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Show Final Rites Thursday r . -- .y,i .v. ' i " .j ......... t; ' ' i v' J I . i i ? , Pfc. James Eugene Stephenson i . - Funeral services for Pfc. James Eugene Stephenson, 19, who was killed in Korea Peb. 4, will be held Thursday at 1 p. m. in Delta First ward. Military honors will be ac-corded by Arthur L. Cahoon Post No. 89 and Theo Que Jensen Post No. 117, American Legion. The body arrived in Delta Wednesday at 2:05 p. m., escorted by Cpl. Dav-is R. Saylor. The young serviceman was born In Hinckley Nov. 28, 1931, a son of Jfilo and Lucile Moody Stephe-nson. His father died 11 years ago. While attending Hinckley high school Eugene enlisted in the ser- - vice December, 1948, and trained at El Paso, Texas. He was shipped to Korea in August, 1950. He was a gunner on a tank. Surviving are his mother, at Del-ta, a brother, Wallace Stephenson, Delta, and a sister, Dorothy Steph-so-home at this time from the L D S northern states mission at Cedar Rapids, Iowa; grandparents, Juel Moody,' of Salt Lake City, and Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Stephenson, of Levan. Friends may call at the family home Wednesday after the arrival of the body, and Thursday until time of services. Burial will be in the Delta cemetery, under the di-rection of the Nickle mortuary. Qj. Volume 42 , Number 16 Delta, Utah, Thursday, October l8, 1951,, $3.50 a Year in Advance Millard Surveys School Heeds And Approves In an attempt to obtain an ex-pression o the voters in the Mil-lard School District, the school board has just completed a sur-- , vey o opinion on the need for school buildings, according to A. M. Maughan, superintendent. The survey climaxes a long per-iod of study of the district's needs, including a study made by the State Department of Public In-- 1 struction. The results of the study shows that three areas of the Millard County School District are in im-mediate need of a new school build :ngs Hinckley-Deser- area, the Delta area and the Millard high school area. In the Hinckley-Deser- area the need is for a new modern, elemen-tary building. The new building would be constructed to house a program from kindergarten through grades six including all the mod-ern conveniences. IN DELTA AREA The Delta area's needs grow out of the over-crowd- condition of the schools and the need for re-modeling and modernizing the old buildings. This condition could be completely overcome by building a new modern elementary school, by remodeling and modernizing the present elementary school for the junior high, and remodeling the high school for the senior high school. Also as a part of the Delta area needs, a modern gym should be considered. The present gym due to structural weaknesses can no longer be used for the ath-letic program. Previously and at present the Delta high school is using a church hall in its program, however the availability of this hall may be removed at any time, in which event the school would have to close some of it's impor-tant programs. The new building, which needs to be constructed at the Millard high school in Fillmore, would in-clude a physical education depart-ment and gym, a music department and several classrooms. This build-ing would make possible the con-version of the Millard high school into a combination junior and sen-ior high school unit. At present the seventh and eighth grades are taken care of in the various ele-mentary schools of East Millard County. The proposed plan would have numerous social and civic advantages, as well as offering a more enriched educational oppor-tunity to all students, says Supt. Maughan. SCHOOL AT KANOSH It has also been recommended that the elementary school at Kan-os- h be replaced. The proposed new, modern building would include 4 classrooms. In addition to this, the program would include alterations and cha-nges in other buildings of the dis-trict as the need was determined. Result of the survey, which was mailed to each voter in the district showed 173 residents of East Mil-lard voted yes for the needed sch-ool buildings while 141 voted no and in West Millard district 315 voted yes while 132 voted no. Totals for the district were 488 voting yes and 273 voting no. Nevada Paper Gives Review Of Highway 6 (The folowing article is copied from the Fallon Standard, weekly newspaper at Fallon, Nevada. C. H. Smith, managing editor, was in Delta earlier this fall on his first strip over this portion of High-way 6 gathering information for the article. His main effort, he said, is to build up among business men and readership more interest in highway and travel develop-ment.) Nevada communities along three routes fanning out west and south of Ely are looking forward to a considerable increase in tourist travel as a result of completion next year of the last remaining link of U. S. 