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Show WEATHER REPORT By Jay T. Rogers k) $, 4. VW' yyft : ' : . Millard County Progress, Fillmore, Utah 84631 USPS 446740 t $1 V' i . I V' r W t : V,-- 1 . J S' f f J V r-j- rfQY'fV AyJ 4- - SP4 Cathy Wilson receives her promotion pins by her commanding officer, Captain Stanley L. Sniff left, and the units executive officer, ILt Henry R. Wagner. do. SP4 Wilson was initially with the Public Affairs unit in Salt Lake City, then later transferred to the Missouri National Guard in Kansas City. She was with the Station Hospital (100 beds) while in Kansas City working with personnel and health records. There Wilson also qualified in CPR On (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). of this year she made one more April move, to Indio, where she presently lives with her parents. Bill and Madcliene Wilson, former Fillmore residents. Cathy is presently attending a summer camp at Fort Irwin (Barstow), California. She is looking forward to completion of her initial military obligation which will be in January. 1980, but says she will because there is no probably better way (almost) to Do it on the Weekend! Cathy is the granddaughter of Jane Wilson of Fillmore. SP4 1 two-wee- IN Old Capitol Day Celebration to CATHY WILSON PROMOTED Wilson was Catherine (Cathy) to the rank of recently promoted Specialist 4 in the California National Guard. Cathy is presently in Company C, 1st Battalion, 185th Armor Unit in She works with Indio, California. under the unit's training operations platoon sergeant. The unit's slogan, We Kill Tanks," is exactly what they FOUNDED IN 1894 k Highlight July 4th Activities again Fillmore is making exciting plans for its annual Old Capital Day celebration on July 4th. Events for the day are being planned by the Fillmore Second Ward. Bishop Dallin S. Nielsen has appointed Don W. Stuart and Clifford Purcell chairmen, with all members of the ward serving on various committees. The parade theme is Conservation is Wise Save Our Energy - Protect Our Future. Use your imagination and Once encourage your business or family to enter a float. Contact Tint Carling. Bert is Frampton. John Cooper, or for parade entry Nielsen Cathrvn mfoi mation. Mr. Stuart announces his outline of activities for the Fourth as follows: Watih for more details in next week's paper PROGRAM Wednesday, July 4th, 1979 re-u- p Chief Kanosh Pageant By Jackie Rhinehart The committee for "The Legend of Chief Kanosh is happy to have Madge Warner as Costume Sewer and Josie Miller as Costume Designer helping with the pageant again this year. Madge Warner has lived in Fillmore since the age of 5. Sewing has been a part of her life beginning with doing her own sewing, to teaching it. to having her own business. She worked in the sewing plant here before deciding along with two friends to begin their own business in 1968. Her business grew and in 1970 they moved into the building they are now in. Her husband Joe was on the finance committee for the pageant and thus began her involvement in the pageant. The sewing of the white buckskin wedding dress has become a family project, with her daughter Joyce doing the beading and Connie helping her do the sewingr k 1 Josie Miller was born and raised in Kanosh. At one point in her life she went to California and began her career in dressmaking. She began by working for the head designer of Paramount Theaters and worked there for 30 years. She started at the bottom and worked her way up to becoming a designer herself. She has been coming home in the summer for the last seven or eight years. Her mother. Nell Bird, made the cookies that have become known as Aunt Nells" cookies and are now being made and sold during the Pageant. "The Legend of Chief Kanosh. Madge and Josie have been friends for years and so naturally make a good team for getting the job done in a very professional way. Guard Training Accident Injures 3 Millard Men By Marge Barton Three Millard County National Guardsmen were injured at 3:30 p.rn. last Thursday while on training maneuvers at Camp W.G. Williams. The accident occurred as SP4 Mark Mundy, Fillmore, was driving a 1S5 mm howitzer across a sagebrush flat and hit a boulder. Mundy received minor bruises and SP4 Steven Bennett of Holden received a head cut requiring three stitches. More seriously injured was SSG Bill Pectol, also of Holden, when the gun's hatch cover flew- shut and slammed him down in the hnwiicr. The heavy cover closed on his arms and hands seriously miming them. Iectol received numerous l.icetations and bruises all over his bodv, severed three tendons and broke track-mounte- d Dear hearts and gentle people, the dedication of the new building has been set for Monday, July 2. Governor and Mrs. Scott Mathcson will honor us with their presence. And we may expect various other V, I. P.s. Pres. Prcal George will offer the dedicatory prayer. The ceremony will take place at 7:30 in the evening. It will be a proud occasion for we Senior Citizens, so let us all be there. Don't forget to save your aluminum cans. Thelma Peterson's art class is at 4.00 o'clock on Wednesdays. June 28 the bus goes to Salt Lake City for doctor appointments. July 12 for Provo appointments. Friday, June 22, 1979 VOLUME 85, NUMBER 25 DEDICATION SET FOR PAHVANT SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER The dedication date for the Pahvant Senior Citizens Center has been set for Monday evening July 2 at 7:00 p.m. Everyone is invited to come, especially adults. A program has been set up with Governor Scott M. Mathcson as the guest speaker. He has worked out his schedule to be in Fillmore that day along w ith his wife Norma. Prcal George of Kanosh will give the dedicatory prayer. Music will be furnished by a chorus directed by Dallin Nielsen. Commissioner Harold Stewart w ill give a talk and the governor