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Show ITtk "j Ttewsh the Files oj AWUlfy &&CJZCAVlCt The Tunes-Independent l'f 0 C Aadthe Grand Valley Time ,.,UH,i Board adopted h ;5go policy f!- :v n,otion of sis nunc Southeast Lie-t, Lie-t, 'sJ ol and romodol- fl.rU school. The , .s increased ,rft0 provide the funds The paving of the river road to Castle Valley was nearly completed. The project pro-ject was begun in late November, No-vember, and was classed as one of the roughest rock carving jobs in Utah's history. his-tory. A Pennsylvania man, Le. Roy V. Black, was found . , . f ' 4 nearly dead of dehydration and extreme exposure by a search party in the Kachina Bridge area. Despite efforts to save him, the man died, Charles Steen, president of Utex Exploration Co.,' donated donat-ed four pieces of property to the Grand County School District. These properties, the Mitchell Melich residence, the residence of H. C. Green, pioneer Moab banker; the Walker property on 1st North Street and a,, duplex apartment, apart-ment, were valued at approximately ap-proximately $80,000. 20 YEARS AGO The Times-Independent had printed its first issue in the new building on Center street: Mayor Mars Pope issued a plea for traffic safety on the 4th of July. v. Governor Earl Long of Louisiana stopped overnight in Moab- after attending . a U. S. Governors conference in Colorado Springs. Arches National Monument revealed the figures of the number of- visitors during the past year. In the year 1948-49 there were 11,335 visitors vis-itors kith a jump of 15,000 expected for the coming year. - The First National Bank of Moab announced it would close on Saturdays during the summer months. 40 YEARS AGO H. H. Turner left for the LaSal Mountains where he planned to spend the summer sum-mer improving the lakes and protecting the fish planted-toy planted-toy the Moab Fish and Game Association. The association maintained a cabin on the mountain for its members' use. Officers for the newly-formed newly-formed Chamber of Commerce Com-merce were elected at a meeting held at the courthouse. court-house. R. C. Clark was elected elect-ed President, with C. A. Robertson Ro-bertson and A. C. Folster serving as vice presidents. L. L. Taylor was secretary, . with Miss Margie Myers as assistant secretary Treasurer Treasur-er was W. R. McConkie, and members of the board of trustees were R. J- Reid, W. D Hammond, J. W. Corbin, H. J. Nielson and C. J. Mea-dor Mea-dor 60 YEARS AGO The new road poll tax had just gone into effect. Two dollars for every man over 21 and under 50, not physically physic-ally incapacitated or exempted exempt-ed by law, was required t pay this road tax. The new cable for the ferry fer-ry had arrived. A large crowd of people gathered to watch the cable being stretched. stret-ched. Crews worked from early morning until past nine at night before the task was accomplished. |