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Show ifiiaMiii: htm Hv.. Be it resolved that the year to come may be the most successful ever for each and everyone. every-one. May all your hopes be realized in 1974! 1973 in. Review We never cease to marvel', at the end of each year, how much has happened, and how distant some of the events seem, even though we are rev iewing onlv the year that has just become history. Traditionally, with each "final number of the volume." around New Year's, we at The Times have listed a running chronology of the past year a feature which has proven interesting and oft-times a little surprising. We have again done this, and have found that the chronology of weekly events, as listed below and on the inside pages, brought back memories that had already slipped away. The past year has been an interesting one. Included in the events of this year was the bid for one of the most important stretches of Interstate 70 in Grand County. First Security Bank set the date to move to temporary headquarters headquar-ters wnile a new bank was being constructed. Snow was the big news, causing a higher than average accident rate in Grand County. Roads were blocked with heavy amounts of the white stuff, along with rubble falling from hillsides, and roofs caved in from the heavy weight. A proposed nursing home for Grand County was turned down by the voters, a new sewing plant announced their intention to move into the Moab area and. asked for all willing to work to register at the employment office. The Moab Red Devil basketball team won its first State Championship in history, and Moab went to court with Frontier Airlines to see whether or not the community would continue to receive daily air service. 1973 was a year of shortages, and indications indi-cations were at theendof theyear that tourist travel might be sharply curtailed during the coming season by a shortage of gasoline. Our chronology follows: January 4, 1973 At brief ceremonies in the Grand County Courthouse, Court-house, County Clerk Barbara Bar-bara Domenick administered adminis-tered the oath of office to George H. Newell and D. L. Taylor, who assumed as-sumed the County Commissioner Com-missioner posts vacated by the retirement of Mars Pope and Ralph J. Mil-! Mil-! ler, Sr. The Moab Jaycees made preparations for their annual March of Dimes Telethon, to be broadcast on Channel 6 on January 28. It was hoped that mostly local Persons would participate partici-pate in this project. January 11, 1973 Major oil andgas companies com-panies and independent operators offered an optimistic op-timistic year for Utah during 1973. Increased drilling took place in the L'intah Basin compared to only a month before. One section of roof Save way at the old Moab Mo-ab Roller Rink, due to the weight of the snow. Emergency hay feeding of cattle, due to the unusual un-usual amount of snow in Moab and surrounding jreas, plus steady work the City and County Crews were necessary. January 18, 1973 About 1,000 tons of rub-61e rub-61e blocked the river rad shortly after mid-'"Sbt mid-'"Sbt Saturday of the -'k. The rockfall. caused cau-sed by freezing and thaw-on thaw-on an already loose , ""Uinued on Page B-l 7?73 Was a YearofShortaqes, New Starts (.'ouliiuiovl f rum P.ie A I ,-oi-k hilKuli', tiKuKiHi li.itt'u- from Uuli vluoo-turns vluoo-turns for a I into. An ott'u'i.il of Frontier Airlines tolii Mo. ib i'(p-iosoitat i'(p-iosoitat i o s (li.it his eomp.iny wonM inuiu'-ilulely inuiu'-ilulely til,- for suspension suspen-sion iif service (o Moab a permanent basis. January 25, 1973 Members of iu. Moab l,".v I'outu-ii, i in om. lissom mK vote, agreed l" purchase a vaoumn-tpe vaoumn-tpe st root sweeper from Iviu-ky Mountain Machin-l'. Machin-l'. The machine could also be used for fire ''Killing, when fill, hI with water, and could also bo hI to flush tho st roots wth water. I'ho Moab Rod Devils, attor winning at Tabionu! I'amo home to host tho trunks of Kast Carbon. Move Wvatt. tho loading scorer for the season, carried an IS point av-lase, av-lase, and Von lsaman, tollovsiiiK closelv behind,' had an average of 17.5 points per same. February 1, 1973 Kio Almoin Corporation's Corpor-ation's mill in the Lisbon Lis-bon area south of Moab was processing around six hundred tons of ore per day. The general manager said that the tonae through the mill was well above the five hundred tons per day originally or-iginally planned for tho facility. Officials at the Can-yonlands Can-yonlands Complex Headquarters Head-quarters in Moab reported report-ed that the road into Arches Ar-ches National Park was open to traffic. Various roads to Natural Bridges National Monument. Island Is-land in the Sky , the Needles Need-les Section, and Delicate Arch viewpoint road, anions ani-ons others, had been closed because of heavy snowfall. February 8, 1973 Bidders for one of the most important stretches of Interstate 70 in (Irand County were beini: sought l.v the I'tah Department ol Highways. The project tenan at Crescent Junction Junc-tion and ended at present construction at the Yellow Yel-low cat turnol'f. (irand County Treasurer, Treas-urer, Donna Lovcrid:e, said property taxes in the County had netted 97.7 per cent of (he total amount am-ount on the rolls. The amount collected was $1,328, 7-10. just under the $I.3.V1.131. which was based on the assessed valuation of the Countv of $19. 