6 west of Delta, Utah. So are Delta and Spanish Fork, which have been denied benefits from west bound travel because Utah didn't want tourists to get out of the state before visiting Salt Lake City and towns to the south along U. S. 91 through Cedar City and St. George. For many years the more popu-lous portions of Utah have dic-tated where the state's portion of founds for federal - aid highways should be spent. That wasn't on another route that would lead trav el west. Spanish Fork, Delta and inter-vening communities, likewise cen-tral Nevada towns, however, wan-ted a share in the gas tax revenue and the average o'l $25 a day per car spent by tourists. With Utah dead-endin- g the high way 6 a few miles west of Delta, the only out was to get a special appropriation of federal funds on the premise that a single state should not be allowed to block completion of an important trans-continental route. The fight for this accomplish-ment to materialize in 1952 goes back many years. Many towns and many individuals have had a hand in it, but those in Ely, Delta and Spanish Fork, working through their Chambers of Commerce, stand out. One of the earliest pioneers in this effort was I. H. Kent of Fal-lon. One of his main efforts was building up the old Lincoln high- - way, but his choice of an outlet to the east was over the old Good- - year cut-of- f. In later years he very reluctantly agreed to placing U. S. 50 signs between Salt Lake City and Wendover along with the U. S. 40 designation. The plan to extend U. S. 6 on west from Delta came up later. Delta pioneers were for it from the time that town was a railroad hamlet centering a new irrigation district just in the making. Ely was equally interested. Oth-er Nevada towns saw the possib-ilities. Tourists headed for the San Francisco area would save 120 miles instead of going around by Salt Lake City by U. S. 50 from Ely west throueh Fallon and oast Lake Tahoe. Ohers with southern California their destination could save mileage by continuing on U. S. 6 through Tonopah to Bishop, Calif., and thence south, or they could head south on U. S. 93 from Ely and reach Los Angeles via Las Vegas. Of the three routes out of Ely, U. S. 50 would have the greater gains in travel. Fallon, Carson City, Austin and Eureka joined up to support Ely and Detla in the ef-fort, as did Tonopah and towns south on, U. S. 9 3. The Pioneer Highways Association was formed with LeRoy Casady of Austin its president. Ely had a Chamber leader in Wayne Seacrist who really went to work. He made trips along the transcontinental route to its east- - era terminal on Cape Cod, later becoming national secretary of V. S. 6 association. (The present Ely Chamber manager recently made a similar trip to help promote in-terest in travel development along the route.) After organization of the Chamber at Fallon, manager William Petherbridge added his ef-forts and his influence through various connections. The federal appropriation to build 51 miles of new highway west of Delta was supported by the Nevada delegation In congress. Its completion was promised this year, but there was a slow start. Meanwhile 41 miles of the 92 between Delta and the Nevada state line had been built. Eighteen miles from the west end of the pavement was recently completed, (Continued on back page) Crash Victims Are Improving Mrs. Leah Mortensen, and son, Craig, who were injured Oct. 7, when their car crashed in a wash on Highway 36 in Tooele County 18 miles north of Tintic, are much improved this week. Both were at the Payson hospital following the accident, and Craig was released to come noine San-oa- y witn ms iather, William mor-tensen. Craig was treated lur shock anu possiDie internal injuries. Mrs. Mortensen, who was more seriously injured, will be at the hospital for some time yet. her injuries included a compound frac-tured pelvis, a broken rib, and many body bruises. At the hospital they did not put her in a cast, but she has to lie quiet and flat, with weights on each foot. Members of the family call at the hospital daily, and report that Mrs. Morten-sen is improving each day. Linda Mortensen, their ar old daughter, who walked in the darking following the accident to summon help, was pictured In the Salt Lake Telegram Honor Roll Saturday, and cited for her cour-age. Request Hunters To Turn In Heads Of Tagged Deer Hunters are requested to turn in heads of all tagged deer that they kill this coming deer season. Tagged heads may be turned in at the Oak City deer checking sta-tion or taken to Eb Stapley, game warden. The Utah State Fish and Game Department, Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service have tagged a total of 214 young fawns in the Oak Creek-Dr- y Creek unit during the past five summers. Some of these tagged fawns die of various causes within the first month or two following