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Show I Governor Lee Talks On Government c - .. liXsf ". " ( ! -- i c I - hitti f H - ...... A J t ' 1 IS Governor. J. Bracken Lee, cen- - ter, discussed Utah Legislation with Eldon. Eliason, Millard 8 County attorney, and Mrs. Loa Black, county Republican on his recent Delta visit. Gov. Lee was the speaker at the Republican Lincoln Day pro-gram held Feb. 18 in Delta, and attended by several hundred Millard county voters. r HiirM,MMMr I , . Ui State tax reductions, and in-clusion of the tax cut plank in the 1952 GOP platform are recommended by Gov. Lee, who urged support of economy in state administration. Volume 42' Number 35 Delta, Utah, Thursday, February 28, 195.2 $3.50 a Year in Advance Are Award Winners " " ' ' r ; ' r .L;-j- P f-.- I ' ' I Mrs. Louise Sly, president of the auxiliary of Post 117, Am-erican Legion, at left .presided at the Washington birthday program at Delta high school when an "Americanism" award was made to Mrs. Adrian Han-sen and a "Citizenship" award to Miss Gertrude Western. Mrs. Maxine Bishop, at right, past president and state offic-er, made the presentations. Mrs. Hansen received a medal, and Miss Western, principal of Delta elementary school, received a locket and chain. Body of Korean Veteran Coming Home For Burial Mr. and Mrs. Angus Myers, of Delta, have been advised by tele-gram that the body of their son, Pfc. Robert Myers, 20, killed in action in Korea Oct. 17, 1951, is enroute home for burial. No definite date of arrival of the body is known yet. Arrange-ments for the funeral services will be ann ounced later. Robert was born in Delta, Feb. 27, 1931, a son of Angus and Freda Winsor Myers. He ,was graduated from Detla high school In 1949, and worked in Salt Lake City until he enlisted in the service March 15, 1951. Surviving are the parents, and a brother, Elmo, Myers, of Delta, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Winsor. Americanism Is Theme of Meets The Auxiliary of Post 117, Am-erican Legion, conducted Washing-ton Day programs Friday in Delta and Hinckley high schools. "Amer-- f icanism" "was the theme of the address made by Verdell R. Bishop, of Deseret stake presidency. At Delta high school an Amer- -' icanism award was made to Mrs. Adrian Hansen, and .at Hinckley the award was made to Arthur H. Reeve. The Citizenship award was made to Miss Gertrude Western. The awards were made for out-standing service and church activ-ities and are made annually by the auxiliary. Mrs. Maxine Bishop, officer in the state department, made the presentations. Music on the program was by Mario Sagers, Mrs. Lyle Bunker and Don Woodbury. At Hinckley, where the auxiliary has sponsored the essay contest for four years, Erma Roundy was announced as first place winner in this year's contest and Margene Hilton won second place. Their essays were titled "The Rights and Duties of an American". Both girls received medals. Joan of Lorraine Plays Thursday At Delta Showing A highlight of Thursday even-ing is Cedar City's Rainbow Thea-ter Guild presentation of "Joan of Lorraine", Maxwell Anderson's Broadway success based on the story of Joan of Arc. Curtain time is 8 p. m. in Delta high school auditorium. Advance sale of tickets indicates a large and interested audience. The play stars Ann Ashcroft as Joan. Of interest is the fact that in her role Miss Ashcroft wears the coat of miail worn by Ingrid Bergman, in the film production of the play, it is a perfect fit, re-ports say, and Miss Ashcroft gives a fine portrayal in her part. Joe Bishop and Helen Turner, DHS alumni, will also be seen in the play in lesser parts. The play cast is comprised of BAC students and Cedar City townfolk, iand dir-ection is by Prof. Twain Tippetts. Graveside fiites For Infant Girl Graveside services for Linda Wes tern, infant daughter of Harold and Mary Lou Rawlinson Western, were conducted Sunday afternoon in Deseret cemetery by Bishop O. L. Dutson. The child died Saturday at the family residence, 757 E. 620 North, Provo, after an illness of three days. She was born Dec. 27, 1951, in Provo. Surviving are the parents, at Provo, and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Claude F. Rawlinson, Orem, and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Western, Deseret. Opening services was a song, "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam", by Mrs. Ethel Western, and Ray Western gave the opening prayer. Mrs. Bernard Prows, of Provo, sang "Your Little Rosebud Has Left You" Bernard Prows, of