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Show Panguitch News By Earl Roe 676-2376 It's beginning to look a lot like this may be the year that all of us just have to dream about a white Christmas. I remember several years when there was not enough snow in town to go sleigh riding on the streets, but there was usually a skiff on the north sides of buildings and always some in the thick timber on the mountains. Not completely trusting my memory, I visited with Floyd Richards (Floyd is now the oldest full time Panguitch resident) to see if he could remember such a year and the answer was "Yes". The year was 1923. Floyd remembers this because Moroni Poulson was kidding them about running around in their sleeveless shirts at Christmastime. Mr. Poulson was principal of Garfield High School from 1921 to 1925 and he said he came to Panguitch because he liked cold weather. Floyd said the next year really made up for the mild 1923. Lawrence Frandsen is home following his four-day stay at Utah Valley Hospital where he underwent neck surgery. Doctors took bone from his hip and fused it into a neck vertebra. Lawrence said the hip hurt worse than his neck. Sons Lloyd and Kevin and Kevin's wire, Debbie, arrived to give what help they could to dad and mom. Upon leaving the hospital, Lawrence and Margaret went to Salt Lake City and stayed a few days with Lloyd Frandsen to rest up and enjoy Thanksgiving. We welcome Lawrence home and wish him a speedy recovery . We extend a hearty welcome to Calvin and D'Lynn Poll and their children, Jenny (a senior in high school), Jeremy (a sophomore), and Amy (3rd grade). Their oldest son, K.C., Is in Morgan getting ready to go on a mission. The Polls came here from Antimony and have purchased property North of Panguitch where they plan to build their home. D 'Lynn is business manager for Garfield County School District. Evalyn and I journeyed to Panaca, Nev. to enjoy the play, "The Best Christmas Ever". We had to go. Two of our grandchildren, grand-children, Amber and Doug Roe, were in the cast. After a couple of days at home, we went to Salt Lake City to attend the wedding of our first grandson, Ronald Roe, son of Russell and Necia Roe, to Linda Hill of Taylorsville-Bennion. All eight of Ron and Linda Roe's grandparents attended the wedding and reception and, according to the photographer, this is quite unusual. Ann Reynolds was able to come home for a day. She had to return to Salt Lake City, but is reportedly feeling pretty good. I started to write this column before this skiff of snow fell upon us, but decided not to change anything because I still think we will only have a white Christmas in our dreams. I haven't picked on Congress or the environmentalists for some time so I am going to blame them for this dearth of precipitation. All of their "Clean Air Acts" have removed so much of the particulate from the atmosphere that there are none left to serve as nuclei around which condensation can take place. The new home of Mark and Sheila Orton is sitting on their ground at 235 East 300 North. A basement for the home of Brent and JoAnn Orton is being dug just east of this home, and the new home of Justin and Ann Hatch is almost in place just east of Ann's parents home, Claud and Susann Hatch. Panguitch is growing! Harold and Winona Sevy just returned from Phoenix where they have spent several days helping care for the family of their son, Richard, who has been in the hospital for surgery repairing neck vertebrae. Richard is reported to be doing o.k. I visited with Mamie Talbot and she says she is feeling fine. She has a doctors appointment on Dec. 27 and if all is well, she will be able to resume writing her column at the beginning of the new year. This week's Burma Shave comes from Ken Hepworth who remembers remem-bers it from his early years and it ties right in with our holiday time travel warnings. "Don't pass cars on a curve or hill. If the cops don't get you, a mortician will!" Burma Shave |