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Show Queens and Attendants at Joint Ball ! - I;' )Vy"j I Gold and Green queens were crowned Thursday night at the ball given by Delta Second and Third wards. Pictured here are Helen Watson and Dorothy Bishop attendants amd Norma Kimber, queen, from Delta Second ward. Aldene Skid-mo- re was queen from Delta Third, attended by Mary Ed-- ', wards and Luana McCullough. Millard County -- Teachers Meet " Scissions Allen West executive secretary of the Utah Education association was guest of honor of the Millard county teachers 'association as they held their leadership school at Delta high school Wednesday, Jan. 19. Teachers from both sides pf the county met to discuss problems vital to their schools, with the pri-mary objectives being to make each teacher aware of their prob-lems so that better teaching will be the ultimate result. Oscar Soderquist, president of the local association called the group together to inform them of the reuslts of the conference held at Vernal at which all presidents of local associations in the state were present. , To plan the local conference, Mr. Soderquist had appointed Roger D. Honeyman as chairman, his two assistants being Thomas Whatcott and Ruth Hansen both past presi-dents. The conference opened at 1 p.m. when Golden P. Wright Millard high school principal, reported on the conference he attended in Washington, D. C. last October. Nine discussion groups were held with each group dis-cussing different problems. Reports of the proceedings in each of these groups were made to the entire group by each discussion leader. Fields of discussion and the leader were Legislation, Glen W. Seegmiller; School Finance Goals for Utah, Violet Snow; Implement of the Code of Ethics, Gertrude Western; Role of the Teacher in Overall Planning of the Program, Delbert Young; Public Relations, Harriett Spendlove; Education and World Problems Richard Hanseen. Working Conditions and Teacher Load Carl W. Verhaiaren; Organi-zation and Function of the Effect-ive Local Education Association, Ruth Hansen; Problems of Teacher Retirement and Utah Teachers Welfare Association Thomas What natt. Definite suggestions were made by each group las to what should be recommended as their program of action. More detailed accounts of the field and suggestion will be given in coming issues. The summary of the conference was given by Mr. West, who prais-ed the teachers of Millard county for their obvious desire to become a better teacher group. He stated "You have shown your big prob-lem of the day was how can we increase our service. And for this you are to be praised for you are already one of the best teacher groups of the state." He added that better profession-al relations would be developed by having such discussion as the group had held that day. ! . Volume 39 Number 31 Delta, Utah, Thursday, January 27, 1949 $3.50 a Year in Advance Another Week of All-O- ut Effort to Open Roads, Feed Sheep on Desert, Follows Saturday Storm as Snow Fills All Roads Monday morning, one full week after the all-o- drive to roads to snowbound 'and open as starving sheep herds, conditions were just bad as ever. In fact, maybe they were worse, for there was anoth-er accumulation of snow land drifts, on top of the old, and men and equipment were wearing out und er the strain. And the sheep were still hungry. What herds had been reached and fed had to be reached and fed again. And the roads were blocked again. Last Wednesday Highway 6 west of Delta was opened out west far enough to enable many trucks pil-ed with feeds to get to their sheep and camps. And roads were plowed out to the north and to the south. Outfits move out and some came in through Thursday. The thermo-meter came up and it seemed the critical situation was relieved. But Friday such a hope was dashed and snow fell and fell and fell. That continued though Satur-day until 8 inches or more snow fell. That continued through Satur-ove- r the area, and every road was blocked. The only road open, land that kept up by continuous plow-ing, was the road to Holden, and Highway 91. Sunday it was clear and cold. And all the work of the preceding week had to be done over again, starting from scratch. PICTURE STAYS THE SAME When the thermometer goes up, that brings more snows. When it is clear, the thermometer takes a nose dive, such as Wednesday, Jan. 25 to 29 below. We might just as well have saved the type from last week's report, for the story reads the same. Same trouble spots and same conditions maintain. AND GETS WORSE Last Friday afternoon the school bus could not get through to Oak City and the whole load of pupils and many adults in town that day had to stay overnight in Delta. The Leamington school bus never got to Delta that day, the bus was snowed in in the driver's yard. Leamington was isolated until Sun day when a crew of men shoveled their way through 4 and 5 feet of snow