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Show . J Through tbe Files of ' kohlag tmxsam ssssyst. nnnnriiJJi"irrV'i ', 10 Years Ago After bringing home 24 out of 27 first place a-wards a-wards at the regional science sci-ence fair in Price this year, the Grand County junior, high school science department received an unexpected blow at the district science meet at the Brigham Young University Un-iversity at Provo. They were disqualified. Two top science exhibits from Moab were entered, but for the first time the age limit was enforced on the senior division entries. en-tries. Moab Lumber Co. was purchased by Colorado interests and was to begin be-gin operating under new management soon. The new manager, Martin Davis, Da-vis, formerly of Grand Junction, was associated with Independent Lumber of Grand Junction for over 20 years before coming to Moab. The requested government govern-ment grant to assist in construction of the new Moab City sewage disposal dis-posal plant was approved in the amount of $35,500. The grant was not as large as hoped for by Moab City officials, but it exceeded by $500 the amount originally anticipated antici-pated for the project. 20 Years Ago H. R. Holliday, well-known well-known western Colorado newspaperman, was named editor and publisher publish-er of The Times succeeding succeed-ing Mr. and Mrs. Beverly Bev-erly Spencer who had operated the newspaper for the previous two years. In assuming management man-agement of The Times, Holliday said that the newspaper would begrad-ually begrad-ually expanded to provide more extensive local news coverage in order to provide more service to both subscribers and advertisers. Moab Mines, Inc. announced an-nounced the leasing of the Lucky Number Nine mine from I'tida Uranium com - pany of Moab. Preliminary Prelim-inary drilling and drifting drift-ing operations showed approximately ap-proximately 2,000 tons of uranium ore blocked out on these acres of the eighty-acre lease. The City of Moab was proceeding favorably in developing a new spring in the Mill Creek area, according to City Water Superintendent Fred Dal-mus. Dal-mus. Due to high water, only about 50 per cent of potential had been utilized utiliz-ed from a spring in the area. Workmen were digging dig-ging deeper and farther back in order to catch water which was going to waste. 40 Years Ago It was officially announced an-nounced that a bank, owned own-ed by the people of Moab and surrounding locali-was locali-was to be organized and in operation by the end of May. Glen Hudson, who had been in Moab all the week meeting with business bus-iness men and perfecting organization plans, made the announcement, noting that it would have a capitalization cap-italization of $50,000. Already Al-ready over $25,000 had been subscribed by twenty-five Moab people. C. A. Hammon of the Moab Light & Power company com-pany appeared before the town trustees to ask that two clauses in the electric light franchise, passed by the board a month earlier, ear-lier, be revised. The provisions pro-visions of the franchise are ones specifying the rates charged for lights and the rates chaTZ? street lights. 6 0o' :'. A meeting of the bn,,, of trustees of MoabpT lie library was held J besides electing 0ffiCe i it was decided that gj J ?ew books be purcC ' for the library tv 60 books were to be or' once. " j 60 Years Ago The Grand County h4 school band was to Daf ticipate in the state coo test and music festival at Provo and it was e PeCtM u56udi .,, would make the trip, w students were to go k! train, while others we to travel by car. It. was reported inn. , Times that the numbe of farms in Grand Coma j had increased from ft in 1930 to 173 in lsj- s Through the efforts of Joseph G. Parrish, count; agricultural tjem, poultry demonstrate was held in Moab. Prof. specialist from the Utah f State Agricultural college was here to condeuct tte demonstration. Field Supervisor 0.P, Madsen of the Emergency Crop ard FwdLouoEc, . at Price, stated thttaj. plications for emergency " crop loans werebeingre'. 'i ceived by the Grand Cob-ty Cob-ty Loan Committee at tie Moab offices. Loans were I to be made only to farm- ' ers who were unable tt obtain elsewhere seed, fertilizers, supplies, feei or the necessary crei to purchase such iterrs. |