Show pr T Page 2 Millard County USPS Thurs Oct Cmnmonta Last week Dennis and went to National Newspaper Association’s 99th Annual Convention held at the MGM Grand in Reno Nevada We flew from Salt Lake Wednesday morning with no sleep as usual and got there just in time to stand in line for hours (it seemed) to register in the hotel I had a 3:00 NNA Government Relations committee meeting so barely had time to change my clothes after the let alone a nap registering ordeal From there we went to the opening reception Lt Governor Bob Cashell gave the welcome address and encouraged everyone to gamble as the tax from gambling benefits the school system in Nevada which he said was excellent and thriving The next event was Sammy Davis Jr at Harrah’s which we had not elected to attend and a good thing as we definitely needed the sleep who attended the show Everyone reported it to be excellent Thursday morning started with the awards breakfast and then on to the General Session with a guest appearance by Mark Twain Speakers were Allen Neuharth Gannett Co “U S A Today” Albert Scardino Pulitzer Prize Winner and William EPA Ruckelshaus Administrator Next started sessions concurrent which always drive me nuts because I hate to choose one of three and hope I made the best choice I went to the one on postal forms and regulations Lunch at the trade show was next and then I had another committee meeting to plan the 1985 Government Affars Convention to be held in D C next March Washington 4 1984 ' " TO THE li U :Suc In the afternoon went to a presentation by Wilbur Garrett Editor of National Geographic He said it takes $10 million an issue to produce and they charge $90000 a page for advertising The evening was a prime rib dinner ‘‘Hello and a very spectactular Hello” Hollywood with a morning started Friday UNESCO Briefing by Joseph A Melan Chief of Public Relations Then it was back to the concurrent attended “The Right to sessions Know” about public notices and reaffirming the vital importance public notices are to a free society Then we went on a tour to Virginia City It was shorter than anticipated so we didn’t see much but the immediate tourist traps We did make it through Mark Twain’s office before it was time to get back on the bus The equipment used by Mark Twain was not too much more primitive than I was accustomed to before the recent advent of cold type picked up a reproduction of the April 25 1866 edition but I haven’t read much yet Actually I need a magnifying glass because the paper looks like this: (From the Missoari Democrat March Irishman named large Griffith whose and demeanor tracted considerable attention was before the Recorder yesterday on charge of bigamy When name was two Irish stepped forward prosecuting witnesses her hand bolding marriage certificate peared that on day of Jnly last the dant was onlted to Father Fitzgerald O'Brien and that on the tth of October be was married to Catherine both table women and either of them good enough for such man satisfied Griffith refused to with either of them and search of third when he arrested probably Officer Derinney The two quite other and both appeared friendly with to testify against their husband In late August when the elberta peaches were ready Mama would take the back seat out of the old Dodge car put some old quilts and blankets in and we would go to Oak City for a load of I’m glad we use 9 point type as I don’t think I would last long reading such small cramped type The “Daily Territorial Enterprise” cost $16 a year for a subscription Friday night was the Silver Screen Party after which we went to Harrah’s to the Bill Cosby show What a positively delightful hour and a half Saturday morning the finally concurrent sessions included Jack Landau ecutive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and discussing the 1st Amendment libel At noon Uncle Jim and Aunt Zola Birrell who were just home from the Pendleton Roundup picked us up for lunch and an afternoon visit at their house In the evening we went with David Gillette and his new'wife Kitty who we met for the first time They took us out on the town and then Sunday we flew back home It was mostly an enjoyable informative and relaxing trip but they wouldn’t let me pet the MGM lion and I thought prices were just a tad high Maybe I’m just jealous to see such a thriving tourist trade ‘Discover the East Millard Chamber” on Colombus Day 4 of The East Millard Chamber Commerce has chosen the theme "Discover the Chamber” for the first annual meeting to be held appropriately on October 8 1984 the 492nd anniversary of Columbus’ discovery will begin The meetin of America in the Territorial at 4 pm Statehouse The Chamber will be addressing the question “Why should belong to the Chamber of Commerce?” The Chamber’s Board of Directors have worked hard the past three months to plan the year for the The Board members are Chamber taking a positive approach this year and many efforts have been made in getting everything ready for the Oct 8 meeting as well as for the year The Board members will address as will Dale Carpenter the Chamber economic on will who speak has Mr Carpenter development for the served as chief executive activstate’s economic development ities since 1980 He has supervised f broad whose 14 state agencies mission is to develop and cultivate the community economic and cultural climate of the state During the time Carpenter has been in the position nearly 200 new firms have in Utah entered or expanded bringing 40000 new jobs with them The Board members this year are: Hunt Colette Jer’E president Arlene vice president Brinkerhoff Bartholomew Roy secretary Robert Barton Marge Alden Heward Wes Fletcher Robinson Sharon Nord Olpin and Rod Staples Brockbank The Board members extend an invitation and interested to all businesses individuals to join the Chamber in the best making this year ever for Millard County The East Millard of Chamber Commerce was organized in 1982 as a unified effort