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Show Harvest Ball Royalty ; . - .. - :-- i I r i , - :i 1 Vada Ivie, center, was chosen queen of the Harvest Ball at Delta high school Friday night. Her attendants were Johanna Alldredge, left, and Ila Fullmer, right. The ball was sponsored by Delta Chapter. Future Farmers of America, and Delta Chapter. Future Homemakers of Ameri-ca. Max Christensen and Kae Henrie are presidents. Photo by Stanford Stubbs Volume 42 Number 23 Delta, Utah, Thursday, December 6, 1951 ' $3.50 a Year in Advance Santa 4 laws Will Answer Letters Delia Junior Chamber o Com-merce has been in touch with Santa Claus at his North Pole toyshop, and he informed them that he would like all boys and girls to write him letters. He will answer them. Just write him as Santa Claus, North Pole, and mail them at the Delta postoffice. Tell him what you would like for Christmas, as he wants to know what the boys and birls want for Christmas gifts. Early Christmas eve Santa Claus will visit children's homes in Del-ta, with a bag of candy for ithem all. He will be assisted on his rounds by JayCee helpers. City Council Of Delia Reports On Activities The City Council of Delta be-lieves that the people of the com-munity should know of their ac-complishments in the City Coun-cil meetings. Therefore, every month an article will appear in the Chronicle concerning happen-ings and problems which come up and are solved at their regular meeting, which is held every oth-er Monday at 7:30 p. m. in the City Building. Monday, Dec. 3, all members of the Council convened and had as visitors A. O. Gardner, A. L. Skid-mor- e and Marion Henrie. These men are members of the LDS stake building committee and are inter-ested in having the road oiled go-ing by the new Stake House. The City Council informed them that in the spring this will be done, along with others which badly need oil-ing. Members of the Delta and West Millard Kiwanis club also appear-ed and discussed the hospital pro-ject with the City Council. Chief Harold Wmd and assistant, Reed Wood, of the Delta Volunteer Fire department, came to the meeting and presented a list of items which are badly needed by the local firemen for safer and more efficient fire fighting, in-cluding oxygen masks and water-proof jackets. It was aproved by the board that firemen purchase these needs. CLARE STREET PARKING A serious problem was discussed concerning the inadequate park-ing facilities on Clark Street. By order of the city council, all em-ployees shall park their cars in the rear of their respective busin-ess houses. Also trucks larger than a pickup shal park on the side streets to prevent traffic hazards. This shall go in effect immediately and will be strictly enforced. A sign shall be placed on the street at intervals concerning the trucks. SANTA CLAUS VISIT Santa Claus will make his an-nual appearance in Delta on the afternoon of December 15. The city council will make arrangements with the North Pole and announce next week the exact time and place of his arrival. A municipal Christmas tree and the Christmas lighting will be installed by that time. On the night of December 15 the city council will sponsor the an-nual banquet to honor members of the Delta Volunteer Fire De-partment. Iielta Receives Flag City Award Presentation of awards to Utah communities for exceptional ac-complishments during the First U. S. Defense Bond Drive and in Ut-ah's original Operation Flag City campaign opened Monday. The first program on the state schedule was at Delta at 9:50 a. m. in the Delta high school. Nel-son W. Aldrich, community activ-ities Defense Bond chairman for Utah, presented City Councilman Earl Kelly with a Flag City flag. Citations were made to Ray H. Church, west Millard county chair-man, and Hatch Farnsworth, Delta chairman. A citation went to Am-erican Legion Post No. 117 in view of their recent purchase of a $1000 U. S. Defense Bond. Delta achieved Flag City status Sept. 27, at 11:55 a. m., with em-ployers and employees enrolled in the Payroll Savings Plan for De-fense Bond purchases. Delta was the 15th city to become a Flag City, and second in population bracket 1500-200- Salina was first in this group. Music by the Delta high school band was played for the program. Gun Accident West Of Delta Kills Herder Wiliam Morris (Mark) Coombs. 