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Show Looking Bacfomd THROUGH THE FILES OF THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT AND THE GRAND VALLEY TIMES 5 60 Years Ago ; A flour mill was being built at Blanding. A 2-day celebration of V Independence Dav was Dlan- ned, the townspeople having ' donated $200 to help with expenses. ; There had been a lot of wind and extremely hot weather this ' spring and the rangelands ' were beginning to suffer. Rain was badly needed. 40 Years Ago ', An all-time heat record for i Moab was established, with temperatures as high as 1 13 degrees. However, due to large amounts of snow in the mountains, the irrigaion supply sup-ply had kept up. 20 Years Ago The Moab Post Office was to become a first class office on July 1, having gone over the required $40,000 mark for 1965. 10 Years Ago Atlas Minerals had found a market within their own parent company for copper concentrate concent-rate produced since January at the Moab mill. Rehabilitation work had been completed on the Lake Oowah spillway . Editor, Times-Independent: We find it somehow ominous omin-ous that the first letter published in the Salt Lake Tribune about the recent Teton Dam disaster was from an Ogden water systems official arguing about the initial size of the leak that led to the dam failure. This lack of concern over the magnitude of this crime-against-the-public |