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Show Uteh Press 7s a aociation 467 East Third South Salt Lake City, Ut.841 11 Now is the time to find good candidates for city elections . . . see editorial on page 3 1 t --A 9 via i jv Thursday, August 18, 1983 3 i ufTmw Class of '43 reunites see page 9 Vol. 5 No. 32 1 ir 50 Football to begin see page 10 cents a single copy 1 In preparation for school f Student registration set for next week ; Mm JrB ' j ft, : ill fell ftl ROSE HINTON...with scroll tracing history of Yuesitan Indians. Student registration for junior and senior high students in the Alpine District will take place this next week in preparation for the beginning of classwork on Aug. 29. This year senior high students have more options because of an eight-bloc- k plan adopted by the Board of Education for use in the district's high schools this school year. Under the program, the students will be allowed to sign up for eight classes during a given semester; the classes are held for a period of 85 minutes on alternate school days. New elementary students in the ElliSfln Genealogist's work produces book, chart ROSE HINTON...with book H. Bruce Ellison, formerly an assistant controller at the new Excelsior Hotel, has been appointed rooms manager, announced hotel general manager John Mavros. Ellison replaces Wendall Wild, who has taken a position as sales executive of the Salt Palace. A native of Lehi, Ellison was most recently employed by the Little America Hotel as data processing manager. He has also served as front office manager at the Little America and general manager of -- Xiu project is only beginning of Latin Indian work A $1000 check, given for the love of a people, was presented to Rose Hinton Monday by Wayne L. Troutner of Winslow, Arizona. in Mrs. Hinton, involved historical and genealogical research for the Latin American Indians, gratefully accepted it "We need help with finances and we need more researchers. This $1000 is a substantial help toward the kind of computer and materials we need for the project," she said. Mrs. Hinton has served and will continue to serve in a voluntary capacity, she has borne all expenses of the project personally up to the present. The ultimate goals of the enterprise are to identify, catalog, and alphabetically computerize for future reference all available Indian genealogies and histories of Latin American peoples, particularly individuals in the time period before parish registers began. Those names that are acceptable will also be submitted for work in IDS temples. This project is an appendage of e the Institute Genealogico Americano Historico Latino headed by Lyman D. Piatt of even more with Highland comprehensive goals covering all of Latin America Mrs. Hinton has just completed a genealogical assignment on the Xiu (pronounced Shoo) Family of Yucatan. Its original family seat one of the was Usmal most beautiful ruins in America, equivalent to those of ancient Greece and Rome. She has prepared over 600 family group sheets with more than 1700 individuals, and a chart showing 21 generations of the family from the year 1400 to the present which also includes the founder of the monarchy in Yucatan, Hun Uitzil Chac Xiu, who arrived there about 1000 A.D. These names have been processed through the Royalty Department of the Priesthood Genealogy Division of the LDS Church, and the Xiu book with history and family group sheets to the be will presented genealogical library in Salt Lake (Oosh-mal- ), City. Among other things showing this ruling family to be an unusual one is the incident concerning them when the Spanish arrived. A short time before the Spaniards invaded Mexico a prophet emerged in the Xiu chiefdom and prophecied that white men would come carrying a wooden cross, and that the people must not fight them, and must accept their God. After the Spanish arrived in the land, the Xiu ruler led his people to them, and instructed his followers to throw down their arrows to show they came in peace. They presented food to the Spanish, and the king made known that he wanted to accept their God. Mrs. Hinton is often asked what kind of records are available for such early people. She answers, "This is what is unique about the Xiu family," and explains that there lived a member of the family who was in the became and the interpreter for the crown. He prepared a genealogical tree showing his family back to 1400, and also included a drawing of the founder of Uxmal with his wife holding a round object which some find reminiscent of the tradition of the Liahona as described in the Book of Mormon. Also, for 200 years until Mexican independence there were periodical petitions for nobility to the Spanish crown with the names of the ruling branch of the family recorded in much-neede- d mid-1500- 's above-mentione- d d Ann Smyth is the new leader of Lehi's band Ann Smyth has a determined gleam in her eye. She has accepted a real challenge. She's the new band teacher at Lehi High School. Ann knows the triumphs and trials of the recent past. "I heard through the grapevine," she smiled, "but