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Show SJ Lok'n9 Backward Q IKxS Through the Files of J The Times",ndePendent JA Grand Valley Times Qs 10 years ago Telephone lines on South Main in Moab went down Tuesday afternoon causing a cessation of service for more than 500 phones, the accident occurred at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, when a truck loaded with a combine attempted passing pas-sing beneath the telephone tele-phone cables near the Poor Boy Drive In on South Main. The driver was turning his combine-loaded truck onto a side street when the high part of the combine connected with the main feeder lines of the Midland Telephone Company. Two poles were snapped snap-ped and about 400 pairs of lines fell to the ground, interrupting telephone service locally for about 500 phones. "All the cables but one were down," stated J. Walace Corbin, Vice President Pres-ident of Midland. Crews worked most of the night repairing the damage and putting in replacement poles for the two that were snapped. The workers were still hard at work Wednesday morning and Corbin stated it would be till at least Thursday night before service could be fully restored. "We estimate the amount of damage to be around $1500 to $2000," Corbin stated, "not counting count-ing the amount of service interruption and inconvenience incon-venience caused by the accident." 20 years ago A total of 27 busines--smen had signed a formal request for removal of parking meters in Moab by Wednesday, with only two who had been presented pre-sented with the resolution declining. The request which will be presented to Mayor K.E. McDougald and the city council in the near future states: "We believe that continuance contin-uance of parking meters in front of business establishments estab-lishments to be unnecessary unneces-sary and detrimental to the business economy and future progress of Moab. We believe these parking meters to be discriminatory discrimina-tory to downtown busin-ess. busin-ess. Immediate removal of parking meters would assure the public and business alike, a confident future in the economy and progress of our city and good business." 40 years ago Belief that canyons of the Colorado river were explored as early as 1534-more than 200 years before the heretofore accepted ac-cepted date-was expressed expres-sed today by members of an expedition that traveled travel-ed by boat from Hite, Utah to Lee's Ferry. Dr. R.G. Frasier, Utah Copper company physician, physi-cian, said he had photographs photo-graphs of the "weathered and apprently authentic figures" 1534 chiseled in the rock walls of Glen canyon. It had been generally conceded that the first white man to explore canyons of the Colorado was Father Escalante, a Catholic missionary, who crossed the Colorado river at Padre canyon, 24 miles north of Lee's Ferry in 1776. 60 years ago A number of dirty, filthy conditions in Moab, which have jeopardized the health and injured the appearance of the community com-munity for a number of years past, will no longer be tolerated, according to the decision of the board of town trustees at a meeting held Monday night. The action in demading a general cleanup clean-up was the result of a visit to Moab Sunday by S.L. Schwartz, inspector for the state board of health. Mr. Schwartz gave Moab a brief inspection and was greatly displeased with the conditions he saw. Inspector Schwartz while in Moab expressed surprise that so little cleaning up had been done since his visit last year. He stated that some outhouses and hog-pens in the center of town are a disgrace to any civilized community, and declared that the people generally should demand that not a single one of these places be allowed to remain as they are now. The inspector inspec-tor intimated that Moab's rating this year in the clean-town contest would be very low, due to the failure to improve conditions condi-tions the past year. |
