Show V fl 1 Western book has local ties by Ken Rand I don’t think you can write with wit and authority about the West until you’ve gotten it on your boots first Wit is tough Western wit is nearly impossible unless you speak the language Only a few have had it Mark Twain Will Rogers and Ed Abbey come readily to mind Maybe a few others You could add Hector Lee’s name to that short list but the author of “The Bodega War and Other Tales from Western Lore” would likely protest modestly In his “Note to the Reader” Lee wrote: “I do not pretend that these add up to being a representative portrayal of the Old West the Far West or any other kind of West Simply they all have their setting somewhere west of the Rocky Mountains and they offer glimpses of life there both past and present They were written primarily for and mine” enjoyment yours The man’s modesty is matched by his wit Take for example the first paragraph of “The Legend of Chief Little Sitting Bear”: ‘“Oh Ranger how many undiscovered Indian ruins are there out in the desert there?’ Well the last time we counted them there were just over five hundred and undiscovered ones not to mention the lost ruins we already know about ‘Oh Ranger if drive up this road to the end of it in this canyon are you sure we can turn around up there?’ Well if you couldn’t we’d have a lot of people up there wouldn’t we? ‘Oh Ranger how do porcupines make love?’ Very carefully” There are more examples among the Hector Lee short stories in the collection which are more about the people of the West than the locale in which they live The grand legends of the West are present The first story “Tamsen Decision” is about the Donner Party “Death Valley Scotty” retells the story of that colorful character A mining story from Montana a ghost story an old Indian legend and “The Bodega War” help make the collection very well rounded Despite Lee’s modest protest in his troduction the book touches all the bases of the rich diversity of Western folklore The dirt on Lee’s boots is recognized by his publisher Capra Press in their jacket blurb for the book: “These legends and tales resound with the earthiness and authenticity of the old pioneers Indians and yarn spinners who fathered them Read aloud they provide sheer entertainment” Lee wrote “For the most part these tales are to be viewed as fiction” Still the former Millard County resident has 14 Lung Association takes tax initiative stand The American Lung Association of Utah has reviewed the proposed tax itiatives which will be on the ballot in is the The following November Association’s position on these initiatives: The tobacco Products Tax is an essential tax that should not be reduced The current tobacco tax serves as a) partial compensation to the public for the cost of tobacco use and b) as a deterrent to tobacco usage In addition proceeds from the current tax on care procigarettes supports grams for low income mothers Reduction of funding used for this purpose would lower the standard of Utah’s public health services 2 We oppose any reduction in taxes that would impair the ability of state HOLDEN Cherryl Wood Ph to Mike Wood on Congratulations his mission call to Tiawan He will be entering the MTC on Jan 18th Mike is the son of Grant and Norma Wood Bishop Lester Dobson and wife Jean and Lula and Burton McKee were in Tooele Sunday to attend the missionary farewell of Cory Dobson son of Allen and Karen Dobson Clair and Joan McKee from Las Vegas took Burton and Lula up with them in to visit Tom and Stopping Berneice Stephenson were their former mission president and his wife President and Sister Joseph Kjar of Centerville Utah The Kjars recently returned from the Manilla Phillipines Mission where they served three years as the Mission President there Tom and Kathy Hunter of Orem drove down to spend the day visiting The deer botfly is the fastest of sustained flight speed of 25 miles and local agencies to provide essential health services Tax limitations that would interfere with the State’s ability to monitor and protect air quality would be detrimenof Utah tal to the health and residents In light of an increase in the generation of toxic and hazardous pollutants Utah it is imin areas throughout perative that state and local agencies not only retain the ability to monitor these emissions but should be required to increase their efforts to enforce adequate air quality standards The American Lung Association of Utah the Christmas Seal People urge all voters to carefully consider these positions when they go to the polls in November Tom’s parents Otto and Allie Huntei recently Driving to Orem Sunday afternoon were Grant and Norma Wood and family Cherryl and Robert Wood and family They went especially for a birthday dinner at Helen and Bruce Ashtons in honor of Reed Wood’s birthday Chris Monsen was sustained as the new Work Director in the Relief Society and Myra Condie was sustained as the Homemaking lesson leader Spending the deer hunt with Bishop Lester and Jean Dobson were their sons Dennis Jeff Loy and their wives and families Coming from Senona Arizona was Lester’s brother Melvin Dobson Lester’s brother Lowell Dobson and son Doug were down from Spanish Fork and Lester’s brother Don and Phyllis Dobson and some of their grandsons were also here