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Show DJH.S. Teoii Wilis f33 strollin-- strollin-- 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 FAA Station Volunteer Fire Department MILLARD COUNTY Population, 9,365 Grazimg 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 Lirel IMPROVED Wallace Church, who has "been seriously ill of pneumonia following follow-ing flu, Is now on the road to recovery, re-covery, his many friends will be glad to know. It will be some time, however, before he is strong enough to return to his place in D. Stevens' men's department, but those who know Mr. Church know he will be back on the job as soon as possible. He deeply appreciates the cheering messages and calls he has received during the past two weeks and hopes to return them personally soon. WITH TOP 25 Mrs. Ardella Riding, employee at the Delta office, First Security Bank of Utah, was among the top 25 point-winners in the Opportunity Opportun-ity Unlimited account campaign recently re-cently concluded by the First Security Se-curity System. She was No. 5 of the 1450 First Security men and women, whose salesmanship solicited solic-ited new business amounting to $12,823,512.46. EXPLORER TRAINING March 16, at 7:30 p.m., at the Stake House will be a special session ses-sion on Exploring for all stake personnel per-sonnel concerned with the Explorer Explor-er program. Boyd R. Ivie, district scout executive for the Utah Nat'l Parks council, will give training in program planning, organization, specialities, super activities and the job of the committeeman. Be sure to mark this date on your calendar. P-TA MEETS MARCH 9 The Delta Junior and Senior Hi P-TA March meeting will be held Thursday, March 9, at 8 p.m., at the Delta High School. There will be a special Civil Defense Program given by Mr. Fay Jacobson. Everyone Every-one is urged to attend and hear vital information on this very important im-portant subject. Thursday, March 9, 8 p.m. ARCTIC CIRCLE RE-OPENS The Arctic Circle, closed for the past two months for remodeling and redecorating, re-opens Saturday, Satur-day, according to Mr. and Mrs. El-den El-den Sorenson, owners. In mid-March mid-March the Arctic Circle celebrates their anniversary and plans special treats for all patrons during the week. DANCE REVUE MARCH 11 Janet's Dance Revue will be presented pre-sented Saturday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. In Delta High School auditorium. auditor-ium. Performers will be from the ages of 4 to 19 years. There will be no admission charge, and the public pub-lic is cordially invited to attend. DISTRICT SCOUTERS District Chairman, M. Ward Moody, Moo-dy, announced that the regular monthly meeting of the district committee will be held Monday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m., at the Des-eret Des-eret Stake House. All members are urged to be present to help in ideas for the district camporee and summer camp promotion. COMMUNITY CHURCH Dr. Carter Ballinger, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, w-ill conduct services in the Delta Community Church, Sunday, March 5, at 11 a.m. The title of the sermon is: "A Dynamic Dy-namic Faith for Today's World." Steven will accompany his father to Delta. Troop Training The scout commissioner staff has announced that in conjunction with the regular Scout Roundtable on Thursday, March 9, that special training will be given to troop committeemen com-mitteemen as to the scope of their job and their duties as related to helping the scoutmaster have an active scout program. All troop committeemen, scoutmasters and assistants, commissioners, institutional institu-tional representatives and other seouters are asked to make special spe-cial effort to be present at this training session. It will get under way at 7:30 p.m, at the stake house. NATX FARM HEAD TO AIR VIEWS ON T.V. Charles B. Schumann. Natl President Pres-ident of Farm Bureau will speak on Channel 4 at 8:00 p.m. Thursday. Thurs-day. March 9. on migrant labor and the recent lop-sided T.V. showing oi "Harvest of Shame." a controversial film edited by labor groups on the subject of migrant labor. "SERVING Volume 51 Number 35 Tribute Paid in Final Rites for Deseret Matron Funeral services for Mrs. Lois Robison Eliason of Deseret, Millard County, were conducted February 25 at 1:00 p.m., in the Deseret Ward chapel, by Dean L. Black, First Councilor in the Bishopric. Mrs. Eliason died February 22 at her home in Deseret just prior to her 76th 'birthday. In his tribute expressing the sentiment of the people in Deseret, Mr. Black stated that Mrs. Eliason had served in the Deseret Ward in the Relief Society, the Sunday School, Mutual Improvement Im-provement Association, Home Missionary Mis-sionary Work, as well as the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. That she and her late husband, former Bishop of the Ward, Ephraim