Yankee Reservoir Near High Water Mark After Snow and Trail Delays
Reporters led by Robert Fowler and partners measured Yankee Reservoir water at 5.30 feet Sunday, within four inches of last year’s peak. A march of snow, timber drifts, and a stalled car delayed restocking plans as crews searched for fish trucks and moved through heavy drifts toward Vermilion Castle camp.
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Yankee Reservoir
Dark Hollow
Robert Fowler
Homer Parcells
Robert Mitchell
Junor
Parcells
Mitchell
Timder
Fowler
Parowan Treservanr Company
Sveral
Vermilion Castle
Bernard Stubbs
Paragonah Boy Earns Corporal Rank in Army Air Corps
S Robb of Paragonah and Parowan High students report earning the rank of corporal in the United States Army Air Corps at March Field California. Robb enlisted in 1989 at East Lake City and trained at Lowry Field Colorado, later serving as Post Distribution Clerk. Parents listed as Mr and Mrs S W Robb of Paragonah.
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Word S. Robb
Paragonah
United States Army Air Corps
March Field
California
Robb
Co- City
Jeter
Utah Parkes Company
Air Corps
East Lake City
Air Compe Technical School
Lowry Field
Colorado
Aif
March Feta
Boys Escape Serious Injury After Parowan Truck Crash
Twenty four CCC enrollees returning from Vermilion Castle Forest Camp in Parowan canyon escaped serious injury when the truck rolled over at the Parowan main canyon and first left hand canyon. Driver lost control from excessive speed, skidded 110 feet, left the road and overturned. None were seriously hurt though many were shaken with minor cuts and bruises. Camp foreman S McArthur and Ormon Weight along with M I Skougard assisted. A high school truck, borrowed from students at the camp, transported the boys to lawn.
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CCC
Parowan
Vermilion Castle Forest
Parowan Canyon
Parowan Main Canyon
Mads
5. McArthur
Ormon Weight
M. 1
Skougard
Local Boys Held For Series Of Robberies
Elwood Trimmer remains jailed in Tron County after a spree that included a Lund store burglary on Sunday night, a Peters en Drug break in Cedar City, and a U. S. Forest Service magazine theft east of Cedar City. Norman Gilger and Junior Hesp were paroled to parents, Kent Skougard is still sought. Trimmer and Skougard implicated in the first two jobs. Trimmer later in the magazine theft with all four boys involved. Police recovered an odd tire car and tracked suspects through Parowan and Cedar City. Trimmer fled jail with Skougard. Trimmer recaptured while Skou gard remains at large. Juvenile handling or district court action anticipated for Trimmer.
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Elwood Trimmer
Tron County
Norman Gilger
Junior Hesp
Kent Skougard
Johnson Store
Lund
Trimmer
Heap
Wm. M. Dalton
Arthur Nelson
Cedar City
Petersen Drug
Skoutgard
U. S. Forest Service
Gilger
Skougard
Dalton
Parowan
Windstorm Destroys Barns and Uproots Trees At Parowan
A severe windstorm early Sunday leveled barns, toppled large cottonwood and silver maple trees, tore roofs from houses and outbuildings, and downed power lines across Parowan and nearby areas. Snow followed, adding to damage while no fatalities were reported. Damage was greatest on the west side of town with reports from Cedar City and Beaver counties noting substantial wind and snow effects.
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Parowan
Taomas K. Nolyoak
E. Ray Lyman
George A. Lowe
Vern Mortensen
Parowati
Chester Stubbs
Alfred Wilcock
George Stevens
Dalton
Susie Mickelson
Harley Dalton
Wilford Durham
Arch Benson's
Lucius Benson
C. Parecelis
Bentley
Herbert White
Cedar City
Beaver
Beaver Canyon
Dixie
Summer kindergarten program offered by local school district
The district sponsors a six week kindergarten starting Monday June 2 for children six by October 31, 1941. Mrs Fae Benson will teach and asks eligible children to meet in her room Monday morning June 2. Marr Stubbs, son of Clifford and Mrs Stubbs, returns home from Army service before rejoining his regiment in Alaska after a stay in Oregon.
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Fae Benson
de Marr Stubbs
Clifford Stubbs
Alaska
Oregon
Authorities Prepare for Suspect as Jail Windows Reinforced
Authorities handle him, which is quite probable according to reliable sources. This morning heavy iron bars are welded on jail windows replacing the heavy screen that has stood since the building’s erection.
Elizabeth Benson Dies After Long Illness at 78
Elizabeth Ellen Orton Benson, 78, longtime resident of Parowan, Utah, died Wednesday at 1 p m after a prolonged illness. Funeral at 2 p m in East Ward chapel with Bishop W L Adams officiating. Survived by husband Alvin Benson. 2 sons A A Benson and Clifford Benson. 4 daughters Madora Dean Tinkler, Flossie B Ramsey, Phoebe Jane Mitchell, Roberta Rowley. 30 grandchildren and 42 great grandchildren. siblings and half-sister listed. Active in church and civic groups. buried family and community ties noted.