I know what I want to do and I think I know how to do it." Building a band program at Lehi High is the thing Ann wants to do. And despite her youthful appearance, she's had seven years experience in teaching music and band in elementary, middle and secondary schools. "I've played in bands since I was ten years old," Ann said, "I've known since then that I wanted to grow up and teach band." A native of Salt Lake City, Ann graduated from Ricks College and received her bachelors degree in music from BYU in 1973. After teaching in Salt Lake, San Juan and Duchesne schools she returned to Salt Lake City and the University of Utah where she earned her masters in instrumental conducting with an emphasis on band. While at the U they asked her to join the famous Ute Marching Band. "I felt 1 was too old but they twisted my arm," Ann laughed. n "They gave me a . full-tuitio- has been stripped of nobility when Mexico became a republic. These originals are now in the Peabody Museum in Massachusetts. They were "borrowed" from the family head and were never returned, "a shameful theft in the name of scientific preservation," says Mrs. If.) guest services, '5 msdikm i3 r4csri' Hinton. In regard to other early sources there are some royal histories available as recorded by Indians after the Spanish came, and there are a few native codices and stelae which genealogical give information. Some early land records are extant, and court cases also which give names from such events as idolatry trials. Later generations can be traced in parish w9a registers. This Xiu project is only the beginning of the Latin Indian work, Mrs. Hinton says, as she begins work on the Aztec and Toltec and their emperors descendants. Supplemental Bands of America competition. Since she signed her contract to teach at Lehi, she has made almost daily trips to the school from her home in Salt Lake. And students who were familiar with the old bandroom won't recognize it when they return to school this fall. Ann has almost singlehandedly overhauled the place. All the old stuff is gone. Closets have been thoroughly cleaned. "I don't think room -- laundry, engineering and housekeeping. Ellison presently resides in Provo with his wife and one child. Ellison's parents are Harold and Helen Ellison, Lehi. Community Block Grant Funds are now available through an Kmergcncy Jobs Bill. The purpose of the program is to provide funds to go to Emergency Disaster Relief Activities such as private property improvement, repair of streets, roads, bridges, sidewalks and public facilities, removal of debris and trash, and temporary housing. Applicants include incorporated cities and towns with populations under 50,000 (except cities in Salt County) and counties with populations under 20,000 (again excluding Salt Inke County). For details and applications, please contact your Association of Government, local municipality or county organization before Sept 26,1983. Development and now I'm on a graduate assislantship." Ann knows corps style marching band technique. "I've even been back to Wisconsin to observe the Marching - them. These probanzas and the Xiu family tree were a portfolio kept by the family head through the years until just before the turn of the century. By then the Xius were only ordinary farmers since they had the Maxfield Asphalt Co. Ellison attended the University of Utah in finance and has an extensive background in computer training. In his new position he will be responsible for the front desk, PBX, health spa, reservations, pool, Relief funds available scholarship the district are registering on Aug. 18. Junior and senior high students will register according to the following schedules at the individual schools: Lehi Junior High 7th grade - Aug. 24, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 8th grade - Aug. 25, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. New student registration: Aug. 23, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lehi High School 9th grade - Aug. 24, 9 a.m. 10th grade-Au24, 1 p.m. 11th grade - Aug. 25, 9 a.m. 12th grade - Aug. 25, 1 p.m. ever See Band on page 3 been '. nn Hellewell stands in flooded shed at Wilford Stake Farm near Saratoga. The farm has been plagued by flooding caused by recent rain storms in Cedar Valley. FLOODED-Ly- Rain, floods hit again Heavy rains in the mountain areas caused flooding problems between Lehi and Tooele on Flooding was also reported on in the area of 6800 West. Utah Highway dispatchers said about 6:15 p.m. Sunday, up to a foot 3 of water rushed across between the West Mountain intersection and Cedar Fort (in the area of the wheat fields). .Although the road wasn't closed at that time, Utah Department of U-7- U-6- 8 Transportation crews used snow plows to push the mud and debris from the highway. Later in the evening, a wall of mud crossed 3 in the Ophir turn-of- f area, closing the highway for a period of time. U-7- U-7- Water, described by officials as an aftermath of the earlier flooding, also coursed down in the area U-6- 8 of 6800 West with about 0 inches flowing at the peak of the flooding. |