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Show bolting ftechrmd THROUGH THE FILES OF THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT AND THE GRAND VALLEY TIMES 10 Years Ago The long delayed sewage disposal plant for Moab City might be built in 1967 if tentative figures of engineering engineer-ing firm for the project held up, Mayor Winford Bunce announced this week. The Allen Memorial Hospital Hospit-al registered staff nurses withdrew their blanket resignations resig-nations after reaching an agreement on salary and administrative problems. Texas Gulf Sulphur Company's Comp-any's Potash Division paid nearly two hundred thousand dollars in property taxes to the Grand County Treasurer. Atlas Minerals President, R. F. Hollis announced the purchase of all of Charles Steen's remaining interests in the famed MiVida claims. Sale price was around $1 million, Mr. Hollis said, payable over a three year period. "Keep Christ in Christmas" would again be the theme of the Moab Lions Club Christmas Christ-mas decorating contest in Moab Valley. An almost unprecedented, but welcome, .25 inch rain, deluged Moab, sending debris filled runoffs into the flood-vulnerable flood-vulnerable areas of the city. 20 Years Ago City crews would install culverts to control irrigation water if residents would purchase them, it was announced. Work was resumed on the Mexican Hat uranium mill after a four week strike. A state legislature group flew over Grand and other parts of the state seeking sites for a new state park. Suggested Suggest-ed was Castle Valley, Fisher Towers and Land of Standing Rocks. A school census showed over 5,000 residents in Grand County. The Christmas lights were turned on in Moab to open the holiday season. The Chamber had released "Moab's Million Dollar Circle," Cir-cle," a panoramic chart inviting industries to examine Moab as a location site. 40 Years Ago A meeting of the county board of education was held and voted to cooperate in the erection of a municipal swimming swim-ming pool at Moab, a W.P.A. project sponsored by the Moab town board. An appropriation of $650 was granted for this purpose, to be expended in purchasing material. Rare Metals, Inc. of Utah, was reported making progress with its plans to install the new Pitts-Osborne concentration process at Moab by constructing construct-ing a mill which would treat the low-grade carnotite ores of the Utah-Colorado carnotite belt. Actual operations started on the Cane Creek anticline down the river from Moab this week when H. L. Rath, manager of the Cane Creek Oil Co. arrived in Moab with a crew of men. The standard rig and equipment equip-ment which was then on the river would be moved to the new drilling location and the test spudded in before Jan. 1. Official notice of a cash grant of $27,000 was received by the county this week for the erection of a new court house. A deal was closed this week whereby J. Reed Lance sold his coal mine in Crescent canyon to Leslie Foy. Moab's "Country Store" festival, to raise funds for staging a community Christmas Christ-mas observance, was slated to take place on Dec. 12. Plans were going forward, and early results showed it to be one of the most successful fund raising events to be held in this area. 60 Years Ago The Midland Telephone Co. ordered the materials for completing the phone line from Thompson to Green River. Contractor V.R. Bush had commenced the erection of the new Moab Garage. Col. C. E. Loose, Governor William Spry and a party oi mining men visited Big Indian Mine this week. President Wilson withdrew from entry some 86,000 acres of land in Grand County as a petroleum reserve. The high school alumni association was planning its second annual party. The charter for the First National Bank of Moab had been issued. The bank was making preparations to open for business in the Cooper-Martin Cooper-Martin store, pending the erection of a new building. |