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Show "SERVING Volume S3 Number 34 strolliii' 9 round town DELTA. UTAH Population 1703 Elevation, 4,649 City Water and Sewer Electric Service Surfaced Streets Churches, Civic Clubs, Bank Veteran's Groups Hospital, Library Municipal Airport Municipal Swimming Pool FAA Station Volunteer Fire Department MILLARD COUNTY Population 7,877 Grazing and Industrial Lands Alfalfa Seed, Honey Poultry and Turkey Raising Stockraising, Dairy Farming Ducks, Geese, Pheasants Deer, Cottontail Babbits Trout, Bass, and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Livel WEATHER High temperature for the week was a recorded 57 degrees on the 19th. Feb. 16, a low of 14 was recorded. re-corded. Including the rain of Wed-' nesday until 5:00 p.m., precipitation precipita-tion measured .25 of an inch. NELSON CORRECTS STATEMENT To correct the statement in last week's Chronicle, "in his statement j f3 that the board's decision on tne tended. wall was not unanimous", Mr. Jack Each day classes were held with Nelson says "The vote not UNANI- specialists in the different fields of MOUS was on Sorenson's report dairying from the university giving and had nothing to do with the lectures and answering any ques-wall". ques-wall". tions that were brought up. He further stated Tuesday morn- ing "It is time for the Millard School Board to stop spending taxpayer's tax-payer's money on reports and architectural ar-chitectural designs to correct the structural defect of the east wall of Delta High School and proceed with he proper plans for building a new high school plant. This will take additional bonding, but I sincerely believe that if the true facts and figures are put before the taxpayers of Millard County, a majority will support a bond, so that we can build a new building. This is by far a better investment than a continual remodeling of the old building." STAKE QUARTET FESTIVAL Everyone is invited to the Deseret Des-eret Stake MIA Quartet Festival, Thursday, Feb. 28, at 8:00 p.m. in the Stake House. Winners from each ward festival will compete in the Stake Festival. Judges will be from Millard Stake. Six quartets will be selected to represent the Deseret Stake in the Inter-Stake Festival, which will be held March 2 at the Millard Stake House. Last Tuesday each ward in the stake presented a Ward Quartet Festival and some very outstand ing quartets participated in the Ladies, Male and Mixed sections. Come out and enjoy an evening of fine entertainment and support your ward quartets In their competition. comp-etition. M.E.A. MEETING SATURDAY The annual meeting and banquet of the M. E. A. Credit Union will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at the Delta Elementary School lunch room. The meeting will commence with .lection of officers and reports of the present status and progress ade during the past year will be . ven. A well planned banquet will ollow. Mrs. Manilla Moulton. widow of : .e late Grant Moulton, will be-?r:me be-?r:me the bride of Harmer Nebecker of Springville, March 14th. The rnarr.age will be solemnized in the Manti Temple in the presence of close friends and family members. After a California honeymoon the couple will be at home at 720 So. 400 East, in Springville. David Stanley Moulton, son of Mrs. Grant Moulton, formerly of Delta, now of Provo, is now stationed sta-tioned with the National Guard at Fort Ord, Calif. He began basic training Feb. 4. H s address is: Pvt. David S. Moulton, NG28940854, (1st Pit) Company C, 9th Bg., 3rd Bde., Fort Ord, Calif. Z7 f 4 4 gf 4w a If THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, February 21, 1963 Bloodmobile Date Set for Feb. 28 Each year one person in eighty in t h e United States requires a blood transfusion. For one of every five patients admitted to hospitals, I a blood transfusion is a matter of life or death. To meet this tremendous tremen-dous need for blood, between five and six million units are drawn annually. Blood is drawn at 55 Red Cross Regional Blood centers in 3000 communities in forty states and at 105 Red Cross mobile units operating operat-ing through 1500 Red Cross Chapters. Chap-ters. YES, WE ARE JUST ONE OF THE 1500 CHAPTERS BUT WE ARE USING US-ING OUR SHARE SO LET US DO OUR SHARE. The blood mobile unit will be In Delta Thursday, February 28th at the Deseret Stake House between the hours of 2:00 and 6:00 p.m. Be there. Clayton Jefferys' Complete Short Course at USU Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Jeffery were sponsored by the First Security Se-curity Bank and the USU Extension Exten-sion Service at a Young Couples Short Course at Utah State Uni versity in Logan from Feb. 4 thru the 8th. The short course was devoted to the subject of dairying and about 40 couples from all over Utah at Two days the ladies attended classes with Mrs. Rhea Gardner, who is the Home Management Specialist Spe-cialist at the university. They discussed dis-cussed the raising of children and management of the family dollar. Friday, Feb. 8, a banquet was held and each person received a certificate for attending the course. Special Bulletin for Water levels have been dropping in many areas of the state over the past several years. Such changes chang-es are largely the result of three factors: 1 General drought conditions. 