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Show City A i ' Z7 stroll in ' round town ZD oinc 7 o DELTA, UTAH Population 1703 Elevation, 4,649 City Water and Sewer Electric Service Surfaced Streets Churches, Civic Club3, 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 Rabbits Trout, Bass, and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilitiea A Great Place To Livel WEATHER Weather Big news on the weather weath-er scene for residents was the snow s,torm, beautiful and WET. .14 of an inch of precipitation was measured at Delta airport on Monday, March 11. Tuesday .11 was measured. Residents Re-sidents are hopeful of more moisture moist-ure to come. High temperature for the week was 59 degrees recorded on the 9th. March 7 was cold for the same period with a 16. SABIN VACCiNE A few doses of Sabin vaccine are still avaiable from either Mrs. Dorothy Killpack or Dr. M. E. Bird. Anyone missing the KO Polio clinic on March 2nd will still have an opportunity to take the vaccine. Former Deltan Dies on Coast Mrs. Ada Underhill Lindh of North Hollywood, Calif., died at a No. Hollywood hospital of a coronary coro-nary on March 1. Mrs. Lindh will be remembered as Ada Underhill, twin sister to Mrs. Gam Moody and they were raised from early childhood by Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Underhill of Delta. Mrs. Lindh came to Delta with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Underhill and her three sisters, Ida Manee, Myra and Inez at an early age from Curtis, Nebraska. She was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Earnest Calvin Underhill. Dr. Underhill practiced dentistry at Delta for many years. Dr. Earnest and Clyde Underhill were sons of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Underhill who were early pioneers of t h e Delta area. Ada Underhill married C. P. Pep-pard Pep-pard and lived in Delta several years. One child, Bonnie Jo, was born to this union. They were later divorced. She married Kenyon Lindh of North Hollywood where they have since resided. Survivors include daughter, Bonnie Bon-nie Jo, Los Angeles; sisters, Mrs. W. A. (Myra) Tinkham, Los Angeles; Ange-les; Mrs. C. O. Robertson, Newport, Calif.; Mrs. Gam (Manee) Moody, Hinckley; aunts and uncles, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde W. Underhill, Delta and Mrs. Carl Elmer, Milford. A hospital fund has been established estab-lished in memory of Ada Underhill Lindh by friends. Anyone wishing to contribute to the fund may do so by contacting Ferrin Lovell. Sincere sympathy is extended to all the bereaved family. j .'' -MM 4 ELDER GENE V. CAHOON arrived ar-rived at his Las Vegas home from the Western Canadian Mission Field March 1. Elder Cahoon is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Blaine V. Cahoon. former Deltans now residing in Las Vegas. Mr. and Mrs. Cahoon and Elder Cahoon will be in Delta Sunday, March 17 where Elder Cahoon will give his mission report to Deseret Stake High Council. Elder Eld-er Cahoon left for the mission field from Delta Third Ward. POSTER PAPER IN COLORS now available at the Millard County Chronicle. Colors in stock are red, white, yellow, emerald green, blue, and saimon. Size 22 x 28; 15 cents a sheet or 2 for 25 cents. "SERVING Volume 53 Number 37 Educational Needs of Delta Schools Being Obtained by Board Members Wednesday, March 6, West Millard Mil-lard Citizen's Committee and several sev-eral interested school patrons of the area met with the local school board in Fillmore to present their views on the proposed $79,000 "wall" for Delta High School. After much discussion and exchange of ideas between school board and i committee members, Mrs. Delma ,Jean Galli, board member, recalled to other board members that in the past the school board has gone on i record as having been in favor of I the next major expenditure for i school buildings be on this side of , the district. She stated that all board members were in agreement on the replacement of Delta Junior High School building and the construction con-struction of a new gymnasium. The only point where the board Mayor and Council After much deliberation, study 3 : . : i : . l m . .. nH4 I anu nivesugauuii uie iviayui emu City Council are unanimouslyly in favor of the following proposition. Inasmuch as Delta City Building is in bad repair it is evident that the present building must be replaced re-placed in the very near future to prevent injury and property dam- j age in case