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Show ew Hospital Mar. ministration; First Assumes Ad pI&TIS "SERVING Volume 53 Number 42 strollin9 5 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 Stockralsing, Dairy Farming Ducks, Geese, Pheasants Deer, Cottontail RabblU Trout, Bass, and Catfish Mountain Recreation Boating, Picnic Facilities A Great Place To Livel WEATHER High for the week was 79 recorded record-ed April 13. April 11 recorded the low of 27. A trace of moisture was noted April 14. .02 of an inch of moisture was measured April 15. April 16 .05 of an inch was measured mea-sured at Delta Airport. - HIGH SCHOOL BOWL Prin. C. L. Bennett was notified Wednesday morning that a team of Delta students will participate Thursday, April 25 on the popular KSL Radio High School Bowl. The program will begin at 6:30 p.m. Team members will be announced next week. COWBELLES TO MEET Cowbelles will meet Saturday, April 20, at Hatch's City Cafe at 2:00 p.m. During the meeting a name will be chosen for the local unit and Constitution and By-laws will be set up. Ladies Interested in joining this organization are urged to attend. D.H.S. GIRLS TAKE NOTE The Henegar Business College ad on the school page may be of interest in-terest to you. Ann E. Melville' Bishop Camp, D. U. P. will meet at the home of Mra Adeline Jeffery Friday, April 19 at 2:00 p.m. Riding Club Trail Ride; Futurity Regulations Noted West Millard Riding Club announces an-nounces a spring trail ride for members and guests Saturday and Sunday, April 20 and 21. The ride will be held in Drum Mts. and according to available information in-formation riders turn off the highway high-way onto the first graded road going west after passing the gravel pits on the road to Topaz. Signs will be placed at points along the way to guide members to the meeting meet-ing place. The ride is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday and back by 3:00 p.m., where a dinner will be served. Plans call for a big bonfire that evening. Next morning breakfast break-fast will be served between 9 and 10 a.m. Another trail ride will follow fol-low and wind up at 3 p.m. It is hoped that members can go both days, but if impossible to join in Saturday's fun, riders are urged to join In Sunday with the group and ride over the hills until 3:00 p.m. All planning to go for both days .should take along sleeping bags. Each member is to bring his own food. Stoves and grills will be furnished. fur-nished. WEST MILLARD BIDING CLUB FUTURITY RULES FOR 1963 Boundaries of territory included in the West Millard Riding Club Futurity: The territorial borders of the State of Utah. To Be Eligible For Nomination: A nominated horse may be bred, born or brought into this territory. Regardless of where bred, born or raised the nominee may not be trained or raced outside of the West Millard Riding Club Futurity boundaries, prior to January 1 of the year in which it competes in the Futurity. All foals nominated for the Futurity must be in the Second Round of 5(0 THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, April 18, 1963 Two District Dance Festivals Scheduled For Delta, Fillmore The District Dance Festival will be held April 23 In the Millard High School Gym in Fillmore at 7:30 p.m. and in Delta April 30 In the Palo-mar Palo-mar at 7:30 p.m. Sixteen wards from Millard and Deseret Stakes will be represented with approximately 275 dancers participating according to District Dance Directors, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Smith. A highlight of the festival will include an all girl dance with six sets totaling 72 girls who will be in costumes of red, white and blue with white gloves and shoes. Dances in the festival include a Russian Folk Dance and American Square Dance in costume, Ballroom dances of the Fox Trot, Blue Tango and the Waltz whioh will be done in long floor length formals. The Threesomes will be done by 70 sets made up of one boy and two girls making a total of 210 dancers. These groups will do a Threesome Lindy, Cha Cha and the Schottische. Elaborate costumes of taffeta sheaths and net ruffled overskirts decorated with glitter will be worn by the girls dancing the Tropical Splendor, a Cha Cha number. Men will be dressed in black taffeta bolero jackets, bow ties, black pants and turquoise blue cumber-bunds. cumber-bunds. The public is invited to come out and see an outstanding evening of