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Show THROUGH THE FILES Of :, THE TIMES-INDEPENDENT i " AND THE QKAND VALLEY TIMES ' j f 10 Years Ago Moab Chamber of Commerce Com-merce members voted 25 to one in favor of urging Grand County Commissioners to push construction of a road through the Book Cliff Mountains. Moun-tains. Other citizens appeared before the Commission protesting pro-testing the road in favor of repairs on existing roads. Barricades went up again on First West Street in an attempt to correct the drainage drain-age dip. The mayor, Winford Bunce said the original design placed the dip lower than the curb. Construction to correct the drainage problem began this week. The Leonard Walterscheid family finished work as an "extra" family in the western movie "Blue." The Walter-scheids Walter-scheids held the local record for family participation in the movie. 20 Years Ago Pure Oil had announced a producer at Big Flat. The Mississippian formation wildcat wild-cat 14 miles west of Moab had flowed 319 barrels of 43.3 degree gravity oil in 24 hours. Rains had halted work on U.S. Highway 160 through Moab canyons, probably delaying de-laying completion past the October deadline. Seven hundred student. had enrolled in Moab elementary elemen-tary schools as new buildings received final touches. The 180-day rabies quarantine quaran-tine on Grand and San Juan counties had been lifted. A downpour had left .82 inches of precipitation in Moab. Mo-ab. A gully washer had trapped trap-ped two men at the Excalibur uranium mine in Spring Canyon. Can-yon. Two others were trapped on the LaSal Mountains. Mill Creek flooded, but debris had washed down two weeks previously pre-viously and no damage occurred occur-red in the second flood. Uranium Days queen candidates can-didates were chosen to represent repre-sent Moab's industries. Ann : West was Miss Potash; Hal-. lene Thorne, Miss Oil; Kathj .' : Barton, Miss Frontier Air-. C lines; Nancy Nault, Miss In-: J dustry; Barbara Martin, Miss . 'i Tourism; and Lynda Gibbs," Miss Movies. i : Oi 40 Years Ago The Frank Shafer ofl well on Cane Creek dome, which blew out its plugs Aug. 15, and spouted a column of oil 60 , TU feet into the air for several ; hours, continued to Dow oil " and gas mixed with water. The fluid was boiling up around the casing. Steps were being taken to replug the well. I Moab's brand new municipal munici-pal swimming pool, which was l opened to the public Aug. 16, was closed for the remainder J of the season on orders from the Utah State Board of Health, according to Mayor D.E. Baldwin. The state board . said that no permit had been 3 issued for the construction or ( e operation, although according k to Mayor Baldwin, all efforts had been taken to comply i with the regulations. A benefit entertainment for the Grand County public hov pital was planned to raise money for floor repairs and i -new supplies. The program ' i was to include a football game, boxing card, and dance. . i 60 Year Ago ! The people of Moab were j j entertaining the departing soldier boys at a banquet at j , Star Hall, followed by a dance in the Woodman Hall. ; , The Moab canning factory was packing tomatoes, peach- , es and pears. , , Grand County's Erst recruit ; . to answer the call to the colors j under the selective draft was Leo Campbell, who requested that he be allowed to go first ' The new post road from Thompson to Blanding w estimated to cost $1450 per mile, or $174,000. i 1 i |