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Show Little League Baseball Program Closes Following Very Successful 1967 Se&on i base umpire in most .occasions and calling the play Tin every occasion. If we needed some special information we called him. We extend a spatial commendation com-mendation to Gale 'Stolk for his part In the baseball pro-l pro-l gram this year. I - a With the final baseball game of the season last Wednesday Wed-nesday between the Burton's "66" and Bank of Iron County teams, the Parosvan Little League season for 1967 officially offi-cially came to a close. And no matter which of the two teams won, their skirmish brought to an end one of the most, if not the most, successful success-ful season in Parowan Little League baseball history. During the season a full schedule of games was played with four teams taking part and with the team members, their managers and those who had charge of the program fulfilling their obligation with very few hitches. The boys, nine, 10, 11 and 12 years old, had a lot of fun and did a very fine job. The game patronage pat-ronage was better than before and the new sodded ball park added much to the program. For the first time in Palawan's Pala-wan's participation in the Little Lit-tle league program, a team of All-stars picked by the team managers, played in a district tournament, and won a game, in fact, two games and consolation con-solation honors in the meet played at Richfield. The program, sponsored by the Parowan City Recreation department and financed by it with Earl Bunn as head of the city recreation committee, was taken over by a small number of interested citizens and was carried through to completion. We would like to commend the members of the organization for the very fine job they did. They were as follows: George Loosley, president; Richard Dotson, player-agent; Gale Stolk, umpire in chief; umpires, Roy Benson, Howard Knight, Ken Bettridge and Dave Orton ; scorekeepers, Lael Dotson, Clare M. Dalton and Joan Mortensen. Team sponsors spon-sors were the Farmer's Supply Co., Larry Topham, manager; Lions Paragonah, Kay and Clark Lamoreaux, managers; Burton's "66", Eugene Robb and Judd Hendrickson, managers, man-agers, and Bank of Iron County, Coun-ty, George Banks, manager. All of these people were on hand when they were supposed suppos-ed to be there with very few exceptions. But one of the men mentioned above was on hand every night a game was played. This writer had occasion occa-sion to be at the park about two nights a week and always al-ways found this man there running things, acting as the plate umpire in pinches, as |