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Show Millard County Chronicle The Millard County Chronicle Published Every Thursday at Delta, Utah By CHHONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY R. H. (Bob) BIDING - OWNER-PUBLISHER INEZ BIDING ASSOCIATE EDITOB JOE STEWABT ..LINO PRESSMAN Entered as Second Class matter at the Postofflce at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Subscription Bate: S4.00 a year in advance; Six months, $2.25 Advertising Bates on Bequest ADVERTISE During the March of Dimes drive, eleven home rooms held a contest to see which class could collect the most money. Mr. Fiinlinson's home room, with Von Moody chairman, re tie gives noi oest. wnu gives most; But gives most who gives best. Mr. and Mrs. Lile Johnson spent last weekend visiting and sightseeing. sight-seeing. They left Friday evening and went to Kanab and spent the night with Lile's brother, Lester Johnson. Saturday they went to Glen Canyon Dam and back to St. George where they visited with Lile's father and other relatives. While there they attended the basketball bas-ketball tournament. Sunday on their way home they visited in Bea ver with Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Smith. They had a very pleasant weekend. Mrs. Irving Nielson was admitted to the Juab County hospital in Ne-phi Ne-phi last Tuesday with pneumonia. She is still hospitalized. We hope for a speedy recovery for her. Last Wednesday morning Mina Overson fell and fractured her knee cap. She was taken to the Nephi hospital where she remained until Sunday. She is recovering at home and we hope she can soon be able to be out. Tom Best who was admitted to the Payson Hospital Feb. 29 is still hospitalised. His wife Irene and children Ellen and Bud have made many trips to Payson to see him. We hope he can soon be well and return home. Mr. and Mrs. Oral Nielson from Woodside, Calif, have spent the past two weeks visiting friends and relatives in Lynndyl and Leamington. Leaming-ton. They "left for California lasc s I ! White I i Porcelain Polish zzn f OIITOS I DCPOBTmcnr a n hi r n, Mali wrfiy mi Thursday, March 12, 1964 NATIONAL EDITORIAL 7.500 Read It In The CHRONICLE ceived the most money per person. per-son. On the whole, each student gave approximately 58 cents per person. Mr. Rob'son's home room, with Annette Shepherd chairman, gave the most money. (They had ("Saturday. Kay Nielson spent last Friday nite in Delta with her girl friend Karen Eliason. Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Wilkins had their granddaughters Carrol and Ellen Anderson from Oak City with them. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Simpson and Mr. and Mrs. Keith Nielson and son Wendel spent Friday In Provo. The men enjoyed the basketball tournament tourna-ment and the women spent the day shopping and visiting. Marian Wichman of Leamington spent last week with her girl friend Jackie Nielson. Mrs. Dean Eatough and girls spent the spring vacation in Salt Lake visiting her mother, Katherine Hayes and sister Dian. Mrs. Eddie Dutson and boys Floyd and Gary spent the weekend in Salt Lake with her mother. Mrs. Aralda Jones and boys spent the past week in Payson visiting at the home of their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Elliot. While there they went bowling and swimming swim-ming and had a wonderful time. Mrs. Lucille Johnson and son George went to Salt Lake and visited visit-ed with John and Joan Newinski and children. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Nielson the last weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Nielson and son Lynn and Mr. and Mrs. Dee Nielson of Salt Lake City. Last Thursday night Betty Johnson John-son of Sutherland celebrated her SHOE SOPHOMORE ASSEMBLY Tuesday, March 3, the Delta High School was entertained with an assembly as-sembly presented by the Sophomores, Sopho-mores, who chose the theme "My Coloring Book". The program was emceed by Allison Al-lison Moody and Lee Tippetts as they colored in their coloring book. A huge coloring book served as background for the following numbers: num-bers: Vocal solo Richard Adams, (accompanying himself on the guitar) gui-tar) ; piano selection Sharon Stewart; Vocal Quartet Paul Anderson, And-erson, J. Grant Moody, David Taylor, Tay-lor, Sheldon Jackson; Trombone Duet Allen Nelson and Paul Lo-see; Lo-see; Piano Solo Stephanie Wright; Dance Routine Ila Mae Overson, Cheryl Mortensen, and Marsha Hansen; Humorous Reading Dan Jensen; Vocal Quartet Sylvia Fin-linson, Fin-linson, Mary Lyman, Karla Church, and Kathy Callister. The assembly revealed much talent ta-lent and was considered fine entertainment enter-tainment by all who saw it. Congratulations, Con-gratulations, Sophomores. the advantage of more studen's.) Each student contributed approximately approx-imately 5712 cents per person. $102.00 was collected from the eleven home rooms. Nadine Iverson 14th birthday. There were 25 girls to her party. Those attending from here and Leamington were Dina Harder, Vickie Nielson, Nyla Nielson, Niel-son, Valarie Tolbart, Judy and Phyl lis Nielson, Sandra Benson, La-Wrene La-Wrene Bradfield and ReNae Simpson. Simp-son. They all had a very good time. Friday night Renae Simpson had a pot luck party, the girls in the 7th and 8th grades were invited. Mr. and Mrs. George Memmott and son Clifford of Salt Lake spent the weekend at the Lawrence Brad field home. Sunday the Memmotts and Bradfields went to Learn, to the home of Margaret Bradfield for chicken dinner. Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rodman Rod-man and son Robbin of Salt Lake were in town selling some of his father.s (Charles Rodman) property. proper-ty. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Nielson and children and Lawrence Bradfield went to Fountain Green to visit relatives re-latives and friends. Don Bradfield was home from school in Provo over the weekend. We took him back Sunday evening. While in Provo we visited with Fred Painter who is in the Utah Valley Hospital. The program in Sacrament meeting meet-ing last Sunday evening was given by High Councilman Clead Nielson. Talks were given by Ellen Best and Mr. Nielson. Piano solo by Carol Ann Nielson. Everyone remember Lynndyl's Gold and Green Ball, Saturday, March 14th. Come and dance to "The Rhythem of the Falling Rains", beautiful decorations and a good floor show Oak City Orchestra. Orches-tra. John Greathouse, son of Margie Greathouse was home from Cedar City last weekend. LEAMINGTON WANDA NIELSON Bishop and Mrs. Rulon Dutson were in Fillmore last Thursday and Friday visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Merrill Dutson and family.- Then Friday and Saturday they were in Salt Lake and Granger visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Barton and girls and Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Dutson Dut-son and family. - High Councilman Thurman Moody Moo-dy was our visitor in Sacrament meeting Sunday evening. David Moody, David Henrie and Mrs. Eva Dean Moody gave talks. Laura Moody, Carol Lee Owens and Lorraine Lor-raine Johnson sang a song. Mr. and Mrs. Joe (Janet) Lang visited over the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay Nelson. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Ashby (La-Priel) (La-Priel) visited at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Welby Lovell. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mclntyre have returned from a few days visit in Arizona. Clara Johnson and sons Lee and Kent were in Salt Lake Friday to attend a shower given for Joyce and Johnny Rushton. Remember this Saturday a reception will be given for the young couple in Learn ington at Ciaudine and. Bill Niel son s home. I Ray Johnson is in the Nephi hos-i hos-i pital suffering from arthritis. His wife Elaine is teaching school in : his absence. Little Dark Nielson, son of Mr and Mrs. Gordon Nielson, is home now after being in the Nephi hos- ; pital. I Mr. and Mrs. Welby Finlinson had a large family dinner for their i whole family last Saturday. The ; occasion was for Verdene and fa- mLy as they are leaving Thursday j for the Hawaiian Islands where ! Kiel is stationed. ! Ethyl Lovell, DeAnn Nielson, ! Glen Lee Roper and Gordon Niel-j Niel-j son were home over the weekend ! from various schools. D.H.S. News Reports: TJIZEEM 0 the Week NOLA MARIE JOHNSON Petite Nola Marie Johnson third of 10 children (six girls and four boys) of Principal and Mrs. Ray Johnson of Leamington is teen th's week. Coming from a large family, No-la No-la Marie has many duties and responsibilities re-sponsibilities around her home especially now that she is the oldest old-est of the 10 still at home. Marie doesn't mind doing these chores; she enjoys doing things for her mother and family. She certainly has learned the valued home economic trades from it. Spoon-in-hand she's the talented talent-ed kitchen chef; Needle-in-hand, she's the busy little seamstress. The qualities Marie's home life has given her and the jobs she's learned to do from her home re-sponsibilties re-sponsibilties have given her a knowledge that couldn't be learned learn-ed from books. Active, energetic Nola Marie is an avid sports fan. She likes to swim, ride horses, play volley ball and baseball and and and and. One of her favorite classes is Physical Phys-ical Education. Her other classes are Bookkeeping, Bookkeep-ing, American Problems, Seminary (Book of Mormon), Girls Chorus, English 12, and Shorthand. Another class she likes is Chorus. Singing is something this teen really real-ly enjoys. As a Freshie she had a lead in the Junior High Opera, He's One of the G'rls". In High School Nola Marie participated in the opera op-era production of "South