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Show Escalante Chit Chat BY FAY ALVEY We get just enough storm to keep the mud going and the State road men on their toes. It freezes ice on the water trough thick enough to take several stomps with a good boot heel to break it. The sick are improving, Forest Alvey is home, Karen and her friend Marti Bunting brought him from Kanab and he is feeling well enough to offer to wash the dishes, so Ruth has it made. Arnold Alvey is still In the Pangultch hospital having good and bad days, mostly bad, Deoti and thejiris went over Sunday and other family members have called in going and coming. , Ches Lay thinks his mother will be ready to attend the holiday dances, and we hope she is. Ann White has had major surgery and has healed up and In circulation before we knew It. She would black out without any warning so they went to St. George and the doctor sent her to Salt Lake. They got there just noon and she had ordered lunch but the doctor said there was no time for eating so put her right on the table where they worked for two hours installing a spa- cer with batteries to pick up the beat when her heart took a rest. She says she feels fine and looks it, now until her batteries run down she is ok. William Mitchell had surgery on his hip and he Is able to walk with help but is still hospitalized In St. George. This pre-Chrlstmas rush has most people in a stew, there are a few of those efficiency experts who are ready and waiting, but they are not the majority. Nell Barker Is home and reports Myrna feeling better. Nell came to Cedar City by bus and on home with Bernard Schow. Bernard Is working In Cedar remodeling a house for Wally Woolsey. The Doyle Cottams got word that daughter Karen was hospitalized in Cedar City so Thelma went over. Sharon Dale Marsh and family went to Cedar City for the weekend, they took Kathleen Woolsey and boys home, they had spent the week here. Darren Alvey went to Richfield for some Garkano schooling. Ciorlne Vldrlne and Sonny O'Neal spent several days in Cedar City for Forest Service schooling. Relatives here got word of the death of Wanda Taye Griffin, wife of Dr. Harold Griffin of St George. Jim Yardley of Pangultch was here to remind Lorel Mun-son that Christmas was near and he was expecting a pre-sent. What's happened to Frank Daly? He used to hug his special friends, now he lust sits In hU car and honks the horn. Guile Deuel was freezing, his flu fell down and every time he made a fire ho became well smoked so he went to Cedar City until the weather moderates. Mattle Hakes went to Barstow, Calif, to care for a sick relative. Mr. and Mrs. Rusty Ruston came from Calif, to bring a load of their lelonglngs and store In thlr house, Don and Sue Moslor moved Into the Biah Schow home. The Rustona were here to help Alfred Chlno celebrate his birthday anniversary. Usher and Eva Spencer went to Richfield, Clarice Griffin accompanied them. Verge and Shirlee Spencer got their new trailer house and all moved in. Shirlee lost her glasses and her nieces accused her of throwing them away as she had said she was not taking anything old into the new house, she did make an exception of Verge. Reo Roundy Is all snug and warm in a trailer house moved next to the old homestead. Neta Haycock and daughters Donnetta and Janis went to Salt Lake City, Clarice Griffin accompanied them. Blllie Davis had a meeting to attend in Pangultch so he took S. J. Alvey to have his new teeth adjusted. Others having business there were Marlene and Klynn Haws and sons Ricky and Terrill, Yukon and John Norman and son DeLynn, Kol-een Wayne and son Russell Griffin, Lillian Lyman and son Mason, Katheryn Coleman and son Lance, and Bessie Griffin. Geraldlne and Lane Liston, Dixie and Theron Mitchell went to Cedar City, so did Ann Mun-son and Leah Griffin. Church officials went to Henrieville for meetings, and Relief Society Leadership was held here. Faye and Neal Jep-sen were here from Boulder visiting relatives. Louise Liston and daughter Donene went to Cedar City and got Jan and a friend and all went to Salt Lake City where Jan was entered In the contest for Miss Utah Beef Princess along with eleven other girls. The girls gave a three minute talk on 1 Speak Out for Beef," they modeled street and party clothing and Jan won. She received $100 and will appear various places throughout the coming year. The Wasatch Academy ball boys played our boys here and ours won, our team went to Fillmore and won again, also the 7th and 8th grade played In Pangultch and won, keep it up boys. The Relief Society bazaar and concert turned out to be fine family entertainment, it was well attended and a financial success. Pratt Gates had business in Salt Lake City. We had dental dates In Richfield and took Mother Alvey to shop, I had her locked in the rest room In Pangultch but she signaled for help and got out to finish the trip, then when she saw the crowds she was sorry. Hal and Geneal Shurtz and part of their family were there, talked to Golda Cottam, she had lost Rodney, Dale Barney and wife were there, Herman and Zora-bell Pollock and it looked like everybody in Sevier valley and country surrounding were there shopping. Larctta Shurtz came home with Hal, she had been visiting Dorthy and Newell Cowles. Jim and Lola and son met us there for a brief visit. Some folks who live In the land to the north think of us as hicks, don't consider ui very bright living out In the sticks. We reside In this area where they have never been, they think that we are so far out we have to pipe the sunlight in. |