dancing. Around forty dancers from the Deseret Stake will be chosen to represent re-present our stake in the June Conference Con-ference Dance Festival in Salt Lake City. State Engineer Rep. To Come to Delta A meeting of special interest will be held Thursday, April 25, 10:00 a.m. at Delta Elementary Auditor- ium bv representatives of the Of- fice of State Engineer and the U.S. 1 Geological Survey, Purpose of the meeting is to review re-view results of the recent U.S.G.S. well interference study and to hear a progress report on the U.S.G.S. Sevier Desert Groundwater study. During the meeting problems concerning pending ground water applications in the area will be reviewed re-viewed and the proposed State En-gneer's En-gneer's policy for the area will be discussed. Any interested person may attend. at-tend. territorial limits of the West Millard Mil-lard Riding Club Futurity at time of nomination and must be on the race ground at the time of drawing draw-ing for positions during the race meet. Distance: The race will be 350 yards with a 120 lb. minimum weight. PURSE: The purse will be divided: divid-ed: 1st place, 55; 2nd place, 30; 3rd place, 15. Payments required to nominate 1961 foal for the 1963 Futurity: $10.00 nomination fee with application ap-plication due April 15, 1963 $10.00 due July 1, 1963 $5.00 due before race, August 9, 1963 Late nominees will be accepted until July 1, 1963. Late entries must accompany their application applica-tion with a fee of $30.00 and an additional $5.00 fee prior to the race, August 9, 1963. No late entries en-tries will be accepted after July 1, 1963. CONDUCT: Any owner or trainer who does not conform to the rules who does not display good sportsmanship, sports-manship, or who acts contrary to the good of the race meet, will with the vote of a majority of Race Committee, have his horse barred from the race with no monies refunded. re-funded. GENERAL: In the event that more than eight horses are nominated, nomi-nated, trial races will be run to determine the eight horses to run the Futurity. All nominees will be notified of the trial races. All other problems pertaining to the race will be decided by the Race Committee. Not ce of all payments due will , to eat a sugar cube and thereby be mailed to you prior to due date. ' fulfill their personal responsibility Additional nomination forms and in eliminating polio from their corn-rules corn-rules of entry will be mailed munity as well as safeguarding promptly upon request. themselves against the dread Nominations with accompanying disease, fees should be mailed or presented Clinics will be set up at the same to West Millard Riding Club, co locations as for the first round and N. S. Bassett, Delta, Utah. j at approximately the same tmes. '7.500 Bead It In The CHRONICLE Copy 10c JR. HIGH MUSICAL PLAY i Delta Junor High is getting all set to entertain the public witn an outstanding evening of music and fun Friday, May 3 with its presentation presen-tation of "Mississippi Melody". The annual event is again being presented by the Chorus Class under un-der the direction of Mr. Merlin Christensen and will get underway at 8:00 p.m. in the high school auditorium. THANES HOSPITAL WORKERS Mrs. LaVonne Morrison, President of the Federated Fine Arts Guild, expresses thanks to the many ladies la-dies who have helped with the work in refinishing and general cleaning at West Millard Hospital. The club had undertaken some of the hospital work as a continuation continua-tion of a state and national contest in community service. Last year, the local guild received a check for $300.00 in the state contest which was turned over to the hospital. hos-pital. This made them eligible to enter the national contest. Delta, Utah Utah's "50,000 Square Incredible Landscape" In "Exploring Southern Utah's Wilderness Wild-erness Wonderland" is the theme of a special issue of Desert Magazine Maga-zine which has just rolled off the presses in Palm Desert, Calif. The April issue of "the magazine of the Southwest" is devoted entirely en-tirely to the exciting things to do and the magnificent scenery to see in southern Utah, described as "50,000 square miles of incredible landscape " Featured on the cover of the publication pub-lication is a full-color photograph of Monument Valley at sundown, taken by Andre DeDienes, one of Hollywood's top cheesecake photographers photo-graphers who turned his talents on San Juan's scenic