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Show Milford Game Is Saturday Delta high school basketball team journeys to Milford Saturday for a game with Milford high, a pre-leag- event. Do notice that the game is Saturday, not Friday night. Otherwise, Milford would be swamped with local fans on hand 24 hours early for the game. Tell everyone the game is Saturday night. Volume 40 Number 27 Delta, Utah, Thursday, January 12, 1950 $3.50 a Year in Advance Services Held Saturday For John J. Watson Funeral services for John J. H. Watson were held Saturday at 10 a. m. in Delta Second ward, con-ducted by Bishop June Blaak. Mr. Watson, old retired stock-man" died the preceding Tuesday. The service opened with " I Know That My Redeemer Lives", sung by the choir, with the solo party by Mrs. Ruby Bishop. An-thony E. Stephenson gave the op-ening prayer. Mrs. Norma Hannifin played a violin solo, "Abide With Me'", with Mrs. Thelma Black as accompanist. E. Leo Lyman, Frank A. Beck-wit- h and Bishop Black were the speakers, and their tribute to Mr. Watson was as a friend of long standing, and an upright and res-ponsible citizen. Following Mr. Ly-man's talk, Mr. and Mrs. Ray West ern sang "Gods Understands", ac-companied by their son Donald, at the piano. The services were closed with the song by the choir, "In the Gar-den", with solo parts by Mrs. Ruth Bishop and Mrs. Ruby Bishop and prayer by Norman Gardner. Burial was in the cemetery at Mt. Pleasant, under the direction of L. N. Nickle and sons. The grave there was dedicated by Sor-e- n M. Nielsen, of Mt. Pleasant, life-lon- g friend and associate of Mr. Watson. Chocolate Coeds To Face Supermen In Tilt Thursday li!lipp;ij J. Helen (Streamline) Smith The all-st- ar hand-picke- d faculty men's team that will spar with the Chocolate Coeds in basketball Thursday night in Palomar have been promoted from Mystery Men to "Supermen". They stand reveal-ed this week and bathed in a glow of publicity. Here is the line-u- filled with staggering possibilities: Guards - -- Flash (Dana) Pratt and (Ward) Spendlove. Centers - -- Bean Pole (Merriett) Floyd and Torrid (Bruce) Osborne. Forwards -- - Oak City Dazzler (Phil) Robison, Hot Shot (Talmadge) Christensen and Red Hot (Merlin) Christensen. A card from the Coeds' manager Tuesday confirmed the date for Thursday night. hTe popular col-ored girl basketeers have been fill-ing engagements in Montana and Idaho, and are on their way to the hoop tilt in Palomar. KEEN COMPETITION Little do they dream that a razor edged local competition threatens them. Just wait until Miss Stream-line Smith, 7 feet straight Up, has to look up at Bean Pole Floyd, cool as a cucumber. The stout-hearte- d local men are sizzling and see thing to get into the fracas and gy rate out with a victory. Seats for the engagement have been selling like hot cakes. Extra tickets have been made up, and the DHS management promises there will be room for Early Settler Dies Saturday At Delta Home Fred L. Baker, 72, a Delta resid-ent for 37 years, died Saturday mor ning at 5:45 at his residence in Delta. He was born Jan. 4, 1878, in Wil-liamson co., 111., a son of Dr. Miles D. and Rhoda Jane Gallegly Bak-er. On August 31, 1906, he married Gertrude Kendall, who survives. Mr. Baker was educated at Un-ion Academy in Union county, 111., and at Illinois Southern Unversity at Carbondale. He served for two years in the U. S. Army, in Cuba and later in the Philippine insur-rection. In April, 1912, he came to Utah where he engaged in farming and stock raising on the Delta South Tract, one of the early settlers. He retired in 1947, and since has re-sided in Delta. He was an attend-ant at the' Community Church. Mr. Baker was held in high es-teem by his many friends. He was a good neighbor and firm friend and an excellent citizen guided by integrity and high ideals. Surviving besides his wife are three sons Fredrick and Richard Baker of Delta and Lt. Miles D. Baker Albuquerque, N. M., two daughters Mrs Kathryn Calderwood of Inglewood, Cal., and Mrs. Mil-dred Keyser, Tacoma, Wash., nine grandchildren; two sisters , Mrs. Van Crame and Mrs. Russell Corlis, xAnna, 111.; two brothers, Roscoe Baker, Carbondale, 111., and Dr. E. Wade Baker, Miami, Fla. Funeral services were held on the family home in Delta MondE afternoon at 2 o'clock by the Rev. D. G. Reid, of Mt. Pleasant. Music was given by Miss Voorhees, of Mt. Pleasant, vocalist, and Mrs. Reid, accompanist. Burial was in the Delta cemetery. Preston Richards Will Speak In Delta on Jan. 18 In keeping with a policy of pre-senting some outstanding educa-tional and cultural programs in Millard county this year, the Delta Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Delta Lions club have made arrangements to bring Preston D. Richards, one of the nation's most recognized authorities on internal affairs and constitutional law to Delta for a public address in the Delta high school auditorium on WeBnesday evening, Jan. 18, 