37, of Fountain Green, was killed instantly early Friday when he was accidentally shot in the head by his companion, Pat Cambron, 69, of Salt Lake City. The accident occurred at 9:30 a. m. in Tule Valley, about 70 miles west of Delta. The men were there employed as sheepherders for Tom Cook, of Fountain Green. The herders had spread the sheep out to graze and had then gone hunting wild horses. They located a herd and had done some shoot-ing as they hoped to get the hides to sell. Apparently Mr. Coombs stepped into the line tit fire when Mr. Cam bron made a shot, and the 30-3- 0 rifle bullet struck him in the head back of the left ear and emerged above his eye. They were 25 feet or less apart at the time. Mr. Cambron, who Is unable to drive, went horseback to another sheep camp 15 miles distant for help. He sent word in to the sher-iff's office by Peter Sabey report-ing the accident. Deputy sheriff O. J. Bennett and Albert Nickle, from the Nickle mor-tuary, left at 3:30 p. m. to go to the scene and they returned at 11 p. m. with the body to the mor-tuary. A coroner's inquest was held on Saturday at the site of the accid-ent, and a verdict 'of "death by accident" was reached. The cor-oner's party Included Deputy Sher-iff O. J. Bennett, County Attorney Eldon Eliason, Albert J. Skidmore, justice of the peace, Delta Marsha-al- l Karl Miller, Tom Judd and Pet-er Sabey. Mr. Coombs was bom in Foun-tain Green, Jan. 10, 1914, a son of Wilford and Ella Crowther Coombs. He married Bessie Jensen, Moroni, in 1937. They later separated. He was a sheepherder and laborer all his life. He is survived by his father, Fountain Green, four children, In-ez, Markay, Lula and James all of Salt Lake City; two brothers, De-ve- re Coombs, Lark Elwood, Provo, and Ken Coombs, in the service in Japan; four sisters, Mrs. Valera Parkin, Bessie Coombs, and Mrs. Mont Taylor, Nephi, and Arlene Coombs Fountain Green. Funeral services were held in ' Fountain Green Tuesday, and bur-ial was in the cemetery there un-- I der direction oi Nickle mortuary. ' Delta Child Is Polio Patient In feltLike City ' Wallie Wright, ar old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright of Delta, was taken to the Salt Lake county hospial polio ward Tuesd-ay. A telephone call back to Delt-a Wednesday night verified the feet that the boy had had polio. It was the 'bulbar type, and the fever had reached a climax, and no more damage was anticipated. Medical opinion was that Wallie m a lucky boy. Only his throat is affected, so that he has some difficulty In speaking and swallowi-ng. The condition will clear up, lie doctors believed. Wallie had been ill since Friday with what seemed to a common cold. Monday and Tuesday he had a high fever and was unable to test. It was then his parents noted he was having trouble with his speech, and complained of one urn which at this time- - seems to be unaffected. Storms Knock Power Out For Five Hours At 8:40 Wednesday morning the power went off over the entire Telluride system due to a line breakage between Santaquin and Nephl. Heavy storms had loaded the wires and poles with more than they could carry which cau-sed the break. Utah Power and Light Co. who own the lines at this point repair-ed the damage and power was sent to most of the Telluride Pow-er company lines, with the excep-tion of Holden, Scipio, and west Millard. West Millard had two serious breaks in the lines that caused the failure here. West of Nephi the lines had gone down from two causes, the heavy storm and some insulators had been shot out. Also the line going from Delta to the Holden sub station was out due to shot up insulators and the storm. The power came to west Millard about 2 p. m., altough the line to Holden was still down. This line was repaired late Wednesday so that. West Millard will aeain have two lines to bring power into this area, until more storms and trigger happy people put them out again. Harvest Ball Is Social Success At DHS The Harvest Ball, sponsored by Delta FFA and FHA at Delta high school, was a social success Friday night. The gym was decorated in orange, yellow and brown, to the theme of "By The Light of The Silvery Moon". A large crowd dan-ced to music by the stake orches-tra. Vada Ivie, candidate from the senior class, was chosen as Harvest Ball queen. Her attendants were Johanna Alldredge and Ila Fullmer. Candidates from the other clas-ses were Juniors, Thelrha Jensen, queen, Myrl Orton and Lila Gon-de- r, attendants. 10th grade, Janet Bunker, queen, Annette Smith, Cherie Alldredge attendants. 9th Rosalind Edwards, queen, Lael Hilton, Susan Nielson, attendants,. 8th Carolyn Mortensen, queen, Jer-ry Johnson, Shirley Christensen, as attendants. 