J. Eliason, had contributed both in service and in financial assistance immeasurably in every worthwhile endeavor for the past 5 decades, commenting that all in the community com-munity had been enriched and inspired in-spired by their service and example. Martha Mace, speaking a tribute x f MRS. ELIASON for the Relief Society and Daugh ters of the Pioneers, and Ormus Dutson and Ray Western, both members of the High Council, all recalled her unusual capacity to encourage and inspire in her children child-ren these attributes of service and of her continuing desire for the educational ed-ucational and spiritual advancement advance-ment of her children, pointing out the love of the people for the present pres-ent Ward Bishop, Lincoln R. Eliason. Elia-son. Each mentioned that her children, child-ren, Eldon Eliason, local Attorney and Deseret Stake High Councilman, Council-man, Max V. Eliason, Presiding District Judge and High Councilman Council-man in the Anaheim-Fullerton District Dist-rict in California, Bishop Lincoln Eliason and Phil Eliason, both of Deseret and daughter, Genevieve Larsen of Spanish Fork, Primary President and past President of the University of Womens Clubs of Utah County, had followed the training and council and had all) been extremely devoted to their mother and her teachings. Other parts of the service in-' eluded a solo, "Whispering Hope, by Melba Jacobson, and "That Wonderful Mother of Mine," by Susan Su-san Kesler, daughter of Mrs. Elia-son's Elia-son's niece. Prayers were offered by Parnell Hinckley and Orrin All-red. All-red. Dedication of the grave was by a brother, Lindon Robison. Pallbearers Pall-bearers included brothers, Archie Robison, Lindon Robison, Culbert Robison; nephew, Wayne Robison and Evan Croft, and a brother-in-law, Roy Davies. Out of town visitors included many of the Robison family and friends from Fillmore where Mrs.' Eliason was born 76 years ago, the daughter of the late Franklin A-lonzo A-lonzo Robison and Harriet Thorpe Robison, and brothers and sisters from many parts of Utah, Wyo., and Calif. Final Rites for Infant Twin Sons Held Tuesilav Randy Ray and Robert Jay Fin-linson. Fin-linson. Infant twin sons of Arlyn Jay and Terry Rae Williams Finlin-son. Finlin-son. Delta, died Sunday after birth in the Delta hospital of prematurity. prematur-ity. Survivors are the parents, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Welby Finlinson, Leamington, and Mr. and Mrs. M. Eugene Williams, Provo. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Delta Third Ward by Bishop Merlin Christensen. Frelude and post'ude music was by Mrs. Sharon Rawlinson. Prayer was by C L Bennett. Elden Sorenson Sor-enson sang, "In the Garden." Bishop Bish-op Christensen was the speaker, with words of sympathy and spiritual spir-itual solace for the bereaved family. fam-ily. Burial was Tuesday, 2 p.m., in the Salt Lake City Cemetery. 1 i 1 ; , "Ss V' N. - . ! , . 1 ' ? ! ? , I ' i THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, March 2, 1961 Itashcihall Hopes High Delta, 61. Milford, 57, was the final score at Milford Friday night in league basketball, with Perkins collecting 20 points for Delta. Hales, 2. Bennett. 13. Pace. 12, and Farnsworth 14, accounted for the other 41 points. This was Milford's first defeat on their home floor this season. Delta leads the region with 6 wins, 2 losses, and .750 pet. Beaver and Fillmore play this week, while Delta has a bye, having completed league play. If Beaver wins. Delta and Beaver will be tied for top position. po-sition. If Fillmore wins'. Delta retains the leading spot. This suspense is awfullll Polynesian Song And Dance Star Program March 4 Polynesian songs and dances will be featured in the program Saturday Satur-day night at 8 p.m. in the Deseret Stake House, presented by the Kia Ora Club of Brigham Young University. Uni-versity. This program has been planned since last September and features thirty-five players. The Kia Ora Club presented a program in Deseret Des-eret Stake several years ago which was very well received. The program pro-gram Saturday night promises to be another fine event. The Fifth Quorum" of Elders of the stake are sponsors of the program pro-gram as a missionary benefit. Tickets, at the door or on sale in the wards, are 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children under 12 years. Federal Land Bank Association Meets Saturday at Delta The annual meeting and luncheon lunch-eon of the stockholders of the Federal Fed-eral Land Bank Association of Cedar Ce-dar City will be held in Delta Saturday, Sat-urday, in Delta First Ward recreation recrea-tion hall at 12:30 p.m. The invitations invi-tations extend particularly to the wives as well as to the husbands, according to Dudley Crafts, director direct-or for Millard County. These annual meetings are rotated ro-tated between the various counties