Show so B BLANDING L A D ING 00 basketball SEASON FOR BLANDING M MEN TO OPEN SOON friday nov 27 the basketball seison season for the blanding M men will open with a game with the spanish fork M men of the ath ward wednesday dec 2 the blanding M men will play ft lewis college team of hesperus colo both games will be played in the new recreation hall beginning at 8 p in m admission will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for students there will be a preliminary game each evening at the blanding M men made a name for themselves last year when they chev won the all church consolation championship many of the same men are playing on the team this year and they hope to make more records BLANDING HAS recreation LEAGUE EACH THURSDAY NIGHT six basketball teams have been organized from the men old and young in the blanding and grayson wards and they play three games each thursday night the tournament was planned to afford recreation for the men who are not interested or eligible to play M men basketball the basketball games will be followed by a volley ball tournament later in the year they have been sponsored and arranged by the ward Mutu als everyone is invited to attend the games it is rather interesting mr alexander says to watch the older fellows trying to act like kids again GRAYSON WARD BISHOPRIC reorganized AT SACRAMENT MEETING SUNDAY EVENING at impressive services sunday evening the grayson ward bishopric was reorganized president leland W redd officiated during the change bishop william ervin palmer with I 1 counselors parley hurst and I 1 vincent redd were released and kline klinc black with counselors francis david bud nielson and kenneth mcdonald were sustained bishop palmer and his counselors have served the grayson ward since its organization mar 24 1946 when the blanding ward was divided to make the blanding and grayson wards for several years bea before ore the division bishop palmer worked first as ward clerk and then as second counselor to bishop john D rogers william laws will continue as ward clerk for the new bishop ric ic MRS LYMAN REDD IN automobile ACCIDENT IN california parents of lyman and lavae redd mr and mrs J wiley redd and mr and mrs lawrence wright received a phone call from lyman friday to say that lavae had been in an automobile accident she was going from their home at holtville Holt ville to el centro centre for a dental appointment when the car she was driving was bumped in the side by a fellow driving a pickup she received receive d bumps and bruises and that evening was taken to the hospital saturday at noon her premature baby boy was born and lived until about 10 p in sunday morning mr and mrs bob redd left blanding to take mr and mrs wiley redd and ucille lucille wright to california SPORTSMEN TO HAVE TURKEY SHOOT SATURDAY NOV at 1 P M at a meeting of the sportsmen monday evening at the legion hall a turkey shoot was planned for saturday afternoon nov at I 1 p in anyone who wants to shoot is eligible for the shooting there will be 20 turkeys and the shooting will last as long as the turkeys do there will be chickens for the young fellows to shoot for in the evening the fun will continue onti nue at a dance at lester carroll arroll skating rink some lu lucky person will receive a turkey as the door prize riley walkers orchestra will furnish the dance MYRNA LOY PALMER MARRIED AT AZTEC N M miss myrna loy palmer and floyd lancaster were marr married aed at aztec N M nov 9 miss palmer is the youngest daughter of john and emma palmer of blanding for several years s she he has made her home with her sister mr and mrs ida dalton of moab she went to three years of high school there and has worked in cafes since music her graduation AMERICAN LEGION BAKE SALE VERY successful the american legion wives who sponsored the bake sale last saturday report that it was very successful they were sold out in a hurry they cleared 87 and are very grateful to all those who contributed to the occasion the proceeds will go to help the lighting of the christmas decorations on the streets this year PTA SPONSORED ASSEMBLY AT HIGH SCHOOL FOR EDUCATION WEEK there was an assembly at the high school friday afternoon under the direction of the PTA officers those in charge were marion jones alene may and dorothy wing the program consisted of accordian solos by margie black a reading mabel Shurn shumway way an address albert R lyman and a black out under the direction of velda nielson STAKE MUTUAL HAS DRAMA FESTIVAL AT BLANDING A stake drama festival was held at the recreation hall at blanding saturday evening all the wards in the stake were represented with both musical numbers and plays stake president clynn young announced the follo following wink program prayer bishop kline black duet wanting you marge redd and joe foy duet when day is done marge redd and joe foy accompanist comp anist doris foy the monticello ward presented the play in the darkness with erma redd ralph marchant pearl lewis and sam lee taking part song Shor bread moab MIA girls chorus vocal solo miss dark clark moab ward the moab ward presented the play the gift of gab and the actors were myrna loy palmer melvin robertson