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Show y j f Through the Files of tfl& 'lift TrtS&fJLrttZa, The Times-Independent cawfw iCvCciAc m And the Grand Valley Time8 10 YEARS AGO The delimna of Moab schools due to the uranium impact was cited by Senator A. V. Watkins in a Congressional Congres-sional Hearing to discuss Public Laws 815 and 874, which provide school construe 'tion, operation and maintenance mainten-ance for federally impacted areas. Ed Drake had been elected president of the Moab Chamber. Cham-ber. The Band Mothers had organized or-ganized under president Mrs. Loa Schrader; vice president was Mrs. Dorthea Ludlow; Mrs. Ellen Nordfelt was secretary-treasurer. Several Moabites had attended at-tended a meeting with Governor Gover-nor George D. Clyde to protest pro-test non-residence tax which was keeping the movie industry indus-try out of Utah. The Governor Gover-nor and Commissioner Shoemaker Shoe-maker both felt a movie company com-pany desiring Utah's scenic background would not let the tax prohibit production however, how-ever, they declared it a legislative leg-islative issue. 20 YEARS AGO Plans were being made to house the AEC offices at Grand Junction, which would make it the uranium center of the U. S. The annual March of Dimes drive was on. The March of Dimes Ball would culminate the drive. Novelty dances, side shows and a cake and food sale would be conducted during the dance. Claude N. Taylor, cattleman cattle-man ,and Emmett Elizondo, sheepman, both of Fruita, were re-elected on the advisory advis-ory board of Grand grazing district No. 9- Moab was second in Basketball Bas-ketball league play, topped onlv bv North Emery. Utah" had hit an all time economic ec-onomic high in 1947, bank records re-cords indicated. A publicity campaign to publicize scenic areas was underway. The railroads were expecting a big tourist season. 60 YEARS AGO By a new ruling newspapers newspa-pers were forced to collect subscriptions promptly or be excluded from second class postal rates. Postmaster Johnson had been told in a Department order. John T. Loveridge was ele- cted president of the Southeastern South-eastern Utah Stock Growers Association, John Tangreen was vice president. Directors were J. H. Johnson, John E, Brown. Phil Crout and A. M. Robertson. C. A. Robertson was re-elected secretary-' treasurer. An old folks party hosting only those old enough to have grandchildren was hostessed by Mrs. Maxwell. Games were Progressive High Five and Flinch. Professor Johnson had returned re-turned from New York where he attended his mother's funeral, fu-neral, and reported financial conditions much worse there than at Moab. . Two more pianos of the "Jacobs Doll" make had been purchased by Hyrum Perkins and Willard Butt, of Bluff; Kuman Jones also owned one. |