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Show t; Helper Man Killed In Salina Canyon Accident Early Saturday Evening One death was recorded, and several passengers injured in two separate accidents near Salina, Saturday evening. State Highway Patrolman, Ted Hansen, of Richfield, and Salina city law enforcement officials, investigated both mishaps. McRay Lopez, 28, of Helper, was killed and three companions injured, when the Mercury convertible, driven by Lopez, went out of control in Salina Canyon, about 9 miles East of this city. The automobile careened over a 20 foot enbankment, striking loose gravel. It came to rest on its top, and Mr. Lopez was reported by the investigating officials to have had his neck caught in between the top of the windshield and car top braces. He was dead before assistance could be given. Others injured in the canyon accident were Johnny Rebal, 21, Helper, who was treated at the Salina Hospital and released; Phillip Montoya, 23, and Bill Kirkwood, 21, both of Helper, treated by Trooper Hansen at the accident scene and released. Later the same evening, Sgt. Hansen was called to investigate an accident at the Salina River bridge, west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Christensen of Richfield, were injured when their auto went out of control and hit the guard rails. Another occupant, Leo Riley, was uninjured. Both Mr. and Mrs. Christensen suffered cuts and bruises, and were taken to the Salina Hospital for treatment. The two men were placed in the Salina jail until the following morning, stated Carl Anderson, city marshall. after Mr. and Mrs. Jack Steele were transacting business in Salt Lake City, Saturday and Sunday. While in the city, they visited Leda Ehn at the General Hospital, and each donated a pint of blood for the invalid. Merz Hugentobler, registered at the University of Utah for the freshman year, visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Hugentobler. Civics Meeting Set For Saturday In Kanab Kanab will act as hosts to the September meeting of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah, on the 30th of the month, and a large representation of the area covered by the organization is expected to be in attendance. The executive board will be called to a regular meeting at 11 a.m., with chairmen of all standing comittees expected to be present. The afternoon meeting, open to the public, will commence at 2 p.m. Representatives of the forest service, parks service, fish and game commission, state road commission, Utah Water Users Association, Utah Mining Association, grazing, soil conservation and other groups, will participate in the discussion on matters affecting the ty ty k area. Justice Of Peace Hugh Bird was named Justice cf the Peace for the City of Salina, at a special meeting of the City Council, Tuesday night. Mr. Bird will fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Johnnie Lorenzen, a member of the U.S. Reserves, who was or- dered to report for duty at the Tooele Air Force Base. Mr. Bird is athletic instructor at the North Sevier High School, and is well qualified for the position. He was sworn into office Tuesday night. Attends American Bankers Meet H. B. Crandall is in New York City this week, attending the annual convention of the American Bankers Association, which convened on the 24th of September, with the dossing session on the 28th. Mr. Crandall, president of the First State Bank of Salina, left for the east Thursday of last week. He will return on October 2nd. Returning from a months honeymoon in Yellow'stone National Park and the Northwest, Mr. and Mrs. James L. OBrien are at home in Salt Lake City. Mr. O'Brien, a son of Mr. and Mrs. James L. OBrien, is associated in business with his father. Mrs. OBrien, the former Faye Jensen, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Jensen of Redmond, was married in a ceremony at the brides home August 31st, and after a wedding dinner for immediate members of the family, the couple left on an extended honeymoon. For her wedding, the bride wore a gown of slipper satin, with long sleeves and a finger-tippeveil. Her sister, LuAnn, was bridesmaid. Don Davies was best man. The Jensen home was decorated throughout with late summer flowers for the wedding, and the brides table was centered with a wedding cake with low crystal bowls filled with roses, at each end. d Vernon Butler, an engineer on the state road project on the Salina Canyon highway, Mrs. Butler and their daughter, Verna Marie, have returned from a days visit at the Butler home in Nephi. Jaycee School Well Attended Bill Welch of Price, vice president of the Utah State Junior Chamber of Commerce, in charge of Jaycee Orientation, conducted a school for clubs in this region, Sunday at the Gunnison Valley High School. Gunnison Jaycee President, Dallas Greener, was in charge of the arrangements, with 27 members attending the classes from organizations in Richfield, Salina, Gunnison, Manti and At the evening banquet, A. G. McKenzie .vice president of the Utah Mining Association, will be the guest speaker on the topic, Utahs Mining, And What It Means To Our State