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Show American-- Legion Auxiliary Receives Charter . ; - , . ! ,. ..- - 1 , V8 ,' . , '" --" . 1 Mrs. Hobert Riding receives charter from Commander L. F. Gordon American Legion Post 117, for Unit 117. At the right is Mrs. D. E. Johnson. Historical of the Unit. Following is a letter from the National Legion Auxil-iary President: Dear Mrs. Hiding: This is your Unit charter and with it comes a warm welcome into the ranks of the American Legion Auxiliary. It is a proud moment for me when I sign a charter for a new Unit, for this small act marks a beginning rich with It means a possibilities. new group of women banded together to carry on the vital program of this splendid organization Your community will become a better place in which ttf live be-cause of the efforts you will put forth to improve the safety, health, library and recreational facilities of your town. To the veterans, your Unit will bring mew hands to serve for their welfare and the welfare of their children a new friend to stand by them, protect their rights and assure them justice. The veterans of your community will find they have a valuable asset in your Unit. "With my congratulations to you and my best wishes for your happiness and success. Sincerely, Ruth B. Hutton Mrs. Lee W. Hutton, National President Volume 38 Number 51 Delta, Utah, Thursday, June 17, 1948 $3.50 a Year in Advance Boy's Leg Broken In Accident Monday forenoon", Glen Jeffery, the ten year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Jeffery, had his leg broken just above the knee in a freakish accident. Glen was riding on back of a tractor mowing machine, and jumped up behind Jey Jeffery, who was driving. A grease fitting on the drive shaft caught his trousers and jerked him back down. When he was extricated from the machinery, he had been stripped and was left wearing his hat and shoes and sox. His Levis had been torn to tatters in the machinery, his belt cut, and his other cloth-ing was in ribbons. The boy wasn't cut, even where the leg was brok-en, although the skin showed chafed streaks. He was treated at the Delta hos-pital, and sent home to recover, with his leg in a cast. TO CELEBRATE Monday, July 5th Set For Gala Day A full day's program of fun, most especially for. the young-sters, is planned for Monday, July 5, to celebrate our Inde-pendence. The events will be sponsored by the Delta City Council and civic organizations. Business houses will be closed, and from daybreak until mid-night there will be entertain-ment for everyone. Scheduled are the miniature parade, children's sports, band concert, matinee, swimming and diving events, baseball game, children's dance and the big dance at night A calendar of events, awards, times and sponsors is being pre-pared, to be published soon. Watch for it, and make plants to celebrate July 4 on July 5 in Delta. Everyone invited. Fishermen Find Fishing Poor On Opening Day A record crowd of fishermen in-vaded the streams, lakes, reservoirs and then the beer establishments the opening day, and about in that order. It is estimated that 60,000 went out for fish the opening day in the state. With this huge throng flailing the waters with an assort-ment of baits, hooks, flies, plugs and the like it stands to reason that the fish just up and left for parts unknown. Leamington canyon drew a large number of anglers but the reports from there are that the small fish planted there ate up the worms be-fore the larger fish could get the mud out of their eyes and find them. This canyon was heavily planted with legal fish at several times during the spring, and then also about 100,000 fry size. It was the fry size that was bothering the fishermen. Oak City canyon drew its usual large number of fishermen and on the first day some had reasonably good luck. Many did not catch a limit of fish or even close. Sunday I in Oak creek was even worse. Those who went to Fish Lake and other parts of the state had fairly good luck. Beaver area pro- - duced some nice catches and some large fish. The many people who have tak- - en up fishing the past few years are creating terrific drains on the fish and fishing spots, and even a system of planting as is being car-ried out by the state fish and game commission will not be able to give this huge throng a chance to catch a fair string of fish at any given time. June Conference is Scheduled ThiWeekf16to20 All ward and s"take MIA work-ers will benefit greatly by attend-ing June Conference, which is to be held June 16th to June 20th, with the heaviest day being Sat-urday, June 19th. At June Conference plans and ideas for the whole Mutual year are presented by the General Board Members and make the work more understandable to all who go to this conference. This year there are many special features being planned and a new method of pre-senting the cultural arts program will be presented. The new Y. W. M. I. A. General Board will be introduced at this time. For the benefit of those who are attending, following is a schedule of events at conference time. June 16th and 17th (Wednesday and Thursday) a camping insti-tute will be held. June 18th (Friday): 9:00 a. m. Reception on Tabernacle Grounds. 