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Show Visitors at the home of Layton Smith was the Rett Shakes pear family of Cedar City and son Ed. Gordon and Gwen Hartley from Springville also visited. JoAnn and Sid Goddard live in Levelland, Texas instead of Loveland. Bob and Helen Willis and Harold Blondin are home and daughter JoAnn Copple is doing fine. On Christmas Eve at the home of Craig and Peggy Oberhansli they had a family gathering with four generations on both sides in attendance. Martin and Carla Ramsay spent the holiday in Hawthorne with them. Oscar and Jean Willis visited in Elfrida, Ariz, with their son Daryl. Then they went to Almagondo, N.M. and visited their son Rick. During the holidays, daughter Suzanne of Salt I Henrieville Lake City and daughter LaJune of California were here. Rick stopped on the way from sacrament meeting where they had been visiting Thora's folks. Robert and Louise Patterson and Larry and Lorraine Rose were released as Sunday School teachers and Lyllian Shakes pear was sustained. The Primary presented a program of songs. Doyle and Kathryn Neilson spent several days here with mother Lula Moore. She received word from son Cloyd who lives in Bloomfield, N.M. that their trailer home burned to the ground. Nothing was saved. They are living with his wife's mother until they get another home. Clifford and Colette Mathews visited her parents, the David Roses, Shanna Goulding went with daughter Jane to California for a visit. James and Virginia Quitter and Margaret and Brent Chandler from Riverton stopped overnight at the Eugene Quilter home. They had taken Brent's parents to Las Vegas to fly to Hawaii as the airport was closed in Salt Lake City. The Klin and Nancy Chynoweth home is finished and they have moved into it. The Thompson construction workers are now building in Tropic for Kevin Shakespear. Eugene and LKay Quilter have been moving all of their belongings from the old Quilter home so it can be sold. Icy Alaska Winter Offer No Vacation Winters in Panguitch may have prepared James Reid Miller for the frosty job he's currently holding down in the frozen wastes of Alaska. His job on Rig 162 for Loffland Brothers Company, and oil drilling outfit, no doubt makes him homesick for the "warmer" climate of Panguitch. Rig 162 is located on the coast of the Beaufort Sea, about 750 miles due north of Anchorage. That's about 50 miles east of the Prudhoe Bay oil field and the start of the Alaskan pipeline. Methods of access to the rig vary according to the time of year. A Twin Otter aircraft capable of landing on an ice runway carries personnel back and forth to the rig in winter. From May through July when the ice is breaking up, helicopters are used for transporting both crews and materials. Temperatures range from -85 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter to 'he high 50's in July. A strong wind chill factor can lower the temerature to -110 in February. Since flesh may freeze within 30 seconds when exposed to temperatures below -75 degrees, proper dress becomes a critical factor for survival. Bitter cold tern peratures mean that extra precautions must also be taken when operating equipment. Steel becomes as brittle as glass, and such equipment as winch lines and slings can become lethal weapons. For about 90 days in witner, the sun never rises and for a similar period in the summertime, it never sets. The hardy workers find time in the summer after a hard day's workon the rig to keep up their fishing skills in the Arctic ocean, only a few hundred yards away. With two week on duty and one week off, Miller flies home frequently to "thaw out" and spend some time with his wife, JuneAnne, and his children, Lance, 7, and Amber, 3. |