Provo, was a speaker, Mrs. Valate Maxfield read a poem by Edgar A. Guest "To All Parents". Bishop Dutson spoke, and the quartet of Ladd Cropper, Blaine Spendlove, Cluff and Dean Talbot, sang "I Need Thee Every Hour". Closing ' prayer was by Doyle Steele. Burial was in the Deseret ceme-tery, where the grave was dedi-cated by Harold Western. Burial was under the direction of L. N. Nickle and sons mortuary. Parents Day Is Friday Event AtHinckleyHS Friday, Feb. 29, is the day set for Parents Day at the Hinckley high school. The day has been planned to the minute by the Par-ents Day officers. Dr. Ellvert Heimes, from Dixie Junior College will be the guest speaker. The day is scheduled as follows. At 8:30 registration, from 9 a. m. to 9:30 assembly. From 9:30 to 12 noon classes will be held. In the Phys. Ed. class in the morning a tumbling exhibition will bhe held This will be put on by the high school girls and Mrs. Mavis Hardy is in charge of it. From 12:10 lunch be served in the lunch room. From 1:30' to 2:30 there will, be an assembly. Dr. Heimes will speak in this as-sembly. He is also bringing a spec-ial program from the college with him. From 2:30 until 3 election of officers for next year will be held This promises to be a very inter-esting day and everyone is invited to attend whether they have chil-dren in high school or district school. '" Annual Red Cross c Fund Campaign --Opens March 1 American Red Cross Fund Month opens March 1 and continues thru March 31. In the 1952 fund iap-pe-all citizens of this state are C urged to contribute generously so that the Red Cross can continue to render its valuable service in the year ahead. 9 West Millard chapter quota is 51786.00 according to Mrs. LaVonne Morrison, chapter chairman. The fund campaign is being con-Juct-in west Millard by Mrs. Q Helen Baker and Mrs. Mary Moody If each family will jive $2 this year the quota will )e reached easily. A larger contribution is asked his year, as the Red Cross is carry-n- g on a much larger program in liding national and state programs n civil defense by conducting first ud classes, collecting blood, plan-ting reserves of plasma, disaster elief and aid in Korea. 'Riwahis club of Delta and west 8Jillard will assist in the drive by for funds from Delta busin-gs houses and professional men. Community chairmen who will as ist are Olive Allred, Maxine Bish-i-south Delta; Vera Hilton, Mrs. Ilinton Tolbert, north Delta; Betty laker, South Tract; Mavis Benn-t- t, Sutherland; Mrs. Mildred Joh-nson, Gandy; Mrs. Hampton Burke, Slack Rock; Mollie Gonder, f3ar-iso- Mrs. Dean Anderson, Oak Mty; Mrs. Dolpha Bishop, Hinckley. Mrs. Stella Hawley, Oasis; Nor-n- a Nielson, Leamington; Mrs. Jer-- y Nielson, Lynndyl; Beverly Elia-- . on, Deseret; Fern Mortensen at , ibraham and Ann Hales Sugarville rTflnd Woodrow. Lady Lions Set Sale Satnirday Delta Lady Lions will sponsor a bake sale for Saturday, March 8, and invite patronage for a large display of home-mad- e cakes, pies, cookies, breads and other items. The sale will be held in Quality Market. Further particulars will be given next week. Funds derived are for a community project. Local Men Make Tour of Farms California The 1952 Agricultural Tour, spon-sored by the Commercial Bank of Utah, began early Sunday with 111 men registered for the trip. From Millard county area were James W. Stephenson, Otis Walch, Herman Munster, Hompr Petersen, W. R. Walker, Orvil Jeffery, Elbert Stevens, Otto Hunter, Burke Mat-thews, Evan Anderson, James C. Rowley, Orin C. Cummings, Edwin Stevens, Boyd Sorenson, Clifford Stewart, W. T. Stevens, Orson Chris tensen, Cleone B. Stott and Evan Johnson. One of the highlights of the trip will be the visit to the Davis Cam-pus of the University of California. Last week the exhibits at the Un-iversity drew a crowd of 1,000 stockmen from California. The San Joaquin County Cham-ber of Commerce and the Farm Bureau organization at Stockton, Cal., arranged a dinner for the men on tour, held in the Hotel Stockton Monday night. Another feature of the tour is the visit to Kern County Land Company, near Bakersfield, which is the largest livestock operation in the United States. They run from 70,000 to 80,000 head of cat-tle. In the A. H. Karpee Ranch, the group will be able to see Baca Prince Domino 20th, a Hereford bull which recently sold for $87,500. At Los Angeles the group will visit commercial feed lots in which there are over 50,000 head of cattle, on feed. The last scheduled visit will be the LDS Security Farm, near River-side, Cal. New