to Lynndyl. Sutherland road drifted full and they were not up until late Saturday after-noon. Plows kept the Hinckley road open Friday night and people got to and back from the basketball game. But there was no traffic out west on Highway 6. Neither was there on the Lynndyl-Eurek- a road. Sunday night there were 30 load-ed trucks on the Delta main street waiting to get out to their sheep. CARS TRAPPED Friday night Dr. and Mrs. M. E. Bird left Salt Lake City at 9 p.m. to drive to Delta through Eureka and Lynndyl. Out of Eureka the doctor realized the road was fill-ing fast, but pushed on past Silver City. He was'stopped by drifts Dog Valley and couldn't get on nor back. And there they stayed until they were plowed out Sunday morning at 4 a.m. For over 2". hours they stayed there, but no! alone. For several other travellers were in the same fix in that area. Frank Adams was there from 5 p.m. Friday, with the Salt Lake-Delt- a Freight line truck. And ho had food on his load. Also caught were lone and Harland Hilton coming home from the BYU for the basketball game at Hinckley and a surprise visit to their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hilton. The par-ents never knew of the weekend their children spent until Monday morning, and they were safely back at Provo. Snowplows, bull dozers, jeeps and men left Delta Saturday after- - noon to work north on the high- - i; way, while a crew worked down L from Eureka. It was almost Sun- - day morning, about 2 a.m., when j the first outfit broke them out, and started moving them back to Eureka. Dr. Bird said it was 4 a. m. when he got back to Eureka, where there were no sidewalks left, just piles of snow, and up above the store windows. NO NEWS FROM WEST For four days there was no news from some of the parties working out west, on Highway 6, and over Cowboy Pass. Last Wednesday, when it was open, among the out-fits headed west was one headed for Gandy and the Warm Creek ranch, where no news had been heard for more than two weeks. L. N. Rasmussen and S. M. Wolfe of the Ward leasing company, and Don Hopkins and Les Price were taking out two truck loads to Brog Hopkins and the others at the ranch. They had feed for the cattle and provisions for the ranch. It was thought they got through safely, but word came back Wed- - nesday from a herder that they were stalled ovef Cowboy Pass. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker and two children left that Wednesday, too, returning to their ranch in Pleasant Creek where 5 children were alone on the ranch. They got to his father's ranch, but up to Sunday night had got no further. It is thought by now they are home, though no definite word has come back. But a D8 was to be sent out the first of the week to open up that country again. Strangers in that country were a couple and trfeir four-ye- ar old boy driving from Iowa to San Francisco. They had understood Highway 6 was open, so drove out Wednesday too, over Cowboy Pass. The woman and boy didn't even have rubbers (Continued on Page 10) Car Licenses To Go On Sale Licenses both for touring and pickup cars will be sold on the following dates at the County Office in Delta; Friday- - Jan. 28 - all day Monday-Feb- . 21 - all day Monday - Feb. 28 - just in the afternoon Affidavits for weights on pickups may be obtained at the County Office any day. Lynndyl, forenoon, Friday Feb. 4. Leamington afternoon, Friday, Feb. 4. Oasis forenoon, February 16. Deseret afternoon February 16. Hinckley, forenoon, February 18. Sutherland, afternoon, February 18. Oak City forenoon, February 28. Rabbits Hobble Mustangs Friday In 60 -- 40 Hoop Tilt By scoring 16 points in the final period while holding Hinckley to 3 counters, the Delta high school basketball quintet ran up a 60-4- 0 victory Friday, January 21 at Hin-ckley. During the first quarter both teams were locked in a tense strug gle that found Delta atop a 12 - 10 score at the end of the period. Delta increased their lead to six points and led 21 - --15 at the half. In the third period Hinckley land Delta exploded into the scoring column and sent 45 points sailing through the hoop. At the end of the quarter the Rabbits sported a 44 - 37 lead. Delta launched an-other scoring spree in the final quarter and held the Mustaings in check to grasp a 60-4- 0 victory. Kenneth Fullmer paced the scor-ing as he lashed out 18 counters for Delta. Ted - Dalton followed close behind with 14 markers. Warren Peterson dialed 14 counters to lead the Mustangs. Elwood Dutson, Del-ta scored 10 points while Elden Cahoon of Hinckley and Scott Sher iff of Delta each raked in 9 mark-ers. Bob Hortin polled 8 and John Whatcott 1 point to conclude Delta scoring. Dale McDonald bagged 6, Dale Love 4 Davis 3, Elvin Tanner and Taylor 2 points for the Hinck-ley quintet. On Friday, January 28 Delta treks to Parowan to battle the Rams, while Millard plays host to Hinckley. By Don Greathouse Mother Stricken