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Show him- an mi 1 nursrmiifii r ui.imi rinnrrT 1 A Millard County Chronicle I Delta. Ut., Thurs.. Mar. 18, 1948 LYNXDYL Oak City Ward MIA presented their play here Saturday evening. larpp crowd attended and en-joyed it very much. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sheriff spent several days last week, visiting in American Fork and Salt Lake. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Ogden visited with Mr. and Mrs. Harry McCardell and boys, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Johnson spent the weekend here, visiting Mr. and Mrs. Eeed Larsen. Mrs. Leslie Haycock and baby are hp'-- to visit tor a week, with Don-na's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reed lielson. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Don James drove to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nelson" have had Jacks' sister, the former Jewel Nelson, to visit them. Jewel makes her home at Clearfield now The Relief Society is planning big affair for their annual Day March 17. They are having a prol gram, bazaar and dance and thev invite everyone. It will begin at 7:30 in the evening. The speakers in Sacrament meet ing were Jay Nelson, William Brad! field and Alma Harder Mr. and Mrs. Jay Nelson and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Woodbury, sane a quartet, accompanied by ElDon-n- a Coleman. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Mills were Salt Lake visitors the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Greathouse spent Wednesday in Spanish Fork and Provo. Mrs. Inez Wiley had her mother Mrs. Betsy Skeem, of Oasis, to visit her Monday. Salt Lake Saturday, to see the fin-- I als in the basketball tournament. Tillman Johnson also attended the basketball games. The only way anyone could wear a bigger grin nowadays than Roy-al Terry is to be larger than he is; and why not, since a red head-ed granddaughter made her ap-pearance at the Verl Blacks.' At present Mrs. Black and baby are here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Terry. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Terry and boys, from Salt Lake City, were down Sunday, to see the little new grandbaby. Mr. LaVar Dutson went to Pay-so- n Monday and brought home Mrs. Dutson and the new baby. Mr. and Mrs. Alma Anderson, of Fillmore, spent the afternoon visit-ing Mr. and Mrs. Clead Nielson. Mrs. J. C. Trotter has returned to her home in California, after spending two weeks here with her daughter, Mrs. Betty Nielson and family. Allan Nielson celebrated his 8th birthday last Thursday with a par-ty. Eighteen guests were present. I j The Millard County Chronicle Published Every Thursday at Delta, Utah By CHRONICLE PUBLISHING COMPANY Owned by Frank S. Beckwith and Frank Beckwith Frank Beckwith Editor Frank S. Beckwith, Business Manager Robert Riding Shop Foreman ' Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at 1; - Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 HtiBl Advertising Representative KIWSPAPBB AltVEBTIlfVG SEBVICE. INC. Sja.Mat.efsW I lo tdNoiW Aiodo--) I IV. A. S.J Serving America's Advertisers andhe Home Tetra Newspapers MW.kndolpa CMc9el.a. OFFICES Hvfcrasi Ms, Sm FmmIk, Cat FOK BETTER RESULTS ftDVERTISE IN THE CHRONICLE Watch Repairing Jewelry Repairing NEW BOWS FOR GLASSES J t Do you know that it requires 20,000 small gold screws,such as used in the balance wheel of a watch, to fill a thimble of ordinary size? t K t $ ALL WORK GUARANTEED t ! VIRGIL'S WATCH REPAIR f I BAKER PHARMACY DELTA, UTAH f v ' When she went out to drive Obeyed all tke rules And came home AUVE ! Mother Goose was no goose! Wise drivers enjoy living enough to obey the simple driving rules that are made for their safety. The tragedy is that too to take chances many are willing just to save a few seconds. Result-- ?.? killed 300 injured every dal of the year. You should know the rules of the road; if you don't, learn them. Behind the wheel remember them-res- pect them, and the chances are you'll drive free from accidents! Ignore them and you gamble with precious lives including your own! " SPEND KQm Contributed in the public interest by "SERVICE DRUG BAKER PHARMACY MOODY BROTHERS BROOKLAWN CREAMERY MILLARD COUNTY TEL & TEL DELTA MTT.TTNP COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY ! , ,. (Chatter Box Dear Suzy, I never in my life heard of so many men who had such pressing business in Salt Lake City over this past week as the many Del-ta-who went up there. They just had to attend a lot of meetings, "and really .dear I'll be so busy I just can't take you with me this trip," so they went stag. Glen Hortin was one of these shining examples and he left early Tuesday morning to attend a creamery meeting and stood in line two days at the U. of U. field house waiting for a ticket to the tournament. At least he told his wife and the creamery workers