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Show 4 X Through the Files of And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO The Grand County primary election drew only about 50 per cent of the County's voters vot-ers to the poll, however, tight races and upsets were the order of the day. World middleweight champion champ-ion Gene Fullmer was to guest referee a fight card of Golden Glove and National AAU boxing champions here. In order to lay pipe for a natural gas line to the Texas Gulf Sulphur company's potash pot-ash facilities, Utah Gas Service Ser-vice company had enlisted the aid of a helicopter to fly the pipe to its location. Town Television had signed sign-ed a contract to bring their viewers, via closed circuit microwave, .the world heavyweight heavy-weight championship fight between Patterson and Lis-ton Lis-ton and the middleweight fight between Fulmer and Tiger. Ti-ger. 1 20 YEARS AGO A jet trainer had crashed ir. the rugged canyon area southwest of Moab and one man was killed "and another injured in the crash. Rains in the river canyon delayed rescue of the injured man. According to the County Agent, for safer animal handling, hand-ling, ranchers should build loading chutes with shallow steps instead of cleats. Charles B. Hunt, geologist geolog-ist with the U. S. Geological Survey and his wife, an arch-, eologist with the University of Utah had completed field work here. Mr. Hunt made a geological survey of the LaSal mountains, and his wife studied ; archeology in the area, around Moab. High-line uranium ores, were tewbe Jieatpd at the Ur-avan Ur-avan plant of US Vanadium Company beginning on Oct. 1. 40 YEARS AGO The Moab Lions Club had decided to ask the U.S. Park Service for an appropriation to build an automobile highway high-way from the vicinity of Seven Sev-en Mile Wash on the Moab-Thompson Moab-Thompson highway ito the Arches National Monument, comprising the Windows and the Devil's Garden. The gravel-surfaced highway high-way through Moab, extending from the Colorado River to the Loveridge Ranch, south of Moab on what i, Mill Creek Drive, was J reprocessed as possible. SOon : . 11 was eJfPected that in .six weeks the state begm the expenditure; some $250,000 for Zl ' tion of roads v;m and San Juan counties t allay unemployment hee j 60 YEARS AGO "! Secretary Wilson of a. r partment of Agriculture f decide f0 establish, an periment station on the V' ti National Forest near I riam for the study of and water protection I lems. k. |