OCR Text |
Show d y f Through the Files of JtaOki&t& ?ClCfcUKZet Times-Independent Y And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO A new Prinster Brother super market was scheduled to open in Moab on South Main. The company had home offices in Grand Junction, Junc-tion, Colorado. Tunnel workers of Morrison Morri-son - Knudson Construction Co. blasted through the fina few feet of rock to reach the head of Bootlegger Canyon Can-yon and open the 7.000 foot railway tunnell that was to serve the potash mine and mill of Texas Gulf Sulphur Company. Due to a number of delays in construction, the new high school was not scheduled sched-uled to cpen until about 2 weeks after the first day of school. The biggest jump in oil and gas exploration to hit Grand County in a number of years was noted and was based mainly on announced plans for gas lines in the northern and eastern por-tions por-tions of the county. 20 YEARS AGO A new access road to the Polar Mesa uranium district on the north end of the La Sal mountains had been approved ap-proved by the Atomic Energy En-ergy Commission and was to include at least 17 miles of gravel - surfaced highway. A battle against haloge-tons, haloge-tons, a poisonous weed which infested the desert ranges of the area was under un-der way with a number of agencies involved in the project. The State ' Road Commission Commis-sion was busy on betterment work in the Moab area and a mile or more of new gravel was laid at Blue Hill in upper up-per Moab Valley and resurfacing resur-facing was also proceeding west of Moab. June was a record month for visitors in Arches Na tional Monument and some 1232 cars entered the monument monu-ment and 3,939 visitors were registered. The Elaine Shoppe, Moahi wearing apparel store, was purchased by Mrs. Margaret Peterson of Burbank, Calif. 40 YEARS AGO Governor George H. Dern had indicated that he would not be a candidate for reelection re-election as governor but would seek the Vice-presidential nomination. Many secrets of Utah's ancient civilization were expected ex-pected to be revealed in a trip down the Colorado River Riv-er from Hanksville to Lee's Ferry by a group of well known archeologists. Approximately 75,000 fish were to be planted annually in LaSal Mountain streams under the supervision of the U.S. Forest Service by the terms of a fish stocking , pal', icy that had been adopted . iM by the service. Two men and one woman were arrested at Pat Canyon ; a short distance east of Price and were charged with having passed counterfet bills at Moab and Woodside. One of Moab's old landmarks land-marks was being razed, the old livery stable in the rear of the Moab co-op store, which was built in , about 1900 was being torn down and the' materials -in the bunding were to be used by C.S. Thompson. 60 YEARS AGO After study by a number of people after waters of the Grand River dropped, it was agreed that the warping of the bridge was not caused by expansion but rather by a settling of the piers. James L. Wade and Albert M. Rogers had reported that assay of five samples of uranium ore taken from their claims on upper pack creek was running about $350 per ton. The State office of Fish and Game had announced that it was obtaining a shipment ship-ment of catfish eggs to be sent for planting in the Jor-don, Jor-don, Green and Grand Rivers. It was believed that if the fish thrived in the waters, they would rid the waters of some of the carp there since the channel catfish consumes a large amount of carp each day. |