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Show Millard County Chronicle The Millard County Chronicle Published ETery Thursday at Delta, Utah , By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY R. H. (Bob) BIDING OWNER-PUBLISHER INEZ RIDING ASSOCIATE EDITOR JOE STEWART LINO PRESSMAN Entered as Second Class matter at the Postofflce at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Subscription Rate: 54.00 a year in advance; Six months, $2.25 Advertising Rates on Request -By INEZ RIDING While at Lagoon week before last, I met a subscriber who had a complaint. That in itself, is certainly cert-ainly nothing new, but his particular parti-cular complaint was different and interesting and deserved more of an answer than I gave him at the time. The complaint concerned two DHS graduates who have gone on to gain recognition in different fields. The subscriber went on to say how much more important one's accomplishment was over the other, yet the one of lesser importance import-ance had been given space on the front page while the more important import-ant was "buried" on page four. And he wanted to know "How Come?" A newspaper receives reams of good, interesting material every day through the mail. Some of this is from government agencies, legislators, leg-islators, schools, etc. An editor could put out a paper each week with absolutely no local news in it. Jt would not be the kind of paper that we ail have come to expect of a weekly but it would be informative. When the mail arrives, the editor reads it rather carefully and decides what he thinks should absolutely run this week, what can be saved for filler material for another date or if it all should be filed in the waste-basket. waste-basket. (To tell the truth, if I were the editor, everything that says "For Immediate release" would be put in the wastebasket if for no other reason than that the publicity chairman forgot to ask "Would you please run this, if you have room?" Courtesy never hurt anyone.) When the material came in on the graduate on page four, evidently evi-dently Bob needed just that much material to fill a hole in that particular par-ticular page so that he could make a run. So in it went Nothing personal per-sonal at all ever determines where an article is placed, time is more often than not the deciding factor. Another reason that articles of importance im-portance to those concerned is found on inside pages, a weekly editor has to assure his advertisers that the page his ad is on will have reader appeal. I think that one of the best ways to lose an advertiser would be to ensure him that his ad would be surrounded by news releases of national or state import. When I pick up my own home town newspaper, I like to be able to read something of local interest on every page. But, my hometown paper is filled with 1 Trs La CDw VJ? l! v iys(MLi 55 JOHN DEERE COMBINE 45 JOHil DEERE COMBINE G JOHN DEERE TRACTOR A JOHN DEERE TRACTOR 14T JOHN DEERE BALER No. 8 JOHN DEERE CHOPPER Wi JOHN DEERE 35' ELEVATOR No. 8 MOWER 7' OTHER BARGAINS FARMERS' SUPPLY CO., INC. Phons 5581 Delta, Utah Thursday, August 10, 1961 NATIONAL EDITORIAL !AS( ScQTIjN Senie and . . . . . . AtotUeade news releases that I have read days before in the dailies. (I am now speaking of the Monette Sun, Monette, Arkansas, not the Millard County Chronicle of Delta, Utah!) And another reason that an editor of a weekly places articles as he does is that he sees every page of his paper as being as important as the front page. Evidently, the two stories of the two graduates did not reach the Chronicle office at the same time. I'll bet you that the story on page four arrived at the office a day or so before the one on page one. Now, the people who wait until Wednesday to bring in their stories are running the risk of being left out entirely because of lack of time and space. So now you know, Mr. Subscriber. And to 'this subscriber, I want to direct another line or two and this concerns the statement that one person's accomplishments are of more importance than another's. Taint so, MY Boy, tant so. We are all blessed and sometimes cursed with different abilities and potentialities, poten-tialities, therefore, we can't all reach the same heights. We can't all even progress at the same rate of speed. The best that we can do is the best and (I think) is of e-qual e-qual importance to the best of the next person's. If we speak with scorn of someone's accomplisments or lack of accomplishments, let it be those who have everything in their favor to attain success and chose not to do So, either by being intellectually or physically lazy.. The person who is a drifter by choice rather than by chance is the person that I mean. I do wish that I could see you and we would discuss dis-cuss this further! Somedays I think I am a complete com-plete snob, just because I have happened to read the latest book or have a thought or two on some issue. Then. I think, "You know nothing only this, the more you learn, the more you realize there is to learn". The part of government that I wish would have a thoroughly good shaking up is the welfare department. And bless my buttons, Newburgh, New York is doing just that. The Saturday Evening Post of August 5 carried a highly interesting inter-esting editorial on the situation in Newburgh. Called "Now It's Illegal for a City to Curb Welfare Abuses" it is a humdinger of a editorial. It did my heart good to see a magazine maga-zine with such an editorial on one U JLj I Protest