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Show i ox c llx-iricrr.ont, Avc. Uv.lvcix-'-- l 111 suit 1.1 R B corp City PAROWAN TIME NUMBER TWENTY FIVE PAROWAN TIMES, PAROWAN, UTAH, APRIL BYU Acapclla Stewart Adams Chior Slates CSU Wins State Performance FFA Degree AFTER RECENT HEAVY STORMS CEDAR CITY A bemfit perWATER OUTLOOK Water outlook for the Paro wan area has brigtened con siderably both in the valley and on the mountain ranges, during the past month, ac cording to official agencies engaged in measuring BRIGHTENS showed 49 in. snow and 19.2 water. 1955 was 20.4 water and a 12 year average of 25 inches. Midway, snow 53 in.; water 22.5 1956 same snow depth but only 20 inches water. 1955 the was same on snow, but 19,4 per-cipitati- At Parowan, during month of March, total recorded moisture was 1.62 inches Storms during the first two days of April deposited an additional .80 inches of moisture, to bring the total per cipitation figures from Jan. 1, to 5.22 inches. This over normal according to Clayton Rasmussen, observer, but he was d unable to say just how much over normal. water content. Webster Flat, 1957, snow, 41.8 water, 15.8. 1956; snow 28 in. water 10.8.; 1955; 14.7 water content and a 19.8 figure for the 12 year average. Urie Flat; 1957,13.2 snow; water 5.7; 1956, no snow; 1955 water content was 6.2 inches. off-han- These figures were Rasmussen releas- ed by Clayton local observer. On the snow course at the Yankee Reservoir, made on Thursday morning by the Soil Conservation Service, snow deapth was measured at 27,5 inches with a water content of 8.6 This is an improvement over last year when 19 inches of snow was recorded with a water content of 7.3 inches. In 1955 there was 10 inches of water recorded, and in 1954 7.6. The 12 year average for years prior to 1954 was 13.2 inches. Snow depth at the Ed Ward Flat was 11.2 inches with a water content of 4.1. This is a slight increase over 1956 when 7 inches of snow with 2.9 inches water was recorded. In 1955 there was 7.9 inches of water. In 1954 there was 5,6 inches, and a 12 year average of 9.3 inches. Other courses in the area snow measurements as follows Cedar Breaks; 59.3 snow, 21.1 water. In 1956 the course Farewell Held For Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Sorenson A farwell testimonial was held last Friday in the Parowan Third Ward Chapel for Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Sorenson prior to their leaving for a mission in Hawaiia. Dr and Mrs. Sorenson have lived in Parowan for the past seven years, where he has establihed a medical practice. He has been active in the LDS Church serving as a teacher in the Seventies Quorum. He has also served as the Home Missionary Chairman. He has een a member or the Cedar City Rotary Club, and served one term as president of the Parowan Chamber of Commerce. He also served as vice president of the local chapter of the Sons of Utah Pioneers and has been an active mem-De- r of the American Legion. Mrs. Sorenson has been active in church work having served on the Stake Relief Society Board and as a visit- ing teacher. nd j VOLUME FORTY ONE 1957 Park Service Tells Plans For Stewart Adams, son of Mr. rsUarvy Adams re-- 1 ctnly completed tests that entitled him to receive the State Young Farmer Degree, This degree is given for outstanding work in the FFA Chapters in high schools. Receiving this degree is an exceptional honor," said Thales Brown, local Agricultural Instructor. Stewart is a senior at the Parowan High School, he is president of his FFA Chapter and has taken an active part in school athletics and in student government. He was among those who at tended the FFA Convention who attended the convention were Maxine Joseph, FFA Sweetheart and her mother; Thales Brown, Alen Stubbs and Jimmy Robinson. formance by the Brigham Young University acapella chior has been scheduled for April 20 in the College of Southern Utah Auditorium. Paul Dahl, Cedar City LDS Seminary instructor, said that the chior is sponsored jointly by the Cedar Stake and Seminary with proceeds going to the Seminary building fund. The chior will kick off a stake-wid- e drive for funds for the npw building, Mr. Dahl said. Of the $90,000 needed for the new building half will be raised locally with some $20, 000 needed before construction can begin. Assisting in the program are Aaron Hansen and Mr. Dahl of the Cedar City Seminary. The 70 voice choir is under he direction of Newell Weight of the BYU music department. 