5t' million. February 15, 1973 Members of the Crand District Board of F.dn-cation F.dn-cation met in regular session and voted to ask the voters of Crand County Coun-ty for a 5 mill voted leeway for the following' three years to eliminate the deficit accrued by the district in the past two years. Officials at First Security Sec-urity Bank in Moab set this time as the benin-ninI benin-ninI of their move to temporary tem-porary quarters in the Arches Building while a new bank facility was constructed on their Main and Center location. February 22, 1973 The world renowned I'tah Symphony Orchestra Orches-tra was scheduled to appear ap-pear at the Crand County Hijjh School. The concert was to be presented under the sponsorship of the Moab Symphony Committee Commi-ttee and with the financial finan-cial aid of many symphony sym-phony patrons. A hearing was called by the I'tah Hoard of Oil and (ias Conservation Conserva-tion to determine whether or not the Hoard should permit the injection of Salt brines into the Paradox Par-adox formation via an abandoned disposal well in lower Moab valley. March 1, 1973 An order to keep the waters of Lake Powell out of Rainbow Bridge National Monument was handed down by Chief IuiIko Willis W. Kilter. The judge's decision was based on section three of Hie Colorado Kiver Storage Project Act. The Moab Red Devils closed out the regular season as they hosted the San Juan Broncos. Leading Region Ten opponents op-ponents with no defeats, the Devils were to play a rematch of a name played earlier al Bland-iiiK'. Bland-iiiK'. March 8, 1973 The Owner of Western West-ern Air Stages told the Times that the company would do everything possible pos-sible to make the Moabc operation a success. The owner, whose operation stepped in and began regular reg-ular service to Moab after af-ter Frontier Airlines stopped serving the community, com-munity, had been flying at least two trips a day to C rand Junction, Colorado. Colo-rado. Due to heavy winter snow in Southeastern I'tah I't-ah and Southwestern Colorado, Col-orado, the Colorado Kiver Kiv-er at Moab was expected expect-ed to run double what the streamflow amounted to last year. The estimate est-imate predicted the flow al 11 rj of normal. March 15, 1973 The Red Devils from Moab became the champions cham-pions in a convincing win against the Rabbits of Delta. They claimed quite unexpectedly theAABas-f theAABas-f ketball Championship in the final game of the j Stale Class 2-A Tour- nament in Provo. The outlook for a good j peach crop in Moab ' looked dismal. Although i the peaches hadn't blos- somed yet. they were thought to be lost already y because they were very i susceptible to sub-zero y temperatures. March 22, 1973 In Nevada. Bankruptcy proceedings ended with the court order that for- mer Cranium magnate Charles Steen be de-r de-r dared bankrupt. The decision de-cision ended a four year struggle by Steen to rid ' himself of his debts. C Moab City Council met and officially designated 1 First South as the alternate al-ternate route to Third X South during the time that "" the latter is under construction. con-struction. Mayor Winford y Bunce said that bids were some $5,500 over the of-j of-j ficials' estimate. March 29, 1973 The Crand County High ' School Band and Chorus J held their annual Spring Concert at Star Hall. ) They issued an invitation i?to all members of the community to attend this function. The band, under direction of Mr. Bruce Negley, was active in ? marching, pep band and concert during the year. Work was going ahead on remodeling of the lit-j lit-j tie league field on Fast ,, Center Street. The plans i called for construction of .four fields in the block-square block-square area as well as a new office and rest- room facility. April 5, 1973 ? Residents of Grand County and Moab were tasked to "Pitch In" during the annual clean- up drive to be held on t April 8 through the 14. To make residents more aware of the litter prob- lem in our area, several I thousand litter bags were distributed free to local '"merchants. t Hospital Administrator Administrat-or J. Kay Hawks discus-sed discus-sed a new HEW pilot ? project which involved allowing nursing home I patients the benefits of extended care, such as ' Allen Memorial. April 12, 1973 Work on the Third ? South bridge was pro- ceeding quite rapidly and L crews from Knowlton J Company had already constructed a temporary channel for Mill Creek while the work was being be-ing done. A temporary foot bridge was also installed in-stalled at the construction construc-tion site. Visitation figures for the Canyonlands Complex Com-plex