Pacific", and the recent "Music Man." A third clas9 she really goes for is Shorthand; She likes the business busi-ness field. This may be the field she'll decide to go out in after graduation. Her plans for the future do include in-clude college but not until after she has worked, for perhaps an entire en-tire year, to help finance her education. edu-cation. As she put it "I almost have to work, because it takes a lot of money to keep Reese on a Mission and I can't expect my parents to finance us both." (Reese is her older old-er brother.) This statement in itself speaks well of Nola Marie's character. Nola Marie, a quiet girl, full of happiness and humility works diligently dil-igently for the things she wants in life. Laura Moody DliS Hews Items PEP CLUB: The Pep Club officers, the cheerleaders, cheer-leaders, and a few Junior Pep Club members have been invited to the Brigham Young" University April 18th, for a clinic on half-time activities ac-tivities and cheers. TRAVELING ASSEMBLY: Milford High will be bringing their traveling assembly to D. H, S. April 13th.., , . . Delta High's traveling assembly is working, getting ready to take their assembly to the various Mr. and Mrs. Burton Hanson and family were in Provo Saturday on business and doing a little shopping. shop-ping. Mrs. Gene Bradfield and family were in Provo Saturday doing some shopping. Mr. and Mrs. Rolfe Robison were visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Bradfield and family last Sunday. - Mrs. Jane Williams is visiting at the home of Mrs. Margaret Bradfield Brad-field for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Dutson from Hinckley are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lovell, today (Tuesday). Nan Nielson, Gayl and I were up north last Friday doing a little shopping, but mostly just looking. I've been hearing that I'm on the loose again in trying to clean up the town. I'm sorry if I have been stressing the thing too much. If anyone doesn't want to do any cleaning up that is their business. But Mr. Ogden and Gordon asked me to take the job. If anyone else would like to take it over I'd be more than happy to let them do it. There are many people who are very willing to help and I really appreciate it. If anyone feels they can't afford to donate two dollars toward a fire please tell ME in-1 stead of telling everyone else. . Mrs. Joan Bird was up last Sun-j day to vis't with us and also to, see Verdene before she left. j Gayl is staying with Joan and ! family in Delta for a few weeks' while Don is working in Nevada. fr V. I VT II 7 Ail- 'M' 1 " pS'-t, Iff?" k i Mllill . ,V r I VsC ... V- i SWEETHEART CONTESTANTS Top row: (1. to r.) Suzanne Law, Six Vic for Sweetheart Title . . . Six Senior girls, Susan Lyman, Gwen Stephenson, Kathy Finlinson, Kris Hardy, Suzanne Law, and Ruth Anne Lyman have been chosen by the Delta F.F.A. Chapter to compete com-pete for Chapter Sweetheart. The F.F.A. members chose the Senior girls who they felt would be best qualified to enter state competition. competi-tion. Each girl must participate in an Activity (XlighligEits of '3-'64 Delta High hopes to hold annually annu-ally an assembly such as the one held Wednesday night, March 4. Delta High School having -had a very successful year, to date, it was the general feeling that the school's activities should be highlighted. high-lighted. The assembly was enjoyed by all those in attendance. Spencer Ashby, our assembly manager, ably emceed the evening's even-ing's proceedings. Delta High's football squad had a very successful season last fall, and Wynn Walker, representing the team, told of the accomplishments accomplish-ments made in football. "Our Town," our school play, was somethilng to make the students proud. Spencer Ashby, a main character of the play, told of the events behind the success of our school play. Ruth Anne Lyman, Pep Club President, Pre-sident, represented this year's outstanding out-standing Pep Club, reviewing the accomplishments of that organization organiza-tion this year. "Music Man" student director, Gwen Stanworth, gave a few of the "secrets" behind our very successful suc-cessful opera. She told of the hard work and fun the cast had in making mak-ing this musical a success. Our talented chorus teacher, Miss Bogh, accompanied by Mrs. McCall, favored the audience with a song. Although our basketball team didn't win all of their games this year, D.H.S. is proud of their ac schools. JUNIORS: Thirty-two Juniors took the National Na-tional Merit Scholarship Test on Tuesday, March 10th. SPEECH: The Regional Forensic Meet is to be held in Cedar City, March 18th. Participating will be six orators and two debate teams. TYPE II: Mary Jo Finlinson and Linda Bohn are tied in timed writings with 54 words-per-minute. The type class goal is to reach 70-words-per-minute. JR. PROM: The Junior Prom Committee is holding a meeting with Juniors and their parents Thursday night at 7:30. The committee is deciding on plans for the decorations, the party, and the assembly. The meeting will also deal with the S.A.R. tests that the Juniors took earlier in the year. VOCATIONAL DAY: Vocatioinal Day at Cedar City is scheduled for April 18th. The schools participating can send three students in Shorthand I, three in Shorthand II, four in Type I, four in Type I, and three in Bookkeeping. 