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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1946
Page
8
Bert Robb returns from service in the Pacific and joins family in Paragonah. Local social life includes a membership dance, a Salt Lake City visit for a hospital ceremony, and recent travel by residents to see relatives. A nurse training ceremony and hospital appendectomy mark community health notes.
The Parowan FFA chapter led by Lloyd DeMille Donald Warren and Tony Dalton swept top honors at the Utah State Junior Livestock Show in Spanish Fork. Other Parowan attendees included Charles Dalton and Brent Talbot with advisor Thales Brown. Calves earned prizes from 34 to 27 cents a pound, and the club bought two purebred gilts and a sire in Salt Lake City to bolster future shows. A calf scramble added excitement with Brent Talbot and Tony Dalton succeeding in catching calves.
County Commissioner Hugh L Adams reports a new Cedar Bottoms well on his farm producing just under three second feet of water. The water will irrigate part of his several hundred acre ranch. Adams and Almon H Orton noted Beaver County settlers and many trees fallen around Coop Valley reservoir, and water levels appear low after a dry winter.
Public Welfare Board of Tran county authorized total March assistance of 1.00 percent, aiding 222 needy families. March payments rose $34 from February while cases fell by two. Old age aid totaled 8692 to 229 cases, aid to dependent children 1209 to 24, unemployables 98 to two, foster care 106 to three, and one inmate under institution care received 40. Overall March payments reached 765,774, up 17,895 from February and 57,502 above March 1945.
Premiums for Livestock Dept of this year’s Tron County Fair list rewards for dairy cattle breeding beef sheep and swine events. First second and third prizes assign amounts to classes including heifer yearling and ram lamb entries with multiple pens and breed distinctions. Breeding sheep show awards feature ram lamb ewe lamb and fat lamb groupings with cash prizes and a champion award. Swine and draft horse premiums promised next week with homemaking premiums following week.
Morris Rowley leads Tron County spring weed control effort targeting toxic varieties such as morning glory burdock cockle burr Russian thistle whitetip and whorled milkweed. The plan urges communities to report infested properties for immediate removal and notes a summer push to reduce weed spread. M B Bayles, manager of Southern Utah Dairy Company, traveled to Ogden for company matters yesterday.
The American aircraft industry produced 144 aircraft during a period and 96369 military planes in a year, boosting total output to about 85,000 airplanes of all types in 38 years before 1942.
Over the past quarter century Illinois farms have added tractors starting from 23,000 and now exceed 50,000, reflecting growing agricultural scale and mechanization across the state.
Early grazing rye lengthens the pasture season by enabling earlier spring grazing and improving forage availability for livestock.
A fragmented instruction notes how to handle an exposed flat crushed surface by covering with a damp cloth and applying gentle heat. It directs brushing the tufted residue in the direction of the idle.
Grace Guyman reports on upcoming yearbooks delivery by Friday through Art City Publishing Co. Students and staff anticipate the 21st century edition with a $1 extra deposit. Seminary graduates recount a memorable Salt Lake City trip with photos set to appear in Deseret News. Lena Mortensen returns home on 24 day US Navy leave from Alameda. A mural for Mr and Mrs Worth L Orton’s recent wedding gatheringends with gifts and refreshments.
J Golden Hunsaker of Social Security will visit Paroway on Wednesday at 11 a.m. to assist 85 year old survivors and others in making claims for Social Security benefits. Citizens are urged to bring questions and attend with families and employers. Also notes a local resident, Alma Bettridge, returned from overseas and a for sale listing of seed potatoes with Evans contact.
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