Millard County Chronicle Progress from Delta, Utah • 1

MILLARD COUNTY CHRONICLE DELTA DELTA UTAH June 13 1940 Vol 29 No 44 Per Year in Advance Lions Will i Offer i I To Take Fourth our Of July Over Over- AA committee from the Lions Glut Clu will meet with the Town Board ancane offer to take over the celebration o- the ol oj the Fourthof July to beheld at Del Delta TheLions have a plan to get ththe cooperation of the various organizations organizations around the town and will present present present pre present their plan at the meeting I It is up to the Town Board wheth- erer or not they accept the offer of the Lions as they have the full right over the celebration i Milford Will Put On Race Meet June 23 22 Our neighbor town on the south will put on a big three-day three race meet and fun festival on June 2122 23 There will be a girl jockey as pret- pretty pretty pret pret- ty a blonde as ever danced on Broadway Broadway Broadway Broad Broadway talented and a superb horse horsewoman Beginning on Saturday June 8 no no- man no- man no- manman in Milford must appear on the streets unless he has a fringe of whiskers whiskers whis whiskers real old fashioned lilacs face-lilacs and with bacon bacon grease smeared on em He will be haled to a Kort Kort and fined fined fined- Oh Me Oh My how he will ill be fined If it is found there are no runners in his his wool his hip flask will be taken from rom him and the way shown back to the sissies say if he isn't dressed in the loudest there is flaming colors colors colors- if he aint aint- aint the for that bird I There will a shambles in Milford if the wildness of eighty years years ago is not lived up to o. I Horse races fast fast frolicsfun concessions concessions concessions con concessions and an invite longer than a dinner speakersspeaker's preamble to citizens of this and other towns to to come comedown comedown come- downdown to their diggins diggin's and imbibe the spirit of hospitality of which there is no betterbrand than ripens under Milford skies I Cedar City and St. St George on the south and Fillmore and Delta on the north will be there in ample num numbers Why not go to Milford on one or more of the frolic days Conference Visitors Among those who attended the general general general gen general conference of the L. D. S.

church church- inin Salt Lake City this past week were Mrs Sterling Bennion Mrs Bert Sor- Sor enson enson Mrs Layton Maxfield Mr and Mrs L. S. Dorius Mrs Hamilton McCullough McCullough McMe Cullough Mrs Evan Johnson Mrs E. D. Knight and Mrs Henry Forster Funeral Services Held Funeral services were held in Hinckley Hinckley Hin Hin- ward on Sunday afternoon for Claude Leslie Tripp of Callao who died in Salt Lake City the preceding Thursday of pneumonia Mr Tripp was 55 years of age and had been farming at Callao for many years and hadoften been a visitor to Delta for shopping and business and he had many friends here He is survived by a son Harold Tripp of Callao a daughter Mrs 1 Dewey Carpenter of Leamington two brothers George and Enoch W.