1950 at 8 p.m. Mr. Richards, a prominent at-torney of both the Utah and Cal-ifornia bars was engaged by the United States government through William Jennings Bryan, then Sec-retary of State, to draft and pre-pare the several amendments to the Constitution of the United States, which became necessary during the first world war and fol-lowing. Mr. Richards was a featured speaker at the state bankers con-vention held this year in Utah. Because of his special knowledge and experience in the field of con-stitutional law and government he is a speaker much in demand and the local civic clubs invite all or-ganizations and groups, especially church and schools to join with them in sponsoring this education-al program. A double quartet from the Des-ert Sentinels chorus will present music for the occasion. The pro-gram is free. Vilford Varnick Rites Will Be Held Sunday at 2 Funeral services for Wilford Warnick, well-know- n Delta resi-dent, will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Delta First ward. Mr. Warnick, aged 68 years, died short ly before noon Wednesday. Mr. Warnick was born May 1, 1882, in Deseret, a son of Adolph and Christine Warnick, early pio-neers. He had lived in west Mil-lard all his life, first at Deseret, where he received his schooling, and then on Cropper Lane, where he farmed. After he retired he made his home in Delta. He was a lifelong member of the LDS church, and had been ac-tive in church works. Fifteen years ago he was injured when he fell from a tree at his Delta home, and had been unable to walk since. He had borne his injury with cour-age that was an inspiration to others. Many friends were enriched spiritually with association with him, and he is remembered as a kindly and sincere friend. He was married In Fillmore on . Dec. 28, 1904, to Melinda Cropper, who survives him. Their surviving children are Mrs. Josephine Pratt, of Delta; Mrs. Ruth Lloyd of Beach, Cal.; Fred Warnick, American Fork, and Charles War-nick, Yuma, Ariz. There are twelve grandchildren and one greatgrand-child. Also surviving are two broth-ers, C. O. Warnick, Delta, and Fred G. Warnick, Provo. Square Dancing In Palomar Saturday Might There was fun for all available last Saturday night in Palomar, when the barn dance was held. But few were on hand to enjoy it, possibly because they didn't know what good entertain-ment was offered. This Saturday night Jan. 14, there will be another dance held in the Palomar, a real old-tim- e barn dan-ce, with square dances the fea-ture of the evening. Everyone is invited to come and join the fun. Admissions are 50 cents per per-son, covering an hour's dance in-struction, and dancing from 9 to 11:30 p. m. WILL SHOW HOW Don't say you don't know how to square dance, for Glen Rawlin-so- n and Viril Kimber will be there to show how in a special period from 8 to 9 o'clock Glen and Viril will also do the calling, with many a promenade, grand right and left and elbow swing in the Texas Star, Figure 8 and others. The foot warming music will be played by the Willden brothers orchestra. Dress is informal, and it will add to the gaiety and color if patrons wear Levies, bright shirts or the skirted calico square dance dres-ses. Saturday night is an opportun-ity to don such garb. It is also suggested to bring your own set, that is, come in a party of four couples, all set for square dancing. There is no age limit for square dancing, all may enjoy it. A whole generation locally was brought up on it and are still adept and agile. A newer generation doesn't know so much about it, but here is a chance to lear. Be at Palomar Saturday night for the fun. Injury Sidelines D. Ray Fullmer, BYU Hoop. Star D. Ray Fullmer, spark plug and reserve senior forward for the BYU Cougars suffered a shoulder sepa-ration in the BYU - Loyola game last Wednesday at Chicago. The injury calls for an operation next week, followed by a week in the hospital. Coach Watts reported that the fleet player would be un-able to use the shoulder for any contact work for at least another three months. The news Is a blow to high hopes held by his many fans. D. Ray was rated as an outstanding player with the Cougars during his three years with the squad. He was exceedingly fast and an ac-curate shot. This season was ex-pected to be a big one for him, and his removal is a loss to the Cougars' offensive power. