is simple only one card to complete. The State refund starting start-ing this year is more complex but not bad enough to justify failure to apply for refund. The Federal refund ' 4c; State, 6c, total of 10c a gallon on all eligible elig-ible gasoline. One particular thing to remember remem-ber in filing for the State and Federal Fed-eral refund is to send the original invoices. For those who have already al-ready filed and have had a request for further information from the Tax Commission, send such information infor-mation in. We are advised by the state tax commission that they do not wish to deny any claim because of a technicality. Hospital Hoard Members Meet, ISeject All Itids Members of the West Millard Hospital Board met Thursday night and voted to reject all of the submitted sub-mitted bids on the proposed hospital. hos-pital. Original plans called for a 15-bed 15-bed unit to be built at an estimated estimat-ed cost of $250,000. That figure in cluded the cost of equipment a-long a-long with the building costs. Lowest Low-est bid submitted for the project was $323,500. The board members are conducting conduct-ing an exhaustive investigation into in-to the situation in an effort to determine de-termine why the bids exceeded the estimated cost at so great a figure. fig-ure. In the meantime, board members mem-bers are asking the support of all residents in the forthcoming Pheasant Pheas-ant Hunter Badge sale. Another way that the residents can help the hospital board in their efforts to secure the much-needed hospital is to fulfill their pledges. I w ELDER BLACK MOSS LOOKS TO NEWSPAPER WEEK if r " V'- "( r (: rA --, ! 1 Mission Call Elder Russell M. Black, son of Mr. and I.Irs. Dee Elack, Deseret, received a mission call to te Southern South-ern Australian mission for the church of Jesus Christ of Latter- day Saints. A farewell Testimonial will be held in his honor, Sunday evening, October 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Deseret Des-eret Ward Chapel. Elder Black will enter the mission home Oct. 17 and depart for his field of labor Oct. 24. Elder Black is a D.H.S. graduate and attended the College of Southern South-ern Utah for one year. Calling attention to National Newspaper Week, October 15-21, 15-21, Librarian of Congress I. Quincy Mumford show Senator frank E. Moss an early copy of America's first regular weekly newspaper, the Boston News-letter, founded In 1704. srd Farmers to Benefit by Freight Bate Reductions A recent reduction in freight rates on feeding grains will save farmers of the state, particularly in the southwest area, many thousands thous-ands of dollars during the next few months, according to K. W. Ingleby, traffic manager for the Utah Poultry Poul-try and Farmers Cooperative, who worked with the Union Pacific in getting the reduction. Points particularly benefited will be the Delta. Fillmore, and Cedar City areas. The reduction will result re-sult in savings of 20-V4 cents to 25-Vi cents per cwt or an average of some $200 to $250 per car. The reduction is applicable to rail shipments ship-ments of corn, milo and barley from Nebraska and Colorado to points on the Union Pacific south of Nephi. "Turkey, poultry, and livestock producers in the southwest area will benefit in lower feed costs as a result of the freight cut," reports Mr. Ingleby. This is the second major freight reduction that the Utah Poultry and Farmers Cooperative Cooper-ative traffic chief has helped negotiate ne-gotiate for Utah farmers this past year. The new rates were effective September 10, IDGIj .n - Oasis Seed Co-op Pays $21,000.00 to Active Members At their annual meeting held September 6, at the Oasis ward chapel, checks were passed out to members, for the net savings of both fiscal years ending June 30, 1359 and 1960, of more than $21,-000.00. $21,-000.00. This added to the cash patronage pat-ronage refunded to members last year adds up to more than $43,000. paid back on member patronage in two years. An auditor's report of the past year's business was rendered to the stockholders, showing the Coop Co-op to be in an enviable financial position. Other business to come before the meeting was the election elec-tion of three board members. Wallace Holman, board president, was re-elected to succeed himself as was Dean Black. Mr. Nov Rogers Rog-ers of Fillmore was elected to represent rep-resent east Millard members on the board of directors. He replaces Mr. Lincoln Cropper. The two carry over board members mem-bers are Mr. Albert Nickle, sec., and Mr. Grant Petersen. UOfli Ilirthday . . . Ole William Jacobson observed his 80th birthday in Oak City Wednesday, Wed-nesday, October 5. Mr. Jacobson, a resident of Oak City since his birth in 1880, is the second of a family of eleven children child-ren of Ole Hans and Rebecca Deseret Des-eret Dutson Jaconson. All are living liv-ing except his eldest sister, Mary. He married Sylvia Alice Ander son in the Salt Lake City L.D.S. Temple October 4, 1905. Mrs. Jacobson Jac-obson died July 15, 1952. Mr. Jacobson Jac-obson has a family of seven children: child-ren: Milan, Thurlow,. Maiben, Oak City; Verl, Blanding; Mrs. Lloyd (Eula) Olsen, Brigham City; Mrs. LaMar (Aletha) Dewsnup, Deseret and Leah, who died at age 16. He has 26 grandchildren and 2 greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. Mr. Jacobson has been active in LDS Church and community affairs all of his life. He