coun-ties within the Association and it has been six years since the annual an-nual meeting was at Delta. Business at the session Saturday Satur-day will include hearing the annual an-nual report and election of a director di-rector from Millard County. Southern Utah Teachers Slate March 11 Meet The annual Southern Utah Teachers' Tea-chers' Convention will be held in St. George at the Dixie College, Saturday, March 11. Extensive preparations have been made illustrating the theme "Using "Us-ing Educative Elements in Your Environment." Registration will begin at 9 a. m., March 11, with the general meeting following at 10 a.m., according ac-cording to an announcement from the Southern Utah Teachers Ass'n. i JERI HALE. Delta High School senior, was named Sweetheart of Delta Chapter. Future Farmers of America, and honored at the annual an-nual Sons and Parents banquet Thursday night. Her attendants were K at hie Johnson and Banae Stephenson. Paul Moody was the master of ceremonies for the gala event, held in Delta First Ward recreation halL Delta, Utah Copy 10c Yestern Rodeo Groups Vote to Join Interstate Rodeo Association Mr. and Mrs. Marlow Cropper re-1 proved. cently returned from rodeo meet- Spokesmen appointed for this ings held at Elko, Nevada. Meeting' area are Jerrie Schooley, Boise, Ida-with Ida-with the Presidents from the West- ho, and -Marlow Cropper, Deseret, era Associations were Mr. Chuck Smith, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, President of Interstate Rodeo Association, As-sociation, and their business manager, man-ager, Mr. Ken Lance. The Interstate Rodeo Ass'n is a national group covering tne entire Gwen Ann Searle, 12, daughter U. S. except this western part of1 0f Gale Edwin and LuDean Twit-the Twit-the country, which the officers of I chen searle, former Deltans now tnis area remedied oy voting to affiliate and to become a part of . this rodeo group This merger will bring many benefits ben-efits to these associations in the form of a monthly publication with listings of producers, contract acts, rodeo dates and rodeo results, na tional finals, which were held in Chicago for 1960, with plans already al-ready completed for the 1961 finals to be held there again and shows in this area will now be I.R.A. ap-1 Telluride Power Co. Asks PSC for Rate Telluride Power Company has asked the Public Service Commis- sion for permission to reduce its general service one-meter electric rate by about $32,000 a year. Based upon past experience, the request explains, 1,250 users will receive a rate reduction 1,030 of them immediately and the remaining remain-ing 220 after making some wiring changes at their premises to accommodate ac-commodate one-meter service. The new schedule would apply to most commercial, and government and municipal customers who are presently being served on the "com- I mercial" or the previous "general service" schedule. The request proposes that each step, except the last one, be reduced re-duced by V-iC per kilowatt-hour. The last step would be reduced by 310c American Legion Post 135 Sponsors Wheel Chair Plan The Cahoon-Jensen Post 135, A-merican A-merican Legion, of Delta announces its sponsorship of a magazine subscription sub-scription campaign to be conducted conduct-ed throughout west Millard county. coun-ty. The commissions which the Cahoon-Jensen Post will derive from sponsoring this campaign will be used to purchase a wheel chair which, when received, will be housed in a central location. It will be available for temporary use, without charge, in the homes of residents whenever needed. Post 135 believes that such equipment equip-ment will fulfill a real community need and render valuable service. I Accredited representatives of the publisher, Bowron Hale, Harry Tall-man, Tall-man, Harry Lam son, Keith Savage, Lewis Snyder and Ken Yerger, each j bearing a letter of introduction and ldentnication irom tne canoon-Jensen canoon-Jensen Post 135, signed by Richard Rich-ard Bracken, D. H. Corry, Boyd and Benny Schena, Post officers, will call on all residents to explain thej plan in detail. Please read this letter. we emphasize that donations will not be solicited or accepted. We wish to serve you well; obtain the desired equipment and thereby there-by benefit our entire community. Your patronage and cooperation will be appreciated. Post 135 wishes to emphasize that they will receive no funds from this campaign for themselves. Their share in the funds raised will be used entirely for purchase of a wheel chair for use on a temporary basis where needed by a member of the community. The post plans to loan the wheel chair until the West Millard Hospital is completed, and then donate the wheel chair to the hospital. DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to: Ray and Rose Mae Webb Lovell, Oak City, on the birth of a girl, 8 lbs., Feb. 26. Mr. and Mrs. W. C Barney, of Orem, visited in Delta during the week with their brother and wife, Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Barney. Thursday Thurs-day the two couples toured in west Millard through Marjum Pass and Gandy, and Trout Creek and Cal-lao Cal-lao in Juab County. SHOPPERS WISE ECONOMIZE THET SHOP WITH THOSE WHO ADVERTISE VALLEY' $4.00 a year in advance Utah Services Held for Daughter, 12 at Reams, died Friday in a Salt Lae hospital of natural causes. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 1 p.m., in Kearns Third Ward Chapel. Burial was in Valley View Cemetery. Survivors are the parents, sister and brothers, Kathy Lee, Rex El-roy El-roy and Ned Orin Searle, all of Kearns; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Tillman E. (Roy) Twitchell, and great-grandmother, Mrs. Zephyr Steele, of Delta. Reduction per kilowatt-hour, The Telluride company asks that the revised schedule become ef- fective on meter readings made pn and after March 15, 1961. Region 10 High School Forensic Meet at CSU The annual Region Ten Forensic Meet at College of Southern Utah has been scheduled for Wednesday, March 8, according to CSU staff member Richard M. Rowley, chairman chair-man of the event. A large number of top high school speakers in oratory, legislative legis-lative forum, debate and extemporaneous extemp-oraneous speaking will compete in the event representing high schools in Delta, Beaver, Millard, Milford, Enterprise, Cedar City, Hurricane, Kanab and St. George. The proposition in the debate activity this year is resolved: that the United Nations should be sig nificantly strengthened. Extempor- aneous speaking will be in the gen - eral subject area of current events of the past six months and oratory will cover topics of timely and vital vi-tal interest of the student's own choice. The student legislative forum for-um will also discuss the general area of the national high school debate de-bate proposition. Registration will be held at 8:00 a.m. in the CSU library Lounge, said Mr. Rowley. Peter A. Peterson. 89-year old resident of Oasis, is a patient at the Delta hospital this week for medical care. ? i i ! 1 MR. AND MRS. Farmers Union Slates Meet at Delta Mr. Douglas Simpson will address a meeting of Farmers Union members mem-bers at the Seminary Building, on Wednesday, March 8th at 7:30 p.m. At the same time he will show slides that depict actual living conditions con-ditions in India. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson just returned re-turned from spending six weeks in India where they represented National Na-tional Farmers Union in a group of seventeen farmers from this country, on a tour sponsored by Farmers of World Affairs, Inc. This group of farmers had an opportunity op-portunity to study agriculture right out in the villages and stayed with the villagers. They visited colleges, experiment stations and government govern-ment officials. They spent 45 min Delta High School wrestling team are the new state Class B champions, champ-ions, and won the title and trophy Saturday in the tourney at Richfield. Rich-field. Coach Bob Horlacher and his 9-man 9-man team Mike Talbot, Duane Ekins, Tony Western, Milton Jef-fery, Jef-fery, Dwight Alldredge, Gary Tol-bert, Tol-bert, Joe Lyman, Dick Talbot, Robert Rob-ert Steele and Dean Losee took a great big bow at the victory assembly as-sembly Wednesday morning at Delta Del-ta High. I '' j if T j J STEPHEN CHURCH Stephen Church, Explorer, Tells of San Diego Trip Stephen Church, Explorer from Post 140, Delta, returned to Delta Sunday from a four-day trip to San Diego, Calif., where he was one of two Explorers to represent Utah in J tne explorer Planning conterence at San Diego Saturday. Stephen was selected from the Utah Nat'l Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America, Amer-ica, and made the following report of his trip. "I went down to San Diego with Dr. George R. Hill, chairman of Section 6 (Utah) Explorers, Mr. Ramon Ra-mon Sealy, a Scout executive of the Great Salt Lake Council, and Alan Daines, an Explorer from Logan, Lo-gan, Utah. We represented five councils which include the state of Utah, parts of Arizona and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. "We stayed aboard the Aircraft Carrier Oriskany. We met 16 other boys, from Hawaii, California, Arizona, Ari-zona, Nevada and New Mexico. This group- made up a steering committee representing Region 12 (West Coast). 