from Lehi They all enjoyed hunting together Please report your deer hunt visitors to Cherryl Wood by Sunday evening Thanks all insects with per hour an estimated average At times during the orbital motion of Uranus the north or south pole Sun During those times the poleward aligned nearly face on toward the while the other hemisphere misphere receives nearly constant sunlight darkness yguishes in decades-lon- clearly based some of his stories on real people some of whom might even recognize themselves in the books 187 pages Two of the stories use Millard County locales “Unto Her a Child is Bom” is based in Hatton “The Celebrated is Millard County Stock Company” based in Fillmore In his comments about the stories at the back of the book Lee wrote there are no elaborated character sketches in “Mr “The Stock Company” Rasmussen Lillian Dr Baker and the narrator are really only types though taken together as a troupe each adds a small portion to the character of the group as a whole” Yet it’s easy to wonder how many of the characters are at least based on people Lee knew when he lived in Fillmore Lee graduated from Millard High School in 1926 He had been president of the student body at one time Lee sent a copy of the book to the Chronicle Progress office in Fillmore along with a letter: “I am not interested in publicity or book sales my publisher takes care of that But I would enjoy hearing from any of my old friends who have survived this long” You may contact Lee through his publisher Capra Press PO Box 2068 Santa Barbara Calif 93120 Retail price of the book by the way is $895 Lee is now living in California where he is professor emeritus at Sonoma State College In addition to “Bodega War” Lee is the author of “Heroes Villians and Ghosts” The paperback book is richly lustrated throughout including the cover with several woodcut prints by Judy Sutliffe DELTA Eddys Barken Ph: Mrs Archie Barben spent Saturday for the deer hunt in Marysvale at the home of Mrs Keith Barben Mr Gordon Barben and 3 sons of St George UT also came there for the hunt on Sat Keith’s 3 college sons were there also to hunt Mrs Russell Stewart and family Joe Stewart and Mr Floyd Charles and two sons Clint and Frankie went on a hunting trip to the St George hunting area They got a nice deer Mrs Goldie Miller just returned home from a trip by palne to CA near San Francisco Pittsburg where she visited her 92 year old cousin Mrs Helen Palmer Mrs Keith Barben and 5 children spent Saturday in Delta visiting with parents and other family members Deseret Our sincere sympathy is extended to the Western family at the passing of Leslie Western Leslie will be missed by family and friends Visiting a few days at the home of Rose Nichols was her daughter Gloria Martin from Salt Lake City and granddaughters Judy Reeves and 3 children from West Jordon Penny Moir and 5 children from Springville Utah Mrs Lloyd Anderson visited Tues with Blanche Jensen Visiting over the weekend at the home of Fon and Stella Hawley was daughter Marlena Lewis from Bountiful and her two daughters Maurine Lewis from BYU at Provo and Michelle Peart and son Blake from Salt Lake City Gary D Dutson visited in Salt Lake City over the weekend Tony Western from Alaska Douglas Western from Midvale and familv Wallace Western and family from Murray John Western and family from Spring City all came home to be with their parents Faun and Luella Western for funeral services of their uncle Leslie Western to “I want to encourage further development of the mining industry in Millard County" C FRANK BAKER Candidate for Commissioner Pd Pol Ad ll3pd ffes iHfff Iluce MASS OfUgffUR Mich Hus fltfuefe o this Mttow fat Momfs Din continue ttr msf untie smv t & Oasis Arprilla Scow Ph: by Barry McWilliams OurT'fmu' aeouriue pniificKWs m $URS DISH He'D GerouTditieu&n'H£R McLaughlin keynotes Hatch Women’s Conference United States Secretary of Labor Ann McLaughlin who directs a staff of 18000 employees will keynote the Utah Women’s Conference on Friday November 18 1988 at Salt Lake's Symphony Hall Sen Orrin Hatch sponsor of the annual event “Discovering the Diversity and Unity of Women” said Secretary McLaughlin is only the second woman to head the Labor Department She manages a budget of over $24 billion “Secretary McLaughlin has a keen sense of how the labor market is changing and will continue to change to reflect the increased number of women entering the workforce” said Hatch “In fact in the 1990’s women will make up two of every three new entrants in jobs” “Child care has become the secretary’s number one priority How we manage this growing concern determines our commitment to the new workforce” “I’m proud to have Secretary McLaughlin in Utah because of what she represents to the millions of women in America who look to her as a role model” “She is uniquely qualified to speak on how jobs impact families employers and the community due to her responsibility for the protection of wages ensuring the health and safety on the job the promotion of equal employment and job training for every working person in this country” Joining the Labor Secretary will be 20 other excellent speakers in the daylong event Tickets are still available by calling th senator’s Salt Lake Office at Utah Business Hot-Lin- e As of Thursday