Show In the Good Old Days 75 YEARS AGO December One hour and 30 minutes was the time consumed at Farmington last week in impaneling a jury listening to the testimony of ot witnesses and sentencing John Meyers to one year in the penitentiary penitentiary for burglary ry The value of oC taxable property in n Utah is against last year At Monkey town recently Moroni Hunt and his sons killed rabbits just Coli following owing them around and knocking them themon on the head with clubs The rabbit population and the problem has become so intense that the president of the Juab Stake of oC Zion has issued an Invitation to the rabbit hunting friends of Provo and Payson to come to Juab County on the of December to engage in a big hunt and to bring their wives and sweethearts along John L. L Sullivan former champion heavyweight prize fighter of the world has filed a petition in bankruptcy Reed Smoot and Banker McCormick will run for the US U.S. Senate It too often oCten happens happens happens hap hap- pens that state legislatures are strongly influenced by a candidates candidate's ability to tomake tomake tomake make a great financial showing and men are chosen whose sole and only claim to high political distinction is their bankroll Wealth is not necessarily a prime attribute to those whose responsibility it will be to govern us THE TILE FAILURE of the state legislatures to be governed by common sense principles principles principles prin prin- in these matters has resulted in a pronounced and growing sentiment among the people regardless of politics in favor lavor of relieving state legislatures of this duty and allowing the people to make the choice by popular vote Sunday evening Mrs EC Simms was thrown into a state of nervous prostration by becoming frightened while buggy riding with her husband in Vernal The horse became tangled somehow and Mrs Simms who had a baby in her arms became frightened and jumped out She Shedid Shedid Shedid did not get clear of the vehicle and believing she was about to be killed fainted She was unconscious for several hours but neither was injured seriously Fagged Out OutI OutI OutI I want to let go to drop the whole thing The worries the frets the sorrows the sins J Just st to let myself down On the bed or the ground Any Anywhere where so its it's down And let myself go And the folks I dont don't care And my business the same Hell and heaven Too tired The preceding was written by the Express editor about Christmas time 75 years ago May we add our Arn Amen I Ed F. F Harmston has been promoted to toland toland toland land surveyor for the gilsonite company He has invented a new method of blueprinting and is doing things up in great sha shape pe From present indications very little will willbe willbe willbe be done in the near future toward opening the Uintah Reservation The Secretary of Interior deems it advisable to attempt to hold a conference with the Indians to obtain their consent until the reservation can be surveyed and allotments made To Todo Todo Todo do this will require a large sum of money and Congress will be asked for a ap ap- 20 Y YEARS ARS AGO Decembers 1957 Citizens Group first tint meeting set to examine county school program What do we want our schools to do with and for our children The heart and core of oC the entire education process in Uintah County will be subject to scrutiny beginning with a meeting Friday The study is to discover whether or not the present school programs are preparing students for Cor a place in today's highly complex and technological society If not changes willbe will willbe willbe be forthcoming in teaching subjects The Russian Sputnik may have dealt a heavy blow to the start of the Vernal Project and to appropriations for the Upper Colorado River storage project Cutting of public works is likely as huge funds are sought for expansion of the US U.S. Missile department SANTA WILL arrive at Vernal Airport at noon Saturday via Frontier Airlines Friday at 1030 pm p.m. Howard Horrocks attendant at Standard Service Station east of the Hotel Vernal was accosted by a man while in the lube room The bandit pulled pulle a agun agun agun gun and made the attendant hand him the money in the till about 30 While Mr Horrocks was doing this a customer Sharon Kanistanaux pulled in and the gunman told Mr Horrocks to wait on her Without attracting attention Mr Horrocks whispered that a holdup was taking place and Sharon notified the Highway Highway Highway High High- way Patrol who alerted the Sheriffs Sheriff's