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Show j 'SS!M H''. eon fexj ssss 7 7 : t : America Must Go Forward, Not. Backward; For Better, Not Worse SffT Iks tuj i ii P" j m nr im nv os. Qs p WEATHER PAST WEEK IlL Lo. Pet. Date MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY MAY 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 78 72 71 69 74 72 72 42 41 41 34 34 42 41 .00 .02 .11 .00 .01 .01 .00 J j v0LUME i XXXX-N- Quarterly j 20 Q. BEAVER CITY, UTAH. FRIDAY, MAY Conference Food Prospects for Features Aaronic The Year 1945 priesthood Discussed 11, 1945 High School Opera Cast In Our Country's S Military Service The regular quarterly confer- By Congressman W. K. Granger. ence 0f the Beaver Stake was held WASHINGTON, D. C Victorward chapel Saturday in the West ies The in the past year have increased all and Sunday. day 'evening aUSic was furnished by the boys demands on available food supChorus of the Aaronic Priesthood plies; however, food shortages corresof land the young ladies cannot be dismissed solely on the ponding age. i ground that they are a necessary The priesthood session began at of allied victories in Europe i,;00 Sunday morning. The gen- price eral shurch authorities were repr- and the Far East. Maximum proesented by Bishop Marvin O. duction was reached in 1944, but maximum needs are just now deAshton, Stewart B. Eccles represStocks were not built ented the church welfare and veloping. Henry A. Smith, the Deseret News up to the maximum possible exChurch section editor, represented tent last year to meet this emer hhe general Sunday School board. gency due largely to lack of suf The following programs were ficient storage facilities, yet we increased our food consumption icarried out: in the U. S. 9 over prewar years. the congregation, Singing by Prayer W. This was to be expected since high Upraise to the Man." always create increased W. Farrer. Singing, boys' chorus, incomes demands for food. First Smith's Prayer." fjoseph Prospects are that food producj Bro. Jack Heslington gave a 'short talk on "Temporal Duties of tion in the U. S. in 1945 may not be as great as in 1944. It may, the President of Deacon's Quoruin fact, be five ar ten percent bem." talked low the quantity produced in Bro. Gale Farnsworth 1944. U. S. food Nevertheless, 'five minutes on "Spiritual Responsibilities of the President of the supplies will still be 25 or 30 above those of any five prewar Teachers' Quorum." Since we entered the war, years. I Bishop Carlyle Gronning talked we have more than doubled our five minutes on the "Responsibilitof many important ies of the President of the Priests production items, thus making it possible to Quorum." the best and the mostj I Bro. Horace H. Rose talked on provide abundant diet in the world for s" What We Are Doing in the Stake both military and civilian needs. 'to Save the Souls of the Boys." In 1944, 76 of the record U. S. I ward the of East Song Boys food supply was distributed to the chorus with Jerome Willden as civilian population, 13 to the "A Mormon Boy." to forI Talk Elder Henry A. Smith, armed forces and 11 in eign countries for military and "Experiences of Priesthood civilian use. In 194 5, with our War." Talk, Bishop Marvin O. Ashton, military forces at their maximum of the pros''Holding and Reclaiming Boys." strength, almost 16 must furnished be pective supply "God Song, Boys' chorus, Speed the Right." Benediction, Bro. to fill direct military needs. As a result, les food will be available Andrew J. Terry, for civilian uses. First Regular Session I Regular session of the confereInteresting comparative figures nce began at 10:30, for the gen- on the consumption of sugar indicate that the U. S. consumed an eral public. of 96.9 pounds per capita average "Now Singing, congregation Let Us Regoice." Prayer, Counc- per year before the war, while the United Kingdom consumed ilman M. J. Warr. j Singing Boy's chorus "Jesus 104 pounds, yet in 1944 the avJl My Cross Have Taken." erage U. S. citizen consumed 89 I Address of welcome, Pres. S. pounds and the British only 71.5. iTaylor Farnsworth. The meat consumption picture j Talk Bro. Phillip Allison of is very different with the avertMlnersvlIle, "Why I Am Thankful age U. S. citizen consuming 125.6 Jl Am a Mormon." pounds per year before the war j Talk Bro. LaMar Fordham of and 147 pounds during 1944, Greenville, "Why I Should Pray." while the British consumed 125.5 Minersville boys chor-j- pounds before the war and only j Singing 108.1 in 1944. "Sing With Joy." J Talk Bro. Geo. A. Horton of Military needs of the future will "Power of Faith in the of necessity be greater since the ;Dvelopment of Character." U. S. army and navy are now at J Talk, Sister Ilona Morgan, "The full strength. Considerably largof Womanhood." er numbers of troops than in 1944 (Glory Pres. s. Taylor Farns-- s are outside the continental United worth. States. The