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Show I Development, Use Of Water Aired One of the most important meet-, ings 10 me luture development or west Millard County was held Monday Mon-day night at Delta Elementary. The meeting was called by State Engineer Hubert C. Lambert to discuss the present policy of his office relative to the development and use of underground water after Dec. 31, 1970, the cutoff date for presently approved applications. His decision, not yet made, will affect agricultural, industrial and municipal growth in the area. Mr. Lambert explained that the meeting was to receive the suggestions, sugges-tions, ideas and desire on how the State Engineer should react to the cut off date. He said that he held to the position announced at a Jan. 23, 1967 meeting that small i domestic and stockwatering wells would not be included in the cutoff date. Before accepting presentations presenta-tions Mr. Lambert asked that the users identify themselves and state their positions as a user: application ap-plication approved and well drilled but not perfected; opplication approved ap-proved but well not drilled; or, application ap-plication submitted but not approved. ap-proved. Also he asked Rex Larsen, Servicemen . . . Marine First Lieutenant Robert H. Riding is now serving as Executive Execu-tive Officer of India Battery, Landing Land-ing Zone Ross, South Vietnam. LZ Ross is approximately 25 miles southwest of DaNang. Lt. Riding is due to rotate to the states on June 6, 1970. He would enjoy mail from area friends and relatives. His address is: 1Lt. Robert H. Riding 0107827 "I" Btry, 311, First Mar. Div. FPO San Francisco, Calif. 96602 AA Tony W. Moore, USN, has completed special schooling at the Naval Air Station, Memphis, Tenn. and is now at Fallon, Nev. He spent several days in Delta visiting friends and relatives enroute to Npvarta TTis npw ndrlrpss is! 1 Tony W. Moore AA B 871414 NAAS Fallon, Nev. 89406 Marine Cpl. A. Ray Johnson call ed his mother, Mrs. Lee (Madge) j McAllister, Thursday, May 7, (today) (to-day) from Travis Air Force Base' Calif. Ray had just arrived from a Naval hospital in Japan where he has been recovering from wounds received in combat April 5 near DaNang, Vietnam. He has been assigned as-signed to a hospital at Oakland, Calif, for further recovery. Mrs. McAllister and daughters, Janet and Margene will leave tomorrow for Oakland. (Top pic) Louise Allen, Delta, drew the lucky ticket Saturday at Whiting Bros. Grand Opening April 23, 24 and 25. Lucky winner was (lower pic on, left) Howard Gemperlline. Deltai Mr. Gemper- Iine's prize was four custom ! premium tires. Prizes were given i all three days of the affair. Win- ners on Thursday included Clar- ; ice Gifford. Delta, 25 gallons gas; j Parr Winsor, Mitch Myers, both Dalta; Rose Finlinson, Learning- j ton; Bill Bowlin, Hinckley; Bill j Day, Oasis, each won a case (24 j qts.) of Whitting Bros. Oil. Fri- i b " i I I i fed 1 Asst. State Engineer, for statistics pertaining to his pending decision on the cutoff date. Mr. Larsen reported that since the 1967 meeting 3D applications had been approved. Wells have been drilled in all cases with the exception of four. Three of these four are making preparations for drilling. Only one could be termed "speculation," he said. These ap plications appropriate 192 sec. ft. of water for a total aggregate of 400,000 ac. ft. On file at the State Engineer's office are 46 unapproved (Continued on bock page) 'SERVING Vol. 60 No. 45 MR. AND MRS. JOHN L. PETERSON Observe Golden Wedding Date . . . The family of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Peterson will honor their parents at an openhouse Sunday, May 17, 1970 between the hours of 2:00 and 5:00 p.m. at Mr. and Mrs. Peterson's Peter-son's home. Everyone is invited to attend. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson were married mar-ried May 13, 1920. Mrs. Peterson is the former Katie Barlocker of Enterprise. They have lived all day winners included Mrs. Kent Hortin, 25 gals, gas; Lee Wonkier, Roger Bliss, Tim Anderson, Cecil Orton, all Delta and Jim Nelson, case of oil. In addition to Mr. Gemperline Saturday's winners included Niel Whicker, Delta, 25 gals, gas; Steve Worthington and H. Heybome, Delta; Dusty Morris and Don Smith, Hinckley, oil. District Dis-trict manager Farrel Warner and Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Morris, managers man-agers of the Delta station, express their thanks to all pho participated participa-ted in the Grand Opening. 