Economy Fair view. And Payrolls. Mr. Welch offered information and instructions to all club presidents and secretaries. Easton Brown of American Fork, a National Jaycee diFarmers in this area, who will rector, took up problems facing need help from the Indians in committee chairman, and A1 beet harvest season, should con- 'Hart, immediate past president tact Milan T. Oldroyd, Salina of the state organization, of 28-or call at the City Hall, Bountiful, discussed awards from 12 noon, to 1:30 Monday and steps necessary in preparing a project for competition. through Friday. Indian Labor Available J, t Hugh Bird Named Salina Men Called To Service Robert Hamilton, a Salina electrician, and a reserve in the ground crew in the airforce, received military orders Tuesday morning to report October 12th at Hamilton Field, California. His orders stated that he report October 13th at the Victorville, Calif, air repair base. Since his discharge from duty in the last war, Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton have made their home in Salina. Kimball Keele, a reserve in the Air Corps, left Sunday to report for duty at the Hill Field Air Base. Mr Keele, trained in ground mechanics in the last war, received orders last week to report for temporary service, on a civil service basis. He will be joined this week by Mrs. Keele and their three children, Kathy, Steven and Starla Rae, who will reside at Clearfield. Mr.' Keele has been employed at the Sevier Coal Mine in Salina Canyon while residing in Salina. Last Rites For Vergal Sorenson Solemn and impressive services were held for Vergal Sorenson, Saturday in the Second ward chapel. Mr. Sorenson died September 20th at the family home. Warren Crane, bishop, presided, and the following program was arranged by the family for the services: Sometime Well Understand, the opening song by a quartett, consisting of Mrs. L. A. Hugentobler, Mrs. Grant Jorgensen, G. M. Burr and LaVon Christensen, accompanied by Mrs. Afflick Bastian; invocation, Junior Nordfelt; speaker, In The Ira Rasmussen; solo, Garden, Mrs. Irvin Jacobsen, accompanied by Mrs. Jack Learning; speaker, Bishop Crane; closing song, Til Be Loving You Always, Mrs. John Deaton and Mrs. Sharp Rasmussen, accompanied by Mrs. Clayton Rasmussen: benediction, Clayton Crane; Mrs. Bastian gave the organ prelude and postlude. The final resting place, in the Eastside cemetery, was banked high with beautiful flowers, silent tokens of the love and respect held for the deceased. Garden Clubs Of Region To Meet In Salina, Saturday The Salina Garden Club will be hosts at the Utah Regional convention of clubs from Mt. Fleasant south, on Saturday, in Salina. The convention will hold two meetings, one in the afternoon, and one in the evening, with luncheon hour scheduled from 4:30 to 5:30. The program arranged for the convention, follows: 2:30 p.m., Saturday community singing; invocation; address of welcome, Mayor A. C. Prows; vocal solo, Mrs. Irvin Jacobsen; talk on accomplishments of Utah Garden Clubs, by Dorothea Newbold, Association Editor and Advertising manager for the Utah Gardener; illustrated lecture by Lee Kay, of the Utah State Fish and Game Association. Dinner hour, 4:30 to 5:30, at which hour each club president will give a report on club activities. 5:30 to 6 p.m., organ music. The evening meeting will open at 6 oclock, with a humorous reading by Delbert Sacos; Artistic Gardening, Its Effect On The Soul, Mind And Body, by Mrs. Alvilda Anderson; Fall Flanting And Landscape Layout, by Fred Augsburger of Salt Lake City, a prominent Utah florist. Sessions will be held in the North Sevier High School, with luncheon served in the banquet room at the Second ward chapel. Mrs. Dean Neilson, president, and Mrs. E. Smith Peterson, secretary, are general committees on convention arrangements. Plans Readied 4-Ye- For Welcome Of Jaycee President ar Old Junior Safety Patrol Organized Dies Tuesday To Assist in Highway Crossing Friends and relatives were deeply shocked Tuesday evening, on learning of the sudden death of little Scott Smith, old son of Merrill and Ruby Lund Smith of Redmond. Scott had undergone a tonsil operation that morning at the Salina Hospital, and was thought to be getting along fine. His father had left on a business trip to Nevada, after the operation. Funeral services are pending return of Mr. Smith, but are tentatively set for Saturday. Scott Weldon Smith was born August 12, 1946 at the Salina Hospital. He is survived by his parents; two brothers, Chad M. and Jerrill Smith, all of Redmond; three grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Dewey Lund, and Christian J. Smith, Redmond. Jaycecs Set Date ar Arriving via Frontier Airlines at the Salt Lake Municipal Airport, September 29th, where he will be met by a reception committee and brought to Salt Lake by a special police escort, President of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce, Richard W. Kemler, 35 year old Marshalltown, Iowa attorney, will make his official visitation to Utah for a stay. Scheduled for a tour of the state, Mr. Kemler will be accompanied by Kenneth H. president of the Utah J.C.C.; George