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Show J t Through the Files of UL&y(l(SlCt &&CfcC(lCVlCL Times-Independent And the Grand Valley Times 10 YEARS AGO Interest in the forthcoming forth-coming November Municipal Munici-pal Election quickened as a second party named candidates. can-didates. The people's party par-ty convention was one of the largest ever held in Moab. The Citizen Party would meet later. A truck breakdown crosswide of the Moab canyon road blocked Highway High-way 160 for several hours. Traffic was re-routed to the new highway under construction. Deer Hunting would o-pen o-pen over the weekend and hunters were asked to turn in any information, 'concerning wild turkey 'herds encountered in an effort to get a count. Rail Traffic had been halted on the D&RJGW line due to a derailment near Thompson. A flu epidemic which had caused 15 percent absenteeism ab-senteeism at the ' high school was slowing down. AEC officials had visited visit-ed Moab- as part of a tour of AEC facilities in the na tion. They visited the U-tex U-tex Exploration mine and the Uranium Reduction company. 20 YEARS AGO An oil test on Big Flat west of Moab had: been verified by the Oil and Gas Journal. Tide Water Associated Oil Co. and Pacific Western Oil Company Com-pany would drill a deep test well. A block of ap-proimately ap-proimately 20,000 acres had been assembled. Taylor and Taylor Bros, had struck oil near Cisco in a shallow 1000 ft. deep well. Moab Red Devils had whipped Wasatch, 19-12, on the local field. They had also outscored Carbon High 19-6. Work would commence within a week on an extension ex-tension of the Arches National Na-tional Monument from the Windows to Firev Furnace and Delicate Arch. Bodies of World War II deceased were being returned re-turned to the intermoun-tain intermoun-tain area for burial. The first expatriation ship from the Pacific was due October 25. (State and local taxes for 1946 were higher in Utah in relation to income than in any other state, the Utah Foundation had revealed. Utah citizens paid 8.5 per cent on their total income for state and local taxes. Average for the western states was 7.4 percent. 40 YEARS AGO The Grand County stock growers and farmers had organized as the Stock Growers Association. Bert Allred was elected president; presi-dent; George O. Pattrson vice; W. R. McConkie secretary; sec-retary; Don Taylor Treasurer; Treas-urer; and John E. Pace, additional director. Delegates Dele-gates to the Salt Lake Con vention were Allred, W.D. Hammond and J. E. Snyder. Sny-der. Census enumerators were naimed for the school census cen-sus by the school board; 80 tons of coal at $10.50 per ton was purchased for use in the schools. Plans were announced to surface with gravel the 9 miles of highway stretch across Klondike. All bids had been rejected for the Cisco - Whitehorse road and the project would be re-advertised. The Manganese producers produc-ers had organized in Wash angton facasing attention on one of the most important import-ant sources of national wealth. 60 YEARS AGO Miss Zola Adams had written a letter to the editor ed-itor from the Provo University Uni-versity saying there was plenty of room for more students. "There will not be one student turned a-way a-way until the faculty is living in tents," she said in reply to reports there were no living accommodations. accommo-dations. Bids for janitor work at the Cour'house were advertised, ad-vertised, drawing four applicants. ap-plicants. Low bid for winter win-ter work was $10 per month; for summer $5 per month. Five years ago (1902) column reported Plug Hat Kelley operating the Little Gem Saloon at Castleton: Miss Eva Taylor teaching primary grade in Moab; W. H. Allred writing a letter to the editor objecting to the incorporation of Moab. Cured meat had doubled in value in five years; dry . salt bacon was selling at 16 cents a pound. Ten years previously, 1887, Ted Taylor was running run-ning the Pioneer Saloon in had started work on the river road;1 Jr. R. Lumpkin a stone cutter, arrived in Moab; and W. H. Allred was wanting an acre of sugar cane worked up on shares. |