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Show ri 1 . ..v..v Jaycee Bat OVER 40 CONTESTANTS will be competing in the weekend Joyce Boat Races at Gunnison Bead Reservoir. Chairman of the two-day event, Saturday and Sunday is Leo Randolph. Boat classes include: Super Stock; Cracker Box; E Racing Runabout; K Racing Runabout; Ski Racing Runabout; ISO Hydro; Powder Puff and special events of free-for-all drags. Row boat racing is scheduled fo Sunday. All local clubs interested inter-ested in entering should register with Chris Wels. Advance ticket sale is now in progress. Prices are $1.50 for adults, $.75 for students and chil- dren under eight are admitted free. Many valuable prizes will be given away throughout each day. All proceeds from the week end funfest will be used by the club to support other community projects. races Jfline 27th aid 28th ilemindcr NOTICE TO WATER USERS An informal meeting has been set by Hubert C. Lambert, State Engineer, in the Elementary School Auditorium in Delta on Monday, July 6, 1970 at 8:00 p.m. to discuss the present policy of the State Engineer for the Delta area relative rela-tive to the development and use of underground water after December Decem-ber 31, 1970, the cutoff date for presently approved applications. All water users and interested persons are invited. Published in The Millard County Chronicle June 25, and July 2, 1970. NOTICE The Millard School District Board of Education will hold a meeting June 29, 1970 for the purpose of adopting a new budget and holding hold-ing a budget hearing on the present pres-ent budget. They will also receive additional revenue and transfer funds in the following categories: Instruction, Operation of Plant, Maintenonce, Fixed Charges, Community Services and School Lunch. These transfers are on file at the District Office for anyone interested. in-terested. Published in the Millard County Chronicle June 25, 1970. SUCCESSFUL NEGOTIATORS . . . The Millard Board of Education (seated L to r. Garold Robision; Pres. Jack Nelson; Vice Pres. Bud Huff, Bert is Frampton, and Irish Anderson) met June 17, 1970 at the District Offices in Delta to open bids on the Kanosh school building and grounds. Bids were submitted by Kanosh City Council Coun-cil and Edwin Eisner of the Eisner Eis-ner Development, Nu-Products, Unlimited. Successful bidder was Mr. Eisner who submitted a bid of $15,500. The bid submitted by Mr. Eisner was raised to $20, 000 thanks to successful negotiations negotia-tions by Pres. Nelson. The increase in-crease came through discussion of disposal of the cabinets and chalk boards of the building. Estimated Es-timated value of both was $8,000 .00. Estimated value of the cabinets cabi-nets alone was $2,500.00. After the board reached the decision on keeping the chalk boards. Pres. Nelson offered the building complete with cabinets and grounds for $20,000.00. His offer was acceptable to Mr. Eisner and Member Huff moved that the board sell the property to Mr. Eisner for $20,000.00. His motion Servicemen . . . TO VIETNAM Sp4 Randy Kay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Jensen, is now on leave with his parents after completing his basic training at Ft. Lewis, Washington and advance training in electricity at Ft. Rucker, Ala. Sp. Kay has thirty days leave before be-fore leaving for Vietnam. VIETNAM DUTY PFC Wendell Nielson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Nielson of Lynndyl, left Salt Lake Airport Wednesday, June 24 for Vietnam. His wife, the former Jo Diehl of Hinckley and small son, Wendell Keith II, will be living in Ogden where Mrs. Nielson will be employed at St. Benedict's Hospital. DISCHARGED U. S. Army E4 Vaughn Mankin, son of Mrs. Lola Young of Delta, received his discharge Tuesday, June 16, 1970. E4 Mankin received j his basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif, i and advanced training in heavy artillery at Ft. SilL Okla. Upon, completion of advanced training Vaughn was assigned to Vietnam; for a year after which he was reassigned re-assigned to Ft Sill until his dis --.Jorvoxo:-;-::::-::-:-:::--' -W ttSSqtt .