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Show $ Through the Files of And the Grand Valley Time 10 YEARS AGO Linda Nichol was the winner win-ner of the powder puff derby der-by at the Mountainview Racing Association track cast cf Moab. A fire swept through and Ieveied the effee, warehouse- and dry room of Shat-tuck-Denn Mining Inc., at the Company's Dry Valley mine. - John and Lucille Pipkin, opened to the public the:r new restaurant located in the old Skakel ranch home between Moab and the Colorado Colo-rado river. Picked to head the Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce for the coming year were Sam Taylor, Tay-lor, Ilarlcy C. Johnson, and Dr. A. Ray West. The deer season was s t .11 cpen fcr residents on the Beck Cliff herd unit. 20 YEARS AGO The r;i'.hers of (he members mem-bers cf the Grniid County H'rh School football tram entertained the team at a banquet. Plans were taking shapa for the first hcrse show in Moab's his'ory, which was . to take place at the fair grounds. Engineers of the stale road commission were making mak-ing a . detailed :::rvcy and leg of all the ecunty liig'h-wavs liig'h-wavs as a oasis for Class P road fund allocation. Son'afrr Arlhur V. Wat-kins Wat-kins was to conduct a legislative legis-lative clinic at Moab wi'h the public invited to ntterrt and discuss the needs of this part of Utah. Methods for providing greater safely on Utah's lvchways was to be discussed discuss-ed at a safety meeting. 40 YEARS AGO Two carloads or about 2E30 turkeys were delivered by local growers to the-Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative Coopera-tive Association. The aver-ago aver-ago weight of a bird was about 14 pounds. The census enumerators appointed by the board cf education completed thr work and announced that there were 529 children of school age in the County. Of those, 32 were rot enrolled in any school. A young man was cap'ur-ed cap'ur-ed and fcur.d to have stolen a car when he attempted to ' escape without paying for a tank of gasoline at Cisco. 60 YEARS AGO The county Treasurer received re-ceived a letter from Germany Ger-many containing a draft of $32.03 for payment of taxes on some property in Grand County. The San Juan Stake conference con-ference was one of the best ever attended with the primary pri-mary speakers being Apostle David O. McKay and P.ubn S. Wells. A special election was to be held to d'atcrmine whether whe-ther the people would support sup-port a proposition to levy a special tax of three mills for road and bridge purposes. Members of the vr. S,'eI King" a r'av the problem -vs. management. .-: Mr- scar steWart married to Miss T red at the - M- Chart, stl ' V: |