2 Storage in upstream reservoirs, reser-voirs, lining of canals and more efficient conveyance and use of surface water. 3 Increased use of water from the underground. The decline in 1961 and the anticipated an-ticipated lowering in 1963 are duo largely to the first factor. Precipitation Precipi-tation is the ultimate source of ground water. During years of low precipitation, less water gets into the ground aquifers. Some wells and springs cease to flow and wa : . . -. I- 1 .1 1 1 T-v I. 1 ler lau":s uroP generally, irougiu wis tiisu cause me uwjiers ui wells to pump more than usual be- A FAREWELL TESTIMONIAL in honor of Elder Allen John Barney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat L. Barney Bar-ney will be held Sunday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m. at Sutherland Ward Chapel. Elder Barney will serve in the new Zealand South Mission. Mis-sion. Everyone is inv'ted to attend at-tend the testunoniaL 4 LjJ "There is a mark due to the United States among nations, which will be with' held, tf not absolutely lost, by the reputation reputa-tion of weakness. If we desire to avoid intuit, in-tuit, we must be able to revel it; if we desire to secure peace, it must be known that we are at aU times ready for war." George Washington. Fifth Annual Address to Congress, Dee. 1793. Delta, Utah Copy 10c rik The above group of accomplished accomp-lished singers will be present at Deseret Stake House Wednesday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m. The outstanding outstand-ing group is being brought to Delta by Delta Lions Club in an effort to stimulate more cultural appreciation in the area. The singers, known as the "Madrigal Singers" were organiz- MQ d ts - ill V' M vi vT If Your Representative Speaks I have had a few comments as to the number of bills that I am sponsoring. I hope you have notic ed by now that James W. dim) Monroe is the other legislator and that there are two Monroes (no relation) in the Legislature. Our views are different in many respects, re-spects, however, we have voted together to-gether on some occasions. One of the most controversal issues is-sues that came before the house last week, was S.J. R. 3. This was a resolution that would make it possible for the State Tax Commission Com-mission to set a uniform fee for all motor vehicles instead of letting let-ting the counties set their own mill levy and collect the taxes. This supposedly would make it easier for people in urban areas to obtain Ground Water Users cause surface supplies are below j normal. And it causes more "water saving" steps to be taken and some water formerly lost to some users is prevented from seeping into the ground water basin. This combination combina-tion of conditions is the basic rea son for the drops in water pres- sures or levels, m addition 10 drop- ping water levels, some water use.s wno reiy on nowing weus find that they decrease in flow due to caving, rusting of the casing, cas-ing, because they have filled with sand and algae, or because of other oth-er reasons. During times of water shortage and increased demands, the State Engineer encourages all users taking tak-ing water from springs, flowing wells, or shallow water table sources to evaluate their long-range long-range water supplies and needs, and to either singly, or preferably by groups, plan for future use of their water. Drilling of pump wells in the most advantageous area to replace flowing wells, may be the best solution to the overall problem. prob-lem. The State Engineer recognizes the basic right of all water users with their priorities. This includes artesian wells, springs and shallow shal-low water table wells. We feel, however, that the responsibilities for maintaining adequate diversion facilities rests with the water user but will offer all possible help in completing necessary changes to transfer these rights to more efficient effi-cient and less wasteful water diversions. diver-sions. The