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Show 10 YEARS AGO First prize money of S100 went to the local Red Rock Archers in the Archery Tournament Tourn-ament held in Moab on March 30 and 31. Over 200 archers registered for the tournament. It was announced at a Chamber of Commerce Com-merce meeting that the George Stevens Production Prod-uction Company would arrive in Moab early in May to shoot the "Sermon on the Mount" scene from their "Greatest Story Ever Told." It was anticipated anticipat-ed that the company would be here one week. High w inds which concentrated con-centrated Hi the area of the Grand County airport air-port caused damage to two private planes and one of the hangers. George llubler. manager man-ager of the airport, estimated es-timated that damages on airport property would reach S4 to So hundred dollars. 20 YEARS AGO Travel through Moab on the north -south highway, high-way, known as the Navajo Nav-ajo Trail, had jumped more than three hundred percent over the previous prev-ious two ears. Trooper C. Merlin" B row n info in-fo r m e d astounded Moabites. A counting device which he had placed at the south end of the Colorado river bridge recorded an average av-erage travel rate of 9N7 cars and trucks in a 24-hour 24-hour period. T h e release re-lease of this information emphasied the importance import-ance of the new river bridge. J.K. Kerby was the first farmer in the area to t rv a new s stem of irrigation on his farm at the edge of Moab. The new sstem. called border bor-der irrigation, consisted consis-ted of flood irrigating between rounded ridges running parallel with the grade of the land. Charles Steen described de-scribed the activities of uranium mining in the Moab area on a nationwide nation-wide television broadcast broad-cast called "Welcome Travelers." He a I s o spoke of the scenic wonders won-ders of the area and the need to build dams to provide water for agricultural ag-ricultural expansion in southeastern Utah. 40 YEARS AGO Clarence I'.. L a m p-shire p-shire of Grand Junction, announced that he would open a bakery in the Peterson rest a u r a n t building on Main Street. Mr. Lampshire and his family planned to make their home in Moab. Moab's elder citizens were the honoredguests at a party given by the Moab Relief Society. The party included a program, dancing, and a dinner. The board of county commissioners made a request to the governor's govern-or's relief committee for a further R. V. C. appropriation of S2II00 to cover the needs of the unemployccd in Grand County during the months of Mav and June. A check for .SI200 was received to take care of the county's requirements require-ments for April. 60 YEARS AGO State Engineer W.D. Beers stated that the Midland trail would be in shape by July so that transcontinental travelers travel-ers could get through Utah on time during their trip. He said that while there was still much work to be done, that the state road commission com-mission intended to rush w o r k on the Midland Trail to get it in shape as soon as possible. An informal meeting of the board of county commissioners resulted result-ed in a pledge by Midland Mid-land Company to repair the Moab bridge so that it would be absolutely safe at all times, at no expense to the county. The Midland Company would riprapp the piers of the bridge with rock, in addition to sinking outer tubes around the ones which, it was found, were not to bedrock and filling in between the two sets with concrete. A blaze in the rear of Williams Drug store was fortunately extinguished extin-guished before much damage was done. The success of putting out the fire in such a short time was due to the large fire hose which Cooper Martin & company had for such emergencies. Buckets were also used. |