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Show y 0 Through the Files of UO&ftK& ClCCC(AlSiet ' Times-Independent And the Grand Valley Tim. 10 YEARS AGO Uranium p r o d u c e r s had been told by the Atomic Energy Commission Comm-ission that contracts for purchase of ore would be extended past 1966. Employees at Atlas Minerals uranium mill had voted down a proposal pro-posal for union affiliation. affilia-tion. City officials had met with the Governor in an attempt to clear up delays in a water and sewer project which was underway. County Recorder Mrs. Esther Somerville was beginning her third term in office and reported a brisk business. 20 YEARS AGO Congressman Wayne Aspinall of Colorado had called the federal aid road construction project pro-ject along the Colorado Plateau a waste of money. mon-ey. A Texas man had bagged bag-ged the largest deer ever recorded in San Juan Co. The animal weighed in at 435 pounds. Grand County schools had registered a gain of 47 students over the same period a year earlier. earl-ier. A construction project on the Peter's Hill road had been suspended e-cause e-cause of snow and cold weather. 40 YEARS AGO The liquidation of the Moab Co-op store was completed and the new owner, Ralph J. Miller was to take over operations. oper-ations. The 1932 Thanksgiving turkey exports from Utah and the surrounding states was expected to be about a third higher than a year earlier. W. D. Hammond, the representative of Grand County in the state legislature, leg-islature, was being considered con-sidered for the position of Speaker of the House. Students at the Central School gave a Thanksgiving Thanks-giving program in the Star Hall. 60 YEARS AGO Gov. William Spry had received notices from the secretary of the interior in-terior stating that revenues rev-enues from the forests would be used for public schools and roads in the counties in which the forests for-ests are located. Road boosters met in Denver to work on plans to have the first transcontinental trans-continental highway fol low the old Midland trail route which would take it through Grand County. The Moab Rare Metals Company had uncovered more large bodies of uranium ur-anium -vanadium ore and some of the deposits that were the largest had just been opened up. A report from San Juan County indicated that the weather was good and ranchers were completing complet-ing plowing of their farmland. |