during March of 19-73 19-73 continued toward reduction re-duction of visitors as compared to figures for the same months in the previous year. April 19, 1973 Visitors to the Moab area as well as residents resi-dents were expected to have a full slate of events ev-ents open for them during dur-ing the Seventh Annual Jeep Safari sponsored by the Moab Chamber of Commerce. Traditional Easter Sunrise Services were to be held on Easter Sunday Sun-day at 7:00 a.m. at the LaSal Mountain viewpoint view-point in Arches National Park. The Reverend Lowell Lo-well B. Davis was to bring the message. April 26, 1973 About 500 members of the Lions International were expected to be in Moab for the Spring Round - Cp of District 28-A, which included the Moab Lions Club. One of the largest turnouts turn-outs ever experienced for the annual Jeep Safari was registered when 294 jeeps with 1,174 people took trips on the seven trails offered. May 3, 1973 Enjoying the serenity and beauty of Canyon -lands National Park, along al-ong w ith hundreds of other oth-er Ctahns w ere Governor and Mrs. Calvin L. Rampton. The Ramptons, on an annual family outing, out-ing, spent two nights in the area. The University of Utah Ut-ah Men's Chorus were to present a sacred concert as part of the morning worship service. This was their second appearance appear-ance in the Community Baptist Church. The public pub-lic was invited to attend. May 10, 1973 At a special meeting of the Nursing Home Committee, Grand County Coun-ty Commission and mem bers of the press, official's offi-cial's information concerning con-cerning the proposed facility fa-cility for (irand County Nursing Home was made public. Chamber of Commerce members heard a report from Mary Williams, chairman of the (irand County Travel Council, who stated that two billboards bill-boards in the Crescent Junction area were obtained ob-tained to di red motorists toward Moab. It was hoped that the signs could be completed by June 1. May 17, 1973 Graduation exercises for the Grand County High School Class of 19-73 19-73 were preparing to see diplomas awarded to 122 students in ceremonies at the High School Amphitheatre. Am-phitheatre. Governor Calvin L. Rampton spoke at the luncheon lun-cheon meeting of the Southeastern Utah Economic Econ-omic Development Conference. Con-ference. He discussed programs on tap for this section of the state and cited the work done by the Four Corners Regional Re-gional Commission in funding projects here. May 24, 1973 River waters were running high and it was dose to launch time for the 10th Annual Friendship Friend-ship Cruise. The cruise officially began May 26 at Green River and ended some 192 miles (by river) at Moab. It was announced by J. Wallace Corbin, president pre-sident and general manager man-ager of The Midland Telephone Tel-ephone Company, that Key Construction Company Com-pany was awarded the bid to remodel the Moab building complex. The total to-tal cost of the project was expected to be about ab-out $166,000.00. May 31, 1973 Final plans were being be-ing made for the annual Canyonlands Rodeo to be held June 8 and 9, at the Grand County Rodeo arena. ar-ena. Following the rodeo was a "Sundance Swing" in frontofthecourthou.se, and was geared to the youths of the community. With beautiful grasslands, grass-lands, forests, rock and cliff formations and the Colorado River setting the backdrop, a 1,900-acre 1,900-acre development in historic his-toric Castle Valley, Utah, Ut-ah, moved forward toward to-ward a planned opening date of June 15. June 7, 1973 (irand County residents soundly defeated a proposal pro-posal to establish a county-owned nursing home during a special bond election. el-ection. Final vote tally showed 268 persons in favor of the proposal and 862 against. Members of the Moab Community Players were preparing to present an old fashioned melodrama "He Done Her Wrong," or "Wedded But No Wife". Residents were invited to attend the production pro-duction and join in cheering cheer-ing the hero and hissing the villain. June 14, 1973 The heat of summer sum-mer finally arrived in Moab and residents headed head-ed for the higher elevations ele-vations for a place to cool off. The fire situation situ-ation was said to be critical, and cheat grass was considered a very great fire hazard. One of the final pieces of work necessary before be-fore the New Visitor Center Cen-ter on North Main could be opened to the public was the paving of the entrance road and parking park-ing area. Much planting and landscaping had al- Cont. on Next Page . . . The New Year Full of Questions for Moab t Cont. from f age m ready been done on the structure, which was expected ex-pected to be completed in the near future. June 21, 1973 Robert Dalton, manager man-ager of the Moab office of First Security Bank, announced the purchase of the Holiday Theatre. This facility was to be razed and used for enlarging en-larging the parking space at the new bank. May precipitation in the Upper Colorado River Ri-ver