farther troops are Singing West ward boys chor- from home, the more food is reus. "Joseph, the Blest." to keep the supply lines Talk Elder Stewart B. Eccles. quired full. The services are also reTalk Bp. Marvin O. Ashton, sponsible for helping to feed conWilted by Sister' Ilona Morean tingents of allied armies who are and Bro. Geo. B. Horton. fighting with us. The rapid adSinging comchoruses Boys' of all allied armies; the vance piled, -- Oh, It Is Wonderful." large numbers of staggeringly Benediction. Fldpr Thnmnn W in Europe; the taken prisoners Gunn. of millions of persons who freeing Afternoon Session were carried into Germany as The afternoon session began at Nazi slave labor; the demands on , W. by the congregation singing the military services to provide a "6 Thank Thee n minimum diet to prevent disease Phet." prayer, Patriarch William and unrest in the wake of battle j rJ t0 Stos'n-R- Boys' chorus, all greatly increase demands for Hpart f thC SheP food which the military must sup'herd" ply. The high humanitarian and I Talks by Bishop Delos Baker of political priorities for delivery of ue and Bishop James adequate food supplies to WestWilliams of r.reenvnio ern Europe can no longer be kept Singing Mil ford ward boys' in second position; for we must chorus -"I'll Go Where You Want fully realize the disillusionment 10 Go. Dpnr T nrA and disappointment, as well as Ja'kfr Bishops Mark Woolsey economic and political instability, Edwin Paice of the Beaver will certainly follow in the wake rds. of victory unless it is possible to J!Un solo. Keith Barton of supply minimum quantities of Greenville. ! so-loi- st I j . Talk.Eider Henry A. Smith singing Reayer Eagt Ward ""' 80,0 Part bv Jerome ",fl. 4 T ton. "A Mormon Boy." Elder Stewart B. Eckles. hop Marvln O. Ash- - 8lngingb0y8. choru Place in Utah." prediction, Patriarch ' hajj'j ttho,lt ..There George victory gardens ine crPB 01 8Pln" ch f our ,ocal oy have ron to nsrifi thelr faces Preparatory n ban V K m inc MUford Saturday ere'8 an hbition of " ror you! food. We must further recognize that spring advances of allied armies, insufficient seed stocks, fertilizer and tools, to say nothing of population dislocations, have prevented sowing of crops in many battle stricken areas this year. Conditions are worse in those countries which have only recently occubeen liberated or are still the In liht Germans. the pied by of present supplies, the most that can be accomplished is to provide such foods as will tide the people of Europe over their Immediate problem difficulties. The long-teris to supply a quickly as possible fuel, transportation equipment, other the and seeds fertilizer, have in things which they must agriculown their to get order ture going again. m Beaver Soldier Was to One of First Cross Rhine Mrs. Marie Willisen received word from her son Ray, who is in the armed forces, that he had a short furlough but was not given enough time to come home, bo he sent for her and her daughter Rosa to come and visit him while he is stationed in Salifornia. She left on Tuesday morning by bus. fa and Mrs. John Ash worth had as dinner guests Thursday, Mrs. Joyce Smith. Mrs. Lois Bar,'i ton and two children, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Smith and two daughters, and Leo Smith. Clyde and Leo are both in the Navy and are home on furloughs. Clyde is stationed at Seattle, Washington, and Leo in the South Pacific. They retumied I H t l . to their home in Cedar City the same evening. v , FIRST ROW left to right are Boh Calvert, Jane Barton, Mildred M Pfc. George Nowers, son of Mr. Murdock, Ruth Robinson and Colleen Swindlehurst; back row Bill Farnsworth, Rhead Gunn, Bill Low, Douglas Thompson and and Mrs. J. A. Nowers of Beaver, Director Morris Cannegieter. and husband of Mrs. Fern Hickman Nowers, Milford, has been liberated from a German prison camp, his family is delighted to War Loan learn, pfc. Nowers, held prisoner High School Opera by the Germans since December, is in France en route home, acPinafore , Formally Pfc. LEON G. HUTCHINGS cording to a letter received by hia Pfc. Leon G. Hutchings, son of family. He entered the army in Mrs. Mae Hutchings Patterson, December, 1942, and was assigned Big Opens Monday was born in Beaver March 17, to Europe in September, 1944. The people of Beaver were givThe costliest month of the war 1925. Graduated from the Beaver Veteran of Midway Home en a real musical treat last Fri- to date was March, 1945, and no High School with class of 1943. servin He enlisted the armed deeven is in when with the music abatement day evening On Furlough sight ices in July, 1943, and has been partment of the Beaver High the fall of Germany. SALT LAKE CITY M a r 1 n e Failure to raise as much money stationed for training at Camp Pfc. Penn Farnsworth School, under the direction of Mr. Barton, son Morris Cannegieter, its music de- in two war bond