G. Vaughn, editor of the Utah Jaycee magazine, and personal secretary to the state president; Nicholas G. Morgan, president of the Salt Lake junior chamber of commerce, to- two-da- y Sow-ard- s, Bryce Johnson, chairman of the Salina junior chamber of commerce Fish and Game committee, announced this week that the annual turkey shoot will be held on October 8th at the rifle range south of town. Commencing at 1 p.m., the 1950 affair will include any calibre of rifle from a 22 up, with any type or sights, telescope included. Match contests will again be he ld in the various classes, with the contestants setting their own rules as to the Sights allowed. Ranges will include everything from 50 yards to 500 yards. Plenty of turkeys from the 1950 crop will be available to the winners, the chairman said, and the outlook is for one of the most successful and well attended contests ever staged in Post Utah. Cen-terfiel- Price Legion Guests Of Salina Post For Turkey Shoot d, Members of the Price American Legion, met Saturday Mr. and Mrs. Glen Carlson evening in joint session with members of the Salina Post at and children, were in Salina, the new Legion Civic Center, en- Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Carljoying the hospitality of the son, a former member of the local group at a Virginia Baked First State Bank force, and who Ham dinner, served by the Aux- has accepted a position in the iliary, and also making a tour bank at Moab, were arranging details for the familys transfer of the new construction. Purpose of the visit by the to the new location. Price Post, was to see the Civic Center, and to investigate the cost of constructhion, the visitors ' 'v ,, jr contemplating a similar building. Jack Aird and Joe Freece offered detailed specifications. During the dinner hour, a m 3i r short program was given, inRichard W. Kemler cluding a vocal solo by Dail Trows, and an essay of Equador Feeder lambs will start argether with other state and local Women, by Mrs. Thomas Baird, in the fields of Sevier riving Jaycee officials. dressed in native costume. Mrs. County any day now, and will While in Salt Lake, President Baird also displayed dolls, col- continue for some 30 days or Kemler will have audience with lected in that country. more, according to LeMar Price, Governor J. Bracken Lee at the County Agent. Those lambs will State Capitol, and at 4:30 p.m., Mr. and Mrs. John Christencome from ranges where feed is he will be presented on a special sen of Salt Lake, and Mr. and rot plentiful at this time of year, television program, orginating Mrs. Paul M. Christensen of and they have been required to from the studios of K D Y L. visited Friday with Mr. hustle to collect their needs. Nephi, The same evening, he will be en- and Mrs. Vernon Butler in When the lambs get into the tertained at a banquet in Ogden, Salina. hands of Sevier County feeders, with the Jaycees of that city as they will go into fields where host club. feeds are rich in protein and carSaturday, the official party bohydrates in a most palatable will journey South for a noon condition. The lambs appetites reception by the Orem junior In are sharpened. chamber of commerce. Exercise will be reduced, and Saturday night, the official which acts as somewhat milk, party will be feted at a banquet of a stabilizer, entirely cut off by the Salina Jaycees, with clubs from these lamb flocks. from Fairview to St. George in This condition really sets the mail this Monday morning President Kemler attendance. for enterotoxemia, the stage a week to Vern letter brought will arrive in Salina at approxidisease commonly known as Dan and from Burns Creg Burns, mately 6 p.m., and at 6:30, will This is written in Korea. He writes, I overeating disease." speak over radio station K S V C true where a me on Heart sheep the particularly Purple in an address originating in got have been kept the proceeding in been and the have 17th, Salina. hospital for three days. I just year, or if they pass through Following the 8 p.m. banquet, got hit in both legs by grenade yards where affected sheep had the official party will return to shrapnel, and it didnt break passed, during that time they Salt Lake, and the National any bones. It just bruised and might pick up the germ in dust, President will leave early Sun- rut them up a little. I figured I water or on feed. day to continue his tour in other was really lucky getting out Vaccination has proven highly states. 