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Show y y j Through the Files of '' gf-Aft P?fJt1t?f7. The Times-Independent ZZ&CteW'AlW' And the Grftnd Valley Time y , 10 YEARS AGO "Movie fever hit Moab after the Chamber industry indus-try and movie committee announced a potential of five m;.vies was seen for Moab in a 90 day period. M;:ab City had terminated termin-ated the contract with the Child Ccnrtruction Co. for completion and correction of construction of the sewage sew-age disposal plant, and preparations were made to use the expensive structure. struc-ture. - Rotarians from 3 states were to assist with chartering chart-ering activities for the newily formed Moab Rotary Ro-tary 'ciu-b. A low bid of $581,013 was awarded to Strong Construction Company for the new Arches National Monument entrance road. G. P. Decker, of Monti-cello, Monti-cello, had informed the Chamber he would move headquarters of a new trucking enter-prize to Moab Mo-ab soon. Grand Opening for a new $100,000 swimming pool in Moab was planned. The pool was built with county, government, and city funds. A contract to continue geological survey work on the Pack Creek Water Project was signed between be-tween the county and U. S. Geological Survey. A pair of burglars had been sentenced to one to twenty years in prison for burgalarizing the Charles A. Steen home in Moab. The pair were discovered while sleeping off effects of a raid on the liquor cab inet. They had apparently burglarizing the Charles home .taking jewelry, and a small coin collection; they lhad a loaded gun propped between them when found.' The 5teens were in Europe at the time. 20 YEARS AGO A historical pagent, "Moab, Far Land of Blood and Sand", was to be presented pre-sented by the arts department depart-ment of the Centennial committee at the Grand County Fair. Utah State Centennial queen, Miss Ca-leen Ca-leen Robison, and ,her attendants, at-tendants, would attend. Several Moab women had won ribbons at the home arts istoow in Salt Lake City, staged for the Centennial Cen-tennial exposition. Mrs. Mars Pope won an award for a pieced cotton quilt; Mrs. Emma Walker, a girl's knit dress and a filet trim table cloth, and knitted shawl. Miss Carolyn Car-olyn Miller won an award for tea towels, and Mrs. Nellie Shafer for hot pads. A $115,562 school budget bud-get was adopted without change or dissenting vote. The last year's budget had been $93,482. Lester : Taylor and C. S. Thomson had attended a meeting in Salt Lake City representing the advisery board of Grand grazing di strict to discuss What could be done about the Taylor grazing act. The Ides theater had installed in-stalled a new screen, one of the best manufactured, to produce more realistic picture. The Southeastern Utah Wildlife Federation had chosen Emit T. Pittman for new game warden. State Senator and Mrs. J. Francis Fowler, of Og-den, Og-den, had visited Moab, .declaring .de-claring all it lacked was publicity. tO YEARS AGO The Cane Creek Oil Boom, which two years ago bad been declared Mother Nature's Christmas Gift to Grand County, had fizzled. Orders to abandon No. 1 Prommel well on Cane Creek dome brought to an end the first phase of the exploration for oil on the Colorado river structures. Oil possibilities were exhausted on the No. 1 Kimball, on Gibson Dome, when after a good show for a few barrels the drill went back into salt. The first of the tests, the Frank Shafer, blew in as a gusher, burned down the rig, and again at 3550 ft. made another good showing. show-ing. But operations were suspended at 5,000 feet. More than 80 percent of the formation below the first strike showed salt. Tne second test was the No. 1 J. H. Shafer, 5 miles farther down the river. This well also went through thick beds of salt and was abandoned at 5. 862 feet in black shale. Oil men were studying the salt structure and disagreeing. dis-agreeing. Some believed further tests should1 be made to see if the salt capped an oil pool. Some were satisfied that enough attempts had been made already to prove the field. Hundreds of Moabites had congregated to pay respects re-spects to Max B. Taylor, prominent business man! His brother, Don was appointed ap-pointed t0 fill his pkice as a Commissioner. The schol had received a petition from citizens of Carbon Black, near Cisco, asking for establishment of a "school at that point. 60 YEARS AGO Dr. Williams was called to sew up the heads of of Marshall Wlnborne and one of his -prisoners, both wounded with the Marshall's Mar-shall's biHard cue during settlement of a row at Grout's Saloon. The town barber Charles Fish was injured whilo helping raise a heavy hay cable pole on his brother's farm at .Castleton.- Moab beys were grinding UP their old razors, and shaving shav-ing themselves. Merfcins and Pearse were manufacturing brick at Elgin El-gin and would put up . a number of new buildings when the brick were fin-ished. fin-ished. A Salt Lake City, man had voluntarily surrendered surrender-ed to Grand Junction authorities,' au-thorities,' . who had issued a: -war-rent .for his arrest. He was accused of selling 150,000 shares of Wilson Mesa GOld Mining Co. stock for $10,000, without clear title to the stock. He claimed his title was gpod |