3 YEARBOOK DANCE Wednesday, March 4th, the yearbook year-book sponsored a very successful dance. Spot decorations were most appropriate, ap-propriate, with gaily colored triangles trian-gles hanging from the ceiling and crepe paper arranged in triangular design on the walls. The yearbook netted approx'-mately approx'-mately $67.00. Nadine Iverson Kathy Finlinson, Ruth Anne Lyman. Ly-man. Bottom row: (L to r.) Kris assembly which will be held Friday, Fri-day, March 13, to display her talent. tal-ent. After their talent numbers, each will answer two questions. During this assembly, the girils will be judged on their talent, beauty, grace and poise by a state F.F.A. officer, Milt Diamond, and by two other judges selected by the Delta Chapter. At the Sweetheart Ball, held that complishments. Rex Abegglen, a manager of this year's team, represented re-presented the basketball players. Nathan Adams presented the school a set of science encyclopedias. encyclope-dias. Miss Hansen, the school librarian, libra-rian, accepted the books to be placed in the library for the students' stu-dents' use. (Nathan won these himself him-self in a science contest that he entered.) The group of which we all are very proud '.he wrestlers was honored, and all the boys that placed at State talked. They all expressed their appreciation for and admiration of Coach Porter. Coach Porter then expressed his pride in this outstanding group of boys. M.E.A. Credit Union Holds Election Thursday evening in the Millard Stake House, members of the M. E. A. Credit Union heard reports that gave evidence of the strength of their organization. Members met at a dinner meeting, catered by the Fillmore Third Ward Relief Soc'ety, at which they elected or re-elected some of their officers. The roster of Credit Union Officers Offi-cers is now composed of the following: fol-lowing: On the Board of Directors are Eleanor Roberts, Sutherland, principal and teacher in the Sutherland Suth-erland School; Carl Whatcott, Fillmore, Fill-more, counselor in the Millard Jr. and Sr. High Schools; Dallas Rogers, Rog-ers, Fillmore, retired; Myron Was-den, Was-den, Scipio, teacher in Millard Jr. High; and Dwight Moody, Delta, I JOIIII DEERE DAY SEE WHAT'S COOKING . . . AT JOHN DEERE FOR '64 Thursday, March 12, 1964 LU1ICII-11:30 SHOW-1:00 DOOR PRIZES You Are Cordially Invited BRING THE WHOLE FAMILY FARMERS' SUPPLY, IKC Hardy, Gwen Stephenson, Susan Lyman. night, the winner of the contest will be announced. The Sweetheart and her attendants will represent the Delta Chapter at the State F. F.A. Convention in Salt Lake City this month. Delta's swe?theart will compete against 46 other girls from the various other Utah Chapters. The winner of the state contest will be announced at the Sweetheart Sweet-heart banquet, the climax of the convention. Margo Nielson Coach Doug Allred, a former DHS basketball Coach, was the first of the two featured speakers of the evening. He gave an outstanding talk, urging the students to show a positive attitude and to be full of spirit and enthusiasm for a more enjoyable life. A Delta businessman and former teacher at Delta High, Joe Moody, then gave the last talk on the program. pro-gram. He aptly stressed the importance impor-tance of self-discipline in striving for higher goals after we have reached the ones we have set. All in attendance thoroughly enjoyed en-joyed reviewing the success of Delta Del-ta High School activities for 1963-64. 1963-64. Laura Lee Hansen teacher in Sutherland School. Secretary Sec-retary to the Board is Thomas Pratt of Oak City, principal and teacher at Oak City. On the Credit Committee are: Glen Seegmiller, Delta, teacher at Delta High; Ned Bennett, Holden, custodian and bus driver in the Holden-Fillmore area; and Guy Robins, Scipio, from the County Court House. Supervisory Committee Commit-tee members are Oleen Hatch, Fillmore, Fill-more, teacher -at Millard Jr. High; J. Fay Jacobson, Delta, teacher in Delta High; and Reed Wood, Hold-en, Hold-en, teacher in Millard High School. The M. E. A. Credit Union is entering en-tering its ninth year with 697 members mem-bers and $285,610.38 in assets. Treasurer-Manager, Carl W. Ver-haaren, Ver-haaren, Fillmore, teacher in Millard High School, says that if members and their families will continue to associate themselves with M.E.A., it is safe to assume that 1964 will be another banner year. FARM FAMILY PARTY |