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Show In The Sood Sid Bays 50 years ago OCTOBER 1, 1931 It is estimated that more than 650 students in the Uintah School District are being daily transported to and from their schools. This amounts to about one fourth of the school population being be-ing transported, not counting many others who drive their own cars or ride horses. In some cases students are walking three or four miles to their classes each day. No fishing for game fish in Utah after 9 p.m., Oct. 8 is the edict of N. B. Cook, state fish and game commissioner. Drought conditions are responsible for the new order, which comes after the proposal had been studied by and comments com-ments received from nearly all the fish and game associations of the state. Bishop J. C. Hacking of Lapoint, who returned from Salt Lake City last week where he went to make arrangments for preliminary plans on the new $17,000 chapel to be constructed at Lapoint the coming winter, said while in Vernal Tuesday, the new structure would be a great benefit to the people of that community. com-munity. The hotel property known as the Duchesne Hotel owned by Etta Odekirk has been sold to James Hatch of this place.' This building, a two story brick building, houses the Duchesne Hotel, the Basin Cafe, The O. J. Smith pool hall, the Lawson Barbershop and r;i-t-;it r,rt,-t rnnmc hociHAQ nnp store room now vacant. There is a novelty in the idea of building a museum at the dinosaur monument near Jensen, Uintah County. This building when constructed will not only be a museum but will be a kind of mausoleum, covering the remains of the great pre-historic animals in the very spot where death overtook them, where they were entombed in the silt which later became stone and where they have rested untold ages. At the first game played here on Sunday Sun-day of the three town golf series, Vernal won over Roosevelt by a margin of 27 points. The total scores for the three towns were Vernal 1002; Roosevelt 1029; Duchesne 1052. The new ruling of importance was in-augaurated in-augaurated Tuesday by the Faculty of Uintah High School to the effect that 4 any student absent from classes seven times or more during one semester, after the date of his registration, will automatically lose all credit in that class. 30 years ago OCTOBER 4, 1951 Many Vernal business and civic leaders were among the more than a hundred men from Duchesne to Denver who gathered Friday at the Cosgnff Hotel in Craig to formulate plans for increasing in-creasing travel over "America's Most Scenic Highway" and complete the organization of the Denver-Salt Lake branch of the Highway 40 Association. The meeting decided to erect eye appealing ap-pealing signs at various junctions to inform in-form tourists how to get to Highway 40. A motion to send a delegation to meet with the State Road Commission to press for immediate action on the deplorable conditions of the Bonanza, Tridell-Gusher and Ouray-Randlett roads and Highway 40 in the county, was passed Saturday at a meeting of the Associated Civic Clubs of Southern and Eastern Utah. Vernal reports to the State Department Depart-ment of Employment Security note a big rise in employment of oil workers and technicians in tne uinian tsasm. According to Business Week Vernal also has had an influx of construction workers. Emergency load limits on Highway 40 and other Utah highways may become effective due to the state's drastically reduced allotment of steel for road building and maintenance. Utah pheasant shooters will have a little longer to hunt for the popular birds this year with a straight three and a half day season decreed by the State r p 1 1 ii ., CHARLIE CR0FTad Spnnger-mix puppy aJj adoption. Interested 2 b should call 789-5083 Fish and Game Commissi Opening date "will be noon ' Nov. 3 and contui S shooting Nov. 4, 5 andli2 will be three birds a da -imumofsix. ""wav A milestone in the history m in Uintah County will be uay wiuianexnibitionofmore paintings by local artists. 1 The display, sponsored bt Women's Council of St t Episcopal Church, will be Paul's Parish House from and 7 to 9 p.m. !': Uintah High School Seniors be guests of the Universitv7r'' Saturday, Oct. 6 to partici . statewide music festival BiTt"' Band Day". ll |