fulfilled a mission, mis-sion, 1908-1911, in the Central States Mission Field. He has been f f BAZAAR Victoria Jensen, President of the Sugarville Ward Relief Society, announces an-nounces that the organization's annual an-nual bazaar has been scheduled for Friday, November 14. Members of the Relief Society will have on display many beautiful pieces of handwork. More details on the bazaar ba-zaar later. Fay Spor returned to Delta from the LD.S. Hospital after surgery on his back. Delta Junior High Elects Hew Officers The DJHS has a successful year ahead with its new Studentbody officers. of-ficers. These new officers were welcomed wel-comed with pleasure, congratulations, congratula-tions, and a laige hand of applause by the students and the teachers for the coming year. The students will support these officers unanimously!- President McKay Church, son of Mrs. and Mrs. Ned Church, Delta, is a well-known, active and friendly friend-ly student ,who has a lot of am bitious ideas towards helping the school! He has had good experience before in this office as he was a successful 7th grade class president. Vice President Roger Ogden, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivo Ogden, Sutherland, Suth-erland, is a "light" of the Freshie class. He is well-liked, and a loyal student towards the school. He will be excellent help to the president. Secretary Laura Lee Hansen, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Hansen of Delta, i a studious and popular girl, who will be a "Champion" "Champ-ion" of secretaries after this year. She has a senss of humor, nerves of iron, and "the memory of an elephant!" el-ephant!" So YOU can see she will make a perfect secretary! Cheerleaders: Suzanne, Carol, and Lorraine are the pepplesst girls with the most energy for OUR TEAM in the DJHS this year. Su-Zanne Su-Zanne Law is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Law cf Delta; Carol Ann Farnsworth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hatch Farnsworth, Delta; and Lorraine Johnson, daughter of Bishop and Mrs. Max Johnson of Sutherland, have the "VIM", "VIGOR", "VIG-OR", and "VITALITY" to be successful suc-cessful cheerleaders. With these excellent officers to take care of their responsibilities, "WE'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES" this year. Gaylyn Cropper MB. JACOBSON ward Sunday School Supt., ward teachers supervisor and is a high priest. Always interested in music, Mr. Jacobson served as ward organist or-ganist for 25 years. He has been soloist and accompanist on the organ or-gan and piano for many years, and was manager of the ward orchestra for many years. Mr. Jacobson was active in helping help-ing to get the pipe water system installed in Oak City and was town clerk soon after Oak City was incorporated. in-corporated. He has farmed but his main vocation has been carpentry and cabinet-making. Mr. Jacobson is still active and enjoys gardening and doing his own chores around his home. Open house will be held at his home in Oak City, Saturday, Oct. 8, between the hours of 2:00 and 8:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to call and visit with him. Mr. Jacobson Jac-obson requests no presents, please. His many friends and relatives join in wishing him many happy returns of the day. A meeting to inform citizens of the present status of the Central! Utah Project, and how it affects this area, will be held in the New Stake House at Nephl, Utah, at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 12, 1960. The meeting is being sponsored by the Utah Water and Power Board and is open to all residents of this area. In addition to discussions discus-sions by state and federal officials, the meeting will feature a ques-tion-and-answer session. Principal participants in the meeting will include Mr. Frank M. Clinton, Director of Region IV of the Bureau of Reclamation, Salt Lake City; Mr. Jay R. Bingham, Executive Director of the Utah Water and Power Board: and Mr. J. Stewart McMaster, Field Solicit or for the Department of Interior, Salt Lake City. The proposed $230,000,000 Central Cen-tral Utah Project will have far-reaching far-reaching impact on the entire state. The meeting on October 12th will include a discussion of some of the revised aspects of the project resulting re-sulting from the final planning now in progress. Mr. Bingham said the meeting had been planned to provide a fact ual, accurate, and up-to-date re view of the project. Also to be discussed is the matter of conservancy districts. Such con servancy district organizations are necessary to receive the water from federal government and distribute it to municipalities and water distribution dis-tribution companies and make repayment re-payment of the government for the project. Mr. Bingham extended an invi tation to all citizens of Millard, Juab, Sanpete, Sevier, Piute and Garfield counties who are interested interest-ed in the water development of the area to attend the meeting. The meeting has been planned in cooperation with the county commissioners, water user officials, offici-als, and other interested citizens of this area. Mr. Clinton, who will outline the current status of planning of the project and its principal aspects, became Director of the Bureau of Reclamation, Region IV, in March of this year, succeeding E. O. Larson Lar-son who retired. Mr. Clinton is an engineer who has been with the Bureau of