of a collapse. The pro-. pro-. perty on the east side is owned by private parties and when or if pri-I pri-I vate parties closed it off one of ; the fire trucks would be unable to I leave or enter the building. The i public is invited to inspect the pre-. pre-. sent building at any time. I It is therefore proposed to con-i con-i struct a new city building at an estimated cost of $50,000 to $60,000, the money to be raised by bonding not to exceed the actual cost of the project. The bond election ;s i $75,000 but no more money will be used than is absolutely necessary. The bond will be paid in 20 years at the lowest interest rate that can be secured, but in no case more than 5. It is also proposed to I lease post office space in the new structure for a sum that will pay ! approximately of the bond. The other will be paid by the disposal dis-posal of the present city property i and the sales tax, which was just i adopted by the County Commis-i Commis-i sioners. In a 30-year period of time I the new building will be self-! self-! amortizing from the post office rental. There will be no new tax increase within the city to pay anything on this project and it will not affect the bonding or any other school program. The proposed building will be similiar architecturally to the West Millard Hospital and will harmonize harmon-ize with surrounding buildings. This will enhance or beautify the city. 7,500 Read It In The CHRONICLE ' '.etv. yy . ELDER LAWRENCE VAL BUNKER BUNK-ER recently returned missionary from New Zealand, will give his report Sunday, March 24 at Delta Second Ward. Elder Bunker is a , son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence j Bunker. j Elder Bunker spent two years in the mission field in New Zea-Land Zea-Land and prior to his return to ; his Delta home toured Australia, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Enroute to the States he stopped in Hono- lula for a five day visit with La-Mar La-Mar Twitchell and Elder Ralph Edwards of Richf eld. He was met in Los Angeles by his parents and they visited in Mesguite, Nevada on their way home. All are invited to hear his mis-s'on mis-s'on report. "4 - -,j , 4 THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, March 14, 1963 was not in agreement was on Delta Del-ta High School building itself, whether the building was to be repaired and remodeled or replaced with a new structure. Mrs. Galli further proposed to the school board that they, board members, obtain information from Prin. C. L. Bennett and Prin. Ferrel Walker of Delta High and Delta Junior High Schools on the" educational educa-tional needs of the two schools. After an agreement on the educational educa-tional needs, Mrs. Galli pointed out, it would be easier to compare cost of remodeling the present building to the cost of a new building. build-ing. (EDITOR'S NOTE: All three west Millard Tooard members have obtained ob-tained or are obtaining this needed need-ed information.) Make Statement LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Inez and Bob: Mayor J. Bracken Lee's speech was interest.ng to read. I agree that the people should have a say in school matters. However, some of his statements make me wonder ; where he got his facts. For example, exam-ple, he indicates that the Salt Lake City superintendent of schools has too many assistants. He indicates that he has six assistants which is not far out of line considering a school population of 38,000 and a teaching staff of 1438. (Utah Foundation Foun-dation figures) I thought that perhaps the people peo-ple of Millard County would like to know what percentage of the total school budget goes for administration admin-istration in their district. I shall include a few other facts: 1. The budget of the Millard County School District for administration admin-istration is $22,600. This includes the salaries and travel of board members, the superintendent, the clerk and office secretaries, together toge-ther with all the necessary office, supplies and equipment and also the cost of publishing the financial finan-cial statement. Dividing this a-mount a-mount by $1,114,500.00, the total district budget, gives approximately approximate-ly 2 for administration. It would be difficult to match this figure in any business or industry of comparable com-parable size. The cost of administration in the Millard County School District last year was only $8.99 per pupil in average daily membership. Twenty-five of the forty