1, - Expansion Under Mission 66 Haltcrman Gets Funeral Services Held For Joseph Stevens Bid to Rotary Conference Funeral services were held here Wednesday for Joseph Stevens, 84 who passed away March 24, at the home of his son J. Hilltnan Btevcns at Ogden. He had been suffering many months with a liver ail- V. I Vr c sr A 1 er it : 'L Cedar City, the Univ. of Utah, and the BYU. He DONALD IIALTERMAN taught school at Parowan for ten years, and served for 12 Donald Halterman, son of Services were under the di- years as Iron County Clerk. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Halterrection of Bishop Howard M. In addition, he served two man, and popular Parowan Adams. terms as mayor of Parowan, High School student has been and later served as City Treas. chosen to represent his school Itha Mortensen played pre- -' Fo many years he has been at the Annual Youth Conferlude and postlude music. Pray and Precinct Justice of ence in Salt Lake City. ers were by Ray Knell and City the Peace, a position he held Bert Felstead. The conference is sponsored at the time of his death. Mr. the Salt Lake Rotary Club on by served the Iron Speakers were Bishop Ad- Bentley each spring. Donald will join School has K. Thomas Board, ams, Holyoak, and County, Max Dailey. A tribute to Mr. been active in the LDS Church with youths from other high state on Bentley was given by Della all his life, and for many years schools throught te 16. and 14, 15, was April engaged in farming and Gurr, who also read two origi nal poems composed by him; livestock raising. During the three days of the My Prayer, and Lifes Cross He married Laura Mickel- conference, the boys will be roads. son March 3, 1903, in the St. guests of member of the Salt Musical numbers were by George LDS Temple. She pre- Lake organization. During the the chor, which sang O My ceded him in death in 1941. time the conference is in sessI Know That My He later (married May Smith ion, the boys will' live with Father, a member of the club, attend HOLDS BUSINESS Redeemer ROUTINE CITY Lives, and The Norton, who survives him. special dinners, meetings and Lords Prayer. Other survivors include a be treated to special tours of Pall bearers were George, son, Shelby M. Bentley, Farm- attractions in the area. and Wilford Bentley, Albert ington, Utah, and four daughCOUNCIL AT LAST MEETING At the close of the sessions Mickelson, Max Hendrickson, ters; Mrs. Clara Knell, Cedac members will be outstanding Jay Vrton, and Glen Harris. City; Mrs. Pearl Mortenesn, Water problems, both culito the Unigiven scholarships Monrovia. Mrs. Roma Flowers were in charge of Calif.; recreation funds to the cate were and of Utah. prin various cities and towns in irrigation, nary Dailey, Parowan; and Mrs. versity Jean Hendrickson and Ella Norma ciple topics of discussion by the Miller, Ohau, T.H.; 15 for the coming Felsteod, and were carried county During his year in the Parothe City Council at its Monby grandchildren, and one great- wan recommended that year. High, Don has been actThey granddaughters. day night meet. grandchild; two brothers, Geo. ive in atheletics, having playa committee to represent the Four members of the Utah E. Bentley, Las Vegas Nev., ed on three basketball teams A decision was reached to community be named to aid Patrol stood as and Wilford Bentley, Cedar that have gone to state tourna complete the improvements at the City in setting up a pro- Highway foru sisters, Mrs. Fannie ments. He has pllayed football Guardsmen summer. culi for the Honorary during gram the six mile spring in the and Mrs. Vorna Taylor for two Stubbs, the services. was years. nary system. This project G. D Van Thales both of Parowan; Mrs. Maude Brown, started last fall, when the Ausdle and Clair Hulet were Interment was in the Paro- - Whiting, Mapleton, Utah; and Besides his atletic achievewan Citv Cemetery, where Mrs. Zelma spring area was cleaned out, named to this committee. Huffaker, Mesa ments, he has been active in all vegetation surrounding the