10-0- a. m. General Session, Tab-ernacle. President George Albert Smith will speak; the new manuals will be presented and also the Era Citations. 2:00 p. m. General Session, Tab-ernacle. The new recreation pro-gram will be demonstrated. 5:15 p. m. Golden Gleaner Sup-per (for Golden Gleaners Only) at the Union Building, U. of U. 8:30 p. m. Folk Festival, U. of U. Stadium June 19th (Saturday). Morning and afternoon department sessions will be held as follows: Executives Assembly Hall and Barratt Hall. Secretaries Board Room, Young Building. Special In-terest 12th Ward. M. rs 18th- Ward. Juniors 20th iWard. Bee Hive Barratt Hall and Ensign Ward. Dance, Emerald Gar-dens. Drama Capitol Hill Ward. Music Missionary Home. Speech Lion House. 7:30 Speech and Music Festival, Tabernacle. June 20th (Sunday)-- 9:30 a. m. Testimony Meeting, Tabernacle. 2:00 p. m. General Session, Tab-ernacle, under the direction of the First Presidency. 7:30 p. m. Scout Anniversary pro-gram, Tabernacle. Funeral Services Conducted for John B. Bennett Funeral services for John R. nett were held June 12, 1948 at the Deseret ward chapel, under the direction of L. N. Nickle and sons Mortuary, Bishop Ormus L. Dutson presiding. The opening number was a duet by Ray and Ethel Western, "God Understands"; prayer, Elder Hugh Hilton; piano selection, by a grand son, Cleo B. Petty of Murray, Utah; a talk was given by John H. West-ern, followed by a piano selection played by another grandson, Rulon D. Bennett of Provo, Utah. Nels L. Petersen gave a talk, and he was followed by Bishop Ormus Dutson, who gave some remarks. A trio sang, "My Faith in Thee," Erma Cropper, Ruth Talbot and Bertha Love, accompanied by Roma Ekins. Benediction was given by Elder D. H. Palmer. Mr. Bennett had made many friends during his lifetime and a very large crowd attended the ser-vices, with a great many friends and relatives from out of town. The grave was dedicated by Ray S. Bishop. Receive Begrees From University Four from West Millard were graduated from the University of Utah at commencement exercises at Salt Lake City on June 12. The class being graduated numbered 1167, the largest group of students ever to receive degrees. They were Evelyn Killpack How-art- Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics, in the school of Education; Victor Dean Allred, Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in the school of Engineering; Lincoln R. Eliason, Bachelor of Science degree in His-tory, in the school of Arts and Sci-ence; and Bill Mizuno, Bachelor of Science in Marketing in the school of Business. Mrs. Howard was graduated from Delta high school in 1944. Her par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Killpack, attended the commencement pro-gram. Mr. Allred was graduated from ,DTS in 1940, and was with the Chemical Engineers at the U. of iU. Mr. Eliason was graduated from Hinckley high school in 1937, and was a member of Delta Phi, re-turned missionaries fraternity. Mr. Mizuno was graduated from HHS in 1942. "Higher Education in a Democ-racy" was the subject of the com-mencement address, given by Dr. Charles E. McAllister, dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Evangel-ist, Spokane, Washington. The ex-ercises were held in the Stadium Bowl. LONG-EARE- WIN Visitors Upset Local Stalwarts There was a mighty tough three-corner-game of Softball played in Delta Tuesday night on the high school athletic field, when Delta Lions and Jay Cees were walloped and wiped up by the most con-trary assortment of donkeys ever assembled together. Originally the challenge was issued to the Jay Cees by the Lions, but in the heat of the battle that was all forgot-ten, and their unified forces failed to budge the little four-legge- d players one inch from their de-termined ways. Some confusion' prevails about the final score, it may have been or possibly We know it was any way 1, for we saw June Black, Lion, make the first point, finally arriving at home plate after a leisurely amble from 