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Newspaper
Milford News
Location
Milford, Utah, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1939
Page
8
Local Milford cards recount visits and trips across Utah and California. Mrs. L D McFaddensper marks Memorial Day plans while Mrs Charles Sportsman of Salt Lake visits Milford. Several families travel to Beaver Elphraim Bryce Canyon and San Francisco for holidays and events.
A compact page lists lost items, a furnished North Main Street rental, a raspberry picker job, a house and furniture for sale or rent, and a missing Gilbert Erickson age 10. He left Steal County North Dakota for California late November 1937, last heard from in Milford Utah. contact M E Erickson Route 2 Hatton ND for information.
SOUTH MILFORD May 18 Social Hour club held its annual birthday anniversary with 19 members and five guests. Mrs. Jennie Bowen led a program of piano solos, readings, club history, and commentary by several members. Table decor featured green and yellow, with May flower baskets as place cards. Guests included Acord, wife, and others visiting local members. county school board member P. B. Fisher attended Beaver graduation.
Lucile Estes serves as deaconess pastor at M E Community Church. Weekly schedule begins Sunday June 4 with church school at 10 00 am and World service Sunday worship and preaching service scheduled.
At noon sermon by the pastor with the subject Serving God as We Ought. Youth council meets at 7:00 p.m. Ray Martyne is president. Worship and preaching at 3:00 p.m. with the subject Other Sheep. Official board meeting after the preaching at about 9:00 p.m. Service at CCC camp at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday with the text All Things Work Together for Good to Them That Love God. Ladies Aid at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday led by Mrs Joe Tribole. Mid-week study and prayer at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Miller, once a college athlete and pro baseball player, is relieved from command at Burbank CCC for alleged disability. His tenure featured strict discipline, equitable treatment, and leadership in constructing camps in the Fort Douglas district. Enrollees recall his steady influence and concern for soldier welfare despite furloughs and transfers.
Captain J Hobart Miller retires after a formal farewell in the camp recreation hall. Lieutenant W Dodd succeeds him, receiving warm praise from Foreman Wayne Slaughter and Leader Fred Bender. A testimonial booklet and a commemorative cake mark the occasion as Mrs Miller and wives attend.
A Chelsea Record item quips about medical remedies and confinement, noting a patient’s ankle treatment and a joke about Sing Sing. The brief reflects local wit on health cures and prison names, illustrating era humor without medical advice.
Editors and their families were hosted by the Moab Lions with barbecued pig and lamb. A 2:30 pm motor trip via the scenic Colorado River highway concluded in Moab at 5 pm for a rest and banquet. The L D S recreation hall hosted musical numbers talks by Utahns and entertainment, followed by a 10 pm dance at the Grand County Ballroom.
Report describes a group viewing the Dew Horse point overlook on the Colorado River canyon near Moab with a 4000 feet depth, a deersteak Lions club dinner, and attendees then traveling toward home. The piece notes Utah scenic resources and a newspaper convention preparations amid references to a reorganization plan and a ghostly federal unit from 1981.
A fragment notes the president plans to appoint six executive assistants at ten thousand dollars a year each, but there is no room for them in the current White House offices. The item suggests logistical or staffing constraints at the executive level.
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