to not only make doing business here better but to as well improve the community They have new exciting people Sale ends October 6 heading the Chamber this year who and want to see change progress improvement The Board has reviewed an often asked question "Why belong to the and will Chamber of Commerce?” attempt to answer it during the Oct 8 meeting They will outline their plans for the coming year and report on what the Chamber has accomplished to date A new brochure recently completed by the Chamber will be introduced at this meeting The design was done professionally and spearheaded by Sharon Olpin and Roy Barraclough more advocates The Chamber between businesses communication and city county and state officials as they feel we can’t have progress Your in this area without change opinion counts and the Chamber at the welcomes your comments Won’t meeting you come and “Discover the Chamber?” A receptionbuffet will follow the meeting peaches Any excuse was good to get to go to Oak City the land of cousins Uncles and Aunts and watermelons We would get the peaches generally from one orchard paying as much as $150 a bushel for the highly piled We baskets of the beautiful fruit would fill the back part of the car with the peaches quilts layered in to keep the fruit from bruising too much Mama would park the old Dodge by the back door and then go to work to get the peaches “put up” Some good neighbor woman would be hired to come and help peel Mama was always careful to get someone who would not peel away too much of the peach She did not want to scald the fruit to peel it as she thought scalding made it look dark and not so good The peeling crew would sit in the ing room and visit and peel filling two quart bottles with the carefully peeled peaches placing them carefully in the bottles with the blade of the peeling knife There was someone usually a daughter to do the “running work” keeping them washing the bottles ready carrying the filled bottles to the kitchen putting in the cup of sugar and filling the bottle with hot water wiping the rim of the bottle placing a lid and then putting the bottles in the boiler on the old cookstove It was also her job to keep the wood in the fire going and the peaches boiling the forty five minutes then take them out and get another batch going By late afternoon the cupboard was covered with beautiful two quart bottles of peaches to cool overnight and be carried to the basement in the morning We always went into a winter with a good supply of bottled peaches beans from Grandpa Andersen’s dry farm bean patch sacks of potatoes in one corner of the basement a good supply of home bottled beef a “grist of flour” from the mill and bushels of jonathan apples We were well supplied for a long winter Community Calendar Oct 4 Millard High School Homecoming Assembly Oct Show at Fillmore City Photography Library Oct 5 Holman wedding recepBringard tion Delta lst2nd Ward Senior Citizens Law Center attorney at Senior Citizens Center Fillmore Smith Murdock Wedding Open House Delta 3rd4th Ward Pahvant Valley Senior Citizens Harvest Ball Fillmore Sr Citizens Center LudwigMason Wedding Reception M E Bird Center Delta Oct 7 Spencer Webb 80th birthday Webb home Deseret Oct 8 Flu shots at LDS Church in Scipio 1984 Red Wing Work Shoes 20 EDITOR “Bottled peaches” By Mary Henrie pm Flu shots at Holden Town Hall pm OFF n program Delta Community Church 7:30 pm East Millard Chamber of Commerce Fillmore meeting 4 pm Statehouse Oct 9 Sheriffs Sale mare Delta Livestock Auction noon Delta cancer screening clinic 9 am - 4 pm Oct 10 Fillmore cancer screening clinic Fillmore Stake Center Chronicle Progress USPS NWWm4 m? 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Mia Wat CtuiMW 8 Mil Editor - Over the past year or so there has been some controversy as to the purpose and legality of the “Conk Dam” located below Deseret Some area residents have stated that the so called “Conk Dam” caused or contributed to the flood of 1983 This letter is in answer to some of those accusations Early records indicate that several headgates were placed in the Sevier River below the present town of These were the Marshall Deseret headgate that served the Marshall track area west of Hinckley and the Craft Lake area the Conk headgate and the Nicholson Seed Farms west and south of Deseret plus several other contributing parties occured on or This development about the turn of the century The collection of headgates (built at a place in the river where several river channels split from the main Sevier River channel) later became known as the “Conk Dam”(now known as the Conk Diversion) In 1936 when the “Cox Decree” legalized all the water rights on the Lower Sevier River System the waters which accumulated or were yielded along the river below the Gunnison Bend Reservoir become known as the “Conk Water Rights”Pages of the Cox Decree states how these“Conk Water Rights” were to be divided and specified they should be measured at the “Conk Dam” We quote from the “Cox Decree:” “It is further ordered adjudged and decreed that all water herein decreed and distributed and to be distributed from water arising in the Sevier River below the said Gunnison Bend Reservoir shall be measured to the respective parties who are the owners of the right to use the same at what is commonly known as Conk's Dam and that all cushion water shall be maintained by the respective users at the same level” During the high water of the past two the old “Conk Dam” years most of was washed away Beginning in the fall of 1982 several cuts were made in t Dutton Editorial Advertising Dennit Evelyn Deb Athbrook Greathouie Office Account! Riley Wood I Legal Manager Wilman Swenson’s letter of Sept 26 expressed concern with my congressional voting record She is right I need to set the record straight First there appears to be some confusion since there is no such thing as a recorded attendance record What is recorded are votes The statement that I’ve