| Show In The Good Old 20 years ago 30 YEARS AGO 70 YEARS AGO June 1959 Over Uintah Basin boy scouts and leaders will gather Monday from the 1959 High Uinta Boy Scout Camp at Uintah Park in the Uinta Some 31 adult volunteer leaders from the and Uintah Scout Districts have had part In the planning of the week long About golfers from throughout Utah are expected to participate in this year's Open Golf Barbara Gibson and son Jimmy of are visiting at the home of her and Dick The new Uintah School District budget for is expected to be nearly li Tuesday June has been set by the State Road Commission as the deadline for receiving bids for seven miles of surfaced road and a concrete and steel bridge on US 40 from Roosevelt easterly to the Uinta Two recent fires in the Jones Hole area have resulted in three acres of brush and grassland being Carloads of machinery and steel are being unloaded near Flaming Gorge to form an aggregate processing plant to furnish the million tons of sand and gravel required by Flaming Gorge Dam Although Uintah County building has only recently been completed and dedicated already considerable damage has been particularly to the Uintah County commissioners disclosed this week that civic and convention groups using the auditorium had burned the new tiling with cigarettes and some of the chairs have been buckled by persons jumping on Gashes and scratches are also in Valda S. a member of Uintah High School teaching staff and Vera S. Central School teacher will attend the Utah Economic Workshop currently underway at The Bill Serrano family are vacationing in New Mexico with Serrano's Douglas Kent currently residing at the home of and Leonard Perry in has received the M. M. Jensen short story award at the BYU for the school Uintah County residents savings bonds amounting to during This brings the 1959 five-month total of bond purchases to or percent of the county's The Senate has approved a million Interior Department which includes for expediting archeological investigations and salvage for the reservoir areas of the Upper Colorado River Storage Its too bad future generations can't be here now to see the wonderful things we're doing with their The leading language in the number of its vowel sounds is a central Vietnamese It has 55 distinguishable vowel A. leader in the search intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is the radio telescope at Puerto It ranges to the edge of the observable universe some 15 billion light It visible Heine June 1949 Under the acting chairmanship of J.D. Penney a Vernal Chamber of Commerce will be organized here June 21 at p.m. at the luncheon meeting in Hotel Paul Glade son of and B. H. of received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in rites at the University of Utah Tuesday lie intends to take some further training after his internship at St. Joseph's Hospital In before returning to Vernal to set up his and Clifford Hartley and their 11 children arrived in New York Saturday from aboard the liner en route to Tridell to make their home under the sponsorship of and Parley H. Goodrich and and Loren Steps were taken this w eek to start on the last leg of special Improvements In Vernal city when a contract was let to Berry to mine and process cubic yards of asphalt at the city and county LeRoy city reported that the asphalt will be stockpiled at the city and county plant so that Murray Trucking and Excavation of Vernal will be able to go ahead with resurfacing of Work is scheduled to be finished by July Total loss estimated between and was caused by fire early Tuesday morning at the Pure Ice and Livestock plant at East and The company was owned and operated by Cecil and Redus who resided in the two apartments adjoining the Proving invaluable service to its community and the Vernal Junior Chamber of Commerce last week at the annual States Junior Chamber of Commerce was presented two coveted first-place awards and one Sparked by the Vernal Junior Chamber of plan for a swimming pool at the city park has been approved and construction will begin this Some reported limit catches over the opening of fishing but the report of the average fisherman was not Boyd L. Vernal who graduated from Utah State class of has accepted a teaching assistantship in civil engineering at All minors between 12 and 18 should obtain a special work certificate issued in accordance with statutes of Utah before they can be legally Cecila Kay Jenkins was honored on her eighth birthday at the home of her Pearl Thursday Oral Goodrich and Ada Openshaw spent five days at Logan where they attended a convention for cooks at the The whole family will pay an affectionate tribute to Dad on June with warm hearted Father's day cards and Father's Day will be celebrated in China and Sweden this year as well as throughout the United Father's Day was first In 1909 by John Bruce Dod of as a tribute to She was one of six brothers and sisters raised by their Williams a Civil War after their mother's The Spokane Ministers sponsored the first city-wide Father's Day In President Coolidge recommended its nationwide observance in Too much criticism and not enough That's the criticism offered recently by a Parent-Teacher official who decried the of parents who claim the younger generation is deteriorating and that the schools are doing nothing about The official pointed out that PTA meetings are practically unattended despite efforts of the elected Disinterest on the part of not only in the PTA work but In all activities of the younger generation is cause of actions deemed unwholesome by the older members of the June 1909 Tuesday there was an exciting runaway In Louis team was standing In front of the bakery in charge of a small The boy said he got out and was going to tie the team when they started the boy ran along side of them but he could not reach their heads and they kept Increasing their speed until they were on a good They ran down the center of the road until opposite the Co-op when some men ran out to head turning them south and toward Woodard's Furniture It looked as though they would go through the but they swerved and plunged into a horse and buggy at the tie It took ten minutes to get all three horses on their feet It was a case of scrambled horses and The buggy had one wheel and several nuts that were otherwise It was Lind's harness was cut up some getting the horses They had their feet through the springs and spokes in such a manner that it was a wonder they were not Walt McCoy bought a new buggy to go home with and was glad he had a horse to pull Harry placer miner and who has been in Vernal recently has had a little romance the last Recently letters have been coming to Vernal and Hudson made it known that he had word that his wife was coming to meet He closed out his immediate interests here and went to There he met a lady and little It was his wife and baby whom he thought were killed in the San Francisco The strange part of it is that the wife had understood that Hudson had met death at Utah a few years ago in a railway Now it that all are alive and well and very glad to meet The meeting at Mack was a very affectionate one and the trio left together for Grand And now we are to have a steam W. E. and wife have taken a three year lease on the Burton Lake Resort from Richardson the present and Rose thoroughly understand the laundry having had years of experience before moving to Vernal and it is the general supposition that they will do a good business from the They certainly have an abundance of soft water and the dance hall will be converted into a drying It is the intention to run a delivery wagon to and from Peter Dillman has been appointed as deputy game warden for Uintah Dillman is a man of considerable experience and with a thorough knowledge of this He has been over it all and knows the streams and where the fish are and where they ought to He is sufficiently familiar with the details of the work he is expected to do even to warrant his filling the He believes the interests of the whole people are conserved and the best good done when no individuals violate the game laws and we believe that Dillman will do his Will Vernon will have a banner crop of apples and apricots this He thinks it can't be told you We said it would get was History repeats itself and we kept a Have you noticed the same fellow who was growling about the cold last is steaming around and cussing the intense Johnnie McAndrews had the ribbons over the grays Thursday morning on the out going stage and they responded as of olden The tennis club has begun There is a lot of sport in the game and a splendid Harden is expected in Vernal any day He Is coming over the Strawberry Miss Louie who has been quite is better and will be at her post in the telephone exchange in a short Miss Atwood is an alert and efficient operator and the people will be glad to have her back Last Tuesday was opening day on the trout streams and there were a few anglers who braved the high water in hopes of landing a mess of the speckled The water is too muddy to fish however and there were not many trout The weather Is getting quite and the gnats are here and ready for |
