Show In the Good Old Days YEARS AGO She was born August Carma was an- as the first Vernal winner on the Cross-out game being sponsored by Safeway stores in the stated The annual Kid's Day celebration will be held September 27 sponsored by rf Vema The possibility of a new Industry for the Vernal area with the extraction of from oll shale was forecast week Farmers Union Exploration Denver was checking bids for drilling and coring on oil shale properties in the Bonanza- Dragon The final connecting link in a road from Vernal to the Flaming Gorge damsite was let Tuesday by the Utah State Road The 54 mile temporary road contract was awarded to James H. Wardle Springville at a bid The bid was substantially below engineer Marland S. Stagg and Betty J. Wilson pan September 18 Salt Lake Temple Uintah High School defeated Carbon by a score Saturday afternoon on a wet Making touchdowns were George Lee and Dick Roberts converted the extra and Louis E. Gardiner are on their way back to the U.S. after two years on a government mission to During a five and a half year period from 1953 up to the middle of this the Carter Oil Company contributed dry hole money and acreage to en- courage the drilling of more than wildcat wells in its operating Utah's school needs demand greater effort from school ad- and school boards Saturday at 3 a marker dedication service will be held on the east side of the Bank of Vernal spon- by the Daughters of Utah A plaque will be unveiled in commemoration of the first bank established In Uintah Glenn H. president of Utah Pharmaceutical was named the outstanding president in the Western States by E. R. Squibb and drug Ray E. who has been Uintah Scout District chairman for the past two has declined as district chairman in order to accept the position as Uintah Boy Scout district finance chairman for the year The swift-footed coyote is capable of a speed of more than forty miles an Connie daughter of and Orvil Dudley of was named top judge of the 51 competing at the State Fair in Salt Lake City Sep- 30 years ago honoring Nancy Uintah High School student who was sponsored by the auxiliary to attend Girls' State and Girs' She was elected governor of the state Tuesday a new Gilbert Bennett of Grand was added to me staff of BasIn R. Jay son of and Mrs R q was seriously injured Sunday at p.m. when the horse he was riding stumbled and fell on the rider's Serious labor shortages are forecast for Utah farmers during the fall har- due to the withdrawal of hundreds of school youth from agricultural Utah county farmers will lose nearly 70 percent of their hired The first air mail parcel Inaugurated 1 throughout the United to arrive in eastern Utah was received by Clyde Little Bonanza and Bryant Roper have bought the James N. Jones property on the old mill Elder Mark E. Peterson of the Council of Twelve Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day was in Vernal A new high-altitude recipe book designed for housewives of Vernal and vicinity will be offered through the novel news headline type of ad to ap- pear this week In the The page cookbook contains almost The United States will celebrate September 15 as National Guard Established by Presidential that date is the eighth anniversary of the Guard's entry into federal service before World War Farmers and ranchers between the ages of 18 and 25 will be deferred from the draft if they are marketing a substantial quantity of essential foods and if they cannot be Weather records and observations indicate that a high fire danger still exists on the Ashley National Out of the 22 reportable fires discovered burning on the 12 were man Victor M. Vernal automobile this week was renamed by the National Baseball Congress to supervise the Utah state baseball program in 75 years ago September li Uie Hll reaping the harvest and hey g ive heir the iu agents the usual number kere will be around next season and the usual number of suckers will bite There was a fire upon the a few nights ago which robbed a young Mexican of his The who labors under the cognomen of was herding sheep for Louis Kabell being a wanderer on the face of the was not the possessor of a very elaborate His only possessions con- of a small grub a roll of blankets and the clothes he Being weary from tailing his flock over the hills all he retired to his downy cot of pine twigs and was soon back in the balmy clime of the sunny where the chill on its temper and the bleak winds He was rudely awakened from sweet dreams of his native land by stifling smoke and flames and only gathered himself In time to drag his bed out of the All the rest went up in His toilet was soon completed in the He put on his shoes and tied the sleeves of his coat around his the tail of it hanging down in front to serve as a breech He then started for the nearest camp about two miles When he hove in the herder there was in the act of taking to tall timber thinking that he had by some sleight of hand performance suddenly been transferred to the wilds of and that s full blood Zulu was swooping down on The Mexican was suc- in making the herder understand that he needed a pair of pants and soon went his way rejoicing wearing a pair of Walt McCoy's He was sorely tried a few hours later and his grief knew no bounds when he met Walt who insisted that he had stolen his pants and made him take them He pleaded and begged like a sinner at the feet of St. Peter trying to not because he was in fear of his best girl strolling that way and seeing his but because it was so Walt as all good Christians and the Mexican tightened his belt another notch and followed the The many friends of George Pack will be pleased to learn that he and family reached Canada safely and all August L. B. Wilder was down from the mine the first of the and is now on the road to Carter Station on the Union He thinks it is very probable that the smelter will be fired up this fall and a run A detachment of the U.S. cavalry is expected to pass through Vernal They are from Washakie to the Uintah reservation to in keeping out Heavy frost every night during the past week have turned all tender vines In some parts of the valley it at this writing and the indications are 'S you ever pater how often the mater so and so my but I notice it never |