Tripp of Callao andthree sisters Mrs GeoCeo Timm Mrs Maude Morehouse and MissRoxie Roxe Tripp all of Callao Interment was was' in the Hinckley cem cem- I Small Fire Easily Quenched i There was a small fire at the the Emery Emery Emry Em Em- eryry Peterson place last Monday when some rubrubbishbish by the sheds caught fire A group of men had the fire Ire out before before before be before th the fire engine arrived which was very fortunate as the fire Cire engine engine en en- ginegive didn't have any water or chemicals chemicals chem chem- loaded on It The engine no doubt doubt went down just st for the ride Mr and andi Mrs i s. David Terry drove to Provo Sunday to take their daughter Miss Jessie Terry home after aUer a visit here To Be Married I Miss Olive Taylor Tayl the da daughter of Mr and Mrs Platt Taylor and Irvin MiredAllred the son of Mr and Mrs Roy Allred of or Delta will ill be married this coming week The date has been set for Monday June 17 and the cere- cere i Ir ony will take place at thebridesbride's home A tea Is being given iven for for fm the bride on Saturday afternoon at the home of or Mrs Robert Church Mrs J. W. and son Wayne visited in Salt Lake City for tor a few days das last week Boy Scouts to Erect Fence At Gunnison Monument Arthur Reeve informs us this we week that the Boy Scouts have undertaken the project of erecting a strong fence 1 I with wire netting around the Gunnison Gunni- Gunni son Monument Thisis a very worthy project and and- I it receives our whole-hearted whole support The boys are to be commended The group of Boy Scouts are given the appellation the Gunnison Green Green- Bar Green- Bar Green- BarBar troop in commemoration of Cap- I Captain Captain Cap Cap- I tain John W. Gunnison who met his death there along with seven others in 1853 Arthur wanted a picture engraving engraving engraving en engraving or likeness of Gunnison but none suchis known here This likeness likeness like likeness would appear on the troop banner banner banner ban banner lacking that Mr Reeve says they will probably burn onto some material the formof the bronze arrowhead now I i on the monument together with the names ofall who met death there and the date AlsoArthur said the boys will erect I a strong sturdy post with cross arm at the place on Highway Six where ittakes off two and a half miles to I I- thethe site of the Gunnison Massacre it and thus aid I put a cross armon tourists and others to go to the spot I II A way has been broken to go direct I from the Gunnison Monument to the the Great Stone Face without the necessity necessity necess necess- it ity of going back to Deseret a little little- more little- more little- moremore work needs to be done on it a small task and that way then saves many miles to connect the two If boys will later take that up and work it to a head with support of the county county county coun- coun I ty commissioners for a days day's use of equipment it will be a feather in their cap of which they can well be proud Vh Why not do it boys I I All AU that you need is the strong pur- pur purI I pose Funds will not be lacking when it is determined to put it over The county commissioners will gladly tie in to your endeavor when the small expense is shown to them On theother way around via the the- Old the- Old the- OldOld Fort Deseret theroad is goon enough and one bridge only needs a half day on itand a few chucks smoothed down Go to it Boys with vigor Make a loop easily negotiable by cars and leave a recordof what I GUNNISON GREEN BAR SCOUTS can do when they get their dander up I I Party Gets Lost Hunting Topazes Last Sunday a group of young men men- I from the Soil Conservation force went i I out to Topaz Mountain to get asupply I of the crystals I I They got there all right and were fortunate in finding some but did not leave for the return trip untillate and in the dusk and laterdarkness out of the roads there it was confusing to pick out the exact one one one- so confusing in fact that the party parly did not get home until three o'clock o'clock o'clock clock Monday morning In that interval every sheep trail that wound up into a gopher gopher gopher go gopher hole was traversed a mileage that if laid out end to end would would- One of the party found a particularly particularly particularly good crystal and car fully put It It- In Itin It- inin his lis handkerchief for safety but in whipping the aforesaid out to wipe i off ocr beads of toil or cuss into the topaz topaz was whipped Into I I- The Entertain Husbands I II The members of the Delta Art Club entertained their husbands at a party I held Thursday night at the home of Mr and Mrs James Juhl Juhl on the Nic- Nic Nici i olson Seed Farms Dinner was served to twenty guests Bridge was played play played later in the evening at which high scores were held by Mr and Mrs C.

M. Pace and Mrs Cecil Baker and Mrs Bill Pace I A gift from the club was given to Mr and Mrs Ralph Bunn who left Delta to go to Mississippi to make their home and a gift was also given given giv- enen to Mrs Clyde Underhill whowill will- be will- bebe away from Delta during the summer sum summer Comes to Delta I Frank Leiberman from Salt Lake City arrived in Delta Saturday and will wUl have charge of the research station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion here of the U. S. Department of Agriculture as entomologist and takes takes takes tak takes the place of Ralph Bunn who has been transferred to Miss Mr and Mrs Bunn and their son J. C.