3rd, while his mount stopped to eat. And Red Van, Jay Cee tied that, by seizing his donkey in his arms, and carry-ing litle Sweat Pea from base to base. It looked any minute like he was going to fall and squash the little Pea, but he waddled safely in, somewhat bow-legge- d from the trip. Bats or a scoop shovel aided the mighty batters. The balls sounded like they were filled with putty, and lit with a dull squid. But no donkeys were filled with putty, more likely dynamite, and the ride to first was fraught with danger, even if the rest of the way around the diamond was done in slow mo-tion. Honorable mention goes to Dick Peterson, Orville Jeffery and J. W. Swalberg, they always picked that old bucker, and John had never ridden anything wilder than a bi-cycle before Orran Ashby and Bud Huff did some fancy fielding, and Eddie Lyman was terrific, from any viewpoint. All in all, the game paid out big in laughs and there will be some dividends for the Lions, after bills are paid, including horse liniment. Children's Summer Program To Begin June 19 Children from four to twelve years will be enrolled for the Sum-mer Activity program Saturday, June 19th at 4:00 P. M. at the Del-ta High School. This program is free of charge sponsored by the Civic Betterment League and car-ried on by the talented people of our Community. Dr Adams suggests that only children who have had the measles be enrolled at this time to pre-vent further spread of the disease. Enrollment will continue, however for three weeks. Louie Black, Loa Black, and Dor-othy Hall are supervising the work, which has been planned for age level groups. Each child may reg-ister for one class and also for swimming. Our swimming program will come on other days in the week, details will be announced later. For children from four to six we offer classes in dancing, rhythm exercises, nursery rhymes and stor-ies, under the direction of Mar-garet Jensen and Dorothy Hall. Dancing for the group from sev-en to nine years supervised by Louie Black, will be taught by Ro-berta Theobald and Norma Jean Law. For this group we also have tumbling by Merlin Christensen, and rhythm band. Eldon Jensen will teach archery to the ten to twelve year group and also for this same group we will have tumbling, sports, and dancing. Work will continue for eight weeks, and for our last meeting we have planned a demonstration pro-gram and Water Follies under the direction of Loa Black. Father, 91, Once Head of B. Y. U., Dies On Coast Benjamin Cluff, 91, father of Golden Cluff, of Hinckley, died at Redondo Beach, California, Monday June 14, of causes incident to age. .He was a grandfather of Phyllis Bennett. Cluff. Lynn and Dean Tal-bot, and Golden Cluff, Jr., all of Hincklev. Mr. Cluff was an early pioneer of Utah, born in Coalville, Utah, February 8. 1857, son of Benjamin and Mary Ellen Foster Cluff, who crossed the plains with the early Mormon settlers in Utah. He re-sided there, in Provo, and in Mexi-co until 1924 when he moved to Redondo Beach, where he has liv-ed since. When he was a boy of six his father was called to serve a missi-on for the Church' of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints, and the fami-ly made the trip to California by wagon train, a long and hazardous trip, including a brush with Indians. He returned from Hawaii to attend school in Provo, where he went to Brigham Young University, a stu-dent of Dr. Karl G. Maeser, whom he later followed as principal of the institution. He received degrees from the University of Michigan, and returned to Provo where he was principal of the academy, and later when it became Brigham Young University, was first presi-dent, serving until 1903. As a young man Mr. Cluff serv-ed three and one half years in the Hawaiian mission, from 1878 to 1991. In 1898 he was appointed as a member of the commission to study the problem of annexation of the Hawaiian islands, where his background as a youth in the Is-lands and missionary experience made him an important addition to the commission. During his trip there he conceiv-ed the idea of a scientific expedit-ion through Mexico, Central and South America. The idea was approved by the L. D. S. church leaders, and 24 men were called as missionaries to complete the expedition, with Mr. Cluff at the head. . They traveled through Utah, Ari-zona, and Mexico, and on to Boga-t- a, Colum-bi- making the trip on horseback The expedition lasted two years and all the horses died before the trip was over, and the final members of the expedition walked 400 miles. Only two memb- ers of the party, Mr. Cluff, and another, completed the trip