7th, Glenda SnoW, was queen, .Linda ' Mortensen, Arlene Jensen, attendants. Happy recipient of a large tur-key was M rs. Julia Bliss Finlinson. Ladd Jones took home the semi-automatic .22 rifle. Senator Watkins Talks Problems At Delta Clinic The Korean situation, Universal Military Training, international debts, loans abroad, the Atlantic Charter, Gen Eisenhower, exports to Britain materials used against us in Red China and other topics were discussed at the legislative clinic held in Delta Thursday night with Senator Arthur V. Watkins. In opening the clinic Senator Watkins stated that it would be and informal, conduc-ted along the old town meeting lines with everyone free to express ah opinion. About a hundred inter-ested persons were present. Speaking of the Korean War, Sen. Watkins termed it a "ghastly mistake", and said it has already cost some 94 billion dollars. He said the country is now spending nearly a billion dollars a day in its armament race and help to foreign powers - - this. money all coming from taxation. Not only is all our money spent, he stated, but that of our children, our grand children, and our great grandchil- - dren. He would vote for no more tax increases, he said, short of an all-o- war, as the public debt has about reached its limit for the people to stand. He was commended by County Commissioner Golden H. Black for the legislation he had supported for the completion of highway No. 6. The senator was accompanied by Mrs. Watkins, and two of his staff members, Roy James, his legislat-ive assistant, and Richard Cardell, his administrative assistant,. These clinics throughout the ctato oro heine conducted by the senator and his staff with no ex-pense to the government. They are paid from their own personal funds and are not a government-pai- d junket. 4-- H Achievement Awards Made Monday Night The importance of keeping up and completing record books in 4--H work was pointed out Monday night at the 4-- achievement program in Delta First ward for west Millard 4-- clubs. For if records had been completed by all club members there would have been twice as many awards made. At that, the past year has been outstanding, in 4-- work in the county, and many awards were made Monday night. There were 56 tractor maintenance certifica-tes given and more than 200 cer-tificates went to the girls in sew-ing and cooking clubs. The program was in charge of Mrs. Sarah Nielson, county home demonstration agent, and Lee Rog-ers, assistant county agent. Ferron Lovell, representing the Utah Ban-kers 'Association, who provide the certificates, was the speaker. His theme was safety at all times, and he urged the 4-- to make safety their number one crop. Many special awards were giv-en in various 4--H fields. Mrs. Lena Steele, from the auxiliary of the Utah Poultry and Farmers made an award to Karen Murray, county winner in the poul-try demonstration. Karen had a choice of $10 worth of aluminum ware or a cooker. LeuWanna Bunker was awarded the Standard Oil Co. of California scholarship, between $250 and $350 Leu Wanna has completed 7 years of 4--H work, and three years as a leader. Medals were awarded to Grace Warnick, one of the several girls enrolled, and Ronnie Morris, for tractor maintenance. Awards were made to Don Bunker, field crops, Larry Wright, dairying, and Doro-thy Tolbert livestock club. Pins were awarded Karen Peter-sen, Marjene Hilton, Sharon Steele, Dorene Moody, Julene Bunker and LeuWanna Bunker, for Style Dress Revue. Medals were awarded to county winners LeuWanna Bunker, farm and home electric, Marilyn Mur-ray, garden, Joan Bradfield, frozen foods, LeuWanna Bunker clothing, Marjene Finlinson Kerr Canning, Julene Bunker, records, Leu Wan-- o criVor inninr leadership. Mar- - ilyn Murray, Inez Nielson, Julene Bunker, home improvement pro -- jects Grace and Mary Warnick, dairy foods. The Danforth award for leader ship went to Leu Wan-na Bunker. Gifts from the Foley Food Co. were a food mill to Marilyn Mur-ray, sifter to Janice Hansen, chop-per' to Marjene Finlinson, blending fork to Mary Warnick, juicer to Grace Warnick. Cheryl Kae Pace received both county and state awards from General Foods Corp., on jelly making, which included jelly glasses, measuring cups, a large cooker, colander, sieve and juicer and four large stainless mixing bowls. Ford Naanes New Dealer Richard N. Peterson has acquired the Ford agency for this area by purchasing the interests of Heber Curtis, who formerly held the ag-ency. Mr. Peterson will operate as Peterson-For- d Sales and the busin-ess is located in the former Curtis building on Clark Street, leased from Mr. Curtis. The company will handle Ford automobiles, tractors, and