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Show , 0 j Through the Files of XL&QfeUtCL t5ClCv20VLtlflCL Times-Independent yrsrwwry Wvvwrwwww Grand Times 10 YEARS AO City administrator Ellis Foote had notified the Moab Mo-ab City Council he would vacate the office in January. Jan-uary. The Moab Chamber was pushing for airline sen-ice into Moab. The warm Fall season had created a panarama of of color in the area, pro-ividing pro-ividing an ideal weekend sightseeing situation. Britain's Queen Elizabeth Eliza-beth would -bestow the Honorary Order of the British Empire upon Charles Redd, LaSal live-stockman. live-stockman. He was one of five Americans to be decorated. dec-orated. The honor was in years of business and social so-cial contacts In t;he interest inter-est of fostering-, Anglo-American friendship. Moab City had advertised advertis-ed properties for 'sale that had been acquired in the purchase of . the Somerville ranch. The city needed only on-ly the water. ,20 YEARS AGO Hundreds of visitors had intended Moab's Centennial Centen-nial Fair, declared one of the best observances given giv-en in the state. It was estimated es-timated 1,500 spectators turned out. A High School homecoming homecom-ing party had been hosted during the Fair, and every graduating class from 1910 to 1947 was represented. About 300 people attended Supt. Helen M. Knight presided. Utaih school revenue was set at $26,000,000, an increase in-crease of 22 per cent. Dan Winbourn had been appointed as the County Game Warden. Former Grand County High School graduate, Dr. John H. Clark, was received receiv-ed into the American College Col-lege of Surgeons at New York City, one of the medical med-ical profession's highest honors. . Mr. and Mrs. Mart. R. Fish, the oldest married couple in Grand County, were honored at the Centennial Cen-tennial parade and present ed with a truck load of prize Sego coal. 40 YEARS AGO The 6th Annual County Fair gates opened. The stage was set for an exhibit ex-hibit hall, sports program, rodeo, and other events. A showing of live oil had been encountered by Midwest-Utah Oil at Elk Ridge test well. Thieves blew a large steel safe open with nitroglycerine nitro-glycerine at Taylor & Sons store at Thompson and stole $100 and ether items. The GCHS Alumni had announced funds from dances and entertainments would be collected during the winter to be used for scholarships. The executive committee were Mesdames L. L. Taylor, Boyd Hammond. Ham-mond. I. W. Allen, H. J. 'Kitlsen and Miss Helen Taylor. 60 YEARS AGO Utah had done herself proud at the Irrigation pongress in Sacramento, returning with 7 cash prizes, 7 trophies, and a bovine of the variety the famous brand of smoking lobacco was named for, a Durham .bull- won by Thomas Judd of LaVerkin Utah. F. B. Hammond of Moab was chosen Secretary Secre-tary of the Congress. " The Elgin Mutual Telephone Tele-phone Company had filed application with the Grand County Commission to operate op-erate telephone lines on county roads. The Bureau of Animal Industry In-dustry in Washington was bffering free vaccine for tock upon application. The Moab Irrigation fCompany had filed protest pro-test against P. Crouts' application ap-plication o appropriate tvvater from Mill Creek for tplacer mining on Wilson IMesa. i Ten yeans ago, in 1897, The Times was wondering why Moab couldn't have a water system; Mrs. D. 1H, Vance was operating 'the Darrow Hotel; and a new Ferry Boat had been completed for the Moab tFerry. i -Five years previously, in ''1902, The Times was boosting. for a court house; 'a petition had been circulated cir-culated to raise $1200 for a road to Gold Basin; and the high school had opened open-ed with 14 students. |