left Delta Sunday Sunday morning morning to drive to by way of Colorado and Kansas i Emery Peterson returned to Delta Sunday from several weeks in Salt SaIl Lake City where he has been convalescing conval- conval from an operation IJ I 01 Above the Clouds 10 DV IJ ll ji to Millard Graduates from i i Millard graduates from the University University I sity of Utah this year are Leah Ann Paxton of degree degree degree de de- de- de gree of Bachelor of Science with a I high school certificate her major SU- bject subject subject sub SUb- was business Ward of Hinckley received the same degree I but his major was physical education II Mildred Baker Robinson and Don De DeVere DeVere De- VereVere WalkerValker both ofDelta received the Bachelor of Arts degree in the I major field of English from the school of Arts and Sciences Brandon A. A Brunson was awarded the B. S. degree in the school of business and Duane Harold Callister of Fillmore received receive his Bachelor of Science from ththe School of Medicine and was awarded 1 the year two Medical Certificate Military Training For All Youths Proposed President Roosevelt has asked for foi military training military training beginning beginning be beginning with all youth including enrollees This meets with much approval approval approval ap ap- ap- ap from all sources critics of the administration or supporters We Ve see no objection Military dis dis- I to our boys a knowledge of how to handle arms how to build roads bridges defenses a familiarity with machine tools lathes milling machines foundry work andall that goes from the ground up to bettering bettering bettering better bettering our weak national preparedness is now needed I The Citizens Military Training Camp Camp- isis good has given a number of youth and coming adults an idea of what thenation expects what it will be be- up be- up be- upup to them to do Preparedness now will save life later Events arearc shaping we believe we can see from a lethargy to more and more direct action along a much- much needed course Military training is a defense program program program pro program not not the avenue to a hasty entry entry en en- tr try into others'others squabbles In the perspective of a long view on it it this war is our war even tho not brought to us this week Miss Franics George attended Conference Conference Conference Con Conference in Salt Lake City several days last week Samuel Killpack went to Manti ManU and Sterling this week to look after his property interests there Mr W. C.

Cole will give assistance to water users In filing applications and and- in and- in and- inin other ways pertaining to underground underground underground under underground water at his officeeach Sat Sat- This service is free Mr and Mrs W. J. Starley drove to Salt Lake City Wednesday for a short trip I Mrs William Willoughby and son Tuesday from Salt Lake City where they have blen en for two weeks Miss Beth Bishop her sister returned with herand will spend a few days here i i Mrs RevaSkidmore returned to Delta this week from a visit In Salt Lake City with her parents Mr and Mrs Milo Hutchings Mr HutchIngs has been in poor health In building for preparedness any plant capable of ot adding to the supply supply supply sup supply of manufactured needs may be called upon to any degree to turnover turn turnover turn- overover a part or allof or Its equipment to help the nation This timeIt will- be will will- be will- bebe so arranged If possible that no profit arises arises- no dollar donara a year men coming out with fulllull jowles and sleek of paunch white buck privates pri- vatesvates vales get punctured at 30 per Showing Up p- InIn Several Areas Conditions of are beginning beginning beginning be beginning to show in several areas and lately in the area east and southeast of Delta Basements are flooded and the water table is high There is a movement to dig an open canal along our east line to try to remedy this advancing advancing advancing ad ad- condition In regard to itand conditions elsewhere the comment by officials is that selves now own the system not another another another an another and that we at our ur own expense will have to take the necessary steps to preserve our lands The Straight of the Rattlesnake Story I We Ve published a couple of weeks ago with thecaution that it was a rumor and shouldbe so taken that 1 I in one day workmen encountered I rattlesnakes at the rattlesnake den den- II near Bloom south of here about 45 40 miles Tuesday evening we met the Union Pacific foreman stationed at Bloom and asked him as to thetruth of the statement Well Vell I dont don't know about the but I can tell teU you what my thirteen year old boy and I got in one day About a month ago we went out and got by actual count In one day How did you get em fem That was about a month ago at at- the at- the at- thethe time of year ear when they ball up intoclusters from a few inches to a foot in diameter You take a forked stickinsertit in a a. likely hole in thesoft bank of the den wriggle the forkintothe mass mass mass- massand and pull em out I Then my boy shot em The They are slow at that time of year and haven't really come out out out- just beginning to stir get near the surface and ball up when you pull em out they keep the cluster intact for some minutes when one will wriggle loose thenanother breaking up the ball Pot em with a 22 We Ve dug out and shot so many that fi finally ally I said to my boy Too many snakes snakes Lets Let's get out He tells us this is authentic and re reliable reliable reliable re- re liable rattlers in one day until I the sport palled Had he not got fed on wriggling tooth poison-tooth squirm squirm- ers he avers he and his son could have run it up to the count of to to- I I meet the former haul reported to us I This den looks for all the world like an abandoned railway grade level level level lev level soft dirt full of many gopher holes holes holes hol holes warm soil and a dandy place for rattlers They can hibernate in the I deep soft soil pass the winter with full belly in thefall and in the early springbegin to edge closer and closer clos clos- erto the surface as the ground gets warmer and warmer in the afternoon sun until finally one ambitious one ventures forth to retire to the cluster cluster cluster clus cluster In the cool evening air I As they cluster near the orifice of the holes the long forked stick sUck does the trick Sluggish cold slow not particularly dangerous and an easycasy I mark for tor a club or the 22 in the balled balled ball ball- ball edcd up condition I have been to the den twice but no doubt at the wrong time of year as I did not find a one but off a little little little lit little way nearer to th the that track I ran into in into into in- in to one and added his rattles mUles to my I pile I showed John Kozina this den 4 about three weeks ago but we didn't I go go to It It may easily be seen from from rom I 1 the auto road as well as from the i train 4 The rattlesnakes rattlesnake's Latin name in the 1 books on scienceis from the I ancient Greek meaning a ua rattle So he keeps his name true to his characteristicscharacteristics- rattle snake Elect New Officers The American Legion Auxiliary held their meeting In Delta on Monday June 3 at the home of or Mrs R. J.