birth (only one has been found). Others are killed by hunters during their first hunting season, whereas others sue cumb during their first winter. Probably not many more than half of the 214 fawns originally tagged are now living. There have been returns on about 25 of them. About five of this number were oldswhen killed by hunters. About 10 were yearlings and rest were fawns, which died their first winter, were killed by hunters, or died shortly after birth. The greatest migration of Sny was a yearling buck tagged in 1949 in the head of South Walker and killed in Chaulk Creek, east of Fillmore, during the 1950 hunt. This was an airline distance of 32 miles. Nearly all the returns, however, have been from the Oak Creek-Dr- y Creek area. Those making the stu-dy are particularly anxious to sec-ure the heads of tagged deer, for with a good series of known-ag- e deer skulls, they will be able to age untagged deer which are kil-led by the hunters. Market Report Of October I I Sale Market report for the Delta Live-stock Auction Company October 11 Sale had a total number of sales: 157. Market demand strong with spirited bidding (particularly by local feeders) with some represen-tative sales were: Lot of 12, 309 lb. wf choice feeder calves 43.25 other light feeders around 40.00 ; choice 570 lb. feeder steers 35.25; 700 lb. feeder steers 33.75; mixed feeders (dairy blood, etc.) 400 lbs. or so, 30.00 - 35.50, 450 lbs. above 30.00 down; feeding cows 24.00 -- 25.25; 1380 lb. fat Holstein bull, 26.80; 100 lb. feeder pigs, 23.50 PH; 85 lb. black face feeding lambs, 30.00. The market is particularly strong for feeder calves (4001bs) and feeding cows in this locality.! Cloud Seeders Give Report On Operations Loren Grow, chief meteorologist from the office of "rainmaker". Dr. Irving P. Krick, of Denver, this week recommended that two ad-ditional silver iodide generators be installed in the southern Utah area to improve cloud seeding for the winter "snow pack" project. Mr. Grow reported the new generators will be installed early in October, one west of Cedar City and the other slightly west of Delta. Two other generators are still under consideration, one in the moun-tains west of Ferron and a second at the ranger stataion in northern Ariozna. Mr. Grow, enroute to Spain and Spanish Morrocco, where he is sch-eduled to set up the first cloud seeding project in Europe, stop-ped 10 days in Utah, to make a thorough survey of southern Utah's cloud seeding project. He reported to the officers of the southern Ut-ah Water Resources Development corporation, that the condition of the project area was 'fair to good, and compared to one year year ago the condition was greatly improv-ed. I Mr. Grow gave a detailed op-eration report for the month of August in which he said that cloud seeding opportunities during the month of August in southern Utah were abundant and rainfall thru-o-the area exceeded normals for the period with the exception of a small district in the southwest corner of the project. Naturally there were some variations within the area as to the amount of ex-cess rain-fa- ll ranging from 380 per cent of normal at Greenriver to 171 per cent of average rainfall for August at Milford. The following generators were operated on behalf of southern Utah for a total of 1,043 hours and 58 minutes during the month: Kay enta, Moccasin, Connors Pass, Ur-sine, Beaver, Blanding, Escalante, Moab Teasdale, Fredonia, Overton, Ferron Red Rock Trading Post, Nat-urit- a and Dragerton. Former Deltan Dies Friday At SaH Lake City Walter Roberts, 82, died Friday in a Salt Lake hospital of causes incident to age. Mr. Roberts had lived in Delta 25 years before mov-ing to Salt Lake City to reside in 1943. He was born Oct. 4, 1869, in Minersville, a son of George and Susan Gallard Roberts. He was married to Alice Cuddeback in 1894. She died in 1907. Later he married Susan McKnight, in 1914, in Minersville. He had been a miner and farmer all his life. Mr. Roberts was an active LUo member . Surviving are his widow, at Salt Lake City; two sons, Stanley Rob-erts, Cedar City, and Victor Rob-erts, Salt Lake City; two daugh-ters, Mrs. Lorena Gillis and Mrs. Irene Strang, Los Angeles; 24 grand children and 18 great grandchild-ren. Burial was in the Minersville cemetery. Bring Pennies Out of Hiding Bankers Urge The nationwide shortage of coins first observed after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea last year, is becoming increasingly acute in this area the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco announced today. While it has not been necessary to resort to formal rationing, the Bank is finding it difficult to meet the present extremely heavy de-mand, particularly for pennies and half-dollar- s, even though commer-cial members banks have cooper-ated by ordering only their mini-mum requirements. The