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Show Standard Pale US Postage Paid Utah Press Association Suite 5005 307 West 300 South. 84101-121- 2 Salt Lake City UT P.O. Box 224 Milford, UT 84751 Swm rr ii i i i i i i VOL. VII NO.5 The Quest For Excellence m:.2 IVALL OF ' - .id - " . .. Ok The McCulley Store Historical Tidbits ': lir Milford Valley Healthcare Services, your home town healthcare system, is proud to be able to provide total healthcare services to our many friends and neighbors. Whether it's through the hospital, clinic, home health, long term care, or ambulance services, quality of healthcare provide, quality of community life through our community wellness programs is of our utmost concern. Wanting to give something back to the community for your loyal support, Milford Valley Healthcare Services, through their board of directors, administration and employees are pleased to announce a new community based program that implemented the first of the year. The new program, which was announced by John Glcdhill, is designed to recognize and motivate our High School students through the recognition of a Milford High School competitor of the week. To be the competitor of the week a Milford High Student, who their coach, principle or teacher feels has excelled during that week, will be nominated. The committee made up of the coaching staff, principle and two hospital employees will then make the selection. The intent of this program is to motivate our students, not only in sports, but also in academic excellence. Milford Valley Healthcare's board, administration and employees Milford High School officers and teachers say thanks to our with along of the greatest youth in the world. We especially offer a some youth, thanks to these five we have recognized, we say congratulations and we are proud of you. We will place your names on the plaque located on the Wall of Fame, and recognize you as someone who brings honor to our school, our community and to yourselves. ;'' ir By Norman Baxter: During the winter of 1948-194- 9 Milford came to a standstill r ! J You did not go anywhere unless it was absolutely necessary. The constant snows, o the temperatures and the unending '' ' south-wewinds made travel almost i ' impossible, so you just stayed in the house. Out in the west desert the conditions couldn't have been worse. As cattlemen bring their herds in during the winter, they jmt-vmmmrVT'V" ; had many difficult days but were able to cope. It was the many sheep herds that suffered the most. Sheep need to be constantly moved to new areas where they can brouse on the brush and other desert plants, but with the deep snow drifts it was almost impossible to move them. Many i'lnt'i.M herds went two weeks without eating and .. U'1 li..f . In the extreme cold they were starving. crowded together so tightly that many suffocated. If they got down their wool froze to the ground and many froze, Arthur McCulley and Spence Skow are pictured above in this photo taken about standing up. The herders were frantic in their efforts to move their herds. Their 1914. According to older residents, they first remember the building as being the R E trucks were useless so they rode their saddle Ellingsworth Toggery. Pete Weidner had a shoe repair shop in the rear of the store. horses back and forth in attempts to make McCulley purchased the store sometime before 1914. Irene Posey remembers that the trails to new areas, even then it was almost family lived in the back of the store until about 1915 or 1916. impossible to get them to move. Ben Hillman, manager of the Milford Airport, put ski's on his light plane and flew in small supplies to the camps. The herd owners called for help from the State but the road crews just couldn't get to the herds: About January 30th, the U. Si Airforce using small airfields such as Milfords began hauling baled hay and bags of feed pellets and dropping them near th sheep herds. But even then it was difficult for the herders to get the sheep to the feed. One herder fearing that his sheep was too near to a drop zone, ran out to move them and was struck and killed by a falling bale sub-zer- . V st of hay. Thousand of sheep died during that winter and it was almost mid March before the road crews were able to get to the herds. j l NzWa - J:-- McCulley later sold the store to I larry Braun who apparently couldn't make the payments, and Milton Pool made a bid on the building. In 1936 he purchased the store and remodeled it into what was known as Pool's Store. He opened for business in 1938. Pool is pictured above in the store as it appeared in 1980. Mr. Pool came to Milford as the first manager of the J. C. Penney Store in 1922. L Dl'.lTtttil'atiw Left to right: Dustin Whittaker, Steven Florence, Nisha Livingston, and Craig Wiseman. The recipient of Competitor of the Week for the first week of January was a Sophomore, Nisha ' 64751 Perm Nc 15 i JANUARY 30, 1997 !s''.v';'- Milford. UT Livingston. During this week Nisha shined in girls basketball. During the game with Cedar's Freshman team, Nisha took the emergent roll as team leader. Second only to her dropping 14 points was her persevere hustling throughout the entire game. The recipient for the Second week is Steve Florence who continually excels in wrestling. Steve too is a Sophomore, however he has been on the matt since he was very young. Steve has taken first place this year in every tournament that he has wrestled in. At this time he has won 24 matches and lost one. If Steve continues like he has, he will be the number one seat going into our Region and probably number one going into the State Tournament. The Competitor for the third week went to Craig Wiseman. Those of you have watched the boys basketball, knows that Craig has excelled this year and keeps coming on stronger. Craig has an average of 7.5 rebounds per game and an average scoring of 15.5 per game. His coach states that he works as hard during practice as he does during a game. Craig has a natural leadership ability that should carry over to his team mates. The Competitor of the fourth week w ent to Dustin Whittaker. Dustin was a major contributor to the victory over Escalante. His great defensive plays and rebounding and scoring in the last few seconds, which tied the score, sent the game into over time, which Milford eventually won by one point. Because of his fabulous defensive game, coaching staff gives Dustin the assignment to guard the opposing teams leading scorer. The final competitor of the week for January is Shelby Holm. Shelby, a junior, had not been selected in time to get a picture ready for this week's paper but will be in next w eeks. Shelby w as picked because of the strong plays she made during the game with Bryce Valley. Shelby's strong defense with 14 defensive rebounds and 8 points kept the tigers ahead most of the game. It w asn't until the last of the game that Bryce Valley pulled ahead to a 42-4- 0 w in. Ellis M Ui 3 l f. I 'I I" ( rr--- 1 Mini A J .i 1, 1 L1 I i ....J 1 ' 1 5tJI. h si ti I Jt J"" Main Street View of Pool 's Store - f 1 Don Ostkr, Division of Wafer Quality, reported Wednesday that the state has taken three samples of water from the effected well since the August 3rd Circle 4 Farms violation. November 21, 19 test indicates low levels of contamination These counts are somewhat higher than tests on October 15 anat 31. Ostler explatted that the previous lower readings are a direct resuk of disinfecting procedures In order to gain an view overall of the contarabiarion, repeated tests are necessary after sterilization measures have been completed The state will coOect samples agsin in mid-Febna- using a sensitive formula for the testing base He added that tests results submitted by Circk 4 Farms have been coroiatam with the state's tests. drinking-wat- er |