Show From the Files of The Times-Independent Times Turning Back the Pages 20 YEARS AGO Hiram H. H Turner 85 pioneer miner stockman and Colorado river explorer passed away Sunday Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- day evening at the local hospital As a result of the recent organization organ i of a cOl corporation known as Rare Metals Incorporated represented by prominent members members mem memo bt bers rs of at the mining industry In Utah a concentrating plant was planned for a location near the town of Moab for the processing process process- ing of low law grade ores of which there are large quantities quant quant- In the immediate area In one of the most bitterly contested games ever played between between be be- tween Grand and Carbon the Price squad emerged victorious Friday afternoon by a score of 26 2613 The game played on the Price field was much closer than the score would Indicate Each team garnered 13 first downs Carbon gained yards while Moab amassed yards from besides completing several passes for a total of 85 The final score was 2613 26 Grant Dalton scoring both TD's IDs for Moab Burr Durr converted the extra point The Navajo Indian ceremonial dances held on the San Juan river bed near Bluff drew many spectators from the Moab area I A cylinder 16 Cadillac sedan formerly owned by Scarface AI Al Capone notorious Chicago racketeer and gunman now serving serving servo ing a term in Alcatraz prison was wrecked just east of Moab Saturday when a rear tire blew out causing the machine to crash into a ditch The car was towed to Moab and shipped by truck to Salt Lake City where it is on exhibition in connection with a motion picture portraying the life of AI Al Capone Karl Johnson of Moab played I center on th Grand Junction College ollege starting eleven when the Mavericks trounced Regis college to the tune of 6 43 under the floodlights In Grand Junction last Friday I Major political parties In the I county were advertising big rallies rallies rallies ral ral- lies planned for Grand county people during the next week before before be fore lore the election The Democrats were favored over Republicans in almost all spots on the ballot 30 YEARS AGO Possibility that the quest of the United States government for a domestic supply of potash about to be st started In Upton county I Texas may lead to Colorados Colorado's doorstep or even within the borders borders bord bord- ers erg of the stale Gae It Itself elf Is seen by geologists familiar with the geological geological- conditions In Grand county it was announced In this weeks week's paper I Contracts for the tho construction of or several new bridges over big washes In eastern Utah on the the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean highway highway high high- I way way- have been awarded to construction construction con con- companies and the bridges are to be built next spring cording according to a scenic highways official who arrived from Provo this week Albert L L. Dates Bates who was wounded in a gun fight twelve miles cast east of Cisco three weeks ago and who was recovering at atI ata ata I a Grand Junction hospital is Js I George Harris an escaped convict convict con con- vict viet from the Utah state prison according to a wire received by Junction officers this week from the FBI in Washington D. D C. C The board of directors of the Moab Pipe Line company this week ordered sufficient four inch galvanized pipe to lay a new main I from the company's spring In Mill Millcreek Millcreek Millcreek creek canyon to the storage res res- res 40 YEARS AGO The Branson sawmill was given an order for feet of lumber lumber lumber lum lum- ber for the Big Indian mill The Moab band held its first weekly kly rehearsal this week The Grand county board of education decided to adopt the six and plan for the Moab school that of having six grades in the elementary school and six in the high school George Elmer of Payson died this week at Moab while on a visit here J. J P. P Larsen this week sold his large Moab ranch to J. J E. E Snyder and O. O V. V Riordan the consideration consideration consider consider- atlon being L. L H. H Balsley father of H. H W. W Balsley arrived from Indiana to make his home here Milton H. H Welling candidate for congress was in Moab cam cam- |