Show Turning r Back Rack the t Pages r From i tho Fild Fibs FUJs 1 of The Times Times Independent independent 20 20 YEARS AGO The Frank Shafer oil well beCane on be Cane Creek dome 15 IS miles mile below below be be- low Moab which ten yeats years ago age had come in as 85 a gusher and for foi months resisted the efforts of ol drillers to bring it under control Saturday evening blew out Its lb plugs and went on a rampage spouting oil and gas to a height of 60 GO feet The plugs had been I In place for better than nine years year All operations In the area are have ceased because of fire danger Moab residents were Interested In the arrival of two airplanes to the valley this week I A canning center had opened opened op op- op- op ened ned in Moab to preserve surplus surplus sur sur- sur I plus foods for needy families Mrs Nora Taylor was in charge of operations The state road commission announced announced an an- pounced this week that they would soon begin a campaign to reduce the number of unsightly signs from roadsides Two kidnappers who were wanted for that crime plus armed robbery In Salt Lake City were arrested this week by Grand Grant county coun county ty Sheriff J J. J B. B when they attempted to rob a cafe at Thomp Thomp- sons The two were convicts ex-convicts from the state pen Moab's new municipal swimming swimming swim swim- t ming pool erected with labor labor labor lab lab- or at a cost of around was opened to the public Monday of ol this week All teaching positions had been filled for the o opening of the Grand county schools on August 30 W W. W W. Clyde was awarded the contract to construct the 11 miles of new highway between Moab and Blue Hill Hili and work was to begin within two weeks Health officials in Utah were on guard this week after of several cases of Bubonic Plague was found Lucian G G. G Kellog mining and business editor of or the Salt Lake Tribune was a very enthusiastic visitor In Moab this week State road officials together with soil soli conservation personnel met in Moab this week in regards to setting up a soil soli conservation district in the upper part of Moab valley to put a stop to the heavy soil erosion that had been taking place there for some years president and general manager of or orthe the United States State company were In Moab this week otter completing ing lag the deal to merge their theft com tom company company pany rany with the Dry Valley vanadium lum ium claims and other vanadium bodies around the area The gas well at Cisco which caught fire last week seriously burning two workers was still burning merrily this week reports reports re reo re- re ports indicated The first shipments of ot Carb Carbon n Black from the Crystal Carbon company plant near neat Cisco were being made mad this week The Union oil test In Lisbon Valley created more mote excitement I this week when the drill struck another pressure e stratum and the tools were blown out of the hole Officials were very encouraged with the results Moab youngsters were up In arms anns over the Moab Irrigation company ruling that no swimming or wading would be allowed from now on Albert Bates famous bandit who was a member of a party involved In a shooting near Cisco last year and who was convicted of having been a party to two armed robberies prior to the shooting escaped this week from prison in Colorado and police allover allover all allover over the area were on the look look- out 40 YEARS AGO The local draft board had certified certifIed certified 17 young men of Grand county for military service and were examining additional regIstrants registrants registrants reg reg- reg- reg to obtain eight more men mento mento mento to make up the county's first quota of ot 25 men for the army Phillip Dufford of Moab this week married Miss Janet Twaddle Twaddle Twaddle dle of or SunnysIde The Grand county schools were scheduled to open September 17 The Times published a picture of the architects architect's drawing of or the new First National Bank building on which work was started this week Utah was to have a h new county Daggett as a result of an election held in Uintah county Supervisor S. S B B. B Locke was surveying surveying surveying sur sur- sur- sur a new road leading from Wilson mesa by way of Brumley ridge to Moab on which work was soon to start Dr J. J B. B Reid purchased the J. J A. A Elmer copper mines in Salt valley He and D. D F. F D Densel planned planned plan plan- ned to start shipping ore W WI J. J and George Winbourn were building a restaurant building buildIng buildIng build- build Ing at Thompsons for J. J E. E Brown D D. M. M Cooper was remodelling the Moab Drug store Leon Bone special agent of or orthe J the department of Justice had solved the mystery of airplanes which were reported from the La sal Sa district He le gave out a statement to the effect that no noI Alarm should be felt about the I planes as they w were re not enemy I aircraft |