Paragonah Families Tense Over Missing Army Flyers
Parents Walter and Robb alert after Lyle W Robb missing in action over Luzon March 14. Thelma Robb in Salt Lake City learns of a special mission report and a War Department telegram confirms. Lyle, a 1943 fighter pilot, flew The Black Widow after joining in 1942 and training in Cedar City area. Cpl Dewey Topham, missing since December, now believed prisoner of war in Germany per letters from prison. Tophams hail from Paragonah and await news as other kin serve in Seattle and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter &, Robb
Wort
I Lyle W. Robb
Luzon
Robb
Thelma Tsamoreaux Robb
Salt Lake City
Lyle
War Department
Army Air Corps
Army
Myune
Pacific
Paragonah
Parowan High School
Branch Agricultural Colleg
Cedar City
Cpl
Dewey Topham
George A. Topham
Parapgonah
Ison
Thurs Ys Tribune
Ouf
I Cpl
Topham
Seattle
Hentered
Sont
Hodges Army
Kenneth
Milford
Fred Fop[ham
Philippines
Seth Waldo Topham
France
Glenna
Elma Topham
Service Mens Wives Doings and Related Notices
Mrs Emily Humphrys hosted the Service Mens Wives club gathering on Wednesday at her parents home. The last meeting will be at Kathleen J Clark s home on April 18 with H L Bauer of Cedar City presenting on hospital work. All soldiers wives invited. Mrs Alton Merrill travels to Calgary Canada for sister s funeral Delsa Miller. Ward Mila Clair Hulet announces a discussion on Australia led by Herman E Bayles. Adults urged to attend the ward MLA meeting next Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Humphrys
Service Mens If Wives Club
John S. Dalton
Red Cross
Kathleen J. Clark
H. L. Bauer
Cedar City
Bushnell Ohospital
Allen
Merrill
Cal-gary
Canada
Delsa Miller
Provo
Ward Mila
Clair Hulet
Flass
Australia
Swith Herman E. Bayles
Bayles
Thary
Mr. Boyles
Yeader
The
East
New Mail Schedule In Effect Between Paragonah And Cedar City
Notice from Ogden Utah Chief Mail Clerk to start immediate schedule between Paragonah and Cedar City. Paragonah departs 7:23 am, arrives Cedar City 9:00 am. Cedar City departs 9:24 am, arrives Paragonah 1:00 am. Outgoing mail due in local post office by 7:00 am. In effect until October 2 to align with morning Cedar City route and Washington County trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nailway
Ogden
Utah
Paragonah
Cedar City
Ivan Decker
Parawan
Cedar
Washington County
Judge Rules On City Water Rights Dispute
At a City Council meeting, Judge Will L. Hoyt ruled in A. J. Dobrusky vs Parowan City that water remains with current owners within city limits but movement of water rights must be authorized by city water officials. The session also covered filing for the 1845 license plate money and an audit report by C. O. Butcherite on city accounts over six years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Parcells
Fifth Judicial District
Will L. Hoyt
A. J. Dobrusky
Parowant City
Dobrusky
John E Edwards Rites Held Last Friday
Funeral services for John E Edwards 68 were held Friday afternoon in Paragonah ward chapel with Bishop J Leonard Topham officiating. The service included two vocal solos, a violin solo by Delta resident Morgan B Edwards, and interment in the city cemetery where the choir sang Slumber. Out of town relatives and Sgt Lloyd Stucki with wife visited Cedar City and Delta areas after a Washington posting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paragonah Ward
John E Edwards
J. Leonard Topham
Amasa Stones
Thomas A. Topham
Wim
Darton
Frank K. Williamson
J. Lowe Barton
Morgan B. Edwards
Evan Edwards
Delta
Grant Edwards
Merrill Edwards
Harold Edwards
Cecil Edwards
Mitford
Snow cover in Dixie Forest watersheds shows mixed depth
Snowfall across Dixie National Forest watersheds varied, with total snow depth and moisture above the nine year average at several sites but lower than last year at Yankee, Bowery, and Ed Ward meadow. Cedar Breaks reports near record water content, while Bryce Canyon remains well above six year averages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie Forest
Panguitch Lake
Co-op Flat
Webster Flat
Cedar Brooks
Duck Creek
Harris Flat
Sevier Summit
Pine Valley
Wilford Bentley
Vern Mortensen
Yankee
Bowery
Ed Ward
Mortensen
Prod Fagergret
National Parks Service
Cedar Breaks
Escalante
Bryce Canyon
Ran
Zion and
Bryce Canyon National Parks
Dixie National Forest
George D. Clyde
Pangulrch Lake
Webster Plat
Yankee Meadow
Tod Bowery Valley
Missing Man Found in Whittier California
A week after vanishing from West Los Angeles, William H. Clark, visiting son Glen in Whittier, was found by police and returned home the next day. Clark, unable to explain his whereabouts, recalled only a few places, as family members arrived from Salt Lake City and nearby towns to aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Wm. H. Clark
Glen
Whittier
California
Salt Lake City
James Clay