automotive parts there. His entire interest in the Dodge and Plymouth agencies was sold by Mr. Peterson to his father, Noble G. Peterson, who continues the business. Mr. Curtis is engaged in a project on a $70,000 con-tract with the government on a program to curb the spread of the poisonous weed, halgeton. Choruses Will Combine For Concert Dec. 13 A free concert presented for all of the members of Deseret stake and their many loyal friends of west Millard will be given Thurs-fla- y Dec. 13, in the new Delta Third ward and Stake Chapel. If the Stake House will be not be availa-ble at the time, the concert will be presented in Delta First ward chapel. The purpose of this free concert is to show the Deseret Stake's app-reciation of the wonderful resp-onse of the people in making the recent "Mirthquake" such an outs-tanding success. The Singing Mothers will present six numbers, which will be followe-d by six songs from the Desert Sentinels. The concluding four num bers will be by the combined voic-es of the Deseret Stake Choir. This concert is the result of int-ense rehearsals of last summer wd recent fall practices. Ruth Talb-ot and Lucille Stapley will be e accompanists. The choruses be conducted by Ladd Crop-pe- t. Thersday, Dec. 6, the Sentinels ffl travel to Ely, Nevada, for their first out-o- f state concert. The program is being sponsored k the Nevada stake. The Singing Mothers chorus has a concert Sat-Wa- y, Dec. 8, at Fillmore, which is sponsored by the Millard stake. Utah Ranks High In Defense Bond Final Standings Utah earned a place high among the states most successful in the First U. S. Defense Bond drive, a revised report of the recent eight-wee- k campaign revealed this week By topping its sales objective voluntarily set by the state com-mittee more than 11 per cent, this state will probably rank among the highest in the nation for ach-ievements during the September-Octob- er drive, according to Char-les L. Smith, Utah chairman. E Bond sales for the period of the drive showed an increase of 33 per cent over sales in the same period in 1950. Millard county Defense Bond vol unteers, according to Mr. Ray H. Church, chairman, for West Millard County, obtained sales totaling $6,969.00, which was 69.7 per cent ot the county sales objective. "Perhaps the most important re-sults of this thrift promoting De-fense program are to be seen in the future", chairman Church said. "The complete story will include Defense Bond purchasees made on the Payroll Savings Plan through automatic deduction for U. S. De- - fense Bonds. When these equal the price of a bond the amounts wiU show in sales reports," he ex-plained. "Good effects of the drive show-ed November records. At up in the present these indicate 27 per cent more sales than in November last year, with a half-month- 's sales figures yet to be reported." Mr Smith said all who partici-pated could share the satisfaction of seeing the drive succeed. "The objective of further stim-ulating thrift and savings espec-ially thru sale of Series E bonds on automatic sales plans, has had beneficial effect in the fight to a discourage inflation and strength-en the defense of our country , declared Mr. Smith. Deseret Bazaar Comes Thursday Deseret ward annual Relief Soc-iety bazaar is scheduled for Thurs-day, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p. m. There will be a fine program, and art-icles of every kind will be for sale. There will be a rummage table, and plenty of good home-mad- e ice cream to sell during the even-ing. Shop at Deseret for Christmas gifts from a very good selection to choose from. Everyone is invited. Delta Third Ward Serves Turkey Saturday, Dec. 8 Roast turkey and other good fare will be served Saturday night by Delta Third ward Relief Soc-iety at their annual bazaar. Serv-in- g will 'begin at 6 p. m. in the Delta school hot lunch room. The dinner will be $1 per plate. A program will be given at 7 p. m. in the Delta high school aud-itorium. The bazaar will be displayed in the high school, and includes many attractive and useful gift items. There will be embroidered pillow slips, luncheon cloths, fan-cy aprons, kitchen aprons, rugs, quilts baby quilts and other art-icles. There will also be a sale of baked floods, candy and popcorn balls. Oasis Schedules Bazaar Dec. 7 Once again the annual Oasis Relief Society Bazaar will be held Friday, Dec. 7. Plan to do Christ-mas shopping at the Oasis bazaar is the request of the Relief Soc-iety members. The bazaar will open at b.ju p. m. with a hot lunch. The menu includes hot meat pie, at 25 