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Show Volume 40 Number 13 Delta, Utah, Thursday, September 29, 1949 $3.50 a Year in Advance Warmer Wetter Weather Aids Local Seed Crop w.:a,h" forecast Wednos-da- y predicts a nght and cloudy day and thunder showers 'dear ng Thursday. Wind rneUlhto20 per hour.Twitch! Cooler ,J""rthwesterly Thursday. Wednesday and Thursday Tret of MmUm temperature at D The weather the past week has been warmer with temperatures "T"of 8t6m 36 low t0 several and 87. The mercury climbed to 59 low at Deseret Sun day night right in the teeth of a thunder shower and .12" rainfall. Tuesday afternoon and night rains dropped .42" of water and the thermometer held around 48. All this has been of benefit to farmers with alfalfa seed still un-cut, and each day without frost adds to the yield. What damage from frost has been noted was in just one night this fall, Sept. 17, at 32, and that went hit and miss. So far the weather has been un-usually good but this can't go on forever. Final Rites Will Be Held Thursday For Young Mother ""puberal services for Mrs. Marie pav Shurtz wife of Cecil Shurzt of 'Sugarville, will be held in the Delia "First ward chapel Thursday at 2 p. m- - bv BisnoP Harold Jen-sen of Sugarville ward. Mrs. Shurtz died Monday aftern-oon at the Fillmore hospital fol-lowing a" operation. She had maj-or surgery there three weeks ago, and had returned to the hospital for additional care when she died. She was born in Fillmore April 27, 1930 a daughter of Marion and Mrs. Charlotte Day. She was marr-ied to Cecil Shurtz in the Manti temple Feb. 12, 1949, and had lived on their farm since that time. She , ' was an active member of the LDS ; church, and had served Sugarville - ward activities. She was a popular figure in the community and deep sympathy is felt for the family in the death of the young wife and mother. Surviving are her husband and one son, Keith aged 3 months; her parents, in Fillmore and the fol lowing brothers and sisters, Mrs. Bonelle Stewart and Mrs. Rowen Duncan, of Meadow; Miss Vaudis Day at Fillmore; two Clair Cofford, of Tooele and Keith Cofford, of Corpus Christus, Texas. Burial will be in the Delta ceme tery, under direction of L. N. Nickle and sons. Pheasant Posting Area May Raise Funds for Hospital West Millard service organisa- tions who have been working or a proposed hospital for this area, have been asked this week to handle the pheasant hunt in this area. Under the present plan 90,-00- 0 acres will be posted, which comprises all of the farming area in West Millard. Hunters wanting to hunt in this area will be re-quired to purchase a permit to do so at a cost of $1.00 a day. Money derived from the sales will be turned into a hospital fund and it should result in about $5,000 being raised this season. This project was taken up when the northern half of West Millard decided to post their lands against hunting, as a protection measure and a protest against the doe hunt and the handling of the Vernon area where special $3.00 permits are required from a limit of 1000 hunters. The service organizations will consider the proposal at their next meetings and how it can be organ-ized so that hunters can obtain permits and on a system of patrol so that hunters can be checked. Sponsors of the plan figure that this method will be as painless as possible to raise funds, and that it will also be as equitable and fair as any other plan as everyone is asked to buy the permit, sports-men landowners, and all others who intend to hunt. Thousands Eye Aircraft at Delta Airport Days Sun day Show - 1 T?Zr : Delta Municipal airport was thronged with several thousand people Sunday afternoon for the air show of Delta Airport Days. Aircraft were thick on the field, and prominent here is the B29, and the line-u- p waiting for a trip through. As this picture was taken spectators were watching the sky where pilots from the Utah Air National Guard were gain-ing altitude for the air demon-stration they gave. Delta Lions sponsored the celebration which included the hangar dance Saturday night, Sunday breakfast for the pilots, and afternoon air show. Joe Bergin director Utah state aeronautics commission, was M C of the air events. For a good comprehensive ac-count of the activities read Wingovers. where Dick Morri- - j son gives facts, figures and the i highlights of the occasion. j First Ward Plans Fair and Auction For New Building Everyone is cordially invited to attend the Delta First ward Fair and Auction, to be held in the 1st ward hall Friday, Oct. 7, at 8 p. m. Entertainment for young as well old will be provided. Although there will be no ad-mission charge, there will be plen-ty of opportunity to part with that filthy stuff known as "lucre." The objects of the entertainment are two-fol- first to have a good time, and second, to raise funds for the building of a new church. The date was announced first as being the 6th of October, but due to the fact that Moab will play football here at that time ,he da"te has been definitely set for Oct. 7th. Don't forget it! Strengthen The Arm of Liberty In the near future a solicitor for Boy Scout contributions will call on every family and business in west Millard county. Help reduce juvenile delinquency and bring a worthwhile program to our boys by supporting this fund drive. District Finance Committee Mr. and Mrs. John. Wind left Delta Friday for Nebraska where they will spend a month visiting. They each will see sisters they haven't seen in 28 years. WHO'S WHO? ? ? ' " IT-- ' - ; j I i . . 