drives this year Collen, San Diego, Fort Bliss, El of S. Fletcher Barton, Greenville, partment head, presented the op- as was subscribed In three last Paso, Texas, and at Camp George and Leila Farnsworth, Beaver, is G. was later He caMeade, Maryland. era, "H. M. S. Pinafore" to a year could nullify the on furlough after serving with a accomplishments of the sent overseas in July, 1944, and special weapons group of a depacity house. landed in England. From EngSpecial scenery had been con- past six drives. battalion on Midway Island. land he was moved into France fense These warnings from Ted R. structed for the presentation at He enlisted in the Marine corps Arto the attached and Seventh and the Gamble, national bond director, considerable expense, at Los Angeles, Calif., December my. While fighting with the 7th stage effects were very realistic still rang in the ears of nearly 300 he 10, 1942, and received his promowas Gertaken the prisoner by Utah war bond leaders, including and appropriate. to his present rank In Janution mans but escaped a few days 1944. He spent 25 months Each part was very well por- 2! county chairmen, as they preary, with his of the buddies. aid later, trayed, and the cast was suppor-e- d pared this week to "kick off" the He has moved up through France, overseas. Mighty Seventh War Loan MonPfc. Barton, former Beaver high by an excellent, Netherlands and Belgium into The accompaniment day, May 14. orchestra. student, reports that after the war In most counties E bond quotas Holland, and was transferred to he intends to return to the ranch by Miss Colleen Swindlehurst before the its Ninth army entry near Beaver. throughout the difficult musical are at least double and the stimu- into Germany. He was with the and lus of a war bond queen contest first scores was that crossed the Rhine evidenced the long hours of appli- lias been popularly seized to aug- river.group On Long Auto Trek cation Miss Swindlehurst had giv- ment the only proven means of in servHe trained Mrs. Shirley Goodwin received selling war bonds, namely, personen to the task. in a after but ice, letter late last week from her lanidng England While there were no weak char- al he was put into the infantry on husband, Cpl. Ralph B. Goodwin, m. acters in the cast, and the entire communications. He re who is in training at Fort DenIn Beaver county Chairman H. telephone performance was an outstanding ceived a citation for expert rifiery. ning, Ga., advising her he had D. Thompson is getting his forces A success, we cannot refrain from procured accommodations in that Perplexing Situation specifically mentioning the work organized, and Milford has two The following article was re- vicinity, and asking her to come of two or three which was quite nominees for Bond Queen honors ceived a few days ago in the form to him with their little daughter outstanding, and since they had already in the field. It is under- of a clipping from the army news- Rhoda in the family car, as soon the leading roles, made for the stood that each of the local civic paper, Stars and Stripes: as convenient. Accordingly, acclubs, the Chamber of Commerce excellence of the presentation: by mother, companied Ralph's Douglas Thompson, baritone, in and the Lions Club, will each ON THE NINTH U. S. ARMY Mrs. Mary Goodwin and one of a Joand Sir sponsor Hon. candidate, quite BRIDGEHEAD, Mar. 24. the character of Rt. The Shirleys sister from California, seph Porter. K. C. B., the unsuc- possibly there will be a consider- dawn air scarcely moved and and a friend, left here Monday cessful suiter, was superb his able array of milinery in the ring American-mad- e smoke hung heav- morning for the long trek. Mrs. costume, voice, dialect and man- before nominations are declared over the the Mary Goodwin is a Press reporter, ily river, nerism were all that could be de- closed. More about this subject of shuttle of the smallshielding and expects to be away about from boats in OueenH mir tie't tamip sired, and are seldom equalled in three weeks. In the meantime, an who the of held eyes enemy casts. And Jane The drive opens Monday and Mrs. Frank Farnsworth is "pinch to east. the high ground Barton, soprano, with her excel- continues through June 30 with a Reinforcements moved up the hitting" for her on The Press staff. lent and well modulated voice, S20.000.000 E quota as the primeast bank, across pasture land. It plus a fine conception of the part, ary state goal; an $8,000,000 was lucky the Germans were not W. W. Osborne Now Sgt. the of made her interpretation quota next and a to much direct fire onto able DAYTONA BEATH, FLA. T5 role of Josephine, the Captain's corporation and public the flatsbring was W. Osborne, formerly of because there almost Wallace reand most funds quota set back for concencharming daughter, no cover. , 109 N. 6th West, Cedar City, antrated effort starting June 18. alistic. Two