-ir tamiWfltnni if SERVING Vol. 60 No. 52 Deltans, Notice Due to lack of water pressure in the city water system. Delta City Council asks that the following follow-ing sprinkling schedule be observed obser-ved except in those cases of new grass: SOUTH DELTA: Tuesday, Thursday, Thurs-day, Saturday NORTH DELTA: Monday, Wednesday, Wed-nesday, Friday Industrial, schools, churches, hospital-early morning hours ONLY s was seconded by Member Frampton Framp-ton and carried unanimously. Several residents of Kanosh met with the board prior to opening the bids. Grant Branson, President of Kanosh City Council, Coun-cil, reported that he had surveyed survey-ed townspeople of Kanosh and had found that they were about equally divided on the bidders. About 50 surveyed felt that the school district should sell to Kanosh Town. About 50 surveyed survey-ed felt that the district should make the best deal possible. The playground equipment went to the Kanosh City Council. The bell atop the school building went to the Sally Kanosh Camp, Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Mr. Eisner intends to use the building for experimental work in designing marketable items and to establish a small knitting factory that will employ several persons. With the board are (standing L to r.) Thorpe Waddingham, Board Attorney,, Mr. Eisner and Supt. Taylor. Note the U. S. Flag in the background. The flag and the Utah State Flag were recently recent-ly purchased and are displayed every day at the offices. charge. He and his wife, the former for-mer Ann Marie Day of Oasis, are now making their home in Salt Lake City where he is attending the University of Utah and majoring major-ing in Education. PROMOTED A Ray Johnson, USMC, has re ported at the Oak Knoll Naval Hos-' pital, Oakland, Calif, following a 30-day convalescent leave. Upon arrival Ray was promoted from! corporal to sergeant. Ray would enjoy en-joy receiving mail from hometown friends and relatives. His address is: Sgt. A. Ray Johnson 2475280 8 South Wing Oak Knoll Naval Hospital Oakland, Calif. 94627 CONCESSIONS The Delta Lady Lions are sponsoring spon-soring a fish pond, surprise package pack-age grab and selling pop corn balls Friday, July 3 at Delta City Park in conjunction with the Delta Fourth Celebration. The concessions will be open immediately following follow-ing the Children's Parade at 4:30 p.m. All proceeds will go toward installation of a covered picnic table on Delta City Park. THE THE PEOPLE OF DELTA AND THE GREAT PAHVANT Thursday, June 25, 1970, Delta, A NEW AND MODERN BANK building will be constructed to house the First Security Bank in Delta it was disclosed this week i by bank officials. i Contracts are expected to be awarded and construction started start-ed in August. The building should 1 be completed by November, according ac-cording to Ferrin C Lovell, manager mana-ger of the Delta bank. The new bank will be built on property just adjacent to Mabel's Dress Shop and Service Drug. Designed by Salt Lake City, mott, the new bank will be one story with full basement. Total floor space will be in excess of 5,000 square feet. AT A RECENT spring-summer fashion show by Delta Third Ward many interesting costumes and customs were highlighted. Dressed in Oriental styles are (L to r.) Mrs. Don Bunker, Helen Thomas, Mrs. Alfred Lake, Mrs. Adrian Alldredge, Mrs. Erwin Farnsworth, Mrs. Paul Pace, Mrs. Merlin Christensen, Mrs. Jim Thomas and Mrs. Tal Wardle. ummer Fashion Show Highlights Oriental Theme Photograph and Story by Harriet Eliason A glance at the historic past of Japan as well as a preview of sum mer projects to come were displayed dis-played at one of the season's most outstanding social events sponsored spon-sored by the Delta Third Ward Relief Re-lief Society for members and guests. A luncheon and fashion review were featured. Home sewn articles for children, teens and adults as MW r mi mi, i in - - l n ''iirr----i----ii i - iilj-.ln ill iiiiii n-imiirnn-ir-T-rrm n i n nil Utah 84624 $4.25 year in advance 6 mos. $2.50 Copy 10c The main banking room will contain five teller stations and a drive-in banking window. The bank will also include a large vault with safe deposit boxes, night deposit, bookkeeping area and a large conference room which has a private entrance