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Show A. . ..--s I ; ! 'hiiH 5 fH; .. h j. ; : .cm ;U ILI.Il... . ! i r ; 1 1 ' ! n ! .BANn OPENING ribbon-cutting ceremony , i b heid for Myke and Gary's Paint Store Friday I last week. Vernal Area Chamber of Com-erce Com-erce Dinah-Mites joined in on the ribbon- 1 Silent POW Brigade Vernal and Roosevelt mayors have -forsed a Silent Brigade, July 18 to e: ; precognition to the nearly 2,600 men io are unaccounted for in Southeast iia as well as all prisoners of war and !se missing in action from other "1 Fare. It's to show respect, patriotism and j honor our men who were POWMIA jail of our wars, and to show we don't forget our men, especially in Vietnam, os and Cambodia," said Brian layes, organizer of the brigade, i Persons participating in the Silent irigade will carry red and purple rib-ns. rib-ns. Hayes said. : Recent information on photographs sken from a spy satellite and reports hm Vietnamese refugees have instantiated that Americans may be aid by the North Vietnamese. "We have much evidence that men ire being held against their will," i Hayes said about POW's in Southeast tea. "We only lack hard core evidence , inch as a POW walking out or a ctograph after the war." "The reports that Americans may I ilill be prisoners in Southeast Asia deeply disturbs me," comments Orrin C. Hatch, Utah Senator. "I am nnnvinpoH that thprp flrp CUti'.n.g-, H?lding tne ribbon are Gary Dick, left and Myke Weber, co-owners. Cutting the ribbon is Mayor Sam Snyder with scissors in hand . . . ! I . , j) i : t 1 I I ; I I I I j " ' c f VERNAL MARKSMEN, Sheriff Arden Stewart, Gary Maxson, Merlin Walker and Harold Pope show awards won at the National Na-tional Jeep Posse Convention at Grant Pass, Oregon. Stewart took first place in the class shoot and the team took third place. unrepatriated servicemen still being held. Since 1971 the Defense Intelligence In-telligence Agency (DIA) has received and investigated approximately 900 reports, some of them first hand of alleged sightings of Americans, crash locations, grave sites, and the disposition disposi-tion of American remains," Sen. Hatch said. Both Congressmen Jim Hansen and Senator Jake Garn have been briefed by the Defense Intelligence Agency and appear to be sympathetic to the crusade to find lost American soldiers. Congressman Hansen received a DIA brigade on June 9, but apparently has not made any public announcement on what he plans to do, but the feeling in the office in Ogden is very positive. N "A similar Silent Brigade will take place July 17 in Washington D.C. The Silent Brigade for the Uintah Basin will be in Roosevelt because of its central location, Hayes said. e ' - ' - . - . r :vv5r r-y - i . h - RIBBON SHOOTING ceremonies officially open the Leonard Heeney Pistol Range to Utah Peace Officer Convention activities Wednesday. Firing are Robert Downard, Vernal City Police; Leonard Ferguson, Utah Highway Patrol; Arden Stewart, sheriff and Ken Fisher, Vernal National Guard unit. |