83rd JUrthday... R. L. Turner observed his 83rd birthday May 4, 1970. Sixty of those years have been spent in Sutherland Suther-land and Delta. Coming to help their father celebrate cele-brate his birthday were Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Moody and daughter, Cindy, Salt Lake City; Jack Turner, Midvale; Mrs. Evelyn Snow of St. George and her son, Jack, of Ogden and Mr. and Mrs. Brown Sanford of Panguitch. His children In the area all visited him on that day and he received calls from the ones who couldn't come at this time. Letters and cards were received from all his sisters and many, many friends. NOTICE Water will be turned Into the irrigation ir-rigation ditches within Delta Monday, Mon-day, May 11. Ditch tax of $10.00 must be paid before delivery- Tax is payable at the Delta City Offices. Watermaster is Louis Perkins. THE PEOPLE OF DELTA Thursday, May 7, 1970, Delta, their married life in Delta. They are the parents of seven sons: Leland, Walla Walla, Wash., deceased; Arland, Pleasant Grove, Utah; Rodney, Kearns, Ut.; Kenneth, Ken-neth, Salt Lake City, Ut.; Raymond, Whittier, Calif.; Carllyle and Shirley, Shir-ley, Delta. They have twenty-three grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. great-grandchildren. They request no gifts, please. Jaycees Elect At their membership meeting Thursday the Delta Jaycees held annual elections. Fran DeMuth was elected President; Chris Weis, Internal Vice- Pres.; Don Gavin, External Vice-Pres.; Don Bunker, Sec.-Treas.; Ken Lake, State Director; Direc-tor; Karnell Parry, Parlimentarian; Robert Holman, Chaplain; Duane Ekins, Internal Director and Leo Randolph, External Director. The Jaycees' installation banquet ban-quet will be held the last of this month. New officers assume their duties the first of June. The annual an-nual boat races, a continuing program pro-gram on house numbering and placing more street signs in Delta are a few of the projects the new officers will spearhead. KEN LAKE ELECTED TO STATE OFFICE Ken Lake, local Jaycee President Presi-dent was elected to the office of State Vice President over the Country Club District recently. This district includes Delta, Beaver, Cedar City and St. George chapters. chap-ters. Ken is one of five state vice presidents. He will assume office June 1, 1970. EAKE SALE Posse Partners, auxiliary of the Motor Posse, is sponsoring a bake sale Saturday, May 9, 10:00 a.m. at Quality Market. Bake sale items from non members will be gratefully grate-fully accepted. The Partners will be giving away a $100.00 camera Saturday, also. A ticket on the camera is given to ''lose who contribute 50-cents or three tickets will be given to those who contribute a $1.00. Proceeds from the bake sale and the camera will be used to have pamplets on Millard County printed FFA BANQUET SET The Annual Parents and Sons E-mquet, sponsored by the local chapter of FFA, will be held Thursday, May 14, 1970 at the Ds!a High School lunch center. The purpose of the banquet is o honor parents and local support-rs support-rs of FFA. Several awards will be preonted to chapter members. All interested in attending school should contact Steve Watson at 864-2580. Cox ecree IKlDstoiry n r ' mghng The history of the Cox Decree, written by Attorney Dudley Crafts, Delta, highlighted the special meeting of the Utah Water Resources Re-sources Board Thursday, April 30 at Delta. Mr. Crafts is the sole survivor of the original attorneys who drew up the decree and the history is authoritative, authentic and interesting. The history was read by Attorney Thorpe Wadding-ham, Wadding-ham, Delta. Mr. Crafts' paper explained that the decree is not a despotic Order of the Court which gives the lower Sevier Basin water users more than AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Utah 84624 $4.25 year in advance 6 mos. $2.50 Copy 10c Lral Yokels Visit In a continuing effort to meet the educational needs of today's high school students and to help them establish goals eight Utahns visited California schools last week to evaluate their Work Experience Education Programs, commonly called "on-the-job training". Primary Pri-mary purpose of the trip was to gain insight and knowledge to be used in establishing similiar programs pro-grams in Millard District for Delta High and Millard High schools. The trip was sponsored by the State Department of Public Instruction In-struction and the Millard School District. Going were state officials Austin Loveless and Warren Gaddis, DHS Prin. Jack Fowles, Tillman Johnson, Inez Riding, MHS Prin. Wayne Reid, Ken Harris and Hene Cooper. Millard District has been establishing estab-lishing a four year vocational program pro-gram for its students over the past several years. At the ninth grade level is Pedapod, designed to help students gain more self knowledge. On the tenth grade level is the American Problems course which is SEMINARY GRADUATE BANQUET AND TESTIMONIAL The annual banquet and testimonial testi-monial for all seminary graduates and post