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Show in The good Sid Says 70 YEARS AGO July 9, 1909 Vernal had all the people for once and lowed them a good time. The celebra-on celebra-on of Indpendance day 1909 is past, id everybody seemed to have a happy leling and a pleasant memory of the jy. Practically everything con-ibuted con-ibuted to the success of the day ; even ie little shower in the afternoon eshened the atmosphere and laid the ost and it interrupted the proceedings jt a short time. There must have been 3tween 4000 and 5000 people here and it as the largest gathering of people in ernal since Governor Wells was here. Although it only took about twenty-ve twenty-ve seconds, it was an interesting race hile it lasted. The Indian horse started l the inside track but when they were ipped off the Pitt horse shot in ahead id took the inside. The horse that has ie inside track has several feet the ad-antage ad-antage as there are two turns to make i a quarter on a circle track. The Pitt srse was ahead all the way through id as they came under the wire, there as daylight between them. The races were held at the Glines 'ard race track. Carrying pistols around town, at itertainments or dances is a per-icious per-icious habit that the officers are going i look after more closely in the future, his practice frequently gets men, and 3ys into trouble especially when they re drinking. Thousands of the best len of the land who never carried a istol in their pocket in their whole life, ill tell you that they have never yet ad occasion to use one. There are ex-;ptional ex-;ptional cases of course, and some len like pistol shooting when they are it driving in the mountain or traveling irough the country, but the carrying of jncealed weapons around town is poor ractice for anyone. The pesky little house fly is receiving ansiderable attention these days. It is aimed the fly is the cause of a large recent of the summer sickness. Coal il sprinkled on manure piles and garage gar-age heaps and breeding places of the y, will greatly reduce this source of anger. Screen doors and windows will eep most of them out of the house, and ypaper will catch the pest. A recipe 3r making the sticky flypaper cheaply 5 herewith given: Take two pounds of resin and one pint f caster oil, boil it together until it is ell mixed, pour off in an open mouth ucket, take an ordinary paint brush nd smear while hot on any kind of aper-an old newspaper is good-place :veral about the room. A dozen of lese may be put in one room at a cost ' one cent. It never loses its strength, es not deteriorate, and can be kept in i ordinary fruit jar or open mouthed f jcket and heated when needed.. Joseph Burton this week sold to John Davis, all of the Diamond Springs. A inch consisting of 480 acres, on the iamond Mountain for the considera-m considera-m of $12,500. This is a fine range inch and one of the oldest land marks : Uintah County and in fact of Nor-leastern Nor-leastern Utah. It was originally cated by Dunk Blair, now deceased, ther of John Blair, who is now living ; Whiterocks Agency, but for the past enty-five years it has been owned by e Burton family, and during that time is been the headquarters for the lousands of cattle that they have andled. During the early days when ie mail and all travel came into this alley from Green River City and Rock prings on the north, all travelers stop-ed stop-ed at the Diamond Springs road-house yernight and many prominent men in ie administration of affairs of state nd nation today have rested a weary ead at this place, overnight. The commissioners went to Green .iver July 2 to locate a site for the new ate bridge. Two sites were examined, ne at Jensen and the other near the '.ed Narrows. No final decision was lade. ! Aunt Lew was removed to Mr. Jake orkman's charge. Compensation to tr. Workman for her board was fixed t $25 per month; the county to furnish er clothing. 30 YEARS AGO JULY 13, 1949 Search for the body of 80-year-old, Bert Loper, famous Colorado river runner was being continued Wednesday. Wed-nesday. Known in Vernal, Mr. Loper was one of a party of nine persons who were running the river in four boats. Last Friday, at 1 p.m. the boatman was swept downstream when his boat capsized in the Grand Canyon. Annual Ute Indian Sun Dance was held July 8 through July 11, at the sun dance grounds between Nola and Whiterocks. Indians from four reservations took part in the religious ceremony this year: Uintah-Ouray reservation, Wind River reservation in Wyoming; Fort Hall reservation in Idaho and Navajos from Utah's southern jurisdiction. House-to-house mail delivery in Vernal is being held up pending action on the part of residents, Mayor B. H. Stringham and C. R. Hopkins city councilman revealed Wednesday. Action on the part of Vernal residents is now urged to speed such necessary service. Mail boxes and numbers are available at Vernal stores. Awaited eight long years surfacing of Main Street in Vernal has finally been started. A state road commission crew moved onto the project July 5 and plan to complete the project July 20. From 5th West to 5th East the highway high-way is being brough up to grade and will be oiled from the curb. Officials voiced regret that asphalt could not be used for street surfacing but explained that the city-county asphalt plant is not in condition to handle the job. Changes in operations in transporting gilsonite from Bonanza, according to word received this week, virtually all gilsonite from the Bonanza mines in Uintah county will be trucked 110 miles east to Craig, Colo., in bulk and stored there for shipment to