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Show . Delta 1st Ward Crowns Gold and Green Queen V ; o 5 v'vis flu : , 1 fit ;f'?Mr&?..A v- -- Highlight of the Gold and Green Ball held in Delta First ward on Thursday night was the coronation of their queen. Miss Lucile Billings. Sponsored by the M. I. A, the Ball was attended by a large crowd for the colorful ceremony. Attendants to the queen were Mary Jo Christensen, Beverly Fullmer, Norma Jean Law and Carol Johnson. The dainty flower girls were Delene Ashby and Nora Jean Knight, and Crandall Nielson Fifteen miniature attendants also were with the royal party, and also took part in the floor show. Volume 38 Number 32 Delta, Utah, Thursday, February 5, 1948 $3.50 a Year in Advance r March of Dimes Ball Aids in Fight Against Polio ' I - - h - ! " A i S. m( : ' . ., , ,, - ' J 3 - - --' ' V ' .l ' f . ; v ft : ; I ,'-- ' "" v h ; 1 J ..." - f ' V - " - ; ! 4. X " - ' - ' 1 -- ii i 194 tickets sold at the door and generous support from the public made the annual Birthday Ball Saturday night a successful cli-max in the March of Dimes. Pic tured are Reva Bliss, chairman of the west Millard drive, Arpril-l- a Scow, Mark Johnson, county chairman, June Reid and lone Dalley, viewing the gifts whose distribution added to the spirit j of giving that marks the March I Announcement of the total funds jj I gathered will be made later by j J Mrs. Bliss. f ,. t Stores to Close February 12 Thursday, February 12, Lin-coln's birthday, will be obeser-ve- d as a holiday in Delta. The stores will be closed all day, also the bank. The drug stores will close until 1 p. m., then open on through. The post of-fice will be open all day. First Ward Gold & Green Ball Theme Was "The Light of the World" ... . "The Light of the World" was the theme carried out in decora-tions for the ball, with rays of gold and green emanating from the upheld torch of the Goddess of Liberty, and the gold and green streamers used all around the hall. Following the coronation, a floor show was given, under the dir-ection of Mrs. Roberta Theobald. The small attendants from the roy-al procession danced in one number... They were Karen Wilkins, Cathleen Nickle, Eileen Buck, Taylor, Barbara Crafts, Kar-en Johnson, Elaine Cole, Kathryn Webb, Lorraine Curtis, Diane Dan-ielso- n, Ardyth Shields, Sandra Gar-dner, Barbara Steele, Louise War-nic- k and Nadine Turner. An exhibition of ball room danc-ing was given by Junior Girls and Senior Scouts, with six couples tak-ing part. They were Emma Gene Pratt, Joyce Church, Kathleen Eck-stro- Dorothy Jeffery, Beverly Dutson, Sharon Robinson, Ray Jef-fery, Eugene Holmari, Fred Adams, Kenneth Fullmer, John Gardner, and Winston Christensen. Nine Gleaner Girls, Norma Jean Law, Beverly- Fullmer, Mary Jo Christensen, Betty Rae Broderick, Arlene Billings, Rose Jeffery, la Jensen, Colleen Mortensen and Carol Johnson, were those who danced the creative dance, with gold and green balloons. Sweetheart Ball Scheduled Saturday At DHS Gym A Stake Budget Dance is being sponsored by the and Glea-ners. on February 14th in the formy of a Sweetheart Ball, which will be held in the Delta High School Gymnasium. Everyone is invited to attend. A floor show will be given at 10:30 under the direction of Ruby Bishop and Glen Rawlinson, stake dance directors. The crowning of a Queen and King of Hearts will be a special feature of the evening. Each ward is asked to have a queen chosen to represent that ward, and a drawing will take place on the floor to determine which one reigns as Queen of Hearts. Girls chosen should have at least 75 percent attendance at MIA and may be chosen as the wards so desire, by vote, drawing or other methods. It is suggested, however, that the girl who is to be or was queen of the Ward Gold and Green Ball and her attendants not be chosen to represent the ward as Queen of Hearts. The Kings may be chosen by the girl who is Queen for the Sweetheart Ball, or by drawing or appointment, as the ward sees fit. Refreshments will be sold at this dance. Hinckley Gold & Green Set Friday The Gold and Green Ball for the Hinckley Ward will be held in the Hinckley High School Gymnasium on Friday, February 6th. The hall will be decorated ap-propriately for this dance and a lovely floor show is, prepared for this affair. The public is cordially