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Show Entwistle Company Acquires D G Trailer F acilities Volume 91 ANT Number 9 15 a copy MANTI, UTAH 84642, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1976 Sanpete County Fair Distributes More than $3,000 in Cash Awards to Prize Winners In addition to distributing a bountiful quantity of blue, red and white ribbons and more than $3000 in cash to exhibitors, the Sanpete County Fair saw numerous participants selected for competition in state contests. $1934.00 was awarded to the exhibitors of award-winnin- g livestock; $340.00 in premiums to members; $990 to persons who entered produce, arts and crafts and other items and about $130 to exhibitors of pets and poultry, according to Earl Gark, fair board secretary-treasure- r. 4-- Anita Young, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Young, Sterling, won first place in the Style Dress Revue and Kathy Allred, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Allred, Manti, second, and thus qualified for the state meet. Kathy Herman-sea daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Redge Hermansen, Gunnison, is first alternate. Sanpete County Farm Bureau Talent Find winners who placed first and thereby qualified for state were Lori Taylor, Kristen Sanders and Suzanne Warren, Gunnison, with a song and dance routine, junior division; n, Lynette James, Centerfield, with a song and guitar accompaniment, intermediate division, and Mrs. Nancy Jorgensen and Mrs. Sherry Gunnison, with a sen. or Wisioiu-wo- n Members of the state livestock judging team, qualify- Anderson, I "A hltanrOunffrrtgh wsptano-dnei- them first and second place in the Revue. 4-- H Style Dress , 4-- Noted Musical Director will Conduct described by Dr. Lowell Durham, music critic of the Salt Lake Tribune, in these words, The choir is energetic, superbly trained, and d, master of music degree at Northwestern University and has served three terms as president of Kappa Gamma Psi, national music fraternity. Throughout the years, he has studied and associated such masters of choral interpretation as Noble Cain and Peter Wilhousky. with The versatility of Mr. talent is widely recognized. His concerts are programmed to include the greatest works available from performs with a polish that comes from a thorough knowledge of its conductors musical ideas and wishes. . . Mr. Willardsen is able to obtain a high degree of flexibility from his singers. . . Armont Willardsen is a most capable choral specialist . . . and a master showman. The Salt Lake Symphonic Choir concert in Ephraim is sponsored through the courtesy of the Snow College Endowment Committee in cooperation with the Snow College Development Office. Tickets for the concert can be reserved by calling the Snow College Development Office 1 , ext. 230 or by mailing a request to the Development Office in Ephraim. PTA Officers Broadway musical composers. Mr. Willardsens choral tal- ent has been appropriately Armont Willardsen Schedule Summer Meeting and Tour Dated puture Events Manti PTA by Manti Grazing Advisory Board cers met Elementary last Friday to plan offi- The Manti Division Grazing Advisory Board will hold their summer meeting and tour on Monday, Sept. 13, according to Reed Christensen, Supervisor, Manti-LaS- al Forest Na- tional Forest, Price. Board members and interested public will begin the tour at 10:00 a.m. at the junction of U.S. 50 and 89 and the Diamond Fork road. This junction is three miles north of the Thistle Junction. The tour will cover portions of the Diamond Fork cattle allotment. A formal meeting of the Advisory Board will be held after lunch. Topics to be considered by the board are: 1. Work impact from accelerated comprehensive land use planning on Ferron and Price Districts to provide input to coal mining environmental impact their activities for the coming statement. year. 2. Central Utah coal mining environmental statement. 3. Controls and need for state license for use of night will be in September and will start off Back-to-scho- the membership drive which will continue through October! The Halloween carnival will be held again this year on Oct. 30. On November 26 a movie will pesticides on National Forest land. 4. Requirements for use of 4 device to control Animal be sponsored for the children Damage (coyotes) on National and homemade candy will be Forest administered land. sold. The tour and meeting is open The Christmas bazaar will be to the public. Both board held Dec. 17 and mothers members and the public should should be thinking about some furnish their own lunch. items to donate for it. In To the extent time permits January there will be a mothers the public may comment and daughters tea for the 5th verbally on the above specific and 6th grade girls. Founders Day will be in Febtopics or file written statements before or after the meeting. ruary. A band concert and a week-lon- g Those persons wishing addiart fair in April will tional information regarding conclude the year. the meeting may contact The school and PTA are now Advisory Board Chairman Vail in the process of purchasing Nielson at