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Show 4B Emery County Progress Tuesday, November 14, 1995 Local history (Continued from Page 7A) good clean life of the young man, his teacher, Principal Nielson paying him one of the highest econiums ever passed on a student and scout, when he said among other beautiful things, that Levi held the highest average of any student in his class for obedience and pro- Castle Dale and Leah of Castle Dale." ably interfered with, however, by a fall suffered a few years ago. He was a member of the joint school band, a good scout, an obedient son, an affection- Now, back to football. The last sentence in the article about Orvel Henrie said: "These accidents are creating considerable talk of discontinuing the game in the school, ate brother, and a gentle and especially in Ferron, where intelligent friend. In the church another one of their young men he held the office of teacher lost his life in the same way The passing of such a young some two years ago." Doesn't man from a sphere of extreme that make you wonder? just ficiency. usefulness is one of those Well, if Orvel was killed in "Music was furnished by the events in which the ways of 1930, and the other boy was ward choir, assisted by Mrs. Providence are opposed to the killed "some two years ago," Paul E. Nelson and Mrs. Frank understanding of man. The would be about 1928, so I that (Emma) Fillmore as soloists. high regard in which the delooked in the old issues of the The invocation was offered by ceased was held was evidenced for 1927- - nothing; Progress Elder Wm. A. Pettey ofEmery, by the large congregation of 1928- 1929- - nothing. nothing; the benediction by Elder Louis out of town friends and the I was a up stump until the next P. Oveson, and the dedicatory abundant and exquisite floral when Reva Hunter morning prayer by Elder R. C. Miller. offerings which were banked (Orvel's sister) called and said Fellow boy scouts under the about his casket. that it had come to her in the direction of Russel S. Snow "He is survived by his father that the other boy was and mother, three brothers, night acted as pallbearers. Reva suggested Killpack. Clyde "Levi was born in Castle Oliver of Storrs and Hector and Loie Reach about it asking Dale August 19, 1907, and proOwen of Castle Dale; and three since she was a school teacher ceeded with his schooling here, sisters, Hedvig Behling of at the time. I called Loie and . his attendance being consider-Helper; Diantha Clair of she remembered Orvel's game, butdidn'tknow any thi ng about the Killpack boy. She suggested I call Ray Killpack. Ray confirmed that it was his Uncle Over the weekend of October 7th and 8th, 1 995, the Emery County CommuClyde Killpack, butthat's about nications and Emery Telephone sites on Horn Mountain were vandalized. all he knew. He said, "Call my This vandalism resulted in several thousand dollars in damage to the sites. Nina Killpack. She is mother, These sites contain a quarter million dollars worth of communication, in the Ferron Rest Home" I did television, telephone and radio transmission equipment. The Horn Mounthat. (She is 94 years old and tain Communications site is very important to the citizens of Emery County. still very sharp.) She said that The Sheriff's Office is looking for the individual or individuals responsible Clyde was a brother to her for this vandalism. husband, Glendon, and was The Emery County Sheriff's Office and Emery Telephone is playing on the Snow College in Ephraim, and was team offering $400.00 for information killed in a game over there. leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual or individuals involved That is, he died from head inin this criminal act Contact the Detective Division of the Emery County juries suffered in the game. or Sheriff's Office at She couldn't remember the exact year, only that it was before the Henrie boy was killed. She said they brought his body home to Ferron for A beginning the funeral and that he was buried in the Ferron Cemetery. I decided to investigate the cemetery for clues to the date of the game. 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Well, we know that clyde was killed playing football in 1928. Orvel was killed playing football in 1930, and Drexel Killpack, son of Jesse and Llewelles Killpack, broke his leg in the same game. Additionally, I found, in my library research, that in a game in 1929, ' Harold Cook was knocked unconscious and was out for a time but recovered, and Orvel was hit on the head in that game and was dazed for awhile. It is no wonder that people in the county, especially Ferron, were getting "all het up" over the game. Even though Clyde was killed in 1928 and Orvel in 1930, football was not banned in 1930 as had originally been conjectured. Several of my sources said they played football after 1930. So when was the sport abolished? I began making calls again. Fred Van Buren said he played his senior year and graduated in 1932. He said to call Ray Blackham, who was one of the star players on the Central High team. Ray figured it was suspended in 1933; that was the year he ated. LaVar Sitterud, figured it was 1932 or 1933, one of those years. I leaned that Homer Moffitt was the quarterback on the Central team, so I called him. He said that the last game played by Central High School was their game against Helper High School in Helper in 1933. Then Homer and his fellow seniors graduated the next spring in 1934. And before the next season, the school board voted to suspend the sport in the Emery County School District. I called Owen McClenahan and asked him the names of the players. He rattled off their names and positions over the phone, with hardly a breath in between. (He