Dells Thornton
Lala Croft
Exchange Club Lecture On America In A World Of Crisis
Dr Creer head of history at the University of Utah spoke to a small East Ward crowd on March 21 about America and a world in crisis. He traced frontier exhaustion and frontier policy evolution, urging world participation in peace and diplomacy, while noting poor attendance and few students present. The Parowan Exchange club plans the next Lyceum April 9 featuring Utah State Agricultural College speakers from Logan with a women trio and musicians. Ivan Decker and local members announce travel to Colonia Juarez, Mexico to visit 87 year old sister-in-law Jane Spilsbury, hoping a 14 month trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Ward
Selami H. Creer
Creer
Lyceum
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Wm. H. Manning
Ivan Decker
Parawan Exchange Club
Luella R. Adams
Ellen Bryner
Salt Lake City
Alice Rich
Brigham City
Colonia Juarez
Chihuahus
Mexico
Jane Spilsbury
Tin Can Drive Last Week Highly Successful
The tin can drive organized by Hal vage chairman Ray H Adams and Mrs Joan Hendrickson raised 14638 cans in three days. Six lower grades were told of a Friday free show with cans required for admission. by Friday noon 57 cans per student were turned in. Scott Mitchell supplied the show free of charge and town residents aided the drive. A clothing drive is reportedly underway, but the organizer is not identified yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Halvage
Ray H. Adams
Joan Hendrickson
Adams
Hendrickson
Scott Mitchell
First Call For The Mighty Seventh
Utah launches the April 9 payroll savings drive for the Seventh War Loan with 83,000 workers in 3 940 firms assigned individual quotas. School stamp and bond purchases begin April 9 with a goal of one $25 bond per high school pupil and $10 in stamps per elementary pupil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
Charles L. Smith
Utah War Finance Committee
Federal Reserve Bank
Lincoln R. Ure
Mr .Ure
Ernest M. Hangoh
Hansots
Card of Thanks from the Heap Family
In grateful tribute the family thanks neighbors friends and funeral helpers for kindness during the death of their husband and father Mrs L B Heap asks continued thanks for prayers comfort and support Seaman Frederick Lawrence recently home from Norfolk Virginia visited Cedar City with wife Carol Adams Lawrence before reporting back to duty aboard an aircraft carrier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Heap
Frederick Lawrence
Norfolk
Virginia
Carol Adams Lawrence
Thomas Lawrence
Cedar City
Inductees To Be Honored At Sunday Program
The Soldiers Wives Club will host a Sunday evening program in the West Ward chapel to honor inductees leaving April 12. The event features an Advance of Colors, Pledge, songs, talks, readings, prayers, and retirement of colors, with honored local and county men and a separate pre induction examination group announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soldiers’ Wives Club
Westward Chapel
American Legion Auxiliary
Dean Orton
Mabel Wilcock
Dee Hive
Louise Marsden
Bess Holt
Victory Singers
Carol A
Lawrence
Carla Hulet
Carors
Edna & Hatch
Floyd
Woodrow Arthur Perry
Thorn ‘Heap Perry
Floyd E. Fender
Ruth Heap Fender
Antone W. Hopkins
Laura Warren Hopkins
Eugene Valentine
Navy
Nellie Dalton
Howard Williams
Fenton Gray
Angus Fossman
James Harvey Davenport
Albert E. Newton
Arthur W. Janson
Reed Roberts
Francis Ruesch
William Tumbaugh
Gordon Williams
Eugene L. Farnham
Floyd E. Craig
Giles Bolander
Boyd Lowder Mitchell
Woodrow Watson
Charles W. Robb
Glenn E. Williamson
William T. Topham
Parowan High School Opera Delights Townspeople
A large crowd of townspeople and students attended Parowan High School’s opera last evening and the night before. The principals and chorus earned high praise for action and singing, new scenery impressed, and lighting and sound effects were near perfect from overture to finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan High School
Speaks Named for E W Sacramento Meeting
Speakers in East ward Sacramento meeting next Sunday afternoon will be Mrs Rosalind Decker and Marvin Groff Parowan high faculty member announced by bishop Jess W Guymon. All ward members invited to attend. Ray Lyman spent days in Salt Lake City over last weekend on private business and recently received a new International truck for his haul to the mines at Picebe Nevada.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ie East Ward
Mra
Rosalind Decker
Marvin Groff
Parowan High
Jess W. Guymon
Ray Lyman
Salt Lake City
Picebe
Nevada
Also Mentioned on This Page
James Robb
Washington
Ward
Keuam
Alton Merrill
Sister
John E. Edwards
Lloyd Stucki
Sgt
Stuck
U.S. Army
Stucki
Nellie, Green
Ida Lowder
St. George
Mrs
Rae Rogers
E.W. Sacrament Meeting
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