Show f fIn In to the Good Old nays Day 20 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO October to 1957 I have every reason to believe that work will start on the project earl early In 1958 or soon after July 1 said Sen Arthur V Watkins Watkins Final tests tats are now underway on the recently completed sewage treatment plant for Cor Vernal City Despite severe Injuries suffered Sunday evening In a on head-on collision two Vernal residents were married In a Tooele hospital Monday night Herman lIerman Bingham and his new bride Neva Hemstreet exchanged ex ex- exchanged changed vows from Crom hospital beds before beCore Willard Sagers bishop of oC Tooele Eighth Ward The couple had been to Elko Nevada to be married d when their automobile collided with a Midvale car east of oC Grantsville A check of attendance of oC schools in the Basin area showed that the flu bug has really hit hard Total number absent in the Uintah District nears the mark Union High reported a total of oC absent from a total of Very good prospects for Cor bringing home the venison were forecast by local game officials Lloyd Stevens Clairon Huff and Udell Gardiner for the Saturday opening of oC the general season deer hunt The deer have fed well with plenty of feed and water on the range A MASS meeting of the Citizens Party nominated Mayor Ralph for Cor a second four year term and Rondo Sullivan and Glade to run for four Cour y year ar councilmen Eight year old Ronnie Harmon Harmon Har liar mon escaped serious injury when he climbed a tree and topped a power line and fell 30 feet In Ronnie's own words I tried to call for help as the electricity went through me but no noise would come out of my mouth just sparks Finally he dropped to the ground in a daze hitting a second wire on the way down His mother found him walking around in a daze mumbling to himself and assumed he was was was' showing off until he fell Cell on on the porch Ronnie suffered burns and a pulled leg muscle but was back at school Monday n o r Mark Stowe of Sandy music instructor in the local high school bagged a pound elk elkon elkon elkon on the mountain recently But when he shot the animal he was completely lost last He and his companion had camped at McKee Draw and when they were finally picked up by Wm B. B Wallis and Harold E E. E Davis they were 17 miles off their course at the head of Pot Creek in the Davenport For nine years Mark had been applying for an elk permit with no success until this year Weddings Ted Julie Evans-Julie Kahakai Alices Alice's Beauty Shop entered two models in the Annual Cosmetologist Symposium held at Hotel Utah Hairstyles on models Rayma Powell and Mona Lou Parry were rated superior Mr and Mrs Ned Miller spent two days in Vernal at the home of Mr and Mrs Johnny Johnson Mr Miller former Cormer Vernal resident is a brother of oC Mrs Johnsons Mr Miller wrote Dark Moon r October One ol of the most significant occasions In Vernal's event studded history will occur next Thursday at 1 when the Utah Fieldhouse of Natural History is formally dedicated Feature of oC the historic occasion will be the placing of oC a sealed copper box in the masonry of oC the cornerstone containing a scroll recording the events of oC the day all the signatures of oC those present and specimens from the five geological eras represented by the exposed formations in the Uinta Mountains An appeal from Crom residents Inthe in inthe inthe the Leota Bottoms who were flooded out by the high waters of the Green River asked for Cor the building of oC a dike to hold back the rampaging waters and prevent a recurrence of oC this springs spring's tragic inundation A Uintah County Game and Range Hange management board was organized at th the Vernal Gun and Rifle Hille Club RALPH MILBURN was named the Kiwanis Club president The Vernal Garden Club plan plana a city rose garden Weddings John Gary-Anna Gary Ainsworth Mrs Dan Price and her two month old daughter Dana accompanied by Mrs ES Birchell left Monday to join Mr Price at Cleveland Ohio where he is enrolled as a dentistry student at Western Dentistry College Uintah's fighting Utes man 6 football team last years year's district champs tasted the bitter dregs of defeat last week when they were vanquished by bythe bythe bythe the Spartans and again Wednesday by the Ole Roosevelt Rough Riders Deaths Wallace Oaks The Utah Board of Big Game Control denied a petition by stockmen in the Willow Creek area and the asking that the deer herds be allowed to rehabilitate and that hunting be bed d deferred from one to two years until the herds increase The request was as denied One of the most entertaining rodeos to be held locally in years was presented by Woodey B. B Searle sponsor of the Uintah Basin Amateur Rodeo Friday and and Saturday A total of was realized which included 15 prize money contributed by Elmer Caldwell Earl Calder and Long John the 65 year old Indian cowboy entertained the crowd with rope spinning October II II 1902 2 An epidemic of oC diphtheria Is reported from Crom Millard County The towns of and Riverton are quarantined the post office and the school closing Kenneth Graf year old son of oC John Graf had his foot Coot crushed by a horse and blood poisoning set in causing death Don B n. n Colton was nominated to the legislature county commissioners nominated were OD Allen Wm Ashby Mill Millward ward Archie Richardson Jensen James Griffin Louis Kabell and Wm H H. H County clerk HA ItA Wooley Woolcy and MA M.A. Ross Rossi recorder Mrs Sadie treasurer George A A. A Davis sheriff Sylvanus Collett county attorney attorney at at- torney W. W ODonnell O'Donnell assessor H. H Belcher Will Johnson had a severe accident Wednesday evening that bruised him considerably but broke no bones He lie was riding a young horse and in turning the corner by Store his horse fell Cell on the asphaltum and Will soon realized that he had not struck a spring mattress or a bed of roses either t as asphalt pavement is a hard proposition to light on all out Young man if you should come across a girl who with a face as S radiant as a big sunflower sunflower sun sun- flower Clower says as you open the thedoor door I will be busy for half an hour yet the dishes are not washed just squat right down on the doorstep and wait walt for Cor her because some other chap may come along and secure the prize and right then you will have lost lostan lostan lostan an angel JUST ARRIVED October 1 at the home of Arthur Ruple a 12 pound girl Laura mother doing well and the father Cather may possibly get over it but it will take time and gentle nursing Matt Warner and Len McCarty McCarty Mc Mc- Carty of Price are spending the week in Vernal An unknown young man who was arrested in Salt Lake has regained his reason but not his memory He can remember nothing of oC his past The White River Review of Meek Meeker r boasts boasts thusly Rio Blanco county has has' the only gilsonite veins that are known are are being worked in the United States Slates Say brother get off your high perch and go away back and sit down Examine your map carefully and take a squint or two over this way through your spy glass You will discover a very small end of the veins in Rio Blanco and the theother theother theother other 90 percent of them in Uintah County Utah tons of oC gilsonite are mined and shipped every month from the mines at Ft Duchesne How many wheelbarrow loads did you dig |