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Show Escalante News By Marlene Haws 826-4859 The Hole-in-the-Rock celebration celebra-tion was a huge success; complete with programs, dancing, eating and visiting. A few, I heard of, who came for the fun were Glade Reynolds, Richfield; Lark Reynolds, Cannonville; Calvin and Martha Rae Schow, Kearns; Floyd and Colleen Tucker, Wayne and Pat Banks and Jim and Rose Caldwell all of St. George and many people from Arizona and the surrounding Escalante area. Duane and Lujean Hunt, Teasdale and Mary Madson, Bicknell picked Veda Behunin up in Boulder and traveled on to Escalante to get Twila Mclnelly. Then they went to camp at the 40-mile dance hall and enjoy the celebration. Roundy Towing Service of Phoenix, Ariz, came for the-celebra-tion bringing a truck and trailer loaded with 4-wheel drive vehicles in which to traverse the Escalante Desert. Quinn Roundy and sons Bernell and Noel J. camped and explored ex-plored and are still praising the Sons of the Pioneers for the good food. The Roundy's also stayed two nights with Quinn's sister and brother-in-law, Fon and Starns Mecham. The senior citizens went on a recreational-sight seeing tour last week. They stayed overnight in Provo, ate and shopped and ate again. Traveling with the group were Deon Alvey, Marlene Haws, Vernon and Hazel Griffin, Melvin and Florence Alvey, Clea Woolsey, Rolain Alvey, Velma Boulter and LaRue Spencer. Clea and Rolain celebrated birthdays while they were gone. They stopped in Loa on the way home and brought back a load of cheese. Fay Alvey has been to Manila to visit daughter Dot Coombs and to see Dot's new home there. Velma Boulter went to Lehi to visit daughter Sondra Stracener and to keep a doctor appointment. Phyllis Alvey accompanied daughter Terrie Christensen and family, of Tooele, to Hawaii. Terrie's husband Clyde is already over there working temporarily. Walter and Ha Bell went to Salt Lake City to visit their daughter and to keep a doctor's appointment. Walter suffered a heart attack after they got up there and had to have by-pass surgery. He is at his daughter's home now, after spending spend-ing two weeks in the hospital, and will be convalescing there for at least two more weeks. We wish him a speedy recovery. Wayne and Connie Spencer, Murray, visited at the home of Wayne's mother, Loreta Spencer, and enjoyed a campout before returning re-turning home. Nineteen members of Arlis and Melba Brooks' family met at their home for dinner and a day of visiting. visit-ing. Son Darrell Alvey was here from Phoenix; Jerry and Monica Taylor, Salt Lake City; Gary and Jody Gledhill, Ivins; and from Escalante, Bill and Dawn Griffin, Dean and Janis Gledhill, Arden and Mae Vonn Taylor, Louie and Janalee Bernardo, and Eva Dean Liston. While in Colorado recently Melba Brooks was able to have a five generation picture taken of her family. The picture included Melba, her daughter Mae Vonn Taylor, Mae Vonn's son Emmorn Dodds, Emmorn's son Rick Dodds and Rick's baby daughter Harlie. They came close to having six generations. gen-erations. Melba's mother, LeNora Griffin, died just a year ago. Robert Haws came from Loma, Colo, and spent two days helping his father, Klyn Haws, ride for cattle. cat-tle. He left on Saturday and flew back to his job in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. Margean Schow is convalescing at the home of her sister, Twila Michelangelo, in Richfield after undergoing un-dergoing major surgery. Get well, Margean, we hope to see you home soon. Both LDS wards joined together on Sunday for a meeting in celebration celebra-tion of pioneer forefathers who settled set-tled this country and made the trek down through the Hole-in-the- rock to establish new settlements. As everyone stood and sang "Come, Come Ye Saints," I was thinking, "Isn't it ironic that we should be celebrating when our ancestors are probably turning over in their graves. They knew 150 years ago, about corrupt government and extermination ex-termination orders when they were driven from the East. But they thought they had finally found a place where none would come to "hurt or make afraid" and now, after all those years, our economic freedom free-dom has once again been wiped out by a single stroke of the pen. And by people who have no conception whatsoever about pioneer heritage or what the settling of this country means to its native sons and daughters. daugh-ters. And, apparently, couldn't care less." |