By Heart Attack Mrs. Clark McCullough was stricken with a heart attack Friday while she and Mr. McCullough were visiting at the home of her sister Mrs. Cylde Maxfield. Mrs. Biah Sjostrom, trained nurse, was. driv-en up, from Oasis shortly before drifting snow blocked the road. She cared for Mrs. McCullough Sat-urday until she was moved by ambulance to the Delta hospital that evening. She was too ill to be moved without the ambulance and the snow plow had to clear the road before L. N. Nickle could get his ambulance out. That was also the day that Dr. M. E. Bird was missing, trapped between Eureka land Lynndyl by snowdrifts. Mrs. McCulloukh is still in the hospital in a critical condition. Her son, Henry McCullough. of Idaho Falls came late Saturday to see her. A daughter Mrs. Donna Paul- - sen and old son, arrived Tuesday, and is remaining for some time. SNOW TO BLAME Boxing Bouts For Polio Aid Are Postponed One of the finest programs of amateur boxing talent ever to be held here was planned for Wednes-- ' day night Jan. 26. The boxing tourn anient was to be a polio benefit with boys from West Jor-dan Salt Lake and Delta high school taking part. But the whole program has been postponed until weather and travel conditions improve. A telephone call from Salt Lake City Tuesday-t-o the west Millard polio committee told them that the snowblocked roads, icy roads, and zero weathr made it inadvisable to travel at this time. And with many families right around here still snowed in it was thought much wiser to postpone the whole program. However, the committee wishes to assure the pubic that the tourn-ament will be held later probably toward the end of February. Sever-al hundred tickets had been sold when the program was postponed. They advise them to hang on to their tickets, they will be good as ever when the tournament is held. And the same program will be held then that was planned, at this time. City Council Counsels Care Mayor Golden H. Black asks all drivers to be especially careful on the city roads at this time, on the watch for pedestrians. The snows have filled in so that many side-walks are just la trail, and people and school children are using the roads instead. He urges both those afoot and tose at the wheel to observe extreme caution and help prevent accidents. U. P. Ag. Car Comes Feb. 14 It is good to start planning to attend the meetings to be held in the Union Pacific Agricultural Car that will be in Delta on February 14 1949. Utah State Agricultural College extension specialists will be accompanying the car to discuss irrigation and soil practices. Keep Feb. 14 in mind. WHO'S WHO? ? I m? I I i ! This is just a little Who's Who this week because the subject was just a little creature at that time. At this time the subject is one of the busiest persons in Delta and has grown a lot, both up and out. And the curls are still Delta too, both the crop in this picture, (they are a family treasure) and a crop ; grown since. Isn't that a pretty little person? Mama thought so, too and had this picture taken to prove-- ' it. It was made on a postcard and shows hands and shoes, too. But forty years have passed since then, and the likeness had faded, until we are very lucky to have this much left to show you. This picture postcard went to Robin Hood Chase Nottingham England, where Uncle Jim was on a mission, Dec. 20, 1909. It says Dear Jim, Here is a picture of little guess you wouldn't know would you, We are all feeling fine at present.... woops I shouldn't read others peo- - ,) pie's postcards. At any rate this is a very rare photo, only one in existence as 1 far as we know. And first time in print, too. It came back from England, and has been out of circulation until this date. The parents of this little one came to Delta in 1913, and have lived here since. They farmed and had good crops especially in mos-quitoes. They had two breeds the singing hungry kind, also the sil-ent sneaking, bloodthirsty kind. So this youngster early lost interest in farm life, developed a new interest which now flourishes in our midst. f Is still surrounded by curls, both plain and fancy. That is all the clues for this time except that the picture post-card was readdressed to Derby England. Uncle Jim had moved in the mission field.. He used to live in Delta, too for years. In fact, he came here first and lured others in the family here with his glowing accounts. Any more clues, like gardening for a hobby, would just puzzle you more. It might help a little to know this party is married and has two children a boy and girl and is active in Delta First ward. That narrows the field. Last week's Who's Who was of Harold and Golden Black. You should have heard what they said when they saw that picture. Feed Potatoes For Livestock Potatoes are available for live-stock feed at 10c per hundred. Feeders desiring them should weigh their truck at Pahvant Feed in Fillmor and weigh back when loaded. At