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Show . Z ' Through the Files of 10 YEARS AGO Freedom for two Grand1 County jail escapees ended Monday three days after the pair sawed their way out of the local jail and fled the state. Always one of the. first organizations or-ganizations in the Southeastern Southeast-ern Utah area to reflect changes in population, Midland Mid-land Telphone Company's work in the past few weeks has shown a tremendous expansion ex-pansion in the Moab area. Mcab Theaters, Inc., a corporation, operators of the Holiday Theatre and the Hill Drive-In Theatre have announced an-nounced the sale of those properties to Max A. Day and Norma Day. The sale was consumated on July 1, 1969. Scenic Dead Horse Point was the area chosen- for Warrters Brothers filming late last week for the movie "Gold of the Seven Saints." Tli is week crews moved to Fisher Towers, and later in the week filming will be done along the Colorado River. 20 YEARS AGO The stearing that has been going on for the past several sever-al years on the Colorado River Riv-er at Moab will soon be stopped, stop-ped, local officers hope, as the result of fatal errors committed Monday night by the thieves when they stole a 33-horsepower Evinrude motor from a Birchcraft boat owned by Americol Petroleum, Petrole-um, Inc. The theives left fingerprints on the boat as well as footrints and tire tracks in the soft mud at the boat dock. Moab will be host Friday night to the members of the International Aviation Club, which includes all of the fly-,ing fly-,ing lemthusiasits of western Colorado and eastern Utah. It is understood that between 25 and 50 planes will fly to Moab for the gathering. Tug Wilson, Bobby Robertson, Robert-son, Jimmie Morgan; and Harold Garlett of Moab returned re-turned Tuesday morning from the National Boy Scout Jamboree Jam-boree at Valley Forge, Pa. 40 YEARS AGO A cloudburst which struck along the head of Moab Valley, Val-ley, resulting in numerous floods that poured into Pack Creek, caused damages running run-ning into the thousands of dollars, late Friday afternoon. after-noon. Pack Creek was entirely en-tirely too small to hold the immense torrent of waters that rushed down from the hills. June's Summer Shows will play at -Moab for five days, commencing July 25. The advance ad-vance agent was in Moab and made final preparations for the perforrrtance. The Shows will be given in a huge tent which will be located just south of the Moab Drug Company. The Moab Garage Company, iwhieh now operates the stage and truck service between Thompsons on the D&RG to Moab and .on to Monticello, on Monday applied for a permit per-mit to operate a bus and; truck service between Moab and Price by way of Green River, and fctw sons a'ndfteut I? ' by f fee f nectmnwithanint vico to gan'ization of a i Vt; ab nearer ftl Thompson by : already J. !. businessman i m "' thusiastically in ; schenle; andit that any trouble ,l ' wl1 be experience1 W. Taylor of the Sp. lcy Project will n the company as rt,; Jos Myron ? Mar in and Conlp practically every b ,; n and fruit , valley. 0 cla-rn of $6,748875;. or of the M'&md p; Company for a I Elgin-Green Rivor . was allowed by the county commissi-their commissi-their mheting mondav Grand County 'j-. wealthier than ' ago, 'according t0 'ftlp , pleted assessment roll t is but oite capitalist i( County and he has but f cash. |