Show s sa a e & i VaO Serving Utah’s Great Pahvant Valley Delta Utah $1500 out ol months $800 and $900 (In Advance) IJSPS Copy 25$ Buy a poppy for our honored war dead illmore Mayor Doris Rasmussen and Delta Mayor Grant Nielson have declared Saturday May 25 1985 as Floppy Day The poppy is our nation's symbol of the war dead Donations foi the crepe paper poppies go toward helping needy veterans and their families So that everyone m the illmore area is aware of Veterans the Day American Legion Auxiliary Post 61 has placed poppies in the stores of several businesses to aid in distribution The story of (he poppy The beautiful red poppy was chosen the memorial symbol of the war dead I American the by egion and Auxiliary in 1920 It has since become the sign that the high ideals of these brave young men are still loved and honored The poppy is pinned on lapels when respect is paid to the American dead of the two world wars and the Korean and Vietnam wars It seems that toward the end of a fierce battle took place World War on a field in Trance called “I landers Field" Many young men died in that battle and it was late in the day so the decision was made to leave them and come back the next morning to bury them As the soldiers arrived the next morning a beautiful sight greeted them Flanders Held was literally covered with thousands of bright red poppies which had sprung up over night It was as if the precious blood of those young men had seeped into the ground and come up in the form of a red poppy as a tribute and memorial to their death In memory of that day an unknown poet penned these words: Rest in peace ye Flanders’ dead The fight that ye so bravely led We’ve taken up and we will keep 1 rue faith of you who lie asleep With each a cross to mark his bed Where once his own life blood ran red So let your pece be sweet and deep In I landers Though the Sevier Lake (above) is dose to the size of Utah Lake (below) officials doubt it is larger Exat t verification of the present Sevier Lake size may never be possible if maximum level drops quic kly this summer ield ii has made a stmng bid the ake is pmbablv not hodv ol watei in “div" Lit vest I Kill lot the past two seasons iccoid piecipitit ion has bioughl Seviei ake bask up to an 1872 contour which is shown on the state road map hat contour is 28 miles long and has a atei sui lace ol 188 squaie miles Cove Fort remains in local hands after Main have speculated that lull to this size Sev ict ake eclipses Utah ake in size and sould nghtlullv assume n tie as second hugest lake behind the tn eat Salt ake Olliunls at the U S Weathci Buieau ake ( itv don't agiee in Salt Utah Supreme Court negates will The Cove ort pioneer relic will main in the hands of Millard County owners thanks to a recent ruling by the Utah Supreme Court A lawsuit challenging a deceased Millard County resident’s right to give Cove Fort and the bulk of her estate to charity was settled in favor of her children Friday The case centered around the estate of Alice Kesler Fillmore who was 88 when she died in 1980 Her estate consisted of numerous pieces of real estate in the county area cluding the Old Cove Fort a travelers’ way station during the pioneer settlement years and more recently a privately managed tourist attraction Mrs Kesler’s five children named to receive shares of her estate in a will were almost disinherited in a 1979 will that came after Mrs Kesler her health in a severe and mental condition decline came to mistrust each child in turn Tour of the children challenged the will on grounds that their mother had delusions that they were suffered cheating her out of her property money and posessions In fact the decision recited audits had been conducted that proved her finances and property had been appropriately handled all the while But Mrs Kesler refused to believe the ev idence and stubbornly continued to insist her children had stolen from her Her contested will left 25 percent of the estate to the Missionary Fund of the LDS Church (to support missions undertaken by young Welsh church members outside of Wales) 15 percent to Primary Children’s Medical Center in Salt Lake City 10 percent to the Utah Chapter of the American Cancer Society 10 percent to the University of Utah Medical Center for staphlococcus infection research 5 percent to the DS Church’s Temple building fund 5 percent to her five children 20 percent to her grandchildren and 10 percent to her greatgrandchildren lower Appealing the unfavorable court decision was First Interstate Bank serving as special administrator for the charity recipients mentioned in the Alice Kesler Trust Challenging the 1979 will were David O Kesler Calvin Kesler Joseph Kesler and Mary Kesler Davies A filth child was not named in the appeal nor identified Tor the unanimous court Chief R Justice Gordon Hall noted the "classic" test of a person's competenin a will of three consists cy creating factors