invited to attend. Joyce Wood has been chosen as queen for the dance; Betty Belle Hardy and Betty Jane Roper as her attendants. These girls were the lucky girls at a drawing in Mut-ual when all girls of the Glean-er class who had a good attend-ance record were allowed to draw roses, with "Queen" being placed in one of the roses and "attend-ant" in two other ones. BASKETBALL End of Season Is Approaching The end of the basketball season is rapidly approaching, with one more home game for Delta high school in league play. This Thurs-day night DHS plays Milford, at Milford. Wednesday night, Feb. 11, Delta plays Hinckley, at Delta. The schedule will be completed several weeks earier than in other years. Following the league games there are several lined up for the Big Hall, benefit games for the new seats. First will be Saturday, Feb. 14, when DHS plays Spanish Fork, one of ,the state's top teams. May 23-2- 9 Dates For Annsial Jr. Livestock Show Officers of the Millard County Junior Livestock Show Association met Monday night in Delta, to complete the program for this year's show, which will be held in Delta May 28 and 29. Bigger pre-miums this year were decided up-on, and other plans discussed to add to the success of the show. The officers recently attended a state meet in Salt Lake City, and will incorporate some of the ideas put forth there in this year's pro-gram. Work has started on the book lets, which will be issued earlier this year, setting forth the rules, entries, premiums and new reg-- j ulations. Public Invited ! To Special Meet U, Of Farm Bureau i Millard County Farm Bureau will K convene Wednesday, Feb. 11, in the f D. H. S. at 2 p. m., with a special- - - ly prepared program of interest to farmers, whether members of the bureau or not. This meeting, the largest ever to be called here . . by the Farm Bureau, is open to I everyone, and a large crowd is an- - J ticipatd. Apostle Ezra T. Benson, an auth-ority on cooperatives, will be the main speaker at the session. Other speakers will be representatives from the Utah State Farm Bureau, 4 both men and women, and speak- - ers coming from Nebraska and Cal-ifornia. Other topics of interest will be the presentation and explanation f of the Blue Cross hospital plan, and a report of the state convention, held in Salt Lake City on Jan. 29, y 30, and 31. Fenton Gardner, Mil-lard county farm bureau president, Will Webb, Hinckley, Mr. Hatch, Scipio, and Rodney Rickenbach and Tom Reeves, of Fillmore', and their wives, attended the sessions, which 'j was marked with a special edition of the Deseret News on Jan. 30, de-- f voted to the farm convention. j ( At the close of the convention j j Wednesday election of county of- - i. ficers for the year will be held. Mother Nature Designs Huge Cake . . . . ' ,Vir , : V. f.'i tt. T 4 ...v, jrt M null iflll illiiMini nil'l Saturday night a goose-nec- k J on the water main burst sending a fine spray into the air which was blown by the wind onto a nearby tree, freezing and finally breaking the tree down, resulting in the intricate design shown a- - bove. The spray is still going at the time of this picture and is shown on the right hand side. The main burst at the inter-section south of W. C. Cole's home and opposite the Evan Johnson home. Hinckley Beats Milford 40-3- 9 Th Hinckley high school's fight-ing Mustangs topped Milford's Tig-ers by a 40-3- 9 margin to escape the league cellar. The game was played at the Hinckley gym with a large crowd attending the thrill-ing game. The score remained close thru-ou- t the game. The winners made the first basket and lead at the first quarter by one point, 12-1- The second quarter saw the Tig-ers claw their way to the top of the score and hold the lead until after the half, the score at the half was 24 - 20 for the Tigers. The third period saw the Mus-tangs take the score in hand again to hold a 31-3- 0 lead, and during the final quarter the Mustangs trampled the Tigers to garner a 38-3- 2 lead with two minutes left in the game. Here the Mustangs faltered and Milford's Tigers over-took them with a 39-3- 8 lead as there were only thirty seconds left in the game. The Mustangs then made a basket to regain the lead at 40-3- which was the final score, and they gained possession of the ball to freeze it until the ringing of the final bell. This game