public should understand that the law requires certain minimum mini-mum periods of time for processing of applications and changes, and should, therefore, make any necessary neces-sary filings at the earliest possible date. , The Young Marrieds of the Delta First Ward held a Valentine party at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Black. Games were played and lunch was served. Every month they have a b rthday cake for the ones having a birthday in that month. Mrs. Grry Church brot the cake this month for Gale Jensen. Mrs. Cliff Leavitt has been in Las Vegas for a week to help care for her mother, Mrs. Clara Adams, who has been real sick for about a month. Heart Sunday February 24 ZD 7 VALLEY" $4.00 a year in advance ' til iJj ed on the Utah State University campus six years ago under the direction of Dr. A. L. Dittmer, their present conductor. The group is composed of 26 young people, most of whom are excellent vocal soloists. Their program ranges from sacred and secular works of the sixteenth century to contemporary compo- their license plates. But it would take this right of collecting the taxes and setting the mill levy a-way a-way from the counties. I think this is basically wrong and took the floor in opposition. This would no doubt increase the tax on your vehicles ve-hicles from 50 to 100, depending depend-ing on where you live in the county. coun-ty. They have a problem in the urban areas in getting their license plates, but I think a simple method meth-od could be worked out without jeopardizing our liberties and freedoms free-doms we enjoy in the counties. I suppose I am a little too suspicious, sus-picious, but I cannot help but think that there might be some danger if the resolution is adopted, in losing los-ing our B & C Road monies. I tried to insert an amendment to the resolution enabling the farmers far-mers to insure that tractors, combines com-bines and other self-propelled vehicles ve-hicles would be excluded from th uniform fee set by the commission. However, this failed, probably because be-cause I had to tell the truth when I was asked if I would vote for the resolution if the amendment passed. 1 had to answer no. The resolution failed, but was later called back and tabled for a fur- ther consideration, It was tabled at the time but today was sent t0 the sifting Committee where I hope it will be lost m the shuffie. A resolution of this type needs a majority. It would have passed with a simple majority. The Sifting Committee is one of the most powerful committees and is usually appointed about the 35th day. Bills and resolutions usually take their place on 3rd reading in their order up until this time. When the Sifting Committee is organized all the bills go into this committee before they are placed on 3rd reading. read-ing. This makes it possible for the party in power to only bring out the bills they want. This probably does not sound too good to you but there just Isn't time in 60 days to pass on all of the legislation that is introduced. The Speaker selected a commit- DELTA ELEMENTARY students and teachers alike combined efforts ef-forts to present a valentine to the West Millard Hospital in the form of money. The pictured val if x , I U """" f . -r-" 1 . " ' . - ' h-A'-'. 1 ' . r I f. . 4- I r-i I v ' A ----- - . si A - , r-- -j . -cr: - . - - - . - " -, -afcfrtoSte. 4ttmMaae y yxw., weawfcwivrivh wiwav. - r-friir. -tf vn uumtrif mt'itr m rim'" Tartu Mmm..!..-!--safc. : Special Meeting Held in Salt Leake City on Delta Schools Senator Thorpe Waddingham and Inez Riding met with Mr. F r e d M. Fowler, Director of School Plant Planning of the State Dept. of Public Pub-lic Instruction, Mr. Glen R. Swen-son, Swen-son, Director of State Building Board and Mr. A. L. Sorerlsen of I the firm of Caldwell, Richards and IJ ,i s sitlon. The Madrigal Singers have represented the University on various occasions, but are best known through the many concert tours they have taken throughout through-out the State of Utah and into the southeastern part of Idaho. The concert being held in Deseret Des-eret Stake House next Wednesday Wednes-day night is free to the public. tee of 17 members, 10 Republicans and 7 Democrats. I was selected as one of the Republicans so I expect ex-pect a lot of extra work and long hours. It is hard to say at the present time just what will happen to the schools. Most of us rural legislators are working for more equalization. We feel we have come a long way in this, but the present formula is still out of balance. For example exam-ple right here in Salt Lake County, (Confined on back page) UOth Itirthtlmj . . . An openhouse Sunday, Sun-day, Feb. 24, will honor George A. J0 Webb, 2193 Lake St. f 1 (740 East) in obser- , vance of his 80th birth day anniversary. anniver-sary. The celebration celebra-tion will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. at the home of a "son, Wilbur G. Webb, 2374 Evergreen Ave. (3425 South). Mr. Webb was born Feb., 1883 in Deseret, Utah, a son of John Charles and Annie Bishop Webb. He married Dora Morris Dec. 18, 1907 in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. They lived for many years in Hinckley. Mrs. Webb died Sept. 10, 1957. He has been active in the LDS Church. He served an LDS mission to the Southern States and also three stake missions. He is a temple tem-ple ordinance worker. He was custodian cus-todian of the Forest Dale Ward for 21 years. He has four sons and two daughters. daugh-ters. They are: Mrs. Edwin (Vidella Nelson, Mrs. Homer (Margaret) Wade, Wilbur G., Odell, Morris D. and Vergil M. Webb, all of Salt Lake City. He has 28 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. His many friends are cordially invited in-vited to the openhouse. entine shows a figure of S191.03. Actual amount raised for the hospital hos-pital was S208.67. Students of the school donated money to the hospital in lieu of valentine card Sorensen, Saturday afternoon in the State Capitol Building to dis' cuss the various reports submitted to date on" the condition of the Delta High School facility. Before the 2Vj hour conference ended State Supt. Marion G. Merkeley arrived. ar-rived. An invitation had been extended by Mrs. Riding to Bill Wilson,. Editor Edi-tor of the Millard County Progress, Fillmore to attend the special meeting. Mr. Wilson, immediate past Secretary and new Vice President Presi-dent of the Utah Press Ass'n was unable to attend because of Press Convention meetings. When asked if the plans for the proposed "wall" buttressing the east wall of Delta High School had been submitted to his office for approval, ap-proval, Mr. Fowler said that he was unaware of any plans and continued that at this point if plans on the "wall" were submitted submitt-ed to his office he could not approve ap-prove them until complete capital outlay plans for the district were outlined. Present law requires all local districts to submit plans for capital outlay expenditures in the excess of $5000 to be submitted to his office for approval. The proposed propos-ed "wall" is estimated to cost $40,000. Consolidation was discussed at the special meeting. Mr. Fowler stated that under the present State Supt.'s administration consolidation consolida-tion was not being "pushed" as it had under the previous administra tion. When Supt. Merkeley was asked about consolidation later, he confirmed Mr. Fowler's statement adding that consolidation was a local district's decision. When asked ask-ed if he thought this would be the opportune time for Millard District to take care of its secondary school needs he replied yes. Figures discussed at the special meeting included the cost of rehabilitation re-habilitation of the present building build-ing plus an additional amount for providing enough classroom space to fill the present needs of the studentbody. According to Mr. Swenson's report the rehabilitation of the present building, including Annual Sevier River Basin Study was Held February 14, 1963, at Richfield The 1963 annual meeting of 'the Sevier River Basin Study was held Thursday, Feb. 14, 1963 at Richfield. Rich-field. Approximately 200 water users us-ers and agency representatives were in attendance. Those present heard specialists in the field project pro-ject problems and opportunities relating re-lating to development in the Sevier Sev-ier River Basin. A very pessimistic report was given relating to a-vailable a-vailable water for the 1963 growing grow-ing season. Projected forecasts indicate in-dicate a 40 to 80 per cent normal runoff in the Sevier River Basin. Thus, in order for an adequate supply sup-ply to be obtained it will be necessary nec-essary for a much above normal precipitation accumulation during the rest of the storage season. The officers and directors of the Sevier River Basin Water Users Inc., went on record to actively promote the development of a water wa-ter conservancy district for the total to-tal Sevier River Basin area. Much emphisis will be placed on the development de-velopment of this conservancy district dis-trict during the next few months. Water users groups, civic clubs, and all other interested organiza tional groups will be contacted to have explained to them the need and advisability of a water conservancy