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Show I ff! - - HU 9 k. J Through the Files of f And the Grand. Valley limes u 10 Yers hgo i'i "Hie Moab Community i Concert Association an-.inonnced an-.inonnced the upcoming i presentation of the second ..program of the year fea-i fea-i luring the famed Texas 1 Hoys' Choir. This 26-c 26-c voice Texas Hoys' Choir aof Fort Worth was found-Led found-Led in 1946 and had previously pre-viously performed over "1400 engagements, in-i in-i eluding such an impress-sive impress-sive appearance as London's Lon-don's Westminister Ab-rbey. Ab-rbey. r. J. W. Corbin, president lrf the Midland TeleDhone 0 Comuaoy. officially an-,,nounced an-,,nounced his retirement i:as general manager of 1 the communications com-Fjany, com-Fjany, and named his son, i J. Wallace Corbin as his .successor. J. Wallace s was to be in charge of nthe over-all business op-i: op-i: erations. :i A multi-million dollar s ore smelting complex, specifically for the extraction ex-traction of lead and zinc, ir.was being considered as aa possibility for Grand i.ecounty by Standard Mentals Me-ntals Corporation. ;L- 20 Years Ago J Midland Telephone tC o m p a n y ' s new erStomberg-Carlson diale-i diale-i quipment was ready to r function, awaiting only the a completion of work on the i cables which had just been L installed. The new and old n. dial systems were both "connected, and the exhange-over required on -r.ily the pulling out of a thin plastice strip on the new system to bring' it into operat ion. Negotiations had just been completed for (lie purchase by a Hoise, 1-daho 1-daho syndicate of thirty-seven thirty-seven acres within the city limits of Moab. This property was at the south end of Main Street, just three blocks from the center of the city, which a year ago was billed as "Cranium Village." The Grand Development Co. was offering prefab houses to the house-hungry house-hungry of Moab. These houses were to be sold by package methods, where two or three bedrooms bed-rooms would be delivered to the lot ready to erect within a week's time. 40 Years Ago The Moab Lions club voted to join the Associated Asso-ciated Civic Clubs of Southern Ctah at their regular re-gular meeting. This Association As-sociation was a group comprising organizations of 15 Utah counties which were working together to promote the development of all of Southern Ctah. Claud Hatty, resident engineer of the state road commission, commenced a location survey for the proposed federal aid highway extending from south to LaSal Junction. Consideration of a route extending through Main street to the cliffs south of town and proceeding thence s o u t h e a s I e r 1 y through the valley was underway. A grand ball, in honor of the birthday of President Pres-ident Franklin 1). Roosevelt, Roose-velt, was being planned to be held at the end of the month. All funds realized real-ized were to be used for the treatment of victims of infantile paralysis. 60 Years Ago A census bulletin released re-leased showed that Grand county had 512 children between the ages of 6 and 20 years, and 334 or 73.9 per cent were attending school. A letter was submitted to The Times by several local people wishing to emphasize how important the "book shower" for the Moab Public Library was. They pointed out that every organization in Moab had endorsed the library li-brary movement, and that contributions to the library li-brary would be a benefit bene-fit rather than a loss to the giver as a swelling of the fund would mean it could be drawn from indefinitely by townspeople. towns-people. It was figured that over eighty herds of sheep were in Grand county at the time, w ith a large proportion pro-portion of them being brought in from Colorado for the winter. |