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Show Hyrum , and Wellsvillein Beautiful Cache Valley THIRTY-SIXT- H YEAR Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Cleaning Shop Opens in Hyrum The Fashion Cleaners of Logan have opened a branch office in Hyrum at the Vint Radio Shop next door to the Courier office. They will feature a cash and c&rry business with a liberal discount for bringing clothes in and coming after them at the Hyrum branch. Reed Jensen Here Mr. and Mrs. Warren Jensen of Hyrum were happily surprised when their son T5 Reed Jensen arrived home Monday evening. Reed has been in the army for almost 18 months. He received his basic training at Camp Roberts, California and then went to Alaska where he attended a bakery and cook school. Since that time he has been the chief cook station ed at Sheyma in the Aleutian Islands. He made the trip home by plane, and will be disch '..ged within 30 days. 87th Birthday Mrs. Alvira Baugh of Wellsville who was observing her 87th birth day on Sunday was made happy end enjoyed visiting with the many neighbors relatives and friends who called in. She is in fairly good health for her advanced age and makes her home with her daughter, Mrs. Nancy Hendry. Lee Murray Horse By Injured son Lee Mr. Murray, of and Luther Murray is around again after being thrown off his riding pony while deer hunting. Mrs. No broken bones were but the ligaments and were torn loose from his he suffered bruises and suffered muscles ribs and cuts. MAJOR OPERATION Mrs. Leo C. Nielsen of Hyrum submitted to a major operation at the Budge hospital n Wednesday morning. To Present Play act The Soldier three play My will be presented at the First Ward Recreation hall next Monday night at 8 p. m. The play is directed by Vivian Anhder and is full of laughs for everyone. Specialties will be given between acts and barbeques and soft drinks will be sold. A musical revue will be pre- sented by Mrs. Lynn Baxter and Miss Afton Petersen using Hyrum Girl talent. NOVEMBER 1, 1946 . NUMBER TWENTY ONE Wendell Jensen Wins Award Open House For Mass Meeting Among the winners in a sales contest conducted by Continental Oil Company among its 20,000 dealers and jobbers throughout the United States was T. W. Jensen of Hyrum,- it was announced here today. Mr. Jensen is the operator of the local Conoco station. Awards in the contest are being given for the promotion of Continentals travel service to motorists, and winners are given their choice of a large selection of merchandise prizes. Presentation of the award was made here by Mr. D. L. McGregor who is the District Sales Representative at Ogden, Utah. Wellsville Couple Approves Factory Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Stuart of Welsville who are observing their sixtieth wedding anniversary on Sunday, November 3, will be glad to receive their .many friends at their home Sunday between the hours of two and sdVen p. m. They request no gifts. Their family consists of Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Cottam and son Bob; Mr. and Mrs. Orvil E. Brown all of Sherman Oaks, California, Mr. and Mrs. Russell H Stuart and family, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Barnes, Miss Marba Jenkins 'and Kay Stuart, all of Nepphi, .Utah, are here for the ocassion. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart were born in Wellsville and have been lifelong residents of Wellsvile. Both have taken an active part in both church and civic affairs. At a very interesting meeting held last Monday evening a the Hyrum Third ward chapel, Mayor Jorgensen and the City Council presented the conditions made by the Lebanon Shirt Co. which they desired met before they would come here with their factory. They wanted the use of the Elite Hall until another more suitable buiding coud be erected, and they wanted the city to give them a plot of ground to build on. After giving a full description of the negotiations with the shirt company and answering numerous questions, the Mayor took a Vote on the proposals. The 150 people present were almost unanimous in their desire to meet these conditions. As a result the Mayor has written the company offering them the Elite Hall, and also a tract of land now owned by the city near the Hyrum intersection east of town. A survey of available labor was made in the meeting and from the results obtained, the factory should not want for workers. On the stand were Mayor Jorgensen, Councilmen A. J. Clawson, Verna Miller, Homer Petersen, Clifford Poole, Recorder J. Thomas Eliason, Russell Hansen and M R. Hovey of the Logan Chamber of Commerce. Councilman Iver LaVon Larsen was excused. Among the interesting points presented by the .Mayor was the Irene Parkinson Thoresen Dies - Irene Parkinson Thoreson who is a former Hyrum woman, died at her home in Salt Lake City on Monday of this week following a lingering illness. Mrs. Mrs. Thoreson was . born - on " March 28, 1887 in Preston, Idaho, a daughter of William C. and Nellie Nash Parkinson. Soon af- ter this the family moved to Hyy-ruwhere Mr. Parkinson was president of the Hyrum Stake for m many years. Mrs. Thoreson married Eugene Thoreson in the LDS temple at Salt Lake City. She has always been active in the church, working in the MIA, the Sunday School and the Primary. She is survived by her husband and four children, Mrs. Ruth T. Mills, Ross.E. and Leone Thoreson of Salt Lake City and Donald C. of Sacramento, California. Al- there are three grandchildren, her mother and seven brothers so and sisters,, Lillian N. Parkin- - ' son, Mrs. A. L. Kelley, Frank and Bartlett R Parkinson of Salt Lake City, W N. Parkinson of Los Angeles, Mrs. Ralph D. Smuin of Ogden and Mrs. A J. Andersen of Fairview, Utah.. Funeral services were held in the Whittier ward in Salt Lake on Thursday and burial was in the Wasatch Lawn cemetery. Charles Hyde Hurt Charles Hyde son of Mr. and Parry Hyde, had the misfortune of dislocating a bone in his right elbow last Sunday and it is causing him much trouble. He was up on a stack of baled hay when a bale slipped off, taking Charles with it. It was first thought that the elbow was Mrs. Leroy Darley DischargedM. Captain Leroy Darley, chaplain in the U. S. Army, is home ' again afte having received his discharge and was met in Ogden Friday by his wife, Mrs. Kathleen Barton Darley and daughter Margaret Ann who have made their home in Kaysville with her mother, Mrs. Barton, while Roy was away. Also his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Evan O. Darley of Wellsville were on hand to meet him. A lovely dinner was served to the group by Mrs. Barton at her home. Roy has spent the past two years in the service with the past twenty one months spent in Borneo, Philippines and Japan. Before entering the service Leroy spent two years as a missionary in the Eastern States and one year as organist at the LDS chapel In Washington, D. C. after his graduation from the USAC. . Merlin Leishman Comes Home Merlin Leishman of Wellsville received an honorable discharge from the service the forepart of October and he and his wife and son Larry are visiting relatives at Brigham City and Wellsville. They have been making their home at Ft. Lewis, Washington for the past two months. He now has empoyment with the Standard Oil Co. in Salt Lake where they will make their home. Merlin is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel A. Leishman of Wellsville and has been in the service since March 1942, spending several months overseas. statement that the companys fin- ancial condition had been thoroughly checked by the First Security Bank and found to be good. They operate a large factory in Pennsylvania and a smaller one in Mississippi. They have been in business for 25 years, The proposed building will be modern in every respect, and will contain 40,000 square feet of floor space, which is five times that of the Elite Hall. The employees will be 85 women. With the exception of two managers, all supervision will be local. They expect to hire 50 to 75 this fall and from 250 to 300 when the buiding is complete. Chairman E. M. Bickmore of the Board of Education stated that the Lincoln School gymnasium will be available for any function that formerly used the Elite Hall, and Principal H. R. Adams has offered the use of school facilities to aid in training the workers. At the close of the meeting H. R. Adams gave a talk supporting the proposed amendments to the constitution numbered 3 and 4 |