Show In The Bood Old 20 YEARS AGO March Petroleum is tentatively contemplating work on its northernmost property on the Asphalt miles west of Vernal on the north side of the Lapoint Roosevelt's hopes for a junior college In the area of that city practically went down the at least for a couple of Thursday of last week when the State Senate directed the Coordinating Council of Higher Education to study the state's junior college needs and report back to the 1961 Eight cases of influenza were reported in Uintah County for the week ending March If you see some strange men in your back yard during the next two don't get it will probably be some telephone They will be busy putting up new telephone worth to be This new cable will give enough outside plant facilities to take care of the anticipated growth in new telephone customers between now and change-over to dial operation in Once known as 1 the accelerating cost of living has now hitched a ride in an pushing gasoline prices up a penny a gallon to the Vernal gas pumps now show a jump from cents per gallon to cents for regular According to a release from the University of Oklahoma in James Ray son of and James T. Allred of was listed on the university honor and Valda March Utah State Road officials in Vernal Friday killed the proverbial two birds with one stone when they attended dedication ceremonies of the state on North Vernal and also started preliminary work on the Jensen to Red Wash March Alfred Ainge celebrated his birthday Ainge lives cooks his own meals and does his own chores and The final transaction took place Saturday for the purchase of Vernal Office 43 Vernal by and Joseph If the increasingly threatening international situation should take an adverse turn resulting in loss of Middle East oil to the Free a 45 billion barrel commercial oil reserve in eastern Utah-western Colorado's oil shale could be drawn on within relatively short Lacking such a the shale oil lands probably will remain Uncle Sam's in the for several more Reuben Cesspooch nets most outstanding performance trophy in Golden Gloves He won the coveted award even though he did not compete for the championship because of a badly bruised His winning of two fights in one night resulted in gaining this Uintah County has recently been included in the more than rural and community schools in the U.S. who have received free recordings of the Spangled This project is being sponsored jointly by the Farm Bureau and the American Heritage 30 YEARS AGO March 1919 Francis Vernal former state representative and city has been named district finance chairman of Boy Scouts of A special honor came to one of Uintah County's club leaders training at the state training school in Logan last Sadie McConkie of one of almost club leaders in was elected by the group to a three-year term on the state club leaders' advisory After nearly two months' delay because of extreme work last week was resumed on the Uintah County When work was halted early in the year because of extreme the building was well ahead of Two hundred barrels of crude from the Ashley Valley oil field are being processed daily by the Uinta Oil Refining at Processing of the Uintah County crude was started three weeks ago on an experimental Dallas one of four Uintah High School boxers in the won his fight Tuesday night at the AAU matches in the state fairgrounds in Salt Lake Jacobsen is scheduled to Wednesday night in the semifinals and George Walter Anderson will celebrate their Golden Wedding anniversary March 12 at the home of their William H. early resident of was feted on her birthday Sunday at the home of and Ralph Vernal Auto operated by acting Vernal fire chief and garageman for many is now the dealer for Utah's 1948 employment picture was one of sharp contrast in the established a new all-time high in During that persons were employed in the state's manufacturing mines and Only about were looking for A new natural arch of white hitherto unknown in has been discovered in eastern Kane County by Jack National Geographic magazine Dubbed Grosvenor Arch by the new oddity has been placed on the map by the National Geographic The arch towers feet above the valley floor with the bridge section of the arch being 12 feet in Army demand for fine wool holds promise of higher prices of Utah's 1949 wool clip-which quantitatively will be the smallest in The submarine breathing device now used by the U.S. was conceived years The Utah Fish and Game Department took steps last week to protest the water filing of the Central Counties on the Jordan River north of Salt Lake 70 YEARS AGO March 1909 Cook's wife last Monday presented him a 2 Pike says his bees are getting along well this As a the bees over the county are in fine Rasmus Anderson of Carbon County has been engaged by the Green River Transit to superintend the construction of the swinging bridge across Green River somewhere between Mile Creek and The bridge In many be a unique The stork has visited Theodore this week and made happy the homes of Washburn and Alton This increased our population to This is not much of an increase over last but still we are They are still working for a mall route across the Persistence is the thing that Desert land is being taken up with a rush and the inquiries for good homesteads continue to come in from the The local merchants are beginning to advertise spring That is one good sign that winter has A favorable report was made on House Bill which refers to the employment and dismissal of The committee amendment provides that teachers shall have one day each term for the purpose of visiting other schools provided that these visits shall be made under the direction of the school Senator Wilson and Rock M. Pope are working hard for a new county to be formed out of portions of Uintah and Bills for the creation of such a county have been introduced in the house and In a lengthy article on the the Salt Lake Herald this week printed maps of the two counties outlining the proposed new Dispatches state that head of elk are starving to death in Jackson In and that the farmers are standing guard over their haystacks with The dispatches are probably highly colored as there are not that many elk in the Jackson Hole The frost is about out of the ground in the Brown's Park country and the ice in the river is breaking Hundreds of head of cattle driven there during the winter are expected to Bower arrived Tuesday night from Salt He expects to locate having heard good reports of the growth and development of the valley from people on the The county now has six practicing In the White River head of cattle and horses and sheep and goats will be and in the Routt the number is fixed at cattle and horses and Andrew J. Peterson of Theodore and Effie M. Gray of Salt Lake were recently married at |