that he was called up on import- ant business and just happened to go to the tournament for the full period of time. Max Hannifin is another that had business in Salt Lake City) It seems that Tri-Sta- had a board shipped to them and called all of their managers in to take a look at it. That didn't take Max long so he was right with Glen in line for tickets. Leigh Maxfield is the only one of the bunch who did have a valid excuse for going in and he had to attend a seed convention. The con-vention isn't until July, but Leigh had to make reservations for it, and thought he might as well stay for the tournament. As far as I can find out Dewey Bishop is the only one from here that came out openly and said he was going to the tournament. He did go even though he had to sell a cow to pay his expenses on the trip and leave him a little betting money ' with which to make small wagers so as to keep the game interesting. It is good to find one honest man in the whole group who went up to see the game without having to make lame excuses for doing so. The excuses the vast throng of other people who went up are just so much eye wash and can be treated as same. It is too bad that the man can't put as much time in actual work as they spend figuring out a good plausible reas-on and one that will hold water instead. If they did men in these parts would be working from day-light until dark and West Mil-lard would be a beehive of activ-ity, progress and its inhabitants would be renowned the world over for their veracity. Among the rabid fans who did not make the trip are Cecil Baker and Lee Callister. Cec stood too close to a bottle of penicillin one day and built his resistance up to the point where he could withstand anything. But, the main reason was he had, as did most of us, put off scratching around on his in-come tax blanks and felt that it would be better to- - put off the tournament rather than accept board and room from the govern-ment. Lee had a bunch of weather re-ports on the coming storms on the upper Sevier and so took off for there with his boots and shovel with the intention of diverting a little of that extra water into the Sevier river, hoping that it would get here before too many had filed on it. When you look back on the whole thing about the only good one can see from income tax is that it makes one stay home from the basketball games tending to his business so as to make enough money to pay the tax. Or maybe those in charge of the tournament plan the play off during .that time so they will not have too large of a crowd. Wallace Jeffery is wearing that new look now, at least it is a new look for men, and especially for men who are not inclined to fisti-cuffs and bar room brawls. Wal-- lace has a good story for the look and one that he has put a lot of thought on. He claims that he was milking one of his cows when the critter hauled off and kicked him right on' the nose, giving it a somewhat flattened appearance and" decidedly off center from its original position. Now Wallace is a tall man and I would wager even money that when he sits down to milk a cow he can look right over its back, and I have yet to see the cow that can kick in such a man-ner to hit a nose that is resting on the cow's spine in a direct line above the place of production. Wallace's story has some merit, but I am rather inclined not to be-lieve it too strongly. Wallace does feel badly that it didn't have some complications with it so he would have had to go to Salt Lake last week for medical attention as that is to date the anly excuse to get to the tournament that wasn't used. Wallace needs a milking ma-chine and I know a .daisy of a story about milking machines, but I am afraid it is a little too strong for the ears of a bishop. I wish California had some of ourtypical California weather and they would quit hollering about' the drouth, Toots. j TIME FOR REASON Ij (Editorial) At first glance, the statement by safety authorities 3;.' that speed is the Number 1 cause of highway deaths and injuries has a far-awa- y sound of no particular :!, significance. ;j The picture of an America gone speed-craz- y has in. been exaggerated by alarmists ever since the "flap-- , per" days following World War I, and a good many people will find it had to believe that pur highways ' are a teeming chaos of careening speed-demon-s. As a matter of fact most of us, in the course of a day's ) driving, have encountered one or two insanely reck- - i;; less speeders, seldommore. Certainly the propor- - ' tion is nothing like one out of ten. What, then, is all V ' the shouting about? :i A careful analysis of what safety experts mean by ' "speed" clears up the mystery, although it affords little cause for complacency. Far from relieving us !' ' of personal responsibility in the matter, we find the I j finger of accusation pointed directly at Mr. and Mrs. Average Motorist. For if speed means, as we learn, not only such clearly dangerous speeds as 60, 70 and 80 miles an hour, but also speeds of 40, 30, or even 20 miles an i hour under adverse conditions, then in effect the tragic toll of highway accidents means that a sub-stantial proportion of us are lacking in good judg-ment. That is a harsh indictment. It hits us in a very ten- - der spot pride in our native American Common- - ; , sense. !' 