21 Oct 1949
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Newspaper
Parowan Times
Location
Parowan, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1949
Page
1
Representatives of church and civic groups are asked to meet in the Ward on Tuesday evening at 9 p m to outline dates for national activities for the coming year. The gathering aims to avoid conflicts and ensure dates are properly reserved.
Aragonah News reports a newborn at the hospital as Dick and Roene Lund return from Lake City. Grandmother Ell assists. Barton recovers at home after hospital stay. Mrs Mathews visits Cedar City and Alice. Mr and Mrs Revere Robinson travel to Salt Lake City and Spring City for Institute events. The couple tours Southern Utah Parks with Haleen McAllister and Roxa Lamd Mead. The youths visit Terry. continuation on Page Five.
Parowan will offer a ceramics class as part of the adult education program announced by Principal Amos C. Hatch. A Monday evening meeting at 8 will discuss details. Mrs Fae Dix and Mrs Watson will attend. The class is limited to 18 students, meeting three hours weekly for 12 weeks, with state funds and an instructor provided. A study of local clays for modeling and handling is under supervision at the high school.
Miss Mary McMillan Iron County School Primary Supervisor will outline a new Parent-Teacher Conferencing plan at the first regular Parowan PTA meeting Thursday night October 27 in the school auditorium at 8 p.m. A question box will invite subjects for future meetings and the program will end with a social honoring members of the PTA membership drive.
Po'owan City Republicans nominated Mayor E. Ray Lyman for another term by acclamation to head the Municipal government in November elections. Incumbent councilmen Edgar Benson and Claude Burton also joined the ticket with newcomers Edger J. King and How ard M. Adams seeking four year and two year council seats respectively. City Recorder Verda E. Adams was endorsed on the ticket. Continued on Page Four.
Dick and Jean Lowe, veteran dance educators from Hollywood and San Francisco, establish a permanent year round studio in St. George. They will offer classes in St. George, Hurricane, and Cedar City, starting Saturday in Parowan at the West Ward Church recreation hall. Members of Dancing Masters of America, they require passing a strict examination in ability and character. Costumes will be provided for all recitals and productions staged at least twice yearly, plus programs for lodges, churches, and schools.
West Ward Relief Society president Mrs. Florence D. Benson announces a social for retiring officers led by Mrs. Deila D. Marsden. Following the literary lesson, a short program and light refreshments will be offered for all ward members. The Relief Society Conference occurs with the West Ward Sacrament meeting on Sunday afternoon Oct. 30.
The Rams were defeated 27 to 7 by St. George in the final game of the season. Clair Morris and Mar Lyman were sidelined, Ralph Halterman used only for kickoffs, yet the team fought hard against a bigger opponent.
Coach Ray Walters announces a winter adult gym class for male adults each Wednesday from 8 to 10 pm at the High School Gym. The newly painted facility will be marked for volleyball badminton table tennis and basketball with weekly supervision and a gym shoe requirement.
Rosemary Robinson and Lau ana Mickelson reported on Girl's State in Logan at the Parowan Literary Club meeting. Zona P. Topham presided at the home of Mrs. Huldath M. Hulet with four teen members and four guest parents present. The group sang America the Beautiful and a roll call followed before refreshments with a Halloween motif.
Mr and Mrs Ed Leu of San cifico spent the weekend visiting relatives in Parowan Paragonah and Cedar City Zella Robinson sister of Mrs Bart Mortensen and Mrs Ellis Bentley of Parowan is Mrs Leu Mrs A Hills Orton left for Salt Lake for her husband undergoing treatment at Holy Cross Hospital An operation last Friday spliced Hill s shin bone with a metal plate into his right wrist from a farm accident last summer skin grafting on his left shoulder progressing well and he could leave hospital Elmer Bettridge arm in a cast broke it again Sunday Mr and Mrs Scott L Orton
Funeral services for Richard J. Liord, 63, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in the West Ward Chapel. A Parowan resident for 22 years, he died Thursday morning at home of a heart attack after tending animals. Born August 10, 1876 in Pine Valley, he lived as a rancher in multiple towns before settling in Parowan. He married Cora Dodds in 1903, on their 46th wedding anniversary. Survived by widow, five children Rex Lloyd Jim Lloyd Mary Giger Rita Rowley, Cora O’Bannon, two sisters, and thirteen grandchildren. Friends may call at the Parowan home Saturday from 10 a.m. until services.
Mrs. Eliza Mather Nina Robb 67 died at her Paragonah home on Wednesday afternoon from a heart attack. Funeral services are tentatively planned for Saturday, with relatives from out of town awaiting word. A fuller obituary will appear in next week’s issue.
Captain Roberta B Rowley announces the regular monthly gathering of Elizabeth Camp Parowan Daughters of Utah Pioneers Friday at 2 30 in the Old Rock Church basement. Mrs Dortha Hulet will present The Welch In Utah and Mrs Clarice R Morris will recount her grandfather Evans a Witchman. All ladies invited.
Parowan elementary and high school teachers and partners attended a PTA social at the High School Home Ec room. Miriam Lister chaired a program introducing new teachers and their qualifications, with music by Alden Hyatt and Howard Low, followed by games in the gym supervised by D Amasa Stones.
Iron County 4 H club members Miss Ailene Gibson of Tinoch and Miss Betty Jean Lund of Paragonah sent canned products from the Utah State Fair to the Pacific International Livestock Show in Portland Oregon. Ailene's canned chicken won a blue ribbon and Betty Jean's green beans earned a green ribbon.
Mert and Kathie Mitchell added a daughter to their family after a Wednesday evening birth at County Hospital. The newborn has a sister Karen and is welcomed by maternal grandmother Georgia B. Mitchell and paternal grandparents Mr and Mrs. W. Scott Mitchell of Parowan.
Democrats nominate R Taylor Miller as mayoral candidate in Parowan City election. W Scot Mitchell and Warren Poudleton run for four-year council seats with Marvin Cratl and Marlo Topham for year terms. Watson Adams seeks city treasurer and Mrs Wimmer Mortelsen earns nomination for the post.
The Provo High School band impressed at a festival with 36 bands from Utah, Nevada and Idaho. Local leaders praised the students for a creditable showing while Mr Low and aides guided performances. A Haycock Glayits Pop Belle Lemmon Neva Adams Dick McBride and Cyr Pendleton assisted.
In Parowan area news, Miss Billie Majean Galilei of Cedar City and Howard Dan Moore of Salt Lake City wed Friday October 14 at St Gore Temple. The bride, daughter of Mr and Mrs Trady M Euli Win of Beaver, is a granddaughter of Mrs Dom Rollins of Parowan. A reception followed in the First Ward Beaver with many relatives and friends from Parowan. Moore recently returned from the New England States.
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