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Show Looltfnq Bzcltv&td . -ZLx. J And the Grand Valley Times 10 Years Ago Moab City and portions of the valley narrowly escaped major damage Friday when the first major flood of 1963 coursed down Mill and Pack Creeks. The Grand county schools were to open their doors for the regular regu-lar session of school on Monday, August 26, it was announced that week by Superintendent William Will-iam II. Stobaugh. The school calendar called, for 180 student days of school for the 1963-64 school year. White Sands Missile Range, N. M. Civic leaders and newspaper and radio officials from Green River and other communities in Southeastern South-eastern Utah had been invited to attend an informal in-formal briefing on White Sands Missile Range test activities which were currently under way in this part of Utah. Within thirty to forty days. Missile Development Develop-ment was expected to provide the largest employee em-ployee force in San Juan, Emerv and Grand counties. coun-ties. 20 Years Ago The Utex Mine during that week lived up to all expectations of its discoverer, dis-coverer, Charles A. Steen, when il shipped the truck -load of ore which rounded out a million mill-ion dollars worth of uranium ura-nium ore. The uiinc, then world famous, had I completely upset most concepts of uranium ore bodies and production. By peculiar coincidence, coinci-dence, the first movie making ever to take place in The Arches Natl. Monument was undertaken under-taken Monday, August 3 on the birthday of Dr. J. W. Williams, known near and far as "Father of the Arches." for his sponsorship of this area as a national monument. Some 44,000 volts of electricity came surging into Moab when Utah Power and Light Co. had put its new high-voltage power line into service. 40 Years Ago The Twelfth Annual Grand County Fair, was set for Thursday, Friday, Fri-day, and Saturday, October Octo-ber 5. 6 and 7, 1933. The board of county commissioners com-missioners fixed a county coun-ty fair tax levy to raise part of the funds needed and appointed a general fair committee to stage the exposition. The annual fathers' and sons' outing of San Juan stake, sponsored by the Mutual Improvement association, was set for Thursday and Friday, August 17 and IS. at the Warner recreation camp in the LaSal mountains. The board of education of Grand county school district decided it would cooperate w ith President Roosevelt's unemoymcnt program and would abide by the provision of the U A code, il wiv decided at a meeting of the board. The clerk was instructed to sign the N'.R.A. agreement on behalf of the school district. dis-trict. 60 Years Ago Loaded to the brim with eleven passengers, a doen or so pieces of baggage and a large quantity of mail, the "Rambler" automobile purchased by Allred Brothers and Edward Newhart for the Moab Thompson stage line made its initial trip to this place, on the previous pre-vious Sunday, in the shortest time that a machine ma-chine had ever negotiated negotia-ted the road. The trip was made in two hours a n d t h i r t y m i n u t e s. Two hours was the actual running time, a stop of half an hour being made at the Court Mouse! R. C. Clark and John Bailey made plans to establish es-tablish a cafe in the Peterson building adjoining ad-joining the Williams drug store. The restaurant restau-rant was to be readv for the public on the morning morn-ing of August 18. Prof. Byron Cummings dean of the University of Utah, accompanied In his wife and son, and nine other Utah men left Moab for the natural bridge s o f S a n ,1 u a n County ami the Navajo country of southern Utah am) northern Arizona. They were gone five w eeks. |