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Show jf j Through the Files ot And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Senator Wallace F. Bennett was towing Southeastern Utah and addressed the Moab Mo-ab Rotary and Lions' Cluus concerning the possibilities of creation of Canyonlands National Na-tional Park as well as proposed pro-posed roads in the area. Details of the proposed water wa-ter and sewer project for Moab were being made public pub-lic with the hope that a favorable fav-orable vote for the project would be cast in the upcoming upcom-ing City election. Two possible sites for a County airport were being considered, one in Courthouse Wash and the other about a mile further from Moab m the Klondyke Mats area where it would be possible to expand to an L shaped runway run-way to take care of all wind directions. 20 YEARS AGO A large sawmill with a capacity ca-pacity of 30,000 to 40,000 board feet of lumber per day was being set up at old La-Sal La-Sal and the mill was to employee em-ployee about 50 men After the deadline for filing fil-ing for the positions of Mayor and City Councilman had passed, it was announced that no candidates had registered with the City Recorder and therefore, no election would be held but the incumbents would continue in their duties for the next four years. DLstJ-ict governor of district dist-rict 28-A, Lions International, was to be the guest of honor at a Ladies Night banquet of the Moab Lions Club. Reports from hunters indicated in-dicated that most of them were doing well on the opening open-ing weekend of the deer hunt and that more than 50 percent per-cent were successful. 40 YEARS AGO It was reported that thieves had stolen a truck belonging to Midland Telephone Company Com-pany as well as a large quan-ity quan-ity of telephone equipment which was in the truck. An announcement by a Utah Congressman indicated that all school rooms in the state would receive a full color reproduction of George Washington as part of the bicentennial bi-centennial celebration of Washington's birth. County Treasurer II. S. Rutledge had proved that potatoes po-tatoes could be grown in Moab Mo-ab Valley by planting a short row of spuds and then had harvested three washtubs of them. A three day pheasant season sea-son was slated for Grand County with a number of special sp-ecial game wardens to be in the area to make sure that regulations were observed. CO YEARS AGO A Forest Rangers Examination Examin-ation was given and persons interested in the position were tested on range and forest for-est matters as well as timber scaling, surveying, packing burros and other work pertaining per-taining to the duties of a ranger. Uranium and vanadium deposits de-posits located in Utah near Moab and in Emery County were under investigation although al-though the prospector was not at liberty to say what the uranium was being used for. Dry farming in San Juan County was said to be very good for the year with some areas yielidng 40 bushels of wheat to the acre. Two men were attempting to travel the Green and Colorado Colo-rado rivers from Green River, Riv-er, Wyoming to the Gulf of California and had trouble in Ladore Canyon and lost their boats and part of their provisions. |