Vernal Express | 1959-06-18 | Page 9 | Lions Told of Defense Plans for Basin Region Section

lions of defense plans for basin region at the regular meeting of tue the vernal lions club held at hotel vernal wednesday evening of last week a film on civil defense day called X was presented by dean rowland local CD chairman mr rowland lowland also said that efforts were being made tp to have some of the surplus foods stored in this area where it is expected thousands of evacuees es will come for shelter in case of an all out war ile he said that most of the surplus food Is now stored in target areas of the nation we may be called upon to take care cafe of evacuees es in base of bomb attack and all out war said the speaker more than people of the vintah uintah dasin basin have now been traino trained in firs aid he said A two hundred bed emergency hospital is iq now stored at the uintah county hospital also stored locally are field kitchens electric generators and other supplies although we are not in any danger of a bomb attack we would be victims of fall out if salt lake should be bombed ile he told of tile the percent prote protection cdon that three feet of dirt will give in shelters ile he advised the storing of water and food supplies musical numbers during the evening were furnished by a vocal trio consisting of sharon bodily armil anna lee walker and drenda brenda smith accompanied compa nied ly by fay jones the trip trig sling sang whistle a happy tune and younger than springtime the young musicians were junior high school students and recently rated superior in an inter contest held at duchesne iee lee bennion reported a successful stul food concession operated by ue the lions club at the hie uintah basin jr live stock show the funds were turned over to the show corn com cittee reese walker and brent anderson andersen are doy boy sponsored by the lions club alvin weeks told of the ef program in sight conservation conducted by the lions club each lion will contribute 1 75 toward this fund the installation of new officers will take place june president whitney D hammond conducted the meeting were hosts hosta to the Fal calmettes palmettos tos another salt lake team in a gani played here at the fairgrounds ball park the score was not available at press time members of the 1059 1959 team include helen gross and twilla co manag ers era pat lee marilyn arnold borinton daniels Daniel sp rose mary bigelow diane lyman carma hacking aloma hatch joyce gingell marjoria Marj orld deiure and carolyn goodrich in addition to a regular schedule of play the team plans to play in the class D jr tournament in salt lake august 5 8 the vernal merchants also hope to host a class clasa B tournament hire hi re in mid august the following schedule of games has been announced june 17 kennels 0 pin p m salt lake june 24 busico 8 rpm P M salt lake july 1 coalville Co alville possibly vernal july 8 pal mer ettes 9 rpm pin salt lake salt lake july 22 kennets Kent ets 8 rpm p rn salt lake july 20 29 gualco 8 rpm p m salt lake