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Show j S t Through the Files of And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO A two-month siege of destructive des-tructive vandalism in Arch-es Arch-es National Monument had forced park officials to chain the entrance to the monument monu-ment each evening. A telephone conversation with a representative of George Stevens Productions indicated that filming of "The Greatest Story Ever Told" might be filmed here. Texaco, Inc., had established establish-ed an extension to the Salt Wash Field of Grand County and had a well producing 263 barrels of oil per day. The Senate Interior Appro- priations subcommittee had approved $50,000 to survey a route for the Southern Utah National Parkway. - The Moab City Council had authorized a consulting engineer en-gineer to prepare specifications specifica-tions and requests to bid for the final phase of a water development and storage project. pro-ject. 20 YEARS AGO Attorney Mitchell Melich of Moab was chosen as one of Utah's 14 delegates to the Republican National Convention Conven-tion at Chicago. The selections selec-tions were made at the state and congressional district conventons in Salt Lake City. The high school seniors left for their annual senior trip and were to travel to New Mexico, with Albuquerque Albuquer-que and Santa Fe as major stops. A Four Corners and Monument Mon-ument Valley good will tour was being- planned by representatives rep-resentatives from Utah, Co. lorado, New Mexico and Arizona. Ari-zona. The purpose of the tour was to acquaint travelers with the area. The American Legion was making plans for it ssummer recreation program and RCA approved rodeo. Activities for summer recreation were to include swimming, Softball, volleyball, tennis and several ether programs. 40 YEARS AGO The State Road Commission announced the adoption of the policy of releiving the counties cf the necessity of sharing the costs of survey, sur-vey, betterment and construction con-struction on the federal aid highway system of the state. Lions Club members from Grand Junction visited in Moab for get-together meetings meet-ings with the local club members. mem-bers. The session consisted of a banquet, at which over a hundred persons were seated seat-ed followed by a short program. pro-gram. In excess of six tons of government Red Cross flour was distributed to Moab families fa-milies by members of the Moab Lions Club and the Boy Scouts. The year 1931 established (a record for marriages in Grand County. During the year 81 marriages were- performed per-formed compared with 21 the year before for an . increase in-crease of 400 per cent. 60 YEARS AGO The old folks and pioneers were guests of honor of the Moab Relief Society for a . festival of love. The oldest citizen of Moab at the time was Felix G. Murphy, 84;, and second oldest was John H. Standifird, 81. "Uncle" Billy Hays, the old-time prospector of the LaSals was in Moab from Mancos, Colo. He and his sons were to return to their mine in the Dry Fork area of Mill Creek. - Despite a late cold snaD, the fruit blossoms had escaped es-caped with no apparent injury, in-jury, according to fruitgrowers fruitgrow-ers who reported that it appeared ap-peared that they would have one of the best crops ever in the valley. Arrangements were being made to ship the first carload car-load of uranium and vanadium vanad-ium ores by the Rare Metals Company for $120 a ton or $3,600 for the carload. |