October 27 Utah businesses can call a number for information on business retention and expansion and on assistance programs in management and marketing The number is offered through the Utah State Division of Business and Lawrence Economic Development director Goldsmith of the State Business Liaison Program says the division is “looking forward to hearing from business people in the state” “We’re offering the number” said Goldsmith “so we can better serve Utah businesses by providing information and directing them to available sources of help” Millard County s USPS Thurs Nov 3 1988 - Page 13 Pheasant hunters will help choir by Ken Rand A pheasant hunting unit has been opened in the Delta area proceeds from which will go to help the Delta High School acappella choir finance their trip to Paris next summer Mike Rose in charge of the project on behalf of the choir said over 7000 acres has been donated The farms are Rose all over West Millard County said including Sutherland Sugarville Deseret Oasis Hinckley Abraham South Tract Oak City Leamington and Lynndyl Badges will be sold to hunters for $10 each Farmers will post their land apRose said propriately Badges may be purchased at several “On their way in from locations into or from Holden McCormick Delta” Rose said “there is a turnoff just south that goes to Deseret We’ll have a station there that will sell badges Also in Deseret south of the town coming in from Millard there will be a place where people can buy In Hinckley badges going out on Highway 6 there will be a place that people can buy badges Also at the charcoal pits above Leamington there’ll be a station there and then right in the town of Leamington where it intersects with the road coming south from Fool Creek and Oak City” Rose said badges may also be purchased at the Delta city park “If anyone would like to buy badges early” he added “they can do that before UBA Saturday by going down to the Delta High School and they can buy them there” The hunt takes place Saturday and Sunday Nov 5 and 6 the opening and second day of the pheasant season is Rose said a pancake breakfast scheduled for Saturday from 7 am to 9 am at the tennis courts in the Delta City Park for hunters and friends of the we’re gochoir “Then at lunchtime ing to have a chili bean dinner” Rose said “So they can come and spend the entire day and eat breakfast and dinner here” Lunch is from am until 2 pm The last time a pheasant unit was in this area was created as a about 30 or 40 years ago Rose said banded when local land owners together to raise money to build the old hopsital run by Dr Bird now the tended care unit in Delta State law under the authority of the Department of Fish and Wildlife provides that farmers and other land owners can form a pheasant unit post their land as such and allow hunters who buy special badges to hunt on that land The money raised through the unit can be used for any good cause the farmers and land owners want to promote Rose said "Dave Smith is the local Fish and Game agent who really helped us” Rose said “and he deserves a lot of credit He's a good man” UHSAA reach agreement An agreement has been reached between the Utah Broadcasters Association of which Delta radio station KNAK is a member and the Utah High School Activities Association regarding charges to radio stations broadcasting UHSAA sporting events The UHSAA has agreed to accept promotional announcements in lieu of the fee normally charged L’BA stations which has been $40 per station for each high school game broadstacast Under the new agreement tions broadcasting UHSAA games will be required to broadcast at least 40 promotional announcements during the tournament the station will cover Mike KNAK ownermanager Halloran said the new system will have an impact on broadcasts of Delta and Millard High sporting events in the future “We’ve had some problems in the past in terms of these fees” Halloran said The UHSAA now has corporate sponsors who have donated in excess “Now of $650000 to the Association they have requested that we play anfor them” Halloran nouncements said The corporate sponsors are First Security Bank Hardee's and the Dairy Council of Utah “We’re happy with that” Halloran said “They’re going to evaluate it and see if it’s going to work out” The agreement is in effect for one year The Millard High Eagles shut out Grantsville Friday Oct 28 in Fillmore and have advanced to the chamin the state quarterfinals pionship series with a game on a neutral field location of which has not been announced Halloran said he plans to broadcast any further games the Eagles play in the playoffs wherever they go “As far as wrestling goes this year” Halloran said “we’d like to air all of them but with the holidays and the demands with advertisers to spend their dollars on all kinds of advertising it’s hard for them to sponsor all the games for wrestling ast ear we did the regionals and stale and it looks like we'll probably do regionals and state definitely this year basketball Coverage of games at Delta and Millard High is also conditional on several factors Halloran said “It just boils down to whether we can do it or not” he said Millard High Eagles play their next game at Provo High against San Juan this Saturday at pm KNAK will broadcast the game |