principal shortage problem throughout the country is that of the lowly penny. Even through the mints have operated on as high as a work week, they have been unable to relieve the situation. A reduction in the supply of copper allotted by the National Production Authority, and delays in deliveries of the metal due to re-cent strikes, have been contribut-ing factors. Other reasons for the penny shor tage, outside of the general effect of greatly expanded business act-ivity, are the prevalence of odd-ce-pricing, sales taxes, parking peters and vending machines. Not to be ignored, above all, are the cookies jars, piggy banks, and oth-er household containers , which hold more than 17 billion one-ce-pieces which are outstanding. Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, director of the mint, recently issued an ap-peal for each American family to return to circulation just ten of these one-ce- pieces. If this were done, she pointed out, nearly 388 million pennies would come out of hiding, a number that would take the mint five months of works to produce, using up 1260 tons of scarce copper. The Fedaral Reserve Bank of San Francisco, joining in this ap-peal, urges the public to cooper-ate fully in releasing coins of all denominations which have accum-ulated in home containers. The coins will be accepted either for deposit or for exchange into paper currency by any bank, or they may be used for making ordinary pur-chases. Prompt and widespread ac-tion in this regard will help great-ly in meeting the peak demands of the approaching holiday season. Delta Wallops Hinckley, 39-- 0 In League Game BY LEON HUNSAKER Delta Rabbits wrapped up a 39-- 0 victory Wednesday night on their .home Held in league football with the Hinckley Mustangs. Delta received the ball to start the game. Hinckley intercepted a pass to give them the ball, but they fumbled the ball and Kent bishop picked it up and went for Delta's first touchdown. After Delta Kicked off to Hinckley they recov-ered another fumble and drove all the way down for another touchd-own, making the score 13 to 0 at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter Delta made three touchdowns, one when Overson intercepted a pass and went all the way. So the score at the end of the first half was Delta 32, Hinckley 0. Delta put in the second team to start the. second half. Neither side scored during this quarter. The second team started the 3rd quarter, and then were replaced by the main string and Delta went for another touchdown. So Delta put in the third team for the rest of the game. The final score was Delta 39, Hinckley 0. Sugar Beet Growers Draw Bigger Checks Sugar beet growers of Salt Lake, Utah and Millard counties will re-ceive in the next few days $113,400 as a final payment for beets grown in 1950, according to H. J. Sanders, district manager of the Utah-Idah- o Sugar Company. Checks will be mailed Saturday of this' week to 1125 growers of this area. This will bring total payments for the 1950 crop to $1,738,000 compared with $1,097,000 for the year prev-ious. The final payment for this year is more than $80,000 greater than the final payment a year ago. Total payments for all beets grown for Utah-Idah- o Sugar Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Gun-nison, Sugar, Inc., in 1950 in seven mountain states was just short of approximately $17,000,000, compar-ed with $12,334,886 the year pre-vious. This year's greater returns to growers of this area are accounted for by higher average yields of sugar beets, larger acreage, higher average sugar content of the beets and higher average market price of the sugar sold, Mr. Sanders ex-plained. This year's settlement with Cen- - tral and Southern Utah growers is made on the basis of a net return of $6.84 per hundred weight of re-fined sugar made from 1950 beets compared with a net return for sugar from 1949 beets of approxi-mately $6.63, Mr. Sanders reported. The sugar content of 1950 beets in this district is 16.617 per cent compared with 14.8 per cent the year previously. Final payment this year for sug-ar beets of this district was made at the rate of 90 cents per ton of beets compared with 34 cents per ton paid last year. Total pay-ments for 1950's beets were at the rate of $13.69 per ton of beets com-pared with $12.31 for 1949. This year's total includes direct com-pany payments of $11.40 per ton and payments made by the govern-ment from funds collected from re-finers and beet processors under the Sugar act of 1948 of $2.29 a ton, compared with last year's dir-ect company payment of $10.00 per ton and a processing tax payment of $2.31 per ton. "Prospects for the future of the beet sugar industry in Utah con-tinue bright," according to Mr. Sanders, with 1951 yields expected ' to be higher than those of last year. "More than 75 per cent of this year's crop is