will be introduced by Commissioner Leigh Maxficld. Other numbers for the program are being arranged by Mae Cahoon, director of the center. Light refreshments are being served after the program, then people may tour the building. The personnel working with the senior citizens arc excited over w hat the center w ill do for the program, not only in recreation but w ith a larger nutrition program, health services, legal services. educational classes, and a place to have hobby classes. Director Cahoon is delighted with the beauty of the building. It will not only benefit our senior citizens but hopefully future senior citizens, she said. Albert Paxton, assistant director, feels the mw building will bring more people into the program. Maxine Rowley expressed her feelings that the new center will certainly fulfill a need. Martha Wright is delighted with the new kitchen facility and appreciates what it will do for the nutrition dinners. Alta Shuntway hopes the center will attract some of the people her age and younger. For over a year now. the center has been offering a balanced meal once a week through a special state nutrition grant. Meals were obtained at the cafes before the seniors moved into the pod on August 1. 1978. Since then, meals and programs have been served there The meals will every Wednesday. continue as soon as the moving is completed. A Harold Stewart Harold Stewart Elected to Utah Board of Counties Commissioner harold Stewart has been elected to tbc Board of Directors of the Utah Association of Counties and attended a meeting of the Board on June 15. He was also elected to represent the County Commissioners across the State on the Board, which makes policy for the Association. The Utah Association of Counties represents every county in the state and works with the State Government and Congress in behalf of County Government. Stewart is currently serving his second term as a County Commissioner of Millard County. He was raised in Meadow and married Belva Bushnell in July. 1929. They are the parents of three sons and two daughters. Farming and cattle have been the source of their livelihood. Stewart was Mayor of Meadow for 20 years before his election to the County Commission. As an active member of the LDS Church. Stewart has served in a Bishopric. as a member of a High Council, and is currently President of his High Priests Quorum. Meldon Warner aa ha appeared In High School's basketball team. 1934 as a member of Millard . Marshall of the Day Chosen Meldon N. Warner, a native of Fillmore now residing in Provo, has been chosen as Marshall of the Day" for the annual Old Capitol Day celebration on July 4, '1979. He and his wife, Gwen, will ride as honored guests in the Main Street parade at 10 a.m. Meldon, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Newel Warner, attended our local schools where he was very prominent in athletics and other school activities. He is remembered as one of the most outstanding athletes from this area. He continued his schooling and athletic carer at BYU winning his letter in football and track for three consecutive years. Upon graduation in 1938 he secured a coaching position at Star Valley. Wyoming where he taught for three years. He officated as coach one year at Millard High and later was athletic director at Snow College. Meldon worked for Geneva Steel Co. some cartilage in his left hand. He was its construction. In 1946 he taken to Veteran's Hospital and then during became owner and manager of his own transferred to St. Mark's Hospital the Wasatch Insulating and where surgery was performed on his business, in Provo, Utah. hand. Doctors are optimistic and say Roofing Company In 1963, while working on the Geneva Sgt. Pectol should regain full use of his Steel Co. roof, Meldon met with a hand. He has been released from the disabling accident. He fell 35 feet to a hospital and is recovering at home. concrete floor when the roof collapsed. Mundy and Stevens were treated and This resulted in a spine injury paralizing released. him from the chest down. For the past Sgt. Pectol will return to his duties as 16 years he has been confined to a a Utah Highway Patrol Trooper after his wheel chair. recovery. Meldon married Gwen Johnson, The three men were attending their of Mr. and Mrs. Mark S. daughter annual summer camp with of Holden in the Salt Lake Detachment I. Battery C. 2nd Bn. Johnson, 1939. Gwen graduated from in Temple 222nd Field Artillery when the accident USAC in Business Education and taught occulted. They are assigned to the in Delta. Millard, Provo, and Star Valley Fillmore unit. High Schools. Meldon and Gwen arc the parents of four children. Mark is manager of the East Murray branch of the Valley Bank of Salt Lake City. Greg is an attorney in Provo. Matt graduated from BYU in April and Pam is working ami attending the University of I'tah in Salt Lake City. The Warners have courageously and Maxine at Call Mae at met their challenges together. patiently to or Albert at We arc proud to have them represent reserve a seat . our city for our 1979 Fourth of July celebration. two-wee- PAHVANT VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS SCHEDULE By Ruth Zmilravlch ITS 85th YEAR 743-542- 743-546- 4 743-577- ATTENTION that the first crop hay is up and you are waiting for the second to come on. why don't you come over to the M.E. Bird Center to a dance, sponsored by the Senior Citizens, June 23 at 9:00. A good place to relax and enjoy yourself, it doesnt cost much, just $1.00 and a couple of hours of your time. Try it. you will like it. Remember. Saturday. June 23 at 9:00 at the M. E. Bird Center. Music will be bv the Moonlighters and only $1.00 each. Now for Pageant Try-Ou- ts s for "The Legend of Chief Kanosh" pageant will be held on Friday. July 6, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday. July 7. at 2 p.m. at the 