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Elizabeth Ellen Orton Bencon
Alvin Benson
East Ward
W. L. Adams
Benson
Parowan
Alexander
Jane Holmes Orton
St. George Temple
Relief Society
Daughters of the Pioneers
Sunday School
Farowan Dramatic Association
A. A. Benson
Los Angeles
Clifford Benson
Toppenish
Washington
Madora Dean Tinkler
Altadena
California
Flossie B. Ramsey
Bingham Canyon
Utah
Phoebe Jane B. Mitchell
Roberta B. Rowley
Florence D. Mitchell
Sate Lake City
Hannah Dalton
Local Seminary Changes Teacher for Next Year
Parowan L D S Seminary principal A N Kimball announces he will leave after this year and that Albert Quist will become the new local teacher. Quist currently serves as trustee at Circleville Seminary and is a married father of one. Kimball will move to Vernal to teach there, while his family plans a summer vacation in Los Angeles before the transfer.
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A. N. Kimball
Parowan L.D.S. Seminary
Albert Quist
Circleville Seminary
Kimball
Los Angeles
Vernal
Upward Tax Trend in Utah Tax Burden Noted
The Utah Taxpayer issue highlights a rise in total Utah taxes from 9 million to 35 million between 1916 and 1940 with non property tax sources leaping toward 18 million by 1940. It stresses that most increases began after 1933 and warns current taxes are new, not replacements, amid a projected state budget for 1941 43. The piece reviews legislative costs per capita, Utah third highest, and presents a proposed budget from the Taxpayers Association. It also reports local visit notes on residents including Bob Mickelson and the Orton and Mickelson families visiting relatives in California and Utah.
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Utah
Taxpayers Association
Parowan teachers sign next year contracts
Superintendent Barlow released list of teachers who have signed and returned contracts for the coming year at Parowan high and grade schools. Several changes include replacements in Home Economics and Women's Physical Education, with staff shifts due to sabbatical and potential military service. New hires include Norma Bentley Ivy Mortensen Roth Holyoak Barbara Smith and Morris Rowley all from Parowan with assignments to various district schools.
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T+ron County school board
Ester Watson
Cedar City
Dorthea Ryan
Parowsa High School
Leora Fetty
Carmen Leigh
Nedine Madsen
Logan
Jean. Hutchinson
Providence
Parowan
Silas T. Orton
Thornton Jones
N. W. Williams
Clifton L. Chatterly
Rehort Board
Parowan High
Barlow
Wit
Oery Fours Grintying
Pit
Esterl Watson
Mabel Cronquist
Lkrainan
Jesw Hutchinson
Nadine Madsen
Ada Carpenter
Virginia Mortensen
the Doard
A. C. Hatel
Unites ‘States
Olsiter
Hetch
Max DillyAno
Mervin Graff
Dalley
Graff
Norma Bentley
Ivy Mee Mortensen
Roth Holyoak
Barbara Smith
Morris Rowley
Parowats
Morris
Kanatra
Patowan
Virginia Mortenset
National Parks Council of BSA to Meet at B. A. C
The Utah National Parks Council of the Boy Scouts of America will hold its Department session at the B A C in Cedar City on a Saturday evening in May. All scouters and Explorer sections are urged to attend with Scout executives and council department chairmen present. Representatives from districts in Utah including Provo South and part of Nevada will be in attendance.
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Utah National Parks Council
Boy Scouts of Americas
B. A.C
Cedar City
Utah
Provo South
Né+ vada
W Relief Society Closing Social In East Ward
The East ward Mothers and Daughters outing and the closing social of the ward Relief Society will be held May 23 at 2 20 p m in the Relief Society rooms. Mothers and daughters of the ward are urged to attend as a program has been planned. Miss Kathleen Benson returns home after spending most of the past winter in Los Angeles.
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Merrill Rasmussen
Sum Valley
Idaho
Zion Canyon
WU. P. Lodge
East Ward
Mothers and Daughters
Ward Relief Society
Relif
Kathleen Benson
Los Angeles
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Yankee
Paragonar Boy
Fromotion II
Peter Hy
Elmer Gurr
Elizabeth Benson
Longness
Wm. J. Gurr
Southfield
Pacific Produce Co
A. M. Marsden
The
Produce Co
Anigsa Lowder
Milford
Bob Mickelson
Bob
Retta
Alberta Mickelson
Hildreth Benson
Davis County
Gwen M. Gurr
Salt Lake City
Marion Arnold
Mary Adams
Fred A. Lewis
Oarmon Weight
T. Wendell Bayles
C. W. Elliott
Ray D. Garner
Eardley Madsen
Orland Ward
John HB. Pendleton
L. B. Bennett
Ray Morris
National Parks Council OF
BSA
W. Relief Society
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