4 i As the years went by the family baseball team was split up and the family baseball team was split up and the, brothers settled by two's. There were two in Delta, two in Hinckley two in Oak City and two in Aurora. And they all raised large families. There are children and grandchildren here who look very much like the four children in the picture. With all these clues guessing Who's Who ixill hp PflSV. Here are four of the children of a family of thirteen, of whom four girls and eight boys grew to maturity. They are natives of Mill-ard county ,and early Deltans, too.' Taking them from left to right they are a brother born Jan. 2, 18-8- then a little brother in a warm wool dress, born March 10, 1889, Then we have a sister born Aug. 12, 1883 and then another brother, born March 29, 1885. Just find out who has these birth dates, and the rest is easy. This picture was taken in 1892. As the eight boys in the family grew up it wasn't hard to keep them busy. For in every spare moment they could find and many others they dashed off to play (, baseball. These three and five oth er brothers, and one neightbor boy made up a baseball nine that could and did beat any other team in their town. The boys just naturally revolved as catchers, and were just as good in other positions on the diamond. And they played ball all over the county and farther afield. By bug-gy and wagon they got around, and many times as members of the team married and had children they loaded families in to the bug W, and all went to the game. It wasn't until they were creaking in the joints that the brothers gave UP their baseball. All three brothers, and the sister, wo were early arrivals on the Delta project to farm. The father helped the boys set forth with a wagon harness and cow. With that for a starter, they broke ground on the now farming area and set-tled here. That brother at the right with the fancy hair cut ,was in the amoan Islands from 1907 to 1911, n an LDS mission. It was soon a'ter his return that, the brothers set forth for Delta. The little bro-ther helped his brother on the tarm, then returned to his home town. He is a veteran of World "y?r I. That broher in he checked ft was busy farming until 1926 when he left his family in charge, and filled a short term mission in Minnesota. The sister was busy s farmer's wife and with a fam Thunder Storm Plays Havoc Yith City Lights Sunday evening's thunder storm had Deltans cowering with bolts of thunder crashing and lightning crackling through town. One par-ticular blast actually bounced from house to house according to reports. Each individual was posi-tive it hit his home and was sur-prised to find it still standing. The bolt crossed down Clark Street, scaring the daylight out of folks and did blow out 7 street lights, all the fuses in the alley north, and three transformers. The Telluride Power company had trouble calls from all direc-tions and was swamped for sever-al hours making the necessary re-pairs. Tuesday night the storm seemed less spectacular but light-ning struck a pole near Oasis and set it afire, burning off the top and arm. The fire siren at 9:30 .p.m. Sun-day called the Delta volunteer fire department and recruits to Whisk-ey Creek where lightning had set some trees afire. Firefighters from Holden joined the local crew and they worked several hours with shovels and axes putting the fire out. Power To Be Off Sunday Morn. The power will be turned off at 1:30 a. m. Sunday morning on the sugar beet line, Abraham, Sugar-ville, all of Sutherland and Wood-ro- The power will be turned back pn about 5 hours later. The Telluride Power Company is improving the system in that area with more lines and also lines to carry heavier voltage which will be a great improve-ment to the users there when fin-ished. Some customers will have their power off for only an hour, but most of them for five hours. House holders are cautioned to make pre parations for this shut off of pow-er. Emergency Fund To Fight Polio Grows Daily First to complete their part of the emergency fund drive to aid ; in the care of polio victims was Leamington. They have turned in to Mrs. Reva Bliss, chairman the sum of $46.50, raised in Laming-ton- . Other communites are still gath- - ering contributions and expect to be completed soon. Response has been ready, it is reported , with all willing to give funds so that ( no victim of polio need lack for necessary medical care from lack of funds. Utah's total of polio cases now j reaches 170 of which 30 cases were reported last week. Last jjear at this time, the polio total for Utah was 61 cases. Dr. T. J. Howells, acting state health commissioner, said Monday that generally polio jW reaches its peak of incidence of J Sept. This month so far 74 cases ? f have been reported. Air Chief Lauds Delta Air Show Joe Bergin, who emceed the air show Sunday at Delta municipal airport, writes the following let-ter giving his viewpoint of the Delta Airport Day: Dear Mayor Black, Remembering an important en-gagement in Salt Lake City, I departed Delta so hurriedly Sun-day that I forgot to thank you all the many courtesies and say goodbye. I am taking advantage of this opportunity .however, to comply with the requests of numerous pil-ots and thank you in their behalf and my own for the fine breakfast and good time enjoyed by all. Delta City, the Lions Club and all of the others who helped are to be congratulated for the great job they did. From a visiting pilots standpoint, the occasion was per-fect and I am, sure the people of Delta enjoyed seeing the National Guard maneuvers and inspecting the By the way, we are still wonder-ing how you maneuvered the Air Force into releasing a Next