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Show 4 Through the Files of JZacfowct . tzc(tovciicL And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Indici'.ions from Moab merchants mer-chants were that the community com-munity was experiencing a record year in holiday buying with business generally ex-P'-ricncing about a 30 per cent increase over any previous pre-vious year. E. R. Carter, postmaster, reported that total receipts at the Post Office for one day had totaled $1,071, the highest ever. Mitchell Melich, Moab attorney at-torney and president of Uranium Ur-anium Reduction Company, had been elected as first vice president of the Utah Mining Association. Plans to construct additional addi-tional school, facilities in Moab Mo-ab were expected to end the need for double sessions at both ine high school and elementary ele-mentary school. Four sub-committees had been appointed to study various var-ious aspects causing problems prob-lems at the Grand County jail. 20 YEARS AGO Reports from the Department Depart-ment of Fish and Game indicated indi-cated that hunting in a special spec-ial unit on the Book Mountains Moun-tains had proved to be 65 per cent successful with the main reason for- the low success caused by bad weather. The schools were preparing prepar-ing a number of Christmas programs to be held throughout through-out the month and decorations decora-tions in windows and classrooms class-rooms were being prepared. A recommendation had been made that a comprehensive compre-hensive program for water pollution control be started for the Colorado River Basin. The report was issued by the State and the U. S. Public Health Service. Due to heavy snow in the mountains, the Moab Lions . Club was encountering some: difficulty in obtaining a community com-munity Christmas tree. The lowest temperature reading in Mn.nh for the winter was 10 degrees above zero. 40 YEARS AGO Fcr the first time in history women were allowed to serve as jurors in Grand County, and 21 women had been named nam-ed as part of the 75 taxpayers taxpay-ers who would serve during the coming year. For two days bounties had been paid on predatory animals. ani-mals. The state auditor had then telegrammed to order the discontinuance of payment. pay-ment. The Lions Club was holding hold-ing a contest for high school students which would give a first prize of $5 to the winner. The essay contest was to deal with what a civic organization or-ganization could do for the community. The Moab town basketball team had proved victorious) in a tournament with Green River High School, Green River Town No. 2 and Moab GO YEARS AGO The U. S. Department of Agriculture had devised a plan to do away with the danger dan-ger of polluted water originating origin-ating on the National Fore-t which was later to be used for culinary purposes. Plans were under way for construction of a dam acro.-s the Green river to irrigate 240,000 acres of land. The plans called for an expenditure expendi-ture of $10 million and were to include 337 miles of canais and provide good agricultural agricultur-al land for from 20 to 50 thousand families. After a delay of ten years, work on the highline canal in western Colorado had begun. be-gun. The canal was to irrigate irri-gate 53,000 acres and would divert water from the Grand River near Palisade, abov-i Grand Junction. |