Homer Durham Lecture On National Defense Tue At HS
Dr Homer Durham of UI will lecture on National Defense next Tuesday at 830 PM in the high school auditorium. Tickets for the Cham Commerce Lyceum course are 150 for adults and 75 cents for students with the aim to fund club activities and offer a top tier four event program in a community effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champ Commerce Lyceum
Patten
Chamaf Commerce
Rewan
C. of C
Homer Durham UI
H. S. Audmin
Parowan City Plans Cemetery Improvements
Parowan City Council Cemetery and Parks Committee led by C. E. Burton authorized extensive cemetery work once weather clears. Aimed at cleaning roads and unused sections, adding water facilities, funded by a small city budget, with owner consent required for plot work. details continued on Page Four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan City
Veritable Gilger reunion in Parowan and beyond
Family of Mr and Mrs Gilger of Parowan enjoyed a reunion with town members and relatives from Sterling Colorado Manhattan Beach and Idaho. Attendees included LeRay Gilger and Norman Gilger with wives and families. West Ward Relief Society hosted the wedding party and reception while security work continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRay Gilger
West
Rman Gilger
Coal Bill Seated To Dept of Minor By Granger
Fragmentary notice discusses coal bill actions and Department of Minor matters attributed to Granger, with references to oil, Utah, and Page Five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dept. of Minor
Anerica
An. Gil Me
Utah
Gene Benson Wins FFA Public Speaking Contest
Gene Benson son of Roy Benson of Parowan and a Parowan High School junior won the FFA Public Speaking contest in Orderville with the topic What Are You Doing About Conservation. He will represent the area at the State contest in Salt Lake City March 26 where the state winner receives a $100 prize and a chance to compete in the Western Region meet. Benson is an active FFA member and editor of the yearbook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Benson
Roy Benson
Parowan
Orderville
Gene
Cedar City
Hurricane
Salt Lake City
Parowan High School
Parowan School Seeks Songs for Festival and Dates Off
The Parowan elementary school seeks music copies for its annual festival and invites readers to help locate songs including My Wild Irish Rose Merry Oldsmobile Johnny Get Your Gun Remember Pearl Harbor and Ka Ka Kathy Principal A C Hatch notes schools will close Thursday night March 25 through Tuesday morning March 30 granting four days away from class Principal Hatch attended a regional Administrator's Conference in Delta discussing the school budget and 11 man football
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Gun
Pearl Harbor
Hatch
Parowan
A. C. Hatch
Region 6
Delta
Grand Opera Rigoletto Presented In Parowan Saturday
The Grand Opera Rigoletto will be shown in Parowan Saturday night at the High School Auditorium. Tickets are on sale from the principal or the music department, with reserved seating at 1.00 for adults and 50 cents for students. The production is led by Prof Wm H Manning with Prof R L Halverson conducting a 28 piece orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Branch Agricultural Music Department
Varowan
Parowan
Cedar City
Delta
Fillmore
Beaver
Wm. H. Manning
Seminary class program and ward society events in Sacrament meeting
Mr Alten Merrill and Seminary class members gave a fine Sacrament meeting program featuring talks by Karla Hulet Adele Holyoak Lavonna Guymon Bessie Ann Dobrusky and Orland Evans. Musical numbers included a piano solo by Mariam Decker and a vocal The Lords Prayer by Jo Ann Mitchell. The Paragonal Ward Relief Society held a regular Tuesday meeting with a short play and a double trio number. Past presidents received corsages and a large candle lit Birthday Cake was displayed. A social committee organized refreshments for all. On Saturday March 20 the Relief Society will sponsor a banquet and dance as part of its 17th of March celebration at the Ward Chapel basement with multiple service times. Prices 25c under High School age and 60c for high school students and adults. The Leap Year Dance follows at the School House auditorium from 8 30 to 12 00 with Enoch Orchestra. Admission 75 cents per couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alten Merrill