graduates was held Monday, Mon-day, May 4, at the Delta Third Ward chapel. Beginning at 7:00 p.m. Roger Stephenson gave the opening prayer. As a special number num-ber Karen Pace sang "The King of Love," Dr. Joseph Felix, Director of the Institute Program at SUSC, was the guest speaker, after which testimonies were borne by the students. stu-dents. At 8:00 p.m. the group adjourned ad-journed to the cultural hall where a banquet was served to 134 students stu-dents and guests. After dinner entertainment was furnished by students from SUSC. Kathy Lyman offered a vocal solo and Ruth Ann Morris played a number on the piano. The evening was enjoyed by all. COMMITTEE TO MEET The Vocational Advisory Committee Commit-tee of Millard School District will meet Thursday, May 7, 8:00 p.m. (tonight) at the District Offices in Delta. Purpose of the meeting will be to discuss present programs of the district dis-trict and future plans. Serving on the committee are Dawn Crosland, Ken Harris, Tom Reeve, Fillmore; Inez Riding, Glen Swalberg, Mel Roper, Quin Shepherd, Shep-herd, Delta. Teachers of Millard High and Delta High who work with vocational programs and who will attend the meeting are Audrey Quigley, Geraldine Swalberg, Fred Tolbert, Robert Nielson, Reed Wood, Eugene Morris, Delia Johnson, Ver-dell Ver-dell Bishop, Ken Munford, Dale Roper, Waldo Warnick and Howard Clayton. FASHION SHOW ON TAP Ladies of the Hinckley LDS Ward are planning a big fashion show for Saturday, May 16, 2:00 p.m. at the Hinckley Church. Door prizes will be given. Luncheon for mothers and their daughters and all interested in attending at-tending will be served between the hours of 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. New articles of clothing for auctioning will be accepted. their share of the water of the Sevier River. Rather the decree Is an Order which benefits the upper, central and lower Sevier Basins alike. His paper showed that the decree evolved over a period of many years. He explained that the decree is based on numerous stipulator stip-ulator between litigants and had in his possession two volumes of the original signed stipulations. The history wil be published in the Millard County Chronicle in future issues. In preface remarks Mr. Wadding-ham Wadding-ham said "perhaps it isn't the Cox VAhLEY" aimed at introducing the students to the world of work and business. For the juniors the district offers Project Over The Shoulder which enables students to leave the school building at various times throughout the school year to study the work of area residents in differing dif-fering fields. The "on-the-job" program pro-gram is meant for seniors. California schools visited by the Utah group included Modesto High with a student enrollment of 2700. The program at Modesto was exciting ex-citing and unquestionably one of the best of its kind in the state of California. It was begun in 1964 with a small group of students and participating business and voca- ( Continued on back page) REPRESENTATIVE SHERMAN P. LLOYD Lloyd Announces Candidacy for Re-Election Rep. Sherman P. Lloyd, Saturday announced his candidacy for re-eletion re-eletion to Congress representing Utah's 2nd Congressional District, which includes Millard County. The District represented slightly more than half of the State's voters in 1968. "I will continue to work for passage pas-sage of legislation which I have co-sponsored to limit the rising volume of meat and textile inports which threaten the livelihood of Millard County's cattlemen and sheepmen," Rep. Lloyd said. "It is my belief that we must build and protect our basic industries rather than allow them to suffer from crippling foreign competition and to be replaced with something! artificial. j "I will also continue to encour-' age policies and legislation which create a more favorable investment ( climate to attract other industries, to rural arear away from crowded metropolitan areas," he said. j (Continued on back page) . NOTICE The ertiele announcing the can-' didacies of Commissioners Walter Ekins and Bruce Lovell for re-election was submitted to the Chronicle and published in its entirety. i Schools Decree that is the barrier to understanding under-standing and cooperation of Sevier River water users so much as a lack of understanding of the decree itself," This statemen by Mr. Wad-dlngham Wad-dlngham was In answer to Mr. Angus Belliston, board member, who had written a letter to Mr. Waddingham saying "the full effective ef-fective use of Sevier River water demands full cooperation and mutual mu-tual understanding of water useres in the entire Basin and the Cox Decree has unfortunately become a barrier to this kind of understanding understand-ing and cooperation." Mr. Bellis-ton's Bellis-ton's letter to