being harvested mechanically this fall, and labor is plentiful. Growers generally report that they expect to plant more sugar beets in 1952 than this year. '"The initial payment for beets grown in 1951 wil be mailed Nov. 20 for all beets delivered up to Nov. 5, according to terms of the contract," Mr. Sanders reports. Delta Jaycees Bring Home Travel Trophy Delta Junior Chamber of Com-merce won the Utah JayCee Travel Trophy at Springville on Saturday Oc. 6. The trophy is awarded to the club that has the most man-mile- s present at the travel party. In winning the trophy, the Delta club also won the opportunity to be hosts at the next state travel party, which is scheduled for Nov. 10. Notice has already been sent to state headquarters to be forwar-ded to all Junior Chambers of Com merce in the state. At this meeting the trophy will be awarded to a visiting club with the most man-mile- s. At the end of the year the trophy will be award-ed permanently to the club that has accumlated the most man-mil-in travel to the parties for the year. The trophy is now on display at the Service Drug in Delta. Peck Of Seed Irive Goes On The local campaign for a peck of alfalfa seed for the West Mil-lard Hospieal Assn. building fund is continuing, and will through the threshing season. Peck by peck the seed sacks are being filled, and funds raised will all go to the hospital fund. Mrs. Fern Foote is chairman in the Sutherland area, and not Abra-ham, as the Chronicle erroneously stated last week. Mrs. lone Dalley is assisting Mrs. Liz Pace in the Delta area. First Aid Insurance Delta Parents-Teache- associa-tion is now conducting a member-ship drive for the school first aid insurance program. A fee of 25 cents is charged each student to join. The program is being used at Delta elementary school. The bene-fits are up to and including $5 for a student member who may need first aid during school hours for injuries contracted at school. Premium Money For Herefords At Ogden Show An increase from $4,000 to $10,-00- 0 in premuim money for the pure bred Hereford cattle division of the Ogden Livestock Show in Nov-ember was announced this week by E. J. Fjeldsted, manager. The forthcoming Ogden stock show, November 10 to 14, will also feature two Hereford Cattle auct-ions. The first, on November 12, will be an evening sale offering 50 selected 'foundation females. On the following date, Hereford bulls, in single and pen lots, will be sold along with the regular pen lot sale of heifers. Mr. Fjeldsted said the premium award increase for Herefords was made by the American Hereford Association in recognition of the importance of the Ogden stock show to purebred Hereford cattle advancement throughout western states. Rebekahs Plan Itazaar Nov. 14 A dinner and bazaar 6n Wednes-day night, Nov. 14, is sponsored by Betah Rebekah Lodge No. 47, IOOF. Rebekahs extend a cordial invitation to the public to attend. Many attractive and useful art-icles are being prepared for the bazaar. And good food is being prepared for the dinner, which will fill and please the whole family. First Ward Sets Annual Bazaar A "grand champion" bazaar is in store this year when Delta First ward Relief Society have their an-nual bazaar and dinner on Friday, Nov. 9, from 6 to 10 p. m. This is the chance to actually get all of your Christmas shopping done with in a few hours, with gifts for every one for sale. The dinner, will be a turkey ban-quet, with all one can eat, with all the trimmings. This is a chance of lifetime, in-deed, and everybody is invited and urged to come where there is plen-ty, of room in the beautiful new First ward recreation building. Remember the day, Nov. 9, and come early. This affair has been planned since last March and all ward members have worked long hours on choice handicraft articles that received blue ribbons at the Fair. To Deer Hunters Note This Sale - The Delta First ward is spon-soring an extra SPECIAL Home Baked Food Sale al day Thursday, Oct. 18, in the Quality Market, with cakes, cookies, rolls, bread and um! um! pies for sale. Every-one is invited to come and buy. Take notice, Deer Hunters, of these real home baked foods for sale. Ward members are asked to keep the baked foods coming in from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Thursday. Funds from the sale are for the ward building fund. Stake Choir At First Ward Deseret stake choir members will meet in Delta First ward church Thursday night, instead of Second ward, as heretofore. The ladies will come at 7 p. m. for practice. The men and ladies will begin their Practice together at 8 p. m. Births This Week .. To Carl and Betty Jo Robison Townsend, Delta, a girl, Oct. 12. To Dave and Alice Western Hoff-hine- s, Delta, a girl, Oct. 13. Mrs. Marvin Finlinson of Oak City, is a patient at the Delta hos-pital following an appendectomy Oct. 16. |