| Show Lions Club marks 50 years of community service Friday I I t The Vernal Lions Club will celebrate their fiftieth anniversary anniversary anniversary an an- Friday Sept 30 at 7 pm p.m. at the Vernal Junior High School Organized during the fall of or 1927 the club was chartered Sept 3 and the first Charter Night held Sept 30 1927 Of the original 36 charter members only two Wm B B. B Wallis and Earl Barl Freeman are left leCt YOU MIGHT I say were we're thelast the thelast thelast last two leaves on the original tree joked Mr Wallis who took the petition around when the first meeting was called Signing their names to the charter 50 years ago were James C C. C Anderson George W W. Cahoon CS Carter Jesse A A. A Cheney George H. H Christy Jr Ray Duke Irvin Eaton Earl J J. J Freeman MG Fowler Charles A A. A Hatch WS Henderson JS Higham John Jorgensen William Newton AG Nord US U.S. Olson E E. E Peterson Robert L L. L Pix ton J JH 11 Ratliff I I. I Sander Charles Sebold Harmon S S. Herbert M M. Snyder Marion Shaffer Leo C C. C Thorne Charles F F. F Tucker Herbert James H. H Wallis William B B. B Wallis James H. H Wallis served as the clubs club's first president and Leo C C. Thorne was secretary Since then there have been 47 presidents Present officers are arc Neil Nell Deets pres vps v.p.'s Lowell Wardle Clayton Curtis Lawrence Wardle secretary Mike Sullivan tr treasurer yard Vard I i fP 1 4 h THE LAST TWO leaves of the original 36 charter members of the Vernal Lions Club are William B. B Wallis former owner and editor of the Vernal Express Express Ex Ex- Ex press and Earl T T. T Freeman former owner and operator of Freeman Cleaners now Sutton Cleaners Openshaw tail twister Nathan Jones lion tamer Norman Norina Woodhouse directors Keith Caldwell Art Dave Condon Chad Orton past president Lyle Anderson A PROGRAM I arranged by byDon byDon byDon Don Wardle will be emceed by Whitney D D. D Hammond BH History of Vernal Lions A special presentation will be made by Lloyd Winward on behalf of Lions International to honored guests and charter members Wallis and Freeman Scheduled as keynote speaker is John N N. Eldridge past Lions International director from Salt Lake City Special invited guests are district governors from the four Utah districts UTAH U U- T A Kristi Sullivan and Suzi Southam will entertain with musical duets Vernal First Ward is catering a roast beef dinner In those early days said Mr Wallis the club served inthe inthe in inthe the role of a Chamber of Commerce making good will visits to other Roosevelt cities Duchesne Heber Price Craig Denver Meeker Moab and Salt Lake working through programs and road projects to unite the area I. I IThe The roads were were fere terrible then US U.S. 40 was graveled buts but's but s 's ili S' S gravel w sto inches in diameter One of our major projects was getting US U.S. 40 surfaced hard-surfaced from Salt Lake to Denver Other projects were the Vernal-Manila Vernal Highway Highway highway High High- way the Dinosaur National Monument and Visitors Center Uintah Basin Junior Live Livestock tock Show Field House Museum Merkley Park and tree planting along Vernal's Main Street new i school buildings Vernal Rodeo t and Oak Park Reservoir the i Colorado River Project the use i of Rock Asphalt native on highways broom sales to aid the blind Remember the Main Park Variety shows and numerous youth programs TilE THE OBJECTIVES of are to create and foster a spirit of generous consideration among the peoples of the world to promote the theory and practise of the principles of good government and good citizenship to take an active interest in the civic commercial commercial com corn mercial and moral welfare of the community to unite the members in the bonds of or friendship good fellowship and mutual understanding to provide a forum for free discussion of all matters of public interest to encourage efficiency and promote highest ethical standards in business and professions Halsted Ritter hitter in 1919 at a Chicago Convention made the statement The River Yukon gathers to itself such a volume of pure water r that when it flows into the s pushes the alty b Us i b ten miles So should every Lions Club force a pure clean stream of intelligent Americanism into its community |
