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Show j m Through the Files of 10 YEARS AGO Drivers Education was introduced in-troduced in the Moab schools with 34 hiL'h school, students enrolled. Edway Redd, general gen-eral manager of Redd Motors, Mo-tors, had provided the school with a driver's ed car. Grand County high school had been accorded full accreditation ac-creditation by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Education. The impact of uranium on the Moab area was disclosed to Moab Rotarians in a speech by Mitchell Melich, president of Uranium Reduction Reduct-ion and a Utex official. Construction on the new Miller's Moab Coop supermarket super-market south of downtown Moab was nearing completion The Empire Furniture Com pany would close its Moab store, moving all remaining stock to Grand Junction, manager Ken Hyde had announced. an-nounced. The Moab Chamber would place greater emphasis on tourism in 1958. A SE Utah delegation would meet with Governor George D. Clyde to discuss the nonresident non-resident tax which was claimed claim-ed to be keeping the movie industry out of Utah. Three States Supply, Inc., had opened new offices in Moab in the former Moab Garage Building. The American Power Boat Association had aDDroved the Can von Countrv River Marathon. Mara-thon. Four classes of boats were sanctioned by the APBA A rjnlio clinic, to dispense third shots, was scheduled in Moab. 20 YEARS AGO Blair Burwell. Grand Junction Junc-tion mining engineer, was in Washington on matters pertaining per-taining tn uranium deposits of SE Utah and western Colorado. The Community Youth Council had scheduled ' d meeting. The Green Anhid had been discovered as the scoundrel responsible for sabataging the peach industry in Grand County. It had been proven the pest was a Peach Mosaic Mos-aic carrier. The Moab Lions had met; president J. E. Kerby officiated. offici-ated. The club voted to take a trio over the new road in Arches National Monument in coniunction with a picnic, in March. They also voted to help obtain the required .200 signers to keep the hospital Cooperative plan in effect. New directors chosen for the First National B-ank of Moab were J. A. Scorup, W. R. McConk'e, Andrew Somer-ville. Somer-ville. R. J. Fletcher, and Mitchell Melich. Mr. Scorup was president. 40 YEARS AGO More people were patroniz ing the library. Circulation of books during 1927 . was nearly 15.000, an increase op 9G2 over the previous year. Tom and Lester Taylor had successfullv bid for grazing lands of the Max B. Taylor estate. Quicksand was causing slow progress on the Shafer No. 1 test well. T. W. Branson, a former Commissioner, had passed a-wav a-wav at 83 years of age. A wrestling bout would be staged at the Ides theater in connection with the regular picture show. Claude Young, of Monticello. and Charley Mason, N. M. middleweight champ, were the main features. fea-tures. 1 YEARS AGO The last legislature had made changes in laws governing gov-erning transient stock, but-little but-little attention was being paid to the new provisions. The law amendments were published to refresh their minds. v Tn sn'te of the fact half of the last fruit crop was destroyed des-troyed bv frost, shipments in 1907 included 2.510 boxes of annles. 2.313 boxes of pears, 4.022 boxes of peaches, 2.766 of plums, and 47 boxes of cherries. There were 19 cars of apples and 1-V2 cars of - pears. Value of fruit shipped from Elgin was es- timated at $400. and 60.000 veung fruit trees were set at E'fin: 75 percent lived, Utah h?d won the grand prize at the National Irrigation Congress Con-gress at Sacramento in fruit category. School population of Grand County was estimated at 355: the county drew $1,035 from the state school fund. During the first 10 years after Grand county was organized or-ganized there was filed for record with the county recorder re-corder 2,472 instruments; in the next 7 years there were 9,700. A ferry ordinance had been passed for Mayor Red McDonald Mc-Donald of Green River. There had been a total of 25T tons of ice stored for the summer; all ice houses were full. The late thaw interferred but ice was still 9 inches thick. As usual, J. F. Hall did the cutting. |