Ephraim, Utah, some new equipment for the phone playground. M-4- 283-439- Anderson and Scott Madsen, with Kerry Despain and Stacey Rasmussen as alternates. The state dairy judging team, also qualifying on a point basis, includes Jarvis Sorensen, Rus- Steck, Kathy Ephraim; Her- mansen, Gunnison; Delene Willardsen, Gunnison, and Alene Macfarlane, Manti. Child Care I Jolene Beazer, Ephraim. Knitting VII Brenda Anderson, Manti. Arts and Crafts Curtis Ludvigson, Sterling, and Peggy Odell, Manti. Foods 1 David Williams, Ephraim; Cheri Crisp, Spring Despain, alternate. City; Stephanie Prisbey, GunCounty fair demonstration and public speaking winners nison; Nancy Fotheringham, were announced in last weeks Ephraim; Angie Hoskins, Fair-vieand Virginia Maynes, paper. Others qualifying for the Manti. Foods II Stacy Jorgenstate fair were: , sen, Ephraim; Kim Stewart, Ephraim; Ruth Karpt, Moroni, Clothing I Ellen Jacobson, Ftn. Green; Cathy Olsen, and Cheri Whitlock, Gunnison. Foods III Katie Johnson, Gunnison; Alison Dyches, Ftn. Green; Chris Peterson, Moroni; Anna Maria Aagard, Moroni; Amy Mickelsen, Ftn. Mt. Pleasant; Kandy Larsen, Green, and Rosemary Goodwin, Manti, and Patricia Yardley, Centerfield. Foods IV Pamela Manti. Gothing II Julie JorHermansen, Gunnison; Loralee gensen, Mt. Pleasant; Janell Gil, Henrie, Gunnison; Vickie Jensen, Centerfield; Jody Ftn. and Smith, Manti, and Janell Gilgen, gen, Trudy Green. Clothing III Tami JorJensen, Centerfield. Advanced Foods Ann gensen, Mt. Pleasant; Pamela i" Ftn. Green; Denise Hermansen, Gunnison; Angela Steck, Ephraim, and Michelle Jensen, Gunnison; Kristine Petersen, Gunnison, and Jana-le- e Madsen, Centerfield. Morten-seIV Fern Sorenson, Axtell. Outdoor Clothing Mikkelsen, Ephraim; Signe Olson, Cookery Bonnie Ftn. Green; Corinne Frisch-knech- t, Ephraim; Joy Johnson, Ephraim, and Kelly Beck, Ftn. Manti; Janell Allred, Green. Clothing V Valerie Manti, and Jeri Jones, Manti. sell Yardley, Keith Jensen, Wayne Sorensen and Greg Mik-kelse- n, Snow College Nursery School to Open, Susan Ericksen will Teach r Newly appointed to the position of head nursery school teacher at Snow College is Susan Ericksen. She is the McLoyd Ericksen of Ephraim. 283-402- the classical, romantic and Peel, Kent Barton, Karen daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Salt Lake Symphonic Choir Saturday Armont Willardsen, director of the Salt Lake Symphonic Choir, has dedicated his life to music. His choir can be heard Saturday, Sept. 11, at 8:00 p.m. at the Snow College auditorium. Mr. Willardsen earned his ing on a point basis, are Dale Susan is a graduate of Weber State College in child development. She is also a graduate of Snow College and Manti High School. During her college years she participated in many musical groups and theatrical productions. While at Snow College, she received the honor of being named Woman of the Year by the Associated Men students and received honors for her musical and theatrical participation. While at Weber State College she was listed on the honor roll winter quarter You may your child for the nursery school by calling Susan Ericksen at 2 between 8 a.m. and 12 noon, August 30th to September 2nd or by calling Snow 1 beginning College at 7th. Parents who September pre-regist- er 283-484- 283-402- children last spring or this summer will be contacted during the week of September 13th through the 17th. 1975. Miss Ericksen has had varied experience with her musical talents. She sang for three years with her fathers dance band throughout this part of the state. She has traveled with Eugene Jelesnik overseas entertaining U. S. servicemen and women. Her travels have taken her to the Pacific islands, Guam, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and Korea, the Caribbean, including Cuba and just recently Germany and Iceland. Schedule Snow College The 1976-7- 7 Nursery School is scheduled to begin on September 28th. The nursery school offers two daily sessions for children ages 3 Vi to 5. The morning session is from 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and the afternoon session is from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. A child may attend one session only and should be enrolled in the program for a' minimum of three months or the equivalent of one college quarter and may be enrolled for a full year and a successive year. The tuition fees are based on the quarter and can be divided into three equal pay- Susan Erickson Hal Hansen has received the first annual Distinguished Service Award presented to' a local citizen by the Ephraim Police Department for exceptional cooperation in law enforce- These calls have included Give Heart Fund. Give Heart Fund American Heart Assooat'on t. Bruce Jennings ture of recreational vehicles a Mr. DeCicgrowth industry, cio said, and the acquisition of travel trailer manufacturing the Roadrunner plant, along facilities of D G Leisure with plants we already own in MasProducts, Inc. in Ephraim and Colorado, Wisconsin and will us access sachusetts, give plans to increase production nation-wid- e market. and expand the marketing area. to a D. R. DeCiccio, president