the Protests . . There are few things as pleasant as the sight of water rushing thru a headgate or pouring out of a well pipe and running out onto parched desert land. And there are few things which have caused as much dissension among men in the west, sometimes culminating in actual shootings, as the rights to that same water. Right now, in this year of drought, certain questions pertaining to those rights to that cool, live-giving water are among the hottest issues dividing the people of Millard County. Ordinarily, water rights are granted on the basis of priority. Since there is not enough water in the Great Basin to supply all comers com-ers with all they'd like to use, the custom has grown up, and the essential es-sential principles of it have been written into law, granting a permanent perm-anent right to the first claimant who could show that he was putting put-ting water to beneficial use. The governing authority in the State of Utah is the State Engineer's office. Procedures designed to protect the rights of prior users against new claimants have been put into effect. These serve the double purpose pur-pose of encouraging potential users us-ers to find and file claim on water sources presently unused; yet protect pro-tect prior users against loss of their older rights. In the present controversy, however, how-ever, a new twist has been given to the old laws and customs. It appears that certain parties already holding extensive rights to above-ground above-ground sources, chiefly in the Sevier Se-vier River, are using this fact as of my pet peeves welfare abuses. Two of the city's reforms that came under great fire concerned putting able-bodied welfare men working on city projects and lessening less-ening the subsidy to mothers with more than one illegitimate child. The editorial stated that several states had already enacted such reform' measures and quoted Governor Gov-ernor Herman Talmadge, now Sen., of Georgia, as enunciating the principle prin-ciple that "whereas one illegitimate illegiti-mate child might be evidence of an honest mistake, two or more seemed to indicate a habit that should not be encouraged at public expense." The whole editorial is good and closed with "One of the announced purposes of the Newburgh New-burgh plan is to discourage "immigration "immi-gration by those who are attracted to Newbaugh as a soft touch for, among others, unmarried mothers, actual and putative. Surely a community com-munity should have some defense against Bankruptcy by Bastardy." A friend let me have a copy of the July 29th National Review and it contained a two page spread on the same situation. From this article ar-ticle I learned that the welfare for dependent children had jumped 258 during the last ten years. The article states that it is not unusual for 20-year-old girls to have two or three illegitimate children and the premarital pregnancies preg-nancies in the 12-15 age group is creating an administrative and moral problem in the schools. Wis-key Wis-key and automobiles are being purchased with welfare money and sometimes the cash payments to welfare recipients exceed the take-home take-home pay of the welfare worker himself! This article carries a complete com-plete list of the attempted reforms in Newburgh's welfare program and they are well worth reading and thinking about. In many cases, welfare Is good and necessary, especially to older citizens, disabled persons, and destitute des-titute people. I have no quarel there, at all. But, nothing, ABSOLUTELY ABSO-LUTELY NOTHING, fills me with loathing as much as able-bodied people, both men and women, who do receive welfare for not working! (Could all this stem from FDR's Great welfare projects of the late thirties?????) Anyway, it makes me boil to think that I am required by law to support such carrys-on. Don't I sound just like Gabriel Heater? Raving and Ranting, but I couldn't core less. Women with one illegitimate child is no more entitled to help because she produces pro-duces another one than a complete com-plete alcholic is to have another bottle! There, I said it and I'm gladl I have three more pages on "Facts on Communism." Maybe it will be published with this week, maybe it will be seperated from this and used elsewhere or maybe it will be held over until next week. Who knows? GARDEN INSECT and DISEASE CONTROL (030) ROSE GARDEN FUNGICIDE . ISOTEX GARDEN SPRAY LAWN AND GARDEN FOOD AT YOUR GARDEN SUPPLY HEADQUARTERS QUALITY MARKET By Dick Morrison the basis of some sort of claim to inherent rights in underground water. This is the issue which seems to be coming to a head between owners own-ers and officials of the local irrigation irri-gation companies, on the one hand, and certain individual farmers who wish to file on underground water and drill their own wells, on the other. Now, as a minor share-holder in the DMAD group (meaning the Delta, Melville, Abraham and Des-eret Des-eret companies), owning 142 shares of Delta Canal stock and one share of Melville, I have felt that the policy of developing more water for these companies from wells, to supplement that available under their basic rights to River water, was all to the good, and I still do. To the extent that the nine projected pro-jected wells along the course of the River can bring in new water supplies, without encroaching on existing claims, I am in favor of it. But the thing I am not in favor of is any claim by the irrigation companies to any inherent right to underground water, or any preferred