Reclamation since 1937 and has filled many important jobs, including Regional Director for Region Reg-ion VI, with headquarters in Montana. Mon-tana. Local water officials express hope that a large representation from west Millard County will attend this meeting. Representatives from the various civic clubs, businessmen, business-men, ranchers and farmers, are included in-cluded in the invitation extended. IIEPUIIIJCAK PA11TY IIANQUET In an effort to better sell their1 party and its candidates, candi-dates, and its platforms, Millard County Republican Organization Or-ganization is staging a fund-raising banquet, Saturday, Oct. 15., 8:00 p.m. at Delta Elementary Lunch Center. Guesst speaker at the banquet will be Gov. George D. Clyde. Governor Clyde is expected to relate his plans for the state of Utah, if he re-elected. Jim Nickle, who is in charge of making arrangements for the affair, assures an evening of fine food, good speaking speak-ing and good fellowship. Tickets to the banquet will be on sale this weekend. Everyone, party members, Democrats, undecideds, are included in-cluded in the invitation to attend. Farmers' Supply to Introduce the Hew Generation of Power at Open House DIAPER DOINGS- Congratulations to Ray and Susan Su-san Beckwith Dutson on the birth of an 8 lb. boy, Oct. 3. Mrs. Anges Myers returned home from the L.D.S. hospital where she underwent surgery. CpL Dwight L. Church is home for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Church. Cpl. Church is with the U. S. Air Force, stationed in Denver, Colo. Local farmers will have their first opportunity October 15 to see John Deere's New Generation of Power a new line of John Deere Tractors which represents one of the most thorough tractor design and development programs ever a-chieved. a-chieved. The new line will be shown at an open house at Farmers' Supply, Sup-ply, Inc. The new tractors are designed to provide farmers with the most precise control of power farming they have ever had, while bringing bring-ing comfort and convenience to a new peak. Company product engineers, in designing the New Generation of Power, were instructed to "throw the book away" and develop an altogether new line to meet the power demands of today and tomorrow. to-morrow. The new line, with a background of field-testing for five crop years and thousands of hours of laboratory labora-tory testing, reflects the decision to increase power, provide more precise control of that power, and set new high standards of comfort and convenience. New John Deere variable-speed four- and six-cylinder engines, new multi-speed Syncro-Range Transmission, Trans-mission, powerful new hydraulic systems, the first hydraulic power brakes ever offered on farm tractors, trac-tors, new independent "live" dual-speed dual-speed power take-offs( new front-mounted front-mounted power take-offs, and an exclusive selective hitch response for 3-point equipment increase the operator's control of power farming. f ' .' . . v - .... I - " . . ? X ' 5 '- . "' , : I ' ?. 4, ( l..- . - T"f t- 2' " .J ; -.m ' ' .' ' j I j', t ' , ' -''. t I 'v . . ' "V VVf : K i " ? : A ;-.':-. ' ; - V -- , . ,i t i j. ' i j , 1 . - - i i ; ? i . 1 i ; 8 " 4 - - r , " f ' i 5 - . f - s '-. " : i " '- - - 5 - - "J X -; ;1' LA L I i -1-1-11111111 : AtsFmit- im --jr"fti .ll ,-r Mildred Twitchell Willden, 57, Dies In Salt Lake City Mildred Twitchell Willden, 57, died in the Salt Lake LDS Hospital Thursday, Oct. 6, 12:15 a.m. of a cerebral hemorrhage. She was born to Angus T. Twitchell Twit-chell and Elizabeth Mangum Twitchell, Twit-chell, April 18, 1903 at Cannonville. Married to Delbert B. Willden Dec. 2, 1920 in the Manti LD.S. Temple. They moved to Panguitch and resided re-sided there until they moved to Sugarville in 1924. She was active in the LDS church. Survivors include sons and daughters: daugh-ters: Delbert Verland Willden, Salt Lake City; Dennis LaMont Willden, Henderson, Nev.; Mrs. Clavson (Mae) Stubbert, Midvale; Mrs. Samuel L (Carole) Wilcock, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Stanley (Beth) Tol-bert. Tol-bert. Salt Lake City; Ferrel Iverson, Salt Lake City; 16 grandchildren; one brother, Roy Twitchell, Delta; four sisters, Mrs. Delma Watts, Mrs. Euna Willden, Mrs. Emma Talbot and Mrs. Bessie Webb, all of Delta. Funeral services will be held Saturday Sat-urday at 1:00 p.m. at Delta Second Sec-ond Ward. Friends may call at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Willden at 71 S. 1st W., Delta from 1030 a. m. until time of services. Burial will be in Delta Cemetery under the direction of Nickle Mortuary. NEW STUDENTBODY OFFICERS i Church; eCTetarr. Laura Lee Han- These three will lead '' ; and vice president Roger Og-High Og-High School for the ensuing year.) z. tett to right, president, McKay aen. , . ... . ' " - Four File for Millard School Hoard Office Monday, Oct. 10, is the deadline for prospective members of the Board of Education for Millard School District to file f.r the offices, of-fices, according to Guy Robins, Millard County Gerk. Incumbent Quinn Shepherd and Mrs. Alta Ashby hive explications on file for the Deitd-S jtherland precinct. On file for the Hinckley precinct are applications from Delma Del-ma Jean Galli of Hinckley and Boyd Schena of Abraham. According to the County Clerk's office, several more persons have been mailed requested application firms, but as yet they are not on file... |