Basin was more than double the average for that month. This raised the forecast of April-July April-July runoff to 10 mil- lion acre-feet. June 28, 1973 Service stations around ar-ound Moab had been doing do-ing a heavy tourist traffic. traf-fic. Most reported that while gas was in shorter supply than in past years, there was still enough to go around. Other areas ar-eas of the state reported that their conditions were not as good. Sun Valley-Key Airlines Air-lines planned to get service ser-vice started from Moab to Salt Lake City on Ju- ly 15. An official of the Ogden-based firm said that airport construction work at Moab was the reason for the delay. July 5, 1973 The Little Buckaroo Rodeo, the annual fun and money-making project of the Grand Valley Junior Riders, was held on July 7, 9, and 10 at the Can-yonlands Can-yonlands Arena. Kids under un-der the age of 14 were invited to participate in the events. Atlas Minerals offic-ialsinDenyer offic-ialsinDenyer announced the scheduled shutdown of their Moab mill for employee vacations. The closure was set for the period between July 15 and July 31. July 19, 1973 Most of the landscaping landscap-ing and other work was completed at the Old City Park. The facility, however, how-ever, was not opened for general use. It was to open for the use of the general public the following fol-lowing spring. Moab and Grand County won an important first round in efforts to keep commercial daily air service at Canyonlands Airport. The. Civil Aeronautics. Aer-onautics. Board denied the application of Frontier Airlines to suspend service ser-vice to Moab. July 26, 1973 Fossil footprints on giant sandstone slabs in-I in-I dicated that leather-I leather-I winged reptiles soared over the sand dunes of eastern Utah some 150 million years ago in search of food. The creatures crea-tures were thought to be Pterosaurs. The Provo-Orem All-stars All-stars won the right to be the first team to win two games in the Regional Colt League Tournament held in Moab. Small mistakes mis-takes caused Moab to lose both Friday and Saturday games. August 2, 1973 After two months of clean ud and repair at the Steen House, the swimming pool and game room were finally opened to the public. It was hoped that a gift shop would soon be open. Members of the San Juan County Commission, Commis-sion, along with Representative Repre-sentative Calvin Black & the San Juan County Travel Council were to host a legislative tour of their county to allow state legislators a chance to see and learn more about the area. August 9, 1973 Officials of Colony Development De-velopment Operations, a division of Atlantic Richfield Rich-field Corporation, announced an-nounced the study for a possibility for construc-ing construc-ing a pipeline through Grand County to carry product from a proposed oil shale plant in Colorado. Colo-rado. The Moab City Council Coun-cil passed an ordinance closing the Moab City Park from the hours of 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. August 16, 1973 Phillips Construction Company of Moab was designated by the Grand County Board of Education- to construct a new metal bus garage to house the District's school buses. bus-es. At a cost of $18,500, the new building was to be located behind Star . Hall. Registration for Junior High School students stu-dents took place on August Aug-ust 20 and 21. Senior High students were also to register re-gister on these dates. August 23, 1973 After nearly two years of trying to bring three federal agencies, a few cities and two counties into agreement concerning concern-ing construction of a sanitary san-itary landfill site, the National Park Service, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Manage-ment decided to "Go it alone" and construct their own site. Members of the 4-H beef raisers club reported re-ported good community annual beef sale. Total revenues from 8 beef sold was $7,817 (an average of 96(5 per pound). August 30, 1973 Bill B. Meador, Superintendent Super-intendent of Schools, announced an-nounced that enrollment in the District was at 1722, compared to 1760 at the end of the previous year. During the August Board of Directors meeting meet-ing of the Utah Innkeepers Association, a report as to the availability of gas was given. It was the general gen-eral consensus that no motorist in Utah had been unable to buy gas in Utah because of a gas shortage. September 6, 1973 The Moab Red Devils Dev-ils started the football season on a strong note again as they swept past the Monticello Buckaroos 18-0, in a game played at Moab. Members of the Beta Eta Chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha announced that the Bloodmobile was to be in Moab on Sept. 12 at the Helen M. Knight School. Needed were 140 scheduled donors, to insure in-sure the 120 pint quota for Grand County. September 13, 1973 Officials of the Utah Department of Employment Employ-ment Security and the Grand County Economic Development Committee sought information relative rela-tive