other points. Heretofore the material was sacked at the Bonanza mine and shipped. Another development at the Bonanza mine is construction of a plant on the Salt Lake-Rangely oil pipe line which will prcess gilsonite for transportation thru the pipeline. Construction of the $200,000 job was started in the spring and should be ready for use this year. Garth W. Atwood, formerly of Vernal, Ver-nal, received his doctor of chiropractic degree cum laude, June 20 at Western "States College in Portland, Oregon: Atwood plans to continue at the Portland Por-tland shcool to work for his doctor of naturopathy degree. Grant Ainge received first prize money in the bucking horse riding at the Neola Rodeo held July 2. In an effort to make possible the much needed improvements at the Maeser Cemetery, Sarah Rudge has organized working projects for new roadways, new fences, spraying and other repairs on the site. She reports the program will soon be well underway un-derway and that workmen hope to have the project completed by Homecoming celebrations. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gillespie, leaders in the Christain Church Sunday school of Vernal announced Wednesday that they have secured service of Evanglist George Menge and wife to leade in an Evangelistic and soul winning campaign. Twenty Boy Scouts from Troops 252 and 2252 at Ballard Ward, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, left Tuesday morning by private bus for a two-week's trip to Canada. The partnership of Russell G. Holley and L. Robert Olson, owners and managers of Roberts' Dress Shop and Russell's Men's Shop was dissolved July 6. Last Friday afternoon a pink and blue shower was given in honor of Mrs. Glenn Allred at her home in Gusher. She received many useful and beautiful presents after which refreshments were served. Uintah County registered two cases of rocky mountain spotted fever, two cases of tularemia and one case each of brucellosis and measles during the weekend of July 1. .With gross weight of passengers airplanes increasing an average of 7000 pounds annually over most of the last 20 YEARS AGO JULY 9, 1959 An important event took place in Ouray Valley last weekend when the area received storage water for the first time in its history for any kind of irrigation. The water will benefit about 3800 acres east of the reservation. Two lakes, Whiterocks and Cliff, were constructed in the Baldies by funds from the Utah Water and Power board at the cost of $110,000. Whiterocks Lake contains 1,000 acre-feet acre-feet and Cliff Lake about 800. They were completed last fall in time for water to be stored during the winter and spring runoff. Vernal's newest business, an All-Jersey All-Jersey dairy, will open Saturday. This is the first milk depot in the Uintah Basin. The newly constructed building adjoining Uintah Packing plant is owned by Victor Bingham. J. C. Haws, superintendent of schools, reported this week that an architect is being sought for a proposed 15 classroom elementary school, which will be located in the Vernal-Maeser area. The new school is scheduled to be completed by September, 1962. Governor Clyde sent a letter to Washington rapping the Aspinall Bill for Dinosaur National Monument development. Governor Clyde stressed the need to protect water development in the Monument area. He opposed the enlargement of 11,300 new acres in the Utah section which would bring the total acreage to 214,000. He pointed out that a lot of state land was involved. Dean Lundell, former Uintah High School track star and presently touring Europe with the BYU track team, is making his mark in competition abroad. In Tampere, Finland he won an 800 meters in 1:45:0. He also had good track time in other areas. Standard Oil Company of California recently confirmed that it has completed com-pleted its 100th well at Red Wash. Dal Cook, 20, of Vernal was reported "improving" at Uintah County hospital this week after receiving critical injuries in-juries in a mine accident at Bonanza. Friday at 2 p.m. Mr. Cook was crushed beneath a 600 lb wieght when the skip that moves men up and down the shaft fell. Celebrating her 88th birthday in Roosevelt on July 1, was Mrs. Elon Taylor, an early pioneer of the Uintah Basin, and a former Vernal resident. Mrs. Tor Nielsen Jacobsen Starkie celebrated her 97th brithday on July 1st at the home of Mrs. and Mrs. Lawrence Abegglen. Kathy Robinson of Vernal Senior Girl Scout troop 1, is attending the International In-ternational Girl Scout Senior Roundup at Colorado Springs. One of the more colorful of the Ute Tribal dances, the Ute Indian Sun Dance, will be held this year July 10-13, under the direction of Wallace Jack at the Sun Dance grounds located on the road between Neola and Whiterocks. Mr. and Mrs. Neal Domgaard recently purchased a 1959 Pontiac. Ken Sowards was selected as local chairman of the Vernal unit of Utah Petroleum Council at a meeting held in Vernal late last week. Effective July 1, Uintah County took over the county health department. The county will be reinbursed 40c per-capita per-capita providing that the county contributes con-tributes $1. per-capita from county funds. The $1 will be divided equally between county and school funds. Spending a week here with the Archie McConkies were Mr. snd Mrs. Kimball Slaugh who recently returned from Indochina. C. Laurence Fox, local businessman, has been appointed chairman of the leadership 'gifts' phase of the 1959-60 Boy Scout Finance Drive. Bob Marshall wrecked his truck on the Book Cliffs this week. He walked about 20 miles to the Willis Stevens ranch and Mr Stevens brought him home. |