splendor. Inside Desert's pages are articles written by Utah and other western writers who show an intimate knowledge and an artist's love for the slate- A well-illustrated story on Wayne County's Cathedral Valley is writ- ten and captured on film by Joyce and Josef Muench, famous writer photographer team from Santa Barbara, Bar-bara, Calif. Says the writer about Utah Highway 24 through Wayne County: "I don't know really, of a comparable compar-able stretch, mixing mountains and desert, plateaus and canyons, mission Call Elder Ray Christensen, son of Bishop and Mrs. Merlin Christensen, Christen-sen, has been called to serve an LDS mission in the Southern States mission field. A farewell testimony in his honor hon-or will be held Sunday, April -21, 6:30 p.m. at Delta Third Ward. He will enter the mission home Monday, Mon-day, April 22. All are invited to attend. Reports Mission Elder Wally R. Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter E. Wright, re turned March 17 from a two year mission in the North Western States mission field for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Wright will give his mis sion Report Sunday, April 21, 7:30 p.m. at the Delta Second Ward. He is presently attending Utah State University. All are invited to her his report. HOSPITAL NOTES First surgical patient in the West r;nn- tt , : . 1 . """am nirayiLtu was lour year oia , James McClenhen, son of Mr. and ivirs. james toward McClenhen. 1 April 17. 2nd Round Fight To Eradicate Polio Set for Veekend The second round of the fight to eradicate polio permanently in U-tah U-tah is scheduled Saturday and Sunday, Sun-day, April 20 and 21, in this area and all round the state. Nearly 800,000 , Utahns from six Weeks tfl nvpr Qfl Dm pvrrtoH trt ! again trek to the various clinics Registration forms will be discontinued dis-continued on back page) Polio Scheduled for 8: VALLEY" $4.00 a year in advance Last P-TA Meet Of School "Year, Tina s., April 1ft The last meeting of the current school year for the high school and junior high PTA will be held Thursday, April 18 (tonight), 7:30 p.m. in the high school auditorium. The nominating committee of Norma Pearson, Heber Rose and Glen Rawlinson will present to the voting members present their selections se-lections for the PTA offices. Nomi nations will, also, be accepted from the floor. Out-going officers are Dana Bishop, Bish-op, President; Norma Skeem, Vice President and Lonnie Morris, Sec.-Treas. Sec.-Treas. Highlight of the evening will be the presentation of a Life Membership Mem-bership pin to some deserving member. Mrs. LaVonne Taylor is making the arrangements for the presentation. spiced with little towns and wild open miles." Two other stories on "rock-hounding" "rock-hounding" near Moab and Cedar City are written by Ross and Max-ine Max-ine Musselman of Moab and Parley Dalley of Cedar City. Eugene D. Foushee of Bluff also takes readers read-ers on a "Roadside Geology" trip from Monument Valley to Arches National Monument. Choral Pepper of Las Vegas (but a native Utahn) writes about a "tag-along" (follow a guide in your own vehicle) trip to a prehistoric pre-historic Indian ruin in the Four Corners country. Ward Roylance, a writer for the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council, There are plenty of things to do in southern Utah's "50.000 w -m w UClta JLSlCly JLlOIlS To Sponsor Sale The Delta Lady Lions are sponsoring spon-soring a Variety Sale to raise money mon-ey for a Community Betterment Project. This event will be held the Saturday Sat-urday before Mother's Day, May 11 at the old Telluride Office on Main Street, from 10:00 a.m. on through the day. The sale will feature White Elephants, Ele-phants, Aprons, Home Made Candy, Handkerchiefs, Children's Clothing and Plants. If anyone has a White Elephant, good used childrens clothing, plants or any other article that could be sold the Lady Lions would appreciate appreci-ate getting these items. Anyone caring to contribute an article can leave them with the following ladies: Lavon Taylor, Pearl Snow, Mary Wright, Donetta Hardy, Ora Gardner. Marie Lake, or the Quality Market, or take them to the sale that morning. SHOP AT HOME SHOP THE ADVERTISERS WITH K V it-, . - . f - T V " ' i. : ' b .'