was close and thrill-ing, with the Mustangs showing a new capability that should carry them to 'more victories. The next home game for the Mustangs is on Friday, February 13 when they meet Millard at Hin-ckley. The Mustangs hope to make this day an unlucky one for the Eagles. Beaver Trips Delta In Fast Game: Remain Undefeated Friday night two undefeated teams in this division, Beaver and Delta, met in the Big. Hall with Beaver emerging the winner by a score of 39 - 36. This , win places Beaver in the first place and Delta in second place at the Close of the first half of the league race. Beaver took the lead and held it throughout the game, displaying fast floor work and with Pierce's uncanny eye at tossing baskets made it tough for Delta to come close to even a tie. The first half ended with Beaver in the lead 24 -- 16. The second half Delta rallied and played a better game than they had done in the first half, but it still was not enough to over-come the lead that Beaver had taken. Sheriff was high' point man for Delta with 13 points and Hortin was second high for Delta with 8. Pierce was high point man of the game with 16 points for Bea-ver, and second high point man on the Beaver team was Hollingshead with 8 tallies. BOX SCORE: BEAVER G T F P Harton 12 2 4 Lee 0 0 0 0 McShane 2 115 Christensen 0 0 0 0 Ashworth 2 2 2 G E. Manzione 0 0 0 0 Pierce 6 6 4 16 G. Manzione 0 0 0 0 Van Orden 0 0 0 0 Hollingshead 3 5 2 8 TOTAL 14 16 11 39 DELTA G T F P Hortin 3 4 2 8 Kelley 2 115 Fullmer 0 0 0 0 Dalton 0 0 0 0 Johnson 2 0 0 4 Finlinson 12 2 4 Sheriff 5 6 3 13 Rawlinson 0 0 0 0 McCallister 10 0 2 Clark 0 0 0 0 TOTAL 14 13 8 36 Delta will go to Milford this coming Thurs. night to play there and all the teams will commence their second half of the league play. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Benson, from Roosevelt, are Delta visitors, at the home of their aunt, Mrs. Frances Tolbert. Young Farmers Will Meet All young men engaged in farm-ing in the Hinckley area, Abraham, Deseret and Oasis, either as owners or as renters, or who are interested in this vocation, are invited to at-tend a short meeting to be held in the Hinckley high school agri-cultural room on Friday, February 6 at 7:30 p. m., to form a Young Farmers' association for this area. Elden Hurst will direct this meet-ing and states that it is to the advantage of every young man to be a member of this association. Mr. Hurst stated that the meet-ing would be a short one, so as not tointerfere with the Gold and Green Ball which is being held in Hinckley that night, or with other activities which any young farmer may have planned for that evening. Play Ifceviewed At Fidelity Club One of the-be-st ten plays for '46-4- 7 made the program at Fidelity Club on Thursday evening, when club members and guest met at the home of Mrs. Zola Wright. Present that evening were Louise Adams, Romania Bird, Ella Black, Thelrria Seegmiller, Artie Hender- - son, Maline Gardner, Clara Kill- -, pack, Hannah Larson, Norma Han- - nifin, Inez Moody, Donna Sorenson and Ava Starley, Fidelity members, and Mary Bassett and Verna Gard-iner, guests that evening. Mrs. Ad- - ams gave the program and chose for her review a play by Norman Crasna. A three-hou- r flight, her first trip 'by plane, took Mrs. Milo Hutchins from Salt Lake City to Burbank, California, where she is visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. V. Humphries, and a new granddaughter, Judith Ann, born Jan. 24. Mrs. Hutchins wrote her daughter, Mrs. Clark Bishop, of her safe arrival there Jan. 25, and that she had thorough-ly enjoyed the flight. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Losee spent Sunday in Springville. visiting their brother, Frank Bishop, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have a new daughter, their second, born in Springville Jan. 30. Mrs. Mable Chapman, from Salt Lake City, spent Sunday in Delta, and left her small son, James Ar-le- y, here with his aunt, Mrs. J. Layton Bishop, while he recovers from chicken pox. Fenton Gardner, president of Mil-lard County Farm Bureau, and Mrs. Gardner attended the state Farm Bureau convention held in Salt Lake City last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. On Sunday they vis-ited in Logan with their daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Forman, and