1 "We planned a big meeting for 1200 to 1600 boys to stay on two carriers in July. It is possible for 12 boys from Deseret Stake to attend at-tend this council. Here they will have great men talk to them, also tours of Navy air stations and lots of recreation. "In the meetings we held, officers offi-cers were elected, including chairman, chair-man, two vice chairmen and a secretary. sec-retary. I was elected secretary. "We toured ships and atomic plants and other military installations. installa-tions. We saw an atomic Polaris sub, and saw a group of flyers, The Blue Angels, perform." DOUGLAS SIMPSON utes with Prime Minister Nehru and one-half hour with President Prasad. This group also spent some time with the chief administer of Agriculture, Dr. Deshmukh. In this connection, the group studied the benefits that the United States surpluses sur-pluses of agricultural products had on the people of India, how they were distributed, etc. W. Wallace Holman, President of the West Millard Farmers Union Local and board member of Utah Farmers Union urges all farmers and their wives to attend this meeting. meet-ing. They especially invite all the growers of alfalfa seed to attend and determine whether or not they would try to get alfalfa seed as a protected commodity. Now is the time for action!! The Delta Rabbits gained the title with a score of 51 points. Close on their heels was the Mil lard team, with a score of 50. Morgan Mor-gan placed third, with 40 points. Joe Lyman, Delta, in the 138-pound 138-pound weight division, won a state championship. Individual results in the tourney show the Delta men as follows: 95 pounds Garcia, Monticello, dec. Jeffery, Delta. 103 pounds Huber, Wasatch, pinned Talbot, Delta. 133 pounds Northfelt, Grand, dec. Steele, Delta. 138 pounds Lyman, Delta, dec. Buchanan, Richfield. 145 pounds Ekins, Delta, 4th. 165 pounds Trujillo, Uintah, dec. Alldredge, Delta. Jeffery and Talbot placed second in their weight divisions, Steele, fourth, Lyman, first, Ekins, fourth, Alldredge, second. A royal welcome was accorded the winners of the crown at an assembly Wednesday, with fanfare from the DHS Band and cheers from the studentbody. Mrs. Dorothy Webb emceed the program, and parents of the champions were seated on the stage. Principal C. L. Bennett voiced the pride with which Delta views the championship team and trophy for the school. Coach Horlacher and Joe Lyman made short talks. Mrs. Melba Jacobson Jac-obson sang "With a Song in My Heart." Sharlene Webb gave a tribute tri-bute from the Pep Club. Dr. Ileff Jeffery, of Provo, DHS alumnus, was the guest speaker. Dr. Jeffery is a state wrestling champion of some years ago, winning win-ning the title while at Brigham Young University, where he also captained the wrestling team one year. He commended the team heartily for their achievement. A special menu at the school hot lunch room at luncheon also honored hon-ored the Class B wrestling winners. Body of Asbestos Ore Located in West Millard Discovery of an asbestos fiber deposit de-posit in the Antelope Mountain district of Millard County by Harold Har-old Nielson and son, Max, both of Richfield, and the Glenny-Cutler Mining Co., Salt Lake City, was disclosed dis-closed Saturday through the filing of 26 claims at Fillmore, Millard County, according to The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday. The news article slated that an engineers report by the Utah raw minerals division estimates the deposit de-posit to contain 16 million tons of ore, capable of recovery by open pit methods. The grade was not disclosed. Extensive tests are being made by Utah Minerals Co. to determine the spinning and nonspinning properties pro-perties of the chrysoltile and tre-molite tre-molite fibers for use by industrial firms. Millard Demos Sponsor Dinner Thursday, March 9 A Jefferson-Jackson Dinner will be sponsored by the Millard County Coun-ty Democrats, Thursday, March 9, 1961. The dinner will be held at the Delta Elementary Lunch Room, at 8:00 o'clock p.m. The charge will be $2.50 per plate. Young people of high school age and under will be admitted for $1.25 per plate. Guest speakers from the State Committee will be present. The president of the State Young Democrat Club will be on hand to help with the organization of Millard Mil-lard County Young Democrats. Everyone is invited to attend. Range Investigation And Deer Trend Counts Under Way The annual program of range investigations in-vestigations and deer trend counts got under way this past week as department of fish and game conservation con-servation officers, game managers and interested sportsmen and conservation con-servation groups saddled up for a look at the wintering areas of the state's 62 deer herd units. This inventory work is conducted conduct-ed each year from the latter part of February through mid-April. Purpose of the range investigation work is to review the usage of the various range food plants by big game, determine the severity the winter held for the game animals and formulate recommendations to be presented to the five-man Board of Big Game Control in setting the 1961 deer hunting seasons. With the commencement of this annual spring work the department once again extended an invitation to all interested parties to partici-(Continued partici-(Continued on back page) |