Law with Mrs LeGrange Law assisting Election of pf officers was the main business business business bus business of the evening resulting in new officers as follows Mrs Bessie Fidel president Ruth Twitchell first vice president Lucretia second vice president Bessie Law chaplain Ada Johnson sergeant at arms and Agnes Black historian A good attendance was there and refreshments were served at the close of the meeting Make Improvements The Hotel managed by James Steele is being renovated and imd remodelled at present Mr Steele redecorated the interior of thehotel and will redecorate the lobby soon on the outside he has lawn and trees flourishing to the west and south of the hotel This past week a new front has been made on the building of stucco with brick trim and will be I painted soon on The appearance of the building has been greatly improved I II The Hotel is one of the older buildings in town having been I built around 1912 or 1913 and first housed housed Mr Eccles' Eccles store in I I- I day andlater with some additions I and improvements was run as the Hotel i Community Church Announcements The Community Church of Delta announces the arrival of their summer pastor Mr C. H. Washburn of Hollywood Hollywood Hol Hol- HOl-j lywood California He tookhis first I year of Seminary work at Princeton i where he knew Mr Dit Wooding the summer pastor of a year ago and a I classmate of his A graduate of the University of California Mr Washburn Washburn Wash Wash- VashI I burn is now finishing his Seminary Seminar training at San Francisco Seminary I During hi his work here the Community I ity Churchs Church's Sunday School will meet at 10 a. a m. with Morning Service at 11 a.

a m. I For this coming Sunday the the topic will be Between the Devil an the Deep Sea I All are welcome I I Mr and Mrs Bernard Wind and their I two small sons returned tot their home in Berkeley on Friday of the past week Their oldest son Donald was burledburiedhere a week ago following a a fatal accident Mrs Frank Colby is in Salt Lake City ity this week eek for medical tre treatment I Mrs Berttha from Ephraim Ephraim Ephraim Eph- Eph raimandher daughter Mrs Thora i Collings were in Delta during the past week with Mrs I parents Mr and Mrs James Colby to I attend the funeral services for Donald Donald Donald Don Donald Wind I Mr and Mrs Rector of Berkeley and Mr and Mrs Auer Jensen of I I Wendover attendedthe funeral services services services ser ser- ser services here last week for their little I I nephew Donald Wind I Mr and Mrs Sherman Cooper of I Hinckley have a new girl born June 11 I Mr and Mrs W. H. Pace returned to Delta Wednesday evening from a trip to California where they visited their son and daughter and also visited visited vis- vis in San Diego and Old Mexico Mr and Mrs Frank drove down from Salt Lake City Thursday for tor a visit with their parents Mr and Mrs W. J.