Mr. Waddingham was to clarify an article in the Salin Sun In which it was reported that Mr. Belliston had condemned the Cox Decree at a board meeting meet-ing in Richfield April 2 and 3. Mr. Waddingham interspersed a few comments during the reading one of which was to point out that despite complaints to the contrary, the Cox Decree did assure all users of Sevier River water equal rights in that when there was plenty of water available all were benefited. "And when there are years of drought all suffer," he added. Mr. Belliston said in answer to the history that ways must be found to work together within the law of the river. Two points he listed as important to the future development of the Sevier Basin; (1) more water from tne Central Utah Project and (2) more efficient use of the water. He complimen-ed complimen-ed the Delta area for its projects designed to gain maximum use of water. Daniel F. Lawrence, Director of the State Division of Water Resources, Re-sources, expressed concern with the time required to develop the state water plan. "Utah is the second driest state in the "Union", (Continued on back page) Wilford McClellan, 90, Dies May 3 Wilford McClellan, 90, died May 3, 1970 at West Milliard Hospital of causes incident to age. Mr. McClellan was born August 7, 1879 in Sunset, Ariz, to William C. and Elsie Jane Richardson Mc Clellan. He marriedClara Kingsford May 13, 1908 in the Logan LDS Temple. She died June 24, 1951. He married Ruby Lansbury Feb. 14, 1954 at Phoenix, Ariz. She died Jan. 13, 1967. Mr. McCellan had served an LDS mission in the Spanish American mission field, Texas. He has served his church as a High Priest. Surviving: sons, daughters, La Ver, Wilford, Laree, Mrs. Zola Lambright, Mrs. Melba Willden, all Delta; Mrs. Melva Parrish, Oak-dale, Oak-dale, Calif.; 17 grandchildren; 40 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday, Wed-nesday, May 6, at Delta Third Ward. Burial was in the Delta Cemetery. SHERMAN One of the most coveted awards given by the Boy Srouts of America Amer-ica is the one known as the Silver Sil-ver Beaver Award. This award was given to Sherman Tolbert at the annual Boy Scout Fellowship Fellow-ship Banquet held in Provo April 23, 1970. It is doubtful if a more deserving Scouter could be found for this award. For fifteen years Sherm was a Scoutmaster in the Abraham Ward. He is by nature an outdoor out-door man and also a lover of boys. Because of those qualitias MU" - yip n J Susan llielson, Miss Utah 1969, Appears Here May 22nd , y X i . Vi ' ' SUSAN NIELSON. MISS UTAH 1969 will appear in concert with the University of Utah's Mens' Chorus, Friday, May 22, in a benefit bene-fit concert for the building fund of the Hinckley Ward addition project. The concert will be held in the Delta High School Auditorium, Audi-torium, said Rodney Wright, Chairman of the event. Susan is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Marlowe Nielson. She is a Junior at the University Univer-sity of Utah where she is majoring major-ing in Dance. She has studied ballet for ten years and modern dance for five years. Susan's performances include four seasons in "Nutcracker" and two seasons in "Coppelia". She has also played Kate in "Taming of the Shrew" and has has danced at the Valley Music Hall with the Jimmy Durante Show. As Miss Salt Lake City, Susan became runner-up to Miss Utah 1968. She is using her $1,000.00 academic scholarship at the University Uni-versity of Utah, Department of Dance. Tickets for this event are $2.00 per person single and $5.00 per family. Ticket chairman for this special event is Leonard Palmer who says that every one will be contacted with the expectation that most of the people in the area will want to help with this ambitious project. Contributions in this regard will be most appreciated. ap-preciated. WEATHERLY SPEAKING Weatherman Farnsworth recorded record-ed a low of 29 on May 2. A high of 79 was recorded on May 4 and 5. 12-hundredths of an inch of precipitation was measured on April 30. DT AND SMALLPOX CLINIC MAY 14 AT LOCAL SCHOOLS The second immunization clinic for tetanus and diptheria and smallpox will be held at the following locations on May 14, 1970: I Delta Elementary 9:00-9:45 a.m. Deta High School 9:45-10:45 a.m. mncKiey iMemeniary ju:id-ii:j.o a.m. Oak City Elementary 11:30-12:00 noon Millard County Public Health Department TOLBERT and others he won the loyalty, love and respect of his Scouts. He has been chairman of the Camping and Activity Committee in the Deseret District for the last ten years. Largely through his efforts and catstemding leadership some unusually un-usually fine District Camps and activities have been held. Two examples are tha Pony Express Csmp at Fish Springs and the dropping of candy from an airplane. |