Tri-Stat- e' Manager Named The appointment of Boyd H. Nel-son as Manager of the Delta store of the Tri-Sta- Lumber Company was announced this week by A. O. Sheldon, ' general manager. Mr. Nelson, well-know- n in Nephi, has been an employee of for the past twelve years, having pre-viously served as Assistant Manag-er at company stores in Park City, Delta and Nephi. For the past year he has been Manager of the Tri-Sta-store in Garland, Utah. He is a native of Nephi and married the former Orena Johnson of Delta in 1942. They have one daughter, Karen, who is one year old. Mr. Nelson is a member of the Lion's Club and numbers hunting and fishing among his. hobbies. Set Hake Sale For Saturday Junior Gleanrs of Delta First ward will hold a bake sale Satur-day, March 1, opening at 10 a. m. in the Quality Market. Home-mad- e breads, cakes, pies and cookies will be offered for sale. Shoppers are invited to come and buy. The group, under the leadership of Mrs. Marie Merrill, are sponsor-ing the sale to raise funds for a trip in June to Los Angeles, where they have been invited by one of the wards to visit. Delta Wins Two Games During Past Veek Delta continued its. undefeated record in league play and won two more games last week. The first was Wednesday with Hinckley on the latter's floor and Delta won 47 to 31. The second was Saturday at Milford and Delta also won there 57 to 33. On the same Wednesday night Beaver won from Parowan 53 to 48 and Millard topped Milford 49 to 33. . .. In the Delta-Hinckl- ey game Snow was high with 16 points, Floyd made 10 and Davis, 8. Robin-son of Hinckley was high for them with 14 and Theobald made 8. In the Milford game many sub-stitutions were made to give the younger boys experience and they made a very creditable showing. Floyd was high with 16, Hansen 12, Winfield 8, Roper 7, and Moody 6. Kinrose was high for Milford with 10 points. SCORE BY QUARTERS ... DELTA 8 22 27 47 HINCKLEY 5 9 17 31 DELTA 10 31 42 57 MILFORD 6 14 29 33 The final game of league play will be his Friday night when Delta plays Millard here. Milford goes to Parowan, and Hinckley plays at Beaver. The second the third place win-ners will go to Cedar City to play a round robin there to determine the other team from this district, i Orvin P. Barney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pat Barney, Delta, received his final discharge from the U.S. Navy on Feb. 21. He had spent nearly two years on the naval re-ceiving station in Seattle as a yeo-man and personnel officer. Mr. Bar-ney spent eight months in occupa-tion on duty in Japan during World War II and was in the reserves when called on active duty two years ago. While in Seattle he was active in the Seattle First LDS ward, and served as Sunday School superintendent. His wife, the for-mer Betty Stratford of Portland, and their three children have been making a home in Seattle while Mr. Barney served there. They are on their way to Delta now, by way of Portland. Mr. Barney, on return-ing to civilian life, intends to re-sume high school teaching and con tinue his studies for a higher col-lege degree. Hinckley Lions Sponsor Negro Minstrel March 5 Hinckley Lions are sponsoring a negro minstrel show to be held in the Hinckley high school auditor-ium Wednesday, March 5, begin-ning at 8 p. m. There will be some of the best talent in Hinckley in the show. There will be such soloists as Orlando Hepworth, Lynn Talbot, Rae Buhanan, Blaine Spendlove, Walter Ekins, Rodney Wright, Geo. Ekins, Bob Bishop and Douglas All-re- d, Sr., and the Lions' quartet. There will be such graceful dan-cers as Willard Hardy , Benny Schena, Marion Dillenbeck, Rae Buhanan, Wayne Petersen, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Webb, Curley Swen-se- Vaughn Bennett, Floyd Moody, Gordon Bishop and Harold Morris. There will be lots of laughs from the time you enter the door until hours when you should be. asleep. A matinee will be held in the af-ternoon for high school and district school students. Tickets for the matinee will be 10, cents and 25 cents. For the night show general ad-mission will be 50 cents and res-erved seats are on sale at the high school for 65 cents. j, Mrs. Otis Walch is visiting in t alt Lake City during the week ii jith her daughter, Mrs. Grant See- - and family. ,j;y, Sugarville Plans Ward Benefit For Friday, March 7 There will be a supper, bazaar, program and auction at Sugarville church house on Friday evening, March 7. Everyone is invited to attend. Proceeds from the enter-tainment will go to the