to persons interested in full-time employment with a sewing manufacturing manufact-uring plant interested in moving to Moab. Notice was posted at Atlas Minerals of an intended in-tended shutdown of the Moab mill. This was to allow for reinstalling an acid leech uranium-vanadium circuit similar to the one destroyed bv fire in 1968. September 20, 1973 After only one flight by Frontier Airlines into Canyonlands Field, that company curtailed service ser-vice to this area again. The previous Saturday's flight was the first into the field in over a year. Petitions for filing for City Office in the upcoming up-coming election were available av-ailable at the City Recorder's Re-corder's office. The filing fil-ing period was to be from October 9 to October Oc-tober 19. There were 2 council posts and the office of-fice of Mayor up for grabs. October 4, 1973 The final article was printed, in the series dealing with the workings work-ings of county government. govern-ment. This was done to acquaint the public with local government and how it could change if one of 12 optional forms was adopted. Plans for the Autumn Festival and Craft Fair were well underway, but more participation was needed in several areas. The festival was to be held on October 13 and 14. October 11, 1973 Members of the Moab Points and Pebbles Club planned to be at Grand County High School to begin setting up for the 12th Annual Rock, Gem, and Mineral Show, sponsored by the club. Work was progressing on the new building on West Center Street which was to house Utah Gas Service Company. A tentative ten-tative completion date of December was set by the company. Peterson Builders of Grand Junction Junc-tion was contractor on the $50,000 project. October 18, 1973 Drilling into the bottom bot-tom of the Colorado River Ri-ver for soil analyses preliminary pre-liminary to the construction construc-tion of a new petroleum products line was accomplished accom-plished with the aid of a drilling platform mounted on float rigs. The new guard rail on Kane Springs Canyon saved its first driver the first week after installation. instal-lation. Several deaths had been attributed to lack of guard rail the past several sev-eral years. October 25, 1973 Highway Patrol Trooper Troop-er Mel Schiffman brought in a cactus buck while hunting near Earner Lake. The buck had nearly near-ly fifty points cropping up from its skull. Political speculation was ended on the question when encumbent Moab Mayor Winford Bunce threw his hat into the ring in a third term try for that office. November 1, 1973 As the annual Utah deer hunt drew to a close, a number of local hunters were making a last-ditch attempt to fill the freezer after ten days of spotty results. The Grand County community of Thompson received a grant of $25 thousand from the Four Corners Regional Commission Com-mission to help in the construction and development de-velopment of a new water system. November 8, 1973 Power machines were located at the Moab Area Vocational Center for training operators for Moab's new sewing factory. fac-tory. Classes were to include two weeks of four hours daily instruction, with about 20 women in each class. Another ten mile segment seg-ment of Interstate Highway High-way 70 was planned for opening Nov. 16 in Grand County, according to district dis-trict highway engineer, Jim Deaton of Price. November 15, 1973 What was probably to be a three-day hearing opened in Salt Lake City, Ci-ty, concerning the application appli-cation of Frontier Airlines Air-lines to delete air service ser-vice to Moab. The tentative 1974 budget bud-get for Grand County was found to be some $328 thousand under the 1973 expenditures; however, this large drop was accounted ac-counted for by special airport expenditures of the current year, it was announced. November 29, 1973 The annual "Christmas "Christ-mas in Moab" activity sponsored by the Moab Chamber of Commerce, was to get underway the following Saturday, December Dec-ember 1st. with a parade and special entertainment, entertain-ment, according to general gen-eral chairman Dixie Barker. Bar-ker. Construction began in earnest on a new Circle K Grocery on North Main in Moab. Work was being done by Security Construction Con-struction of Salt Lake, and was planned to take 60 days to complete. December 6, 1973 A new Burroughs L-5000 L-5000 accounting system was installed at Allen Memorial Hospital. This equipment was to replace an obsolete Burroughs Sensimatic mechanical accounting machine. A heating system spe- cialist from Salt U CW City was called to6 h repairs on the h kt Hed heating piant at c?' 'fe County High SchS, December 13, 1973 fe The Moab MinL- ? s Assn. extended aISS invitation to the coml nity to attend the aU" Christmas ServTce "al speaker for the even 6 was to be Rev Lin" Curtis, pastor of " First Assembly 0 ft Church. y 01 G(i Dixie Barker took of fice as president of tl' Chamber of CommeJ while Dean Oleson Ha to serve as vice-pr.,? dent and Judy Carmich ; as treasurer. 1 |