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Show t S Through the Files of XLX&ftttCl t&CfcUJLCllCt The Times-Independent f And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Frontier Airlines announced announc-ed that daily service to Mo- ab was to begin July 1. The Moab Post Office stamped all air mail with a specially designed stamp to commemorate commem-orate the inauguration of the new air service to Moab. Max Groom, Needles, Cal-fiornia, Cal-fiornia, topped all previous speed records with a time of 4 hours and 3 minutes in Mie River Marathon race. Sixty four boats took part in the race. Grand County High School hired two new coaches. John Benson was to act as hca.l basketball coach. He also directed the summer recreation recre-ation program that year. New head football conch was Glen Richeson, former football star at Western State College at Gunnison.. Colorado. 20 YEARS AGO Assessment work on mining min-ing claims had been suspended suspend-ed by the President for one year. Claim owners had completed work on their claims in some instances, and they wore told they would be able to credit that work to the next year. Grand County farmers elected el-ected George White, Howard Lance a nd Lloyd Somorville to serve as Soil Conservation supervisors. Appointed by the State soil conservation committee were C. S. Thomson Thom-son and Sid Pace. These five were to direct the program pro-gram and operations of the local SCS district. A warning from City Water Wa-ter Superintendent H. K. Baty against the wasting of water in cooling and sprinkling sprink-ling systems was issued. Strict regulations governing the use of water would Ifa put in effect if users did no! cooperate. Swanc Kerby was given a coniract to furnish rodeo stock for the next year at Oiem. lie had f i i.e ii I s.ock for that show and the cn s in Vernal and Santa -qti'n in Utah, and Rifle and Delta in Colorado that summer. 40 YEARS AGO A chamber of commerce was to become a reality with the election of officers in the very near futuie. Serving as chairman of the forming committe was H. W. Bal'sley. L. L. Taylor was temporary secretary. Drilling eperations on the John L. Shafer No. 1-A oil well in the Cane Creek dome area were discontinued. Too much stilt had been encountered, encoun-tered, according to officials of Utah Southern Oil Refining Refin-ing Co. Humors of helium gas m Ihe Utah-Colorado area were discountid by (luster Harper, Har-per, Denver oil scout and publisher of "The Truth About Oil." Fishing licenses went on saie. Resdeii! fishieg iie-cn.es iie-cn.es for ladies and boys said for SI. Resident combination com-bination licenses were $.1.0(1. 60 YEARS AGO The ferry broke loose from its cables while it was c.ir-rying c.ir-rying tvo wagons and four horses across the liver. Ferryman S:. cks cut t'.H gay ropes, which probably sav- d it from sinking. lie and his passeiyer. Will Your.g ef Grayson. Us. d planks from the floor as oars and rout d to shei c. landaii; at Coarthi use Wash The party making a boat trip from Green River to Moab and back again reported re-ported a fine return trip. They made the journey, a distance of 170 miles, in only on-ly "ii hours ar.d !." minutes. As a. result ef the trip. Captain Cap-tain V. C. Roff and II. K. Blake made a trip to Dvi-ver Dvi-ver in an effort to secure financing for a boat line to provide passenger and freigh1 service U'tween Moab and Green River. Tho County published a notice 'hat due to ihe high water condition of the river, persons used the ferry at their own risk. Grand County Coun-ty would not be responsible for the safety of persons or property on the ferry at the Moab or Dewey crossings. |