soldiers enlarging a fox swers to the call of Sergeant these Ruth Robinson, contralto, in County quotas for the Seventh the part of Little Buttercup, could War Loan were announced by C. hole paused every so often to rest. days. The promotion was anPfc. Leon G. Hutchings of Bea- nounced by the Public Relations hardly be surpassed, while little L. Smith, state war bond chair7th giade Bob Calvert, tenor, in man, which lists Beaver County as ver, Utah, and Pfc. Gordon H. office at Welch Convalescent hosResit of Mountvllle, Pa., came pital, the Army's reconditioning the role of Tom Tucker, "midship-mite,- " follows:' was real dynamite and capSeries "E" $127,300; other, across with the first wave and center at Daytona Beach, Fla. The promotion was given in rectured the hearts of his auditors. individual bonds, $26,000; total of then laid wire. "It was a long damn night," ognition of qualities of leadership Bill Low, baritone, and Rhead individual quotas, $$153,300. Public funds, $8,000; corpora- said Hutchings. "I never was so and conscientious performance of Gunn, bass, were also exceptionto life." duties assigned. tions, $20,3000; grand total $181,-60- gladBecausesee morning in my cover ally good. of the sparce Sgt. Osborne, who formerly opThe performance represented a troops rested in the lee of an em- erated the Municipal swimming lot of hard work and dilligent bankment, waiting to go forward. pool at Cedar City and was empractice, plus fine training on the Some new comers to the bridge- ployed by the Iron County School which still Mr. and Mrs. Richard part of the director, head flopped down on the slope Board prior to his entrance into of the convinced people further with their leader, MaJ. William A. the army in October of 1943, is Beaver and others witnessing the Gillies Lose McKean of Bralntree, Mass. most fortu is assigned to the physical recondiBeaver that opera Child Watch Wounded Jerry tioning branch at Welch Convalnate in having the services of so fourteen-month- ser- escent hospital, where a carefully dea there stretched Little Music the Gillies, Beyond of a Sylvia head capable old daughter of Richard ies of rolling fields, stumpy, planned program of sports and edpartment of their high school as Mr. Cannegieter, who Is entitled E. Gillies S. M. 3 c and Margaret gnarled trees stuck up above the ucational activities assist overseas returnees on the road back to to congratulations on a very fine Joseph Gillies, died at 3 a. m swirling ground mists. health. of hosin small GI's Irffn A the group pulled county Tuesday performance. Mr. and Mrs. Josiah Osborne, The townspeople are enthusias- pital at Cedar City of spasmodic uneasily at the strap of their ritic in their praise, and the Cham- croup. She was taken ill Sunday fles and looked down upon a Ger- parents of the sergeant, reside at man medic on the gras. His Beaver, Utah. The lady who anber of Commerce is insisting that and was rushed to the hospital. The child was born Feb. 18, stomach wall bad been blownoff swers to Mrs. lives at 109 N. 6th it be taken to other southern Utah towns. A visiting musical direc- 1944. in the Cedar hospital. The and his face was streaked with West, Cedar City, Utah. tor from another and larger In- father is serving somewhere In the dried blood. He was Btill alive. He turned his eyes on one and Germans are on two sides of the stitution, stated that the perform South Pacific. Besides the parents the child is then another of the Americans. Infantry force. ance was good enough to go any A force of doughboys, comsurvived by four grandparents, With effort, he brought his hand where. An Itinerary is now nlanned. with the opening ten Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Joseph of to his face and tapped his skull. manded by Maj. William A. Hyl-to- n of Hlllsvllle, Va.. moved Into In turn, he asked each one of the tatively scheduled for Monroe, Beaver and Mr. and Mrs. Eb a defended village on the southof Boulder, Nev., and by two men to shoot him in the head. where excellent facilities exist ror tho nresentatlon. we are informed. Mrs. Annie They didn't know what to do. ern flank. A racing, bellowing The scenery for the performance E. Joseph and Mrs. Emma Robin- They were sure that he couldn't lieutenant colonel led a battalion In army records live. But they didn't know what out eastward. wili be transported from here. son, both of Beaver, This funeral will be held Friday to do. It hadn't been very rough he's known as Clarence Gooding, Is on the of Tuscon, Ariz., but his men call Every family ought to take the in the East ward church with thus far, yet this sector right flank of the bridgehead, the him "Mad Sam." Bishop Woolsey, officiating. home paper. Mr. '' - j if' Jv ii Seventh Us'' Drive Proves J Success ry well-coach- anti-aircra- farm-to-f- contact-house-to-hous- e, store-to-stor- ai e. -E O 0. ths De-t- nr j Gil-jli- es ' s, ft i |