Show WHITEROCKS Snow changes fall picture 1 brings scare to local families By Verna Hoopes After several days of lovely weather residents awoke Sunday morning to looked more like with snow and rain coming It also brought a scare to the Walkup family The mountains had a good sprinkling of elk hunters again some a little more discouraged because they hadn't seen any of the animals within rifle range and several inches up to several feet of snow didn't help too One near tragedy was averted and a good many people were called into action when Floyd son of and Howard Collett of Vernal and grandson of the George Walk-up's of became separated from his hunting companion an Gene Walkup of Vernal about Sunday When Gene was unable to locate him by 9 p.m. he came to Farm Creek for The boy's Gene and another Glen McConkie left to go back up the mountain to search for At 3 a.m. came upon Floyd with a fire but had been unable to hear his shots or sec his fire because of the storm and the canyon he was He also had bagged his elk earlier in the He had gotten liis leg wedged in some rock and had spent two hours prying with his gun to free The three remained at the fire until daylight then had made their way to the arm Creek reaching some of the other searchers and the radio about 10 a.m. By this time quite a number of men had begun the search for the missing At 3 a.m. mother and grandparents had called for The Sheriff's posse of Vernal had come to the along with the state fish and with Max North of Lynn Roosevelt and Bob Jensen of Vernal with their two way radios and Floyd's mother was sitting in a car with a two-way radio near the Walkup home on Farm Creek bench and was the first to receive the good news from the mountain when her son was Most of the men were served hot drinks and pie at the Walkups before returning to their homes in the Chester Smith made a trip to Tucson with a load of horses last week returning Jimmy Hoopes was graduated from Primary Sunday in Sacrament and was ordained a deacon after The Beehive and MIA maid groups of the MIA spent Tuesday evening quilting a quilt and also returned Friday to finish their and Petro Forakis visited relatives in the area Fri- day evening and Saturday Dee Christensen and Bob Wilkenson of Salt Lake were here over the weekend to continue their elk and Carlos Hansen were in Salt Lake over the They visited Hansen's sister and parents of Salina who were in Salt Lake to attend Ward Primary preparation meeting was held Thursday evening at the and Russell West of Orom visited West's Donald Simmons and family on and Robert Duke of Dutch John the Elbert Smith's last Miss Elna Gerald Mitchell and Eileene Hatton attended in Salt Lake this MARRIED SUNDAY Miss Kay Brown of Jensen and DeRay Hall of Bennett were married Sunday at 4 by Bishop Bert Stoddard at the home of DeRay's the Carl Halls in and Darrell and Gary Fred Esther and Warren Green aVid Jay Price all relatives from here and the Vernal area were Carol Jean Hall is working at the Western Hills Cafe and Reva Hall is employed at the Sprouse Reitz store in and Stanley and Lorraine and Gerald Bolton and and Delmar Gardner attended PTA banquet at Al-terra High last Monday Harvard Hatton is in a Provo hospital receiving therapy after being injured in a timber accident about two months He expects to be there two or three He was working near Heber when the accident occurred and it was just prior to their moving to the Whiterocks kindergarten teacher is ill with infectious All the kindergarten children were given a shot against it last Dale Harrison of is taking her place at |