school districts in Utah had administrative costs which were above this. Most of the districts who were below were large city school districts, such as Salt Lake, Ogden, Granite, etc. 2. All of the elementary school principals in the district, with the exception of two, have full-time teaching assignments in addition ELDER KAY CHRISTENSEN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merlin D. Christensen has been called to a two-year mission in Scotland for the LDS Church. Elder Christensen is a graduate of Delta High School and has attended at-tended BYU. A farewell testimonial in his honor will be held Sunday, March 24, 6:30 p.m. at Delta Third Ward. A cordial invitation to attend at-tend is extended to everyone. - I i "i . J i A P Delta, Utah Copy 10c PROCLAMATION I, Ned M. Church, Mayor of the City of Delta do hereby proclaim March 15 through April 30, 1963 as General Landscape Improvement Improve-ment and Beautification time for the City of Delta and urge all citizens, citi-zens, churches, clubs schools and organizations to join hands in giving giv-ing our city a new improved look. This is in keeping with an earlier proclamation signed by Utah Governor Gov-ernor George D. Clyde designating 1963 as General Beautification Year of the State. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto here-unto set my hand and caused the Seal of the City of Delta to be affixed af-fixed this 11th day of March, 1963. Ned M. Church, Mayor Delta, Utah P-TA Holds Reg. Monthly Meeting The Delta Elementary School PT-A PT-A held their regular meeting Wed nesday, March 6 in the Elementary School auditorium. Vice President June Lovell conducted the meeting. Special musical numbers were presented by Jr. High students as follows: A vocal quartet by Connie Lovell, Betty Rae Wright, Peggy Lovell and Debra Beckwith, accompanied accom-panied by Linda Bohn. A vocal duet by Halley Kay Young and Paula S.mpson, accompanied by Lenore McCall. President Barbara Ashby explained ex-plained an Amendment to Article itr r. . ' n - c . i r.. T C l . iv, section z oi me Dj-L,aws ui me Delta Elementary PTA Association, wherein a portion of the membership member-ship dues should be paid to the West Millard PTA Council. PTA members were asked to consider this Amendment and be ready to vote on the same at the next regular regu-lar PTA meeting. An interesting film strip entitled "A Plot to Abolish PTA," was presented pre-sented which showed the accomplishments accomp-lishments of PTA throughout the year. Program Chairman, Louise Lyman, Ly-man, explained the PTA action program and asked that all members mem-bers of the PTA give careful thought and consideration to this program and be ready to vote for or against the issues PTA supports at our next regular meeting in April. Don't forget our Stamp Savings Program every Wednesday morning at 8:'30 a.m. to their duties as principal. The principals of the two large elementary elemen-tary schools teach one-half time in addition to their other administrative admin-istrative duties. The four secondary second-ary principals iall have teaching duties in addition to their administrative admin-istrative functions. On the district level, there are only two professional employees handling all the responsibilities for (Contined on back page) ELDER LEWIS E. RAWLINSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Glen Rawlinson, has received a mission mis-sion call to the Austrian Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A cordial invito t on is extended to everyone to attend a farewell testimonial to be held in his honor hon-or Sunday, March 17th at 6:30 p.m. in the Sutherland Ward ChapeL I . ft if jil I i i mi ij ' VALLEY" $4.00 a year in advance CLINIC DATES ANNOUNCED Dr. M. E. Bird has been recently appointed by Millard County to serve as Public Health Director. The following dates have been scheduled for clinics of the west Millard area. March 22 Delta First Ward, 2:30 p.m. Orthopedic Clinic for children through age 14. Application blanks must be obtained from family physicians. April 1, 8, 15 Typhoid Clinics at Delta Elementary School and High School. High School, 8:30 a.m.; Elementary, 10:00 a.m. April 3, 10, 17 Typhoid Clinic at Hinckley and Sutherland Schools. Hinckley, 9:00 a.m.; Sutherland, 1:00 p.m. April 5, 12, 19 Typhoid Clinic at Oak City and Leamington Schools. 