ti Bo-gota, the rest dropping out be-cause of illness. The purpose of, the expedition "as to discover ruins of ancient Mies in that area which were told of m the Book of Mormon and thus aid proving the authenticity of n0rk' Arcreological speciments Mr. Cluff collected are now exhib-"e- d m the Salt Lake church mus-eum. Mr. Cluff returned to Mexico aft-er the expedition, working for the Mican Rubber company. Farm Bureau j Meets; Biscuss . -- Hay Prices A group of well over one hund- - " red farmers from all parts of Mil-lard County met in a Farm Bureau meeting in the Delta high school auditorium last Thursday evening . to discuss the prices of hay and the supply and. demand as it now stands. j The group voted unanamously to support the committee in their ef-- . forts to establish prices, which are already established by Utah Coun-- ty farmers and dairymen. A mo-tion- was made to stay by the prices as they were established. Recommended prices were: $20 per ton in the field, $22 per ton deliver- - ( " ed to the machine, $25 per ton bailed and $27 per ton bailed and placed in piles. , It is urged by the committee that all farmers get in touch with some ' f of the members of the committee t before they sell at a lower price than those listed above. It is also 3 on record that buyers will be pro- - tected from prices which are too ' high. The Farm Bureau feels that good 'will will be established between ,J the buyers and the sellers and all will be satisfied with fair prices. p The committee which was named k to keep posted on the prices and keep the members informed are: Lafe Nielson, chairman, with Clay-so- n Cahoon, George Cahoon, Jack j Nelson and John Adams as mem- - J bers of the committee. J This meeting was sponsored by the state and the local Farm Bur-eau Association. :: Post 117 Elects New Officers Elections were held Monday night at the meeting of American Legion Theodore Que Jensen Post 117. New officers to be installed in September are- - Leon C. Theobald, Delta, commander; Robert Riding, Delta, 1st George D. Evans, Leamington, 2nd Wayne D. Sorenson, Delta, adjutant; Frank Van de Vanter, Delta, finance officer; Ed-ward Christensen, Delta, chaplain; A. Golden Warnick, Delta, histor-ian, and Thomas L. Smith, Delta, sergeant-at-arm- s. Is Awarded Scholarship Miss Edith Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Anderson, of Oak City and a graduate of the Delta High School, was awarded one of the three scholarships given to nurses in training at the L. D. S. hospital. The award was made at the capping exercises held June 7. Miss Anderson was also recently elected of all the nurses enrolled. Miss Barbara Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Davis, is spend-ing the summer in Salt Lake City with her sister. ' Make a date for June 25, for the annual Fireman's Ball, in the Open Air Hall, for a goo dtime. Pitches 17 Strike-Ou- t Game Sgt. Betsy Ann Riding, USMWCR, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Riding, of Delta, is still in there pitching, according to letters home from Washington, D. C. In fact, she recently picthed a game in Mary-land, with 17 strike-out- s. They 'have defeated most of their fem-inine opponents, and only lost by two points to a men's team. Then and Now The Champ Shows Little Change j 1 ' r : . r "; 'V' V! The time: 1935. "Dead Pan" Joe Louis, left, poses for cameramen before his light with Primo Camera at his Pompton Lakes, N. J., training camp. The time: 1948. Thirteen years later, a little heavier but with still the same dead-pa- n expression, Joe Louis, right, strikes a fighting pose at his Pompton Lakes camp where he is prepping for his second bout with Jersey Joe Walcott in Ne-- '' York's Madison Square Garden on June 23. Summer Sports SOFTBALL STANDING: American League Won. Lost Delta 3rd 2 1 D. H. S. 11 Deseret 1 1 Sutherland 1 1 Delta 2nd 1 1 Delta 1st 1 1 Thurs. Sutherland vs. Delta 1st. Fri. Deseret vs. D. H S. Mon. Deseret vs. Delta 2nd. National League Won..Lost Delmart 1 0 D. Stevens 1 0 Oak City 1 1 Hinckley 1 1 Telluride 0 2 Abraham 0 1 Thurs. Hinckley vs. D. Stevens. Fri. Telluride vs. Abraham. Mon. Oak City vs. Telluride. All soft ball players are remind-ed 'to refember their game time, 8 p. m. for the American League, 9 p. m. for the National. The 8 p. m. games should start on time. If they are late, the 9 p. m. game will go on at that time, and the other game will be called. In line with the summer recrea-tion program, baseball and other sports are in the limelight. Base-ball and Softball are already well in their stride, and this Friday is the first day for the newly