Show In the Good Goad Old Days 20 YEARS AGO January 17 1957 Sun o OH Oil I Co has established commercial production of natural gas In the Wasatch formation at the huge Ute Ule Trail unit in Uintah County it was announced Friday Rodney ift Pk i 1 ft son of Mr and Mrs Jude Hacking of Maeser is resting in St St. Marks Mark's Hospital in Salt Lake after receiving surgery for Cor an injury received when he hc and his year old brother Mitchell were playing with a toy tipped rubber-tipped dart gun The Thc tipped rubber dart struck Rodney in the right eye He lie was flown to Salt Lake for immediate surgery President Eisenhower's budget message Wednesday included recommendations for for the Flaming Gorge unit of the Colorado River Storage project and for Dinosaur National Monument ON SATURDAY Jan 19 radio station and the Uintah Broadcasting Co will celebrate ten years of radio service to the Uintah Basin Dasin by becoming affiliated with the Intermountain Network and the Mutual J Broadcasting System Since opening January 19 1947 offices have been in the Hotel Vernal High temperatures 49 low 14 below The 1957 March of Dimes campaign opens on a note of triumph Tens of millions of American children were inoculated with Salk vaccine The number of polio cases was sharply cut By next summer millions adults well more as I as children will be protected Mr and Mrs Hugh W. W Colton recently returned from the American National Cattlemen's Association Convention in Phoenix The Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow in Uintah High School is Francis Allen daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Allen TAMERA IERA accompanied by her mother Mrs Dee Curfew went to Salt Lake last Sunday where Tamera competed in the Jr division of the Make it Yours Yourself with Wool contest She also appeared on the Gordon G r lon Owen TV show w and hunters bunters using the Browns Park and Clay Basin areas believe bellev that the new bridge across the Green River is a sound In In- vestment t. t Crossing the old Browns Park bridge meant risking life liCe and limb Commenting Commenting Commenting Com Com- on the old bridge one rancher said When I 1 drove my pickup truck across it the bridge would sway up and down and sideways When I reached the other side I would be shaking as as bad as the bridgel bridge According to the editors of or Changing Times you may have trouble getting a loan to finance a home And even if you do qualify you are likely to pay a stiff interest rate Nowadays 5 percent is a low figure and rates of i to 6 percent are not uncommon un un- common 30 YEARS AGO January 16 1947 1941 Announcement was made early this week that the federal government will participate to the extent of in improving Improving improving im Im- proving the local airport during 1 1947 7 in a program which calls calIs for the expenditure of The Thc airport classification will willbe willbe willbe be changed from Class I to Class III Land for extended runways was recently acquired by the city and county after a condemnation condemnation con con- suit A big lad named Howard Todd who plays center for spoiled the evening for Uintah High School basketball fans and sent the fighting Utes down to their first defeat of the season The score was 40 t Sam Snyder was hot on th the basket and kept the Utes in the running SINCE society as as a whole depends absolutely on the produce of f the land for its present and future existence society as a whole must share in inthe inthe inthe the responsibility and cost of maintaining land in a productive state Dr H. H H H. Bennett Crocodile tears are are- popularly insincere manifestations of grief Mandeville Mandeville Mandeville Man- Man deville one of the first creators of tall taIl tales in 1400 concocted concocted concocted con con- a crocodile who enticed victims by his h rending heart moans and then hypocritically shed tears while he CI enjoy enjoyed his his' meal The need for lor action on a new hospital becomes more and more dangerously acute acute Constance THorne ar r superintendent telephoned this week to report that In our present bed 15 hospital were 25 23 patients along with 12 new babies Jeremiah Hatch 70 one of Ashley Valleys Valley's early settlers died December 27 1946 Ted Kesting writes in Sports Afield column Whoever is responsible for the old hunters hunter's saw let a wounded deer lie and stiffen up before you take Lake the j trail is likewise responsible for a great many of the deer that have never been over over- taken Wounded deer do not stiffen in their beds Unless they are mortally wounded the longer they rest the faster and farther they are going to run when flushed The only rul rule to follow If youre you're hunting or deer-or anything else for that matter-is matter to get him if you can 75 YEARS AGO January 24 1902 Sheriff Frank Smith and Deputy George Beck met death Monday morning while storming storming storming stor stor- ming an Indian hut but eight miles west of Anadarko Oklahoma endeavoring to arrest highwaymen highwaymen highwaymen high high- waymen who held up and robbed parties going home from church Last nights night's Deseret News contains the following bill for forthe forthe forthe the opening of the Uintah Reservation It was introduced into the House by Rep Sutherland on Jan 22 Editors Editor's note Part of the bill follows The Secretary of Interior is directed to require to be selected by members of the tribes of Indians occupying the Uintah Indian Reservation in inthe inthe inthe the State of Utah from lands within said reservation as follows By each Indian being the head of a family acres by each Indian not being a member of a family receiving art an through the head thereof forty acres etc When said selection shall have been made the whole of the remaining lands on said reservation shall be open to ii ls settlement r fU under d the 1 d Y 1 In tn Czechoslovakia a girl tells tell her fortune by putting a cherry twig in water on Dec 4 If It It blossoms before Christmas Eve she will marry sometime that year World Book Dook Encyclopedia explains Fun Is like Insurance the older you are the more it c costs ts homestead laws laws of of the United States except mineral lands that all lands entered under the Ute 1 I homestead laws shall be paid for at the rate of per acre A similar bill bUt was introduced in the Senate by Senator Kearns K earns ANDREW Whitlock has returned from Price All the horses he took were accepted He lie is buying again and must have horses between 5 and 8 years old to measure 14 hands and 3 high To round up all alt the horses in this area that are not being used would amount to and think what that much money circulating would mean meant t to the thc people of this area Nelson Merkley Sr one of the oldest and best known citizens of this county died athis at his home Tuesday at 4 o'clock from pneumonia caused from exposure to the cold while walking home from the coal coalmines coalmines coalmines mines west of the valley on New Years Year's Day He was a convert to the Latter Day Saint Church and went to Nauvoo where he assisted in the erection of the temple with the Prophet Joseph Smith and others He crossed the plains by ox team to Utah in 1848 Next will wilI be a masquerade ball at Bartons Barton's Hall Hacks will run from Vernal to the Hall at 25 cents each for the round trip Card to the Public I am usually able to attend to tomy tomy tomy my practice when called upon during the night time after the Ute middle of January During the day always Dr Rose In front of Gerbers Gerber's Store last Saturday a smart aleck rode up on an unmanageable horse riding right over a little boy of Heber Timothy Its It's a wonder the child was not killed As it es PP a gash in his head |