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Show amount of snow Due to the largeskating party has f !on the ice, the 4 Millard County Chronicle ,been postponed. I Delta. Ut.. Thurs., Feb. 3,1949 Plan to Attend Elol Cross 3Iai If the roads are open and no more storms, three members of west Millard chapter of the Amer-ican Red Cross plan to attend a state meet in Salt Lake City Friday .They are Mrs. Sepha Robison, the1 chapter chairman, Mrs. Adrian Han-- ' sen, home service chairman, and Ben Robison, chairman of the fund campaign. The meeting and luncheon will be held at the Newhouse hotel on Friday, and discussion will be on preparation for the coming mem-bership campaign in March. VCC Men Man Cat To Plow Snows Walter Wilson and Rial Berry, heavy duty mechanics from West-ern Chemical Center, Tooele coun-ty, were in the Chronicle office in Delta Monday, where they drew a vivid word picture of where and how they work. It was their first day of rest since Jan. 15, when they headed west to open roads. They were 2 days ahead of the all-o- drive that opened Jan. 17. In the days and nights out there plowing snow, they had had their clothes off but three nights. That was when they were lucky enough piled up. To get that, and new pants for Wilson, and to make ports to Col. Powers on their work ihave been the only times they were not plowing snow, Tuesday morning they left Delta headed west again, and at the (chalk mine west of Hinckley found a herder who had been out all night. His truck was dead, and he was blue with cold, and speechless. Leaving Berry by arbonfire, Wilson brought the man back to Delta, and agan headed west. A. K. Han-sen, of the Bureau of Land Man-agement, says that the two men are doing heroic work, under most adverse circumstances. to share a bed in a sheep camp. It was their tractor that plowed a road and made detours that en- - abled Harold Parker and his wife and two sick children to finally get to Delta, after four days trying, from their ranch in Pleasant Val-ley. When they couldn't make a go 'on the road, the army equip- - ment plowed a detour alongside the highway, mowing down snow so cars could travel. The WCC men plowed that day from 2 a. m. to the next day at 3 a. m., plow-ing a road for Parker, and other trucks,- then going back jto aid the state road men. The heavy cat knowked down icy drifts for the rotary plow to handle. The article from Western Chem- - ical Center in this issue, told of their first week's operations. The second week followed much the same pattern. Since Jan. 19 they have made headquarters at the Theodore Madsen sheep camp west of Sevier Lake. Mr. Madsen, who was down to provisions for two meals when they plowed into him, keeps thm filled with good food and good cheer, the men report. Last Friday night, Jan. 28, was the coldest yet, at 30 blow. Six men were in the wagon, sitting up in hats land coats around the fire. That day the WCC men had rescu-ed George Coates, from where his truck was stalled with the fuel pump out. He had 20 sheep on his truck about half of them frozen to death the next morning. They plowed up to Highway 6 Saturday morning, pulling Mr. Co-ates. They left camp at 7 la. m., and got to' Delta at 2:15 Sunday morning. While in Delta Wilson and Berry stayed at the Irvin W. Jeffery home. Mr. Wilson is a brothe-r- in-law of Mrs. Jeffery. Both men are from Cedar Fort. This past ten days they have used a weapons carrier, from WCC for quick travel and to carry diesel fuel for the tractor. They find it handier than the first heavier equipment they brought down, as the wide wheel base on that ran out on the snow banks the cat Tijs 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 Entered as second class matter at the Postoffice at Delta, Utah, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 lWh0S ,,,,,,, Oscar and 'Parley u seaTed in front and d' John Warnick, standing hack They xvere sons of Adolph ' Warnick, settlers in H Christina 1880. John, the youngest L6v died in 1906. An older brother, S not on the pitcure, now lives In Prove Their only sister was Mrs. e Hales, of Deseret. Oscar was the freighter, county commissioner, and now has 3 Parley was the cowboy, and Hin- - i farmer. Wilford was the one ckley his home on Cropper, "and had the finest house of river. He was water-'rnast- er in 1926. It will be 14 years since he injured his back iin a fall from a tree, which left him unable to walk again. From his bed 'he dispenses good cheer to all his many callers. F. F. A. Mews . . . By Gill Hilton The next thing on the agenda of the Ag. Club is the selecting of the Chapter Sweetheart to represenntext the Chapter in a state contest selected spring. 15 girls have been and will be voted on by the stud entbody. The winning girl will re-ceive a special Sweetheart Jacket. The jacket is white rayon with an F F A emblem and the words "Chapter Sweetheart" embrodened " On Feb. 28, the annual Parents and Sons banquet will beheld n the school lunch room. Dinner s SI per plate and each member is his father and mot invited to bring her as special guests. - Sheldon Callister, Reed Bunker and Keith Black just recently sent in their applications for the State apply for the $100 Union Pacific Farmer degree. they will also scholarship, that is available to each county that the railroad runs through. This scholarship is award-ed annually to the most outstand-ing iboy enrolled in agriculture, Coming under consideration for 'the first time is a Chapter Hall of Fame. This will be made up ot pictures of stock show winners, prominent members, officers, puD-- i lie speakers, and any other mem-'be- r who has accomplished some-thing of note. FOR BETTER RESULTS .DVERTISE IN THE CHRONICLE Chatter Box Dear Suzy, There isn't no question about our weather. It is going to be good within a short time, that is, of course, if the ground hog has any-thing to do about it. Wednesday-h-was to make his appearance and see his shadow or not. Now I personally know he did not see his shadow because no self re-specting ground hog is going to burrow through three feet of snow just to see if he had a shadow. I know he remained snug in his nest letting the weather take care of itself, and he will make his scheduled appearance when this blows over. He might have a long sleep th-ough, as this looks lake it can go into late July. We will look funny as the dickens putting our Fourth of July soda pop in a snow bank to cool it comes Independ-ence Day. We will look funnier too, all of us going around on skiis until middle summer. Viola Songer was looking out the window the other day and ex-citedly called to her mother, "oh mama, there is the funniest looking stuff outside." Her mother hurried to the window and looked out ex-pecting almost anything, and what do you