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Show In The Bood Bid Bays 20 YEARS AGO October 15. I:9 , xXj cr0ps of door are showing up all r the poplll;,r ,mi,,i,1i sl,ols in t,H m ih B-fiin atul lmutmg "at lo;lst s and possibly better than last is forecast by Hob Jensen, grid game manager. lj,n L- Smith, Maintenance Jnervisor for the Uintah School k trict was elected president of the nah state St-ho1 '"Ployees Ration at its meeting in Salt Lake fit'- Clearly and accurately labeled ,'s are a reality at least in Vernal the Jaycees this week put the Lhing touches on some 158 street sijis erected throughout the city. pavid Rust, the son of Mrs. Alta ifit d Vernal, received a missionary l this week to the Argentine Mission. newl'tah Power and Light Co. l.tHX) await internal combustion engine wn whirring out power October . 5 (sing more electric power into the Vernal area. Bvton Goodrich, son of Mr. and Mrs. lone Goodrich of Naples, received his pale Scout badge Monday, September j during the Uintah District Scout (idrt of Honor. frank Liddell of My ton has been ucied the outstanding conservation fanner by Uintah Basin Soil Conization Con-ization District. Miss Linda Allen, ciaugmer, oi Mr. adMrs. Floyd Allen, was initiated into lie Golden Key organization at Snow allege last weekend. Parallel parking throughout Vernal Qtv in the near future was considered Skelv Friday by Police Chief Claudius .1 Banks. A state ordinance requires that city ;srkingbeparalled. on the right side of ie street, 18 inches from the curb, (lief Banks forecast that a Vernal City riinance likely would be passed to fall i line with the state law. H we did not know how little some tjoy of the great things that they rfcsess, there would not be much envy a the world. Electric systems of Utah Power and Light Company and Arizona Public I Service Company will be physically interconnected at a point on the Utah-Arizona Utah-Arizona border near Glen Canyon dam, ie two utilities informed the Bureau of Reclamation here recently. Recent major oil developments in the Uintah Basin include proposals for the formation of the Fence Canyon Unit in Uintah and Grand counties and for the inanization of Rock Creek Unit in tehesne County. 30 YEARS AGO Octoher 1!), 1M!I Representative of Dupont manulacturers of explosives among thousands of other items, are going to establish a warehouse near the Wnrdle mine for explosives for oil exploration, the Vernal Chamber of Commerce has wen informed. Oil Progress week is in full swing this week with posters, newspapers and radios extolling value of the oil industry to lives of Americans. The Leo Staples construction Co. of Kichfiold has been awarded a contract for excavation and filling of trenches for the Naples water project and will start early next week. Some -18,815 linear feet of trench are to be dug and backfilled. All pipe necessary for the project has been delivered in Naples or is on hand in Ileber. The deer hunt opens Saturday, Oct. 22, and will continue thru Nov. 1. Sale of regular hunting licenses and doe permits has been as heavy as any previous year, but the deer population is only 40 percent of what it was last year, Fred Reynolds, game warden, estimated Wednesday. Procedures for speedier reporting and punishment of pilots who engage in "buzzing" and other reckless flying have been drawn up jointly by the armed forces and civil aviation interests. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State during World War II drafted the first W.S. income tax law. Duchesne county residents last Monday voted three to one in favor of a $130,000 bond program to finance a more adequate school program. Mrs. Crystal Lewis, Uintah librarian was elected as committee woman on the I'tah Library assn. board. Electa Caldwell, instructor at Uintah High School, was elected president of the Distributive Education Coordinators Coor-dinators of Utah last Friday in Salt Lake City. Workers and other residents of the county have been sympathetic to the Polio fund drive and have contributed $1-149.85. Ray E. Dillman, Vernal native who was recently appointed president of the western states mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was honored at a testimonial recently in the Roosevelt LDS stake tabernacle. He and Mrs. Dillman have assumed mission duties in Denver. A baby girl was born October 5 to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Collett. Arlys Watkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Watkins, Glines, celebrated her 16th birthday October 4. Mr. and Mrs. F. Edward Aycock of Mountain View, Wyo. are newcomers to Vernal. Mr. Aycock is manager of the cooperative creamery. Ralph Siddoway, Vernal sheepman and president of the Uintah County School District, will oppose Dr. Joseph L. Hansen, Vernal physician, in the race for mayor in November municipal elections. Rural school programs are far below par and are not providing youth with adequate training to meet life's problems. President of the Uintah High School Key Club is Kenneth Calder, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Calder. 