pre-ferred status or special privilege of any kind in the granting of these rights by the State Engineer's Office. Of-fice. I say the rights of individual farmers- who wish to drill wells should stand exactly on a par with those of the irrigation companies. Talk Is that officials o the DMAD DM-AD group feel that they should be granted some special privileged status in this matter on the grounds that they represent "all of the peeople". They feel that water so developed should, thru being assigned to them, become the property of "all of the people" peo-ple" rather than of individual farmers. I challenge this position on the simple grounds that the local irrigation irri-gation companies do not, in fact, represent all of the people. They represent their own shareholders, and no others. And water rights obtained by these companies become be-come the absolute property of their shareholders in proportion to the number of shares held by each stockholder. In this area, there are farmers who also own shares in one or more of the canal companies. Perhaps Per-haps these comprise a majority. However, there are also farmers who own land but not water stock; and there are shareholders in the canal companies who do not own land. Also, there are many people who do not own either farm land or water stock. Among the shareholders share-holders of the canal companies, there is a wide divergence of stock ownership. One man may own ten shares; another a thousand. Now, if a man happens to own a thousand thous-and shares or maybe more in one of the DMAD companies, does it follow that he also holds some sort of inherent right to an equal proportion of the underground water of the area? I can't see it. Yet that is exactly what the policy of the irrigation companies would, in effect, give him. In the past, when a man made application to drill a well and thru it establish a right to water, protests pro-tests were usually considered in order only by holders of prior rights who felt the proposed new claim might hurt them that is, drain away water they already owned. Now, we find the irrigation companies com-panies protesting the filing by an individual farmer, for a new well, not on the ground that this might infringe any prior right of theirs, but on the ground that they want the right to obtain this water, in the future, for themselves. (Which means, not for the benefit of all of the people, but or the benefit of their own shaieholders, large and small). So, as I understand it, this basic issue simmers down to this: does ownership of rights to Sevier River water carry with it some inherent right to ownership of previously untapped underground water? It is an issue that merits free and open discussion, and I hope others will make their views known. If I happen to be wrong as to any matter of fact, I should like to be corrected. But if I have got the facts straight, then I'll stick by my stand that owners of River water do not hold, by virtue of those rights, any inherent claim to underground water, too. There is one subsidiary consideration. consid-eration. I am among those who have said in the past that the greatest potential for future development de-velopment of this area might lie in reserving all previously unappropriated unap-propriated underground water for industrial and culinary use. Prob- My Neighbors "There's a guy who knows how to relax." 3rd Annual Utah Angus Field Day Set for August 19 Two Utah State University professors pro-fessors will take active roles at the third annual Utah Angus Assn. field day August 19th in Salt Lake City. Dr. John Butcher, USU animal husbandman, will speak to the field day crowd on "nutritional problems in beef cattle." Dr. Morris Mor-ris Taylor, USU marketing expert and economist, will talk on "guides for better marketing of beef cattle in the future." Leland S. Swaner, Salt Lake City, president of the beef group, says that registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Hinckley Brothers Ranch, 1501 North 3200 West. Scheduled for the morning session ses-sion of the event will be an Angus type demonstration and a judging contest, both conducted by Doug Wood, Meridian, Idaho, field representative of the American Angus Assn. Luncheon featuring barbecued Angus beef will be served at noon. Tickets for lunch should be purchased pur-chased upon registering, Mr. Swaner Swan-er says. The two USU experts will speak that afternoon with a talk by Robert Rob-ert Murdock, Ute-Ouray Indian Res ervation agricultural agent also scheduled to talk. Ezra Taft Benson, Ben-son, former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, will also speak. I At 4 p.m. inspection of the breed ing herd will be held. Leadership Destiny Proving Successful With approximately 50 LDS youths in attendance at the opening open-ing discussion on "Leadership Destiny" Des-tiny" Wednesday night, Dr. Reed Bradford, BYU Professor of Socialo-gy Socialo-gy led the discussion on Life's Goal for LDS Youth. Dr. Bradford told the group that two main thoughts should determine deter-mine the way a youth should plan his life. These include the questions ques-tions "What is the overall goal for my life?" and "What other specific goals do I wish to attain?" He stressed that young years should not cause a person to neglect setting set-ting goals that he wishes to attain. at-tain. Two short films were shown on "Search for Happiness" and "Feed My Sheep". During the evening's even-ing's discussion Dr. Bradford pointed point-ed out that some of the