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Show In !h! Good Bid Save 50 Years Ago July 20, 1933 Plans are already complete for Ve-nal's Ve-nal's Pioneer Day celebration, whih is being sponsored by the Vernal Fist Ward Sunday School, and is to feattre the Uintah High School band, a pioer and miniature parade and a cir us. Plans are under way for the or.aniz-ing or.aniz-ing of a city golf tournament n the near future, according to offlers of the Vernal Golf Club. It is desijed that all pasture-pool artists who are interested, in-terested, hand to J. R. Dougla or Paul L. Cowan a score card or tw with recent re-cent scores, so that handicais may be made. Gold Trading stamps go hto circulation circula-tion in Vernal Friday when the local merchants begin giving out these stamps with each purchese of 10 cents or over. Individually these stamps are worth 2 mills each and a book of 500 can be redeemed at any of the Gold Stamp stores for $1 in trade, j A 500-mile boat trip which will start at Ouray on the Green River and extend ex-tend to Lee's Ferry, Arizona in the Colorado River, is the proposed expedition ex-pedition of a group of local mai and Dr. R. G. Frazier, of Bingham .Utah. Of special interest to many Tintah Basin farmers and stockmen is lie announcement an-nouncement that the U.B.I.C horse-pulling horse-pulling contest is to carry ai prizes three valuable harnesses. Onelor each of the weight divisions in the contest. The horse-pulling contest will without a doubt, be a center of intirest for many people this year as it las been in the past. The announcemmt of the committee promises to draw teams from all parts of the entire Basin. Professor Elmer Miller of the B.Y.U. spent a day or two in Vernal answering inquiries regarding school at the Provo institution next fall, and visiting present and former students of the school. With only a little support and encouragement en-couragement Vernal could enjoy regular outdoor band concerts by the Uintah High School band. 30 Years Ago July 16, 1953 School in the Uintah District will begin September 8, according to the 1953-54 school calendar adopted by the Board of Education at their regular meeting Tuesday. The Red Cross blood mobile will return to Vernal for more contributions contribu-tions on Monday, July 27. A tennis tournament will be held in Vernal beginning Monday, according to Coach Marcus Garrett, Uintah County's summer recreational supervisor. super-visor. The matches will be under the direction of Ralph Ashton and will be played both during the daytime and at night. Boy Staters holding their encampment encamp-ment at Camp WiUiams, Jordan Narrows, Nar-rows, this week elected city officials for their seven mock municipalities Monday. Tuesday and Wednesday they chose a governor and two U. S. Senators. Vernal City workers this week have 4 completed a new sewer line from Second Se-cond North on First East Street, according accor-ding to City Manager LeRoy Taylor. The line will serve three new connections. Observance of Pioneer Day in Uintah Uin-tah Stake will be in the form of a chuck wagon dinner and festival being held next Thursday evening at Uintah Stake Center. The National Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America officially gets under way tomorrow. Twenty-three Uintah District Scouts are taking part in the 3,000 acre encampment on the 110,000 acre Irvine Ranch at Corona Del Mar, California. Pheasant season in Utah was set to begin November 8 last week by the Utah Fish and Game Commission, meeting in regular quarterly session. Vernal's annual amateur rodeo will be the toughest of rodeos as the amateur contestants, many of them for the first time, crawl onto the wild animals. |