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Show Wl 11 HpnnlPSW Kill nn"i'iWMr w Home of The Mormon Miracle Pageant 992 Pageant Dates: July 9, 10, II, 8 1 14-1- 1 Volume 106 Number 52 50c a copy MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, JULY 2. 1992 Manti City will observe Karen Barton wears traditional 4th festivities Miss Manti Crown Opens Friday: Youth pageant, activities at City Park will make for gala celebration The Mantis home grown Fourth of July celebration will open Friday at 7:30 with the Miss Fourth of July Pageant in the Manti City Building's Eva Beal auditorium. lure of paper money. Free swimming at the pool begins at 1. Two tournaments are on the afternoon agenda: horseshoes at 1:15 and tennis at 4. See Wilbur Braithwaite for spots on the schedule. Admission is free. Eleven young women, ages 1416, will participate in this years contest. They will bejudged by judges on three categories: a 1 12 minute speech on the theme - The Fourth of July, a family tradition, an interview and modeli ng a formal dress of their own choice. Midway between the tournaments are money in the hay, the egg toss and the tug of war, a team event. out-of-tow- n The new Miss Manti, Karen Barton, and Nicole Cox, will perform specialty numbers. Molly Petersen, Miss Fourth of July 1991 and first attendant Karen Barton will emcee the pageant. are Janice and Molly Petersen. The pageant will be followed Friday night at 8:30 by a dance, sponsored by the Manti High School cheerleaders, on the city tennis courts. A few hours later the Legion Hall bell will loudly ring to announce the Saturday events. There will be the usual ham, Five contestants: Many talents exhibited at annual pageant last Saturday night The mayor and city council members will - cut the watermelons big chunks for all comers 3:30. eggs, pancakes and beverage breakfast from 7 to 9 a.m. at Legion I Tail. Gil Yardley will then emcee several morning activities: the flagceremony at the city park at9:30,theMissFourth program, the youth fashion show, withJulie Cox the chairman, the opening of the dozen booths, with Kim Simons in charge and entertainment provided by the Joe Liddell family. Gene Rogers heads the games committee. The games begin at 11:30 with the foot races, then rubber rope and candy scramble, and a lot of dimes at stake. The greased pole at 1 will have the - Thats when things will begin to taper off - the booths close, the paraphernalia is hauled away, cleanup begins. But therell be music in the air as well as the sound of fireworks Saturday night: a dance at the Manti tennis courts for people still cravingmore action. Manti City is spending$l, 000 on the celebration. Michelle Larson has put it all together. Anyone interested in the Fashion Show for boys and girls of all ages need to drop descriptions to Julie R. Cox, 204 West 200 North 835-946- 1. No tax increase for school purposes, Board decides 90 additional students: Decrease in assessed valuation means revenue drop Although the South Sanpete Districts 1992-9budget becomes operational on July 1, district officers are still struggl i ng to produce the final version. The new budget will be based on 90 additional students. They will, fortunately, be wuite evenly spread throughout the districts six schools. Thats because of a minor Gunnison Valley Elementary School 3 difficulty in determining the tax levy for debt service. But the districts property tax payers are assured that they wont face a tax increase for school purposes. In fact, according to Paul Gottfredson, district business administrator, the necessitate moving one of the two units at the Ephraim Middle School ato Gunnison. The district will be undertaking only minor building improvements this year, Mr. Gottfredson said. Republican convention chooses candidates for primary election mill levy will produce $95,323.00 less for school purposes in South Sanpete. The good news, however, is thatthe State OificeofEducation will make up the difference under the equlaization program. And the interesting sidelight on the tax situation is that the district will gaim 17,383 more for car candidates for governor and two of the four candidates for Congress Second District, which includes Sanpete County. In the Third District, they gave 79 percent of their votes to Richard Harrington and thus eliminated Parley Hellewell. As a result Mr. Harrington will bypass the primary election and face the incumbent Rep. Bill Orton, in the Nov. 3 general registrations. South Sanpete has, however, received one piece of financial bad news. Instead of receiving the originally allocated $73,950.00 under the new capital the outlay program Robin Hood bill the district will receive $40,674 00. - - I i Utah Republicans did a lot of voting at their state convention in Ogden over the weekend. They