con-servancy district for the entire river riv-er basin. Mr. Jay Bingham, director of the Utah Water & Power Board, indicated indi-cated that such a conservancy dis trict must be organized in order for the Bureau of Reclamation to contract for any water from th Central Utah project. A progress leport on the Public exchange. Teachers donated the amount usually used for class parties. Mrs. Loa Black. Hospital Ass'n Vice President, is shown third from the left on back row. the replacement of the mechanical system, and the replacement of the electrical and lighting system would be an estimated $183,000.00. Mr. Swenson and Mr. Sorensen a- greed that the three major items of the building that needed atten tion were structural soundness, mechanical system and the electrical electri-cal system although, Mr. Sorensen did not inspect the latter two on his recent inspection of the building. build-ing. They were in agreement that the building could be made structurally struc-turally sound for 15 to 20 years. Neither made any estimates to include in-clude the educational functions of the building. Mr. Fowler estimated that at least $100,000 would be needed to bring the present building up to the minimum educational soundness. sound-ness. He pointed out that he had recommended the replacement of Delta Junior High because of its educational obsolescence. Senator Waddingham replied that local school patrons were well aware of the educational obsolescence of the junior high school and were in agreement with Mr. Fowler that the building should be replaced and added that the main concern was with Delta High School because be-cause it was not structurally nor educationally sound. Senator Waddingham Wad-dingham and Supt. Merkeley discussed dis-cussed the idea of a complete new unit constructed in the form of an "L" which could house both stud- entbodies. Administrative offices, library, etc. could be the point of seperation of the two schools to allow each to keep its separate identity. Supt. Merkeley asked a-bout a-bout the school population of the two Delta secondary schools and was told that the exact figure was unknown at that time but approximately approxi-mately 625. He made the comment that the present size of the two schools could be ideally housed in this arrangement. He asked about the population projection for future years and Senator Waddingham stated that no great growth was anticipated at this time. Supt. Merkeley pointed out that an "L" (Continued on back page) 566 Study was given by Mr. Jay Libby, state soil conservationist of the SCS, indicating the considerable progress that has been made relating re-lating to the gathering of pertinent data which will contribute to maximum max-imum effectiveness of land and water use in the Sevier River Basin. Ba-sin. Additional information regarding the meeting can be obtained from any of the agency representatives located in the county. The new brochure on historical background of the Sevier River Basin is available avail-able at the County Agents office. Mnemosyne Record Hop Thursday. Feb. 21, after the Millard game, the Magazine staff is sponsoring a record-hop in the High School Gym. Everyone come and dance to our theme of VENUS. Admission Price: Couples 50c Stag 25c Be sure to come and help celebrate. cele-brate. The Mnemosyne Staff LIVESTOCK QUOTES By Win Walker Feb. 19. 1963 Cattle salable, 480. There were 150 head good to choice steers and heifers. The market mar-ket was slow and price down on this offering. 50 head choice dairy cows for slaughter showed cent increase, also, standard cows showed show-ed some advance. 40 head of 1200 lb. steers made 20 cents. The top for today was a 900 lb. heifer fed by Frank Lyman and purchased by Central Packing Co., Spanish Fork, David Gossman Mng., for $24.40. Choice steers brot $23.40 to $24.; good $22. to $23.25. Holsteins $18.-50 $18.-50 to $22. Feeders, 50 head at 700 lbs., $18.20. Crossbreeds $17.80 to $19.10. Heifers, choice, $22.50 to $24.40; good $21.75 to $22.50. 25 head Holsteins, 400 lbs., by the head, $S4. Cows, standard, $16. to $16.70. Commercial $13. to $15.30. Canners $11.20 to $13.20. Dairy kind $14.20 to $16.30. Bulls $15.60 to $17.80. Stock calves, steers. $29.25 to $34; heifers $27. to $28.85. 50 head Holsteins, by head, 275 lb. $78. DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to Keith and Betty Mecham Corry on an 8 lb. boy, born Feb. 16. HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Myrtis Fe'ersen, medical, patient, admitted Feb. 15. Mr. Bill Doolin returned home Sunday night after a three week's visit in Las Vegas with members of his family. |