9:00 a.m. at Oak City, later at Leamington. Lea-mington. Adults and pre-school children may attend the clinics. Miss Lcrwana Mitchell and fiance Ken Collier and Miss Mitchell's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Mitchell Mitch-ell visited Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Mitchell and family in West Jordan Jord-an Sunday. Leamington Couple 3Iarh 50th An Open House honoring Mr. and Mrs. Axel L. Johnson on their 50th Wedding Anniversary will be held Sunday, March 24, at their home in Leamington from 2 to 6 p.m. Friends and relatives are invited. The couple requests no gifts. The couple were married March 25, 1913 in Nephi. The marriage was later solemnized in the Monti Mon-ti Temple, Church of Jesus Christ Church Endorses Red Cross Drive During the month of March the American Red Cross will conduct its annual campaign for funds to support sup-port its nationwide and worldwide programs. The humantarian services rendered rend-ered by this great organization through its local chapters and its widespread organization of volunteer volun-teer workers bring relief to human sufferers whenever emergency or catastrophe strikes, and we feel that the Red Cross organization is deserving of the liberal support of everyone. We therefore urge members of the church to make generous contributions con-tributions in response to the appeal for funds in order that the organi-1 zation may carry on its missions of mercy. (Signed) President David O. McKay President Henry D. Moyle . President Hugh B. Brown j The First Presidency of ' The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints I PRACTICAL NURSING DIPLOMA Miss Diane Lovell, a native of Delta, will receive a diploma in practical nursing at exercises for her class at Salt Lake Trade Technical Tech-nical Institute March 15. She is a grduate of Delta High School. Miss Lovell will be required to take a licensing test after graduation. gradu-ation. Trade Tech nursing students have finished topmost in the nation na-tion for four of the past five years, based on results of these standards tests. Jay Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Wright, of Hinckley, has re-: cently graduated from a barber! college and is now employed at Killpack's Barber Shop. Mr. Wright ' and h'.s wife, the former Charlene Webb, are making a home in Hincklev. BOIES At Delta City Council meeting Monday night a committee was appointed ap-pointed to spearhead the campaign to clean-up and beautify Delta. Evan Gardner will head the committee com-mittee as chairman. Other members are Louise Lyman, Inez Riding, Councilmen V. S. Barney and Joe Moody, Street Supt. Wells Wood and City Attorney Thorpe Wad-dingham. Wad-dingham. March 15 has been proclaimed by Mayor Church as the opening date for the cleanup campaign and will continue through April 30. West Millard Hospital is pushing for a mid or late April opening and it is hoped that all Delta residents will cooperate to the fullest in presenting pre-senting a clean city to the visiting public on the hospital opening date. Representatives from the Catholic Catho-lic Church, Jehovah Witnesses, Community and the three LDS Wards along with civic organiza tions were present and presented ideas to the council and the committee. com-mittee. It was suggested that a survey of the town be made to pin- of Latter-day Saints. Mr. Johnson was born Oct. 3, 1887, in Leamington. Mrs. Johnson John-son was born Dec. 23, 1893, in Overton. Nevada They are the parents of one son and three daughters, Ray of Leamington, Mrs. Burnis (Melva) Finlinson, Oak City; Mrs. Vern (Myrle) Young, Sunset, and Mrs. Wm. G. (Varda) Barrett, Bountiful. They have 26 grandchildren, and 1 great-grandchild. COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES The Mission Gospel Team from Christ Methodist Church of Salt Lake City, will conduct services at the Community Church Sunday morning, March 17, at eleven a. m. A Dinner will be served after services. ser-vices. Sunday School classes as usual at 10:00 a.m. every Sunday morning. morn-ing. The ladies of the congregation will meet at 2:30 Friday afternoon to clean the church. DIAPER DOINGS Congratulations to Rex and Beverly Bennett Day on the birth of a 6 lb. girl, March 1. HOSPITAL NOTES Mrs. Perry Winsor, surgery, admitted ad-mitted Sunday, March 10. Noel Twitchell Receives Praise Local music lovers will be interested inter-ested in the rising musical prominence prom-inence of Noel Twitchell of Delta who is now studying at Brigham Young University. Mr. Twitchell on Friday, March 8, was honored with a personal audition by