Show In In ill n the tho UlC Good Old Days 20 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO March U 14 1957 The tremendous response by bythe bythe bythe the public the past week to the mass polio immunization drive far exceeded estimated vaccine needs said Alta Alia Rust Rust county health nurse Neola Jr M Men team defeated Roosevelt to gain a aberth aberth berth in the Church All-Church tourney at Logan Stake Pr President Frank R H. H Walker presented the trophy to Farrell Crozier team captain Adrian Reynolds Kump was chosen as new bishop of oC Lapoint Ward Sunday lie He replaces Lee LeeJ J J. J Walker who has been bishop for Cor 11 years Full blood Utes who expect to graduate from Crom Union High School are Elwyn Duchesne Neloa Irene Cesspooch Randlett and Cecilia Jenks Ouray TilE THE UTE Indian girls' girls basketball team is playing Inthe in inthe inthe the Intermountain mountain AAU tournament tournament tour tour- in Salt Lake City L. L Newell Behunin has been named as the new manager of the Hotel Vernal to replace Stewart R. R Peterson Bids for a visitors center and employees building at the Dinosaur National Monument will open Friday Cecil B B. B DeMille creator of The Ten Commandments will deliver the commencement address at Brigham Young University May 31 in the George Albert Fieldhouse The engagement to to speak was arranged by President David 0 O. McKay who is a personal friend of the producer After a great deal of preliminary work ground was broken for Trace Elements Element's uranium mill in Maybell Colo Would you believe that the Court News on this date twenty years ago did not contain one divorce case County proves sound climate for long years of wedded happiness at least judging from the number of Golden Wedding Anniversaries reported during 1956 They are The Kine Hatches latches H. H E. E Charles Coltons Heber Powells Fred Joseph Colliers Alfred Simpers Simpers Sim Sim- pers Louis Freestones Geo 0 O. l Franc J. J H H. H Harrisons Harrison Geo H. H Mar Mar- G G. G H H. H A. A Theodore Johnsons and James Chivers Olivers Elder Philip D D. D Pope will serve an Mission in Eastern Canada The outstanding M 1 Men len player award went to Terry Anderson of Naples who scored 83 points in the three games he played Jr M Men high score award went to Farrell Crozier who made 51 points in his three games Laurence C C. C Cooper Uintah High School physical science teacher for the past ten years received a scholarship for study at the University of Utah towards his masters degree in science education Its a scary feeling admitted admitted ad ad- Jesse A A. A Haws as he began an annual leave that will end in his retirement April 30 after 35 years of government service A friend is someone you can always count on to count on you The sensational labor union racket investigation made by bythe bythe bythe the Senate has made it plain that Union monopoly provides a fertile field for operations of hoodlums and gangsters March 13 1917 Chris McKinley formerly of Richfield has purchased Basin Chevrolet Co Vernal and Uintah County Centennial Beautification Committee has set March 17 to April 12 as Beautification The laugh provoking laugh provoking act 3 comedy Pep Parade with an male all-male cast is set for March 21 and 22 Stewart Ashton will appear as Gussie Peck a henpecking henpecking hen hen- pecking wife John Milburn as lien Peck the pecked husband George as Judy Peck creates the heart interest with Red Couture as Tommy Meadows Lawrence Woodard as Aunt Hotchkiss is visiting the Pecks and is under the influence of Harold Richardson alias Madame Le LeLa LeLa LeLa La Visit Richard Ufford is Keith Trevelyan the bank clerk and Dan Carrol is Johnson who flirts with anyone Nick Meagher as Roseola Rockets will intrigue all with her characteristic philosophy while Milburn Hatch latch as Dr Dora will keep any audience rollicking with laughter Mr and Mrs Frank Watkins residents of Vernal for over half halfa a century greeted Golden Wedding guests at the home of their daughter Mrs Martin Campbell TilE THE LAST social event to be bei i held in the Glines Clines Ward Chapel before it is razed to make way for the new chapel was held Friday Mayor B B. B H H. H was one of four witnesses in a hearing by the Public Service Commission on excessive freight rates into the Basin He lie asked the commission to set more equitable rates rats Forrest Goodrich Uintah County Commissioner said that potato growers could not compete with outside growers and pay the rates required to ship their produce whose monopolistic power makes it possible for them to ignore the welfare of both union members and industry March 15 1902 A friend wonders what becomes of all the little bowlegged girls who attend our schools during the winter This is a very simple question and easy to answer They grow big bigand bigand bigand and wear long dresses A School Boys Hoy's Composition Pants are made for men and not for women Women are made for men and not for pants When a man pants for a woman and a woman pants for a man they arc are a pair of pants Such pants dont don't last long Pants lants are like molasses they are thinner in summer and thicker in winter Men often orten make mistakes in pants and mistakes arc are breeches of oC promise There has been much muth discussion whether pants are singular or plural Seems to me when men wear pants it is when plural-when they dont don't wear any pants it is singular Men go on a tear in their pants and it is all right when the pants go on a tear it is all wrong If you want to make pants last make the coat first The most impressive and largest funeral ever held in this vicinity was that of Mrs Sarah ColI Collett tt on Sunday last Don B B. B Colton lectured to the theMIA theMIA theMIA MIA last Sunday evening A Distilled Still Distilled water is cleansed of all impurities See R R. N N. N Liddiard Liddiard Lid Lid- diard about getting a still There was a snowfall of eight inches in Dry Fork Canyon Sleigh riding was all the rage for a couple of days Thomas rhomas Da Davenport Sr died at athis athis athis his room at Glenns Glenn's of pneumonia He came to Vernal from his ranch in Browns Brown's Park Feb 20 and Feb 26 was taken ill He lie was dead in five days Nothing would please the people of this county better than to have Agent Myton lyton removed as is now contemplated by the committee on Indian Affairs They believe he is the cause of all the trouble and are not far off The appointment of some western man who vho lives in the country and knows the true condition of f affairs would Iber better still TilE THE PEOPLE of the valley have at least made a move in inthe inthe inthe the right direction to better their interests in the organization of the Ashley Valley Irrigation and Reservoir Co The object is to convert the lakes on Baldy Mt 1 into storage reservoirs and to build flumes and canals to carry the water over the Dry Fork Sinks The stockholders of the Flume Co have signified a willingness to give way and join the new organization providing they can realize something out of their lumber and flume already built A mass meeting will be held to discuss the recent order of Supervisor May of the Uintah Forest Reserve that requires the sawmills to pay the Government t a stumpage of 1 l per thousand feet on all the timber cut in the last three years amounting to thousands of dollars and they must pay this before they can cut another stick Not only the mills are affected Every Everyman man who has bought a thousand feet feel of this lumber or who has cut fence poles or house logs is a violator of this law It will be seen from this that hardships imposed are general and widespread The farmers feel very much discouraged owing to the lack of moisture The ground is too dry to plow and no attempt is being made as yet to plant any crop whatsoever |