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Show i M"''t"7 awtat And the Grand Valley Times 10 Years Ago Moab residents were stunned by the announcement an-nouncement of the Denver Den-ver & Rio Grande railroad rail-road that, plans were in progress to move the ! terminal of the California Cal-ifornia Zypher from Thompson to Green River. The feature at the Grand View Drive-In, which was to play for three consecutive nights along with a companion com-panion feature, was entitled en-titled "Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory", or "The Ghoul in School." In the Junior High School, a girl's drill team was organized. Among other activities planned for the school year, an intermural program for girls was to be conducted during the lunch hour. A woman of Moab reported re-ported that one of her apricot trees had suddenly sud-denly burst into bloom for the second time that year. She said that the tree had become covered cov-ered the week before with white blossoms; earlier spring blossoms had been pink. 20 Years Ago The road to the famed Arches National Monument Monu-ment remained the same as it had been in 1951. While a good job had been done by the local park personnel, flash floods took out the poorly located road several sev-eral times in a single summer. The City of Moab took steps to remedy the absence of a law officer. A full-time job as City Marshall, with a salary of S300 was made available avail-able to secure the services ser-vices of a high calibre enforcement officer. The local captain for Grand County's part of the state-wide drive for clothes for Korea announced an-nounced that twelve hundred hun-dred and fifty pounds of good, usable clothing was provided by the people of this area. A millionare philanthropist, philan-thropist, along with 3,500 volunteer workmen, work-men, worked to restore 193 homes that were destroyed in Flint, Michigan's tornado. They restored 80 homes in two days. 40 Years Ago As announced in the last week's newspaper, the board of town trustees trus-tees proposed to install a sewer system and municipal water works in Moab. The grand total of students enrolled in the Moab schools was 338, consisting of 173 in Central school, and 165 in the 6-year High school. Moab's new airport was visited by a plane from New Mexico, and this was the first time that an outside plane had landed at the local field. The pilot was more than pleased with Moab's new airport and predicted that in the future many planes would stop here. A shipment of about 20,000 native trout was received by the La Sal National Forest. The fish came through in poor condition, but in excess of 50 of the fish reached streams and lakes alive. The feature movie at the local theatre, then the Ides, was "Robber's Roost". 60 Years Ago The Moab-Thompson Transportation Company's Comp-any's Rambler automobile auto-mobile arrived at Thompsons, and was in operation on the stage line. The new Rambler ' was similar to the first machine installed. This one, however, did not have an electric self-starter. self-starter. A trapper killed "Old Big Foot," king of all the gray wolves infesting infes-ting the north end of the la Sal Mountains. This wolf was caught by the same trapper two years prior, but succeeded in tearing out of the trap, leaving part of his foot in kind remembrance. Utah archaeologists made some very important impor-tant discoveries in the Cliff Dweller country. At Kayenta the expedition expe-dition was joined by the distinguished honorary president ofthePeabody Institute, whose feminine femi-nine frailty prevented her accompanying the party in more difficult work. |