of of- fice Cice Uintah County's death toll h hit t a record breaking nine mark Saturday A Gusher man manFO FO Lundberg 77 was v killed almost instantly when the too pickup he was driving was struck from behind by an eastbound auto driven by Elmer Kent Bentley Fran Harrison and Connor were with Mr Bentley Elvis Presley plays a love scene in Jailhouse Rock Weddings Jean McConkie Gregorio McKenzie Joye Chivers Garth Horrocks Karen Hardman John Allen Hacking Ellen Grace Morgan Merrill Johns Mr and Mrs Frank A. A quietly observed their wedding anniversary at a family dinner MARTHA Lincoln reputed to tobe tobe tobe be the oldest living American Indian was taken to the Roosevelt Hospital after aCter relatives found her lying on the floor of her home in Whiterocks Records at Fort Duchesne list 1848 as the year of her birth Vernal worshippers of all faiths gathered in Uintah High School auditorium to participate in the annual Thanksgiving service sponsored by the Kiwanis Club Sally Swain and Joleen Moon won Make it Yourself with Wool ol contest I test Winners s J of f the ai annual n r K for Democracy at the Uintah High School are arc Marjorie Hopkins Neita Weeks and Diane Busch to cover the expense so the opening seems to be still in the dim future Mrs Lucinda Jane Beeler invalid wife of W. W R. R Beeler of Mill Ward met frightful death by burning Tuesday night The deceased was addicted to smoking and the fire evidently originated from her pipe or matches a number of which she usually kept in her lap 30 YEARS AGO AO December 17 Santa will arrive by plane at the Vernal airport Saturday afternoon and will be b driven Immediately In a jeep to the town square for the Christmas program which will begin at 4 Proof that the Rangely oil field faces a permanent future was furnished this week when the Standard Oil all Company announced announced an an- plans to construct a five million dollar refinery at Salt Lake City The hospital building fund is nearing its goal of said Hugh chairman Ashley passe passed its quota under the then V fund r f ra ing st o on rs HE E See sceley Seeley ey Mrs William Morrison and Mrs William Karren Karr S Said ld Mrs s Seeley ley We Ve started out with a box of odds and ends which we sold old for from 35 cents to 35 Then wed we'd ask the thee person buying the article to contribute another We would then sell that to another who In turn would be asked to contribute another article The most profitable trans transaction cUon was w was sm made de with Vean c Collett who had previously paid his full assessment to the hospital I f and ind Mr Collett not only purchased several items but donated a pig as well which was sold to a neighbor for 2500 How could any l' l project rail fail in the f face ce of such determined effort 4 Thoughts from the editor Have we gotten so used to federal funding and giveaway giveaway give give- away programs that weve we've forgotten how the roots grass-roots methods Definite announcement that the Calder Bros Dairy holdings holdings' will be acquired bythe bythe by bythe the Mountain Valley Dairy Products an affiliate of Hiland Dairymen's Association of Murray was made this week by Grant Grant- Calder manager of Calders and Bruce Fitzgerald Roosevelt president of Mountain Valley ONA BARTLETT a senior at High School and editor of the school paper The Spartan was awarded first prize for forthe or orthe the best editorial written and published in ina in ina a high school paper during the year at the twelfth annual intermountain journalism conference held at BYU All Uintah County echoed the sentiment of the popular song Let it Snow let it snow following a week of almost continual con l con snowfall Vernal City offered Uintah County the use its of-its new fire Cire truck Mrs Lewis Roberts reports that tha t her son Elder Clark Roberts is enjoying his mission in Argentina Linda Darnell Cornel Wilde in Forever Amber Lorraine Pope Senior class candidate was chosen to reign over the Uintah High Schools School's Harvest Ball Weddings Rhea Huber Do Douglas Douglas' gras gras' Merkley Kathleen Mercer L n Lawrence Richens Karma Gerald Gerald Langton Deaths Abner Richens Dorothy Eskelson Gusher ROY HOY STRAND will succeed Dean Cox as manager of the Moon Lake Electric Cooperative said DeMarr Dudley Present membership of the board includes includes' Mr Dudley Byron Collett Chester Hartman Lawrence Caldwell Frank Morrill Eldon Brady Thomas Gilbert Three additional cases of diphtheria and anda a case of German measles were reported this week |