irst the testator must know the persons (“natural objects") receiving benefits under the will and understand his or her relationship to them second the maker must recall the nature and extent of his or her property and third the testator must dispose ot his property according to a consistent plan formed in his mind 75 No 46 Ma 23 Dave cstnehec ot the liuteau's Na tional Rivet oiecust ( entei said that ake even full the volume ot Sevier would be less than I tali ake and that ake's water surface at its Sevier a little onlv is luigct hugest piohablv than I tab ake “ he surface ol the two lakes ate similiat though we aie not sure how much but no doubt Utah ake is much deeper" Mi estnehee said Hie ol ic nils explained that detailed ol Seviei lake aie measuiements unavailable lot two reasons list the has lake is m such a icmote aiea tle impact on any local economy and thus does not come under the close scrutiny ot the government Second no recent sutillite maps have been very made ol the aiea Since the lake will peak in the next lew weeks chances lor mcusuimg it at the m rent high level muv be gone No one can he sure the lake ill etui n to Us iccoid high levels ol the past two ve us lower Seviei Rivet ( omnussioner Roger Walkei said this week there is about tin ce times as much water running into the lake than is evaporating his will change in about tluee weeks and the lake level will begin to drop Unless the aiea weie to continue to see the iccoid wet yeus ot 1981 and 84 the lake mas nevei get this high again oi a hundred scats white men have ake onlv as an known the Seviei Div uneai this white sink appealing as a milage south ol Highway 6 ‘i0 The lust explot eis however saw the lake lull c'l watei In lad the whole area own scvier River was around the rcpoitedh moie tike a maish than the desert we know todav In IS2 when tii't mapped Seviei ake was a large ess than though salty bodv ot water ten seats latei clue to diversion of the river water toi irrigation the lake went div Since then maps continue to dicate the 1872 shoreline though the “lake" has actually been little mote than a div lake bottom or salt flat he series ol 14 latticed “fences" visible on the lake bed ate microwave lelledion battlers installed by AT&T Company in 96' Their vertical suppoles lowered by ports are helicopter into holes dug through mud up to live teet thick Fire destroys Sutherland home firemen hampered a as firefighters front Delta and Hinckley were hampered by a detour around the Sutherland Bridge and a lack of water to fight the blaze The home of Ted and Faye Clark in near Woodrow Hall apSutherland parently caught fire at 10:00 am on May 16 after a clothes dryer was left running in a back room Investigators were not able to determine exactly how the dryer caused the fire No one was at home when the fire started Delta Fire Chief Bryce Ashby said the fire might have been extinguished if the four pumper trucks had not had the unfinished to detour around Sutherland Bridge “Our response time minutes but it was 4 or 5 was only minutes longer than it normally would have been and that could have made the difference” he said Despite the delay in arriving the firemen began to bring the smoldering blaze under control only to be frustrated in their efforts when after 2000 gallons from five trucks were hausted there was no secondary water in the rural agricultural available neighborhood Fire completely destroyed Sutherland home Thursday Because irrigation ditches close to the home were nearly dry firemen drove a mile to get extra water "It seemed that we just about had the fire under control when we had to stop and drive up the road for more water” Chief Ashby said “By the time we had enough water again the flames were coming through the roof” The firemen hauled another 10000 gallons to the scene to no avail the chief said Mrs Clark said that she had left Thursday morning to visit a neighbor Upon returning some 45 minutes later she found the house filled with smoke “We couldn’t get in the front door so we went around to the back but the smoke was too bad there also We couldn’t get in to get anything out” she said Mrs Clark said that she lost a collection of antique furniture and that a few guns were all that was recovered The Delta Fire Department responded with four trucks and 13 men while Hinckley Fire Department assisted with one truck and six men Firemen fought in vain to stop blaze Thursday spreading a rapidly at the 1985 Sevier Lake is still mot 2midl biggest in tbe state liouuli lull Sev lei the seumd ear not that ye have died for naught The torch ye through to us we caught Ten million hands will hold it high And Freedom’s light will never die We’ve learned the lesson that ye taught In Flanders field Vol Sutherland home of Ted and Faye Clark The home was completely destroyed Cause vax attributed to dryer 54th Annual Millard County Livestock Show May 27 - a running clothes 31 1985 |