never had an attendance record above 25 percent and that in one year it was 98 percent is false I regret that she has been misled In 1981 voted 82 percent of the time in 1982 85 percent and in 1984 it is 92 percent thus far I did miss the motion to cut funds for the Trident submarine which was defeated 312 to 89 and the Defense Authorization Bill which passed 290 to 73 I had followed both of these bills closely with leadership and was confident of their outcome Thus I felt safe in returning to Utah for my daughter’s wedding As to the importance of this as a campaign issue I can only refer you to a KSL editorial of Nov 19 1982: “It happens during every election Challengers charge incumbents with missing too many votes or with not introducing enough legislation I wish to compliment the Delta Area Chamber of Commerce on its choice of an Executive Secretary Jean Smith I was privileged to see one of the many things she does recently as was in attendance at the Area Giants Awards Banquet of which I understand she was more or less in charge af- It was a beautiful Ward firculation'Comp Commercial Jane You’ve earned your Wings! RedYVTngs-- - 111 East Main - Delta 00 m county for of county for 00 out year 5ml e Copy 25 cents Send Address changes to PO Jolley’s Western Wear Printing Beckwith Sufctcnpdons m advance year SI 00 ( months Boa 249 Delta Utah M624 Adssnwng laws an lruru at Dstu MSJ4 Clan Image m Dstw 5M0 ar 74tHS4 Hhaare CUWt FUHKMN6 HUAM WISON 17 I mm muS" Octoberfest talent show Receivable Biding Circulation Juke X Design Salet Fillmore Mallet t Production Major Conk Water users: Irish Tony Anderson Vincent Cropper Gary Dutson Lyle Stanworth LaMar Dewsnup Rep Hansen explains voting record Managing Editor Fillmore Marge Barton Mark Amott at Large Reporter She Ike Dutton “dam” in an effort to divert flood waters and some diking was done on the south side of the river where two old small channels left the river Never during the course of the high water did water flow over the banks of the river within a mile of the “Conk Dam” Water flooded over the banks of the river all the way up stream because the river simply could not pack the high water not because the “Conk Dam” backed up the river In the fall of 1983 a new diversion was placed in the river at the old “dam” site Approval for this “dam” was given by the State Engineer and because thfe diversion was not moved more than a few feet from the old site no new permit was required nor was advertising required An old structure was simply replaced with a new and better one percent of the cost for the was new Conk Diversion structure payed to each water user’s share by the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service and the balance on a 10 loan was granted to year the water user’s share by the State of Utah The new structure is a large headgate placed across the full river Boards can be placed in the structure to provide the cushion water necessary to irrigate During high water flows the boards can be removed and the water flows over the top of everything During the highest water of 1984 there was about 0 foot (one tenth of a foot) head loss In other words the structure backed up the river 01 foot at the “dam” This new structure was built with the hope that all people who had objected and felt that the old “dam” was not adequate would approve of the new one We hope this is true and hope they will personally inspect the new “dam” how who understands “Anyone Congress works knows that those two measures are largely meaningless measures of congressional performance Many bills voted on in Congress are inconsequential bills Lawmakers who vote on every bill are likely to be neglecting more important Those who vote 80 responsibilities percent of the time probably vote on all the important issues” Many of our votes are to approve the journal quorum calls votes for Gold Medals and National Sausage Week I often have to choose between these kinds of votes and important measures in committee and vital business in the home district For example I personally conferred with local ele ed officials and residents and made visits to every area considered in the Utah Wilderness Bill I agree with Ms Swenson am an employee of the people of the First District and am honestly trying my best to serve them both in Washington and Utah James V Hansen Member of Congress Chamber secretary praised Milled County The ! Users say Conk Diversion not to blame for flooding There’s a touch of fall in the air farmers are harvesting their crops fruits and vegetables are being canned men are by industrious homemakers reliving past deer hunts in anticipation for this year’s hunt football is in full swing yep it’s October and the West Millard Cultural Council is sponsoring an Octoberfest Talent Show on October 3th at 7:30 pm in the Delta Cost of adHigh School Auditorium mission is $300 Performances will include local favorites as well as many newcomers to the scene Nadine Smith is serving as chairman and promises an evening filled with sparkling entertainment Circle October 13th on your calendar and help us harvest a great crop of talent fair If the banquet is an example of her there is little wonder the efficieny Chamber is successful As I have know Jean for many years it is especially gratifying to me Sincerely Kris Jarvis Spanish Fork Utah Completes basic training Army National Guard Pvt Gregory J Edwards son of Grant Allen and Kathleen Edwards of Rural Route Delta Utah has completed basic training at Fort Dix NJ During the training students received instruction in drill and ceremonies weapons map reading tactics military courtesy military justice first aid and Army history and traditions On duty in West Germany Army Pfc Kevin F Peck son of Beverly G Casper and stepson of Ronald D Casper of Delta Utah has West arrived for duty in Bremeihaven Germany Peck a military police specialist with the 64th Military Police Department was previously at For assigned McClellan Alabama |