'As a nation, we are individualists and proud of it. i ' We are proud of our freedom of choice, freedom of initiative, freedom to make our own decisions. Let i us hope that the Number 1 highway killer is not due to our inability to exercise good judgment, but rath- - j ,! er to our ignorance of the conditions affecting safe !: driving speeds. Let us set about correcting this ig- - ji norance and thus halt the killing. li !' ZZ -- j f1 "N,. m iiiiiimiiiiiiiiiPiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiM ; O l , l j. , j QOt S 11 till6 S BY ROBERT RIDING Every member is urged to be at this meeting. If this post is to function as a Post its size should, your Legion dues are not enough. Your attendance at these meetings makes for better discussions of veteran problems, monthly pro jects, local projects for the coming summer, and anything else pertain-ing to Legion affairs. This summer should be a good one for this Post, with the present agenta of coming events. Be sure and be in attendance at the meeting this coming Sunday if you can . . . PARABLE of ISMS-SOCIA-LISM If you have two cows, give one to your neighbor. COMMUNISM If you have two cows, give them both to the government and the government gives you some milk. FASCISM If you have two cows, you keep and milk the cows, give the milk to the government and then the government sells you some milk. NEW DEALISM If you have two cows, you shoot 'one, milk the other and pour the milk down the drain. NAZISM If you have two cows, the gov-ernment shoots you and keeps the cows. CAPITALISM If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull . . . Farm News. The saying now is: "To start a "fourth" party you have to go out and drink a "fifth" . . . Qrt This morning, while I was "shav- - j In", the radio was going full blast with the tune, "Slap Her Down ; A'gin Pa." And all of a sudden I i was back in Brinkley, Arkansas i on liberty from the Naval Air Sta-tion in Memphis, Tenn. Two of my i buddies were with me. i! I'd always wanted to see some i ' real "Hillbillies" and go to one of their Saturday night dances they '', hold in their homes. I never thot ' I would actually get to attend one. Well, this night the three of us were walking down an old dusty i road, when we heard the sound of a couple of guitars and a banjo. i' i The "music" was coming from a i house, setting out in a field, just i j off the road. , When we walked closer the peo- - ij i pie noticed us and invited us in j to join them. We accepted. When ; we walked in the front room, I j thought, well here's your real "hill- - billies" sure 'nough they were. The three "musicians" were sit- - ting in the corner (barefoot) play- - ing some backwoods tune of their own origin. Old and young alike' were dancing. Every now and then j they had to dance out of the way I of two huge dogs that seemed to have the run of the house. The J dogs were the first ones we made , friends with. I didn't want either i , one of the brutes looking angry at me. ... At that time they made a lion look sick. I walked over to a doorway and - looked into the next room. It was the kitchen, and just off from that , was a bedroom. You could have ' knocked me over with a feather there sat two or three pretty girls i about 16 to 19 years of age, In 1 clean house dresses. The thing I C ! noticed most was the fact that e they were all spruced up and yet li no shoes . . . j I figured, well here was my ..' ; chance, I could pick the prettiest I girl to dance with before my bud-- 0 - dies became curious as to what was holding my attention so long. (I was just trying to decide which .. ' of the girls was the prettiest). Anyway, we danced, dodged (; those two hounds and drank "corn" from the jug ... I ljad been to a j real old backwoods "hoedown". Quite an experience, too. , This coming Sunday, at the reg-- ' ular meeting of the American Leg- - Ion Post 117, Mayor Golden Black ' ; and Morgan Edwards will speak. ' OASIS . . Mr. JL. Bishop Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Anderson and small son have moved to Oasis from Salt Lake City. Stanley will assist his father, Peter M. Ander-son, with farming this summer. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Johnson came home last Saturday. They have been in Salt Lake City for the past few weeks, where Mr. John-son has been under the doctor's care. The Relief Society celebrated their annual day by holding a dance Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. William Bassett were guests, representing the stake board. |