Karla Hulet
Adele Holyoak
Lavonna Guymon
Bessie Ann Dobrusky
Orland Evans
Mariam Decker
Jo Ann Mitchell
Merrill
Paragonal Ward Relief Society
The
Ward Relief Society
Relief Society
Ward Chapel
School House
Enoch Orchestra
Parowan High School Athletic Squad Hosts Student Body Banquet
Parowan High School athletic squad and faculty were guests of the student body at a banquet in the Home Economics room on Wednesday evening, March 10. A turkey dinner was prepared by the Ramette girls under Mrs Alta Dalton. Max Dalley served as toastmaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan High School
Ramette
Alta Dalton
Scout Troop 343 Visits Zion Canyon
Scout Troop 343 left Parowan at 4 30 p m last Friday with 18 members led by Frank Patten John Manning and Elmer Gurr arriving at Zion National Park for a camp and fire program. They held a 7 a m flag ceremony and after breakfast played strenuous games passed tests and hiked to Scouts Lookout Emerald Pool Narrows through the tunnel and Great Arch Trail before returning to camp for dinner then swam at LaVerkin on the return trip home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan
Scout
Frank Patten
John Manning
Elmer Gurr
Zion's National Park
Lookout
Emerald Pool
Great Arch
LaVerkin
Crow Derby Headquarters Named at Parowan Conoco Station
Saunders M. Clark local game warden and the Gun and Rod Club designate the Conoco Service station as the community crow camp. Hunters will check crow legs to earn a 10c bounty per pair. The big crow worth over $900 in cash and merchandise has been shot but others remain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saunders M. Clark
Gun and Rod Club
Parowan
Conoco
Iron County 4-H Leaders Attend Training School
Five 4-H club leaders from Iron County attended the annual 4-H club training school at Utah State Agricultural College in Logan on March 16. Cedar City representatives included Carl Cox with sheep and state leader committee duties, Elena Perry in Home Furnishings, Mac Fairbanks in advanced clothing, and Louis C. Maxwell with beef and poultry roles. Jean Evans from Parowan studied cotton and rayon finishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iron County
Utah State Agricultural College
Logan
Carl Cox
Cedar City
Elena Perry
Jean Evans
Parowan
Mac Fairbanks
Louis C. Maxwell
Mrs. Continued
Page
Personal News Notes from Parowan and Nearby
Idaho Falls couple visited relatives in Parowan and Cedar City. A 12 year old son of Chester Hyatt was operated on for appendicitis and is recovering well at County Hospital. Local openings, LDS missions, and visits by numerous residents and families are noted, including new baby Catherine Marie to the Orton family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin Kay Hyatt
Chester Hyatt
Phil Benson
Simon
Troy
Idaho
Sime
Mos
Whitney Orton
County Hospital
Catherine Marie
Ellis Orton
Parowan
Erwin Walker
Cedar
Sheep Shearing Demonstration Planned Near Cedar City
The county and state Extension Service with the 5. A. C. will hold a Sheep Shearing and wool handling demonstration on April 22 at Ross Jones's shearing plant two miles west of Cedar City. Alma C Esplin LaVar Taylor Lane R Potter and Oscar Hansen lead the event with special guests from Utah Wool Growers Ass n and Utah Wool Marketing Corporation officials. A visit to the range sheep experiment at BAC Valley Farm follows, with Dr T Donald Bell detailing the lambing and shearing progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross Jones
Cedar City
Alma C. Esplin
USAC
LaVar Taylor
Ephraim
Utah
North American Sheep Shearers’ Union
Lane R. Potter
Sidney
Montana
Oscar Hansen
Provo
Utah Shearers’ Union
Don Clyde
Douglas Clark
James A. Hooper
Utah Wool Growers Ass'n
Utah Wool Marketing Corporation
State Experiment Station and Animal Husbandry Department
Logan
Jones
Range
Bac Valley
T. Donald Bell
Agricultural Department
BAC
Death Claims Life Of Anne H. Graham In Boise Idaho
Anne H. Graham age 77 of Banks Idaho died February 26 at her niece Julia Wood s Boise home while traveling home from Southern Utah. Born July 5 1870 at Beaver Utah to George and Ann Hardy early Milford pioneers. She married A A Graham of Idaho. services details unavailable.
