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Show J ' Through the Files of Ui(Z(XfelttCl ZClCfotVCl'lCt The Times-Independent And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Moab City was advertising advertis-ing for bids for a new water system for the community. Ground breaking ceremonies ceremon-ies were held at the new LD3 Chapel site. The suit filed a year ago by trailer court owners of Moab against the City charging charg-ing discrimination of charges for sewer, water and licensing, licens-ing, was dropped, according to the agreement reached between be-tween the owners and city officials. The agreement placed plac-ed the trailer courts on a straight commercial cost rather ra-ther than a per unit charge. Over one hundred dramatists dramat-ists and musicians were to participate in the "Praise Ye The Lord," an LDS MIA festival fes-tival held in Moab. 20 YEARS AGO ' A resolution was adopted by the Lions Club urging that the next legislature amend the state hospital law to permit per-mit counties to increase the hospital fund levy from a maximum of one mill to as much as five mills if needed. The County Commission voted vot-ed to give public notice of its intention to ask an additional addition-al budget of SJS'JO to operate the Grand County Hospital until the first of the year. Streets were made slippery by the year's first snowfall. Approximately 0!I0 people were guests of the Southeastern Southeast-ern Utah Wildlife Federation at its annual venison fry and dance held in the Arches Ballroom. The money from the dance was to be used to improve hunting and fishing in the area. A release from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Washington placed the average aver-age Utah farm wage at $147 per month. The new federal aid highway high-way between Monticello and the Colorado state line recently rec-ently completed was officially official-ly accepted by the state and federal engineers. The Utah State Road Commission Com-mission spent $10.4 million for construction, maintenance and policing the slate highways high-ways during the fiscal year ended in June. 40 YEARS AGO The Tuesday Afternoon club was giving a dance at the Woodman Hall for the benefit bene-fit of the Moab football team. Moab and Payson were to meet in Moab. The Moab team was champion of region re-gion five, and Payson champion cham-pion of reg:on 3. Two members of the board of trusters of the local hos-p;!il hos-p;!il board were to be elected elect-ed Dec. 5, voting to be done in conjunction with the school election. An official canvass of the votes made little change in the outcome of the election. Approximately 103,900 acres ac-res of land were opened to . homestead in Wyoming, New Mexico, Utah and California. 93,000 acres in San Juan county coun-ty were involved. The land offered few agricultural opportunities, op-portunities, however, due to its rough nature, the Times stated. 60 YEARS AGO The County Commission met and canvassr'd votes. It was found that Henry Grimm and John Brown had tied, which necessitated the drawing of cuts, which Brown won. Taft carried the county by 17 votes. vot-es. The fall term of court was taken up mostly by irriga tion matters in the case of Moab Irrigation Co. vs. Wilson Wil-son Mesa Irrigation Co. Attempts At-tempts to settle out' of court had been unsuccessful. A petition from Cisco citizens citi-zens asked that a bridge be built across Cisco Wash. It was tabled and the clerk ordered or-dered to correspond with petitioners pe-titioners regarding the estimated esti-mated cost of the proposed bridge. Grand county was attempting attempt-ing to collect property taxes from transient stock owners from surrounding counties who were using Grand coun ty rangelands. |