1st and 4th Ward. s The are open to anyone in 13 Millard County years or older. There are roles open for adult Indians, adult Whites, and Family Groups. Try-out- try-out- - v - Tit V t John Starley operates the lathe while LaVoy Starley uses the bender at new Fillmore business operated by the two brothers. NEW MACHINE SHOP ALREADY DOING THRIVING BUSINESS By Marge Barton LaVoy and his brother, John, had worked for Rice Machine Works in Cedar City, since 1969, prior to setting up shop in Fillmore. "We still have a working arrangement with Rice where we can subcontract work to them that we arc unable to do at the present Starleys Machine, Welding & Supply, a new firm in Fillmore owned and operated by John. LaVoy. and Vernon Starley. is already doing a thriving business which proves the good judgement of the two brothers and their time," Starley continued. "We gained uncle in deciding to locate in Millard a lot of experience in the 10 years we County. LaVoy Starley. spokesman for spent with that company." There doesn't seem to be much they the firm, said, "We determined there was a need for this type service in this can't do right now though. LaVoy said area and we have been doing real they do a lot of aluminum welding on sprinkler pipe, and they can build and good." repair trailers such as boat, horse, and utility trailers, and they are making a "tilt-upfor a Kanosh contractor right The dedication of the monument, now. They explained a "tilt-up- " is a which includes a drinking fountain, machine that raises prefabricated to honor Stella H. Day for her many concrete walls up into position. But decades of service to this community, firm docs the mostly general repair and will take place on Wednesday . July 4, fuhiicat inn and LaVoy said they can 1979, in the North Park at 8.00 p.m. make a special jig to do just about any This monument is the result of a At picscni they have a milling job. coordinated community effort, with an industrial drill press maihinc. many clubs, organizations, and indi- besides smaller presses, grinders, and viduals giving of their time and money an assortment nl v.mous other tooling. in bringing to fruition this lasting tribalso have a bender, which not only ute to a great woman, who is untiring They but straightens as well. They can bends in her efforts on this community's shafts. "If a spin bearing on make alvi behalf. build it up The Fillmore Garden Club members, a shaft goes out. we can also like said. it and make new," Starley initiators of this project honoring Stella H. Day. began their planning over a "We will be buying an 80 ton press and will be able to add to our services year ago. with the following commitlater." He continued. We have a Chairman: Eleanor Mitchell. tee: Maida Walton (then president): Josie brand new long lathe that can do 8 ft. Ashman, Edith Callister. C'athryn pieces, too." I he boys are in the process of Nielsen, Daisy Rogers, Afton Swartz, Flora building up their steel stock and their and the late Arlene Olpin. Stewart, this year's piesidcnt. and goal is to have on hand a generous Helen Huntsman have sttuc beet, added supply of steel not only to meet their own needs but for sale to the genet al to the committee. The arch it ed and buihiir is Hal public. I be new machine shop is located at Robison, who has used his native travertine in most of the monument's 340 N. 400 W. in Scott Stephenson's Flow ell overpass. construction. Many individuals have building near the Delta's business would welcome We labor in hours of voluntary put service." he fast can and the too around give area the landscaping emphasized. He asks that you "Come monument. m and sec what we can do for you." He Since the monument is a communitywide project, everyone is invited to be added that they woulJ give an honest opinion on whether you should buy new present on this very special occasion. Dedication on the 4th " old emphasizing that an honest evaluation of the situation would be made by them. He said. "Give the repair a chance: come in for an estimate." Then he added. "I don't want to brag too much, but my little brother over there." nodding toward John, "is a damned good machinist." The Starless arc all former Fillmore area residents. LaVoy is married to the former Patsy Bushnell. daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ural Bushnell. They have seven children ranging in age from 3 to 14. They have five girls and two boys. The youngest are twin girls. The LaVoy Star ley s reside in Cedar City and plan to stay there for at least another year. They will spend their summers in Fillmore and. when business demands, plan to move heie. John Starley is married to the lormcr Sharia Bond of Meadow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Terrill Bond. They have two children, a boy who will be live in August and a two month old bobv gitl. They lived in Cedar Cnv until recently and now reside in Meadow. John will operate the business the year around. laVov and John are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Dell Starley of Fillmore. Vernon is the son ot Mr. and Mis. Oml Starley of Fillmote and is presently a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army. He is the Inspector General for western states the National Guard for and is stationed in the San Francisco area at present. He is married to the former Georgia Anderson of Fillmore, daughter of Laura Anderson and the late Noble Anderson. They have two girls. One is a sophomore in college and the other is a senior in high school. Vernon will spend his vacation time helping out at the shop until he retires from the service at which time he will return to Fillmore and join his nephews in the business. For more information check Starley's ad on Page 6 of this issue or call the . John can also be shop at contacted at home in Meadow ut er repair the three-year-ol- 1 842-710- 1 d |