Kurt Herbert Her-bert Adler, Director of the San Francisco Opera Company. Mr. Twitchell won third place in the auditions and Mr. Adler praised the excellent musicianship displayed display-ed by Mr. Twitchell in the audition even over the first and second place winners. Mr. Warren Wood, a prominent base in Salt Lake City, took first place. Mr. Jack Morris, also of B.Y.U., won second place. Thus week, March 13 through 16. Noel Twitchell will play the leading lead-ing baritone role of Germont in the Utah Vailey Opera production of Giuseppe Verdi's beautiful opera I "La Traviata" at the Provo High School. Mr. Twitchell will sing on Thursday and Saturday opposite Miss Luriine Levar, Violetta. The musical high point of this opera is the long and most beautiful duet ' between Mr. Twitchell and Miss Levar. I mittee point areas that need particular attention, such as old corrals and fences, deterorated buildings that are left standing although no longer long-er usable and empty lots. The committee com-mittee will divide the city into districts dis-tricts and each district will be under un-der the jurisdiction of some organization organ-ization in waging a block-to-block cleanup campaign. While this is being set up, residents are urged to take stock of their own premises pre-mises and the block on which they reside and began making plans to assist in this intensive campaign. Another suggestion of merit made at the meeting was an earlier spraying of weeds on the part of the city employees. If sprayed while 2 or 3 inches high, in early spring rather than late spring or early summer, tall weeds which detract from a street's appearance, even though burned, would be e-liminated. e-liminated. If this would then be followed by an early fall spraying or burning, this would help to e-radicate e-radicate weeds from Delta streets. Council and committee members alike were encouraged by the enthusiastic en-thusiastic response of those present. pre-sent. Mayor Ned Church reported that he had contacted all paint dealers in town and they were unanimous in their decision to have a special paint sale during the cleanup period. Fire Chief Reed Wood stated stat-ed that all fire permits would be waived during this time but cau tioned that burning of trash should only take place on calm days. He, also, pointed out that fires are not to be left unattended. Charlie Thomas has applied to the council for the position of caretaker care-taker of Delta City Park for the year. Councilman Taylor suggested that the matter be left up to Councilman Floyd Hardy as this was in his department. Councilman Hardy advised the council that he would accept the application. Repair Re-pair of the open air fire place was discussed at this time, also. The council decided to replace the glass brick with solid brick. Although glass brick is more decorative, it is an added expense to the city because of vandalism. The special election, Tuesday, March 19, was discussed. As a result re-sult of the discussion the council decided to issue a public statement which is published elsewhere. Present at Monday's meeting were Mayor Church, Councilmen Moody, Ashby, Taylor and Hardy, Street Supt. Wells Wood, City Recorder Re-corder Caroline C. Bennett, City Treasurer Wayne Sorensen, Louise Lyman, Garden Club President; Ir-vin Ir-vin Jeffery, interested party; Charlie Char-lie Thomas, Catholic Church; Willis Morrison, Community Church and Kiwanis Club; Evan Gardner, Seminary; Sem-inary; Donald Kozina and Leonard Wheeler, Jehovah's Witnesses; Mar-ven Mar-ven Ogden, County Agent; Grant Snow, Lion's Club; and Reed Wood, Fire Chief. Fay Walker, who underwent major ..surgery ..recently ..at ..St. Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake extends ex-tends sincere thanks to blood donors, don-ors, Carol Warnick and Seth Jackson. Jack-son. Mr. Walker was hospitalized 18 days. Mrs. Walker stayed with children Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Walker, Walk-er, Mr. and Mrs. Renn Goulding and Mr. and Mrs. Leif Alldredge, all of Salt Lake City, during that time to be near her husband. Mr. Walker is at home now and Mrs. Walker reports that he is feeling much better. NOEL TWITCHELL Utah Yflley Opera has gained ,m ever increasing audience a-mong a-mong Utah music lovers with its high calibre productions; its productions pro-ductions of Kismet and Madame Butterfly, last season, won wide acclaim and were virtual sellouts. I 1 1 y j Vote! Pir m Cm Vte, Tuesday, March 19, |