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Show ) t. ) 1 1 Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hastings Green River Couple Observes Sixty-Fifth Year of Marriage Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hastings of Green River will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary on April 8, at their ranch. Mr: and Mrs. Hastings were married April 8, 1908, in Ainsworth, Nebraska Ne-braska and came to Green River for the first time in 1910. They moved to Green River permanently perma-nently in 1925 and began ranching operations up-river up-river from the City of Green River, the same ranch which they oper- ate today. They have five children. child-ren. Mildred Brock of Nine-Mile at the Rim Rock Ranch: Dorothy Ross of Green River; Lois Francisco. Kansas City. Kansas; Howard Lawrence Hastings of Hawthorne. California and Tommy Hastings of Green River. They have 19 living grandchildren, 35 great-grandchildren and 2 great greatgrandchildren. greatgrand-children. At this time, Mr. Hastings Hast-ings is still active in the Masonic Lodge in Green River and is a past master of that lodge. lod-ge. Mrs. Hastings is a . past matron of the Order of the Eastern Star at Green River and Mr. Hastings is a past patron. pat-ron. f The couple will be welcoming callers on the occassion of their anniversary on April 8, and members of the family fam-ily are expected to be with them at that time. ganizations and donated labor and materials, was brought out. Mr. Tippetts Tip-petts pointed out that most of the boat docks the State Park system presently operates were originally developed to some degree. He saw no way to issue local permits per-mits for free boat launching laun-ching without its being too involved to administer. admin-ister. Someone commented com-mented that in all probability prob-ability the local people had realized enough use from the 'docks to pay for their labor. David Englemen, who is putting in a KOA campground camp-ground near the State Park, voiced the opinion that the State Park was about the best thing that could happen to Green River. He pointed out that the criticism that the entrance sign was on highway ground was not valid, since in three years all highway signs will be removed. He said that the State Parks are advertised on the road maps and this small area here will bring in campers camp-ers enough for everyone. Several of the local businessmen, service station operators, grocery gro-cery store owners and citizens voiced their approval ap-proval of the State Park, stating that a great deal of money comes into the local economy from campers there. Frank Ross pointed out that people who worked 11-12 months of the year are entitled to spend their two-2week vacation in a park cheap enough to afford; af-ford; he felt no one would object to tax money being used to build one. Mayor ReyLloyd Matt summarized the meeting pointing out that in the future it might be well for citizens to let the City Council who were elected to represent the people, take care of problems. He stated that there had been some talk of putting five counties into one district for Utah Travel Council advertising, and Green River is in a central cen-tral location for administering admin-istering this area. The frontage space on the highway might be turned back to the city for an office complex and for a tourist information center. cen-ter. He thought that enough land for a golf range, swimming pool, and other recreational activities, might be realized re-alized from extra land from the Stale Park. State Representative Kenneth Silliman spoke, agreeing that the City Council should negotiate for everyone, and that the State Parks have longr range needs and committments. Mr. Tippeltes expressed expres-sed the opinion that the Parks Commission would be amenable to dealing with the City on the frontage land for development de-velopment for tourist information in-formation and other related re-lated uses. |