the present time potat-oes are being sold from the John Allen pit and will be sold from other pits later. Feeders will not be allowed to haul them faster than they are using them during this cold weather because they will keep better in the pits at Flowell than they will in other Storage. If this procedure is not fol-lowed it may be necessary to dis-- . continue the sale of potatoes to certain feeders. Payment for the potatoes can be made to Thomas Reeve every 2 or 3 weeks or after the potatoes are received. For fur-ther information contact Thomas Reeve or the County A. A. A. of-fice. Aged Father Dies; Services Held In Panguitcli David James Shakespear aged pioneer of Panguitch died Satur-day, Jan. 22 in a Salt Lake hospi-tal of causes incident to age. He would have been 88 years old on May 20. Mr. Shakespear had lived at Panguitch all his life up to eight years ago. He had made visits in Delta during the past few years, with his daughter, Mrs. George Church. Other survivors are a son, Bish-op Grover Shakespear of St. Geor-ge, another daughter, Mrs. Beatrice LeFever of Salt Lake City. 37 grandchildren, 89 and 5 Impressive services were held in Panguitch Monday, honoring his years service in pioneering that community. Attending from Delta were Mr. .and Mrs. George N. Chur-ch and children, Grant, Ned Wall-ace and Ray Church, and Mrs. Deona Black. Ned Church was one of the speakers. Burial was in the Panguitch cemetery. Sutherland Sets Sunday Night For Testimonial Sutherland ward wil hold la fare-well testimonial Sunday night, Jan. 30 for Elder Duane Erickson, He will leave in Feb. for the North-western State mission of the LDS church. The program will be conducted by Bishop Frank Lyman with num-bers given by members of the Erickson family. Elder Erickson is a son of Mr. Mrs. Norman Erickson, of Sutherland. After graduating from Delta high school, he attended the BAC at Cedar City two quar-ters. Mrs. Sherwood, Former Bcltau, Dies, Aged 83 Mrs. Nellie J. Sherwood, 83, wife of the late Dr. Harry H. Sherwood, died Dec. 13, 1948 at St. Francis Hospital Evanston, 111., after la brief illness. At the time of her death, Mrs. Sherwood had been making her home with a daughter, Mrs. Marguerite S. Davis, of 1209 Michi-gan Ave., Evanston, 111. Mrs. Sher-wood is also survived by another daughter, Mrs. Helen L. Coffin of Fort Monmouth, N. J., and three sons, Edmund J. of Adams, Was.; Harry E. of Nevada City, Calif., and Arthur P. of Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Dr. and Mrs. Sherwood had lived in Delta several years preceeding Dr. Sherwood's retirement eight years ago. Since then they had divided their time between their two daughters and at the time of Dr. Sherwood's death last February, they were with their daughter, Mrs. E. C. Coffin, Jr., then of Washing-ton D. C. Services for Mrs. Sherwood were held in Evanston on Dec. 15, 1948. Memorial services and interment will be held at the family lot in Mauston, Wis., in the spring. Protests Bill Against .22's Stanley Bnadfield, president of the local unit of the National Rifle Association, says his club is among the thousands of people in the state who are protesting Senate Bill 65. This bill, among other things that it shall be unlawful to discharge a .22 rifle anywhere in the state of Utah except on a target range. It woud bar the use of .22's in all kinds of hunting. The .22 is the most popular hunting rifle in the United States. The club members are sending letters both to Senator McShane and to Representative LeRoy B. Smith asking that this bill toe kill-ed by the legislature. Delta Girl is Dixie Queen of Polio Ball I : V I ' ; i l- - ; r i : ! - 4 t i 's- ; f 1 .' a Miss Donna Anderson won the honor of Polio Queen of Dixie College. In the 4 queens were chosen. She was elected to represent the Junior class. At the Polio dance Friday night, Jan. 14 the finals were held and she was awarded the crown. Donna was graduated from the Delta high school with the class of 1948 and was yearbook queen that year. ) She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Anderson of Delta. N Delta Second Vard Sweetheart Social The Delta Second ward will hold a "Sweetheart Social" Tuesday night Feb. 1, 1949 at the Palomar. A "King and Queen of Hearts" will be elected by popular vote. Special demonstnations of dancing will be given. Everyone is invitted to come and vote for their King and Queen and have an entertaining evening of dancing. Special films will be shown in the first period of Mutual Feb. 1 1949, honoring Boy Scout Week. PTA to Meet February 2 The Parents - Teachers Associat-ion of the Delta schools will hold the next meeting Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p. m., in the.Delta. high school auditorium. Dr. Murphy, from the extension division of the University of Utah, will be the speaker that night. He has been holding classes here on visiual education and his talk to the parents