and will be made available for meetings meet-ings of clubs and organizations. The room will be fully carpeted and draped. Located in the basement are an employee lunch room, rest rooms,.. lounge and storage area. Space provisions have also been made for future growth of the bank, Mr. Lovell reported. Exterior of the bank will be of white textured concrete with masonry. It will feature bronze I well as fashions from Delta area, stores were modeled. Chairman, Mrs. Merlin Christensen Christen-sen and her committee worked! three months to prepare the elabor- i ate Oriental theme. Rich brocade,' silk and satin kimonas, obis (sashes tied with a giant bow), willow springs, butterflies and silver hair pins were worn by committee , members (shown above in picture). Others not shown in the picture who gave special help with displays were Mrs. Dale Gold, Mrs. Verl Coley, Mrs. Elden Nielson, Mrs. Joseph Fullmer, Mrs. Harold Taylor, Mrs. Marilyn Willden, Mr. and Mrs. M. Ward Moody loaned their beautiful beau-tiful island mats and other original craft for display. Because of "Expo 70" Asia's first World Fair, this year at Osaka (Kansai Region) Japan, there is special interest in the Far East Mrs. Christensen noted. The fair which opened in March is in a lovely land of volcanoes, ancient culture and modern technology a land of contrasts. "Calmness keynotes the culture !of the Orient," explained Mrs. Chris- continued inside) 17 VAkLEY" aluminum window areas with tinted glass and will have bronze anodized aluminum facia overhang. over-hang. There will be two customer en trances to the building. Customers will also have the convenience of a large paved parking area. In commenting of the proposed bank construction, Mr. Lovell said, "we are delighted that we can now go ahead with the construction con-struction of a new modern bank building." "We have been looking look-ing forward to the day when we could provide our valued customers cus-tomers and friends with a new bank, and we know they will find the new building a much more comfortable place in which to transact banking business." Young Deltan Hospitalized in S.L Brian Gifford, 16-year-old son of Mrs. Clarice Gifford of Delta is hospitalized in the Salt Lake LDS Hospital in intensive care for treat-1 meni oi injuries sustained in a one car accident Sunday, June 21, 1970 j near Callao, Utah in Juab County.' He was unconscious at the time he was discovered by one of the stockmen of that area so reconstructing recon-structing the accident is proving difficult. He was alone at the time. It is surmised, however, by the Millard County Sheriff's Dept. that Brian was coming down a canyon road in Callao vicinity and for rea sons unknown the vehicle went out ' of control. Apparently Brian was ; thrown from the vehicle. He was brought to the West Millard Hos-j pital and later transferred to the Salt Lake hospital for further treat- j ment. Mrs. Gilllford reported Wed-j nesday afternoon that there was a slight improvement in his condition. Plans Finalized for Fourth Celebration MISS LIBERTY and two attendants atten-dants will be selected Friday, June 26 at Delta First Ward. All civic and church organizations are invited in-vited to enter a contestant. Girls who enter must be sixteen years of age and older and unmarried. They must appear In formal wear at the contest and will be judged on charm, appearance and ability to speak extemperaneously. All contestants must be at First Ward by 6:45 p.m. The contest begins at 7:00 p.m. rathier than 8:00 as announced last week. Judging will be the Honorable Hatch Farnsworth mayor of Delta, Honorable Lyman Finlinson, mayor of Oak City, Dr. and Mrs. Clark B. CoxFerrin Lovell, Mary Henrio and Evadean Moody. CHILDREN'S PARADE All children up to twelve years of age are invited to don costumes or decorate their trikes, bikes or wagons and join their friends in the annual Children's Parade, 4:30 p.m. Friday, July 3. The parade is held in connection with the Fourth o July Celebration and is the be ginning of the festivities. All chil dre participating should meet at the swimming pool Friday, July 3 ot 4:30 p.m. TALENT CONTEST Mrs. M. A. (Laura) Lyman is in charge of the Talent