formed girl's softball league. In the sports, teen-ager- s and jun-iors are well lined up, and are joined this week with a program for adults, with Cecil Baker as chairman. Every Friday night, from 8 to 10 p. m., at the Delta high school, equipment and instruction will be available for all adults, starting with such games at ten- - ' nis, ping pong, badminton, volley ball and so on. The tennis courts will be lighted, and the gymnasium opened, and Mr. Baker invites all adults interested to come and join the group. Other sports will be added to the program if asked for. Report Games Bob Hortin has been appointed as reporter for the Millard county Senior baseball league and will re-port the games and standings. Teams are asked to send him their box scores and any interesting in-formation about their games by 'Monday each week, for publication in this paper. Softball Trophy There is a trophy on display at the Baker Pharmacy that will go to a champion softball team. At the end of the scheduled games, there will be a play-of- f, and this trophy awarded to the champion-ship team. SENIOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Won Lost Pet. Oak City 2 0 .1000 Hinckley 0 0 .000 Scipio 1 1 500 Sutherland 0 0 .000 Delta 0 1 .000 Hinckley to Hold Ward Heunion Saturday, June 26 has been chos-en by the Hinckley ward bishopric as reunion day for the ward. All who have ever been members of the Hinckley ward are invited to attend this function and many from out of town are expected, its being held on a Saturday for this purpose. Both the dinner and program will be free, this being made poss-ible by each family donating something toward furnishing and the preparing of the meal From until 5:00 p. m. the Primary children will be fed, and there will be a children's dance from 5:00 until 6:00 in the open air dance hall. Adults, from 12 years of age up, will begin eating promtply at 7:00 continuing until 8:30, when a pro-gram will be held in the chapel. This will be from 8:30 until Following this there will be a dance in the open air hall. The dance is being sponsored by the town dance committee and is among a series of dances for the playground benefit and will be open to the public, whether or not they have been members of the ward, with tickets being one dollar. The shows for that week will be held on Thursday and Friday, leav-ing Saturday open. Cars will be sent to the homes of the older people and will es-cort them to the building for din-ner at p m. Girl's Softball league Formed Six teams have formed a girl's softball league, for play on the summer recreation program, and the first game will be played Fn-da- June 18, at 5 p m. Teams in the league are Oak City Sutherland, Hinckley, Delta 1st, Delta 2nd and Delta 3rd wards. Games will be played every Friday the summer A sched-ule at 5 during of the first half is given here. The second half will repeat, ex-cept that the place will be revers-e- d That is, Oak City plays Delta 2nd at Delta first half; second half Delta 2nd plays at Oak City. Zoe Porter is chairman of the league All members of the team are asked to keep their schedule in mind, and be on time for games SCHEDULE First rounds, first half Friday, June 18: Oak City at Delta 2nd; Delta 1st at Hinckley; Delta 3rd at Sutherland. 2nd round, June 25. Hkley at Oak City; Sutherland at Delta 2nd, DfA roUdyifoak City at Sutlers 'Deltay3rd at Hinckley; Dplta 4th round", July Delta 9; 1st. Deltai 3rd at Oak City; Sutherland at Delta 1st, Delta 2nd at Hinckley. th July 16, UaK Delta 1st; Delta 3rd at Delta 2nd, Hinckley at Sutherland Father's Bay Party At Delta 2nd Ward The Relief Society of Delta 2nd ard are honoring all fathers in '"e ward at a Father's Day party Saturday night, June 19. A hot dog pper will be served around the wm fireplace, and the program be given in the church. Every T m the ward is cordially in-iJ-to the party, with his part- - .Births This Week M. Tay-ilo- r, To Mr. and Mrs. James a boy, June 10. To Mr. and Mrs. Emory Dutson, ja girl, June 13. To Mr and Mrs. LaMond Smith, a girl, June 13. 'TcTMr and Mrs. Cecil R. Bishop, a girl, June 15. lESItK' Fldon A. Eliason Seeks Nomination Eldon A. Eliason, Delta attorney, filed as a candidate for Republi-can nomination for district at-torney in the Fifth judicial dis-trict at the secretary of state's office. Dorothy Nielson, daughter of Mr. na Mrs. Clarence Nielson, of Oak tt'nW,as 0Perated on Saturday at Uelta hospital for appendicitis. Mrs. Erma Peterson left Delta Wednesday for Los Angeles, to fwi r son' Harold Peterson, and fn,7,',u'Jmd the new grandson, the urth boy in their family. |