Show In the Goad Old Days 20 YEARS AGO 30 YEARS AGO 75 YEARS AGO Z February 14 1957 Senator Arthur Watkins expressed confidence Sunday in Salt Lake City that the Upper Colorado River Rivet project would not be delayed for lack of funds The Senator said that the project would not get less than the 25 million dollars now in the budget An involuntary ma manslaughter slaughter charge faces an an Afton Wyo man man in inthe the h head on ad- ad smash up sh which a a Vernal girl 22 year old Caroline Caroline Sam became Uintah County's second fatality of the year Supt Jesse H. H Lombard of Dinosaur National Monument said that invitations to bid were received Wednesday for building projects in the quarry area The popular Reg Burchinal's Orchestra will provide the music at the Firemans Fireman's Ball set for Saturday night in the National Guard Armory Lowell Thomas well-known well news commentator recently wrote to Bus Hatch of Vernal congratulating him on a movie they made together in the India wilderness last summer Mr Hatch acted as boatman on the dangerous Indus River where one man in the party was drowned YOUR YEARS PEARS food supply should be based on what your family ordinarily would eat said scientists at the State Agricultural College Clark Robinson found a weather balloon with testing apparatus and a 1951 tag in the field while he was visiting his grandparents the James Robinsons in Ashley Joy Kidd and James Short spoke wedding vows in the Ashley Ward Chapel Carolyn Burdick 16 daughter of Maxine Burdick of Duchesne was crowned Uintah Basin Sweetheart at at atthe the Sweetheart Ball held this year at the Uintah High School Wiley Pope and Budge Wallis proudly wear Eagle c Scout badges they were awarded atthe at atthe atthe the Court of Honor Saturday TOP TOI SCORERS in the basketball division are Uintah Phil Bryson with a average Pete Nyberg Altamont Allamont Guy Mayhew Duchesne Beal Union Doug Michelson Duchesne Grant Drollinger Altamont Nolan Giles Tabiona Gordon Bascom Union i Eldon Buckalew Duchesne Stephen Rowley Duchesne Word was received this morning that Clinton Miller of Ogden chairman of the anti anti- committee of the state will appear at Vernal City Council meeting Wednesday to oppose the installation of 01 in the city water supply Members of Uintah County Committee on Community I Television visited Roosevelt Wednesday night to watch the first showing of television on the translator system in the area The beam was turned from fromi i Tabby abby Moun Mountain 11 and LeRoy y February 13 13 1917 19 Loren and Reed McKee visit visited several of the best dairies in Utah County and purchased two purebred Holstein bull calves They also bought some purebred heifer heller calves from Mr at Pleasant Grove The animals will be used as a foundation for fora a registered dairy herd by the McKees n l An An- energetic An campaign to bring countless thousands of truant milk and beverage bottles back into circulation was underway this week throughout Utah Unless they are returned consumers face lace a serious shortage of 01 milk and beverages Bo Bottlers cannot obtain enough new containers to supply their customers Jesse M M. Haws was named to the Uintah Stake Presidency last Sunday Vernal and Grand Junction were tied together this week for lor forthe forthe the first time in history when the Uintah Stage Lines began daily freight service Passenger service will commence early next week Herb Bell 59 died at his home Tuesday of a heart attack at at- tack Abner Swain 70 70 prominent La Lapoint point rancher died Sunday afternoon in the Uintah County Hospital of a heart ailment As a special Centennial feature the Express will publish in next weeks week's issue a History of Vernal written and compiled by Charles B. B Bartlett of Tridell TAXPAYERS voted votes to 64 to bond the city for lor waterworks airport and fire firefighting firefighting firefighting fighting eq equipment Members of Vernal's Witbeck Post No 11 lined up against wes western tern wool grower associations this week when they went on record in opposition opposition opposition op op- position to the private ownership owner ship of federally held lands in inthe inthe inthe the West In a report submitted to Pres Pies Truman Monday Sec of 01 the Interior J A A. A Krug recommended mended the utilization of 01 the vast deposits of 01 native bituminous and asphalt im fin rock In Eastern Utah and Colorado The recommendation recommendation was made as an answer to the nations nation's dwindling dwindling dwin dwin- dung oil supply Preliminary surveys indicate that the Uintah Basin may have the I largest seat oil shale and asphalt reserves Inthe In Inthe Inthe the nation and thus will someday hold the key to the nations nation's oil supply TilE THE REPORT also called for continued reclamation efforts Sec Krug said Irrigation of 01 large additional regions will be necessary to meet the food needs of the expected to be added to the population by 1947 19 Krug rug said the Geological Survey and Bureau of Mines have worked out plans for tor an inventory of mineral minerai reserves television committee e said that thaT the reception was marvelous and a as good as that in Sal Salt Sal Lake Lak February 1902 Twenty tour head of cattle died in Layton from ea eating ting beet pulp lp that had been hauled in cars previously loaded with lead ore One third of a pound was taken from Irom the stomachs of some of the animals Beulah Abbey wife of a ayoung ayoung ayoung young merchant near Sparta Tenn is dead as the result of pulling out one of her eyes in a fanatical and and- literal in i in interpretation of the scriptural injunction If thine eye offend thee pluck it out out THERE MAY be a fabulously rich gold mine on the Uintah Reservation from which Caleb Rhoades got his nuggets But people in this part of the state doubt it and the majority have for lor years There have been good copper prospects on the reservation but cowboys and sheep herders roaming allover all allover allover over the mountains watching for money rock have failed to find any The most plausible story comes from the Wasatch Wave Editors Editor's Note let letus letus letus us know if you'd like the rest of this story The boys in the op Co-op had an exciting mouse chase the other morning that showed considerable considerable considerable con con- daring on the part of seven husky men Leon Pack wareroom chief toted in a box of 01 crackers and almost dropped it as he announced announced announced an an- the presence of a mouse inside The boys from the managers manager's office and all departments made a rush for lor forthe forthe the broom rack and armed themselves Surrounding the box so as to cut off retreat they raised their brooms and with bated breath waited while the cover was knocked off and the mouse poor little thing not yet possessed of 01 the serve sense of 01 seeing or even a furry coat and uttering uttering ut ut- plaintive squeaks as he helay helay helay lay there helpless between two large soda crackers was revealed on on Q ai a national a-national national scale Spare stamp No 53 currently valid for fOl 5 pounds of sugar will wUi expire March 31 instead of II n April |