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Show in The &ood Old Days 20 YEARS AGO Jiimiiiry 21, I (() Tht? following statement was issued this week by officers of Uintah County Daughters of Utah Pioneers: "We, the Uintah County Daughters of Utah Pioneers, wish to state some facts in regard to our position in regard to our need for the "Old County Jail" as a relic museum. We are in favor of a beautiful city as much as any other organization in town-civic, government, govern-ment, or social. That is why we all voted for the new, County Court House. We do not intend to leave the "Old Jail" in its present condition to offend anyone, but plan to refaee it immediately im-mediately with new red brick to harmonize har-monize with those in the court house. We also propose to make a new north entrance, concrete walks, a beautiful fireplace using the rocks from the old lithing office basement for this purpose. pur-pose. We have the money on hand to accomplish ac-complish these objectives and can begin work as soon as the weather permits." per-mits." Fourteen officers and members of Uintah County Daughters of Utah Pioneers met with Vernal Chamber of Commerce Tuesday noon at the regular directors mooting at the Hotel Vernal to ask the Chamber to reconsider its decision deci-sion opposing the old jail for a DUP museum. The directors referred the matter again to the public affairs committee com-mittee and the committee will make a recommendation to the board of directors direc-tors which will make its decision at the meeting next Tuesday. Several million dollars will be poured into the Vernal area for reclamation, roads and national monument construction construc-tion if Congress approved President Eisenhower's budget which was presented Monday. Of particular benefit to this area will be the following: follow-ing: Vernal Unit of the Central Utah Project, $2,189,000 with $7GG,408 for Stemaker Dam and reservoir. The Bureau of I-and Management recently approved Sohiko Petroleum Company's application for mineral patent pa-tent of one placer claim on the Asphalt Ridge deposit of rock asphalt four miles west of Vernal. .The fact that the company com-pany has possession of mining rights to about 1,200 acres within the mineralized mineraliz-ed area is considered a major step toward what has boon forecast as a $20 million development including a processing pro-cessing plant to extract oil from the tar sands. , Coach Leo Conk's State Champion liinLuh Ctefc took an averw helming victory vic-tory from the Union Cougars Thursday of last week, but still face an uphill battle bat-tle in their wrestling slate as they meet the Rangcly Panthers Saturday at 7 p.m. at Rangely School. Uintah County has begun its three pronged march for the New March of Dimes. This year the dimes will fight polio, birth defects and crippling arthritis. ar-thritis. At Vernal Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday of last week a new-brochure new-brochure on the tourist attractions of the Vernal area was exhibited. Entitled "Dinosaur Land, Vernal, Utah" the booklet contains colored photographic reproductions of construction at Flaming Flam-ing Gorge Dam, Harper's Corner, petrglyphs, a boat trip on the Green River, the scenic Uintas and Vernal's Golf Course. 30 YEARS AGO Jniuiniy I'), I .",() Members of the Uintah county Commission Com-mission and a committee of seven Vernal Ver-nal citizens were in Salt I.ake City Thursday (today) to confer with the Stale Road Commission on plans for improvement of the Vernal La point highway. Outcome of the meeting was not known at press time Thursday. Vernal City council voted Wednesday night to hold a municipal bond election "in the very near future" to raise $25,000 for the city's share in constructing construc-ting a city-county swimming pool. Definite date for the election and further fur-ther details on the project will be announced an-nounced later, it was said. Last major hurdle for coasolidation of Monarch and Challenger airlines with Arizona Airways appeared to have been cleared Wednesday. The civil aeronautics board has not only approved approv-ed merger of the Arizona line with Monarch, but recommended that Monarch be permitted to extend the southwestern system from Gallup, New Mexico, to Winslow, Arizona. George W. Hardy, Jr., judge of the second se-cond circuit appellate court of the state of Louisiana, warned members of the Uintah Knife and Fork Club at a meeting in Hotel Vernal Monday evening even-ing that "the Federal government never gives something for nothing when it gives it gets." "Beware of security offered by bureaucrats in order to perpetuate themselves and their families in public office," Judge Hardy said. "The price you will have to pay for this kind of so-called so-called security is government regulation regula-tion of your lives from the cradle to the grave." Approximately $500, 000 in business was brought to Vernal merchants as a result of the Million Dollar Days campaign cam-paign sponsored here from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24, it was disclosed in a report made Monday by the Retail Merchants Committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Com-merce. Percentage increases in business during the Million Dollar Days campaign ranged from 15 percent to as high as 50 percent, the committee reported at a meeting in Hotel Vernal. The local chapter of Future Farmers of America will confer official FFA degrees upon 45 members this week, Doyle Landon, advisor, said Wednesday. Wednes-day. The degree can only be conferred upon boys who take agriculture and who have a supervised farming program. pro-gram. Degrees are conferred in the following order on a local basis. The Greenhand, and Chapter Farmer degrees; on a state basis, the Stale Farmer degree, and on the national basis, the American Farmer degree. Uintah has three members who have applied for State Farmer degrees which will be conferred at the State FFA convention in Salt Lake City on April 1-2. They are Maughan Colton, Lowell Roberts, and Glen Billings. The degree is awarded on the basis of leadership, growth, and farming programs. pro-grams. Junior High students at Uintah all agree that one of the most exciting periods during the day is that special hour at 1:45 p.m. when 67 junior band students under the direction of Harold Rendlesbach get together to blow their instruments and beat their drums. All this musical activity is being directed toward a concert which is to be presented to the pubic in February. 70 YEARS AGO Jauiiury 11, I') I O Vernal is going to have another bank with a capitalization of $50,000, if the ideas of the promoters are carried out. For over a year there has been talk at limes of starting another bank in Vernal, Ver-nal, but talk is all it amounted to, until this week when a few of the leading men of this community happened to be together and the subject was brought up again. All were of the opinion, that there was sufficient business here to support another banking institution. Charly and Sain Hoel, Robt. Witmer and Harry White came down from the Mosby sawmill this week. The mill io closed down for the winter. There were three and a half feet of snow at the mill. The boys have a trip planned to go to Alaska in about a month and make their fortune digging gold. The ice crop is A-l this year. Calder liros. are in the midst of the harvest. The ice is about twenty inches thick and clear as a crystal. Morgan Calvert and Charles Milne started for Price Monday, but returned to Myton Tuesday, having found it necessary to turn back on account of the bad conditions on the roads. James Hacking reports a hard trip coming back over Diamond Mountain. He was four days coming from the Jessee Ewing canyon. The snow had all melted and the ice gone out of the river in the park. And on the mountain the snow had drifted until there was no sign of a road. Forty-two sacks of mail reached Vernal Ver-nal Wednesday night. The blockade is now cleared and trains are coming through. They had several snow slides to contend with this time, something that never occurred on Baxter pass before. |