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Show Friday, September 2, 1983 Venial ExpfeSS 3 M Lumbeir opens 3Oih stfoire on Verneol nextf week 84 Lumber Company will be opening their 380th store at 1925 West Highway 40 in Vernal next week. It is the third 84 Lumber store in Utah. A gala grand opening is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Sept. 7 and continue con-tinue through Sunday, Sept. 11. The week's activities include performances perfor-mances by Suicide Siros, Do-It-Yourself Clinic by nationally known factory representatives and the Paul Bunyan Games which are a series of contests designed to determine a person per-son deserving the title of Paul Bunyan. Manager of the new store, Ron Matheus, said the carnival atmosphere at-mosphere of the grand opening will be fun, but the store itself provides its customers with a no-frills store stocking stock-ing all kinds of building materials for the home owner or contractor. Matheus said the 380 stores provide tremendous buying power, and the theory of 84 Lumber is to pass these savings on to the customers. Why the name "84 Lumber?" Guesses have come from the number of stores the company owns, which would be 296 stores short, to the number of products the store carries. Actually they carry over 2,000 products. pro-ducts. Another guess was that the founder of the company played right end for the Pittsburgh Steelers and always revered his playing number of 84. (Actually, the founder and chief executive ex-ecutive officer of 84 Lumber played a hard-nosed guard at Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania High Shcool and wore number 38.) No, Matheus says the answer is much simpler. The company is named nam-ed after the village of Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, a town about 25 miles south of Pittsburgh where 84 opened their first lumber yard. However, if you ask how this village came to have such an unusual name, hs answer becomes more complicated, intermixed intermix-ed with legend, fantasy and fiction. One of the more fascinating stories tells that one day in 1740 a young Virginian Virgi-nian surveyor by the name of George Washington, chanced through the settlement. set-tlement. While buying supplies at the local store he eplained to some of the curious town folk the use of his instruments. in-struments. Setting up in front of the General Store, he demonstrated to the local gentry arid found that the stable was eighty-four degrees west of the store and that the saloon was eighty-four eighty-four degrees west of the store. The town folks picked this up and when a traveling wife would finish her shopping and ask for her husband, she would be told, "Why Ma'am, he just went straight through the door and turned 84 degrees." (You'll notice they were polite, if a bit devious.) Another locl historian suggested that the name originated from the location of the village 80 degrees and 4 minutes west longitude. Although this ingenious idea looks good on a casual glance at the map, accurate measurements show to be nearer 80 degrees, 16 minutes west longitude wouldn't 80-16 be an odd name for a lumber company? Other stories that have found their way into print, and proved equally false are: 1. 1884 was the year that the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad completed com-pleted a section of track from Washington, Pennsylvania to Pittsburgh Pitt-sburgh through the town. (Unfortunately, (Unfor-tunately, that happended in 1883). 2. The town was named in honor of the election of Grover Cleveland in 1884. Since most rural Washington County residents were hotly republic and strongly for Cleveland's opponent, a Washington County native, James G. Blaine, this would seem very doubtful. 3. That during the Revolutionary War, 84 men from this area volunteered to serve in the second Regiment. Considering a total population of under 300 people at this time, it would seem unlikely that all of the able bodied men would leave the women and children alone in what was then close to wilderness. The only authenticated fact, and therefore the historically accepted version of the origin of the name Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, is that the town was one of 3,414 post offices opened open-ed in 1884 and Postmaster H.D. Weir asked that his office be called Eighty Four in honor of the year 1884. All of these tales might have passed pass-ed quietly into obscurity and oblivion if the founders of 84 Lumber had not built their first outlet in this quiet, fertile fer-tile valley and gone on to spread the symbol of 84 across the country. The Paul Bunyan games are open to everyone over 18 years of age. The schedule of events include: 1. Nail Driving Drive a 30 penny nail into a log in the shortest time. Ex-resident retires from Air Force Reserve Colonel Howard H. Richardson, a native of Vernal and 1947 graduate of Uintah High School, retired from U.S. Air Force Reserve on June 30 after 30 years of military service. His mother, Sarah Richardson, resides in Vernal. Colonel Richardson spent most of his military career in various assignments at Hill AFB, where his last three years were served as mobilization assistant to the base civil engineer. Colonel Richardson was graduated from Utah State University with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering in 1953. He was also commissioned com-missioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force Reserve through his completion com-pletion of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. He attended pilot training at Marana AFB and Williams AFB, Ariz., graduating in 1954. He then attended intercept controller school at Tyndall AFB, Florida, and later completed advanced intercept controller school at Moody AFB, Georgia. He then served three years of active duty with the Air Defense Command's 25th Air Division at McChord AFB, Wash. Upon his release from active duty, Colonel Richardson was assigned to the Air Force Reserve's 12th Mobile Communications Squadron at Hill AFB where he served as commander. He then served three years as mobilization augmentee to the Director Direc-tor of Civil Defense for Sevier County, Coun-ty, Utah. He was the site support officer of-ficer and procurement officer for the 5th Air Logistics Center Augmentation Squadron, and a C-119 "Flying Boxcar" Box-car" and C-124 "Globemaster" pilot for several years while assigned to the 733rd Troop Carrier Squadron and 945th Military Airlift Group. . His military decorations include the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, Combat Readiness Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Ser-vice Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal with hour glass device, Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon, Air Force Longevity Service Ribbon with one silver and one bronze oak leaf cluster, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Gallan-try Cross bronze palm and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. Colonel Richardson is a 26-year employee of the Utah Department of Transportation. He is currently district director in Richfield, where he resides. A native of Vernal, he is married mar-ried to the former Drue Alder of Providence. Pro-vidence. They are the parents of four children. Col. Howard H. Richardson Be careful. All the time. my 2. Cross Cut Sawing-One man, sawing saw-ing through a log in the shortest time. 3. Log Rolling-Roll a log across the ground 40 feet in the shortest time. 4. Golf-Hole-In-One-Hitting a golf ball closest to the pin. 5. Horse Shoe Pitching Pitching two shoes for accuracy. 6. Fish Casting-Casting for accuracy. More details can be obtained at the store. David "Suicide" Siros will also be on hand to entertain people during the grand opening. He builds himself a new coffin everyday, then packs it with enough explosives to blow open a one ton safe, crouches inside and, well, Matheus promises people will not be disappointed. 1 1 i r I ' fuuntuuwM .: I S2 -V-1 84 LUMBER will be having their Grand Opening in Vernal next week at 1925 South Highway 40. The store will be the 308th opened by 84 Lumber in the United States. & a 4 nun HUM. AiiiiVtCBl LE OF THt auMMsn. Hurrv! We can only offer Hurry. . .tnrough weer:hV, 10th Si,.- i IV - 1 000 SAVE UP TO 40 on American- Made Steel Belted Radials 1 i To Celebrate this All- I Rad XL I Reg. Price I Ad Price I To Celebrate this Ail- American Holiday we are offering these Top-Grade radials at our lowest prices ever. Rad XL Reg. 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