will be on visual aids in connection with school work. Pupils from the Delta elementary school will give music for the pro-gram. Sutherland Elder Leaves on Mission Elder Richard May of Sutherland and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mor-gan May, and Miss Ora Mae Bishop went to Salt Lake Tuesday. Elder May departed that night on his way to Hawaii, on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-da- y Saints. He will sail from San Francisco Jan. 28 for Hawaii. Twelve missionaries are going at that time ten for Ha-waii and two for the South Pacific. Elder May was placed in charge of the group for the voyage. Feeder School To Be 3 Days Plans are going forward by the local extension service to hold a Feeder School in West Millard on February 8 9 & 10. It is planned to have discussions on market trends and - outlook. Feeds and feeding problems of livestock plus a discussion on diseases their pre-vention and control by a veterin-arian. On one day a tour will be made to various livestock setups in West Millard where practices and management problems will be dis-cussed by the specialists from the Utah State Agricultural College ex-tension service. The general program will be an-nounced next week. Brother Dies At Enterprise Luther Murkins Terry, 76, veteran livestock man at Enterprise, died at his ranch Monday early .after a stroke. He was a brother to David Terry of Delta. Mr. Terry had been ill for several days and the family were unable to take him to a hospital or get medical aid in because of snow-clogge- d roads in the entire area. Funeral services have been set tentatively for Friday afternoon in Enterprise ward chapel provided roads are open. Burial will be in Enterprise. Ceiling Completed At the Palomar A remodeling project at Palomar hall was brought to completion this past week when the new ceil-ing was installed. The job was un-der contract to Mel Roper & Co., who placed a ceiling in the hall of Celotex tile, each 16 x 32 inches. The new ceiling gives the hall an entirely new look and is one that will enhance the beauty of the interior. Not only is the new work adding to the appearance of the hall, but it is practical too. It will help the acoustics of the hall, and will save a great deal in the heating bill. The project cost about $3,000 to complete and will be paid for by the hall oemmittee. Mr. Roner kept a crew of from five to ten men on the job until it was completed. West Millard Widlife to Meet A meeting of the West Millard Wildlife Federation will be held Monday night at 8 p. m. in the IOOF hall to elect officers for the coming year. At the same meeting a plan will be worked out to help feed the birds. The club has been feeding birds every day and has about depleted its funds. This vears the member-ship will be $1.00 plus $1.00 to be Out in a spearate emergency fund to take care of conditions such as we are having this year. TELLS WHY CLOCKS ARE RUNNING SLOW A sudden freeze-u- p in the north-west on the Columbia River re-duced generation of power at the Grand Coulee and Bonnevile dams. The Utah Power and Light Com-pany are sending them 50,000 KW steam electric emergency power to tide that area over. There will be no diminution of power locally but all electric clocks are running V- minute slow each hour, advises Paul Ashworth of the Telluride Power Company. Sheep Station Helps Stockmen IBAPAH The lot of stockmen in this area has been greatly im-proved by a sheep oamp establish-ed at the Gold Hill - Ibapah road junction through the efforts of Jay Hicks, who has ranched in this area for a number of years. He has made the camp avail-able to all men who have stock in the area and he plans to keep it open for the remainder of this emergency. A. C. STUDENTS ASSIGNED PRACTICE SCHOOLS Home economic education stu-dents from the Utah Agricultural College began practice teaching on Monday. Miss Marion Smith of Preston,' Idaho, and Miss Dorothy Sanford of Delta, have been as-signed to the Tooele high school and Miss Alene Morrill of Tooele jhas been assigned to South Cache high school. The practice teaching period lasts five weeks. WEATHER FORECAST . . Possibly cool, if not cool then cold, unless of course high currents of air come in and it may snow, maybe. If it doesn't snow it will be cold and if it snows it will be warm. BLLLETIN: Possibly colder and on the other hand it may be warmer, we don't know, all we are going by is our corns, which is as good a rule as any that is if your feet aren't frozen off. Tomorow more of the same. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley E. Clark, of 3718 Harris St. Lemon Grove Cal., are announcing the birth of la son on Jan. 20. His name is Robert Stephen Clark, and his grandparents are Dick Clark of Delta and Mr. and Mrs. John Gar-ch-of Lemon Grove. The baby weighed 7 pounds and 15 ounces at birth. Wanda Beckwith writes from Oakland that the kids are playing outdoors. Just imagine! |