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Fullmer, are leaving for Salt Lake City Thursday to be with him be-fore he undergoes the operation. Young Farmers Elect Officers At Recent Meet The West Millard Young Farm-ers Association was formed last week under the direction of Mar-ve- n J. Ogden. Officers were elec-ted as follows: president, Chester C. Corbett; vice president, Homer Christensen; secretary, Stanley Erickson; reporter, Jay F. Gard-ner; and sentinel, Paul Cahoon. It is the plan of the association to take advantage of cooperative farming as young farmers and it affords a fine opportunity for the development of leadership. The association being a forerunner to the Utah State Farm Bureau. The next meeting will be held in Delta high school vocational shop on January 12 at 7 p.m. Boyd Murry of the soil conservation ser-vice will be the speaker, talking on the advantages of soil conser-vation in West Millard. Those in-terested are urged to be there. To Clear Up A Misunderstanding After thirty-tw- o years in the newspaper business one should learn something about open letters, and one does. When the urge comes upon a person to write an open letter for publication he should sit right down and write it. The next day he should read it over carefully and cut out one-thir- d of what he wrote. The next day he should read it again and cut out another third. After reading it the third day he should chuck it in the fire and forget it. And probably this open letter should end up as prescribed above and it would be if there were not some misunderstanding and errors that should be cleared up. We have recently run two open letters. The first, had it receeived the recommended treatment, would have found its main objective accomplished within the week. That was the Sjostrom case which was being cleaned up by officers of the law, even before the letter was written. The second was a bombshell dropped among us, and was of major concern to most of the "signers" of the letter. This particular letter has caused a lot of hard feelings because many of the "signers" did not know of the letter, its contents, and had no knowledge that their name was being used, on it. The purpose of this open letter is to try and clear up a misunderstanding and also to apologize to many of the "signers" who did not sign the letter. The letter of last week was handed to my by Grant Snow rather late Tuesday evening. It was in three parts. One page was typewritten, another page was hand written, and the third page contained a list of names that were written in by the hand of but two people. Mr. Snow asked me if I would make further comment and I told him that I did not have time that week, as we had lost a day on account of the holiday Monday. That was the first misundersttanding. Mr. Snow took it to mean that I would not publish the letter until the fol-lowing week. I then read part of the letter and Mr. Snow pointed out some paragraphs that he wanted left out. These were crossed out and were not published. In reading over the list of names I asked Mr. Snow if these men had signed and I understood him to say that they had either signed, had been called by phone and agreed that the use of their name was permissible, or had been contacted by Mr. Snow in person and had agreed. That was where I misunderstood Mr. Snow. He maintains that it was a list of names he was going to call or and get their permission. So there was a considerable difference of ideas and a misunderstanding between two men in a simple conversation. At this point I want to sincerely apologize to Archie Gardner, Otis Walch, Paul Adams, and and to any others whose names appeared without their permission. I should have been careful and demanded and accepted only genuine signatures. Everyone knows that these men are substantial men in our community and are for anything that is for the good of our community, but they do object to having their names used without their permission, and without any knowledge of what it is being used for, which is the way most of us would be, and their feeling on the matter is readily understandable. We all know Mr. Snow as being a man of high moral integrity with the sole thought of cleaning up an unsavory mess. This incident of the "unsigned signers" has taught us a valuable lesson and one that we should have known before, and that is: In the future NO open letters will be accepted by the Chronicle unless the text is written on one sheet, or if more are necessary each page must be initialed by each signer; The signers' names must be notarized; and the letter will be held up from publication until all parties have hade a reason-able length of time in which to cool off. Now here is the comment asked for by Mr. Snow I would have made had I had the time last week: I like Delta and West Millard and I wouldn't trade a square, yard of its area for all of Manhattan Island, if it mean't I had to leave here. Delta has been a boom town most all of its history and accordingly has been rough at times, but with each passing year I have noticed a big improvement over the pre-ceding year. It has been the place I call home for the past 37 years, so I believe I can speak with authority. There is no question that everyone wanted the Sjostrom case cleaned up and did not hold with actions of that sort. The town has seen wide open gambling, but that has been stopped and that condition cleaned up. There will always be some gambling going on here just as there is in any other town, whether it be cards, raffles, betting on ball games, or elections, or whether