'in reducing losses with just that. In a recent from success-fu- l in shortenand from this disease Dan, received by his father, he wrote that he had been trans-fere- ing the feeding period. In exto Captain Rue Hickmans periments conducted by Iowa 27th Regiment, and was quite farmers on the farms of that happy to be near someone from state, results were almost 100 the home town. He is now at- successful. Some Sevier County Salina Retail Grocers who tached to Co. A, 27th Regimental feeders, who vaccinated last were in Salt Lake City, Sunday Combat Team, and he wrote, year, were just that successful, had been on the line for about even though $500 to $1000 worth and Monday ,to attend the ana week." In the same letter, he of lambs had been lost before nual convention of the Retail he would write more when vaccinating. said Grocers Association, included to a permanent Immunity from the disease, transferred Sheldon Dixon of Dixon's Marproduced by the vaccine, lasts ket; Lynford Anderson of An- hospital. Dan through a long feeding period, was the with serving derson's Food Center, and Stanso if applied before the lambs in stationed when Army, Japan, ley Barrett of Barretts Market. chances All sessions were held at the fighting started in Korea, and go into the fields, the all lambs will live to go to that U. S. to Base sent was the there. Hotel Utah, with the convention market, are much greater. closing with a banquet Monday More than 900 000 lambs were evening, and a floor show feasuccessfully protected from turing the Hormel Girls, radio last year. musical group. In a resolution Sunday, more In than 500 of Utahs retail grocers Mr. and Mrs. John Johnson pledged to take no advantage of rising prices. The grocers also of Redmond, have received word went on record as supporting that their son, Varlen Johnson, the promotion of Utah agricul- was wounded in action in Korea. ture products. Practical prob- Firsht word of the wound wras Births the past week at the lems of store operation, business received by Varlens wife, in a Salina Hospital were two girls. session and panel discussions telegram. The parents later re- On the 20th, a daughter was were topics in the final sessions ceived a letter stating the fight- born to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Monday. Mrs. Dixon, Mrs. An- ing man was in a Toyko hospital, Spencer of Aurora, and on the derson and Mrs. Barrett also and was slated to be returned to 21st, a baby girl was born to were in Salt Lake for the the U. S. for hospitalization. The Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Nielson of wound was reported in the hip. Venice. Feeder Lambs h Due Soon In Sevier County ; Salina Soldier Wounded Korea Action Salina Grocers Attend State d Convention Redmond Man Wounded While Korea Fighting A Junior Safety Patrol, to assist in getting elementary school children across the highway, as well as teach leadership, was organized this week in the 6th grade at the Salina school, with the assistance of Marshall Carl Anderson. Consisting of a Captain and four helpers, each group of boys will serve two weeks. They will be stationed at the corners of 1st North and State Streets, and 1st West and Main Streets, two boys at each intersection, with the captain as overseer. Marshall Anderson will continue directing traffic at the corner of Main and State Streets. The boys will be equipped with badges, belts and a 12 foot cane pole with a red flag. They will stop traffic while the children cross, by dropping their pole and flag to a horizontal position, at the hours of 8:30 and 11:35 a.m.; 12:20 and 3:30 p.m. Gail Madsen is the captain for the first two weeks, with David Noyes, Deon Hansen, Kendall Cloward and Glen Kimball as patrolmen for the initial period, which commenced on September 25th. During the week, Marshall Anderson talked to the grade school children, informing the 6th grade of the importance of properly directing traffic while the younger children cross. The under grades were told the importance of obeying the Safety Patrol, and the danger of darting out in traffic. K k.' J Ii Mrs. Janie Nielson was hostess to members of the LProgresso Club at the first meeting following the summer vacation, Saturday afternoon at the Nielson home. An attractive luncheon was served at 3 oclock, and covers were laid for 11 members. During the study hour, Mrs. D. G. Burgess gave an interesting book review of "The Peabody Sisters Of Salem. Mrs. L. A. Hugentobler, president, presided. Young Farmers Tour Southern Utah Ranches Joe Freece, Richard Jensen and Lee Christensen, instructors in the North Sevier Young Farmers, conducted a Southern Area Farm Tour on Friday and Saturday of last week. The group left Salina early Friday morning, and visited farmers in the Parowan Valley, later going to the experiment farms at the Branch Agricultural College at Cedar City. At this point, the group of some 400 farmers were served luncheon on the campus. The farmers visited agriculture and livestock interests in the Escalante Valley. At Pine Valley, outdoor grounds, a venison fry was served Friday evening. The stop was made at St. George, and enroute north, areas in the vicinity of LaVerkin and Hurricane were visited, and also the community project at Springdale. Luncheon was enjoyed on the Town Square at LaVerkin. Accompanying the instructors from North Sevier were: J. B. Crane, Allen Crane, Ardell Merrill Hampton, Phil Anderson, Sharon Martin, Verle Harding. Ralph Buckley, Evan Kennedy, Bryce Hallows and Gordon Sorenson. over-nig- Lam-beitse- n, A clever childrens outing at Maple Grove, Tuesday, was given by Mr. and Mrs. Marlin Sorenson. The outing was arranged to celebrate the 9th anniversary of their daughter, Lois Jeanette, and 18 boys and girls joined in the un. Basket favors, luncheon and games were enjoyed by the group. s' |