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Anne H. Graham
Boise
Idaho
Banks
Julia Wood
Colo
St. Boise
Beaver
Utah
George
Ann Schofield Hardy
Milford
A. A. Graham
John Hardy
Ray Stones
Lula R. Bastian
Paragonah
T. K Holyoak
Paro
Escalante Valley Growers Organize Non-profit Association
About 33 farmers in the Escalante Valley plan a nonprofit group named Escalante Valley Growers Association with Thomas Gibson as president, Mr. Goddard as vice president, and Vern Frailey as secretary and treasurer. HQ at Beryl. First act is a March 23 meeting with Howard McBride of Barney-Cornett Potatoes Inc. from Los Angeles. deal to grow potatoes for them. They ordered four carloads of certified seed potatoes from Minnesota and have already received two carloads of fertilizer. Continued on page four.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Escalante Valley
Howard McBride
Barney-Cornett Potatoes, Inc
Los Angeles
Minnesota
Wild Life Pictures Lecture in Parowan
Lee Kay of the Utah State Fish and Game Commission will present moving pictures of Western wildlife in Parowan on Tuesday March 23. The technicolor films and his lecture offer an engaging, riskful documentation of animal life. An audience, including students, may attend free at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Kay
Utah State Fish and Game Commission
Parowan
Cedar Breaks Council Scouts to Hold Court of Honor
The District Boy Scout Court of Honor will be held Sunday evening March 21 at 7 30 in Parowan West Ward L D S Chapel. Troop 343 East Ward hosts boys from across the district with speakers District Scout Executive Wm Tell Gubler Kanarra and Marvin James Clyde Davis of Cedar City. Merit badges and several 2nd class and 1st class awards will be presented to Paragonah Parowan and Cedar City scouts. a Cedar City father and son will receive life awards. Public and especially scouts families urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parowan
West Ward
L. D
East Ward
Paragonah
Cedar City
Wm. Tell Gubler
Kanarra
Marvin James
Clyde Davis
Paragonih
Boy Scouts
Army nurse Adrienne Mickelson in Germany shock ward
Lt Adrienne Mickelson of Parowan Utah is stationed at the 97th General Hospital in Frankfurt Germany. She joined the Army Nurses Corps at the start of World War II and arrived overseas in January. She describes meals, German starvation, sending food money to her apartment’s cleaner, and reports the hospital was originally built for Hitler's Air Forces.
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Stars and Stripes
Adrienne Mickelson
Parowan
Utah
Hitler
Lieut
Mickelson
Lieut. Mickelson
Alburt Mickelson
Germany
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Homer Durham
C. Lyceum
Ion
Hugh
F.F.A
Paragonah News
P.H.S
Max Dalley
Alice Bayles
Mary Hatch
Launa Mickelson
Zion Canyon
Gun & Rod Club
Crow Derby
R. A. Cook
Idaho Falls
Cook
Eva J. Gilger
Vernon Heap
Earl Mackelprang
Freda Iaibot
Hugh Gilger
Paneuch
L. J. Adama
Joan
Maxine Dalton
G. Lynn Halterman
Sahara Village
R. L. Haltermans
Lynn
Als Garage
al Dobrusky
Sid
Clifton Taylor
Verl
North Central States
Charles Joel
Kanab
Claude Hulet
Rupert Hulet
Phyllis Lloyd
Boulder City
Barbara Burt
Nevada City
Belle Matheson
St. George
L. D. S. Temple
Nellie H. Bentley
Leadership Week
Stake’ Relief Society Organization
Luella Hyatt
Wm. A. Thornton
Wan
Association
Wild Life Pictures
Eve
Cedar Breaks
Frankfurt
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