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Show gpn . Throag'a the files of 10 YEARS AGO The proposed Canyonlands National Park area of southeastern south-eastern Utah was inspected ' by the Director of the National Na-tional Park Service from Washington, D. C. He was guided by Bates E. Wilson, Superintendent of Arches National Na-tional Monument. A request for assistance in school transportation was made by fourteen residents of Castle Valley .The residents resi-dents there were then transporting trans-porting their youngsters into school each day. Members of the Moab Golf and Country Club decisively voted down a proposal that would have turned the Moab Golf Course over to Moab City for municipal operation. A circus sponsored by the VFW had been closed down lor more than an hour while the owners of the circus obtained ob-tained a license from County officials. Monte Christo Uranium Corporation had voted a reverse re-verse split in stock and changed the name of the company to Monte Christo Corporation. 20 YEARS AGO Work on the Shafer Trail Road was nearing completion comple-tion with well over two thirds of the blasting completed. President of the Rocky Mountain Telephone Association, Associ-ation, J. W. Corbin of Moab, was to preside at the annual meeting of the group in Salt Lake City. dollar toward erection of a Pony Express memorial in Washington, D. C. W. Avorell Harriman, mu-. mu-. tual security administrator and an unsuccessful contender contend-er for the Democratic presidential presi-dential nomination was to tour Utah. 40 YEARS AGO The political campaign in Grand County was to be officially of-ficially launched within a week with both the democrats demo-crats and Republicans to name a slate of candidates to compete for local office. The US Bureau of Mines had named fourteen placer mining districts in Utah. Eight of the areas were along al-ong the Colorado River and its tributaries in Southeastern Southeast-ern Utah. 60 YEARS AGO Secretary Knox Patterson of the Commercial Club had received a letter from the Commissioner of the General Land Office in Washington D. C. indicating that a resolution resol-ution passed by the club in regard to land to be sold un-' der the Carey Act in Spanish Valley would be considered when the matter came up before the general land office. of-fice. A group of three Moab men had been appointed to look after collection of exhibits for Grand County's float for the National Irrigation congress con-gress parade. Two cattlemen residing five miles west of Gateway on the Dolores River were arrested and charged with cattle theft. Utah was mentioned in a report by the U.S. Geolog- icl Survey. The renew he beginning 9f , tion m several plat. 7 the state. ldCcs ar0J |