A retired army officer is quoted in in- aa national weekly before usas saying that if It the United States forces both army and navy were put in the same circumstances as the Allied forces we could not have held even as long as did the Allies The spy work or rather counterspy counterspy counterspy counter counterspy work being run serially in the I Saturday Evening Post is very informative maUve and doggone interesting High government sources have re- re that in the past six months more than German chemists and engineers have gone to Mexico No I doubt to train and educatethere so that the United States will suffer for for- it for- it for- itit in the future Mexico will be an open back door to German entry upon us in time Preparedness is needed Is there any wonder Hitler despises the simple Yankees for their com- com It worked elsewhere elsewhere- why not here Youths Picked I For Boys' Boys State Convention Five of the six boys from this district district district dis dis- dis- dis have been for the Boys' Boys State sponsored by the American Americ Le Legion Legion Legion Le- Le gion to be held for fifteen days beginning beginning beginning be beginning July 7 Each year the Legion calls this group of young boystogeth- erer from all parts of the state and they are given a thorough course In civics and governmental procedure The boys elect a governor mayors councilmen appoint other go through a miniature state organI- zation organization organization with the same officers that our state has In this they are given an idea of how to hold primaries election election election elect election and the duties of the various ofof- of There will besix boys go from this district with five of them picked The ones picked are Robert Heyborne Thurman Moody Chad Fidel Jess Beckstead and Lawrence Hilton The I fifth who is sponsored by the American American American Amer American Legion Post here has not been chosen as yet There are six groups sponsoring the I boys the three wards the Legion the Lions Club and Hinckley The sponsors sponsors sponsors spon sponsors pay 15 for each boy they enter which pays the expenses of the boy both to and from the convention and I also while there The boys who attendedlast year are are also invited to attend again this year so that they may receive further instructions along the same line The idea is very good andit trains the boys and gives them an insight into governmental workings which will aidald them during their grown life Calvin Webb Wins Sheep Fitting Contest LouisAdams took Calvin Webb a a. sophomore of Hinckley high school to the Intermountain Junior Livestock Show in Salt Lake City last week There Calvin placed one among the nine with Prime Lambs All his lambs graded well Calvin placed first in the sheep fitting and showing contest There were about five hundred en- en from five states and this showing speaks very well for the young man I Services Held for Baby Funeral services were held In Delta Saturday afternoon in the Delta first ward for the little daughter aged 10 months of Mr and Mrs Mis Bert Taylor The baby had been ill and the parents parents parents par par- were taking her to Salt Lake on Thursday for medical death occurred just before they reached reach reached the hospital The baby was a a. granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Lorin Taylor and Mr and Mrs D. W. King Mr and Mrs Brigham Young of Salt Lake City have been visiting in Delta with their daughter Mrs Emerald Emerald Emerald Em Emerald Moody Mr and Mrs Moody and Mr DIr and Mrs Young returned here a week ago from a trip to California and Mrs 1 Moodys Moody's parents went on later to their home in Salt Lake City Mr and Mrs M.

Ward Vard Moody and their daughters Elizabeth and Doreen oreen and son David and Mrs Moodys Moody's brother Grant Snow went 0 t. George during the past week On Friday Mr and Mrs Moody and Mr and Mrs Snow went to Salt Lake City and attended conference On their return here their neice Miss ODawn Snow came with them for a visit Make Improvements The Pace Motor Company had a anew anew a- newnew neon sign put in thies week on I the front of their place of business I They awning from the front of the building and over the I sidewalk The new sign weighs pounds and Jt it lit with the new flour- I flour- flour lighting I Mrs J. S. Fish left Delta this week for Provo with her son and daughter to make her home there afteralter a residence residence residence resi residence in DeltaDella of several years ears Mr and Mrs Grant Snow have purchased purchased purchased pur purchased thethc former Fish home and moved into itthis week Mr and Dee Orton on the Bolen Bolen Bol- Bol encn Ranch have a new son born June 13 R. L.

Heyborne and Merlin Christensen Christensen Chris- Chris of or Delta arearc attending the B. U. summer school at Provo Mrs LuluAllred and William Cheel the latter from Deseret areme also taking the summer course there.