Show Seven enter contest Displays newspaper awards James V. Holier presents Cliff Standard with awards in the annual Utah State Press bettor newspaper contest Second in society page and third in best news story brought honors to the Standard for 1 comment in Casually Winner from area to enter state competition in Todd honored in Seven candidates from the Uintah Basin have been d for Mother-of-the-Year which is being sponsored by the Uintah Basin Federated Women's Clubs Mrs Cliff vice-president of the is chairman for the Basin Dick district this week thai judges from throughout the Basin have been chosen to select the District Mother some time within the coming winner w ill then vie for the honor of Utah Mother Russe Ballard housewife and mother of a active won the Uintah Basin award last year and competed in the state She was sponsored by the Culture Club of Roosevelt QUALIFICATIONS lor the ideal mother are as follows 1 That she be a successful as evidenced by the character and achievements of her children That she be an active member of a religious That she embody those traits highly regarded in understanding and a home-making ability 4 That she exemplify m her life and conduct the of the Golden 5 That she have a sense of responsibility in civic affairs and that she be active in service for public That she be qualified to represent the Mothers of America in all responsibilities to her role as the National MILDRED DILLMAN sponsored by Culture Roosevelt Sponsored by Culture Club and supported by the Business and Professional Women's Ray E. Dillman is a candidate for the Mother-of-the-Year The mother of five she has been married to Ray Eugene an for 44 was bom into the family of William Allen and Lucretia Ann Wightman and was one of the seven well-known Miles She attended Salt Lake City high the University of Utah and the University of Chicago After her she lived in Roosevelt and bore five children each of whom is now a college Her many hobbies include writing creating and directing and delving into Indian Culture A noted expert on the culture of the Ute Mrs Dillman has her own collection in the Pioneer Village museum in Salt Lake Club activities include Business and Professional Women's Daughters of the Utah the Republican Party and many Her work m the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has included almost every office in Relief Mutual and cal work Her children Ray an Allen a farm implement Mary Leona social worker and Naomi and Dorothy Since rearing her Dillman has served in the Western States Mission and the Hawaiian temple with her husband When he labored for five years as President of the Western States she served See back pace Mother of the year from Pac as president of the Western States Women's organizations From 1956 until her husband was president of the and she was The are now living in Salt Lake where Dillman is serving- as a legal counsel for the MOON sponsored by Duchesne Mothers' Club The Duchesne Mothers Ch is sponsoring Mrs Orven J. a mother of four Alton Nye Moon and Orven Neil ranchers and stockmen and Karen and Clive Dee Her husband is a stockman and farmer and is an active worker in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Moon's education was out short in her last year of high school when her mother died leaving her to keep house for I Seven Uintah Basin women enter 1960 contest now underway-Judges to consider entrants Thursday Ray E. Dillman her father and seven s. of the children were She had to quit t and until her marriage e three years cared for the e family After she Orville Dart s. t e e took one of her brothers to raise with her own children At ago she was secretary of the Antelope MIA She taught Bee Hive twirls in iona one taught In the Hanna Society for several and for 16 years was a Visiting Relief Society teacher in Hanna She was second counselor in the Relief taught Primary in the McKay Ward in Salt Lake City for three taught Primary in Du- chesne three and held many other in including ward MIA For one and a half years she was Duchesne Stake At the present she is Duchesne Stake Age Group Duchesne Ward Sunday School and serves on the slake Sunday School board She has also served as fair board committee member of the district P-TA program chairman for the P-TA and lias been registrar in the Camp Red Cliff of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers for the past four years HANNAH sponsored by Merry Vernal Sponsored by the Merry Club of Noah is a candidate for Mother-of-thc Year She was born in the seventh of ten In the summer of when she was a tiny her father suffered a paralytic stroke which left his entire left side useless for the rest of his The next July they moved to a trip that took eight days in In 1910 they moved to where attended the Uintah has since attended three summer sessions at University of Utah and Brigham Young After her marriage to Noah she lied in Provo for a and then moved back to where he began working at the Gilsonite mines He is now a farmer and She has held many positions in the she lias been Mutual first counselor and second counselor in She taught Sunday School class for two years and was assistant secretary for a number of She also several primary classes over a period of eighteen She has been a Relief Society visiting teacher for 28 years and taught the Social Science