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Show ' jf J ' ,v-'v '' J Through the Files of U04(t(4ll tZCLC&CifCl'tCC The Times-Independent f And the Grand Valley Times 10 YEARS AGO The Chamber announced letters had been received from six major movie production pro-duction companies, and the movie outlcyk had brightened bright-ened up. Preliminary surveys were almost completed for the new Arches National Monument Mon-ument road, and work was scheduled to begin shortly. A national study of incomes in-comes proved more Grand County residents were in higher 'income brackets than ever before, and a smaller proportion, in the . The operating statements for June, and the previous 6-rnonths " period, were .re-, viewed, and deemed satls-. satls-. "factory , by the Cornraission. low income bracket. Texas Tech. had assured the Chamber of Commerce Commer-ce they would establish a summer camp in Moab to take advantage of the geographical geo-graphical location for field work. 'Dr. William Palmer had arrived in Moab to take over the practice of Dr. Jay P. Munsey, who would leave shortly for a 6-year medical mission for the Seventh - day Adventist Ohurxjh in Libya. A large crowd payed last respects to 60-year Moab resident George A. Newell at funeral services in the . LDS Church. 20 YEARS AGO ;.. ' Dr. j; .W. '.Williams was ', honored at San Francisco Lfon$, Cluib' as .the oldest . . Iioh at- the meet. The Mo-"; Mo-"; ab;, delegate was 91. Salt-Lake . City . photo-. photo-. grapher, , Al W. 'Morton, a.nrLiarty .began an 18-day float trip' down, ;- the colo-'"'- i-ado "river ' from ...Moab to ' , '.te''-Ferry. They . planned to' take ; 500 feet of . color-": .ed;;i6ram.;; film -as. perman-'ve,nty perman-'ve,nty record of the trip. Joe Hammond, 79 year old Thompson resident, had declined an appearance appear-ance at the Centennial Parade in Salt Lake City because of heat. He was one of the original Bluff settlers in 1885. Dr. and Mrs. Melville T. Cook, of Baton Rouge, La., spent several days touring scenic areas near Moab as part of a trip throughout the West. Moab was an out standing feature of their trip, they noted. Wayne R. McConkie, Grand county high school mechanical arts instructor for 12 years, had accepted a position as head of the industrial arts and trades Department, at Dixie College. Col-lege. Moab cattlemen had contracted con-tracted their weaner calves for f all delivery at the highest prices ever received. receiv-ed. 19 cents, for we,aners.j, 18 cents for heifers. : '.' 40 YEARS AGO Second Lt. John J. Wil-liams, Wil-liams, son of Dr. ,and-Mrs. J, W-. Williams; had traveled trav-eled to Moab to visit his family enroute' to Salt Lake City to exhibit a new fighter plane? Williams wa3 net allowed to land at Moab Mo-ab in the plane .-because there was no ' established fieia. '' ' - Oil was back in Moab headlines. A live showing had been struck at the Lisbon Lis-bon well, drilled by Union Oil. Diie to the poisonous character of the gas, drilling drill-ing was suspended until a control head could be secured sec-ured and attached. Good progress was be: , ing made by the State Road Commission in conduction con-duction of a modern highway high-way through eastern Utah, joining the Colorado highway high-way at the Utah line near Mack. The Cane Creek wel'ls had been abandoned, the salt dome theory was considered con-sidered a big factor in -U-tah. Pictures 6f the structure struc-ture at Cane " Cr'ek, arid" salt cores, were published in the Times.""' 60 YEARS AGO The State Board of sheep -Commissioners had issued a general,, "dapping'" order for all sheep, to rid the country of,-, shabbies.. . Wedding bells', 'rang 'at the M. 'H,:;'Darro'w home ' when "Charles," Arthur ' Lov.'-.' eridge,. married Miss Nora Darrow. , ' - " Work on 'the pipe-line, to bring water ,, to Moab had lagged for some ctime but was on its way again, -i After construction had-, begun, be-gun, .it was learned,' the ismaJi ' .pipe being laid would not carry the flow of water; new 4 inch pipe had ' to be sent for. :"" -y Hon. J. D. Wadley, of Pleasant Grove, . had , been in Moab contracting for choice Moab fruit to be exhibited at the .Irrigation - Congress in Sacramento. ; He wanted a wagon load, and said with Moab; fruit he couldn't lose. |