George Stevens offered the Arizona, student affairs and extra curThe Tri H Club which has dedicatory area removed, and new catch ricular affairs. He is at preprayer. lines laid. Bad weather stopp- for the past several years spon sent Mr. Dall-Mrs. and serving as yearbook ediCharles l John William Bentley was ed the work before it was com sored the Easter Egg Hunt tor. born August 1, 1881, in Paro- ey visited at the Rulan Dalton pleted, though the new line was again given the home during the week. They wan, a son of Willia mand Lo Donald is also a member of was laid and most of the clear by the Council before it have spent the winter in vina atBanks He National Guard unit at the Bentley. ing work was done. tended the local schools, the Cedar City. Work that remains to be Lyle Topham, son of Mr. completed is backfilling and Mrs. Herbert topham anand sloping the hillside toward the other outstanding student at creek to insure drainage away Parowan the High was named from the system. As soon as as alternate. the area is dry enough the ' r-.r remainder of the work will be B.N.S in I j , go-ahe- Lay Final Flans For Junior Prom irto completed. Edgar Benson and Ralph Hulet representing the Parowan Fields met with the Coun cil to discuss the possibility of drilling the old well at the four-mil- e to a depth equal to the new well, with the idea in mind of increasing the of water that could be obtained from the two wells. They proposed that this drilling be done as a test. The Council appointed Arnold O, Gurr to work with the field committee in checking output icoijds of the two wells to try to make a determination as to whether any success might be achieved by increas- ing the deapth. The recreation committee of the council, composed of Claude Orton, F. C. Van Buren and J. W. Moore, reported that the County and School District was planning an early April meeting to alio r Iron County m: '.4 ll! Uiy-2-.- ; i '.i Water Users Elect Officers v,f Board members of the Iron County Water Users Assn, met in Cedar City this week to elect officers for the coming year. former Warren Bulloch, Iron County Commissioner, was president, with Grant Hunter, Cedar Valley and named 1st Arnold O. Gurr, Parowan as Of the second 12 districts in the county, Mr. Rulloch will represent Cedar City. Mr. Gurr Parowan and Mr. Hunter Cedar Valley. Wallace Sjoblom, Assn. sec. of 50 said Final plans for the annual Parowan High School Junior Prom to be held here on April 12. secondthatfeetthe ofdisposal flood water are being completed by members of the Prom Committee and their advisors. Theme of this from the Greens Lake Projgears Prom is Blue Star. ect was also discussed. The project now being read- Members of the committee pictured are: left to right: Jackie llammell, Colleen Alger ied for approval, would pro- Reed Thornton. Tess Thornton. Roger Lister, Coach Richard Jones. Class AcivDor, and Duane ams south of 5,.fIVe Lamoreaux, Prom Chairman. Not pictured is Mrs. Ramona Stubbs, another class ad ur. Cedar City with the largest nt vice-preside- j j i Monu-Servic- cs were held in the mcnt Ward Chaplc un- d Public hearings will be sche dor the direction of Bishop in Southern Utah in the duled F. Rowley. George near future concerning plans Speakers were Norman Ad. for land use at Zion and Capiams, Peter II. Gurr, and F. tol Reef, Mr. Franke said. The C. Van Buren. land transfer at Cedar Breaks Musical numbers were; Oh would require Forest Service My Father", by a male quar- approval he said. tette composed of W. Clair Proposals incllide placing Rowley, Howard Knight Ile-b- Bricn Head within the Park Gurr and Harold Mitchand widening the ell. Vocal solos were sung by boundry monument boundry. present Howard Knight, who sang In 242 acres in the exchange, The Lords Prayer"; and Her-bh- northwet csorner of the monuNeeley Cedar City, who ment would be transfered to Sang In The Garden". Mr. the Forest Service. Neeley was accompanied by Some 160 acres of land at his daughter Mary Lyman was accompanist for all other Brien Head wraa applied for which would take in the peak musical numbers. only. The remaining 101 acres Prayer at the home was off- are along the approach road ered by George Stevens, and part of which is on Forest the opening and