70 YEARS AGO 0, i r l.-. I ') Wm. Ashton died at his home in Vernal Ver-nal this Friday forenoon at l()::i surrounded sur-rounded by all of his family but two, Miss Ethel Ashton and Mrs. S. M. Browne, who are in Los Angeles. He has been sick for twelve days, but was feeling feel-ing some better Wednesday and got up and went outdoors for a lew hours. This gave him a set back and brought on pneumonia and having no constitution to build to, soon succumbed to the disease. He was conscious to the last and recognized his family and friends. Owners of flocks over in Wasatch County are alarmed over the appearance ap-pearance of the fatal foot and lip disease in their herds, which caused so much loss in Wyoming a short time ago. The state veterinarian is asking all sheep owners to unite with him in checking a spread of the disease in the state. J. S. Roberts, assistant superintendent superinten-dent of Railway Mail Service and Route Inspector, spent Sunday night in Vernal. Ver-nal. He met with a number of our business men to talk over the request for a mail line through the reservation country to connect with the railroad at Colton. He seemed disposed to recommend recom-mend that the Colton line be established and that the present mail service by way of Dragon be abandoned. The fire alarm sounded last evening ' and everyone hurried to the home of Snellen Johnson south of Vernal but for tunately it was only a pot of grease that caught on fire in the kitchen. No damage. Some of the backwaters or ponds along Green River that are drying up are found to contain numbers of fish and the attention of Deputy Game and Fish Warden Pope, who was in town this week, was called to the matter. It is said that they are mostly catfish and perch, although there are some suckers. An effort will be made to put all of the fish in the shallow ponds back into the river and the others ought to be drained but that would be a big undertaking. under-taking. The four younger children of J. P. Rudy were hurt in a runaway several days ago over on the reservation. All of the children were thrown out and hurt, and one little girl, ten years old, was dragged under the wagon. Her nose was broken and she received internal injuries. in-juries. Vernal had a visit from the State Chemist Herman Harmes the first of the week. Mr. Harmes frankly admitted admit-ted that he expected to find Vernal the dumping ground for Salt Lake City in the cheaper grade of groceries and other articles that did not conform to ; the requirements of the pure hxtl law. ' In this he was agreeably surprised and said the Vernal stores carried a high class of goods, and he found but very few articles being sold in violation ol the pure food law. He found our meal markets clean and the Uintah Creamery far better than the majority of them in the state, and the butter weighing right up to the notch. He recommended screens however at the creamery. The stores were warned nol to sell ranch butter that did not contain a printed label of the number of ounces, the name and place where it was made. He said the citizens of the town ought to raise more money in some way and go on up to the canyon above the farms and all irrigation, for as pure water as it is possible to get for city use. Fruita, Colo, is a busy place these days, harvesting and shipping their fruits and beets. One day last week seven carloads of fruit were shipped away and from two and three carloads of sugar beets are shipped every day to the factory at Grand Junction to be made up into sugar. How many carloads of fruit could be shipped out of Ashely Valley at the present time providing pro-viding we had a railroad? The railroad will be here in a few years. Now is the time to plant trees, and prepare for the market when it opens up. Apples are a failure out in other parts of the state this year and are selling at five cents a piece. Here the apples are larger and liner than ever. Twixt twilight and dark, up near Manitou Park, a maiden sat combing her bright golden hair when heated with roaming, all panting and foaming, there came up and squeezed her a big grizzly bear. It did not affright her, the bear did not bite her, she lay back and murmuered: "still tighter dear." This broke up old bruin he let off his wooin, sneaked back to the mountains and hid a whole year. The following is a very truthful remark "The man who grows up in his native town regarded as a boy by his elders until he is well started down the declivity of life that ends in a hole. The stranger who comes into a place is more often pushed to the front than the young man who has grown up with the town. This is the reason why so many young men become dissatisfied with their home surroundings, and long to cast their lot in other qaurters." |