Show In the Good Goad Old Days 20 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO March larch 7 1957 beneath photo READY TO SERVE New recruits in Vernal National Guard Unit prepare to embark on a flying trip to Salt Lake City to obtain their Guard un uniforms Left to right are Robert Martin James Martin Court Anderson an unnamed crewman Gary Taylor Leon Collier Larry Lee Hal Hatch John Leiphardt Howard Ross Gary Hatch Kenneth Olsen and Carl Sawyer Standing on the steps are arc Dan Labrum Floyd Kay Campbell and Victor Man- Man waring Heavy response looms in mass polio shots Plans are gaining momentum in Daggett County for a highway highway highway high high- way bridge over Flaming Gorge Canyon about six miles east of Manila A PLAN TO provide a banquet and entertainment to high school seniors on graduation night to avoid all all- r night parties in Merkley Park was discussed at the Vernal Chamber of Commerce meeting The damp snow and rain that ushered in March will be needed for the rest of the month as below normal precipitation throughout the Uinta Basin has resulted in a downward revision of water forecasts for the remainder of C the year said a recent forecast based on snow surveys by Leo Brady and LaMar Wilson The automobile one of our most needed and most used machines today has become our greatest lethal weapon During World War II 11 American boys were wounded killed or missing in action or taken prisoner During the same period civilians l lost t their lives or were injured right here on the home front it would take lake a Pearl Harbor 2117 lost their lives 1272 were wounded and reported missing every nineteen days to equal the fatality rate of our highway slaughter Parachute Colo Sept 11 11 1894 Nearly sheep were stampeded by masked cowboys and killed by being driven over the perpendicular walls of the 1000 feet into the Canyon of Parachute Creek Carl Brown one of the employees employees em em- attempted to defend his flock Clock and was shot in the hip Lack of m medical aid will very likely result in his death it is said CHOSEN TO reign over the recent Sweetheart Ball at Ashley Valley Junior High School were Terry Tullis and Connie Thomas Marriage licenses Fred Riding Hiding and Cleo Jane Clark Robert Hobert L. L and Jane Mr and Mrs James Chivers celebrated their Golden Wedding Mrs William II M. was honored at an open house on her birthday Funeral services for Joseph W. W Holmes 65 were held Monday in the Davis Ward Chapel Ralph Chew took the plane to March larch 7 1902 Matt Warner of Price is in inVernal inVernal inVernal Vernal buying horses He lie has paid 45 for some The Vernal City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting and prescribing the penalty for forthe forthe forthe the unlawful practice of medicine surgery and obstetrics obstetrics obstetrics ob ob- ob- ob within the limits of Vernal Chickens for Sale Thoroughbred barred Plymouth Rock John Merkley Plowing has already com- com the ground is very dry and anti f farmers are crying for rain instead df neThe ne- ne The band will again reorganize The much needed financial support is assured and with these facts in view the organization will again make the desert hills hilIs reverberate te with music Monday a decision was rendered in the US U.S. Land Office Office Office Of Of- fice at Salt Lake City awarding the McKee Ranch on Brush Creek to James J. J McKee The news says The register and receiver of the U. U S. S Land Office here awarded to James J. J McKee the possession of land on Brush Creek 12 miles north of Vernal which had been filed upon by the wife of the town marshall while Mr McKee was rusticating in the state prison for a cat sheep cattle scrape The McKee family had occupied the land for 20 years and a homestead entry taken out but Mrs Tolliver taking advantage of the absence of McKee filed on the land under the desert entry act The land office ruled that the long residence and improvements made by the senior McKee clearly made it ineligible for such entry ROCK HOCK M 1 POPE POPI has a very interesting article in Mondays Monday's Tribune on the geological formation of the hydrocarbon district of Eastern Utah and Western Vestern Colorado The Uinta Basin he says with wilh the geologic conditions just set forth its size its dip and its surface indications offers conclusive evidence to the unprejudiced and careful student that it is one of the grea greatest test hydrocarbon producing districts of its size in inthe inthe inthe the known world c c c Paper manufacturing is second only to the chemicals industry in the high invest investment ment needed for manufacturing manufacturing turing machinery The paper industry invests 56 cents of or every sales dollar in plant and equipment Chicago for the REA HEA Monday morning No man can be expected to pay as he goes if he is always going broke Mr and Mrs Leon Sprouse of l Duchesne have purchased the Ouray Trading Post from Mr and Mrs Kay Winn Sterling Kendall married Miss Bonnie Morgan f February 22 Now theres there's a Vitamin H B lip lipstick for girls with anemic boyfriends March larch 6 Hugh W. W Colton World War II colonel county attorney and 1946 rodeo association president was named Saturday as chairman of the Uintah Hospital Building Committee to initiate in Vernal the long- long awaited hospital building program Named to his committee committee committee com com- were J J. J A. A Cheney Dr F. F G. G Eskelson Glenn Cooper C. C R R. R Hopkins Neff Smart Alvin Weeks Carl Swain 0 O. O L. L Johnson and C. C R R. R Henderson William B B. B Wallis publisher of the Vernal Express and editor and manager of nfl Mn paper for the past 20 years was named bishop of the Vernal First Ward Ernest Caldwell and A. A A. A Call were retained as first and second counselors Chellus Caldwell ward clerk Bruce Watkins ward clerk COUNCIL signs contract to buy parking meters Installation Installation Installation In In- set for 60 GO days Vernal Gun and Rifle Club members went on record Monday as unalterably opposed to the removal of western public land holdings to private ownership of livestock men Vernal's crew of volunteer firemen were making final publicity bids today to ensure a abig abig abig big crowd at their annual firemans fireman's ball at Imperial Hall Tex Ross Hoss and his Rhythm Wranglers will furnish the music Coal lump lump nut 8 pea 7 at Wardle Coal Co Stu Ashton is regaining ng his health after attending the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the reunion of his old navy unit Ills His parents Mr and Mrs Rae Hac Ashton left Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- to sunny California At Al Stanford they'll visit their youngest Ralph and go on to Carmel Louis Abegglen announces the opening of Vernal's first exclusive shoe store The Vernal Shoe Store IMPRESSIVE Il funeral services services ser ser- vices were held February 13 in inthe inthe inthe the Lapoint Ward Chapel under the direction of oC Bishop LeeWalker Lee LeeWalker LeeWalker Walker for Abner Swain Lapoint and rancher rancher rancher ran ran- cher who died February 9 Inthe in inthe inthe the Basin Hospital of a heart ailment Despite its mulli multi million million dollar cost cast must fight for the Central Utah Project ItIs It Itis Itis is a solid approach to a higher standard of living for every person living in the state as well as to development of or great new benefits to the nation said Gov Herbert B D. Maw in an article More tore Power to Utah lie He declared that Utah needs a anew anew anew new supply of water and needs it badly Without new water the industrial giant in the making is going to bump t his s shead head against the inexorable ceiling of limited water supply supply sup sup- ply Prominent businessmen Martin Campbell and Chuck Henderson were seen in Craig Monday night east to Denver |