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Show f t Through the Files of 0&XOfZCttCl tZClCtCCilClSlCt The Times-Independent And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Increasingly large crowds were on hand at the Blue Mountain ski area near Mon-ticello Mon-ticello with over 200 present on one day to take advantage of instruction by Alta ski instructor Svesre Engen. Appointment of social scientists scien-tists from three of the state's institutions of higher education educa-tion to assist with the U of U's Bureau of Community Development was announced. The Utah Symphony orchestra orch-estra was to present a concert con-cert in Moab with a limit of 600 tickets to be sold. Several men had already announced their candidacy for various policital offices in the State. 20 YEARS AGO It was expected that Argosy Arg-osy Pictures would be returning return-ing to Moab to make another T.iovie, this one with John Wayne as star. The growth of Moab was dramatically shown by he growth of the post office here. During a five year period, per-iod, the money order biu-ness biu-ness had more than doubled. Burck's East-Side Grocery had just installed a refrigerated refriger-ated meat display and also a fresh vegetable case making it possible for the store to display fresh meats and vegetables vege-tables at all times. A report from the Utah State Agricultural College indicated that methods of pruning peach trees could greatly vary the amount of peaches produced. 40 YEARS AGO During the year 1929, 583 people were patrons of the Grand County public library and they borrowed a total of 13,278 books. During several storms over a two week period, Moab received a total of 27 inches cf snow with a water con-lent con-lent of 1.92 inches. The assay building at the Big Indian Copper Company's mill was burned to the ground. grou-nd. The sheriff of Rich County was claiming the most unusual unus-ual catch of the year after having captured a Moab man who had become a hermit. He had been hidden in the snowbound hills around Randolph Ran-dolph for 40 days with the temperature as low as 50 degrees de-grees below zero. 60 YEARS AGO Members of the Moab Odd Fellows were planning to build bui-ld a lodge. The building was to be a two story brick structure. struc-ture. A mule raiser from Montana Mont-ana stopped in Moab after reading a glowing account of . this area. He stated that the goods were equal to the advertisement. |