suppose she e. It has come to the point where kids old enough to have lost their baby teeth have forgotten what sunshine looks like. In fact we all are geting that igloo squint, looking at snow , more snow, and then the weatherman heeps it on again. N Johnny's Nutseh and Dick Morri-son were working in a generator for Johnny's snow plow the other eve and after several hours of looking for the trouble gave up. Johnny said he thought possibly a noggin of soothing syrup was what they needed. A hurried trip to the local emporium of giggle soup was made and both the men took a tremendous snort, not that they wanted he liquor, but they wanted to get the bottle down as Sar as they could in case they dropped it on the floor and broke it, thus wasting all that thought-producin- g beverage. Dick swears that as soon as they had wiped the tears from their eyes they both saw the trou-ble - - a couple of wires crossed. That was remedied and generator was as good as new. I am not one to throw cold water on their dis-covery and advocation of a snifter when trouble looms, but I think what happened was the drink cros- - sed their eyes and they were see-ing things in the wrong light. May-be they spilled a little of their joy juice on the generator to make it sit up and take notice. Johnny says the generator is working better than it ever did. In fact, it keeps on running and hum-ming to itself even after the en-gine is stopped. i My nomination for the meanest man in town goes to Mel Roper this week. He has piled up a lus-cious looking pile of coal near his lumber - hardware shop which he peddles out to' those wanting to keep from getting frost bitten fin-gers while preparing he family dinner. He doesn't make any pre-tense of putting a fence about the place, just lets is set there and en-tice those who wish to take some. Monday night a customer arriv-ed to get some coal, tout it was past business hours, in fact it was getting close to the opening of an-other business day. The coal look-ed so good to him he loaded his truck with it, and then because he was a little too greedy, loaded his truck to such a height that he got stuck when he tried to pull away. He was still igranding away when the local officers who try to keep law and order arrived to help him with his cargo.At present the status is still undecided, as they don't know if the customer was really go ing to mail a check later for the coal, or .whether he was just go-ing to let Mell put it on the cuff. Now if Mel hadn't displayed this pile of coal he wouldn't have tem-pted anyone to help themselves, & too, Mel should stay open all night, as one never knows when one will need coal. The City of Delta is richer by some $2200 as their share of the liquor profits that are divvied up each spring and prorated to the local towns who help support them They feel quite good about getting the money, but don't want anyone to know that the good people of Delta and vicinity take a look at the wine while it is red. They want it all kept quiet that Delta gets a whack of this size. Personally I think they got cheated and should ask for a recount. If it was double this amount they would have come closer to the cor-rect figure. Toots. A Good Job Well Done From the western area where' the snow-boun- d sheep and cattle have been given some relief from starvation, comes nothing but tales of men hard at work, facing a difficult task with determination and caring little about long hours of work at sub-zer- o temperatures and strong winds. Hardships beyond the belief of those who haven't been there, and hard for anyone to believe that knows of a normal West Millard winter. Days of work of 19 hours and sometimes longer, in deep snow, hard winds and the realization that when their work was done they must start it all over again. Having nothing to eat but a biscuit and an egg from a Wednesday to a Saturday, men faint- - ing from exhaustion after a particularly grueling extra long shift. Two inches of ice on their camp floor, and not enough fuel to melt snow for drink-ing water. Those are a few of the many tales com-ing in daily, and there will be more, no doubt. All of the men who have done this magnificent work deserve a great deal of credit. To those "or-- i ' phans" on the state road commission crews we think' deserve a little extra credit. Because these men, due to a change in administration, face a very strong possibility of losing their jobs. But even though they are not and will not. be certain of their standing for some time, these men all answered the call for help m the western area, and from them comes, a long list of privations, broken down mach-- : inery, and a lot of abuse from self-style- d big shots who wanted to know why the state road commis-sion wasn't prepared for this emergency. We have never had an emergency like this one in the longest memory of our people. To those who have griped about the work done and are still griping, may we ask them, why they weren't prepared? They have never seen anything like this before, so why dump the fault pn those who have done their best and are still doing it. - Another thing that faces the state road crews, and also the county road crews, is that they work for $1.20 an hour with no extra for overtime. Should they work beyond 12 hours a day, a clause in the state road rules reads that they cannot collect any pay beyond 12 hours per day. Unless some change is made in that ruling these men face the fact that they were and are working many hours every day for nothing. All this time they were working alongside and with men who received higher pay, a union scale of $1.90 plus time and a half for overtime, but let us add the road crews did not kick and are not kick-ing. They have been called to duty and they answer ' ed with little regard to their rate of pay, hardships to be encountered, or abuse from those who don't know any better. We are not saying the union operators are over paid in this work. What we are driving at is that the state and county roads crews are. badly under paid for this type of work. It was Andrew Jackson who said, "To the victor belongs the spoils," and being Republicans, we do not hold with Andrew Jackson nor his statement. Especially in this case we would like to see those of the road crews who desire continued on as mem-bers of the commission. They worked against Gov-- ; ernor Lee in his recent election, but when the call came that fellow Uthans were in distress, politics were forgotten, their defeat was forgotten, the in-- I security of their jobs was forgotten, and they an- -' swered the call to a man. Let's give these boys a pat on the back and hope that their reward comes in retention of their jobs, and that they receive their just desserts. 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