closing pray- Service land. ers at the church were offered In emphasizing the need for by Joseph E. lard and Thomas H. Rowley. At the ceme-tarmaking Brien Head a part of the grave was dedicated Cedar Breaks National MonuInI. by E. Riddle of Cedar City. ment, Mr. Franke said, Head in the mon Bricn cluding Pall bearers were the three ument would complete the sons, Ervin, Arnold, and HillBreaks told at Cedar story man; two grandsons, Homer Some 3,500 acres of Public Stevens, and Ivan Topham and a nephew, Frank Stevens. Domain and private lands are included in proposed land addFlowers were in charge of itions to Zion National Park, granddaughters, and prelude an 3,300 acres at Capitol Reef. and postlude music was played by Mary Lyman. The land transfer at Zion includes widening the narrow Joseph Stevens was born neck between Kolob Canyon February 7, 1883, to Joseph and the Park proper. The Stevens, Sr. and Lucy Mun-for- d be extended also will boundry Stevens, at Parowan. on U.S. Highway 91 at Dry He married Alice M. Yard-le- y Creek to allow for developNovember 26, 1895 in the ment of this area, he said. St George LDS Temple. She Under Mission 66 this year preceeded him in death on a mile of the rim road about Dec. 27. 1956. at Cedar Breaks will be oiled Mr. Stevens has been en- and a survey made by the gaged in farming most of his Bureau of Public Roads of y active life. He has been active the Kolob area on U.S. in church affairs including 91. the High Priests Quorum. He served on the Genological Committee for 12 years, filled a mission to the Southern States, and has served on several Stake missions. Survivors include three APRIL sons J. Ervin Salt Sat. 6 CSU Vocational Day First-Sccon- .v. I al Monument was recommend ed along with the acquisition of 6,329 acres of la nil adjacent to Zion National Park and Capitol Reef National i OR MAYOR CHORCH, CMC LEADER ZION NATIONAL PARK Paul R. Franke, Supt. of Zion National Park this week made public proposals for land additions to southern Ut. Parks and Monuments under the program for Mission 66. The transfer of some 261 acres on the Dixie National Forest to Cedar Breaks Nation ment. I LAST RITES HELD FOR FORMER Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon for John W. Bentley, 75 Parowan civic and church leader who died at his home here March 28, ! el y, Ilig-wa- Calender of Town Events , Stevens, Lake City; J. Hillman Stevens, Ogden; Arnold Y. Stevens Mt. Pleasant; four daugh ters, Mrs. Bertha Topham, Paragonah; Mrs. Marie Smith Phoenix, Arizona; Mrs. Violet Squirs, Mt. Pleasant, Utah; Mrs. Lois S. Bryant. Cedar City; and Mrs. Ada Hullinger Salt Lake City. Also surviving him are 22 grandchildren, 25 and three brothers; George and Edmund Stevens, Parowan; and Willi- at Cedar City. 2-- great-grandcildr- am Stevens, Cowley Wyoming Mr. and Smith Mitchell, one time Parowan residents visit-e- h here last week with relatives and friends. Older residents will remember Smith as a son of John M. and Matil da Hyatt Mitchell. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell have spent the winter, in Mesa Arizona do- ing Temple work. They were returning to their home in Baker Oregon. retention dam to be located near the old American Legion Race Track. A committee was set up to study methods of disposal with the gravel pits west of Cedar City on the Lund Highway mentioned as a possible dump Mon. 8 City Council, C. of C. Board meeting; 1 ward MIA 3 ward MIA; 3rd Tues. 9 Ward Scout Banquet. Wed. 10 Stake Temple Day. Thurs. 11 Elizabeth Camp DUP; Stake Facualty meet. Fri. 12 P.H.S. Junior Prom. Sat. 13 Dixie Invit. Track meet; Stake Sunday School Convention. Sun. 14 Stake Priesthood; Stake Relief Society Union Regional Sunday School at St George. Mon. 15 1st ward MIA; C of C. ex bd. meeting. Tues. 16 2and 3 ward MIA Wed. 17 Literary Club; High School Operetta for students. 18 Stake Thurs. Primary Meeting. Fri. 19 Operetta for public Sat. 20 Am. Legion and Aux Dist. Convej-ionMon. 22 1 ward MIA; City Council; C of C Board meet. Tues.23 2 and 3 ward MIA Wed. 24 Stake Temple Day Thurs. 25 Stake MIA Leader ship Meeting. 26 Freshman Fri. Frolic; Elem. P.T.A. Election Sat. 27 Stake Quarterly Con ference Sun. 23 Stake Conference. Mon. and Tues. MIA i . |