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Show Escalante Chit Chat BY FAY ALVEY The locust blossoms blowing around resemble the snow storms of last winter, except the temperatures are warmer; it hit 94 Saturday. Miriam Crandall is in the Pangultch Hospital. Jim has made several trips to see her. Charlie Everett Is also there; he had a fracas with a horse and wound up with a dislocated shoulder, Nancy is with him. Julia Droubay went to Salt Lake City to visit her grandparents. Ua Alvey went back to Salt Lake City to see her Doctor. Geneal Frailer and son Ryan brought her home and will stay a while. Thelma Smith and family of Henrleville visited them and Rene and Earl Coffman and family of Glen City came for the weekend. Minnie Davis took her parents the S. J. Alveys to Pangultch for a checkup and more pills. Walter Dane took his pickup to Page, Arizona, and moved the belongings of Lola Zenr home, she sold her trailer house and Is preparing to move to Reno, Nevada, where her sons live. Renee and Ben Porter and part of their family were here from Provo at the Blake Robinson home. Blake and Billie Davis went to South Jordon for horse races; one of their horses run a dead heat and the other took a first place. Dlanne Alvey was there Jock-eying and went on into Idaho for more races. The LaVern Griffins had El-don and Amber and girls from Kanab for the weekend. Hazel and Vernon Griffin and son Allan visited relatives In Richfield, so did Margene Stowe. Quite a number of our High School boys went to Provo and Richfield for the basketball clinic; Gary Liston and Kenneth Shurtz won trophies for jump shots. Ann Munson and Clorene VI-drlne spent the weekend in Salt Lake City. Everett and Carolyn Williams tad family spent a few days there. The Lorell Munson family took a trip to California. Geraldlne Liston and Hilda Roundy visit-ed In Monroe. Jane Woolsey had Roe and Clema Barney here from Page. Leah Griffin and Girls went to Provo for the wedding of a relative. De-Layne Griffin took a group of BLM men down the desert. Rol and Mlna Porter are home from Mesa and report the new baby girl and mother doing fine. The Ott Roundys had Vernon and Peg and family, Renon and Gene Reed and girls home for the weekend. Wllmlrth Wooley and Nell Barker went to Pangultch for checkups, others having business there were Yukon Norman and daughters Debbie and Monlce and Linda Overall. Benee and Berlin Osboro went North to visit ions David lad Kent and Berlin's mother Ruby Osborn. Kent and Donna have a new son, they have a little girl. Kent works In the experimental division of a dairy and they keep coming up with new recipes for cheese which is shipped all over. Relatives here got word that Layton Griffin is back in the Utah Valley Hospital. Iola Woolsey and son Eric had business in Cedar City. Leah Button gave up the cafe andKatheryn Coleman Is running It. Hyrum and Mary Ellen Coleman went to Richfield where they waited for Irene and Louis Brown and two kids to come from Duchesne, then they all came home for a good visit. Ray and Magda Slade of Ogden were visitors at the Frank Imlay home. Dr. Donald Houston of Saratoga, California, and his mother, Delia Tremalne of St. George flew into Escalante Friday and spent the afternoon with the Melvin Alveys. Helen, Florence and Melvin were thrilled to have a plane ride over the valley with Dr. Houston. Christine Droubay and Helen Alvey gave a bridal shower Friday for their classmate, An-alee' Spencer. Coming with Christine from Cedar City for thefparty were Julie Christen sen, Debra Griffin, Cronln and Reta Hulet. After spending one week at home Helen Alvey has gone to Salt Lake City for summer em-ployment with the State retirement Board. Melvin and Lucin-da took her up Saturday. While North they visited with the Omer Reids at their new home in Springvllle and with the John Strangs. Clark Houston, his daughter Sherry and her friend Brad, from St. George were Sunday visitors here combining business with fishing. They visited their aunt Flor-ence Alvey. Rudger and Velora Schurtz of Provo were visitors at the Bernard Schow home; they had been on a two week tour. They went to Las Cruces, New Mexico to visit Duane, into Texas and Old Mexico, to Tucson. Arizona to visit Russell and Linda Wilson, they came through Monument Valley, Wayne Won-derlands and wound up here. Sunday was High Council Day; the North Ward speakers were Clele Fletcher, Doyle Cottam and Elmo Bushnell. Orvllle Cowles christened his new son. All of the family were here for the occasion. The South Ward speakers were Vernon and Clyde Spencer and Malen Me-cham. When temperatures start rising you can safely bet all those summer pests appear as thick as they can get, They crawl, walk, Jump and many fly to get to where you live. They buzz and chirp. They bite and it!ng. Oh, whit Joy they give! |