returned to Delta on Monday. Lyceum Numbers ? At High Schools "The American Concert Trio" will '. perform at the Delta high school j on Monday, Feb. 9 at 1 p. m. and j at the Hinckley high school at 2:30 j p.m. This concert consists of Janet ! Thompson, pianist; Genevieve j Parkin, soprano; and Monza Higgs, j dancer, who all participate in sing- - i j ing, playing and dancing. These j j young musical artists have attain- - I ed an outstanding position as plat- - ; I form performers in America. Their ' ( splendid training and natural abil- - ity have placed them at the top : among American concert artists. ', 1 The public is invited to join the high school student bodies enjoying ; i this fine performance. A 25c charge will be made ot the public and to students without student body j cards. Students with cards will be admitted for ten cents. Classes Going In Mechanics Young men who are interested in taking a course in General Mechanics should contact Mr. Seeg-miller at the Delta high school this week. The course will be operated in the afternoon for three hours during the school week. High School credit will be given for completion of required work. Many inquiries have, been made about such a class for adults, and arrangements are being worked out to set up a class in the near fut-ure, for evening sessions. Seventies Party A gay party will be held on Thursday, February 5 at 8 p. m. in the Delta high school gym, for' the Seventies of the stake, both the 21st Quorum and the 111th Quorum participating. There will be a snappy program presented, which will be followed by the playing of games and the serving of light refreshments. All Seventys are nivited to be in at-- 1 tendance, and are asked to come DIIS "Follies" dressed for active games. Delights Crowd Delta high school students pre-sented the "Follies of 1948", in the auditorium on Wednesday night, drawing a large audience for this gay and colorful entertain-ment. The show was one of the most ambitious projects the stu-dents have undertaken in some time, and was a benefit for the new band uniforms. Net profits from the' Follies were $90, which were turned over to the fund to buy new uniforms for the Delta high school band. Over 100 students took part in the show, which was made up of 28 numbers, skits featuring danc-ing and singing. Fred Adams was student director for the produc-tion, assisted by Norma Jean Law as dance director. Evan Christen-sen, of the DHS music department, was faculty advisor. All those tak-ing part gave an excellent show, and only lack of space acounts for not giving names of the stu-dents, with special mentions and bouquets. A matinee was given ' Wednesday afternoon, and the same show that night for adults. J Boy Scouts Inaugurate Scout Week, February 6th to 12, with Stake Court of Honor in Delta Sunday ' ' .. . rv:- - - :i--J ' ' - ' '.'' I !,:. I I l, f ',- '. m 2 ' --t t " , rr,t W' i "V- ' I Boy Scouts of Deseret Stake met Sunday night in the Delta high school for special Court of Honor that opened Scout Week. A large audience of friends of Scouts and scouting were in at-tendance for the presentation of merit badges and other honor a- - wards. A Palm award was made to Lionel Taylor Scouter, and a Life Badge to Lawrence Wright, Hinckley Scout. The program was directed by R. B. Shurtliff, assisted by other Scout leaders. Arthur Reeve spoke on the purpose of Scout Week which celebrates the birth of the organization 35 years ago, and its growth and aims for the future. Dates Scheduled j To Obtain 1018 H License Plates j LYNNDYL Tuesday forenoon, February 3rd. LEAMINGTON Tuesday after-noon February 3rd. KANOSH Wednesday afternoon February 11th. Meadow Wednesday forenoon February 11th. HOLDEN Friday forenoon, Feb-ruary 13th. SCIPIO Monday afternoon, a February 13th. t ) DESERET Monday afternoon, t February 16th. f OASIS Monday forenoon, Febru- - i ary 16th. 5 i HINCKLEY Wednesday fore- - noon, February 18th. y SUTHERLAND Wednesday aft- - " J ernoon, February 18th. DELTA Friday all day Febru- - ary 20th ( Wednesday all day Feb- - ' ruary 25th, and Friday afternoon, February 27th. OAK CITY Friday forenoon, February 27th. 1 I Mrs. Nellie Workman, from Bend, I 1 Oregon, is visiting in Delta with fiv-- " her daughter, Mrs. Lawrence Bunk- - j - er. Mrs. Workman has been in Los f Angeles. J |