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Show Escalante Chit Cha BY FAY ALVEY The weather man pulled it Just like we figured he would; the first day of the hunt was Ideal then It rained in the valleys and snowed in the mountains which made It harder to get around and dampened the enthusiasm of the hunters. The snow helped some of them; some poor sport on a snowmobile picked up a big buck killed by another hunter who left It to go for help to get it home. Maybe our neighboring states knew their onions In prohibiting out of State hunters. Gall Bailey should be able to hit a deer if he sees one; he was out In our corner of town Just before the hunt shooting his rifle for practice. So many people came for the hunt could not begin to get them mentioned, It looked like all of California came and brought friends. Vernon Griffin Is In the Panguitch hospital being treated for injuries received on tho Job while working for Lincoln Lyman. He was hit by a cable, breaking his ribs which punctured a lung causing inward bleeding, they did not mow him for several days on account of the lung Injuries. Ha-tel stayed with him several days and nights and other family members visited him. Their son Sharon (Festos) came from Ft. Collins, Colorado on furlough, he came to Richfield by bus then borrowed a car from Caroline an dCal-vln Eyre and drove on home, he stopped to see his dad In the hospital but they had not xrayed him yet. Lane Listen and Roger Att-wood were home from their Jobs in Wyoming, Smith Alvey and Dale Lyman from Iron County. The 1U.1 Porters had Haws and Jtnet and family of Tooele, Merrill and family of Mesa, Arizona, Kenneth and Marie Griffin end part of their family from Provo, Marie has It made, her sen Gerald Thompson Is her boss so she can get days off. Twill Mclnelly had son Dave, part of his family and some friends from Mesa, Arizona, Chan and Betty are still here. Twila tended the kids, only ten, while the rest hunted. The Starns Mechams had son Ron, his wife Linda and family and some friends, the Gary Marshalls and family of Las Vegas. The Vic Cottams had son Kent and family, daughter Diana Cloward and family. Budd Porter came from Provo to hunt with Jay, he brought sons Brett and Kelvin. Darrell and Dlanne Alvey had her parents, the Bill Cluffs from Arizona. The S. J. Alvey home was filled to capacity, their daugh ter Wanda Hansen of Kenne-wick, Washington was Joined hero by son Lynn and Veda at BYU. Ronald Freeman took Holdsworth who are students son Kenneth and returned to Las Vegas for the school and working days then came bringing a friend, Doug Young. They had hunted In the Lavan area and brought a big buck, well It was meat, to cut and wrap, let us see and drool over, then they took it and left and took Frankle and the kids. Ethan Hansen came from Kennewick to visit several days and take Wanda home. Mother Alvey cleaned so much before the tribe came her hands got very rough so she used generous amounts of lotion and they kept getting rougher. She finally discovered she was using tho cleaning stuff like lotion, then on top of that her voice got all gruff and raspy, we told her she had wsed it too much but she eald It was Just the opposite; every time she opened her mouth to say something Wanda or Frankle cut her off so her voice got rusty. Part of our family came home for the weekend hunt; Jim and Lola and son, LaVee Neely and three kids from Orem. Reed Thomson of Cedar City and son Jeff of Las Vegas were here for the hunt. The Otto Roundys had Gene and Renon Reed and girls, Vernon Dean and some friends from Mon-(continued Inside) ESCALANTE icontinueo. trom front page) roe. Max and Shirlee Porter and part of their family were here. Kathy Gouldlng and kids were at the Loyd Alveys. Gar-Ian and Ruth Marie and family of Cedar City were at the Ed Mitchells. The Norman Chris-tensens had Julie, Jo and Gary Dankley here, also Nick, the brother of Norman. Sox and Effle Spencer had LeAnn and Neal Julander and family here from Vernal. Calvin and Laretta Shurtz had sons Gordon and Ivan and families, son Don, who is still covered with shrubbery, and Do rothy and Newell Cowles and son, the latter they shared wit'i Orilla and Daniel. The Clyde Spencers had Jim and family of Orem, J, C. and family from Mapleton. Paul Cardon and some friends were here from St. George. Nethella Woolsey had her nieces, the King girls and their families here either going to or coming from Boulder, but not all the same time. Ann and Tom Reynolds of Mesa stayed overnight with them, Tom. got his deer then they left for Richfield to visit his mother Maud and other relatives. Park King of Calif, visited Nethella. The Vln Spencers had son Danny and his son here from Mes-quite Nev., Kenneth and wife Reta from Cedar City. Owen Porter and family of American Fork visited here at the home of Eph and Dicey Coombs. Harvey and Evadean Liston had, besides our kids Jim and Lola, Utahna and ElVon Poul-son of Granger. Also from Granger came Boyd Alvey to hunt with Papa Hode. Hilo and Lettie Boyce had Lawrence and Cheryl Stander of Plains City, Ardeth Alexander and part of her family from Washington Terrace, they were here the week before the hunt. The Griffins, Lynn and Judy and family, Alubrn, Ernest and Mary, and Lon and Evelyn Heaps were here from the land northward. Ada Porter had John and Erma Hamilton and some family members here from Magna. Wayne and Venid Bailey and daughter, son Keith and his wife were here from Midvale. Boyd and Trudy Griffin were at the Bill Griffins. Bud and Joy Gates, their son Harvey Dean and some of his friends were here from Salt Lake City. Those we heard of having business in Pangultch were 0-ra Schow, Rolaine Lyman, Mac Vonn Taylor, Phyllis Alvey, Clella Woolsey and Shirlee Spencer. Leah Button and son Lynn went to Richfield. Lynn reported his mission Sunday in the North ward church, the South ward joined them so there was a big turnout, Leah and Bishop Spencer also talked. Bill and Sharon Francisco and boys, Warren and Kathleen Woolsey and boys were here from Cedar City. Lynn and Garna Mclnelly and family came from Beaver. Nancy and Charley Everett had Harold and George Miller of Salt Lake. Donald and Dar-lene Griffin had Layne and Marlyn and baby, Lana and baby from Provo. Lael and Sharee Spencer and family were at the Malt Spencers, so were the Larry Chynoweths of Kanab. The college kids we noticed were Dale and Susan Wilson, Christine Droubay, Charley Everett Jr., Evelyn Lyman and some friends, Jan Liston, Annalee Spencer, and Karen Cottam. Wilma Lott and Rolaine Die-kerson of Pangultch were in this area asking questions for an official survey on the proposed power plant. Hilda Roun-dy, Almeda Haycock and Dixie Mitchell went from here to the other side of the county. Ray L. Alvey came from Roy to hunt the weekend, Ludean did not come as she has a sprained ankle, seems she was jogging and missed a jog. All this writing is getting mc down, too many people came into town, got to quit while a deer we seek, will tell you more in the chit chat next week. |