the sun is coming up the next morning. There is most always easy money here and we have the rep-utation of liking to get it out of banks and circulate it. Which is another reason why we have such a good business commun-ity. I would like to see gambling curbed, but I personally dont' think it will ever be stopped. As long as there are peeople who think they can get something for nothing there will be gam-bling. As to indecent exposure and such I dpn't think we have any more of that than other towns our size. But that should definitely be stopped and perpetrators given heavy jail sen-tences. As to prositution I am not familiar with it and can not speak with authority on that subject, so will skip it. I am for law and order and believe that our officers are iroing a good job in one of the most thankless tasks that can be wished on to anyone in a small town. Our city council car-ried out its duties in excellent shape, and we should at this time thank the outgoing council for the work they have done in the past years. The city council has asked for clean up drives in the past, only they have handled them a little different. It was asked by the council that we clean up our own premises first, and then tackle the rest of the town. Which is a good idea, because if one was to jerk open 90 of the closets around here there would be enough skeletons fall out to put Fibber 's closet to shame. Delta isn't perfect, but it is continually getting better. Personally I don't want it to get so good that it will be taken to heaven like the city of Enoch, because from hearsay I think it would be quite boring up there, I don't like harp playing, and, too, it would be mighty lonesome without any of my friends. I like the open spaces around here where one can get out, stretch and enjoy the invigorating air, but when I do it I don't want some stool pigeon breathing down my neck, in-tent on doing a job of railroading. Frank S. Beckwith (We receeived an anonymous letter Tuesday morning about a gambling den in Delta. If the person will sign same before a notary public we will print it, not necessarily using the name on the article, but we want to know definitely who it came from. The columns of the Chronicle are open at any time to a person with a grievance, and as long as it is not libelous we will publish it.) Hospital Fund Passes $5,000 And Grows On The fund for a new hospital, in a drive sponsored by the West Millard Hospital Association, grows on, and has now reached the $5250.32 marker. That 32 cents is rather a puzzler, but one of these days a donor is going to ' add 68 cents to his welcome check, to keep the sum in round numbers. Several handsome contributions were made during the past week to the fund, and its steady growth is assured. More and more persons are interested in being part of the worthy project and have promised to dig down deep. More than one-sixt- h of the road to the goal of $30,000.00 has now been passed, in the short time since the fund campaign opened. All contributions to the fund, large or small, will be welcomed. Any who are not approached person-ally may mail or take their con-tribution to Miss Beverly Christen-sen, at Dudl Crafts' Delta office. She will receive them and record them there. Clubs, civic organizations, former residents and all now living in west Millard will be asked to join in raising the fund speedily to that desired $30,000. During the coming season plans for several entertainments are being formu-lated, all with the main idea to raise funds for a new hospital. Legion Post 89 To Meet Monday Arthur L. Cahoon Post 89, Amer-ican Legion and Auxiliary, will hold their regular monthly meet-ing on Monday evening, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. in the Delta high school. A movie will be shown and lun-cheon served after the meeting. All Legionaires and Auxiliary mem bers are urged to be present. Births This 7eek To Harry and Cora Lambson Kerrington, Lynndyl, a boy, Jan. 8. To Marven and Arva Allen Og-den, a girl, Jan. 10. Mrs. Bert Johnson is convales-cing at the Delta hospital, follow-ing a major operation last week. WHO'S WHO? ? . J- - 1 : ' . - is , v,s-- . Some people prefer smiling pic-tures, while other choose a serious expression. It is purely a matter of choice. And apparently these little blondes chose early that they would be recorded on the sober side. For no amount of capering " on the part of the camera could Induce them to smile. They just stared sorrowfully into the lens. Things are different nowadays. That older sister, when her picture appeared in the paper one time last year, was grinning from ear to ear. And good reason why - -- she was wearing an orchid, award for work well done. She was ZVz years old when this picture was taken and has 0 a firm clutch of her baby sister, to keep her from sliding out of that chair. They are natives of west Millard. The older sister has lived in Delta since she came here as a bride some years ago. Now she