cents, cake, 15c, pie 15c, ice cream 10c Salad 10c and punch 10c. At 7:30 there will be a short program, after which the bazaar articles will be auctioned off. They consist of quilts, pillow cases, dish towels, aprons, children's clothing, rugs home-ma- de candy and other articles. There will be a fish pond for children. Ice cream will be sold during the evening. Tribune Picks Class B Tops In Football The Salt Lake Tribune announ-ced their selection of Class B foot-ball for 1951 Thurs-day Nov. 29, with first, second and third teams, and honorable mention. Scott Davis, Delta high school senior, was named on the First Team, as end Clair McKee and Al-ton Wade, Millard high school sen-iors and state champions, were chosen as guard and back, res-pectively. Bud Fullmer, Delta, and LaVae Smith and Eddie Peterson, Millard, were given berths on the second team. Theron Johnson, Delta, and Lonnie Badger, Millard, were pla-ced on the third team. Honorable mention was made of ends Paul Anderson and Don Tomkmson, Millard and Max Chris tensen, Delta. Tackles - Lowry Bishop, Hinckley. Centers - Jimmy Forty Delta; Owen Olpin, Millard; Backs - Harold Snow, Delta, Eldon W'trner, Sam Wilson and Andy Melville Millard. Abraham Slates Bazaar Dec. 10 Abraham ward Relief Society an-nounces their annual bazaar and dinner for Monday night, Dec. 10. Everyone is invited to come to shop for Christmas and join in the entertainment. Dinner, with baked ham as the main dish, will be served from 7 to 9 p. m., in the Abraham church house. A wide selection of articles will be on display in the bazaar. Games will be played, and a short program will be presented. Santa To Visit Hinckley Dec. 12 FLASH - - Word was recently delved in Hinckley from the srth Pole that Santa Claus will tfsit the city. He is flying in his special air plane to the Delta Air W't and from there will come to Hinckley on a fire engine. T celebrate his coming and show we are really glad he could ctme in this rushed season, the 1(wn hoard will put up the Christ- - lights and the Christmas tree, n& then turn them on when Santa arrives. He will arrive between 6:30 and ':00 o'clock. So all the children and parents to, that want to see Santa Claus me and see him Wednesday, Dec. '? in front of the Hinckley ward aPel. Santa will be there and have a bag of candy to give you. Pancake Party At First Ward An invitation to a Pancake Sup-per in Delta First ward church Is extended to everyone Friday night, Dec. 7. There will toe an eating contest, and all patrons will be urged to eat all the pancakes they can hold. The time for supper is from 7 to 9 p. m. There will be dancing later. The party is a benefit for the ward building so nearly completed. Pillsbury's flour company is do-nating pancake and waffle flour for the event, and ward members are supplying other items for the menu. The charges will be $1.00 for ad-ults and 50 cents for children un-der 12. There will also be some bazaar articles on sale, and var-ious will be made. Delta Babhits Win 1 - - Ixise 1 The Delta Rabbits got off to a bang Thursday night by beating Hurricane 47 to 33 in their first basketball game of the season, in non-leag- play. Snow was high point man for Delta with a total of 21 points. Floyd was next with 7. SCORE BY QUARTERS: Delta 14 17 32 47 Hurricane 10 14 26 33 The picture was reversed when the Rabbits met Monroe Saturday, and were defeated by a score of 57 to 43. Snow was again high point man with 11, with Fullmer . right behind with ten. I SCORE BY QUARTERS: Monroe 12 31 44 57 Delta 8 21 33 43 This week for the first time in the records of the Millard County Chronicle, we received a renewal of a subcription by telegram. From Paul Blackburn, at Freeport, Tex-as, came a wire and Western Un-ion money order to keep his paper coming. He added a Merry Christ-mas. Thanks, Paul, and a Happy New Year to you and your wife. Max Hannifin, manager at the Tri-Sta- Lumber Co., was taken to the LDS hospital Monday by ambulance for medical care. Mrs. Hannifin and their daughter, Cher-ie accompanied him. His condition Is still critical. SUIT POSTPONED .... The law suit between the upper and lower water users of the Se-vier river has been postponed from Dec. 3 to Jan. 9. Andrew Schlappi was taken to Monday in a ser-ious the LDS hospital condition and is being treated Daryl, who here. His young son, has been ill with rheumatic fev-- . er, is now much Improved. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bishop made a week end visit in Tooele, where they were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Journay. |