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Show Vernal man accepts Jensen postal position A new postmaster has been named for the Jensen post office. Taking the post June 16 was Jimmy Wayne Dikes who succeeds Gertrude Turner. Mrs. Turner was postmistress since 1966. Mr. Dikes had been with the postal department since 1973 as a clerk in the Vernal office where he served until his appointment as postmaster. He was born in McCamey, Texas and attended college at the Texas State University majoring in math. He came to Utah in 1964 as a seismological analysist with the Geotechnical corp. of Dallas, Texa. In 1965 Dikes joined the Air Force and served one year in France and two years in Spain as computer operator and programmer. After discharge from the Air Force he spent approximately ap-proximately one year in Southeast Asia as a satellite navigator with Ray Geophysical Co. of Houston, Texas. He returned to the states and worked one year in Washington, D.C. with Teledine Corp. as a seismological annalist. In 1969 he had an opportunity to move to Utah to do research for the University of Utah, where he spent four years as a seismoligical annalist; he was ,y ); a JIMMY DIKES Postmaster transferred to Vernal where he was with the Uintah Basin Seismologial Observatory. Mr. Dikes and his wife, Brenda Gail have been married ten years and are parents of one daughter, Wendy Joy. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club and enjoys hunting, fishing, prospecting, prospec-ting, skiing. "I enjoy anything that is related to the mountains," said Dikes. "That is why I came to this area." |