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Show Leering Backward THROUGH THE FILES OF THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT AND THE GRAND VALLEY TIMES 10 Years Ago Superintendent Robert Sundwall said this week that architects Panushka and Peterson Pet-erson would be in Moab Monday, Jan. 30, to present final plans for the two elementary elemen-tary school additions and probably Star Hall. Moab firemen battled a blaze at the J & N Machine Shop that caused an estimated estimat-ed $2000 damage. Six cases of infectious hepatitis hepa-titis had been diagnosed in Moab and a te,am of Utah State Department of Public Health officials worked with County Health Nurse Hannah Pittman in an effort to pinpoint pin-point the cause. 20 Years Ago President Eisenhower in his budget message urged the appropriation of $700,000 for a road into Arches National Monument. Construction would get underway shortly after July 1, 1957, if the plan was approved. The board of directors of the Grand County Chamber of Commerce voted by a narrow margin to hire a full time executive director to handle chamber activities in the future. fut-ure. Staff members and patients completed the move from the old Grand County hospital to the new Dr. I. W. Allen hospital after an inspection was completed by federal crews. The first baby to born at the new hospital was a son born to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mehl. 40 Years Ago The extreme depth of snow in the Cisco and Westwater district, added to below-zero weather had made conditions facing the livestock industry in that section very serious. Sheepmen of the area were having to buy feed to carry flocks through the cold spell. A crew of 28 men was working for the Bureau of Reclamation on survey work on the Colorado River Basin area between Thompson and the state line. The Utah Southern No. 1 test well on the Cisco dome was planning on depths a-round a-round 7,000, a record for that area. 60 Years Ago F. B. Hammond, representative represen-tative from Grand County to the State Legislature, announced an-nounced that he would again ask the state to reimburse , Grand County for the $7500 it expended in 1913 for the building of the bridge across the Green River at Elgin. This bill was passed by both houses at the last legislature, but was vetoed by former governor Spry when it came to himfot his signature. Moab was now enjoying her first winter weather after i storm deposited about five inches of snow and brought much-needed moisture. |