Show 1 In to the Good Old Days 20 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO May 2 Uintah h County residents will go to the polls Tuesday to decide if the county should issue bonds for Cor a total of ot to erect anew a anew anew new county building Uintah High School band scored a top rating at the Basin Music Festival held in Vernal Friday Milton It R. Hunter will speak at conference Sunday Mrs Archie Johnson of oC Vernal was among Utah's most outstanding mothers who were honored Sunday at an awards ceremony In Salt Sall Lake City 2190 LIONS will attend the state convention in Vernal June 6 68 Leon and Mary formerly of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation applied atthe at atthe atthe the local Branch of oC Relocation last January Mary Ann wanted employment and additional training as a Nurses Nurse's Assistant while Leon requested further training in Diesel Mechanics Mary Ann was placed in Pueblo General Hospital and Leon was enrolled in Diesel Mechanics at Pueblo Junior College Upon completion of oC their training both Mary Ann Arm and Leon will be placed in very good paying positions Among critics of oC the Indian Relocation program including individuals and groups such as the National Congress of oC American Indians the chief objections are assimilation of oC Indians into the white culture is not the answer the real and basic Indian problems are poverty ill health poor education and economic stagnation Relocation is the Indian Bureaus Bureau's cover up for its fa failure Jure to todo do anything for the Indians in their home territory The Indian Bureau has failed to provide funds to carry out reservation development programs Unlike the Utes many tribes have no funds of their own I Wyoming roadmen plan Utah meet on dam highways Weddings Nada Hatch Hatch- Charles L. L Kenney Marcia Fleatcher Anthony L Barbara Ray Pierce-Ray Dean Gross FT DUCHESNE Ending three days of negotiations nearly a million acres of disputed grazing land was divided between the Ule Ute and Affiliated Ute mixed blood Indians A total of acres of land was Vas appraised and checked for its animal carrying capacity before it was divided into animal units that gave the Utes 73 percent and the Affiliated Utes 27 percent of the carrying capacity The animal units means the amount of land that will provide grazing for animals per month U. U S S. S Army Private Roland W. W hem Hein son of Mr and Mrs Carl W. W Hein Vernal is a member of the Truck Cp in Ludwigsburg Germany Clair Hopkins son of Mr and Mrs Clair R. R Hopkins was named to the Blue Key National Honorary Services fraternity May I IOU Oilfield people and Uintah Basin residents in general were jubilant this week over prospects for an expanding oil industry in the area with the announcement last week that a 10 inch pipeline would be built from the Rangely field directly to Salt Sall Lake City refineries SENATOR SI Arthur A A. Watkins predicted that tha t cuts in the Bureau of Reclamation budget concerning reclamation projects would be restored Loren Pudge fudge Merkley son of oC Mr and Mrs Sid Merkley of oC Maeser was elected president of the Uintah High School student body Merkley won the election over Bob Williams lie He succeeds Glade The Uintah County School board last week approved a salary schedule for Cor teachers which compares favorably with schedules throughout the state stale and laid down strict regulations governing school board equipment and the use of oC board facilities for buying merchandise merchandise mer mer- chandise for personal use Large accumulations of oC snow developed at higher altitudes during the heavier than usual October and November storms CONSTRUCTION and resurfacing of oC the Uintah Canyon road north of oC Neola has commenced Wedding Kathryn Huber Huber- Elroy Walker John E E. E 59 died Saturday morning Frost came Sunday night and froze the grain and nd the fruit Diversion of water from Rock Creek to irrigate the whole of Blue Bench above Duchesne was proposed last week May 17 has been set as the dedication date for the oil shale experiment plant near Rifle The fhe largest plant of legal size trout will get underway May 10 flay It has been a long time since this valley has been blessed with so good goal a n rain at the right time as that Sunday night It R rained all night and the weather has been bren blustery all nil week giving the soil a chance to soak The engine was fired tired up and the machinery put in motion at atthe atthe atthe the Uintah Creamery Thursday morning and 1200 pounds of oC milk was sent in for the first run which churned GO 60 l lbs Ibs of butter This Is double the amount of oC milk sent since the first day last year ear WEDNESDAY evening there was a fisticuffs encounter at the he Little Chicago Saloon between Andrew Berkley and Harry Yarnell Varnell in which Yarnell received a badly disfigured eye They were separated by Bert Singleton and Ormel Wilkins and Berkley left the saloon Immediately after as he was crossing the street a shot was fired through the front window of oC the saloon Marshall Woods placed both under arrest Berkley went before beCore Justice Camp and plead guilty to assault and battery and was fined 5 and costs Yarnell took the statutory time to plead and his case came up yesterday He lie entered a plea of guilty For the purpose of ascertaining the gravity of oC the offense of a shot being fired four witnesses were examined L. L Wood said he saw Yarnell with a gun in his hand and saw him shoot shoat through the window M. M Howard was passing in front and did not see who did the shooting Mr Yarnell stated slated that he was under the influence of liquor althe at al atthe the time and did not remember what had occurred Fine was fixed at 35 and costs amounting to which was promptly paid We are told that Whalen lost close to 1000 head of oC sheep in inthe the storm He sheared last week and drove his herd to the mountains A girls girl's essay on boys The boy is not nol an animal yet they can be heard to a considerable distance When a boy hollers he opens his big mouth like frogs but girls hold their tongues till tilI they are spoken to and they answer respectable and tell just how it il was A boy thinks himself clever because he can wade w where here the water is deep When a aboy aboy aboy boy grows up he is called a husband and he stops wading and stays out at nights but bul the grownup girl is a widow and kec keeps s house i FRENCH and Wooley lost about head of sheep in the storm The men stopped shearing and drove the sheep to the mountain They will finish after lambing Dr Laughlin has left leCt Vernal without bidding his creditors and many warm friends goodbye His llis debts are not large however only a few dollars he had borrowed from the boys to keep up appearances at the dances last winter I J John hn Kelley the best dom mon men in was hauled to the lockup last evening by Marshall Woods Firewater is always getting John into trouble or the lockup It is going to take another week to get a jury in the Mor Mor- case at the same rate the judicial mill milI is grinding Only five jurors have been accepted |