governing factors of a person's life were force, ably if this idea were made community com-munity policy, new laws would be needed. In any event, it is a possibility pos-sibility which deserves consideration. considera-tion. (EDITOR'S NOTE: The subject matter of the above is timely and of great importance to residents of Millard County. Mr. Morrison has slated his views on the situation. The pages of the Chronicle are open op-en for further discussion from any source.) ITJ fj F are even more fun . . . when a camera goes alow; ti'.'iesnu EROWNlESfaanutl OUTFIT Newest in flash . . . in a complete gift outfit! Everything for indoor-outdoor snapshooting! Brownie Starmite Camera it small in size, easy to use! A tiny but efficient built-in flash reflector that uses low-ost AG-1 flashbulbs keeps you always al-ways set to shoot! Camera takes b'ockand-white or color snapshots snap-shots ond color super-slides. 1 - Service Drug Co. The Lynndyl Singing Mothers had the privilege of singing in the Manti Temple July 26, which bit of news was neglected last week. They have been invited to prepare two numbers for a return engagement. engage-ment. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Abegglen and family, Mr. and Mrs. Alma Banks and Miss Gladys Banks, who have been visiting them attended the Banks reunion in Minersville Saturday, staying over until Sunday Sun-day afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Banks returned to Manti Monday morning. Miss Kristin Tolbert entertained her girl friends Monday night for a back yard weinie roast. Miss Jane Nelson in company with the other officers-elect of the Delta High School for the coming school year and their partners were treated to a day at Lagoon with 26 free rides and were asked to write their opinions as to the good and bad features of the place. Mrs. Dean Durrant and two daughters of San Francisco arrived Friday night to visit her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. William Overson and other relatives and friends here and in surrounding communities. They left Monday in company with her mother to spend two days in Provo with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Myran Frazier, after which they will return re-turn to Lynndyl. Mr. and Mrs.' Aralda Jones spent the weekend in Salt Lake visiting her brother, Mr. Don Marlin and family and doing some shopping. Mr. Steve Broderick is visiting the Potts family in Lynndyl while Selma Potts is visiting the Brod-ericks Brod-ericks in California. Melvin and Margaret Lake of Sa-lina Sa-lina are visiting the Halsey family. Mr. Alan Nielson got a hay hook idealism and conformity. The program is under the auspices aus-pices of the Third Ward Youth Leadership Committee and is being taught by various outstanding members of the Brigham Young University faculty. Every ward in Deseret Stake has been contacted to send two members to the discussions. dis-cussions. It is hoped that other wards will follow the example of Delta Third Ward. BUY BACK-TO-SCHOOL CLOTHES NOW ! -at- D E LTfl'S DEPflRTfYlEflT STORE wmv-sAk a I - T if" I BetttjRose. Unexpected Color Thrill THE "SHORT" OVERCOAT A coat that sums up "what's new" in fashion . . . with the arch of dropped shoulders . . . the chic of cropped sleees . . . the swagger of great pockets. Cosy Dcerhead Chinchilla in spectacular new season sea-son shades: brass, nude. Tiagenta, blue, kel'y, red. Sizes 6 to 16. JEAN TOLBERT stuck in his knee and it has given him considerable trouble but is now recovering nicely. Grandma Ashby is now home a-gain a-gain after spending some time in Salt Lake City. Mrs. Shirley Roberts is staying in Lynndyl awaiting the arrival of I the stork and her husband is spend-' spend-' ing several days with her. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Tolbert of Gresham, Ore., visited with his brother, Dale Tolbert and family Saturday. They are visiting relatives rela-tives in Delta and Abraham and will drive to Pueblo, Colo., to visit their son Fred who is on a mission there. The brothers had not seen each other for six years. The ' Darning Needles", a 4-H sewing group, went swimming Wednesday at the Nephi pool. Sunday night the Primary presented pre-sented the program designed to promote better cooperation between be-tween home and primary. It was well done and enjoyed by all present. pre-sent. Sister Ruth Steele and other members of the Stake Board were in attendance. In her remarks sister sis-ter Steele noted the reverence and cooperation of the children. The "Mixing Bowl Fans" 4-H cooking group, met this week at the home of Valerie Tolbert where they prepared another in their series of breakfast, featuring corn meal cereal, cinnamon toast and chocolate malted milk drink. Hungry Hung-ry guests were Terry Jones, and Bill Tolbert. Mrs. Lucille Overson and Keith and Mrs. Leta Cheel visited over the weekend in Salt Lake, Bountiful Bounti-ful and Provo. In Salt Lake they visited the family of Roy Anderson, who died of a heart attack and whose funeral was Monday, Aug. 7. In Bountiful they visited Mrs. Overson's son, Ralph and family, daughter, Arlene and family, bringing bring-ing Arlene's two boys Bruce and Gary home with her. In Provo they visited Mrs. Manila Moulton and family. They also visited Mrs. El-verda El-verda Passwater in Murray. Miss Betty Riding and Miss Jo Garcia of Flat Bush, Calif., will arrive ar-rive in Delta Saturday to spend a week with Miss Riding's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Riding. i $29.95 |