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Show -gac&vaxd floated - "News Bits About Yesler-Years" 5 Years Ac The local power situation broke "high and inside Wednesday morning as petitions addressed to the Uintah Power and Light Company were delivered de-livered to residents of Roosevelt and Myton for signatures. The I petitions called upon the power company to make known its intentions in-tentions respecting the improvement improve-ment of power facilities in the two communities. Recognizing the importance of the dairy industry to the Uintah Basin and foreseeing the prominent prom-inent part the Basin will eventually even-tually play in dairying, formation forma-tion of the Uintah Basin Milk Producers Co-op Association was effected at Mt. Emmons on August Aug-ust 7. announcement being withheld with-held until the present time for various reasons. Seven charter members at that time are now serving on the board of directors and include: Chester Hartman and Sons, Mt. Emmons; Leslie B. Goodrich, Bluebell; LeGrand Mecham. Mt. Home, and Clinton Bowden, Mt. Emmons. The following ere officers: Delmar Mecham, president; Ray E. Gill, vice-president, and Bruce Hartman, secretary. Miss Rose Marie Brokaw. of Myton, is among the forty-one students at Brigham Young University Uni-versity to achieve honors for high scholastic standing during the Autumn quarter. 10 Yesra Aqo Proud, indeed, were members ot the Roosevelt City Council who met for the first time Tuesday Tues-day evening in the beautiful new municipal building, which was recently completed. Valued at nearly $20,000, the new building was built through an N Y A project, pro-ject, with the city's share of costs totaling $8,000. Mrs. Erma Wimmer, Mrs. Edith Huish, Mrs. Areva Huish and Miss Helen Huish were hostesses at the Roosevelt Business Busi-ness and Professional Women's Club banquet held Wednesday evening at the Shurtleff Hotel. Mrs. Edwards, chairman of finance, fi-nance, reported that $101.00 was turned over to the hospital committee com-mittee Monday, the proceeds of the crocheted bed spread made and donated by Mrs. Peter Anderson, An-derson, and which Mrs. Fred Jensen, Jr. won. Lieutenant R. Howard Harrison Har-rison received word Tuesday to reoort to Fort Warren, Cheyenne Chey-enne Wyoming, for active duty with the Army of the Unitea States Mr. Harrison is a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps of the Reserve Officers organization. NEOLA Miss Luella Olsen, of Neola, a student at the Roosevelt Roos-evelt High School, is the proud Possessor of a beautiful Bulova wrist watch, which was presented pre-sented to her in an assembly at the high school on January a bv H Bartley Heiner, seminary principal, for her idea for a seminary sem-inary pin. 20 Years Ago Mrs Pearl Redmond was awarded one of the 4-H Club leader's medals given by the Utah State Farm Bureau for outstanding work as a local leader of the 4-H Club. Engineering plans for the $1 177 958 Moon Lake dam. the main feature of the proposed Moon Lake federal reclamation project were released Friday at a special meeting of the Utah Water Storage Commission. The regular city council meeting meet-ing was held in the council rooms Monday evening of thi3 week. Those present were coun-cilmen coun-cilmen Paul Wilkins, Ezra Burton, Bur-ton, J. V. McLea, Alfred Lublin Lub-lin and George H. Harrison; Ray E. Dillman, attorney; Jack Wis-combe. Wis-combe. recorder; Heber Gallcr-way, Gallcr-way, treasurer; Heber Galloway, treasurer; Ren Johnston, mer-shal. mer-shal. In the absence of Mayor Whitmore, Geo. H. Harrison presided. |