Contest this year. She is replacing Mrs. Cecil (Ava) Losee who has been in charge of this particular feature of the celebration for many years. Many thanks go to Mrs. Losee for her years of service in this capacity. Mrs. Lyman will continue the contest much in the same manner as Mrs. Losee. She announces that there will be two divisions. All children chil-dren up to age 13 years will be in the Junior Division. The Senior Division will be those contestants from 14 years of age and up. First, second and third place winners will be named in each division. Each winner will receive a cash award. All contestants must register with Mrs. Lyman by July 2 and each will receive a complimentary theater thea-ter ticket from Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Ashby for Walt Disney's "In Search of the Castaways' with Haley Mills. The Walt Disney show plays Desert Des-ert Theater July 4, 5, 6, and 7. Mrs. Lyman also announces that 1969 Fourth Talent Contest winners will be invited tol present a number num-ber and to make the awards. They will not, however, be in competition. compe-tition. REID TIPPETTS. Sutherland farmer, tends his irrigation water on his farm recently leveled and with headgates also recently installed in-stalled to control the irrigation Reid Tippetts Is Conservation Farmer of Year by Kent Hortin Reid Tippetts, Sutherland farmer, was recently chosen as conserva tion farmer of the year by the Delta Soil Conservation District board of Supervisors. Mr. Tippetts will receive a plaque, presented by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in recognition of this achievement at the Utah Association Associa-tion of Soil Conservation District's annual convention in Salt Lake City in December. Mr. Tippetts, in speaking of his conservation accompolishments indicated in-dicated that the lining of the area's main supply canals is a must. He . MPJar' tKi&sr... :4kZ. KaajMi!!iujiii i ii i " ita&. -',rX- ' .. Mi' f: "... ..:JB C " j r V I MR. THORPE WADDINGHAM Mr. Thorpe Waddingham. Delta Attorney, will be featured speaker speak-er of the Fourth of July Patriotic Program, 11:00 am.. Delta Second Ward lawn. The American Legion Auxiliary is making program arrangements. ar-rangements. Theme of Mr. Waddingham's speech will be "Pursuit of Happiness." Happi-ness." Mr. Waddingham is a veteran of World War Two. He served as a pilot in the U. S. Air Corps from 1941 to 1945. He was a prisioner of war in Hungary for thirteen months. Mr. Waddingham Wadding-ham received the Bronze Star with "V" devise and the Purple Heart at the conclusion of the war. After receiving his discharge he entered Snow College. Eph-riam Eph-riam where he graduated as valedictorian. vale-dictorian. He received his degree in law at the George Washington University, Washington, D. C His wife is the former Norma Michaelsen of Mayfield and they have resided in Delta for eighteen eigh-teen years. They are the parents of five children. Brent, Dana, Lois, Lynda and Richard. Mr. Waddingham has been and continues to be active in civic affairs. He is presently serving on the Western States Water Project and the Colorado River Project. He is a member of the state and national bar association and also al-so of The American Legion Post 135, Delta and of Kiawanis of Delta-west Millard. water. Farm being irrigated was leveled in the fall of 1969. Land leveling and control structures are necesisary, according to Mr. Tippetts. points to the Delta Canal Company lining near his Woodrow Hall property. pro-perty. He indicated that this lining established in 1969 saved 40 acres on each side of the canal. As further fur-ther proof of this he points to his 45 bushel yield of barley in 1968 (Continued on back page) MISS MILLARD COUNTY The Miss Millard County for Miss Utah State Fair contest will be held at Delta Second Ward Friday, July 3, 7:30 p.m. announces Mrs. Tal-mage Tal-mage Taylor this week. All unmarried young ladies of the county who are high school graduates arei nvited to compete. Contestants will be judged in a bathing suit, formal and a talent number not to exceed three minutes. The winner will receive a $25.00' prize. More information is avail able from Mrs. Taylor. |