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Show """'"7 And the Grand Valley Times 10 Years Ago The move to Moab finally fi-nally arrived for the cast of "Cheyenne Autumn," as they arrived before filming scenes for the film. The cast consisted of 800 men and women, and the film was directed by John Ford, with Richard Rich-ard Widmark portraying a U.S. Cavalry Captain sent to bring a runaway Indian tribe to their reservation. re-servation. Construction was still underway at the TG S Company for concrete dividing di-viding wall in the 22-foot diameter shaft at the mine site. The purpose of this wall was to divide the shaft into two separate sections. One of Moab's most impressive Veterans Day ceremonies was conducted. conduc-ted. A colorful parade marched through downtown down-town Moab, led by a color co-lor guard of the Legion and VFW members marching mar-ching to the music of the two school bands. The first contract was signed for a concession in the Utah portion of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area on the shores of Lake Powell. Lake Powell Ferry Service, Ser-vice, Inc., offered regular and charter scenic trips in the area. 20 Years Ago The annual La Sal Mt. Club's turkey shoot was held on Legion Hill. Lo- cal marksmen were looking look-ing forward to this event and anticipated a turkey for Thanksgiving as a result re-sult of a good score. On November 18, 1953, the 50 millionth telephone tele-phone to be placed in service in the United States was installed in President Eisenhower's White House office. In 1946 there were only 200 telephones in Moab, and in 1953, Moab made a total of over 4,000 calls each day over its 400 telephones. Soon after December first, streetlights were installed in Moab. These were modern, electric eye controlled mercury-vapor mercury-vapor lights that were turned on automatically when dusk approached and turned off when the sun came back up. 40 Years Ago A cemetery improvement improve-ment day, in which various var-ious organizations cooperated, coop-erated, was held. It was expected that a full day would be given over to cleaning up the cemetery and to laving out paths. A dance and supper were served to all those who assisted. A fire department for Moab, manned by volunteers volun-teers from C.C.C. camp No. 1345, was organized. The fire boys, in addition addi-tion to furnishing protection pro-tection to the C.C.C. Camp, also assisted Moab in cases of fires. Bids for the construction construc-tion of a new bridge a-cross a-cross lower Courthouse wash were opened by the state road commission to contractors. The length of the bridge was to be .359 of a mile. People of Moab were warned not to park their automobiles in front of local fire hydrants, as the C.C.C. Camp boys had difficulty with obstructed ob-structed hydrants when they were attempting to drill for fire fighting. 60 Years Ago When the La Sal road was built, Colorado and Utah became connected by some of the finest roads in the west. The people of Montrose county coun-ty had already built one of the finest road systems in the country, spending thousands of dollars to construct roads leading from Montrose to Denver, Paradox and the Buckeye irrigation project. If candlesticks or patent pat-ent holders were unsightly unsight-ly because of wax spots, the owner of such was advised to put them in the oven on folded newspapers, news-papers, then wipe them vigorously w ith tissue paper pa-per as soon as the wax had melted. 22 famous formulas for various purposes were listed in the weekly newspaper. news-paper. Among these were: How to make liver pills. |