. l1 ' t- " i . . - 1 Dell Ashby, administrator of the newly completed West Millard Hospital Hos-pital was officially given the keys to the hospital Saturday in the dedication ceremonies by Cutler Henrie, Pres. of the Board of Directors. Dir-ectors. Mr. Henrie, who officiated at the dedication services opened the ceremonies with "We"re proud of our bu lding. We're proud of you people." The mood of the ceremonies was struck by two rousing numbers by the Delta High School band, under the direction of Mr. Don DaGrade. Dudley Crafts, recounted the history his-tory of the hospital, from the first idea to the completed facility. He disclosed that C. M. Pace and Roy NOTICE! SATURDAY, APRIL 27, CiTY TRUCKS WILL BE OUT COLLECTING COL-LECTING MORE TRASH AND RUBBISH IN A FINAL DRIVE TO CLEAN UP DELTA BEFORE THE END OF THE MONTH. RESIDENTS ARE ASKED TO HAVE RUBBISH PLACED IN SUITABLE CONTAINERS AND READY TO BE PICKED UP. Miles of Magazine with colorful words tells how to enjoy southern Utah's magnificent wilderness. . ."They must answer the irresistable call of this strange land and discover its wonderful secrets for themselves. Few are ever disappointed with what they find." D. James Cannon, director of the Utah Tourist and Publicity Council, also writes about the "Canyonlands Controversy," probing in detail the facts behind the proposed National Park in southeastern Utah. Albert R. Lyman, a pioneer of San Juan County, also writes about a lake in the Glen Canyon area that nature erased from the face of the earth about 1915. square miles of incredible landscape," land-scape," as outlined in the current AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY CALLS FOR WORK HOURS Members of the American Legion Auxiliary are asked to compile the approximate hours each has spent in community service as state reports re-ports have to be completed. Each member will be contacted by the first of next week. What is community service? Work as a Primary teacher, Sunday Sun-day School teacher, other civic club duties, work on the newly completed complet-ed hospital, work on Delta's Cleanup Clean-up campaign all would qualify. Each member has probably many hours of such service. Be ready with YOUR approximate hours when you're contacted by next week. HEART FUND A SUCCESS $568.91 was collected in the re cent West Millard Heart Fund Drive J savs Mrs. Willis Morrison, heart fund chairman. The American Le- gion Auxiliary assisted in making the drive the surpass that it was. cin ,h!ltc in ,u 0,w;li. ary members for helping and to ' all for their generous support. a.m., Saturday, at Stake House DELL ASHBY Smith were the first two men to give $1000 each to get the fund off the ground. Mr. Pace is now residing in Las Vegas and Mx. Smith resides in Phoenix, Ariz. Mr. Crafts stressed that the hospital is an object of pride for all West Mil lard residents. 'M doubt if there Is a person in west Millard County who has not contributed in one way or another to this building", he said. Noel Twitchell thrilled his audi ence with his rendition of "This Is America". Mr. Henrie introduced Mr. Ashby who in turn introduced the hospital staff. Luella Western, RN, is head nurse and Maxine Owens, RN, night nurse. Lillian Ivie will be on duty during the afternoons and Donna Anderson and Martha Anderson will serve as relief nurses. In charge of the kitchen will be Mrs. Ilene Boothe assisted by Rhea Mo Cormick. Dr. M. E. Bird and Dr. M. A. Ly man spoke briefly at the dedica tion ceremonies. The girls trio of Annette Moody, Karen Moody and Joan Bishop sang a medley of songs after which Loa Black snipped the ribbon signifying that the building was officially dedicated de-dicated and opened for tours. The day was beautiful for the open air ceremony and approximately approxi-mately 800 viewed the hospital Saturday. Refreshments were serv issue of Desert Magazine, published pub-lished in Palm Desert, Calif. Delta Elementary P-TA Closes Year Delta Elementary Parents-Teachers Ass'n had its closing meeting for the year April 3. The meeting featured a program followed by light refreshments. Appearing on the program were a Boys Guitar Trio, Phillip Adams, Eddie Morris and Merrill Lam-bright; Lam-bright; Ann Webb giving two pantomimes; pan-tomimes; Paul Losee, trombone solo, accompanied by Lenore Mc-Call; Mc-Call; tribute to teachers, lunch room workers and custodians, E-laine E-laine Dekker and Phill Rawlinson two guitar numbers. Mr. and Mrs. Glen L. Wilcox and four children of Durango, Colorado spent last Tuesday night in Delta with his sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Billings. Terah BU1-ings BU1-ings of Logan and Wanda and Charlotte Palmer were weekend visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Billings. Helen Mar McCulIough Camp. DUP. will meet Friday, April 10. 