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Show 10 YEARS AGO A budget amounting to just over $600 thousand was approved by the Grand County Commission Commis-sion following a hearing that was attended by a score of county residents. resid-ents. A survey crew from the State Engineer's office of-fice arrived in Moab and began the job of relocating re-locating the county line between Grand and San Juan Counties. Grand County officials who were elected in the November election were sworn into office Jan. 7. Police Chief Robert Hart reported a 100 per cent automobile accident free Christmas and New Year's within the city limits. 20 YEARS AGO Merle Varner, chief of range and wildlife management for the In-termountain In-termountain region of the U. S. Forest Service had announced that four new kinds of reseeding equipment had successful success-ful tests the summer before. Construction of a pilot plant at Grand Junction to develop new methods for extracting uranium from ores found in the West had been announced by the Atomic Energy Commission. The Christmas season had been happily observed observ-ed in Moab, with innumerable innum-erable family reunions where loved ones gath-- gath-- ered around the Yule tree to exchange gifts and rememberances. j The area around Moab ; had gotten varying amounts of moisture all ! through the month of ; December. All in all, i a total of .55 of one inch of rain and snow had fallen. 40 YEARS AGO Wilmer Bronson was appointed town attorney j for the ensuing year at a meeting of the town board. The County Commissioners Commis-sioners had met to adopt a budget for the ensuing year. The total budgeted ! for all funds was $44 j thousand. Two new County of- ficers - Commissioner John A. Johnston and County Attorney J. Reed Lance - had been inducted induct-ed into office having subscribed to the constitutional con-stitutional oath and furnishing fur-nishing the required bonds. 60 YEARS AGO Ice hauling had begun and several ice houses throughout town were filled. The ice was taken from the river just below the bridge. The ice was of good quality being about 7 or 8 inches thick. The Tenth Legislative Assembly of Utah convened con-vened on January 13. The Williams Drug Company had moved from the Crout building into the old Cooper-Martin Cooper-Martin store building. The stockholders of the Monticello Co-op had met in their annual meeting and elected new officers. |