mattie holyoak natilie hepman II epman allen alien newell and dr S 0 williams song thanks be to god blanding MIA girls chorus accompanist comp anist carol black piano solo the flower song hal black the exodus was next presented by the following cast f from rom the blanding and grayson wards gladys lyman eugene delores hurst don smith bill sheppard gerald black delna knighton kristy carroll benediction S 0 williams PTA HAD SPECIAL MEETING MONDAY NIGHT gerald bagley was the speaker at a special PTA meeting at the high monday evening ile ho represented the Optime society of utah and came from salt lake city he explained the fallacy of the 20 2020 20 vision test and told that vision is learned children are not born with seeing skills but have to learn them as they do other thin things g in the same way visual de defects f et are learned or acquired according to dr bagley he explained the importance of good lighting and good posture he says never to read under a floor lamp without the light in the middle of the room as well wel children should never read lying on their backs or dr ray hay witt from spanish fork accompanied dr bagley and assisted with a film that illustrated the lescure let cure mrs emily redd was in in charge of the meeting A count of parents from the high school and grade school showed that the grade had a majority of parents present A large crowd attended NEW BRIDGE AT MEXICAN HAT IN BUILDING PROCESS the steel workers are very busy on the bridge at mexican hat the present time it is located just a few feet east of the old bridge the large crane that is is lifting the steel around has lifted the truck from the river the past week and it is lying on the bank A salt lake company is doing the work mrs alice young of blanding is cooking for the construction crew at the mexican hat cafe at the present time ruth palmer her daughters virginia and geniveve and viola sipe made a trip to cortez and grand junction saturday mrs sipe stayed in cortez and visited with her daughter mrs jennie lee larsen and family and the palmer family went on to durango and did some shopping fifteen members of the black family were at the train to see sec ramon off wednesday afternoon at six missionaries went to the east central states with him but the whole train car was filled with missionaries going to the east frank wright has put a new roof on the weather station the past week he is also in the process of remodeling his home he has added two rooms on the west and is installing a furnace this week the addition is making a wonderful improvement in the appearance of his home earl wright is also adding two rooms on the south of his home his plans will include the enlarging of his livin living room and a new bedroom the beautiful new home in process for the lynn clymans is making steady progress the out side is practically finished and the inside walls are almost rea i dy dv for the paint job they jhc thc y hope to be in the kitchen by thanksgiving and the rest of the house by christmas glen johnson is the builder in charge but lynn has do done c much of the work himself mr and mrs frank barton went to moab sunday and spent part of the day and night with their sons wesley and harold and their farri families I 1 effies monday they went on t to manti to attend the temple excursion the following people went on a temple excursion to manti monday mr and mrs edson black mr and mrs frank wright mr and mrs frank barton ray hunt joseph B harris charlie sipe mr and mrs shirley niel nielson on and mr mrs william chaid child mrs nora nielson has been in salt lake for several days to help welcome a new grandson who arrived several weeks ago at the home of her daughter 0 continued on page 4 BLANDING continued from page 3 mrs flora graham mrs nielson planned to join her husband and the other temple workers at manti the first of the week the small son ot of mr and mrs E J bartell has spent the past week at the home of his grand parents mr a and nd mrs dee bia black ck of blanding while his hig in other mother spent her time at the hospital with his little brother the younger child has been suffering with severe gathered ears cars mr and mrs ollie black welcomed a new baby girl at the san juan county hospital friday morning the little lady has several sisters at home mr and mrs vint redd bedd went to salt lake sunday morning to do some buying for the parley redd mercantile mr and mrs garn gam visited recently at the home of mr and mrs lin C thompson mrs is a niece of mrs thompson and lives at fillmore utah she and her husband were happy to show off their first child a baby boy seven weeks old while they were here mrs klar carroll entertained 30 little guests at her home last week in honor of the birthday of her little son dean mr and mrs airs frank barton were called to bluff saturday to the bedside of mrs jennie barton who has been quite ill the past week virginia black dor 0 t h y young and arline lyman spent one day the first of the week shopping at grand junction two carloads ot of blanding people le went to dove creek tuesday to attend the funeral service of lula fitchett some of them were frost black ashton harris hyrum porter mamie |