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Show f 0 Through the Files of JLaa&UlCi GOCfoUACVlCt The Times-Ir.depeudent And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Texas Tech College was launching its new Fine Arts Center in Moab, with two art courses and a feature writing workshop each lasting last-ing thi oe weeks. Two members of the Red Rock Squadron, Civil Air Patrol, Pa-trol, Lts. Dick and Floyee Wells, parlicipated in the. search for two missing Sail; Lake City airmen. The two men were found between Blanding and Hite. A course in the use and operation of Chenox, a self- contained breathing apparatus, appar-atus, was recently completed complet-ed by a number of uranium miners in the area. Two tests into the Castle-gate Castle-gate formation near West-water West-water in Grand County wore to be made in the near future fu-ture by Oil, Inc., of Salt Lake City. 50 YEARS AGO A total of 792 people visited visit-ed Arches and registered their names on Easter Sunday. Sun-day. A Utah Cooperative Fin; Fighters training meeting for Grand and San Juan Counties was held with visiting vis-iting officials from Salt Lake City. Moab was host to Blinding Blind-ing and , Monticello High Schools at the first music festival of Grand and San Juan Counties. Tlans were made to make it an annual event. The Atomic Energy Commission Com-mission was asking for bids on a contract for ner'al pho-toaraphy pho-toaraphy and the preparation of geologic maps covering approximately 212 square miles of land in the uranium belt of western Colorado and eastern Utah. 40 YEARS AGO Four local sheepmen sold their clips but the market was slow. The State Road Commission Commis-sion wa3 calling for bids for gravelling approximately 9 miles of road on Klondike Ridge on the Moab-Thomp-son highway. Rev. and Mrs. .Tonathon Wood loft for Clarksburg, West Virginia following a three year stay in Moab, where Rev. Wood was pastor pas-tor at the Moab Baptist Church. 60 YEARS AGO The county commissioners wrote to commissioners of Emery County asking for a meeting to discuss matters pertaining to the bridge across the river at that place. The legislature appropriated ap-propriated $19,000 for this purpose. Supt. Meador of the telephone tele-phone company was in Monticello Mon-ticello repairing phone lines and discovered a number of dead cattle in the Dry Valley Val-ley country. Commissioner John E. Brown and the county clerk opened the ferry bids for the Dewey ferry and awarded the contract for the next year to Geo. A. Combs cf Castleton. He offered to Qp-erate Qp-erate the ferry for $20 per month and the ferry tolls. |
