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Show Bluff misses good friend and teacher 1975 2, Girls Record by Mary Foushee familiar, diminutive figure, barely able to see over the top of the steering wheel of her car, will be missing from the streets of Bluff. Mrs. Merial Goforth, elementary teacher in Bluff from 1949 to A Roduced 60, 75 100 watt & has moved, and Bluff won't seem the same. In 1949, she came here and joined her sister, Lucille Goforth (they married cousins) and together they taught the eight grades, each teaching four, for two After Lucille left, years. Merial taught all eight grades until the new building was built, and served as teacher-princip- al for two years. Mrs. Goforth came from Missouri, in Emminence, Shannon County, and began her teaching career there immediately upon graduation from high school, receiving $60 per month. She and Gay Goforth were married and moved to Colorado in 1927, to the Dove 1972 y3 luan Size 7-1- 4 Now only San The Specials for October 2, 3 A Pork Chops Center Cut 1.69 1.39 lb. Family Pack lb. Loin End Roast .29 1.99 lb. Western Family Sliced Bacon 112 lb. pkg. Country Style Spareribs 1.39 lb. Parkay Whipped Pudding Cup Crisco Shortening Cake Mixes Margarine r$S Hi-La- nd 65$ Cheese Hickr7med)Cr 79 $ 8 oz. Mild I lb. 2$1 .29 1 89$ qt. 69$ Schillings Ground 4 oz. Northern 4 roll Come and get a case now Western Family Instant Orange Breakfast Canned Milk Tomatoes $1.49 379$ Seg0 51$ 2l2can whole 79$ Apple Juice Seneca Apple Barrel 48 oz. Ellis 5 oz. Vienna Sausage Breakfast of Champions 18 3$1 79$ oz. pmsbury iopak Tooth Polisher Cutex $1.19 $1.49 reg. $2.00 55$ reg. 75? $1.15 Morton Donuts Western Family Sliced 8 oz. . American or Pimento area, Creek-Egn- ar where their three children were born. She took some college courses before leaving Missouri, but a Cheese Pak Betty Crocker All Kinds Black Pepper TnilPt IOOUC wiioi Ticciio Topal lb. 1 3 pacf11 Karo Green Label Syrup Drink Del Instant Breakfast Cheese 4 special treat for everybody's lunch Wheaties r' & Jelly & Glazed 65$ 77$ taught on an authorization until 1960 when she received a Bachelor of Science degree from BYU, after attending summer schools, taking extenand taking a sion courses, leave of absence from Bluff Elementary for one fall quarter's work. When she retired, she had teaching taught 36 years, countless youngsters to read and write, and the many children to whom she read The Little House on the Prairie series knew the difference be- tween the real thing and the versions now n watered-dow- appearing on TV. Nearly everyone in Bluff has memories of Mrs. Goforth gathering up a truckload of children to take to Sunday School (which met in such diverse places as the Gaines shop building, the LDS Chapel, the Lutheran Trailer, and, finally the little yellow chapel that she was instrumental in building); sharing lavishly her garden produce and her chrysanthemums; delivering wonderfully fresh eggs; calling to tell them pupils or to look at the sky to enjoy some natural phenomenon: a bright planet or a beautiful sunset, or asking if they could identify a new species of bird she'd observed; calling neighbors to come pick their fill of currants or apples; dividing her iris and mums and distributing to any who wished (Please turn to page 15) ex-pup- Turbot Fillet ils For the Best.. 83$ Breakfast Apples Washington Red Delicious Grapes Cabbage Thompson Seedless Utah . 19$ Lunch ib. 29$ Dinner Elk Ridge 9$ lb- - Restaurant Cauliflower Phil Acton, Prop. Blanding, Utah la , , t:i f t vvv , V 1 H ' t i i ' ' . V .'.W .V ) . c V |