was remembering back to 1933, when he was on the team. From 1995 back to 1933 is 62 years. He has a fantastic, phenomenal memory.) Here are the names of the players and the position each played: Van Jones, LG; Kirk Keller, RG; Lowry Seely, RT; Marv Miller, LT; Jay Owen Jewkes, LE; McClenahan, RE; Ralph Jensen, HB; LaVar Sitterud, HB; Sherrill Blackham, FB; Homer Moffitt, QB; and UEEiSlMUSICTl9th7ANNIVERSARYiSA'l!El USED RENTAL PIANOS DISCONTINUED REPOSSESSED SOME WITH MINOR FREIGHT DAMAGE on display! & DN USED: Baldwin, Wurlitzer, Chickerirtg, Young Chang, Technics, Lowery & s, 10-ya- rd "Rough hazing of freshmen commonly occurred, and brutality became increasingly characteristic of football as well. By the turn of the cen.aroused tury, popular reaction against the game. A Chicago newspaper reported that during the 1905 season 18 college and secondary students had been killed and 159 injured. President Theodore Roosevelt called a White House conference of Ivy League representatives to rid the game of brutality. Football survived the changes. The game and ritual force on many free-for-all- campuses, bringing the studentbody and alumni to peaks ofweekend excitement." Apparently, the type of football Clyde and Orvel played was not as rough as some earlier days; but like all sports, as people become better at it, the game is refined and redefined continuously. When I was in about the fifth or sixth grade, which would have been about 1945, 1 remember seeing some of the old high school football uniforms back in a closet in the old shower room of the Castle Dale Elementary school (the present city hall building). I asked our teacher why we couldn't play football. He said a boy was killed and football was banned. Even so, those old uniforms were an item of interest and curiosity to us young boys. I remember noticing how flimsy they were and that they would offer very little protection. We played a form of football as a recess sport, but it was by no means orderly or organized. I imagine the rules changed a little every time we played. Someone would kick the ball in one direction and someone else would catch it and rim in the direction of the kicker. Everyone would tackle whoever had the ball, but our tackling wasn't brutal; we just grabbed the guy's shirt or pants or whatever and tried to stop him. (My mother always said she wanted to make me a buckskin shirt because I was always coming home with my shirt torn or the buttons ripped off.) I guess recess football was just passed down among the kids even thought it was not played as an official sport in the county when I was growing up. Brent Arnold, principal at the high school, informed me that football was reinstated in the Emery County School District in 1962, the year the schools were consolidated. By that time, the rules prevented much of the brutality, and uniforms had been vastly improved (30 years worth). And since then, Emery has done very well in the sport, even winning a state championship in 1987. So, that's the history lesson this week. It's Hospice Month November the nation celebrates National Hospice Month, the Utah Hospice Organization will be educating the people of education, hospices need to make themselves more accessible to all populations and ensure that appropriate reimbursement remains available and is expanded. Throughout 1995, as Emery County about the concept of hospice- - its principles, practice, payment options and patient benefits- - and to present hospice as a humane and compassionate alternative to physician-assisted suicide. "Whether physician-assiste- Hospice is a program primarily based in the home that treats the person, not the disease; focuses on the family, not the individual; and emphasizes the quality of life, not the duration. It focuses on eliminating the physical pain associated with an illness, as well as d suicide and its twin issue active euthanasia, are legalized or not, hospices must make public education their top priority," says Kim Olsen, psychological, spiritual and emotional support so that patient and family can concentrate on life until death. National Hospice Month provides agencies with the opportunity to promote public awareness about hospice care and to pay tribute to the thousands of caregivers who devote their time, love and support to president of the Utah Hospice the terminally ill and their families. In addition, it pro- vides the opportunity for agencies to focus attention on the vital issues surrounding hos- pice care. For more information, contact your local hospice or home health care agency. IF YOURE THUN TUNG ABOUT CM RDSTAAAS SHOPPING Select from over 100 NEW mid-1870- Organization. "Hospice affirms life. It neither postpones nor Lorenzo Cook', C. Now, here's another piece of hastens death." The need for information I ran onto by public education is validated chance. The textbook "A His- - ' through a recent article pubtory of the American People" lished by the Hospice Nurses Association, which stated, "Afby Graebner, Fite, and White ter 20 years ofestablished palhad it: this reference in (1970) "For a student at the Ivy liative care in this country, only 11 percent of those who die in the League colleges 1870s... .college meant some receive hospice care." "If we are successful in inhard work, but it also meant some involvement with the forming the general public beexciting and sometimes brutal forehand about the benefits of hospice, physician-assiste- d game of intercollegiate football. The. first game, between suicide will generate much less Princeton and Rutgers, took interest," says Olsen. In addiplace in 1869 with 25 men on tion to public and professional r NEW each team. 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