lesson for one year She has been vice-captain of the Daughters of Utah She enjoys gardening and handiwork Her cake decorating is a In January a cake-decorating of featured one of her wedding calces on the front page Seven of her eight children are They postal J a n i high school LOUISA JANE BUCHANAN sponsored by Roosevelt The Club Is sponsoring Mrs George Louisa Jane i Mrs Buchanan who is a is a longtime resident of the Uintah and has reared several of her 12 children in this Born in she spent childhood in tiny Utah and it was there that she received her education Her husband came after her in a covered wagon to take her to the Manti temple for their marriage in They made their home in where her husband farmed and worked with freight from the railroad to Lyman He also sheared and Buchanan taught school one Two of the sons served in the army during World War and another served in the Korean Three of the boys fulfilled Over the Buchanan has been very active in her having served in nearly all She has been Primary Sunday school Sunday school counselor in the and has been Primary president two different times For fifty years she has been a Relief Society and is presently actively engaged in genealogical Her children employee of Granite School Louisa Lydia manager of the Church Poultry Farm in Sandy Neva Vernon and owners and managers of the Buchanan Peed i employee of the Park Side Dairy in Crescent Three children have GLADYS DART sponsored by American Legion Auxiliary and Myton The American Legion Unit and the Myton Ladies Aid Society are sponsoring Mrs Orville Walker t The mother of eight Dart's love of music has been her main interest ever Orven J Moon Ben Gomm since she began taking piano lessons as a child in During high this interest became so engrossing that she decided on a career in and began studying under such well-known teachers as Nicoli Arlene Birch-ard and Nelson Later she studied at the Western Institute of where she was taught by Florence who now heads the department of music at I Denver She married Orville whom she had met when he was selling stock He brought her to Myton as a and she took up life on a Hei eight children were all born in the Uintah and 47 years after she first moved onto the she still resides Pioneer hardships were new to Mrs Dart when she first moved to but she became used to and over the years became well-kown for her musical having taught hundreds of children how to the Often she walked from her ranch to Roosevelt a distance of ten to give and has accompanied for innumerable musical programs over the Dart is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Her children Margaret whose husband operates an electrical contracting an engineer for the Grand Central Missile Ruth N. a stockman and Mary Jane Dorothy D. and Freddie D. registered and farmer OPAL GOMM sponsored by American Legion Altonah Mrs Ben Gomm is sponsored by the Altonah American Legion Auxiliary She was born in the eldest of nine When she was a small her father was called to fulfill a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day and while he was away she helped her mother care for three other She helped with farm and in the wintertime she had to haul water for family needs on a I little hand Later she even learned to run the farm She graduated from the Star Valley High School at and eventually both she and her husband graduated from Utah State University in Logan Much Of their college work was done by She holds an Art Major and is working toward an M A. Her husband has taught school for a number of years as Seminary teacher at and is an elementary school teacher in Tabiona and The seven children were bom and reared in the Uintah They employee Winfred Long George Buchanan in range Ben range who will graduate from with a degree in electrical engineering this who is studying to be a and her an engineering student at All of the children attended Gomm has held various Noah I Hannah I church worked on charity and has taught school in Wyoming and She has been a teacher at Tabi-ona and and for the past 12 years has taught at Altamont High Her hobbies include oil ceramic textile paintings and DELMA LONG sponsored by Daughters of Utah Roosevelt The Roosevelt Camp of the Daughters of Utah Pioneers are sponsoring Winfred Delma Rudy i Long as Mother-of-the-Year The wife a she has had 11 two of whom have Long was born in one of 15 children The family pioneered in the area when the land was thrown open to settlers in Each winter they returned to Vernal so that the children could attend Later her J P began teaching school at the western end of the and she attended schools in and Mrs Long attended Brig-ham Young University for one year and went to the summer school at the University of Utah prior to teachings in In 1919 she married Winfred and for five years they lived in Salt Lake Coming to they leased a farm to go into the dairy in addition to rearing a large worked in the Relief Mutual and Sunday She was a teacher literature leader and work director in Relief president of the Mutual for several and was also a teacher and In the she has been president and She has also hem in the Her children Glence employee of the school board in and business school principal of Jensen Valois living with Lowell working in filled a serving a mission in the Southern Lorrain high school student |