2:00 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Arte Henderson. ed by the Federated Fine Arts Guild. Sunday, nearly 400 more viewed the hospital. Monday night a banquet was prepared and served at the hospital for the hospital association mem bers and the Board of Directors. 28 people were present for the occasion. oc-casion. The West Millard Hospital Board of Directors is comprised of Cutler Henrie, Pres., Ferrin Lovell, Sec; Leo Day, Loa Black, Verdell Bishop, Margaret Roper, Shirley DeLapp and LaClead Nielson. Dr. M. E. Bird delivered the first baby in the new hospital Tuesday, April 16, a 7 lb. 94 oz. girl to Jerry and Paige Bassett Hawley. Lillian Ivie was on duty. Patients transferred from Delta Hospital to West Millard Hospital Wednesday were Annie Bishop, medical, admitted April 11. Sarah Wiley, medical, admitted April 16. Mrs. Arlyn (Terry) Finllnson and new 7 lb. boy, born April 16. 9th Gun Safety, Survival Training Class Graduated On April 15, 1963, American Leg-Ion Leg-Ion Post 135 graduated its 9th Gun Safety class. 28 of the starting class of ' 41 finished the 12-week course. Graduates are: Howard Allred, Chad Anderson, Roger Anderson, John Bassett, Judy Bassett, Zane Bennett, Rita Bishop, Wayne Brush, Jeff Dawson, Doris Dekker, Neno Heolzle, Dale Jensen, Steven Johnson, John-son, Richard Killpack, Allen Over-son, Over-son, Linda Talbot, Dale Bunker, Carl Carrington, Arlan Crafts, Rodney Rod-ney Fullmer, Steven Pace, Karen Teeples, Sharen Teeples, Robert Thomas, Louis Tolbert, Darrell Young, Earl Stanworth, and Pat Stanworth. This is a total of 201 who have graduated from the nine classes held by the Legion. Chairman Boyd Schena would like to thank all who have helped with the classes. Legion instructors were Leo Bur-raston, Bur-raston, Boyd Bunker, Joe Stewart, Van Warnick and Don Cony. Also, thanks to Ken Clements of the Utah Highway Patrol; Dick Hunsaker of the West Desert Bow-hunters; Bow-hunters; Principal C. L. Bennett of the Delta High School and Cecil Baker. The next class will be held at the American Legion Hall and will start May 6, 1963. If you wish to enroll send a post card to P.O. Box 416, Delta, stating your name, age and address. You must be 12 years old or older to take the class. A charge of $1.50 is made. LIVESTOCK QUOTES By Win Walker April 16. 1963 Cattle salable, 2100. Ninty-five percent of todays run was feeder cattle of all classes and kinds. Most of the choice feeders sold in large lots from 10 head to 60 head. The market was uneven and about a cent under two weeks ago. 600 head, 500 lbs. to 600 lbs. heifers sold well; most of these were one brand. Consigners were from three counties coun-ties and some from Nevada. Buyers Buy-ers were from four states. The top for today were 10 head of choice 300 lb Hereford steers that sold for $32. Cuman Cropper of Deseret was the grower. Holstein and crossbreed steers, 60 head at 600 lbs. brot $24.10; 20, at 800 lbs., $19.20; 33 head, 700 lbs., $22.10. 500 head, 500 lbs. to 600 lbs. in lots from 10 to 30 head, $25. to $26. Fat heifers brot $21.25 to $22.50; good $20. to $21. Heiferettes $18.20 to $19.60 Holsteins $15. to $16.75. Cows, choice, $15. to $16.10. Commercial Com-mercial $14. to $15.30. Canners $11.-50 $11.-50 to $13. Dairy kind $15. to $16. Pairs $165. to $215.; 10 pairs $205. Bulls $17.40 to $18.40. Calves under 400 lbs., steers 10 head, $32. Balance, 200 head, $28. to $31.50. 4 lots brot by head $65. to $81. as to size. Heifers, in lots of 25, $28.25 to $29. Baby calves $37. to $46. FORMER RESIDENT DIES Mrs. Arnold Damron of Deseret received word of the death of her sister, Mrs. Andy (Eliza Hook) Clark, in Santa Monica, Calif., Tues day morning of a heart attack. Mrs. Clark will well be remembered remem-bered by many here as a former Delta resident before leaving to live in California. She was a daughter daug-hter of the late Mrs. Eliza Hook Taylor. DIAPER DOINGS (West Millard Hospital Congratulations to Joe and Linda Cowers Lamkey on the birth of a 7 lb. bov, born April 17. Vernon and Roxanne Goulder Mitchell Mit-chell on the birth of a 6 lb. 14 oz. girl, April 17. Waldo and Karolyn Morris Warnick Warn-ick on the birth of a 7 lb. boy born April 12. |
