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Show A s f 0 j Through the Files of And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO For the first time since Frontier Airlines had started start-ed making daily flights into in-to Moab, more passengers enplaned from here than arrived. ar-rived. Twenty-five events were being planned for Green River's Ri-ver's Cowboy Days with qualifications and restrictions restrict-ions being kept to a minimum min-imum to encourage participants. partici-pants. The Calfornia Zephyr had reverted (to "flag-stop" bas- is at Thompson due to a loss in passenger traffic at the southeastern Utah stop. Directors cf the Utah State Fress Association met in Mor.b for their regular monthly board meeting. Building construction in Grand County was nearly 88 percent below the same period a year ako as the first quarter of 1950 closed. Action1 was being readied to expedite collection cf past due accounts at Allen Memorial Mem-orial Hospital. 20 YEARS AGO Final plans for the organization organ-ization of a local "Garden-ling "Garden-ling Club" were ccmipla'.ed by a committee which ha I been s'aidying the matter. Mrs. Irene Williams was appointed public health nurse fcr Grand County and was to begin her duties immed-ialely. immed-ialely. Fori owing several weeks of windy weather that had dried out ths ground ar.d made range conditions somewhat some-what alarming, a general rainstorm brought relief throughout the intermountain i eg; en. In keeping with the good ne:ghbor policy, the Moab Girl Scouts were planning a trip to Montieello to help raise funds for two newly crgan'ized Girl Scout Troops there. Operations were proceeding proceed-ing favorably on the Castle Cas-tle Valley test well of the Grand River Gas and Oil Company. 40 YEARS AGO Sheepmen were warned to cut high expenses during the depression and wool and sheep prices were at the lowest for any winter since 1915. World -wool prices were back to pre-war figures. fig-ures. A large sum, $125.CC0, was alloted for work on the Midland Mid-land Tra'il by the State Road Commission. Grand County schools were scheduled to close for summer vacation with the year reported as one of the most successful to date. The bbended indebtedness of the Grand County school district was reduced to $3, CC3 as a result of retiring two bonds amounting to $1, CD0 which had been used for construction of the high school addition. A huge diesel engine weighing weigh-ing 16,008 pounds passed through Moab enroute to the Dry Valley vanadium plant. 60 YEARS AGO A rich strike was made by Steve Day at a depth of 12 feet cn the Mesa. A bank in San Francisco was completing complet-ing arrangements to start work cn a large scale here. The Split Diamond Land and Cattle Company filed its articles of incorporation with the County clerk. The company was capitalized for $170,000. A production of "East Lyr.ne" at lha Stcr Cperd Hcuse was said to have been very well done by local actors. ac-tors. The 91st anniversary of the founding of Odd Fellowship Fellow-ship was celebrated by the Mcab Lodge of that order. The breaking of the Geyser rrscrvoir caused several thousand dollars damage to the Pace Bros. Ranch on Pack Creek. |