time, if you say you are negotiat-ing for a B- - 36 or jet airplanes, we will just take for granted they Will be on hand. Looking forward to many more pleasant visits in Delta and with best personal regards, Sincerelly, Joe Bergin Director, Utah State Aeronautics Commission. Millard 4-1- 1 Win Blue Ribbons At State Fair Millard county club mem-bers, with 12 exhibits in the State Fair brought home 9 blue ribbons and 3 red, a record to be proud of. According to Mrs. Sarah S. Niel son home demonstration agent, went to the following. Blue ribbons: Edna Smith, Fill-more, winner ofthe county Style Revue, was in the Style Revue at the State fair the evening of Sept. 19. Earlier that day she had mod-elled her costume and the work-man ship was judged. There were 37 entrants from various parts of Utah, and 13 received blue ribbons Edna was one of the thirteen. The wool coat she had made was an individual exhibit, and won a blue ribbons. Her dress and coat will go to the Pacific Internatonarl Ex-hibition at Portland next month. Blue ribbons also went to Patsy Brumley, Sutherland for her dress for home wear; Jeanie Mc Cune, Fillmore, for her wash school dress Inga Mae Memmott, Oasis for a best dress. Club Girls' complete costume wool dress and accessories won blue ribbons for Julene and Lew Wanna Bunker of Sutherland. The clothing group of Louise Lov-e- ll and Freda Hansen, in Leaming-ton, garnered a blue ribbon. The foods group of Alice Ann Nielson and Beth Spencer, Fillmore and the home improvement ex-hibit by Lillian Taylor Fillmore won blue ribbons each. Red ribbons were awarded to Geneal Barney Sutherland, for a dress and apron; Elaine Stewart, Oasis best dress and clothing group exhibit Dorothy Starley gr., Delta. Birthday Cake Brightens Day In LDS Hospital Mark S. Johnson, chairman of the Millard county commission, celebrating his g7th birthday Sun-day in the LDS hospital. With him for the party were Mrs. Johnson, a' son and three daughters and 10 grandchildren. Mr. Johnson has been in the hos-pital' in Salt Lake 9 weeks now, and before that was hospitalized in Spokane. He was injured in a bus-truc- k accident July 26 that cost both legs. The Salt Lake Tribune of Mon-day carried a picture of Mr. John-son eating birthday cake, and quotes him as saying he plans to return to his home at Holden in about a month. An operation was to be made early in the week to determine the possibility of using artificial legs. Legion Holds Heaver Meet Beaver was host for the annual fall convention of the Seventh Dis-trict of the American Legion and Auxiliary on Friday. The meeting opened at 8 and was followed with a buffet supper and dance. Department Commander Clar-ence C. Neslen was the principal speaker. Also a speaker was Wells P. Starley, district commander. He had recently returned from the national convention. Attending from Delta were Mr. and Mrs. Carl G. Theobald, Angie Cahoon Mary Black and Thurza Webb from Post No. 89. Post 117 was represented by Frank Bishop, commander, Bill ishop, Wayne n, Joe Gordon, Arthur Jack-son and Dean Harder.From the Au xiliary were Alisha Jackson, Max-in- e Bishop, Marilyn Bishop, Gladys Carter and Louise Day. DUS Footballers To Grapple With v Millard Friday Delta high school students by bus loads will invade Millard high school Friday with high hopes of a school victory when DHS foot-ball men play the Millard team at Fillmore. The annual tussle has always been a fever-raisin- g event in both schools and the Friday game is no exception. Millard has been the victor for the past six years, but this year the Rabbits hope to smash their record and bring home a win. Republicans Will Nominate Oct. 10 A mass meeting of Republicans in the Delta precincts will be held Monday, Oct. 10, at p. m., in the IOOF hall for the purpose of nom-inating candidates for Mayor four city council men, city recorder and city treasurer, and such other bus-ne-as may come before the meet ing. Deseret Stake Singing Mothers Give First Public Concert Before Hundreds in Palomar ' i ! ! i ' - ! ! - i1 1' M O 0 0 O A O t 1 ' I: Deseret stake Relief Society gave their first pub9concert Thursday mght Palomar before n audence fi around five hundred people. section of 400 seats was Sand other listeners were bleachers at the sides. r the prolonged for Applause was numbers on .art oMh. sixteen the exceptionally fine program. Opening with their theme song, Brahms " Lullaby and Good Night", the chorus continued on with songs equally beautiful. Ladd E. Cropper conductor of the chorus ,sang a bass solo, "Song of the Open Eoad" and followed with an encore about Basso Profundo, who sang X, Y, and Z. Mrs. May G. Cropper is accompanist for the chorus, and a special number on the pro gram was the piano duet , '"In a Persian Market", played by her and Mrs. Ruth Talbot, mem ber of the chorus. Another special number was a lovely arrangement of "Cros-sing the Bar" sung by the ladies double quarette, Erma Cropper, Louie Black, Donna Sagers, Nickle, Marie Moody, Nor ma Hannifin, Virginia Anderson and Grayce Pace. The concert was a beneft, to raise funds to buy a new piano for Deseret Stake. This was well accomplished with a sum of $475 realized from advance contribu tions and those at the door. The new piano has been pur-chased, and was used for the concert. It will be available at Palomar for special occasions. Nearly all of the 132 mem-bers of the Singing Mothers took part in the concert, and their performance was excell-ent. Directed by Mr. Cropper. they perfected their program weekly practises for the past five months. They will sing next at quarterly conference on Oct. 9. |