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Show dotting SacOKdJlZ 10 Years Ago Microwave "dishes" were installed to the tower tow-er near the downtown office of-fice of the Midland Telephone Tele-phone Co. The new equipment equip-ment was to provide TV reception and later was to be incorporated as additional ad-ditional microwave telephone tele-phone circuits for this area. The immediate purpose of the new equipment equip-ment was to attempt to provide more satisfactory satisfact-ory television for Moab Valley. "Lots of sandbars, but lots of fun," was the general opinion of some 2,000 people in 480 boats who completed the 196-mile 196-mile Friendship Cruise. According to Commodore Commo-dore Don Baldwin, it was the smoothest Cruiseyet held on the two rivers. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett Ben-nett met with Army and Air Force officials and demanded safety, a minimum min-imum of inconvenience and compensation for any damages to residents in Southeastern Utah during missile launchings from two Utah sites later that summer. 20 Years Ago In a phone conversation conversa-tion with Moab Mayor George Burck, Gilbert Kirkland, general production pro-duction manager for the Universal - International Movie Co. announced that Moab had been chosen as the site for the production produc-tion of a film that summer, sum-mer, called the "Son of Cochise". The cloud over the title to the "Seven Mile Claims," a group of fabulously fabu-lously rich mining claims which were owned own-ed by Nick Murphy and Gordon Babbel was completely com-pletely distroyed by the decision of District Judge L. Leland Larson. The Smith Laboratory of Moab had been placed on the list of Umpire Assayers by the Division of Raw Materials of the Atomic Energy Commission. Commis-sion. Grand County had just taken over maintenance of State Road 93, the ap-prach ap-prach from 150 into Arches Ar-ches National Monument. 40 Years Ago A huge brown bear which for some time past had been killing sheep WHson Mesa V Waterlo w on Titus k l . rifle. The Ides v hich had for several ment which ufl I' the cal sho -- equal of anv in , "v At a cost of sound equiPnie; very latest tvPt: mg installed Twenty -five enced men V ' 'A rolled for CcF Grand and Counties were, i- Part of the cre '' ner ranger stati, I No- F20. Twelve k V me" were fr- :?. County and U .:.;; ': Juan County. ' j;,-'' 60 Years AE0 ''' What was sir be the first tu-: seen in this ser discovered by y Walker near'hC'-The near'hC'-The animal was ', or 6 inches in" and the color 0 it, , was dark green i- ;" " with yellow. Iuai posed to be alar,.., . rapin. V ' The county had I completed the b of twelve miles of ' I from Anderson's F ' near Cisco to the' I rado-State line. In- places new road, I built. J |