of Diversification Emphasized Entwistle, has been in Ephraim During its first 50 years this week to assist with the Entwistle has been a machinery transition in ownership, which oriented company with heavy becomes effective Oct. 4, the specialization in Department of beginning of Entwistles new Defense procurements. The fiscal year. company went public in 1968, DeCiccio said that Don however, and one of its main ' Hansen; prtently D G Letsure objectives- - became diversificaProducts sales manager at the tion. The manufacture of recreEphraim plant, will become marketing manager and acting ational vehicles seemed to be a general manager when the very promising area for growth Mr. Deand diversification, change in ownership is comhe the Ciccio and we said, Otherwise, pleted. explained, present management will conbegan to move into this field. In 1969 Entwistle purchased tinue. Vast experience the Mallard Coach Company of Mr. Hansen has had 23 West Bend, Wis., an ailing years experience in all phases company which manufactured of the recreational vehicle Goldeneye travel trailers, and from production to began to restore the company to business sales, Mr. DeCiccio said. economic health. His comprehensive backToday Mallard continues to manufacture travel trailers in ground will undoubtedly contribute to the continued success the original plant, builds mini of the operation. motor homes in a second plant in West Bend, has a third plant The Ephraim facility will, become in Hudson, Mass., the headwith the change-ove- r, the Roadrunner Division of quarters of Entwistle, and has more than quadrupled its Entwistle, Co. We expect to increase business. Mallard distributes its proproduction at the Ephraim plant and expand the market for its ducts primarily on the East coast and in the Midwest. products into Arizona, CaliforOn Jan. 1, 1976, Entwistle nia and the Pacific Northwest, Mr. DeCiccio said. He added again moved to expand the that plans for the plant, which recreational vehicle phase of its trailbusiness. It acquired the Red presently builds and Dale line of travel trailers, trailers travel pickup ers, campers, include the addition owned by Armco Steel Corp. of a line of mini motor homes and built in Longmont, Colo. Red Dales markets are primarwithin a few months. We consider the manufac ily in the Rocky Mountain Entwistle Company of Hudson, Mass., has acquired the states. We now have dealerships selling our products from Mr. Maine to California, DeCiccio said, Our immediate goal now is to develop Roadrunner into one of the strong divisions of our overall company. Remarkable Growth In 1976, according to Mr. DeCiccio, defense will account for only 10 percent of Entwistles business. The manufacture of machinery used in the paper, plastics and wire arid cable industries will account for 35 percent. And the manufacture of recreational vehicles will account for the other 55 percent. Our growth, since we got into recreational vehicles, has been, we feel, remarkable. For exMr. DeCiccio said. ample, our net sales for the nine month period ending June 30, 1975, were, in round figures, $12,500,000 and we earned 25c per share. For the nine months ending June 30, 1976, our net sales were $22,000,000 and we earned 77c per share! Part of those earnings are, of course, going to our shareholders in the way of dividends, but a substantial portion is also assisting us in the acquisition of new facilities, like the Roadrunner plant. And we feel confident that the acquisition of this facility will likewise contribute to our development as a broad-basegrowth company. W'wm p assistance. Mr. Spangler explained that the purpose of the Distinguished Service Award is to citizens d recognize their for in the community back-u- civic-minde- cooperation in law enforcement work. Effective law enforcement cannot be accomplished by officers alone, he pointed out, "but only through the cooperation of involved cit izens. Mr. Hansen has been for a number of years an active member of the Sanpete County Sheriffs Search and Rescue Squad. Mr. Hansen has many times assisted the Police Dept, by making telephone calls to other law enforcement agencies from Miss Ericksen. act. By ment. a handThe presentation some plaque was made to Mr. Hansen by Mayor Clair Erickson and he was cited particularly for his C.B. radio assistance to the Police Dept. and to various citizens Perform a Hanson Distinguished Service Award Given ments. Detailed tuition information may be obtained death-defyi- ng ACTING GENERAL MANAGER of Entwistles new operation in Ephraim, Don Hansen looks over literature with D. R. DeCiccio, president of Entwistles mobile home division. in connection with police work. reports of accidents and other law enforcement problems," Police Chief Kent Spangler said. He added that on occasion Mr. Hansen had left his home to come to the assistance of the local department when other agencies were on calls and therefore not available for 1 SERVICE AWARD is presented by Mayor Clair Erickson, left, to Hal Hansen. Ephraim City police officers Kent Spangler, Demont Thompson and Dora I White look on approvingly. DISTINGUISHED |