is the mother of four children, two boys, two girls. She is always filled with enthus-iasm and energy. Just let her know about a task to be done, especial-ly one of those civic ones, and she flies right at it. And ordinarily a pleasant soul, just let an aphid meddle in her roses and she de-clares relentless warfare. She is a crack shot with the spray gun. And besides all this, she is an excel-lent cook. Wildlife Shows Films Jan. 16 At Public Meet West Millard Wildlife Federation will be hosts on Monday night at a public meeting held in the IOOF Hall. They invite the public to at-tend for the picture showing. Films will be put on by the For-est Service, with the program op-ening at 8 p.m. Such films as life Blood of the Land, Soil and Water, Everyman's Empire, Forest, and others will be shown. Election of officers will also be held that night. Coffee and dough-nuts will be served after the pro-gram. SUTHERLAND Primary Plans Building Benefit Sutherland ward Primary will sponsor a program on Wednesday, Feb. 1, to raise funds for the new ward building, now under construe tion. They plan a dinner, program and bazaar. The dinner will be served in the ward hall, opening at 7 p.m. This will be followed by a program and a sale in the bazaar. Dinner will be one dollar a plate. The public is urged to keep the date in mind, and invited to at-tend that night. The dinner will be hot, home-cooke- d and delicious. The program will be fine, and ar-ticles in the bazaar are useful and attractive. Firemen Douse Blaze In Home The Delta Volunteer Fire Dept. were called to a fire in the For-rest Millard home Friday night. The siren sounded at 7:30 p. m. A frozen water jacket in the kitch-en range had exploded when a fire was built and sprayed the kitch-en with fire. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Howerton, ten-ants in the home, were in Salt Lake City at the time. Their sister-in-la- w Mrs. Chad Spor, across the street, had gone over earlier to build a fire in the range, so the house would be warm on their return. She didn't know the water pipes had already frozen. Fortunately, no one was in the room when the steam pressure caused the explosion. The stove was blown to bits and thrown around the room. One stove lid was imbedded in the plaster in the ceiling. Flying pieces broke out all the window panes. A baby's high chair was broken into splinters. Clear across the room a stack of towels on the refrigerator were set afaire by flying embers. The firemen soon had the blaze under control. The house was insur ed. Indian Dances Form Program At Scout Meet On Tuesday night Palomar was filled with a fine crowd of Boy Scouts, their scoutmasters and leaders to witness the putting on of a program by the Powder Horn Explorer group of Boy Scouts of Cedar City. This is the group re-cently featured in the metropoli of the Narrows in Zion Canyon, of the Narrows in ion Canyon. The hall was darkened except for two large lamps on the floor, one to represent a teepee and the other the speaker's lodge. John Cross of Cedar had charge, ably assisted by three executivies Three Indians from Cedar City put on several dances, all in cos-tume prepared with care, assisted by a group of white boys simi-larly clad. The dances were very well received and the big crowd thoroughly enjoyed them' One In-dian acted as Indian director, chanting the measure of the dance tempo, to which all stepped in unison. Director John Cross made an able presentation of snow, shoes, and shoes to wear in that sport, with explanation of the fittings and procedure to get best results. The meeting was a great suc-cess, and the Delta members and executives felt very grateful to the Cedar City group for bringing to them such an able and meri-torious presentation. Hunters Bring In 3 Mountain Lions Government hunters Warren Ahl strom and Austin Johnson drove through Delta Monday with three mountain lions in their pick-u- p truck. One was a large male over 7 feet long, weighing 125 pounds. The cubs a male and a female, were about 4 months old, and weighed 40 pounds each. The old one was brought down in last Wednesday by Mr. Ahlstrom, his father Adrian Ahl-stro- Kanosh, supervisor in the Wildlife service and Newt McBride of Fillmore. Mr. Johnson and War-ren Ahlstrom got the two cubs on Saturday. Tuesday the men went back again and got the mother of the two cubs. She weighed 102 pounds and was killed on the flat ground east of the Oak City mountains. This brings their score up to four in the few days they have spent on this particular hunt. To Correct An Error Through a misunderstanding some names were published at the bottom of the open let-ter of Jan. 5, which were not contacted be-fore the publication. They were Otis Walch, Paul Adams, Archie Gardner and possibly others, who may not have been contacted. I wish to apologize for this error. Grant Snow Mrs. W. H. Pace left for St. George Thursday for a visit of several weeks with her sister, Mrs. Anna Cox. |