debated several issues before deciding on a platform, but mostly they picked their candidates for numerous city and local offices. Among other offices, they eliminated two of the four The candidates for that off ce were Joe Moody, Delta, an incumbent; Clyde L. Bunker, Delta, and LeonardM. Blackham, Moroni, a Sanpete County Commissioner. In the balloting by the 38 eligible voters, Mr. Blackham received 25 votes, Mr. Bunker, 9, and Mr. Moody, 4. As a result Mr. Moody was eliminated and Mr. Blackham and Mr. Bunker will go against each other in the primary. A media error had Mr. Blackham with the correct 25 votes and Mr. Bunker with 29 instead of the correct 9.) Another race that has The Republican winner in the primary either Mr. Blackham or Mr. Bunker will take on the Democratic candidate, Boyd Brotherson, Mt. Pleasant, in the general election. implications for Sanpete County voters involved the selection of a candidate for state 1 louse District 68, a district that has a majority of Sanpete Republican voters. Sanpete voters are anxious to have one of their House candidates win as a way ofhaving a strong local voice in the state legislature. election. Miss Karen Barton, a daughter of Don and Barbara Sue Barton, was crowned Miss Manti Saturday night at the annual Miss Manti Pageant. Joleen Bagnall, a daughter of Lewis and Vivian Bagnall, was named first attendant, and Carrie Penrod, a daughter of Allen and Barbara Penrod, was chosen attendant. as second - Utah Pageant in June 1993. Alternates were Elizabeth Naughton, a daughter of Bill and LuAnn Tuttle, and Jinny Lou Blair, a daughter ofMelvin and Emmy Lou Blair. . Inadditionto representing MissBarton played a piano LOrage for her talent number. solo, Marlene Holman, field director for the Miss Utah Pageant, who lives in Manti, directed the pageant, assisted by last years Miss Manti, Esther Chapman, hermother, Mary Ann Chapman, Jill and Janice Petersen and Michelle Manti City on floats in parades, etc., the new Miss Manti will receive a full tuition scholarship to Snow College, and will represent Manti City in the Miss Sanpete Pageant held in August and the Miss Nielson. Central Utah Art Center will sponsor showing of 2 outstanding Utah artists Spring City residents: Works will be shown in Ephraim gallery The Central Utah Art Center, mobile unit and this may overall levy may be a little lower than for the current school year. That levy, however, wont bring in as much money in the new year, because the assessed valuation of property in the district has gone down by more than $6 million. The total assessed valuation for the 1991-9school year was $146,853,093. For the new year it is only $140,395,645. That decrease means that the same 2 ' has requested an additional from left; Alternate Jinny Lou Blair; I st attendant Joleen Bagnall; Miss Manti Karen Barton; 2nd attendant Carrie Penrod; Alternate Elizabeth McNaughtan. Miss Manti Royalty, in Ephraim, announces the showing of two of Utahs great women painters in the main floor gallery. The painters are Ella Peacock and Lee Udall Bennion. Both of these artists reside in Spring City. Each artist displays an individual talent for bringing emotional content shining to the surface of the canvas on which they work. born Ella Peacock, Germantow, Pa. in 1905, studied at the Maryland Institute, and Philadelphia School of design, hand-mad- e firames. Lee Udall Bennion also resides in Spring City with her husband and three daughters. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a BFA. Most of Lees paintings are portrait snapshots of deep emotional quality. Influences of early expressionist painters like van Gogh or Gauguin are obvious, but along with this style she brings out an almost daydream quality of everyday events and thoughts. Lee also frames her work pai ntings with of exceptional quality, and they hand-carve- d her contain extended feelingof com pleteness. The show will exhibit from June 24 to August 5. An artists reception will be held Friday, July 17 from p.m. at the Central Utah Art 7-- 9 Center. i r (now Moore College of Art). She was thankful for any kind ofjob during that lean period, so she painted lamp shades, became a frame maker (gold leafing) for an art and frame shop. Later she trained and worked as a fcv S. l t draftsman. She first fell in love with the west traveling through in the 1930s and later in 1964 moved out to the big west, with no desire to ever go back east. Most of her paintings reflect the landscape of central Utah, which she captures with a keen eye for the complementary colors of the dry desert flora. She has a good eye for composition and keeps things simple in color and tone. Her work is set off handsomely with her distinctive excellent compositional skills with an - 1 - Ella Peacock and Lee Bennion V ' 4 t |