ward buil-ding fund. Supper will be served from 6 p. to 9 p.m. Bazaar items may be purchased at any time during the evening. The auction will begin at 8 p.m. Each auxiliary organization in Sugarville ward has a part in the affair, which is designed to pro-vide entertainment for all. Come with all the family, say ward mem bers, and enjoy an evening in Su-garville. The MIA is in charge of the pro-gram to run during the dinner hour. The Primary has a food ta-ble, where popcorn and other ar-ticles will be sold. The Sunday School is gathering articles for the auction. Delta bus-iness houses have contributed gen-erously with many items to be sold at auction for the building. The Relief Society is preparing the supper that will be served, and also collecting articles from members for the bazaar. I Delta Mat Men Win Third Place In Tourney U!'- - l ' i 'r- - VX VA VW--' U"', : 't V ill ; i I ? " The Delta high school boxing and wrestling team made a fine showing in the state finals at Payson last Friday and Sat-urday and came home with 3rd place for all schools. Weber won first place, and Box Elder sec-on- Also Delta was high team ior all the Class B teams. Two firsts and two seconds were won by the Delta men. Callister took first in the 125 pound wrestling event. Porter took first in the 145 wrestling match which is the second year ': in a row that he has won this event. He is considered one of the top wrestlers in the state high schools. The two second places were won by Hunsaker and Que e, both in wrestling, and brought the team points up to 23 for Delta. Delta has been named tent-atively for the state tournament this coming year because of the numerous fans who followed the team. It is reported that out of an audience of about 150, SO of them were from Delta. Other schools have not been able to get a crowd out like this in their towns and they want Del-ta to have the meet next year... Left to right, Jackie Orton, Jimmie Hollingshead, Wendell Knight, Robert Callister, Que Alldredge, Howard Hunsaker, Jimmie Porter, Merrill Nielson, and Eugene Overson. All of these boys took part in the state meet. Square Dancing At Sutherland An event for Saturday night is the Square Dance at Sutherland, sponsored by the Square Dance club. Dancing begins at 8 p. m. and Glen Rawlinson, old maestro, will do the calling. The public is cord-ially invited to attend. Oak City MIA Presents IMay The Oak City ward MIA play, "Oh Promise Me" by Pete Williams was presented Feb. 19, in Oak City and as enjoyed by everyone who attended. This comedy in three acts was directed by Mrs. Donna Anderson and the cast inciuo.es; Seth Miller, a lawyer, Ivan Ship-ley; Ferber, a butler, Ed Stuart; Barry Hollis, a young millionaire, Junius Anderson; Mrs. Sue Hollis, Barry's aunt, Melva Finlinson; Kathleen, a cook, ElDonna Ander-son; Ann Furber, a young actress, ElDula East; Patsie Lindon, a queen and Patsie's mo-ther, Lemira Dutson; Gladys Vance, a dream girl, Johanna Alldredge; Ralph Saunders, a man with a purpose and Eda Christen as As-sistant director. This play is being exchanged with several of the other wards in the county. Delta PTA Meets Next Wedesday Delta Parents - Teachers Assoc-iation will meet Wednesday, March 5, in Delta high school auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Supt. A. M. Maughan and Miss Pearl Snyder, primary superintend-ent will take part on the program for a discussion of the school cur-riculum. Call K publican Precinct Meets Republican precinct conventions are scheduled for Monday, March 3, at 8 p. m. Delta precinct 18, Golden H. Black chairman, will meet in the Mercer Hall, above the Delta drug store. Delta precinct 18'i, J. Avery Bis-hop, chairman, will meet in the Delta Seminary building. At these meetings delegates to the county Republican convention will be selected, the precincts will be reorganized, and other business taken care of. Children's Dance Is Saturday Fun A childrens' dance, sponsored by Delta Third ward Primary, is an event for Saturday afternoon. All chilren in Deseret stake of Primary age are invited. The dance will be held in Delta high school gymnasium, beginning at 2:30 p. m. Guests will be asked to contribute 10 cents each to the Third ward building fund. The entertainments will be sup-ervised and the children will be well cared for for the afternoon. Births This Week... To Glen and Eva Davey Roper, Leamington, a girl, Feb. 23. To Quin and Verna Roberts Shep-herd, Delta, a girl, Feb. 24. To John and Geneal Bennett Jen-sen, Deseret, a girl, Feb. 26. |